Thank you!
06.12.2024 03:16 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Internal memo from the pharmaceutical manufacturer Upjohn & Company (1962), brainstorming ideas about how to improve company relationship with the FDA
Among my favorite ideas:
-"understand the law"
- "spy"
- "tell the truth"
- "extorition and blackmail"
- "smile more"
#histsci #histech #histstm
12.11.2024 19:04 — 👍 85 🔁 24 💬 12 📌 8
Ok folks, I just started a #PublicHistory starter pack that I am certain missed a lot of people. So, share widely and share your recommended adds. TIA.
go.bsky.app/SEjUcKg
11.11.2024 14:38 — 👍 117 🔁 55 💬 45 📌 3
Following on from my first #starterpack on Historians in Britain, I've now started another, which is a collection of STEM writers/journalists and medical/science historians! Please give me a shout if I've missed you, or you would like to be added to this list: go.bsky.app/3DuVT6Z
10.11.2024 16:37 — 👍 171 🔁 64 💬 44 📌 4
Hi Lindsey! This is great, I am thrilled to see history of science and medicine people migrating here - would love to be added to the list :)
11.11.2024 19:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Chatter: Margaret Mead, Psychedelics, and the CIA with Benjamin Breen
Discussing the history of CIA experiments with drugs.
On this week's Chatter, @shaneharris.bsky.social spoke to @resobscura.bsky.social about his new book, Tripping on Utopia, on how Margaret Mead launched a movement to expand human consciousness, a story that includes the WWII-era OSS, a shady cast of CIA agents, & the pioneers of the Information Age.
14.03.2024 15:20 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Mindscape 267 | Benjamin Breen on Margaret Mead, Psychedelics, and Utopia. #MindscapePodcast
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2024...
26.02.2024 12:45 — 👍 23 🔁 5 💬 4 📌 0
Kikkuli!
Why do some people from the distant past become memes?
Just a note to say that a new Res Obscura post about everyone's favorite Hurrian horse trainer will be published tomorrow morning on Substack. This one is inspired by teaching UCSC's world history survey this fall. open.substack.com/pub/resobscu...
25.09.2023 23:04 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Such a fun and useful resource: text search in maps from the David Rumsey collection. Here are the results for "incognita" and "ruins": www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet...
20.09.2023 16:42 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Professor of Computer Science, Stanford - HCI & Design, Co-Founder & Co-Director Stanford HAI @stanfordhai.bsky.social
Hater of solutionism. Books: The Net Delusion; To Save Everything Click Here. Podcasts: The Santiago Boys. A Sense of Rebellion. Founder: The Syllabus.
Dean of Science at the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC). Astronomer, sci-fi connoisseur, rugby league devotee, puzzled parent 🇦🇺🇨🇦. Opinions ∉ UCSC.
Santa Cruz CA, USA. He/him. bryangaensler.net
English account ! French PhD in history of medicine. Post-doc at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. Psychotropic drugs, psychedelics, medicine, 19th - 21st centuries.
Totally woke
Website: https://dubuszoe.wordpress.com
Author, "Mapping the Darkness: The Visionary Scientists Who Unlocked the Mysteries of Sleep" (Hachette, Oct. 2023). Contributing editor, Discover magazine. Harmonica and keyboards.
Cultural and environmental historian of Canada and the Arctic. Author of *A Cold Colonialism: Modern Exploration and the Canadian North* (2025). Co-editor of *Made Modern: Science and Technology in Canadian History* (2018). She/her.
Historian (from below), award-winning author, filmmaker, playwright, Distinguished Professor, University of Pittsburgh
marcusrediker.com
The American Association for the History of Medicine promotes and encourages research, study, writing, and interest in the history of medicine. Celebrating our centennial, 1925-2025! #histmed
Digital historian of early modern Europe in Virginia. Posts on historical travel, mail, diplomats, spies 🕵️ Author of Postal Intelligence: The Tassis Family and Communications Revolution in Early Modern Europe (Cornell, 2025). Now on #17thC conspiracy.
Early modern historian of the Atlantic world, Indigenous Americas, Western Africa, France. Editor, Huntington Library Quarterly. brettrushforth.com
Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Bloomberg Opinion columnist, Buc-ee’s fan
📍Atlanta, GA
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause...
History PhDing @ CUNY GC: Settler Colonialism, Historical Memory, Women’s & Public History • Mellon Fellow: New York Historical • Managing Editor: Gotham Center for NYC History • Programs: Humanities NY (State Council, NEH) • Brooklyn ↔️ Buffalo 💨
The Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) has pioneered interdisciplinary approaches to the history of health, welfare, medical science and practice https://sshm.org/
#histmed
Aging freak who fell in love with the history of science and now resides mostly in 16th century Nürnberg.
Historian of science; Principal Curator of Science at National Museums Scotland & Hon Fellow, STIS, Uni of Edinburgh. VP British Society for the History of Science #histSTM. Views own.
Formerly known as @beckyfh
https://teleskopos.wordpress.com/profile
Historian, occasional anthropologist, working on disability, race and Empire; histories of public health. Eternal immigrant, writer, teacher. Indifferent cook. There will be many dogs on this feed. Luddite, yes, in the best way.
Lives with epilepsy.
Historian of Science + Medicine + Public Health + Disability @UPenn. New book re origins of posture health panic: SLOUCH https://tinyurl.com/46hfkpsn
bethlinker.com
Other books: WAR'S WASTE & CIVIL DISABILITIES
Historian of science and medicine. Proponent of Postcolonial science studies. Author of Difference and Disease: Race, Medicine, and the 18th Century British Empire (Cambridge, 2018); Crafting the Quantum: Arnold Sommerfeld and the Practice of Theory (MIT)
