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Christos Lynteris

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Professor of Medical Anthropology (St Andrews) researching and writing on zoonoses, plague, epidemics, history of colonial medicine, animal studies, and visual culture https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/social-anthropology/people/cl1

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Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social · 28d

So great to see my new book How Plague Got Rats:
Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic, published OA @hopkinspress.bsky.social next May, has got a cover! www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

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Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social · 2h

Looking forward to reading Sonic Socialism: Crisis and Care in Pandemic Hanoi, by Christina Schwenkel www.ucpress.edu/books/sonic-...

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Sara Charles @saracharles.bsky.social · 15h

Does Britain value culture any more? Ask the striking workers at the British Library | Zadie Smith www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Does Britain value culture any more? Ask the striking workers at the British Library | Zadie Smith

The dispute over pay at this great national institution gets to the heart of our misplaced priorities, says novelist Zadie Smith

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Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social · 1d

Some Pieter Bruegel for Martinmas

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Juliet Lodge @julietl.bsky.social · 1d

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... when it is installed in a health sector that prizes efficiency, surveillance and profit extraction, AI becomes not a tool for care and community but simply another instrument for commodifying human life.

What we lose when we surrender care to algorithms | Eric Reinhart

A dangerous faith in AI is sweeping American healthcare – with consequences for the basis of society itself

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Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social · 1d

Something from me on the dangers of A.I for historians and the neverending cycle of job cuts www.historyworkshop.org.uk/practice-his...

Artificial Intelligence: A Warning for History

Does Artificial Intelligence have the potential to simplify, and ultimately impoverish, our study of the past? Gordon McKelvie considers the recent explosion in A.I. and what it might mean for the his...

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Libération @liberation.fr · 1d

«Maintenant que l’inspiration, si elle vient, des vers, elle n’en produit pas»

50 ans après la mort de Pasolini, le dernier recueil du poète et cinéaste italien est enfin traduit en français. Un ensemble de textes inédits auxquels s’ajoute une biographie.

«Transhumaner et Organiser» de Pasolini : poésie du crépuscule

Cinquante ans après sa mort, le dernier recueil du poète et cinéaste italien est enfin traduit en français aux éditions Lanskine. Un ensemble de textes inédits auxquels s’ajoute une biographie.

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 1d

Join us today for this talk about my book Ghosts Behind Glass published with @uchicagopress.bsky.social

Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 2d

Tomorrow (Monday, Nov 10) the tables are turned: I’m the guest on the Greenhouse #envhum book talk to discuss Ghosts Behind Glass with @finnarne.me & guest host @medievalpenguin.bsky.social

Join us online for the discussion! 4pm CET/3pm GMT/10am EST

newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...

Book cover with colorful parakeet in a bell jar

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UoBris Centre for Environmental Humanities @uobrisceh.bsky.social · 1d

Join us for More-than-Human Sensory Worlds, the first in our hybrid 'More-than-Human/ities' seminar series, a new collaboration between UoB's CEH & EUC at York University, Toronto.
Come explore the shared sensory worlds of human and nonhuman animals! 🦅🐇🌃
Wed 19th Nov
17:45–19:00
Online & in-person

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 5d

"Filming Capital," a special issue of SAQ, examines how Marxism can be used to illuminate the problem of the visual representation of contemporary global capitalism. View the TOC and read the introduction, freely available: buff.ly/am3ZXVx

Cover of The South Atlantic Quarterly, Volume 124, Number 4, October 2025. Features the theme “Filming Capital” with minimalist artwork showing a black square and a tilted red square on a white background against a black and red layout.

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Leipzig Research Centre Global Dynamics | ReCentGlobe @recentglobe.bsky.social · 2d

In this week's #GlobeColloquium, @samuelcoghe.bsky.social explores the history of cattle farming in Africa: How did colonial intervention, capitalist exploitation, and scientific practices change traditional livestock farming, give rise to new conflicts, and shape global economic interdependencies?

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Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales @annales.ehess.fr · 2d

📕 Review / Compte rendu

Jane Spencer, Writing About #Animals in the Age of #Revolution, Oxford, @oxfordacademic.bsky.social, 2020.

par Anne Simonin (@doccespra.bsky.social)

👉 doi.org/10.1017/ahss...

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 2d

CFP: XIV Michel Foucault International Colloquium - 50 years of The History of Sexuality, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil, 26-29 May 2026
michel-foucault.com/2025/11/09/c...

CFP: XIV Michel Foucault International Colloquium: 50 Years of The History of Sexuality (2025-6)

Call for papers XIV MICHEL FOUCAULT INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM: 50 YEARS OF THE HISTORY OF SEXUALITY May 26 to 29, 2026 Federal University of Bahia, in Salvador, Brazil. Instagram contact: foucaultna…

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Heike Drotbohm @heikedrotbohm.bsky.social · 4d

This SI places plant and multispecies studies in dialogue with anthropological debates on emplacement, displacement, mobilities and migration. Highly recommend!

Berghahn Books @berghahnbooks.bsky.social · 5d

The latest Open Access issue of The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology has been published! View the TOC for this Special Issue on "Making Place with Plants: Intimacy, Mobility and Displacement," here: bit.ly/4qLWERG

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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 2d

#MedievalSky #histmed Please welcome Anna Gili (@gi-anna97.bsky.social) to Bluesky. And check out her talk on 11 November, too! She talking about my favorite guy in #MedievalMedicine, Constantinus Africanus.

CSMBR Pisa @csmbr-pisa.bsky.social · 3d

Reminder

𝐃𝐨𝐧𝐭' 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞!
csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/onlin...

#CSMBR #OnlineLectures #CompoundMedicamentes #ConstantinetheAphrican

The Science of Compound Medicaments - CSMBR

This lecture explores al-Majūsī’s "Kitāb al-Malakī" and its Latin translation, showing how Book X on compound medicaments was reshaped into a new synthesis of pharmacology and philosophy.

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Micah Muscolino @mmuscolino.bsky.social · 11d

Our forthcoming volume on the environmental history of China's era of high socialism has a cover.

Paul Pickowicz, who took the photo when he visited China in 1971 as part of a Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars delegation, also contributed the book's epilogue.

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Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social · 2d

A very interesting article by Piotr Daszkiewicz on Georges Vandalin Mniszech's entomological collection books.openedition.org/cths/20866

La collection entomologique de Georges Vandalin Mniszech (1822-1881) à la lumière des archives parisiennes

Dans la seconde moitié du xixe siècle, Georges Mniszech, aristocrate polonais, constitua à Paris une collection de coléoptères considérée comme la plus grande d’Europe ; Henri Deyrolle fut conservateu...

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École des chartes | PSL @ecoledeschartes.bsky.social · 4d

#VendrediLecture 📚 Le @cths.bsky.social publie «Collections de sciences naturelles : collecte, étude, conservation», sous la direction d’Éric Buffetaut et de Jérôme Tabouelle. À découvrir en accès libre sur OpenEdition Books ➡ https://urls.fr/90yOmi @openedition.bsky.social

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 3d

“Before 2023, it was impossible to think that a healthy population like the one in Peninsula Valdés could become endangered from one year to another," says biologist Valeria Falabella…”This is a warning," she adds, noting that climate change brings additional risks and uncertainties for the species”

'It was a horrible scene to witness': How bird flu has decimated elephant seal populations

The sudden decimation by bird flu of the world's largest seal species has sent shockwaves through the scientific community, and the ecosystems shaped by these majestic animals.

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Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social · 3d

Congratulations!

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Ysabel Muñoz @ysabelm.bsky.social · 4d

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Public Anthropology with focus on #envhum
University of Bremen, Germany
www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit...

Job Vacancies - Universität Bremen

Offene Stellen

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Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social · 4d

Great to see this glowing review of @clementfabre.bsky.social's groundbreaking book on colonial medicine in late imperial China: À l’ombre de la race: Chine, XIXe siècle www.cnrseditions.fr/catalogue/hi...

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Cambridge Digital Humanities @camdighum.bsky.social · 6d

Our Digital Archival Photography workshops are back on 17 and 24 November 📷

Join Maciej Pawlikowski, Head of the Cultural Heritage Imaging Laboratory @theul.bsky.social, to explore advanced techniques for digitising and preserving archival material.

Registration: www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/events/40883/

Digital Archival Photography in-depth - CDH

Convenor: Maciej Pawlikowski, Head of the Cultural Heritage Imaging Laboratory, Cambridge University Library Following the introductory Methods Workshops, held on 17 November 2025, this session will f...

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 7d

This is a great time to get your Covid booster shots!

Nature @nature.com · 7d

“I think there’s a collective amnesia right now about COVID-19”

SARS-CoV-2 infections have been rising in the past month, and limited surveillance is hampering health strategies

go.nature.com/3LeRVbd

COVID-19 is spreading again — how serious is it and what are the symptoms?

Limited COVID-19 surveillance data are hampering vaccination and health strategies, researchers say.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 5d

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands

The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 5d

Interesting issue with listing species status in this article - rediscovering species thought extinct causing conservation difficulties
www.abc.net.au/news/science...

This tiny native mouse is legally considered both dead and alive

Animals and plants aren't automatically taken off most national and state extinct species list in Australia if they are rediscovered, leaving them without protection as threatened species.

www.abc.net.au

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