Christos Lynteris
@visualplague.bsky.social
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
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/social-anthropology/people/cl1
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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/...
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Science diplomacy in a time of fractured institutions 🌐
10 December from 1 - 5pm
Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP
This symposium explores the micro-politics, legal infrastructures, and socio-material arrangements that constitute science diplomacy in practice
https://bit.ly/49CLRU1
10 December from 1 - 5pm
Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP
This symposium explores the micro-politics, legal infrastructures, and socio-material arrangements that constitute science diplomacy in practice
https://bit.ly/49CLRU1
Science diplomacy in a time of fractured institutions - CRASSH
Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
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November 27, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Science diplomacy in a time of fractured institutions 🌐
10 December from 1 - 5pm
Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP
This symposium explores the micro-politics, legal infrastructures, and socio-material arrangements that constitute science diplomacy in practice
https://bit.ly/49CLRU1
10 December from 1 - 5pm
Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP
This symposium explores the micro-politics, legal infrastructures, and socio-material arrangements that constitute science diplomacy in practice
https://bit.ly/49CLRU1
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Mosquito-borne dengue, known for intense flu-like symptoms, crushing fatigue and body aches, reached record global levels in 2024 and researchers have attributed its spread to climate change. #RSNA25
www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...
www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...
Brazil approves world’s first single-dose dengue vaccine
Brazilian authorities on Wednesday approved the world’s first single-dose dengue vaccine, which they hailed as a “historic” achievement as cases of the mosquito-borne disease soar globally due to risi...
www.ctvnews.ca
November 27, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Mosquito-borne dengue, known for intense flu-like symptoms, crushing fatigue and body aches, reached record global levels in 2024 and researchers have attributed its spread to climate change. #RSNA25
www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...
www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...
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New #MicroSky study showing extensive transmission of #AMR E coli transmission in East Africa under One Health framework, led by Patrick Musicha www.sanger.ac.uk/news_item/an...
Antimicrobial resistant bacteria and genes move freely between people, animals and the environment
By analysing Escherichia coli (E. coli) genomes, researchers have shown that antimicrobial resistant bacteria and the genes that confer resistance move between bacterial hosts and across ecological co...
www.sanger.ac.uk
November 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
New #MicroSky study showing extensive transmission of #AMR E coli transmission in East Africa under One Health framework, led by Patrick Musicha www.sanger.ac.uk/news_item/an...
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Quarante ans après la mort de Fernand Braudel, le 27 novembre 1985, sa "Méditerranée" reste un classique incontournable. Guillaume Calafat revient sur ce livre d'histoire qui résiste si bien au temps.
www.lhistoire.fr/lire-et-reli...
www.lhistoire.fr/lire-et-reli...
Lire et relire la « Méditerranée » de Braudel
Quarante ans après la mort de Fernand Braudel, le 27 novembre 1985, à 83 ans, sa Méditerranée reste un classique incontournable. Image : Fernand Braudel ULF ANDERSEN/AURIMAGES
www.lhistoire.fr
November 27, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Quarante ans après la mort de Fernand Braudel, le 27 novembre 1985, sa "Méditerranée" reste un classique incontournable. Guillaume Calafat revient sur ce livre d'histoire qui résiste si bien au temps.
www.lhistoire.fr/lire-et-reli...
www.lhistoire.fr/lire-et-reli...
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𝐔𝐍𝐂𝐄𝐑𝐓𝐀𝐈𝐍 𝐃𝐘𝐍𝐀𝐌𝐈𝐂𝐒: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐢𝐚𝐠𝐧𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐒𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐡-𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐲 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐞
David Mesquita
To register for this lecture: csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/.../uncertai...
#CSMBR #OnlineLecture #Diagnosis #Semiotics
David Mesquita
To register for this lecture: csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/.../uncertai...
#CSMBR #OnlineLecture #Diagnosis #Semiotics
November 27, 2025 at 8:39 AM
𝐔𝐍𝐂𝐄𝐑𝐓𝐀𝐈𝐍 𝐃𝐘𝐍𝐀𝐌𝐈𝐂𝐒: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐢𝐚𝐠𝐧𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐒𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐡-𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐲 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐞
David Mesquita
To register for this lecture: csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/.../uncertai...
#CSMBR #OnlineLecture #Diagnosis #Semiotics
David Mesquita
To register for this lecture: csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/.../uncertai...
#CSMBR #OnlineLecture #Diagnosis #Semiotics
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📣 Applications are open for our 2026-27 Medical Humanities in Practice Research Fellowship scheme! The scheme supports professionals and researchers from health or voluntary and community sectors to develop research within the medical humanities.
Apply by 30 Jan:
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Practice Research Fellowship Scheme
Announcing our Medical Humanities In Practice Research Fellowship Scheme
medhumsplatform.org
November 27, 2025 at 9:00 AM
📣 Applications are open for our 2026-27 Medical Humanities in Practice Research Fellowship scheme! The scheme supports professionals and researchers from health or voluntary and community sectors to develop research within the medical humanities.
Apply by 30 Jan:
Apply by 30 Jan:
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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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Fascinating story about evidence that #H5N1 #birdflu infected vampire bats in South America, raising the prospect of a potential new & dangerous host for the virus. Some good news: The virus didn't appear to spread well among the bats. By @martinenserink.bsky.social. www.science.org/content/arti...
Vampire bats may have contracted H5N1 bird flu in Peru, raising worries about further spread
Bats could form a bridge between marine and terrestrial mammals, scientists say
www.science.org
November 26, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Fascinating story about evidence that #H5N1 #birdflu infected vampire bats in South America, raising the prospect of a potential new & dangerous host for the virus. Some good news: The virus didn't appear to spread well among the bats. By @martinenserink.bsky.social. www.science.org/content/arti...
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Arpan K Banerjee reviews Oliver Basciano’s Outcast: A History of Leprosy, Humanity, and the Modern World, exploring the modern history of leprosy through archives, literature, and personal narratives.
thepolyphony.org/2025/11/25/b...
thepolyphony.org/2025/11/25/b...
Book Review: Outcast: A History of Leprosy, Humanity and the Modern World
Arpan K Banerjee reviews Oliver Basciano’s Outcast: A History of Leprosy, Humanity, and the Modern World, exploring the modern history of leprosy through archives, literature, and personal narrativ…
thepolyphony.org
November 25, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Arpan K Banerjee reviews Oliver Basciano’s Outcast: A History of Leprosy, Humanity, and the Modern World, exploring the modern history of leprosy through archives, literature, and personal narratives.
thepolyphony.org/2025/11/25/b...
thepolyphony.org/2025/11/25/b...
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My piece for @historyworkshop.org.uk reflects on the politics of forgetting, detailing how Hong Kong’s displaced colonial archives have exiled memory to the metropole www.historyworkshop.org.uk/empire-decol...
Based on my paper in @jich.bsky.social (open access) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Based on my paper in @jich.bsky.social (open access) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
October 22, 2025 at 10:45 AM
My piece for @historyworkshop.org.uk reflects on the politics of forgetting, detailing how Hong Kong’s displaced colonial archives have exiled memory to the metropole www.historyworkshop.org.uk/empire-decol...
Based on my paper in @jich.bsky.social (open access) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Based on my paper in @jich.bsky.social (open access) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Commentary: "Animals Give Us a Body We Didn’t Have: An Interview with Vinciane Despret" features Iwona Janicka, Stephen Muecke, & Vinciane Despret in conversation on how the dead, animals, and people animate each other.
Animals Give Us a Body We Didn’t Have | Environmental Humanities | Duke University Press
read.dukeupress.edu
November 26, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Commentary: "Animals Give Us a Body We Didn’t Have: An Interview with Vinciane Despret" features Iwona Janicka, Stephen Muecke, & Vinciane Despret in conversation on how the dead, animals, and people animate each other.
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"My NHS colleagues & I weren’t willing to let the bodies pile high in their thousands. Boris no longer mentions them at all."
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 9:18 AM
"My NHS colleagues & I weren’t willing to let the bodies pile high in their thousands. Boris no longer mentions them at all."
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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The shameful attacks on the Covid inquiry prove it: the right is lost in anti-science delusion | Polly Toynbee
The shameful attacks on the Covid inquiry prove it: the right is lost in anti-science delusion | Polly Toynbee
There is nothing wrong with questioning the mighty cost of the lockdowns, but we can’t let hardline libertarians rewrite Britain’s pandemic history, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The shameful attacks on the Covid inquiry prove it: the right is lost in anti-science delusion | Polly Toynbee
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Nouvel appel à contribution de la revue perspective: figures du naturalisme !
journals.openedition.org/perspective/...
journals.openedition.org/perspective/...
Figures du naturalisme, no 2027-1
Alors que l’écologie est devenue une préoccupation majeure et un enjeu politique, économique et social de premier plan, l’histoire de l’art s’est résolument emparée des questions qu’elle suscite en...
journals.openedition.org
November 24, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Nouvel appel à contribution de la revue perspective: figures du naturalisme !
journals.openedition.org/perspective/...
journals.openedition.org/perspective/...
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Bonkers but totally in line with the ongoing insanity
Guy who called Covid vaccines “dangerous” has been named the second in command at the CDC
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/h...
Guy who called Covid vaccines “dangerous” has been named the second in command at the CDC
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/h...
Doctor Critical of Vaccines Quietly Appointed as C.D.C.’s Second in Command
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Bonkers but totally in line with the ongoing insanity
Guy who called Covid vaccines “dangerous” has been named the second in command at the CDC
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/h...
Guy who called Covid vaccines “dangerous” has been named the second in command at the CDC
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/h...
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"The US government will not be commemorating World AIDS day this year".
Silence = Death
There are 1.1 million people living with HIV in the United States, 40 million globally
Silence = Death
There are 1.1 million people living with HIV in the United States, 40 million globally
November 25, 2025 at 8:09 PM
"The US government will not be commemorating World AIDS day this year".
Silence = Death
There are 1.1 million people living with HIV in the United States, 40 million globally
Silence = Death
There are 1.1 million people living with HIV in the United States, 40 million globally
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Marc Bloch, Carnets inédits 1917-1943 (édition de Massimo Mastrogregori ; @editionsamsterdam.bsky.social, 2025 ; #skystorians) : www.editionsamsterdam.fr/carnets-ined...
Carnets inédits
Le « laboratoire » de Marc Bloch enfin accessible au grand public.
Les deux carnets de Marc Bloch réunis dans cet ouvrage – « Quelques notes de lecture
www.editionsamsterdam.fr
November 22, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Marc Bloch, Carnets inédits 1917-1943 (édition de Massimo Mastrogregori ; @editionsamsterdam.bsky.social, 2025 ; #skystorians) : www.editionsamsterdam.fr/carnets-ined...
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‘Gutenberg seems to have had a habit of falling out with people.’
Adam Smyth (@adamwithbooks.bsky.social) on a biography of the printer told through his books.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Smyth (@adamwithbooks.bsky.social) on a biography of the printer told through his books.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Smyth · Slice It Up: Gutenberg’s Great Invention
Gutenberg remains unknowable: an implied but not a felt presence. This is true for all but a small number of 15th-...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 11:55 AM
‘Gutenberg seems to have had a habit of falling out with people.’
Adam Smyth (@adamwithbooks.bsky.social) on a biography of the printer told through his books.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Smyth (@adamwithbooks.bsky.social) on a biography of the printer told through his books.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
So great to see that @franceculture.fr has dedicated a podcast series to the anthropologist Roberte Hamayon (1939-2025) and her path-breaking studies of shamanism www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
Roberte Hamayon, le chamanisme et au-delà : un podcast à écouter en ligne | France Culture
Par Antoine Dhulster. Voyage en archives à la découverte de la surnature et du monde des esprits des peuples de l'Asie, en hommage à Roberte Hamayon. Cette anthropologue disparue le 18 mars 2025 était...
www.radiofrance.fr
November 25, 2025 at 8:53 AM
So great to see that @franceculture.fr has dedicated a podcast series to the anthropologist Roberte Hamayon (1939-2025) and her path-breaking studies of shamanism www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
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Knowing an Empire: Early Modern Chinese and Spanish Worlds in Dialogue - Zum Jahresabschluss der #CrossAsia-Talks am 4. Dezember geben Mackenzie Cooley, Huiyi Wu & Shih-Pei Chen einen Einblick in den gleichnamigen Sammelband. Alle Infos 👉 blog.sbb.berlin/termin/cross...
@crossasia.bsky.social
@crossasia.bsky.social
CrossAsia Talks: Mackenzie Cooley, Huiyi Wu, Shih-Pei Chen - SBB aktuell
Event Details Date: 04.12.2025 18:00 – 19:30 Categories: CrossAsia, Kulturprogramm
blog.sbb.berlin
November 25, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Knowing an Empire: Early Modern Chinese and Spanish Worlds in Dialogue - Zum Jahresabschluss der #CrossAsia-Talks am 4. Dezember geben Mackenzie Cooley, Huiyi Wu & Shih-Pei Chen einen Einblick in den gleichnamigen Sammelband. Alle Infos 👉 blog.sbb.berlin/termin/cross...
@crossasia.bsky.social
@crossasia.bsky.social
Very much looking forward to reading this great edited collection!
*Globalizing Wildlife*, a book edited by @vbateman.bsky.social, Tom Quick, and myself, is now available for pre-order with @uncpress.bsky.social!
Using code 01SOCIAL30 at checkout, you can save 30%
www.uncpress.org/book/9781469...
Using code 01SOCIAL30 at checkout, you can save 30%
www.uncpress.org/book/9781469...
Globalizing Wildlife
Humans have always incorporated wildlife into processes of work, capture, and exchange. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, globalization became t...
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November 25, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Very much looking forward to reading this great edited collection!
The next event by the Decolonising Plant Knowledge research network @crasshlive.bsky.social will be the film screening of ‘Indexed Beings’ with a Q&A with Helen Knowles and talk by Soraida Chindoy Buesaquillo - next Monday (Dec. 1) www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/49009/
November 24, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The next event by the Decolonising Plant Knowledge research network @crasshlive.bsky.social will be the film screening of ‘Indexed Beings’ with a Q&A with Helen Knowles and talk by Soraida Chindoy Buesaquillo - next Monday (Dec. 1) www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/49009/
A great article by @kirkham.bsky.social via @biosocieties.bsky.social : Making sense of snakebite: the place of biological toxins in social scientific analyses of toxicity (OA) link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Making sense of snakebite: the place of biological toxins in social scientific analyses of toxicity - BioSocieties
Through an ethnographic study of snakebite governance in Kerala, India, this article argues that social scientific theories of toxicity elucidate the biosocial dimensions of snakebite envenomation (SB...
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November 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
A great article by @kirkham.bsky.social via @biosocieties.bsky.social : Making sense of snakebite: the place of biological toxins in social scientific analyses of toxicity (OA) link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Heureux de partager ici la parution de Marcel Mauss, 𝑺𝒐𝒄𝒊𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒊𝒆 𝒈𝒆́𝒏𝒆́𝒓𝒂𝒍𝒆 (@editions-puf.bsky.social), fruit d'un long travail conduit avec Francesco Callegaro, et grâce au soutien de @serge-paugam.bsky.social. Au plaisir d'en discuter!
Le sommaire est consultable ici:
www.puf.com/sociologie-g...
Le sommaire est consultable ici:
www.puf.com/sociologie-g...
November 19, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Heureux de partager ici la parution de Marcel Mauss, 𝑺𝒐𝒄𝒊𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒊𝒆 𝒈𝒆́𝒏𝒆́𝒓𝒂𝒍𝒆 (@editions-puf.bsky.social), fruit d'un long travail conduit avec Francesco Callegaro, et grâce au soutien de @serge-paugam.bsky.social. Au plaisir d'en discuter!
Le sommaire est consultable ici:
www.puf.com/sociologie-g...
Le sommaire est consultable ici:
www.puf.com/sociologie-g...
A very interesting workshop this Friday @mshparisnord.bsky.social on the interdisciplinary approaches to the history of medical anthropology www.mshparisnord.fr/event/worksh...
Workshop | Pour une approche interdisciplinaire de l’histoire de l’anthropologie médicale - Maison des Sciences Humaines et sociales Paris Nord
Ce workshop a pour objectif d’engager une discussion collective autour des récits fondateurs du passé de l’anthropologie médicale.
www.mshparisnord.fr
November 24, 2025 at 12:57 PM
A very interesting workshop this Friday @mshparisnord.bsky.social on the interdisciplinary approaches to the history of medical anthropology www.mshparisnord.fr/event/worksh...