Coming up in the Leeds HPS seminar this semester...... Rob Wilson, Matthew Sims, Alkistis Elliott-Graves @matthewsims.bsky.social @alkistiseg.bsky.social hpsleeds.wordpress.com/2025/09/10/h...

Congratulations to PhD researcher Monica Stenzel, who has secured a grant from @pasoldresearchfund.bsky.social to support her project on the history of "wool science"! Supervised by @kingtekkers.bsky.social and @graemegooday.bsky.social, her work bridges science, textiles and sustainability #histsci

A whole clutch of out staff and postgraduates were at #BSHS2025 a couple of weeks ago, and we have a contingent in Porto for the next few days at #ISHPSSB2025. Look out for papers from them spanning the breadth of history and philosophy of biology, from evolution and individuality to microbes!

Huge congratulations to our own Dr Ellen Clarke on the publication of "The Units of Life: Kinds of Individual in Biology"! academic.oup.com/book/60068

Our Museum of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine holds some incredible collections. Look out for a complete refresh of our permanent gallery spaces - “Proper #Yorkshire Science” - launching very soon! It explores the connection between science and regional identity #histsci

Greg Radick giving the Genetics Society’s JBS Haldane This year's prestigious Haldane lecture (click) will be delivered by Greg Radick. The JBS Haldane Lecture recognises an individual for outstanding ability to communicate topical subjects in genetics research, widely interpreted, to an…

Tomorrow at 3.15pm, catch Prof Greg Radick delivering the 2025 JBS Haldane Lecture on "The New Genetics Meets the New History of Genetics”. Details here: genetics.org.uk/events/genet... #histsci #HPS

’Founder of sociology’, Harriet Martineau, abolitionist, feminist, champion of equal education for women, born #OTD 1802. Portrait by Richard Evans (assistant to Sir Thomas Lawrence) 1834, National Portrait Gallery | The Armitt Library & Museum @ucuuoc.bsky.social | @hpsleeds.bsky.social

Celebrating the BSHS Postgraduate Conference Now that the dust has settled on this year's British Society for the History of Science (BSHS) Postgraduate Conference, held here at the University of Leeds by our postgraduate community from 25-26 April, we are delighted to share reflections from a…

Coming soon: reports from attendees, photos and even a film which capture the @bshsnews.bsky.social Postgraduate Conference hosted by our wonderful PG community last month. We're still basking in the warm glow of this amazing event! pg-conference.bshs.org.uk #histsci #histSTM

Our Visiting HPS Seminar tomorrow is the final one of the academic year! We welcome Dr Charu Singh from the University of Cambridge for “Challenging the Tridosha: Elements, humors and an Ayurvedic controversy in British India, c.1935”. Full details here: hpsleeds.wordpress.com/category/vis... #HPS

Delighted that @adamrutherford.bsky.social and @hpsleeds.bsky.social's Prof Gregory Radick will be joining us @thackraymuseum.bsky.social on Thursday evening for our newest Insights Late on the legacy of eugenics. Just a few tickets left now … 🎟️ thackraymuseum.co.uk/event/thackr...

We can't believe it: the ninth (9th) episode in our podcast series has dropped! This time Dr Mike Finn, Director of our Museum, chats about psychiatry and how the modern science of neurology was inspired by research in a Yorkshire asylum... #histmed #histSTM open.spotify.com/episode/2o43...

The final events in our seminar series are coming up! For details of our wonderful work-in-progress papers, all run online, see here: hpsleeds.wordpress.com/category/wip.... Join us on 29 April and 6 and 13 May, to hear about topics as diverse as engineering and smallpox eradication #hps #histSTM

A wonderful event! Professor Jon Topham’s @jontopham.bsky.social inaugural professorial lecture, introduced here by Greg Radick, doubling as keynote for the @bshsnews.bsky.social postgraduate conference. An exploration of how history of the book can make us see anew the science-religion relationship

Can't make it to Leeds? You can still watch the live stream of Jon Topham's Professorial Inaugural Lecture here: www.youtube.com/live/W1KQBZV... We much look forward to seeing those us in person, and particularly all the attendees at the @bshsnews.bsky.social Postgraduate Conference! #histsci

British Society for the History of Science (BSHS) Postgraduate Conference at Leeds, 25-26 April 2025 We are thrilled that this year's BSHS Postgraduate conference will take place at the University of Leeds over two days, on the 25th and 26th April, 2025. The theme for this year's conference will…

Please join us for the launch of our 3rd BSPS Open volume, The Material Mind by Max Kistler, on 7 May. philosophie.pantheonsorbonne.fr/evenements/c... #bspsopen #philsci #openaccesspublishing #ucalgarypress #thematerialmind

It's our regular Monday announcement... New podcast episode! Graeme Gooday explores the history of the physical sciences 150 years ago, and why they were core subjects first taught at the Yorkshire College of Science #histsci #skystorians #chemistry #physics open.spotify.com/episode/5Dln...

Did you know: our researchers have developed a suite of resources for A-Level students and teachers? "History & Philosophy of Science in 20 Objects" draws on an incredible array of items from our own collection ft. prompts, questions, videos and more! sway.cloud.microsoft/cEekCFBF5CGF... #histsci

Two Collaborative PhD Studentships in History of Science The Centre for History & Philosophy of Science is offering two fully-funded PhD scholarships to support research in the history of science and gender, and the history of trust in meteorology. The two projects – supported by Collaborative…

A wonderful opportunity to apply for a fully-funded collaborative PhD studentship in partnership with @royalsociety.org. "Weather Sceptics: Almanacs and the Making of Scientific Meteorology in Nineteenth-Century Britain". Deadline 6 May. See link for full details. #histsci @bshsnews.bsky.social

Lovely to attend the launch of SICK and SICK TOO - a pair of parallel exhibitions at @lulgalleries.bsky.social by Sarah Roberts. It was a real privilege to host Sarah for some sessions with the LivingBodiesObjects project, and to see her draw inspiration from collections in @hpsleeds.bsky.social!

📢 Reminder! Prof. Jon Topham’s jontopham.bsky.social Keynote Lecture explores the intertwined histories of science, religion, and publishing 📆 25 April 2025 | 3.30–5.00pm BST 📍 Leeds & Online 🔗 bit.ly/4hDxuyV A joint event by hpsleeds.bsky.social, leedsprhs.bsky.social & BSHS Postgrads

Our latest podcast episode is out! Hear our own @frankendodo.bsky.social chat with @kingtekkers.bsky.social about the relationships between literature and science in the nineteenth century. Featuring Lewis Carroll and public debates about science open.spotify.com/episode/1iVl... #histsci #HPS

📢Upcoming lecture! Professor Jon Topham jontopham.bsky.social on ‘Science and Religion from the Ground Up’ Join us for this joint event between the BSHS, hpsleeds.bsky.social and leedsprhs.bsky.social in Leeds and online! 📆Friday 25th April, 2025 | 3.30pm–5.00pm www.eventbrite.com/e/science-an...

We are delighted to announce another fully-funded collaborative PhD studentship, this time in conjunction with @theul.bsky.social. "The Hidden Gender of Collections: Women and the Curation of Scientific Heritage". Deadline 30 April. See here for full details: phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/2233... #histsci

Our latest podcast episode is out! Monica Stenzel, one of our PhD researchers, chats about the "science of #wool" and how fuzzy fleeces became an unlikely source of inspiration for science, especially at the Yorkshire College! open.spotify.com/episode/2Zc1... #histsci #histSTM #skystorians

Tomorrow, Tues 11 March, it’ll be @kingtekkers.bsky.social and @isobelnewby.bsky.social taking to the stage for our weekly work-in-progress seminar, with: “I’ll be Bacteria…”. Join us in person or online! hpsleeds.wordpress.com/category/wip... #histsci #histmed #hps #histbio

Lovely to bump into @hpsleeds.bsky.social PhD researcher Monica Stenzel at the Student Sustainability Research Conference. Monica was running an interactive stall with synthetic and natural fibre garments, drawing on her research about the origins and impact of "#wool science" #histsci #HPS

Tomorrow, 6 March at 7pm ADT (11pm UK), Prof Greg Radick will deliver the 7th MacLennan Lecture at the University of King's College, Halifax. Watch the livestream of "What If? Alternative Pasts for Science and Technology—and Why They Matter" here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PtL... #histsci #HPS

It's that time again: a new podcast episode in The Science of 1875! For "Evolution", PhD researcher Stefan Bernhardt-Radu explores how researchers active 150 years ago tried to use new evolutionary theories to explain human consciousness... open.spotify.com/show/6HLkhHC... #histsci #HPS #philsci

Next week is a bumper one for us, with not just one but two work-in-progress seminars to look forward to! Find out more details here... hpsleeds.wordpress.com/category/wip... #histsci #philsci #HPS

A full-time, open-ended lectureship in Ancient History at Leeds! It's a different department to me but your duties will still include being asked interminable questions about ancient weirdos by me, your colleague with a healthy interest.

Collaborative PhD researcher Isobel Newby has published a really thoughtful set of reflections on using archives at @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy to reconstruct the history of #BSE blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/using-archiv... #histsci #histmed #histSTM #HPS #skystorians

In the last week or so I've recorded three further @hpsleeds.bsky.social podcast episodes with amazing colleagues and postgraduates. Coming down the line in The Science of 1875: "psychiatry", "literature", and "wool". Making the series is so much fun! #histsci #HPS #histSTM #skystorians

There was an explosion in provincial colleges focused on scientific and technical education in the 1870s. The Yorkshire College of Science (inaugurated in 1875) was one such institution, still going strong as the University of Leeds. (1/2)

Our next HPS Visiting Speaker Seminar today features Dr Katie Carpenter from just upstairs in the School of History. She’ll be speaking about “Masculinity, Advertising and Scientific Housewifery in Britain, c. 1870 to 1914”, 3.15pm in Botany House Room 1.03. See you there! #histsci #HPS #skystorians

Our new podcast episode goes deep... This episode features Dr Josh Hillman, and we're talking mining and the display of a 24-tonne lump of coal! Listen now: open.spotify.com/episode/3STO... #histsci #mining #histSTM #coal

Thanks to the generosity of the family of the late Professor Loh Shiu-Chang (Leeds PhD, 1957), a prototype of the first Chinese computer keyboard is now part of our Museum collections. Read more here: hpsleeds.wordpress.com/2025/02/13/t... #histsci #histtech #histSTM #Chinese #language #computer

This week saw the start of our Visiting Speaker Seminar Series in History & Philosophy of Science, with Prof. James Secord up in Leeds. Further events on selected Wednesdays from now until May! Next up, Dr Katie Carpenter on 19 Feb #histsci #HPS #philsci hpsleeds.wordpress.com/category/vis...

We are delighted to annouce two funded collaborative PhD studentships. Supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the deadline for both is 5 March. These fascinating projects are partnerships with @ietltd.bsky.social and @mediamuseum.bsky.social respectively. More below! #histsci

New Podcast Episode: The Science of 1875 The latest episode in our podcast series, exploring what science looked like 150 years ago, is out now. Featuring Professor Greg Radick, this episode explores three big questions of the age in the emerging discipline of biology. These include the…

Our first work-in-progress seminar today featured a draft paper from Prof. Greg Radick on "Counterfactual History of Science". The full series - all hybrid - is available here, with Visiting Fellow, Dr Liz Hoiem, up next week: hpsleeds.wordpress.com/category/wip... #histsci #hps #histSTM #philsci

Just what did science look like 150 years ago? This new podcast from @hpsleeds.bsky.social uncovers the surprising history of the sciences, focusing on the Yorkshire College of Science - forerunner to the University of Leeds. Episode 1 out now, a new one coming every fortnight!

Our new podcast series - "The Science of 1875" - is live! Listen to the first episode, exploring how geologists debated the origins of mountains, here: open.spotify.com/show/6HLkhHC... New episodes every fortnight, uncovering hot topics in science 150 years ago! #histsci #skystorians #hps #histSTM

Our academic researchers have been awarded a total of four Collaborative Doctoral Awards through different routes. These will be advertised for fully-funded PhD study, collaborating with non-academic partners, starting in October 2025: application processes to start soon. Watch this space! #histsci

Our new podcast series - The Science of 1875 - is coming! Listen to the trailer now, with episodes on geology, evolution, biology and mining out very soon.

HPS Visiting Speaker Seminars, Semester 2, 2024-25 Seminars are on Wednesdays, 3.15pm-5pm. All welcome! Some are in-person — these are all in Botany House room 1.03 unless otherwise stated. (There is a campus map here.) Others are on Zoom; a link will appear next to the seminar listing below at…

As we sign off for the festive break, a little teaser for what's coming from us in 2025! "The Science of 1875" Our first full episode, on geology, will land on Monday 20th January, with new episodes every fortnight...! open.spotify.com/show/6HLkhHC... #histsci #skystorians