Barbara Di Gennaro Splendore
@barbarasplendor.bsky.social
Histories of knowledge, medicine, pharmacy, science and fungi! Author of The State Drug. Theriac, Pharmacy and Politics in Early Modern Italy (HUP 2025). Usually early modernist. Marie Curie Fellow at Bologna and Lausanne. Yale PhD
This looks a smashing opportunity #earlymodern @achconference.bsky.social
Hannah Murphy@hsmurphy.bsky.social · 2w agoPlease share! A rare PhD studentship @kingshistory.bsky.social *fully* funded by @slaveryinwar.bsky.social to work with myself and Maeve Ryan, supported by a broader community of experts in Caribbean history, transatlantic slavery, and the history of war. www.kcl.ac.uk/study/fundin... 🗃️
Day 2 of #HSS + #ESHS started with a great panel on #spontaneous #generation organized by @barbarasplendor.bsky.social: three fabulously rich papers with exciting research by Ivano Dal Prete, Javier Loira and Barbara. I have few pictures because I was chairing and taking copious notes!
📢 Last day of the ESHS-HSS conference: @sarahseinitzer.bsky.social presents “La Serenissima in Vial and Powder: Mineral Remedies in the Ricettari of Early Modern Venice”, in the session co-organized with @m-azzolini.bsky.social. ⚗️🧂 ⏰11:00 GMT 👉Info: bit.ly/4f6fMFh #histMed #histSci #Scarce #ESHS-HSS
Shifting Perspectives: Plural Worlds, Contested Sciences
Joint Meeting of The History of Science Society and the European Society for the History of Science 12-16 July, 2026 Edingburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.
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The Consortium for Science, Technology, and Medicine invites applications for fellowship opportunities in the history of science, technology or medicine. Including: -Research Fellowships -Dissertation Completion Fellowships -Emanuel Fellowships for Independent Scholars #histmed #histstm
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🚨Job! 🚨 Open-rank, tenure-track position in pre-1800 history of medicine at Johns Hopkins #histmed #histstm apply.interfolio.com/182469?fbcli...
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#histmed and #earlymodern more broadly should be talking to each other far more than we do — that conversation was the whole point of The State Drug. Lovely to see that argument recognized with an Honorable Mention from @AAIS_Italy ☀️
#earlymodern Do you believe in coincidence? June 16 Ginzburg disappeared the same day Marc Bloch was executed bu the Nazi www.repubblica.it/cultura/2026...
Carlo Ginzburg è morto, addio al grande storico italiano
Aveva 87 anni. Era famoso in tutto il mondo per le sue ricerche sulla stregoneria e le credenze popolari
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📢 Save the date & send your proposals! The CFP for our workshop "Mineral Expertise: The Rules of Knowing Earthly Matter in the Early Modern World" (Feb 04–06 2027 in Bologna) is open🎉 organised together with @m-azzolini.bsky.social✨ ⏰ Deadline: July 10 ⛏️ 🔗 Info: bit.ly/4e3VBbB #Scarce #HistSci
Call for Papers: Mineral Expertise: The Rules of Knowing Earthly Matter in the Early Modern World
February 04-06, 2027 SCARCE Workshop University of Bologna Deadline for Submission: July 10th 2026
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Hello #medhist #earlymodern if you happen to be in Venice June 23 come join us to discuss The State Drug, or join us online!
What about books that "think with plants and fungi"? una recensione di libri che "pensno con piante e funghi" per L'indice dei libri #histsci #fungi #MycoBookClub www.lindiceonline.com/articles/18c...
Funghi e piante per ripensare il mondo
Funghi e piante per ripensare il mondo
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“Who holds power today?” #histsci Magnifica Humanitas, the last enciclica by Leo XIV is a history of science and technology essay discussing digital colonialism, asserting that technology is not neutral, affirming that violence cannot be left to algorithms. It is so refreshing to read it today!
#fungifriends Anna Tsing in conversation with art students about the incredibile mess we are in, anthropocene, plantationcene, and making alliances with non-humans #histsci
The American Historical Association urges historians, researchers, educators, and advocates for preservation of and access to historical records to speak out in support of the National Library of Medicine (NLM). #histmed #skystorians www.historians.org/news/action-...
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Your voice matters—take action now. The American Historical Association urges historians, researchers, educators, and advocates for preservation of and access to historical records to speak out in sup...
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super super happy to share my latest article on the World Wide Silk Web! It was a great experience to write on the 19th century (open access) #histsci #histstm #history www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
World Wide Silk Web: the Padua sericulture station and the international circulation of techno-entomology (1869–1900) | The British Journal for the History of Science | Cambridge Core
World Wide Silk Web: the Padua sericulture station and the international circulation of techno-entomology (1869–1900)
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5 days left to apply for PhD and Postdoc positions in a cool project about herbaria, plants and digitization!🌿😎 Postdoc: jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/9... PhD: jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/c... More info: cordis.europa.eu/project/id/1... #Jobs #HPBio #HistSci #DigitalHumanities #PhilSci
ROTO Research Group@roto-rub.bsky.social · 3mo agoInterested in herbaria, plants and digitization? Come work with us! 3 PhD & Postdoc Positions in History & Phil. of Biology & Digital Humanities! #ERC Project BOTLEG; @ruhr-uni-bochum.de! Deadline: 25 May '26 #HistSci #PhilSci #HPBio #EnvHist #DigitalHumanities #AcademicSky #PhDSky Details below 👇
🚨Job! 🚨 Lecturer in Global History of Science at UCL! In London! Permanent, full-time! #histstm #histsci www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Molly Warsh@mwarsh.bsky.social · 3mo agoHey global early modernists, the Forum on Early-modern Empires and Global Interactions has joined Bluesky! This lively community of scholars comes together for biennial conferences & awards book & article prizes. Follow @feegiconference.bsky.social & check out feegi.org/index.html. #earlymodern
As a historian of early modern knowledge of mushrooms, I spent a month in the microbiological department of the University of Turin, specialized in fungi. This was a fantastic experience for us all, we learned loads, I wish all #histscie could enjoy such opportunity! #histscietech #fungifriends
I started looking at this reversal between Venice and the Ottoman Empire in The State Drug but more research is needed on the global commerce of theriac!
Duygu Yıldırım@duyguyildirim.bsky.social · 4mo agoEven when we look at just three key items, we can see the Ottoman Empire’s place within the global economy at the beginning of the 18th century: first, theriac, a valuable medicinal compound, initially moved from the Ottoman Empire to Italy, but later this direction was reversed. +
19th century print on Linnaeus (!)
#MedMed event TODAY 12pm Central / 18:00 BST. Join Medica President Nichola Harris for her lecture "Stones in the 'Garden of Health': Lapidary Medicine and the Development of Premodern Pharmacology." Register on Zoom: uab.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #MedievalSky #HistMed
In early modern Italy many medicines, especially patent ones, came with a little sheet informing patients of how to use them, when, and for what. Medical regulation came out of state offices and guild government #earlymodern #histmed
Brewminate (Matthew A. McIntosh)@brewminate.bsky.social · 4mo agoOnce upon a time, medicine labels didn’t tell you what you were taking. 💊 Transparency had to be fought for — often after harm was already done. Regulation didn’t come out of nowhere. #MedicalHistory #Brewminate
