Brigitte Nerlich
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Contesting Earth’s History
April 3, 2025
This is a GUEST POST by Richard Fallon, a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Natural History Museum, London. Richard has studied interactions and overlaps between literature and science, focusing on the long nineteenth century and paying particular attention to the literary popularisation of dinosaurs. His current work examines transatlantic geoscience between the 1860s and the 1920s characterised by …
Compound weather: Some linguistic musings
March 21, 2025
You might have heard of a ‘compound fracture’ or of ‘compound interest’ or even, if you are a linguist, of a ‘compound noun’ (nouns consisting of more than one noun). But have you come across ‘compound weather’? I recently came across this expression when looking at some extreme weather disasters which were compounded by compound …
Fin-de-Siècle Youth Magazines and their Construction of Gendered Responses to Sickness
March 14, 2025
This is a post by SUSAN SUDBURY. Susan is a fifth-year honours student completing a Bachelor of Advanced Humanities at the University of Queensland, Australia, where she is studying an extended major in English Literature. I am here reposting with permission a blog post that she wrote as part of the Media and Epidemics project. …
Science and politics: Some whimsical thoughts
March 4, 2025
On Monday morning I had a lot of time. I was in hospital getting an infusion of Vedolizumab. With observation etc. that takes about three hours. I scrolled on my phone and read some posts on Bluesky, while, at the same time, reading an old novel on my Kindle – a Lord Peter Wimsey novel. …
Mpox 2022: Lived experience, stigma and coping
February 28, 2025
Mpox is a disease that is caused by infection with a virus called MPXV. There are two major genetic groups (clades) of MPXV, clade I (formerly known as Central African or Congo basin clade) and clade II (formerly known as West African clade). In the last few years, two outbreaks made the news, one in 2022, caused by …
When the world falls apart, enjoy a metaphor!
February 11, 2025
I have been writing blog posts since 2012. They dealt mainly with topics relating to climate change, the biosciences, infectious diseases, and more recently AI. Occasionally, I branched out into space or into the 19th century. That happened at times when the tectonic plates of politics shifted, such as after Brexit, the first Trump government, …
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- Twitter May 8, 2017
- Social innovations in Europe #RRI November 3, 2015
- Harvey Graff, the undisciplinarian September 20, 2015
- Replacing Pesticides With Genetics August 31, 2015
- Addressing hazardous chemicals in the circular economy August 25, 2015
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