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Amanda Rees

@amandarees.bsky.social
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Historian of science working on histories of the future, the nature of human/animal relationships, and relationships between science and religion, as well as histories of the field sciences. Will witter on about SF at the drop of a warp drive. Cymraes.

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Amanda Rees @amandarees.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Abstract deadline coming up for #Faithcon at York - get in touch if you want to get involved!
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S. Worthen @sworthen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Very proud of the Science Fiction Collections at the University of Liverpool receiving this status - Tom and the team at the university have worked really hard for this. It is well-earned for the national & international significance of the collections! news.liverpool.ac.uk/2026/09/08/a...
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Arts Council designated status for Europe's largest science fiction collection - University of Liverpool News
Arts Council designated status for Europe's largest science fiction collection
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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The South Asian edition of HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY is out from @westlandbooks.bsky.social! It’s the history of the category of the human since antiquity, told through ideas about monsters and monster-making. 🧪💙📚 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH 🧵
A tower of copies of HUMANS, with bright red spines, and a single copy balanced on top, its mirror-foil oval mirror on the cover facing outwards.
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Iwan Rhys Morus @irmorus.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Get writing those abstracts. I’ve submitted mine!
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Amanda Rees @amandarees.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
There is still a few days left to submit an abstract for #scifi #faith #futures #FaithCon in York! We are very excited to welcome @adamroberts.bsky.social and Courttia Newland as plenary speakers - it's going to be an invigorating few days! (Plus #BonfireNight in #GuyFawkes hometown - why not?)
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Amanda Rees @amandarees.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Amazed by the range of topics in the abstracts submitted for #FaithCon - everything from faith in #FoodFutures to #HPLovecraft, with #StarWars #robots and #antibiotics in between Want to come? Deadline for abstracts SEPT 10 #Sciencefiction #worldbuilding #histsci www.york.ac.uk/sociology/ab...
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'Science - Fictions, Faiths and Futures' Conference: Call For Submissions
Colleagues are invited to submit their proposals for the 'Science - Fictions, Faiths and Futures' Conference which will be held at the University of York, 4-6 November 2026.
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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I completely missed that Mark Barrow had reviewed Vanished. Delighted given his wonderful book Nature’s Ghosts inspired so much of my early work on extinction that I nominated it for a prize (which it won). More here, but paywalled I’m afraid. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Amanda Rees @amandarees.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
What does #speculative fiction #SF tell us about #spirituality and #faith? How important are philosophy & #theology when building #alternativeworlds & possible #futures? Come and discuss with us York in November! @eclasproject.bsky.social @uoy-sociology.bsky.social www.york.ac.uk/sociology/ab...
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'Science - Fictions, Faiths and Futures' Conference: Call For Submissions
Colleagues are invited to submit their proposals for the 'Science - Fictions, Faiths and Futures' Conference which will be held at the University of York, 4-6 November 2026.
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Amanda Rees @amandarees.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Ever wondered what impact the #science #religion conflict myth has on #scicomms ? New book out now with Oxford University Press - inspired by our beloved #TomMcLeish www.eclasproject.org/new-book-sci... #scienceandfaith #histsci #AI #GM #spaceflight #eclas
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NEW BOOK ‘SCIENCE, RELIGION AND THE HUMAN FUTURE’ – ECLAS
A new book by the ECLAS team offers fresh insights into the conflict narrative and its impact on science communication.
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Amanda Rees @amandarees.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Historians of the Human Sciences! Early Career Prize now open for entrants - see below for details #hstm
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Thomas Spiteri @tespiteri.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
This week we welcome Prof. Steven Shapin to the pod!🎙️ We explore his journey through interdisciplinary spaces, revisit Leviathan and the Air-Pump 40 years on, and explore how credibility, trust and expertise are shaped by the fragmentation of expertise and (recent) political & cultural challenges
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S5 E11 - Steven Shapin on the Social Life of Scientific Knowledge
Podcast Episode · The HPS Podcast - Conversations from History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science · 19/10/2025 · 50m
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Amanda Rees @amandarees.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
SCIENCE RELIGION AND THE HUMAN FUTURE (Oxford UP) available Jan 16! So grateful to fabulous co-authors Charlotte Sleigh & David Wilkinson who stepped up after the dreadful loss of Tom McLeish (plus new jobs for other authors): book would not be here without them! @eclasproject.bsky.social
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Asif Siddiqi @historyasif.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Heads up for this excellent special issue of BJHS edited by @actgeppert.bsky.social . Insightful contributions on the cultural construction of 'founding fathers,' 'prophets,' etc. of the space age, taking a very global approach w/ works on Clarke, Sarabhai, Qian Xuesen, etc. I have a small epilogue.
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Adam Mosley @adamjmosley.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
I'm pleased to share the news that I have recently begun a term as co-editor of the British Journal for the History of Science (BJHS), working together with the now editor-in-chief, the brilliant Amanda Rees @amandarees.bsky.social.
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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Suddenly mad that we'll never get a Discworld book in which the wizards invent something like Large Language Monsters that eat everyone's stuff before regurgitating it, and Vimes arrests them all for being bloody stupid
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 09/12/2024
We've created a Starter Pack of #History societies and groups working to support promote our disciple and historians, in higher education and related professions go.bsky.app/68FsvjY Mainly UK but also international, with selected societies from related humanities subjects. Please share #Skystorians
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Michele Bogart @urbaninsideout.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Online talk on #art and #ecology on Thursday December 5 by a wonderful curator who spent many years at Wave Hill—so she knows her plant matter and the broader nature/culture systems in which they exist. She certainly knows art! www.eventbrite.com/e/fertile-gr...
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Fertile Ground: Collaborations in Art and Ecology
This PAX Talk will explore the work of artists and scientists who bridge the gap between science, art and activism.
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BSHS @bshsnews.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Great news! In 2025, the British Journal for the History of Science will move to a Research Open publication model. From 13 August 2025, all research articles will be open-access - reaching more readers and free access to the newest research in HistSTEAM!
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The British Journal for the History of Science | Cambridge Core
The British Journal for the History of Science - Dr Amanda Rees
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 03/12/2024
Looking for radical histories on Bluesky? We've made a Starter Pack of people & organisations who stretch our idea of what history is, who it is made by & what it is for. Please share and let us know if you'd like to be added. 🗃️ & ✊🗃️ go.bsky.app/Bb57VmV
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Radical Histories
Join the conversation
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Amanda Rees @amandarees.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
If you're looking for an excellent holiday gift, why not try this???
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Amanda Rees @amandarees.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Why should scientists listen to 'ordinary' people? And what do angels have to do with it? Check out today's #StoriesOfScienceAndFaith - with ADDED RADIOACTIVITY!
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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 29/11/2024
It's the last day to enter this Solarpunk Giveway! It includes: - My collection Different Kinds of Defiance - @susankayequinn.bsky.social's Halfway to Better - Metaphorosis, by @gristnews.bsky.social - Solarpunk Creatures, by World Weaver Press brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/november-g...
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November Giveaway: Solarpunk Starter Pack
Collections of Short Solarpunk Stories to Get You Through the Month
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Amanda Rees @amandarees.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Why should scientists listen to 'ordinary' people? And what do angels have to do with it? Check out today's #StoriesOfScienceAndFaith - with ADDED RADIOACTIVITY!
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Michael Brown @medhistoryman.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
The advert for our Research Associate post in Victorian Cultural and Material History is now up on jobs.ac.uk - www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKS158/r... Please spread the word!!!!
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Research Associate in Victorian Cultural and Material History at Lancaster University
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Research Associate in Victorian Cultural and Material History on jobs.ac.uk!
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Heidi Colleran @heidicolleran.bsky.social · 12/04/2024
With the world turning away from diversity we need public anthropology more than ever. I’ve decided to do my bit to share what we know about cultures of reproduction & why they matter for human evolution. PEOPLE LIKE US coming in 2027 🙏🏻 @zcosini.bsky.social
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Amanda Rees @amandarees.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
When is this thread going to become a book?
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Amanda Rees @amandarees.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
So pleased to have been involved with the publication of this award-winning article! Many congratulations both! #HistSci #EarlyModern #HSTM
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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
The Music Instinct is about why we make and love music, how our brains make sense of it, how composers and performers engage the emotions, and why music is IMO one of the most profound products of the human mind. www.penguin.co.uk/books/405735...
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The Music Instinct
Why have all human cultures - today and throughout history - made music? Why does music excite such rich emotion? How do we make sense of musical sound? These are questions that have, until recently...
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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Thanks @deevybee.bsky.social for looking at Elon Musk's record through the lens of ethical conduct in research. Having him in the @royalsociety.bsky.social Fellowship reflects really poorly on the organization IMO and I'm glad Fellows are speaking up. deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/11/why-...
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Why I have resigned from the Royal Society
The Royal Society is a venerable institution founded in 1660, whose original members included such eminent men as Christopher Wren, Robert H...
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Amanda Rees @amandarees.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
In the run up to Advent, see our #StoriesOfScienceAndFaith - dealing with #IVF, #CitizenScience #ReproductiveHealth, different ways of #stargazing, #BigData and, of course, Michael Faraday and the candle!
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Lewis Wade 🗃️ @wadehistory.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
We're approaching 100 historians/organisations in the maritime historians starter park 🥳 It's wonderful to see maritime history being so well represented here! If you would like to be added, just let me know below 👇 #MaritimeHistory go.bsky.app/EcGGYJw
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ASA SKAT @asaskat.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Looking for your SKAT colleagues on here? Check out our SKAT Starter Pack. Featuring sociologists of science, knowledge, and technology broadly defined. go.bsky.app/UFYjuhM
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Jon Agar @jonagar.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
I’m co-organising, with Cathy Lucas and Simon Werrett of @stsucl, an ‘Experimental History of Science Workshop’ to take place in April 2025 Think about entirely new ways of doing #histsci Let your imagination go wild!
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Amanda Rees @amandarees.bsky.social · 08/04/2024
The ECLAS project is launching our new #ScienceFaithStories project today - here's our first story on how #science #faith #science and #technology work together in past and present. Let us know what you think!
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Calculating Easter
How do you identify the unique resurrection moment in time?
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Amanda Rees @amandarees.bsky.social · 24/12/2023
Eda, Hooty and King say ‘Merry Christmas from the Boiling Isles! Also, never trust a man in casual drapery’ #OwlHouse #Gingerbread @irmorus.bsky.social
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Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social · 22/12/2023
My Opinion piece in @financialtimes.com outlines my argument that the Ministry of Justice proposals on digitising and destroying public wills are foolhardy& short-sighted, misjudging the state of digital preservation & the importance of material evidence. on.ft.com/3TGeJCV
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Destroying historical wills is foolhardy and short-sighted
The MoJ’s consultation on digitising these documents fails to consider crucial points
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Susan Klaiber @susanklaiber.bsky.social · 20/12/2023
Jim Bennett obituary #histsci www.theguardian.com/science/2023...
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Jim Bennett obituary
Museum curator with a gift for explaining the history of scientific instruments and the lives of those who made and used them
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Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social · 20/12/2023
Anyone who was in Halifax in 2004 to hear Jim Secord on Circulating Knowledge, and has since had reason to cite his paper in print should get a free pass to this event 😉 (I wonder how many of us there are? #histsci )
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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 18/12/2023
The Cloud Is Material: On the Environmental Impacts of Computation and Data Storage mit-serc.pubpub.org/pub/the-clou...
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The Cloud Is Material: On the Environmental Impacts of Computation and Data Storage · Winter 2022
In the age of machine learning, cryptocurrency mining, and seemingly infinite data storage capacity enabled by cloud computing, the environmental costs of ubiquitous computing in modern life are obscu...
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Mark R. Stoneman @markstoneman.com · 17/12/2023
#OpenAccess #HistSci #HistKnow The British Journal for the History of Science 56, no. 4 (2023), www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bri… HT: @hsozkultservice@openbiblio.social 🐘 🗃️
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Angela Cassidy @angecass.bsky.social · 12/12/2023
Super interesting piece in which - I think - @brdemuth.bsky.social entreats #envhist and #envhums folk to Speak For The Trees. Nice counterpoint to @amandarees.bsky.social BJHS Themes essay on animal agency, which is often a go-to for me when thinking about these debates.
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Clare Hickman @drhick.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
Publication day for Imagining Air ed by Tatiana Konrad 🥳 Free to download here! www.exeterpress.co.uk/products/ima... Including research from me on Open Air for Health: Environmental and Medical Intersections - research from AHRC All Footsteps project and Wellcome funded MedEnv 📗🗃️ #hstm #envhum
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Imagining Air
Imagining Air tackles air as a cultural, medical, and environmental phenomenon. Its major aim is to explore air’s visibility and invisibility within the environment through the investigation of such...
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Thony Christie @rmathematicus.bsky.social · 02/11/2023
Iwan Rhys Morus @irmorus.bsky.social brilliant historian of 19th century science is now on BlueSky so follow him and also buy his book How the Victorians Took Us to the Moon Take my word for it you won’t regret it #histsci #histtech thonyc.wordpress.com/2023/03/08/a...
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A masterclass in wide-ranging narrative history
Long ago in another life, when I first became interested in, involved in, began learning, the history of science, the classic texts one was supposed to have read where all big books. Big theme books, ...
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Iwan Rhys Morus @irmorus.bsky.social · 05/11/2023
Just four more days now until #VictorianMoonshot takes off once more. HOW THE VICTORIANS TOOK US TO THE MOON - now's the time to pre-order!
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Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social · 02/11/2023
#ICYMI: There is still time to register for William Ashworth's talk exploring the role of illustrations in early modern science. Join us in person at the Linda Hall Library or tune in tonight on Zoom at 7 PM, CDT: thecuriousroleofimages.splashthat.com #histsci #sciart #histSTM 📜🗃️
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Lisa Onaga @lisaonaga.bsky.social · 29/10/2023
Ooh, can't wait to read this! Entire of Itself? Towards an Environmental History of Islands, edited by Pavla Šimková and Milica Prokić (March 2024)
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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 29/10/2023
The Centre for the History of Science, Technology & Medicine at the University of Manchester (UK) now has a presence on Bluesky. Please follow us here: @manchstm.bsky.social
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Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social · 22/10/2023
Good morning, #histSTM/#histsci friends! I've set up a new feed (SHOT 2023) where scholars can share their thoughts about this year's meeting of the Society for the History of Technology using #SHOT2023, #histtech, or the gear emoji (⚙️). Send me a note if you would like to be added to the list! 🗃️📜
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