We’re hiring! We are recruiting for a Lectureship in Global History of Science to join our Department from September 2026. For more info and to apply, please visit: https://bit.ly/3R94V58
Closing Date: 9th June 2026
#WeAreSTS #Science #Historyofscience #Globalscience
Reminder that the deadline to submit a proposal for Modern British History and the 'Environmental Turn' is 15th May - details below:
I love Asbestos Paraceratherium
Permanent lectureship in Modern British History at the University of Manchester. FT, £42-58k, closing date 30 June 26, starting Sept 26 onwards.
For international people, this is equivalent to a tenure-track Assistant Lectureship.
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
#SkyStorians
Everything else in the "Intersections: Histories of Environment, Science, and Technology in the Anthropocene" series are similarly discounted, and there are some great books there: upittpress.org/series/inter...
@upittpress.bsky.social
University of Pittsburgh Press are having a sale for this month, so you can pick up a copy of my book, The Age of Mammals, for a standard hardback price of $42 (rather than the usual more academic price of $70)
Link here, and code is 29INT40 : upittpress.org/books/978082...
#FossilFriday
The book covers understandings of extinct and extant mammals across the world in the nineteenth century, and how that connected with colonialism, views of nature, and questions of who does scientific work
It is also a fetching hardback, and compares favourably in size to a large domestic cat
In Tübingen this week, and encountered some fossil agglomerations, and long-necked and toothy beasts, in the university palaeontology collections
@caitjan.bsky.social’s Healthy Scepticism will be published this June, and we are hosting a party! 🥳🥂
📌 17 June, 17.00-19.00, Strand Campus, London.
Register via Eventbrite in the link below.
@kingshistory.bsky.social @kingsartshums.bsky.social
#histmed #histsci #histtech #histstm
If you're in Cambridge next week, why not drop by the
@pintofscience.uk festival? On Wednesday 20th at The Tivoli I'll be talking about 'Edwardian Women in Palaeontology: The Art of Graptolites', which is enough to make anyone reach for an Aperol spritz (pintofscience.co.uk/event/small-...) #pint26
This event marks the publication of Caitjan Gainty’s Healthy Scepticism, a vital new account of medical distrust for our contentious times.
|9780822947806|International Paleontology in the Long Nineteenth Century|When people today hear “paleontology,” they immediately think of dinosaurs. But for much of the history of the discipline, dram...
CALL FOR PAPERS - Modern British History and the 'Environmental Turn'.
A two-day workshop organised by @maxlong.bsky.social and myself at Lincoln College, Oxford, 16-17 September. Deadline for abstracts is 15 May.
Details in poster below, please share.
For #FossilFriday, some of the guys in elephant hall, plus the long-retired Paraceratherium model that was made of asbestos.
Andrew Seaton
Ben Miller
New concept art for a renovation of elephant hall (and the adjacent camel, horse, and rhino halls) at the UNL State Museum! Fundraising is underway, aiming for a 2029 completion. Looking good, @ashpoust.bsky.social!
news.unl.edu/article/morr...
