Christos Lynteris

As is characteristic of his generocity to colleagues & students, Guenter "requested this retrospective of his life be published after his passing in gratitude for all the people who influenced his life and assisted him in his academic career" www.gbrisse.com/blog

Brad Bolman, Lab Dog: What Global Science Owes American Beagles Brad Bolman’s Lab Dog is a fascinating and meticulously researched history of how beagles came to be a standardised laboratory dog breed, and how these dog

My review of @brad.bolman.com 's 'Lab Dog' has just been published with Social History of Medicine. This is a truly excellent book that will be of great interest to historians of animals, lab sciences, and beyond. doi.org/10.1093/shm/...

"The number of measles cases in London continues to rise with growing concerns that it is further spreading into other regions."
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In Memoriam, Dr. Guenter B. Risse, M.D., Ph.D. It is with deep sadness that the Department of Medical History and Bioethics shares news of the passing of Professor Guenter B. Risse. He died peacefully at home on February 15, 2026, following a long...

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...

Delighted to be starting my new Wellcome Trust funded project today, which has now been moved to University of Liverpool. A reminder that I will soon be advertising two postdocs on conservation and animal health and conservation and earth systems' health. The posts will likely start late this year.

Between the Lab and the Clinic: Perspectives from Medical Humanities and Science and Technology Studies (STS) Kristin D. Hussey and Hannah Star Rogers draw on Science and Technology Studies (STS) to think through how the ‘lab’ is being employed across the medical humanities.

Kristin D. Hussey and Hannah Star Rogers draw on Science and Technology Studies (STS) to think through how the ‘lab’ is being employed across the medical humanities.

thepolyphony.org/2026/03/05/l...

Cover of The Business of Racism: Labor and Environment in Brazil's Racial Capitalism by Ian Carrillo. The cover photograph depicts workers in a sugarcane field under a sky of fluffy clouds. The cut canes fill the bottom half of the image, and the sky the top half. The title appears in all-caps centered green text in the top third of the cover, and the subtitle in a black italicized font immediately below. The author's name appears on white text on top of the canes.

In "The Business of Racism," Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social draws from his extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Brazil’s agribusiness sector to show how racial capitalism is promulgated and maintained through politics and business. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/9dd4fNe

Reminder 📢

Join us in about an hour for Hyemin Lee's Harvard S&T in Asia talk on multispecies governance in Korean ginseng farming!

Zoom registration: seow.scholar.harvard.edu/STinAsia

Looking forward to reading L'empire de la supervision:
Capture des savoirs et gouvernement colonial dans l'Inde britannique, by Gildas Salmon @edladecouverte.bsky.social www.editionsladecouverte.fr/l_empire_de_...

‘Viruses don’t know borders’: US anti-vaccine rhetoric could impact global measles crisis Experts say global measles vaccination rates are falling as Trump officials signal a deprioritization of the virus

“The US government has amplified anti-vaccine rhetoric and signaled that it does not consider measles to be a priority, which could have global ramifications”

@whatsitlike.me

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'One year of failure.' The Lancet slams RFK Jr.'s first year as health chief In a scathing review, the top US medical journal's editorial board warned that the "destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 in office might take generations to repair."

"The destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 year might take generations to repair, and there is little hope for U.S. health and science while he remains at the helm."
www.npr.org/2026/02/28/n...

Edinburgh University taking strike action after plans for 1,800 job losses University of Edinburgh faces renewed UCU industrial action ballot over £140m funding cuts and up to 1,800 job losses, with union opposing…

'Members of the University and College Union (UCU) at the University of Edinburgh are to begin strike action following management's plans for £140 million in cuts and up to 1,800 job losses.' 1/2

A 1970 French interdisciplinary seminar on structuralism, organised by Gilbert Gadoffre, André Lichnerowicz and François Perroux, and attended by Suzanne Bachelard, Pierre Bourdieu, Georges Canguilhem... An interdisciplinary seminar on structuralism was held in France in September 1970. Attended by a wide range of speakers, it was an interesting moment in the French reception of this trend in ‘Fren…

A 1970 French interdisciplinary seminar on structuralism, organised by Gadoffre, Lichnerowicz and Perroux, and attended by Suzanne Bachelard, Bourdieu, Canguilhem, Foucault, Martinet, Monod, Ramnoux, Serres, Simonden and Thom
progressivegeographies.com/2026/03/01/a...

My cultural awakening: Leonardo da Vinci made me rethink surgery – I’ve since mended more than 3,000 hearts For one heart surgeon, seeing the Renaissance artist’s anatomical drawings gave him a natural understanding of the body that was often overlooked in modern medical science

'I’ve always believed that art and science can nourish each other. At Papworth, I’ve invited several artists in residence to work alongside me, and I encourage students to think in a broad, almost artistic way. I think both fields will make more progress by learning from each other.'

The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature | Home Christopher Cusack (Radboud University) has published widely on Irish and Irish-diasporic literature. His monograph The Great Famine in Irish and North American Fiction, 1892-1921 is forthcoming from Liverpool University Press.

Christopher Cusack, Bridget English and Matthew L. Reznicek eds. The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature - @livunipress.bsky.social, February 2026
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Outre le fait divers qui a inspiré l'écrivain Daniel Defoe (1660-1731), le roman trouverait son origine dans un conte philosophique médiéval de langue arabe. Leur point commun ? Une réflexion moderne sur la raison humaine.
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my book uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295754444/a-volatile-picture/ is out in April. Anxious/excited to talk about it for the 1st time next week with many thanks to @kalathmika.bsky.social for the kind invitation. Also giving a lecture on more recent work on televising atrocity & maps in Sri Lanka.

Very happy to be sharing this CFP for our "Colonial Medical Ennui" workshop (August 27-28) @standrewsanthro.bsky.social with a deadline of April 30 www.st-andrews.ac.uk/social-anthr...

Christos Lynteris, Visual Plague: The Emergence of Epidemic Photography | Journal of History View all available purchase options and get full access to this article.

"a splendid piece of scholarship: it is original, widely researched, well-written, and a pleasure to read despite its dark subject matter" - a big thanks to Prof Jim Connor for his review of Visual Plague: The Emergence of Epidemic Photography @mitpress.bsky.social utppublishing.com/doi/full/10....

How Indigenous ideas about non-linear time can help us navigate ecological crises Māori, for instance, do not place the present at the centre; as some researchers put it, ‘there is no centre’.

Philip McKibbin on time "recurring, spiralling, and recalling itself". theconversation.com/how-indigeno...

TWO DOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS IN EAST ASIAN RELIGIONS (296038) | University of Oslo Job title: TWO DOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS IN EAST ASIAN RELIGIONS (296038), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, April 6, 2026

Job alert!

We are looking for talented PhD researchers to write a dissertation on Benzaiten worship in modern Japan or Mazu pilgrimages in Taiwan, as part of the ERC project "Maritime Goddesses: Transnational Connections, Blue Environments, and Ritual Care in East- and Southeast Asia" (MARGO).

Farewell to Vicente Rafael We are deeply saddened to learn of the death of Vicente Rafael on February 21, 2026, at the age of 70. Vince was the author of five books with Duke University Press, a contributor to several edited…

A fitting tribute to a wonderful person and great scholar - Vince Rafael - from @dukepress.bsky.social
@kwissoker.bsky.social

Face à son succès, une controverse éclate : Hans est-il doué d’intelligence ou s’agit-il d’une supercherie ? Cette histoire constitue alors un tournant scientifique, transformant durablement la psychologie expérimentale et la réflexion sur l’âme animale.
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NYU’s Full-Time Contingent Faculty Are Poised to Strike After trying to bargain a first contract for over a year, the union for 1,000 full-time contingent faculty at New York University is voting on authorizing a strike. Contract faculty say NYU is refusing to budge on pay raises and job security protections.

"Many of us who work at universities, not just NYU, have watched in confusion and horror at the way our administrations have approached generative AI and its integration into the systems that we use to teach."

AFT has said AI must be a mandatory subject of bargaining.

Shameless is exactly the word to use here

Émile Benveniste, Problèmes de linguistique générale – Problems in General Linguistics and other English translations Only a limited amount of Émile Benveniste’s work is available in English translation. Problèmes de linguistique générale was published in two volumes in 1966 and 1974 by Gallimard, and l…

I've updated the list of English translations of Émile Benveniste's work to include a couple of articles - progressivegeographies.com/resources/in...

The Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine invites applications for research fellowships in their eponymous topics.

For more details see: www.chstm.org/fellowships

#histmed #histstm

University of Cambridge to keep vet school open The university's general board agrees a new way forward for veterinary education.

So great to see that Cambridge's vet school is no longer under threat of closure - among other things this is a vibrant hub of interdiciplinary research, pioneering exchanges and collaborations with social scientists of zoonotic diseases www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

All good things come to an end It is with great sadness that we are sharing the news that the UCL Faculties of Social & Historical Sciences and Arts & Humanities have decided to close the IAS on 31 July 2026.

It is with great sadness that we are sharing the news that the UCL Faculties of Social & Historical Sciences and Arts & Humanities have decided to close the IAS.

We will close our doors forever on 31 July 2026.

Follow the link to leave thoughts, comments, memories 💗

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Timekeepers | Beatrice Loayza Brazil’s military dictatorship, which lasted from 1964 to 1985, retaliated fiercely against whoever contested its monopoly over the country’s public

Beatrice Loayza (@bealoayza.bsky.social) on Kleber Mendonça Filho’s The Secret Agent https://go.nybooks.com/4tO578u