We need more midwives, but too many barriers stand in the way of training and certification. We need YOUR wisdom to shape what that looks like. No ongoing commitment required, just show up! 📅 Date: June 24, 2026 | 6:00-7:30 PM EDT 💻 Virtual, open to all. 🔗 Sign up here: qmnc.org/events/273185

Wow! What an amazing sounding conference and a superb CfP!

As a graduate student at UCLA, I had the honor to meet Carlo a couple times. His scholarship has greatly shaped how I read my sources and how I understand the craft of history. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/b...

Looks great!

French historians---I am teaching the Rev for the first time in the fall. What are the best online databases for English-language primary sources or objects/art/images (for students)? Thanks! 🗃️

"Learning to Cut: Surgical Training and Practice, 1450–1800"is out! It reveals diverse modes of surgical teaching and learning, and how they were shaped by existing social, economic, and occupational structures. 🗃️ Get your open assess copy here: nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

BEGINS TODAY!!!!

The working group that I co-founded, "Childbirth Technologies," is looking for new members and a new co-coordinator. The group includes both art historians and historians and welcomes scholars from any field interested in the material and visual histories of pregnancy and childbirth. DM me! 🗃️

if it's safe for you to work in the USA then the Uni of Oklahoma is looking for a potential senior hire in #histSTM with a specialisation in women & science 🗃️ networks.h-net.org/jobs/70051/u...

Excited to share the Call for Papers for a special issue of French Historical Studies on "European-Indigenous Relations in the French Americas" (which I am co-editing w/Scott Berthelette) Feel free to reach out via DM/email if you have any questions CFP here: read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...

Thrilled to be participating in the "Fetal Subjects and Legal Personhood in the Pre-Modern Catholic World" conference at UCLA June 8-10! Thanks @eobrien.bsky.social for organizing! The virtual keynotes, by @sacrobosco.bsky.social and John Christopoulos, are open to the public! Join us! 🗃️

Take action by May 26. The NIH is accepting public comments on its FY 2027–31 Strategic Plan. Tell the NIH to support the National Library of Medicine through investment in research infrastructure, digitization and preservation, and stewardship of medical history. Submit comments:

📚 The shortlist for the 2026 BSHS Pickstone Prize is out! Awarded biennially, the prize recognises outstanding scholarly books in HistSTEM. This year’s shortlist highlights topics including climate, race, extinction, capitalism, medicine, and animal experimentation. 🔗 bshs.org.uk/pickstone-pr...

Discussed medicalization in my “Poxes and Plagues” class today. I was blown away by my students’ ability to think critically and with nuance!!! Can’t wait for our future conversations!

Tomorrow!

Excited to host Dr. Kylie Smith this Wednesday at 4pm CT! Feel free to join us! 🗃️

💫New Workshop #CfP💫 'Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900', 5 December, online, organised by the very fabulous @annafranjam.bsky.social & @rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social. #HistMed #HistSTM #HistPsych #DisHist #HistNursing #MatCult #MaterialCulture #MedHums #Skystorians🗃️

Our book is out!! Happy publication day to our fantastic team of editors and authors.

Official publication date is September 9th! Get a copy! 🗃️ www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/the-nursing-...

Just got my author copy of the NursingClio reader! Please everyone get like 12 copies and support the incredible work of @nursingclio.bsky.social!!

Look what came in! Check it out for yourselves! 🗃️

We've updated the Society for the Study of French History website with new increased funding amounts for all available schemes. These are central to the society's activity & a great way to support scholarship 🗃️ #frenchhistory #skystorians @frenchhistory.bsky.social frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/grants/

Check out our newly released special issue, "Reproductive Objects"! Through a collection of stellar articles, it traces the material "stuff" that constitutes the uneven tapestries of power, authority, and knowledge making around human reproduction. www.press.jhu.edu/journals/bul...

The #AHR is seeking proposals for a special issue on methodological approaches to archival silences in early history. Visit our website to read the full call for proposals and learn more about the guidelines for submission. Proposals are due September 16. 🗃️

Text from a colleague who taught my book Blue: A History of Postpartum Depression in America this semester! If you use Blue or a chunk of Blue in a syllabus this fall let me know, and I am always super happy to zoom in to your classes to talk about it too.

Mark your calendars! Virtual participation provided and open to the public!

WE HAVE A BOOK COVER!! To pre-order, use the following link: nursingclio.org/the-nursing-...

TOMORROW!!!! Register for Dr. Ragab's talk here: tinyurl.com/2m2ftb9p

Just about a week out from the deadline!!!

Excited to announce our speaker line for this semester! All events are virtual and in-person and open to the public! www.shsu.edu/medhealthevents #histmed #medicalhumanities 🗃️

Conditions: history of medicine topic, Europe or 'Europe and the wider world', published 2023-24, any language. 3000 euro prize is worth a submission! 🗃️ (do NOT rely on your publisher to do this for you)

Thank you, Tricia! And thank you, Ria, for the nudge!

Please circulate this CfP! We are inviting abstract submissions for our "NEH Medical Humanities" Conference October 2-3, 2025 at Sam Houston State University. No registration fees for any attendees. Submit abstracts by February 1st for consideration. 🗃️ #histmed #Historysky #histSTM #skystorians

Cool collection of public heath posters

Im re-envisioning my "Poxes and Plagues" syllabus to be more methodologically organized (rather than thematic). Any suggestions of history of disease/epidemic work that uses gender as a category of analysis? #skytorians 🗃️

Wow! 😒

Thank you to our beloved Gustavo Arellano, for honoring the passing of Dolores Madrigal in the LA Times. Dolores was the lead plaintiff in the class action lawsuit against County-USC where more than 200 Mexican American women were forcibly sterilized in the 1960s and 70s:

For new folks - the "What's History" Feed is a great way to find other historians and conversations about history. To post to the list, contact @rauchway.bsky.social to be added to the list, and then include either #skystorians or 🗃️ to your post. erauchway.github.io/posts/bsky/ #earlymodern

Made some cranberry rosemary scones. They are delish!!!

I'm Scottie and I'm smart but lazy. (Said to me by a high school teacher who never actually taught me how to write an essay but valued my participation in class. Little did he know I had spent weeks working on that paper! Taught me how important self-reflection is for teachers.)

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Did you know that if you put a 🗃️ in your post it automatically pulls your post into the What’s History feed? #skystorians

Ha! Love that in the list of possible feeds, pics of cats is WAY higher than dogs! (Don’t worry, I don’t actually dislike dogs, just absolutely love cats)

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Thems the rules! #proofofcat

I’m brand new here and I really only had two concerns in transitioning over….first, would I find all the cool #histmed peeps easily and second are the men’s wear guy and Jorts the cat on here? Thanks @jackiantonovich.bsky.social for helping with the first!