I hope Melvin Bragg's retirement will not end In Our Times. He has a lovely voice and manner but it's the people he invites that hold the show. I'll take this chance to post a thread of some of the more memorable episodes for me. Starting with Schaffer, Worrall, and @michelamassimi.bsky.social

#HPS program at the University of Copenhagen invites applications for Postdoc in History and Philosophy of Science as part of research project Human Variables in Biodiversity Assessment (PI: Joeri Witteveen): employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho... #philsky #PhilJobs #philsci Deadline is November 7, 2025.

Frostbite by Nicola Twilley: "Exemplary writing showcased in a book with a very clear thesis that brings together some fascinating and unexpected tales from the history of refrigeration."

***CfP*** Spannender Workshop zur Lehre an der Schnittstelle Umwelt- und Technikgeschichte nächstes Frühjahr in Karlsruhe, siehe: www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve... #envhist #histtech #envhum

We're hiring a new lecturer @stsucl.bsky.social. We're looking for someone with particular interests in the environment. Please share widely www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

CFP deadline coming up on 1st September for our “Power Couples” workshop next Spring. Do think about submitting a paper (work in progress stuff very welcomed!) We’ve had some wonderful proposals sent in relating to a wide array of different global contexts and methodological approaches - exciting!

Great session yesterday at #eseh2025 #boardgaming empathy and uncertainty in the Anthropocene with Sven Seelinger (Uni Augsburg). So much fun! #envhist

The Call for Papers for 'Talking Records: Pollution in the Archive', a symposium at The National Archives in London, 4 December 2025, is now open! Submission deadline: Friday 19 Sept See the CFP and details about bursaries for speakers here: orlo.uk/Z8StS #envhum #envhist

On the train up to Uppsala for #ESEH2025 🛤️ Together with Albert van Wijngaarden, I'll be convening two sessions: 🧊 Wednesday @ 11:00-12:30: "Historians in the Decade of Action for Cryospheric Science" 🌦️ Thursday @ 09:00-10:30: "Should We Rethink Histories of Weather and Climate Modification?"

Travelling to Uppsala for ESEH later this month? Please consider filling this VERY short survey so the ESEH Sustainability Committee can better understand delegates travel options! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I am developing a course titled “Anthropocene Histories, History in the Anthropocene” at UCPH. My idea is to structure the it thematically through planetary boundaries. But what are the best texts around these days. I have the obvious stuff: Chakrabarty, Bonneuil & Fressoz, McNeill, Brown

@naomioreskes.bsky.social's brilliant @rigb.org lecture: how military secrecy delayed plate tectonic theory for 3 decades - a narrative that remains ever relevant to science today... ⚒️ 🧪 #histsci #skystorians #science #academicsky #STS #geoscience @miguelohn.bsky.social

I'm thrilled that @issygapp.bsky.social are co-editing the *fifth* series for @nichecanada.bsky.social on Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North-this time, on "States of the Field–New Research in Arctic Pasts." We want to hear from up and coming Arctic researchers! niche-canada.org/2025/08/04/c...

ACADEMIC BOOK SALE I am moving and want to move less books if at all possible... Please get in touch if you are interested in the following titles (all prices include postage and I am open to offers)

Really excited to start reading @sprucehen.bsky.social 's new book 'Ice Geographies'! From reading the prologue I can tell this is exactly the kind of narrative I hope to see more of in the coming years - and I'm sure this book'll help achieve that :) Plus the cover art is wonderful!

An excellent opportunity to join the curatorial team at the Science Museum has come up! Please spread the word. 🌍Curator of Climate & Earth Sciences ⚗️Part of the excellent Team Science in London Curatorial ⌛ Permanent, Full-Time 💲 £41k p/a bit.ly/4m3uQFp

We’re hiring! Join AIP’s research team as an Archives Fellow or Intern to help highlight women’s contributions to the physical sciences. Great part time opportunities for grad students. Apply here: - Fellow: workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau... - Intern: workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...

Job Opening at the Chair of Philosophy and History of Science and Technology at TUM! Research Fellow for 3 years (renewable). Preferably philosopher w interest in plant, crop & agricultural research (& their history and social studies) All details: www.sts.sot.tum.de/en/sts/arbei... #philsci #sts

Job: 1 Funded PhD Position "Environmental History / History of Science" (Univ. Lumière Lyon 2) https://www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-156282 Lyon, 01.11.2025-31.10.2028, Université Lumière Lyon 2, Bewerbungsschluss: 23.08.2025

We are hiring! Fully tenured associate professorship in environmental history! We are looking for someone who can be a strong contributor to the history group, to a new #envhum related MA program (if all goes well), and to @greenhouseuis.net. #envhist

My doctoral programme is organising another conference - Deadline for paper proposals 🔜 15 June! 📢"Transformations in Critical Times. Perspectives from the Environmental Humanities" 📍Augsburg 📆6-7 Nov 2025 rethinking-environment-idk.de/event/call-f... @carsoncenter.bsky.social #envhum

Please spread the word and submit an abstract for our "Planetary Waters" conference in Bremerhaven, 22-24 October 2025. The deadline to submit an abstract is 15 June 2025. For more info, see: www.dsm.museum/fileadmin/us... 🌊🚢

Really enjoyed this essay review! Can definitely recommend it, even for those who don't work on intellectual history and race. What a great way for Shells & Pebbles to announce itself on Bsky 😁

Yes your favourite place to find gems of history of science (humanities, knowledge, etc) is now on bluesky! Shells and Pebbles publishes (short) essays on topics ranging from a fabulous drawing found in an archive to discussions about the future of the field. Go explore (and submit your own essay!)

We're offering a full-time, 4-year PhD position in the history of science and technology, starting Fall 2025. The topic is open—come join us! #histsci #histtech #histSTM

*CfP: “Planetary Waters - A Challenge Between Abstraction and Empathy”* An exciting conference organised by three wonderful scholars this autumn - do check it out! 📆22-24 October, 2025 📍Bremerhaven, GER 🔜Paper submissions due 15 June, 2025

Fantastic program now out for #HPS conference "Decoding Our Planet: The Making of Geophysics", bringing together scholars from history of science, #geophysics, & philosophy of science to explore how modern geophysics took shape in #19thC & 20thC, at the Royal Institution in London 12 May

Two problemizations of “going there”/fieldwotk as methodology, in case they’re relevant: doi.org/10.1093/envh... envhistnow.com/2022/03/03/p...

Montse's work was supported by one of AIP's Grants-in-Aid for History of the Physical Sciences, which is accepting applications until April 15th. Please share this with students & researchers who could use resources to support historical research or conduct oral histories in the physical sciences.

@aip.bsky.social is again offering Grants-in-Aid (2,500 USD) for research in the history of the physical sciences. I can't recommend this programme enough! It's open to professional and non-professional researchers at any level. Deadline: 15 April. Link for more info: ww2.aip.org/aip/awards/h...

If a mine yields (far, far) more water than silver, should we call it a silver mine? Or a water mine? I had some fun thinking about this and other questions of #waterhistory and #mininghistory in "Mining for water", my new article just out in Early Science & Medicine: doi.org/10.1163/1573... 💧⛏️

Are you an #envhum scholar looking to make a difference for the field? Become a co-editor of the journal Environmental Humanities! We need a new set of 2 co-editors to replace Franklin & I from Jan 2026. See the call here: environmentalhumanities.org Contact us if you have any questions.

Today! Exciting seminar about #materiality and #visualizations of the #sky with Omar Nasim and Nicholas Robbins. Taking place 14:00-16:00 @bhmpi.bsky.social and also online. Please join us! www.biblhertz.it/events/41036... 🗃️🔭🧪🎨

Call for papers! In November, we'll be coorganizing this workshop on "Melting Mountains: Society and the Vertical Climate Frontier in the Mountainous Peripheries." Deadline: 15 June 2025. #envhist #envhum @andreivinogradov.bsky.social @montecordio.bsky.social

Workshop at University of Glasgow on 15th May 2025, titled Mapping the Histories and Geographies of Water Knowledge. Info here: www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/... To register to attend please complete one of these forms: forms.office.com/e/ZDzNVeedvb (in person) Or forms.office.com/e/vmJrvmgGSR (online)

Great new 2-year postdoc at my alma mater, UW-Madison: history of modern medicine + public health in a fantastic department and city: #histSTM mhb.wisc.edu/2025/02/25/p...

📢 #CallforPapers! Join us at the international #conference “Beyond #Infrastructure? (Un-)built Environments in the #Anthropocene,” Sep. 22–24, 2025, in Vienna @univie.ac.at! 📅 Submit your proposals by 𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹 𝟲, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱. We look forward to your contributions! 🔗 Learn more: infranorth.eu/news/call-fo...

Museum job! 📜 🗃️ #histSTM National Museums Scotland, Assistant Curator, Technology - part of the truly fabulous NMS Science & Technology Department Full time, permanent - details here: careers.nms.ac.uk/job/671171 Deadline soon: 2 March

Are you thinking about the exploration, exploitation, and enclosure of outer space in critical or creative ways? Participate in our session at the RGS-IBG Annual Conference in Birmingham (25-29 Aug) on exogeographies! docs.google.com/document/d/1... @rgsibg.bsky.social @ellietheelement.bsky.social

The American Institute of Physics is looking for an associate director who will lead our new policy research and analysis function, which is within my portfolio. We will be busy. americaninstituteofphysics.applicantstack.com/x/openings

We're throwing an #energyhist conference in Maastricht, Workshop on Alternative Energy Histories (October 20-21, deadline for proposals is April 4):

These positions are still open, please share widely and apply if you are eligible and interested in joining us in Stockholm! #envhist #envhum #anthropocene

CFP: Decoding Our Planet: The Making of Geophysics #HPS of #geophysics workshop @ Royal Institution on 12 May w/ speakers @naomioreskes.bsky.social @terumiyake.bsky.social @geocosmohistory.bsky.social @miguelohn.bsky.social @katysduncan.bsky.social & me Deadline 7 March Submit abstract or register ⬇️

#envhum folks! The 'Environmental Humanities' journal (Duke University Press) is currently looking for TWO (!!) new co-editors from January 2026 onwards! Deadline: 31 March 2025 More information ⤵ environmentalhumanities.org

KTH Stockholm is hiring two new assistant professorships at the Center for Anthropocene History: 1) Asst Professor in Environmental History w/ specialization in Anthropocene History; 2) Asst Prof in #histsci w/ same. www.kth.se/lediga-jobb/...; and www.kth.se/lediga-jobb/.... #skystorians

Silke Beck at @tum.de's STS department is looking for a postdoc (full position, five years) specialising in environmental STS. Deadline for application is 15 March 2025. Salary is somewhere in the ballpark of €2.8 k and €3.8 k after taxes (depending on your job experience and marital status).

Final call for fellows in my group, please apply if you want to be part of the team!

I certainly did not have "being part of a MoMA event" on my 2025 bingo card but here we are! Honoured to have been invited by Nicola Twilley and @paolaantonelli.bsky.social to make a guest appearance on last night's #MoMA R&D Salon on *Cold*! Do check it out >> www.youtube.com/live/f5XXRcH...

Die DFG-geförderte Emmy Noether-Forschungsgruppe „Cooling the Global South: Technik, Gesellschaft und Wärmeregulierung im 20. Jahrhundert“ am ZZF Potsdam sucht zwei Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter*innen (w/m/d) zur Promotion 📆 Bewerbungsfrist: 28.02.2025 Mehr Infos: buff.ly/40Nothu