Some history of science jobs to share. An assistant professorship in Environmental History at the Uni of Warwick, FT, open-ended/Permanent, £46-57k, deadline 5 Jan. I know some great people in that department, including historians of science. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK289/a...

Somehow, the bottle of rum sits very nicely on our kitchen counter. I have no idea why.

History is not the past, it is the study of the past.

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

articulated, and what purpose it can or should serve in 'healing' a majority non-Indigenous nation. Check out my exploration of this through the cultural representations of 'Mungo Man,' whose 'Aboriginality' and 'humanity' were often depicted in tension. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Isis Focus Issue: "Is Deep History White?"

Enormous thanks to our editor Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social for bringing this incredible volume together. Check it out!!! www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/isis/cur... #intellectualhistory #historyofscience #deephistory

Delighted to get a copy of Unearthing Collections published by UCL Press. I wrote the Afterward "Re-earthing the Past" uclpress.co.uk/book/unearth...

New Orleans!

Snippets from our amazing inaugural graduate conference in the history of science, technology, and medicine. Organized entirely by UH Graduate students, particularly Katie Truax and Muthuvel Deivendran, these were two intense days of stimulating discussions, camaraderie, and fun

I sometimes wonder why earthosphere is not a word. It nicely and at times necessarily fixes the fact of earth being round and embracing in a single inseparable word.

Reading Michael Cook’s A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity, I wonder what the reaction would be if a Muslim scholar wrote a similar history of Christianity. None of the praises are by Muslim scholars. I value this diversity, but imagine it reversed…

This just popped up on my phone. Can't believe it's been 5 years since Inscriptions of Nature was published.

This is also why, as academics, we need to get better at asking for fees for freelance work - podcasts, public talks, festival events, “just picking your brain for this tv programme”- not b/c we need the money (though many do!) but b/c others do, and if we work for free, we undermine *their* living.

Obituary is best served cold.

Going to an art school, I have realized so much of our current ideas in the Humanities also circulate in the arts. We are asked to think of time as not linear, of space that is not mappable, of entanglements in rhizomes. I guess this is what is called a paradigm.

Obituary is best served cold.

Preparing for two back-to-back lectures I am giving to my graduate class tomorrow on "Social History and the Question of Agency" and "The Anthropocene and Environmental History". I feel dead.

Ok, i admit. I have just used the word "trope" to a grad student in feedback. Please forgive me.

When this world is too much for you.

During Covid, social media felt like a refuge. Now it feels like a cauldron of despair.

Bodleian Library, Sassoon Visiting Fellowship in South Asian and Black History for the 2026-2027 academic year. It's a great scheme, with a deadline of 28 November 2025. Check it and Bodley's other visiting fellowships out here.

I joineda crash course in mixmedia art. First week's task, a self-portrait in collage with your everyday items. This is what I came up with. Honest opinion will be appreciated although I am bracing myself already!

An evening to celebrate. Nandini's birthday but she doesn't want her photo here, so you guys are stuck with me

I dont know how I would feel if Egyptian artifacts, which are anyway stolen, were stolen from the Louvre.

A gentle, due to the state of the world, but heartfelt Happy Diwali to you all.

Spot the difference.

Thanks for applying. However,...

Promotion and tenure denied.

Going to re-post this occasionally, with added mention that I’m very happy to do more talks about it

History is not a depiction of what happened. It's a struggle against what we have been told as have happened.

Saturday lunchtime kitchen site. I cooked an Indian version of Chinese veg hakka stir fry noodles, without soysauce and green chillies (key ingredients but we didn't have any). Let that sink in, while I finishmylunch. Notice the bottle of wine in the middle. It played a central role.

Here's the preliminary program of our graduate conference "Narratives and Counter Narratives" healthispolitics.my.canva.site

Imagine, if you will, that social media existed before the Internet. I know the technological impossibility of this, but if for a moment we can imagine it's true, thdn how will we in Social media react to the Internet? As a boon or a calamity?

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Here comes the population bomb again, this time from Paabo about Neanderthals. European scientists cant get over this obsession that there are just too many people. Oh the lost, pristine world... english.elpais.com/science-tech...

Will the rise of the Green party in the UK splinter Labour for ever? Would that indicate that we have finally embraced that social justice must go hand in hand with environmental justice in the future?

Will the rise of the Green party in the UK splinter Labour for ever? Would that indicate that we have finally embraced that social justice must go hand in hand with environmental justice in the future?

Festivities with friends

A great opportunity to shape, define research in n Philosophy of Science and enhance ones own research career. And it's in Vienna.

Poor Hermes got bitten by another dog at his daycare. A few stitches and kisses later he's sleeping.

Can I just say only samosa crumbs can compete with croissant ones?

Professorship of Economic History University of Cambridge - Faculty of Economics #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOS980/p...

I feature in this podcast as an interviewee, although the content is in German podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

Because they want to "reflect" the public mood rather than report it?

An amazing opportunity to serve the field at a defining moment

We not only have an interspecies household, we also have an interspecies kitchen. Satuday lunch being cooked together. Which is whose?

Finally an evening pleasant enough to sit outside