Looking forward to convening this symposium on Poison-Healing Boundaries in East Asia @crasshlive.bsky.social this Wednesday, with Marta Hanson, Yan Liu, Elisabeth Hsu and Volker Scheid talking on plants & poisons in Chinese medicine (hybrid registration open) www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/47798/

Excellent and important special issue of @biosocieties.bsky.social just out! Have a look: "Reconceptualising Toxicity and Environmental Justice", guest edited by Raffaele Ippolito, Anna Lora‑Wainwright, Beth Greenhough & Maaret Jokela‑Pansini link.springer.com/journal/4129...

Looking forward to presenting on "How plague got rats: transformations of a pandemic zoonosis" at the @oxford-anthro.bsky.social Medical Anthropology Seminar this Tuesday www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/how-pl...

I am delighted that my report on Foucault's lecture course "The History of Truth" has been published in the current issue of Foucault Studies, together with an excellent contribution by @stuartelden.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1353/fou.... (Here's the Link for Stuart's piece: doi.org/10.1353/fou....)

«Ils sont des milliers à cracher et tousser» : la grippe aviaire décime la population mondiale d’éléphants de mer

It was great talking with Laura Salm-Reifferscheidt & @kakape.bsky.social @pandemia.bsky.social on the emergence of epidemic photography, and on the impact of this on medical knowledge, colonial biopolitics & epidemic control podcasts.apple.com/at/podcast/p...

Ne pas oublier Michèle Audin (1954-2025) Michèle Audin, mathématicienne, historienne, autrice, membre de l'Oulipo, spécialiste de la Commune, femme engagée et passionnée, fille de Maurice Audin, nous a quittés ce matin. En hommage, Diacritik republie un article sur son superbe Oublier Clémence,…

📕 Review / Compte rendu Oliver Matuschek, Les #éléphants de Goethe, trad. par B. Cain-Hérudent, Macula, 2025. par Jean-Luc Chappey (@ihmc.bsky.social ; @sorbonneparis1.bsky.social) 👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahss...

The deadly fever in Ethiopia has been identified as Marburg disease. It’s the first time a Marburg outbreak has been identified in Ethiopia. #IDsky 🧪 www.afro.who.int/countries/et...

Our lab's paper describing the North American H5N1 epizootic is out now in Nature! So thrilled to have this out, and congratulations to @lambod50.bsky.social for all the fantastic work on this: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The complex multispecies consequences of epizootics: how the spread of African Swine Fever among wild boars in Siberia is affecting human-tiger relations in the region, with mutually lethal impact www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The fourteenth International Conference of LECTIO will take place from 9 to 11 December. This year's theme is “Representing the Human and Animal Body”. The full programme and registration link are available on the website below.

Dans le Monde des Livres du jour j'ai eu la place de parler longuement du livre @clementfabre.bsky.social chez @cnrseditions.bsky.social sur les expériences occidentales de la Chine au XIXe siècle : un travail subtil et original qui renouvelle l'histoire des corps, des empires et des savoirs.

Drawing on her experience at the 2024 #MedHums International Summer School, Charlotte Lock reflects on the role of interdisciplinarity in her research on approaches to knowing, visualising and experiencing the heart. thepolyphony.org/2025/11/13/t...

The flu panzootic continues with devastating consequences: Fears for elephant seals as bird flu kills half of population in South Atlantic www.theguardian.com/environment/...

📣Our UofG Library Visiting Research Fellowships are now open for applications! We’re delighted to invite scholars from across the globe to apply to work with our internationally significant collections. Apply at: www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li... 📆Closing date: 5 January 2026 #UofGLibraryFellows

Book Review: Harry Yi-Jui Wu’s ‘Mad by the Millions: Mental Disorders and the Early Years of the World Health Organization’ @ Somatosphere somatosphere.net/book-review-...

🚨#History #envhist Job Alert: My Department is hiring an Assistant Professor in Environmental History. 🗃️ Come work with us at Warwick. You'll get both excellent colleagues and great students! See details below... And do not hesitate to spread the word... 👇👇👇 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK289/a...

Health and care workers worked tirelessly throughout the COVID-19 pandemic to care for their patients, yet many were not adequately protected. Together with the @rcn.org.uk we are calling on the UK Government to take a first step in recognising Long COVID as an occupational disease.

Very much looking forward to reading this new book by Robin Fleming!

Looking forward to reading Sonic Socialism: Crisis and Care in Pandemic Hanoi, by Christina Schwenkel www.ucpress.edu/books/sonic-...

Does Britain value culture any more? Ask the striking workers at the British Library | Zadie Smith www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Some Pieter Bruegel for Martinmas

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... when it is installed in a health sector that prizes efficiency, surveillance and profit extraction, AI becomes not a tool for care and community but simply another instrument for commodifying human life.

Something from me on the dangers of A.I for historians and the neverending cycle of job cuts www.historyworkshop.org.uk/practice-his...

«Maintenant que l’inspiration, si elle vient, des vers, elle n’en produit pas» 50 ans après la mort de Pasolini, le dernier recueil du poète et cinéaste italien est enfin traduit en français. Un ensemble de textes inédits auxquels s’ajoute une biographie.

Join us today for this talk about my book Ghosts Behind Glass published with @uchicagopress.bsky.social

Join us for More-than-Human Sensory Worlds, the first in our hybrid 'More-than-Human/ities' seminar series, a new collaboration between UoB's CEH & EUC at York University, Toronto. Come explore the shared sensory worlds of human and nonhuman animals! 🦅🐇🌃 Wed 19th Nov 17:45–19:00 Online & in-person

"Filming Capital," a special issue of SAQ, examines how Marxism can be used to illuminate the problem of the visual representation of contemporary global capitalism. View the TOC and read the introduction, freely available: buff.ly/am3ZXVx

In this week's #GlobeColloquium, @samuelcoghe.bsky.social explores the history of cattle farming in Africa: How did colonial intervention, capitalist exploitation, and scientific practices change traditional livestock farming, give rise to new conflicts, and shape global economic interdependencies?

📕 Review / Compte rendu Jane Spencer, Writing About #Animals in the Age of #Revolution, Oxford, @oxfordacademic.bsky.social, 2020. par Anne Simonin (@doccespra.bsky.social) 👉 doi.org/10.1017/ahss...

CFP: XIV Michel Foucault International Colloquium - 50 years of The History of Sexuality, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil, 26-29 May 2026 michel-foucault.com/2025/11/09/c...

This SI places plant and multispecies studies in dialogue with anthropological debates on emplacement, displacement, mobilities and migration. Highly recommend!

#MedievalSky #histmed Please welcome Anna Gili (@gi-anna97.bsky.social) to Bluesky. And check out her talk on 11 November, too! She talking about my favorite guy in #MedievalMedicine, Constantinus Africanus.

Our forthcoming volume on the environmental history of China's era of high socialism has a cover. Paul Pickowicz, who took the photo when he visited China in 1971 as part of a Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars delegation, also contributed the book's epilogue.

A very interesting article by Piotr Daszkiewicz on Georges Vandalin Mniszech's entomological collection books.openedition.org/cths/20866

#VendrediLecture 📚 Le @cths.bsky.social publie «Collections de sciences naturelles : collecte, étude, conservation», sous la direction d’Éric Buffetaut et de Jérôme Tabouelle. À découvrir en accès libre sur OpenEdition Books ➡ https://urls.fr/90yOmi @openedition.bsky.social

“Before 2023, it was impossible to think that a healthy population like the one in Peninsula Valdés could become endangered from one year to another," says biologist Valeria Falabella…”This is a warning," she adds, noting that climate change brings additional risks and uncertainties for the species”

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Public Anthropology with focus on #envhum University of Bremen, Germany www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit...

Great to see this glowing review of @clementfabre.bsky.social's groundbreaking book on colonial medicine in late imperial China: À l’ombre de la race: Chine, XIXe siècle www.cnrseditions.fr/catalogue/hi...

Our Digital Archival Photography workshops are back on 17 and 24 November 📷 Join Maciej Pawlikowski, Head of the Cultural Heritage Imaging Laboratory @theul.bsky.social, to explore advanced techniques for digitising and preserving archival material. Registration: www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/events/40883/

This is a great time to get your Covid booster shots!

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

Interesting issue with listing species status in this article - rediscovering species thought extinct causing conservation difficulties www.abc.net.au/news/science...

Du 7 au 9 novembre, vivez l'inventaire Deleuze ! 📣 À l’occasion du centenaire de Gilles Deleuze, ce week-end explore la manière dont sa pensée continue d’inspirer la création contemporaine. Rendez-vous au @mk2.com Bibliothèque x Centre Pompidou et à @labnf.bsky.social 👉 bit.ly/CP_LInventaireDeleuze

For those lucky enough to be in Paris this Monday, Librairie La Compagnie is running an event with Philippe Descola on his new book, Politiques du faire-monde at 19:00 www.seuil.com/ouvrage/poli...

📕 Review / Compte rendu Sarah R. Cohen, Enlightened #Animals in Eighteenth-Century Art: Sensation, Matter, and Knowledge, New York, @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social, 2021. par Malou Bozec (@psl-univ.bsky.social) dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahss...

Longtemps marginalisés dans les traités médicaux, les poisons deviennent un objet d’étude autonome au tournant du XIVᵉ siècle, dans un monde où ils sont omniprésents et redoutés. ➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/KNV

📗 New #OpenAccess volume edited by Elizabeth Hughes & Alfred Freeborn: "Biomedical Visions" brings together epistemology, medicine, and art to understand what biomedicine looks like and how we might view it differently in the past and future. 🔗 bit.ly/4nHBZ #HistSci #HistArt

How bird flu has decimated elephant seal populations www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...