Bernhard Leitner

Join our next #DIJStudyGroup with Liliane Höppe @jstudiesvienna.bsky.social who will present her research on “The Construction of Culture & Identity in Shimao Toshio's Writings About the Ryūkyū Islands”, online & onsite at the DIJ.
📅 Nov 6, 6.30 pm JST/10.30 am CET
www.dijtokyo.org/event/the-co...

18.10.2004 R.I.P.

A small primer on the #NobelPrize awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi today. This prize was for combining two separate fields of immunology research - genetic research on IPEX and immunology research of regulatory T cells (#Tregs), with enormous impact on biology/medicine

I love how the National Taiwan University Library Special Collections brochure looks like a menu. And they do have delicate stuff, I can tell you that...

Workhouses in England and Wales linked to transatlantic slave trade, study suggests Report highlights how British workhouses were funded and supported by those who profited from slave economy

Michel Foucault says hi! [especially if we also include aspects of knowledge creation associated with colonialism in the equation]

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Cthulhu is not amused...

Black Religion in the Madhouse
Race and Psychiatry in Slavery's Wake nyupress.org/978147982978...

Finally, there is a comprehensive database for the victims of biomedical research under National Socialism, including the cases of brain samples shamelessly used by psychiatrists and neurologists well after 1945. Never forget!

ns-medical-victims.org

‘I tracked down the family of the estate my Nazi great grandparents looted. Here’s what I told them’ After discovering a hidden family history – and some stolen furniture – one woman was determined to make amends

“I knew nothing about my family history until then...Nobody ever spoke about it.” But that day, she explains, she knew she wanted to find the truth, no matter how dark and shameful.

📰Our latest exhibition was featured in this weekend's @telegraphnews.bsky.social www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/8752340...

ChatGPT advises women to ask for lower salaries, study finds A new study has found that large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT consistently advise women to ask for lower salaries than men.

Study finds A.I. LLMs advise women to ask for lower salaries than men. When prompted w/ a user profile of same education, experience & job role, differing only by gender, ChatGPT advised the female applicant to request $280K salary; Male applicant=$400K.
thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt...

A mahogany box with the lid open. Inside are several stands of light colored hair. The box has an plaque that reads: "Lock of Sir I. Newton's Hair presented by Henry Garling Esq. Oct 26 1847."

Here's another example of a "secular relic:" a lock of Sir Isaac Newton's hair at the Royal Society of London.

Interestingly, during the exhumation, a sample of hair was taken. Scientists discovered that he also had 15x the normal range of mercury in his body.

From Arthur Kleinman: 'Medicine on a Larger Scale is ... a step forward in imagining a counter-biomedicine that can better connect social suffering and healing with interpretive social science, post-colonial imaginings, and some of the more serious problems of the world. Impressive!’

No more Nightingale Published in Contemporary Nurse (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Some Florence truth-telling… 🙏 to these deadly sisters ❤️💛🖤 #FirstNations #Nurses www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Please consider donating to the fantastic volunteers at www.changesforwomen.at
They support unwanted pregnant women with abortions and are the only organisation in Austria that takes on this important task!

Spendet bitte für die tollen ehrenamtlichen Helfer*innen von www.changesforwomen.at
Sie unterstützen ungewollt Schwangere bei Schwangerschaftsabbrüchen und sind der einzige Verein in Österreich, der sich dieser wichtigen Aufgabe annimmt!

„Das kolonialisierte Gehirn – Zum Verständnis psychischer Krankheit im historischen Wandel“

apologies for the broken link. For details on the lecture follow: www.josephinum.ac.at/veranstaltun...

Save the date! I am thrilled to announce our first Neuburger Lecture in 2025, at the Josephinum @meduniwien.ac.at on June 2nd in Vienna. Andreas Heinz (Charité Berlin) will give a talk on "The Colonised Brain" [in German]. www.josephinum.ac.at/.../max-neub...
#histmed #histpsy #histsci #vienna

#InverteFest jellyfish

'Biological reality': What genetics has taught us about race As US President Donald Trump takes aim at the Smithsonian Institution for "anti-American ideology", Adam Rutherford examines what the science of genetics has taught us about race.

Race is a social construct. But what does that mean, and why do we say this? An explainer, in the wake of Trump being racist and wrong (pt 675)

www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Good job team America
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Early-modern version of keeping multiple tabs open... #bookwheel

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

The Reality of Russia’s War Against Ukraine — Inved-Insight Happy Russia Day," Medvedev wrote in 2024 on his official Telegram channel, showing a map of Russia that included the entire territory of Ukraine

For anyone who believes that Russia was “provoked” into launching the full-scale invasion—or thinks that Biden and Zelensky started the war:
read my text "The Reality of Russia’s War Against Ukraine." Please share it in the U.S.

www.inved-insight.eu/narrative/c3...

If you're interested in philosophy of biology—particularly its intersections with #evolution, #paleosky, and comparative studies of #behavior, #cognition, and #culture —consider following @theramseylab.bsky.social! We're a cool group of philosophers with a broad range of expertise! #philsci #HPbio

X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research Data indicates more scholars turning to alternative social media site to post about their work after Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover

'Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work.'

Call for Papers: Masterclass "Truth Politics between Science and Society (1960s– today)"
Where: University of Erfurt, Germany
When: July 10, 2025
Deadline for submissions: April 30, 2025
URL: www.hsozkult.de/even...

The Medical University of Vienna went into eXile and is new to @bsky.app, follow @meduniwien.ac.at for news on medical research and education! #MedUniWien #medsky

Medicine on a Larger Scale Cambridge Core - History of Medicine - Medicine on a Larger Scale

Medicine on a Larger Scale: Global Histories of Social Medicine, eds @ahlie.bsky.social, Jeremy Greene, and me, will be available open access from @cambridgeup.bsky.social in May 2025. In a world of growing health inequity, radical social medicine has never been more urgent!
#histstm #histmed #sts

boohoo snowflake!