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Christine Slobogin @slobogin.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Our next Corner Society features Pablo Gómez, giving a talk titled "The Early Atlantic Slave Trade and the Invention of Modern Corporeality." These events are free - you can at the link below to attend in person or via Zoom. Really looking forward to hearing from Pablo!

George Washington Corner Society for the History of Medicine
Wednesday, October 28
5:30 p.m. Lecture
6:30 - 7:15 p.m. Social Gathering
Rochester Academy of Medicine 1441 East Avenue, Rochester, NY
“The Early Atlantic Slave Trade and the Invention of Modern Corporeality”
This talk examines how early Atlantic slave trading communities made human corporeality articulable with a new set of ideas about finance, facts, objectivity, and measurable risk that emerged in the early modern era. Through their violent procedures, Iberian Atlantic slave trading communities abstracted and assimilated groups of human bodies to numbers. The ruthlessness inherent in these practices became ingrained in the modern corporeal mathematics that emerged from the early slave trade and diffused through its vast political, financial, logistical, and intellectual networks. The model for understanding human bodies these communities created foreshadows and shares basic notions with those sustaining the intellectual edifice of disciplines as varied as political arithmetic, economics, population health, demographics, epidemiology, and contemporary biomedicine.
Pablo F. Gómez is Professor of Medical History and History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Gómez’s new book, Bloody Numbers: The Early Atlantic Slave and the Invention of the Modern Corporeality, was released by the University of Chicago Press (June 2026). His first monograph, The Experiential Caribbean, won the 2019 Welch Medal and the 2018 Albert J. Raboteau Book Prize.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

truly we are living in the future (derogatory)

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026

Hey heads up, if you're presenting at @4sweb.bsky.social Toronto, in case you haven't heard yet: you probably want to go check the XCDSYSTEM live page to make sure your day/time hasn't changed. I was warned earlier this is a thing that has happened to some people, and come to find out People Is Me.…

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Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Today is the first day of the 5-year ERC Advanced Grant project Zoonosis Before Bacteriology cordis.europa.eu/project/id/1... Website with more info, plus 2 postdoc (4-year) vacancies & PhD post/scholarship soon to be made public

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Dr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Speakers announcement! We're super lucky Jen Wallis @harbottlestores.bsky.social and Victoria Cranna (LSHTM archives) will speak at this event, alongside Kat Rawling and me on behalf of the project. Oh and we'll be recording and sharing the event afterwards. Can't wait to share this with the world!

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dr. e. katherine @actualkatherine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I have been saying!!!!

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Christine Slobogin @slobogin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A labor of love and laughter!! Our book _Sick Jokes_ is finally out with @manchesterup.bsky.social ! Working on this with @katiesnow.bsky.social and @lauracowley.bsky.social has been a blast, and our contributors are BRILLIANT! Have your libraries order it!!

Me (a white woman with shortish dark blonde hair in a black and white horizontal striped dress) smiling while standing in front of a green plant holding two copies of the book _Sick Jokes: Visual Histories of Humour, Health and the Body_

Close up of the cover of _Sick Jokes: Visual Histories of Humour, Health and the Body_. The cover includes the title in orange and "Edited by Christine Slobogin, Katie Snow and Laura Cowley" in yellow. The cover image is a black-and-white photograph of a white man with glasses and an oxygen tube and hospital gown pulled up to reveal both a Karposi's sarcoma and a happy face tattoo.

Photo of two pages at the beginning of the book.

A selection:

A note on the cover image
When deciding which image from this volume to put on the cover, we knew that we wanted something that captured one of the book's central themes: the use of humour as a means of reclaiming power from the medical systems or diagnoses that so often leave us feeling powerless. Marc Geller's photograph of Tom Shearer does exactly that, with Tom's personality - embodied in his smiley face tattoo and steady gaze - posing a pointed challenge to medical and cultural assumptions about what it means to be, or to joke about being, 'sick'. The context in which this portrait (one of many, discussed in Jo Michael Rees's Chapter 6, in this volume) was taken also suggests the importance of laughing in the faces of death and danger, of creating community and of sharing experience - other prominent themes throughout Sick Jokes.
We are very aware of the ethical quandaries of sharing patient photographs, especially on a book cover, publicly viewable on shelves and on screens. While we cannot get consent from Shearer for this specific use of his photograph, we have received permission from Geller. The portrait was taken by Geller on assignment for the American LGBT magazine The Advocate in 1991, to accompany an interview about Shearer and Beowulf Thorne's radically funny wine Diseased Pariah News. Geller stated in an email to us that he felt Tom's bravery in creating such a zine comes through in the way he faced the camera. While we cannot know how Shearer or Thorne imagined these portraits might circulate after their deaths, the photographs belong to a project and artistic friendship that was itself public-facing.
We hope that this photograph draws people into this volume while also showing Shearer as he wanted to be perceived. We hope that we have done him - and other patients, artists and jokers - justice.
Christine Slobogin, Katie Snow and Laura Cowley

Dedications
For Cindy Slobogin, who taught me to love art - Christine Slobogin
For Rory Ivor Snow, who can find the funny in anything - Katie Snow
licence, thanks to the supertial commercial us, dischindle
For Sue Cowley, who was a good patient but a far better teacher -
Laura Cowley

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Christine Slobogin @slobogin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Okay kind of Halloweenie but also just so class: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fola...

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Dusty Springfield - Spooky

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Christine Slobogin @slobogin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My podcast with @urochester.bsky.social @urochestersmd.bsky.social students - "In the Same Vein" - is back! Listen below to the season 3 teaser, and keep an ear out for the six episodes that'll be coming this semester, from October to December. open.spotify.com/episode/74xC...

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S3: "In the Same Vein" Season 3 Teaser

In the Same Vein · Episode

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Kylie Mohr @thatsmohrlikeit.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I'm curious about the intersection of wildfire + surveillance tech. Any examples of communities where Flock cameras (or similar) were deployed post-fire OTHER than Altadena? 🎥🔥

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Christine Slobogin @slobogin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Tomorrow is the first Corner Society lecture of the academic year! Thrilled to have @rachellouisemoran.bsky.social in Rochester to give a timely talk on the history of maternal mental health. Register to attend in person or online here: www.raom.org/activities-a...

George Washington Corner Society for the History of Medicine
“From Baby Blues to Postpartum Depression: A History of Maternal Mental Health”
Wednesday, September 9, 2026
5:30 p.m. Lecture
6:30 - 7:15 p.m. Social Gathering
Rochester Academy of Medicine 1441 East Avenue, Rochester, NY

Postpartum depression is usually understood today as a medical condition rooted in hormones or
brain chemistry. But how did it come to be defined this way? Drawing on Moran's book, Blue: A History of Postpartum Depression in America, she traces the emergence of postpartum depression as a diagnostic and cultural concept from the mid-twentieth century to the present. Through a deep dive into the pivotal decades of the 1970s and 1980s, she discusses how postpartum distress was reframed first from the “baby blues” to a feminist critique of motherhood, and then later to a medicalized and increasingly apolitical diagnosis.

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Christine Slobogin @slobogin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

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Travis Chi Wing Lau (劉志頴) @travisclau.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Particularly proud of my department for our jointly written policy statement on AI usage, which affirms so much of what we do / why we do it in English and Creative Writing rather than merely condemns or punishes : www.kenyon.edu/academics/de...

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Statement on AI Use

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

In "Materia Medica," Nicole N. Ivy @nicotron3000.bsky.social traces the lives of the enslaved women conscripted into the development of US gynecology, exposing the representational labor imposed on black female bodies in both medical and creative works. Read the intro for free: buff.ly/YQSWs0T

Cover of Materia Medica: Black Women, White Doctors, and Spectacular Gynecology by Nicole N. Ivy. The cover has a museum-like installation with red lighting and a seated, elongated sculpture made of woven fibers on a rug. Pink fabric is draped in front of the figure. The title appears vertically in large red text with the author's name and subtitle in white adjacent to the title.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Let us declare the beginninge of Halloween Seasoun, todaye!

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Sarah Wieten @sarahwieten.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Do I know anybody in the UK doing history, communications, rhetoric or theology of contemporary witchcraft?

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

the post workday restorative pickle

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Christine Slobogin @slobogin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Our next NCHED (National Collaborative on Humanities and Ethics in Dentistry) event is September 29! See poster for details! (Including our new logo!!) 🦷

The Art of Observation: Dentistry, Creativity, and the Visual Arts.

September 29, 2026
Via Zoom
1 pm EST

Join Artist-in-Residence Laura Spector for a conversation with
Dr. David Teasdale, UTHealth Houston School of Dentistry
alumnus, practicing dentist, and exhibiting artist. Together, they
will explore the connections between observation, creativity, and
professional practice, reflecting on how the visual arts can enrich
the way we see, interpret, and engage with the world. Inspired by
nature, faith, and the expressive power of color, Teasdale’s
paintings invite viewers to experience joy, spontaneity, and
emotional resonance. This special event offers an opportunity to
learn about the artist’s creative journey and discover how art and
dentistry share a common foundation in careful observation and
meaningful attention.

Register here: https://uthealth.zoomgov.com/webinar/register/WN_W4LWYBshQT2vpm74w7LtmA#/registration

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Christine Slobogin @slobogin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Love this quotation from a review of my book in The Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences!

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Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD @jacasiegel.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The best piece of advice I can give to incoming college students is that the freshman 15 doesn’t matter. Go out with your friends and have fun. Get late night ice cream with your roommate & let your parents spoil you when you go home. Going up a size won’t kill you, but an eating disorder might.

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Xavier Aldana Reyes @xaldanareyes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Body Horror is out today in the UK (and I believe already out in the US and other countries)! The code CUP20 gets you 20% off when purchasing the book directly from @ColumbiaUP. I’d be really grateful for any reposts or help with promotion! 🪰🧪🩸 #horror #bodyhorror cup.columbia.edu/book/body-ho...

Cover for Body Horror: Biology, Biopower, Biotechnology, by Xavier Aldana Reyes. It includes a still from the film, featuring Jeff Goldblum. His face shows visible signs that his body is beginning to change.

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The Scorsese "Absolute Cinema" meme but it says "Absolute Baseball"

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Christine Slobogin @slobogin.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Art and art history folks: I'm going to be in Vegas next week - any recs for what to see / visit while I'm there? 🎨🏛️🎰

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Christine Slobogin @slobogin.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Art and art history folks: I'm going to be in Vegas next week - any recs for what to see / visit while I'm there? 🎨🏛️🎰

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Christine Slobogin @slobogin.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

We've finalized the schedule for this year's Corner Society lectures! Can't wait to welcome these speakers to Rochester - on topics from disability in the Civil War to the intersection of dermatology and Cubist art.

Flyer for the George Washington Corner Society for the History of Medicine, 2026-2027 Season.

5:30 p.m. Lecture
6:30 - 7:15 p.m. Social Gathering
Rochester Academy of Medicine
1441 East Avenue, Rochester, NY

Wednesday, September 9
Rachel Louise Moran Texas A&M University
“From Baby Blues to Postpartum Depression: A History of Maternal Mental Health”

Wednesday, October 28
Pablo Gómez
The University of Wisconsin–Madison
“The Early Atlantic Slave Trade and the Invention of Modern Corporeality”

Wednesday, November 18
Sarah Handley-Cousins University at Buffalo
“Disability and the American Civil War”

Wednesday, February 24
Mical Raz University of Rochester
“Lessons from the Past for the Future of Child Abuse Prevention”

Wednesday, March 24
Kathleen Pierce Smith College
“Cubism, Dermatology, and the Reimagining of Corporeal and Artistic Surface”

Wednesday, April 14
Merlin Chowkwanyun Columbia University
“Local Action and Community Health: The View From History”

For more information or to become a Corner Society member, please contact Christine Slobogin, PhD, at Christine_Slobogin@URMC.Rochester.edu

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Tom Humberstone @tomhumberstone.com · 16/07/2026

The Luddites loved technology. They owned looms at home and would ‘mod’ them to count threads. Their battle was against worker exploitation. The degradation of their rights, safety and wages. They were against a handful of rich businessmen owning the means of production. Sound familiar?

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Christine Slobogin @slobogin.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

AND huge thank you to my collaborators on the volume _Sick Jokes: Visual Histories of Humour, Health and the Body_ (out September with MUP!) @rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social and Callum Smith for holding down a roundtable about the publication! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526187970/

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Manchester University Press - Sick jokes

Sick jokes - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Sick jokes by Christine Slobogin

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Christine Slobogin @slobogin.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Finally back in Rochester & reflecting on the wonderful time had at @sshmedicine.bsky.social in Leeds. Thank you especially to my co-panelists on "Simulation and Role-Play in 20th Century Medical Education and Beyond," here posing with dental phantoms (the topic of my paper). @reinarz.bsky.social

Four academics with conference lanyards sit on chairs in front of a screen depicting four dental phantoms (metal heads with denture teeth mouths open, on metal poles and bases) looking out towards the audience.

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Exeter UCU @exeterucu.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

We're on Bluesky now! 🦋 Follow us here for updates, we're just getting started. @ucu.org.uk @exetergreens.bsky.social @exeterlabour.bsky.social Here are our six key messages:

'EXETER UCU: OUR SIX KEY MESSAGES

1. EXETER UNI'S FINANCES ARE STRONG. WE'VE LARGE CASH RESERVES (£200M IN 24/25). NEVER HAD A BUDGET DEFICIT. THIS 'CRISIS' IS MANUFACTURED.
2. EXECUTIVE PAY AT EXETER IS OUT OF CONTROL. IF JUST THE 16 HIGHEST-PAID EXECS CAPPED THEIR SALARY AT £120K, WE'D SAVE MORE MONEY THAN ALL THE CUTS TO ARCHAEOLOGY & HISTORY!
3. NO MEANINGFUL CONSULTATION, BUT A CONFUSED MESS: FAULTY AND INSUFFICIENT DATA, NO REAL DISCUSSION, AND AN IMPOSSIBLE, INSULTING AND UNREASONABLE TIMETABLE TO PUSH THIS THROUGH OVER THE SUMMER.
4. AN ALL-STAFF MEETING OF 600 STAFF RESOUNDINGLY VOTED NO CONFIDENCE IN VICE CHANCELLOR LISA ROBERTS (WHOSE PAY IS PUSHING £400K). WE BELIEVE THIS IS THE BIGGEST SINGLE VOTE BY ANY UNI STAFF IN THE HISTORY OF UK HE.
5. REDUNDANCIES ARE A MANAGEMENT CHOICE, NOT A FINANCIAL NECESSITY. THEY EVEN HAVE ALTERNATIVE COSTED PLANS WITH NO CUTS, BUT THINK IT'S EASIER TO GO FOR JOB LOSSES.
6. EXETER IS A FANTASTIC UNI, WITH WORLD CLASS RESEARCH, CREATIVE AND INSPIRING TEACHING, THOUGHTFUL AND IMAGINATIVE COMMUNITY OF STAFF AND STUDENTS. LET'S KEEP IT THAT WAY.'

At the bottom of the poster:
#DefendExeterUni
Instagram handle @uniexeterucu
QR link to sign the petition

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Gautham Rao (pronounced: Knicks in 5) @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Come be my colleague! American University's History Department is searching for a tenure-track assistant professor of science, tech and society. I am chair of the search and pleased to answer any questions either on here or email (grao at american) american.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/AU/job/Main-...

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Assistant Professor

American University is a student-centered research institution located in Washington, DC, with highly-ranked schools and colleges, internationally-renowned faculty, and a reputation for creating meani...

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Gen A.I. ys to writinge as a leafblower ys to playinge the violin

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

The marker revolution. Whenevir you are temptid to create a holidaye carde, invitacioun, etc wyth Gen AI: do not. Ynstead, use a trusty bolde marker on playne papir. Make it as simple as possible. Stick! figures! Everyone will knowe you made it. Everyone will knowe it ys yours. We win wyth markers.

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 12/06/2026

THE GAPS ARE THE MEANING

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Saidiya Hartman said “critical fabulation” requires “Narrative restraint.” It’s not just “make stuff up.” Right there in “Venus in two acts” — restraint is “a requirement of this method” (p.12). Before you go all fabulating pls re-read the part about it being “critical.” Thx!!!

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Christine Slobogin @slobogin.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

We have recently launched a Visiting Scholar Grant at Rochester to work with the Edward C. Atwater Collection of American Popular Medicine and Health Reform. See attached flyer for details! #histmed #fellowship

The History of Medicine Section in the Edward G. Miner Library at the University of Rochester is pleased to announce its first annual Edward C. Atwater Visiting Scholar Grant for the study of materials in the Edward C. Atwater Collection of American Popular Medicine and Health Reform.
In the autumn of 1994, Edward C. Atwater, M.D. made the Miner Library the repository for his personal collection of books, periodicals, pamphlets, almanacs, trade cards, printed ephemera and manuscript material pertaining to American "popular medicine." Materials in the Atwater Collection represent the full range of medical self-help among Americans throughout the nineteenth century and into the early twentieth century. For a full description of the collection and how to search it, visit the History of Medicine’s website.
The Atwater Visiting Scholar Grant provides support to scholars or graduate students to cover the cost of their travel to Rochester, accommodation, and expenses during their time of stay. The award is up to $2,000 for one week of research in any given year.
We welcome applications from all interested researchers currently residing in the United States or Canada, regardless of their institutional association, race, cultural background, ability, sexual orientation, gender, or socioeconomic status. Applications from scholars utilizing traditional methods of archival and bibliographical research are encouraged as are applications from individuals who wish to pursue creative, interdisciplinary, and non-traditional approaches to conducting research using the Edward C. Atwater Collection.

A complete grant application includes:
A research proposal (2 pages, single-spaced, maximum)
Two references
Budget, including proposed dates for research trip
A successful applicant will be expected to share their findings after their visit.
Please submit your proposals and any questions to Anna Smith, Head of History of Medicine Section, anna_smith1@urmc.rochester.edu

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Christine Slobogin @slobogin.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Thank you to the Photography Ethics Centre, Savannah Dodd, Tara Pixley, and all of the other folks who made this event such a success!!

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Christine Slobogin @slobogin.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

What an incredible two days at the Photography Ethics conference in Belfast. It was an absolute GIFT to be able to spend time with people also working in space that I'm currently in - at the intersection of history, visual culture, and ethics 📷 Now headed to Buffalo and @aahmhistmed.bsky.social!

Savannah Dodd introducing our panel "Care and Collaboration" With large painting above.

Eight people around a dinner table smiling - with Irish food.

A long wall of white shelves with many black cameras on the shelves.

Large windowed room with sunshine coming through on the audience members of the conference.

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Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Last few days for the Standard booking rates for #SSHM2026! On campus accomodation still available. Registrations after 1 June will incur a £40.00 late registration fee. Registration closes 15 June We look forward to welcoming all in Leeds. sshm.org/sshm-2026-in...

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SSHM 2026: In/Out University of Leeds 30 June – 3 July 2026

Conference Co-Convenors: Dr Alexia Moncrieff & Dr Katherine Rawling and Conference Committee: Dr Alex Bamji, Professor Shane Doyle, Megan Graham, Professor Robert Hornsby, Dr Will Jackson, Dr J…

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Christine Slobogin @slobogin.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

I'm about to make gnocchi for dinner!!

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Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

TWO great jobs in History and Philosophy of Science at Sydney! Rank from Lecturer (Assistant Prof) to Assoc Prof. Particularly interested in candidates working in the areas of early modern science, or science or medicine in Asia, or Indigenous knowledge systems... #HPS #STS #histstm #histsci

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Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor to the School of History and Philosophy of Science - Camperdown, Australia job with UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY | 410910

Build your research and apply your expertise by contributing as a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor to the School of History and Philos...

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