This just arrived. Very excited to tuck into this during Spring Break.

Eating at the Waffle House. Channeling my culinary idles.

I love my academic community on here - saw the Ring commercial and went to post about the centralized surveillance system capabilities and you all beat me to it. Keep being smart my fellow comrades!

This semester, I am teaching four classes (three preps). Two of the courses are brand new. So, lecture prep can be tedious, especially prepping slides. This said, I truly love it when I finish a deck and it turns out to be aesthetically beautiful !

No shortage of practical guide books in the 18th century... #history #food #medicine #disease #anatomy

Opening March 19 at the Ashmolean Museum - In Bloom How Plants Changed Our World 19 Mar – 16 Aug 2026 www.ashmolean.org/exhibition/i...

I wrote something for the British Academy blog and then completely forgot to post a link. This draws on a case study from my book Vanished about the foundation of national parks. If you want to know more, there’s a rather large discount on some sites. 🐯 www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/blog/what-ca...

We draw your attention to the Oceanic and Maritime History workshop co-convened by Aristide Chryssoulis and @joaomoreiradasilva.bsky.social (Centre Prize Student 2024-25 and Student Mentor 2025-26).

Feel free to take a peek at some of the Bulletin's open-access articles!

A wonderful tool for historians of science and technology!

100 followers in under 24 hours! Speaking of time… Society members can access the Bulletin archive, featuring gems like Lajos Bartha’s 1988 piece, “Old Time Measuring, Astronomical and Surveying Instruments in the Museums of Hungary.” scientificinstrumentsociety.org/SISTopicsInd...

Can you tell the difference between a hydrometer & a hygrometer? A Leyden jar & a Crookes tube? An armillary sphere & an equatorial ring? Then you should follow @sis-instrument-soc.bsky.social for updates concerning the history of scientific instruments! #histSTM #histsci #histtech #FollowFriday 🗃️

If you're new here; check out our wonderful blogs! We offer a wide variety of all things scientific instruments from volvelles used in alchemy, to instruments in Ottoman education! We also accept contributions! scientificinstrumentsociety.org/blog/

Hello Everyone! I am in the process of getting our social media up and running here on BlueSky for the Scientific Instrument Society. If you like instruments, then you'll love SIS! Please follow and stay updated!

View our recent Bulletin, no. 167! We’ve got a whole range of open-access articles available—including this gem by Anthony Turner: “On the Origin and Naming of the Planetary Machine Known as an ‘Orrery’.” Well worth a read. scientificinstrumentsociety.org/BulletinArti...

Week one of term is wrapping up here nicely on a Friday. It feels great to be back on campus - but I must say, I am a little tired! I flew in a week ago - so perhaps I am still feeling the jet lag.

Holy Roman Emperor Rudolph II lying in state. He died #otd 20 Jan 1612 in Prague #Praha (British Museum)

CFP: The Zoological Society of London (ZSL) at 200: Science, Society, and the Natural World, 1-3 July 2026 shnh.org.uk/all-events/c... #zoo #envhist #animalhistory

For any PhD students working in Medical Humanities, check out the Medical Humanities summer school from @durhamimh.bsky.social medhumsplatform.org/medical-huma...

Join us this Friday lunchtime for an online talk with @s-pooley.bsky.social exploring the remarkable history of the okapi: a rainforest giraffid that became a symbol of scientific discovery, colonial power, and modern conservation challenges. buff.ly/9Xr2iCf Fri 23 January | 12:30pm to 1:30pm

We are officially live for the Spring 2026 term at Tennessee! I am especially excited to teach UT's first ever ST(H)S course in the wonderful Cowan Cottage!

Unfolding the multiple lives of a shipbuilding manuscript: Our first Artefact of the Month in 2026 is known as 'Fragments of Ancient English Shipwrighty' and reveals the interactions between mathematics and practice in the Scientific Revolution: uhh.de/csmc-aom-35

here: www.youtube.com/live/u16QHaI...

The most exciting #BookHistory talk of the season is coming up next week! Join us @ransomcenter.bsky.social or online as Ann Blair delivers the 2026 Pforzheimer lecture. This talk has Erasmus, Gessner, and volumes both large &small! Learn more: www.eventbrite.com/e/pforzheime... #booksky 🗃️📜📚

Ok, I am done - off this rabbit trail. It was fun and I learned more about acoustic machines and their relationship to the practical aspects of shell collection in the 17th century.

A short to add to this, as I went down the rabbit hole: "Musaeum Kircherianum" on right. "Phonurgia Nova" on left.

I also love how this apparatus looks like it has been modeled after a giant conch shell!

happy first day of school to semester colleagues please enjoy this jameson syllabus from January 1996

The FT is not mucking about today www.ft.com/content/ad94...

📢 Call for Papers 📢 2026 Commodities of Empire workshop: “Locating Knowledge: Science and Technology in Commodity Frontiers.” 📍 Madrid, 2–3 September 2026 ⏳ Submission deadline: 14 February 2026 👉 CFP: commoditiesofempire.org.uk/events/ @davidedgerton.bsky.social @samuelcoghe.bsky.social

Interested in the history of cities and how people shape urban space? 🏙️ Join us at the Urban History Evening: Keynote + Social for an interdisciplinary roundtable, followed by drinks and a networking opportunity 20 January at 5pm Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP https://bit.ly/4j0zl3i

🎺 Are you interested in exploring Connections, Conversation, Contention: Encounters in the Medieval and Early Modern World? Then consider submitting a paper to the 20th annual conference, taking place 13 and 14 July 2026 at St John’s College, Durham University!

Really really really excited to announce that I have finalized my STS (STHS) syllabus for this Spring semester at Tennessee as part of our new interdisciplinary program, artsci.utk.edu/academics/pr... This will be the first year at UTK that an STS course has been taught!

New semester, new books! Check out this wonderful, ever changing, list of books available to review for H-Environment! #envhist #envhum #aghist #energy #climate #animalstudies #ecocrit #plantstudies #waterhist #envphil #envtech #histsci #conservation #sustainability docs.google.com/document/d/1...

This 2022 monograph by Jane Hwang Degenhardt combines perspectives from #EconomicHistory & #LiteraryStudies of #EnglishRenaissance drama, asking how #Shakespeare, #Marlowe, Heywood, Dekker etc. put ideas of #globalisation on the #EarlyModernStage 🌍 opac.sub.uni-goettin...

Now use it in a sentence: She deploys zeugma, linking clauses and concepts.

My online course 'Welsh #History Early Modern #Wales (c.1485-1815) will be starting soon with Lifelong Learning at Aberystwyth University. Explore the history of Wales, including your own local and family history, throughout the Early Modern. Visit aber.ac.uk/en/lifelong-... for more information.

In "Biologists Unite," Daniel Chiu Suarez provides an inside account of the rise and fall of ecosystem services, a burgeoning field of science dedicated to analyzing the many valuable “services” nature provides to humanity. Available #OpenAccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255338...

Great job in a great department

On of the coolest things I have seen all year - literally!

I'm hiring 2 postdocs on my Wellcome project "How Did Infectious Diseases Become Wild?: Plague, Yellow Fever, and Disease Ecology in the Brazilian Hinterland (1920-1975)" Department of Global Health and Social Medicine King's College 3 years 01/10/26- 30/09/29 Deadline: 01/02/26 shorturl.at/KZ6Vh

Apply to be the 2026-7 Munby Fellow in bibliography and history of the book @theul.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPZ688/m...

It is John Aubrey’s 400th anniversary this year! My next book publishes his Natural History in full for the 1st time. It is not the quaint collection of random anecdotes suggested by the heavily edited 1847 version, but cutting edge c17 science all penned with Aubrey’s characteristic brilliance.

Needs more attention perhaps. www.france24.com/en/asia-paci...

A nice dusting left in the garden.

Impromptu incredi-bab night!

Dutch world traveler Carel Quina, holding compass over Asia Minor in atlas & w/ Saint Peter's behind him. Painted 1669 by Jacob Toorenvliet.

#MedievalSky #histSTM #histmed CFP: “The Science of Natural Properties: Knowledge, Transmission, and Practice (6th – 15th century)” (Bologna, June 17-19, 2026). Transportation to Bologna is covered for speakers of accepted papers. Deadline: 15 Jan 2026. www.academia.edu/145294551/Ca...

Ghosts Behind Glass has been officially published by @uchicagopress.bsky.social! If you are looking for an absolutely gorgeous book that tackles a deeply serious topic, this is a perfect choice. Would make a really thoughtful Christmas gift. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...