L. Kaplish
@plant-lover.bsky.social
Digital content editor, history of sci, tech and medicine. Dedicated gardener and occasional crafter. https://wellcomecollection.org/stories
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@csmbr-pisa.bsky.social online event
The Transformation of Infectious Disease Histories
Three Decades of Paleogenetics and Historians’ Responses
with @monicamedhist.bsky.social
13 January 5:00pm (CET)
#histmed
The Transformation of Infectious Disease Histories
Three Decades of Paleogenetics and Historians’ Responses
with @monicamedhist.bsky.social
13 January 5:00pm (CET)
#histmed
Infectious Disease Histories - CSMBR
In this lecture, Monica Green explores how pathogen palaeogenetics, through ancient microbial genomes, is transforming our understanding of the evolution and global circulation of premodern infectious...
csmbr.fondazionecomel.org
January 5, 2026 at 11:50 AM
@csmbr-pisa.bsky.social online event
The Transformation of Infectious Disease Histories
Three Decades of Paleogenetics and Historians’ Responses
with @monicamedhist.bsky.social
13 January 5:00pm (CET)
#histmed
The Transformation of Infectious Disease Histories
Three Decades of Paleogenetics and Historians’ Responses
with @monicamedhist.bsky.social
13 January 5:00pm (CET)
#histmed
There's always something interesting in the garden
January 5, 2026 at 11:04 AM
There's always something interesting in the garden
How would you pronounce this word: riffling?
December 19, 2025 at 1:30 PM
How would you pronounce this word: riffling?
Satisfying to see so many Wellcome Stories alumni in the Disability and Design exhibition at the V&A
December 18, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Satisfying to see so many Wellcome Stories alumni in the Disability and Design exhibition at the V&A
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O dear o dear o dear o dear. In my career(s) as archivist and as historian I have seen muddles caused by human error in citation (including attributing archives to entirely the wrong repository) but this will take it to an entirely new level.
I wish a notice like this wasn't necessary.
www.icrc.org/en/article/i...
www.icrc.org/en/article/i...
Important notice: AI-generated archival references
www.icrc.org
December 8, 2025 at 10:54 AM
O dear o dear o dear o dear. In my career(s) as archivist and as historian I have seen muddles caused by human error in citation (including attributing archives to entirely the wrong repository) but this will take it to an entirely new level.
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A thread of my articles at Wellcome Stories. Starting with some very good dogs.
wellcomecollection.org/stories/guid...
wellcomecollection.org/stories/guid...
Guide dogs or good dogs from the Middle Ages
Medieval illustrations often show blind people, sometimes with dogs. But working out whether these were actually guide dogs involves a mix of detailed detective work and expert speculation.
wellcomecollection.org
December 4, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A thread of my articles at Wellcome Stories. Starting with some very good dogs.
wellcomecollection.org/stories/guid...
wellcomecollection.org/stories/guid...
There's a long history of signing among deaf and hearing communities: wellcomecollection.org/stories/medi...
December 4, 2025 at 12:16 PM
There's a long history of signing among deaf and hearing communities: wellcomecollection.org/stories/medi...
So many voices to be discovered in the archives. I'm in awe of Richard's skill and dedication in doing the research. wellcomecollection.org/stories/trav...
Travelling for your health
A growing number of Victorians travelled to Europe for their health, but their experiences were not always what the doctor promised.
wellcomecollection.org
December 4, 2025 at 12:02 PM
So many voices to be discovered in the archives. I'm in awe of Richard's skill and dedication in doing the research. wellcomecollection.org/stories/trav...
This is cool, patient power in the archive: wellcomecollection.org/stories/pati...
Patient power
Needle, a small London-based group, led the early fight for patient rights. Leona Letts reveals how they championed giving patients a louder voice in their own care.
wellcomecollection.org
November 12, 2025 at 11:49 AM
This is cool, patient power in the archive: wellcomecollection.org/stories/pati...
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I tried a little pedagogical innovation in teaching #HistTech today
The students had read Ruth Schwartz Cowan’s classic More Work for Mother: the Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave
I wanted them to remember 1) the hard work, and 2) how some work disappeared
1/n
The students had read Ruth Schwartz Cowan’s classic More Work for Mother: the Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave
I wanted them to remember 1) the hard work, and 2) how some work disappeared
1/n
October 24, 2025 at 10:33 AM
I tried a little pedagogical innovation in teaching #HistTech today
The students had read Ruth Schwartz Cowan’s classic More Work for Mother: the Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave
I wanted them to remember 1) the hard work, and 2) how some work disappeared
1/n
The students had read Ruth Schwartz Cowan’s classic More Work for Mother: the Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave
I wanted them to remember 1) the hard work, and 2) how some work disappeared
1/n
Took my mum to St Helier s hospital in Cars Halton. On the long road outside the hospital, every lampost has a union jack attached. In the unit, every single member of the great NHS staff is an immigrant.
October 3, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Took my mum to St Helier s hospital in Cars Halton. On the long road outside the hospital, every lampost has a union jack attached. In the unit, every single member of the great NHS staff is an immigrant.
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It's here! Sign up for History Day 4 Nov 2025. #HistDay25 Together with @senatehouselib.bsky.social we are celebrating all things history with collections from galleries, libraries, archives, museums & more. Find out what it's all about and book your free spot. www.history.ac.uk/library-digi...
History Day
History Day and the History Day: Discover Collections website bring together researchers and collections in-person and online
www.history.ac.uk
September 25, 2025 at 9:01 AM
It's here! Sign up for History Day 4 Nov 2025. #HistDay25 Together with @senatehouselib.bsky.social we are celebrating all things history with collections from galleries, libraries, archives, museums & more. Find out what it's all about and book your free spot. www.history.ac.uk/library-digi...
Lots of scope to showcase museums digital projects here
Thank you to @archivesportal.bsky.social for sharing the series call for proposals!
www.archivesportaleurope.net/blog/call-fo...
www.archivesportaleurope.net/blog/call-fo...
Call for proposals for Digital Cultural Heritage books
www.archivesportaleurope.net
September 15, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Lots of scope to showcase museums digital projects here
Over 100,000 people marched through London today with hate in their hearts. 😞
September 13, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Over 100,000 people marched through London today with hate in their hearts. 😞
"There is no crime, absolutely none, that cannot be condoned when ‘our’ side commits it. Even if one does not deny that the crime has happened, even if one knows that it is exactly the same crime as one has condemned in some other case..." 1/2
September 5, 2025 at 9:57 AM
"There is no crime, absolutely none, that cannot be condoned when ‘our’ side commits it. Even if one does not deny that the crime has happened, even if one knows that it is exactly the same crime as one has condemned in some other case..." 1/2
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This absurd suggestion that asylum seekers are living it up in luxury hotels reminds me nostalgically of the equally ridiculous confected outrage over homeless families being put up in seaside bed and breakfasts. The same nonsense is endlessly repurposed for the out group of the moment.
August 18, 2025 at 9:49 PM
This absurd suggestion that asylum seekers are living it up in luxury hotels reminds me nostalgically of the equally ridiculous confected outrage over homeless families being put up in seaside bed and breakfasts. The same nonsense is endlessly repurposed for the out group of the moment.
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New update!
I'm a #deaf historian of #histSTM and #DisabilityHistory at the University of Victoria. I think & write about disability technologies & medical/scientific authority.
Latest book: Echoes of Care (@mcgillqueensup.bsky.social)
www.mqup.ca/echoes-of-ca...
I'm a #deaf historian of #histSTM and #DisabilityHistory at the University of Victoria. I think & write about disability technologies & medical/scientific authority.
Latest book: Echoes of Care (@mcgillqueensup.bsky.social)
www.mqup.ca/echoes-of-ca...
Dr. Jaipreet Virdi
historian of medicine, technology, and disability
jaivirdi.com
August 11, 2025 at 8:15 PM
New update!
I'm a #deaf historian of #histSTM and #DisabilityHistory at the University of Victoria. I think & write about disability technologies & medical/scientific authority.
Latest book: Echoes of Care (@mcgillqueensup.bsky.social)
www.mqup.ca/echoes-of-ca...
I'm a #deaf historian of #histSTM and #DisabilityHistory at the University of Victoria. I think & write about disability technologies & medical/scientific authority.
Latest book: Echoes of Care (@mcgillqueensup.bsky.social)
www.mqup.ca/echoes-of-ca...
"It is now clear that the world cannot recycle its way out of the plastic pollution crisis."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
World in $1.5tn ‘plastics crisis’ hitting health from infancy to old age, report warns
Plastic production has increased more than 200 times since 1950 and hits health at every stage from extraction to disposal, says review in the Lancet
www.theguardian.com
August 4, 2025 at 10:41 AM
"It is now clear that the world cannot recycle its way out of the plastic pollution crisis."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Never knew they were still being made in the 20c!
A large anatomical ‘fugitive leaf’ from Cassell’s People’s Physician, Vol. 5, published in the 1930s. These kind of anatomical illustrations with fold out sections functioned as paper dissections, and were intended to help non-medical audiences learn about anatomy.
July 31, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Never knew they were still being made in the 20c!
Come back RoboCop, all is forgiven. "They asked me if I was autistic". www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Man carrying home his gardening tools arrested by armed police in Manchester
Samuel Rowe, who was returning from allotment, seeking to overturn caution for possession of offensive weapon
www.theguardian.com
July 28, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Come back RoboCop, all is forgiven. "They asked me if I was autistic". www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
There are two options here. Either these police officers are just stupid or they're using the confusion around a bad law to act like a bunch of thugs. I know which one I believe. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Ian Hislop calls arrest of man holding Private Eye cartoon at Gaza protest ‘mind-boggling’
Jon Farley arrested under Terrorism Act at Leeds demonstration for holding sign making joke about Palestine Action ban
www.theguardian.com
July 24, 2025 at 9:52 AM
There are two options here. Either these police officers are just stupid or they're using the confusion around a bad law to act like a bunch of thugs. I know which one I believe. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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We need action, not empty words.
The UK government must show real backbone by immediately halting all arms exports to Israel - whether direct or indirect - including components for F-35 fighter jets.
The UK government must show real backbone by immediately halting all arms exports to Israel - whether direct or indirect - including components for F-35 fighter jets.
July 21, 2025 at 4:21 PM
We need action, not empty words.
The UK government must show real backbone by immediately halting all arms exports to Israel - whether direct or indirect - including components for F-35 fighter jets.
The UK government must show real backbone by immediately halting all arms exports to Israel - whether direct or indirect - including components for F-35 fighter jets.
Why is grammarly so insistent on the Oxford comma?
July 21, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Why is grammarly so insistent on the Oxford comma?