A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad 2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

Boosting the signal for #histSTM, #histastro & #astronomy friends! 🔭 The application deadline for this workshop is November 15, 2025.

For #spacetober_challenge day 29 prompt orbit: #mathematician and #astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)! 🧪🐡🧮🎢🔭 #histsci We remember him for his role in the Scientific Revolution, and his three laws of planetary motion in particular. His laws modified Copernicus’ heliocentric model; he replaced 🧵

"After two thousand years, it’s time to stop blaming and shaming mothers," writes "Policing Pregnant Bodies" author Kathleen Crowther (@sacrobosco.bsky.social). nursingclio.org/2025/10/16/t...

It’s #openaccess week and I’m very proud that my new book will be published OA on @manifoldscholar.bsky.social thanks to a Mellon grant and the wonderful people at @foxcenteremory.bsky.social and @ecds-emory.bsky.social You can preview here: jimcrowintheasylum.com

Very apposite post by @sacrobosco.bsky.social! Blaming mothers goes way back... Trump, Tylenol, and 2000 Years of Bad Advice nursingclio.org/2025/10/16/t...

New fantastic @nursingclio.bsky.social ER post from Kathleen Crowther: "Trump, Tylenol, and 2000 Years of Bad Advice" 💊 nursingclio.org/2025/10/16/t...

Nevermind the fact that the author doesn't understand what instructors do. They also don't understand what AI does (and doesn't do).

The always great @sacrobosco.bsky.social is on @nursingclio.bsky.social today.

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!! The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/

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Starting today! Join us at 1 pm ET/12 pm CT for the first event of History of Medicine week! Registration links are in your email. Misplaced it? Didn't get it? Email us! histmed.org/history-of-m... #HistMedWeek #histmed

Through Oct. 31st, @princetonupress.bsky.social has a 70% off sale on a wide range of titles -- Susan Dackerman on Albrecht Dürer, Judith Herrin on Ravenna, Jed Buchwald & Diane Greco Josefowicz on the Rosetta stone, James Costa on Alfred Russel Wallace, and more: press.princeton.edu/sale/70-off

If you are in the Boston area don’t miss the Rachel Ruysch exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts. She was a celebrated 17th-century painter of flowers, insects, and animals assembled from the Dutch empire. Specimens from Harvard’s natural historical collections broaden its impact. Truly stunning.

To all who wryte storyes & poemes, to everyone who doth wryte scriptes & screenplayes, to those who make art of all kyndes, and to those who designe and performe yn daunse, and theatre -- thanke yow. Whethir you make for a few friendes or an audience of millions, thanke yow. You helpe us all.

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)