Century-old mushrooms for the week end #fungifriends #earlymodern #histsci

The American Historical Association urges historians, researchers, educators, and advocates for preservation of and access to historical records to speak out in support of the National Library of Medicine (NLM). #histmed #skystorians www.historians.org/news/action-...

super super happy to share my latest article on the World Wide Silk Web! It was a great experience to write on the 19th century (open access) #histsci #histstm #history www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

5 days left to apply for PhD and Postdoc positions in a cool project about herbaria, plants and digitization!🌿😎 Postdoc: jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/9... PhD: jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/c... More info: cordis.europa.eu/project/id/1... #Jobs #HPBio #HistSci #DigitalHumanities #PhilSci

🚨Job! 🚨 Lecturer in Global History of Science at UCL! In London! Permanent, full-time! #histstm #histsci www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

This is so, so well-articulated.

As a historian of early modern knowledge of mushrooms, I spent a month in the microbiological department of the University of Turin, specialized in fungi. This was a fantastic experience for us all, we learned loads, I wish all #histscie could enjoy such opportunity! #histscietech #fungifriends

I started looking at this reversal between Venice and the Ottoman Empire in The State Drug but more research is needed on the global commerce of theriac!

19th century print on Linnaeus (!)

#MedMed event TODAY 12pm Central / 18:00 BST. Join Medica President Nichola Harris for her lecture "Stones in the 'Garden of Health': Lapidary Medicine and the Development of Premodern Pharmacology." Register on Zoom: uab.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #MedievalSky #HistMed

In early modern Italy many medicines, especially patent ones, came with a little sheet informing patients of how to use them, when, and for what. Medical regulation came out of state offices and guild government #earlymodern #histmed

More mushrooms circa 1715 #musjrooms #histscie #fungifriends #earlymodern

Mushroom growing on a maple, circa 1715 #mushroom #fungifriends #histscie #earlymodern (but could an Agrobacterion tumefscensis maybe?)

Saprophytes growing on an old door, circa 1710 #histscie #fungifriends #earlymodern

🛎️ 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...

(Call for applications) Research Travel Grant at Yale's Medical Historical Library histoiresante.blogspot.com/2026/03/bour... #histmed

If you're interested in Dioscorides, this paper by Marie Cronier is a fascinating read. "Identifying the Plant Illustrated on Yerevan Dioscorides Greek Fragment. Some Remarks on the Illustrative Tradition of De materia medica." aldrovandiana.it/article/view... #histmed #medievalsky #bookhistory

McMaster university is hiring an Associate Professor or Professor with Tenur of History and Medicine. They are looking for someone whose work bridges humanities-based historical inquiry and contemporary infectious diseases scholarship. #histmed #histstm

JOB: The Osler Library of the History of Medicine has an opening for a librarian. #histmed #histstm

NEXT MONDAY! Excited we get to welcome @sheilaghogilvie.bsky.social to the @ihr.bsky.social to talk about Epidemics and Institutions from the Black Death to Covid. 9 March, 17:30 (UK), in person & online -- sign up for the zoom link. #EarlyModern #SkyStorians #HistSTM #HistMed

#HistSci #HistSTM #job

I just fell in with this Natural History of Gems and Stones, including mushrooms, vulcanoes and many many fantastic things❤️ #histscie #fungifriends #earlymodern

Apply for this! #EarlyModern 🗃️

Full house in Cully, Switzerland, for a 1-hour conference on the witches who created tempests! Really impressive participation of locals! #earlymodern

In the 19th century, cash crops and food staples increasingly fell victim to fungal pathogens. Watch #NotesandRecords author Sophia Jochem explore the Rev. Miles Joseph Berkeley’s (1803–1889) researches into such plant-pathogenic fungi: cassyni.com/events/42qgG... #HistSci

Our panel "Reconsidering Spontaneous Generation,” has been accepted for the July 2026 ESHS/HSS joint meeting in Edinburgh. I am looking forward to seeing many friends and colleagues there!

Work with me! 2-year postdoc (1+1) within COLUMN: Colonial Legacies of Universities: Materialities and New Collaborations (HORIZON_HORIZON-CL2-2024-HERITAGE-01-04). Topic: “Research of university botanical collections in relation to Italian and European colonialism”. Call at: shorturl.at/aurdS

📚 What made plants undesirable according to #earlymodern how-to books? In our latest #blog Stefan Laube explores household books on the practice of weeding 🌿 howtobook.hypotheses.org/5594

If you happen to be in Paris in the next 2 weeks, here is a fun exhibit! #histmed #histpharma

#MedievalSky #histmed #histSTM #smallpox #measles #EpiSky Two PhD positions at @exeter.ac.uk.

Job at my beloved undergrad alma mater: VAP in #histsci #histmed at UW-Madison, due Jan 28. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/visitin...

Je cherche de la biblio sur l'utilisation intensive des sangsues au XIXe siècle, puis l'abandon de la pratique, et les justifications données. Lien avec les réformes des institutions médicales ? Si qqn a ça sous le coude... #histmed #histsci #19thC

Post-doc position at the University of Warsaw in a project on #earlymodern protestant printing centres operating in Poland-Lithuania and Prussia konkursydlanauczycieli.uw.edu.pl/api/document... (English version starts at page 7). Applications are accepted until 9 March 2026. #history

33 month postdoc (0.8 FTE) on a really interesting project at Essex on #EarlyModern German and English witchcraft... www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQC497/s...

My edition of portraits of physicist Laura Bassi (1711-1778) surrounded by devices used to study electricity, laid out to dry #linocut #printmaking #womenInSTEM #histsci #physics #electricity 🧪🐡

Review: The World as We Know It: Peter Dear *** - Dry but interesting exploration of the move from natural philosophy to science. Not an enjoyable read but worth it to discover more about the process rather than the science itself. popsciencebooks.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-... #bookreview #histsci

Thread 2 of a series on setting up an interesting feed and getting started with posting on a site without a central algorithm. Today’s post is about finding accounts using Bluesky’s starter packs, and creating lists to organize accounts thematically. #BlueskyHacks 1/

Parasol mushrooms from one of several albums of collectible cards written by Dr Jac P Thijsse for the Verkande company in the Netherlands in the 1920s-30s #FungiFriends #MycoBookClub

Coming soon! Mycology for Architecture: Methods and Applications of Mycelium Materials in the Built Environment edited by Dilan Ozkan 📖 Learn more ➡️ https://tinyurl.com/2wfkch7f #myceliumbasedmaterials #biodesign #biofabrication #circulardesign #regenerativematerialsystems

If this is already the normal procedure everywhere, i.e. a google scholar import, universities’ library catalogues will be useless tomorrow.

AI-assisted writing in 1716. #skystorians

I use a few games in many of my courses and the learning results are so astounding I would literally gamify the entire class if I could.

Well done @superoldgranny.bsky.social !

Congratulations to @superoldgranny.bsky.social's whose book The Sublime Post: How the Ottoman Imperial Post Became a Public Service just won the @mesa1966.bsky.social's Albert Hourani Book Award #Mesa2025

... a little excerpt from the global theriac recipes.hypotheses.org/27002

A global issue of the recipe project! recipes.hypotheses.org

At the University of Milan, lecture series on the “Annales school”, from November 2025 to March 2026, with great speakers such as Müller, Rubin, Calafat, Burke and Abulafia! @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social @camhistory.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social @cnrs.fr @historysorbonne.bsky.social

part-time opportunity for an advanced doctoral student or early career researcher as a Research Assistant for an exhibition at Oxford's Ashmolean Museum on the visual and material culture of the Global Renaissance (c. 1400-1650). Application deadline December 9. history.web.ox.ac.uk/event/resear...