Council for British Research in the Levant will call for research applications, later in 2025, in the following areas: Heritage; States, societies and cultures of the Levant; Cities and urbanisation; Refugees, migration, displacement, diasporas; Challenges of sustainability and resilience.

Leverhulme Trust and Wellcome Trust combine support for the Humanitarian Archive Emergency (HAE) project based at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute at The University of Manchester: www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/l...

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win (h/t @miriamposner.com) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Hot tip: while the odd bloke’s rallying against migrants, hanging around flags to remind them of where they live, try and refrain from forcefully asking your migrant colleagues: “where do you come from? No, I mean, where are you from? I mean, before that? No, I mean, originally?”

Ros Edwards and Val Gillies are two absolutely impressive scholars in our field - I've been following their work on early childhood intervention, for a while now, and their latest project on British sociologists' wives. This is top-notch!

Our Sociology of Health & Illness editorial team is advertising for a PGR RA to drive our social media strategy. Apply with a CV + 1 page letter outlining your skills and approach by 26th September 5pm to Prof. Janice (dot) McLaughlin (at) Newcastle (dot) ac (dot) uk. Come join us! #medsoc #medhums

ICYMI: @chacruna.bsky.social is soliciting abstract proposals for their Psychedelic Culture 2026 conference. Abstracts featuring the environmental and historical dimensions of psychedelic plant medicines are encouraged. niche-canada.org/2025/08/29/c... #envhist #envhum #histmed #ecology

UC Berkeley Depart of History tenure-track asst prof job in Global History of Technology. History of technological artifacts & infrastructures through a global & transnational lens. All fields, areas, & periods of #HistTech considered For more info: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05065 #HPS 🗃️

We’re excited to share a first look at the 61st Wildlife Photographer of the Year images! 😲 📸 Featuring 100 awe-inspiring photographs awarded for their creativity and skill, our yearly exhibition celebrates the beauty and the fragility of the natural world. Which one is your favourite?

Vast areas of my home region have burned to the ground. Fires continue to rage, some of which in the hearts and souls of those most affected: no political accountability and no reparative justice in sight, but equally, no lexicon for what we collectively feel.

Call for Papers! 🧵 The Public's Science–A New Social Contract for American Research Policy a Special Issue of The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Editors: Alondra Nelson (IAS) and Jenny Reardon (UC, Santa Cruz) Abstract Deadline: Sept 19 www.ias.edu/stsv-lab/pub...

Extraordinary dissonance between reports of record numbers of students going to university and the huge cutbacks going on across the sector. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cv...

3-year Postdoc RF in “liveable futures” project w/ our good colleague and friend @martinsavransky.bsky.social EoIs Deadline: 5th September 2025, 5pm CET. Further details here: forms.gle/ZU3VDt1UVKot... Informal inquiries to [email protected] #EnvHum

Job Advert to join my team at UCL 💭Lecturer in Humanities Data Science 💭£54,931 - £57,979 💭Open Ended Contract 💭Great interdisciplinary team Closes 15 September 2025 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Au revoir, Michel! One of the brightest, most humored, and suprisingly modest scholars that I’ve been lucky to learn and work with.

A looming global water crisis may be under appreciated as climate change takes hold. Today I report on a new study that finds the planet is quickly drying, with mega-regions of water loss now stretching across continents. www.propublica.org/article/wate...

CfP are invited for contributions to a new ‘toolkit’ (or textbook) for learning and practice in the field of *public health humanities* Deadline: September 30th, 2025. Further details and contacts: www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...

The ICJ Advisory Opinion on Obligations of States in respect of Climate Change livestream has begun. The Court begins by concluding that the questions put to it are legal in nature and that it has jurisdiction to provide an Advisory Opinion. (1/n)

Had interesting chats this week about potentials and limits of doing biosocial research while also researching the biosocial. Reminded that I forgot to share our BBCRN piece which overviews key issues in experience/exposure measurement, data harmonisation and interdisciplinary collaboration.

Steven Rose was a neuroscientist and critic of genetic determinist views of human behaviour; he was also a founder member of the now defunct British Society for Social Responsbility in Science (which perhaps needs to be resurrected…) www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

CIP’s 12 month Fellowship Program for emerging researchers with disabilities from LMICs to develop their own research projects based on their local contexts: inclusive-policy.org/fellowship/

To mark the Trust’s centenary this year, the Leverhulme Trust Board has announced a funding boost in the Early Career Fellowship scheme: an additional investment of £3.35 million. Read more here: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/news/leverhu...

Lots of evidence Sure Start had many lasting beneficial effects so this is an encouraging development

Have you completed a PhD in the #sociology of health or in a cognate interdisciplinary field #medhum? Interested in #ADHD and neurodiversity, wellbeing or #ecoanxiety? I'm a member of FSHI and open to mentoring applicants for this postdoc fellowship (deadline 31 Oct 2025): t.co/fAg5iXaPy9

Join us at the Human Ecology division in Lund! Position as senior lecturer out. Last application date August 31st . I am happy to answer if you have any questions. #envhum #envhist #envpol @cssn.org and more!

Tomorrow 👇🏼

Utterly heartbreaking! 💔

🚨Job Alert 🚨 🐕‍🦺 🐄🐎🐦‍⬛ Do you have project management skills & an interest in human-animal relations? We are recruiting a project manager role (5 years) for our new project (info in the 🧵) @sheffielduni.bsky.social 📆 deadline 30 June www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNO134/p...

This is a great job oppt: 3y RF working at Egenis, Exeter, with fab health/climate social science & humanities scholars like Becci Lynch

We started working on this in 2021 and there is *finally* a physical copy of the book in my hand. It feels great that other people can now read all the great work that's in this collection. It is available as a free e-book and in paperback: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/recalibratin...

📣CFPs - for a conference focused on ethical practices in medical research and treatment in the colonial and postcolonial context. Conference dates: 22 and 23 January 2026 Venue: Boerhaave Museum, Leiden Abstract submission deadline: 1 November 2025 #histmed

#CfP: Emotions & Society Special Issue Masculinities and Emotions: Changing Times and Contexts. Guest editors: @rpatulny.bsky.social and Fiona McQueen Abstracts (200-300 words) to the editors by *JULY 15th* Details below! @bupjournals.bsky.social #Emosoc #sociology

Just realized that this really cool workshop on Conrad H. Waddington is happening in Vienna next week www.kli.ac.at/en/events/kl...

Crowdsourcing: I'm looking for a reference to support the statement "RCTs are a cultural product". Any sociologists or philosophers of science know a good one? #philsci #healthpolicy THANKS!

Looking forward to the Zoonosis as a Historical and Anthropological Question conference @standrewsanthro.bsky.social next week! wwrat.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/zoonosis-as-...

📣 BA innovation fellowships www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/inno...

WIND AS MODEL, MEDIA, AND EXPERIENCE: June 11th, 4pm (London/Online). Eds: Ryan Bishop, JR Carpenter, Maximilian Hepach, Jussi Parikka, Birgit Schneider. This stream emerged out of the AHRC/German Research Foundation project Weather Reports (2022-24). Editorial: mediaenviron.org/article/1274...

Join Leverhulme Early Career Fellows @adambridgen.bsky.social ‬and Rebecca Macklin who will be speaking at an event next week on the multi-faceted dimensions of extraction through visual media, storytelling, creative and interpretive practices @durham-university.bsky.social. tinyurl.com/nkvsd9xp

On #WorldOceansDay I am reminded of this amazing underwater sonic incursion. I’m used to listening and parsing for bird song in forests, moors, marshes. Listening to the sea from a rockpool is quite distinct: the bubbling of inconspicuous life, often seized by acoustic pollution

#WorldEnvironmentDay #RHRNClimate amazing learning and discussions so far on links between climate justice, RRI and green ethics, health for all, education, and strategic litigation

Post-summer school, pre-eruption Sicily. Come to think of it, in Herzog voice-over, as a melting pot, dramatic landscape artist, offering Caponatas e Busiata alle sarde, train-ferries, Medusa heads and Santa Rosalia, patron saint of biodiversity. Volcano and Latin 🎥 geeks, come to Leith next week👇🏼

‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects: A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides Daniel Janzen only began watc...

🚨Calling all #police historians. Come in, police historians🚨 #CfP 'Policing and Public #Health' history workshop, London, 17/09/2025! Unsure if your work fits? Get in touch. We welcome all career stages, independent researchers, #GLAM and police sector folks. Hybrid is an option. #HistSTM

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📢 Job Alert: Associate Prof Digital Education @education.ox.ac.uk + @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social are hiring! Join a world-class research community, contribute to Digital & Social Change MSc 🗓️ Apply by 6 June 📍 Interviews 2 July 🔗 my.corehr.com/pls/. #DigitalEducation #EdTech #AcademicJobs

Late to the sad news: Merrill Singer inspired a whole generation and the wider community in medical social science and humanities. Trailblazing work on health disparities and syndemics that aptly illustrates how "critical" and "applied" #MedAnthro or #MedSoc are, by no means, mutually exclusive!

I'm happy to announce the first episode of Story Phi is live! Story Phi is a podcast developed by @kmdoublev.bsky.social and me. It's about storytellers, story lovers, and philosophy Intro music composed by @hane.bsky.social and our first episode features the wonderfully talented @helendecruz.net

Our department and my team welcome applications for the Mildred Blaxter postdoctoral fellowships @fshi.bsky.social - for those who have recently submitted or been awarded a PhD in the field (interdisciplinary degrees considered). Get in touch! www.shifoundation.org.uk/schemes/mildred-blaxter-award

looking fwd to joining this conversation on ambivalence from 2pm BST. I’ll give a short talk “Rethinking Eco-anxiety: Climate Feelings and Ambivalent Ethics in times of Planetary Crisis”. New project preview + revisit to my prior work on Psy-diagnosis and ethics in Beauvoir and Weil.