Here's my first edit on the March 3rd Lunar Eclipse. 15 moon shots, 1 foreground. Taken over a 3 hourish period.

Make this two journal articles and a book contract!

Things have been a little stressful recently, and yet I have somehow managed to pull together 2 forthcoming journal articles! Both deal with the politics of knowledge literature for popular audiences, amid 19c tensions about who gets to participate in the making of scientific knowledge-and why 📚 🔭 🐛

Things have been a little stressful recently, and yet I have somehow managed to pull together 2 forthcoming journal articles! Both deal with the politics of knowledge literature for popular audiences, amid 19c tensions about who gets to participate in the making of scientific knowledge-and why 📚 🔭 🐛

Also 👂🎧👂 when you have a few mins! Oral history is a powerful means for learning from emotions & experiences, critical for building bridges and collaborating beyond disciplines. Drawing on lived memories of RELU, Valuing Nature, STEPS research & beyond #HistSTM #envhums #STS #sustainability #scipol

Do you want to get another schism? Because this is how you get another schism

To celebrate the publication of 'Science, Religion and the Human Future' you can grab a limited time 30% discount - so get our new book for £13.99 ($17.50) here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

📚 No bruises, just brains—dive into the medieval art of fencing with this online course. medievalstudies.thinkific.com/courses/fenc... #HEMA

And more from @theconversation.com - dismantled federal programs that combat such hostile campaigns&defunded research efforts to study them; X has cut off researchers’ easy access to the data that'd make it possible to detect&monitor these kinds of manipulation." theconversation.com/swarms-of-ai...

Brainwashing, 2026 edition. This paper shows how X's algorithmic feed shifts people's views rightwards. It's a sophisticated, highly effective form of reorientation. And it is utterly chilling. If you're still on that platform, unhook yourself now. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

Thrilled HSS/ESHS have accepted my paper "In science we trust?: Hagiography, and the ethics of trust in constructing the public scientist" on our proposed session "Trust, Distrust, Faith and Disbelief" - who else is going to Edinburgh? #histsci #scicomm

I sometimes don't understand humanities peer reviewers. Recently got a v gentle revise & resubmit, basically the review should have read "here's 5 awkward sentences, and maybe you can add a line or two about this background thing" (which is fine) - instead I get a strongly worded wall of text...

Ok this is WILD 🏺 paging my repatriation community peeps www.Bloomberg.com/news/article...

Might design a guessing game for students: Who said it? Victorians or Manosphere Influencers?

To celebrate the publication of 'Science, Religion and the Human Future' you can grab a limited time 30% discount - so get our new book for £13.99 ($17.50) here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Just arrived in the mail: 'Science, Religion, and the Human Future' (OUP 2026) - from our @eclasproject.bsky.social, on the history of conflict narratives in Science and Religion, and their present ramifications. Now available as e-book & in print: global.oup.com/academic/pro... 1/2

This spring, I’m having my Paleoecology undergrads read one popular science book about a topic related to course themes (the history of life on Earth, any time or taxonomic group). What’s your favorite book in that vein? I’ve got a list of ~20 but want to make sure I’m not missing any good ones!

Candid summary of where we are in Higher Ed: blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Do I know anyone who knows journalists/ academics/ contacts who are/have been reporting on/ researching Airbnb related crime// housing issues? (urgent-ish) Please re-post! @clanfear.bsky.social @ayuhas.bsky.social

Do I know anyone who knows journalists/ academics/ contacts who are/have been reporting on/ researching Airbnb related crime// housing issues? (urgent-ish) Please re-post! @clanfear.bsky.social @ayuhas.bsky.social

It's great to see so many signing up for the @asleuki.bsky.social Online Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Literature and Environment, on 29 Jan 2026, 3-7 pm GMT, but there's still room for more! Further details and registration information at: asle.org.uk/events/semin...

Spotted in Cambridge

Now live! Call for papers for our next conference, the 21st European Conference on Science & Theology (ECST XXI). Leeds, UK; 19-22 August 2026 Conference title: 'Lost in Translation? Celebrating Language Diversity in Science and Religion' Deadline: 31 Jan 2026 esssatconference.org/call-for-pap...

My special issue on gardens and plants as laboratories of premodern science is out on @royalsocietypublishing.org #notesandrecords #nrrs #histplants #histsci #vegscilif #envhist with articles by me, Luzzini on minerals, @johedesan.bsky.social on Guy de La Brosse, Jalobeanu on Bacon, and Benharrech🌱

270-page academic monographs for £150 - and a peer-reviewer recently responded to a book proposal of mine why I am not pitching the book to a "better" publisher (who would give me fewer pages at £110 purchase price more). How did we get here?

Attracting the brightest and best still going swimmingly

How, after all this, is it still Monday...?

Last day to submit abstracts for the Cambridge University Entomological Society symposium is tomorrow! Please send your abstracts to [email protected]!! @royentsoc.bsky.social @frankendodo.bsky.social @britentsoc.bsky.social @camzoology.bsky.social @zoologymuseum.bsky.social

✨Deeply honoured to deliver this year's Annual Digital Lecture at The National Archives! Drawing on our @erc.europa.eu Data Loss project, I'll explore how preservation creates loss in the digital age and what that means for the politics of archives. Nov 20 6pm at Senate House, London. Do join us!

How, after all this, is it still Monday...?

We are currently open to receiving proposals for themed issues with @advancesjournal.bsky.social, which is published through Taylor and Francis, and is the official journal of @incsa.bsky.social. If you have ideas for a collection, email me. Details👇 in-csa.com/themed-speci...

Let’s say, hypothetically, you appreciated our position paper and @olivia.science and I would be recording answers to questions about it. What questions would you have?

The Cambridge University Entomological Society is hosting a symposium on ”The good, the bad, and the monstrous: insects in mythology, literature and media”, at the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, on 20th November 2025. Huge thanks to @royentsoc.bsky.social for supporting us!

Great news for everyone working on cultural entomology - Call for Papers from the @cam.ac.uk Entomological Society & @royentsoc.bsky.social - “The good, the bad, and the monstrous: Insects in mythology, literature and media" Deadline for Abstracts: 20 October '25 Symposium Date: 20 November '25

New paper by Petrulevičius & Gutiérrez presents the oldest winged insects 🦟 from Argentina 🇦🇷 dating back to the early #Carboniferous - More insight into the early diversification of animal life & ecosystems on land. ⬇️ #Paleontology #Science onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Reading 19th century Luddite gaslighting in the context of current AI criticism is also never not *an experience* #histsci #histSTM

Really excited to be returning to Amsterdam as Keynote Speaker for the Capegemini Executive Congress to reflect on lessons, in the many fast-moving debates we can learn from the history of Artificial Intelligence& Automata, with Industry& Academic leaders in the field www.sogeti.com/summit2025/s...

Please: if you have Indefinite Leave to Remain and are eligible for citizenship, apply now. In 2015, I went through a terrible divorce. I was on a marriage visa, and my ex reported me as illegally in the UK in order to get me deported. It was VERY scary. Your rights can disappear in a flash.

Yet again, machine learning — even gussied up via the transformer architecture — encodes and reinforces societal biases. This study reveals that LLM-based peer review relies heavily on author institution in its decisions. arxiv.org/abs/2509.15122

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

I have now on more than one occasion seen AI plagiarism of my own publications in peer review. None of this is a drill.

Well, that's the next advert campaign for Cambridge sorted: "come to Cambridge, future employers will know you've learnt to think and write for yourself".

Universities: "If you plagiarise on your essay, you will be failed and expelled" Oxford: "Here! Use the hallucinating piracy machine for free!"

To "accelerate high-impact, curiosity-led research and innovation, and to facilitate breakthroughs" - let me tell you my students using genAI are NOT curious and what it is accelerated so far is lying, cheating and data fabrication

Like many others, I will be deleting my academia [dot] edu account this morning in light of their change of policy.

Colleagues in the history of psychiatry: please see this call for special issue proposals and help spread the word! journals.sagepub.com/page/hpy/cal...

The fact that this company and pretty much all the AI companies rolled out their tech without first considering the harms to the most vulnerable among us is horrifying. Again and again they show us how little they care about harms except as reputational damage

Honestly, writing about 19th century women scientists is never not a ride.