PhD position in Human Ecology at Lund University. Project in history of environment/energy/technology. The candidate must be able to read/speak Swedish. #envhist

Kom och bli humanekolog! Vi rekryterar en doktorand till det tvärvetenskapliga projektet "Den svenska elen" som fokuserar på nationalism i relation till elkraftsutbyggnad. Tjänsten är knuten till den historiska delen av projektet. Sprid gärna!

Libris är nere.

The way you know Bluesky is not a representative sample is several people are livetweeting their reading of an encyclical

Pope Leo goes full metal STS

I *never ever* imagined a Pope taking on trans/post-humanism. #117 = "...the key issue is not the use of technology as such, but the vision that underlies it. If the human being is treated as something to be perfected...it becomes easier to accept that some lives are less useful." #RerumNovarum

Sabrina ”Boys”, luftsynth, ostar, kex, The weather girls ”Its raining men”: fredag!!!

Other people have already posted about it here, but I have now released the Virtual OS Museum. Sorry for the issues with downloads before; the server I was hosting it on had a failing drive. I now have torrents and direct downloads from archive.org linked on the site virtualosmuseum.org

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/...

Post by @lottaleiwo.bsky.social, Tamara Caulkins & me on the thinking behind our call for contributions to a Sourcebook for Histories of Weather and Weathering - the workshop(s) that inspired it and our own perspectives. The deadline is 4 September #histSTM #envhist meteohistory.org/announcements/

Brian Eno, Peter Schmidt And Cybernetics www.moredarkthanshark.org/eno_int_rhiz...

Interesting: in German higher education, decaying university buildings are interpreted as signs of decline, while in Britain it’s expensive new buildings that symbolise mismanagement.

Är kaminmannen.

Pappa, mamma och Mandus.

Pappa.

Luftbas! Vin! Matlagning! Fredagskväll!

Canvas är crackat och avstängt. Nästa veckas undervisning kommer nog funka – vetenskapsteori för förskollärare och ett seminarium om facklitteratur på kursen om recensionens teori och praktik – men om Canvas inte är uppe när sommarkursen i astronomihistoria börjar om några veckor (140 antagna) ...

Fantastic interview that makes a strong case for breaking down the silo walls between diplomatic history and the history of science

En bra artikel om AI och forskning – och pluspoäng för att Andreas Tranvik hyllar Anthony Graftons fantastiska bok om fotnotens historia.

The publishing industry views Bluesky as some tiny unimportant island out somewhere in a far-off ocean. It's not worthy of their attention like Amazon Algoland or The Republic Of Instagram Influencer Collaborativepost is. What they don't realise is just how much the island's inhabitants love books.

Honoured to see our book Race and the Scottish Enlightenment: A Colonial History (@brucealexb.bsky.social), shortlisted for the Pickstone Prize by the British Society for the History of Science bshs.org.uk/pickstone-pr... It’s a real privilege to be included alongside such inspiring scholarship.

📚 The shortlist for the 2026 BSHS Pickstone Prize is out! Awarded biennially, the prize recognises outstanding scholarly books in HistSTEM. This year’s shortlist highlights topics including climate, race, extinction, capitalism, medicine, and animal experimentation. 🔗 bshs.org.uk/pickstone-pr...

Study finds that students using chatGPT learned and remembered less than students who did not use it. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Såg Magnus Uggla på Lorensbergsteatern tillsammans med T., L. och S. Massor av hits och entusiastisk publik: en riktigt bra spelning! Vilket band – jättebra musiker, fullt ös! Kai Martin gillade också: kaimartinblog.com/2026/01/10/k... Han kunde dock kreddat Olle Ljungström för "Jag och min far".

En prosopografi över 70-talisterna: www.gustavholmberg.com/tomrum/2026/...

New ISIS article by MancHSTM colleague Prof Simone Turchetti: The World United in Studying Itself? Data and the Coloniality of the International Geophysical Year, 1957–1958. #HistSTM #HistSci www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

My next book (October 20) is on the Victorian medical detective Joseph Bell. SLEUTH-HOUND is a whirlwind tour of Victorian forensics from the perspective of the man who loaned a voice and razor-sharp logic to Baker St.’s famous resident: Sherlock Holmes. /1

The journal Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences (HSNS) is inviting short essays (800-1K words) revisiting "classic" works in the history of the natural sciences. These will be collected in a special issue planned for 2027. If you have an idea, please contact me. (I'm an associate editor)

Imorgon blir det visning på Bio Roy av ett antal filmer ur Hasselbladstiftelsens filmarkiv. Bland annat den prisbelönta reklamfilmen Reflections of Life (1970) men även en film från ett jubileum 1937 och ifrån rivningarna i Nordstan på 1960-talet. riksarkivet.se/evenemang/fi...

Osäker läsning, men jag tror att efternamnet är Wennerström. Förnamnet är mer lättläst: Jan. Tänk om det hade varit Stig istället …

CfA: International Visiting Fellowship Programme in the History of Knowledge (Lund) We invite early career/postdoctoral scholars to join us at LUCK during a period of one week between 2 November and 6 November, 2026. Read more here: newhistoryofknowledge.com/2026/04/13/c...

Luftbas: ja. Moonwalk: nej. (Matlagning och musik med T. en fredagskväll.)

Working the morning shift as a scholar in 1540, a browser tab and a word document opened on two screens, other needed texts opened and handy, an overfull mail account nearby, and a hot beverage in reach to make for the best working condition. Bonus: wearing a thinking hat. #academicchatter

Glad påsk!

Reading Michel Foucault on 19th century natural history... marveling at how much he got wrong and ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ as to why so many historians still cite him.

I know this has circulated with alacrity recently, so you may have already seen it, but if you haven't... WOW BOY HOWDY it's the most useful thing. Thank you cardcatalogforlife.substack.com -- this is a very very very helpful public service: cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

Apparently you can pre-order? (Thank you @alilleybrinker.com for pointing this out!) Just be sure not to read it ha ha ha? yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

Vi ger en ny och tyvärr väldigt aktuell kvällskurs i höst.

Tips från coachen: lämna aldrig in opaginerade kandidatuppsatser för seminarieventilering (gäller också på andra nivåer). _ALDRIG_.

POST-DOC! 3-year job in history of political thought / visual culture / art history Department of Politics & International Studies University of Cambridge @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/54724/

Lyckan när man upptäcker att en bok är trådbunden och inte limbunden. Den tål alltså att användas. Lyckan!

timeline cleanse 🧼

Dixi. www.expressen.se/kultur/kultu...

Hittade en pressad växt i en bok om solens astrofysik. Böcker är ibland tidskapslar.

Hans Rausing Professorship in the History of Science, Uppsala University, Sweden. Excelent job at a very good department! www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIP IN HISTORY OF SCIENCE My home department at Uppsala University is advertising an endowed professorship in the history of science. This is the best position in the field in Sweden, and probably in all of Scandinavia. Apply before 30 April 2026. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Jag beundrar skickliga hantverkare! Föreningen har bestämt sig för att göra förebyggande relining av stammarna (huset är 98 år gammalt) och: vilka proffs de är på firman vi anlitar!