Xinyi Wen (she/they)
👩🏻💻 Frances Yates Long-Term Fellow @warburginstitute.bsky.social
🎓 PhD @CambridgeHPS @WellcomeTrust
📍 Travelling through possible worlds
🖋️ Writing a reversed long history of the doctrine of signatures
warburg.sas.ac.uk/people/xinyi-wen
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[This post could not be retrieved] - Reposted by Xinyi Wen (she/they)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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- Reposted by Xinyi Wen (she/they)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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- Reposted by Xinyi Wen (she/they)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 (1/2)
- Reposted by Xinyi Wen (she/they)Bye forever, WeTransfer.
- Reposted by Xinyi Wen (she/they)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🙏🏻
- Reposted by Xinyi Wen (she/they)Print Matters summer school hard at work at Thin Ice Press amid 3 days of book-making, reading Lucretius, depicting 'chaos', and perusing the Minster Library and Shandy Hall
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- Reposted by Xinyi Wen (she/they)Thrilled to be joining some amazing scholars this year as a Linda Hall Library research fellow! www.lindahall.org/research/lin... @mfeagan.bsky.social @manhattanscientist.bsky.social @dorisvickers.bsky.social @xinyiwenhps.bsky.social @swom.bsky.social @bhgross144.bsky.social
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- I’m thrilled to announce that from September I’ll be joining @warburginstitute.bsky.social as a Frances Yates Long-Term Fellow. It’s a position I’ve aspired to since 2019, when I studied Warburg for an MPhil essay. Can’t wait to meet such an exciting group of scholars!
- (Seems like a good time to share my Warburg obsession: muse.jhu.edu/article/926151 #EarlyModern #HistSci #HistMed #ArtHistory 🗃️
- Reposted by Xinyi Wen (she/they)OPEN LETTER: HISTORIANS FOR TRANS RIGHTS Are you a historian in the UK or working on UK history fed up at seeing the history of LGBTQIA+ discrimination repeat itself? Sign this open letter to MPs demanding they stand up for trans rights now! Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn
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- Reposted by Xinyi Wen (she/they)I am thrilled to share that I have been awarded the Royal Asiatic Society Bayly Prize for the best doctoral thesis in Asian Studies completed at a British or Irish university in 2023/2024! www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/dr-luis... @royalasiaticsoc.bsky.social @clarehallcambridge.bsky.social
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- More and more friends and colleagues are joining, so I quickly made a little starter pack. For those ‘Didn’t know you’re here too!’ occasions. Please suggest more! #HistSci #HistMed 🗃️ #EarlyModern #c18 #c19 go.bsky.app/S7TEGpqat://did:plc:rys7xbx56rzeaf3n2zefubsr/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lm5cermgqr2q
- Enjoyed all the milk and mould in this article (as well as the nod of the ‘doctrine of signatures’) Follow our @extispex.bsky.social for more! 🗃️ #EarlyModern #HistSci #HistMed
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- Reposted by Xinyi Wen (she/they)I am absolutely delighted to announce the recent publication of 'Therapy, Spirituality, and East Asian Imaginaries', a volume I co-edited alongside my colleagues Ioannis Gaitanidis (Chiba University), Avery Morrow (Brown University) and Sang-yun Han (Tohoku University). www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
- When was the last time you hear Darwin say ‘I hate myself’? Well here you are!
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- This is so cool. Didn’t know that one could use Comenius this way!
- Reposted by Xinyi Wen (she/they)Hi SHARPists! Check out our Starter Pack, and send us a message via chat if you'd like to be added! go.bsky.app/KNSyCSbat://did:plc:ekzfusbo67tkwyht5n3sxkgq/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3ljiip3scji26
- #BookHistory: Delighted to be awarded the renowned Katharine F Pantzer Jr Scholarship of @bibsoc.bsky.social! The grant will support me in finding and studying #EarlyModern extra-illustrated books of natural history, like this Petiver’s book @theulspeccoll.bsky.social @camglamresearch.bsky.social.📜
- Many thanks to the Bibliographical Society @bibsoc.bsky.social, @acgwhite.bsky.social, and other members of the committee ❤️
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- Just realised that our amazing Whipple Museum of History of Science is on Bluesky. Follow @whipplemuseum.bsky.social for more #HistSci, #HistMed, #SciArt, broken scientific instruments in Cambridge, and more! 📜 🗃️
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- Reposted by Xinyi Wen (she/they)Lovely seed boxes at @cuherb.bsky.social! Thank you @xinyiwenhps.bsky.social 🌱
- I’m also thinking about the seed boxes, like this one from @cuherb.bsky.social @camglamresearch.bsky.social, which could make the plant less ‘pressed’. Haven’t seen them in book volumes though, only on specimen sheets. 📜🗃️ (2/2)
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- And now the plaque is here too! As I continue to uncover women naturalists in Cambridge archives, getting this desktop reminder becomes even more inspiring. To read more about our article, see the thread below👇 🗃️ #HistSci #EarlyModern #C18th #WomenInSTEM
- 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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