Matthew Daniel Eddy 🌻
History Prof @ Durham University | STS | HPS | Historian of Britain and the Atlantic world.
- Reposted by Matthew Daniel Eddy 🌻I'm hiring 2 postdocs on my Wellcome project "How Did Infectious Diseases Become Wild?: Plague, Yellow Fever, and Disease Ecology in the Brazilian Hinterland (1920-1975)" Department of Global Health and Social Medicine King's College 3 years 01/10/26- 30/09/29 Deadline: 01/02/26 shorturl.at/KZ6Vh
- Reposted by Matthew Daniel Eddy 🌻The 19th Ischia Summer School in the History of the Life Sciences will take place 28 Jun - 5 July 2026. Interested graduate students should apply by 27 February. This year's theme? PROBLEMS of GROWTH! ischiasummerschool.org/theme #histSTM #histbio #histsci
- My JRCPE article about Dr Archibald Hewan and Glasgow's medical libraries is out! You can read it for FREE via the link. Hewan was the first black physician to serve as a missionary in Africa. #histstm #histsci #hps #BookHistory #churchhistory #AfricanHistory journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- Reposted by Matthew Daniel Eddy 🌻Terrifying, maddening and utterly heart-breaking. Truly incredible journalism to expose and document this.
- Reposted by Matthew Daniel Eddy 🌻I'll be using this data in the talk I'll be giving in February documenting that leprosy was already a global disease well before European expansion across the Atlantic & Pacific. For #histmed, this raises new questions: how did different societies *care* for the afflicted?
- Okay, done. I've captured the leprosy genomes out of the aDNA pathogen database that Sikora et al. pub'd in July. As they noted in their own analysis, it's now been well documented that leprosy was circulating in N Europe thruout the Middle Ages, & seems to have been tied to trade in squirrel skins.
- My PhD student Lenka Schmalisch has completed her PhD! Congratulations Dr Schmalisch!
- Wow! The first African American female doctor in Alabama! #sts #hps #blackhistory #histmed @womenshistnet.bsky.social @jwomenshistory.bsky.social #histsci
- Today's Find: First certified, practicing female physician in #Alabama tinyurl.com/ph4ykgv Halle T. Dillon at #Tuskegee Institute in the 1890s #histmed tinyurl.com/yyn5cwxy #medicalhistory
- Reposted by Matthew Daniel Eddy 🌻International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science -- #HOPOS 2026 Ohio State University, Columbus (OH) 22 to 26 June 2026 NEW Submission Deadline: 15 October 2025, 11:59 (PT) & remote option for scholars unable to travel to US hopos2026.dryfta.com. #HPS #philsky 🗃️
- Reposted by Matthew Daniel Eddy 🌻36 mo postdoc / research fellow position in Philosophy, History, and/or Social Studies of the Life Sciences in the STS dept. at Technical Universtiy of Munich, apps due Oct 31: #histphil #histsci #histSTM www.sts.sot.tum.de/en/sts/arbei...
- Reposted by Matthew Daniel Eddy 🌻#HPS program at the University of Copenhagen invites applications for Postdoc in History and Philosophy of Science as part of research project Human Variables in Biodiversity Assessment (PI: Joeri Witteveen): employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho... #philsky #PhilJobs #philsci Deadline is November 7, 2025.
- Thank you @sebfalk.com and @saraluckelman.bsky.social for mentioning my book! Really sorry to miss Seb's paper - which I'm sure was amazing! #BookHistory #EarlyModern #HistSTM #HPS #STS
- @bookscribbler.bsky.social's "Media and the Mind" is a great book!
- Reposted by Matthew Daniel Eddy 🌻Excited for the launch of the ESHS/HSS 2026 Joint Meeting call for proposals, presented by Simone Turchetti and Sam Robinson at the General Assembly of the #ICHST2025 Hope to see you in Edinburgh in a year's time! hssonline.org/page/Edinbur...
- When it comes to cognitive abilities, ChatGPT is the Emperor‘s new clothes for university students. I do not understand why universities are not taking more active action to collectively counter the problem. #education #sts #hps #media #ai #data #humanities theconversation.com/mit-research...
- For all the naysayers who predicted the digital death of annotation... #bookhistory #manuscripts #marginalia #reading www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
- Reposted by Matthew Daniel Eddy 🌻Very excited about the Call for Papers for the upcoming 2025 conference for the Australasian Association for History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science. Come join us in sunny Brisbane QLD this December!! It is always a wonderful event. #hps #histSTM #philsci #STS #metasci 🧪
- Call for Papers - AAHPSSS Conference 2025 The 2025 AAHPSSS conference will be held in a hybrid format at the University of Queensland from Wednesday 3rd December to Friday 5th December. Further details, including on submissions, can be found on our website: aahpsss.net.au/conference/2...
- Reposted by Matthew Daniel Eddy 🌻I have a new book coming out this autumn via @mitpress.bsky.social ...details at: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348... #HistSci #Computing #History #Books 🗃️
- Reposted by Matthew Daniel Eddy 🌻Call for papers: Women in Science: historical perspectives Conference 18 Nov. 2025 at Royal Society Submit proposals < 300 words, incl a biographical note of c.50 words) for 20-min papers to library@royalsociety.org subject line ‘proposal for conference paper’ Deadline: 30 June 2025 #HPS
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- Reposted by Matthew Daniel Eddy 🌻Our book Race & the Scottish Enlightenment: A Colonial History 1750-1820 can now be pre-ordered (publication date is in August). @brucealexb.bsky.social yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... #skystorians #colonialhistory #enlightenment #histsci
- Historians know that incorrect information becomes increasingly hard to fact check over time. We are sleep walking into an age of misinformation as we increasingly rely on AI to think for us. #histsci #hps #sts #bookhistory #data #history #journalism www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
- Reposted by Matthew Daniel Eddy 🌻In the lead up to the launch of Season 5, we have re-released some of the most popular episodes from our collection for your listening pleasure. Make sure you've had a listen! Or a re-listen, like @schizosemia.bsky.social #hps #histsci #philsci #sts 🧪
- Revisiting this excellent episode of @hpspodcast.bsky.social with the Lorraine Daston & Peter Harrison. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...
- I'm currently researching the place of science in the early abolitionist movement's moral and legal arguments against enslavement. Today I came across this noteworthy observation: #histsci #histmed #hps #sts #philosophy #bioethics #blackhistory #publichealth
- Manuscript submitted to the publisher for review! #histsci #histmed #sts #hps #gender #literature #manuscripts #diaries #bookhistory #britishhistory
- Coming to a London conference near you .... #histsci #histmed #hps #sts #philosophy #bioethics #blackhistory #publichealth
- Just discovered from c 1800 school textbooks that one of the black doctors I'm researching was likely taught ... the history of science! #histsci #histmed #hps #sts
- Good news! This week I was interviewed by @NewBooksNetwork about my recent book: newbooksnetwork.com/media-and-th... #EarlyModern #histsci #bookhistory #HistSTM #HSTM #arthistory #manuscripts
- Wonderful to see John Christie and Robert Fox (my external PhD examiner many moons ago) when I was in Oxford this weekend.
- LIBRARIES OF SCIENCE CONFERENCE. 12 MAR 2025. I'll be speaking about the library habits of Dr Archibald Hewan, a black missionary physician who lived during the mid 19th century => royalsociety.org/science-even... #hstm #bookhistory #hps #sts #Africa
- Reposted by Matthew Daniel Eddy 🌻#AmRel, American history, history of science, and science and religion folks: Mark your calendars for this extremely exciting event we're hosting at Penn in March! More details soon.
- And finally, our annual Boardman symposium will be on "The Scopes Trial at 100: Secularism, Race, and Education." This 1.5-day workshop will take place at Penn from March 20-21. More information available here--and watch for registration details soon! www.library.upenn.edu/events/scope...
- Reposted by Matthew Daniel Eddy 🌻Interested in public health campaigns and back pain? Mark your calendars for my latest book talk on MARCH 19th at the fabulous Science History Institute, in person and online. @princetonupress.bsky.social #histmed #skystorians #histstm
- Reposted by Matthew Daniel Eddy 🌻Rare #jobfairy alert - lecturer (permanent position, c. assist prof) in Medicine, Health and Society, pref. Global south expertise. #histSTM #STS - deadline 2 March 2025 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
- Reposted by Matthew Daniel Eddy 🌻@mellonfoundation.bsky.social, via the Public Knowledge program, is launching another round of open calls for proposals from community-based archives, this time for general operating support funding. Read the solicitation here: www.mellon.org/article/call...
- Reposted by Matthew Daniel Eddy 🌻Applications are now open for 2025-26 Fellowships at IASH, with 60 places available! Apply here: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/application-... Senior/mid-career programmes close 28 Feb. Postdoctoral/early-career programmes close 25 April. See our Fellowship pages for details: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/fellowship-p...
- Reposted by Matthew Daniel Eddy 🌻IMEMS & University College (Durham Castle) are delighted to invite applications for the 2025/26 Slater Fellowship, a 3-month, residential senior fellowship at @durham-university.bsky.social during Epiphany Term 2026. Apply here: 💻https://tinyurl.com/4hb3tdbx
- Spent yesterday exploring the Durham University's historical biosciences collection with the curator Gemma Lewis. We want to use it as a learning resource for students. You can read more about it here: stories.durham.ac.uk/ReawakeningB... #hps #hstm #sts #histsci #collections #museums
- Join me online this Monday! #histsci #histmed #colonialism #africa #hps #sts instructingnaturalhistory.com/events/semin...
- Reposted by Matthew Daniel Eddy 🌻Absolutely stellar historical detective work by Fara Dabhoiwala in the @londonreview.bsky.social! www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
- Looking forward to reading Marianne Sommer's new FREE open access book on the history of evolutionary diagrams. #histsci #hps #sts
- Data, Race and Empire: African Health, Scottish Missions and the Information Strategies of Dr Archibald Hewan (1832-1883) Durham University National Museum of Scotland Full PhD Studentship (AHRC CDA) Further information: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-j... #histsci #hps #hstm #sts #blackhistory
- Good news! Meng Li's Chinese translation of my Oxford University Press critical edition of William Paley's Natural Theology (1802) will be published as 自然神学 by China's Commercial Press [商务印书馆] in early 2025. #hps #sts #histsci #histmed #history #philosophy #theology #religion
- A big congratulations to my PhD student @Odile_Lehnen, who has been awarded a placement with the BBC Natural History unit, where she will be working on various shows and on a collaboration with National Geographic! @BBCEarth #hps #histsci #sts
- Reposted by Matthew Daniel Eddy 🌻Thank you for the tip! Just turned it on 👍🏽
- Ever wonder how women learned about experimental science during the long eighteenth century? Join me (for free!) at 5 pm (GMT) on 21 November to hear more my research on the topic: www.youtube.com/live/veM-pG9... #histsci #histSTM #hps #sts #women
- Come here me speak online for Uppsala University's Instructing Natural History seminar in December! #histsci #histmed #hps #sts #hstm instructingnaturalhistory.com/events/semin...
- Recently one of my former PhD students from China gave me these two lovely gifts! One is a mug with the cover of my recent book on it. The other is a statue of me looking dashing in the glasses I wore when he was in Durham.
- I am elated to write that Media and the Mind was given the 2024 Pickstone Prize by the British Society for the History of Science! I am greatly honoured to receive the award. #hps #histsci #manuscripts #hstm #histmed
- Wonderful to run into Tony Grafton in Oxford this week! It's always a pleasure to see scholars who have had such a strong impact on my thinking and career.
- Delighted to write that Media and the Mind has been shortlisted for the 2024 prize given by SHARP for the best work in book history! It is truly an honour to receive this nomination. #histsci #hps #sts #bookhistory
- Really enjoying writing this paper ... #histsci #hps #sts #manuscripts #collections #museums #gender #womenshistory
- I'm super thrilled to write that the British Society for the History of Science has shortlisted my book for the PICKSTONE PRIZE! This is wonderful news, not least because the BSHS has been my intellectual home for many years. #hps #histsci #sts #manuscripts
- Reposted by Matthew Daniel Eddy 🌻Google's AI Overviews must create entirely new information in response to a search query. That costs an estimated *30 times* more energy than simply extracting information from a source through a traditional search. 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/what... by @parshallison.bsky.social
- Delighted to announce that I will be writing the introductory essay for the Chinese translation of Paley’s Natural Theology [自然神学]. It will appear with Beijing's Commercial Press[商务印书馆] in 2025. #histsci #religion #hps #sts #histmed
- If you are Edinburgh in late June... Here's the registration info: www.nms.ac.uk/exhibitions-... #histsci #womenshistory #sts #hps #museums #gender
- If you are in Oxford in late June... Here's the registration info: ticketsource.co.uk/maison-franc... #histsci #sts #hps
