Genese Marie Sodikoff
@gsodikoff.bsky.social
Medical and environmental anthropologist: zoonosis, extinction, multispecies ethnography, kinship, conservation, Madagascar. Rutgers University-Newark
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Scientists aiming to bring back woolly mammoth create woolly mice
Scientists aiming to bring back woolly mammoth create woolly mice
Genetically modified mice have traits geared towards cold tolerance, in step towards modifying elephants
A plan to revive the mammoth is on track, scientists have said after creating a new species: the woolly mouse.
Scientists at the US biotechnology…
www.theguardian.com
March 4, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Scientists aiming to bring back woolly mammoth create woolly mice
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The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
February 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
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Special issue by the Global War Against the Rat project, on the subject of "Invasive Species, Global Health, and Colonial Legacies" is now available adv. access @ JHMAS
See this great thread by @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social on the articles contained in the special issue
See this great thread by @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social on the articles contained in the special issue
All papers in mine and @visualplague.bsky.social 's new special issue on "Invasive Species, Global Health, and Colonial Legacies" are now out on advance access with the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. A big thanks to everyone who has helped to make this a reality!
February 6, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Special issue by the Global War Against the Rat project, on the subject of "Invasive Species, Global Health, and Colonial Legacies" is now available adv. access @ JHMAS
See this great thread by @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social on the articles contained in the special issue
See this great thread by @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social on the articles contained in the special issue
@gsodikoff01.bsky.social this is a fake account
January 16, 2025 at 2:25 PM
@gsodikoff01.bsky.social this is a fake account
gsodikoff01 is a fake account impersonating me that just followed real me. So frustrating that bots are already infiltrating this site.
January 15, 2025 at 4:54 AM
gsodikoff01 is a fake account impersonating me that just followed real me. So frustrating that bots are already infiltrating this site.
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We always think of rats spreading plague across seas, but what about transmission across land? Christos Lynteris examines the colonial history of this question in: A Rat’s Progress: Plague and the "Migratory Rat" in British India, 1896-1899 #histmed OA academic.oup.com/jhmas/advanc...
A Rat’s Progress: Plague and the “Migratory Rat” in British India, 1896-1899
Abstract. Whether referring to oceanic travel on board of ships or to movement in terra firma, framings of the “migratory rat” formed a key epidemiological
academic.oup.com
January 4, 2025 at 12:01 PM
We always think of rats spreading plague across seas, but what about transmission across land? Christos Lynteris examines the colonial history of this question in: A Rat’s Progress: Plague and the "Migratory Rat" in British India, 1896-1899 #histmed OA academic.oup.com/jhmas/advanc...
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My very first article has been published in the American Historical Review! ✨
In it I've transcribed a handful of petitions that help us to understand how people began to piece their lives back together following an outbreak of plague 👇
academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...
In it I've transcribed a handful of petitions that help us to understand how people began to piece their lives back together following an outbreak of plague 👇
academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...
The Lancashire Plague Petitions: Life after the Plague in Early Modern England
Abstract. Historians typically explore the resilience of past societies in terms of large-scale outcomes like population levels. In contrast, this paper ex
academic.oup.com
December 7, 2024 at 3:50 PM
My very first article has been published in the American Historical Review! ✨
In it I've transcribed a handful of petitions that help us to understand how people began to piece their lives back together following an outbreak of plague 👇
academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...
In it I've transcribed a handful of petitions that help us to understand how people began to piece their lives back together following an outbreak of plague 👇
academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...