Delighted that my book project is featured here (pp. 86-7). History matters! #histmed

Introducing the Medicine and the Healing Arts Podcast: Ancient Medicine, Modern Questions The first episode of Medicine and the Healing Arts, presented by the MIT Global Humanities Initiative. www.asianmedicinezone.com/p/introducin...

Our podcast has been launched! www.asianmedicinezone.com/p/introducin...

Does medical history matter? @mstanleybaker.bsky.social and I think it does, and now we have a podcast where we discuss it! #skystorians comparativeglobalhumanities.mit.edu/mit-global-h...

This Friday! Come and hear what we’ve been up to: comparativeglobalhumanities.mit.edu/10th-mit-glo... [email protected]

The Objects, Images, and Spaces of Health April 17th meeting hosts Briana Brightly, who has shared a chapter from their doctoral dissertation titled "How to Draw the Buddha and Dissect a Corpse: Iconometry and Anatomy in Early-Modern Tibet". @yoelitlalim.bsky.social will open as commentator

It's me in the Financial Times, detailing the deep and pernicious influence of one-size-fits-all management consultancy in our universities... Take a look! 👇 www.ft.com/content/5032...

Three chapters of the book Public Health in the Premodern World: Dynamic Balances are also available Open Access, find them at the following link: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Please come along to our book launch in Oxford of Public Health in the Premodern World: Dynamic Balances, edited by G. Geltner, Janna Coomans, and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim @yoelitlalim.bsky.social published by @oxfordunipress.bsky.social

CfP: Global Histories of Knowledge: Circulations and Encounters, in Oxford, June 2026

Great to see @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social ’s book displayed at the @wellcomecollection.bsky.social

Have you had your eye on “Public Health in the Premodern World” ed. by our G. Geltner with Janna Coomans & Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim (@yoelitlalim.bsky.social) which illustrates the rich history of public health? Check out the code below to get 30% off! #histmed #medhst

Around the world, medicinal and aromatic plants are woven into the daily lives of billions of people. From ginseng to agarwood, more than 1,500 species are regulated under CITES. This #WorldWildlifeDay, discover why conserving them is essential: wildlifeday.org/en/about

: Half of UK universities face a deficit next year. Up to 50 could close. That is a sector in crisis. Simply blaming a tuition fee freeze and nudging fees up with inflation is not a plan. Where is the long-term strategy for higher education? #Universities #HigherEducation

We're thrilled to share that 2024–25 fellow Ronit Yoeli Tlalim's new book (coedited with G. Geltner and J. Coomans), Public Health in the Premodern World: Dynamic Balalnces was just released by Oxford University Press. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Looking lovely in 3 dimensions! (2 dimensions of 3 dimensions?) The hard copy is out on the 26th - But if you can’t wait, the e-book has already been released…

Hot off the press! #histmed

We're hosting a hybrid conference! "Health and the Environment in the Preindustrial World: Multidisciplinary Approaches" will explore traditional and recent themes in public health history. To be notified when registration opens, fill out this form: forms.gle/CSEQLpo75n56... #histmed #histstm

NEW BOOK: the e-book for “Public Health in the Premodern World” ed. by our G. Geltner with Janna Coomans & Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim (@yoelitlalim.bsky.social) is out! Illustrating the rich history of public health, it shows how communities across the globe defined and pursued health #histmed #medhst

'The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is demanding the university turn over names and personal information about Jewish members of the Penn community as part of the administration’s stated goal to combat antisemitism on campuses.' What could possibly go wrong?

Join us Friday Jan 16 for a preview of our new book: Public Health in the Premodern World: Dynamic Balances #histmed www.chstm.org/group/object...

"genAI" doens't "learn" (tech execs' term) since it has no brains. Instead, it stores and regurgitates - PLAGIARISM.... "many AI developers use a more technically accurate term when talking about these models: lossy compression."

Watch this space! "Public Health in the Premodern World" edited by G. Geltner, Janna Coomans, and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim ( @yoelitlalim.bsky.social ) is coming out on the 29th with @oxfordunipress.bsky.social!

Out of curiosity, I just ran a few paragraphs from The Butchering Art through an AI checker and it got flagged: 88% AI. This book was released in 2017, and AI machines were subsequently trained off it. How many writers are getting flagged for AI because of the literal theft of their work(s)? Insane.

Very honoured to contribute this image to the WHO Global Summit on Traditional Health this week. The summit will bring huge advances to traditional medicine. Great working w. @yoelitlalim.bsky.social on the historical timeline. Here viewed by @narendra-modi.bsky.social and the Director of @who.int

It was a great honour to have been invited to the Second WHO Global Summit for Traditional Medicine in Delhi and see the exhibition to which @mstanleybaker.bsky.social and I advised in the real world. (Huge!) #histmed #globalhealth

"Among Tibetan Materialities: Materials and Material Cultures of Tibet and the Himalayas" - book launch: December 16, 2025. hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/catalog/book...

Honoured and delighted to be on my way to this: m.youtube.com/watch?v=wjLb...

Your universe is a photocopy of a photocopy of a… on.ft.com/4ahkNKa

wonderfully inspiring few days in Seoul discussing why humanities matter. Great to see our MIT Global Humanities team comparativeglobalhumanities.mit.edu/4th-annual-c...

If you are interested in medicine, animal studies and ecology you can attend ‘Medicinal Animals’ in Crisis: A Three-Part Symposium online this week, hosted at NUS in Singapore. @mstanleybaker.bsky.social @jimflowers.bsky.social 9 October 2025 14:00 – 17:00 (SGT) ari.nus.edu.sg/events/20251...

IASTAM’s member Sarah Rivkin @salliebklyn.bsky.social joins Qiological’s Michael Max to discuss translation as clinical practice where every word carries weight, diagnosis is translation, and the translator’s lens shapes both scholarship and clinical practice. www.qiological.com/language-as-...

Dr. Theresia Hofer will speak on “Deaf and Disability Activism in Tibet and the Himalayas”. 29 Aug 2025, 1–2:30pm NTU, School of Humanities, Meeting Room 2 (03-93) Drawing on two decades of fieldwork, she explores disability rights, sign language politics, and activism in Tibet, Bhutan & Nepal.

Israeli media reports that the cabinet is gearing up to instruct the IDF to occupy all parts of the Gaza Strip. The implications are a severe escalation of the carnage, starvation, and ethnic cleansing. UK+EU sanctions should preempt this catastrophe - not respond to it belatedly.

Over the course of their career history majors out earn engineers and comp sci.

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WeTransfer Aside from ML training, one of the most expansive claims on your content I've ever seen for a service. perpetual worldwide sub-licensable transferable for purposes of operating, developing, commercializing to reproduce, distribute, modify prepare derivative works based upon perform

Out now! “Responding to Epidemic Outbreaks in Tibetan Contexts” Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines, Number 77, May 2025: www.digitalhimalaya.com/collections/... Edited by Barbara Gerke, William A. McGrath and Jan M. A. van der Valk.

Most of my older son's friends at a Manchester 6th-form college are sons and daughters of immigrants (so is he, of course). Are they the problem because they turn the UK into an "island of strangers", as Starmer put it, or the solution as they are the skilled workforce of the future?

Strong words from Ursula von der Leyen today: “Science belongs to humanity. We must protect it, prioritize it, and give it the freedom it needs to flourish.” At the launch of the EU’s “Choose Science - Choose Europe” initiative, she announced four key actions. 🧵1/3

Borrowed from @highwayoftearz.bsky.social Twitter page ✊🏽❤️

We are now approaching 4,000 formally announced university redundancies in the UK since January alone. The real situation is far worse than that, and will also accelerate going forwards. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-univ...

Why is the government and the news so indifferent to the meltdown happening in UK #HigherEd right now? Our universities are the envy of the world. Yet we are at risk of losing a generation of academics and damaging the sector beyond repair.

For UK peeps not following climate science across the pond, these came yday: An executive order to override state energy laws that mention climate: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... Ending one $4M grant to study climate because it "focuses on alarming scenarios" www.commerce.gov/news/press-r...

How to sum up what I’ve been doing in the last two and a half decades? Not easy, but here’s an attempt: katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/bl...

Several things wrong with this article about universities. (1) Focus on Dundee, when most of Scotland's unis in danger; (2) on top pay and benefits, which are annoying but don't make much difference; (3) on recent danger, when I told you what'd happen 5 years+ ago. www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...

Pentagon abruptly ends all funding for social science research | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Ah yes - the free speech absolutists are at it again