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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Academic here, yeah I know it’s September still!

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Register below in time for #spookyseason to hear me talk about authors who took literary inspiration from the ghostly world of séances 👻 ⬇️

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Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This looks like a brilliant event with the amazing @dremilyvincent.bsky.social. I'm also a big fan of the William Hope spirit photograph used to advertise it, which is from the National Media Museum's collection.

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Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This looks like an interesting initiative between @bavs-uk.bsky.social and @jofvictculture.bsky.social If you are an ECR looking for some mentorship to help navigate the publishing world, this could be the scheme for you. jvc.oup.com/2026/09/28/j...

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JVC–BAVS Early Career Mentorship Scheme – Journal of Victorian Culture Online

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Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm starting work on small project about Charles Darwin and his interest in seance phenomena. It should be super fun to write.

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Charles Darwin Approves: Thumbs Up Meme

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scott b. weingart @scottbot.net · 22/09/2026

Join my team! Help us figure out how to be as careful stewards of today's born-digital archives of state as we've been for physical archives over the last 200 years. Seeking experience in digital archives/collections/preservation, or related cultural heritage work. Due 10/6. Up to $91k.

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Born-Digital Collections Coordinator #00220 - Richmond, Virginia, United States

Title: Born-Digital Collections Coordinator #00220 State Role Title: Library Specialist III Hiring Range: Commensurate with experience up to $91,080 Pay Band: 5 Agency: The Library of Virginia Locatio...

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Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Now that we are a few weeks into the new term, this is a routine reminder that we are always looking for new articles on 19th-century topics. If you want to produce a special issue, please consider sending it to @advancesjournal.bsky.social Open Call for Proposals 👇 in-csa.com/themed-speci...

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Call for Proposals: Special / Themed Issues - International Nineteenth-Century Studies Association

Call for Proposals Special / Themed Issues Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research, the journal of the International-Nineteenth Century Studies Association Follow on BlueSky Call for Book Reviews Adva...

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Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Today I got to talk about The Beatles for nearly two hours with a group of MA students. It doesn't get much better than that. I also put forward a passionate defence of Ringo who is under-appreciated.

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The Beatles Cartoon Band Performance

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Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This looks like a great online event, which is being organised by Marijke Valk, University of Birmingham Details below 👇 www.bsls.ac.uk/2026/09/bsls... CFP: Occult Science: Disenchantment, Re-Enchantment, and the Persistence of Wonder Deadline: 31 October 2026. 🎃 Event date: 9 January 2027

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BSLS 2026/27 Winter Symposium Call for Papers – The British Society for Literature and Science

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Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Grant application for a major video game project submitted. Not a bad end to the week. Fingers crossed for some success... 🤞

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Controller Grass: Exhausted Gamer

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Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I'm pretty chuffed with my recent haul of books, which link to my current research activities.

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Michael Iantorno☔️🕹️ @michaeliantorno.com · 28/08/2026

I'm happy to share a new 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀 for an edited collection on game preservation in Canada, with co-editors @jeanketterling.bsky.social and @videogamehistorian.bsky.social. We welcome essays, material studies, and interviews. Full details at the link below - please share widely!

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Call For Papers – GamePreservation.ca

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Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This semester I'm teaching an MA course on the history of American rock n roll from the 1950s-2000s. I've never been more excited to teach a course. I've spent the last week listening to bangers by Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, Fats Domino, Big Mama Thornton, Chuck Berry, and others. What a blast!

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Cat and Mouse Duo Playing Guitars

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Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I fell down a bit of a rabbit hole this morning thinking about the computers we had at school. In Ontario the Ministry commissioned Unisys ICONS (aka Bionic Beavers - genuine nickname) for schools that came pre-loaded with educational games. Did anyone else play Crosscountry Canada?

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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Are you an early career researcher in the humanities and social sciences? Join the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the British Academy Knowledge Frontiers Symposium to network with fellow researchers in an in-person symposium in Bonn, Germany. Apply now: bit.ly/4yL3Stm

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Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I am always so chuffed with myself when I write silly names for my meetings. However, I can never remember what they are about which makes prep difficult... 🙃

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

'Applicants holding the Ph.D. at the time of application must have received the degree after January 1, 2025. Applicants not yet holding the Ph.D. are expected to have completed a substantial portion of the dissertation – at least half – at the time of application.' 4 August deadline.

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2026 Call for Applications

The Princeton Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts, an interdisciplinary group of scholars in the humanities and social sciences, invites applications for the 2027-2030 fellowship competition. Appli...

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Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

My referee report for my new book is back and it recommends publication with very minor revisions. Happy days!!!

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Cat DJ and Disco Dancing Cats

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Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Just because the big history of science conference is over, does not mean the fun has to stop. Please join @incsa.bsky.social's history of medicine event at the Medical Museion in Copenhagen (20 July 2026). It is free and hybrid! Registration details 👇 eventsignup.ku.dk/medicinemuse...

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Medicine, Museums, and Science Communication in the Nineteenth Century

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Nanna Kaalund @nannaklk.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

The party doesn't end in Edinburgh #ESHS-HSS! Join us in Copenhagen, either online or in-person, on Monday 20 July for the conference "Medicine, Museums, and Science Communication in the Nineteenth-Century". We have a wonderful program, and registration is free. eventsignup.ku.dk/medicinemuse...

Conference Program: 20 July 2026

Welcome and Opening Remarks
09:00-9:20

Nanna Kaalund and Cora Salkovskis, “Welcome and opening remarks”, (Medical Museion, University of Copenhagen)

Efram Sera-Shriar, “Welcome from INCSA”, (Vice-President of INCSA, University of Copenhagen)

Session 1: Medicine, Mobility, and the Making of Knowledge Across Borders
Chair: Adam Bencard (University of Copenhagen)
09:20–10:40

Sorin Grigoruță (A. D. Xenopol Institute of History / New Europe College), “Physicians, Transfer of Knowledge and the Beginnings of the First Museum in the Romanian Extra-Carpathian Space”

Alicja Urbanik-Kopeć (Institute for the History of Science, Polish Academy of Sciences), “Teodora Krajewska – Community, Care, Teaching and the “‘Other’”

Lucy Hyde (University of Bristol), “The Entanglement of Medicine, Museums, and Public Communication in the Case of John Horwood”

Coffee Break: 10:40–11:00

Session 2: Domesticating Medicine: Gender and Popular Health Cultures
Chair: Efram Sera-Shriar (University of Copenhagen)
11:00–12:25

Shatavisha Mustafi (Nayanta University) and Sayan Das (Jawaharlal Nehru University), “Re-visualising Bodies | Re-rooting Self: Medical Advertisements and the Imagination of the Modern Self in Nineteenth-Century Bengal”

Carlo Bovolo (Società di Studi Valdes), “Healing Bodies, Educating Souls: The Popularization of Medicine in Italian Protestant Youth Periodicals”

Doel Chakraborty (Indian Institute of Technology Madras), “Healing at Home: Vernacular Medical Print and the Circulation of Gynaecological Knowledge in Colonial Bengal

Lunch 12:25–13:20

Session 3: Bodies on Display: Museums, Ethics, and Spectacle
Chair: Kaija-Liisa Koovit (University of Copenhagen)
13:20–14:45

Nanna Kaalund (University of Copenhagen), “From Display to Diagnosis: Elastic Bodies and the Making of Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome”

Cora Salkovskis (University of Copenhagen), “‘Morbid Appetites’: Credibility, Selfhood, and the Girls Who ‘Swallowed’ Needles in The Lancet, 1850–1911”

Rebecka Klette (Birkbeck, University of London), “Genealogical Crossroads: Family History Methodologies and Research Ethics in the Case of the Murderer Philipsen”

Charlotte White (Newcastle University), “Preserve, Protect, Punish: Reevaluating Public Health and Public History through the Use of Tuberculosis Posters”

Coffee Break 14:45–15:00

Session 4: Visualising Medicine: Art, Objects, and the Communication of the Body
Chair: Tine Friis (University of Copenhagen)
15:00–16:00

Allison Morehead (Queen's University) and Phil Loring (National Medical Museum, Teknisk Museum), “Family Medicine: Visualizing and Materializing Nineteenth-Century Medicine in the Early Work of Edvard Munch”

Jessica M. Dandona (Minneapolis College of Art and Design), “Maison Tramond's Wax Models of the Female Body: Anatomical Venus or Memento Mori?”

Keynote Lecture
Chair: Cora Salkovskis (University of Copenhagen)
16:00–17:00

Katherine Ott (Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History) and Lilla Vekerdy (Smithsonian Libraries and Archives), “Understanding 19th Century Embodiment Through Medical Material Culture”

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Kristof Smeyers @kristofsmeyers.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

You might think "hey I *know* the history of mesmerism / animal magnetism" but you don't

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Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

“The spirit medium is a curious and unsavoury specimen of natural history, and if you wish to study him, you must take him unawares, as you would any other vermin.... I have done my share of the skunk-hunting; let others follow.” - E Ray Lankester (1885)

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

#jobfairy - there's something in the water in the USA. Four #histSTM posts - two hist med (one pre-modern) and two generalist HSTM (one senior). Some won't sponsor visas but if the US is safe for you to work in there are more options this year than for a while :/ 🗃️

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History of Science Technology and Medicine 2026-2027

Back to: History 2026-2027 Last Year's Page: History of Science Technology and Medicine 2025-2026 When posting new jobs: Follow the format of existing post Use the 'Preview' button to check for errors...

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Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Registration is now open for @incsa.bsky.social's satellite conference at the Medical Museion in Copenhagen on 20 July 2026. This is a hybrid event and there is still time to sign up. Full details 👇 eventsignup.ku.dk/medicinemuse...

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Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

That awkward moment when the dry run of your 18-minute talk is over 30 minutes...

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Spongebob with CB Bucket

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Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I am working on my presentation for ESHS/HSS at Edinburgh. I'm going to be discussing the contest for cultural authority in Victorian Britain and the spiritualist press using two well-known stories: the transit of Mrs. Guppy by spirit apport and Henry Slade's alleged exposure and criminal trial.

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Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

We are approaching conference season and many of us will be organising panels and presenting papers. If you want to produce a special issue based on these activities, please consider sending it to @advancesjournal.bsky.social Open Call for Proposals 👇 in-csa.com/themed-speci... Please share!

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Call for Proposals: Special / Themed Issues - International Nineteenth-Century Studies Association

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Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Does anyone have digital access to the following chapter? I'd be greatly for a copy. James Secord, “Global Darwin,” in Darwin, ed. William Brown and Andrew C. Fabian, 31-57.

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Charles Darwin: Survival of the Fittest

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Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I just got some feedback on my new book manuscript and it is blessedly manageable and insightful. Hopefully the other reviews are similar. Now to wait anxiously for them...

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Spongebob Alone at the Diner

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Eloise Moss @ladyburglar.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

We're hiring a permanent Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of Manchester: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

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Lecturer in Modern British History (post-1800):Oxford Road

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Prof MNP @nushpowell.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

The ASU The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is searching for its next Director of the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies. Head to Interfolio for details, or message me! Please share widely. apply.interfolio.com/187054

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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 27/04/2026

Our new podcast #UnholyHistories launches Wednesday! From ancient atheists to pre-Enlightenment skeptics and long-forgotten heretics, humanist historian Madeleine Goodall and our Chief Executive Andrew Copson explore the ideas and individuals who shaped our modern world. humanists.uk/2026/04/22/u...

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Unholy Histories – new podcast from Humanists UK

Humanists UK has released a trailer promoting the upcoming launch of its new podcast, Unholy Histories, launching 29 April. Hosted by Andrew Copson and Madeleine Goodall, with new expert guests each ...

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Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

It's my great pleasure to announce the formation of our new research cluster @cncsi.bsky.social: "Popular Occulture in the Modern Age: Encountering the Gothic and Horror Across Media." I'm excited to work with such a cool group of scholars. Do share the news! Details 👇 cn-csi.com/theme-popula...

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Theme: Popular Occulture - CNCSI

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Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

After yet another productive week of writing, I now have all the chapters and the introduction to my next book drafted! Unfortunately, I still have the conclusion to write, which is the part I always struggle most with...

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Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

For my last class of the semester on *Monsters in the Literary and Cultural Imagination*, the students surprised me with this awesome cake. It is moments like this that make the job worth it.

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Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

A small bit of news, the Dark Arts Research Group at the Univ. of Copenhagen is teaming up with @gothicauob.bsky.social. I am so excited about this collaboration and look forward to the future of working together 👻 🦇 🧌 uobgothica.wordpress.com/collaboratio...

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Collaborations

We are very excited to announce out our new collaboration with Copenhagen University! Feel free to check out their page here!

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Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

I was reminded this morning of "Psycho," an automaton co-invented by John Nevil Maskelyne and John Algernon Clarke in 1874. Psycho was designed to play the card games Whist and Nap and performed over 4000 times at the Egyptian Hall. He's now at the Museum of London.

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Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

After months of painfully slow progress, I've finally drafted all of the main chapters for my current book project. Now on to the introduction and afterword. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel...

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Dark Tunnel with Light at End

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Christa R. DiMarco @christadimarco.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Submissions are open for the 2027 Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Prizes 🌿 Deadlines: July 1, 2026 1. Article Prize: ncsaweb.net/ncsa-article... 2. BIPOC Scholars Prize: ncsaweb.net/bipoc-schola... 3. Emerging Scholars: ncsaweb.net/ncsa-emergin... 〰️ @ncsascholars.bsky.social

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Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Like some of his friends and colleagues in the 1870s, I want to give William Crookes the benefit of the doubt that his experiments with psychic force were not as flawed as his critics said. But then I think about how he also unreservedly argued that Katie King's physical materialisation was real...

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Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

This is another regular reminder that @incsa.bsky.social's journal ANCR is currently accepting proposals for themed issues. If you are interested, get in touch. Please share! Guidelines for proposals: in-csa.com/themed-speci... Information about the journal: www.tandfonline.com/journals/ran...

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Call for Proposals: Special / Themed Issues - International Nineteenth-Century Studies Association

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Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

This looks awesome and it is going to the top of my reading list.

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Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

My students shared this gem with me today in class. The album includes Lovecraftian-themed bangers such as: 'I'm Dreaming of a Dead City', 'It's Beginning to Look at Lot Like Fishmen', and 'O Come All Ye Olde Ones' 💗

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