Cindy Ermus
@cindyermus.bsky.social
Mom; Wilson Assoc Prof in History of Medicine; Dir of medical humanities; Series Ed for France Overseas, U Neb Press; cofounder ageofrevolutions.com; FRHistS; NEH Fellow 2022.
Book: Great Plague Scare of 1720 (Cambridge 2023).
Views my own.
Book: Great Plague Scare of 1720 (Cambridge 2023).
Views my own.
Happy Halloween, Blueskyers! Blueys?! Blues?!
Want to get *really* spooked? Check this out: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Want to get *really* spooked? Check this out: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
a man with a pumpkin head is riding a horse in the dark
ALT: a man with a pumpkin head is riding a horse in the dark
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October 31, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Happy Halloween, Blueskyers! Blueys?! Blues?!
Want to get *really* spooked? Check this out: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Want to get *really* spooked? Check this out: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The window for nominations is OPEN for the 2026 Genevieve Miller Lifetime Achievement Award in the History of Medicine of the @aahmhistmed.bsky.social. The deadline is December 15, 2025. For details, please click below. (Please note that nominees need not be *active* members.)
Genevieve Miller Lifetime Achievement Award
Genevieve Miller Lifetime Achievement Award The American Association for the History of Medicine established the lifetime achievement award in 1988; the first recipients were Saul Jarcho, Lester King,...
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October 31, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The window for nominations is OPEN for the 2026 Genevieve Miller Lifetime Achievement Award in the History of Medicine of the @aahmhistmed.bsky.social. The deadline is December 15, 2025. For details, please click below. (Please note that nominees need not be *active* members.)
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And we have our cover! @cindyermus.bsky.social
October 4, 2025 at 12:23 AM
And we have our cover! @cindyermus.bsky.social
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The window for nominations is NOW OPEN for the 2026 Genevieve Miller Lifetime Achievement Award of the @aahmhistmed.bsky.social. The deadline for nominations is December 15, 2025. For details, please see: histmed.org/genevieve-mi...
Genevieve Miller Lifetime Achievement Award
Genevieve Miller Lifetime Achievement Award The American Association for the History of Medicine established the lifetime achievement award in 1988; the first recipients were Saul Jarcho, Lester King,...
histmed.org
October 15, 2025 at 6:25 PM
The window for nominations is NOW OPEN for the 2026 Genevieve Miller Lifetime Achievement Award of the @aahmhistmed.bsky.social. The deadline for nominations is December 15, 2025. For details, please see: histmed.org/genevieve-mi...
The window for nominations is NOW OPEN for the 2026 Genevieve Miller Lifetime Achievement Award of the @aahmhistmed.bsky.social. The deadline for nominations is December 15, 2025. For details, please see: histmed.org/genevieve-mi...
Genevieve Miller Lifetime Achievement Award
Genevieve Miller Lifetime Achievement Award The American Association for the History of Medicine established the lifetime achievement award in 1988; the first recipients were Saul Jarcho, Lester King,...
histmed.org
October 15, 2025 at 6:25 PM
The window for nominations is NOW OPEN for the 2026 Genevieve Miller Lifetime Achievement Award of the @aahmhistmed.bsky.social. The deadline for nominations is December 15, 2025. For details, please see: histmed.org/genevieve-mi...
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"In all the world, there neither was nor would ever be another place like this City of the Angels," #CareyMcWilliams.
Spent the last 4 days at @urbanhistorya.bsky.social's conference at the historic Biltmore Hotel. Still processing all the wonderful Los Angeles history research shared @ #UHA2025LA.
Spent the last 4 days at @urbanhistorya.bsky.social's conference at the historic Biltmore Hotel. Still processing all the wonderful Los Angeles history research shared @ #UHA2025LA.
October 13, 2025 at 8:47 PM
"In all the world, there neither was nor would ever be another place like this City of the Angels," #CareyMcWilliams.
Spent the last 4 days at @urbanhistorya.bsky.social's conference at the historic Biltmore Hotel. Still processing all the wonderful Los Angeles history research shared @ #UHA2025LA.
Spent the last 4 days at @urbanhistorya.bsky.social's conference at the historic Biltmore Hotel. Still processing all the wonderful Los Angeles history research shared @ #UHA2025LA.
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Time travel! Pre order a copy of our @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social book, coming with @uvapress.bsky.social in February 2026! www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10176/
The Global Age of Revolutions
<p><b>Redrawing the map and resetting the clock of the Age of Revolutions</b></p><p>In 2015, Bryan Banks and Cindy Ermus launched AgeofRevolutions.com
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October 13, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Time travel! Pre order a copy of our @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social book, coming with @uvapress.bsky.social in February 2026! www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10176/
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Since this question came up in class last week on flu vaccination and Guillain-Barre syndrome, I think I’ll mention this tomorrow: “most research indicates that active influenza infection poses a higher risk for GBS, and vaccination may provide protection against it” cc @jackiantonovich.bsky.social
Investigating Guillain-Barre Syndrome and Vaccines: Is There a Link?
Research exploring the link between vaccines and Guillain-Barre syndrome suggests there is a minimal overall risk for GBS associated with vaccination.
www.neurologyadvisor.com
October 5, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Since this question came up in class last week on flu vaccination and Guillain-Barre syndrome, I think I’ll mention this tomorrow: “most research indicates that active influenza infection poses a higher risk for GBS, and vaccination may provide protection against it” cc @jackiantonovich.bsky.social
Join me tomorrow for this talk on public health in South Africa and the history of US philanthropy (and its recent tragic end).
On 6 Oct, 10-11am CST, Dr. Cath Burns of U of Johannesburg will deliver a Zoom talk for medical hums. at Nebraska titled "Faith, Hope and Science in the Time of AIDS: The Sinikethemba Centre and McCord Zulu Hospital." Flyer, abstract, & bio below.
Advance registration required: go.unl.edu/hmedburns
Advance registration required: go.unl.edu/hmedburns
October 5, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Join me tomorrow for this talk on public health in South Africa and the history of US philanthropy (and its recent tragic end).
Please join us a week from today for History of Medicine Week! Free registration through link below. @aahmhistmed.bsky.social
On 6 Oct, 10-11am CST, Dr. Cath Burns of U of Johannesburg will deliver a Zoom talk for medical hums. at Nebraska titled "Faith, Hope and Science in the Time of AIDS: The Sinikethemba Centre and McCord Zulu Hospital." Flyer, abstract, & bio below.
Advance registration required: go.unl.edu/hmedburns
Advance registration required: go.unl.edu/hmedburns
September 29, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Please join us a week from today for History of Medicine Week! Free registration through link below. @aahmhistmed.bsky.social
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Always a joy to work with and edit @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social! Looking forward to reading more about his pedagogical experiments in this next #AHAPerspectives.
Pitched an essay to @lmansley.bsky.social for the @historians.org’s Perspectives magazine, I’m very excited about! What does it involve, you ask? Cannon balls. Cave paintings. And MORE! In a lot of ways, it’s an extension of my essay on unessays. Read that here: www.historians.org/perspectives...
The Unessay – AHA
A popular assignment format meets students—and audiences—where they are.
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September 16, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Always a joy to work with and edit @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social! Looking forward to reading more about his pedagogical experiments in this next #AHAPerspectives.
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Nothing makes the morning better than page proofs! @cindyermus.bsky.social @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social
September 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Nothing makes the morning better than page proofs! @cindyermus.bsky.social @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social
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“People don’t usually connect COVID-19 with Alzheimer’s disease,” Jiang said, “but our review of emerging evidence suggests otherwise.”
uknow.uky.edu/research/uk-...
uknow.uky.edu/research/uk-...
UK researchers find Alzheimer’s-like brain changes in long COVID patients
New research from the University of Kentucky’s Sanders-Brown Center on Aging shows compelling evidence that the cognitive impairments observed in long COVID patients share striking similarities with t...
uknow.uky.edu
September 16, 2025 at 6:19 AM
“People don’t usually connect COVID-19 with Alzheimer’s disease,” Jiang said, “but our review of emerging evidence suggests otherwise.”
uknow.uky.edu/research/uk-...
uknow.uky.edu/research/uk-...
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The call for papers for the 2026 annual meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine is live now! We hope you will join us in Buffalo!
histmed.org/buffalo-2026/
histmed.org/buffalo-2026/
Buffalo 2026
Join us in Buffalo! Call for Papers 2026 The American Association for the History of Medicine (AAHM) (https://histmed.org) invites abstracts for papers in any area of the history of health, healing,...
histmed.org
September 10, 2025 at 8:25 PM
The call for papers for the 2026 annual meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine is live now! We hope you will join us in Buffalo!
histmed.org/buffalo-2026/
histmed.org/buffalo-2026/
"The CDC has quietly and drastically scaled back the country’s most comprehensive system for tracking the food-borne illnesses estimated to sicken millions of Americans each year."
The most vulnerable among us--children, and the elderly, ill, or pregnant--are most at risk.
The most vulnerable among us--children, and the elderly, ill, or pregnant--are most at risk.
Cuts to the Food Safety System Threaten Americans’ Health
www.nytimes.com
September 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM
"The CDC has quietly and drastically scaled back the country’s most comprehensive system for tracking the food-borne illnesses estimated to sicken millions of Americans each year."
The most vulnerable among us--children, and the elderly, ill, or pregnant--are most at risk.
The most vulnerable among us--children, and the elderly, ill, or pregnant--are most at risk.
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We are pleased to announce a search for The Wallace Stegner Chair of Western American Studies in the Department of History at Montana State University-Bozeman. This is an exciting moment at MSU. Join us.
jobs.montana.edu/postings/48151
jobs.montana.edu/postings/48151
Associate or Full Professor of History and The Wallace Stegner Chair of Western American Studies
The Department of History and Philosophy at Montana State University invites applications for a tenure-track position at the level of Associate or Full Professor with expertise in the history of the N...
jobs.montana.edu
September 8, 2025 at 4:13 PM
We are pleased to announce a search for The Wallace Stegner Chair of Western American Studies in the Department of History at Montana State University-Bozeman. This is an exciting moment at MSU. Join us.
jobs.montana.edu/postings/48151
jobs.montana.edu/postings/48151
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New History Job Posted Today: Early Modern European History, Brown University | Brown University
Early Modern European History, Brown University | Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island, The Department of History at Brown University invites applicants for a full-time, tenure-track position, at the Assistant Professor level, in Early Modern European history. The successful candidate will have defended the Ph.D. thesis by the time of appointment. The History Department places a high priority on research excellence and high-quality teaching. Interested candidates should address in their cover letter how they would contribute to the research and/or teaching missions of our diverse and inclusive university community. Please also send a curriculum vitae, an article or chapter length writing sample, and contact information (name, phone and email) of three references in a separate document via http:// apply.interfolio.com/173465
Review of applications will begin October 10, 2025 . To assure full consideration applicants should submit their materials by that date.
Brown University provides equal opportunity and prohibits discrimination, harassment and retaliation based upon a person’s race, color, religion, sex, age, national or ethnic origin, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or any other characteristic protected under applicable law, in the administration of its policies, programs, and activities. The University recognizes and rewards individuals on the basis of qualifications and performance. The University maintains certain affirmative action programs in compliance with applicable law.
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September 10, 2025 at 1:29 PM
New History Job Posted Today: Early Modern European History, Brown University | Brown University
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Our book is out!! Happy publication day to our fantastic team of editors and authors.
September 9, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Our book is out!! Happy publication day to our fantastic team of editors and authors.
“Why on earth would we abandon institutions that have genuinely made America great?…Why would we put at risk laboratories that are working to cure cancers or perfecting artificial limbs or exploring deep space or testing the limits of artificial intelligence?”
Opinion | We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself
www.nytimes.com
September 8, 2025 at 2:52 PM
“Why on earth would we abandon institutions that have genuinely made America great?…Why would we put at risk laboratories that are working to cure cancers or perfecting artificial limbs or exploring deep space or testing the limits of artificial intelligence?”
Saw a big burly man at the farmer's market today wearing a "Jesus loves DEI" shirt ❤️
September 7, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Saw a big burly man at the farmer's market today wearing a "Jesus loves DEI" shirt ❤️
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A wonderful AoR piece by @profwehrman.bsky.social, author of The Contagion of Liberty: The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution (a must-read!)
From the @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social archive, Andrew Wehrman's "Inoculate Before It Is Too Late." ageofrevolutions.com/2021/11/15/i...
Inoculate Before It Is Too Late: Lessons Drawn from Charles Willson Peale’s Rachel Weeping
Age of Revolutions is happy to present its “Art of Revolution” series. You can read through the entire series here as they become available. By Andrew Wehrman For portrait painters like…
ageofrevolutions.com
September 5, 2025 at 6:57 PM
A wonderful AoR piece by @profwehrman.bsky.social, author of The Contagion of Liberty: The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution (a must-read!)
On 6 Oct, 10-11am CST, Dr. Cath Burns of U of Johannesburg will deliver a Zoom talk for medical hums. at Nebraska titled "Faith, Hope and Science in the Time of AIDS: The Sinikethemba Centre and McCord Zulu Hospital." Flyer, abstract, & bio below.
Advance registration required: go.unl.edu/hmedburns
Advance registration required: go.unl.edu/hmedburns
September 3, 2025 at 9:48 PM
On 6 Oct, 10-11am CST, Dr. Cath Burns of U of Johannesburg will deliver a Zoom talk for medical hums. at Nebraska titled "Faith, Hope and Science in the Time of AIDS: The Sinikethemba Centre and McCord Zulu Hospital." Flyer, abstract, & bio below.
Advance registration required: go.unl.edu/hmedburns
Advance registration required: go.unl.edu/hmedburns
This is an unfolding disaster. If I were still in FL, this would absolutely be grounds for leaving at the first opportunity. And he likened them to...slavery???? No words.
Florida moves to end all school vaccine mandates, first in nation to do so
Florida Surgeon General Joseph A. Ladapo criticized school vaccine mandates, which every state has, and likened them to slavery.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 3, 2025 at 6:03 PM
This is an unfolding disaster. If I were still in FL, this would absolutely be grounds for leaving at the first opportunity. And he likened them to...slavery???? No words.
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A couple of #histSTM #histsci #philsci positions opening up: Asst Prof in Philosophy of Science & Technology (TT) at University of Toronto, apps due Oct 15 (including letters of rec).
jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
Assistant Professor - Philosophy of Science and/or Technology
Assistant Professor - Philosophy of Science and/or Technology
jobs.utoronto.ca
September 1, 2025 at 6:21 PM
A couple of #histSTM #histsci #philsci positions opening up: Asst Prof in Philosophy of Science & Technology (TT) at University of Toronto, apps due Oct 15 (including letters of rec).
jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...