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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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Assistant Professor in Irish and/or European Medieval History at Dublin City University Searching for an academic job? Explore this Assistant Professor in Irish and/or European Medieval History opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.

#jobfairy - don' t sleep on this, Dublin City Uni seeking a medievalist (Irish and/or European history) but deadline only two weeks away! #skystorians

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOY744/a...

08.10.2025 08:57 — 👍 3    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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The rise of ‘nightmare bacteria’: antimicrobial resistance in six charts Data reveal how the global challenge to reduce deaths and infections from drug-resistant bacteria is not going according to plan.

The rise of ‘nightmare bacteria’: antimicrobial resistance in six charts
Data reveal how the global challenge to reduce deaths and infections from drug-resistant bacteria is not going according to plan.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

07.10.2025 18:37 — 👍 5    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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ISO/BSI standards are key industrial governance tools. Proposed new BSI pharma #sustainability standards only focus on carbon & not wider #EcoTox criteria like pollution or #AMR. In ESTL, we call for an integration of EcoTox criteria into PAS2090 & independent oversight: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

07.10.2025 06:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Absolutely tragic repeat. At first, I thought this was a history article.

www.fda.gov/about-fda/hi...

06.10.2025 15:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is really excellent news!

29.09.2025 17:02 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Comment le couple sondages et médias enfante le pire Dans un livre édifiant, le sociologue Hugo Touzet pointe l’imbrication des instituts de sondage avec des médias dont les propriétaires revendiquent l’idéologie de l’extrême droite, et la part que prennent les « politologues » au cadrage droitier du débat public. Une résistible dérive, à condition d’enrayer cette mécanique.

Comment le couple sondages et médias enfante le pire

Par @mathieu2jean.bsky.social‬

27.09.2025 19:21 — 👍 140    🔁 66    💬 2    📌 6
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Delighted to see our paper studying the evolution of plasmids over the last 100 years, now out! Years of work by Adrian Cazares, also Nick Thomson @sangerinstitute.bsky.social - this version much improved over the preprint. Final version should be open access, apols.
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25.09.2025 21:28 — 👍 299    🔁 153    💬 14    📌 8

📕 🗣️ Pourquoi les polluants éternels #PFAS ont si longtemps été ignorés par les systèmes de surveillance des produits chimiques ? 🧪🕵‍♀️

Je pose quelques éléments de réponse dans la revue "Energie - Environnement – Infrastructures"

👉 www.lexiskiosque.fr/catalog/ener...

Bonne lecture !

19.09.2025 14:04 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Call for two or more open-rank academic positions in Sociology

We're hiring in wonderful Copenhagen 🇩🇰

Two or more open rank sociology professorships (tt assistant, associate with tenure, or full prof with tenure).

You'll join a leading sociology department in Europe with many core fields represented!

#sociology

More 👇

jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

11.09.2025 16:46 — 👍 107    🔁 95    💬 2    📌 6

18 hits - question is: does protection extend to OA books that prohibit commercial reuse and scientific publications where one signs over copyright to journals.

11.09.2025 06:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Job Opportunity at LSHTM: Network Manager (0.5 FTE) The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is one of the world’s leading public health universities. Our mission is to improve health and health equity in the UK and worldwide; working i...

🚨 We’re hiring!

The IMPACT AMR Network is looking for a Network Manager (0.5 FTE, 3 years) at LSHTM, starting 1 Oct 2025.

Help build and grow a vibrant global AMR community.

🔗 Apply here: bit.ly/45UROcK

⏰ Deadline: 10 Sept 2025

08.09.2025 11:38 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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SSHM AGM & The SSHM Lecture 2025 Monday 6 October [Online]  4:00 – 5:30pm (UK time)  As required, the Society gives notice to members that the Annual General Meeting to formally accept the accounts for 2024 and for…

The Society's AGM followed immediately by The SSHM Lecture 2025 with Jeremy Greene (all welcome).
'Wasted medicines and medical wastes: Notes from the trash-heap of medical history'

📅Monday 6 October [Online]
🕰️4:00-5:30pm (UK time)
Register via the link on the webpage
#histmed #histSTM

05.09.2025 15:32 — 👍 17    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 0
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Lecturer in History at Birmingham Newman University Recruiting now: Lecturer in History on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board

Amazingly, there's a permanent university job available in History! It's 'only' part-time, and as the only non-fixed term contract in the entire UK available right now will probably see a queue form many hundreds long, but it'll be great for someone: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOO275/l...

04.09.2025 13:55 — 👍 33    🔁 15    💬 0    📌 0

Big congratulations 🎉 to Jorinde Wels from KU Leuven for winning the #eahmh25 Pieter van Foreest Prize 🏆 for best student presentation!

30.08.2025 13:11 — 👍 11    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

if you liked #eahmh25 in Berlin, you'll love EAHMH27 in Prague! Congratulations to the new President of @eahmh.bsky.social, Katerina Liskova!

29.08.2025 11:59 — 👍 11    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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River swimming… but is it safe? Crocodiles, E. Coli and how we understand the environment by Claas Kirchhelle at #eahmh25 #histmed @eahmh.bsky.social

29.08.2025 07:10 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Congratulations Ketil! Lots to celebrate at the beer garden this evening!

28.08.2025 16:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Very much looking forward to the panel!

28.08.2025 16:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

#EAHMH25 president @doravargha.bsky.social opening the conference by underlining the importance of collegiality, curiosity, and societal engagement amidst challenging times.

26.08.2025 16:14 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Sign up!

26.08.2025 10:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Environmental antibiotic resistance unevenly addressed despite growing global risk, study finds Most antibiotic resistance research comes from high-income countries but the greatest threats are elsewhere. This inequality is shaping the future of global health.

"In recent years, China and India – the world’s biggest antibiotic producers – have published far more AMR-related research than their research and development spending alone would predict."

theconversation.com/environmenta...

21.08.2025 11:57 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Das PD in unserem Namen steht *nicht* für Postdoc, sondern für Privatdozent*innen (PD). 1/9

21.08.2025 09:49 — 👍 25    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 1
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Planetary Futures: Rethinking Extinction and Conservation in the Anthropocene Conference, 18-19 September 2025, at the University of Manchester. Call for Papers

Conference: Planetary Futures - Rethinking Extinction and Conservation in the Anthropocene. Manchester, 18-19 Sept 2025.

Registration is free - please register your interest in attending by Friday 22 August.

blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0...

15.08.2025 16:11 — 👍 14    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 4

#HistSTM #HistSci

15.08.2025 16:23 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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No better place to geek out - and annoy the family - than Micropia in Amsterdam!

07.08.2025 10:41 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"When the first of August came round, the Professor realized he had pleasantly trifled away nearly two months at a task which should have taken little more than a week."

--Willa Cather, 1925 and timeless

01.08.2025 12:17 — 👍 725    🔁 195    💬 15    📌 34
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🔍 What is TARGetAMR? It’s more than an acronym - we are a collaborative network driving innovation in the fight against antimicrobial resistance 🔬
🧬By combining genomics and trans-disciplinary expertise, we’re working to reduce AMR and improve global health
#AMR #Genomics

01.08.2025 14:54 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

It's that time again. Sounding the Exeter #academicjob klaxon! 3yr Research Fellow post with a focus on environmental-social-health inequalities, working with my excellent colleague Rebecca Lynch in Egenis. Come and join us! #sts #sustainability #medsoc #anthropology

19.06.2025 17:01 — 👍 17    🔁 18    💬 1    📌 2
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Therapeutic innovation in drug repurposing: Challenges and opportunities Drug repurposing leverages existing drugs for new therapeutic uses, offering significant opportunities but facing challenges such as financial and reg…

Interested in drug repurposing? Although this strategy can represent a short-cut to new therapies, it is not without its pitfalls. We (UCL's Repurposing Therapeutic Innovation Network) wrote a review on how to exploit repurposing for maximising success! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

03.07.2025 07:51 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1
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(PDF) Beyond breakpoint – reconceptualising AMR as a symptom of planetary stress PDF | On Jun 19, 2025, Claas Kirchhelle and others published Beyond breakpoint – reconceptualising AMR as a symptom of planetary stress | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

Some weekend reading:🔍🌍📖
Claas Kirchhelle and Adam P. Roberts
Beyond Breakpoint: Reconceptualising AMR as a symptom of planetary stress @kirchhelle.bsky.social

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

27.06.2025 13:30 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

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