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New on H-Sci-Med-Tech: Check out @xinyueli.bsky.social (@manchester.ac.uk)’s review of @simonnaylor.bsky.social (@glasgow.ac.uk)’s book _The Observatory Experiment: Meteorology in Britain and Its Empire _, pub 2024 @universitypress.cambridge.org #hstm Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social

I did an op-ed for The Engineer on how and why energy history can help power cleaner energy futures www.theengineer.co.uk/content/opin...

Delighted to see that my friend and colleague's book is out. Well done Cheryl! Well done also to Paul. Order a copy for your library!

slow day in the office so figured we'd start some beef with museums

In "Occupied Refuge," @hannobrankamp.bsky.social challenges the view of refugee camps as indispensable safe havens, showing that humanitarian missions often function as militarized occupations that treat camp inhabitants as colonized subjects. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/IwyWW8p

Call for papers! We invite proposals for a special issue addressing historical animal geographies, co-edited by Karen M. Morin & Alice J. Hovorka. Abstract deadline 15 Jan Accepted submission deadline 15 Jun Details here: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/327592/historical-animal-geographies

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I know Glaswegians keep some unusual pets, but I've never come across an aerial quadropus before! If you see Nipsy on your travels around the city, please let their owners know. 😀 #glasgow #glasgowhumour #streetart #scottishhumour #keepglasgowweird #findnipsy

Excited for our oral history event on ‘Living and Working Along the Leen’ on Thursday 13 November at UoN Lakeside Arts. Made possible by @royalhistsoc.org Scouloudi Public History funding. Come along to share your memories of Nottingham’s River! www.lakesidearts.org.uk/event/living...

Another great geography-themed gaming session in our Creative Impact Lab. This time we played Pandemic: Rising Tide. Apologies Dutch friends, we failed to stop the sea!

In the past week I've taught 200+ first-year students in the "forgotten", "lost" map library at @uclgeography.bsky.social with the help of some great PGTAs. Imagine what we could do with this collection if we could only find it! 🤔

Exciting list of speakers presenting in our Environmental History Research Seminar this term. If you happen to be in Dublin, come along. We'll meet on Mondays at 1 PM in the Trinity Long Room Hub #envhist Thanks to @tlrhub.bsky.social for hosting us! @historytcd.bsky.social 👇

This is a great little collection in Transactions on 'worlding geography' and area studies... rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1... @rgs-ibghe.bsky.social

Following @greenhouseuis.net @finnarne.me excellent example and played Finspan board game in our new Creative Impact Lab today @uofglasgow.bsky.social @stonemaiergames.com

On strike again. We’ve had to do this for so long that our primary school kids who joined us on snow day picket lines are now students themselves. Utterly ridiculous way to run a university.

Super proud of this research group! HGRG at the International Conference of Historical Geographers in China! Next stop of the ICHG will be Rio de Janeiro in 2028, save the date 🗓️🌎

On the archaeology of Scottish skateboarding.

Here we go: the first session of our „energy transition & energyscapes” organised by @melinabuns.bsky.social & @dudleymarianna.bsky.social . #ESEH2025 #EnergyHistory #EnvHist Really excited about this.

I just noticed that Metropolitan Science will be out in paperback - exciting news! Not available until next year, but can be pre-ordered for a relatively affordable £26.09 @jasminekt.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/uk/metropoli... #earlymodern #histSTM 🗃️

Beautiful plan of the proposed Forth & Clyde Canal in John Smeaton's 1767 Report to the Trustees for Fisheries, Manufactures and Improvements in Scotland.

Vol. 88 is out! It is our 50th anniversary issue, and includes a special issue on ‘Archives as Worldmaking’ edited by @jakehodder.bsky.social and @snehakrishnan.bsky.social sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-historical-geography/vol/88/suppl/C Take a look at the contents below 🧵 1/31

PhD Studentship at Legacies of British Slavery Centre: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Crofters and cottars and lairds, oh my! Co-organising this conference in July. Sign up to the mailing list for updates here ➡️ eepurl.com/i-Zqf2

Lovely map of canals and their catchment basins from the 1907 Royal Commission on canals and navigable rivers

We are running a 1-day workshop on historical geographies / environmental histories of water knowledge on Thursday 15 May. If you would like to attend online and haven't already signed up please contact me using the Contact link on the webpage: www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...

If you're in or around London on Thursday 29 May, join @jasminekt.bsky.social and me to celebrate the publication of Metropolitan Science. Big thanks to the Institute of Advanced Studies & @stsucl.bsky.social for supporting the event. Book a free ticket here: www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of... #histsci 🗃️

today’s Guardian www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

‘I sometimes wonder whether my love of compost is a response to the dispiriting cleanness of modern life – the spray’n’wipe, the no-touch flush, the sanitisers and disinfectants.’ @frasermacdonald.bsky.social makes compost: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

interested in weather, seasons, or climate mobilities? in this paper I unpack assumptions about Western, colonialist weather ideals that underpin seasonal employment and migration

Workshop at University of Glasgow on 15th May 2025, titled Mapping the Histories and Geographies of Water Knowledge. Info here: www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/... To register to attend please complete one of these forms: forms.office.com/e/ZDzNVeedvb (in person) Or forms.office.com/e/vmJrvmgGSR (online)

My recollection of Nan Shepherd is rather faint but I wrote about the quiet late life (and literary afterlife) of my mother’s friend and teacher, prompted by the new correspondence edited by @kerriandrewsuk.bsky.social

The Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society will take place in Birmingham, 26-29th August 2025. If you’re interested in ‘Library Encounters’, whether it be campaigning, collaborating or creating, then do take a look at our session Call for Papers. @hesterparr.bsky.social

Great to see the full "History of Science and the 'Big Picture'" issue of BJHS Themes out. What a cover, too! Had fun working with @feyerabender.bsky.social on our piece on crises and sciences (doi.org/10.1017/bjt....) Read the full issue here: cambridge.org/core/journal... @bshsnews.bsky.social

For the opportunity to present at this celebration and have Professors Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer respond to their work in conversation with Professor John Tresch, early career scholars are invited to send abstracts of max. 200 words. For more details go to: www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/news/202...

My article on urban medieval pigs that appeared in BBC History magazine is available to hear as a podcast online! 🏰 + 🐷 open.spotify.com/episode/7vIq...

Two wonderful days of discussing weather(ing), affect and material cultures. Lots to think and do in the coming days. #weatheringworkshop @greenhouseuis.net @finnarne.me @rhiggitt.bsky.social @melinabuns.bsky.social #envhum #envhist

Two permanent human geography posts at Durham University ( a focus on nature, climate change and just futures) durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

Remember to register for next week's hybrid seminar: Maïa Pal (Oxford Brookes University) on "The law of infrastructure: jurisdictional accumulation and neo-imperialism at British and French undersea cable landing sites". Details here: www.history.ac.uk/events/law-i... 🗃️

Thank you to @bshsnews.bsky.social for featuring an extract from my new book, The Observatory Experiment: Meteorology in Britain and its Empire, in their Viewpoint magazine.

oooooooo! Nick Popper's book on #earlymodern archives coming up! 🗃️ press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

My new book—Contesting Earth's History in Transatlantic Literary Culture, 1860–1935: Believers and Visionaries on the Borderlines of Geology and Palaeontology—will be out in March 2025 with Oxford UP. Pithy title, I know. Might as well announce it, as you can already preorder the book on Blackwell's

Looking for a geospatial archaeologist or geographer technical specialist - deadline 25 Nov!

My monograph was published a few weeks ago! Still can’t believe it’s actually finished and out in the world. #academicsky I would be very grateful if you could ask your university libraries to stock it. www.exeterpress.co.uk/products/alt....

My brief review of @wilkohardenberg.bsky.social’s Sea Level in the TLS. Well most of it anyway! www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-feat...

We’re honored to announce the forthcoming publication of A TERRITORY IN CONFLICT: ERAS OF DEVELOPMENT AND URBAN ARCHITECTURE IN GAZA by Fatina Abreek-Zubiedat, a ground-breaking study of urban and architectural history in Gaza. On sale 3/18/25

We’re thrilled to announce the forthcoming publication of Reading the World: British Practices of Natural History, 1760-1820 by @edwinrose.bsky.social • Reading the World joins our Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century series on 3/18/25.

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Very happy to share a report of the conference on 1970s climate discourse I recently put together in Manchester with Elliot Honeybun-Arnolda and @ruthamorgan.bsky.social. Thanks to ICHM, @bshsnews.bsky.social and Manchester's CHSTM for the support. Follow-up event at ANU Nov 6–7 🗃️