Ever wondered what impact the #science #religion conflict myth has on #scicomms ? New book out now with Oxford University Press - inspired by our beloved #TomMcLeish www.eclasproject.org/new-book-sci... #scienceandfaith #histsci #AI #GM #spaceflight #eclas

Historians of the Human Sciences! Early Career Prize now open for entrants - see below for details #hstm

This week we welcome Prof. Steven Shapin to the pod!🎙️ We explore his journey through interdisciplinary spaces, revisit Leviathan and the Air-Pump 40 years on, and explore how credibility, trust and expertise are shaped by the fragmentation of expertise and (recent) political & cultural challenges

SCIENCE RELIGION AND THE HUMAN FUTURE (Oxford UP) available Jan 16! So grateful to fabulous co-authors Charlotte Sleigh & David Wilkinson who stepped up after the dreadful loss of Tom McLeish (plus new jobs for other authors): book would not be here without them! @eclasproject.bsky.social

Heads up for this excellent special issue of BJHS edited by @actgeppert.bsky.social . Insightful contributions on the cultural construction of 'founding fathers,' 'prophets,' etc. of the space age, taking a very global approach w/ works on Clarke, Sarabhai, Qian Xuesen, etc. I have a small epilogue.

I'm pleased to share the news that I have recently begun a term as co-editor of the British Journal for the History of Science (BJHS), working together with the now editor-in-chief, the brilliant Amanda Rees @amandarees.bsky.social.

Suddenly mad that we'll never get a Discworld book in which the wizards invent something like Large Language Monsters that eat everyone's stuff before regurgitating it, and Vimes arrests them all for being bloody stupid

We've created a Starter Pack of #History societies and groups working to support promote our disciple and historians, in higher education and related professions go.bsky.app/68FsvjY Mainly UK but also international, with selected societies from related humanities subjects. Please share #Skystorians

Online talk on #art and #ecology on Thursday December 5 by a wonderful curator who spent many years at Wave Hill—so she knows her plant matter and the broader nature/culture systems in which they exist. She certainly knows art! www.eventbrite.com/e/fertile-gr...

Great news! In 2025, the British Journal for the History of Science will move to a Research Open publication model. From 13 August 2025, all research articles will be open-access - reaching more readers and free access to the newest research in HistSTEAM!

Looking for radical histories on Bluesky? We've made a Starter Pack of people & organisations who stretch our idea of what history is, who it is made by & what it is for. Please share and let us know if you'd like to be added. 🗃️ & ✊🗃️ go.bsky.app/Bb57VmV

If you're looking for an excellent holiday gift, why not try this???

Why should scientists listen to 'ordinary' people? And what do angels have to do with it? Check out today's #StoriesOfScienceAndFaith - with ADDED RADIOACTIVITY!

It's the last day to enter this Solarpunk Giveway! It includes: - My collection Different Kinds of Defiance - @susankayequinn.bsky.social's Halfway to Better - Metaphorosis, by @gristnews.bsky.social - Solarpunk Creatures, by World Weaver Press brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/november-g...

Why should scientists listen to 'ordinary' people? And what do angels have to do with it? Check out today's #StoriesOfScienceAndFaith - with ADDED RADIOACTIVITY!

The advert for our Research Associate post in Victorian Cultural and Material History is now up on jobs.ac.uk - www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKS158/r... Please spread the word!!!!

With the world turning away from diversity we need public anthropology more than ever. I’ve decided to do my bit to share what we know about cultures of reproduction & why they matter for human evolution. PEOPLE LIKE US coming in 2027 🙏🏻 @zcosini.bsky.social

When is this thread going to become a book?

So pleased to have been involved with the publication of this award-winning article! Many congratulations both! #HistSci #EarlyModern #HSTM

The Music Instinct is about why we make and love music, how our brains make sense of it, how composers and performers engage the emotions, and why music is IMO one of the most profound products of the human mind. www.penguin.co.uk/books/405735...

Thanks @deevybee.bsky.social for looking at Elon Musk's record through the lens of ethical conduct in research. Having him in the @royalsociety.bsky.social Fellowship reflects really poorly on the organization IMO and I'm glad Fellows are speaking up. deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/11/why-...

In the run up to Advent, see our #StoriesOfScienceAndFaith - dealing with #IVF, #CitizenScience #ReproductiveHealth, different ways of #stargazing, #BigData and, of course, Michael Faraday and the candle!

We're approaching 100 historians/organisations in the maritime historians starter park 🥳 It's wonderful to see maritime history being so well represented here! If you would like to be added, just let me know below 👇 #MaritimeHistory go.bsky.app/EcGGYJw

Looking for your SKAT colleagues on here? Check out our SKAT Starter Pack. Featuring sociologists of science, knowledge, and technology broadly defined. go.bsky.app/UFYjuhM

I’m co-organising, with Cathy Lucas and Simon Werrett of @stsucl, an ‘Experimental History of Science Workshop’ to take place in April 2025 Think about entirely new ways of doing #histsci Let your imagination go wild!

The ECLAS project is launching our new #ScienceFaithStories project today - here's our first story on how #science #faith #science and #technology work together in past and present. Let us know what you think!

Eda, Hooty and King say ‘Merry Christmas from the Boiling Isles! Also, never trust a man in casual drapery’ #OwlHouse #Gingerbread @irmorus.bsky.social

My Opinion piece in @financialtimes.com outlines my argument that the Ministry of Justice proposals on digitising and destroying public wills are foolhardy& short-sighted, misjudging the state of digital preservation & the importance of material evidence. on.ft.com/3TGeJCV

Jim Bennett obituary #histsci www.theguardian.com/science/2023...

Anyone who was in Halifax in 2004 to hear Jim Secord on Circulating Knowledge, and has since had reason to cite his paper in print should get a free pass to this event 😉 (I wonder how many of us there are? #histsci )

The Cloud Is Material: On the Environmental Impacts of Computation and Data Storage mit-serc.pubpub.org/pub/the-clou...

#OpenAccess #HistSci #HistKnow The British Journal for the History of Science 56, no. 4 (2023), https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-for-the-history-of-science/issue/90F23EDDA34D37AA5705D82221A8BFCC HT: @[email protected] 🐘 🗃️

Super interesting piece in which - I think - @brdemuth.bsky.social entreats #envhist and #envhums folk to Speak For The Trees. Nice counterpoint to @amandarees.bsky.social BJHS Themes essay on animal agency, which is often a go-to for me when thinking about these debates.

Publication day for Imagining Air ed by Tatiana Konrad 🥳 Free to download here! www.exeterpress.co.uk/products/ima... Including research from me on Open Air for Health: Environmental and Medical Intersections - research from AHRC All Footsteps project and Wellcome funded MedEnv 📗🗃️ #hstm #envhum

Iwan Rhys Morus @irmorus.bsky.social brilliant historian of 19th century science is now on BlueSky so follow him and also buy his book How the Victorians Took Us to the Moon Take my word for it you won’t regret it #histsci #histtech thonyc.wordpress.com/2023/03/08/a...

Just four more days now until #VictorianMoonshot takes off once more. HOW THE VICTORIANS TOOK US TO THE MOON - now's the time to pre-order!

#ICYMI: There is still time to register for William Ashworth's talk exploring the role of illustrations in early modern science. Join us in person at the Linda Hall Library or tune in tonight on Zoom at 7 PM, CDT: thecuriousroleofimages.splashthat.com #histsci #sciart #histSTM 📜🗃️

Ooh, can't wait to read this! Entire of Itself? Towards an Environmental History of Islands, edited by Pavla Šimková and Milica Prokić (March 2024)

The Centre for the History of Science, Technology & Medicine at the University of Manchester (UK) now has a presence on Bluesky. Please follow us here: @manchstm.bsky.social

Good morning, #histSTM/#histsci friends! I've set up a new feed (SHOT 2023) where scholars can share their thoughts about this year's meeting of the Society for the History of Technology using #SHOT2023, #histtech, or the gear emoji (⚙️). Send me a note if you would like to be added to the list! 🗃️📜

Thanks to the kindness of @jontopham.bsky.social - I am now playing in the blue sandpit! Looking forward to reconnecting with old friends and making new ones