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Ways of Seeing: In Celebration of John Berger | The Verso Book Club Re On the arrival of Berger’s centenary, the Verso Book Club will be hosting a conversation on his vital contributions to worlds of art history, politics, translation, and more.

On December 14th we'll be hosting an online reading group with John Berger’s biographer, Tom Overton, and Maria Nadotti, Berger's Italian translator and friend. They’ll be discussing Berger’s works on political resistance and what art tells us about ourselves.

Gillian Rose – a few links for the thirtieth anniversary Today marks thirty years since Gillian Rose died so tragically young, at the age of just 48. The wall display in the Gillian Rose seminar room at the University of Warwick, with the covers of The M…

Gillian Rose - a few links for the thirtieth anniversary
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AI Slop Is Spurring Record Requests for Imaginary Journals The International Committee of the Red Cross warned that artificial intelligence models are making up research papers, journals and archives

"AI models not only point some users to false sources but also cause problems for researchers and librarians, who end up wasting their time looking for requested nonexistent records" www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-s...

(Call for Papers) Visualities of HIV/AIDS histoiresante.blogspot.com/2025/12/les-... #histmed

Another giant leap for research, courtesy of the AI peddlers www.icrc.org/en/article/i...

Great write up on the new study. Particularly love this: "As is often the case with SCIENCE™ meets BLACK DEATH, the science-media infrastructure explodes with reporting that overstates what’s actually being found here in the academic research ... at once modest but NEW! And new is good." #histmed

England health officials identify newly evolved variant of mpox Virus caught by person who travelled to Asia combines more severe form of mpox with less virulent type

A recombinant strain of mpox virus has been isolated from a patient in the UK containing fragments of clade I and clade II virus. Recombination occurs when two strains of virus infect a cell. These events tend to be rare but are well described in poxviruses.
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Multilingual Medical Testimony: Bearing Witness to Conflict and Catastrophe Nicolas Barnett, Nicholas Chare and Dominic Williams consider how issues of language and translation intersect with questions of power and identity in witness reports by healthcare professionals.

Nicolas Barnett, Nicholas Chare and Dominic Williams consider how issues of language and translation intersect with questions of power and identity in witness reports by healthcare professionals.
thepolyphony.org/2025/12/08/m...

Flyer for the SOAS History Seminar on Wed 10 December 2025, 5pm, in C426, with Desmond Cheung. Background image: woodblock print showing a page from Buhuang tushuo 捕蝗圖説 - Illustrated explanations of methods for catching locusts, showing a scene of a small group of people trapping locusts between two huge screens.

If you're in London, join us for the final SOAS History Seminar of the semester. Desmond Cheung (SOAS) will speak on Locust Control and State Activism in Ming China.

Wed 10 Dec 2025, 5pm, C426

All welcome!

More info:
www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

For those folk interested in #histmed going to the American Historical Association meeting in Chicago next month, there will be a poster dedicated to "SHIFA–ANA: Healing Histories of Death and Disease in Anatolia." aha.confex.com/aha/2026/web...

Christopher Hill: The Life of a Radical Historian, by Michael Braddick Michael Braddick’s preface suggests that this smartly produced book is ‘more an intellectual life than a biography’ on account of its ambition not only to

Joseph Hettrick reviews 'Christopher Hill: The Life of a Radical Historian', by Michael Braddick

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#Communiqué 🗞️ L'@academiesciences.bsky.social et le CNRS signent un accord de coédition pour développer un modèle de publication scientifique en libre accès et gratuit. ✍️

👉 www.cnrs.fr/fr/presse/la...

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

"The math is brutal and the juxtaposition stark: millions for OpenAI while pink slips go out to longtime lecturers. The CSU isn’t investing in education—it’s outsourcing it, paying premium prices for a chatbot many students were already using for free."

www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

Are you a researcher in the field of history of science, technology and medicine? The #NotesAndRecords essay award is now open for entries until 28 February 2026. Visit our website find out more: buff.ly/dedMm93 #HistSci #HistSTM

(Parution) La main au Moyen Âge. Discours savants et représentations histoiresante.blogspot.com/2025/12/la-m... #histSTM #histcorps

The Experience of Disability and Becoming Disabled in the Hundred Years’ War ‘In our said service he was and is mutilated in one of his arms’ (‘en notre dit service il a este et est mutile dun de ses bras’), is the text justifying the pardon by the council of the King of Engla...

Really pleased to have my short article out with @epoch-history.bsky.social on the experience of disability during the Hundred Years' War! The rest of the issue is a fantastic read and it was lovely to work with the editors and @joshcoulthard.bsky.social.
www.epoch-magazine.com/post/the-exp...

Cover of The Ocean on Fire: Pacific Stories from Nuclear Survivors and Climate Activists by Anaïs Maurer. Cover features abstract batik art in bright orange, blue, and red, that is reminiscent of a jellyfish. The title and author name are in white type over the art.

Congratulations to Anaïs Maurer, whose book "The Ocean on Fire" has won the 2024 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies from @modernlanguage.bsky.social. buff.ly/q1pbnQh

AI deepfakes of real doctors spreading health misinformation on social media Hundreds of videos on TikTok and elsewhere impersonate experts to sell supplements with unproven effects TikTok and other social media platforms are hosting AI-generated deepfake videos of doctors whose words have been manipulated to help sell supplements and spread health misinformation. The factchecking organisation Full Fact has uncovered hundreds of such videos featuring impersonated versions of doctors and influencers directing viewers to Wellness Nest, a US-based supplements firm. Continue reading...

AI deepfakes of real doctors spreading health misinformation on social media

On and In Their Bodies: Masculinist Violence, Criminalization, and Black Womanhood in Trinidad By Leniqueca A. Welcome In this article, I place in conversation multiple forms of violence against those who occupy the category of poor black woman in Trinidad: the abuse and premature death of these women at the hands of their partners or strangers, the physical and discursive violence against black women by the state, the theft of their children due to inter/intra-community and police violence, and the grief black women are often forced to carry. I show how these different forms of violence converge on and in black women’s bodies and, rather than being distinct in causation and effect, constitute multiple iterations of the ongoing colonialist extraction of black women’s lives for the creation of different forms of masculinist state and economic power. Ultimately, I show how masculine and feminine subjectivities are produced in tandem with racialized positionings through violence and comprehensively document what is gendered violence and how it is embodied.

Congratulations 🎊 👏 💐 to Leniqueca Welcome for winning this year's SCA Cultural Horizons Prize for her article, "On and In Their Bodies: Masculinist Violence, Criminalization, and Black Womanhood in Trinidad"

No End to the Spanish Civil War? - Public Books Latin America's own conflicts over land, Church, labor, and democratization, were played out, across the Atlantic, for all to see.

New at PB: @kirstenweld.bsky.social on why, 50 years after Franco's death, Latin America will never forget the Spanish Civil War.

Great to see the @erc.europa.eu set curiosity as the driving force in research, and underline the importance of the social sciences and the humanities in protecting and advancing democratic values

The Plague That Won’t Die | Pria Anand As my recent diagnosis shows, tuberculosis is not a relic of medical history. It remains the leading infectious cause of death worldwide—and America is hardly immune.

“tuberculosis is not a relic of medical history. It remains the leading infectious cause of death worldwide”

www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

I Left the CDC 100 Days Ago. My Worst Fears About the Agency Are Coming True "Things have not improved," writes Dr. Debra Houry. "They have worsened. And Congress has still failed to act."

"What we're witnessing is not reform. It's the hollowing out of an institution Americans rely on in every emergency. The actions will leave the country less prepared for the next foodborne illness cluster, maternal mortality crisis, or emerging pandemic."
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Congratulations to @gi-anna97.bsky.social on her first book having just submitted her wonderful PhD thesis too. A truly brilliant young scholar of #histmed #medievalmedicine whose work all interested in history of medicine and medieval studies should follow.

Je discuterai ce lundi à l'EHESS (format hybride) le rôle historique du Brésil postcolonial en tant que puissance impériale.

Inscription obligatoire auprès de
monica-raisa.schpun@ehess.fr.

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UPCOMING SSHM EVENTS SSHM Mid-Career Writing Retreat funded by Wellcome Friday 9th and Monday 12th January 2026 10am-5.30pm GMT Deadline for applications: 17 December 2025 (23:59 GMT) Led by Professor Rowena Murra…

✨SSHM Mid-Career Online Writing Retreat✨ funded by Wellcome
Over 2 days: Friday 9th and Monday 12th January 2026
10am-5.30pm GMT
This event is for SSHM members.
To sign up and for more details see website

Deadline for sign-up: 17 December 2025 (23:59 GMT)
#histmed

(Parution) Raconter les épidémies de la Rome royale et républicaine histoiresante.blogspot.com/2025/12/les-... #histmed

CDC advisory panel votes to limit hepatitis B vaccines for newborns Move from RFK Jr’s advisers mirrors Trump team’s regressive approach to longstanding vaccine guidance

The speed with which the CDC is morphing into an ideological apparatus with no medical or public health credibility is a warning to all democratic institutions www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Measles resurgence a herald of other infectious disease waves, WHO warns A global resurgence of measles is a “fire alarm” for further waves of other infectious diseases such as diphtheria and polio, a senior health official has said. The remarks came at the launch of the ...

A global resurgence of measles is a “fire alarm” for further waves of other infectious diseases such as diphtheria and polio

www.bmj.com/content/391/...

The CDC is compromised and is advocating against evidence-based public health.

This is a pro-death and pro-disease recommendation.