If you're in Manchester on 5 November, you can forgo the usual fireworks display for a display of intellectual fireworks* as I speak to CHSTM about Victorian medico-military modernity & the discourse of bloodshed *intellectual fireworks not guaranteed blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2024/09/…

Gavin Collins was an off-duty police officer enjoying a night out in central London when he was attacked by a pair of thugs. They repeatedly punched and kicked him, even after he’d been floored. Gavin needed titanium plates in his cheek and one eye socket following the unprovoked

Tomorrow

Appalling behaviour by NorthernTrains

Hot off the press: very useful and generally excellent article.

Congratulations to Iain Sturges (here with examiners and supervisors) on passing his PhD viva. His dissertation dealt with the history of CT scanning technology in Britain, with particular focus on Manchester.

Huge congratulations to our own Iain Sturges who successfully defended his PhD thesis yesterday! 🥂

Interesting comment piece by CHSTM colleague James Sumner in Nature Reviews Physics, on why the AI revolution is always just out of reach. doi.org/10.1038/s42254…

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TODAY - please join us!

Would you (or someone excellent you know) like to come do a funded history #PhD with me & Rebecca Wright on the 'Carbon Bodies' project? Info on the project: wellcome.org/grant-funding/… PhD #JobAlert - findaphd.com/phds/project/a…

JOB KLAXON: We are hiring a Lecturer in History of Medicine and/or Health (FT & permanent); we're encouraging applications from colleagues with expertise in history of mental health & mental illness. Please share and repost. jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?… #HistMed #HistSTM #HistPsych

Please join us for our next CHSTM Research Seminar, on Tuesday 19 Nov, 4pm GMT. Hans Pols (University of Sydney) will be discussing findings and experiences from a research project on the recent history of community mental health in Australia. blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2024/09/…

TODAY: Manuscript workshop on aspects in the history of modern medicine in China. Co-hosted with the Manchester China Institute

That’s exactly it: Bluesky feels like old Twitter. science.org/content/articl…

Please join us next Tuesday, 3 December, for our last CHSTM Research Seminar before the holidays (🎅). Our guest will be Prof Des Fitzgerald (University College Cork) blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2024/09/…

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New #OpenAccess publication: ‘From Chemotherapy to Biotechnology: The Transformation of the Cancer Research Pipeline at Hoffmann-La Roche’, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 12, no. 1 (26 April 2025): 1–10, doi.org/10.1057/s41599…. #Histmed #HistSTM