We're hiring in history of science at UW Madison! TT Assistant Professorship with a focus on water. Joint appointment between the History and Integrated Liberal Studies depts, and part of a university-wide hiring cluster on earth/sustainability science. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/profess... #STS #HSMT

There's a job opportunity in my department at the University of Arkansas - Asst. Professor of Early American History jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69108 UA still experiencing enrollment growth each year. Our chancellor & vice provost are history dept. faculty members. And Fayetteville is a great place to live

This semester, David Baltimore, Jane Goodall, and James Watson. My grad school advisor just pointed out that you could organize a pretty solid history of modern science class around studying their lives and careers. I think he's right. #histsci

Wow, my students are actually reading "The Double Helix" for class next week. theconversation.com/james-watson...

"candidates who work in the history of science with a focus on water... The time period and area of specialization are open...The successful candidate may have a transnational dimension to their research but should be well grounded in a US context."

I wanna invite Pope Leo to my Intro to Science and Technology Studies class

Check out Ty Priest's review of Daniela Russ & Thomas Turnbull's "Energy's History: Toward a Global Canon," published in 2025 by @stanfordpress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #energy #envtech www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

Are you looking to read some new scholarship over the winter? Check out this amazing list of books that I have available to review for H-Environment! Spread the word! #envhist #envhum #ecocrit #aghist #landscape #conservation #sustainability #anthropocene #waterhist docs.google.com/document/d/1...

The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) is hiring! Applications are invited for the position of Research and Engagement, Senior Programme Manager as part of the DRI team headquartered at the Royal Irish Academy. Apply by 27.11.2025 at 3pm. www.ria.ie/about/career...

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The special issue of Eighteenth Century Studies on Coasts is now out - glad to be part of it with some thoughts about coasts and gardens in c18 Ireland #BlueHumanities #CoastalHistory #CoastalStudies 🌊 muse.jhu.edu/issue/55889

Check out Adrienne Brown's review of Marjolein Oele's "Beyond Elemental Loss: Shifting Constellations of Water, Fire, Air, and Earth," published in 2025 by @sunypress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #ecocrit #envphil www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

Check out Alexandra Maertens's review of @christian-s-warren.bsky.social's "Starved for Light: The Long Shadow of Rickets and Vitamin D Deficiency," published in 2024 by @uchicagopress.bsky.social; review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #envhealth www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

Job alert: the University of Illinois Library is hiring a Humanities Librarian to serve as liaison to African-American Studies and English Literatures. I’m sure someone here would be a great fit for this job—& we’ve got a pretty phenomenal community here Please share!

Check out MengRan Xu's review of Jia-Chen Fu, Michelle Tien King, & Jakob A. Klein's "Modern Chinese Foodways," published in 2025 by @mitpress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #aghist #foodhist www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

🌊🌊🌊 New on H-Oceans 🌊🌊🌊 Check out @ramya.bsky.social (Grand Valley State Uni)’s review of @danielmacfarlane.bsky.social (Western Michigan Uni)’s book _The Lives of Lake Ontario: An Environmental History _, pub 2024 @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social

I will deliver this year's Sarton Lecture at the 2026 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. I'm deeply honored to be selected. The title of my remarks: "America's Cold War Science Experiment." February 14, 2026.

Check out Miles Hubble's review of Andrew Kalaidjian's "Spectacle Earth: Media for Planetary Change," published in 2025 by @uvapress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #ecocrit www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

Congratulations to the 2025 recipient of the Volvo Prize, @naomioreskes.bsky.social! Naomi's work addresses vital issues such as why we need to trust science; a topic that becomes even more important with every new day. Read more here: www.environment-prize.com/laureates/na...

I guess I know the future!

Sometimes you get to have multiple interests align. 🦖🤠🦕

With many depts suspending grad admissions I'm happy to report that the BU Philosophy Dept will be admitting 4-5 graduate students for the 26-27 AY! I especially want to encourage any undergrads interested in #philsci to apply #philsky

Happy belated 3rd birthday to "Antarctica: A History in 100 Objects"! Jean and I had a blast doing this together and doing this project with him reminded me that I really love working with other people. Grab a copy today! www.bloomsbury.com/us/antarctic...

Do you take snapshots of your everyday life as a physical scientist? @aip.bsky.social is soliciting photos from scientists at all career stages and disciplines from around the world to broaden its 30 000+ photo collection, which is used frequently by historians. #physics #astronomy #histSTM

Check out Fernando Varela's review of @maguiregeoff.bsky.social's "Bodies of Water: Queer Aesthetics in Contemporary Latin American Cinema" published in 2024 by @sunypress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #water www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

Who is working on WWII in Britain at an institution that offers funded MAs or PhDs? Trying to advise a student. I know @alanallport.bsky.social, but who else?

Check out Elizabeth Bennett's review of Bob Wyss's "Black Gold: The Rise, Reign, and Fall of American Coal," published in 2025 by @ucpress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #energy www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

Are you looking to read some new scholarship over the winter? Check out this amazing list of books that I have available to review for H-Environment! Spread the word! #envhist #envhum #ecocrit #aghist #landscape #conservation #sustainability #anthropocene #waterhist docs.google.com/document/d/1...

ATTN: SHAFR grad students and early career scholars Applications for the Ernest May Fellowship in History and Policy at the @belfercenter.bsky.social are due 12/1. tinyurl.com/mvj3hckx

Jack Bouchard writes about Terra Nova, one of the earliest sites of colonial fishing activity in North America for our blog. Read now:

Check out Kim Donehower's review of @cmgelineau.bsky.social's "Almanac: A Murmuration," published in 2025 by @sunypress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhum #ecocrit #naturewriting www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

🌊🌊🌊 New on H-Oceans 🌊🌊🌊 Check out Sabrina Schettino (U of Eastern Piedmont)’s review of James Beattie, Ryan Tucker Jones, & Edward Dallam Melillo’s edited volume _Migrant Ecologies: Environmental Histories of the Pacific World_, pub 2023 @ U of Hawai'i Press Review avail @hnetreviews.bsky.social

We were researching the history of Rothera Research Station, and stumbled across this incredible photo. It's giving Batcopter 🚁 The UK's first major aerial survey of the Antarctic Peninsula was 1955-57. The Falkland Island Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition used flying boats and helicopters ⬇️

Check out Dara Craig's review of Arne Harms's "Enduring Erosions: Environmental Displacement and Relocation on India's Sinking Coasts," published in 2024 by University of Hawaii Press; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #oceanhist www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

The Arctic in Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein reveals more about empire than about monsters share.google/Ular7xIbX9TZ...

Oh, this is interesting! A twist on the usual question of ‘historical accuracy’ in movies www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Gulliver's Travels is 300 this year. Have there been any celebrations, events, articles or podcasts to mark its tercentenary?

Check out Rick Van Noy's review of Jeffrey M. Holden's "Dead Moose on Isle Royale: Off Trail with the Citizen Scientists of the Wolf-Moose Project," published in 2025 by Michigan State University Press; review now available #envhist #envhum @hnetreviews.bsky.social www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

Happy to share that I've begun curating the Great Lakes Fire History Digital Archive, a digital archive collating primary source documents pertaining to forest fires in the Great Lakes in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Excited to see how it evolves moving forward! firearchive.omeka.net

This week we look forward to publication, on Thursday, of the next in the Society's New Historical Perspectives book series: 'Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940' by Gareth Roddy bit.ly/4o9iblT Available free Open Access from @uolpress.bsky.social 1/2

Great opportunity for someone working in #envhist #envhum #landscapes #nationalparks smokieslife.org/the-steve-ke...

Check out Caroline Ford's review of Kelly Presutti's "Land into Landscape: Art, Environment, and the Making of Modern France," published in 2024 by @yalepress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #landscape www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

Check out Niklas Robinson's review of Brent L. Sohngen & Douglas DeWitt Southgate's "Reversing Deforestation: How Market Forces and Local Ownership Are Saving Forests in Latin America," published in 2025 by @stanfordpress.bsky.social; review @hnetreviews.bsky.social www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

"Community takes on a crucial importance in this memoir, though Greensfelder extends this sense of community to include the natural world—the sheep, cows, hay, her horse and dog, the mountains, and snow—and demonstrates the centrality of these beings to her own sense of self."

It’s International #OpenAccess week! @biodivlibrary.bsky.social provides open access to biodiversity literature, democratizing access to scientific information! BHL does *not* require a login and you can freely read or download content. #ILoveBHL www.biodiversity.org.

Check out Hannah DelVecchio's review of Liese Greensfelder's "Accidental Shepherd: How a California Girl Rescued an Ancient Mountain Farm in Norway," published in 2024 by @uminnpress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #aghist #envhum www.h-net.org/reviews/show...