On LinkedIn as well as Bluesky? Why not follow SSHM's new LinkedIn page too! #histmed #histSTM

Upcoming Public Webinar: “Roy Porter Remembered” Hosted by the Christ's College Medical Alumni Association 6-7 pm, Tuesday, 21 October 2025 Register for free at royporterccmaa.eventbrite.co.uk

The 2026 SSHM Conference will be @universityofleeds.bsky.social. The theme will be In/Out and we are inviting papers that consider experiences of being in and/or out of health or health care in any period or geographical location. #HistMed #HistSTM sshm.org/sshm-2026/

Did I mention this? 🚨Online today, 6 Oct, 4-5:30pm BST. Still time for free registration!🚨 For The SSHM Lecture 2025, Prof. Jeremy Greene will be presenting 'Wasted medicines & medical wastes: Notes from the trash-heap of medical history' #histmed #histSTM #skystorians 🗃 sshm.org/sshm-agm/

Delighted to be invited to co-present today’s keynote to the 5th annual Rise Up conference, with Kevin Kareem Brooks, Leon “Struggle” Davis, and the voice of our team member Reginald T. Qualls. Our title was “Unearthing Carceral Sickness through the Power of Transformative History.” #RiseUp2025

📣Exciting News 📣 Dates & host institution for the SSHM Biennial Conference #SSHM2026 are confirmed! Save the Date in your planners 📅 Theme and CFPs to follow later #histmed #medhumanities #histSTM

Came home to the best gift ever - a copy of my new book, edited with @drkyliesmith.bsky.social. This book is the culmination of years of fantastic conversations with some brilliant scholars, and I'm so thrilled to finally hold it in my hands. I might be prouder of this than my actual monograph. 1/

Really happy to see that this special issue on transnational histories of HIV/AIDS activism is out in the world. Thanks so much to @npapadogian.bsky.social and @somakbiswas.bsky.social for all their hard work bringing it together! #histmed [1/2] muse.jhu.edu/issue/55146

✨Join the team ✨ The Society's peer reviewed journal Social History of Medicine published by @oxfordacademic.bsky.social has a vacancy for a co-editor. Deadline for applications 27 June 2025 Further details available at sshm.org/notices/ #histmed #skystorians

This week’s UK COVID-19 inquiry hearings are investigating the role of test, trace, and isolate - a vital public health practice for responding to infections like COVID-19. 1/

Kudos to PfizerUK for working to raise awareness of the growing risks of antimicrobial resistance. They interviewed three older members of the public about their memories of a time before antibiotics. I was happy to help them draw the historical threads together. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qJi...

Job Klaxon: come and join us. We are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Associate to work on a project on the history of intensive care medicine, directed by @fcondrau.bsky.social in Zurich and me in Manchester. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

“All five of Canada's living prime ministers released a letter Tuesday urging Canadians to fly their flags with pride, and their call seems to be working.” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Doing the unthinkable: The deep cuts to the #CDC's workforce today are expected to decimate the Epidemic Intelligence Service, a program that has trained public health rapid responders for decades. Envy of the world. Poof! www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...

Epidemiologist and long-time health activist Gregg Gonsalves reminding us of the importance of (transnational) networking strategies for confronting science-denialist views www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/o...

“An international guerilla archiving effort” 💪 www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Oh heyyyy - you need a new book!!

Two weeks into President Trump’s sweeping freeze on foreign aid, H.I.V. groups abroad have not received any funding, jeopardizing the health of more than 20 million people, including 500,000 children. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/h...

This is deeply concerning: Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Yay the cover is here! So thrilled I got to contribute a chapter to this volume and collaborate with a bunch of amazing scholars!

I LOVE this cover - and the fact that I’ve been able to collaborate with such an amazing scholarly collective!

Our latest blog piece is by SSHM members who attended the Reproductive Health Histories Working Group Hybrid Meeting in July 2024 An event supported by SSHM conference funding! Deadline for the next round of conference funding is 1 March.

If you wanna reach the historical communities of the blue skies, consider using this established hashtag that reaches out to all fields with historical perspectives: #skystorians So, users of #historians #historian #bluestorians #blustorian #history etc, join in and enjoy. Let's boost this posting

That feeling you get at the end of a long week? Enya and Zelda are with you.

You can still book a space for today’s talk - 4 pm UK time.

It's #DigitalFriday ! This is my routine appeal to #skystorians & all academics prepping for teaching to share any software, hardware, online resources (primary, secondary, teaching tools, blogs), tips and tricks that they've found useful this week! #AcademicSky (pls boost to any relevant feeds)

Attention ECR #histmed #histsci. Tune in on 2 Dec for my talk—'Why Astrological Medicine Doesn't Work: Reflections on How to Write the Histories of Science and Medicine'—to promote @sshmedicine.bsky.social Roy Porter Student Essay Prize sshm.org/portfolio/pr... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-sshm-l...

#MondayNetwork - a regular appeal to any #Skystorians with intersecting interests: surviving climate change, environmental determinism, race science, exploration, acclimatisation & physiology, citizen science, Indigenous knowledge, & related topics to say hi or share link to your work! 🗃️

#Histmed, are you out there?! AAHM is now on Bluesky 💙 We will no longer use our Twitter account, so follow along here for announcements, updates on our centennial meeting, and an ✨occasional✨ plea for donations.

📢Roy Porter Student Essay Prize 📢 Winner = opportunity to present plenary @sshmedicine.bsky.social's conference. Winner/shortlisted = cash prizes and publication mentoring. Most promising entries = exclusive Masterclass with a journal editor. Deadline: 1 Feb 2025. Details 👇 #HistMed #HistSTM 🗃

📢The @sshmedicine.bsky.social Lecture 2024: 2 Dec.📢 A beacon for the February deadline for the prestigious student/new postgrad graduate Roy Porter Prize, Prof Lauren Kassell reflects on #EM astrology & 'How to Write the Histories of Science and Medicine' #HistMed #HistSci #HistSTM #Skystorians 🗃

For the last few months I have worked on a workshop and online symposium on HIV and AIDS archives. This will take place on the 2-3 December. The symposium is online and free. Full details in the thread below! live-www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/our-re...

(Call for papers) HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe and Central Asia: The Humanities and Social Sciences Perspectives histoiresante.blogspot.com/2024/11/le-s... #histSTM

My colleagues and I at SSHM are delighted to be hosting Dr Aishah Scott and Dr Antoine Johnson tomorrow to hear them present their research. All are welcome to this free event!