Matheus Duarte
@alvesduarte.bsky.social
Tricolor
Historian of Medicine, Science, and Environment
PI of the Wellcome Trust project "How did infectious diseases become wild?", at King's College London
Historian of Medicine, Science, and Environment
PI of the Wellcome Trust project "How did infectious diseases become wild?", at King's College London
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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/...
link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...
Postcolonial and Decolonial Historiography of Science
Studies addressing the so-called “diffusion” of modern European science utilized a Eurocentric viewpoint and considered non-European countries essentially as receivers and repeaters, conve...
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November 26, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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/...
link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...
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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/...
Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic, published OA @hopkinspress.bsky.social next May, has got a cover! www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
October 14, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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/...
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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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...
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
In an age when microbes are once again at the centre of global attention - whether through pandemics, probiotics or planetary health - rethinking their histories is more than an academic exercise.
open.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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...
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...
open.substack.com/pub/kingsglo...
Rethinking Microbial Histories: Beyond Pasteur and the Lab
In an age when microbes are once again at the centre of global attention - whether through pandemics, probiotics or planetary health - rethinking their histories is more than an academic exercise.
open.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Rethinking Microbial Histories: Beyond Pasteur and the Lab
open.substack.com/pub/kingsglo...
open.substack.com/pub/kingsglo...
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📕 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...
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...
November 26, 2025 at 10:23 AM
📕 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...
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...
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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 ⤵️
Our Genomics in Context Awards are open now.
Read on to find out more about the call ⤵️
November 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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 ⤵️
Our Genomics in Context Awards are open now.
Read on to find out more about the call ⤵️
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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
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
November 19, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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
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
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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...
📆 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...
November 19, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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...
📆 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...
Reposted by Matheus Duarte
✉️The November 2025 issue of the SCIEMP newsletter is out! Subscribe and don't miss out on all the news, fellowships, jobs, calls for papers, and much more that we will share monthly. Subscribe on scienceandempire.com/highlights/
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November 17, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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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.
November 17, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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.
Reposted by Matheus Duarte
How we’re tracking avian flu’s toll on wildlife across North America
theconversation.com/how-were-tra...
theconversation.com/how-were-tra...
How we’re tracking avian flu’s toll on wildlife across North America
Researchers have detected highly pathogenic avian influenza in 41 at-risk bird species across all 10 Canadian provinces.
theconversation.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:12 PM
How we’re tracking avian flu’s toll on wildlife across North America
theconversation.com/how-were-tra...
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
November 3, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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
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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...
by Adam Mestyan (@harvard.edu)
doi.org/10.1093/past...
October 28, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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...
by Adam Mestyan (@harvard.edu)
doi.org/10.1093/past...
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1/ I'm excited to share that Franz Knappik’s and my Cambridge Element on Hegel and Colonialism is finally out – open access below! We trace how Hegel defends European colonial rule, including transatlantic slavery, and how that defence runs through his entire philosophical system.
Thread below ⬇️
Thread below ⬇️
Hegel and Colonialism
Cambridge Core - Classical Philosophy - Hegel and Colonialism
www.cambridge.org
October 8, 2025 at 12:44 PM
1/ I'm excited to share that Franz Knappik’s and my Cambridge Element on Hegel and Colonialism is finally out – open access below! We trace how Hegel defends European colonial rule, including transatlantic slavery, and how that defence runs through his entire philosophical system.
Thread below ⬇️
Thread below ⬇️
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Looking forward to today's talks and discussion at the Hotspots of Concern: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Biodiversity and Health workshop convened by @emmanuelleroth.bsky.social & @greggmitman.bsky.social www.cas.lmu.de/en/events/ev...
Hotspots of Concern: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Biodiversity and Health
Workshop organized by Prof. Gregg Mitman and Dr. Emanuelle Roth (RCC/LMU)
www.cas.lmu.de
October 23, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Looking forward to today's talks and discussion at the Hotspots of Concern: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Biodiversity and Health workshop convened by @emmanuelleroth.bsky.social & @greggmitman.bsky.social www.cas.lmu.de/en/events/ev...
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🎙The DHST has launched a podcast designed to support early career scholars. Each episode features conversations with experts in the history of science and technology on a wide range of topics relevant to academic life today. Give it a listen via the link.
👉 bit.ly/4hq7hFR
👉 bit.ly/4hq7hFR
October 22, 2025 at 7:58 AM
🎙The DHST has launched a podcast designed to support early career scholars. Each episode features conversations with experts in the history of science and technology on a wide range of topics relevant to academic life today. Give it a listen via the link.
👉 bit.ly/4hq7hFR
👉 bit.ly/4hq7hFR
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#AcademicJob Assistant Professor in the Social Studies of Medicine joint between Departments of Sociology and History & Philosophy of Science at University of Cambridge. Apply by 17 November
#HPS #STS #Sociology #SocMed #HistMed #MedHum #MedAnth #MedEthics #PhilJobs
#HPS #STS #Sociology #SocMed #HistMed #MedHum #MedAnth #MedEthics #PhilJobs
A great job, application due November 17th. Please spread and help me with the right hashtags
Assistant Professor Social Studies of Medicine
This is a joint post 65% Sociology, 35% HPS. The Departments of Sociology and History and Philosophy of Science are looking to recruit an Assistant Professor in the Social Studies of Medicine in a
www.cam.ac.uk
October 20, 2025 at 9:14 AM
#AcademicJob Assistant Professor in the Social Studies of Medicine joint between Departments of Sociology and History & Philosophy of Science at University of Cambridge. Apply by 17 November
#HPS #STS #Sociology #SocMed #HistMed #MedHum #MedAnth #MedEthics #PhilJobs
#HPS #STS #Sociology #SocMed #HistMed #MedHum #MedAnth #MedEthics #PhilJobs
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In our October issue: Perspective led by Laetitia Navarro (@laenavarro.bsky.social) on historical ecology, which uses various sources of information to study past biodiversity change and human-nature interactions. 🧪🌎
bit.ly/46Qp6Kp
Readcube: rdcu.be/eKYfH
bit.ly/46Qp6Kp
Readcube: rdcu.be/eKYfH
October 14, 2025 at 2:05 PM
In our October issue: Perspective led by Laetitia Navarro (@laenavarro.bsky.social) on historical ecology, which uses various sources of information to study past biodiversity change and human-nature interactions. 🧪🌎
bit.ly/46Qp6Kp
Readcube: rdcu.be/eKYfH
bit.ly/46Qp6Kp
Readcube: rdcu.be/eKYfH
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‘In his entire life Flaubert never bought a newspaper from a kiosk and – almost incredibly – never went into a bookshop.’
Online early from the next issue – Julian Barnes on Flaubert and his publisher Michel Lévy: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Online early from the next issue – Julian Barnes on Flaubert and his publisher Michel Lévy: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Julian Barnes · Ouvriers de luxe: Author v. Publisher
Gustave Flaubert’s first three novels, Madame Bovary, Salammbô and L’Éducation sentimentale, were all published by...
www.lrb.co.uk
October 14, 2025 at 4:10 PM
‘In his entire life Flaubert never bought a newspaper from a kiosk and – almost incredibly – never went into a bookshop.’
Online early from the next issue – Julian Barnes on Flaubert and his publisher Michel Lévy: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Online early from the next issue – Julian Barnes on Flaubert and his publisher Michel Lévy: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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📖 Compte rendu / Review
Sarah Cockram et Andrew Wells (dir.), #Interspecies Interactions: #Animals and Humans Between the Middle Ages and Modernity, @routledgebooks.bsky.social, 2018.
par Clémentine Girault (@upcite.bsky.social)
👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahss...
Sarah Cockram et Andrew Wells (dir.), #Interspecies Interactions: #Animals and Humans Between the Middle Ages and Modernity, @routledgebooks.bsky.social, 2018.
par Clémentine Girault (@upcite.bsky.social)
👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahss...
October 10, 2025 at 9:20 AM
📖 Compte rendu / Review
Sarah Cockram et Andrew Wells (dir.), #Interspecies Interactions: #Animals and Humans Between the Middle Ages and Modernity, @routledgebooks.bsky.social, 2018.
par Clémentine Girault (@upcite.bsky.social)
👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahss...
Sarah Cockram et Andrew Wells (dir.), #Interspecies Interactions: #Animals and Humans Between the Middle Ages and Modernity, @routledgebooks.bsky.social, 2018.
par Clémentine Girault (@upcite.bsky.social)
👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahss...
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So great to see the special issue on "Invasive Species, Global Health, and Colonial Legacies" that @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social & I edited published today! A big thanks to all contributors & to JHMAS editors & reviewers for their support & guidance in this process academic.oup.com/jhmas/issue/...
Volume 80 Issue 4 | Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences | Oxford Academic
Publishes original research on the written beginnings of medicine in all its aspects. It focuses on what practitioners of the healing arts did or taught, and how their peers, as well as patients, rece...
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October 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
So great to see the special issue on "Invasive Species, Global Health, and Colonial Legacies" that @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social & I edited published today! A big thanks to all contributors & to JHMAS editors & reviewers for their support & guidance in this process academic.oup.com/jhmas/issue/...
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📍Tahiti face aux explorateurs européens : comment faire l’histoire de l’autre📍
🗣️avec Antoine Lilti @college-de-france.fr @ehess.fr @crh.ehess.fr ▶️https://crh.ehess.fr/index.php?2443
📻 France Culture, Questions du soir : l'idée
▶️ www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
🗣️avec Antoine Lilti @college-de-france.fr @ehess.fr @crh.ehess.fr ▶️https://crh.ehess.fr/index.php?2443
📻 France Culture, Questions du soir : l'idée
▶️ www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
Tahiti face aux explorateurs européens : comment faire l’histoire de l’autre ?
À travers l’histoire des Polynésiens, de leurs motivations, leurs déboires et le regard posés sur eux par les Européens, Antoine Lilti entreprend une histoire plus large, dans son livre "L’illusion d’...
www.radiofrance.fr
October 4, 2025 at 6:21 PM
📍Tahiti face aux explorateurs européens : comment faire l’histoire de l’autre📍
🗣️avec Antoine Lilti @college-de-france.fr @ehess.fr @crh.ehess.fr ▶️https://crh.ehess.fr/index.php?2443
📻 France Culture, Questions du soir : l'idée
▶️ www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
🗣️avec Antoine Lilti @college-de-france.fr @ehess.fr @crh.ehess.fr ▶️https://crh.ehess.fr/index.php?2443
📻 France Culture, Questions du soir : l'idée
▶️ www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
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Today marks the final day of The Global War Against the Rat project @standrewsanthro.bsky.social (funded @wellcometrust.bsky.social) after 6 wonderful years of collaborative interdisciplinary research with Oliver French, @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social & @alvesduarte.bsky.social
September 30, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Today marks the final day of The Global War Against the Rat project @standrewsanthro.bsky.social (funded @wellcometrust.bsky.social) after 6 wonderful years of collaborative interdisciplinary research with Oliver French, @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social & @alvesduarte.bsky.social
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📣 We are pleased to announce the upcoming Special Issue "Knowledge and Power: Projecting the Modern World" with guest editors Vera Keller, Ted McCormick, and Kelly Whitmer.
📚 Articles will be made accessible online in the next weeks. More information: journalhistoryknowledge.org/announcement....
📚 Articles will be made accessible online in the next weeks. More information: journalhistoryknowledge.org/announcement....
Special Issue 2025 - Upcoming Release
| Journal for the History of Knowledge
journalhistoryknowledge.org
September 18, 2025 at 2:57 PM
📣 We are pleased to announce the upcoming Special Issue "Knowledge and Power: Projecting the Modern World" with guest editors Vera Keller, Ted McCormick, and Kelly Whitmer.
📚 Articles will be made accessible online in the next weeks. More information: journalhistoryknowledge.org/announcement....
📚 Articles will be made accessible online in the next weeks. More information: journalhistoryknowledge.org/announcement....
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👇 "Open Science in History," fantastic workshop co-organized by LHST associate research Simon Dumas Primbault! #histSTM #histsci
Le colloque infoclio.ch 2025 explore les antécédents intellectuels et techniques de la notion d’Open Science et discute des enjeux pratiques de sa mise en œuvre dans les sciences humaines et sociales.
Le 21 novembre 2025 à Berne.
Programme et inscription: www.infoclio.ch/fr/programme...
Le 21 novembre 2025 à Berne.
Programme et inscription: www.infoclio.ch/fr/programme...
September 16, 2025 at 10:22 AM