#HistSci friends, might someone know where this image is originally from? (Here, on the Nov 1937 cover of the Hindi pop-sci monthly Vigyan.)

In the second installment of our “10 Questions for the Historian of Science,” I interviewed Audrey Truschke about her research, the state of the history of science, and public engagement within broader global debates. www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/feature-stor... @mpiwg.bsky.social

Does anyone know of scholars currently working on the history of defamation (libel, slander) or more broadly on law and reputation, or even law and honor, in history? Any time, any place.

my book, _Islamic Ethics and Spiritual Sovereignty: Genres of Tradition in Muslim South Asia_, will be published by @undpress.bsky.social in June 2026 i'm going through the proofs, and don't see any typos in the epilogue, so sharing this 3-page essay here undpress.nd.edu/978026821090...

The 19th Ischia Summer School in the History of the Life Sciences will take place 28 Jun - 5 July 2026. Interested graduate students should apply by 27 February. This year's theme? PROBLEMS of GROWTH! ischiasummerschool.org/theme #histSTM #histbio #histsci

Can anyone recommend scholarly work on human rights crimes (mass atrocities) with a forensic science angle? This is for a "jigsaw discussion" in my undergrad History of Forensic Science course. I'm seeking case studies from places other than Poland, Guatemala & Chile #ForensicScience #HumanRights

Experiments in collaborative thought, between science studies and religious studies: tif.ssrc.org/category/sen... #ImmanentFrame #histSTM Edited by the wonderful Mona Oraby

Big exciting news: the Centre for Legal History of India at the Max Planck Institute has now been launched (the first of its kind anywhere) www.lhlt.mpg.de/4712897/01-r... Applications for 3 doctoral positions + a postdoc due: 6 Jan. 2026. Congratulations to head Reeju Ray & everyone else involved!

Page proofs of Necessary Inventions: Roger Bacon, the Middle Ages, and the Making of Modern Science. Holy crap, I did it!

I'm very excited to share my new book's cover design: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501... It is bloodstain-inspired because species-of-origin bloodstain testing is a big part of the story. Out on 15 April 2026 & Open Access as part of the Corpus Juris book series @cornellupress.bsky.social

The Introduction, “What is the Future We Yearn For?,” to my book, *The Future That Was*, is now live and freely available to all on the book’s @princetonupress.bsky.social website press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

The article I’m writing is about the rise of a commercial lithographic print culture in Pashto, but I also got to check out the oldest Pashto movable type printed book, a copy of the Bible produced by the the Serampore Missionaries in Bengal in 1818. UChicago holds one of the few extant copies.

The cover for my book, The Future That Was, is now live! It features the MacArthur genius artist Shahzia Sikander's Infinite Woman (2021), where earth is surrounded by an infinite series of women marching around the globe who, from afar, become rays of the sun ☀️ press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Just discovered that Julia Stephens' new book will be out soon! I've been looking forward to this since a UK train conversation with Julia years ago about jewelry in South Asian history: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... @juliasteph

The Focus issue I edited in Isis: "Is Deep History White?" is out. With contributions from Amy Way, Linda Andersson Burnett, Elise K. Burton, Emily Kern, and an Afterword by Alison Bashford

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.

Launch of Medicine on a Larger Scale: Global Histories of Social Medicine at HoMSEA meeting, Yogyakarta, June 25. Book available open access at www.cambridge.org/core/books/m... Dr Sudirman Nasir, public health, Makassar, launched it with aplomb. With @hanspols.bsky.social & @ahlie.bsky.social & me

Very excited for this event at Cambridge HPS this Friday, co-organised with Mika Hyman, on cross-contextualisation (for more on c-c, see here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....)

I’m thrilled to announce that from September I’ll be joining @warburginstitute.bsky.social as a Frances Yates Long-Term Fellow. It’s a position I’ve aspired to since 2019, when I studied Warburg for an MPhil essay. Can’t wait to meet such an exciting group of scholars!

“If one is to evaluate both the achievements and the defects of twentieth-century academic moral philosophy, it needs to be understood both from within and from a standpoint that is at once external and radically critical.” dailynous.com/2025/05/22/a...

For those in Cambridge and environs, announcement of 29th Annual Hans Rausing Lecture at the Dept of History & Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, June 5, 3:30 pm. #histsci #histech #sts www.hps.cam.ac.uk/news-events/...

Yesterday Prof. Frank Rövekamp (Ludwigshafen University of Applied Sciences) gave an inspiring and lively talk on Shogi, the Japanese cousin of Western chess, in the ASTRA colloquium series "The Ludic Languages of Asia: Sources and Terminologies". 🔗 www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/event/shogi-...

The Soviet spacecraft that came in from the cold (and fell into the Indian Ocean this morning) -- @nytimes.com on Kosmos-482, the lost Soviet Venus probe from 1972 and its legacy. I'm quoted a few times. (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/s...

Plenary with the authors of an #HistSci classic, and the first time, apparently, that the chair, John Tresch, sees Stephen Shapin and Simon Schaffer in the same room.

Mark your calendars! 📅 I'm thrilled to share the line-up for the fall 2025 Science and Technology in Asia online seminar series. Hope you'll be able to join us for one or more of these sessions! seow.scholars.harvard.edu/STinAsia #histstm #histsci #histtech #histmed #sts #envhist #envhum 🧪

Our Visiting HPS Seminar tomorrow is the final one of the academic year! We welcome Dr Charu Singh from the University of Cambridge for “Challenging the Tridosha: Elements, humors and an Ayurvedic controversy in British India, c.1935”. Full details here: hpsleeds.wordpress.com/category/vis... #HPS

Many heatwave experts point out discrepancies in heatwave data because observatories are often located away from urban centres and end up recording lower temperatures, @jeffjosephpaul.bsky.social writes:

Yes! "Fear of the False: Forensic Science and the Law of Crime in Colonial South Asia" looks at false evidence planted by colonized tricksters to frame rivals + falsity enabled by criminal procedure which increased risk of expert misconduct. More details here: salh.law.wisc.edu/forensic-sci...

I'm finishing up a book manuscript for @cornellupress.bsky.social that includes a section on forensic venomology in colonial India. I worked really hard to get over my snake phobia for that! So this caught my eye. Big news to be on verge of a universal antivenom: www.bbc.com/news/article... (1/2)

Meanwhile, we welcome Dr Stavros Ioannidis (online, U. Athens) and Dr Charu Singh (in-person, U. Cambridge) on 30 April and 7 May respectively, for papers in our Visiting Speaker Seminar Series. Details here: hpsleeds.wordpress.com/category/vis... #histsci #histSTM #hps @leedsprhs.bsky.social

🎉 It's Himal's 38th birthday this May 🎂 and we’re looking for 38 new supporters. For just USD 5 per month, you can be one of 38 special people who step up to help secure the future of independent journalism in Southasia. Click here: buff.ly/3NHN6O1

(1/n) My new (edited) book is out! 'Cosmic Fragments: Dislocation and Discontent in the Global Space Age.' Out from @upittpress.bsky.social, the book has 18 scholars weigh in on aspects of space, esp deleterious phenomena, that rarely get foregrounded in celebratory narratives. Most critically..

Next year I will have two new colleagues. Ahmad Elabbar and Harriet Fagerberg are joining Cambridge HPS as Assistant Professors. What a huge honour and a privilege, congratulations to us all! Send us your postgrad applicants in all areas of #philsci #philmed, including ethics and politics of STEM.

#Fordham #NEH #RAdminsky @historyasif.bsky.social

Many heatwave experts point out discrepancies in heatwave data because observatories are often located away from urban centres and end up recording lower temperatures. By @jeffjosephpaul.bsky.social

Event at King's on 18 June! Gary Younge and @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social in conversation, around Sadiah's forthcoming book Vanished. Very much looking forward to both the event and the book. If you'd like to attend, just sign up on the following form: forms.office.com/e/3ZMBirJjjr

Delighted to share that the Indian print edition of my book, Pious Labor, is *coming soon* from Three Essays Collective!

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

JOB: Assistant Professor in South Asian Political/ Intellectual History (3-year post) @Cambridge_Uni www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50694/