Robert Kirk
@robertgwkirk
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Historian. Interested in humans, animals and health.
Joined November 2009
JOB KLAXON: We are hiring a Lecturer in History of Medicine and/or Health (FT & permanent); we're encouraging applications from colleagues with expertise in history of mental health & mental illness. Please share and repost. https://t.co/CzpnLXt30h
#HistMed #HistSTM #HistPsych
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Interesting comment piece by CHSTM colleague @JamesBSumner in Nature Reviews Physics, on why the AI revolution is always just out of reach. https://t.co/dUpfkOntuz
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Medicinal Leech breeding could save species from (another) extinction
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Who cares about lab rodents? | Science
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Humanities and social sciences help advance “cultures of care” around laboratory animal science and welfare
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This week, a special issue of Science explores the complex and close associations #rats share with humans—from their ubiquity in the human environment to their crucial role as biomedical models. 🐀 Learn more: https://t.co/Dd7t5X3CBh
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Intrigued by what you read on the horseshoe crab in the Observer? ( https://t.co/bT5KAF8jsA)? Read more by @SustainableRich here
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The crabs’ blue blood is used to test vaccines, saving millions of lives – but there are synthetic alternatives
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Our edited book on ‘Researching Animal Research’ arrived in the post today. It is available in hard copy for a very reasonable £30 from all good (and less virtuous) book sellers. It’s also fully available online here: https://t.co/qVctVfxLpL
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If you're interested in the history of medicine and surgery, why not listen to me talking to the @NewBooksNetwork about my new book? And if you enjoy that, you can read the book for free at the link below:
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! Funding ! @NNMHRmed announces our 23/4 round of New Networks in the Critical Medical Humanities scheme. Up to £2500 to support medical humanities communities, & futures of research & practice. Deadline: 5pm GMT 12 May 2023 Eligibility: all Details:
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In 2022, The Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research (NNMHR) launched the first round of the New Networks in Critical Medical Humanities Funding Scheme. Four new networks were awarded funds...
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It's time to *fish* out your *purrfect* pet pictures and share! We want you to woof, howl, and meow all about them, for a chance to win a copy of Pet Revolution by Jane Hamlett & Julie-Marie Strange! The winner will be announced on 28 February 2023. UK only. #booktwitter
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PhD studenthip: we first advertised this in summer, when no-one was looking - this is an amazing project in the history of neurology and neurosurgery. Supervised by @robertgwkirk and myself. #Histmed & #HistSTM - please alert potential candidates.
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The University of Manchester’s Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM) and John Rylands Research Institute invite applications to undertake a fully funded 3 year doctoral...
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1/ Broadly Conceived @BConceived A research network on reproductive health run by @birkbeck_ETC postgraduate students @jemma_walton and @KateErrington3
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@BConceived @birkbeck_ETC @jemma_walton @KateErrington3 Ends of Knowledge @EndsKnowledge A research network examining medical humanities and health-related knowledges through the material conditions of the contemporary university. Organised by @harriet_cooper_ and @JamesRakoczi
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Neurodivergent Humanities @LouiseCreechan, @riacheyne, @aryathampuran, @sodonoghue, @HagopianAlice, Dr Leni van Goidsenhoven A research network to examine and support neurodiversity in the academy.
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Nonhuman Animals in the Medical Humanities Network (NAMHN) @VanessaAshall @CSCBellet @Incidentallyb
@evahaifa_ @renelle_mc A research network that brings knowledges and practices from the medical humanities into conversation with animal studies.
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