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The Deaf Right Stuff: Disability, Space Sickness, and the Making of the American Astronaut, 1955–1968 | Isis: Vol 117, No 1 Abstract Between 1955 and 1968, a group of deaf volunteers participated in a range of human experiments for the US space program. Overseen by Dr. Ashton Graybiel, these tests sought to provide a bette...

Great to see that the Master's thesis that Henry Lloyd-Hughes did with us at CHSTM a few years ago has transformed into an article in Isis:

The Deaf Right Stuff: Disability, Space Sickness, and the Making of the American Astronaut, 1955–1968

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

I forgot to include the date: 10 March. We'll try that again.

MDPI Women in Research Panel Join us for an evening panel discussion with local women in research, facilitated by Professor Rachel Cowen from University of Manchester.

Our colleague Dr Amelia Bonea will be part of a discussion panel at Manchester Museum on 10 March 2026, on Women in Research, hosted by Professor Rachel Cowen. Further details and registration at the link below.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mdpi-women...

MDPI Women in Research Panel Join us for an evening panel discussion with local women in research, facilitated by Professor Rachel Cowen from University of Manchester.

Our colleague Dr Amelia Bonea will be part of a discussion panel at Manchester Museum, on Women in Research, hosted by Professor Rachel Cowen. Further details and registration at the link below.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mdpi-women...

CHSTM Research Seminar, 12 May 2026 Prof Mary Augusta Bazelton Looking up at the ‘Little Moon’: Media and Mass Participation in Astronomy Under Mao

For your diaries: CHSTM Seminar, 12 May 2026 - Professor Mary Augusta Brazelton will be speaking on Looking up at the ‘Little Moon’: Media and Mass Participation in Astronomy Under Mao

blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2026/0...

CHSTM Research Seminar, 21 April 2026 Dr Sarah Qidway Aligarh’s Scientific Society (est. 1864)

For your diaries: CHSTM Seminar, 21 April 2026 - Dr Sarah Qidway will be speaking on Aligarh’s Scientific Society (est. 1864)

blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2026/0...

CHSTM Research Seminar, 17 March 2026 Dr Siobhán Hearne Soviet Healthcare Diplomacy in the Global South

For your diaries: CHSTM Seminar, 17 March 2026 - Dr Siobhán Hearne will be speaking on Soviet Healthcare Diplomacy in the Global South.

blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2026/0...

Protest From Unexpected Corners: Barbers, Labour Unions, and Compulsory Masking in Modern China, 1930s–1940s Abstract. This article examines resistance from below to compulsory masking in modern China, from the 1930s to the 1940s. Initially marginalised and stigma

New #OpenAccess #HistMed article by our CHSTM colleague Dr Meng Zhang, on compulsory masking and the role of barbers in 1930s China.

academic.oup.com/shm/advance-...

Dr Sugden is a CHSTM alumna. Always good to see young colleagues go on to do great stuff.

Tonight, 6pm GMT

Event flyer - all details are available on the event registration page - click on the link in the post.

Imagining a Gender Equal World: Join CHSTM's Dr Amelia Bonea and other colleagues on 11 February for a free, international online symposium celebrating the International Day of Women and Girls in Science.
events.teams.microsoft.com/event/0b1ef0...

Book Discussion: Medical Women in the Japanese Empire: Sources and Critique

Please join CHSTM's Dr Amelia Bonea and colleagues for this book discussion on Medical Women in the Japanese Empire on 6 February.

events.ceu.edu/2026-02-06/b...

Today! Online access available - details on the website.

CHSTM Research Seminar, 3 February 2026 Prof Matthew Cobb The life and times of Francis Crick, or why it sometimes matters who does science

A date for your diaries: our next CHSTM seminar is scheduled for 3 February 2026, when our speaker will be @matthewcobb.bsky.social, on The life and times of Francis Crick, or why it sometimes matters who does science

blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2026/0...

Book Discussion: Medical Women in the Japanese Empire: Sources and Critique

Please join CHSTM's Dr Amelia Bonea and colleagues for this book discussion on Medical Women in the Japanese Empire on 6 February.

events.ceu.edu/2026-02-06/b...

Event flyer - all details are available on the event registration page - click on the link in the post.

Imagining a Gender Equal World: Join CHSTM's Dr Amelia Bonea and other colleagues on 11 February for a free, international online symposium celebrating the International Day of Women and Girls in Science.
events.teams.microsoft.com/event/0b1ef0...

CHSTM Research Seminar, 3 February 2026 Prof Matthew Cobb The life and times of Francis Crick, or why it sometimes matters who does science

A date for your diaries: our next CHSTM seminar is scheduled for 3 February 2026, when our speaker will be @matthewcobb.bsky.social, on The life and times of Francis Crick, or why it sometimes matters who does science

blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2026/0...

Congratulations to Eleanor Shaw, who successfully defended her PhD thesis on the history of the British Journal of Anaesthesia today. In the photo: Prof Carsten Timmermann (2nd supervisor), the candidate, Prof Roberta Bivins, and Dr Neil Pemberton (the external and internal examiners).

CHSTM Research Seminar, 9 December 2025 Dr Angela Cassidy From shared to separated health - and back again? The multiple lives of modern mycobacteria

Trundling my way on a train through v. soggy Somerset Levels to join old friends & new @manchstm.bsky.social. Will be talking this afternoon on mycobacterial movements across human, animal and ecosystem health ever since we've known these #microbes #histSTM
blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/1...

Next Tuesday!

Join Amelia Bonea and Irina Nastasa-Matei online on Thursday 4th December (7pm-8pm CET) to discuss their Manchester University Press book Negotiating Invisibility: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/events/book-...

Can Phi Pob Speak? ANZSHM NSW Seminar with Krittapak Ngamvaseenont Get tickets on Humanitix - Can Phi Pob Speak? ANZSHM NSW Seminar with Krittapak Ngamvaseenont. Online. Monday 1st December 2025. Find event information.

Our CHSTM PhD Krittapak Ngamvaseenont (@ngamvaseenont.bsky.social) will give his talk “Can Phi Pob Speak? Spirit Possession, Psychoanalysis, Transcultural Psychiatry, Buddhism, and Cold War Thailand” at the ANZSHM NSW Seminar. #HistSTM #histmed

Register here: events.humanitix.com/can-phi-pob-...

Reminder: Gemma Cirac Claveras is speaking next Tuesday. We are starting at 3pm GMT, not at the usual seminar time of 4pm.

I am SO looking forward to coming back to @manchstm.bsky.social talk through new work on #microbes! #histSTM #STS #envhist

East Asian Studies and CHSTM Joint Seminar, 11 November 2025 Dr Lewis Bremner The Heart of the Eye and the Heart of the Sun: The Struggle to Translate Science in Tokugawa Japan

But first it's Dr Lewis Bremner's turn, next Tuesday (hosted jointly with the colleagues in East Asian Studies)

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

CHSTM Research Seminar, 9 December 2025 Dr Angela Cassidy From shared to separated health - and back again? The multiple lives of modern mycobacteria

Another seminar for your diaries: on 9 December we are welcoming Dr Angela Cassidy @angecass.bsky.social for a talk on the multiple lives of modern mycobacteria.

blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/1...

CHSTM Research Seminar, 25 November 2025 Dr Gemma Cirac-Claveras Data Wars: International Data Sharing (or not) in Meteorology, 1980s-1990s

Another seminar date for your diary: we're looking forward to Dr Gemma Cirac Claveras speaking on 25 Nov on Data Wars: International Data Sharing (or not) in Meteorology, 1980s-1990s.
#HistSTM #EnvHist

blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/1...

Group of people in front of No 10 Downing Street.

Our colleague Dr Bonnie Evans (2nd from left) visiting No 10 Downing Street, as part of a group invited to create a more diverse network of advisors.

Next week

Online Workshop: (Melting) Ice. 17 November 2025 Jointly with the JRRI and the MCI: Second event in our Manchester Workshop Series on Natural Archives and the History of Science in Asia. 17 November 2025, 2-4:30pm

Please mark your diaries for an online workshop on the history of glaciology and polar science in Asia. *(Melting) Ice* - 17 Nov 2025. Attendance is free, but please register for the event.

blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/1...
#histstm #histsci