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
Pinned
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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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...
Reposted by Christos Lynteris
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...
www.uncpress.org
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...
link.springer.com
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...
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💥 New publication out on the alignment of AI & authoritarianism 💥
We argue that AI is not simply extending, but actively modulating, key dynamics of authoritarianism, and present a flexible analytical framework to account for these changes.
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We argue that AI is not simply extending, but actively modulating, key dynamics of authoritarianism, and present a flexible analytical framework to account for these changes.
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
November 24, 2025 at 9:39 AM
💥 New publication out on the alignment of AI & authoritarianism 💥
We argue that AI is not simply extending, but actively modulating, key dynamics of authoritarianism, and present a flexible analytical framework to account for these changes.
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We argue that AI is not simply extending, but actively modulating, key dynamics of authoritarianism, and present a flexible analytical framework to account for these changes.
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Looking forward to reading Stephen Verderber's book Architecture and Health Equity in an Imperiled World @hopkinspress.bsky.social www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
November 24, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Looking forward to reading Stephen Verderber's book Architecture and Health Equity in an Imperiled World @hopkinspress.bsky.social www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
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Nous avons appris avec beaucoup de tristesse le décès d’Armand Mattelart, survenu le 31 octobre dernier.
November 24, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Nous avons appris avec beaucoup de tristesse le décès d’Armand Mattelart, survenu le 31 octobre dernier.
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📕 Compte rendu / Review
François Jarrige, La ronde des bêtes. Le moteur #animal et la fabrique de la modernité, Paris, @edladecouverte.bsky.social, 2023.
par Corinne Marache (@ubmontaigne.bsky.social)
👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahss...
#skystorians #animals #labour
François Jarrige, La ronde des bêtes. Le moteur #animal et la fabrique de la modernité, Paris, @edladecouverte.bsky.social, 2023.
par Corinne Marache (@ubmontaigne.bsky.social)
👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahss...
#skystorians #animals #labour
November 24, 2025 at 8:08 AM
📕 Compte rendu / Review
François Jarrige, La ronde des bêtes. Le moteur #animal et la fabrique de la modernité, Paris, @edladecouverte.bsky.social, 2023.
par Corinne Marache (@ubmontaigne.bsky.social)
👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahss...
#skystorians #animals #labour
François Jarrige, La ronde des bêtes. Le moteur #animal et la fabrique de la modernité, Paris, @edladecouverte.bsky.social, 2023.
par Corinne Marache (@ubmontaigne.bsky.social)
👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahss...
#skystorians #animals #labour
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Nominations are open for the BSHS Pickstone Prize 2026, recognising the best scholarly English-language book in the history of science.
📆 Deadline: 31 Jan 2026.
Anyone may nominate (self-nominations welcome).
Submit via our online form on the BSHS website www.bshs.org.uk/the-bshs-pic...
📆 Deadline: 31 Jan 2026.
Anyone may nominate (self-nominations welcome).
Submit via our online form on the BSHS website www.bshs.org.uk/the-bshs-pic...
November 19, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Nominations are open for the BSHS Pickstone Prize 2026, recognising the best scholarly English-language book in the history of science.
📆 Deadline: 31 Jan 2026.
Anyone may nominate (self-nominations welcome).
Submit via our online form on the BSHS website www.bshs.org.uk/the-bshs-pic...
📆 Deadline: 31 Jan 2026.
Anyone may nominate (self-nominations welcome).
Submit via our online form on the BSHS website www.bshs.org.uk/the-bshs-pic...
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Becky Higgins reflects on her position as an autoethnographic researcher working collaboratively on the topics of memory and illness, exploring the queerness of storytelling as method.
thepolyphony.org/2025/11/18/y...
thepolyphony.org/2025/11/18/y...
You and me, I and I: the queerness of intergenerational storytelling
Becky Higgins reflects on her position as an autoethnographic researcher working collaboratively on the topics of memory and illness, exploring the queerness of storytelling as method.
thepolyphony.org
November 18, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Becky Higgins reflects on her position as an autoethnographic researcher working collaboratively on the topics of memory and illness, exploring the queerness of storytelling as method.
thepolyphony.org/2025/11/18/y...
thepolyphony.org/2025/11/18/y...
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I am very pleased and grateful to share this announcement of our recent award from the @wellcometrust.bsky.social for a project on history of smallpox and measles #histmed #histsci news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h... The project will be based @exeter.ac.uk @cceh-u24.bsky.social led by ... 1/2
Exeter scholars secure significant research funding to investigate the early history of Smallpox and Measles
The early histories of smallpox and measles – and the insight they might offer to contemporary health and medicine – will be under the microscope of a new research project. Pustules, Palaeogenetics an...
news.exeter.ac.uk
November 19, 2025 at 12:54 PM
I am very pleased and grateful to share this announcement of our recent award from the @wellcometrust.bsky.social for a project on history of smallpox and measles #histmed #histsci news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h... The project will be based @exeter.ac.uk @cceh-u24.bsky.social led by ... 1/2
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ONLINE EXHIBITION
𝐔𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐞 𝐀𝐥𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐨𝐟 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞
We are pleased to share with our community this online exhibition on natural history through rare books, images, and specimens.
𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞: aldrovandi.edwardworthlibrary.ie
#CSMBR #edwardworthlibrary #naturalhistory #UlisseAldrovandi
𝐔𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐞 𝐀𝐥𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐨𝐟 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞
We are pleased to share with our community this online exhibition on natural history through rare books, images, and specimens.
𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞: aldrovandi.edwardworthlibrary.ie
#CSMBR #edwardworthlibrary #naturalhistory #UlisseAldrovandi
November 20, 2025 at 9:09 AM
ONLINE EXHIBITION
𝐔𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐞 𝐀𝐥𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐨𝐟 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞
We are pleased to share with our community this online exhibition on natural history through rare books, images, and specimens.
𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞: aldrovandi.edwardworthlibrary.ie
#CSMBR #edwardworthlibrary #naturalhistory #UlisseAldrovandi
𝐔𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐞 𝐀𝐥𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐨𝐟 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞
We are pleased to share with our community this online exhibition on natural history through rare books, images, and specimens.
𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞: aldrovandi.edwardworthlibrary.ie
#CSMBR #edwardworthlibrary #naturalhistory #UlisseAldrovandi
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Congrats to Gabriela Morales for the New Millenium Book Award honorable
mention for her book ‘Decolonizing Medicine: Indigenous Politics and the Practice of Care in Bolivia!’ #anthropology #MedicalAnthropology #AAA25
mention for her book ‘Decolonizing Medicine: Indigenous Politics and the Practice of Care in Bolivia!’ #anthropology #MedicalAnthropology #AAA25
November 21, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Congrats to Gabriela Morales for the New Millenium Book Award honorable
mention for her book ‘Decolonizing Medicine: Indigenous Politics and the Practice of Care in Bolivia!’ #anthropology #MedicalAnthropology #AAA25
mention for her book ‘Decolonizing Medicine: Indigenous Politics and the Practice of Care in Bolivia!’ #anthropology #MedicalAnthropology #AAA25
So much looking forward to the publication of @emilygdoucet.bsky.social's book Inventing Nadar!
My book has a cover! Inventing Nadar will be out in April 2026 from @dukepress.bsky.social.
November 21, 2025 at 11:58 AM
So much looking forward to the publication of @emilygdoucet.bsky.social's book Inventing Nadar!