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Xinyi Wen (she/they)

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🎓 PhD @CambridgeHPS @WellcomeTrust 👩🏻‍💻 Frances Yates Long-Term Fellow @warburginstitute.bsky.social 📍 Where natural things, books and images are 🖋️ Writing a reversed long history of the doctrine of signatures www.hps.cam.ac.uk/directory/wen DM unavailable

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Xinyi Wen (she/they) @xinyiwenhps.bsky.social · Nov 22

Last week, when the BJHS article by @cberiksen.bsky.social and I received the Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize at HSS Mérida, I wrote a 🧵 on X sharing our research process.

Now I'll redo it on BlueSky, this time with more images of our archival sources: 🗃️ #HistSci #EarlyModern

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 26d

Today people went around my neighborhood in north east London spray painting St George’s crosses onto people’s homes. Many of these houses have non British people living in them.

This is getting very dark, very quick.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 26d

Deeply disturbed to see today's 'Unite the Kingdom' march in London with 100,000+ attendees.

This was likely the largest far-right protest in British history and was led by Tommy Robinson and addressed by Elon Musk.

The far right are emboldened like never before. But, here's the good news... 🧵

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Alex Wragge-Morley @wraggem.bsky.social · Sep 9

Does anyone in the UK have career advice for a 40 yr-old academic - historian of science and medicine - who may need to build a new career outside the academy? This is a serious request - any ideas and tips would be much appreciated.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · Aug 31

“In the late 1960s, Dr. Rossiter was working on her Ph.D. at Yale, when a comment from one of her male professors puzzled her. Who, she had asked, were the women in science? There were none, he said. Another professor mumbled something about Marie Curie being the exception.”🙃

Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · Aug 30

Here's a #GiftLink for those who want to read the full NYT obit of historian of science & gender, Margaret Rossiter. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/s... #histSTM 🧪🗃️

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Xinyi Wen (she/they) @xinyiwenhps.bsky.social · Aug 31

Thank you Lisa! It’s an experiment of mine and I’m hoping to develop this approach further.

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European Association for the History of Medicine and Health @eahmh.bsky.social · Aug 30

Also congratulations 👏 to the two honourable mentions:

Xinyi Wen (Cambridge University) 'Inventing a Healing Tradition across Time and Space - a reversed history of the doctrine of signatures, 1885-1609'

And

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Christoffer Basse Eriksen @cberiksen.bsky.social · Jun 28

I’m very happy to announce that I’ve been awarded an IRFD Starting Grant for the project “Sovereign Flowers: Flora Danica and the Emergence of the National Flora, 1750–1900.” Hooray! The project allows me to build a small research group of a PhD student and a postdoc at Aarhus University (@au.dk).

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · Aug 4

RIP #histsci Margaret Rossiter, who coined term Matilda Effect
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margare...
#philsci #feministsky

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · Aug 15

article now published >> artreview.com/what-isnt-at...

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · Aug 7

The brilliant @lmbd1418.bsky.social has suggested people write to the Home Secretary Yvette Cooper re: my case. If you could spare five minutes, she's created a draft letter which you can use to send to [email protected]. I appreciate everyone's support. ❤️

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh 🍉🌻🟥 @gianamar97.bsky.social · Aug 7

So excited to share my new article in @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social:
"Colonial World-Making and Global Knowledges at the Early Modern Cape of Good Hope" (Open access)
academic.oup.com/past/advance...

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Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm @profstorm.bsky.social · Aug 5

My next book—The Genealogy of Genealogy: Nietzsche, Foucault, and the Coils of Critical History—has an official publication date: April 5, 2026! The publisher’s page is up with TOC & a preorder button (no cover yet): press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Look here for more details as they materialize.

The Genealogy of Genealogy

The book The Genealogy of Genealogy: Nietzsche, Foucault, and the Coils of Critical History, Jason Ananda Josephson Storm is published by University of Chicago Press.

press.uchicago.edu

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Katherine Enright @katherinenright.bsky.social · Aug 2

Excited to be part of this great line up of natural history talks and walks at the Forest Learning Centre, Perdana Botanic Gardens, KL later this month!

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Dr Amy Fuller @amyfuller.bsky.social · Jul 25

This is getting close to 150K signatures now. It might not do anything, but it will serve as evidence for the future that the UK government were aware of the opposition of its own people to its complicity in the Israeli genocide on Gaza & the fact that it did nothing to stop it.

Scary Mary Branscombe @marypcbuk.bsky.social · Jul 24

I shared the link yesterday, but (UK citizens only please) the Gaza petition to UK parliament is here if you're looking for it; just cracked 76k and the rate at which people are signing is creeping up; currently 4500/hour and only needs 347 signatures every hour for the next 3 days to hit 100k

Petition: Urgently fulfil humanitarian obligations to Gaza

Act to ensure deliverer of fuel, food, aid, life saving services etc. We think this shouldn't be dependant/on condition of Israeli facilitation as the Knesset voted against UNWRA access to Gaza. We th...

petition.parliament.uk

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Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social · Jul 21

Following announcement of the Roy Porter Essay Competition winner, two entrants have also been awarded Commended for their essays:
Congratulations to Elena Danieli (Università di Bologna and Université Paris Cité) and Zhilin Chu (University of Cambridge)
#histmed @rebeccawynter.bsky.social
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Prizes

2024/5 ROY PORTER STUDENT ESSAY PRIZE COMPETITION The deadline for this year’s competition has now passed. Do look again in the autumn for the 2025/6 competition entry form (the deadline for …

sshm.org

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · Jul 14

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

WeTransfer TOS says they can use all your uploaded content for genAI

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Hadi 🍉 @hadiiturk.bsky.social · Jul 6

Please check the latest post on my page from my sister Aseel’s account.
It’s the eighth time we’ve been forced to flee, and we’re really falling apart.💔
Just… from a place of humanity🙏🏻

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