Just a reminder that discount code HSS26 (from the recent history of science conference in Edinburgh) gets you a cracking 30% off my book from @yalebooks.bsky.social, and free UK postage, until the end of August. yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300... #books #booksky #histsci #queerhistory 🌈📚🦋🗃️

Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life - Yale University Press London

A revelatory history of sex, gender, and science from Linnaeus to DarwinWhat did Darwin and Linnaeus really think about sex? In print, their descriptions of ...

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📣CFPs - deadline 31 July📣 Symposium: Global Childhood(s) and Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine 📆16-18 November 2026 🏛️The Centre for History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Leeds (UK) In-person with online presentation option #histmed #histSTM

History of Medicines CFPs

If you wish to share your CFPs on the SSHM website please contact the Exec Sec, Dr Justine Pick admin@sshm.org Symposium: Global Childhood(s) and Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine Keyn…

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Wonderful to wake up to the news that PunQ - Punctuated Equilibria: EU vaccine manufacturing & #pandemicpreparedness (1990-2025) - has been financed by @agencerecherche.bsky.social, the French National Research Agency! (1/3)

A great pleasure to speak virtually about the history of pharmaceutical #R&D & the need to maintain diverse regionalised #innovation ecosystems at WHO Western Pacific Region in Manila this morning! @whowpro.bsky.social pro.bsky.social

Job Alert! Two-year postdoctoral position (100%, Jan 2027-Dec 2029) on the biological & social history of enteric pathogens in post-war France: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/448818 (1/4)

Post-doctoral Position in History of Medicine, Social Sciences, and Geography

Archaeology of Disappeared Pathogens (ArchPath) reconstructs the interwoven biological and social histories of enteric fever (typhoid and paratyphoid B) endemism and eradication in post-war France.

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A huge honour to be among 130 members nominated to serve as experts for the French High Council for Public Health (Haut Conseil de la Santé Publique)! I aim to bring historical research to bear on deliberations of the specialist commission on environmental risks. www.hcsp.fr/Explore.cgi/...

PhD Opportunity! Interested in the history of the #microbiome & #symbiosis concepts since 1900? Work with Maureen O'Malley, Nic Rasmussen & myself on our new Australian Research Council Discovery Award at Univ of Sydney. Applications: www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships... #histsci #histmed #STS

@willhgaze.bsky.social @kirchhelle.bsky.social

Speaking tomorrow in Lausanne on how antibiotic innovation came to be framed as a market & incentives crisis, who drove this framing & why we need more versatile innovation metaphors beyond 'pipelines'! #histmed #histsci #STS - for more see: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Phree minutes of phame talking about #phage history! Check out "Friendly Viruses" on the past, present, and future of #phagetherapy on BBC Radio 4 with marnie chesterton: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... #histmed #histsci #STS

BBC Radio 4 - The Friendly Virus

As antibiotics start to fail, are we ready to enter the age of phage?

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Incredibly proud of this paper showing how plants couple vesicle delivery and phragmoplast expansion during division. This project started in the lab of the great and late Ian Moore, and it was a joy to finish it with @liamelliottplants.bsky.social et al! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A Rab/Kinesin-12/kinase module couples vesicle delivery and phragmoplast dynamics during plant cell cytokinesis - The EMBO Journal

Cytokinesis is a key process in the development of multicellular organisms, through both formative and proliferative divisions. In land plants, successful cytokinesis requires precise targeting of Gol...

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Super-excited to be organising the first in-person meeting of the @target-amr.bsky.social network today and tomorrow. We will be launching an initiative for pump-priming and an amazing comic by Eddie Ross on AMR Genomics

Interested in the societal & scientific dynamics shaping microbial #conservation, #assetization & #biodiversity research? Then these back-to-back articles with Fred Vagneron on microbial culture collections in JHB's new Microbes & Health collection are for you! link.springer.com/collections/... 1/3

🇬🇧-bound and zooming across Northern 🇲🇫 in the Eurostar! Looking forward to presenting new research on the evolution of microbiological sentinel surveillance & the many lives of E.coli @roysocmed.bsky.social tomorrow & on "Antibiotics - challenges & opportunities" @target-amr.bsky.social on Thursday!

Very much looking forward to reading this!

Christos Lynteris@visualplague.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Delighted to have my author's copies of How Plague Got Rats! A big thanks to series editors @steerewilliams.bsky.social @doravargha.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social & to @wellcometrust.bsky.social for funding this project! Book publ. May 19 & OA www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

I am thrilled and beyond grateful to receive a CNRS bronze medal this year - this is an incredible honour especially for an INRAE researcher like myself! A big thanks to my amazing team and the research community @RDP for all the great science we have done together!

CNRS Biologie@cnrsbiologie.bsky.social · 4mo ago

#TalentsCNRS Découvrez les médaillés d'argent et de bronze 2026 de CNRS Biologie ! Félicitations aux lauréates et lauréats ! 🎉 👉 www.insb.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/...

JOB ALERT: Two 4.5 year postdoctoral positions to work on my Wellcome-funded project 'Conserving Global Health: Biodiversity Protection and the Prehistory of Planetary Health'. Please share widely! CLOSING DATE: 23 April (the date on Jobs.ac.uk is apparently incorrect)

Just as agricultural monocultures replace diverse ecosystems with a single crop variety, measurement monocultures replace diverse knowledge systems with standardised analyses and narrow citation networks gh.bmj.com/content/11/3...

The richness of urban health realities lost in measurement monocultures

The question seems simple enough: how can a rapidly growing African city improve the health and care of its pregnant women and their babies? But ask this question while navigating the humid, traffic-c...

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Happening next week!

Claas Kirchhelle@kirchhelle.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Unlike #climatechange debates on transitions towards sustainable & equitable futures, similar debates are often absent from #antimicrobial governance. 📣 Join us for a roundtable event on: #AMR – Just Transitions for Shared Futures 📅 31 March 🕚 11:00 CEST 🔗 Register: cassyni.com/events/Kxn38...

This looks great - of #histSTM and GLAMS 📜 interest as well as #envhist

Clare Hickman@drhick.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🥳The Routledge Handbook of Health and Environmental Humanities is published today! Ed. by the fab Amber Abrams, @victoriabates.bsky.social & @rothiotome.bsky.social. It also includes a chapter 'Research on the Move' by @draflint.bsky.social and me. (Probably one to ask your library to order tho' £)

Unlike #climatechange debates on transitions towards sustainable & equitable futures, similar debates are often absent from #antimicrobial governance. 📣 Join us for a roundtable event on: #AMR – Just Transitions for Shared Futures 📅 31 March 🕚 11:00 CEST 🔗 Register: cassyni.com/events/Kxn38...

What a resource!

Jean Rivière@jeanriviere.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Avec @rlg.bsky.social, A. Ribardière et tout notre collectif éditorial, nous avons le plaisir de vous annoncer la parution des premières planches de notre Atlas social de la France. Pour un autre récit des inégalités dans l’espace national : atlas-social-de-france.fr

Great fun to chat about #antimicrobials, #innovation & #AMR - including our recent stocktake of the (un)intended consequences of the WHO's 2015 Global Action Plan with Lloyd Czaplewski & Elena Dalla Vecchia on @lancetmicrobe.bsky.social "In Conversation"! www.buzzsprout.com/1794195/epis...

Claas Kirchhelle and Lloyd Czaplewski on AMR governance and financing - The Lancet Microbe in conversation with

Elena Dalla Vecchia talks with Claas Kirchhelle and Lloyd Czaplewski about the current antimicrobial resistance (AMR) governance (with a historical perspective on how it came to be), the 2015 WHO Glob...

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The human right to a healthy, clean & sustainable environment could be a game changer for tackling #AMR's environmental drivers. But how could this work? Wendy Boucrot, Sheila Varadan & I review how the new right could be applied to #antimicrobial pollution. doi.org/10.1017/pub.... #STS #HistMed

“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”

Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death

The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.

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"Can you trust the results from gut microbiome tests? Maybe not." www.sciencenews.org/article/resu... I understand why the authors didn't disclose the different company IDs...but I'm very curious to know which is which

Can you trust the results from gut microbiome tests? Maybe not

Seven firms reported inconsistent results on the same sample, some over multiple tests. These gut microbe discrepancies could have health consequences.

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Publication 🚨! In "This little microbe went to market: The political economy of sentinel surveillance", I review F. Keck's Politique de Zoonoses (2024) & highlight the need for more attention to how microbial enclosure & assetisation impact global health. www.jle.com/10.1684/sss.... #histmed #STS

Hard to believe that the gold standard underlying the remodelling of most post-1980s surveillance systems can simply be switched off. Also highlights the importance of decentralised capacity building for long-term resilience.

Onisillos@onisillos.bsky.social · 6mo ago

"Waiting for Washington to do the right thing can mean watching people die while politicians debate." www.statnews.com/2026/02/13/c...

Wonderful job opportunities coming up in Berlin!

Ketil Slagstad@slagstadk.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Come work with us! Two fully funded 36-month PhD positions in the history of medicine at Charité Berlin. The positions are part of the EU-funded Gender Insight network researching biopsychosocial aspects of diverse hormonal transitions. Deadline 28 Feb 2026 #histmed genderinsight.eu

Definitely, the most scenic #AMR meeting I have been to! Thanks to CATIE & the British Academy for organising a week of thought-provoking discussions in Costa Rica on Just Transitions for AMR and the many interconnections between antimicrobial pollution and climate change!