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James Stark @kingtekkers.bsky.social · 13d

I’ll try to get there. The session I’m running is from 10.30-12 so it’ll be either before or just after that (have a 1pm train back to Leeds so it’s a flying visit!).

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James Stark @kingtekkers.bsky.social · 13d

An early start today: heading down to deliver a training session for heritage volunteers at Barts North Wing. Really looking forward to discussing how we can engage visitors responsibly in histories of health, illness and disability bartsnorthwing.org.uk

Barts North Wing

Visit or hire Barts North Wing – a City of London masterpiece, home to the stunning interiors of the Great Hall and the Hogarth Stair

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James Stark @kingtekkers.bsky.social · 28d

A super seminar line-up for the coming Semester! All talks will be hybrid, with joining details on the @hpsleeds.bsky.social website #histsci #philsci #HPS

Leeds Centre for the History and Philosophy of Science @hpsleeds.bsky.social · 28d

Coming up in the Leeds HPS seminar this semester...... Rob Wilson, Matthew Sims, Alkistis Elliott-Graves
@matthewsims.bsky.social @alkistiseg.bsky.social

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HPS Visiting Speaker Seminars, Semester 1, 2025-26

All seminars will take place in 17 Blenheim Terrace SR 2 (G.04) – the ground floor IDEA seminar room. (Find a campus map here). Online access will be via MS Teams; a link will be shared in at…

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Leeds Centre for the History and Philosophy of Science @hpsleeds.bsky.social · Aug 13

Congratulations to PhD researcher Monica Stenzel, who has secured a grant from @pasoldresearchfund.bsky.social to support her project on the history of "wool science"! Supervised by @kingtekkers.bsky.social and @graemegooday.bsky.social, her work bridges science, textiles and sustainability #histsci

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Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social · Jul 12

📣Exciting News 📣
Dates & host institution for the SSHM Biennial Conference #SSHM2026 are confirmed!
Save the Date in your planners 📅
Theme and CFPs to follow later
#histmed #medhumanities #histSTM

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James Stark @kingtekkers.bsky.social · Jul 22

Sloped off a bit early today before the evening plenary, but not before a chance to showcase my support for the history/philosophy of marine science…. Even whales can reach for the moon! #ISHPSSB2025

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James Stark @kingtekkers.bsky.social · Jul 22

And bringing the session to an end is a cool-sounding paper from Andrea Núñez Casal, who is talking about “Re-embodying Resistance.” She’ll be bringing the concept of “microbiomisation” to bear on concepts of gender and class, via “more-than-human” studies #ISHPSSB2025

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James Stark @kingtekkers.bsky.social · Jul 22

@crinamoreno.bsky.social is first in the second session of “Microbes and Gender” panel. A fascinating account of discovery in beta-lactamase research, focusing on Clara Roy and Karen Bush. Fascinating to see this as a connection between clinical microbiology and experimental biology #ISHPSSB2025

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James Stark @kingtekkers.bsky.social · Jul 22

And lastly we have Maria Santesmases presenting work done with Isabel Rodriguez on “Plasmids and Gender: from Antimicrobial Resistances to Molecular Genetics, 1960s-1990s”.

James Stark @kingtekkers.bsky.social · Jul 22

*Adopting some modern terminology to make sense of what is philosophical project was.

(Otherwise it’s hard to situate him in the wider “modernisation”/“Westernisation” project of the Meiji Period.)

James Stark @kingtekkers.bsky.social · Jul 22

In this session, we now have Marta Velasco Martín, who is taking about “Rubella virus and women: gendered vulnerabilities and relationships” and joins us virtually. She begins with a striking global map about the distribution of endemic Rubella: Africa and S, E and SE Asia almost exclusively.

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James Stark @kingtekkers.bsky.social · Jul 22

Honda highlights how Kumagusu foregrounded “wisdom-knowledge” (“science required for society to civilise”), which had to reflect key principles about human flourishing, knowing, and immersion in nature #ISHPSSB2025 #hps #philbio #histbio

James Stark @kingtekkers.bsky.social · Jul 22

If you are a multi species enthusiast, see here! #ISHPSSB2025 #histbio #histsci #HPS

Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · Dec 16

We have a new thematic collection for our online journal 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘢 titled "Multispecies Intellectual History." In collaboration with Eiko Honda, we now welcome submissions defying the limits of intellectual history. Learn more here: www.environmentandsociety.org/arcadia/coll...

#EnvHist #EnvHum

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James Stark @kingtekkers.bsky.social · Jul 22

Eiko Honda offers us amazing insights into Minakata Kumagusu (1867-1941), who elaborated a “cellular metaphysics” through his investigations of slime mould in 1890s. He challenged binaries by drawing on both science and Buddhist philosophy, and critiqued materialism #ISHPSSB2025

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James Stark @kingtekkers.bsky.social · Jul 22

Could not agree more - gender, race, politics: all enriched by centering the microbe in our thinking! #ISHPSSB2025

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James Stark @kingtekkers.bsky.social · Jul 22

“From the co-construction of gendered hierarchies of laboratory work to that of human-microbe relationships and mutual resistances, the focus on gender provides renewed approaches to histories and cultures for a social microbiology.”

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James Stark @kingtekkers.bsky.social · Jul 22

Just waiting for “Microbes and Gender” to get started - such an exciting session in prospect! The organisers say…

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James Stark @kingtekkers.bsky.social · Jul 22

Sadly some technical troubles for the third talk, by Matt Brewer, who was all locked and ready to go for a comparative paper between biological and geological classification 😔 #ISHPSSB2025

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James Stark @kingtekkers.bsky.social · Jul 22

Feeling really ropey this morning, so grateful to be able to join the Classification panel remotely. Super first paper from George Alexandrou exploring classification of cell types, and it’ll be followed by two Matthews - Slater and Barker - on “norm-driven” classification #ISHPSSB2025 #philbio

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James Stark @kingtekkers.bsky.social · Jul 21

A pleasure. Your paper stimulated some great discussion! Fascinated to see where the research leads.

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James Stark @kingtekkers.bsky.social · Jul 21

A super, jam-packed first full day of #ISHPSSB2025! Rounding it off with a jaunt around Boavista to grab some food and a beer, including some lovely street art, evening sunshine, and squawking gulls overhead. (Spotted a very fine U. Porto stained glass window at our conference venue too!)

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James Stark @kingtekkers.bsky.social · Jul 21

Muka: marine historical research is not separate from, but integral to, broader histories of the sciences and can reveal more about transnational political, social, geographical issues.

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James Stark @kingtekkers.bsky.social · Jul 21

And now Sam Muka is up, discussing the somewhat thin historiography of marine science. What value is there in a sub-field which foregrounds marine science, in contrast to terrestrial histories of science? #ISHPSSB2025

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James Stark @kingtekkers.bsky.social · Jul 21

And first up @elisj.bsky.social kicks us off. Do we need a philosophy of marine science? He starts with the sense that there is no such thing as “marine science”… Whatever we take this to mean by that, do we need a specific philosophical approach/approaches to it?

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James Stark @kingtekkers.bsky.social · Jul 21

To finish off Day 1, a first “mini-plenary” on the history, philosophy and social studies of marine science aka. “Discovering the Sea”. Let’s dive in! #ISHPSSB2025

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