Beth Linker, Ph.D.
@bethlinker.bsky.social
Historian of Science + Medicine + Public Health + Disability @UPenn. New book re origins of posture health panic: SLOUCH https://tinyurl.com/46hfkpsn
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Other books: WAR'S WASTE & CIVIL DISABILITIES
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Other books: WAR'S WASTE & CIVIL DISABILITIES
Pinned
My newest video is all about the posture panic that swept across America - and how it connected to strict categories, thousands of nude photos, and a unique form of pseudoscience. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyRs...
The dark history of good posture
YouTube video by Phil Edwards
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Thank you Phil Edward's for this excellent rendition of my book. My Gen Z kids will now know what my book is about! @princetonupress.bsky.social
Thank you Phil Edward's for this excellent rendition of my book. My Gen Z kids will now know what my book is about! @princetonupress.bsky.social
My newest video is all about the posture panic that swept across America - and how it connected to strict categories, thousands of nude photos, and a unique form of pseudoscience. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyRs...
The dark history of good posture
YouTube video by Phil Edwards
www.youtube.com
October 13, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Thank you Phil Edward's for this excellent rendition of my book. My Gen Z kids will now know what my book is about! @princetonupress.bsky.social
@jay.bsky.team Penn's STSC Faculty have been following all of your successes! We are so very proud. You are a prime example of why we need more humanistic programs that focus on STEM!
May 19, 2025 at 6:04 PM
@jay.bsky.team Penn's STSC Faculty have been following all of your successes! We are so very proud. You are a prime example of why we need more humanistic programs that focus on STEM!
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I caught up with @chicagomag.com about my efforts to push back against Trump's disastrous policies, my time as a Blackhawk pilot, what I've learned throughout my life of service and more. Check it out here: www.chicagomag.com/chicago-maga...
Tammy Duckworth Is Done Playing by the Old Rules
In an exclusive interview, the senator laments the lack of resistance to Trump and describes her rescue in Iraq as a “gift.”
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April 15, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I caught up with @chicagomag.com about my efforts to push back against Trump's disastrous policies, my time as a Blackhawk pilot, what I've learned throughout my life of service and more. Check it out here: www.chicagomag.com/chicago-maga...
Love the mass historical society --check out this upcoming event! @mhs1791.bsky.social
The next seminar in our History of Women, Gender, & Sexuality series features @sevenpaperclips.bsky.social's "'The Permanent Prize for Nerve': Examining Women's Postwar Battles with the US Veteran's Bureau." @bethlinker.bsky.social commenting.
3 Apr @ 5p (EDT): www.masshist.org/events/perma...
3 Apr @ 5p (EDT): www.masshist.org/events/perma...
March 25, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Love the mass historical society --check out this upcoming event! @mhs1791.bsky.social
What a fun, eclectic audience! SHI @sciencehistory.org knows how to do great book talk events. 📚 @princetonupress.bsky.social
Thank you @bethlinker.bsky.social for this engaging and insightful talk about the history of America's obsession with posture in the 20th century. Learn more about our Science and Society speaker series on our website: sciencehistory.org/slouch
March 20, 2025 at 11:30 PM
What a fun, eclectic audience! SHI @sciencehistory.org knows how to do great book talk events. 📚 @princetonupress.bsky.social
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Tomorrow (March 19) at 6 pm EDT: Please join @sciencehistory.org in welcoming @bethlinker.bsky.social for a discussion of her book, Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America. This is a hybrid event.
To register for this free event, visit: www.sciencehistory.org/visit/events...
To register for this free event, visit: www.sciencehistory.org/visit/events...
March 18, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Tomorrow (March 19) at 6 pm EDT: Please join @sciencehistory.org in welcoming @bethlinker.bsky.social for a discussion of her book, Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America. This is a hybrid event.
To register for this free event, visit: www.sciencehistory.org/visit/events...
To register for this free event, visit: www.sciencehistory.org/visit/events...
Hard to think about things like historical scholarship on human posture sciences when destructive politically posturing is happening rn in the states. But @infinite-women.com was a great interviewer and you should check out this site.
This week on the podcast, @bethlinker.bsky.social, author of Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America, tells us about the “strange & surprising history of the so-called epidemic of bad posture in modern America.”
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Transcript www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/u...
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Transcript www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/u...
Beth Linker on posture panic by Infinite Women
Beth Linker, author of Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America, joins us to talk about the “strange and surprising history of the so-called epidemic of bad posture in modern America.”
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March 17, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Hard to think about things like historical scholarship on human posture sciences when destructive politically posturing is happening rn in the states. But @infinite-women.com was a great interviewer and you should check out this site.
Reposted by Beth Linker, Ph.D.
☎️Calling #HistMed Students & New Graduates📢
The Roy Porter Essay Prize deadline's tomorrow (1 Feb), 5pmGMT)! There's still time! Prizes include cash, conference plenary slot, mentoring, & places at our publication masterclass! Eligibility & entry form 👇
#HistSTM #DisHist #HistPsych #HistNursing 🗃️
The Roy Porter Essay Prize deadline's tomorrow (1 Feb), 5pmGMT)! There's still time! Prizes include cash, conference plenary slot, mentoring, & places at our publication masterclass! Eligibility & entry form 👇
#HistSTM #DisHist #HistPsych #HistNursing 🗃️
Prizes
2024/5 ROY PORTER STUDENT ESSAY PRIZE COMPETITION 2024-roy-porter-prize-entry-formDownload Rules and Entry Form The Society for the Social History of Medicine invites submissions to its 2024/5 Roy …
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January 31, 2025 at 12:38 PM
☎️Calling #HistMed Students & New Graduates📢
The Roy Porter Essay Prize deadline's tomorrow (1 Feb), 5pmGMT)! There's still time! Prizes include cash, conference plenary slot, mentoring, & places at our publication masterclass! Eligibility & entry form 👇
#HistSTM #DisHist #HistPsych #HistNursing 🗃️
The Roy Porter Essay Prize deadline's tomorrow (1 Feb), 5pmGMT)! There's still time! Prizes include cash, conference plenary slot, mentoring, & places at our publication masterclass! Eligibility & entry form 👇
#HistSTM #DisHist #HistPsych #HistNursing 🗃️
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☎️Calling #HistMed Students & New Graduates📢
The Roy Porter Essay Prize deadline is 1 Feb! Submit for the chance to win cash, a conference plenary slot, mentoring, & places at our publication masterclass! Details, eligibility & entry form 👇
#HistSTM
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The Roy Porter Essay Prize deadline is 1 Feb! Submit for the chance to win cash, a conference plenary slot, mentoring, & places at our publication masterclass! Details, eligibility & entry form 👇
#HistSTM
sshm.org/portfolio/pr...
Prizes
2024/5 ROY PORTER STUDENT ESSAY PRIZE COMPETITION 2024-roy-porter-prize-entry-formDownload Rules and Entry Form The Society for the Social History of Medicine invites submissions to its 2024/5 Roy …
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January 27, 2025 at 6:35 PM
☎️Calling #HistMed Students & New Graduates📢
The Roy Porter Essay Prize deadline is 1 Feb! Submit for the chance to win cash, a conference plenary slot, mentoring, & places at our publication masterclass! Details, eligibility & entry form 👇
#HistSTM
sshm.org/portfolio/pr...
The Roy Porter Essay Prize deadline is 1 Feb! Submit for the chance to win cash, a conference plenary slot, mentoring, & places at our publication masterclass! Details, eligibility & entry form 👇
#HistSTM
sshm.org/portfolio/pr...
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I organized this statement on the historical importance of federal agencies that protect and forward human health. As Project 2025 is dismantling them as I write, it is important that these agencies employ thousands of people committed to scientific research. #histmed nursingclio.org/2025/01/27/t...
The US Department of Health and Human Services: Its Importance in the Past and Present
We, as historians of medicine, express our support for the federal agencies and regulations that protect and promote human health. We know the long-term value of health-related federal agencies and…
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January 28, 2025 at 12:21 AM
I organized this statement on the historical importance of federal agencies that protect and forward human health. As Project 2025 is dismantling them as I write, it is important that these agencies employ thousands of people committed to scientific research. #histmed nursingclio.org/2025/01/27/t...
Reposted by Beth Linker, Ph.D.
Interested in public health campaigns and back pain? Mark your calendars for my latest book talk on MARCH 19th at the fabulous Science History Institute, in person and online. @princetonupress.bsky.social #histmed #skystorians #histstm
Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America
Professor and author Beth Linker reveals the surprising origins of our concerns over poor posture.
www.sciencehistory.org
January 8, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Interested in public health campaigns and back pain? Mark your calendars for my latest book talk on MARCH 19th at the fabulous Science History Institute, in person and online. @princetonupress.bsky.social #histmed #skystorians #histstm
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Two years ago, the AHA Council issued the Guidelines for Broadening the Definition of Historical Scholarship. Last May, we asked #AHAPerspectives readers to tell us: Why is what you do scholarship?
Today, we share essays by 12 historians in answer to that question. 🗃️ 🧵
Today, we share essays by 12 historians in answer to that question. 🗃️ 🧵
What Is Scholarship Today? – AHA
Inspired by the AHA's Guidelines for Broadening the Definition of Historical Scholarship, a dozen historians share the diverse ways they do history today.
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January 16, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Two years ago, the AHA Council issued the Guidelines for Broadening the Definition of Historical Scholarship. Last May, we asked #AHAPerspectives readers to tell us: Why is what you do scholarship?
Today, we share essays by 12 historians in answer to that question. 🗃️ 🧵
Today, we share essays by 12 historians in answer to that question. 🗃️ 🧵
Interested in public health campaigns and back pain? Mark your calendars for my latest book talk on MARCH 19th at the fabulous Science History Institute, in person and online. @princetonupress.bsky.social #histmed #skystorians #histstm
Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America
Professor and author Beth Linker reveals the surprising origins of our concerns over poor posture.
www.sciencehistory.org
January 8, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Interested in public health campaigns and back pain? Mark your calendars for my latest book talk on MARCH 19th at the fabulous Science History Institute, in person and online. @princetonupress.bsky.social #histmed #skystorians #histstm
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Join us in April 2025 for the 1st of 3 events funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social via @sshmedicine.bsky.social The first being hosted by the Uni of Birmingham (UK) and also supported by @fwwsoc.bsky.social A keynote by Brian K. Feltman of @mhptpodcast.bsky.social #milwelfhist #WW1 #FWW
January 2, 2025 at 11:10 AM
So happy to see my book in this round up press.princeton.edu/books/best-o... #skystorians #histstm #academicsky
Best of 2024
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December 20, 2024 at 1:57 PM
So happy to see my book in this round up press.princeton.edu/books/best-o... #skystorians #histstm #academicsky
Hey, hey, hey, I love fan (bluesky) mail! Thank you @infinitewomen.bsky.social If folks are looking for an amuse bouche, may I suggest a recent essay I wrote: psyche.co/ideas/in-def...
@bethlinker.bsky.social is fantastic; if you haven't read Slouch, go check it out :-)
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Slouch
The strange and surprising history of the so-called epidemic of bad posture in modern America—from eugenics and posture pageants to today’s promoters of “paleo posture”
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November 27, 2024 at 1:42 PM
Hey, hey, hey, I love fan (bluesky) mail! Thank you @infinitewomen.bsky.social If folks are looking for an amuse bouche, may I suggest a recent essay I wrote: psyche.co/ideas/in-def...
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We used to be a country. A proper country. And now we’re whatever this is
November 26, 2024 at 7:17 PM
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I think there may be some ppl on this platform who will enjoy this. Oh and I still love getting paper magazines and newspapers. #comics
November 24, 2024 at 2:49 PM
I think there may be some ppl on this platform who will enjoy this. Oh and I still love getting paper magazines and newspapers. #comics
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November 23, 2024 at 3:01 PM
I second this! @bschillace.brandyschillace.com
#academics #histstm : share this with your students!
📢Roy Porter Student Essay Prize 📢
Winner = opportunity to present plenary @sshmedicine.bsky.social's conference.
Winner/shortlisted = cash prizes and publication mentoring. Most promising entries = exclusive Masterclass with a journal editor.
Deadline: 1 Feb 2025. Details 👇
#HistMed #HistSTM 🗃
Winner = opportunity to present plenary @sshmedicine.bsky.social's conference.
Winner/shortlisted = cash prizes and publication mentoring. Most promising entries = exclusive Masterclass with a journal editor.
Deadline: 1 Feb 2025. Details 👇
#HistMed #HistSTM 🗃
Prizes
2024/5 ROY PORTER STUDENT ESSAY PRIZE COMPETITION 2024-roy-porter-prize-entry-formDownload Rules and Entry Form The Society for the Social History of Medicine invites submissions to its 2024/5 Roy …
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November 22, 2024 at 2:49 PM
#academics #histstm : share this with your students!
“We’ve all been told to stand up straighter,” Zoe Adams writes of our collective obsession with better posture. “But the scold isn’t necessarily connected to our health.” Read @thenation.com's review of Slouch by @bethlinker.bsky.social: www.thenation.com/article/cult...
Why Americans Are Obsessed With Poor Posture
A recent history of the 20th-century movement to fix slouching questions the moral and political dimensions of addressing bad backs over wider public health concerns.
www.thenation.com
November 21, 2024 at 2:39 PM
Is the concern with posture a moralizing junk science with no basis in fact? Or is it something more nuanced?
Why Americans Are Obsessed With Poor Posture
A recent history of the 20th-century movement to fix slouching questions the moral and political dimensions of addressing bad backs over wider public health concerns.
www.thenation.com
November 21, 2024 at 12:16 AM
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Finally able to introduce myself properly to @bsky.app !
Hi all, I'm a #deaf historian of #histSTM and #DisabilityHistory at the University of Delaware. I think & write about disability technologies, disabled perspectives, and medical/scientific authority. Hearing aids are my niche topic
Hi all, I'm a #deaf historian of #histSTM and #DisabilityHistory at the University of Delaware. I think & write about disability technologies, disabled perspectives, and medical/scientific authority. Hearing aids are my niche topic
Dr. Jaipreet Virdi
historian of medicine, technology, and disability
jaivirdi.com
November 19, 2024 at 3:37 PM
Finally able to introduce myself properly to @bsky.app !
Hi all, I'm a #deaf historian of #histSTM and #DisabilityHistory at the University of Delaware. I think & write about disability technologies, disabled perspectives, and medical/scientific authority. Hearing aids are my niche topic
Hi all, I'm a #deaf historian of #histSTM and #DisabilityHistory at the University of Delaware. I think & write about disability technologies, disabled perspectives, and medical/scientific authority. Hearing aids are my niche topic
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Whenever I see @bethlinker.bsky.social's book, I think of these photos from Philly's Central High [Evening Bulletin, undated]
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November 19, 2024 at 2:44 PM
Whenever I see @bethlinker.bsky.social's book, I think of these photos from Philly's Central High [Evening Bulletin, undated]
digital.library.temple.edu/digital/coll...
digital.library.temple.edu/digital/coll...
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