@alvesduarte
Tricolor Historian of Medicine, Science, and Environment PI of the Wellcome Trust project "How Did Infectious Diseases Become Wild? Plague, Yellow Fever, and Disease Ecology in the Brazilian Hinterland (1920-1975)", at King's College London
Looking forward to presenting "Rethinking Emerging Infectious Diseases with Rural Communities: Disease Ecology, Spillbacks, and Belongings in the Brazilian Hinterland (1920-1980)", at Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, King's, on 10/03 at 3pm (online too) www.kcl.ac.uk/events/rethi...
A great job opportunity @standrewsanthro.bsky.social: Lecturer in Social Anthropology - deadline for applications 06 March 2026
www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
Next Mon (26/Jan), I will present my project "How did Infectious Diseases Become Wild? Plague, Yellow Fever and Disease Ecology in the Brazilian Hinterland" at King's Brazil Institute research seminar.
Join us if you're in London!
2 pm, Melbourne House, 6th Floor
44-46 Aldwych, London, WC2B 4LL
Book cover featuring a sculptural figure against a black background. The figure has a brown face with a golden crown or headdress, wearing a decorated garment with gray and gold patterns. Multiple disembodied hands in brown and gray tones reach toward the figure from the edges of the image, with small pink flowers scattered throughout. The title "BLOODY NUMBERS" appears in large red letters across the middle. Below in gold text: "The Early Atlantic Slave Trade and the Invention of Modern Corporeality." Author name "PABLO F. GÓMEZ" in white at bottom.
Proud of our MHB faculty Dr. Pablo F. Gómez! His new book Bloody Numbers reveals how the Atlantic slave trade invented modern ways of quantifying human bodies. Stunning cover, essential read, coming June 2026. go.wisc.edu/utf88a. #MedicalHistory @uchicagopress.bsky.social
Two weeks left to apply for a postdoc position on my project!
I'm looking for historians, anthropologists, STS and Global Health researchers with a broad interest in #Brazil, #rural populations, #health, #medicine, and #zoonosis.
For more information👇
Me and @federicabocchi.bsky.social on paleoecology & how it might help us think about our relationship to nature & how it might help us think about the future… #philsci
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...
we're hiring in STS @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social!
deadline coming up soon (February 8). focus is the social science-y corners of STS preferably w/ some interest in sustainability & environment - but interpreted broadly.
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
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I know Ghosts Behind Glass: Encountering Extinction in Museums has been slowly making its way into some hands and homes. Would love to hear thoughts from readers - and please leave reviews wherever you bought it.
Available thru bookstores worldwide.
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
#envhist
I'm hiring 2 postdocs on my Wellcome project "How Did Infectious Diseases Become Wild?: Plague, Yellow Fever, and Disease Ecology in the Brazilian Hinterland (1920-1975)"
Department of Global Health and Social Medicine
King's College
3 years 01/10/26- 30/09/29
Deadline: 01/02/26
shorturl.at/KZ6Vh
@csmbr-pisa.bsky.social online event
The Transformation of Infectious Disease Histories
Three Decades of Paleogenetics and Historians’ Responses
with @monicamedhist.bsky.social
13 January 5:00pm (CET)
#histmed
A quote from Helena Wells, Research Manager at Wellcome: "These awards will support transdisciplinary teams to lay the foundations for discoveries at the intersection of genomics, humanities, social sciences and wider society."
What if genomics, other disciplines and wider society came together to shape research?
This is the goal of our Genomics in Context Awards.
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Thrilled about this new grant we are offering for under-represented early career scholars. The first cycle is for scholars in history and area studies. Please spread the word widely. @universitypress.cambridge.org
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Capa do suplemento de HCSM (v. 32, 2025)
Em meio à renovação dos debates públicos sobre restituição, reparação e responsabilidade histórica, a @revistahcsm lança o suplemento “Coleções coloniais e pós-coloniais em Portugal”. Os artigos discutem legados em museus e instituições científicas. Leia:
revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br/hcsm-debate-...
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🚨We have a SUPER exciting announcement!🚨
Our next Summer Meeting will be at @zslofficial.bsky.social on the theme of The Zoological Society of London at 200: Science, Society, and the Natural World 🥳
📅1-3 July 2026
🗺️Zoological Society of London
Find out how to submit 👇🏻
shnh.org.uk/all-events/c...
Today we highlight Postcolonial and Decolonial Historiography of Science by Silvia Figueirôa, Professor at State University of Campinas, Brazil, 1st Vice-President of the Division of History of Science and Technology (DHST/IUHPST), and former SCIEMP President.
link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...
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/...
New Blog Post🆕
From pandemics to probiotics, the history of microbial research goes beyond Louis Pasteur and the lab. Explore the history of it and how it can shape future research 🦠🔬
open.substack.com/pub/kingsglo...
Rethinking Microbial Histories: Beyond Pasteur and the Lab
open.substack.com/pub/kingsglo...
Cover - Colonizing Animals
📕 Review / Compte rendu
Jonathan Saha, Colonizing #Animals: Interspecies #Empire in #Myanmar, @universitypress.cambridge.org, 2021
par Joachim Boittout (@upcite.bsky.social)
#skystorians
👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahss...
A quote from Michael Dunn, Director of Discovery Research at Wellcome: "These awards will enable the power of early collaboration to drive innovative discovery research in genomics and other fields."
We’re funding teams to lay the foundations for discoveries at the intersection of genomics, humanities, social sciences and wider society.
Our Genomics in Context Awards are open now.
Read on to find out more about the call ⤵️
Call for papers!
We invite proposals for a special issue addressing historical animal geographies, co-edited by Karen M. Morin & Alice J. Hovorka.
Abstract deadline 15 Jan
Accepted submission deadline 15 Jun
Details here: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/327592/historical-animal-geographies
Nominations are open for the BSHS Pickstone Prize 2026, recognising the best scholarly English-language book in the history of science.
📆 Deadline: 31 Jan 2026.
Anyone may nominate (self-nominations welcome).
Submit via our online form on the BSHS website www.bshs.org.uk/the-bshs-pic...
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Back from an amazing 2-week fieldwork in Triunfo, a historical focus of plague in the Brazilian backlands. The absence of written records led to some Indiana Jones-style search for the old plague mausoleums in the middle of the banana fields. Havaianas were probably not the best choice tho.
How we’re tracking avian flu’s toll on wildlife across North America
theconversation.com/how-were-tra...
Couldn't have expected a better kick off for my project, "How did infectious diseases become wild?", than to give a keynote at the Annual Meeting of the Brazilian Society of Tropical Medicine in sunny João Pessoa
From the current issue: “Microhistory as Industrial History: Environment, Sugar Capitalism and Labour in Egypt, 1863–1879”
by Adam Mestyan (@harvard.edu)
doi.org/10.1093/past...