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Dr Franziska Kohlt @frankendodo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's great to see this *almost* in print! Lewis Carroll's thought on animal welfare, his activism, and how it is expressed through his fiction has so often been overlooked, so I was pleased to contribute this article to the forthcoming Victoriographies special issue on Victorian Animal Welfare!

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Madeleina Kay 🫐💫🦋 @madeleinakayart.com · 09/09/2026

Yesterday we launched my bilingual children’s book for @europeanmovement.co.uk with a webinar including Ben Coleman MP & @frankendodo.bsky.social If you’d like to get your own copy of Faraway Friends: Robyn Robin Flies to France - you can order here: shop.europeanmovement.co.uk/products/far...

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

If you were living in Europe in the 1580s and 90s, you would likely have heard a few herring prophecies from Norway. Fishes with words about evil, fighting knights symbolizing the Ottoman conflicts of the Habsburg monarchy etc. appeared, and they all predicted something about the state of the world.

a German broadside with a wondrous fish caught off Norway. Source: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1880-0710-346

6 fishes with words from a small print of 1598 ("Prophetia halieutica nova et admiranda...", Source: https://www.e-rara.ch/zuz/content/titleinfo/1489626

A broadside from 1587 showing a fish with wondrous inscriptions which reads 'Vici Malum' caught off Norway. Source: https://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/freytag/content/pageview/8433201

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©Phil Robinson (PjrFoto) @pjrfoto.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I don't listen to enough podcasts, it's something I should do more often. This one is great. Thanks @frankendodo.bsky.social

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Dr Franziska Kohlt @frankendodo.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Disney's Alice turns 75! If you're curious about the Science behind Wonderland, catch me on BBC Unexpected Elements exploring the topic - now online & on all podcast channels #histsci #scicomm #kidlit www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Unexpected Elements - Down The Rabbit Hole - BBC Sounds

As Disney’s Alice in Wonderland turns 75, we celebrate the science behind story

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Cordelia Beattie @cordeliabeattie.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I see some people are reading this post as being about Exeter but it’s referring to the University of Hertfordshire. And that’s Owen’s point. Less coverage about the axe falling there but it’s equally sad.

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©Phil Robinson (PjrFoto) @pjrfoto.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I have now flooded the market with Hummingbird Hawk Moth videos and it's maybe time to venture further than 6 feet from my front door - but I do like this one, especially the fly-past at the end.

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

"Contemporary narratives often frame Open Science and metascience as novel frontiers of transparency and rigor, obscuring their deep roots in feminist methodologies and critical social science traditions." New work by @maddipow.bsky.social

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Recent years have seen growing emphasis on “Open Science,” a movement to enhance research transparency, robustness, and accountability. Prompted by concerns over fraud, questionable research practices, and low reproducibility in psychological research that emerged in the 2010s, Open Science has been framed by some dominant advocates as a new approach to research in psychology and across the social sciences. However, women in social science have long practiced and promoted principles now hailed as innovative, although their contributions are often left out of mainstream narratives. This erasure is troubling, especially as feminist scholars have critiqued the increasingly exclusionary culture of mainstream science reform. This article traces the overlooked contributions of five pioneering women: Mary Whiton Calkins and her replication efforts in the 1890s; Helen Bradford Thompson Woolley, who advocated for analytical precision in the 1910s; Alice Bryan’s 1940s adversarial collaboration; Carolyn Wood Sherif’s metascientific work in the 1960s; and Leonore Tiefer’s promotion of conflict-of-interest declarations of sex research in the 2000s. I document how their contributions laid the intellectual foundations of what is now contemporary Open Science in the social sciences. In doing so, I celebrate a lineage of feminist scientific labor that has always emphasized openness, ethics, and equity.

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Unexpected Elements - Down The Rabbit Hole - BBC Sounds

As Disney’s Alice in Wonderland turns 75, we celebrate the science behind story

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Gunnar Hamann @ostprog.eurosky.social · 29/07/2026

Wobei die Mechanismen mit der „Ikonisierung“ (gab es bei Lauterbach wie auch bei anderen) sehr breit aufgetreten sind während der Pandemie. Ich nehme mich da auch nicht aus. Hatte darüber mit @frankendodo.bsky.social vor fast vier Jahren (time flies) gesprochen und viel mitgenommen.

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Der neoliberale John Snow

“Ignorance is Schiss”. Die Forscherin Franziska Kohlt und der Online-Satiriker Neoliberal John Snow über pandemische Parallelen der Viktorianischen Zeit zum ...

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 16/07/2026

"contemporary understandings of Open Science, as both an epistemological orientation and a set of practical tools, may be strengthened by more clearly connecting them to the scholarship and practices developed by women throughout the history of the social sciences." — @maddipow.bsky.social

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Women as the First Open Scientists: Five Stories of the Neglected Contributions of Women in (Social) Science Reform History - Madeleine Pownall, 2026

Recent years have seen growing emphasis on “Open Science,” a movement to enhance research transparency, robustness, and accountability. Prompted by concerns ove...

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James Greenwood-Reeves @jgreenwoodreeves.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

As an academic, I have decided to pre-empt AI taking my job, so I am going to take ITS job! I am going to start hallucinating, lying to my students, and drinking 700,000 litres of water

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Dr Franziska Kohlt @frankendodo.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

And my own talk - investigating histories of hagiography in science as inherently polarising, challenging us to urgently rethink them as "go to" narratives for promoting science #eshs-hss

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Dr Franziska Kohlt @frankendodo.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

For everyone who came to my talk on hagiographies in science (and tech) discourse, where "technofideism" came up in the Q&A - this article is a very complementary read.

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Dr Franziska Kohlt @frankendodo.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Dagmar Schaefer kicking off the Plenary panel on "Time" with the problems and potential of comparison in the history of science #hss-bshs 1/x

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Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Hello everyone using #HSS2026 and #ESHS2026 hashtags. Remember that it's a joint meeting! We're using #ESHS-HSS

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Dr Franziska Kohlt @frankendodo.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

And my own talk - investigating histories of hagiography in science as inherently polarising, challenging us to urgently rethink them as "go to" narratives for promoting science #eshs-hss

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Dr Franziska Kohlt @frankendodo.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Paulina Gennermann with the really hot stuff on psychopharmaceutics, narratives & trust aka doctors or dealers? #eshs-hss

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Dr Franziska Kohlt @frankendodo.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Mallory Anne Hreor with some amazing analysis of how MAGA science/religion reframes espistemology through Logic and the idea of consensus on the example of climate science #eshs-hss

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Dr Franziska Kohlt @frankendodo.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Just in case you missed this conference highlight

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Dr Franziska Kohlt @frankendodo.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Privileged to be at this fantastic panel - Robert Bud (Science Museum, UCL( asking the big questions - how should we tell stories of science to maintain trust in science? #HSS2026 #ESHS2026

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

PLEASE SHARE: The Society for the Scientific Study of Religion has immediate opportunity for new Executive Officer. This part-time, remote position pays $55k. Details in attachment. Apply here bit.ly/SSSR-2026-EO.

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Dr Franziska Kohlt @frankendodo.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Well here's the news: Very excited to be joining King's College London as Research Fellow in Historical Climatology& Glaciology to work on historical- indigenous& colonial -narratives of the Himalayan glacier regions to design effective climate interventions through storytelling. Absolute dream job!

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Leeds Centre for the History and Philosophy of Science @hpsleeds.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

CFP: Global Childhood (s) and Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine, Leeds 16-18 November. Keynote by Dr Sebastián Gil-Riañ. Deadline for submissions June 22nd hpsleeds.wordpress.com/2026/06/02/c...

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 11/04/2026

> Anthropic does not produce science. They produce propaganda that's CSS formatted to look science-y. You can go to their website and load things that look like papers, but they have not been submitted anywhere, will not be submitted anywhere, because Anthropic think they are above all that.

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Lawrence Culver @lawrencecphd.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Informative and infuriating.

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The British Society for Literature and Science @thebsls.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

The BSLS Want to help keep the BSLS running smoothly? Ahead of the 2026 annual conference, we are seeking expressions of interest and nominations for two positions on the executive committee: Treasurer and Book Reviews Editor. Interested? More info here: www.bsls.ac.uk/2026/03/bsls...

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BSLS Executive Committee: Call for nominations and expressions of interest – The British Society for Literature and Science

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Claire Turner @claireturner.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

I'm delighted to finally share details of a workshop series I'm hosting with @thackraymuseum.bsky.social! 'Researchers in Museums' is open to a wide range of early career researchers and offers the opportunity to go 'behind the scenes' in a fantastic medical museum. Please share widely!

Researchers in Museums: Collections and Archives Workshop Series. Thackray Museum of Medicine, Leeds. 13 May; 18 June; 9 July; 1-4pm. I am delighted to be working with Thackray Museum of Medicine to host three workshops for ‘Researchers in Museums’. These interactive workshops offer early career researchers an opportunity to learn about the potential of museum collections to enrich their research. Each workshop will include:

‘Cancer in the Collections’: a unique insight into how one researcher, Dr Claire Turner (Durham University) uses Thackray’s extensive collections and archives to support her own research.
Stores Tour: an exclusive guided tour of Thackray’s stores by its Collections Team, with the opportunity to learn more about the history of the museum and the objects, books, and archival materials it holds.
Research Room Time: a chance to look in greater depth at books, objects and archival materials drawn from the museum’s collections.
Personal Research: option to request and view an object related to your own research.

Each session can accommodate up to 8 attendees, each of whom will receive a £20 bursary towards travel to the workshop.

To be eligible to attend, you must be:
An early career researcher (MA, PhD, or within two years of finishing the PhD)
Working broadly within the field of medical humanities

Expressions of interest should include a short summary of your research, how you meet the workshop criteria, and your preferred workshop date (max 250 words). All EOIs should be submitted to claire.o.turner@durham.ac.uk by 5pm on Friday 17 April.

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 04/03/2026

Here's my first edit on the March 3rd Lunar Eclipse. 15 moon shots, 1 foreground. Taken over a 3 hourish period.

The moon going from full moon to a red moon and starting to go back to a normal full moon, then my camera battery door fell off.

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Dr Franziska Kohlt @frankendodo.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Make this two journal articles and a book contract!

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Dr Franziska Kohlt @frankendodo.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Things have been a little stressful recently, and yet I have somehow managed to pull together 2 forthcoming journal articles! Both deal with the politics of knowledge literature for popular audiences, amid 19c tensions about who gets to participate in the making of scientific knowledge-and why 📚 🔭 🐛

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Angela Cassidy @angecass.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Also 👂🎧👂 when you have a few mins! Oral history is a powerful means for learning from emotions & experiences, critical for building bridges and collaborating beyond disciplines. Drawing on lived memories of RELU, Valuing Nature, STEPS research & beyond #HistSTM #envhums #STS #sustainability #scipol

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Do you want to get another schism? Because this is how you get another schism

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Dr Franziska Kohlt @frankendodo.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

To celebrate the publication of 'Science, Religion and the Human Future' you can grab a limited time 30% discount - so get our new book for £13.99 ($17.50) here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Dr Franziska Kohlt @frankendodo.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

And more from @theconversation.com - dismantled federal programs that combat such hostile campaigns&defunded research efforts to study them; X has cut off researchers’ easy access to the data that'd make it possible to detect&monitor these kinds of manipulation." theconversation.com/swarms-of-ai...

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Swarms of AI bots can sway people’s beliefs – threatening democracy

A simulation shows that social media bots powered by today’s AI can infiltrate human networks on social media and influence what people believe.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Brainwashing, 2026 edition. This paper shows how X's algorithmic feed shifts people's views rightwards. It's a sophisticated, highly effective form of reorientation. And it is utterly chilling. If you're still on that platform, unhook yourself now. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature

Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...

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Dr Franziska Kohlt @frankendodo.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Thrilled HSS/ESHS have accepted my paper "In science we trust?: Hagiography, and the ethics of trust in constructing the public scientist" on our proposed session "Trust, Distrust, Faith and Disbelief" - who else is going to Edinburgh? #histsci #scicomm

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Dr Franziska Kohlt @frankendodo.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

I sometimes don't understand humanities peer reviewers. Recently got a v gentle revise & resubmit, basically the review should have read "here's 5 awkward sentences, and maybe you can add a line or two about this background thing" (which is fine) - instead I get a strongly worded wall of text...

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Dr Franziska Kohlt @frankendodo.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Might design a guessing game for students: Who said it? Victorians or Manosphere Influencers?

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Dr Franziska Kohlt @frankendodo.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

To celebrate the publication of 'Science, Religion and the Human Future' you can grab a limited time 30% discount - so get our new book for £13.99 ($17.50) here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Dr Franziska Kohlt @frankendodo.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Just arrived in the mail: 'Science, Religion, and the Human Future' (OUP 2026) - from our @eclasproject.bsky.social, on the history of conflict narratives in Science and Religion, and their present ramifications. Now available as e-book & in print: global.oup.com/academic/pro... 1/2

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