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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Claas Kirchhelle
@kirchhelle.bsky.social
· Jan 15
(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…
www.sciencedirect.com
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...
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...
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.
"Waiting for Washington to do the right thing can mean watching people die while politicians debate."
www.statnews.com/2026/02/13/c...
www.statnews.com/2026/02/13/c...
America's disease surveillance system is going dark. Here's what we can build to replace it
America’s disease surveillance system is broken. Here’s how to replace it.
www.statnews.com
February 13, 2026 at 9:41 PM
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.
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Wonderful job opportunities coming up in Berlin!
Come work with us!
Two fully funded 36-month PhD positions in the history of medicine at Charité Berlin.
The positions are part of the EU-funded Gender Insight network researching biopsychosocial aspects of diverse hormonal transitions.
Deadline 28 Feb 2026
#histmed
genderinsight.eu
Two fully funded 36-month PhD positions in the history of medicine at Charité Berlin.
The positions are part of the EU-funded Gender Insight network researching biopsychosocial aspects of diverse hormonal transitions.
Deadline 28 Feb 2026
#histmed
genderinsight.eu
Gender Insight
Through co-creation and mixed methods research the projects will increase our understanding of the influence of biopsychosocial factors during hormonal transitions such as puberty and menopause, in th...
genderinsight.eu
February 4, 2026 at 4:51 PM
Wonderful job opportunities coming up in Berlin!
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!
February 3, 2026 at 3:03 PM
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!
🎉 👏 Charlotte, huge achievement. Wonderful book!
It's finally out! 3 years after its release in French, my book on phage therapy, antibiotic infrastructure, and the possibility of pluribiotic medicine is now available! Thank you to @ColumbiaUP and to Vincent Lepinay, who has welcomed me into his collection!
#phage #AMR #capitalocene #phagetherapy
#phage #AMR #capitalocene #phagetherapy
February 3, 2026 at 8:59 AM
🎉 👏 Charlotte, huge achievement. Wonderful book!
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#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! 🗃️
January 26, 2026 at 8:03 AM
#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! 🗃️
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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
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
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…
www.sciencedirect.com
January 19, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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
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
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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...
(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…
www.sciencedirect.com
January 15, 2026 at 1:43 PM
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...
Reposted by Claas Kirchhelle
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
(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
January 15, 2026 at 9:10 AM
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
(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
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...
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...
(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…
www.sciencedirect.com
January 15, 2026 at 8:41 AM
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...
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...
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Ooh fascinating project
One PhD and one postdoc position available in the interesting ERC research project on Beyond Thalidomide: The Patient as an Agent of Change (2024-2029) run by dr Birgit Nemec:
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
jobs.univie.ac.at
January 13, 2026 at 10:48 AM
Ooh fascinating project
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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
The Hudson Transparencies are large images on paper screens, which in the 19th century were lit from behind and used as visual aids to teach about microscopic organisms.
Find out more ➡️ specialcollectionsarchive.exeter.ac.uk/exhibits/sho...
📷 EUL MS 442
#TinyTuesday #Archives #Microorganisms
Find out more ➡️ specialcollectionsarchive.exeter.ac.uk/exhibits/sho...
📷 EUL MS 442
#TinyTuesday #Archives #Microorganisms
January 13, 2026 at 12:51 PM
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
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2025 was a miserable year for global health
It’s nice see some hopeful things we can look forward to 👇🏾
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
It’s nice see some hopeful things we can look forward to 👇🏾
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2025 at 10:24 AM
2025 was a miserable year for global health
It’s nice see some hopeful things we can look forward to 👇🏾
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
It’s nice see some hopeful things we can look forward to 👇🏾
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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Photo1: sub auspices maestris 😉
Photo 2: in-place-of-conclusions 🤔
Photo 3: this amazing group of scholars!!! 🤩🤩🤩
Photo 2: in-place-of-conclusions 🤔
Photo 3: this amazing group of scholars!!! 🤩🤩🤩
December 23, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Photo1: sub auspices maestris 😉
Photo 2: in-place-of-conclusions 🤔
Photo 3: this amazing group of scholars!!! 🤩🤩🤩
Photo 2: in-place-of-conclusions 🤔
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.
Seems like it's worth posting this one again.
Why Do Historians Still Have To Go To Archives?
Why do historians go to archives? Hasn’t everything already been digitized?
contingentmagazine.org
December 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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.
Reposted by Claas Kirchhelle
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
Organ-tuning books in English churches provide notes on a warming climate
Researchers have realised the records are a ‘goldmine’ to study changes in environmental conditions
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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
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.
OMG - there’s a word for this????
Szilard Point = when the costs of getting a grant equal the value of an awarded grant
EVERY UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATOR SHOULD READ THIS (to remind them of what academic scientists are facing right now):
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Szilard Point = when the costs of getting a grant equal the value of an awarded grant
EVERY UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATOR SHOULD READ THIS (to remind them of what academic scientists are facing right now):
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Point of no returns: researchers are crossing a threshold in the fight for funding
With so little money to go round, the costs of competing for grants can exceed what the grants are worth. When that happens, nobody wins.
www.nature.com
December 19, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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.
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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
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
Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines: Introduction
A free online humanities course about how to learn and work and thrive in an AI world.
thebullshitmachines.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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
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
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
Further articles will appear over the next weeks!
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
@britishacademy.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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
Further articles will appear over the next weeks!
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
@britishacademy.bsky.social
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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
#UNEA7 is a key moment for countries to build on this progress & step up action for a more resilient planet: bit.ly/3WtFOt3
December 2, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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
#UNEA7 is a key moment for countries to build on this progress & step up action for a more resilient planet: bit.ly/3WtFOt3
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‼️📣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‼️
December 2, 2025 at 12:30 PM
‼️📣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‼️
Quite a move!
From January 1st 2026, the CNRS will cut access to one of the largest commercial bibliometric databases, Clarivate Analytics' Web of Science, along with the Core Collection and Journal Citation Reports.
The CNRS is breaking free from the Web of Science
From January 1st 2026, the CNRS will cut access to one of the largest commercial bibliometric databases, Clarivate Analytics'
www.cnrs.fr
December 1, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Quite a move!
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!
Now, the CDC Museum's future is on the rocks. The museum doesn't have a director even though a former supervisor is trying to keep the doors open. One of the museum's most popular programs is Disease Detective Camp, a summer program for high school students 👇
CDC Museum's Future Is on the Rocks
'You can't just throw a museum away,' former staffer says
www.medpagetoday.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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!
What are the associations between #AMR 💊 & #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
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
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...
doi.org
November 24, 2025 at 10:22 AM
What are the associations between #AMR 💊 & #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
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
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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...
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
www.findaphd.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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...