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- (New Book) Ecologies of Disease Control: Spaces of Health Security in Historical Perspective histoiresante.blogspot.com/2025/05/ecol... #histSTM
- (New Book) The Mind Mappers. Friendship, Betrayal and the Obsessive Quest to Chart the Brain histoiresante.blogspot.com/2025/05/les-... #histSTM
- #review: Szeman, Imre, "Futures of the Sun: The Struggle over Renewable Life" Available here: networks.h-net.org/group/review... #envhum #envhist #energyhumanities #energyhum #hstsm #histstm #ecocriticism #ecolit
- Alexander von Humboldt died OTD in 1859. “The principal impulse by which I was directed was the earnest endeavor to comprehend the phenomena of physical objects in their general connection, and to represent nature as one great whole, moved and animated by internal forces.” 🦫🦋🐋🌱🧪 #HistSTM
- 🗣️ Got a bold idea to bring history of science, tech or medicine to the public? 🧪🎬🧵🎭📚 Apply for a BSHS Outreach & Engagement Grant – up to £500 available! 📅 Deadline: 16 May 2025 🔗 bshs.org.uk/grants/outreach-and-engagement-project-grants #HistSTM #SciComm #PublicHistory #BSHSGrants #HSTM
- "The 1524 Cortés Map of Tenochtitlán, Mexico" -- online and in-person talk with Barbara Mundy at the Newberry Library; May 7th at 6:00 p.m. CST, register here: www.newberry.org/calendar/cor... #HistSTM #earlymodern
- Looking forward to hosting this talk by Andy Lakoff here at Sydney, May 28. #STS #histstm #preparedness
- Early bird rate for History of Medicine in Southeast Asia (HoMSEA) ends May 1. Register soon for the Jogjakarta meeting! #histmed #histstm #histsci #STS @sshmedicine.bsky.social @aahmhistmed.bsky.social @anzshm.bsky.social sejarahkesehatan.net/history-of-m...
- I've also decided very reluctantly not to attend @4sonline.bsky.social in Seattle this year. Wanted to hear the Bernal Prize lectures by Anna Tsing and @avastmachine.bsky.social; learn the latest in the field; meet friends and colleagues ... but I'm told it's not safe #STS #histstm #histsci
- Medicine on a Larger Scale: Global Histories of Social Medicine, eds @ahlie.bsky.social, Jeremy Greene, and me, will be available open access from @cambridgeup.bsky.social in May 2025. In a world of growing health inequity, radical social medicine has never been more urgent! #histstm #histmed #sts
- Pieter Vogelvormer, the Dutch naturalist who bred the finches that #Darwin later studied in the Galapagos, was born #OnThisDay in 1608. Read about this little-known contributor to the history of #evolution in a very special #ScientistOfTheDay post: www.lindahall.org/about/news/s... #histSTM 🗃️📜
- The (excellent) program and registration for History of Medicine in Southeast Asia (HoMSEA) in Yogyakarta 24-27 June 2025 - now available on the website #histmed #histstm @sshmedicine.bsky.social @aahmhistmed.bsky.social @anzshm.bsky.social
- Caroline Herschel, German-born astronomer & the 1st woman to earn a salary for scientific research, was born #OnThisDay in 1750. (Did you know @ransomcenter.bsky.social has a collection of Herschel's papers? Learn more: norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/fin...) #histSTM #astronomy #WomenInSTEM 🗃️📜🔭
- 📢 Recruiting now! Curator of Photography and Photographic Technology (maternity cover) 📸 Join my team at @mediamuseum.bsky.social and get stuck into caring for and sharing our brilliant collections. With @bradford2025.co.uk it's a wonderful time to be here ce0111li.webitrent.com/ce0111li_web...
- Just noticed that there's a 2.5-year STS postdoc position available at @edinburghuni.bsky.social, to work in the excellent Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society. Closing date very soon: March 7! #STS #histstm #medanthro
- Extremely proud to say they let me back on You're Dead To Me to talk about the Northwest Passage! #histSTM #Polar - tagging in all my #TerrorCamp friends for this one www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
- Museum job! 📜 🗃️ #histSTM National Museums Scotland, Assistant Curator, Technology - part of the truly fabulous NMS Science & Technology Department Full time, permanent - details here: careers.nms.ac.uk/job/671171 Deadline soon: 2 March
- Our new podcast series - "The Science of 1875" - is live! Listen to the first episode, exploring how geologists debated the origins of mountains, here: open.spotify.com/show/6HLkhHC... New episodes every fortnight, uncovering hot topics in science 150 years ago! #histsci #skystorians #hps #histSTM
- Fellow #histSTM scholars! The "Essays and Reviews" section of Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences (@hsnatsci.bsky.social) is looking for contributors to a February 2026 special section on "Historical Practices." More information in this Call for Proposals + in this thread. (1/?)
- It's publication day! Metropolitan Science: London Sites & Cultures of Knowledge & Practice, c.1600-1800 by me, Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin & Noah Moxham Decent discount online now (or your library may subscribe to Bloomsbury Publishing) www.bloomsbury.com/uk/metropoli... #histSTM 🗃️📜 #earlymod
- A great opportunity to work with a wonderful team and Technology collections at National Museums Scotland #histSTM #STEM 📜 🗃️
- 🔔🔔JOB KLAXON🔔🔔We are looking for Assistant Curator, Technology to join the brilliant Science & Technology team @NtlMuseumsScot. If you think this is you, apply! Details: FT, Temp 6 months, salary £30,999 to £33,543 closing Jan 19 2024. vacancies.nms.ac.uk/VacancyDetai...