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Historian of science and medicine @EUI_History @CambridgeHPS @Pembroke1347 #histsci #histmed #earlymodern #astrology

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@hagenilda.bsky.social @robralley.bsky.social @jakubochocinski.bsky.social @eui-history.bsky.social @camdiglib.bsky.social @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

21.02.2026 12:29 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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This Wednesday (28 Jan) we are back again reading Forman and Napier. Dm if you’d like to join! @laurenkassell.bsky.social @hpscasebooks.bsky.social #skystorians #casebooks

26.01.2026 12:56 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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#EUI #VirtualOpenWeek #PhDOpportunity

26.11.2025 01:30 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Online this Wednesday, 3-4pm Florence time @laurenkassell.bsky.social @hpscasebooks.bsky.social #skystorians #casebooks

24.11.2025 17:44 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Our first session is this Wednesday @laurenkassell.bsky.social

27.10.2025 18:29 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Join us tomorrow (29 October) for #casebookstherapy!!
@jakubochocinski.bsky.social @robralley.bsky.social @hagenilda.bsky.social
@laurenkassell.bsky.social
#histmed #astrology #histsci #earlymodern

28.10.2025 10:02 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Casebooks Therapy is back! Here’s our schedule for 2025-2026. As usual, everyone is welcome to bring cases to read from the digital edition casebooks.lib.cam.ac.uk or to simply come along and enjoy! Our first session is next month, 29 October. For the zoom link, please dm or email me

12.09.2025 12:01 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 3

Casebooks is here. Stay tuned for the #casebookstherapy 2025-2026 schedule #histmed #histsci #earlymodern #astrology @jakubochocinski.bsky.social

09.08.2025 10:50 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2

Our next #casebooks therapy is this Wednesday!

14.04.2025 11:40 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Correction!!! This Wednesday!! April 16. 2025!!

14.04.2025 13:39 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The next #casebooks therapy is this Wednesday 19 March - we’ll be reading the casebooks of #simonforman and #richardnapier. Thanks to @jakubochocinski.bsky.social for organising. dm or email him
@eui-history.bsky.social @laurenkassell.bsky.social @robralley.bsky.social @hagenilda.bsky.social

14.04.2025 13:33 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Thanks Hurst for all your work with me!

13.03.2025 13:03 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
2 feminist scholars in conversation about Mary Fissell's Abortion: A history

2 feminist scholars in conversation about Mary Fissell's Abortion: A history

Thanks Heffers and @sbrooksfranklin.bsky.social for a wonderful conversation last night, delighted to see old friends and meet many students and get great questions! bit.ly/4ibijON

19.03.2025 11:02 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Manuscript image of the quoted text (CASE63427 in the online edition).

Manuscript image of the quoted text (CASE63427 in the online edition).

#otd 1627 Napier records a visit by 'on[e] Mr Eastworth a yorkesheerman' who 'should have broght me Mres Kays letter for the taking of physick against melanch[oly] but forgot it & the token of gold in it & left it behind him in yorke sheere'. He 'will send it if he can'.

17.03.2025 14:05 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The next #casebooks therapy is this Wednesday 19 March - we’ll be reading the casebooks of #simonforman and #richardnapier dm or email me for the zoom link
@eui-history.bsky.social @laurenkassell.bsky.social @robralley.bsky.social @hagenilda.bsky.social

17.03.2025 12:46 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Join us to read the #earlymodern #casebooks of #simonforman and #richardnapier online @eui-history.bsky.social. Next session: 19 February. #histmed #histsci #astrology @hagenilda.bsky.social @robralley.bsky.social

17.02.2025 17:23 πŸ‘ 26 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Prizes 2024/5 ROY PORTER STUDENT ESSAY PRIZE COMPETITION 2024-roy-porter-prize-entry-formDownload Rules and Entry Form The Society for the Social History of Medicine invites submissions to its 2024/5 Roy …

☎️Calling #HistMed Students & New GraduatesπŸ“’
The Roy Porter Essay Prize deadline is 1 Feb! Submit for the chance to win cash, a conference plenary slot, mentoring, & places at our publication masterclass! Details, eligibility & entry form πŸ‘‡
#HistSTM
sshm.org/portfolio/pr...

27.01.2025 18:34 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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The Dark Side of Sunthesis? Fraud and Substitution in Graeco-Roman Pharmacology This paper examines one specific aspect of the compounding—sunthesis in Greek—of remedies in ancient pharmacy, namely the substitution of one or several of the ingredients stipulated in th...

My latest article is available in open access. It's on the boundary between fraud and substitution in ancient medicine. Writing it as part of the Sawyer lectures was particularly stimulating: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

23.01.2025 08:57 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Today we talked about Emily Martin's amazing 1991 "The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles" in the #histmed research seminar @eui-history.bsky.social. The final pages are eerily prescient. @cam-repro.bsky.social @maryfissell.bsky.social

20.01.2025 17:57 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Press start? Video games and the use of history The Public History and the Visual and Material History working groups host an event focused on using history in video games and digital media and the possibilities for disseminating history through th...

Join us for this exciting event on History in Video Games and Digital Media at the @eui-eu.bsky.social

With

@elisa-chazal.bsky.social @laurenkassell.bsky.social
and Anastasia Remes

www.eui.eu/events?id=57...

13.01.2025 09:36 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Join us to read the #earlymodern #casebooks of #simonforman and #richardnapier online @eui-history.bsky.social. Next session: 15 January. #histmed #histsci #astrology @hagenilda.bsky.social @robralley.bsky.social

10.01.2025 08:35 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Do Our Dogs Have Something to Tell Us? Many owners think so, thanks to the β€œtalking buttons” craze on TikTok and Instagram. Scientists are less convinced.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/06/m...
Today I had nothing to say.

07.01.2025 15:47 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Come to Berlin in August! Submit your abstract for a paper or propose a panel, hope to see you there! Deadline for submissions in March. #histmed #histSTM #eahmh

17.12.2024 10:57 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Think you might use our digital edition *at all*? Then now is your chance to make sure it works for you as well as possible. Have a play and then press the feedback icon and spend 30 seconds or so letting us know what wasn't so great so we can try and fix it!
#EarlyModern #Yorkshire #FamilyHistory

12.12.2024 16:29 πŸ‘ 30 πŸ” 25 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Drawing Rome

www.drawingrome.com
Attention #histsci #histart #drawing Learn to see Rome by drawing Rome. No prior skill necessary. Limited places remaining for 5 - 8 February 2025. #britishschoolatrome @sietskefransen.bsky.social

11.12.2024 18:26 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Hi there πŸ‘‹, this is the blue sky over Florence, seen from the European University Institute!

We’ve just landed here πŸš€ and can’t wait to connect with all of you. Follow us to get the latest on research, events, and EUI campus life!

πŸ“² @eui-eu.bsky.social

11.12.2024 10:01 πŸ‘ 258 πŸ” 83 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 15
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Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction a book by Sadiah Qureshi. Anyone alive today is among a tiny fraction of the once living: over 90 percent of species that ever lived are now extinct. How did we come to think of ourselves as survivors in a world where species ...

I’ve finally finished my book on extinction! If you’re interested in reading how ideas of race, empire, and extinction have shaped our world and left important legacies for thinking about just conservation and the future of our planet, preorder here.

#skystorians

uk.bookshop.org/p/books/vani...

08.12.2024 14:44 πŸ‘ 521 πŸ” 163 πŸ’¬ 27 πŸ“Œ 16
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The SSHM Lecture 2024 Why Astrological Medicine Doesn't Work: Reflections on How to Write the Histories of Science and Medicine.

The SSHM Lecture 2024 to TODAY at 4pm. It will be delivered by Prof. Lauren Kassell, β€˜Why Astrological Medicine Doesn't Work: Reflections on How to Write the Histories of Science and Medicine’. BOOK NOW

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-sshm-l...

02.12.2024 09:25 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 7
Image shows a page where the Bodleian Broadside Ballad archives used to be informing visitors that the online archive has been withdrawn.

Image shows a page where the Bodleian Broadside Ballad archives used to be informing visitors that the online archive has been withdrawn.

As a result of the Bodleian Folk archives being no longer available from today, I'd like to try to get an idea of how many of us use it, how, and how often. It's such a vital resource for so many of us. I've set up an email at hlfolkmusic@gmail.com for this so please do feed back

29.11.2024 21:18 πŸ‘ 114 πŸ” 86 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 16
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The SSHM Lecture 2024 Why Astrological Medicine Doesn't Work: Reflections on How to Write the Histories of Science and Medicine.

Attention ECR #histmed #histsci. Tune in on 2 Dec for my talkβ€”'Why Astrological Medicine Doesn't Work: Reflections on How to Write the Histories of Science and Medicine'β€”to promote @sshmedicine.bsky.social Roy Porter Student Essay Prize sshm.org/portfolio/pr...

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-sshm-l...

27.11.2024 10:01 πŸ‘ 28 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1