Marek Eby
@marekeby.bsky.social
Epidemics, environments, science, and state power in the USSR. Currently: Research Fellow in Global Health History at the University of Leeds. PhD from New York University (2025)
I did a terrible job announcing this in the rush to arrange everything, but I have started a new role as a Research Fellow in Global Health History at the University of Leeds!
Our project (PI: Robert Hornsby) will study the USSR's role in the WHO and global health, 1957-1991. Lots more to come!
Our project (PI: Robert Hornsby) will study the USSR's role in the WHO and global health, 1957-1991. Lots more to come!
October 11, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I did a terrible job announcing this in the rush to arrange everything, but I have started a new role as a Research Fellow in Global Health History at the University of Leeds!
Our project (PI: Robert Hornsby) will study the USSR's role in the WHO and global health, 1957-1991. Lots more to come!
Our project (PI: Robert Hornsby) will study the USSR's role in the WHO and global health, 1957-1991. Lots more to come!
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March 12, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Every donation, no matter the amount, makes a real difference in ensuring we can continue providing programming and research support. Those wishing to donate can find instructions here: buff.ly/XNmS9CG
We thank you for your continued support!
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With a hat tip to @ukrarthistory.bsky.social, who posted about it over on Twitter, I'll be very excited to check out this new exhibition on Tatlin as a Ukrainian artist! If you are (or will be) in NYC, check it out at the Ukrainian Museum until April 27!
www.theukrainianmuseum.org/tatlin-kyiv/
www.theukrainianmuseum.org/tatlin-kyiv/
TATLIN: KYIV
www.theukrainianmuseum.org
March 13, 2025 at 12:44 PM
With a hat tip to @ukrarthistory.bsky.social, who posted about it over on Twitter, I'll be very excited to check out this new exhibition on Tatlin as a Ukrainian artist! If you are (or will be) in NYC, check it out at the Ukrainian Museum until April 27!
www.theukrainianmuseum.org/tatlin-kyiv/
www.theukrainianmuseum.org/tatlin-kyiv/
Digital historians! I know some of you are doing amazing work with GIS, and I was wondering: could you share your favorite guides, courses, and tools for this work? And for data generation, management, and use in general? #skystorians #academicsky
March 10, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Digital historians! I know some of you are doing amazing work with GIS, and I was wondering: could you share your favorite guides, courses, and tools for this work? And for data generation, management, and use in general? #skystorians #academicsky
Not an earth-shattering point, but it occurs to me that the entire infrastructure of robo-service is optimized to make sure only *my* time is wasted. I have a question. 2 emails and 1 phone call later, I have gotten a robo-reply and a robo-phone message. I have not managed to trouble a single human.
March 3, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Not an earth-shattering point, but it occurs to me that the entire infrastructure of robo-service is optimized to make sure only *my* time is wasted. I have a question. 2 emails and 1 phone call later, I have gotten a robo-reply and a robo-phone message. I have not managed to trouble a single human.
How did I not know that Eastview has a full open-access database of the journal Sovetskoe Zdravookhranenie (1942-1992)?! Check it out: on-demand.eastview.com/browse/publi...
Sovetskoe Zdravookhranenie (PDF, article-based)
Sovetskoe Zdravookhranenie (PDF, article-based). Established in 1942 by the Ministry of Health of the USSR, the journal Sovetskoe Zdravookhranenie (Soviet Healthcare) was Soviet Union’s premier scient...
on-demand.eastview.com
February 28, 2025 at 11:07 PM
How did I not know that Eastview has a full open-access database of the journal Sovetskoe Zdravookhranenie (1942-1992)?! Check it out: on-demand.eastview.com/browse/publi...
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#aseees people: @labendz.bsky.social Jacob Labendz and I are looking to put together a panel on Postwar state security in a global perspective, with or without Jews as the focus. Please send either of us a message if you are interested!
February 13, 2025 at 12:31 AM
#aseees people: @labendz.bsky.social Jacob Labendz and I are looking to put together a panel on Postwar state security in a global perspective, with or without Jews as the focus. Please send either of us a message if you are interested!
Great to see the volume is out in ebook form, and in open access! Full of wonderful contributions! Check out my chapter on Soviet participation in the "wider networks" of WHO malariology if you want to know how Soviet specialists both reinforced and transcended the boundaries of the Cold War!
It also includes my chapter on “International organizations and the issue of natural disasters during the Cold War” alongside contributions by @crwdietrich.bsky.social, @simon-graham.bsky.social, @marekeby.bsky.social, @dsharnak.bsky.social (and other great scholars not yet on bsky) (2/3)
International Organizations and the Cold War
www.bloomsburycollections.com
January 29, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Great to see the volume is out in ebook form, and in open access! Full of wonderful contributions! Check out my chapter on Soviet participation in the "wider networks" of WHO malariology if you want to know how Soviet specialists both reinforced and transcended the boundaries of the Cold War!
Has anyone written about the (apparently ill-fated) Soviet role in the 1939-40 World's Fair in NYC? NYPL has over 1,000 linear feet of records on the fair, and mentions significant controversy over Soviet plans and eventual withdrawal...
January 28, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Has anyone written about the (apparently ill-fated) Soviet role in the 1939-40 World's Fair in NYC? NYPL has over 1,000 linear feet of records on the fair, and mentions significant controversy over Soviet plans and eventual withdrawal...
The whole volume looks great!
Well well well, regardez qui fait le chapitre sur l'histoire des techniques minieres 👀
Ça sera dans l'Histoire globale des techniques qui paraîtra début février aux CNRS éditions #envhist #mininghistory
Ça sera dans l'Histoire globale des techniques qui paraîtra début février aux CNRS éditions #envhist #mininghistory
January 24, 2025 at 5:38 PM
The whole volume looks great!
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We are excited to start off the year with a new double-issue, featuring, among other contributions, a cluster of articles on "War against Ukraine: language, culture, and media." www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcsp20/c...
Canadian Slavonic Papers
Volume 66, Issue 3-4 of Canadian Slavonic Papers
www.tandfonline.com
January 15, 2025 at 8:48 PM
We are excited to start off the year with a new double-issue, featuring, among other contributions, a cluster of articles on "War against Ukraine: language, culture, and media." www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcsp20/c...
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In today's think-piece, Paul Kurek explores and situates Reinhart Koselleck's model of conceptual history with the more recent "geological turn" in history and social theory.
web.sas.upenn.edu/jhiblog/2025...
web.sas.upenn.edu/jhiblog/2025...
Towards a Cultural Geology: Merging Material and Conceptual History
by Paul Kurek
web.sas.upenn.edu
January 15, 2025 at 3:08 PM
In today's think-piece, Paul Kurek explores and situates Reinhart Koselleck's model of conceptual history with the more recent "geological turn" in history and social theory.
web.sas.upenn.edu/jhiblog/2025...
web.sas.upenn.edu/jhiblog/2025...
New year, new (post about a) starter pack! I’ve been slowly adding people to the Russian/Soviet/Eurasian history pack as they appear. If you’ve never seen it or it’s been a while, check it out! And if you want to be added, just ask (reply or DM)!
go.bsky.app/CagBxPQ
go.bsky.app/CagBxPQ
January 6, 2025 at 2:16 PM
New year, new (post about a) starter pack! I’ve been slowly adding people to the Russian/Soviet/Eurasian history pack as they appear. If you’ve never seen it or it’s been a while, check it out! And if you want to be added, just ask (reply or DM)!
go.bsky.app/CagBxPQ
go.bsky.app/CagBxPQ
Love the new style!
January 3, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Love the new style!
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I’m teaching Research Methods for the first time this coming semester.
#skystorians , tell me about articles in which the authors use their primary sources in unconventional, masterful, and/or especially compelling ways.
Any time period, any topic! Trying to fill a few holes in the syllabus.
#skystorians , tell me about articles in which the authors use their primary sources in unconventional, masterful, and/or especially compelling ways.
Any time period, any topic! Trying to fill a few holes in the syllabus.
December 22, 2024 at 4:22 PM
I’m teaching Research Methods for the first time this coming semester.
#skystorians , tell me about articles in which the authors use their primary sources in unconventional, masterful, and/or especially compelling ways.
Any time period, any topic! Trying to fill a few holes in the syllabus.
#skystorians , tell me about articles in which the authors use their primary sources in unconventional, masterful, and/or especially compelling ways.
Any time period, any topic! Trying to fill a few holes in the syllabus.
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Designing a graduate course for students who have no familiarity with working with archival sources. Any readings I should or could include in the syllabus?
December 22, 2024 at 3:16 PM
Designing a graduate course for students who have no familiarity with working with archival sources. Any readings I should or could include in the syllabus?
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Loren Graham (based at MIT) one of the greatest historians of science, who wrote on Russian & Soviet science, passed away on Dec 15. Loren's brilliant insights and publications are many but he was also an incredibly kind & generous scholar. He supported me throughout my career & I owe him immensely.
December 20, 2024 at 2:11 PM
Loren Graham (based at MIT) one of the greatest historians of science, who wrote on Russian & Soviet science, passed away on Dec 15. Loren's brilliant insights and publications are many but he was also an incredibly kind & generous scholar. He supported me throughout my career & I owe him immensely.
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I'm preparing a presentation for a school developing a medical humanities minor, and I just want to give a shout out to this FREE 2020 publication from @aamctoday.bsky.social (1/4)
store.aamc.org/the-fundamen...
store.aamc.org/the-fundamen...
The Fundamental Role of the Arts and Humanities in Medical Education (PDF)
This publication reviews the historic and current state of arts and humanities integration into medical education, considers curriculum and assessment methods, and provides guidance on the research an...
store.aamc.org
December 18, 2024 at 4:34 PM
I'm preparing a presentation for a school developing a medical humanities minor, and I just want to give a shout out to this FREE 2020 publication from @aamctoday.bsky.social (1/4)
store.aamc.org/the-fundamen...
store.aamc.org/the-fundamen...
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How can we interpret signals from extraterrestrials when we struggle to communicate amongst ourselves?
My new book (out now in the UK, out in the US on Jan 13) "Mixed Signals" delves into how the Cold War forged SETI and radio astronomy as we know it.
www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
My new book (out now in the UK, out in the US on Jan 13) "Mixed Signals" delves into how the Cold War forged SETI and radio astronomy as we know it.
www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
November 6, 2024 at 3:15 PM
How can we interpret signals from extraterrestrials when we struggle to communicate amongst ourselves?
My new book (out now in the UK, out in the US on Jan 13) "Mixed Signals" delves into how the Cold War forged SETI and radio astronomy as we know it.
www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
My new book (out now in the UK, out in the US on Jan 13) "Mixed Signals" delves into how the Cold War forged SETI and radio astronomy as we know it.
www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
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Starting your most incoherent sentence with "put simply" to deflect blame onto the reader
December 12, 2024 at 12:55 PM
Starting your most incoherent sentence with "put simply" to deflect blame onto the reader
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Don't miss my picks for environmental history worth reading from November!!
niche-canada.org/2024/12/09/e...
#envhist
niche-canada.org/2024/12/09/e...
#envhist
#EnvHist Worth Reading: November 2024
Find salmon hats, lizard obsessions, and human-microbe co-evolution in this month's list of environmental history worth reading from Jessica DeWitt.
niche-canada.org
December 11, 2024 at 4:13 PM
Don't miss my picks for environmental history worth reading from November!!
niche-canada.org/2024/12/09/e...
#envhist
niche-canada.org/2024/12/09/e...
#envhist
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Rethinking Global History edited by Stefanie Gänger and Jürgen Osterhammel is out now - in open access.
www.cambridge.org/core/books/r...
www.cambridge.org/core/books/r...
Rethinking Global History
Cambridge Core - Global History - Rethinking Global History
www.cambridge.org
November 25, 2024 at 9:19 AM
Rethinking Global History edited by Stefanie Gänger and Jürgen Osterhammel is out now - in open access.
www.cambridge.org/core/books/r...
www.cambridge.org/core/books/r...
I've returned from #ASEEES24 very tired, but very inspired! A new research project beckons, although the final deadlines to submit my dissertation also loom...
November 26, 2024 at 4:27 PM
I've returned from #ASEEES24 very tired, but very inspired! A new research project beckons, although the final deadlines to submit my dissertation also loom...
The crucial missing starter pack for Slavic lit and culture is here! Definitely not one to be missed!
I created a thing! It is definitely missing people - if you are a person who should be on it, pls let me know! go.bsky.app/8HazBeR
November 26, 2024 at 2:06 PM
The crucial missing starter pack for Slavic lit and culture is here! Definitely not one to be missed!
Another really interesting starter pack!
I put together a new starter pack of people who do work on the history of socialism. Encompasses different aspects, tendencies, and eras, including recent years. Let me know if you have suggestions or would like to be added yourself.
November 26, 2024 at 2:02 PM
Another really interesting starter pack!