We’re excited to share our seminar line-up for Women in Natural History Museums & Collections. Please join us and help circulate! First out: Wednesday 6 May – 15:00–16:00 (CET) Luisa Kapp (Senckenberg Nature Research) “Everywhere and Nowhere: Women in the Making of Natural History” 🧵#histsci #HPS

Lecturer in Medieval & Early Modern History The School of History at the ANU seeks to appoint a Lecturer in History. Applicants working at the forefront of gender history between the 12th & 18th centuries, and on regions beyond Europe & Australia, are encouraged to apply. Applications due 19 April.

More than you think, but still not enough women in STEM -history of women in STEM in the 19th and early 20th centuries #feminism #feministscience #womeninSTEM feministscientist.substack.com/p/more-than-...

Join Environment & Society's @uvahumanities.bsky.social book preview tomorrow at midday in the Bushuis, room E1.01E. Patrick Anthony (Uppsala) will present his forthcoming book, Unearthed: Science and Environment across Mineral Frontiers, with commentary by @mathijsboom.bsky.social Boom (IISG)

Call for Papers: Women’s Fieldwork and the Making of Nineteenth Century Natural History Collections We seek articles to complete a special issue on women’s field collecting, and contributions to nineteenth century natural history for Nuncius. #Histsci #NaturalHistory #WomensHistory #Fieldwork

There is a long and bitter history here, that does not seem to be well-known despite a very substantial (and growing) historical scholarship. A short thread on scientific head hunting… www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Permanent post in the history of the Middle East after 1800 at York! Plus three fixed term posts 1) Medieval History 1100-1450 2) Modern China 3) Britain/Public History

There is still time to register for tomorrow's seminar: Yunting Gu (28th Jan, 3-4, CET) Disputing the lacquer tree: Visual Evidence and Global Knowledge in the Early Modern World. Zoom link: [email protected] instructingnaturalhistory.com/events/yunti... #skystorians #envhist #museums

Super excited about presenting my 🌱paper!!! Thank you Instructing Colonial Natural History!!! @lindaaburnett.bsky.social 🌿😊 🤩🙏

Where are Obama, Bush, Biden, Clinton, the CEOs of the companies that helped talked Trump down from Greenland, ANYONE with authority or market power who can command a microphone and back up the brave citizens of Minneapolis, and say this is morally wrong and an existential threat to the republic?

Seminar on colonial instructinons by Yunting Gu 28th of Jan, 3-4, CET (Zoom): Disputing the lacquer tree: Visual Evidence and Global Knowledge in the Early Modern World. Zoom link: [email protected], Welcome! instructingnaturalhistory.com/events/yunti... #skystorians #envhist #museums

New seminars on Instructing Colonial Natural History 🌿 We can look forward to papers by Yunting Gu, Adriana Craciun and @nulybranch.bsky.social. For more info see instructingnaturalhistory.com (more info will be added). #skystorians #museums #collecting #histsci #envhist

Work with me! 2-year postdoc (1+1) within COLUMN: Colonial Legacies of Universities: Materialities and New Collaborations (HORIZON_HORIZON-CL2-2024-HERITAGE-01-04). Topic: “Research of university botanical collections in relation to Italian and European colonialism”. Call at: shorturl.at/aurdS

There is currently 30% off selected 18th-c history titles by Yale University Press, including Race and the Scottish Enlightenment.

Don't miss! 🌿 Pocket Books and Floating Libraries: Books as Collecting Tools in Instructions to Travelers. Anna Svensson will discuss how books haven’t just described the natural world, they’ve also helped collect it. Wed. 10 Dec, 15:00–16:00 CET Zoom link, email: [email protected]

We all want to move on with our lives, yet the violence continues. The killing continues. The occupation continues. The colonisation continues. More than 9,000 Palestinian hostages are still in Israeli detention. /1

1/2 Historians of slavery & Empire have known all along that Lord Biggar’s & History Reclaimed’s interventions in these fields are wholly politically motivated, morally & logically inconsistent and founded on the cherry-picking rather than examination of evidence. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Join to learn how we can bring women’s voices forward—and reshape the story natural history collections tell. Today at 4-5 CET: “Not Mrs. Husband’s Name: Elevating Women’s Voices in Natural History Collections” by Archivists Ashley Aberg & Nicole Font (New York Botanical Garden).

A second book launch, this time at Uppsala University. Thanks to all who came and listened to @lindaaburnett.bsky.social and I outline our next book - on humanity and the history of scientific instructions. It’s a tale of skull collections and the colonial history of ideas.

”Vad högermän som Jönsson, Musk och Peterson drömmer om är ett svenskt val som liknar det amerikanska: fullt av kulturkrigande och propaganda, så att centrala frågor som vård, skola och klimat dränks i trams och spelad indignation – och högern får behålla makten.”

There is still time to register for tomorrow's seminar 'Race and the Scottish Enlightenment: A Colonial History'. The event will be hybrid, on 26 Nov from 3-4.30pm. Note that it is CET. Please email for a Zoom link: [email protected] #skystorians #Enlightenment #Scotland

Join @brucealexb.bsky.social and I as we launch our book Race and the Scottish Enlightenment: A Colonial History (Yale UP, 2025). The event will be hybrid, on Wed 26 Nov from 3-4.30pm CET. If you can’t join us in Uppsala, please email us for a Zoom link: [email protected]

Why were heads hunted in the Enlightenment? Who hunted heads, and where did they 'acquire' them? It’s a complicated history. @lindaaburnett.bsky.social and I tell some of it in our new book. We'll tell more of it in our next! You can read a little about it here: yalebooks.yale.edu/2025/11/20/h...

Latest update from @britishlibrary.bsky.social says they are launching a new version of their main catalogue on Monday 8 December and around that time also launch an interim version of their Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue. Hooray! www.bl.uk/stories/news...

A new Isis Focus Section asks a bold question: “Is deep history white?”The issue shows how ideas of deep time emerged through European geology, empire, and the dismissal of Indigenous temporal knowledge. Deep history has long carried the imprint of a distinctly white European, extractive worldview.

Don’t miss the first talk in the WOMNH (Women in Natural History Museums and Collections) Online Fall Seminar Series! Monday 24 November 2025, 4:00–5:00 pm CET by Louise Berridge (NHM London): “Women of the Riverflies”

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

Book launched! @lindaaburnett.bsky.social @kathryn-seymour.bsky.social #C18th #race #colonization #ScottishEnlightenment

Edinburgh folks — there’s still time to register for this Wednesday’s book launch of Race and the Scottish Enlightenment: A Colonial History, 1750–1820 and the accompanying symposium at IASH (for more info see below). Warm welcome! #skystorians

👇Don't miss tomorrow's seminar by Stefano Gulizia: “Dispatching Authority: Sovereignty and Natural Encounters with Spanish American Science.” Abstract: instructingnaturalhistory.com/events/yvr14... Please email us for zoom link: [email protected] #skystorians #histsci All welcome

Legacy of Slavery Project Officer Scottish Episcopal Church #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPB351/l...

📢 Upcoming seminar: Dispatching Authority: Sovereignty and Natural Encounters with Spanish American Science Wed 22 Oct, 15:00–16:00 CEST, Zoom Join Stefano Gulizia (Ca’ Foscari Univ.) for a deep dive into how colonial power co-opted indigenous knowledge through science, religion & empire.

We are hiring! Prospective PhD students in environmental history, history of science, history of technology and STS interested in the climate and environmental impacts of AI look here. Please share in your networks. #envhist #histsci #AI #anthropcoene

Our book launch is happening, at IASH in Edinburgh, October 29. It was there that @lindaaburnett.bsky.social and I first met, and had an idea that we might do some work together. That was in 2012! If you'll be in Edinburgh then, please come to our launch. Details below.

For those of you in Scotland, come along to the launch of Race and the Scottish Enlightenment at @iashedinburgh.bsky.social! Bruce and I will be introducing the book, and we’re thrilled to be joined by the formidable Colin Kidd, Thomas Ahnert, Matthew D Eddy, Rosi Carr and Ian Stewart. Programme⬇️

1/6 Another highlight for our 10th anniversary. @brucealexb.bsky.social (Griffith University) who wrote "Travels in Space and Time: Progress, War, and the Historical Mobilities of Scotland’s Enlightenment" with us in 2022 (print 2023). We asked him about this work and its future. His response:

Svenska regeringen, en kommentar?

Proud of my colleagues! 🗃 www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

'Even when women were mentioned, the report found they were more often victims than protagonists, with the women murdered by Jack the Ripper more likely to be taught in lessons than the female code breakers at Bletchley Park during the second world war 1/2

People say "autism never used to exist" and then you go to the Natural History Museum and the exhibit has a caption like "Born in 1762, The Revd [name] was famously irascible, steadfast in his routine, and dedicated his life to collecting 25,000 rare beetle specimens".

We have two jobs at KCL History! 16-month post in Modern Irish and/or British History: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU178/l... And 5-year post in Early Modern Europe & The World: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU182/l... (both to start in January 2026)

Natalie Davis; Arlette Farge (great trans of Allure of the Archives), Rebecca Spang (wittiest academic writer around: esp restaurant bk!); Jennifer Morgan (Reckoning w Slavery; John Merriman (eg Massacre); Judith Walkowitz; Tiya Miles; Will Pooley; Heather Cox Richardson (every single day!);

Due to Academia(.)edu licensing agreement, which permits the use of your likeness, voice, and publications in any manner they choose, I, like many others, have decided to leave the platform. You can now find my research on ResearchGate instead.

EUROPEAN DECLARATION OF CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION Faculty and staff in European higher education and research declare their conscientious objection to collaborating with Israeli institutions complicit in severe violations of international law. To sign, visit uppsaladeclaration.se/european-dec...

Excellent article from @jamborg.bsky.social about "genetic" mercantilism. Highly recommended

Our book, Race and the Scottish Enlightenment, now published, @lindaaburnett.bsky.social and I were challenged to the ‘Page 99 Test’. The challenge, as defined by Ford Madox Ford, is whether the whole book can be seen in a single page. Here’s our response. page99test.blogspot.com/2025/09/lind...

Hello everyone. Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax has a tenure-track job in Enlightenment rhetoric and / or 18th-century literature. Tell everyone. www.msvu.ca/about-msvu/c...

I love Terry Gross she is a top ten person

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