Cool opportunity to work at the intersections of climate/environmental history and history of medicine!
History and Medicine – Associate Professor or Professor with Tenure – McMaster University
Apply by March 31st
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#envhist #histmed #climhist #cdnhist
This just arrived. Very excited to tuck into this during Spring Break.
Eating at the Waffle House. Channeling my culinary idles.
This deserves more attention! I am laughing our loud!
I love my academic community on here - saw the Ring commercial and went to post about the centralized surveillance system capabilities and you all beat me to it. Keep being smart my fellow comrades!
Yes! I am particularly fond of integrating wonderful port images, like this one of Canton during the Qing Dynasty. The lecture is on Chinese Dynastic Trajectories and Trade.
This semester, I am teaching four classes (three preps). Two of the courses are brand new. So, lecture prep can be tedious, especially prepping slides. This said, I truly love it when I finish a deck and it turns out to be aesthetically beautiful !
A Treatise on the Virtues and Efficacy of a Crust of Bread: Eat Early in a Morning Fasting ... (1756) By Nicholas Robinson
No shortage of practical guide books in the 18th century...
#history #food #medicine #disease #anatomy
Opening March 19 at the Ashmolean Museum -
In Bloom
How Plants Changed Our World
19 Mar – 16 Aug 2026
www.ashmolean.org/exhibition/i...
Oh snap! Sorry for spoilers! But yes, it is worth the watch!
I thought the same thing whilst watching it. I also found it lame how the one judge wouldn't make a decision and would instead put the chefs on hold. The ANXIETY!
I wrote something for the British Academy blog and then completely forgot to post a link. This draws on a case study from my book Vanished about the foundation of national parks. If you want to know more, there’s a rather large discount on some sites. 🐯
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/blog/what-ca...
We draw your attention to the Oceanic and Maritime History workshop co-convened by Aristide Chryssoulis and @joaomoreiradasilva.bsky.social (Centre Prize Student 2024-25 and Student Mentor 2025-26).
Feel free to take a peek at some of the Bulletin's open-access articles!
A wonderful tool for historians of science and technology!
100 followers in under 24 hours!
Speaking of time…
Society members can access the Bulletin archive, featuring gems like Lajos Bartha’s 1988 piece, “Old Time Measuring, Astronomical and Surveying Instruments in the Museums of Hungary.”
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Can you tell the difference between a hydrometer & a hygrometer? A Leyden jar & a Crookes tube? An armillary sphere & an equatorial ring?
Then you should follow @sis-instrument-soc.bsky.social for updates concerning the history of scientific instruments!
#histSTM #histsci #histtech #FollowFriday 🗃️
If you're new here; check out our wonderful blogs!
We offer a wide variety of all things scientific instruments from volvelles used in alchemy, to instruments in Ottoman education!
We also accept contributions!
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Hello Everyone! I am in the process of getting our social media up and running here on BlueSky for the Scientific Instrument Society. If you like instruments, then you'll love SIS! Please follow and stay updated!
View our recent Bulletin, no. 167!
We’ve got a whole range of open-access articles available—including this gem by Anthony Turner:
“On the Origin and Naming of the Planetary Machine Known as an ‘Orrery’.”
Well worth a read.
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Week one of term is wrapping up here nicely on a Friday. It feels great to be back on campus - but I must say, I am a little tired! I flew in a week ago - so perhaps I am still feeling the jet lag.
Holy Roman Emperor Rudolph II lying in state. He died #otd 20 Jan 1612 in Prague #Praha (British Museum)
CFP: The Zoological Society of London (ZSL) at 200: Science, Society, and the Natural World, 1-3 July 2026
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#zoo #envhist #animalhistory
For any PhD students working in Medical Humanities, check out the Medical Humanities summer school from @durhamimh.bsky.social medhumsplatform.org/medical-huma...
Join us this Friday lunchtime for an online talk with @s-pooley.bsky.social exploring the remarkable history of the okapi: a rainforest giraffid that became a symbol of scientific discovery, colonial power, and modern conservation challenges.
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Fri 23 January | 12:30pm to 1:30pm
We are officially live for the Spring 2026 term at Tennessee! I am especially excited to teach UT's first ever ST(H)S course in the wonderful Cowan Cottage!
The first page of Fragments of Ancient English Shipwrighty, showing Baker’s secretary hand and the unfinished drawings of Noah’s Ark and of shipbuilders. Reproduced by permission of the Pepys Library, Cambridge.
Unfolding the multiple lives of a shipbuilding manuscript: Our first Artefact of the Month in 2026 is known as 'Fragments of Ancient English Shipwrighty' and reveals the interactions between mathematics and practice in the Scientific Revolution:
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Pforzheimer Lecture How Renaissance Scholars and Printers Decided on the Size of Books w/Dr. Ann Blair Wednesday, January 21 at 6 p.m.
The most exciting #BookHistory talk of the season is coming up next week!
Join us @ransomcenter.bsky.social or online as Ann Blair delivers the 2026 Pforzheimer lecture. This talk has Erasmus, Gessner, and volumes both large &small!
Learn more: www.eventbrite.com/e/pforzheime...
#booksky 🗃️📜📚
