Kelly S. O'Donnell

Just a reminder that @contingent-mag.bsky.social would absolutely love to run a mailbag on the dumbass arguments about "low enrollment majors" and other things contained in this nested thread if there's a NTT historian out there who wants to pitch it.

Kelly O’Donnell Appointed New Editor-in-Chief of History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals | American Institute of the History of Pharmacy Advancing knowledge and understanding of the history of pharmacy and medicines.

The American Institute of the History of Pharmacy (AIHP) recently appointed Dr Kelly O’Donnell to the role of Co-Editor in Chief of its journal.

Welcome! #pharmacy #history Thrilled to have you on board! @kellyodonn.bsky.social @uwiscpress.bsky.social

www.aihp.org/kelly-odonne...

Yessss. It is so good! But also somehow so bad!

exploreless, no thank you

Jenna Healey wrote this one when we were in grad school, and I had the pleasure of helping with edits muse.jhu.edu/article/6130...

This is always the archive / stacks I visualize when I am thinking about (lack of) digitization. It's so much! Everywhere!

just move to Philly and there will be things named after you

Look I don't know why Canva doesn't think it can't be both fun and educational and squished those two words together when the image saved, but dammit it WILL be both fun and educational

In break mode yet? Looking for something trashy and mindless to binge now that classes are done? Read with me over break!

Grab a copy of Valley of the Dolls & put my #pharmhist book club discussion on Jan 21st in your calendar.

Info and Zoom link here: www.chstm.org/group/pharma...

#histmed

not to be too much of a downer, but I have always been skeptical of the "unessay = fun!" slant that folks on social media have taken for years. Integrative higher-order creative thinking is actually far more difficult for students to pull off well. I am really not surprised by this turn of events.

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Why can't I find a diaphragm gif??? This is a tragedy. Here's the best I could do.

Excited for @lmacthompson1.bsky.social 's epic new history of birth control? She has shared her latest chapter, "Prescribers," with the CHSTM Pharmacy History working group.

We're meeting TODAY at 12. Please join us!

www.chstm.org/group/pharma...

CAMPUS VISIT WITH THE VAMPIRE

TEACHING DEMO WITH THE VAMPIRE

SIT-DOWN WITH THE DEAN WITH THE VAMPIRE

APOLOGETIC EMAIL THAT THE SEARCH WAS CANCELED WITH THE VAMPIRE

No idea, I have yet to leave campus because I immediately drive back to the superior metro area

It took until week 7, but it finally happened: I said “water” in front of my non-Philadelphian students

Rebecca Grant’s Access

New Short Takes! @rhartholder.bsky.social, Katrina Kimport, and @kellyodonn.bsky.social discuss @rebeccaggrant.bsky.social's Access: Inside the Abortion Underground and the 60-Year Battle for Reproductive Freedom!

I'm currently working on a spring semester event, which MAAAAY just be reading the iconic 1960s novel Valley of the Dolls together over winter break and then discussing it book club style (with some history of pharmacy context) in January. Stay tuned! And join the working group to get updated.

In November we'll host @lmacthompson1.bsky.social, newly announced OAH Lecturer, who will present even newer and more exciting stuff than is listed on her already very impressive OAH bio: www.oah.org/lectures/lec...

Interested in the history of pharmacy? Or just hanging out with me and some cool scholars periodically on Zoom? You are cordially invited to join the Pharmacy History working group that I am co-convening at the Consortium for History of Sci/Med/Tech: www.chstm.org/group/pharma...

I need to submit something this year, but no idea what. If anyone has panel or roundtable ideas, please DM me :)

I am driving two hours each way to/from work on my teaching days, and it is very apparent a few weeks in that I need to up my audiobook listening game. So, what are your favorites? I especially enjoy multiple narrators / full casts.

🎶 Pink Peter Coat 🎵🎶

Margaret W. Rossiter, 81, Dies; Wrote Women Scientists Into History

"It took her nearly two decades to find a permanent academic position. She found occasional work as a visiting professor, filling in for someone on leave for a year or two. She earned grants to fund her research... but she was often living on unemployment benefits"

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/s...

damn I was hoping for some dirt

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oooh this is such a great example to talk about AI use during syllabus day for my 1960s class

She is so going to brag about your book to her new college friends or perhaps professors.

there is a thought piece in my brain about getting a tenure-track job at the weirdest/worst possible time for higher ed, but I am so thoroughly burnt out by the decade-long process of trying to get said job and then starting it next month, that it will probably stay in there.