In 2024, the Journal História, Ciências, Saúde – Manguinhos completes 30 years of uninterrupted publication, and, to celebrate them, we have prepared a special seminar to discuss important aspects of scientific publishing, such as open science, journal evaluation, and science communication.

This article, recently published in HoST— Journal of History of Science and Technology— demonstrates how sanitation was one of the many issues that led to heavy opposition to the operation of the Port of Rio de Janeiro at the end of the nineteenth century.