Imagine if you were a sports fan but every year your team won the championship and you knew exactly when it would happen. #9LC

By a fluke of funding, I’ll be attending my first AHA in a few weeks. Event specific advice welcome! Friends, let me know if you’ll be there! And if you’d like to perhaps get a coffee and learn more about SHI fellowships, collections, scholarly programs, and academic partnerships :)

Applications for 2026-27 fellowships at @sciencehistory.org are still open until Jan 15, with recommendations due Jan 31! ⏰📚 Could your research benefit from time in our archives, rare books, instruments, and other collections? Find info about our fellowships and our guide for applicants here!

We are also currently hiring a curatorial fellow to work with the papers of Rosalind Franklin and others in the History of Molecular Biology Collection! This is a 2-year staff position in the archive with a salary of $55k/year and full benefits: www.sciencehistory.org/research/fel...

For those with a scholarly interest in Franklin, Watson, and other pioneering researchers in molecular biology, @sciencehistory.org has just opened our new landmark collection of their papers, and applications for research fellowships are currently open: www.sciencehistory.org/hmbc

We are also currently hiring a curatorial fellow to work with the papers of Rosalind Franklin and others in the History of Molecular Biology Collection! This is a 2-year staff position in the archive with a salary of $55k/year and full benefits: www.sciencehistory.org/research/fel...

For those with a scholarly interest in Franklin, Watson, and other pioneering researchers in molecular biology, @sciencehistory.org has just opened our new landmark collection of their papers, and applications for research fellowships are currently open: www.sciencehistory.org/hmbc

REMINDER: AIP's grant-in-aid program for research in history of the physical sciences has an application deadline coming up on November 15. Awards are for up to $2,500, and we are able to offer up to $6,000 for oral histories with physicists in industry. www.aip.org/aip/awards/h...

Absolutely delighted to announce that applications are now open for our 26-27 postdoc, dissertation, distinguished, and short-term fellowships at @sciencehistory.org! 📚 🎉 Details and application info on our website; questions welcome here! www.sciencehistory.org/about/news/a...

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Absolutely delighted to announce that applications are now open for our 26-27 postdoc, dissertation, distinguished, and short-term fellowships at @sciencehistory.org! 📚 🎉 Details and application info on our website; questions welcome here! www.sciencehistory.org/about/news/a...

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The Science History Institute @sciencehistory.org is pleased to cohost the Fall 2025 meeting of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (SHAC) October 16-17. Invited speakers will present papers for discussion on topics ranging from medieval medicine to modern climate science.

36 mo postdoc / research fellow position in Philosophy, History, and/or Social Studies of the Life Sciences in the STS dept. at Technical Universtiy of Munich, apps due Oct 31: #histphil #histsci #histSTM www.sts.sot.tum.de/en/sts/arbei...

Delighted to tell everyone that we’ve acquired and are swiftly making available a world class archival collection in the history of science!

Delighted to tell everyone that we’ve acquired and are swiftly making available a world class archival collection in the history of science!

2 tenure-track Asst or Assoc professor jobs in History/Anthropology of Science, Technology & Medicine at Carnegie Mellon U to begin in August 2026. Tech & social change or environmental & social impacts of STM; time period & geographic specialization open. #HPS #HistSTM #STS Deadline: Sep 15, 2025

When you're learning Swedish as a native English speaker, "semester" is the falsest false cognate.

a northern european woman will eat this, work 4hrs at the Langfaart Logistik shipping container company, repeat, work 4 more hours, then eat something called "pasta mexikansk" and live to be 112

We have especially good archives related to NASA, US Antarctic science, ranching history, American nature writing, and the Vietnam War. Our museum's Clothing/Textile department has a huge collection, with strengths in quilts and southwest history. Come hang out for a year! #envhist #histsci

We are hiring! Fully tenured associate professorship in environmental history! We are looking for someone who can be a strong contributor to the history group, to a new #envhum related MA program (if all goes well), and to @greenhouseuis.net. #envhist

Today starts the new fellowship year and I am absolutely delighted to announce the 2025-26 class of Beckman Center Fellows at @sciencehistory.org!!

You guys we have a GIFT SHOP now at @sciencehistory.org !!!

End of an era today! I just signed away the title to the little blue Kia hatchback I bought new in 2007. 18 years, 160k miles, titled in 4 states, and an appearance in the NYT…definitely got my $17k out of it. (And it’s still going - I’ve signed it over to a family member for commuting to work!)

I have always said that having your historical research be “relevant” is a curse 😭 Anyway until I can get anything of mine through the glacial scholarly process everyone should read Julie Klinger’s amazing (open access!) Rare Earth Frontiers on how this myth of rarity justifies the unconscionable

Dozens of responses and nobody is pointing out that Latour closed the case in 1991?

I’ll be 8 mos short of 7 years by the deadline, but if they run it again next year I’m applying. 🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪 (I know it’s intended for, like, hotshot assoc profs in biochem but idc)

Deadline approaching May 1st for the next round of research fellowships sponsored by the Consortium for History of Science, Technology & Medicine -- funding available for scholars to travel for research in library / archival collections of consortium members: www.chstm.org/news/apply-2... #HistSTM

Lunchtime: The History of Science on the School Food Tray, our current gallery exhibit at @sciencehistory.org, featured in the NYTimes! 🍕🥗🥪 Gift link:

Register to join us tomorrow (Thursday), in person or online!

And that’s just a taste of the monsters in this book! Sign up for free for my Science History Institute lecture, online/in-person in Philadelphia on April 17, at 6pm ET: 7/n www.sciencehistory.org/visit/events...

Distracting myself with fun news: next year I get to spin out my “Don’t Create the Torment Nexus” STS unit into a full seminar (aka Science in Fiction) Please send me your most and least favorite fictional representations of science! (All time periods, media, and quality levels welcome!)

Best thing we did last year was sign up for a farm share with Taproot Farm, and I’m so excited that it’s starting up again next week.🥬🧅🫑 Philly friends, if you’re looking for variety, quality, and price stability in your veggies through December, I highly recommend: www.taprootfarmpa.com/csa-shares

Best thing we did last year was sign up for a farm share with Taproot Farm, and I’m so excited that it’s starting up again next week.🥬🧅🫑 Philly friends, if you’re looking for variety, quality, and price stability in your veggies through December, I highly recommend: www.taprootfarmpa.com/csa-shares

Halfway through one of my hist tech seminars once, one of my students interrupted discussion with Wait a minute - COMPUTERS ONLY DO WHAT HUMANS PROGRAM THEM TO DO and I’ve been chasing that high ever since

The Medical History Library at Yale is one of my favorite places with SO much amazing material (way beyond "medicine') - there are a couple of travel / research grants available to visit, due late-April. Come read in a beautiful place! library.medicine.yale.edu/historical/r...

A couple decades into my career, it has never once failed me that a person describing others in a community or team as “non-technical” is a reliable indicator that they fundamentally do not understand how technology is created. There’s no such thing as a “non-technical” person.

If all goes well I have ca 36 hours to spend in London at the end of this month, in the general area of UCL. Seems an area with infinite possibilities for such a limited time - does anyone have any tips/recommendations?

If all goes well I have ca 36 hours to spend in London at the end of this month, in the general area of UCL. Seems an area with infinite possibilities for such a limited time - does anyone have any tips/recommendations?

Just spent three days at Asilomar reflecting on the stories we tell ourselves and the patterns we fall back into. On the thought terminating cliches of “public engagement” of science: open.substack.com/pub/oscillat...

He is soft and beautiful and fierce

It’s just so fun when Philly teams win big, the whole city is in a great mood all together, just incredible vibes for days, whether you follow sports or not

very very major: @janus.bsky.social on @404media.co today speaking the hard truths www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...

The @scihistoryorg.bsky.social is hiring! Details here: www.sciencehistory.org/about/join-o...

Det finns inget dåligt väder, bara dåliga kläder! 🇸🇪❄️

Five days left to go! ⏰ (Rec letters are accepted through Jan 31, so there’s still time!)

Know a historian who’s interested in a public history job? @scihistoryorg.bsky.social is hiring a Curatorial Fellow at our museum in Philly! 24-month term limited staff position, starts Sept ‘25, pays $55k/year with benefits + reloc asst. US work auth req. Apps (no letters) due Jan 15 More info:

It’s time to apply for fellowships at @scihistoryorg.bsky.social! ⏰ All apps are due January 15 ⏰ Rec letters for research fellowships are due January 31 (No rec letters for curatorial fellowships)