Our annual South Asia issue is out! With Itty Abraham ASU School for the Future of Innovation in Society on India’s space program and visions of progress, Satendra Kumar University of Zurich on rural change in India, Sohela Nazneen Institute of Development Studies on women’s empowerment in Bangladesh, …
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“Let me stop you right there…”

Caribbean nation Guyana is booming after discovering oil. BBC’s Stephen Sackur puts it to President President Dr Irfaan Ali; lobbyists say oil is bad for the climate.

Dude wasn’t having it. Mans was ready!

NEW BOOK TALK!

My next book 'The 'Deafness Problem' in Modern Britain' will be published by McGill-Queen's University Press in 2025.

2 chapters trace how hereditary deafness was shaped by eugenics policies in deaf schools & clinics.

Contact me to discuss DEAF EUGENICS for Fall 2024! 👇

Save 30% on #NewBook 'The Cybernetic Border' by Iván, an in-depth and long-overdue interrogation of the complicated history and brutal impacts of America’s evolving technological war against migrants. #AmericanStudies #HistoryofTechnology
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Some professional news: Dora Vargha and I are thrilled to share the launch of “Epidemic Histories,” a new global history of science and medicine series with Hopkins Press. We're so excited to be working with Matt McAdam as series editors!

Hey #anthrotwitter and beyond, help a girl out? It’s time to put together tenure docs, and so if you’ve taught my work in any context, I’d really value learning about it! Please let me know over email (my handle [at] cornell [dot] edu) or DM, with thanks. 🙏

Congratulations, N. K. Jemisin! Over 2 million total copies of Jemisin's books are currently in print. Celebrate with us by sharing your favorite N. K. Jemisin novel.

Glad to see this from Oxfam: 'Instead of indiscriminate airdrops in Gaza, the US should cut the flow of weapons to Israel that are used in indiscriminate attacks'

Not even 10 percent of the votes in, more than 12,000 Democrats have voted uncommitted in Michigan. That's larger than Trump's victory margin in Michigan in 2016.

Doctors Without Borders says children as young as 5 in Gaza have told them they want to die

BREAKING: Effective Immediately. The Water Transport Workers Federation of India representing workers at 11 major Indian ports will refuse to load or unload weapons to Israel. This is in solidarity with a call by Palestinian trade unions. India sends $7bn in arms to Israel a year

More proofs ready. My chapter with Leonidas Mylonakis comparing eastern slavery to Atlantic slavery has been a long time in the making with the editor but we finally have a publishing horizon. Thank you to our tireless editor Mariana Candido 👏👏👏

I'll be sharing my recently published book (uwpress.wisc.edu/books/6084.htm) in this prestigious seminar series. Please join us if you can.

#electrifyingindonesia

Delighted to share the recent (2023) issue of BJHS Themes my last as Chief Editor. The Theme: 'Historicising Artificial Intelligence'. My thanks to Trish Hatton (editorial assistant), and Richard Staley and his team of guest editors for their stellar work. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

⭐️Call for applications for Ischia Summer School for the History of the Life Sciences, deadline 28 Feb. The theme is 'Humans, Natures and the Nature of Humans.' Join Erika Milam myself All Too Suman Little Shark & others: ischiasummerschool.org/theme

#envhist History of Science Consortium #HistSTM

Sorry to only come on here for self promotion, but... beautiful #VR book cover!!! Pre-order at dukeupress.edu/in-the-land-of… and use discount code E24MSSRI to get the book for $20 (and shipped mid-February)

IHPST colloquium talk today at 2 p.m. with Professor Jessica Ratcliff from Science & Technology Studies at Cornell! Join us as we explore the East India Company's impact on Britain's Second Scientific Revolution. More information here ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/ihpst-c…