It is out and OPEN ACCESS: "The Senses: Perception and Experience" (Cambridge University Press, Elements: Philosophy of Mind, ed. by @keithfrankish.com) #PhilSky #booksky #HPBio #philosophy #cogsci www.cambridge.org/core/element...

We’ve nominated our fabulous assistant archivist, @islauter.bsky.social for ARA New Professional of the Year! She very much deserves this, so please do vote for her. Below are some pics from the wonderful Persia Reimagined workshops she ran: www.archives.org.uk/new-professi...

Congratulations to Emily and all the contributors! If anyone wants to review the entire volume for sonancejournal.com please let me know! #earlymodern 🗃️

Everytime I open my book draft, copil*t offers to summarize it, but like, good luck with that buddy, you can't even summarize a houmous recipe

We're starting a journal! We're looking for ideas for pieces that we can fold into the proposal that will go to an interested press, with the hope that if the press take the journal on we'll starting publishing in 2028. #smellstudies #sensorystudies #smellhistory #smells

Super happy to embark on this new editorial project: the Smell Studies Journal! Currently examining abstracts for our first two issues :) #smellstudies #envhum #sensoryhistory #sensorystudies #chstm

J'ai eu le plaisir de recenser les trois volumes sur l'histoire environnementale de la France publiés par les @edladecouverte.bsky.social, pour la revue Histoire et Sociétés Rurales. @crh.ehess.fr @leruche.bsky.social #EnvHist #HumanitésEnvironnementales #Société #Environnement Vol.1 :

We're down to the last handful of tickets for my workshop on 'Medicine and the Senses' in Leeds on 10 July. Please share! www.eventbrite.com/e/medicine-a...

A fabulous piece about the upcoming Using Smells in Museums event! 👇 www.perfumerflavorist.com/events/event...

Starting to get book 'tour' dates for the release of Sniff on the 8th of September. A few already online - David's Letchworth (my 'home' bookshop) on the 16th September (www.davids-bookshops.co.uk/products/eve...) and Blackwells Oxford on the 16th of October (www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/william-tu...).

My first book, "Inspecting the home: Urban poverty and public health in nineteenth-century France", will be published by @manchesterup.bsky.social in February 2027 To find out more (or to add it to your wish lists...) see the link below: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526183149/

Come spar w/ us in French in Strasbourg, 28-29th May JOURNÉES D’ÉTUDE : CE QUE LE RACISME FAIT AUX SAVOIRS La 3e édition des rencontres "Racisme dans l’Enseignement Supérieur et la Recherche" sont accueillis à Strasbourg les 28 et 29 mai, à l’université au Patio et à la Bnu. bnu.fr/fr/nos-actua...

On Françoise Waquet's new book @lemonde.fr : "Le genre, l’apparence, l’attitude, les gestes, la parole, l’effort : autant d’aspects de la corporéité du scientifique, qui influent sur le travail de recherche, montre l’historienne" www.lemonde.fr/livres/artic...

I’m delighted to finally share details of my upcoming workshop, ‘Medicine and the Senses: Past, Present, Future’, an in-person, interactive event exploring the complex and fascinating relationship between bodies, health, medicine, and the senses. www.eventbrite.com/e/medicine-a...

My piece on the cult history of coumarin was shortlisted for the M. Bowie Prize 2026 by @frenchstudies.bsky.social 1st time ever coming close to winning any prize: ecstatic & grateful 🥰 Happy to share by email to whomever may be interested! #frenchstudies #francofil #smellstudies #culturalhistory

Le mardi 26 mai prochain, on pourra discuter olfaction et pollution de l'air (en ligne & en français) grâce à une invitation de l'association Olf'active! Au menu: tanneries, rivières, usines, carburants et autres joyeusetés 🙊 Info: www.helloasso.com/associations... #envhist #envhum #airpollution

SOLD OUT GUYYYS 😱

CFP: Symposium on Labour and the Environment 4th Annual Voices in Labour Studies Speaker Series Symposium on Labour and the Environment Feb. 11-13, 2027 Simon Fraser University Centre Downtown Vancouver, British Columbia niche-canada.org/2026/04/23/c... #envhist #labour #labourhistory #cdnhist

A reminder about this! Please do share with any students and ECRs working on Christian Missions, 1500-2000 with your networks.

Hard to believe it but #HSTM Annual Meetup is in just 2 days time! 24 April - if you are in #Limerick do come along and hear what is happening in #HistMed #HistSci #HistTech #MedHums in #Ireland #Speigorm #Skystorians

Fyi, there will be drinks and smells, which often prove a devastating combo

As part of the upcoming Pint of Science festival, I'll be talking smells and cities on 18 May, yeah! We'll explore factory air and labour, political history and smoke, and smelly waterways at the Taproom, near Piccadilly station in Manchester. Info: pintofscience.co.uk/event/smart-...

📣 Call for papers: Caring Communities: Rethinking Histories of Care, Class, and Kinship, 1800-present Newcastle University, Thursday 3 - Friday 4 September 2026. Deadine for submissions: Friday 24 April 2026. caringcommunities.co.uk/conference/

Sharing for all our members who are interested in Zola: On 23 and 24 October, the Emile Zola Society will host the ‘Sensation !’ Symposium in London. If interested, please send your abstracts to Susan Harrow and Ye Xu by 27 April.

By communicating less effectively with poorer patients, doctors might be indirectly contributing to health inequalities. Our latest blog post by Rym Ghouma, Mylene Lagarde and Timothy Powell-Jackson discusses new research on hidden inequalities in Tunisia. #LSEInequalitiesBlog buff.ly/yvPm9UM

Rehabilitation of the Dandelion! No other plant in the Netherlands attracts as many bee species: 107. In early spring, when nothing else is blooming, it is simply there. Meadow bird chicks that have just hatched depend on the insects that are drawn to dandelions. No dandelion, no insect, no chick.

Here's one from the archives: Labor organizers can take steps to preserve their documents and strategies, so future workers will have a practical guide. Read my reporting on how museum workers at the Philadelphia Museum of Art did just that. ✊

Will be presenting tmr (panel 2) on olfactory-microbial revenge in Mirabeau's depiction of the Amsterdam canal! Ecohorror with extra putrefaction if you will

Debates about the importance of the humanities versus the natural sciences in education are nothing new, writes @isakhammar.bsky.social — though the dominant view in early 19th-century Europe might come as a surprise to us today. ✍️ One from the JHoK Blog archive (2021)

We're delighted to be collaborating w/ @ukiedh.bsky.social's CIG PeTRA for our next big event: if you're an #ECR #skystorian handling #difficultdata as part of your research or practice, consider joining PeTRA today to advocate for greater safeguards! 👇 @ihr.bsky.social @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social

Yes, I did bring my bone folder to prep my handout that's a mini zine for my #asecs26 talk tomorrow late morning about #sexhist in #18thc London, come join the fun if you can.

This is our field right there people!

Post-doc: History of Conservation and Animal Health to work on the project ‘Conserving Global Health: Biodiversity Protection and the Prehistory of Planetary Health’ Postdoctoral Research Associate- Grade 7 University of Liverpool - Department of History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRD410/p...

Teaching Fellow in Philosophy (x2) Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRD456/t...

Today marks exactly 2 years since I submitted my PhD dissertation. Since it passed, it is now open access as required for public-funded research in France. Feel free to DL, send, cite, enjoy bits and pieces of almost 10 years of thinking about smell! Link: research.manchester.ac.uk/en/publicati...

New report of experimental evidence from Grace Liu & collaborators showing that AI assistance improves immediate performance - but after just ∼10 minutes of AI-assisted problem-solving people who lose access to the AI perform worse and give up more frequently than those who never used it.

New open-access book: Olfactory Worldmaking by Hsuan L. Hsu. Read the whole book for free on our Environment & Society Portal! #envhum

A very interesting essay on "how measuring lived experiences of breathing through creative methods can resituate disabled people within their own medical narratives and provide vital information guiding treatment decisions" link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...

Please share with any of your students and post-docs folks!

Re-upping this for International Beaver Day, as whilst the paper is mostly about hyraxes it does also concern beavers (well, their castor sacs at least) #histmed

Working on the history of hair? Or just found a hairy case study you would like to explore? We are looking forward to it! Please answer our CfP on „Global Histories of Hair, c. 1500-2026“ and join us in Lucerne this October! #skystorians #earlymodern

To be frank, History & Policy is struggling to find a precedent for this. But we’re waiting to hear back from Suetonius who’s promised us a policy paper.

“I will NOT sacrifice the Oxford comma. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They assimilate the em dash and we fall back. They capture ‘not just X but y’ and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!”

French traditional country dishes are just like British Sunday roasts with extra wine added if you think about it

This is OA as well!!

academic friends with books out, could you do me a huge favor and DM or email if you'd be willing to jump on the phone/videoconference and chat revision and publishing sometime this month or next? I'd be forever grateful!

Un bien bel AAA

"It's your job to look for things", say Mum as I attempt an early pillaging of the Easter chocolates' cabinet

#OtD 1 Apr 1982 oil company Exxon made a private report on CO2. It showed burning fossil fuels would cause global warming which may be irreversible and could be detectable by 1995. They then spent $31m to spread false propaganda claiming the opposite stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8039...