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Claas Kirchhelle

@kirchhelle.bsky.social

Historian of bugs & drugs: interested in #microbes #antibiotics #vaccines #phages; author of: Pyrrhic Progress (2020), Bearing Witness (2021), Typhoid (2022), Fear & Fever (2024) - Associate Professor INSERM (CERMES3, Paris): https://www.bugsdrugs.org/

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Hard to believe that the gold standard underlying the remodelling of most post-1980s surveillance systems can simply be switched off. Also highlights the importance of decentralised capacity building for long-term resilience.

13.02.2026 21:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wonderful job opportunities coming up in Berlin!

04.02.2026 16:51 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Definitely, the most scenic #AMR meeting I have been to! Thanks to CATIE & the British Academy for organising a week of thought-provoking discussions in Costa Rica on Just Transitions for AMR and the many interconnections between antimicrobial pollution and climate change!

03.02.2026 15:03 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸŽ‰ πŸ‘ Charlotte, huge achievement. Wonderful book!

03.02.2026 08:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

#MondayNetwork - a regular appeal to any #skystorians with intersecting interests: food /nutrition, surviving climate change, environmental determinism, race science, exploration, acclimatisation & physiology, cit sci, Indigenous knowledge, & related topics to say hi or share link to your work! πŸ—ƒοΈ

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Pharmaceutical pollution from health care: a systems-based strategy for mitigating risks to public and environmental health Human pharmaceuticals are increasingly detected in environments around the world, with growing international calls to mitigate the ecological and huma…

Excited to share a new paper in Lancet Planetary Health!

Our analysis of UK #pharmaceuticalpollution highlights growing environmental and health risks & identifies 37 intervention points for technical & structural reform:

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#IDSky #STS #HistMed #HistSci #AMR

19.01.2026 13:00 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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(Un)intended consequences: a social sciences stocktake of a decade of Global Action Plan-inspired antimicrobial governance Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) remains a major global health threat. Despite increasing international attention, AMR governance has often neglected so…

10yrs ago, our 🌍 set out a plan against #AMR. How've we done? Read our #SocialSciences #Stocktake of a Decade of #GlobalActionPlan-inspired #AntimicrobialGovernance, esp some of the (Un)intended consequences. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

15.01.2026 13:43 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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New personal view article

(Un)intended consequences: a social sciences stocktake of a decade of Global Action Plan-inspired antimicrobial governance

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

#IDSky #ClinMicro #AMR #OpenAccess #OA

15.01.2026 09:10 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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(Un)intended consequences: a social sciences stocktake of a decade of Global Action Plan-inspired antimicrobial governance Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) remains a major global health threat. Despite increasing international attention, AMR governance has often neglected so…

Hot off the press in @lancetmicrobe.bsky.social!

In (Un)intended Consequences, we conduct a #socsci stocktake of 10 years of research on #AMR interventions, highlight the need for more contextual #antimicrobial governance & make recommendations #GAP'26! #IDSky

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

15.01.2026 08:41 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Ooh fascinating project

13.01.2026 10:48 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

These are incredible! Like the 'stained glass' pictures I made as a kid out of tissue paper and card, but intricately detailed and*huge* #envhums

13.01.2026 12:51 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Five big global health wins in 2025 that will save millions of lives From HIV to TB, scientists and doctors made breakthroughs in treatment and prevention of some of the world’s deadliest diseases

2025 was a miserable year for global health

It’s nice see some hopeful things we can look forward to πŸ‘‡πŸΎ

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

23.12.2025 10:24 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Photo1: sub auspices maestris πŸ˜‰
Photo 2: in-place-of-conclusions πŸ€”
Photo 3: this amazing group of scholars!!! 🀩🀩🀩

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When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

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Organ-tuning books in English churches provide notes on a warming climate Researchers have realised the records are a β€˜goldmine’ to study changes in environmental conditions

Music, materials, weather and climate - a great story about a set of organ record books from the 1960s to now. Are there older ones? When did recording temperature and humidity become a common part of the tuner's practice? www.theguardian.com/environment/... #histSTM #envhist

22.12.2025 13:52 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

We'll, this explains a lot. A truly sobering read on the grant mill & the lose-lose resulting from decades of over promising win-wins.

19.12.2025 14:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines: Introduction A free online humanities course about how to learn and work and thrive in an AI world.

Recently had the chance to hear @carlbergstrom.com on information foraging in the current space of LLMs.

He and @jevinwest.bsky.social have crafted a course that touches various facets of LLMs. Just finished reading through its 18 modules. Absolutely loved it!

thebullshitmachines.com

06.12.2025 05:36 β€” πŸ‘ 78    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Interested in #microbial governance, #antibiotic innovation, #MDRTB, #climatechange & #AMR? Then this special issue on #JustTransitions for #AMR in Public Humanities is just for you!

Further articles will appear over the next weeks!

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

@britishacademy.bsky.social

05.12.2025 10:09 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The 🌍 is facing real environmental pressures, but we already know what works: restoring ecosystems, cutting pollution, & investing in clean energy all strengthen resilience.

#UNEA7 is a key moment for countries to build on this progress & step up action for a more resilient planet: bit.ly/3WtFOt3

02.12.2025 16:48 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
Invitation to Vienna STS Talk x ALTERBIOTIC Talk on December 15, 2025, 05:00 PM-06:00 PM by Claas Kirchhelle (INSERM) & Janina Kehr (University of Vienna)

Invitation to Vienna STS Talk x ALTERBIOTIC Talk on December 15, 2025, 05:00 PM-06:00 PM by Claas Kirchhelle (INSERM) & Janina Kehr (University of Vienna)

β€ΌοΈπŸ“£Join us for the public keynote of the International Workshop #Immunity & #Resistance with @kirchhelle.bsky.social and @janinakehr.bsky.social @univie.ac.at on December 15‼️

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Powerless Science?: Science and Politics in a Toxic World | Berghahn Books Independent Publishing since 1994

Also great work on this by historians: www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Boudia...

02.12.2025 08:17 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Quite a move!

01.12.2025 16:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We worked with brilliant Sencer Museum staff on the 2nd installment of the Typhoidland exhibit. The exhibition was beautifully curated & the rest of the museum was a treasure trove housing truly unique artefacts from the history of public & global health. Everybody loses when places like this shut!

29.11.2025 07:53 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
A research agenda advancing climate change and antimicrobial resistance as interconnected issues - Nature Climate Change Interactions between climate change and antimicrobial resistance across terrestrial, aquatic and health systems reveal shared drivers, synergies and trade-offs that shape health and environmental outc...

What are the associations between #AMR πŸ’Š & #climatechange 🌦️?

In Nature Climate Change, we evaluate existing evidence & define a challenge-oriented research agenda to uncover best equitable practice for synergistic governance responses:

doi.org/10.1038/s415...

@cermes3.bsky.social

24.11.2025 10:22 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Would love to know more about this research project!

24.11.2025 08:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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NERC RED-ALERT CDT: Bacteriophages as river pollutants: determining the impact of phage pollution, with focus on antimicrobial resistance. at Bangor University on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - NERC RED-ALERT CDT: Bacteriophages as river pollutants: determining the impact of phage pollution, with focus on antimicrobial resistance. at Bangor University, listed on FindAPhD.com

I have a PhD position available on freshwater phage pollution, in terms of AMR impact and persistance of phage used in food and agriculture. #PhageSky #MicroSky www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

21.11.2025 15:55 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

@cermes3.bsky.social @oxonandrew.bsky.social @gcagatgcaatg.bsky.social @charlottebrives.bsky.social @gvagrad.bsky.social

21.11.2025 14:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

While current intervention models will undoubtely yield novel compounds, diversifying R&D systems, investing in underlying infrastructure, and building capacity beyond high-income countries is key to ensuring a more sustainable alignment of innovation & access (9/9).

21.11.2025 14:37 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Ultimately, there is a limit to what societies can afford to pay for the perpetual renewal of the antibiotic infrastructures that underpin modern and food production systems – meanwhile, alternative innovation models exist... (8/9)

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