Everyone knows about 19th cen. opium politics. But what if 19th cen. European experimental science actually showed that opium smoking was chemically impossible? Read about this in relation to colonial knowledge exchange here: shorturl.at/tfGYu #histsky #histmed #histsci #drugsky

The 'adamic' brain substance, fatty "protagon" was briefly everything. Read about how this short lived behemoth of 19th cen. brain science shaped contemporary anesthesiological theory and what it means for entity realism (OA). #HPLS #HPS #histmed #histsky #philsci link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Very sad to hear of the death of Guenter Risse, whose historical studies on plague and other diseases in San Francisco were such an inspiration for a generation of researchers. Both Visual Plague and Global War Against the Rat projects owe a lot to his generous support mhb.wisc.edu/2026/02/25/i...

Read an extract from this book, 'Drunken songs of tomorrow: Friedrich Nietzsche and intoxication', via www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

Unbelievable to finally see it in print! #skystorians #histmed #histsci #philsci #drugsky #medsky #scisky @uchicagopress.bsky.social press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Excited to say it will be hitting the warehouse soon! #skystorians #histmed #histsci #philsci press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Neuroscience needs a new paradigm: the brain is not a machine | By Nicole Rust “The brain is a dynamic complex system—like the weather or a megacity—whose parts interact via feedback loops that are impossible to study in isolation from each other.” iai.tv/articles/neu... #philsky #philsci #neuro

The real time we never get back? Figuring out the first names of the authors behind obscure, 19th-century one-off papers, especially when the happen to share the same last name and first initial with someone WAY more famous.

Georges Canguilhem, the French philosopher, was born on this day in 1904. Although he is best known for his work in the philosophy of biology and medicine, Canguilhem was also a profound thinker about technology.

A clever talk by Daston on the history of the history of science. youtu.be/SDzVaBj492s

My book has a cover and is now available for pre-order! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

🔔 Call for Papers! The 10th Workshop on Historical Epistemology will focus on exploring the Intersections of Psychological Research & Psychotherapeutic Practices. 📅 27-29 March 2025 📍 IMGWF, University of Lübeck 🌐 Details here: episthist.hypotheses.org/4152 #philsky #philsci #histsci #histtech

*nods knowingly*

“[T]he very phenomenon being investigated may be changed by the inquiry itself. It is as if there were a principle of human indeterminacy at work.” “Each of us becomes a new person as we redescribe the past.” #PhilSci #HistSTM 🐋🌱🦋🦫🧪🗃️🧠

Nietzsche knew that a true philosopher must write his own jacket blurbs.

I was just made aware of this review of my book by @mperkinsmcvey.bsky.social on HPLS. I wish to thank its Author for engaging with my work! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Paul Feyerabend was born OTD in 1924. Knowledge is not a body of consistent theories converging on truth. It is “an ever increasing ocean of mutually incompatible … alternatives, each single theory, each fairy tale, each myth … forcing the others into greater articulation.” 🧪🦋🦫 #PhilSci #STS

Though surely familiar to most of you, this "experimental apparatus" was developed by Alfred Beaumont Maddock’s in 1845 to establish the efficacy of inhaling the fumes of substances such as opium, digitalis, hemlock, and many more.

So, how many of you trust the publishers to put together a good book cover? And how many of you propose your own covers?

Are the Years of Potential Life Lost (YPLL) measurements used in addiction research broken? Have they always been? Read about it here at Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. www.jsad.com/doi/full/10....

have we eaten on the insane root That takes the reason prisoner?

Reconsidering the origins of model psychosis! Might intoxication represent an orienting concept in the history of madness more generally, making 'model psychosis' a founding model in mental pathology? #philmed #hismed #hispsy #hissci journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

My book "Intoxicated Ways of Knowing" is in production at @uchicagopress.bsky.social !