So happy to see my new book "How Plague Got Rats: Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic" published today with @hopkinspress.bsky.social! #histmed #histsci #plague #rats #pandemic www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/... The book is also available Open Access via Project MUSE: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/oa_mon...

Great to see a post in Global History of Science at UCL. They are specifically looking for candidates with expertise in non-western contexts and skills in non-western languages.

Congratulations to all!

Interested in herbaria, plants and digitization? Come work with us! 3 PhD & Postdoc Positions in History & Phil. of Biology & Digital Humanities! #ERC Project BOTLEG; @ruhr-uni-bochum.de! Deadline: 25 May '26 #HistSci #PhilSci #HPBio #EnvHist #DigitalHumanities #AcademicSky #PhDSky Details below 👇

African oystercatcher Cape Eagle Owl Eurasian oystercatcher Ground hornbill Atlantic puffin Eurasian bullfinch White eye Cockatiel Malachite sunbird Lilac Breasted Roller Eider duck Pied kingfisher Western Barn Owl Hadeda ibis Egyptian goose

Delighted to have contributed to this wonderful collection!

Looks like a great list – congratulations to the authors!

One day left to apply for these jobs – closing tomorrow!

Just one week left to apply for these postdocs!

1 week left for our CFP on the Colonial Medical Ennui - workshop held August 27-28, St Andrews

Two weeks left to apply for two 4.5 year postdocs!! WP2: History of Conservation and Animal Health www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRD198/p... WP3: History of Conservation and Earth Systems’ Health www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRD410/p... Deadline: 7 May

This is a great topic!

📍 Join us in Madrid! @cchscsic.bsky.social ⏳ 1 week left to apply for 2 postdoc positions in global history: ERC project WILDHIST. Details & apply: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/422012

My old university NTNU in Trondheim is finally! recruiting a fully tenured associate professor in modern environmental history. This is a great opportunity for the right person. #envhist

2 great postdoc vacancies with Jules Skotnes-Brown's new Wellcome project in Liverpool - a brilliant opportunity for scholars interested in bringing together medical and environmental history!

Two postdoc positions on a really cool project with @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRD198/p... www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRD410/p...

📣 permanent post in Geography at Durham - lots of exciting research going on there. More details in the 🧵⬇️

Deadline has been extended to 7 May!

JOB ALERT: Two 4.5 year postdoctoral positions to work on my Wellcome-funded project 'Conserving Global Health: Biodiversity Protection and the Prehistory of Planetary Health'. Please share widely! CLOSING DATE: 23 April (the date on Jobs.ac.uk is apparently incorrect)

This is a really important contribution and corrective to the historiography of unakane (anglicized as nagana, also known as animal trypanosomiasis), revealing the forgotten/hidden contributions of Zulu and settler residents and recasting the work of much-celebrated David Bruce in a critical light👇

Happy to see that my book chapter, 'Extracting Blood, Flies, and Ideas: David and Mary Bruce, vernacular experts, and unakane in rural Zululand c. 1880s-1900s', published in 2024, is now available open access (as an author accepted manuscript). research-portal.st-andrews.ac.uk/en/publicati...

📢 JOB OPENINGS at CSIC @cchscsic.bsky.social (Madrid)! As part of my ERC project WILDHIST, the Institute of History is hiring two 3-year postdoctoral researchers in the global history of rubber. Application deadline: 24 April 2026. More info 👉 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/422012 @erc.europa.eu

We're hiring! 🌿 The Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities at the University of Stavanger invites applications for a 3-year postdoc in Environmental History. See thread for more details. #envhist #envhum

A great new article by Caroline Mburu doi.org/10.1080/0305...

Looking forward to reading this

Cool opportunity to work at the intersections of climate/environmental history and history of medicine! History and Medicine – Associate Professor or Professor with Tenure – McMaster University Apply by March 31st niche-canada.org/2026/03/05/h... #envhist #histmed #climhist #cdnhist

This is madness. This is equivalent to evacuating large parts of Paris or Houston. Where are all these people supposed to go?

1/ Calling all ECRS - we have 4x 3 year post docs on Multispecies Mutualisms working with us at Sheffield. Don't want to read through all the stuff to work out if its right for you? Here is a short video explainer 🎥 digitalmedia.sheffield.ac.uk/media/Multis...

Learned recently that Guenter Risse died in Seattle a few weeks ago aged 93. A fine historian of medicine, he could be strongly opinionated. But he was good to me. His commitment to medical history stayed strong. When I took over from him at UCSF he'd have been my age now - how senior he seemed!

Delighted to be starting my new Wellcome Trust funded project today, which has now been moved to University of Liverpool. A reminder that I will soon be advertising two postdocs on conservation and animal health and conservation and earth systems' health. The posts will likely start late this year.

My review of @brad.bolman.com 's 'Lab Dog' has just been published with Social History of Medicine. This is a truly excellent book that will be of great interest to historians of animals, lab sciences, and beyond. doi.org/10.1093/shm/...

Hey South Africa, it looks like my new book on the history of the #Lesotho Highlands #Water Project (published by @HSRCPress) is now available! Also available at other quality booksellers across the country! #LHWP #History #Apartheid Exclusive Books: exclusivebooks.co.za/products/978...

Delighted to announce that Segregated Species will be published in paperback on Wits University Press in April.

Looking forward to playing Relooted, which has just been released: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Join us on Tuesday 10 February for the 2026 Global History Lecture, hosted in partnership with @ghilondon.bsky.social Prof. Vinita Damodaran will speak on 'Decolonising the Natural History Collections of Empire' bit.ly/4qLCaYB Booking for in-person & online attendance is now open #Skystorians

Very excited to announce this workshop on environmental approaches to modern British History taking place this September at @lincoln.ox.ac.uk. Please share!

🚨History Job: Assistant Professor in Early Modern British History (Permanent) 🗃️ Come work with us at Warwick! You will join a group of excellent early-modernists and one of the nicest bunches of historians around! 👇👇👇 @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

A great job opportunity @standrewsanthro.bsky.social: Lecturer in Social Anthropology - deadline for applications 06 March 2026 www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

I'm hiring 2 postdocs on my Wellcome project "How Did Infectious Diseases Become Wild?: Plague, Yellow Fever, and Disease Ecology in the Brazilian Hinterland (1920-1975)" Department of Global Health and Social Medicine King's College 3 years 01/10/26- 30/09/29 Deadline: 01/02/26 shorturl.at/KZ6Vh

please share!

🚨 Just one week left to apply for one of the THREE postdoc positions in the #GreenFrontier project hosted at @fnp-wur.bsky.social #conservation #EnvJustice #wilderness #rewilding #rural #underdevelopment #LandAbandonment Deadline 25 November! Full details 👉 www.wur.nl/en/research-...

🚨#History #envhist Job Alert: My Department is hiring an Assistant Professor in Environmental History. 🗃️ Come work with us at Warwick. You'll get both excellent colleagues and great students! See details below... And do not hesitate to spread the word... 👇👇👇 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK289/a...

Join us on Weds 19 November for the launch of our new co-hosted Applied History Fellowships for postdoc historians, with @ihr.bsky.social and DC Thomson bit.ly/4ofWArN Fellowships will develop historical skills for use in workplaces beyond higher education: 2.30pm, 19 November, online #Skystorians

Very valuable thread on the impact of UKHE cuts and what we stand to lose through them. I worked closely with the case study cited and wrote the Environment Template for that UoA. We have all of us been in scope for redundancy since January. Where does that leave such important research?

📢 JOB ALERT 📢 Come work with me! @rigb.org is hiring an Archivist, full time, 2 year, fixed-term contract, hybrid working possible. Please share widely! More details 👇 www.rigb.org/about-us/wor...

Really excited to see this volume will be out soon! It was an honour to have contributed to this amazing collection. A big thanks to Raf, Vanessa, Tom, and the whole Moving Animals Team for inviting me to contribute.

"By using the concepts of pest in foregrounding the philosophy behind species segregation, Segregated Species makes a great contribution to agricultural history, animal history, histories of conservation, and histories of knowledge."

A permanent post in my department. Closing date Dec 14th 2025, interviews in March. Please spread #histsci

It was a real pleasure to write this afterword for a fantastic special issue on the history of invasive species by Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social and Jules Skotnes-Brown @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social

Fantastic to see our special issue has now been formally published!