Michelle Ziegler

Biologist 🔬, history of medicine 🧬☠, and medieval history geek, blogger. Cultural Heritage student. Docent at Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site.

[Michelle Ziegler @MZiegler3]

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@Peloponnesiacus @peter_sarris ://academic.oup.com/past/advance-article/doi/10.1093/pastj/gtab024/6427314

[Michelle Ziegler @MZiegler3]

@DrKillgrove Is there an adaptive advantage to keeping baby teeth longer? By that I mean do we have any known groups that this worked for?

[Michelle Ziegler @MZiegler3]

@distairify Good luck. I see you have an alternate option cued up.😉

[Rory Naismith @Rory_Naismith]

Wonderful to see this in the news! A fascinating inscription possibly connecting the Galloway hoard with the bishop of Lindisfarne around the time of the viking raid in 793. More work remains to be done to find out more. https://t.co/ALf6LQNpPS

[Kathleen Walker-Meikle @Medieval_Badger]

In just over a week! Register using link in tweet below.

[Mark Nicovich, Ph.D. @StatoDaMar]

This new article by @peter_sarris is not only a superb rebuttal to some poor recent arguments concerning the Justinianic Plague, it's also a masterclass in how historians properly use evidence in context. ://academic.oup.com/past/advance-article/doi/10.1093/pastj/gtab024/6427314

[Michelle Ziegler @MZiegler3]

@monicaMedHist No good vaccine for plague, cholera, or TB. Give the microbe /evolution some credit, for plague and influenza we have been working on a vaccine for a century, give or take a decade or so. Plague work is behind the scenes for biosecurity reasons.

[Andrew Wehrman: @profwehrman.bsky.social @ProfWehrman]

I was startled to discover that the child in the center of the painting below--commonly used in US history textbooks--died of smallpox soon after. In 1776, C. W. Peale painted a new portrait of his grieving wife as a warning not to put off inoculation. https://t.co/XU3KZxnQfi

[Staffa National Nature Reserve NTS @StaffaNTS]

Many of the 120,000 people visiting #Staffa each year enjoy up-close views of the beautiful #seabirds. There are concerns about the stability of #puffin populations, rising sea temperatures and weather extremes linked to #climate change.

@Climate_Scot @COP26 #COP26

[OPCW @OPCW]

🌏 The world agrees that #ChemicalWeapons have no place in today's arsenals. Learn what a chemical weapon is, and what it isn’t, according to the #ChemicalWeaponsConvention.

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[North Ages @NorthAges]

Oct 26: Feast of Eata (†686), bishop of Hagustaldes ham (Hexham). Educated by Aidan, he became a monk, and eventually abbot, at Mailros (Melrose). Tenures as abbot of Lindisfarne and bishop of Bernicia also preceded his time at Hexham. ©Kevin Wilbraham

[North Ages @NorthAges]

Oct 26: Feast of Cedd (†664), bishop of the East Saxons. Brother of St Chad and educated at Lindisfarne, he evangelised in Mercia and Essex. He founded monasteries including Lestingeham (Lastingham, Yorkshire) where he died of plague. ©Helge Klaus Rieder

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@CarenzaLewis No official residents, but it sounds like a good refuge for the homeless.

[Michelle Ziegler @MZiegler3]

@BioAndBaseball I’m glad Biden will be the one to replace him!

[Michelle Ziegler @MZiegler3]

Google Doodle honors marine biologist María de los Ángeles Alvariño González https://t.co/KX3V50qCZ4 via @SkylledDev

[covid_vaccinebot @CVaccinebot]

🌎 Global COVID-19 vaccine rollout

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 45.48% (estimate)

Vaccine doses deployed: 6.3B
The rollout seems to be slowing down

#COVID19 #EpiTwitter #Vaccination #PublicHealth

[Michelle Ziegler @MZiegler3]

@suz_paul Medieval white-out. It’s covering something damaged with a new line of text.

[Plague Poems @PlaguePoems]

At this late hour
it no longer surprises me
to see how many are eager
to minimize
the pandemic’s death toll.

And while
it no longer surprises me
seeing such reactions
is still more than sufficient
to depress me.