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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...

Il vient de se passer quelque chose d' incroyable : Les inspecteurs du 93 ont écrit au recteur pour expliquer la dégradation des conditions de travail. "nous ne trouvons pas d’autre explication majeure aux absences d’enseignants que la dégradation des conditions d’exercice."

Climate action is a public‑health win. A 2°C world could prevent over 13 million early deaths from air-pollution. Pairing equity with strong air‑quality policies delivers both fairness and lives saved. Dr Mark Budolfson et al., Paper source: @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Demain on va encore causer #ESR, mais de quoi on va causer mais de THÈSES évidemment

Will be presenting some of my work on phenol disinfection, cholera policy and socio-environmental violence this Thursday at 7pm BST! Info: www.chstm.org/group/health... #frenchstudies #histmed #histsci #medhum #envhum #envhist #hstm

The Other Bennett Sister should really be titled 'Autistic Woman Finally Has a Good Time'

Yessss justice for Mr Collins!!

We are thrilled to announce that INCSA's peer-reviewed journal, Advances in 19th-Century Research, just published its first articles. Take a look!

Registration has opened for our conference - "Health and the Environment in the Preindustrial World: Multidisciplinary Approaches"! Attendance is both virtual and in-person in Melbourne, Australia. See the program here: drive.google.com/file/d/1mZ4F... Registration: forms.gle/TqQ6GmN9c6pK...

🛎️ Postdoc opportunity 🛎️ 2-year Postdoctoral Fellowship in history of medicine and medical humanities at Johns Hopkins University. Deadline April 5th. #histmed #histstm hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/2026/03/06/j...

I've been informed by Claire that it's not the workshop I'll be presenting at, but it doesn't matter, because it'll still be wonderful anyway; please apply and thank youuu

📢 Join us for the CHSTM PG Seminar Series! 🗓️ Swapnil Chaudhary (IISER Mohali) — “Hindu Ayurveda, Medical Communalism and Body: Ayurvedic Revival Movement in United Provinces (1900-1925)” 🕐Tue 24 Mar, 1–2 pm (UK) · Zoom Email [email protected] for the link #HistMed

I'll be in Leeds in July to talk about a military physician's olfactory experiences during the Prussian war. It'll be gruesome, but good vibes overall

Manchester on Tuesday: please sign up if you can come events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:...

This is such an exciting project! Do pass on to anyone you think might be interested.

We are advertising a fully-funded PhD studentship for the computational study of vernacular cultures of weather and climate modification at the University of Manchester. More details here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #DH

Really pleased to share that my review of 'Exploring Environmental Violence: Perspectives, Experience, Expression, and Engagement' by Marcantonio, Lederach & Fuentes is out in Ecokritike!! OA access: journals.h-net.org/ecokritike/a... #envhum #envhist #environment #h-net