Had great fun writing this feature for @historytoday.com, exploring China's contested astronomical chronologies! The piece will be out in the October issue www.historytoday.com/archive/feat...

I've deleted my academia.edu profile

Lovely view of the facade of the new University Library of the @uvahumanities.bsky.social, very fitting background when teaching our MA course 'The World in Books' #bookhistory @boekwetenschapuva.bsky.social

Had great fun writing this feature for @historytoday.com, exploring China's contested astronomical chronologies! The piece will be out in the October issue www.historytoday.com/archive/feat...

Really enjoyed reading William Max Nelson's Enlightenment Biopolitics! Here are my thoughts in the American Historical Review: academic.oup.com/ahr/article/...

My article in HOPOS, "Feyerabend, Freedom, and the Tyranny of Science" is now available ahead of print over at www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

Congratulations to the newly elected Leader of the Green Party of England & Wales, @zackpolanski.bsky.social

It is insane to me that the richest man in the world is using his global megaphone to call for millions of British people to be rounded up and deported (including my family) and somehow this isn’t even news.

Very excited to speak about The Tartar Moment at the Italian Society for the History of Science's Early Career Conference in Padova next week! See here for more information: www.societastoriadellascienza.it/index.php/it...

We seek to hire a Postdoctoral Scholar for the "Uncovering Traces of Ming Occupations with Sociological Theory" (UTMOST) project. 📚 pursue an independent project 📋 support workshop and conference organization 🤝 engage in Institute life 🗓️ Deadline: Oct 15, 2025 🔗 bit.ly/45V4tev #HistSci #Sinology

Department "Knowledge Systems and Collective Life" seeks a Collaborative Research Coordinator! 🤝 Help expand its community-based, publicly engaged research 🎤 Advise researchers on cooperative methods 📋 Coordinate cooperation agreements 🗓️ Deadline: Sep 28, 2025 🔗 bit.ly/45FXu8R #HistSci #EnvHist

NEW: Tenure-track position in History at UC Berkeley in the GLOBAL HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY. We are casting a wide net here: *all* periods, places, and fields are under consideration. I'm on the search committee, so do let me know if you have questions.

British "debate" on migration is in the gutter, but we should still be shocked that Labour's response yesterday was to criticise Farage for being insufficiently detailed in his plan for mass detention camps.

As an example: the Vergelegen camphor trees. Asian trees, planted by Willem Adriaan vd Stel, a family with part-Malay ancestry who were instrumental in shaping the Cape, with the backdrop of the Cape Dutch architecture to whose development they were central; the trees are national monuments in SA.

So excited to share my new article in @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social: "Colonial World-Making and Global Knowledges at the Early Modern Cape of Good Hope" (Open access) academic.oup.com/past/advance...

Continuing now with colonial climates & environments chaired by @lindaaburnett.bsky.social Speakers: @davidemartino.bsky.social Wenrui Zhao @jamborg.bsky.social It’s going to be about water, mines and cattle consecutively but maybe also connecting? #eseh2025 #envhist

Last day of yet another absolutely wonderful @eseh.bsky.social conference. Attending the double panel on “Colonial Climates and Environments” organised by @gianamar97.bsky.social & @nphellstrom.bsky.social First session: @poxygraduate.bsky.social Justin Roberts & Claire Sabel #ESEH2025 #EnvHist

Don’t miss @eclaaire.bsky.social presenting “Knowing the earth: The role of the early modern goldsmiths' trade in mediating colonial environments” at the Panel Colonial Climates and Environments (Part 1) chaired by @gianamar97.bsky.social at #ESEH2025 in Uppsala! 🗓️ Fri, 22 Aug | 🕘 9:00–10:30

REGISTRATION OPEN! Now more than ever, research is reshaping our view of women’s roles in the early modern book trade. Join us in Antwerp (5–7 Nov 2025) for our conference Women & the Household in the #earlymodern Book Trade. Register here: tinyurl.com/womenbooktrade #rarebooks #bookhistory 💙📚📜

This looks fascinating!

‘As both the AfD and the Christian Democrats have learned, so long as you condemn Muslim antisemitism, you can continue to attack the “ills” of immigration, as if xenophobia and racism had no connection to the German past.’ Adam Shatz in Berlin: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

So much to look forward to in the programme for #ESEH2025! You should of course all come to our double panel on "Colonial climates and environments" on Fri AM with @poxygraduate.bsky.social, @nphellstrom.bsky.social,‬ @gianamar97.bsky.social, @lindaaburnett.bsky.social, @jamborg.bsky.social & more 🎙️

🚨HW FELLOWSHIP KLAXON🚨 We're now in the final week for applications, deadline is on Friday! DMs are open for any questions about the position!

Many of these are debut authors. Please check out their books also.

Mince, Michel Callon est mort, il était l'autre grand nom des STS françaises, avec Bruno Latour, bien sûr, avec lequel il a beaucoup écrit et collaboré, donnant naissance notamment à l'ANT. Les coquilles Saint-Jacques ne seront pas les seules à pleurer sa disparition 😢

@hernandez-sau.bsky.social (CHAM – Universidade Nova de Lisboa) reviews "Gender and Cultural Mediation in the Long Eighteenth Century: Women across Borders" (Palgrave, 2024) edited by @mboluferp.bsky.social, Laura Guinot-Ferri, & Carolina Blutrach www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

It used to be completely the opposite, science as the gateway to morality. Such historical swings between thinking that science or humanities are the foundation of ethical life show that neither is inherently

The brilliant @lmbd1418.bsky.social has suggested people write to the Home Secretary Yvette Cooper re: my case. If you could spare five minutes, she's created a draft letter which you can use to send to [email protected]. I appreciate everyone's support. ❤️ docs.google.com/document/d/1...

so chuffed to see this out in the world! I have a piece on 'Race, Sexuality, and South Asian AIDS Activism in Britain, 1990–2000' muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic...

I really enjoyed it - such creative, important and inspiring work!

This promises to be fascinating reading!

Amazing to think I was born in what was once the East Indies. Great article by @gianamar97.bsky.social on changing concepts of what the east was, and where the Cape fitted in. (The province's own uneasy relationship with the continent abides.)

"The engraving of the Jesuits’ Cape observatory resonates with a remarkable belief circulating among some early modern Europeans: that the Chinese had voyaged to southern Africa before the Portuguese."

New #OpenAccess article on 'Colonial World-Making' from @magdalenecollege.bsky.social JRF & @camhistory.bsky.social Leverhulme, @gianamar97.bsky.social ! No need to search for it, read it for free on OUP site 🔎📑

New on advance access: "Colonial world-making and global knowledges at the early modern Cape of Good Hope" by @gianamar97.bsky.social‬ (@uvahumanities.bsky.social) #OpenAccess academic.oup.com/past/advance...

So excited to share my new article in @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social: "Colonial World-Making and Global Knowledges at the Early Modern Cape of Good Hope" (Open access) academic.oup.com/past/advance...

Just realised that the 'Formosan hoax' of George Psalmanazar (a French impostor who, in the early 1700s, claimed that he was a native of Formosa (now Taiwan), even publishing a detailed but entirely fabricated account of its language, customs, and culture, was printed by Dan Brown... #bookhistory

We are thrilled to announce that the Summer 2025 issue of Renaissance Quarterly (vol. 78.2) has been published online. Take a look: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #RenTwitter #earlymodern #Renaissance @universitypress.cambridge.org

One of our featured reviews for this issue -- free to access!

CfA: Editorial Fellowship with @historyworkshop.org.uk!

I reviewed Chrislayne Alfagali's brilliant _Blacksmiths of Ilamba_ for @rsaorg.bsky.social's Renaissance Quarterly. Highly recommend Alfagali's book to anyone interested in histories of technology and early modern Africa: doi.org/10.1017/rqx....

🚨REACTION: Responding to Gaza airdrops and Israel’s announcement of a "tactical pause" #CeasefireNow #LetAidIn

Learned a huge amount about colonial replications of Dutch political bodies from Jim van der Meulen's terrific new paper: "Traditions of Assembly in three Dutch ‘Lands’ in the Seventeenth Century", in the Transactions of the ‪@royalhistsoc.org‬. Check it out: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New special issue of OSIRIS: "Animal Mobilities" 🐫🐠🐛 The volume was edited by MPIWG Research Scholars Tamar Novick, @lisaonaga.bsky.social, and Gabriel N. Rosenberg of the working groups "Out of Place, Out of Time" and "Proteins and Fibers." 🔗 bit.ly/amv4025 #HistSci #EnvHist #STS #Zoology

New student job opportunity in our Research Communication and Management Team! 🎻 Participate in the @dfg.de project "Musikhören und Musiksehen. Historische Wechselwirkungen vom 17. bis zum 21. Jahrhundert" 💬 Support our public communications 🗓️ Deadline: August 31, 2025 🔗 bitly.cx/hofc #HistSci

🚨CfA: Joseph Needham Foundation Awards - History of Science Society @historyscience.bsky.social hssonline.org/news/705910/...