@alvesduarte.bsky.social
Tricolor Historian of Medicine, Science, and Environment PI of the Wellcome Trust project "How did infectious diseases become wild?", at King's College London
Today we highlight Postcolonial and Decolonial Historiography of Science by Silvia Figueirôa, Professor at State University of Campinas, Brazil, 1st Vice-President of the Division of History of Science and Technology (DHST/IUHPST), and former SCIEMP President.
link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...
So great to see my new book How Plague Got Rats:
Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic, published OA @hopkinspress.bsky.social next May, has got a cover! www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
New Blog Post🆕
From pandemics to probiotics, the history of microbial research goes beyond Louis Pasteur and the lab. Explore the history of it and how it can shape future research 🦠🔬
open.substack.com/pub/kingsglo...
Rethinking Microbial Histories: Beyond Pasteur and the Lab
open.substack.com/pub/kingsglo...
Cover - Colonizing Animals
📕 Review / Compte rendu
Jonathan Saha, Colonizing #Animals: Interspecies #Empire in #Myanmar, @universitypress.cambridge.org, 2021
par Joachim Boittout (@upcite.bsky.social)
#skystorians
👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahss...
A quote from Michael Dunn, Director of Discovery Research at Wellcome: "These awards will enable the power of early collaboration to drive innovative discovery research in genomics and other fields."
We’re funding teams to lay the foundations for discoveries at the intersection of genomics, humanities, social sciences and wider society.
Our Genomics in Context Awards are open now.
Read on to find out more about the call ⤵️
Call for papers!
We invite proposals for a special issue addressing historical animal geographies, co-edited by Karen M. Morin & Alice J. Hovorka.
Abstract deadline 15 Jan
Accepted submission deadline 15 Jun
Details here: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/327592/historical-animal-geographies
Nominations are open for the BSHS Pickstone Prize 2026, recognising the best scholarly English-language book in the history of science.
📆 Deadline: 31 Jan 2026.
Anyone may nominate (self-nominations welcome).
Submit via our online form on the BSHS website www.bshs.org.uk/the-bshs-pic...
way funnier than archives
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✉️The November 2025 issue of the SCIEMP newsletter is out! Subscribe and don't miss out on all the news, fellowships, jobs, calls for papers, and much more that we will share monthly. Subscribe on scienceandempire.com/highlights/
17.11.2025 16:06 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Back from an amazing 2-week fieldwork in Triunfo, a historical focus of plague in the Brazilian backlands. The absence of written records led to some Indiana Jones-style search for the old plague mausoleums in the middle of the banana fields. Havaianas were probably not the best choice tho.
17.11.2025 12:14 — 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
How we’re tracking avian flu’s toll on wildlife across North America
theconversation.com/how-were-tra...
Couldn't have expected a better kick off for my project, "How did infectious diseases become wild?", than to give a keynote at the Annual Meeting of the Brazilian Society of Tropical Medicine in sunny João Pessoa
03.11.2025 18:01 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0From the current issue: “Microhistory as Industrial History: Environment, Sugar Capitalism and Labour in Egypt, 1863–1879”
by Adam Mestyan (@harvard.edu)
doi.org/10.1093/past...
1/ I'm excited to share that Franz Knappik’s and my Cambridge Element on Hegel and Colonialism is finally out – open access below! We trace how Hegel defends European colonial rule, including transatlantic slavery, and how that defence runs through his entire philosophical system.
Thread below ⬇️
Looking forward to today's talks and discussion at the Hotspots of Concern: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Biodiversity and Health workshop convened by @emmanuelleroth.bsky.social & @greggmitman.bsky.social www.cas.lmu.de/en/events/ev...
23.10.2025 06:11 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
🎙The DHST has launched a podcast designed to support early career scholars. Each episode features conversations with experts in the history of science and technology on a wide range of topics relevant to academic life today. Give it a listen via the link.
👉 bit.ly/4hq7hFR
#AcademicJob Assistant Professor in the Social Studies of Medicine joint between Departments of Sociology and History & Philosophy of Science at University of Cambridge. Apply by 17 November
#HPS #STS #Sociology #SocMed #HistMed #MedHum #MedAnth #MedEthics #PhilJobs
In our October issue: Perspective led by Laetitia Navarro (@laenavarro.bsky.social) on historical ecology, which uses various sources of information to study past biodiversity change and human-nature interactions. 🧪🌎
bit.ly/46Qp6Kp
Readcube: rdcu.be/eKYfH
‘In his entire life Flaubert never bought a newspaper from a kiosk and – almost incredibly – never went into a bookshop.’
Online early from the next issue – Julian Barnes on Flaubert and his publisher Michel Lévy: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Cover Interspecies
📖 Compte rendu / Review
Sarah Cockram et Andrew Wells (dir.), #Interspecies Interactions: #Animals and Humans Between the Middle Ages and Modernity, @routledgebooks.bsky.social, 2018.
par Clémentine Girault (@upcite.bsky.social)
👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahss...
So great to see the special issue on "Invasive Species, Global Health, and Colonial Legacies" that @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social & I edited published today! A big thanks to all contributors & to JHMAS editors & reviewers for their support & guidance in this process academic.oup.com/jhmas/issue/...
08.10.2025 16:37 — 👍 31 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 4
📍Tahiti face aux explorateurs européens : comment faire l’histoire de l’autre📍
🗣️avec Antoine Lilti @college-de-france.fr @ehess.fr @crh.ehess.fr ▶️https://crh.ehess.fr/index.php?2443
📻 France Culture, Questions du soir : l'idée
▶️ www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
Today marks the final day of The Global War Against the Rat project @standrewsanthro.bsky.social (funded @wellcometrust.bsky.social) after 6 wonderful years of collaborative interdisciplinary research with Oliver French, @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social & @alvesduarte.bsky.social
30.09.2025 16:30 — 👍 33 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 1📣 We are pleased to announce the upcoming Special Issue "Knowledge and Power: Projecting the Modern World" with guest editors Vera Keller, Ted McCormick, and Kelly Whitmer.
📚 Articles will be made accessible online in the next weeks. More information: journalhistoryknowledge.org/announcement....
👇 "Open Science in History," fantastic workshop co-organized by LHST associate research Simon Dumas Primbault! #histSTM #histsci
16.09.2025 10:22 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0JOB AD: If you research philosophy, history or social studies of biology, with interest in agroecology, crop science or environmental intelligence, consider applying for 3-year postdoctoral fellowship in Munich! Deadline for applications: 31/10, details www.sts.sot.tum.de/en/sts/arbei... #philsci
12.09.2025 10:35 — 👍 44 🔁 46 💬 1 📌 0
Congratulations from the Global War Against the Rat project team to Oliver French for having successfully defended his PhD Thesis "Vermin in Society: Plague, Pests and Poisons at the Dawn of Zoonosis" - a historical anthropological study of rat poisoning as an anti-plague measure in colonial India
13.09.2025 10:46 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
ABSTRACT. In recent years, the notion of biological specificity has attracted significant philosophical attention. This article focuses on host specificity, a kind of biological specificity that has not yet been discussed by philosophers, and which concerns the extent to which a species is selective in the range of other species it exploits for feeding and/or reproduction. Host specificity is an important notion in ecology, where it plays a variety of theoretical roles. Here, I focus on the role of host specificity in biological control, a field of applied ecology that deals with the suppression of pests through the use of living organisms. Examining host specificity and its role in biological control yields several valuable contributions to our understanding of biological specificity. In particular, I argue that host specificity cannot be fully understood in terms of Woodward’s well-known account of causal specificity. To adequately account for host specificity, we need a notion of causal specificity that takes into consideration the extent to which a variable’s effects are similar to one another—a dimension not captured in Woodward’s account. In addition, the literature on host specificity in biological control highlights certain aspects in which causally specific relationships can be practically valuable—aspects that have not yet been addressed in philosophical discussions of specificity. The literature also reveals that, in certain contexts, specificity can hinder rather than foster effective control, thus leading to a nuanced assessment of the practical value of specific causes.
Host Specificity in Biological Control
– Thomas Blanchard
Abstract in alt text or read it here:
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
#philsci #philsky
La frontière entre humains et animaux
Enquête historique et ethnographique sur la transplantation inter-espèces shs.cairn.info/revue-annale...
