I’m just so proud to have an article in this issue alongside scholars whose work I admire so much. Many thanks to Renée Raphael and Tina Asmussen for their vision & to the editorial staff of the RQ for the exceptional editorial care with which they brought this special issue to fruition!

new & online💥 cache 06 / Verwaltete Umwelt, Teil 1, von Nils Güttler, Christian Reiß und Mareike Vennen ″Wir träumen von Natur, leben aber in einer verwalteten Umwelt.″ cache.ch/verwalteteum...

Podcast-Folge über unsichtbare Arbeit im wissenschaftlichen Publizieren, mit intercom-Mitglied und traverse-Redakteurin @tinasmussen.bsky.social 👀

The Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine is organising a MINESCAPES working group. Convened by @tinasmussen.bsky.social and others. Details, membership, and participation here: www.chstm.org/group/minesc... #mininghistory #envhist #minescapes #extraction

I’m so excited to share that I will be working as a Postdoctoral Researcher on the @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de project ‘Mining frontiers in the Kingdom of Hungary (16th-18th century)’ at the Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum (PI @tinasmussen.bsky.social). I can’t wait to join the team and get started!

Scarce was in the Ore Mountains! ⛏️🏔️ We spent an unforgettable week with Minescapes 2025 in the Erzgebirge (Ore Mountains), exploring mining history in Saxony and Czechia with a fantastic group of scholars.

I’ve just been informed by my publisher that my book on Athanasius Kircher is now sold out. If you’re still interested in reading it, you can download the open access e-book via Zenodo: doi.org/10.5281/zeno.... Thanks to everyone who has shown interest in the book! #AthanasiusKircher

Job Klaxon: Postdoctoral Position on Mining Frontiers in Eastern Europe! www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-1...

🚨 Job Klaxon 🚨 1 PhD position for 3 years a the German Mining Museum Bochum in the interdisciplinary DFG/AHRC funded project "Toxic Heritage: Socio-natural Landscapes of Extraction and Pollution in the Harz and Cornwall". More details: karriere.bergbaumuseum.de/jobposting/2.... Please share!

👇👇 apply and work with brilliant @smueller.bsky.social and her team👇👇

🚨𝗝𝗢𝗕 𝗔𝗟𝗘𝗥𝗧 🚨1 PhD position for 3 years in the research project “Mining Frontiers in the Kingdom of Hungary (16th-18th Century)” at the German Mining Museum Bochum: Leibniz Research Museum for Georesources. karriere.bergbaumuseum.de/jobposting/0...

With the twitter exodus: welcome, and here are some #earlymodern historians posting about early modern stuff (though I should update it now it’s more than 50 in those things) go.bsky.app/VQeQbbF

Tina Asmussen has shared some great photos of the MINSCAPES Summer School, in the Harz Mountains, to explore the history of human-environment relationships and interaction through its mining legacy.

Was für ein Wochenstart... erst war der Kaffee alle, dann die Nachricht vom erneuten Streik der Bahn. #Montagmorgen m.youtube.com/watch?v=cxSs...

Join us virtually or in Bochum on December 7 and 8 for the public lecture by Timothy LeCain and the workshop on resources and sustainability. If you wish to attend via zoom, register here: [email protected] #mining #resources #extractivism #sustainability

How coerced was “free” #wage labour in early modern Europe? And how did the #mobility of #workers can be explained through the prism of #coerced #labour? Excited to see this out and in #OA! A special 🙏 to the incredible work of the editors and the other contributors (tinyurl.com/mrpjymrx)

CALL FOR PAPERS!!! We are thrilled to release our CFP for an ECR conference dedicated to 'Global Recipes in the Early Modern World' (with the generous support of the SSHM and BSHS)! If you are a PG/ECR working on any aspect of EM global recipe-making, don't forget to apply by 15 December!

Public lecture by Timothy LeCain and workshop on December 7 & 8 in Bochum on sustainability and (geo-)resources. Perspectives from History and Archeology. #Sustainability #Anthropocene #Pollution #Resources

thinking technē. Three days of discussing artistic processes, materials, making and thinking. Including fantastic exhibition visits and tours to sites of artistic production. Thanks for inviting me! techne.hypotheses.org/3873

cache 03: 🌿 Shadow of the Tree: Fiona Vicent on genealogical practices of the 19th-c. Basel high bourgeoisie: cache.ch/shadowofthet... Marianne Sommer on the layering of iconicity and forms (tree, scale, series) in human phylogeny: cache.ch/shadowofthet...

🚨Fellowship Application Alert 🚨 Heinrich Winkelmann Fellowship 2024 @Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum: Leibniz Forschungsmuseum für Georessourcen. karriere.bergbaumuseum.de/jobposting/8...

Impressions from the mining history/archeology field trip to the Siegerland with our guests Pamela Smith and Amelia Hutchinson. We visited a celtig iron smelting site (Gerhardsseifen), a medieval mining settlement (Altenberg) and the Landeskrone mine (Wilnsdorf). 💥⚒️ 🪨. tbc!

Our first bluesky blog, but definitely not our last! Check out our website for our ongoing blog series on sources for the history of medicine, slavery, and race-making. @smschober.bsky.social has written a fascinating post on civet cats, iconography, chains and the history of slavery...

Here we go! Freue mich sehr auf die Studierendentagung der Fachschaft Medieval and Renaissance Studies der RUB. www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/mars/mam/con...

Are you a historian of Latin America who works on the history of science, technology, or medicine? Do you work in environmental history? Consider submitting an abstract and short bio to El Laboratorio seminar! Please RT! See HNet link for details: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Aus Brill und De Gruyter wird De Gruyter Brill, sie fusionieren um "Kosten zu sparen, indem man Komplexität senkt, Synergien nutzt und die digitale Transformation beschleunigt" – weitere Monopolisierung im geisteswiss. Publizieren, www.boersenblatt.net/news/aus-bri...