Dr Emilie Taylor-Pirie
@dretaylorpirie.bsky.social
Historian of Medicine & Culture | Medical Humanities | Gut Health | Author of “Empire Under the Microscope" (2022) https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-84717-3 | lover of books, dogs, slow news, and the oxford comma. | vibe: 📚🔬🦟🐕👶🏻👶🏻🌱
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The Poet Who Conquered Malaria: Medical Humanities and the Public Understanding of Science - Medical Humanities
Dr Emilie Taylor-Pirie considers the Scottish pathologist Ronald Ross, who proved that mosquitos transmit malaria.
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Late to the party. (but hey I showed up, didn't I?)
Lover of science 🔬 writer of history 📚 mother of twins 👶👶
Follow me for tepid takes about science & society, especially parasite content, fun facts, & why we need the humanities more than ever.
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Lover of science 🔬 writer of history 📚 mother of twins 👶👶
Follow me for tepid takes about science & society, especially parasite content, fun facts, & why we need the humanities more than ever.
blogs.bmj.com/medical-huma...
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UK readers: if you want to buy a hardback HTVTUTTM at a paperback price, Amazon currently have it at a whopping 68% off. Worth it for the amazing dust-jacket alone:
How the Victorians Took Us to the Moon: The Story of the Nineteenth-Century Innovators Who Forged the Future
Buy How the Victorians Took Us to the Moon: The Story of the Nineteenth-Century Innovators Who Forged the Future by Rhys Morus, Iwan (ISBN: 9781785789281) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
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September 16, 2025 at 4:39 PM
UK readers: if you want to buy a hardback HTVTUTTM at a paperback price, Amazon currently have it at a whopping 68% off. Worth it for the amazing dust-jacket alone:
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Calling all Victorianists with Lego Ideas accounts! (yeah, I see you)
VOTE FOR LEGO CRYSTAL PALACE beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...
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The Crystal Palace | LEGO® Ideas
Welcome to the Crystal Palace and the grandest event of the Victorian age - the Great Exhibition of 1851!…
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September 16, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Calling all Victorianists with Lego Ideas accounts! (yeah, I see you)
VOTE FOR LEGO CRYSTAL PALACE beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...
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just had the wild experience of finding an "AI podcast" of my book, "Empire Under the Microscope". Astonishingly, at the surface level, it's not that far off the mark, and thankfully shuns the Siri-robot voice.
September 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM
just had the wild experience of finding an "AI podcast" of my book, "Empire Under the Microscope". Astonishingly, at the surface level, it's not that far off the mark, and thankfully shuns the Siri-robot voice.
Can we all just take a sec to appreciate these cute names of new members of the Children's League in 1908 (set up to encourage the habits of kindness & self-denial): Elsie, Norman, Doris, Lawrence, Clarrie, Jeanie, Kitty, Edith, Queenie, Florence, Olga, Gertie, Ida, Martha, Agnes, Violet, Florrie 🥹
August 15, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Can we all just take a sec to appreciate these cute names of new members of the Children's League in 1908 (set up to encourage the habits of kindness & self-denial): Elsie, Norman, Doris, Lawrence, Clarrie, Jeanie, Kitty, Edith, Queenie, Florence, Olga, Gertie, Ida, Martha, Agnes, Violet, Florrie 🥹
realising that this article is indeed one of my books in a parallel universe... but not this one so I guess it's radical culling time. wish me luck. #antivaxhistories #narrativeauthority #ronaldross
July 30, 2025 at 3:04 PM
realising that this article is indeed one of my books in a parallel universe... but not this one so I guess it's radical culling time. wish me luck. #antivaxhistories #narrativeauthority #ronaldross
ads in a Date Book (1902) "Throw pens to the dogs! They belong to an age of tallow candles&stage coaches. c20th lecturers need a present day writing implement—the ROYAL BAR=LOCK TYPEWRITER!" Literally the next page: "Note down every engagement w/the SWAN FOUNTAIN PEN. Ever handy in your pocket!"
July 30, 2025 at 11:14 AM
ads in a Date Book (1902) "Throw pens to the dogs! They belong to an age of tallow candles&stage coaches. c20th lecturers need a present day writing implement—the ROYAL BAR=LOCK TYPEWRITER!" Literally the next page: "Note down every engagement w/the SWAN FOUNTAIN PEN. Ever handy in your pocket!"
"Before many months every one of us, on catching a cold, will slip off in all probability, to spend an hour in a chlorine gas chamber as naturally as we slip off to the dentist" (1924) - well this didn't age well.
July 30, 2025 at 10:53 AM
"Before many months every one of us, on catching a cold, will slip off in all probability, to spend an hour in a chlorine gas chamber as naturally as we slip off to the dentist" (1924) - well this didn't age well.
I'm in the office today & before we even hit 9am my colleague & I went down the rabbit hole of "grief tech" & it's bioethics. There's an AI Seance software that allows you to input data of your loved one to recreate them from beyond the grave. I kid you not. Now want to write a paper on it.
April 2, 2025 at 8:19 AM
I'm in the office today & before we even hit 9am my colleague & I went down the rabbit hole of "grief tech" & it's bioethics. There's an AI Seance software that allows you to input data of your loved one to recreate them from beyond the grave. I kid you not. Now want to write a paper on it.
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A wonderful opportunity to apply for a fully-funded collaborative PhD studentship in partnership with @royalsociety.org. "Weather Sceptics: Almanacs and the Making of Scientific Meteorology in Nineteenth-Century Britain". Deadline 6 May. See link for full details. #histsci @bshsnews.bsky.social
AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) - Weather Sceptics: Almanacs and the Making of Scientific Meteorology in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Project opportunity - AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) - Weather Sceptics: Almanacs and the Making of Scientific Meteorology in Nineteenth-Century Britain at the University of Leeds
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April 2, 2025 at 7:16 AM
A wonderful opportunity to apply for a fully-funded collaborative PhD studentship in partnership with @royalsociety.org. "Weather Sceptics: Almanacs and the Making of Scientific Meteorology in Nineteenth-Century Britain". Deadline 6 May. See link for full details. #histsci @bshsnews.bsky.social
Telling it like it is in 1915 with the article title: "People who ought to be shot". Yikes!
March 31, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Telling it like it is in 1915 with the article title: "People who ought to be shot". Yikes!
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Thanks to our contributors @grmorgan.bsky.social @timothysmiller.bsky.social @dretaylorpirie.bsky.social @nomad93.bsky.social @larsschmeink.bsky.social and many others. You can see the full table of contents here: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-edi...
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March 25, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Thanks to our contributors @grmorgan.bsky.social @timothysmiller.bsky.social @dretaylorpirie.bsky.social @nomad93.bsky.social @larsschmeink.bsky.social and many others. You can see the full table of contents here: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-edi...
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I just received my copy of The Edinburgh Companion to Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities, feat. a lengthy introduction my @drgavinmiller.bsky.social and I, and a chapter on pregnancy from me. #medicalhumanities #sf #sciencefiction #disabilitystudies
March 25, 2025 at 7:59 AM
I just received my copy of The Edinburgh Companion to Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities, feat. a lengthy introduction my @drgavinmiller.bsky.social and I, and a chapter on pregnancy from me. #medicalhumanities #sf #sciencefiction #disabilitystudies
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Glasgow's National Trust for Scotland's Mackintosh at the Willow will host a series of talks on the history of the cuppa.
The Scottish Food Heritage Symposium led by @uofgartshums.bsky.social Dr Lindsay Middleton and @tenementkitchen.bsky.social will diving into tea's cultural impact. 🫖
The Scottish Food Heritage Symposium led by @uofgartshums.bsky.social Dr Lindsay Middleton and @tenementkitchen.bsky.social will diving into tea's cultural impact. 🫖
Scottish food heritage symposium explores tea’s cultural and societal impact
At this month’s annual Scottish Food Heritage Symposium experts will explore how this simple beverage helped transform Scotland’s largest city.
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March 24, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Glasgow's National Trust for Scotland's Mackintosh at the Willow will host a series of talks on the history of the cuppa.
The Scottish Food Heritage Symposium led by @uofgartshums.bsky.social Dr Lindsay Middleton and @tenementkitchen.bsky.social will diving into tea's cultural impact. 🫖
The Scottish Food Heritage Symposium led by @uofgartshums.bsky.social Dr Lindsay Middleton and @tenementkitchen.bsky.social will diving into tea's cultural impact. 🫖
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Now might be a good time to protect your data if you’ve used this service.
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23andMe files for bankruptcy protection
The company said that it will now attempt to sell itself under the supervision of a court.
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March 24, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Now might be a good time to protect your data if you’ve used this service.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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So, all three of my books for adults (plus translations) have been illegally pirated on LibGen, and then stolen again by Meta to train their AI
Copyright law is being utterly trampled on, over and over. I hate it.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Copyright law is being utterly trampled on, over and over. I hate it.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
March 20, 2025 at 2:48 PM
So, all three of my books for adults (plus translations) have been illegally pirated on LibGen, and then stolen again by Meta to train their AI
Copyright law is being utterly trampled on, over and over. I hate it.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Copyright law is being utterly trampled on, over and over. I hate it.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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This made me cheer. It gets directly at a problem I’ve often noticed: people don’t fundamentally understand what a historian *does*.
March 22, 2025 at 5:59 PM
This made me cheer. It gets directly at a problem I’ve often noticed: people don’t fundamentally understand what a historian *does*.
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A #HistPsych query addressed to historians of women's rights and the suffragette movement: for an undergraduate student project, can anyone point me to primary sources where protests by suffragettes are dismissed as expressions of mental illness? And is there secondary literature on this?
March 12, 2025 at 3:54 PM
A #HistPsych query addressed to historians of women's rights and the suffragette movement: for an undergraduate student project, can anyone point me to primary sources where protests by suffragettes are dismissed as expressions of mental illness? And is there secondary literature on this?
I've been listening to countless podcasts and reading articles & books about anti-vaxxers & anti-vax histories the past week. Vaccine hesitancy is a prime candidate for promoting the importance of the humanities. It's rarely about the science. It's about trust, fear, risk, authority & narrative.
March 12, 2025 at 10:41 AM
I've been listening to countless podcasts and reading articles & books about anti-vaxxers & anti-vax histories the past week. Vaccine hesitancy is a prime candidate for promoting the importance of the humanities. It's rarely about the science. It's about trust, fear, risk, authority & narrative.
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It's publication month, and you can read parts of my new book on that bastion of surprisingly un-previewable public domain material and surprisingly previewable copyrighted material: Google Books. Don't tell me if you find errors, typos, or dubious geology. books.google.co.uk/books?id=6Ch...
Contesting Earth's History in Transatlantic Literary Culture, 1860-1935
By the mid-nineteenth century, geologists and palaeontologists had reconstructed an authoritative narrative of Earth's deep history, from the planet's molten origins to the rise of humanity. Many figu...
books.google.co.uk
March 3, 2025 at 8:51 AM
It's publication month, and you can read parts of my new book on that bastion of surprisingly un-previewable public domain material and surprisingly previewable copyrighted material: Google Books. Don't tell me if you find errors, typos, or dubious geology. books.google.co.uk/books?id=6Ch...
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It's #MementoMoriMonday!
Here are male and female memento mori figurines used for spiritual contemplation from the 19th century. They were meant to remind the owner of the transience of life and material luxury. They are now part of the Wellcome Collection in London.
Wedding cake toppers, anyone?
Here are male and female memento mori figurines used for spiritual contemplation from the 19th century. They were meant to remind the owner of the transience of life and material luxury. They are now part of the Wellcome Collection in London.
Wedding cake toppers, anyone?
March 3, 2025 at 10:57 AM
It's #MementoMoriMonday!
Here are male and female memento mori figurines used for spiritual contemplation from the 19th century. They were meant to remind the owner of the transience of life and material luxury. They are now part of the Wellcome Collection in London.
Wedding cake toppers, anyone?
Here are male and female memento mori figurines used for spiritual contemplation from the 19th century. They were meant to remind the owner of the transience of life and material luxury. They are now part of the Wellcome Collection in London.
Wedding cake toppers, anyone?