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Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

There's still plenty of time to apply for this fantastic funded #PhD studentship on the history of unorthodox health activism in Britain after 1948! Interested? Know someone great who should apply? Get in touch! #AcademicSky www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSR502/p...

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PhD Studentship: Unorthodox health activism in Britain after 1948 at University of Strathclyde

Explore a PhD Studentship: Unorthodox health activism in Britain after 1948 on jobs.ac.uk. Discover more PhD opportunities and apply today!

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

'The University of Nottingham has confirmed that it will close its music and languages departments as it presses ahead with more than 500 job cuts despite widespread opposition from staff and students.' A blight on East Midlands and UK higher education.

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Nottingham confirms course closures with hundreds of jobs affected

Languages and music departments to close despite strikes and protests but university insists it has addressed staff concerns in revised plans

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Dr Franziska Kohlt @frankendodo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You know it's been a good work day when you developed a sudden specialist knowledge on Himalayan liverworts, historical academic dress of the Madras (Chennai) region & how niche phrenological theories were marketed after they were officially cool (in case you were wondering how your email finds me).

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Dr Franziska Kohlt @frankendodo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

He had some thoughts on cats, but many, stronger opinions, on dogs - especially as pets!

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

Und für die ganz Motivierten, auch in Buchform, wo das Thema auch in anderen Fachgebieten untersucht wird global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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

...und als preprint gibts auch das ganze Paper zu dem Thema osf.io/preprints/so...

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

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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 "Hoot Hoot" 🦉 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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Dr Franziska Kohlt @frankendodo.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Isn't that what you've got? Just one? ;)

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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 · 15/07/2026

I've just been buzzing from one to the other! I am, however, colour coded for ease of identification - maybe later/ tomorrow??

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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 · 15/07/2026

There are too many parallel sessions - this looks so phenomenal, would love to chat more even though I don't think I can make this session!!

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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 · 14/07/2026

Oh my god that's so close what I was talking about at #eshs-hss (I have a very similar background!) I will now use this article all the time

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

Adrian John's on how written records came to acquire credibility - why do we trust them more than objects? History beyond facts and processes & the skill of noticing what's not there in one period and there in another /4

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

Challenge of denaturalisation in historical writing - does it lead to real insights? Suman Seth on the history of race across 250 years - can there be racism without the concept of race? /3

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

Next Sachiko Kusukawa defends periodisation, and discusses when is anachronism a sin? Can a scientist be "before their time"? /2

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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

Also available in book form: #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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