And again I've got a @manchester.ac.uk @manchstm.bsky.social colleague who has published on it: Dr James Sumner in Nature Reviews Physics. doi.org/10.1038/s422...

Please follow our @manchstm.bsky.social PhD students, @chstmphds.bsky.social, ‪for updates on the excellent lunchtime-work-in-progress online seminar series they host.

I recommend this article, which provides an excellent introduction to the history both of the term autism and the ways in which the label has been applied to a changing set of human characteristics, in line with changing scientific and diagnostic approaches. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Or read one of Dr Evans' journal articles on the issue - you can access a list of publications through this link. research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/b...

Autism is back on the front pages. Why not read the book that my excellent @manchester.ac.uk @manchstm.bsky.social colleague Dr Bonnie Evans has published on the history of autism? It's open access and you can read it online for free. www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...

The new academic year is kicking off! Please join us on 7 October for our first seminar of the semester. Our speaker will be Alan D. Meyer (Auburn University), on Flying While Black: The Slow Pace of Racial Integration in the U.S. Airline Industry. blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0... #HistSTM

The CHSTM Lunchtime Seminar Series is back this semester! 🎉 Our first talk will be on Tuesday, 21 October 2025. Stay tuned for speaker details and more updates! #HistSci #HistMed #CHSTM

Please join us for a discussion event on Extinction, with @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social and Rachel Webster, at Manchester Museum, on 18 Sept 2025. blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0...

Great presentation by @manchstm.bsky.social’s own Krittapak Ngamvaseenont on psychiatrists and psychologists shaping the modern Thai mind in the mid 20th century. #eahmh25

Reminder: we are welcoming the European Society for the History of Science to Manchester next month, for their Early Career Network and In-Between Meetings from 9 to 12 September 2025. eshs.org/2025/07/11/e...

Conference: Planetary Futures - Rethinking Extinction and Conservation in the Anthropocene. Manchester, 18-19 Sept 2025. Registration is free - please register your interest in attending by Friday 22 August. blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0...

@manchester.ac.uk @fbmh-uom.bsky.social @manchesterup.bsky.social

Hot off the press: new #OpenAccess book, co-edited by our colleague Dr Amelia Bonea: #Women, #science, #engineering and #medicine in the twentieth century. doi.org/10.7765/9781... #HistSTM #HistSci

New article by CHSTM PhD and Honorary Research Fellow Dr Leah De Quattro: De Quattro L (2025) Antenatal preparation as care: birth stories and collective learning at work. Front. Glob. Women's Health 6:1592538. doi: 10.3389/fgwh.2025.1592538 www.frontiersin.org/journals/glo...

Brandy will be in Manchester on 21 Oct, hosted by @manchstm.bsky.social and the Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture (CSSC) at @manchester.ac.uk. Watch this space (and blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/) for details.

Great to have you here!

Looking forward to presenting my research on breast cancer and breastfeeding at this event in September!

Fantastic news! Congratulations to Charlotte!!

We're looking forward to hosting the Early Career Network Meeting and the In-Between Meeting of the European Society for the History of Science (ESHS) in Manchester in September. eshs.org/2025/07/11/e... #histsci #histstm

CHSTM’s home, the Simon Building. Looks almost nice like this.

A couple of photos from Dr James Sumner's 'Electric Dreams' stall at last weekend's Universally Manchester festival. universallymanchester.com #scicomm

Fascinating article on amber from Myanmar, which @manchester.ac.uk student Lauren Smith originally wrote as a blog post assignment for Dr Amelia Bonea's course unit on Fossils: Global Histories of Natural Heritage, Science and Empire. mancunion.com/2025/05/22/a...

Next Tuesday!

There's still time to sign up.

Wrapped up our centre’s PGR lunch seminar series @manchstm.bsky.social for the semester today🎉🎉 I had a wonderful time co-hosting it with my brilliant colleague Daniela Dandes and meeting so many friends. Grateful for the opportunity to learn so much over the past two years.

Wooo! Meaning you can read my first article, published 20 years ago! - back when we got offprints🗃️ (I’m so Old)

The Bulletin of the John Rylands University is going to be #openaccess from tomorrow! Including the substantial back archive! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2025/05...

Includes the wonderful paper on the University of Manchester Institute of Science & Technology (UMIST) by @manchstm.bsky.social PhD graduate @erinbeeston.bsky.social doi.org/10.7227/BJRL...

TODAY

Looking for a Masters course? Interested in science, communication, and public engagement?

Join our colleagues @manchstm.bsky.social for a FREE workshop: 'Rethinking #Neurodevelopment - From WHO Policies to #Neurodiversity and #Care' Open to all, 17 June at 1pm @uniofmanchester.bsky.social #UoM Simon Building - see blog for Eventbrite 🔗

Congratulations to Alice Naisbitt, who successfully defended her PhD thesis on Science Diplomacy and the British Council! Also in the photo: the examiners, Dr Gordon Barrett and Prof Jon Agar, and one of the supervisors, Prof Simone Turchetti. The co-supervisor, Prof Kieron Flanagan couldn’t be here

Next Tuesday

New article by CHSTM PhD graduate and honorary research associate Dr Leah de Quattro - based on research for her PhD dissertation: Understanding Midwife-led and Group-led Antenatal Preparation: Part 1. The Practising Midwife. Volume 28, Issue 3, May 2025, Pages 37-39. doi.org/10.55975/SGP...

Co-organising this conference, deadline to submit your proposal 13 May. We will open up registration for non-speakers later in the summer. Anyone with an interest is welcome irrespective of discipline, but students, ECRs and anyone working in extinction/conservation especially welcome.

Interesting talk coming up @manchstm.bsky.social on how the Covid-19 lockdowns became a rallying point for skeptics and conspiracy theorists, forging new political and cultural identities.

Another CHSTM event for your diaries: Rethinking Neurodevelopment - From WHO Policies to Neurodiversity and Care. Workshop, 17 June 2025. Organised by Dr Cinzia Greco @cinziag.bsky.social and Dr Bonnie Evans blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0...

Two dates for your diaries: CHSTM Seminars in May.

Join us on 12 June 2025 for a workshop on Collecting, Studying, Controlling Animals in East Asia, organised by MancHSTM's Dr Amelia Bonea with @thejohnrylands.bsky.social and the Manchester China Institute blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0...

Call for Papers #HistSTM #EnvHist: Planetary Futures - Rethinking Extinction and Conservation in the Anthropocene. Manchester, 18-19 Sept 2025. Organisers: @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social and @duncanwilson78.bsky.social blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0...

TODAY, 4PM BST

The forthcoming issue of the BJHS on science diplomacy in Asia looks good. Some CHSTM involvement.

Please join us for an online book talk next Tuesday, 25 March, at 11am GMT, when John Alekna (Beijing University) will be discussing his book 'Seeking News, Making China: Reimagining Chinese History through Information Technology'. blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0...

Congratulations to our colleague @cinziag.bsky.social, whose latest book, Assemblages of Cancer: Experiences and contexts of breast cancer in the UK, France and Italy, was published last week by @manchesterup.bsky.social. Read the book (#OpenAccess) here: www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...

Congratulations to our colleague @cinziag.bsky.social, whose latest book, Assemblages of Cancer: Experiences and contexts of breast cancer in the UK, France and Italy, was published last week by @manchesterup.bsky.social. Read the book (#OpenAccess) here: www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...

Look at this amazing object, hot off the presses - @cinziag.bsky.social's brilliant, game-changing, cross-national ethnography of breast cancer from Manchester Uni Press!

Come and work with us! #HistMed #HistSTM

Coming up: next Tuesday.

We have got another seminar date for your diaries: on 1 April, Prof Thomas Haigh will be speaking on Artificial Intelligence: The Brand That Wouldn’t Die. blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0...