Something for the weekend - I'll be smiling till Monday.

Huge congratulations to the wonderful Donna Haraway for winning the 2025 Erasmus Prize: erasmusprijs.org/en/laureates...

Can all the folk who just got reminded that they’ve listened to a tonne of music on streaming this year, have a look at the music they heard and buy some on bandcamp today? 🫡🙏🏼

An exciting opportunity to do some important groundwork for a growing museological interest in video games at the National Museum of Scotland.

JOB: inaugurated Chair in the History of Technology at the rank of advanced assistant, associate, or full professor at UC Irvine #histtech networks.h-net.org/jobs/69257/u...

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

Nelson's Victory crew included a Brazilian and a Russian, 2 Indians, 2 Swiss, 2 Portuguese, 3 Danes and 3 Norwegian sailors. There were 3 Germans, 4 Italians, 6 Swedes, 7 Dutchmen, 9 West Indians and an African, as well as 21 Americans, 63 Irish, 64 Scots, 441 English.... oh, and 3 French men, too.

Feeling super old as I remember that the entire reason the internet was invented was to create a distributed network that could resist single points of failure.

A great job, application due November 17th. Please spread and help me with the right hashtags

For reasons, it would be v. helpful to have information from a broad range of academic and non-academic (incl. GLAM) users of the BBC Written Archives OTHER THAN historians, briefly on: 1) What you've used it for and 2) How the proposed changes would impact on your research. Reposts welcomed.

Now with added volume, issue, and page numbers. Sturdy S. The commercial roots of the genomic commons. Soc Stud Sci. 2025 Oct; 55(5):655-682. doi: 10.1177/03063127241310122. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Weirdly enough I was telling my first-years about "warrior ethos" last week. Here's the skill set of a Top Viking, as set out by a dude who'd have gone through anyone using the phrase "warrior ethos" like a well-aimed axe.

See also the voluntary hospitals. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

So @theturing.bsky.social has decided they no longer need Humanities (!) - so the The Alan Turing Institute’s Humanities and Data Science Interest Group are having one final event: "Network power: the humanities and data science in collaboration" In person and online, Oxford, 25th Sept. Pls share!

Five fabulous five-year postdoc positions at University of Edinburgh, as part of the wonderful Medicine Without Doctors project (www.medicinewithoutdoctors.org)

Universities make a loss on home teaching. They make a loss on state-sponsored research. Now they will make a loss on international students. So there will be no activities at all that even break even. In those circs you cannot continue: the end. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/deficit...

Jeez! Every attempt at justification...

Centenary special issue of Annals of Human Genetics now out - including an essay by me on the promissory politics of genomic medicine doi.org/10.1111/ahg....

⏰ #histstm #medhums Postdoc ⏰ 3-year position in Public Engagement at Medical Museion Copenhagen in a research project on personalized medicine employment.ku.dk/all-vacancie...

Some amazing news amidst the doom and gloom of UK Higher Education 'Regulator mistakenly grants degree-awarding powers to rugby player' www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ofs-mis...

Comment: ‘Newborn genomes and the NHS Ten-Year Plan: visionary leap or overreach?’ Zeenat Beebeejaun discusses why these initiatives must be ‘built on a foundation of trust, transparency, and fairness’. www.progress.org.uk/newborn-geno... #NHS #Genomics #DNA #Health #Genetics #newbornscreening

Yanagihara's A Little Life as Munchausen by proxy. Thank you Andrea Long Chu. share.google/nhPEBFyJVdTc...

Wellcome-funded 'Between Deception and Dissent' project is recruiting a postdoc working at the interface of medical STS and socio-legal studies, supervised by Martyn Pickersgill @ Edinburgh #STS www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNY639/r...

Fabulous job (STS/sociolegal studies of medical disinformation) in a wonderfully collegial, intellectually stimulating research center: Research Fellow at The University of Edinburgh share.google/yRbrFbrn4DyT...

The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh also had exceptional links with slavery, including owning a plantation for a period. NHS Lothian Charity has done some impressive and thoughtful work with the Health Board on this shameful history: org.nhslothian.scot/aboutus/atla...

Just in case anyone was in any doubt.

***Job Opportunity in History*** Assistant Professor, Science, Technology, and Society, Harvey Mudd College 19/ networks.h-net.org/jobs/68862/h...

UK higher education - who needs academics when you've got brand consultants?

Delighted to have this e-pub, in advance of the forthcoming centenary special issue of Annals of Human Genetics.

Writing History Articles: A Workshop for PhD students and ECRs - @hisjournalha.bsky.social is organising this event on 19 September for those looking for support with preparing their first journal articles for publication. Do think of applying! www.history.org.uk/higher-ed/re...

Lovely thread for 5.15 on Friday.

I'm the kind of person who semi-regularly trawls ebay looking for old books, pamphlets or ephemera related to Edinburgh history, so I'm absolutely *thrilled* that my searches are increasingly drowned by AI-generated gibberish "Vintage Travel Posters" selling at £19.99-29.99 a copy.

Just as importantly, it found no increase for surrounding roads, where there has been a negligible increase in traffic levels, despite concerns about displacement Increase road capacity and you increase traffic, decrease capacity and you decrease traffic overall

Bezos wedding guest takes us through her extravagant goodie bag from the wedding 💗

“Multiple analyses have now found that Google’s AI overviews have resulted in declines of 70 to 80 percent in the click-through rates to the web pages from which they derive their information. That’s 70 to 80 percent fewer visits to web pages”

In BMJ Global Health, open access: epistemic preparedness. We argue for the social sciences and the humanities - expanding the category of expert - in preparing for the next pandemic! #pandemic #epidemiology #histstm #histmed #sts @nam.edu @humanitiesau.bsky.social @acmedsci.bsky.social @apha.org

It's that time again. Sounding the Exeter #academicjob klaxon! 3yr Research Fellow post with a focus on environmental-social-health inequalities, working with my excellent colleague Rebecca Lynch in Egenis. Come and join us! #sts #sustainability #medsoc #anthropology

The NIH archives of the Human Genome Project could fall victim to Trump administration cuts, writes a former archivist. buff.ly/H1WkRpn