Emma
@this-is-emma.bsky.social
Archaeologist, historian, archival and collections researcher. Specializing in 19th American medicine and permafrost thaw in Alaska.
#histmed folks I have a question: what type of medical tradition (ie heroic, biomedical, etc) is medicine in America from 1850-1900? The strongest consensus I can find is “scientific medicine” to reflect the new connection to biology and experimentation but that feels very… Western.
Why is it I can pack for 12 days in New Zealand in a larger carry on but 7 days going home requires multiple bags???
In Nome a group of students and teachers tested out a new way to get to school: A bike bus.
Nome’s first Bike Bus tests new way to get students to school
Riding a bike to school can be tough in Nome. The roads have tiny shoulders and only a handful have sidewalks. Students at Anvil City Science Academy recently tried a safer way to make the trip.
akpub.io
We’re officially winding down/putting a lot of our Alaska work on ice while we focus on Minnesota projects (due to lack of funding/collaboration availability) and I’m suddenly having to remember how to CRM style work in the lower 48
A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right. Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement. This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.
Professional email thread side conversations: the most dangerous game. 😂
I am listening to Hemlock and Silver and we just got to the patent medicine section and I am once again struck by the knowledge that while @seananmcguire.bsky.social has my soul, @tkingfisher.com has my entire little medical archaeologist heart.
This bit from the obit stood out to me
Monica H Green@monicamedhist.bsky.social · 8mo agoAs #WorldAIDSDay comes around again (01 Dec 2025 is the 37th year of commemoration), a reminder of what #PublicHealth is, what is has been capable of, & (maybe?) some inspiration for how we might newly envision its future.
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Vulture@vulture.com · 8mo agoPope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Every allistic review of the Murderbot Diaries: A stunningly human portrayal of robot interiority! Every autistic reading the Murderbot Diaries: This robot is autistic.
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
violet allen@blipstress.bsky.social · 8mo agoI see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
This has been bothering the shit out of me.
Crystal Frasier@amazonchique.bsky.social · 9mo agoAlso, how fucking insane is it that Jeffrey Epstein found Donald Trump so morally repugnant he emailed evidence of his OWN CRIMES to the New York Times to stop his presidential run and the NYT just ignored them? JEFFREY EPSTEIN had stronger convictions than the NYT.
Day 8, Glass: I struggled to find an example in my phone for this one! Here we have a family mausoleum in Pére Lachaise, Paris, with light shining through a gorgeous little stained glass window in the back. #31DaysofGraves 🏺
Me: this masculinity chapter is going to be so hard to write, just as difficult as the poverty chapter Also me: 2500 words in after 3 days of writing and we haven’t even hit the Civil War yet.
CFPs - 'Historicising Commercial Determinants of Health' A workshop as part of the @kthabitproject.bsky.social to be held at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine @lshtm.bsky.social on 15 April 2026 Deadline for abstracts: 13 October #histmed #medhumanities #histSTM
Kicking the Habit@kthabitproject.bsky.social · last yr.CfP: Excited to announce our first workshop, exploring histories of Commercial Determinants of Health. Workshop to be held at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on 15 April 2026. Please circulate widely/consider submitting an abstract by 13 October 2025.
I just found out about this from @resourcefulsqrl.bsky.social and I cannot properly convey my excitement because one of the map sets I need for my book are georeferenced and ready to go and that makes it so much easier as a postdoc who doesn’t have protected research time to make figures.
Adam Cox@mradamcox.bsky.social · 11mo agoIf you are in the New Orleans area, come to one of our upcoming Georeference-a-thons at Second Line Brewing! Tuesday evenings, the 16th and 23rd. RSVP form here: tiny.cc/georef-2025. We'll be focusing on 1895 Duncan Plaza area and hearing from archaeologists who did work there over the summer.
the sheer number of beefs I have with people who died centuries ago
Louvain Rees ⚰️@hellohistoria.bsky.social · 12mo agoBeen at the archives for two minutes and I'm already annoyed by a surgeon who was born 190 years ago.
I will roll in playing a cleric like I always do. And I will dead ass play a life cleric. And I will take two levels of monk or fighter just so I can knock out anyone who calls that hypocritical.
Denise@kamehamehottie.bsky.social · last yr.Lifting this up because I was thinking about this some more and it would be a good fundraiser for @teafund.org.
Anyone around today or tomorrow who is willing to answer a few questions about their academic book contract? I just got a draft of mine and I don’t have many benchmarks for if it’s okay or not tbh.
This is just National Institutes of Health grant funding. Similar refusal to spend funds appropriated by Congress has been happening all across the government— and Republicans in Congress, every one of them doormats for Musk and Trump, have sat around and watched. This via @pamherd.bsky.social
Pam Herd@pamherd.bsky.social · last yr.Trump has cut the NIH budget by more than half in defiance of Congressionally mandated appropriations for the agency. No comparison historically, not even the Great Recession. This is clearly not legal and Congress needs to address it.
It’s the point of the year where I’m about to submit multiple things as the sole author and that’s always so much more nerve-wracking
Found it! And now I have a new scholarly nemesis.
Emma@this-is-emma.bsky.social · last yr.Does anyone still have an active subscription to The Atlantic? If so can you check an article for me?
Does anyone still have an active subscription to The Atlantic? If so can you check an article for me?
Well except the social determinants of health because that’s woke ideology rather than empirical reality
Reposting this for no particular reason. 👀
Dr Lindsey Fitzharris@drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 2y agoPhoto of two boys - one vaccinated against smallpox, the other not - published in 1901 by Dr. Allan Warner. Smallpox killed over half a billion people in the 20th century alone. On 8 May 1980, the WHO announced its eradication, which was achieved through #vaccines, surveillance, and containment.
