Professor of Historical Geography, University of Glasgow, Scotland. My book, The Observatory Experiment: Meteorology in Britain and its Empire, is out now with Cambridge University Press.
Simon Naylor
Delighted to see that my friend and colleague's book is out. Well done Cheryl! Well done also to Paul. Order a copy for your library!
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I have some hot compost news
slow day in the office so figured we'd start some beef with museums
New on H-Sci-Med-Tech:
Check out @xinyueli.bsky.social (@manchester.ac.uk)’s review of @simonnaylor.bsky.social (@glasgow.ac.uk)’s book _The Observatory Experiment: Meteorology in Britain and Its Empire _, pub 2024 @universitypress.cambridge.org
#hstm
Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social
The workshop, organized by Eva Horn @uni-hamburg.de Fellow 2025-26, and Maximilian Hepach @durham.ac.uk brings together expertise from a great variety of fields to explore the notion of the relation between the human body and the weather, historically and today.🔎Program & abstracts: bit.ly/4dvgyMc
I did an op-ed for The Engineer on how and why energy history can help power cleaner energy futures
www.theengineer.co.uk/content/opin...
Vacancy: Departmental Lecturer in Human Geography
SoGE, in association with @mansfieldoxford.bsky.social, seeks an outstanding Departmental Lecturer in Human Geography to provide cover during Professor Derek McCormack’s period as Head of School: https://bit.ly/3PUDVG7 #academicsky
Please help spread the news far and wide!
We have a new, full-time, permanent Lecturer in Global History of Science job @stsucl.bsky.social
Don't be fooled by the application of deadline of only 9 June 2026. This is an open search
#histsci #skystorians
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Lee MacDonald’s The Royal Observatory, Greenwich is available online uclpress.co.uk/book/the-roy...
The School of Geography and the Environment (SoGE), in association with Mansfield College, seeks an outstanding Departmental Lecturer in Human Geography to provide cover during Professor Derek McCormack’s period as Head of School.
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
