iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Jon Simons @jonsimons.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The advert for the Hatton Professorship of Sustainability is now out. A fantastic opportunity for someone with expertise in social psychology, behavioural science, etc, to help address the greatest threat of our age. Please share with anyone who might be interested! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/hatton-...

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Hatton Professorship of Sustainability

The Board of Electors to the Hatton Professorship of Sustainability invite applications for this Professorship from persons whose work falls within the general field of the Professorship (combining be...

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Dr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social · 12h

Speakers announcement! We're super lucky Jen Wallis @harbottlestores.bsky.social and Victoria Cranna (LSHTM archives) will speak at this event, alongside Kat Rawling and me on behalf of the project. Oh and we'll be recording and sharing the event afterwards. Can't wait to share this with the world!

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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We're delighted to be working again with the Oak Springs Garden Foundation on a virtual programme for 'Plant Perspectives' – "Gardens as Spaces of Healing". The session is on Wednesday 21st October; more info attached; and register here: www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket... #envhum #plantstudies #gardens

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Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

First the Academy of Natural Sciences, and now the Sternberg Museum of #NaturalHistory. In a better world, leaders would divert some of the money currently being spent on AI or data centers to maintain our libraries, museums, and archives... #histSTM #histsci #STEM #paleontology 🗃️📜📚

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Sternberg Museum in Hays to close by year’s end

The president of Fort Hays State University cited a budget shortfall in the closure decision.

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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Weather Report pt 2: contrails for comets at sunset. Words I’ve held dear since 1987: ‘A comet that was lost Should be visible at sunset, Those million tons of light Like a glimmer of haws & rose-hips’ Ravens homeward on taffeta wings. Blowing up sparks from embers of light. *Seamus Heaney

Sunset framed by trees, & a short vapour trail from an aeroplane lit brightly.

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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

For the anniversary of Silent Spring, published on this day in 1962. This Peanuts cartoon is from February 1963. #envhist @carsoncenter.bsky.social

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

An ancient and magical amber bear 🐻 ✨ Carved some 10,000 years ago, it washed up on a beach at Fanø in Denmark from a submerged Mesolithic settlement under the North Sea. National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen 📷 by me #Archaeology

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Helsbels @helenus3.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Loving the beautiful @petroc.bsky.social sea-themed programme now drawing to a close on Radio3, Where the Light Sings. Broadcast from the lighthouse on St Agnes, Isles of Scilly. Islands very close to my heart after several idyllic holidays there My 📷, Higher Town Bay, St. Martin's, Isles of Scilly

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Patrick Barkham @patrickbarkham.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I've written Joe Harkness's obituary for the Guardian. I hope it pays good tribute to a wonderful man who was brave, honest and made the world a better place. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Joe Harkness obituary

Writer, teacher and naturalist who explored the effects of the natural world on neurodivergency

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Rob Dale @robdale.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My excellent colleague Claudia Soares is advertising a funded PhD studentship with us in History at Newcastle. Closing date 16 October. ,📢 Please spread the word. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSX723/n...

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NUAcT PhD Studentship – Histories of Child Protection at Newcastle University

jobs.ac.uk now advertising a NUAcT PhD Studentship – Histories of Child Protection Visit jobs.ac.uk to apply and to browse more PhD opportunities.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

'Accounts described elephants selecting particular plants when they seemed unwell, and mothers reportedly giving medicinal plant material to their calves. ...the researchers concluded that the elephants use 35 different plant species, and that 25 of those are known locally to have medicinal uses.'

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Elephants treat themselves with medicinal plants, witnesses say

African elephants use dozens of different medicinal plants to treat themselves and their families when they are sick, research reveals.

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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"Every page the model reads exists because a historian in Havana did this work, and any honest account of AI in the humanities has to include the unevenly distributed labour, energy, and access on which these systems rest." Yes! No notes. If we're going to do this there's only one honest way.

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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

'History is a Human Craft'. In piece about ethics, our classrooms and AI, I suppose I've put up my barricades and drawn my lines. I suggest 8 'considerations' before we do any teaching with AI. This is part of a new @royalhistsoc.org short series on 'AI and History Teaching' in Transactions.

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History is a human craft | Historical Transactions

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"Unlike infectious diseases like smallpox and cholera, malaria was firmly place-based, meaning that local and environmental histories are best suited to telling its history–if we can reconstruct past environments." - @gabtm.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2024/05/29/t... #envhist #histmed #cdnhist

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Tropical Disease in Untropical Places: Thinking of Malaria in Canada

The processes designed to “soften” Upper Canada’s disease landscape—such as agriculture and settlement—were also tools of settler colonialism.

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Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AI thrives for the same reason that invasive species often thrive: they're being released into an environment that is already fucked.

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Clare Hickman @drhick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Surely this is something an environmental historian has done/thought about doing?! 📗 @eseh.bsky.social @nichecanada.bsky.social

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Has it occured to him that someone saying "school wasn't for me" went to a crap school? Or wasn't taught to read properly at primary?

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Municipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🚨 New on Substack, my post on the Meadow Well estate, North Shields. The estate became infamous for its 1991 riots but they were part of a much more complex and richer history. municipaldreams.substack.com/p/the-meadow...

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The Meadow Well Estate, North Shields I: ‘a victim of labelling’

‘Decent people living on a decent estate’ – that’s how Carole Bell, a Meadow Well community activist wanted people to think of the Estate in 2012.

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Rachel Salvidge @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We’ve found alarmingly high levels of PFAS “forever chemicals” in the blood of people living near a chemicals site in Lancashire. 49 people tested. 70% had levels in a high risk health category. The BBC, Times and ITV are reporting the findings today. www.itv.com/news/2026-09...

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Mona Bieling @monabie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Please consider applying 👇🏼We'll discuss your work in progress in a friendly and constructive environment, invite an expert discussant to join the conversation, and help you make connections with peers in environmental history #envhist #envhum

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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 23/09/2026

Barbara Bender wrote in 1993, “Operating … at the juncture of history and politics, social relations and cultural perceptions, landscape has to be … ‘a concept of high tension’.”

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

THIS FRIDAY: You can come to my @royalhistsoc.org public lecture on rights of way and the struggle for land access in England and Wales... It's at London's Senate House at 6pm. Still a few tickets left! And an online version. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rhs-lectur...

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RHS Lecture: 'In All Our Footsteps?' with Professor Glen O'Hara IN PERSON

'In All Our Footsteps? Rights of Way and the Battle for the Land after the 1949 National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act' at the IHR

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 22/09/2026

this is a great piece of writing about how comedy works. even if you don’t like snluk - perhaps, particularly if you don’t like snluk - it’s well worth listening to joel rummage underneath the bonnet

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Alice Bennett @aliceponderland.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I do want him to be prosecuted (how isn’t he being arrested?!) but if I’m honest, I also slightly want the kraken to emerge and then drag him to the depths.

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Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

What a farce. As farmers fail to access funds to support sustainable farming, this will undoubtedly mean valuable wildlife habitat (recently created or much older) will be destroyed, as farmers feel they have no option but to intensify their farming systems. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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‘Worse than the scramble for Oasis tickets’: England’s sustainable farming funds run out in just six hours

Entire £233m budget for 2026 allocated in less than a day, leaving thousands of farmers disappointed

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 22/09/2026

Hard to explain how gobsmacking this is. The government opened applications for farm subsidies this morning at 10. And closed it just before 4 because they'd run out of cash. Applying for your livelihood like it's Oasis tickets. defrafarming.blog.gov.uk/2026/09/22/s...

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SFI26: Window 2 now closed

Window 2 of the Sustainable Farming Incentive 2026 (SFI26) has now closed. Thank you to everyone who took the time to submit an application.

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Dr Hannah Fluck @hannahfluck.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Anyone fancy a job helping deliver for nature and climate in one of the most extraordinary historic landscapes in the NE of England? One of those once in a decade opportunities just came up at @NationalTrust Wallington/Heart of Northumberland estate www.simplyhired.co.uk/job/d9vU9N7C...

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General Manager - National Trust | Morpeth

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

literally thousands of jobs in higher education were cut *last year alone* and there's been almost no media coverage and no government action

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Saima Nasar @saimanasar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Please join us in celebrating the Centre for Black Humanities’ tenth anniversary. CBH is holding a two-day symposium titled ‘Collectivity, Community, Collaboration’. Our keynote will be Professor Christina Sharpe. Cfp below. Please spread the word!

CALL FOR PAPERS
Centre For Black Humanities 10th Anniversary Symposium:
‘Black Humanities: Collectivity, Community, Collaboration’
Keynote Speaker: Professor Christina Sharpe
8-9
th April 2027
University of Bristol

The Centre for Black Humanities is an interdisciplinary research collective dedicated to
advancing scholarship on the artistic and intellectual contributions of people of African
descent. It is inspired by and expands legacies of scholarship, art, and activism relating
to Black lives across time and space. Building on our international and multilingual
networks, and our home in the port city of Bristol, our research often engages with
communities beyond traditional academic settings and addresses inequality and social
justice through innovative collaborations. By centring an ethics of care and generosity,
despite the chronic conditions of life in and beyond the academy, we support earlycareer scholars and visiting scholars/practitioners. In turn, we seek to interrogate and
repurpose institutions of knowledge production such as universities, museums and
publishing houses, within entangled contexts of reparative justice, decolonization, and
the climate crisis. We imagine collectivity, community and collaboration as methods for
Black Humanities research going forwards.

To celebrate the Centre’s 10-year anniversary, we will be holding a two-day symposium
entitled: ‘Black Humanities: Collectivity, Community, Collaboration’. The keynote
will be Professor Christina Sharpe, Research Chair in Black Studies in the Humanities at
York University (Canada), and author of In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (2016) and
Ordinary Notes (2024). We invite scholars and practitioners (at all levels, independent
and affiliated) to submit abstracts for presentations of 15 minutes. The event will be
held in person at the University of Bristol. We invite presentations that speak to Black
Humanities in its multi/anti/undisciplinary forms. We are particularly interested in work
that speaks to the following themes:
- Collectivity, Collaboration and/or Community in Black Humanities
- Black Humanities/Studies in times of polycrisis
- Black Health
- Environmental Justice
- Radical Imaginaries (how creative works make sense of Black pasts/present and
help to shape Black futures)
- Methods for solidarity and/or incompleteness
- Folklore and storytelling as method
- Translation and multilingual solidarities
- Beyond critique
Please submit your abstract of no more than 250 words, along with a short bio of no
more than 100 words, to cbh-publicity@bristol.ac.uk. Abstracts should be submitted
no later than Friday 30th October 2026. A publication and podcast series are planned to
follow on after this event.
You may reach us at cbh-publicity@bristol.ac.uk in case of any questions or
observations.

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Can we make a comparison to deindustrailisation now? The slashing of wages, the redundancies, the subordination of learning to profit? The intellectual impoverishment of communities and generations, not to mention the literal impoverishment through unemployment and shrinking of local economies?

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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

God I hate this 'people who create wealth' nonsense. Let's see how much wealth we have in a society without teachers, nurses etc......

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Dr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Really excited to announce the online launch of The Ethics of Medical Photography Toolkit, the result of two years of work between academics, archives and museums. Register here forms.gle/PYBjxGNDitDp... to join us on Friday 16 Oct at 3 pm BST online #histmed #photohist #ethics #medhums

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Dr Eleanor Shaw @eleanorshaw.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Fancy coming to work with me at the British Library? Part time for 18 months, collecting oral histories about covid and thinking about covid commemoration. www.nationalmuseums.org.uk/jobs/job/228...

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Jobs - National Museum Directors' Council Website

Association of directors and chief executives of the UK's national museums, galleries, libraries and archives.

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Dr Beckie Rutherford (she/her) @beckierutherford.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"Including disabled people in the story of Britain, which is what the book grandly tries to do, is about showing that disabled people are always there and that disability isn’t some kind of modern trend." Extremely timely reflections from @profdavidturner.bsky.social's new book project ...

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David Turner: “Disabled people have always been part of history"

The historian on his landmark new book ‘Disability: A History of Resistance’

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Clare Hickman @drhick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Interesting to see this green paper from @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social on Unlocking Nature and the connections made between the health of humans and other species. www.wildlifetrusts.org/sites/defaul...

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The University at Buffalo archives had a great exhibit on electricity + medicine at the exposition. There was a premature infant incubator demonstration hall - with actual premature infants from the area who were being “saved” through the electrical technology of the incubator.

A photo of nurses and doctors standing in front of wall with incubators

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Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

NEW JOB! We are pleased to share news from our friends at VCH Hampshire who are advertising for a contributing editor to edit, research, and write work towards the county's first #BigRedBook for over a century. Applications close 1 October. #Skystorians #LocalHistory

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Contributing Editor at Victoria County History Hampshire

Recruiting now: Contributing Editor on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board

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Erika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Job posting - tenure-track assistant professor position The Dept of the History of Art & Architecture at Brown Univ seeks applicants whose scholarship focuses on histories of early modern (ca. 1400s-1700s) European art & architecture in the world. More info: apply.interfolio.com/191701

A detail of the still life flower painting by Ambrosius Bosschaert (the elder), Still-Life of Flowers, 1614; J. Paul Getty Museum. The job title for which applicants are sought is in yellow text at the top.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Leading a gang of masked men in black to intimidate the media is wrong, whether it's the Daily Mail or the parish magazine. And posting "There will be no threats. There will be no intimidation" is just nonsense when you're bringing a masked gang with you.

Picture (from the Daily Mail) of Daniel Thomas with his masked blackshorts, and the caption "Balaclava-clad anti-migrant activists led by convicted criminal "Danny Tommo" stage latest protest outside Daily Mail office".

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Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com · 08/09/2026

And if you are interested in slime molds, Matt's Cambridge Element is essential reading for learning more about their life cycle, unique physiology, morphology, and behavior, and why this organism is so fascinating for philosophers too! 👇📕 www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Book cover of “Slime Mould and Philosophy” by Matthew Sims in the Cambridge Elements: The Philosophy of Biology series. Against a black background, the title is surrounded by Ernst Haeckel’s illustrations of marine organisms—radial, symmetrical forms in vivid blues, oranges, reds, and greens.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Am writing something about the Bayeux Tapestry. Any historians of the period or anyone else with relevant expertise, please DM me as I would like to put some questions/ideas to experts.

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LBC @lbc.co.uk · 07/09/2026

This is @mrjamesob.bsky.social's London.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 06/09/2026

Who wrote this article. can I give them my disability. THEY CAN HAVE IT I WILL SURRENDER MY COOL POINTS IMMEDIATELY

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

And, if you care about people with disabilities' access to university, NB in 2024-25, 30.6% of UK HE enrolments in Design and Creative and Performing Arts had a known disability. In Physical Sciences it was 23.2%, Computing 15.5%, Engineering and Technology 14.2%. Access limits in all directions.?

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Table 44 - HE student enrolments by subject of study and disability marker 2014/15 to 2024/25 | HESA

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

2) and 3) are intimately linked, in that the BBC (the organisation that really matters in the modern environment) treats 'claims by rival parties' as the operating frame for how it covers everything. The failure from Labour and the Conservatives to say 'this stuff is bad' is really, really bad.

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

They are also stopping road traffic - we are told that this is a serious act of "terrorism", entailing long prison sentences, when done for environmental reasons?

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