📚 Very glad to see this out in the world: the first paper of my ethnographic dissertation is now published open access in Culture, Medicine, Psychiatry, as part of a special issue on „Liberation Medicine“. ▶️ https//tinyurl.com... (1/3)

🚀 Doctoral Network #GenderInsight - 15 Open PhD Positions! 🚀 I am hiring two PhD candidate for my German research group, based at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin: see Clinical Lens, Projects 5 and 6! genderinsight.eu/en/recruitme...

🚨Now recruiting 2 PhD students as part of Gender Insight MSCA doctoral network! My fabulous team at the Department of Medical Psychology at @amsterdamumc.bsky.social is growing. See link below or visit www.genderinsight.eu. Apply by end of February. werkenbij.amsterdamumc.org/en/publicati...

Wonderful job opportunities coming up in Berlin!

Hadde gleden av å snakke med Mary Ann i podkasten Skeiv dagsorden om transmedisinsk historie. Vi snakker blant annet om eugenikken, velferdsstaten og sykeliggjøring av minoriteter. player.captivate.fm/episode/f70d...

Come work with us! Two fully funded 36-month PhD positions in the history of medicine at Charité Berlin. The positions are part of the EU-funded Gender Insight network researching biopsychosocial aspects of diverse hormonal transitions. Deadline 28 Feb 2026 #histmed genderinsight.eu

Karl Kahlbaums Nosologie war für Emil Kraepelin von großer Bedeutung, und daher ist es eine besondere Freude, in der Bibliothek auf sein Originalexemplar zu stoßen.

Unterschreiben! gegen Register zur Erfassung von trans* und nichtbinären Personen und für Rechte auf informationelle Selbstbestimmung, Gleichbehandlung und Schutz vor Diskriminierung epetitionen.bundestag.de/petitionen/_...

An incredible and beautiful short documentary by Nicolas Gouralt who interviewed online workers from Venezuela, Kenya and the Philippines who annotate images to train A.I. systems. Here is as gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/o...

Post-doc positions: "Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..." uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...

I Morgenbladet denne uka forsøker jeg å trekke noen linjer mellom den aktuelle saken om ulovlig forskning ved Rikshospitalet på unge transkjønnedes journalopplysninger og den mye lengre tradisjonen med uetisk forskning på transpersoner. www.morgenbladet.no/ideer/gjenno...

Det var en glede å snakke med Sarah von Essen for @weekendavisen.dk om min nye bok og den skandinaviske transmedisinske historien. www.weekendavisen.dk/ideer/umage-...

Ny utgave av Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift er nå publisert! Rita Augestad Knudsen og Ole Martin Stormoen skriver om risikovurderinger for terrorisme, Eirik Magnus Fuglestad analyserer framveksten av "de nye småbrukerne", og Jan Grue beretter fra et forskningsopphold i USA. www.scup.com/toc/nnt/42/4

Rethinking Microbial Histories: Beyond Pasteur and the Lab open.substack.com/pub/kingsglo...

If you need a manuscript copy edited or proofread, I highly recommend the services of @emilyherring.bsky.social. I just received an edited manuscript back, and I'm very pleased with the level of detail and her excellent suggestions!

"Genetic determinism is one of those one-single-technofix-will-solve-everything ideas that visionaries can fall prey to, and the history of genetics is lousy with hereditarians promising to end disease, make us smarter and better our society." @nccomfort.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/o...

Om du er i Trondheim i kveld 10.12 (kl. 19.00) eller i Bergen i morgen (kl. 17.00), kom forbi på boksamtale om den skandinaviske transmedisinske historien. facebook.com/events/s/ket...

I wrote a little about my three favorite books of the year, including @slagstadk.bsky.social's "Standardizing Sex" for the book review site Shepherd. Congratulations to Dr. Slagstad on such a deeply researched and well-argued book. 📚 shepherd.com/bboy/2025/f/...

I'm thrilled and extremely grateful to Elizabeth Reis for her thorough review of my book in Annals of Science, which concludes with the following words: "Standardizing Sex brilliantly exposes how cultural context and social anxieties in Scandinavia, www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#historians I’ve decided to bring my archival skills into the 21st century. I know, I know… I’m still a paper kinda gal at heart! What are you all using for digitally organizing photos of archival materials—especiallysoftware that allows for adding notes? #archive #primarysource #digital

I'm honored by this incredibly generous and thoughtful review of my book "Standardizing Sex" by Os Keyes. academic.oup.com/shm/advance-... @sshmedicine.bsky.social #histmed

Eg hadde gleda av å intervjua Ketil Slagstad om den nye boka hans "Standardizing sex". Interessant fyr snakkar om interessante ting! Kva meir vil de ha frå eit intervju?

Wir freuen uns auf eine Reihe spannender Vorträge und Diskussionen im Rahmen des Kolloquiums Forschung und Lehre des Instituts für Geschichte der Medizin und Ethik der Medizin, das jeden zweiten Dienstag um 11 Uhr stattfindet. Kommen Sie gerne vorbei! medizingeschichte.charite.de/forschung/ko...

Hast du im Jahr 2024 oder 2025 einen medizinhistorischen Artikel veröffentlicht? Dann bewirb dich bis zum 28. Februar 2026 für den Förderpreis des Fachverbands Medizingeschichte. #histmed fachverband-medizingeschichte.de/foerderpreis/

Staten og Legeforeningen bør be om unnskyldning for overgrepene begått mot transpersoner. Folk som ble tvunget til kastrering for å skifte juridisk kjønn, må få oppreisning. I boka «Standardizing Sex» viser jeg at staten vel vitende ofret folks reproduktive helse for å beskytte en binær kjønnsnorm.

Dette meiner eg er eit viktig forskingsetisk perspektiv frå @slagstadk.bsky.social (2025, s. 18).

Ein sehr lesenswerter Artikel über die Praxis der erzwungenen Sterilisation von trans* Menschen. Diese Praxis wurde in den 1950er bis 1970er Jahren in verschiedenen Ländern eingeführt und erst in den 2010er Jahren abgeschafft. taz.de/Trans-Person...

Jeg kommer på en liten norgesturné med den nye boka mi "Standardizing Sex" - Trondheim 10. november med Eir-Anne Edgar (NTNU) og Andreas Krogstad (Skeive Studenter Trondheim) - Bergen 11. november i samarbeid med Skeivt arkiv og PKI Kom, kom! litteraturhusetitrondheim.no/program/keti...

next week at FU: Race, Racialisation, and Racism in the European Context w/ @schlawinerkreis.bsky.social, @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social, Urs Lindner, Magali Bessone, Murad Idris, Lee Medovoi & many others info and program: tinyurl.com/4udeeae7

We have a winner: @misstillit.bsky.social! Congratulations! Thank you all for taking part in the lottery. For each participant, I will donate the value of one copy of the book to Casa Kuà, a Berlin organization by and for trans* and non binary BIPoCs to make healthcare more accessible. casa-kua.com

Last day to participate in the lottery. I announce the winner tomorrow. Repost and tag and win your copy to learn about how physicians and researchers have worked to protect a binary norm of sex by excluding non-binary people from medical trials since the 1960s.

New book in #histmed #histpsych #clairehilton

There is still time to enter the lottery. Win a free copy and find out how Christine Jorgensen tricked the eugenic sterilization laws to get surgery and learn about her plans to write a Scandinavian cookbook with recipes for smorgasbord and Danish open sandwiches. ⬇️

To celebrate the release of "Standardizing Sex," I'm giving away a free ebook. For a chance to win and learn about the myriad strategies the state has followed to standardize sex, share this post and tag someone in the comments. I'll announce the winner in a week. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Katerina Suverina opens the panel "Silences and Absences: HIV/AIDS at the Margins of Representation" at the The European Histories of HIV/AIDS Symposium in Copenhagen, by presenting on the challenges on archiving HIV and drug activism in post-Soviet spaces. #histmed nors.ku.dk/english/rese...

If you (or people you know) are interested in applying for a Marie Curie postdoc in 2026, my research centre is offering three-week research fellowships for you to come here and develop your ideas. More details are on our website - or get in touch with me. 🗃️ www.sdu.dk/en/om-sdu/in...

Medical interventions for trans people are often believed to be a recent phenomenon, but the history of these hormonal and surgical practices can be traced back a century. For more, check out this excerpt from STANDARDIZING SEX by @slagstadk.bsky.social, via @thinkglobalhealth.org.

Medical interventions for trans people to transition and modify sexual characteristics are often believed to be a recent phenomenon. But the history of these hormonal and surgical practices can be traced back a century. Read an excerpt from my new book: www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/stan...

The Society's AGM followed immediately by The SSHM Lecture 2025 with Jeremy Greene (all welcome). 'Wasted medicines and medical wastes: Notes from the trash-heap of medical history' 📅Monday 6 October [Online] 🕰️4:00-5:30pm (UK time) Register via the link on the webpage #histmed #histSTM

@bolman.bsky.social discusses his new book, LAB DOG, with the @greenhouseuis.net Humanities Book Talks on September 29! Learn more or register for this online event. buff.ly/Uijiib1

@awaisaftab.bsky.social did an excellent job with this revision of the APA statement. He's right; that statement is not an effective way to gain trust. substack.com/home/post/p-...

As one of few remaining unstandardized public spaces in Berlin, the sunset at Tempelhofer Feld seemed right for a celebration.

New job @unistrathclyde.bsky.social starts today! I'll be researching the history of activism around AIDS denial in the UK, Australia & transnational spaces (online, conferences, protests etc). You can read more about my project here: wellcome.org/research-fun...

Big congratulations 🎉 to Jorinde Wels from KU Leuven for winning the #eahmh25 Pieter van Foreest Prize 🏆 for best student presentation!

Medicine on a Larger Scale launched with an inspiring conversation and…. that’s a wrap for #eahmh25! Thanks to all who made this conference a truly wonderful affair. See you in two years in Prague! @eahmh.bsky.social #histmed

if you liked #eahmh25 in Berlin, you'll love EAHMH27 in Prague! Congratulations to the new President of @eahmh.bsky.social, Katerina Liskova!

Happening this evening - see you there in Berlin!

Attended the opening reception for the "IQ: Hva forteller testene?" exhibit at the Univ. of Oslo Historical Museum this evening. Lots of good material on the history of intelligence testing, my favorite being the cheerful diagnostic toys. The opening quotes were a bit of an emotional rollercoaster.

I can't believe this idea that's been in my head for ten years is finally a thing in the world. @uchicagopress.bsky.social #histmed #EAHMH25 #sts #histsci press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...