📢 JOB OPENINGS at CSIC @cchscsic.bsky.social (Madrid)! As part of my ERC project WILDHIST, the Institute of History is hiring two 3-year postdoctoral researchers in the global history of rubber. Application deadline: 24 April 2026. More info 👉 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/422012 @erc.europa.eu

For more details: they drove around antimatter in Switzerland. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

📢 Special Issue Call: Plural Waters: Engaging Multiple Knowledges, Methods, and Practices 🌊 Call for contributions exploring diverse ways of knowing, governing & relating to “waters” across contexts. 📅 Deadline: April 17, 2026 www.die-erde.org/index.php/di...

What if I told you one of the most contested words in the English language is only 3 letters long, is our most used word, and yet for centuries the world's greatest linguists and philosophers keep fighting about what it actually means? Guessed it yet? I used it three times in that sentence alone.

I just resigned from NASA. It breaks my heart to leave, but I’ve become convinced the best path forward is to do the best science I can, and that can’t be here anymore. I’m still in love with the promise of those four magic letters. Ad astra per aspera, and remember: Earth is the only good planet.

The paper “shows that women, particularly those early in their careers, were disproportionately affected by terminations, even though they receive less funding from the NIH in general.”

ANNNOOOONNNNCEEEE La thèse est en ligne, elle est accessible pour tout le monde et un dépôt parallèle sur HAL est en cours ! theses.fr/2026EHES0003 Je serai ravie d'en discuter avec celles et ceux qui le souhaitent :)

We're hiring! 🌿 The Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities at the University of Stavanger invites applications for a 3-year postdoc in Environmental History. See thread for more details. #envhist #envhum

"Breton Celtic Power at the Park Slope Brooklyn St. Patrick’s Day Parade 2026. Marching through the streets of Park Slope, Brooklyn, the musicians brought the powerful sound of Brittany’s traditional bagad ensemble to NYC, blending Celtic energy & precision marching-band performance." Very nice.

10 years ago, Brussels and the entire country stood still. 🇧🇪 This city showed resilience in the aftermath of attacks, and collective strength helps to heal its people. Today, we honour the victims and those who still carry the weight of that day. We will never forget. 🕯️

Ta-Nehisi Coates said, “You can’t talent your way to writing. It’s built. It’s a built thing. It’s a made thing. So the real thing you got to do is you got to come back to that bad writing and you’ve got to revise.” Like James Baldwin said, “I’m not a writer. I’m a re-writer.”

🇪🇺⚖️🇵🇱🏳️‍🌈The rule of law plot twist of this story is that the Supreme Administrative Court panel, which held that obstruction to marriage registration is unacceptable, included a "neo-judge" - one appointed on recommendation from the not-independent National Council of Judiciary. 1/

Gonna add to this: industrialization and war are the largest mass disabling events in history, which is to say that the system of capitalism functions only through the disabling of bodies while simultaneously treating disabled bodies as worthless. Shit sucks.

We are the lucky ones. We have an apt, a second passport, an uncle in Canada. Relatives in villages up the coast. But I don’t want to leave. This is my home. What do you do when home becomes a dystopia.

Yesterday morning I stepped outside on my balcony for coffee with my wife and our neighbor. The drone was as low as it has ever been. We saw it over our heads. Below, our alleyway had turned into a parking lot for displaced people’s cars. A school next door is hosting around 1500 people.

*breathing into a paper bag*

When at a conference in Brussels ❤️

Heavy rain in Lebanon today. There are still thousands sleeping outside, in tents or out in the open.

And, for fucks sake, read some goddamned Freire.

Do folks know Einstein spoke at the 1946 National Urban League Convention? “There is separation of colored people from white people in the United States. That separation is not a disease of colored people. It is a disease of white people. I do not intend to be quiet about it.” - Albert Einstein

SocArxiv @socarxiv.bsky.social just released an AI policy, which I had a hand in crafting. @phillewis.bsky.social sums up the spirit of the policy well. socopen.org/2026/03/09/s...

Here is my best Habermas story. I am grad student waiting in LONG line for Habermas talk. There is a tall man waiting in front of me. Line moves so we are eventually visible to organizers, a woman looks over & makes horrified face. Runs out: "Prof Habermas! You don't have to wait in line!"

My book "Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge: Reflections on Power and Possibility" was published by Bristol University Press in March of 2023. This blog post contains reviews by other people. I will keep it updated as the reviews come in. folukeafrica.com/reviews-of-d...

Amis chercheureuses en France, vous avez déjà reçu une lettre de l'Urssaf pour vous demander de vous inscrire en tant que "artiste-auteur"? Je viens de recevoir une lettre d'eux et je ne comprends rien.

Are you an early career researcher (from undergrad student to finished PhD within 2 years) working on the history of natural history? Submissions now open for the SHNH William T. Stearn Student Essay Prize 2026. Closing date is 31 July 2026. shnh.org.uk/awards-honou...

Raccoons will solve puzzles just for fun www.scientificamerican.com/article/racc...

🔊#2 Undiscipline, Decolonise, Repair In person; Paris Book Launch 3rd April, 16.30 Paris time. Prof Paola Bacchetta (UC, Berkeley), Co-Motion: Re-Thinking Power, Subjects, and Feminist and Queer Alliances (Duke Uni Press, 2026). Read intro here, assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com/f7ca9afb-82c... Info👇🏽

Just a friendly reminder to support and appreciate your local library ghost.

22nd European rememberance day for victims of terrorism. 22ème Journée européenne en hommage aux victimes du terrorisme.

We warned you about putting fundamentally leaky and insecure "AI" systems into the research and education environment, bro! We fucken told you bro!

its possible im doing too much research for this sandwich essay

Dear everyone, As per the post from the Bodleian librarian below, AI bots and scrapers are putting just about every website under great pressure, British History Online included. A lot of excellent tech staff are working hard to keep everything working, but outages and siruptions are inevitable.

quick reminder that NT's production of The Importance of Being Earnest, starring human ray of sunshine Ncuti Gatwa, will be streaming FOR FREE on YouTube this weekend www.radiotimes.com/movies/ncuti...

The bus to work isn't taking the usual route, so I'm thinking about @musicologyduck.bsky.social's thread. The driver could be French.

[Épistémologie des sciences] Je cherche des textes, podcast (soyons fou) qui parlent d'épistémologie des sciences de la nature A vot'bon cœur

Any recs for female literacy and manuscript culture in medieval England? (For a student, I'm not up on my English context!)

I'm now recruiting for a crucial post in my team - Curator: Parliamentary Art Collection. A rare chance to work with a wonderful collection in a unique setting. Please do share, and feel free to get in touch with any questions

Luxemburg wird sich bereits 2028 am EU-Emissionshandel für Heizen und Transport beteiligen. Dieses System wird dann die bisherige CO2-Steuer ersetzen. Als Folge könnten die Einnahmen ab 2028 drastisch sinken. Dem Klimaschutz droht der Rotstift.

This is because, as Sara Ahmed points out, the structures that shape online and offline environments RUN AHEAD of our arrival in a social space. They don't just "arrive" with the influx of people, they will get there before us as an effect of the kinds of decisions that shape these platforms.

This International Women's Day, please remember that trans women are women. Full stop. No qualifiers.

The gender pay gap bot was such an amazing initiative which I taught my students as an example of D'Ignazio and Klein's Data Feminism Challege Power principle. Does anyone know what happened to it? Are they on Bluesky? 🤔

This weekend, we're celebrating #InternationalWomensDay! ✨ #Economic history is often told as a story about men. Dr Victoria Bateman uncovers the forgotten stories of female producers, bankers & economic revolutionaries who helped shape the fortunes of nations Watch 👉 https://gres.hm/economy

Successfully moved to @eurosky.social, thank you @nicolashenin.net for relaying the information and explaining the process 🇪🇺

Thursday @ AWP 2026! Join Carmen Maria Machado, Umair Kazi, @vauhinivara.bsky.social, and myself as we discuss how to Resist AI in Writing and Teaching. Sponsored by @authorsguild.org. 12:10 PM in Room 310. See you in Baltimore! authorsguild.org/event/awp-20...

If you are a writer, try this at home: speak to your word document, play music to your printed out texts in the making. You’ll be surprised. #writing

Back in 1588, everyone still knew that book trees grow better when there's music around, and when you speak to them. Attention and house organ music were the key.

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"This exhibition reframes women’s work, showcasing + celebrating the organizing labor that enabled groundbreaking film, video + community media collectives like Third World Newsreel, Paper Tiger TV, + Women Make Movies to pursue new forms of self expression and advocate for political change..."

Some projects are long in the making because the questions are complex, the process iterative, and the answers not simple. The first batch of interventions from @britishacademy.bsky.social 'Global Disorders' is here - feat. a paper by yours truly 👇: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/programmes/g...