You've got to love #openaccess for books (if you can fund it). Now ~19,000 downloads for A History of Scientific Journals: publishing at the Royal Society 1665-2015. Unbelievable figures, compared to traditional academic book publishing! From @uclpress.bsky.social or www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv...

Died #OnThisDay 1877 William Henry Fox Talbot. Best known as the pioneer of photography, he was also briefly MP for Chippenham, 1832-5, but stepped down to concentrate on his scientific interests. There’s more on him in our short article: victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2012/09/17/w...

Exciting early-career fellowships with UK cultural institutions, funded by #AHRC, www.ukri.org/opportunity/... (look for the spreadsheet with the list of institutions!) Deadline for EoI: 10 December.

Congratulations to the shortlisted authors for the Hughes Prize 2025! Check out these four highly intriguing books from different corners of the history of STEM, all of them perfect reads for non-experts. Accessible to broader audiences, they will take you to unexpected places and times! 🧵

This is a great PhD opportunity for someone! I was lucky to do some work on Sarah Sophia’s coin collection in early days www.bl.uk/services/res...

Peterson Fellowships open today! Named for Yale professor and our dear friend, Linda H. Peterson, the Peterson Fellowship is designed to support one scholar for four full-time months conducting research focused on the British periodical press of long #19thC. Applications due Nov. 15!

The St Andrews Historian is our annual alumni magazine and we would love to hear from you! If any alumni want to share any professional, personal or academic milestones, please contact us at [email protected]! Image courtesy of the University of St Andrews Library, ID: ms38426/2

Lovely event in #StAndrews yesterday - the reopening of the Heritage Museum on North Street. Local history (toy shop!) blended with an awareness of the wider world (medieval European connections; the colonial trade in sugar; Italian, Polish and Ukrainian migrants...)

More detail on the three winners of the @bshsnews.bsky.social Exhibiting Excellence Prize for #histSTM exhibitions 📜 www.bshs.org.uk/bshs-exhibit...

Orientation Week begins on Monday and we are really looking forward to welcoming our new students, and to seeing some familiar faces as well. Pier Walk at St Andrews, c. 1940-5, Image Courtesy of the University of St Andrews Library, ID 1983-1-1 #EvertoExcel

It was fantastic to see #histsci friend @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social on stage at @edbookfest.bsky.social last week. I particularly love the images of the author hard at work signing books...

Thrilling panel at @edbookfest.bsky.social with @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social! @yassmin.bsky.social was our chair & interlocutor. For a 30% discount on HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY from @ucpress.bsky.social, 1/ 💙📚 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #politics #HAMH #edbookfest

#jobfairy - #histmed position at Dalhousie/Uni of Kings College in Halifax (interested to see a 'chair' is a junior position, tenure stream not tenured - does 'chair' just mean 'externally funded' in the Canadian system?) 🗃️

This Special Issue from #NotesandRecords focuses on the complex cultural connections between Japanese and British science in the nineteenth century. Read the issue here: royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rsnr/202... #HistSci

Proof that #bsky isn't (yet, for me) performing the role that the #birdsite once did... Far more people have visited our University report into legacies of empire (legacies-of-empire.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk ) from #LinkedIn than from here.

Our next Wikipedia editing club is this Saturday 16 August in Bramblers Cafe, Perth 10-12. Editors at all levels of confidence welcome. Bring your own device! #WeCanEdit #PerthScotland

N8 and Russell Group universities both exploring whether collaboration can help retain modern languages provision. With a sharing link for 3 non-subscribers. on.ft.com/3UWf8Aj

The vast majority of UK students attend good to excellent universities that don't have or use the "right" spoons. De-spoon the university.

Important info for parents with children nearing university-age: even with a part-time job, parental financial support will be needed (because government-provided loans/grants just aren't enough to provide a realistic income for students in any part of the UK). Thanks to @hepi-news.bsky.social

'Updating their work on the amount of money students need to get by, the Higher Education Policy Institute (Hepi) and Loughborough University researchers have estimated that first-year students in halls of residence need £418 per week to cover their living costs – including £158 on rent.' 1/3

I think there should be more press about this popular medical historian, author @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social & dual USA-UK citizen’s case. She needs to be in the UK for cancer treatment, yet is not allowed to leave US.

We're excited to announce our plan to make the Royal Society journals fully open access in 2026 by adopting the ‘Subscribe to Open’ model. This change supports global access to research without shifting costs to authors and relies on continued library participation. Find out more: buff.ly/18m5g6z

Data visualisation, 1930s-style!

Associate Professor/Professor in Cambridge Digital Humanities University of Cambridge - Office of the School of Arts and Humanities #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOD837/a...

A 2 year postdoc research assistant job to work on the early institutional history of Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, leading to the writing of a report to contribute to broader decolonising and reparative efforts. Around 40k, deadline 5 Sept 25. app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...

Side-bar for St Andrews folks (just re-read Christos Lynteris's bio): I'll be speaking at #edbookfest on Friday August 15 at 1:30pm! Come and chat with me at this panel! Looking forward to seeing @aileenfyfe.bsky.social again while I'm there. www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...

So, today's REF2029 Town Hall was on CKU (Contributions to Knowledge & Understanding, including Outputs and Disciplinary Level Statements or DLSs). The recording with slides will be posted on Resources (link below) soon. Here are some preliminary thoughts, starting with the good news. 1/10

…gave me the chance to work with her group on an important historical examination of scholarly publishing, which I think stands the test of time! zenodo.org/records/546100 4/5 #FutureSciPub

There's nothing like watching Wimbledon in the evening to remind me of the reality of latitude: the BBC has just shown us scenic London in the dark - but it's still daylight here in St Andrews. I wouldn't even turn on the floodlights on the tennis courts here, yet.

Some people say the biggest gap in research funding is at mid career level. So here is our new call for our mid career fellowship programme which provides buyout for 6 to 12 months to devote to the completion of a major piece of research. Spread the word! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/mid-...

It’s graduation day for the School of History! Many congratulations to all of our students who are celebrating this week, as you follow in the footsteps of thousands of others who have crossed the Younger Hall stage. Courtesy of the University of St Andrews Library, ID GMC-18-47-1. #EverToExcel

Plan your summer 2026 to include Edinburgh in July: it will be THE place to be for historians of science! #hstm #bshs2026 #hss2026 #eshs2026

Join us in Cambridge for Sadiah Qureshi’s public lecture "Vanished" — on extinction, race & the politics of memory. 📅 Wed 9 July, 6–10pm 📍 David Attenborough Building, Cambridge 🎟 Free tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1395979053... With an introduction by Helen Macdonald! #BSHS2025 #histSTEM

In the latest life story from the Women Historians of St Andrews project, Patricia Allan reflects on her time as a lecturer in American history at St Andrews during the 1970s: women-historians.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/06/04/p...

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 🗃️

Special delivery in the North Courtyard! 🦆 #Cambridge #CambridgeUniversity #Ducklings #CambridgeUniversityLibrary

Pleased to report that the diversity of both applicants and awardees – and the universities in which they are based – has grown in the first three years of our trial of partial randomisation for our small grants scheme www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/partial...

New job at Oxford - do please share widely! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMS153/a...

Manon Williams @standrewshist.bsky.social shares some highlights from her prize-winning thesis, showing how creative naval surgeons could be, whether investigating coconut flour, recording temperatures, or re-purposing the pages of their official journals. boydellandbrewer.com/blog/boydell...

St Andrews and the Legacies of Empire, a project led by @aileenfyfe.bsky.social, is on the front cover of today’s issue of The Saint. You can find out more about the project here: legacies-of-empire.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/our_project/

#OnThisDay 20 years ago, #BiologyLetters was launched as the seventh journal in the Royal Society’s portfolio, providing a venue for short and rapid communications. Learn more about its journey here: royalsociety.org/blog/2025/03... 🧪

Medical humanities scholars who teach in UK medical schools: I am conducting a survey with colleagues asking about your roles in delivering core and intercalated teaching to medical students. If this applies to you, please get in touch and I'll send you an information sheet and consent form.

"Softly spoken in his blazer and tie, [he] looks every bit the typical historian." Really, BBC? I think you'll find that historians have a wider variety of clothing choices (and genders) these days. #skystorians @royalhistsoc.org www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🎤 Join SUP's @dominiquewalker.bsky.social, @paulmclarke.bsky.social and Dr Richard Marsden to learn more about #OpenAccess book publishing! 📅 When: 27 March 10:00 - 10:45am (GMT) 📍 Where: Online Register: research.open.ac.uk/events/open-... @openuniversity.bsky.social #OUOpenResearchWeek2025

Come join @tanjabueltmann.net and I at Strathclyde for a funded PhD on built heritage and Glasgow’s slaving links, centred around Tobacco Merchant’s House. Excellent ops to engage with heritage industry via co-supervision by Scottish Civic Trust! Details below! Any questions - get in touch!

#DecolonialStudies En 2021, le recteur de l'université de St Andrews a commandé un projet de recherche sur la manière dont l'université a bénéficié du colonialisme et de l'impérialisme britanniques, traite incluse. @aileenfyfe.bsky.social legacies-of-empire.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk

Interested in histories of reading, libraries and the sciences? In 19thC Britain? You can now browse the digital version of the Royal Society Library lending book for 1853-1864, and see who was reading what. #histsci #skystorians ttp.royalsociety.org/ttp/ttp.html...

The conference is celebrating the five policy histories that we’ve published on topics of environment, science, health, trade and regional development policy www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/projects/pol...

How did @uniofstandrews.bsky.social benefit from, participate in, or support, British colonialism? Our report 'The University of St Andrews and the legacies of empire, 1700-1900' is now available legacies-of-empire.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk #history #skystorians