Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim
@yoelitlalim.bsky.social
Eurasian transmissions of knowledge
MIT Global Humanities
https://comparativeglobalhumanities.mit.edu/pillars/healing-arts-and-human-well-being/
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/reorienting-histories-of-medicine-9781472512574/
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It was a great honour to have been invited to the Second WHO Global Summit for Traditional Medicine in Delhi and see the exhibition to which @mstanleybaker.bsky.social and I advised in the real world. (Huge!)
#histmed #globalhealth
#histmed #globalhealth
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NEW BOOK: the e-book for “Public Health in the Premodern World” ed. by our G. Geltner with Janna Coomans & Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim (@yoelitlalim.bsky.social) is out!
Illustrating the rich history of public health, it shows how communities across the globe defined and pursued health
#histmed #medhst
Illustrating the rich history of public health, it shows how communities across the globe defined and pursued health
#histmed #medhst
January 28, 2026 at 9:53 PM
NEW BOOK: the e-book for “Public Health in the Premodern World” ed. by our G. Geltner with Janna Coomans & Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim (@yoelitlalim.bsky.social) is out!
Illustrating the rich history of public health, it shows how communities across the globe defined and pursued health
#histmed #medhst
Illustrating the rich history of public health, it shows how communities across the globe defined and pursued health
#histmed #medhst
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'The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is demanding the university turn over names and personal information about Jewish members of the Penn community as part of the administration’s stated goal to combat antisemitism on campuses.'
What could possibly go wrong?
What could possibly go wrong?
UPenn faculty condemn Trump administration’s demand for ‘lists of Jews’
Groups say EEOC demand for names and personal details echoes dark history and threatens safety and civil rights
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2026 at 8:56 AM
'The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is demanding the university turn over names and personal information about Jewish members of the Penn community as part of the administration’s stated goal to combat antisemitism on campuses.'
What could possibly go wrong?
What could possibly go wrong?
Join us Friday Jan 16 for a preview of our new book:
Public Health in the Premodern World: Dynamic Balances
#histmed
www.chstm.org/group/object...
Public Health in the Premodern World: Dynamic Balances
#histmed
www.chstm.org/group/object...
Objects, Images, and Spaces of Health | Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine
www.chstm.org
January 14, 2026 at 9:14 AM
Join us Friday Jan 16 for a preview of our new book:
Public Health in the Premodern World: Dynamic Balances
#histmed
www.chstm.org/group/object...
Public Health in the Premodern World: Dynamic Balances
#histmed
www.chstm.org/group/object...
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"genAI" doens't "learn" (tech execs' term) since it has no brains. Instead, it stores and regurgitates - PLAGIARISM....
"many AI developers use a more technically accurate term when talking about these models: lossy compression."
"many AI developers use a more technically accurate term when talking about these models: lossy compression."
New research presents the most compelling evidence yet that generative AI directly stores and reproduces material used to train it—a finding that could have massive legal consequences for the tech industry, Alex Reisner reports.
AI’s Memorization Crisis
Large language models don’t “learn”—they copy. And that could change everything for the tech industry.
bit.ly
January 12, 2026 at 7:56 AM
"genAI" doens't "learn" (tech execs' term) since it has no brains. Instead, it stores and regurgitates - PLAGIARISM....
"many AI developers use a more technically accurate term when talking about these models: lossy compression."
"many AI developers use a more technically accurate term when talking about these models: lossy compression."
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Watch this space!
"Public Health in the Premodern World" edited by G. Geltner, Janna Coomans, and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim (
@yoelitlalim.bsky.social
) is coming out on the 29th with
@oxfordunipress.bsky.social!
"Public Health in the Premodern World" edited by G. Geltner, Janna Coomans, and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim (
@yoelitlalim.bsky.social
) is coming out on the 29th with
@oxfordunipress.bsky.social!
January 9, 2026 at 5:24 AM
Watch this space!
"Public Health in the Premodern World" edited by G. Geltner, Janna Coomans, and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim (
@yoelitlalim.bsky.social
) is coming out on the 29th with
@oxfordunipress.bsky.social!
"Public Health in the Premodern World" edited by G. Geltner, Janna Coomans, and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim (
@yoelitlalim.bsky.social
) is coming out on the 29th with
@oxfordunipress.bsky.social!
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Out of curiosity, I just ran a few paragraphs from The Butchering Art through an AI checker and it got flagged: 88% AI. This book was released in 2017, and AI machines were subsequently trained off it. How many writers are getting flagged for AI because of the literal theft of their work(s)? Insane.
OMG - f*ck AI for ruining the em-dash for writers. I use them all the time. Of course, what a shock that AI uses them since they were trained off my voice and other authors' voices.
I'm a writer who has specifically been directed *not* to use em-dashes because "they mean it was written by AI." I can detect AI writing, but it is not simply a matter of the punctuation used.
December 30, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Out of curiosity, I just ran a few paragraphs from The Butchering Art through an AI checker and it got flagged: 88% AI. This book was released in 2017, and AI machines were subsequently trained off it. How many writers are getting flagged for AI because of the literal theft of their work(s)? Insane.
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Very honoured to contribute this image to the WHO Global Summit on Traditional Health this week. The summit will bring huge advances to traditional medicine.
Great working w. @yoelitlalim.bsky.social on the historical timeline.
Here viewed by @narendra-modi.bsky.social and the Director of @who.int
Great working w. @yoelitlalim.bsky.social on the historical timeline.
Here viewed by @narendra-modi.bsky.social and the Director of @who.int
December 22, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Very honoured to contribute this image to the WHO Global Summit on Traditional Health this week. The summit will bring huge advances to traditional medicine.
Great working w. @yoelitlalim.bsky.social on the historical timeline.
Here viewed by @narendra-modi.bsky.social and the Director of @who.int
Great working w. @yoelitlalim.bsky.social on the historical timeline.
Here viewed by @narendra-modi.bsky.social and the Director of @who.int
It was a great honour to have been invited to the Second WHO Global Summit for Traditional Medicine in Delhi and see the exhibition to which @mstanleybaker.bsky.social and I advised in the real world. (Huge!)
#histmed #globalhealth
#histmed #globalhealth
December 22, 2025 at 8:03 AM
It was a great honour to have been invited to the Second WHO Global Summit for Traditional Medicine in Delhi and see the exhibition to which @mstanleybaker.bsky.social and I advised in the real world. (Huge!)
#histmed #globalhealth
#histmed #globalhealth
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"Among Tibetan Materialities: Materials and Material Cultures of Tibet and the Himalayas" - book launch: December 16, 2025.
hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/catalog/book...
hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/catalog/book...
Among Tibetan Materialities: Materials and Material Cultures of Tibet and the Himalayas | Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing
Dieses Werk steht unter der Lizenz Creative Commons Namensnennung - Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 4.0 International.
hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de
December 15, 2025 at 7:05 PM
"Among Tibetan Materialities: Materials and Material Cultures of Tibet and the Himalayas" - book launch: December 16, 2025.
hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/catalog/book...
hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/catalog/book...
Honoured and delighted to be on my way to this:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=wjLb...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=wjLb...
Second WHO Global Summit on Traditional Medicine
YouTube video by World Health Organization (WHO)
m.youtube.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Honoured and delighted to be on my way to this:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=wjLb...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=wjLb...
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Your universe is a photocopy of a photocopy of a…
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November 27, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Your universe is a photocopy of a photocopy of a…
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wonderfully inspiring few days in Seoul discussing why humanities matter. Great to see our MIT Global Humanities team
comparativeglobalhumanities.mit.edu/4th-annual-c...
comparativeglobalhumanities.mit.edu/4th-annual-c...
4th Annual Conference 2025 – MIT Comparative Global Humanities
comparativeglobalhumanities.mit.edu
November 27, 2025 at 3:01 AM
wonderfully inspiring few days in Seoul discussing why humanities matter. Great to see our MIT Global Humanities team
comparativeglobalhumanities.mit.edu/4th-annual-c...
comparativeglobalhumanities.mit.edu/4th-annual-c...
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If you are interested in medicine, animal studies and ecology you can attend ‘Medicinal Animals’ in Crisis: A Three-Part Symposium online this week, hosted at NUS in Singapore.
@mstanleybaker.bsky.social @jimflowers.bsky.social
9 October 2025
14:00 – 17:00 (SGT)
ari.nus.edu.sg/events/20251...
@mstanleybaker.bsky.social @jimflowers.bsky.social
9 October 2025
14:00 – 17:00 (SGT)
ari.nus.edu.sg/events/20251...
October 6, 2025 at 9:27 AM
If you are interested in medicine, animal studies and ecology you can attend ‘Medicinal Animals’ in Crisis: A Three-Part Symposium online this week, hosted at NUS in Singapore.
@mstanleybaker.bsky.social @jimflowers.bsky.social
9 October 2025
14:00 – 17:00 (SGT)
ari.nus.edu.sg/events/20251...
@mstanleybaker.bsky.social @jimflowers.bsky.social
9 October 2025
14:00 – 17:00 (SGT)
ari.nus.edu.sg/events/20251...
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IASTAM’s member Sarah Rivkin @salliebklyn.bsky.social joins Qiological’s Michael Max to discuss translation as clinical practice where every word carries weight, diagnosis is translation, and the translator’s lens shapes both scholarship and clinical practice. www.qiological.com/language-as-...
August 24, 2025 at 10:17 AM
IASTAM’s member Sarah Rivkin @salliebklyn.bsky.social joins Qiological’s Michael Max to discuss translation as clinical practice where every word carries weight, diagnosis is translation, and the translator’s lens shapes both scholarship and clinical practice. www.qiological.com/language-as-...
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Dr. Theresia Hofer will speak on “Deaf and Disability Activism in Tibet and the Himalayas”.
29 Aug 2025, 1–2:30pm
NTU, School of Humanities, Meeting Room 2 (03-93)
Drawing on two decades of fieldwork, she explores disability rights, sign language politics, and activism in Tibet, Bhutan & Nepal.
29 Aug 2025, 1–2:30pm
NTU, School of Humanities, Meeting Room 2 (03-93)
Drawing on two decades of fieldwork, she explores disability rights, sign language politics, and activism in Tibet, Bhutan & Nepal.
August 20, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Dr. Theresia Hofer will speak on “Deaf and Disability Activism in Tibet and the Himalayas”.
29 Aug 2025, 1–2:30pm
NTU, School of Humanities, Meeting Room 2 (03-93)
Drawing on two decades of fieldwork, she explores disability rights, sign language politics, and activism in Tibet, Bhutan & Nepal.
29 Aug 2025, 1–2:30pm
NTU, School of Humanities, Meeting Room 2 (03-93)
Drawing on two decades of fieldwork, she explores disability rights, sign language politics, and activism in Tibet, Bhutan & Nepal.
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Israeli media reports that the cabinet is gearing up to instruct the IDF to occupy all parts of the Gaza Strip.
The implications are a severe escalation of the carnage, starvation, and ethnic cleansing.
UK+EU sanctions should preempt this catastrophe - not respond to it belatedly.
The implications are a severe escalation of the carnage, starvation, and ethnic cleansing.
UK+EU sanctions should preempt this catastrophe - not respond to it belatedly.
August 4, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Israeli media reports that the cabinet is gearing up to instruct the IDF to occupy all parts of the Gaza Strip.
The implications are a severe escalation of the carnage, starvation, and ethnic cleansing.
UK+EU sanctions should preempt this catastrophe - not respond to it belatedly.
The implications are a severe escalation of the carnage, starvation, and ethnic cleansing.
UK+EU sanctions should preempt this catastrophe - not respond to it belatedly.
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Over the course of their career history majors out earn engineers and comp sci.
“American Academy of Arts&Sciences reports 96.3% of humanities grads age 23-32 fully employed. Earnings in humanitiess comparable to social/life sciences, job satisfaction levels too. A serious mismatch bw actual employment for hum grads +general perception."
www.mellon.org/voices/human...
www.mellon.org/voices/human...
Mellon Foundation
The Mellon Foundation makes grants to actively unlock the power in the arts and humanities that helps connect us all.
www.mellon.org
August 2, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Over the course of their career history majors out earn engineers and comp sci.
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WeTransfer
Aside from ML training, one of the most expansive claims on your content I've ever seen for a service.
perpetual worldwide sub-licensable transferable
for purposes of operating, developing, commercializing
to reproduce, distribute, modify
prepare derivative works based upon
perform
Aside from ML training, one of the most expansive claims on your content I've ever seen for a service.
perpetual worldwide sub-licensable transferable
for purposes of operating, developing, commercializing
to reproduce, distribute, modify
prepare derivative works based upon
perform
WeTransfer now trains on your content for machine learning, without any option to opt out. I've just told them no thanks and goodbye forever, and you can do the same.
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July 15, 2025 at 1:42 AM
WeTransfer
Aside from ML training, one of the most expansive claims on your content I've ever seen for a service.
perpetual worldwide sub-licensable transferable
for purposes of operating, developing, commercializing
to reproduce, distribute, modify
prepare derivative works based upon
perform
Aside from ML training, one of the most expansive claims on your content I've ever seen for a service.
perpetual worldwide sub-licensable transferable
for purposes of operating, developing, commercializing
to reproduce, distribute, modify
prepare derivative works based upon
perform
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Out now! “Responding to Epidemic Outbreaks in Tibetan Contexts”
Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines, Number 77, May 2025:
www.digitalhimalaya.com/collections/...
Edited by Barbara Gerke, William A. McGrath and Jan M. A. van der Valk.
Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines, Number 77, May 2025:
www.digitalhimalaya.com/collections/...
Edited by Barbara Gerke, William A. McGrath and Jan M. A. van der Valk.
May 24, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Out now! “Responding to Epidemic Outbreaks in Tibetan Contexts”
Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines, Number 77, May 2025:
www.digitalhimalaya.com/collections/...
Edited by Barbara Gerke, William A. McGrath and Jan M. A. van der Valk.
Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines, Number 77, May 2025:
www.digitalhimalaya.com/collections/...
Edited by Barbara Gerke, William A. McGrath and Jan M. A. van der Valk.
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Most of my older son's friends at a Manchester 6th-form college are sons and daughters of immigrants (so is he, of course). Are they the problem because they turn the UK into an "island of strangers", as Starmer put it, or the solution as they are the skilled workforce of the future?
What I find most jarring is this blithe confidence among British policymakers that the UK will always get the skilled migrant workers it needs, when in reality it is competing with Canada, Australia, Japan and the EU for a shrinking pool of global skilled workers looking for the best offer around.
I'm sceptical about this for three reasons. 1) The cost of public service/care provision will rise as wages get bidded up. 2) Many migrants are young and become more skilled over time. 3) Some production will be cut without migrant labour, and capital income (which is also taxed) will fall.
May 13, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Most of my older son's friends at a Manchester 6th-form college are sons and daughters of immigrants (so is he, of course). Are they the problem because they turn the UK into an "island of strangers", as Starmer put it, or the solution as they are the skilled workforce of the future?
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Strong words from Ursula von der Leyen today:
“Science belongs to humanity. We must protect it, prioritize it, and give it the freedom it needs to flourish.”
At the launch of the EU’s “Choose Science - Choose Europe” initiative, she announced four key actions.
🧵1/3
“Science belongs to humanity. We must protect it, prioritize it, and give it the freedom it needs to flourish.”
At the launch of the EU’s “Choose Science - Choose Europe” initiative, she announced four key actions.
🧵1/3
May 5, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Strong words from Ursula von der Leyen today:
“Science belongs to humanity. We must protect it, prioritize it, and give it the freedom it needs to flourish.”
At the launch of the EU’s “Choose Science - Choose Europe” initiative, she announced four key actions.
🧵1/3
“Science belongs to humanity. We must protect it, prioritize it, and give it the freedom it needs to flourish.”
At the launch of the EU’s “Choose Science - Choose Europe” initiative, she announced four key actions.
🧵1/3
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Borrowed from @highwayoftearz.bsky.social Twitter page ✊🏽❤️
May 5, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Borrowed from @highwayoftearz.bsky.social Twitter page ✊🏽❤️