Historians of Science, Medicine, and Technology on Mastodon

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@haushoferl@mastodon.social

History of modern biomedical culture, cure, symptom and symptomatic therapy, nutrition, global health

@doravargha@mstdn.social

Global health, international health, epidemics, public health, social medicine, socialism

@brunostrasser@mstdn.social

History of the medical mask, occupational health, epidemics, medical waste, medicine and gender.

@nathaliesagepranchere@sciences.re

Medical History, History of health professionals, History of blood diseases, history of birth, midwifery

Europe (and frequently France)

https://social.sciences.re/web/@nathaliesagepranchere

@davidfreis@augsburg.social

History of medicine; history of psychiatry; history of psychotherapy; past futures; history of technology; history of science

19th century; 20th century; contemporary history

@VicTurk@mastodonapp.uk

Victorian Turkish baths; balneology; hydropathy

UK; Ireland; Central Europe

Website since 1999 at www.victorianturkishbath.org

@sarawasson@mstdn.social

History of transplantation, tissue transfer; chronic pain, genetic science

Particularly mid-to-late twentieth century to early twenty first. My first book was on Second World War, and my second and third books are 1980+

Reader in Gothic Studies at Lancaster University. Interdisciplinary cultural studies, literature; critical medical humanities, science fiction . I also edit an online anthology of flash writing about chronic pain

https://mstdn.social/sarawasson

colonial medicine, European expansion in Africa, capitalism, WW1

@flurin_condrau@swiss.social

Infectious diseases, clinical medicine, One Health, patient's view

Co-editor of Social History of Medicine

@sarahebull@mastodon.social

medical publishing; scientific publishing; language technologies

19th century, but have interests earlier and later

I'm a book historian who works in HSTM publishing/print culture/media tech

https://mastodon.social/@sarahebull

@AnatomicalCat@mstdn.social

History of human preservation/dissection/surgery/anatomy

Human Remains Conservator:Surgeons’ Hall

lopin@laurentgalopin@sciences.re

Medicine exercice and physicians in roman world, especially in the army or around the emperor

Mediterranean world, Greece, Rome, Egypt...

Lecturer at University of Saint Etienne (France), researcher on roman medicine and webmaster (medecine-ancienne.com)

https://social.sciences.re/web/@laurentgalopin

@henrik@mastodon.green

One Health, Agricultural History, Veterinary History, Industrial History

Switzerland + Global Connections

https://mastodon.green/@henrik

@KimTodzi@mastodon.social

Tropical Medicine, History of Pharmacy

Europe, Africa and South East Asia

Research Assistant at the Department of Global History at the University of Hamburg

https://mastodon.social/@kimtodzi

@organologist@mstdn.social

animals in biomedical research, logistics of biomedicine, multispecies health

Global, Britain, US, Europe

https://mstdn.social/@organologist

@drlindseyfitzharris@mastodon.world

History of Medicine, History of Science

https://mastodon.world/@DrLindseyFitzharris

@tortietabby@mastodon.ie

History of medicine, modern Irish history, gender history

Late nineteenth and twentieth century

@tortietabby@mastodon.ie

@juliusschaxel@mastodon.social

history of the life sciences, History of ecology, history of lab animals, history of the laboratory in the life sciences, History of biophilosophies, History of the life sciences im contexts of application

18th century, 19th century, 20th century

Europe, north America, latin america

https://mastodon.social/@juliusschaxel

@agnesjuliet@mastodon.social

History of medicine, healthcare, public health, science, technology, and the emotions.

Modern and contemporary history

Research Fellow at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Writing a book about nostalgia for Picador.

https://mastodon.social/@agnesjuliet

@hps_vanessa@mstdn.social

History of life sciences, medicine, sport, food, gender,

History of medicine, history of science, brain science, psychiatry, neurology, colonialism

Central Europe, Japan, Korea, East Asia, Southeast Asia

https://mas.to/@bmleitner

@SeeTedTalk@dair-community.social

History of Artificial Intelligence

Computer Science professor, NLP practitioner, more of a consumer than a producer in histSTM

https://dair-community.social/web/@SeeTedTalk

@andrewlea@mastodon.social

disease, diagnosis, medicine, computing

https://mastodon.social/@andrewlea

@med_soz@social.sciences.re

Personalized Health, Public Participation in Medicine

@jaivirdi@mastodon.social

history of science, tech, medicine, disability

North America, Western Europe

https://mastodon.social/@jaivirdi

insects, sericulture, textiles, weaving, material culture, life sciences, genetics, disaster studies

https://zirk.us/web/@lonaga

@alexcsiszar@fediscience.org

communication, information, media, technology

19th century, 20th century

https://fediscience.org/@alexcsiszar

Anesthesia history. Medical History, Medical Museums, Medical Archives

Practicing Anaesthesiologist, Honorary Curator of the Geoffrey Kaye Museum of Anaesthetic History, Author of "The Chloroformist"

https://mastodon.world/web/@chrisball4

HIV/AIDS, bioinformatics, AI, expert systems, data, specimens, archives

https://hci.social/@davidribes

Roland_Jackson@mstdn.social

History of science, engineering, medicine and the state

Roland_Jackson@mstdn.social

@urardi@kolektiva.social

history of infectious disease control (esp. leprosy), health planning and development

Global, West Africa, Southeast Asia, Ireland

currently working in visual arts

https://kolektiva.social/@urardi

@martinmeiske@hcommons.social

Envirotech History, Environmental History, History of Technology, History of Science, Material History, Infrastructure History, Anthropocene, Environmental Humanities

19th century, 20th century, 21st century

Global, Global North, Global South, Germany, Austria, Balkans, Southeast Europe, Great Britain, North America, South America

Envirotech historian | #infrastructure #maintenance #envtech #histodon | postdoc @deutschesmuseum | #envhist #histtech #histsci | Die Geburt des Geoengineerings (Wallstein 2021) | Beyond the Lab and the Field (Univ. of Pittsburgh Press 2022)

https://hcommons.social/web/@martinmeiske

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MKivV_PkVZBAKBXpBkxNFEvjvYvUyE-DQHtujsh6Gww/edit#gid=144548295&range=C42

History of clinical psychology, history of OCD, history of mental health

https://mastodon.sdf.org/@evasurawy

@evasurawy@mastodon.sdf.org

History of clinical psychology, history of OCD, history of mental health

https://mastodon.sdf.org/@evasurawy

@ninawormbs@mastodon.nu

History of technology and environment, STS, mediahistori, digitalisation, climatechange

20th century, contemporary

I do a lot of service to society, in Swedish. Blogg ninawormbs.se

@ThierryJoffredo@mamot.fr

Part-time historian of mathematics, working on Gabriel Cramer, algebraic curves in the 18th century

https://mamot.fr/@ThierryJoffredo

@sallyosborn@mastodon.social

History of medicine, manuscript recipe books

@sallyosborn@mastodon.social

astronomy, observatory sciences, scientific instruments, museums, institutions, biographies

Britain, former British Empire

https://mstdn.social/@rhiggitt

@peterbroks@mastodon.social

Popular science, science communication.

Mainly 19th and 20th century

Author of "Media Science Before the Great War"

https://mastodon.social/@peterbroks

@TobyJuliff@hcommons.social

interface of contemporary art and science; pandemics; HCI and science communication; science and law

Early 20th C (before 1940) and contemporary

Global - but with particular emphasis on last decades of British Empire and contemporary Australia

Curator of Pandemic (contemporary art exhibition, Hobart 2019 - a year before COVID, I know!), I've commissioned a number of HCI artworks that explore science communication

@TobyJuliff@hcommons.social

international organizations, global health, statistics, rice sicence and technologies

https://mas.to/@yitang_lin

@ggalvezbehar@social.sciences.re

History of innovation, history of intellectual property

19th century, 20th century

https://social.sciences.re/@ggalvezbehar

@ctimmermann@mastodon.social

History of biomedical science; pharmaceuticals, risk factors, cancer, cardiovascular disease; history of biology; history of psychiatry & mental health

Mostly 19th and 20th century

Mostly Europe & North America

https://mastodon.social/@ctimmermann

@Octobeth@mastodon.social

nutrition, metabolism, diabetes, material culture

mainly Europe, North America

@HarrietRichardsob@c.im

Central Europe, U.K. mostly

I am an architectural historian, currently researching NHS hospitals in Scotland

@mcbresalier@mastodon.social

https://www.swansea.ac.uk/staff/michael.bresalier/

@NODE801@mastodon.social

Natural History, Darwin, History of Biology, Ecology, and Sociology, Critical Theory, Materialism

Classical antiquity, 17th-20th Centuries

United States, North America

Professor of Social Science & Cultural Studies Pratt Institute

https://mastodon.social/@NODE801

@KevinMatthewJones@noc.social

HSTM, HPS, STS, Social History, Medical Classification, Psychiatric Classification, History of Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Frankfurt School, Existentialism, Phenomenology, Science Communication.

Principally 19th and 20th for research, but interests and teaching experience in Ancient and Early Modern

Principally the United Kingdom and Ireland for research, but interests in framing my research within Global history.

My research focuses on the development of medical classification, epidemiology and medical data in modern history. I am interested in the social history of medical records, and the implication of these histories to current issues within the philosophy of medicine.

https://noc.social/web/@KevinMatthewJones

@pavelratmanov@mastodon.sdf.org

History of medicine, international health, Soviet medicine

Soviet Russia, Europe, USA

@HarrietRichardson@mastodon.scot

Hospital architecture and design. NHS history.

PhD candidate University of Edinburgh, NHS hospital architecture in Scotland

https://mastodon.scot/@HarrietRichardson

@srhamilton@mastodon.social

Environmental history, water history

World, Spain, Europe, Australia

https://mastodon.social/@Srhamilton

@Julie_Le_Goic@mastodon.social

Pliny The Elder; Antique Science; Ichthyology

https://mastodon.social/@Julie_Le_Goic

ghostimage@mastodon.lol

History of the Human Sciences, Postcolonial, Philosophy of science, transnational history.

East Asia (esp Japan), Western Europe (esp, France and Germany)

https://mastodon.lol/@ghostimage

@joelglasman@fediscience.org

STS, humanitarian aid, global health, history of the state

Africa, West Africa, Cameroun, Togo

@LukasMengelkamp@sciences.social

Nuclear History, History of Peace and Conflict Studies, Intellectual History

https://sciences.social/@LukasMengelkamp

@TSteffestun@mstdn.science

Axelle_Champion@zirk.us

History of medicine and psychiatry, gender studies and disability studies. History of childhood and adolescence.

https://zirk.us/@Axelle_Champion

@RobertJanW@mastodon.social

Transcontinental history of life, atmospheric and earth sciences

Europe, Southeast Asia, Oceans, Global Troposphere and Stratosphere

@_JAStockdale@qoto.org

Placebos, clinical science, medical methodology, research integrity

https://qoto.org/@_JAStockdale

@ange_cass@mstdn.social

Popular science, animal history, history of medicine, environmental history, STS, policy, infectious disease, conservation, evolution

20th century, 21st century, contemporary history

Scholar of science, society + policy, wrt humans-animals-environments; @ange_cass on BirdApp; @ange_cass_pics on Instagram

https://mstdn.social/@ange_cass

History of technology, design bias, tacit and embodied knowledge, robotics, East Asian, transnational, translation

Currently 20-21 century, but trained as an early modernist.

Japan, East Asia, transnational, eastern block

Associate prof at Johns Hopkins

@ejonesimhotep@mastodon.social

History of technology, history of the self

https://mastodon.social/@ejonesimhotep

@GRobilliard@mastodon.sdf.org

Early modern medicine/body, intoxicants, drugs, tea, coffee, plague medicine, apothecaries

Early modern, 17th century, 18th century

Western Europe, Germany, Baltic Region

Researcher (postdoc) on Prize Papers Project at University of Oldenburg, Germany.

https://mastodon.sdf.org/@GRobilliard

Hist Sci Tech @EPFL (group account)

@histscitech@fediscience.org

history of science, history of technology, sts

Group account for the Laboratory for the history of science and technology, EPFL (Switzerland)

https://fediscience.org/@histscitech

@b_m_hughes@mastodon.ie

Social history of psychological concepts, history of academic psychology

Professor of Psychology, University of Galway

https://mastodon.ie/@b_m_hughes

@Greyjay69@h-net.social

The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 1915-1958

@neurobotist@techhub.social

Mechatronics, Robotics, AI, IoT, Quantum Computing

1500s, 1820s, 1870s, 1930s, 1970s -

https://techhub.social/@neurobotist

@schrisomalis@mastodon.online

History of premodern mathematics; number systems

https://mastodon.online/@schrisomalis

@kslagstad@mstdn.social

Nosology, paper technologies, classification systems, praxiology, activism

https://mstdn.social/@kslagstad

@SurekhaDavies@historians.social

monsters, cultural encounters, ethnography, visual culture, cartography

Early Modern; also transtemporal (antiquity to the present)

Europe and the Americas; also transregional more generally

Author of Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human: New Worlds, Maps and Monsters (Cambridge UP, 2016). Now writing Humans: A Monstrous History (U. of California Press; a lead trade-list title).

https://historians.social/@SurekhaDavies

@faustosterling@mastodon.world

gender, history of science, history of biology, history of sexology

mostly 20th century, but the 19th too

north American and Western Europe

I am a biology-STS-history-gender studies hybrid

@faustosterling@mastodon.world

@celinecamps@historians.social

History of Science, Art and Material Culture, Craft, Metalworking

Europe (especially Germany)

PhD candidate at Columbia University

https://historians.social/@celinecamps

@justcodeculture@mastodon.social

History of computing, software, and inequality

Director of Charles Babbage Inst. an interdisciplinary ctr & archives for computing & culture; Prof of Hist. Sci/Tech, U. of Minnesota

https://mastodon.social/@JustCodeCulture

@polymath@mastodon.world

Antimicrobial resistance; evidence; technology; truth; public health

@izeldemirbas@mastodon.world

History of medical ethics, experimental research on humans and animals, psychiatry, women's health

https://mastodon.world/@izeldemirbas

@rosicrane@mastodon.nz

Museum history, Colonial history, Anglophone world

New Zealand, Australia, UK

Honorary Curator History of Science, Otago Museum, Dunedin, NZ

https://twitter.com/rosicrane

https://mastodon.nz/@rosicrane

@bennett@scholar.social

Social Sciences, Genetics, Data Practices

https://scholar.social/@bennett

@antoine_huerta@social.sciences.re

Intellectual History, Geography, Cultural relations

France, Americas (Brazil, French Guiana)

@LeafyHistory@computerfairi.es

history of natural history, animal history

medieval and early modern

https://computerfairi.es/@LeafyHistory

@sabrinakirschner@mastodon.social

History of Engineering, Pollution Control (air and water pollution)

https://mastodon.social/@sabrinakirschner

@emgerson@mstdn.social

Sociology of life sciences, computing, medicine

https://mstdn.social/@emgerson

History of astronomy / history of photography

late modern / 20th century

Netherlands / Western Europe / Indonesia / South Africa

Postdoc at University of Regensburg

xinyiwen@hcommons.social

History of science and medicine, book history, image studies

https://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/directory/wen

https://hcommons.social/@xinyiwen

philosophy, science, psychology, human sciences

Contemporary philosophy

Interesses: História da #Filosofia, História das #CiênciasHumanas, História da #Psicologia, Michel #Foucault.

http://ursal.zone/@askesis

@bojacobs@hcommons.social

I study radiation impacts on global hibakusha communities

https://hcommons.social/@bojacobs

Computer history, web history

Founder and Curator of the Queer Digital History Project (queerdigital.com)

https://aoir.social/@apdamegriff

@jacobward@hcommons.social

History of science, technology, and neoliberalism

Asst. Prof. at Maastricht University

https://hcommons.social/@jacobward

@jfballenger@mastodon.world

history of psychiatry, aging, dementia

https://mastodon.world/@jfballenger

@Sambrady@historians.social

Disability History, Paralympics, Disability Sport, Wheelchair Technology, Jewish History

Early Modern to Modern to recent history

Primary Europe and America

final year PhD student at the University of Glasgow and the National Paralympic Heritage Trust.

https://historians.social/@Sambrady

@TeaKayB@Mathstodon.xyz

I work to help museums & galleries to explore the maths in their objects, stories & collections

https://mathstodon.xyz/@TeaKayB

@cdanby@mastodon.social

History of economic thought, history of the body

https://mastodon.social/@cdanby