📢 Doctoral and early career historians: submit your abstracts for the 1-day Cambridge-based workshop examining the history of Black health and healthcare in 20th-century Britain. Submission deadline: 1 April Workshop date: 29 May More info and contact info👉 histmed.org/call-for-par...

🚀📡 ESA Post-graduate Research Grant 2026 The @esa.int & the Historical Archives of the European Union offer 2 grants for postgraduate & early-career researchers using ESA archives. 📅 Apply 9 Mar–15 May ℹ️https://loom.ly/Ybo4xsM #SpaceHistory 🔗 More info

#StPatricksDay is an appropriate time to issue a call for expressions of interest in my latest book project, with working title “Im/migration and the Irish”. This will chart BOTH the experiences of Irish migrants abroad over 1,500 years AND those who have migrated…

Interested in environmental history? The IHR is offering a summer 2026 internship with the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH). Apply by 15 April 2026, 11:59 pm BST. More details at: buff.ly/Vzpz6G3.

‘Being Early Medieval: Encounters with Early Irish Society through Archaeology, History and Experimental Archaeology’ University of Chester, 2021-2022 research seminar. youtu.be/jFBXAivgd5s?...

Exactly what we need to make this world safer, more caring, more equitable, more humane.

This should be a great conference. Well done @unioflimerick.bsky.social

For #MapMonday the Irish Historic Towns Atlas (IHTA) will be showcasing our open source material. There are 32 atlases available as open access on #IHTAonline. To start the series, we’ll look at the first atlas published in the series: Kildare, by John Andrews, published by the @ria.ie in 1986.

CFPs open for the Gender & Sexuality PGR Conference 12 June 2026, Queen's University Belfast, ‘CRITICAL ENOUGH? Orientations of Authority and Resistance’ … delighted to be the keynote speaker. Abstracts due by 15 April 2026

An empirical refutation that Al-Ghazali's "The Incoherence of the Philosophers" put an end to Islamic science #histsci thonyc.wordpress.com/2026/02/16/a...

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#Women&GirlsinScienceDay Academic & particle physicist Anne Kernan was a huge advocate for women in science, on one occasion funding a trip to CERN for an undergrad she had never met, meeting her at the airport and paying for her accommodation until funding came through. www.dib.ie/biography/ke...

We are demanding that EU co-legislators reject attempts in the AI Omnibus to remove a key transparency safeguard from the AI Act. We cannot open a loophole that would let providers exempt themselves from the AI Act’s high risk requirements with no transparency www.accessnow.org/press-releas...

It is International Day of Women in Science! For this ocassion, a thread on influential women that illustrate prehistoric life🧵 Marta Szubert. Creator of one of the first to-scale feathered dinosar models (1997). If you've been to Poland or Slovakia, you've probably seen her models on display.

Every so often you get to do really cool things at universities. This is one of them. Can't wait to facilitate a dialogue on Powering AI from the Borderlands: Organizing Against Data Centers on Feb 24th.

There is money for "education" if and only if that money is being directly funneled to corporations. Anything involving actual learning, however, well there's no magic money tree

IHTA is an amazing project for anyone interested in Irish History, Urban History and Cartography. Well worth a follow.

are you disgruntled by the current safety evaluation landscape? curious about what conceptual clarity, methodological soundness and rigour in AI evaluation might look like? if so, consider coming to dublin and doing a phd with me apply here: aial.ie/hiring/phd-a...

Enjoy presenting today at Arqus European University Alliance workshop 'AI in teaching & Learning: International perspectives and best practices' on our work developing critical AI literacies with the Critical Skills programme, Maynooth University.

🚨 THE FINAL FOUR 🚨 We’re nearly at the end! 32 candidates have been narrowed down to a nefarious final four. But who will move on to the finals? You must decide! 🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/wpit25-semif...

Get your vote in!

🚨 ROUND TWO STARTS NOW 🚨 We’re down to the final 16 contestants as you decide who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech! Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday. 🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/wpit25-round...

"Slop" chosen as Merriam-Webster's 2025 word of the year

Do you love researching #History of #Science #Medicine or #Technology? #CFP now open for abstracts for the #HSTM Annual Meeting 26 April 2026 @unioflimerick.bsky.social CALL CLOSES 15 Jan 2026. This is a very friendly conference for those interested in how humans have constructed knowledge

#HSTM has been quite a niche area in #Ireland and #Limerick seems to be the place to go for #IrishHistory in 2026! This is such a juicy theme! Maybe #Historians #Skystorians of #Philosophy have something to pitch in too. #CFP now open, call closes 15 Jan 2026 👇 #Speirgorm #Ireland #AcademicSky

The AHA's Vetted Resources compile materials that have been professionally vetted by historians, offering instructors access to high-quality accessibility guides, pedagogy resources, and materials specific to a range of places, eras, topics, and fields that meet professional standards.🗃️

This could not possible go wrong.

*JOB FAIRY* Role: Rights and Administration Assistant (1 year, part time) UCD Press is seeking a person to support with rights and administration development. We are looking for a person to research, initiate and develop translation rights for the Press, especially in the Chinese market.

My new book is now out in print: POLITICIANS AND MASS MEDIA IN THE AGE OF EMPIRE Examines how an expanding mass media created a new type of politician and system of transnational media politics between 1890 and World War I. www.cambridge.org/core/books/p...

Today, 12 EST/5 GMT.

Now on Bluesky: @darwin-online.bsky.social. Give 'em a follow! #HPS #histsci

We are delighted to announce that we'll be hosting the SSNCI conference in Maynooth next June. Call for papers attached. Please spread far and wide!

Call for PhD Student! I'm recruiting a PhD student to work with me on a project related to my Future Fellowship at Monash University on the political economy of insurance, risk technology, climate governance, and the crisis of uninsurability. Here's the overview of my fellowship.

I wish Dick Cheney was alive, so he could watch this and die again from an aneurysm

Fabulous PhD opportunity at Queen's University Belfast and Armagh Observatory: Observing the Heavens from the 'Periphery': Astronomy in Ireland 1640-1830 www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post... Deadline 13 Jan #histSTM #histastro

This is such a great project!

flat out lies. these tech ceos take regulators and the masses for fools

when you wear a size 9.5 shoe but the 8.5 was on sale

On the event of James Watson's death, I highly recommend this 2023 commentary from @matthewcobb.bsky.social and Nathaniel Comfort with crucial new insights into the discovery of the double helix. (And also check out Cobb's brand new biography of Francis Crick) www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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

As predicted, the EU is ready to dismantle its Digital Rulebook as it did with the Green Deal. It does so upon US administration’s demand and under Big Tech pressure. It’s a self-inflicted political decision putting the EU on a deregulatory turn on.ft.com/47vqFOl

(Call for applications) Assistant Professor Social Studies of Medicine histoiresante.blogspot.com/2025/10/post... #medhum #histSTM

As ever...

As has rightly been pointed out to me it is, in fact, not yet 2026* Sooo... Gulliver's Travels is 300 *next* year. What do we have planned?! *I blame overwork plus the fact that I first mentally noted this anniversary 12 years ago, which is ages to wait! www.theguardian.com/science/the-...

This version of Total Recall sucks.