And here is the table of contents: We will walk through the many lives of tulips, palm trees, sea coconuts, coffee, mummies and those who remade knowledge about them: naturalists, physicians, flower breeders, bazaar artists, Orientalist scholars, and enslaved Muslims.

Duygu Yıldırım@duyguyildirim.bsky.social · 6d ago

So happy to finally share the news that my book, “A History of Uncertainty: Science between the Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe,” will be out in Spring 2027 by the University of Pittsburgh Press. I still can't believe it's now beyond my hands and on its way to meeting its readers.

So happy to finally share the news that my book, “A History of Uncertainty: Science between the Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe,” will be out in Spring 2027 by the University of Pittsburgh Press. I still can't believe it's now beyond my hands and on its way to meeting its readers.

A smiling snake with sunglasses from the 17th century (or maybe I'm just a bit jet-lagged).

I am not here much these days - life runs too fast to be here regularly. But let’s go back to the time honoured tradition of the now defunct #twitter: #FF! For more top #histsci follow: @pratik-hstm.bsky.social @duyguyildirim.bsky.social @mackenziecooley.bsky.social @simondolet.bsky.social

Also, a good review of Medicine on a Larger Scale, ed @ahlie.bsky.social Jeremy Greene and me, available open access @universitypress.cambridge.org A collection on the global history of social medicine (which can still be taught outside the US) www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #histstm

My review of Robert Morrison’s “Merchants of Knowledge: Intellectual Exchange in the Ottoman Empire and Renaissance Europe,”in Isis: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/74…

I am very pleased and honored to serve on the organizing team of The Commission on History of Science and Technology in Islamic Societies (CHOSTIS) as a counselor for the coming years. Here is the info about CHOSTIS: islamsci.org

Islamic Science

Commission on History of Science and Technology in Islamic Societies

islamsci.org

Journalists, let’s be careful about the language we use when writing or talking about AI. Here’s a thread — @emilymbender.bsky.social, I know you pay attention to this, too, so feel free to chime in. (1/x)

Delighted to share that my book DIGITIZING DIAGNOSIS (@hopkinspress.bsky.social) has been awarded CBI's Human-Computer Interaction History Prize! Especially honored to follow last year's winners, Tom Mullaney and Brad Myers. Grateful to CBI for the award and for supporting work in computing history!

Jeffrey Yost@justcode.bsky.social · 3mo ago

CBI is thrilled to announce @andrewlea.bsky.social has won CBI's 2026 Human-Computer Interaction History Prize for his masterful book Digitizing Diagnosis (JHUP). Award made possible by HCI pioneer @benbendc.bsky.social #humancomputerinteraction #hci #ai #aihistory cse.umn.edu/cbi/news/and...

Two of the many images that will be featured in my forthcoming book. So this is really happening!

University of Pittsburgh Press are having a sale for this month, so you can pick up a copy of my book, The Age of Mammals, for a standard hardback price of $42 (rather than the usual more academic price of $70) Link here, and code is 29INT40 : upittpress.org/books/978082... #FossilFriday

Anita Guerrini's review of "Culinary Texts in Context, 1500–1800" is a feature review, free to read, in the latest RQ issue! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... The book is edited by Sarah Peters Kernan & Helga Müllneritsch; it's published in the series Food Culture, Food History before 1900.

Normalize reviewing as a form of procrastination.

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 ago

Even 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. +

Even 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. +

Call for Papers: "Technologies of Making and Knowing" Hosted jointly at Getty, LACMA, and UCLA Los Angeles, California, March 4 - 6, 2027 www.historiansofislamicart.org/events-and-s...

Technologies of Making and Knowing - HIAA

Beyond its modern conceptualization, technology has always informed artistic production...

historiansofislamicart.org

Just signed my academic contributor contract for the Cambridge History of Medicine, and I’m truly excited! Looking forward to bridging the Ottoman world with conversations on indigeneity and exoticism in the long 18th century in relation to science and medicine.

Excited to share my fall course: Food, Health, and Society in the Middle East! 🍎🍉🧄🥫☕️🍽️

I don’t think AI will create equal opportunities in higher education.It’ll cause bigger inequalities.In the age of AI, universities may increasingly become spaces where interpersonal communication and small-scale learning will be more valued.Yet access to them will be limited to the most privileged.

My review of Robert G. Morrison’s “Merchants of Knowledge: Intellectual Exchange in the Ottoman Empire and Renaissance Europe,” (Stanford, 2025) at Isis www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Our panel, “Translating Technologies and Images: a Context for Textual Knowledge-Making across Early Modern Cultural Spheres,” has been accepted for the upcoming 2026 ESHS/HSS Joint Meeting to be held at the University of Edinburgh. Who else is going to be there?

I am very delighted to share that my article, “From Abstinence to (Un)Civility: Seventeenth-Century European Engagements with the Question of Wine Prohibition in Islam” has been accepted at the Historical Journal. Hope it stimulates further discussions on this perennial topic.

So excited to talk about my forthcoming book today!

One word in Turkish, one sentence in English. Konuşamadığımızdandır = It may be because we have been unable to speak to each other.

Western-style illustration of female reproductive organs in a 17th-century Ottoman manuscript on anatomy.

It is ironic how AI has turned into a fortune-telling tool in an almost occultist way.

Oh, so you mean present-day exhibitions of early modern objects? I'll have a think. This volume co-edited by @mackenziecooley.bsky.social, @annatoledano.com, and @duyguyildirim.bsky.social (someone needs to encourage them to hang out here!) may have leads: www.routledge.com/Natural-Thin...

Natural Things in Early Modern Worlds

The essays and original visualizations collected in Natural Things in Early Modern Worlds explore the relationships among natural things - ranging from pollen in a gust of wind to a carnivorous pitche...

routledge.com

An interesting imagery of “a Turk” in Emily Dickinson’s poem, “she died at play”

First day at I Tatti, the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies. An extraordinary place to work as an academic, or simply to be mesmerized by the atmosphere to get inspired (peak Renaissance energy)

As the new year begins, a new adventure starts for me. Beginning next week, I will be a Berenson Fellow at Harvard’s I Tatti through June. I’m honored and excited for this opportunity, and I’m looking forward to seeing old friends and meeting new ones. A presto, Firenze!