Thank you for joining the panel and presenting your fascinating research, @alfredfreeborn.bsky.social and @anaantic.bsky.social ! Can't wait to read your forthcoming book on biological psychiatry, Alfred!

Alfred Freeborn@alfredfreeborn.bsky.social · 2w ago

Had a lot of fun at ESHS/HSS in Edinburgh last week, especially presenting on the history of schizophrenia panel with @slagstadk.bsky.social and @anaantic.bsky.social, sharing my ideas on the schizophrenic brain and CT as a moral machine. #ESHS-HSS

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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It’s hot in Berlin but Kate Fisher’s research is hotter! An amazing conversation with artist Aliz Farkas and historian Ketil Slagstad on care, medicine, sexuality and the vital importance of history in navigating life today at Beyond Bare Life #DefendExeterUni @exeter.ac.uk @humboldtuni.bsky.social

In his 1st lecture in front of almost 1000 people Dipesh Chakrabarty traced the long arc of anti-colonial constructions of a shared present, from Vera Zasulich to Ambedkar, and the processes that threw that shared “now-time” as well as the very idea of a shared future into crisis.

@drnikko.bsky.social and I are putting together a special issue proposal for Big Data and Society on "Trans Data"! If you're an #STS nerd, or a #transstudies nerd, or ideally both, do submit ideas if you have them - docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Big Data and Society - Trans Data CFP

Call for PapersSpecial Issue of Big Data & Society on Trans Data Data and trans lives go - both fortunately and unfortunately - together. From surveillance systems seeking to normalise and control t...

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Incredible opportunity to work with Dr Hannah Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social on a funded PhD project exploring unorthodox forms of health activism in postwar Britain. Full details here, do share widely! www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...

Yesterday, we celebrated the 5th anniversary of the @mdc-berlin.bsky.social Pride Symposium with the memorable edition Trans Pasts 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans Futures.  www.mdc-berlin.de/news/events/... Thanks to everyone who joined us and helped make this such a special moment! Here are some snapshots from the event

Finished Standardizing Sex by @slagstadk.bsky.social about a week ago and kept meaning to make a post! Wanted to post a handful of my immediate thoughts and reactions 🧵

Really interesting questions and answers. And a reminder I need to take 'Standardizing Sex' off the shelf at work and actually read it!

Ketil Slagstad@slagstadk.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Hello everyone, over the next few hours I’ll be answering questions on r/AskHistorians about my book *Standardizing Sex* and the history of trans medicine! @dhowlett1692.bsky.social www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

Hello everyone, over the next few hours I’ll be answering questions on r/AskHistorians about my book *Standardizing Sex* and the history of trans medicine! @dhowlett1692.bsky.social www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

From the AskHistorians community on Reddit: I am Dr. Ketil Slagstad, here to talk about my book "Standardizing Sex" and the history of trans medicine. AMA!

Explore this post and more from the AskHistorians community

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First two books in the Epidemic Histories series with Johns Hopkins U-P on display at aahm2026, @visualplague.bsky.social !

Join me on r/AskHistorians on Tuesday, June 9! I'll be answering questions about my book Standardizing Sex: A History of Trans Medicine @uchicagopress.bsky.social

Dan Howlett@dhowlett1692.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Of course, it isn't all US 250 this month! Tomorrow Edna Cummings discusses the Six Triple Eight, the African American Women's Army Corps unit. Tuesday, @slagstadk.bsky.social for Standardizing Sex: A History of Trans Medicine Wednesday, Rod Phillips for Cats: A History @hopkinspress.bsky.social

We invite you for our final event in the @socmederc.bsky.social seminar series on June 9, 2 pm CET: a conversation with @dinafainberg.bsky.social and Tal Zalmanovich on displacement and movement of expertise. Join us in Berlin or online, details below! socialistmedicine.com/june-9-speci... #histmed

Socialist Medicine ERC Research Seminar

June 9 Seminar Special Roundtable - World in Turmoil: Displacement as Academic and Historical Experience

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Ich freue mich sehr darauf, am 6. Juni im Rahmen der Langen Nacht der Wissenschaft gemeinsam mit den Studierenden der Universität der Künste die Geschichte der Medizin zu erkunden. Komm doch vorbei! @eahmh.bsky.social

My thoughts are also hugely shaped by my core view that there are important distinctions between writing and AI-assisted (or automation-assisted) document production. I'm 100% focused on what it means to learn to write, not just make texts. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Writing Classes Are About Writing, Not AI-Aided Production

If we want students to learn to write, AI tools shouldn’t have much of a role. If we don’t think students need to learn to write anymore, I’m not sure what we’re doing here.

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I’m about to spend 8 hours of my life in a workshop on AI in the classroom so naturally I am spending my usual insomnia hours collecting some helpful (read:critical) threads about AI. Starting with this “thread in a thread” by @petertarras.bsky.social who gave me the idea bsky.app/profile/pete...

Peter Tarras@petertarras.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Starting a new thread to collect critical perspectives on AI, as they are articulated dozens of times every day and appear repeatedly on my timeline. I can't read everything right away, but if, like me, you want to stay up to date, then this might help a bit:

‘The Ebola crisis should serve as an object lesson and rebuke to those who tolerate anaemic state funding of, or even cutbacks in, public health and healthcare delivery. Without staff, stuff, space and systems, nothing can be done.’ Paul Farmer on Ebola, from 2014: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...

Paul Farmer · Diary: Ebola

The Ebola virus is terrifying because it infects most of those who care for the afflicted and kills most of those who...

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We have now recruited two brilliant PhD students: one project will explore DIY transitioning and hormonal knowledge beyond the clinic in the two German republics; the other will analyze the medicalization of menopause in India, emphasizing feminist and local responses. @genderinsight.bsky.social

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

Fin artikkel av @jonblund02.bsky.social om hva vi kan lære av publiserte kasuistikker: en oppfordring om å gi plass til den uoversiktlige prosessen som ofte kjennetegner diagnostikk. tidsskriftet.no/2026/05/deba...

Hva lærer vi egentlig av «Noe å lære av»?

20.05.2026: Debatt - Kasuistikker i spalten «Noe å lære av» i Tidsskriftet er ofte velskrevne og faglig interessante.

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Just finished (and deeply enjoyed) the first chapter of @slagstadk.bsky.social's book Standardizing Sex. Current favourite quote, though I’m sure there are more to come 👀

So happy to see my new book "How Plague Got Rats: Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic" published today with @hopkinspress.bsky.social! #histmed #histsci #plague #rats #pandemic www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/... The book is also available Open Access via Project MUSE: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/oa_mon...

I'm so pleased to see that this chapter has been published. It's in a wonderful open access collection, Sexual Violence in Medicine and Psychiatry: Addressing Harms Through Interdisciplinarity which emerged from the SHaME project at Birkbeck. Link here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Congratulations on receiving such a positive review for Wonder Foods, @haushoferl.bsky.social. I couldn't agree more — it's a meticulously researched book that's also beautifully written. www.hsozkult.de/publicationr... @hsozkult.bsky.social

I en artikkel i Aftenposten kritiserte prof. @atlefretheim.bsky.social og u.t. hvordan resultatene av en ny finsk studie på medisinsk behandling til unge transkjønnede ble formidlet i forskningsartikkelen og i medieoppslag. www.aftenposten.no/meninger/deb...

Den finske studien på transkjønnet ungdom viser ikke det den hevder å vise

Les debattinnlegget.

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Thrilled that my @jhideas.bsky.social article ‘When Jupiter Meets Saturn: Aby Warburg, Karl Sudhoff, and Astrological Medicine in the Age of Disenchantment’ has received the prestigious Förderpreis! Read my article here: muse.jhu.edu/article/926151 (OA link below) 🗃️ #history #HistMed #HistSci

The Warburg Institute@warburginstitute.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🎉 Congratulations to Xinyi Wen for receiving the 2026 Förderpreis des Fachverbands Medizingeschichte award from the German Association for the History of Medicine for the best article on the #historyofmedicine published in the past two years by an early-career scholar. Learn more ➡️ buff.ly/QNTOEon

Really looking forward to participating in the Trans Pasts – Trans Futures symposium on June 12 at @mdc-berlin.bsky.social alongside stellar researchers. Juliana Gleeson and I will talk about intersex and trans history and its significance for the present. www.mdc-berlin.de/de/news/even...

TWO great jobs in History and Philosophy of Science at Sydney! Rank from Lecturer (Assistant Prof) to Assoc Prof. Particularly interested in candidates working in the areas of early modern science, or science or medicine in Asia, or Indigenous knowledge systems... #HPS #STS #histstm #histsci

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor to the School of History and Philosophy of Science - Camperdown, Australia job with UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY | 410910

Build your research and apply your expertise by contributing as a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor to the School of History and Philos...

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Die Medizingeschichte der Charité ist bei der Langen Nacht der Wissenschaft am 6. Juni stark dabei. Es gibt Führungen auf dem Gelände und im Museum und Vorträge über Säftelehre, Geburt und Trans*-Medizin in Kooperation mit Studierenden der Universität der Künste. www.charite.de/fileadmin/us...

Very excited to add @slagstadk.bsky.social’s book on Scandinavian trans medicine to my growing collection of trans history books! 🏳️‍⚧️✨ Also the cover art is 10/10, scratches an itch I didn’t know my brain had

Monday 11 May, from 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. CET, we are organising a webinar to discuss our new edited volume, The Chronopolitics of Life. Come and join us! For more info and the event link, please visit this page: www.unil.ch/events/fr/17...

The Chronopolitics of Life ⎥ Rethinking temporalities in health and biomedicine beyond the life course

Webinar organisé par Nolwenn Bühler (Unil), Nils Graber (Humboldt University of Berlin), Victoria Boydell (University College London) et Cinzia Greco (University of Manchester) suite à la publication ...

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