That’s a wrap for my first AusSTS conference @aussts.bsky.social! Talked about COVID conspiracy theories in the Philippines—always fun!—and moving beyond thinking about them as mere ‘unscientific noise’. Naarm has been swell, but this weather is something else.

#AusSTS25 #signalsandnoises

Had a swell time at HOMSEA ‘25. Might just be my favorite conference yet—so much fascinating work from the historians of medicine. Of course, a trip to Yogyakarta would be incomplete without side quests to Borobudur (a bucket-list site for me since grade school) and Prambanan.

#histmed #histstm

Crossed ~the~ bridge. (during the afternoon of the massive police operation no less.)

Didn’t think we’d ever see the day.

Ok this was all sorts of brilliant.

My MA thesis won a thing! Thanks to the Association of Southeast Asian Studies (ASEAS), the UK-based group, though it appears they’re not on bluesky yet?

Climbed a mountain!

Category is a Filipino writer you’d recommend to someone looking to read Filipino writers.

Hands down my best read of 2024.

You've probaly seen various headlines this year about bird flu and the potential for a new pandemic.

So I've written a new substack as a simple explainer on what a flu pandemic actually is, why bird flu and what's been going on over the last 3 years.

open.substack.com/pub/christin...

Tokyo two weeks ago. JRR Tolkien could never.

I kinda went off in this one ngl thebaffler.com/latest/the-l...

Have only been here a couple of days, but, judging by the latest one I just saw, these “starter packs” are starting to tell interesting stories of their own.🤔🤔

Finished a book! (that has almost nothing to do with my phd topic, but i digress)

If the news sites make a mass migration, that would probably be the end of Twitter for me.

Finally gave in; hello, blue app. Chartres was a dream last summer.