One week left to enter @sshmedicine.bsky.social Roy Porter Essay Prize 2025/6 Deadline: Sunday 1 February #histmed #histSTM #medhumanities

Looking forward to teaching the history of the #who on the day of a political explosion due to new alcohol guidelines in switzerland. #histmed

Hi @urbanhistorygroup.bsky.social CFP for @eurohealthhist.bsky.social session at European Association for Urban History conf in Barcelona (2-5 Sept 2026). Urban Healthcare Architecture: Networks and Exchanges in 20th Century www.eauhbarcelona2026.eu/sessions/#session83 deadline: 22 Oct 2025).

A weird German word in academic circles is Selbstzahler. When conferences organise dinners (or drinks) but expect you to pay your own way. But then again, I remember a wedding do in the UK with a cash bar. The same idea, different context.

#Gesundheitswesen #Gesundheitskosten #Schweiz Tolles Interview mit Andreas Kistler zu Gesundheitskosten. Marktwirtschaftliche Organisation ohne Regulierung (und Koordination) versagt. www.tagesanzeiger.ch/krankenkasse...

#histmed reviewer 3: "Just a historical paper with limited scientific value" - and how is your Monday going?

We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health William Foege and 8 other former CDC directors www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Massive opportunity to work with us in Edinburgh on Medicine without Doctors. 5 full-time postdocs each for 5 years starting in April 2026. Please share widely!

Your health has more to do with where you live than “what you individually do”, says Devi Sridhar on “Babbage”

Interesting new book by old friend and #histmed colleague Christoph Gradmann: Another Magic Mountain: Kibong’oto Hospital and African Tuberculosis, 1920-2000 (Ohio University Press, 2025). doi.org/10.2307/jj.2... www.ohioswallow.com/978082142633...

Das "Zeitalter der Extreme" durch die Linse der Ernährung: Das ist das Thema meines vierten und letzten Podcasts zur ORF-Serie "Österreich - die ganze Geschichte". sound.orf.at/podcast/tv/o...

Switzerland raises, on average, 25% import duties on agricultural products. For cheese, meat & vegetables often in excess of 100%. Consumers pay this, and popular votes regularly confirm the pillars of protectionist policies. Info from here (in German): www.avenir-suisse.ch/blog-zollfes...

Great opinion piece in the @mtlgazette.bsky.social on recent court decisions regarding Canadian pro hockey players. www.montrealgazette.com/opinion/colu...

Open position⚠️ Come join us in Zurich as a pre-doc/research assistant in a diverse team working on a number of research projects on public finance, political economy and social wellbeing in Tanzania, DRC, Ecuador and Chile. Applications here: www.povertyactionlab.org/careers/pre-...

So proud of the Swiss women‘s team tonight at the #euro2025 - fighting quality until the end.

Read this, bookmark it, download it (& print it, too, if you want to go all out). But make sure you & yours know that medical history ( #histmed) has a solid response to the nonsense our HHS secretary is spouting. nursingclio.org/2025/06/30/m... 🧪🗃️ And follow @nursingclio.bsky.social. #MiasmaTheory

At a time of crisis for the History departments across the UK @ihr.bsky.social has made available a unique archive of interviews with leading post-war British historians. They point to the importance of history & the urgent need to defend the profession. historyandpolicy.org/opinion-arti...

Letzter Aufruf: Ich suche zur Verstärkung unseres Teams in Zürich Doktorand:in in Medizingeschichte - I look for one doctoral student for medical history to join us in Zurich. Deadline 30.6.2025. Details: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

Herzlich Willkommen auf Bluesky, @driburgerkreis.bsky.social ! #histsci #histmed #histtech

📢 "ANIMAL-BASED: Historische Perspektiven auf Tiere in Medizin, Wissenschaft und Technik" Das Programm der Jahrestagung 2025 an der @tudresden.bsky.social ist jetzt online. Programm und Anmeldungen auf www.gwmt.de #gwmt2025 #histsci #histmed #histtech

"The Mask" by @brunostrasser.bsky.social and #thomasschlich is out today. I have listened to talks and seen some papers and cannot wait to read this.

✨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

Excited to share a new commentary with @gcagatgcaatg.bsky.social in NPJ #Antimicrobials & Resistance on the need to expand narrow clinical approaches & reconceptualise #AMR within a #planetaryboundaries framework: www.nature.com/articles/s44... @cermes3.bsky.social @willhgaze.bsky.social #histmed

What a fabulous gem if an essay on AI and education. big question remains: what is there to do apart frm more face-to-face interaction?

🚨Salaried PhD position in history of medicine at the University of Zurich with the wonderful @fcondrau.bsky.social 🚨 (ignore the 60%, this is just the Swiss system, and amounts to a very respectable pay) #histmed #histstm jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

sshm.org/notices/ Vacancy: Social History of Medicine journal is seeking a Co-Editor. Please consider applying!

Announcing our "Historicizing Farm Animals" conference keynote lecture by @hannahlandecker.bsky.social 11 June 2025, 6.30pm local time - join us on Zoom or in person in Zurich. #histmed #onehealth

Temporary Lecturer in Social Anthropology post (24 months) is now open @standrewsanthro.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNC376/t...

Application for my ETA to travel to the UK: "Because you live in Switzerland you have to pay in Euros." I don't know why but this strikes me as funny.

Mark your calendars! 📅 I'm thrilled to share the line-up for the fall 2025 Science and Technology in Asia online seminar series. Hope you'll be able to join us for one or more of these sessions! seow.scholars.harvard.edu/STinAsia #histstm #histsci #histtech #histmed #sts #envhist #envhum 🧪

It's almost Annual Meeting time, #histmed, and this is a special one -- AAHM's 100th birthday! But if you can't be with us in Boston, you can still join us to celebrate. We'll be livestreaming several exciting program events. Registration info in the thread below 👇 #aahm2025

Well written and troublesome at the same time: "Taking over the past is a point of no return. It's not that we can't get back to who we once were. It's that we won't even remember it." www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... #histmed

Things look very grim for tuberculosis services due to abrupt cuts by the US government Join us on Monday, on World TB Day as we discuss the latest crisis Date: Monday, March 24, 2025 Time: 12 p.m. EDT / 9 a.m. PDT RSVP: bit.ly/3XO86iQ

You know what happens with drug rationing? Drug rationing doesn’t just cause horrible, preventable deaths—it causes antiretroviral resistance. That means future infections will be harder to treat, everywhere. The consequences don’t stop at one person; they spread globally

🚨Job Klaxon🚨 Seeking a post-doc for 5.5 years (!) on our brand new @medicinewithoutdoctors.org project! The candidate will be working with @cathm.bsky.social and the wider team to lead on playful, design-based methodological collaboration. Deadline 31 March 2025 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMD146/p...

Visiting la pendenta in Disentis/Mustér over the weekend. quite impressive!

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...

We are delighted to share that the latest issue of our journal, Health & History, is now online and in print: Special issue - "Reproductive Health and Women's Rights in Contemporary History" Congratulations to special editors Gayle and Linda and all the contributors 🎉 muse.jhu.edu/issue/54314

Well worth a read in these trying times. academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

Just looking over my slides for a history of infectious diseases class for medical students. In an era when vitamins are recommended for measles, TB and HIV services cut back in high-burden countries, and the WHO weakened through now fault of its own, I must admit I struggle a bit. #histmed

Early reports to WHO from the 30 highest #tuberculosis (TB)-burden countries confirm that funding cuts from foreign aid, particularly from USAID, are already dismantling essential TB services. Without urgent action, these setbacks will reverse decades of progress to #EndTB 🔗 bit.ly/4kvsu2i

This is Winston Churchill visiting Washington DC to request assistance in the war against Germany. Notice he is wearing a "zip suit" and not a traditional suit. This was to honor the British troops--the same reason Zelensky dresses the way he does.

Dream postdoc for #histmed folks 👇👇👇

Historians have been under attack for years; cuts to funding, manipulation of facts, interference with subjects, eradication of departments. This is why.

Encouraged to see the Lancet editors speaking out, hoping US based medical & mental health journals will follow.

This looks like an absolutely amazing job for someone! Sure, it's plenty cold in the winter, but you get lovely summers... www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLN022/c...

☎️Calling #HistMed Students & New Graduates📢 The Roy Porter Essay Prize deadline's tomorrow (1 Feb), 5pmGMT)! There's still time! Prizes include cash, conference plenary slot, mentoring, & places at our publication masterclass! Eligibility & entry form 👇 #HistSTM #DisHist #HistPsych #HistNursing 🗃️