@visualplague.bsky.social
Professor of Medical Anthropology (St Andrews) researching and writing on zoonoses, plague, epidemics, history of colonial medicine, animal studies, and visual culture https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/social-anthropology/people/cl12
📌Rappel 📍Séminaire #GRHEN : grhen.ehess.fr/%F0%9F%93%8D 2025-2026 : "Pratiques environnementales des sociétés médiévales et modernes" Mickaël Wilmart et Raphaël Morera
▶️ enseignements.ehess.fr/2025-2026/ue...
@ehess.fr .@cnrsshs.bsky.social @crh.ehess.fr
Great to see that John Henderson's lecture on Imagining the Pox in Renaissance Italy (delivered at The Medici Archive Project) is now available to watch online www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gN1...
26.01.2026 18:33 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0A great job opportunity @standrewsanthro.bsky.social: Lecturer in Social Anthropology - deadline for applications 06 March 2026
www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
📢 Call for Papers 📢
2026 Commodities of Empire workshop: “Locating Knowledge: Science and Technology in Commodity Frontiers.”
📍 Madrid, 2–3 September 2026
⏳ Submission deadline: 14 February 2026
👉 CFP: commoditiesofempire.org.uk/events/
@davidedgerton.bsky.social @samuelcoghe.bsky.social
An interesting podcast on the history of the Jardin royal des plantes médicinales (which became the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle after the French Revolution) @franceculture.fr www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
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Roland Barthes and the Question of Territory – Animals, Spaces and Sound progressivegeographies.com/2026/01/25/r...
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Book review of an important edited collection by Guillaume Blanc & Antonin Plarier @cnrseditions.bsky.social Empires: Une histoire sociale de l’environnement www.en-attendant-nadeau.fr/2026/01/20/c...
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📺 Reclaiming indigenous history from Amazonian soil and palaeobotany 🌿
Archaeological research is transforming perceptions of the Amazon rainforest, revealing the extent of anthropogenic soils and inviting a critical rethinking of early plant use in South America
https://bit.ly/4sCT5OV
New article for @tibg.bsky.social. Through the case of digital snake rescue, I merge @digicologies.bsky.social and disease ecology work to develop the lens of 'digital disease ecologies' - a way to analyse how digital encounter and datafication configure disease emergence and multispecies health.
23.01.2026 10:10 — 👍 4 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 1
🎬 Après six ans de lutte, le cinéma la Clef rouvre «définitivement»
Lors d’une soirée d’inauguration organisée mercredi 14 janvier à Paris, le collectif engagé dans la survie du lieu autogéré a célébré la fin d’une longue bataille pour son rachat et son indépendance.
Lire 👇
Science Is Truly Under Siege
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First evidence in Europe of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus H5N1 infection in a dairy cow. Antibodies against H5N1 detected in a cow with mastitis and respiratory signs on a Dutch dairy farm at the end of December. A cat on that farm had died from H5N1. www.tweedekamer.nl/downloads/do...
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We're pleased to announce this collection of contributions to The Polyphony from attendees at the 2025 International PhD School on Queer Methodologies in Medical Humanities, which took place in Durham in March 2025.
📖 Read the collection 👇
thepolyphony.org/category/col...
Under RFK Jr. we should now re-name ACIP as the Advisory Committee on Infection Practices as these folks are now pro-polio. www.statnews.com/2026/01/22/v... via @statnews.com
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United States Completes WHO Withdrawal WASHINGTON — January 22, 2026 — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of State today announced the United States’ completion of its withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO) due to the organization's mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic that arose out of Wuhan, China, its failure to adopt urgently needed reforms, and its inability to demonstrate independence from the inappropriate political influence of WHO member states.
The United States has officially withdrawn from the World Health Organization.
This is a shameful move that puts both Americans and people all over the world at greater risk from disease outbreaks, which require international collaboration to contain.
Poster showing the seminar schedule. The image is of Louis XVI giving instructions
New seminars on Instructing Colonial Natural History 🌿 We can look forward to papers by Yunting Gu, Adriana Craciun and @nulybranch.bsky.social. For more info see instructingnaturalhistory.com (more info will be added). #skystorians #museums #collecting #histsci #envhist
22.01.2026 12:13 — 👍 19 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 2Next Mon (26/Jan), I will present my project "How did Infectious Diseases Become Wild? Plague, Yellow Fever and Disease Ecology in the Brazilian Hinterland" at King's Brazil Institute research seminar.
Join us if you're in London!
2 pm, Melbourne House, 6th Floor
44-46 Aldwych, London, WC2B 4LL
Video still of a plant with root vegetables.
📺 Watch: Toxicity, plant animacy and blurred categories 🐍
This seminar by the by the Decolonising Plant Knowledge Research Network focuses on social and more-than-human lives of plants and poisons in Chinese medicine, bringing together historical and ethnographic perspectives
https://bit.ly/4pLUrUN
Our Medical Humanities Early Career and DPhil Writing Group (HT 2026) is restarting on Friday 23 January. We’d love you to join us! tinyurl.com/ye2ajyxf
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Thrilled to finally be holding a physical copy of Art and the Critical Medical Humanities 📘
Co-edited with Allison Morehead and Imogen Wiltshire, this book has been a true labour of love.
Photo d'André Burguière
Les Annales ont la douleur d'annoncer le décès d'André Burguière, membre du comité de la revue de 1969 à 2022 et membre de son Conseil Scientifique. Ancien secrétaire de rédaction de la revue, André a joué un rôle décisif pour promouvoir l'anthropologie historique et l'histoire des mentalités. 1/4
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Looking forward to reading Ariane Bayle's new book Soigner et raconter au XVIe siècle: Écriture de soi et récit de cure chez Leonardo Fioravanti et Ambroise Paré www.droz.org/france/produ...
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Action Network petition: Cancel ChatGPT Edu. Invest in Humans. In February 2025, the California State University system announced a $17 million contract with OpenAI to provide ChatGPT Edu to all faculty, staff, and students on its 22 CSU campuses as part of a larger “AI-Empowered University” initiative. This is the largest contract ever established between a university system and an artificial intelligence company. Despite the name, ChatGPT Edu is not educational technology. It is a general-purpose chatbot that is not designed, trained, or optimized for education. Beyond its privacy and security features, ChatGPT Edu is identical to the free online version of ChatGPT. ChatGPT Edu does not use reliable peer-reviewed sources to answer students' questions and is indifferent to whether its answers are correct. Experts argue that ChatGPT Edu is harmful to academic working conditions, diminishes the quality of teaching and learning, introduces new forms of discrimination, and is dangerous to students' mental health. Recent polling shows that CSU students share these concerns, with the majority of students expressing that they are worried about the negative impacts of generative AI on human creativity and the environment.
Cal State University’s deal with OpenAI — providing ChatGPT to all faculty, students, and staff — will expire in June 2026. Amid the prospect of layoffs in the CSU, we’re asking the chancellor not to renew this costly and demoralizing contract.
Link below and anyone can sign:
Interested in #PlanetaryHistories?
Co-organised by EUI professors Glenda Sluga and Giorgio Riello, this seminar series returns on January 22 with a panel on Geologies of Planetary Histories.
📍 @ihr.bsky.social & Online
🔗 All details to the whole seminar: loom.ly/LXhG0d4
Cartaz do workshop “Humanidades Digitais e Investigação: análise e visualização de redes”. Anderson Pereira Antunes (Universidade de Évora, IHC, Intopast). 23 de Janeiro de 2026, das 15 às 17 horas.
Últimos dias de inscrição para o workshop "Humanidades Digitais e Investigação: Análise e visualização de redes", que decorrerá na Universidade de Évora (e online) na tarde do dia 23 de Janeiro.
ℹ️ ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/human...
#HumanidadesDigitais
HIRING! We are looking for a new PhD student to work on insects in deadwood, effects of microclimate and land use. This is part of the Biodiversity Exploratories @bexplo.bsky.social and will use a new experiment using rain-out shelters in different regions of Germany. EU driver´s licence required.
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Paul Audi on La Boétie and the anthropological enigma of voluntary servitude @franceculture.fr www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
21.01.2026 20:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Great to see Enrique Vila-Matas's novel Montevideo finally available in English, in a wonderful translation by Sophie Hughes and Annie McDermott @yalepress.bsky.social Margellos World Republic of Letters yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
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#Podcast 🎙️
Le dernier épisode de 'La Fabrique des @annales.ehess.fr', en coproduction avec @andreloez.bsky.social est en ligne.
Au programme, animaux 🐺, domestication, l'antiquité 🏺dans les Annales et J.-P. Vernant 🔥
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_US...
We have made the decision to formally close our X social media account. Once a vibrant platform to promote the interests of authors, we feel X is no longer a trusted place for balance, community support, and reliable information.
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