Matthew Daniel Eddy🌻

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Call for MBH Book Review Editor Modern British History is seeking a Book Review Editor to replace Dr Shahmima Akhtar whose term of office is due to end in December 2024. The post involves

We're recruiting a Book Reviews Editor! This is a great role for ECRs working in Modern British History (broadly defined). Details at the link below. Any questions, don't hesitate to get in touch with Hannah! 🗃️
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Postdoctoral Research Associate | King's College London

I'm hiring 2 postdocs on my Wellcome project "How Did Infectious Diseases Become Wild?: Plague, Yellow Fever, and Disease Ecology in the Brazilian Hinterland (1920-1975)"

Department of Global Health and Social Medicine
King's College
3 years 01/10/26- 30/09/29
Deadline: 01/02/26
shorturl.at/KZ6Vh

The 19th Ischia Summer School in the History of the Life Sciences will take place 28 Jun - 5 July 2026. Interested graduate students should apply by 27 February. This year's theme? PROBLEMS of GROWTH! ischiasummerschool.org/theme #histSTM #histbio #histsci

Thanks Bob! Likewise!

The Autism Diagnosis Problem

PS: You might find the American political context of the article interesting (it's free, just click on the title of the programme and it will start to play): www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/p...

Hi Sophia. I teach on Durham' History and Philosophy of Psychiatry module and share your concerns. I've just noticed the following message that Nature has placed on the article:

Dr Archibald Hewan (1832–1883) and the University of Glasgow’s medical libraries - Matthew Daniel Eddy, Robert MacLean, Emma Yan, 2025 Background: We provide historical context for the recently discovered University of Glasgow Library records of Archibald Hewan (1832– 1883), the first Black med...

My JRCPE article about Dr Archibald Hewan and Glasgow's medical libraries is out! You can read it for FREE via the link. Hewan was the first black physician to serve as a missionary in Africa. #histstm #histsci #hps #BookHistory #churchhistory #AfricanHistory journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Terrifying, maddening and utterly heart-breaking. Truly incredible journalism to expose and document this.

I'll be using this data in the talk I'll be giving in February documenting that leprosy was already a global disease well before European expansion across the Atlantic & Pacific. For #histmed, this raises new questions: how did different societies *care* for the afflicted?

My PhD student Lenka Schmalisch has completed her PhD! Congratulations Dr Schmalisch!

Wow! The first African American female doctor in Alabama! #sts #hps #blackhistory #histmed @womenshistnet.bsky.social @jwomenshistory.bsky.social #histsci

36 mo postdoc / research fellow position in Philosophy, History, and/or Social Studies of the Life Sciences in the STS dept. at Technical Universtiy of Munich, apps due Oct 31: #histphil #histsci #histSTM

www.sts.sot.tum.de/en/sts/arbei...

Thank you @sebfalk.com and @saraluckelman.bsky.social for mentioning my book! Really sorry to miss Seb's paper - which I'm sure was amazing! #BookHistory #EarlyModern #HistSTM #HPS #STS

Thanks Sarah! Really wish I could have been there to hear Seb's paper - which I'm sure was amazing!

Excited for the launch of the ESHS/HSS 2026 Joint Meeting call for proposals, presented by Simone Turchetti and Sam Robinson at the General Assembly of the #ICHST2025
Hope to see you in Edinburgh in a year's time! hssonline.org/page/Edinbur...

MIT researchers say using ChatGPT can rot your brain. The truth is a little more complicated Like calculators before them, AI tools can raise the bar for what people can achieve – if they’re used the right way.

When it comes to cognitive abilities, ChatGPT is the Emperor‘s new clothes for university students. I do not understand why universities are not taking more active action to collectively counter the problem. #education #sts #hps #media #ai #data #humanities theconversation.com/mit-research...

Marginalia mania: how ‘annotating’ books went from big no-no to BookTok’s next trend Readers are sharing how they write their predictions into novels, colour-code their emotional responses and even gift annotated books to friends. Is it actually fun, or just a bit like homework?

For all the naysayers who predicted the digital death of annotation...

#bookhistory #manuscripts #marginalia #reading

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

Very excited about the Call for Papers for the upcoming 2025 conference for the Australasian Association for History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science.

Come join us in sunny Brisbane QLD this December!! It is always a wonderful event.

#hps #histSTM #philsci #STS #metasci 🧪

I have a new book coming out this autumn via @mitpress.bsky.social ...details at:

mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348...

#HistSci #Computing #History #Books 🗃️

Call for papers: Women in Science: historical perspectives
Conference 18 Nov. 2025 at Royal Society

Submit proposals < 300 words, incl a biographical note of c.50 words) for 20-min papers to library@royalsociety.org subject line ‘proposal for conference paper’

Deadline: 30 June 2025
#HPS

Could you send me a link to the contents page?

Good news! This week I was interviewed by @NewBooksNetwork about my recent book:

newbooksnetwork.com/media-and-th...

#EarlyModern #histsci #bookhistory #HistSTM #HSTM #arthistory #manuscripts

Race and the Scottish Enlightenment How colonialism shaped the Scottish Enlightenment’s conception of race and humanity   In the decades after 1750, an increasing number of former medical st...

Our book Race & the Scottish Enlightenment: A Colonial History 1750-1820 can now be pre-ordered (publication date is in August). @brucealexb.bsky.social yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... #skystorians #colonialhistory #enlightenment #histsci

Chicago Sun-Times confirms AI was used to create reading list of books that don’t exist Outlet calls story, created by freelancer working with one of the newpaper’s content partner, a ‘learning moment’

Historians know that incorrect information becomes increasingly hard to fact check over time. We are sleep walking into an age of misinformation as we increasingly rely on AI to think for us.
#histsci #hps #sts #bookhistory #data #history #journalism
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

In the lead up to the launch of Season 5, we have re-released some of the most popular episodes from our collection for your listening pleasure. Make sure you've had a listen! Or a re-listen, like @schizosemia.bsky.social

#hps #histsci #philsci #sts 🧪

I'm currently researching the place of science in the early abolitionist movement's moral and legal arguments against enslavement. Today I came across this noteworthy observation:

#histsci #histmed #hps #sts #philosophy #bioethics #blackhistory #publichealth

Manuscript submitted to the publisher for review! #histsci #histmed #sts #hps #gender #literature #manuscripts #diaries #bookhistory #britishhistory