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Christine Slobogin

@slobogin.bsky.social

Art historian of medicine Asst Prof, Health Humanities & Bioethics @ Uni of Rochester Books: https://boydellandbrewer.com/book/putting-plastic-surgery-on-paper/ and https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526187970/ @drawingbloodpod.bsky.social

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Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social · 5d ago

Today is the first day of the 5-year ERC Advanced Grant project Zoonosis Before Bacteriology cordis.europa.eu/project/id/1... Website with more info, plus 2 postdoc (4-year) vacancies & PhD post/scholarship soon to be made public

Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 5d ago

Job Opening: Assistant Professor of Early Modern European Art History, College Park, Maryland #earlymodern

Assistant Professor of Early Modern European Art History, College Park

Alicia Volk, Univ. of Maryland. University of Maryland, College Park, 01.07.2027, Bewerbungsschluss: 15.10.2026

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Dr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social · 6d ago

Speakers announcement! We're super lucky Jen Wallis @harbottlestores.bsky.social and Victoria Cranna (LSHTM archives) will speak at this event, alongside Kat Rawling and me on behalf of the project. Oh and we'll be recording and sharing the event afterwards. Can't wait to share this with the world!

Dr Beatriz Pichel@beapichel.bsky.social · 3w ago

Really excited to announce the online launch of The Ethics of Medical Photography Toolkit, the result of two years of work between academics, archives and museums. Register here forms.gle/PYBjxGNDitDp... to join us on Friday 16 Oct at 3 pm BST online #histmed #photohist #ethics #medhums

dr. e. katherine @actualkatherine.bsky.social · 2w ago

I have been saying!!!!

Gwen C. Katz@gwenckatz.bsky.social · 2w ago

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

Christine Slobogin @slobogin.bsky.social · 2w ago

A labor of love and laughter!! Our book _Sick Jokes_ is finally out with @manchesterup.bsky.social ! Working on this with @katiesnow.bsky.social and @lauracowley.bsky.social has been a blast, and our contributors are BRILLIANT! Have your libraries order it!!

Me (a white woman with shortish dark blonde hair in a black and white horizontal striped dress) smiling while standing in front of a green plant holding two copies of the book _Sick Jokes: Visual Histories of Humour, Health and the Body_

Close up of the cover of _Sick Jokes: Visual Histories of Humour, Health and the Body_. The cover includes the title in orange and "Edited by Christine Slobogin, Katie Snow and Laura Cowley" in yellow. The cover image is a black-and-white photograph of a white man with glasses and an oxygen tube and hospital gown pulled up to reveal both a Karposi's sarcoma and a happy face tattoo.

Photo of two pages at the beginning of the book.

A selection:

A note on the cover image
When deciding which image from this volume to put on the cover, we knew that we wanted something that captured one of the book's central themes: the use of humour as a means of reclaiming power from the medical systems or diagnoses that so often leave us feeling powerless. Marc Geller's photograph of Tom Shearer does exactly that, with Tom's personality - embodied in his smiley face tattoo and steady gaze - posing a pointed challenge to medical and cultural assumptions about what it means to be, or to joke about being, 'sick'. The context in which this portrait (one of many, discussed in Jo Michael Rees's Chapter 6, in this volume) was taken also suggests the importance of laughing in the faces of death and danger, of creating community and of sharing experience - other prominent themes throughout Sick Jokes.
We are very aware of the ethical quandaries of sharing patient photographs, especially on a book cover, publicly viewable on shelves and on screens. While we cannot get consent from Shearer for this specific use of his photograph, we have received permission from Geller. The portrait was taken by Geller on assignment for the American LGBT magazine The Advocate in 1991, to accompany an interview about Shearer and Beowulf Thorne's radically funny wine Diseased Pariah News. Geller stated in an email to us that he felt Tom's bravery in creating such a zine comes through in the way he faced the camera. While we cannot know how Shearer or Thorne imagined these portraits might circulate after their deaths, the photographs belong to a project and artistic friendship that was itself public-facing.
We hope that this photograph draws people into this volume while also showing Shearer as he wanted to be perceived. We hope that we have done him - and other patients, artists and jokers - justice.
Christine Slobogin, Katie Snow and Laura Cowley

Dedications
For Cindy Slobogin, who taught me to love art - Christine Slobogin
For Rory Ivor Snow, who can find the funny in anything - Katie Snow
licence, thanks to the supertial commercial us, dischindle
For Sue Cowley, who was a good patient but a far better teacher -
Laura Cowley

Christine Slobogin @slobogin.bsky.social · 3w ago

My podcast with @urochester.bsky.social @urochestersmd.bsky.social students - "In the Same Vein" - is back! Listen below to the season 3 teaser, and keep an ear out for the six episodes that'll be coming this semester, from October to December. open.spotify.com/episode/74xC...

S3: "In the Same Vein" Season 3 Teaser

In the Same Vein · Episode

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Kylie Mohr @thatsmohrlikeit.bsky.social · 4w ago

I'm curious about the intersection of wildfire + surveillance tech. Any examples of communities where Flock cameras (or similar) were deployed post-fire OTHER than Altadena? 🎥🔥

Christine Slobogin @slobogin.bsky.social · 4w ago

Tomorrow is the first Corner Society lecture of the academic year! Thrilled to have @rachellouisemoran.bsky.social in Rochester to give a timely talk on the history of maternal mental health. Register to attend in person or online here: www.raom.org/activities-a...

George Washington Corner Society for the History of Medicine
“From Baby Blues to Postpartum Depression: A History of Maternal Mental Health”
Wednesday, September 9, 2026
5:30 p.m. Lecture
6:30 - 7:15 p.m. Social Gathering
Rochester Academy of Medicine 1441 East Avenue, Rochester, NY

Postpartum depression is usually understood today as a medical condition rooted in hormones or
brain chemistry. But how did it come to be defined this way? Drawing on Moran's book, Blue: A History of Postpartum Depression in America, she traces the emergence of postpartum depression as a diagnostic and cultural concept from the mid-twentieth century to the present. Through a deep dive into the pivotal decades of the 1970s and 1980s, she discusses how postpartum distress was reframed first from the “baby blues” to a feminist critique of motherhood, and then later to a medicalized and increasingly apolitical diagnosis.

Christine Slobogin @slobogin.bsky.social · 4w ago

Travis Chi Wing Lau (劉志頴)@travisclau.bsky.social · last mo.

Particularly proud of my department for our jointly written policy statement on AI usage, which affirms so much of what we do / why we do it in English and Creative Writing rather than merely condemns or punishes : www.kenyon.edu/academics/de...

Statement on AI Use

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · last mo.

In "Materia Medica," Nicole N. Ivy @nicotron3000.bsky.social traces the lives of the enslaved women conscripted into the development of US gynecology, exposing the representational labor imposed on black female bodies in both medical and creative works. Read the intro for free: buff.ly/YQSWs0T

Cover of Materia Medica: Black Women, White Doctors, and Spectacular Gynecology by Nicole N. Ivy. The cover has a museum-like installation with red lighting and a seated, elongated sculpture made of woven fibers on a rug. Pink fabric is draped in front of the figure. The title appears vertically in large red text with the author's name and subtitle in white adjacent to the title.

Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · last mo.

Let us declare the beginninge of Halloween Seasoun, todaye!

Sarah Wieten @sarahwieten.bsky.social · last mo.

Do I know anybody in the UK doing history, communications, rhetoric or theology of contemporary witchcraft?

Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · last mo.

the post workday restorative pickle

Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · 8mo ago

the post-PT restorative pickle

Christine Slobogin @slobogin.bsky.social · last mo.

Our next NCHED (National Collaborative on Humanities and Ethics in Dentistry) event is September 29! See poster for details! (Including our new logo!!) 🦷

The Art of Observation: Dentistry, Creativity, and the Visual Arts.

September 29, 2026
Via Zoom
1 pm EST

Join Artist-in-Residence Laura Spector for a conversation with
Dr. David Teasdale, UTHealth Houston School of Dentistry
alumnus, practicing dentist, and exhibiting artist. Together, they
will explore the connections between observation, creativity, and
professional practice, reflecting on how the visual arts can enrich
the way we see, interpret, and engage with the world. Inspired by
nature, faith, and the expressive power of color, Teasdale’s
paintings invite viewers to experience joy, spontaneity, and
emotional resonance. This special event offers an opportunity to
learn about the artist’s creative journey and discover how art and
dentistry share a common foundation in careful observation and
meaningful attention.

Register here: https://uthealth.zoomgov.com/webinar/register/WN_W4LWYBshQT2vpm74w7LtmA#/registration

Christine Slobogin @slobogin.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Love this quotation from a review of my book in The Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences!

University of Rochester Press@urpress.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Putting Plastic Surgery on Paper by @slobogin.bsky.social shows the key role that drawings and photographs had in shaping the material, professional, emotional and aesthetic parameters of plastic surgery. Learn more ➡️ buff.ly/rduJch4 #openaccess #medicalhistory

Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD @jacasiegel.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The best piece of advice I can give to incoming college students is that the freshman 15 doesn’t matter. Go out with your friends and have fun. Get late night ice cream with your roommate & let your parents spoil you when you go home. Going up a size won’t kill you, but an eating disorder might.

Xavier Aldana Reyes @xaldanareyes.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Body Horror is out today in the UK (and I believe already out in the US and other countries)! The code CUP20 gets you 20% off when purchasing the book directly from @ColumbiaUP. I’d be really grateful for any reposts or help with promotion! 🪰🧪🩸 #horror #bodyhorror cup.columbia.edu/book/body-ho...

Cover for Body Horror: Biology, Biopower, Biotechnology, by Xavier Aldana Reyes. It includes a still from the film, featuring Jeff Goldblum. His face shows visible signs that his body is beginning to change.

Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The Scorsese "Absolute Cinema" meme but it says "Absolute Baseball"

Joe Sheehan@sheehannewsletter.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Tarik Skubal on the mound in the seventh, up 7-0, one on, two outs, two strikes on the batter.

Christine Slobogin @slobogin.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Art and art history folks: I'm going to be in Vegas next week - any recs for what to see / visit while I'm there? 🎨🏛️🎰

TheNACBS @thenacbs.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Last up in our Disability Pride Month highlights - @slobogin.bsky.social on the Guinea Pig Club, humor, and disability. Read the full piece at Broadsides! www.nacbs.org/post/in-grou...

In-Groups and Out-Groups: Tube Pedicle Humor, Facial Difference, and the Guinea Pig Club

“There is an intrinsic irony in the tube pedicle procedure: meant to restore some level of normative appearance and function, it temporarily made the faces of these patients even more different.”

nacbs.org

Christine Slobogin @slobogin.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Art and art history folks: I'm going to be in Vegas next week - any recs for what to see / visit while I'm there? 🎨🏛️🎰

Christine Slobogin @slobogin.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Always a pleasure writing about the Guinea Pig Club! Check it out on the Broadsides blog for the North American Conference on British Studies. www.nacbs.org/post/in-grou...

In-Groups and Out-Groups: Tube Pedicle Humor, Facial Difference, and the Guinea Pig Club

“There is an intrinsic irony in the tube pedicle procedure: meant to restore some level of normative appearance and function, it temporarily made the faces of these patients even more different.”

nacbs.org

Christine Slobogin @slobogin.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We've finalized the schedule for this year's Corner Society lectures! Can't wait to welcome these speakers to Rochester - on topics from disability in the Civil War to the intersection of dermatology and Cubist art.

Flyer for the George Washington Corner Society for the History of Medicine, 2026-2027 Season.

5:30 p.m. Lecture
6:30 - 7:15 p.m. Social Gathering
Rochester Academy of Medicine
1441 East Avenue, Rochester, NY

Wednesday, September 9
Rachel Louise Moran Texas A&M University
“From Baby Blues to Postpartum Depression: A History of Maternal Mental Health”

Wednesday, October 28
Pablo Gómez
The University of Wisconsin–Madison
“The Early Atlantic Slave Trade and the Invention of Modern Corporeality”

Wednesday, November 18
Sarah Handley-Cousins University at Buffalo
“Disability and the American Civil War”

Wednesday, February 24
Mical Raz University of Rochester
“Lessons from the Past for the Future of Child Abuse Prevention”

Wednesday, March 24
Kathleen Pierce Smith College
“Cubism, Dermatology, and the Reimagining of Corporeal and Artistic Surface”

Wednesday, April 14
Merlin Chowkwanyun Columbia University
“Local Action and Community Health: The View From History”

For more information or to become a Corner Society member, please contact Christine Slobogin, PhD, at Christine_Slobogin@URMC.Rochester.edu

Tom Humberstone @tomhumberstone.com · 3mo ago

The Luddites loved technology. They owned looms at home and would ‘mod’ them to count threads. Their battle was against worker exploitation. The degradation of their rights, safety and wages. They were against a handful of rich businessmen owning the means of production. Sound familiar?

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3mo ago

George Lucas likens AI sceptics to luddites clinging to horses and carts

Christine Slobogin @slobogin.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Finally back in Rochester & reflecting on the wonderful time had at @sshmedicine.bsky.social in Leeds. Thank you especially to my co-panelists on "Simulation and Role-Play in 20th Century Medical Education and Beyond," here posing with dental phantoms (the topic of my paper). @reinarz.bsky.social

Four academics with conference lanyards sit on chairs in front of a screen depicting four dental phantoms (metal heads with denture teeth mouths open, on metal poles and bases) looking out towards the audience.

Exeter UCU @exeterucu.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We're on Bluesky now! 🦋 Follow us here for updates, we're just getting started. @ucu.org.uk @exetergreens.bsky.social @exeterlabour.bsky.social Here are our six key messages:

'EXETER UCU: OUR SIX KEY MESSAGES

1. EXETER UNI'S FINANCES ARE STRONG. WE'VE LARGE CASH RESERVES (£200M IN 24/25). NEVER HAD A BUDGET DEFICIT. THIS 'CRISIS' IS MANUFACTURED.
2. EXECUTIVE PAY AT EXETER IS OUT OF CONTROL. IF JUST THE 16 HIGHEST-PAID EXECS CAPPED THEIR SALARY AT £120K, WE'D SAVE MORE MONEY THAN ALL THE CUTS TO ARCHAEOLOGY & HISTORY!
3. NO MEANINGFUL CONSULTATION, BUT A CONFUSED MESS: FAULTY AND INSUFFICIENT DATA, NO REAL DISCUSSION, AND AN IMPOSSIBLE, INSULTING AND UNREASONABLE TIMETABLE TO PUSH THIS THROUGH OVER THE SUMMER.
4. AN ALL-STAFF MEETING OF 600 STAFF RESOUNDINGLY VOTED NO CONFIDENCE IN VICE CHANCELLOR LISA ROBERTS (WHOSE PAY IS PUSHING £400K). WE BELIEVE THIS IS THE BIGGEST SINGLE VOTE BY ANY UNI STAFF IN THE HISTORY OF UK HE.
5. REDUNDANCIES ARE A MANAGEMENT CHOICE, NOT A FINANCIAL NECESSITY. THEY EVEN HAVE ALTERNATIVE COSTED PLANS WITH NO CUTS, BUT THINK IT'S EASIER TO GO FOR JOB LOSSES.
6. EXETER IS A FANTASTIC UNI, WITH WORLD CLASS RESEARCH, CREATIVE AND INSPIRING TEACHING, THOUGHTFUL AND IMAGINATIVE COMMUNITY OF STAFF AND STUDENTS. LET'S KEEP IT THAT WAY.'

At the bottom of the poster:
#DefendExeterUni
Instagram handle @uniexeterucu
QR link to sign the petition

Gautham Rao (pronounced: Knicks in 5)@gauthamrao.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Come be my colleague! American University's History Department is searching for a tenure-track assistant professor of science, tech and society. I am chair of the search and pleased to answer any questions either on here or email (grao at american) american.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/AU/job/Main-...

Assistant Professor

American University is a student-centered research institution located in Washington, DC, with highly-ranked schools and colleges, internationally-renowned faculty, and a reputation for creating meani...

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Gen A.I. ys to writinge as a leafblower ys to playinge the violin

Christine Slobogin @slobogin.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Okay this is so fun.

Matthew@mapoochoo.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The Met put its entire collection online for free so I made a game out of it! 10 artifacts a day, and you guess where and when each one's from. Anthropeum.com if anyone wants to give it a shot and leave feedback :) #history #archeology #arthistory #museums