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DIJ Tokyo @dijtokyo.org · 22/09/2026

Thank you to all speakers and the audience for the stimulating papers and engaging discussion. Full programme and details ▶️ www.dijtokyo.org/event/entang...

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DIJ Tokyo @dijtokyo.org · 22/09/2026

Day 2 of our Int'l Symposium Entangled Trajectories of Modernization: Medicine, Science, and Technology in Transwar East Asia with papers by @jdimoia.bsky.social @daneuhaus.bsky.social @nadinhee.bsky.social, Sabine Frühstück, Nicolas Schillinger, Hoi-eun Kim, @bmleitner.bsky.social, Akihito Suzuki

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DIJ Tokyo @dijtokyo.org · 18/09/2026

Great start to our Int'l Symposium Entangled Trajectories of Modernization: Medicine, Science & Technology in Transwar East Asia, organised by @daneuhaus.bsky.social @bmleitner.bsky.social & N. Schillinger, with papers by Jin-kyung Park, Akira Hashimoto, Jaehwan Hyun, Ping-Heng Chen, Harry Yi-Jui Wu

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DIJ Tokyo @dijtokyo.org · 11/09/2026

International Symposium "Entangled Trajectories of Modernization: Medicine, Science, and Technology in Transwar East Asia" 📍 @ DIJ Tokyo & online 🗓️ 17-18 Sept 2026 ℹ️ Programme & registration details www.dijtokyo.org/event/entang... Supported by Toshiba International Foundation & DWIH Tokyo (1/2)

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Bernhard Leitner @bmleitner.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Thrilled to announce our upcoming symposium exploring the interconnected histories of medicine, science and technology in Japan, Korea and Taiwan in the 20th century. with @daneuhaus.bsky.social @dijtokyo.org & online (17-18.09.2026) #histmed #histsci #eastasia #sts #japan #korea #taiwan

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drzimmd.bsky.social @drzimmd.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Thanks @bmleitner.bsky.social for the excellent interview we did about the life and career of Ignaz Semmelweiss for The Greatest Doctors Podcast: Episode 2 open.spotify.com/episode/6Dei... Short clip below. More clips coming soon 🚀

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John P. DiMoia @jdimoia.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

next week at SNU:

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Bernhard Leitner @bmleitner.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

New archive unlocked! Great to be back in the wonderful city of Taipei and at Academia Sinica for the first time, conducting archive research on neuropsychiatric treatment methods in colonial and postcolonial Taiwan. #histmed #histpsy #neuro #taiwan #transwar

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Hanna Lucia Worliczek @hworliczek.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Next week Tuesday - come along! #HistMed #HPS #HistSTM #Vienna

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Österreichischer Wissenschaftsfonds FWF @fwf-at.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

#ScienceLectures: Wahnvorstellungen und Halluzinationen sind typische Symptome der #Schizophrenie. Weniger bekannt sind jedoch Negativsymptome. 🧠 ▶️ „Die stille Seite der Schizophrenie" mit Matthäus Willeit @meduniwien.ac.at 📆: 28.05., 18:00h 📌: VHS Wiener Urania www.fwf.ac.at/aktuelles/de...

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„Science Lectures“: Die stille Seite der Schizophrenie

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Nick Kapur @nickkapur.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Next week!

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Bernhard Leitner @bmleitner.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

The feedback from Claude AI we're all striving for: "It's perfectly phrased — friendly, concise, and ends with a clear actionable question. No changes needed." I am pleased. 😌

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Bernhard Leitner @bmleitner.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Editor-in-Chief Eric Engstrom has recently announced a relaunch of the History of Psychiatry journal with a new title, scope, and look. Exciting news for anyone working in #histpsy #histmed #histsci #history Check out what's changed: journals.sagepub.com/home/hpy

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Antony Carpen @acarpen.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Nearly 40 years after Freddie sang it in Budapest

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Bernhard Leitner @bmleitner.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I just prepared a presentation on possession and exorcism for a seminar in medical history and the file has exactly 6,66mb!

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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

As a historian of biology, until a decade ago or so, I had been under the impression that we have to be sophisticated to spot the remnants of eugenics and 19th century scientific racism (e.g. Troy Duster’s idea of “backdoor eugenics”). But this kind of stuff takes us straight back to the 1920s-30s.

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Bernhard Leitner @bmleitner.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Well, at least that settles the famous argument of Chomsky and Foucault. Although Foucault was no saint, he at least got it right that the idea of justice is discursive and embedded in power relations. I guess Chomsky's universal human values do not hold up... #Chomsky #Epstein #Foucault

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Newly released files shed new light on Chomsky and Epstein relationship

Latest communications undermine Chomsky’s earlier claims that he primarily had financial dealings with Epstein

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Dr. Jen Gunter @drjengunter.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

There is a new clinical trial that is recruiting for vulvodynia. This is a woefully under-researched aspect of women's care. Please help me spread the word. vajenda.substack.com/p/vulvodynia...

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Vulvodynia isn't a Mystery. It's Underfunded.

A new clinical trial hopefully signals change

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DIJ Tokyo @dijtokyo.org · 26/01/2026

Internat'l Conference "Southeast Asia & Indo-Pacific Imaginaries" with two DIJ panels incl papers on Japanese-Indian Relations (David M. Malitz) & Japan’s Educational Aid Programs @daneuhaus.bsky.social 📅 29–30 Jan 2026, Nat'l Museum of the Philippines, Iloilo ▶️ indopacificimaginaries.wordpress.com

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Österreichischer Wissenschaftsfonds FWF @fwf-at.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Unser #Gehirn ist faszinierend und sehr komplex. Neurowissenschaftler bringen mit dem Projekt „From Brain to Mind“ kognitive Neurowissenschaften der Öffentlichkeit via Podcast und Dokumentarfilm verständlich näher. @unisalzburg.bsky.social #scilog 🧠 scilog.fwf.ac.at/magazin/komp...

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Komplexes Gehirn, einfach erklärt

Was passiert in unserem Gehirn, wenn wir reden, fühlen oder Erinnerungen hervorholen? Mit diesen Fragen beschäftigt sich die kognitive Neurowissenschaft. Wie Forschende dabei vorgehen, veranschaulicht...

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Österreichischer Wissenschaftsfonds FWF @fwf-at.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Der #FWF beteiligt sich an zwei neuen Europäischen Partnerschaften zur Forschung zu #Hirngesundheit und #Pandemievorsorge: Im Fokus von "BrainHealth" stehen neurologische und psychische Erkrankungen und "BE READY" soll auf zukünftige Pandemien vorbereiten. 🧠🦠 www.fwf.ac.at/aktuelles/de...

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Europäische Partnerschaften: BrainHealth und BE READY

Der FWF beteiligt sich an den Europäischen Partnerschaften BrainHealth und BE READY. Die neuen Ausschreibungen zu Gehirngesundheit und Pandemievorsorge starten 2026.

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DIJ Tokyo @dijtokyo.org · 19/01/2026

Join our next #DIJStudyGroup "Haga Yaichi and the Kokuminsei jūron: A Fragmentary Imagination of National Identity" with Alberto Zizza (LMU Munich/DIJ) who will discuss identity & self-imagination in prewar Japan 📅 Feb 5, 2026 / 6.30pm JST/10.30am CET 🏚️ online & DIJ www.dijtokyo.org/event/haga-y...

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Bernhard Leitner @bmleitner.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

"Imagining a Gender Equal World: Promoting Gender Equality and Empowering Women and Girls through International Partnerships" 11. Februar 2026 • 10:30 - 14:30 Be there or be square!

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Microsoft Virtual Events Powered by Teams

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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Hats off to whoever did this (and the beautiful model).

One of those captcha things. This one says ‘select all images with bicycles. Click verify once there are none left’. There are 9 squares - 4 contain photos of bicycle seats, with the remaining 5 showing the beautiful head and face of a grey greyhound with a white stripe going from the top of their head to the tip of their nose.

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Bernhard Leitner @bmleitner.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Something I didn't think I'd ever see: Japanese PM Takaichi and South Korean President Lee playing the drums together 😯

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Prime Minister Takaichi and President Lee share drum session in Tokyo

YouTube video by No Comment TV

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Dr Matt Lodder @mattlodder.com · 13/01/2026

Incredible article which points out that it often collectively costs more to apply for scarce research funding than the funds awarded to the successful proposals. What an absurd system we've built in the service of efficiency and competition. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Against the historical backdrop of Japan's expansion in the pseudo-state of "Manchukuo," Colonial Surveillance invites readers to delve into the genealogy of identification systems, and the colonial roots of the surveillance technologies that saturate our digital lives ow.ly/uPsQ50XS9R5

Book cover of Colonial Surveillance: Technologies of Identification and Control in Japan’s Empire by Midori Ogasawara

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Gov. Pritzker: "They want you to question what your eyes and ears are telling you. It is unimaginable to think this can happen in our country or that when it does happen the government immediately tries to cover it up. It should anger you." #3E #endImpunity #ReneeGood #JusticeforGood #GoodVsEvil

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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Interesting post, arguing that LLMs aren’t really disruptors. “They arrived as intensifiers. LLMs function as an accelerant for the existing optimization machine, making the logic run faster rather than challenging its foundations.” open.substack.com/pub/artifici...

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Context Widows

or, of GPUs, LPUs, and Goal Displacement

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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

We all need to send this link to data driven university administrators who view funding applications as key performance target.

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Kevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · 11/12/2025

I think there is a genuinely interesting question here: why is phrenology so damn popular? People seem to reinvent it constantly.

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Bernhard Leitner @bmleitner.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

How were emerging medical disciplines and transnational networks connected to colonial racism in 20th c. East Asia? Dive into my new #OpenAccess article, "Neurologically Speaking: Racial Science and Medicine at Keijō Imperial University" #HistSci #HistMed #EastAsia doi.org/10.1163/2666...

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 10/12/2025

“Austria, Hungary, Italy, and Poland are listed as countries the U.S. should “work more with…with the goal of pulling them away from the [European Union].”“ www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/...

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‘Make Europe Great Again’ and more from a longer version of the National Security Strategy

A fuller version reviewed by Defense One outlines the Trump administration’s plans for shedding old relationships and creating new ones.

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

During #WWI, medics applied 1.5 million splints, fitted over 20,000 artificial eyes & used 7,250 tons of cotton wool while applying 108 million bandages to injured soldiers. More than 6,000 medics died & over 17,000 were wounded in the British Army alone.

A black and white photo of two soldiers walking toward camera while on railway tracks. On the left, the soldier is unharmed, dressed in his uniform. On the right, the soldier's face is heavily bandaged, and he has a coat thrown over his shoulders. In the background are various soldiers working and moving around.

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DIJ Tokyo @dijtokyo.org · 24/11/2025

8th EU-Japan Young Scholars Workshop "‘Revisiting’ Transnational Relations between Japan and the West" 📅 online & onsite (Hosei U), Nov 28-30 incl. paper by DIJ's Alberto Zizza on Japan–West Intellectual Exchange through Haga Yaichi & Okakura Yoshisaburō ▶️ hijas.hosei.ac.jp/en/news/2025...

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

We have a US administration trying to bully Ukrainians into accepting Russia’s proposal that their sovereignty be undone. Aside from the naked injustice of this, there are five basic practical reasons why it would make the world far more dangerous. (video) snyder.substack.com/p/the-putin-...

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The Putin-Witkoff Plan Worsens the War

Five Reasons the US should not help Russia subjugate Ukraine

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DIJ Tokyo @dijtokyo.org · 24/10/2025

Join our next #DIJStudyGroup with Liliane Höppe @jstudiesvienna.bsky.social who will present her research on “The Construction of Culture & Identity in Shimao Toshio's Writings About the Ryūkyū Islands”, online & onsite at the DIJ. 📅 Nov 6, 6.30 pm JST/10.30 am CET www.dijtokyo.org/event/the-co...

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