Long read: If the European Research Council is the victim of its own success, how can it be saved? @jgro-the.bsky.social investigates #ERC #research https://ow.ly/7v1k50YWyOV

How did people in Renaissance Europe perceive the night sky? What did they see when they looked at the Milky Way? ✍️ Stefan Zieme from the JHoK Blog archive (2021): blog.journalhistoryknowledge.org/2021/11/17/t... 🖼️ Adam Elsheimer, The Flight into Egypt, 1609 (Alte Pinakothek München, CC BY-SA 4.0)

OUT NOW! The Oxford Handbook of H. G. Wells is now available online academic.oup.com/edited-volum... 47 chapters on Wells and his worlds Hardcopy to follow in June

EU member state governments have informally agreed a plan to “maximise the impact of science diplomacy” in promoting the bloc’s values internationally, including democracy, the rule of law and respect for human rights. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...

CfP: Special Issue on Philosophy through Art, Games and Fiction Deadline 31st July 2026. More info and submission here: think.taylorandfranc... #philsky #philpsy

Happy Birthday to us! 🥳 To mark our 25th anniversary, we asked 25 people to write up to 250 words on an idea that has been influential in their thinking. We hope you enjoy reading their contributions! Find them at www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/25-ideas

Our latest series tackles climate change, human-environment interactions by looking at histories of environmental anthropology: www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

Delighted to have my author's copies of How Plague Got Rats! A big thanks to series editors @steerewilliams.bsky.social @doravargha.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social & to @wellcometrust.bsky.social for funding this project! Book publ. May 19 & OA www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

We are hiring 💼 Join the Centre for Pandemic Risk Management as a Postdoctoral Research Associate The Centre brings together a team of scientists, social scientists and public policy researchers to inform and build pandemic risk policy and practice Apply by 3 May 2026 https://bit.ly/4dSnxiP

I like the list of 25 ideas that shaped @crasshlive.bsky.social for their anniversary. I contributed an entry on my beloved thick concepts and now enjoying scrolling through the other entries. Happy anniversary, CRASSH, my research life would have been so much less interesting without you!

Join us for the first event in our 25th anniversary series! 💥 From Climate Change to Energy Securitisation: Advancing the green transition amid shifting narratives of power and crisis 29 April 2026, 5.30-7pm Babbage Lecture Theatre, CB2 3QZ https://bit.ly/47zxwG6 With @camgeopolitics.bsky.social

Join the Cambridge Housing Network on 29 April for the first Housing research work-in-progress seminar of the new term. This series aims to promote cross-disciplinary exchange and conversation among housing scholars at the University of Cambridge. 🏠 🏠 🏠 Find out more: https://bit.ly/4t1ipgA

How do we think, create, and act when the trajectories of life and knowledge are disrupted by war, exile, precarity, or the crises of the contemporary world? Rethinking Exile: On fractured lives and the capacity of beginning anew 12 May 2026, 2-6pm CRASSH, CB3 9DP https://bit.ly/48qHauS

We're delighted to share that we've extended the application deadline for our next Cambridge Data School, Teaching and Learning Critically in an Age of Generative AI. Get your application in by 1 May 2026 to be in with a chance of joining our next cohort 💡 Apply: www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/events/41023/

Practicing and defining openness in the Social Sciences and Humanities: are concepts, practices, policies and infrastructure (mis)aligned? Key takeaways from an online panel discussion at Freie Universitat Berlin with Dr. Simon Dumas Primbault, Prof. Dr. Lai Ma, & Dr. Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org

Today is the start of World Immunization Week. Through the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH), you can find sources on the history of immunizations in the UK and Ireland, including smallpox, typhoid, and diphtheria vaccines

Desmond Morris passed away yesterday. He was one of the last living links to classical ethology. While most famous for his book "The Naked Ape" (I wasn't a fan), his work in bird behavior was foundational for both ethology and the behavioral sciences broadly. www.bbc.com/news/article...

More Cambridge jobs! Research Assistant/Associate in Sociology: Data Collection and Analysis (Part Time, Fixed Term) @camsociology.bsky.social Further info: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRD489/r...

Translating Conflict and Refuge: Language, displacement, and the politics of representation Translators, interpreters, scholars, refugees, and NGO representatives will explore the complex realities of translating conflict and refuge 24 April 2026 West Hub, CB3 0US https://bit.ly/4bOBThO

Charles Darwin died OTD in 1882. Stories of a deathbed renunciation of his doubts about Christianity and recantation of his theory circulated widely (mostly in the US, predictably). They were, however, lies. He was buried in Westminster Abbey, next to John Herschel. 🧪🌱🐋 #HistSTM #Evobio #PhilSci

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 doi.org/10.1093/past...

The Unfolding World: Causal & physical cognition in humans and other animals 🐦‍⬛ This workshop brings together experts from animal cognition, developmental psychology, computational modelling, and philosophy to investigate 24-25 April 2026 Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP https://bit.ly/4by8cCM

This is lovely: www.theguardian.com/environment/... #science #biology

How does a cow learn to use a broom as a tool? 🐂 🧹 Join experts to explore some scientific puzzles at our event 'Thinking Through Things: How human and animal minds understand the physical world' 24 April, 3.30-5pm Selwyn College, CB3 9BN https://bit.ly/4bMLeqj

How do we think, create, and act when the trajectories of life and knowledge are disrupted by war, exile, precarity, or the crises of the contemporary world? Rethinking Exile: On fractured lives and the capacity of beginning anew 12 May 2026, 2-6pm CRASSH, CB3 9DP https://bit.ly/48qHauS

The Unfolding World: Causal & physical cognition in humans and other animals 🐦‍⬛ This workshop brings together experts from animal cognition, developmental psychology, computational modelling, and philosophy to investigate 24-25 April 2026 Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP https://bit.ly/4by8cCM

Translating Conflict and Refuge: Language, displacement, and the politics of representation Translators, interpreters, scholars, refugees, and NGO representatives will explore the complex realities of translating conflict and refuge 24 April 2026 West Hub, CB3 0US https://bit.ly/4bOBThO

📢 JOB OPENINGS at CSIC @cchscsic.bsky.social (Madrid)! As part of my ERC project WILDHIST, the Institute of History is hiring two 3-year postdoctoral researchers in the global history of rubber. Application deadline: 24 April 2026. More info 👉 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/422012 @erc.europa.eu

Just discovered the wonderful covers of 'Genes to Cells', the journal of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan @mbsj-official.bsky.social – absolutely beautiful! here some examples inspired by mitosis, CRISPR, the DNA helix, and plant pigments

Join us on Friday, May 1 for Sparks After Dark 2026, an electrifying late-night celebration where science, nightlife, and purpose collide! Get tickets: https://bit.ly/3NG3j1p

How can universities shape the future of Europe? From 7–9 May, the European University Institute invites you to explore this question as it celebrates its 50th anniversary in Florence. Discover the rich programme and join the conversation: https://loom.ly/WGdu_Q4 #EUI50

For #CoffeeWithACodex on April 9 (12pm Noon ET, on Zoom), @leoba.bsky.social#CoffeeWithACodexwill bring out LJS 478, a collection of astronomical treatises, with a particular focus on the astrolabe. The copy was completed in A.H. Jumādá al-Ākhirah 625 (May 1228). #medievalsky Register here: https://bit.ly/4d0PPYh

(Parution) Misère de la psychiatrie histoiresante.blogspot.com/2026/04/mise... #histpsych #philo

Ancient Egyptian scribes may have paid a price for their work: skeletal remains show signs of joint degeneration linked to prolonged sitting and repetitive writing tasks, reports Scientific Reports: spklr.io/63320EyxQO #AncientEgyptBluesky #Skystorians🏺 @natureportfolio.nature.com

🗣️"More than one million scholarly articles were cited by policymakers between 2019 and 2024" #EvidenceForPolicy #EvidenceBasedPolicy

Coming soon! Duncan Bell & Sarah Cole (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of H. G. Wells The Table of Contents can be seen here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

It's me in the Financial Times, detailing the deep and pernicious influence of one-size-fits-all management consultancy in our universities... Take a look! 👇 www.ft.com/content/5032...

The Unfolding World: Causal & physical cognition in humans and other animals 🐦‍⬛ This workshop brings together experts from animal cognition, developmental psychology, computational modelling, and philosophy to investigate 24-25 April 2026 Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP https://bit.ly/4by8cCM

How does a cow learn to use a broom as a tool? 🐂 🧹 Join experts to explore some scientific puzzles at our event 'Thinking Through Things: How human and animal minds understand the physical world' 24 April, 3.30-5pm Selwyn College, CB3 9BN https://bit.ly/4bMLeqj

📣 Open for registration Translation networks in the decolonising world, 1950s–1970s 24-25 April King's College, CB2 1ST Join us in exploring how cultural, linguistic and political translation served as a bridge for ideas, theories, and strategies for anticolonial struggles https://bit.ly/47lMfV1

Join us for the launch of the Cambridge branch of I-CIVIC, a new network of researchers, educators, policy makers and civic organisations, rethinking how we teach, learn and exercise democracy in Europe. ✨ Monday 27 April, 5 - 7pm Book your place: https://bit.ly/47v4NlN

Translating Conflict and Refuge: Language, displacement, and the politics of representation Translators, interpreters, scholars, refugees, and NGO representatives will explore the complex realities of translating conflict and refuge 24 April 2026 West Hub, CB3 0US https://bit.ly/4bOBThO

This looks like a pretty cool and rare vacancy: the ICRC is looking for a historian #HistIR careers.icrc.org/job/Geneva-%...

Til debatten om røtter/føtter, globalist/nasjonalist: Professor Inanna Hamati-Ataya ved Groningen-universitetet skriver langt om globaliseringens lange historie. Ligger åpen og verdt å lese i sin helhet. aeon.co/essays/there...

📣 Call for art Artists and creatives - submit your work to CRASSH's 25th anniversary exhibition! The theme is 'Knowledge in a Fractured World' and can be interpreted broadly, from personal to global Deadline 31 July 2026 Find out more at bit.ly/4svggKv

🛎️ Postdoc opportunity 🛎️ 2-year Postdoctoral Fellowship in history of medicine and medical humanities at Johns Hopkins University. Deadline April 5th. #histmed #histstm hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/2026/03/06/j...

(Colloque international) Rousseau, philosophie et médecine. Circulation et usages des savoirs médicaux au XVIIIe siècle histoiresante.blogspot.com/2026/03/rous... #histmed #histphilo

Good news: not just one open job, but two! Both are postdocs in philosophy of science/ML working with my @technomoralfutures.bsky.social co-Director Dr Emily Sullivan on issues in ML scientific understanding and explanation. Ads for a 3 year post and 2 year post are linked below, apply by 20 April

Deux postes de doctorant·e·s à pourvoir au Centre Walras Pareto pour la rentrée 2026 un·e Assistant diplômé·e en Histoire de la pensée et philosophie économiques un·e Assistant diplômé·e en Histoire des idées politiques Délai de postulation : 2 mai 2026!

Cambridge Festival 💥 Shutter Hub exhibition & curator tour Exhibition 9am-7pm w/days Tour & talk 26 March 2-3pm Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP https://bit.ly/3NnbfEt Shutter Hub covered the walls of 4 floors of the ARB with hundreds of images submitted by international photographers and artists