“The US government has amplified anti-vaccine rhetoric and signaled that it does not consider measles to be a priority, which could have global ramifications” @whatsitlike.me www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

"The destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 year might take generations to repair, and there is little hope for U.S. health and science while he remains at the helm." www.npr.org/2026/02/28/n...

'Members of the University and College Union (UCU) at the University of Edinburgh are to begin strike action following management's plans for £140 million in cuts and up to 1,800 job losses.' 1/2

A 1970 French interdisciplinary seminar on structuralism, organised by Gadoffre, Lichnerowicz and Perroux, and attended by Suzanne Bachelard, Bourdieu, Canguilhem, Foucault, Martinet, Monod, Ramnoux, Serres, Simonden and Thom progressivegeographies.com/2026/03/01/a...

'I’ve always believed that art and science can nourish each other. At Papworth, I’ve invited several artists in residence to work alongside me, and I encourage students to think in a broad, almost artistic way. I think both fields will make more progress by learning from each other.'

Christopher Cusack, Bridget English and Matthew L. Reznicek eds. The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature - @livunipress.bsky.social, February 2026 www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

Outre le fait divers qui a inspiré l'écrivain Daniel Defoe (1660-1731), le roman trouverait son origine dans un conte philosophique médiéval de langue arabe. Leur point commun ? Une réflexion moderne sur la raison humaine. ➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/KZd

my book uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295754444/a-volatile-picture/ is out in April. Anxious/excited to talk about it for the 1st time next week with many thanks to @kalathmika.bsky.social for the kind invitation. Also giving a lecture on more recent work on televising atrocity & maps in Sri Lanka.

Very happy to be sharing this CFP for our "Colonial Medical Ennui" workshop (August 27-28) @standrewsanthro.bsky.social with a deadline of April 30 www.st-andrews.ac.uk/social-anthr...

"a splendid piece of scholarship: it is original, widely researched, well-written, and a pleasure to read despite its dark subject matter" - a big thanks to Prof Jim Connor for his review of Visual Plague: The Emergence of Epidemic Photography @mitpress.bsky.social utppublishing.com/doi/full/10....

Philip McKibbin on time "recurring, spiralling, and recalling itself". theconversation.com/how-indigeno...

Job alert! We are looking for talented PhD researchers to write a dissertation on Benzaiten worship in modern Japan or Mazu pilgrimages in Taiwan, as part of the ERC project "Maritime Goddesses: Transnational Connections, Blue Environments, and Ritual Care in East- and Southeast Asia" (MARGO).

A fitting tribute to a wonderful person and great scholar - Vince Rafael - from @dukepress.bsky.social @kwissoker.bsky.social

Face à son succès, une controverse éclate : Hans est-il doué d’intelligence ou s’agit-il d’une supercherie ? Cette histoire constitue alors un tournant scientifique, transformant durablement la psychologie expérimentale et la réflexion sur l’âme animale. ➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/T13

"Many of us who work at universities, not just NYU, have watched in confusion and horror at the way our administrations have approached generative AI and its integration into the systems that we use to teach." AFT has said AI must be a mandatory subject of bargaining.

Shameless is exactly the word to use here

I've updated the list of English translations of Émile Benveniste's work to include a couple of articles - progressivegeographies.com/resources/in...

The Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine invites applications for research fellowships in their eponymous topics. For more details see: www.chstm.org/fellowships #histmed #histstm

So great to see that Cambridge's vet school is no longer under threat of closure - among other things this is a vibrant hub of interdiciplinary research, pioneering exchanges and collaborations with social scientists of zoonotic diseases www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It is with great sadness that we are sharing the news that the UCL Faculties of Social & Historical Sciences and Arts & Humanities have decided to close the IAS. We will close our doors forever on 31 July 2026. Follow the link to leave thoughts, comments, memories 💗 www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Beatrice Loayza (@bealoayza.bsky.social) on Kleber Mendonça Filho’s The Secret Agent https://go.nybooks.com/4tO578u

Latest addition to the 2nd Plague Pandemic bibliography: Daniel R. Curtis, Epidemic Disease and Society in the Premodern Low Countries: Inequality and Community (2026), www.routledge.com/Epidemic-Dis.... #OpenAccess #MedievalSky #histmed 🗃️

Looking forward to reading this new history of quarantine by Patrick Zylberman: Épidémies, frontières, États: Une histoire de la quarantaine www.librairie-gallimard.com/livre/978207...

Call for Papers: JIPM's 25 Most Wanted Pest Profiles 🦟 Deadline: February 28 🐜 The Journal of Integrated Pest Management is seeking manuscript proposals for profiles of a wide variety of important pests, from the boll weevil to the spotted lanternfly. Learn more: entsoc.org/publications...

Looking forward to presenting on "How to master a zoonotic pandemic: plague, rats and epidemiological reasoning" at the history of modern medicine and biology seminar at HPS Cambridge next week (March 3) www.hps.cam.ac.uk/news-events/...

Announcing the launch of the Sydney STS network, bringing together more than 50 science and technology scholars across the city - thanks to @sonjavw.bsky.social Friday March Feb 27, 3-5 pm, at USyd, + reception events.humanitix.com/sydneystsina... @aussts.bsky.social @4sonline.bsky.social #sts

(Parution) La financiarisation de la santé au Sénégal (1840-1960) histoiresante.blogspot.com/2026/02/la-f...

📣 Call for submissions: Singer Prize 2026 Submit your unpublished essay (< 10 000 words), based on original research into any aspect of #HistSTM! 🎓 Eligibility: current postgraduates or awarded a PG degree within the past 5 years 📅 Deadline: 30 April ℹ️ Learn more:

Julia Cummiskey will be presenting at the Brown Dept of History Workshop "Medical Technology: Science, Medicine, Healing and Global Health in African History" on 2/27-28. For more information, visit events.brown.edu/history/even...

Registration open - Check out our Cambridge Festival events! 💥 We have a record number of events for all ages and interests this year; from photography, art, film, performances, to an immersive ecological sci-arts experience 16 March-2 April 2026 Registration recommended 👇 https://bit.ly/46a7Fnp

What oral histories can teach us about effective environmental research – @angecass.bsky.social & Paul Merchant for @lseimpactblog.bsky.social @renewbiodiversity.bsky.social @britishlibrary.bsky.social

🇨🇱 Chilean scientists warn of spread of avian flu in Antarctica Scientists are sounding the alarm over the spread of bird flu across Antarctica, with a leading Chilean researcher telling AFP of an observed strain "capable of killing 100 percent" of infected fauna.

‘What makes Archimedes interesting is not where he comes in a family tree of genius, but something specific to his intellectual approach: the way in which his understanding of the mathematical world diverged so intriguingly from that of his predecessors.’ Claire Hall: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Review of Claudia Feld's & Marina Franco's edited volume on the crimes against humanity committed at ESMA under the dictatorship in Argentina: Crimes contre l’humanité à l’ESMA. Anatomie d’un centre de détention clandestin en Argentine (1976-1983) @lemonde.fr www.lemonde.fr/livres/artic...

When he first arrived in the USA, Roman Jakobson did some research work for Franz Boas on the Paleo-Siberian and Aleutian material at the New York Public Library. I write about that here - progressivegeographies.com/2025/06/01/r...

The tuberculosis epidemic continues to thrive because of the neglect and reluctance to invest in social protection. What we need is not more evidence, but more resolve at the political level to invest in social protection Our piece in @thelancetph.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

📚 12–13 mars 2026 Journées ANR DESIGNSHS Design graphique, recherche & patrimoine des sciences sociales 📅12 mars @Archives nationales et 13 mars @inha.fr Restitutions, archives Jacques Bertin, plateforme DESIGNSHS 👉+ info : shorturl.at/aQDfo @ehess.fr @recherche.mnhn.fr @cnrsshs.bsky.social l

Un trésor «inestimable» : des photos de résistants communistes grecs massacrés par des nazis réapparaissent sur eBay Les clichés retrouvés sont les premiers connus du massacre de Kaisariani, perpétré le 1er mai 1944 dans la banlieue d’Athènes

CSMBR Online Lecture Series 𝐁𝐄𝐓𝐖𝐄𝐄𝐍 𝐓𝐄𝐗𝐓 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐈𝐌𝐀𝐆𝐄 𝐃𝐢𝐚𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 (𝐕𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞) 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 Shahrzad Irannejad To register for this lecture: csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/.../between-... #CSMBR #IslamicMedicine #Brainanatomy #Ventricles

🚨It’s publication day!🚨 My book OCCUPIED REFUGE is officially OUT today with Duke University Press. Available to order from all book shops! Upcoming book launches in Glasgow, Oxford, Nairobi and—perhaps—a city near you! Read the introduction for free online: www.dukeupress.edu/occupied-ref...

Maria Paula Meneses (Moçambique, 1963 – Portugal, 2026) Lamentamos o falecimento da pesquisadora do @ces-uc.bsky.social em 8/2. A antropóloga propunha “uma ecologia de saberes" para "descolonizar nossas mentes”. Leia no Blog de HCSM: revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br/maria-paula-... #decolonial #Africa

A 16h sur @franceculture.fr Sciences Chrono parle des Tables alphonsines véritable manuel d'astronomie qui a été utilisé du XIIIe au XVIe siècle en Europe. Pourquoi un tel succès et comment ces tables ont contribué à standardiser l'astronomie en Europe ? www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

‘Above all, Pontalis was a writer. Psychoanalysis was the form his writing took, so to speak, and he believed that to identify as an analyst was the beginning of imposture.’ Paul Keegan on Perec, Pontalis and the task of writing about psychoanalysis. granta.com/the-perec-ca...

“Researchers from Johns Hopkins, Georgetown and Yale universities recently found that 60 FDA-authorized medical devices using AI were linked to 182 product recalls, according to a research letter published in the JAMA Health Forum in August.”

M. Iqbal Syauqi explores Intravenous Treatment as a tangible cultural artefact that transforms abstract suffering into visible care. thepolyphony.org/2026/02/20/f...

And check out the new Sydney STS Network website: sydneysts.framer.website #STS

Book review of Enfermedades argentinas: 16 historias, edited by Diego Armus @hahr21.bsky.social : "a fantastic collection of essays illustrating the history of disease and medical responses to them" read.dukeupress.edu/hahr/article...

Very much looking forward to reading this "essay in medieval anthropology" on "the invention of the animal" by @po-dittmar.bsky.social whose works always bring anthropology and history together in thought-provoking ways

Review of the Fra Angelico exhibition at Palazzo Strozzi and the Museo di San Marco

"Séminaire de Michel Foucault du 17 mai 1979 au Collège de France", Raisons politiques 100, 2025, 15-52 shs.cairn.info/revue-raison... This is very interesting - a seminar discussing Paul Veyne's “Foucault révolutionne l’histoire”. (1/4)