🌞 Art inspired and commissioned by UoL Humanities scholars from the @meltingmetropolis.bsky.social project will be on display at Saatchi Gallery this summer, as part of the major exhibition ‘The Sun and The Moon: Art Inspired by the Celestial’. 🌙

In six months, it’ll be July—and we’re already dreaming of Rockaway Beach! ⛱️Take a break from the cold with this vintage postcard of the crowds at Jacob Riis Park, circa 1940. Who else is ready for summer? #QPLarchives #RockawayBeachQueens #VintagePostcards

It's winter 🥶and there is a LOT going on right now...🫣 but still happy to announce a new MM publication on using water to keep cool in late 19C/early 20C London, New York and Paris 💦🥵

Join us and our NYC community partners for Heat Stories: Memory, Place and a Changing Climate, in conjunction with the Oral History MA Program at Columbia University. Where: 56-27 2nd St Queens, NY When: Thursday, Feb 26 from 6 pm to 8 pm EST Free tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/heat-stori...

📣 Applications are open for our 2026-27 Medical Humanities in Practice Research Fellowship scheme! The scheme supports professionals and researchers from health or voluntary and community sectors to develop research within the medical humanities. Apply by 30 Jan:

that is so many people, already

This Climate Week NYC, read about the work of our NYC team Kara Schlichting and Daniel Cumming on the Gotham Centre blog: www.gothamcenter.org/blog/melting... [with brilliant photos from our Urban Archive collaboration]

NYers! Join Melting Metropolis team members Kara Schlichting and Danny Cumming at Second Sundays at Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, this Sunday, 2-4pm Full info here: pioneerworks.org/programs/sec...

Who is in charge of tackling extreme heat in New York City? Read about @queenscollegecuny.bsky.social intern Selassie Mawuko's reseach on our blog: www.meltingmetropolis.com/teamblog/nyc... #nyc #climatechange #heatwave

ENRGHI 2025 is open for registration, and last chance to submit an abstract is 1 September. www.rgs.org/events/upcom... 7-8 October, University of Bristol: join a 30 year tradition of connecting PGR and ECR research across geographies of health and wellbeing. @healthgeographyrgs.bsky.social

A 2 year postdoc research assistant job to work on the early institutional history of Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, leading to the writing of a report to contribute to broader decolonising and reparative efforts. Around 40k, deadline 5 Sept 25. app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...

🗃️✨ Community Archiving Happy Hour returns on Thursday, Aug. 14, at 4pm ET ✨🗃️

5 September deadlines for 3 Royal Historical Society programmes: Martin Lynn Scholarship (PhD research) in African History (£1,500); Early Career Fellowships (up to £2,000) and Open Research Support (£500-1,000). #Skystorians

ECR 'Blue bodies' conference in Bristol, 7-8th October, @uobrisceh.bsky.social @dudleymarianna.bsky.social would love to see your students there! 🌊💦https://www.rgs.org/events/upcoming-events/embodiment-and-water

Climate change is creating more frequent & intense heatwaves. 🌡️ Poorly designed, insulated & ventilated properties trap heat, making them dangerous during the summer months. 🌡️ More than half of UK homes fail to meet the bedroom overheating criteria. www.tcpa.org.uk/thermal-comf...

New Yorkers! Please share your photos and memories of summer with us via our Urban Archive digital map: mm.urbanarchive.org/pr/mm More info here: www.brownstoner.com/brooklyn-lif... #nyc #summer #history

Op-ed piece from team members Kara Schlichting and Selassie Mawuko: Does NYC need a heat czar? citylimits.org/opinion-its-... TLDR: yes! Essential reading in @citylimitsnews.bsky.social given the high the temperatures #NYC has experienced this summer #heatwave 📷 LoC

Yesterday I used this "AI -Free Statement" in a conference talk for the first time. Still trying to figure out the exact language. Feel free to borrow, modify, etc.

JOB: Lecturer in the Politics of Climate Change This is a permanent post, based here in the School of Politics and International Studies at Leeds. Application deadline 30 June, so please spread the word! jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... @polisatleeds.bsky.social

We have a ☀️NEW ☀️date for Stand of the Sun - Thursday 19 June 2025. Still FREE, still at Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham, TW1 3BL Reserve tickets here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/richmond-art...

Lots of Modern #UrbanHistory books available to review on everything from post-war architecture to atomic bombs. Get in touch with Sam if you're interested 👇

FREE tickets are still available for Stand of the Sun: A solstice ritual for the melting metropolis, directed by Bryony Ella, with music from Bumi Thomas and choreography from Antoine Marc 8-9.45pm, 21 June 2025 Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham, TW1 3BL www.ticketsource.co.uk/richmond-art...

🎥 Open call: Films of Return by A La Luz invites film/video art on the climate crisis including ecological memory, justice & collective futures. Jurors include Climate Museum director Miranda Massie. Submit by June 15! To learn more, visit: www.pointsofreturn.org/film

Increasing temperatures can seriously affect our health, wellbeing and work. The good news? There are things we can do about it. Tune in to our livestream at the World Health Assembly on 21 May to learn how we can prepare and protect against extreme heat: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/4ff5ec...

A reminder of an upcoming webinar organised by ESEH UK & Ireland region on 'New Directions in Urban Climates of the Atlantic Archipelago' May 20, 2025: 13:00 – 15:00 (GMT +1) Presenters: @erikahanna.bsky.social @rebwright.bsky.social @chrisjpearson.bsky.social Zoom link eseh.org/envhistoday-...

☀️Come to a FREE Melting Metropolis event at Orleans House Gallery on #Summer #Solstice 21 June 2025: Stand of the Sun ☀️ Art, music and dance, with Bryony Ella, Bumi Thomas and Antoine Marc Booking essential: www.ticketsource.co.uk/richmond-art... #climatecrisis #londonart

Historians, please sign!

We’re seeking a documentary filmmaker to join our Community Storytelling Partnership. Co-create with six community partner organisations and four storytellers across London and New York. Deadline: 25/04/25 drive.google.com/file/d/1Ava6... #FilmmakerCall #ClimateJustice #DocumentaryFilmmaker

eseh.org/call-for-sub... reminder to send your submissions for the @eseh.bsky.social Bristol-Bern Prize in Public History by 1 May!

A new Melting Metropolis opportunity! Work with @chloeduteil.bsky.social on a graphic novel/BD on summer heat in Paris 👇

This was a brilliant conference (no idea what I'm doing in the photo tho!). @meltingmetropolis.bsky.social