The 19th Ischia Summer School in the History of the Life Sciences will take place 28 Jun - 5 July 2026. Interested graduate students should apply by 27 February. This year's theme? PROBLEMS of GROWTH! ischiasummerschool.org/theme #histSTM #histbio #histsci

Today marks my first office day at the University of Copenhagen and Niels Bohr Archive! It feels surreal to be able to write this. I've got lots to look forward to over these next few months, let alone years 😁 but right now, I am immensely grateful for everyone who helped me get this far!

Check out our CFP below! #envhist #envhum #histsci #polar #alpine #climate networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Looking for a seasonal or festive read? Check out Roisin Gilloch Boyle’s latest for EHN, on snow globes and the Anthropocene #envhist #envhum envhistnow.com/2025/12/24/o...

50. 'The Glaisher snowflakes (1855) are amongst the most recognizable images of snow crystals produced in the nineteenth century'. 🧪 #TabClosed2026

Join our new Early-Career #EnvHist Network! We have created a listserv for opportunities related to environmental history (broadly conceived), and we welcome students, PhD candidates and post-docs interested in what happens in Europe. To join, send us a Private Message. Members can also contribute!

Struggling to wrap my mind around the horrific gun violence here and the heinous terrorism in Australia, as today I’m co-hosting a group of alumni from my school in 🇨🇭. The school was founded after WWI with an idealistic mission of education for peace and global understanding.

Favorite recent or classic readings on the history of environmental movements, 19th and 20th C? This is for a senior seminar, US and Europe as geographical focus #envhist

If anyone is planning their semester and wants to add some Antarctica content, I am available to Zoom in, especially before March! Feel free to reach out.

***CfP*** Die mit der @eseh.bsky.social assoziierte D-A-CH-AG Umweltgeschichte lädt zum zweiten Nachwuchsworkshop diesmal an die @unibe.ch in der schönen Schweiz! Deadline für die Abstracts ist der 15.2.2025 #envhist #histtech Mehr unter: www.hist.unibe.ch/unibe/portal...

The @scottpolar.bsky.social are looking for a librarian. This is a rare opportunity! Work with (probably) the world's largest dedicated polar library alongside archive and museum colleagues. The dream 😍 📜

Een ‘zondvloedland,’ zo karakteriseerde ik het beeld van de Lage Landen in 17de- en 18de-eeuwse geleerde natuurgeschiedenissen. Het denken over het verleden van de Aarde bewoog tussen Bijbelse zondvloed en de volgende dijkdoorbraak, tussen schriftgeleerden en turfstekers. 1/

📢 JOB ALERT 📢 Come work with me! @rigb.org is hiring an Archivist, full time, 2 year, fixed-term contract, hybrid working possible. Please share widely! More details 👇 www.rigb.org/about-us/wor...

Highly recommend!

We are also currently hiring a curatorial fellow to work with the papers of Rosalind Franklin and others in the History of Molecular Biology Collection! This is a 2-year staff position in the archive with a salary of $55k/year and full benefits: www.sciencehistory.org/research/fel...

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

Historians here: Anyone up for joining a panel on early modern translation practices in science and medicine with me and the wonderful Sare Arıcanlı? It’ll be for the 2026 ESHS–HSS Joint Meeting in Edinburgh. Let me know!

Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry

I’m late getting myself together for HSS in Edinburgh but is anyone still looking for a panelist or chair? Polar science, history of exploration, material & visual culture, history of skincare, working outside the academy, etc!

I am please to announce that this is the 1000th review that I have facilitated for H-Environment! Thank you so much to all of the reviewers who make this position such a pleasure! #envhist #envhum #ecrocrit #envphil #aghist #oceanhist #conservation #sustainability #plantstudies #animalhist #energy 🏞️

If you’re interested in practicing the philosophy of science in practice why not come along to an online workshop “the philosophy of science in practice - in practice”? #philsci

Call for Applications! @esehnextgate.bsky.social is seeking new members to join its committee for a two-year term 2025–2027. More info below!!

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