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Many thanks to all who were able to come to the @csmbr-pisa.bsky.social lecture today. The bibliography of works cited in the talk has been posted online: doi.org/10.17613/5k9.... The recorded lecture will be posted on the CSMBR site in another week or so. #histmed #aDNA #EpiSky #PandemicThinking

Infectitious 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...

Registration is now open for my 13 Jan 2026 public lecture, "The Transformation of Infectious Disease Histories: Three Decades of Paleogenetics and Historians’ Responses," csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/onlin... Sponsored by @csmbr-pisa.bsky.social. #histmed #aDNA #PandemicThinking

Title slide for Monica H. Green, "How to Collaborate (or Not) Across Historicist Disciplines: Thoughts from 15 Years on the Edge of the Paleosciences of Plague," presented at Roskilde University, PandemiX Center, 9 Dec 2025. The image in the center shows the author pointing to the pre-Big Bang lineage 0.ANT3 on a phylogenetic tree showing the evolution of Yersinia pestis. She is in discussion with sinologist, Bob Hymes.

My thanks to the PandemiX center at @roskildeuni.bsky.social for hosting me today. What a great opportunity to talk about the current state of plague research & the challenges of thinking across so many disciplinary methods. #PandemicThinking #histmed h/t @jonploug.bsky.social

Plague's 3 historical pandemics are each tied to different phases of Empire. Grain transport is a factor (perhaps the biggest factor) in the 1st & 2nd pandemics. #PandemicThinking is shifting toward looking at the anthropogenic factors--not pernicious deliberate acts, but inadvertent consequences.

Academia[dot]edu account has been closed. See downthread for screenshots of the program. Bordeaux, 14-16 October, "Les hommes et la peste: Hommage à Jean-Noël Biraben." #Plague #histmed #MedievalSky #aDNA #PandemicThinking 🧪🗃️

One Epidemic, Many Estimates (1EME) One Epidemic, Many Estimates (1EME)

Since pandemic mortality is clearly still a question people seem to be confused about, this project at the LSE is showing us where we need to go: www.lse.ac.uk/Economic-His... #histmed #PublicHealth #PandemicThinking #ExcessMortality

Mike Osterholm & Eric Topol - Discuss “The Big One” book A recording from Eric Topol's live video

No webinars today, so I'm taking a break from research to listen to @erictopol.bsky.social's interview w/ Mike Osterholm ( @mtosterholm.bsky.social ) on his new book, The Big One.

Listen in: erictopol.substack.com/p/mike-oster... #PublicHealth #PandemicThinking

The Pandemic Arc: Expanded Narratives in the History of Global Health Abstract. Using the examples of plague, smallpox, and HIV/AIDS, the present essay argues for the benefits of incorporating the evolutionary histories of pa

Finally out, nearly a year "in press" after revised submission: academic.oup.com/jhmas/advanc.... Sorry, had no $$ to cover open-access fees. I don't have an e-offprint to share privately yet, but if you can't get access, hit me up in a couple of weeks. #histmed #PandemicThinking #GlobalHealth 🧪

Title slide for an upcoming keynote lecture at the International Medieval Congress, Leeds University: Monica H. Green, "Crisis under a Microscope: The Black Death, Multidisciplinarity, and the Global Middle Ages." The image on the left comes from a medieval manuscript and shows the three sons of Noah inheriting, respectively, Asia, Europa, and Africa. In the middle is a photograph of the microscope used in 1894 by Alexandre Yersin to discover Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes plague.

In two weeks, 2 July: "Crisis under a Microscope: The Black Death, Multidisciplinarity, and the Global Middle Ages," #IMC2024, Leeds (UK): imc-leeds.confex.com/imc/2024/pre.... #PandemicThinking #MedievalSky 🧪

Coronavirus: The Whole Story - What can we learn from the history of pandemics? What does the black death, HIV, and Covid-19 have in common? This week we're looking into the past, teasing apart the surprising similarities and learnings from previous pandemics - HIV/ AIDS in the 1

Just found this podcast from 2020 (which month?), looking at the Black Death, the early days of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, & COVID-19: soundcloud.com/uclsound/cor.... (A rather error-ridden transcript here: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-minds/po...) Parry at 30 mins: What have we failed to learn? #PandemicThinking

In COVID Times: Scholars of Health and Medicine Meet Disaster Studies Abstract. This essay builds on the exciting trove of disaster social science research surfacing since the earliest days of the COVID-19 pandemic. It tracks

"That week, 3,137 people in the US died of a pandemic that was over."

Closing line of Scott Gabriel Knowles, "In COVID Times: Scholars of Health and Medicine Meet Disaster Studies," doi.org/10.1093/jhma.... #histmed #PandemicThinking

This is just heartbreaking. We had the science to track the disease from almost Day 1. And we had plenty of historical & epidemiological evidence to show that there was massive risk in fucking around w/ a novel pathogen. Well, now we've found out. #PandemicThinking

Screenshot of the opening page of Monica H. Green, “Emerging Diseases, Re-emerging Histories,” Centaurus 62, no. 2 (2020), 238-251, part of a “Spotlight” issue, Histories of Epidemics in the Time of COVID-19,

@nickjbrumfield.bsky.social Thanks for the follow. I have tons of stuff posted on my Academia & Knowledge Commons pages, but if you're new to #PandemicThinking, you might want to start w/ this: www.academia.edu/42956331/Eme...