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Claas Kirchhelle

@kirchhelle.bsky.social
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Historian of bugs & drugs: interested in #microbes #antibiotics #vaccines #phages; author of: Pyrrhic Progress (2020), Bearing Witness (2021), Typhoid (2022), Fear & Fever (2024) - Associate Professor INSERM (CERMES3, Paris): www.bugsdrugs.org

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Claas Kirchhelle @kirchhelle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🚨Preprint🚨 #platform technologies are ubiquitous in #biomedicine & #governance. But how do they work? And how have they impacted #genomics, #vaccine innovation, #epidemicmodelling & #GlobalHealth? Let us know what you think about our attempt to update Keating & Cambrosio! hal.science/hal-05770858
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Claas Kirchhelle @kirchhelle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Interested in #AMR, #pollution & #regulation? Join the next UPCité #OneHealth social sciences seminar. On 01.12. (12:30 CET), Lise Bjerke will speak on: "Molecular uncertainties: Responding to environmental AMR and pharma-industrial pollution in India" u-paris.zoom.us/j/4930619192...
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Claas Kirchhelle @kirchhelle.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
A bit late sharing this - but very happy to featured on the new BBC News CrowdScience episode on the history of #tuberculosis & the first trial of the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) #vaccine in Paris in 1921. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w... ➡️ the BBC World Service version airs on Monday
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BBC World Service - CrowdScience, Why is TB still killing people?
Tuberculosis kills over a million people every year, despite a vaccine and a cure. Why?
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Claas Kirchhelle @kirchhelle.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Thanks Michael! Plenty of opportunities to expand the PPE collaboration!
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🌈 Dr Ross Brooks @rossbrooks.co.uk · 29/07/2026
Just a reminder that discount code HSS26 (from the recent history of science conference in Edinburgh) gets you a cracking 30% off my book from @yalebooks.bsky.social, and free UK postage, until the end of August. yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300... #books #booksky #histsci #queerhistory 🌈📚🦋🗃️
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Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life - Yale University Press London
A revelatory history of sex, gender, and science from Linnaeus to DarwinWhat did Darwin and Linnaeus really think about sex? In print, their descriptions of ...
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Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
📣CFPs - deadline 31 July📣 Symposium: Global Childhood(s) and Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine 📆16-18 November 2026 🏛️The Centre for History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Leeds (UK) In-person with online presentation option #histmed #histSTM
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History of Medicines CFPs
If you wish to share your CFPs on the SSHM website please contact the Exec Sec, Dr Justine Pick admin@sshm.org Symposium: Global Childhood(s) and Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine Keyn…
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Claas Kirchhelle @kirchhelle.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Stay tuned for postdoc opportunities in #histmed, #histsci, #histtech & #STS. (3/3)
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Claas Kirchhelle @kirchhelle.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
PunQ will explore how new #vaccinetechnologies (e.g. #RNAplatforms), manufacturing shifts, post-1992 EU market & regulatory integration & shifting global supply chains have impacted the geography of EU vaccine production & emergency response capabilities. (2/3)
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Claas Kirchhelle @kirchhelle.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Wonderful to wake up to the news that PunQ - Punctuated Equilibria: EU vaccine manufacturing & #pandemicpreparedness (1990-2025) - has been financed by @agencerecherche.bsky.social, the French National Research Agency! (1/3)
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Claas Kirchhelle @kirchhelle.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
A great pleasure to speak virtually about the history of pharmaceutical #R&D & the need to maintain diverse regionalised #innovation ecosystems at WHO Western Pacific Region in Manila this morning! @whowpro.bsky.social pro.bsky.social
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Claas Kirchhelle @kirchhelle.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
@sshmedicine.bsky.social @eahmh.bsky.social @drhick.bsky.social @hpsvanessa.bsky.social @ctimmermann.bsky.social @shothisttech.bsky.social @eseh.bsky.social @bshsnews.bsky.social
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Claas Kirchhelle @kirchhelle.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Very good French and English skills are essential. We encourage applications from historians, microbiologists, geographers, epidemiologists & social scientists with an interest in mapping the microbial past! The deadline is 31.08.2026. Reach out if you have questions! (4/4)
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Claas Kirchhelle @kirchhelle.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
You will receive interdisciplinary training in #history, #digitalhumanities, #microbiology & #epidemiology & will work with me & Prof François-Xavier Weill to: identify surveillance gaps, hyper-endemic strains, strain shifts, and evaluate public health interventions. (3/4)
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Claas Kirchhelle @kirchhelle.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Work at @institutpasteur.bsky.social & @cermes3.bsky.social in Paris to reconstruct how war-related displacement, decolonisation, mass migration, informal settlements (bidonvilles) & new control measures (integrated surveillance & #antimicrobials) impacted enteric pathogen incidence & biology (2/4)
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Claas Kirchhelle @kirchhelle.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Job Alert! Two-year postdoctoral position (100%, Jan 2027-Dec 2029) on the biological & social history of enteric pathogens in post-war France: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/448818 (1/4)
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Post-doctoral Position in History of Medicine, Social Sciences, and Geography
Archaeology of Disappeared Pathogens (ArchPath) reconstructs the interwoven biological and social histories of enteric fever (typhoid and paratyphoid B) endemism and eradication in post-war France.
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Claas Kirchhelle @kirchhelle.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
We are always open to collaborations!
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Claas Kirchhelle @kirchhelle.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Thanks! It is well-hidden on USydney's application website: www.sydney.edu.au/content/dam/... Another short one is here: www.bugsdrugs.org/claas-kirchh...
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Claas Kirchhelle @kirchhelle.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
A huge honour to be among 130 members nominated to serve as experts for the French High Council for Public Health (Haut Conseil de la Santé Publique)! I aim to bring historical research to bear on deliberations of the specialist commission on environmental risks. www.hcsp.fr/Explore.cgi/...
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Claas Kirchhelle @kirchhelle.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Very well and still brilliant!
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Claas Kirchhelle @kirchhelle.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
PhD Opportunity! Interested in the history of the #microbiome & #symbiosis concepts since 1900? Work with Maureen O'Malley, Nic Rasmussen & myself on our new Australian Research Council Discovery Award at Univ of Sydney. Applications: www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships... #histsci #histmed #STS
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CLIMAR Network @climarnetwork.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
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Claas Kirchhelle @kirchhelle.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Now into the recording box for an accompanying podcast!
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Claas Kirchhelle @kirchhelle.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Speaking tomorrow in Lausanne on how antibiotic innovation came to be framed as a market & incentives crisis, who drove this framing & why we need more versatile innovation metaphors beyond 'pipelines'! #histmed #histsci #STS - for more see: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Claas Kirchhelle @kirchhelle.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Phree minutes of phame talking about #phage history! Check out "Friendly Viruses" on the past, present, and future of #phagetherapy on BBC Radio 4 with marnie chesterton: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... #histmed #histsci #STS
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BBC Radio 4 - The Friendly Virus
As antibiotics start to fail, are we ready to enter the age of phage?
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Charlotte Kirchhelle @ckirchhelle.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Incredibly proud of this paper showing how plants couple vesicle delivery and phragmoplast expansion during division. This project started in the lab of the great and late Ian Moore, and it was a joy to finish it with @liamelliottplants.bsky.social et al! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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A Rab/Kinesin-12/kinase module couples vesicle delivery and phragmoplast dynamics during plant cell cytokinesis - The EMBO Journal
Cytokinesis is a key process in the development of multicellular organisms, through both formative and proliferative divisions. In land plants, successful cytokinesis requires precise targeting of Gol...
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Willem van Schaik @wvschaik.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Super-excited to be organising the first in-person meeting of the @target-amr.bsky.social network today and tomorrow. We will be launching an initiative for pump-priming and an amazing comic by Eddie Ross on AMR Genomics
A comic with a phylogenetic tree. The background is the opening slide of a conference
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Claas Kirchhelle @kirchhelle.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
#HistMed #HistSci #STS #Microbiology
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Claas Kirchhelle @kirchhelle.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Article Two "Assetizing Diversity" traces the accelerating post-1960s enclosure of the microbial #commons with microbes turning into proprietary or sovereign assets as well as the manifold consequences for microbial exchange & biodiversity #conservation efforts. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Assetizing Diversity: Microbial Culture Collections in an Age of Biotechnology, Biodiversity, and Speculative Value Generation (1972–2022) - Journal of the History of Biology
This article traces the history of microbial culture collections to explore the evolution of microbial biodiversity conservation and biotechnological valorization between 1972 and 2022. It shows how a...
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Claas Kirchhelle @kirchhelle.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Article One "Culture, Codes, Communities" maps the #internationalist aspirations, (post)colonial #geopolitics & #microbiological controversies shaping early microbial conservation infrastructures. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Culture, Codes, Communities: Culture Collections’ Transformation from Microbial Palaces to Networked Services (1890–1972) - Journal of the History of Biology
Journal of the History of Biology - This article explores the history and transformation of service culture collections—repositories designed to conserve, catalogue, and distribute...
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Claas Kirchhelle @kirchhelle.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Interested in the societal & scientific dynamics shaping microbial #conservation, #assetization & #biodiversity research? Then these back-to-back articles with Fred Vagneron on microbial culture collections in JHB's new Microbes & Health collection are for you! link.springer.com/collections/... 1/3
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Microbes and Health
The past century has seen an extraordinary shift in the perception of microbes, both within biomedical science and in the broader culture, from deadly enemies ...
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Claas Kirchhelle @kirchhelle.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
But I need the context!
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Claas Kirchhelle @kirchhelle.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
🇬🇧-bound and zooming across Northern 🇲🇫 in the Eurostar! Looking forward to presenting new research on the evolution of microbiological sentinel surveillance & the many lives of E.coli @roysocmed.bsky.social tomorrow & on "Antibiotics - challenges & opportunities" @target-amr.bsky.social on Thursday!
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Claas Kirchhelle @kirchhelle.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Very much looking forward to reading this!
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Charlotte Kirchhelle @ckirchhelle.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
I am thrilled and beyond grateful to receive a CNRS bronze medal this year - this is an incredible honour especially for an INRAE researcher like myself! A big thanks to my amazing team and the research community @RDP for all the great science we have done together!
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Jules Skotnes-Brown @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
JOB ALERT: Two 4.5 year postdoctoral positions to work on my Wellcome-funded project 'Conserving Global Health: Biodiversity Protection and the Prehistory of Planetary Health'. Please share widely! CLOSING DATE: 23 April (the date on Jobs.ac.uk is apparently incorrect)
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gquaggiotto.bsky.social @gquaggiotto.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Just as agricultural monocultures replace diverse ecosystems with a single crop variety, measurement monocultures replace diverse knowledge systems with standardised analyses and narrow citation networks gh.bmj.com/content/11/3...
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The richness of urban health realities lost in measurement monocultures
The question seems simple enough: how can a rapidly growing African city improve the health and care of its pregnant women and their babies? But ask this question while navigating the humid, traffic-c...
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Claas Kirchhelle @kirchhelle.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Happening next week!
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Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
This looks great - of #histSTM and GLAMS 📜 interest as well as #envhist
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Claas Kirchhelle @kirchhelle.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Unlike #climatechange debates on transitions towards sustainable & equitable futures, similar debates are often absent from #antimicrobial governance. 📣 Join us for a roundtable event on: #AMR – Just Transitions for Shared Futures 📅 31 March 🕚 11:00 CEST 🔗 Register: cassyni.com/events/Kxn38...
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Claas Kirchhelle @kirchhelle.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
What a resource!
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Claas Kirchhelle @kirchhelle.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Our stocktake instead tries to capture the broad thematic lines of scholarship & critique.
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Claas Kirchhelle @kirchhelle.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Hi Jon-Pierre, thanks for your interest. We tried to be representative: our authors are anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists, microbiologists, epidemiologists, STS, Comms, and public health scholars, and historians. But you are of course correct that no review will ever be complete.
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Claas Kirchhelle @kirchhelle.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
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(Un)intended consequences: a social sciences stocktake of a decade of Global Action Plan-inspired antimicrobial governance
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) remains a major global health threat. Despite increasing international attention, AMR governance has often neglected social and equity dimensions, and there is a crucial...
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Claas Kirchhelle @kirchhelle.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Great fun to chat about #antimicrobials, #innovation & #AMR - including our recent stocktake of the (un)intended consequences of the WHO's 2015 Global Action Plan with Lloyd Czaplewski & Elena Dalla Vecchia on @lancetmicrobe.bsky.social "In Conversation"! www.buzzsprout.com/1794195/epis...
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Claas Kirchhelle and Lloyd Czaplewski on AMR governance and financing - The Lancet Microbe in conversation with
Elena Dalla Vecchia talks with Claas Kirchhelle and Lloyd Czaplewski about the current antimicrobial resistance (AMR) governance (with a historical perspective on how it came to be), the 2015 WHO Glob...
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Claas Kirchhelle @kirchhelle.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
The human right to a healthy, clean & sustainable environment could be a game changer for tackling #AMR's environmental drivers. But how could this work? Wendy Boucrot, Sheila Varadan & I review how the new right could be applied to #antimicrobial pollution. doi.org/10.1017/pub.... #STS #HistMed
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Antimicrobial Resistance and the Right to a Healthy Environment: Crown Jewel or Damp Squib? | Public Humanities | Cambridge Core
Antimicrobial Resistance and the Right to a Healthy Environment: Crown Jewel or Damp Squib? - Volume 2
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”
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Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death
The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.
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Sean Gibbons 🦠💩 @gibbological.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
"Can you trust the results from gut microbiome tests? Maybe not." www.sciencenews.org/article/resu... I understand why the authors didn't disclose the different company IDs...but I'm very curious to know which is which
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Can you trust the results from gut microbiome tests? Maybe not
Seven firms reported inconsistent results on the same sample, some over multiple tests. These gut microbe discrepancies could have health consequences.
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Claas Kirchhelle @kirchhelle.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
The article is paywalled & in French: DM me for author copy or English version.
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Claas Kirchhelle @kirchhelle.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Publication 🚨! In "This little microbe went to market: The political economy of sentinel surveillance", I review F. Keck's Politique de Zoonoses (2024) & highlight the need for more attention to how microbial enclosure & assetisation impact global health. www.jle.com/10.1684/sss.... #histmed #STS
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JLE - Sciences sociales et santé - « This little microbe went to market »L’économie politique de la surveillance sentinelle et gestion microbienne
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Claas Kirchhelle @kirchhelle.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Hard to believe that the gold standard underlying the remodelling of most post-1980s surveillance systems can simply be switched off. Also highlights the importance of decentralised capacity building for long-term resilience.
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