I watched the video, and it's pretty obvious the student had been coached and was practically speaking from a script. Setting aside whether or not she has good beliefs (I don't think she does), it's bad for uni leadership to cosign "don't think for yourself." Critical thinking should be the #1 goal.

As I noted last week, you really want to consider getting a COVID shot before Sept. 18-19. mikethemadbiologist.com/2025/09/05/g...

People are saying RFK Jr is ignorant, but here, I don't think he is being ignorant. He is willfully spreading disinformation about COVID because he has to commit to the bit, and continue to seed distrust in vaccines, and argue that COVID is "harmless" This is intentional.

The thing about living in a human society is you either decide that everyone (except those for whom it would be medically dangerous) has to take VACCINES into their bodies or everyone (with no exceptions at all) has to take VIRULENT PATHOGENS in from those around them and, look, the first is better.

One week until our book could be in your hands!! Pre-order using the link below

Super proud to be included in this amazing reader with such awesome scholars. Public-facing scholarship is the future! @nursingclio.bsky.social

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

Me and my wandering womb are thrilled to see the Nursing Clio Reader in print! Kudos to the whole @nursingclio.bsky.social team on an amazing volume!

"Eugenics was rooted in rational modern science then" needs re-stating. Far too many people describe eugenics as a "pseudoscience", but it wasn't to those who studied it, wrote books and papers, formed societies and argued its benefits.

UC Berkeley Depart of History tenure-track asst prof job in Global History of Technology. History of technological artifacts & infrastructures through a global & transnational lens. All fields, areas, & periods of #HistTech considered For more info: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05065 #HPS 🗃️

Good to see the New York Times has a lengthy obituary for Margaret Rossiter

apparently my book comes out in September, wow, preorder it for all your library and intellectual history needs, stay for the section on Paradise Lost and John Ray's herbals, or the story of George Psalmanazar, my favourite early modern scammer www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

The wonderful @historyelaine.bsky.social on paper technologies, advertisements and bringing together media studies and history of early modern medicine through an impressive archive project in her keynote lecture #eahmh25 #histmed

Happy birthday to Sophie Brahe (born either Aug 24, 1559 or Sept 22, 1556 -1643) 🐡🧪👩🏼‍🔬🔭horticulturalist, astronomer, genealogist, & alchemist with the gardens at her brother #astronomer Tycho Brahe’s Uraniborg estate, where she often assisted his research, alchemical tools & illustrations of the 🧵

Poetry anecdote: lithub.com/were-already...

There were 9.7 deaths for every 1,000 births in Mississippi in 2024, the highest rate in more than a decade, according to a news release from the state health department. More than 3,500 babies in Mississippi have died before the age of 1 since 2014.

I got my copy you should rush out and get yours #NursingClio

Yay got my copy of the @nursingclio.bsky.social reader last night, what an an amazing resource and honored to have contributed this intro to such a powerful section!

This week @larafreidenfelds.bsky.social argues that in a post Roe vs Wade world “Women who lose pregnancies, even before viability, are targeted in ways that strongly resemble early modern infanticide investigations.” nursingclio.org/2025/08/20/m...

🚨🚨SERIES PITCH CALL: Maintaining CertAInty. We are looking for articles that address: How AI is affecting the practices of history, health and/or medicine Challenges you’re facing in the classroom or in public conversations thanks to ambiguous data Alternative views provided by AI And more!

Very excited I finally got my copy of Do Less Harm, brilliantly edited by the incredible @cethompson.bsky.social and @drkyliesmith.bsky.social! In my chapter I reflect on the strategies I follow to teach with images ethically. I LOVED LOVED LOVED writing this piece! #histmed #ethics

Looking forward to Allison Marsh's presentation on her NEH-sponsored efforts to uncover the contributions women made to #ElectricalEngineering. Click here to register for tonight's event, which will be livestreamed beginning @ 7 PM, CDT events.lindahall.org/ladieswillbe... #histSTM #WomenInSTEM 🗃️📜

Elephant illustration from a rare manuscript copy of the 14th-century German theologian Konrad von Megenberg's 'Buch der Natur' c.1350. I saw this at the Oak Spring Garden Foundation. #WorldElephantDay #RareBooks #BookHistory #manuscript #animalart #naturalhistory

Call for Submissions for our Features section which focus on books as "concepts, symbols, the subjects of viral social media posts, set pieces in pop culture, and more!" What: A 1000-2000 word article, review, interview; a 5-10 minute video. #BookHistory #popculture docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

And here is the page with all the lovely details in full glory, dear #skystorians and #bookhistory experts. The book with the title "Spiegel der artzney" was published in 1546 Straßburg (VD16 F 2877) and a digital copy may be consulted here: www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/details/b...

Today our project is linked on the front page of @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social's website! Our fantastic postdocs @hagenilda.bsky.social and @sharonhoward.bsky.social get a well-deserved mention: www.ed.ac.uk/news/memoirs... #EarlyModern #DigiHums #BookHistory @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social

Submitting a mixed-methods research proposal on toy safety this week. If you have any interesting anecdotes or sources about risky toys, I’d be excited to learn more! #Histmed #Histsci #HSTM #STS

Little dragons love inhabiting initials of medieval manuscripts. However, this one just found his book is about pee. Opening of Isaac Israeli, Book of Urines, translated by Constantine the African, in Erfurt/Gotha MS Amplonian Q 207: "Incipit liber urinarum Ysahac" #medhist #histmed #manuscript

Thanks to @stephenaj.bsky.social's fabulous article (still available at link below) I have had a look at this equally fabulous interactive astrolabe alexboxer.com/astrolabe/. It's a really useful tool for understanding what the instrument does and a lot of fun to play with! #histsci #astronomy

Please register for the HSS meeting @NOLA & come meet Ashton Wesner 🐟Sam Muka 🪸 Rebecca Woods 🐒 Aleksandar Shopov 🐫 and + discuss their research on animal mobilities and why such histories of science matter. Thanks to Sonia Wigh, co-organizer of this roundtable with the Osiris editors! #histsci

Drumroll please🥁🥁 For announcement of the SSHM Roy Porter Essay Prize 2024/5 winning essay! Congratulations to Charlotte Stobart, studying at University of Manchester @manchstm.bsky.social (1/2) #histmed #histSTM @rebeccawynter.bsky.social

Following announcement of the Roy Porter Essay Competition winner, two entrants have also been awarded Commended for their essays: Congratulations to Elena Danieli (Università di Bologna and Université Paris Cité) and Zhilin Chu (University of Cambridge) #histmed @rebeccawynter.bsky.social (1/2)

Venetians know something about oligarchy.

this is so sad, I use this ALL the time.

Some sad confirmation from @bcgl.bsky.social while I was at UW last week—the National Digital Newspaper Program—which builds Chronicling America—has been shut down Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss

Bear all of this in mind when someone starts parroting in your direction all the utopian and progressive-buzzword-laden talk about AI’s potentials. I’m looking at you, fellow academics.

“The lesson to learn from this history is that confining young people with disability is not only ineffective and eugenic, it is also unconstitutional and unjust.” Read @drkyliesmith.bsky.social latest article for Nursing Clio here ⬇️ nursingclio.org/2025/05/08/r...

NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.

The artes and humanityes are also a kynde of wildernesse space to be preserved

Got some pre order flyers printed for the @uncpress.bsky.social stand at #aahm2025 !!

PLS REPOST: "The collection is a powerful rebuttal to the notion of the integral relationship of disability—medieval and otherwise—with sin, stigma, and shame. So doing, it recentres medieval disability history as a lived history that merits exploration and celebration." www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

Have you ever been burned by an iron? Received a shock from a power cord? Pulled your sleeve out of a motorized wringer? Check out my article on the history of home laundry safety on Project Muse! #histmed #histstm #histsci #STS

This is a good and frequently very funny review of @drbeldavis.bsky.social's book "Conceiving Histories," likely of interest to historians of medicine and women's history scholars. 📗 #earlymodern #histmed

Between 1450-1550, a remarkable century of intellectual exchange developed across the Eastern Mediterranean.With Merchants of Knowledge, Robert Morrison is the first to track the network of scholars who mediated exchanges in astronomy, astrology, Qabbalah, & philosophy www.sup.org/books/middle...

A reminder that we are open for pitches for this roundtable on the ways that federal cuts to funding have impacted historians working off the tenure track.

If you’re interested in reading about the complexity of variation underpinning the latest scientific research on sex development, these are useful. TLDR: ‘The truth is, your biological sex isn’t carved in stone, but a living system with the potential for change.’ (Quotation from the final link.)

Many of you know I've been working on the La sfera project with scores of friends for about 5 years. We were thrilled to receive support to bring it to a larger public, and crushed when we lost it when it was nearly 70% complete. We are now seeking donations to finish it www.sferaproject.org/donate