How we’re tracking avian flu’s toll on wildlife across North America theconversation.com/how-were-tra...

Couldn't have expected a better kick off for my project, "How did infectious diseases become wild?", than to give a keynote at the Annual Meeting of the Brazilian Society of Tropical Medicine in sunny João Pessoa

From the current issue: “Microhistory as Industrial History: Environment, Sugar Capitalism and Labour in Egypt, 1863–1879” by Adam Mestyan (‪@harvard.edu‬) doi.org/10.1093/past...

1/ I'm excited to share that Franz Knappik’s and my Cambridge Element on Hegel and Colonialism is finally out – open access below! We trace how Hegel defends European colonial rule, including transatlantic slavery, and how that defence runs through his entire philosophical system. Thread below ⬇️

Looking forward to today's talks and discussion at the Hotspots of Concern: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Biodiversity and Health workshop convened by @emmanuelleroth.bsky.social & @greggmitman.bsky.social www.cas.lmu.de/en/events/ev...

🎙The DHST has launched a podcast designed to support early career scholars. Each episode features conversations with experts in the history of science and technology on a wide range of topics relevant to academic life today. Give it a listen via the link. 👉 bit.ly/4hq7hFR

#AcademicJob Assistant Professor in the Social Studies of Medicine joint between Departments of Sociology and History & Philosophy of Science at University of Cambridge. Apply by 17 November #HPS #STS #Sociology #SocMed #HistMed #MedHum #MedAnth #MedEthics #PhilJobs

In our October issue: Perspective led by Laetitia Navarro (@laenavarro.bsky.social) on historical ecology, which uses various sources of information to study past biodiversity change and human-nature interactions. 🧪🌎 bit.ly/46Qp6Kp Readcube: rdcu.be/eKYfH

‘In his entire life Flaubert never bought a newspaper from a kiosk and – almost incredibly – never went into a bookshop.’ Online early from the next issue – Julian Barnes on Flaubert and his publisher Michel Lévy: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

📖 Compte rendu / Review Sarah Cockram et Andrew Wells (dir.), #Interspecies Interactions: #Animals and Humans Between the Middle Ages and Modernity, @routledgebooks.bsky.social, 2018. par Clémentine Girault (@upcite.bsky.social) 👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahss...

So great to see the special issue on "Invasive Species, Global Health, and Colonial Legacies" that @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social & I edited published today! A big thanks to all contributors & to JHMAS editors & reviewers for their support & guidance in this process academic.oup.com/jhmas/issue/...

📍Tahiti face aux explorateurs européens : comment faire l’histoire de l’autre📍 🗣️avec Antoine Lilti @college-de-france.fr @ehess.fr @crh.ehess.fr ▶️https://crh.ehess.fr/index.php?2443 📻 France Culture, Questions du soir : l'idée ▶️ www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

Today marks the final day of The Global War Against the Rat project @standrewsanthro.bsky.social (funded @wellcometrust.bsky.social) after 6 wonderful years of collaborative interdisciplinary research with Oliver French, @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social & @alvesduarte.bsky.social

📣 We are pleased to announce the upcoming Special Issue "Knowledge and Power: Projecting the Modern World" with guest editors Vera Keller, Ted McCormick, and Kelly Whitmer. 📚 Articles will be made accessible online in the next weeks. More information: journalhistoryknowledge.org/announcement....

👇 "Open Science in History," fantastic workshop co-organized by LHST associate research Simon Dumas Primbault! #histSTM #histsci

JOB AD: If you research philosophy, history or social studies of biology, with interest in agroecology, crop science or environmental intelligence, consider applying for 3-year postdoctoral fellowship in Munich! Deadline for applications: 31/10, details www.sts.sot.tum.de/en/sts/arbei... #philsci

Congratulations from the Global War Against the Rat project team to Oliver French for having successfully defended his PhD Thesis "Vermin in Society: Plague, Pests and Poisons at the Dawn of Zoonosis" - a historical anthropological study of rat poisoning as an anti-plague measure in colonial India

Host Specificity in Biological Control – Thomas Blanchard Abstract in alt text or read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #philsci #philsky

La frontière entre humains et animaux Enquête historique et ethnographique sur la transplantation inter-espèces shs.cairn.info/revue-annale...

It's official! The Wellcome Trust has awarded me a grant worth over £1 million. The next 5 years, I will lead the project "How Did Infectious Diseases Become Wild?: Plague, Yellow Fever, and Disease Ecology in the Brazilian Hinterland (1920-1975)", at King's College. wellcome.org/research-fun...

We're hiring a new lecturer @stsucl.bsky.social. We're looking for someone with particular interests in the environment. Please share widely www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

At the 27th International Congress of History of Science and Technology, held in June, I had the pleasure of being elected President of the Science and Empire Commission. As a kick-off, we'll meet on 12 Sep @ 3pm (BST) to discuss goals and elect an advisory board. If interested in joining, DM.

Le nouveau numéro des Annales est sorti sur @universitypress.cambridge.org Au programme, un numéro double consacré aux #animaux (pour la première fois dans l'histoire presque centenaire des #Annales). Bonne lecture et à bientôt pour une présentation détaillée ! ▶️ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The third episode of "Pest" @pandemia.bsky.social on plague, fleas, serums and colonialism is now available online podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/p...

Just out / 1: “methods in philosophy of science”, #OA heroically assembled by Adrian Currie & Sophie Veigl. Comments welcome on mine & @Rachel Ankeny’s “Research design for philosophy of science in practice”, topic close to our hearts & constant source of questions! mitpress.mit.edu/978026255224...

Cambridge University now has access to Latin American Newspapers Series 2, a comprehensive digital archive of historical newspapers published in Latin America and the Caribbean between 1822 and 1922. To find out more, check out this blog post! https://loom.ly/NK1xrc4

How it started: "Prairie dog die-off in northern Arizona could signal plague, officials say" Where we are now: "1 person dies of plague in northern Arizona" Prairie dog deaths were an early One Health warning sign of plague risk www.kjzz.org/fronteras-de... www.fox10phoenix.com/news/1-perso...

Our special issue 'Socialist Health: Of Shortages and Solidarity' in EHMH has been published! brill.com/view/journal... Fantastic articles by @alilacandonga.bsky.social @jelenadj.bsky.social @nalbrecht.bsky.social @severyandyakonov.bsky.social and many more, supported by @erc.europa.eu #histmed

Absolutely thrilled to announce that my book Segregated Species was one of two winners of the RHS First Book Prize. Many congratulations to co-winner Laura Flannigan and the article prize winners William Ross Jones and Michaela Kalcher! For more see royalhistsoc.org/winners-of-t...

Dr Matheus Duarte has co-edited an important new special issue of the journal History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences advancing new approaches to the past & present of microbiology. The special issue "Rethinking the History of Microbiology" ed. Matheus Duarte & Mathilde Gallay-Keller is out now

Very happy to share that the special issue "Rethinking the History of Microbiology" is published by History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences. link.springer.com/collections/... It re-centres the history of microbiology on new actors, geographies, places of knowledge, and ecological relations

In BMJ Global Health, open access: epistemic preparedness. We argue for the social sciences and the humanities - expanding the category of expert - in preparing for the next pandemic! #pandemic #epidemiology #histstm #histmed #sts @nam.edu @humanitiesau.bsky.social @acmedsci.bsky.social @apha.org

Looking forward to the Zoonosis as a Historical and Anthropological Question conference @standrewsanthro.bsky.social next week! wwrat.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/zoonosis-as-...

#Teasing Le prochain numéro spécial des Annales paraît bientôt sur @universitypress.cambridge.org et @cairninfo.bsky.social. Au programme: un numéro double sur les #animaux et l'animalité #animalstudies #animalité

My take on the avian flu crisis in Brazil and how it should be perceived as a panzootic also threatening wildlife and not only livestock [in Portuguese]

A detecção do vírus da #gripeaviária numa #granja no Brasil soa um alarme para #humanos e o risco de uma #panzootia de #H5N1 entre #avessilvestres, afirma Matheus Duarte @alvesduarte.bsky.social no Blog da @revistahcsm.bsky.social. Leia: revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br/as-sentinela... Foto: Arquivo/EBC

I'm looking forward to discussing this incredible book on the history of microbiology in Ecuador tomorrow at 4 pm-London time/10 am-Quito time.

"This is an essential text for scholars working on environmental, animal, scientific, and segregation histories in South Africa and beyond". The first review of my book is out on Animal History. A big thank you to Mia Uys for this generous review. online.ucpress.edu/ah/article-a...

📣 Call for Proposals – BJHS Themes 2026! We're inviting proposals for the next issue of BJHS Themes, the open-access journal published with @CambridgeUP! 📅 Deadline: 15 July 2025 📘 Details: www.bshs.org.uk/cfp-bjhs-the... Check out our current Themes issues! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

And another job opportunity @standrewsanthro.bsky.social : Research Fellow post (21 months) working on Dr Kinight's HERA-CHANSE project Times in Crisis, Times of Crisis www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMZ399/r...

Temporary Lecturer in Social Anthropology post (24 months) is now open @standrewsanthro.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNC376/t...

The programme for the final conference of the Global War Against the Rat project is now live! Join @visualplague.bsky.social and the project team on 16-17 June to explore "Zoonosis as a Historical and Anthropological Question" wwrat.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/zoonosis-as-...

"Provincializing Europe Revised": 25 years after the publication of Dipesh Chakrabarty's major work, Richard Bourke (@camhistory.bsky.social @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social) offers a review article critically analysing its context, arguments, & legacy www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I'm looking forward to presenting tomorrow at this event organised by the Italian Society for the History of Science!

Looking forward to this online talk on 29 April, where I will share previous findings and ideas for my next project. And thanks to the Italian Society for the History of Science for including a Gambá in the poster!

Check out @alvesduarte.bsky.social's review of Eduardo Mendieta's "The Philosophical Animal: On Zoopoetics and Interspecies Cosmopolitanism," published in 2024 by @sunypress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #envphil www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

Open Access publication out in History of Human Sciences! 'Making Contagion Social' is a parallel history of epidemiological modelling and the sociology of imitation. I read Gabriel Tarde's work through the lens of Ronald Ross' 'theory of happening' to contest journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

We welcome paper proposals for our panel on (Post) Socialist health and Medicine at the Medical Anthropology Europe Conference. The conference will take place in Vienna on September 16-19 2025. Deadline for submission of papers: April 15, 2025 For more information mae.univie.ac.at/submission-g...

Yellow fever (sylvatic) has been repeatedly appearing in South America, recently in Colombia, here 2 died last month in Peru.

Appel à articles – Revue “Médecines/sciences” La revue Médecine / Sciencs recherche actuellement des propositions d’articles pour les rubriques : “les humanités en santé” et “récits de cas”. ajch.hypotheses.org/7574