Does anyone in the UK have career advice for a 40 yr-old academic - historian of science and medicine - who may need to build a new career outside the academy? This is a serious request - any ideas and tips would be much appreciated.

“In the late 1960s, Dr. Rossiter was working on her Ph.D. at Yale, when a comment from one of her male professors puzzled her. Who, she had asked, were the women in science? There were none, he said. Another professor mumbled something about Marie Curie being the exception.”🙃

Also congratulations 👏 to the two honourable mentions: Xinyi Wen (Cambridge University) 'Inventing a Healing Tradition across Time and Space - a reversed history of the doctrine of signatures, 1885-1609' And

I’m very happy to announce that I’ve been awarded an IRFD Starting Grant for the project “Sovereign Flowers: Flora Danica and the Emergence of the National Flora, 1750–1900.” Hooray! The project allows me to build a small research group of a PhD student and a postdoc at Aarhus University (@au.dk).

RIP #histsci Margaret Rossiter, who coined term Matilda Effect en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margare... #philsci #feministsky

article now published >> artreview.com/what-isnt-at...

The brilliant @lmbd1418.bsky.social has suggested people write to the Home Secretary Yvette Cooper re: my case. If you could spare five minutes, she's created a draft letter which you can use to send to [email protected]. I appreciate everyone's support. ❤️ docs.google.com/document/d/1...

So excited to share my new article in @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social: "Colonial World-Making and Global Knowledges at the Early Modern Cape of Good Hope" (Open access) academic.oup.com/past/advance...

My next book—The Genealogy of Genealogy: Nietzsche, Foucault, and the Coils of Critical History—has an official publication date: April 5, 2026! The publisher’s page is up with TOC & a preorder button (no cover yet): press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... Look here for more details as they materialize.

Excited to be part of this great line up of natural history talks and walks at the Forest Learning Centre, Perdana Botanic Gardens, KL later this month!

This is getting close to 150K signatures now. It might not do anything, but it will serve as evidence for the future that the UK government were aware of the opposition of its own people to its complicity in the Israeli genocide on Gaza & the fact that it did nothing to stop it.

Following announcement of the Roy Porter Essay Competition winner, two entrants have also been awarded Commended for their essays: Congratulations to Elena Danieli (Università di Bologna and Université Paris Cité) and Zhilin Chu (University of Cambridge) #histmed @rebeccawynter.bsky.social (1/2)

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

Please check the latest post on my page from my sister Aseel’s account. It’s the eighth time we’ve been forced to flee, and we’re really falling apart.💔 Just… from a place of humanity🙏🏻

Print Matters summer school hard at work at Thin Ice Press amid 3 days of book-making, reading Lucretius, depicting 'chaos', and perusing the Minster Library and Shandy Hall

We're recruiting for a permanent part-time Exhibitions Officer at @rcpmuseum.bsky.social. Come and work with me and some other, much cooler, people. rcp.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...

Thrilled to be joining some amazing scholars this year as a Linda Hall Library research fellow! www.lindahall.org/research/lin... @mfeagan.bsky.social @manhattanscientist.bsky.social @dorisvickers.bsky.social @xinyiwenhps.bsky.social @swom.bsky.social @bhgross144.bsky.social

I’m thrilled to announce that from September I’ll be joining @warburginstitute.bsky.social as a Frances Yates Long-Term Fellow. It’s a position I’ve aspired to since 2019, when I studied Warburg for an MPhil essay. Can’t wait to meet such an exciting group of scholars!

OPEN LETTER: HISTORIANS FOR TRANS RIGHTS Are you a historian in the UK or working on UK history fed up at seeing the history of LGBTQIA+ discrimination repeat itself? Sign this open letter to MPs demanding they stand up for trans rights now! Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn

So sad that a dear friend and colleague, Mario Biagioli, died a few days ago, far too young. I find it hard to believe: Mario seemed always so vital, so full of energy and enthusiasm, a true intellectual. A great loss #histstm #histsci #STS

Very bittersweet to see this article popping up on the same day I heard of Mario's passing :-/ It is a good article... definitely recommend! ishtip.org/mario-biagio...

Happy to note that my article on learning botany in the early nineteenth century has now been published. I think I started work on it as long ago as 2018. #HPS #STS #bryology dx.doi.org/10.1017/S000...

I am thrilled to share that I have been awarded the Royal Asiatic Society Bayly Prize for the best doctoral thesis in Asian Studies completed at a British or Irish university in 2023/2024! www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/dr-luis... @royalasiaticsoc.bsky.social @clarehallcambridge.bsky.social

How did #almanacs provide orientation for a "New World"? I'll be talking about Spanish-American almanacs in this fantastic workshop in Fribourg, Switzerland organised by Vitus Huber. If you are interested in #earlymodern uses of #time take a look at the programme #histsci

More and more friends and colleagues are joining, so I quickly made a little starter pack. For those ‘Didn’t know you’re here too!’ occasions. Please suggest more! #HistSci #HistMed 🗃️ #EarlyModern #c18 #c19 go.bsky.app/S7TEGpq

#BookHistory friends! Contact me by April 20th if you’d like to participate in this collaborative bibliography! Share to your networks too! You don’t have to be a SHARP member to participate

Congratulations to @xinyiwenhps.bsky.social, BSECS-Bodleian Fellow for 2025 for their research exploring how extra-illustration – the practice of pasting images onto books – transformed the transmission of natural knowledge through the Bodleian Libraries’ collections www.hps.cam.ac.uk/directory/wen

More and more friends and colleagues are joining, so I quickly made a little starter pack. For those ‘Didn’t know you’re here too!’ occasions. Please suggest more! #HistSci #HistMed 🗃️ #EarlyModern #c18 #c19 go.bsky.app/S7TEGpq

Enjoyed all the milk and mould in this article (as well as the nod of the ‘doctrine of signatures’) Follow our @extispex.bsky.social for more! 🗃️ #EarlyModern #HistSci #HistMed

and here's one of three early modernist general historians with links to the other two generously created by the same person

I am absolutely delighted to announce the recent publication of 'Therapy, Spirituality, and East Asian Imaginaries', a volume I co-edited alongside my colleagues Ioannis Gaitanidis (Chiba University), Avery Morrow (Brown University) and Sang-yun Han (Tohoku University). www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

When was the last time you hear Darwin say ‘I hate myself’? Well here you are!

“Dear Friends, Allies, and Supporters, We are raising urgent funds to support Mahmoud Khalil and his family, a dedicated advocate for Palestinian rights and a recent graduate of Columbia University” chuffed.org/project/just...

This is so cool. Didn’t know that one could use Comenius this way!

Hi SHARPists! Check out our Starter Pack, and send us a message via chat if you'd like to be added! go.bsky.app/KNSyCSb

#BookHistory: Delighted to be awarded the renowned Katharine F Pantzer Jr Scholarship of @bibsoc.bsky.social! The grant will support me in finding and studying #EarlyModern extra-illustrated books of natural history, like this Petiver’s book @theulspeccoll.bsky.social @camglamresearch.bsky.social.📜

I am delighted and honored to have been awarded the American Academy for Arts and Sciences' Sarton Prize for the History of Science! Many thanks to the countless people whose support helped make this possible. www.amacad.org/news/victor-...