Launch of Medicine on a Larger Scale: Global Histories of Social Medicine at HoMSEA meeting, Yogyakarta, June 25. Book available open access at www.cambridge.org/core/books/m... Dr Sudirman Nasir, public health, Makassar, launched it with aplomb. With @hanspols.bsky.social & @ahlie.bsky.social & me

Very excited for this event at Cambridge HPS this Friday, co-organised with Mika Hyman, on cross-contextualisation (for more on c-c, see here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....)

I’m thrilled to announce that from September I’ll be joining @warburginstitute.bsky.social as a Frances Yates Long-Term Fellow. It’s a position I’ve aspired to since 2019, when I studied Warburg for an MPhil essay. Can’t wait to meet such an exciting group of scholars!

“If one is to evaluate both the achievements and the defects of twentieth-century academic moral philosophy, it needs to be understood both from within and from a standpoint that is at once external and radically critical.” dailynous.com/2025/05/22/a...

For those in Cambridge and environs, announcement of 29th Annual Hans Rausing Lecture at the Dept of History & Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, June 5, 3:30 pm. #histsci #histech #sts www.hps.cam.ac.uk/news-events/...

Yesterday Prof. Frank Rövekamp (Ludwigshafen University of Applied Sciences) gave an inspiring and lively talk on Shogi, the Japanese cousin of Western chess, in the ASTRA colloquium series "The Ludic Languages of Asia: Sources and Terminologies". 🔗 www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/event/shogi-...

The Soviet spacecraft that came in from the cold (and fell into the Indian Ocean this morning) -- @nytimes.com on Kosmos-482, the lost Soviet Venus probe from 1972 and its legacy. I'm quoted a few times. (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/s...

Plenary with the authors of an #HistSci classic, and the first time, apparently, that the chair, John Tresch, sees Stephen Shapin and Simon Schaffer in the same room.

Mark your calendars! 📅 I'm thrilled to share the line-up for the fall 2025 Science and Technology in Asia online seminar series. Hope you'll be able to join us for one or more of these sessions! seow.scholars.harvard.edu/STinAsia #histstm #histsci #histtech #histmed #sts #envhist #envhum 🧪

Our Visiting HPS Seminar tomorrow is the final one of the academic year! We welcome Dr Charu Singh from the University of Cambridge for “Challenging the Tridosha: Elements, humors and an Ayurvedic controversy in British India, c.1935”. Full details here: hpsleeds.wordpress.com/category/vis... #HPS

Many heatwave experts point out discrepancies in heatwave data because observatories are often located away from urban centres and end up recording lower temperatures, @jeffjosephpaul.bsky.social writes:

Yes! "Fear of the False: Forensic Science and the Law of Crime in Colonial South Asia" looks at false evidence planted by colonized tricksters to frame rivals + falsity enabled by criminal procedure which increased risk of expert misconduct. More details here: salh.law.wisc.edu/forensic-sci...

I'm finishing up a book manuscript for @cornellupress.bsky.social that includes a section on forensic venomology in colonial India. I worked really hard to get over my snake phobia for that! So this caught my eye. Big news to be on verge of a universal antivenom: www.bbc.com/news/article... (1/2)

Meanwhile, we welcome Dr Stavros Ioannidis (online, U. Athens) and Dr Charu Singh (in-person, U. Cambridge) on 30 April and 7 May respectively, for papers in our Visiting Speaker Seminar Series. Details here: hpsleeds.wordpress.com/category/vis... #histsci #histSTM #hps @leedsprhs.bsky.social

🎉 It's Himal's 38th birthday this May 🎂 and we’re looking for 38 new supporters. For just USD 5 per month, you can be one of 38 special people who step up to help secure the future of independent journalism in Southasia. Click here: buff.ly/3NHN6O1

(1/n) My new (edited) book is out! 'Cosmic Fragments: Dislocation and Discontent in the Global Space Age.' Out from @upittpress.bsky.social, the book has 18 scholars weigh in on aspects of space, esp deleterious phenomena, that rarely get foregrounded in celebratory narratives. Most critically..

Next year I will have two new colleagues. Ahmad Elabbar and Harriet Fagerberg are joining Cambridge HPS as Assistant Professors. What a huge honour and a privilege, congratulations to us all! Send us your postgrad applicants in all areas of #philsci #philmed, including ethics and politics of STEM.

#Fordham #NEH #RAdminsky @historyasif.bsky.social

Many heatwave experts point out discrepancies in heatwave data because observatories are often located away from urban centres and end up recording lower temperatures. By @jeffjosephpaul.bsky.social

Event at King's on 18 June! Gary Younge and @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social in conversation, around Sadiah's forthcoming book Vanished. Very much looking forward to both the event and the book. If you'd like to attend, just sign up on the following form: forms.office.com/e/3ZMBirJjjr

Delighted to share that the Indian print edition of my book, Pious Labor, is *coming soon* from Three Essays Collective!

Medicine on a Larger Scale: Global Histories of Social Medicine, eds @ahlie.bsky.social, Jeremy Greene, and me, will be available open access from @cambridgeup.bsky.social in May 2025. In a world of growing health inequity, radical social medicine has never been more urgent! #histstm #histmed #sts

JOB: Assistant Professor in South Asian Political/ Intellectual History (3-year post) @Cambridge_Uni www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50694/