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Robert Naylor

@roblnaylor.bsky.social
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Lecturer (Assistant Professor) @manchstm.bsky.social, specialising in history of climate studies. Managing Editor @globcon.bsky.social. President of International Commission for the History of Meteorology. Glasgow-based. He/they. AVMO.

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Dr Eleanor Shaw @eleanorshaw.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Really looking forward to the panel I've convened today at #ESHS-HSS on 'Contested knowledges of climate, food and famine', presenting new work from the Oxfam archives alongside @aoifeolearymcneice.bsky.social and Fiona Williamson, chaired by @roblnaylor.bsky.social
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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Winner Press photo of the Year 🇩🇰 📸 Capturing the crisis, and resilience, in Greenland 🇬🇱 💪🏽 Photo: Oscar Scott Carl Source: dr.dk
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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Superb work.
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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Many are appropriately outraged by Altman’s comments here implying that raising a human child is akin to “training” an AI model. This is part of a broader pattern where AI industry leaders use language that collapses the boundary between human and machine. 🧵/
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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
#MondayNetwork - a regular appeal to any #skystorians with intersecting interests: food /nutrition, surviving climate change, environmental determinism, race science, exploration, acclimatisation & physiology, cit sci, Indigenous knowledge, & related topics to say hi or share link to your work! 🗃️
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
i didn’t realise that Malthus was still alive, much less that he was supervising PhDs at Essex
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Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Call for Contributions to a Sourcebook for Histories of Weather & Weathering teleskopos.wordpress.com/2026/02/05/c... Full details linked and here teleskopos.wordpress.com/wp-content/u... It will be edited by me, @lottaleiwo.bsky.social and Tamara Culkins. Please share! #histSTM #envhist 🗃️📜
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Call for Contributions: Histories of Weather & Weathering
Call for Contributions: A Sourcebook for Histories of Weather and Weathering (working title) Editors: Rebekah Higgitt, Tamara Caulkins and Lotta Leiwo We invite contributions to this planned open a…
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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
One of the core rots at the heart of UK higher education is the unquestioned belief that the more expensive research is the better it is.
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Thomas Cheney @thomascheney.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
easy to believe, own back of the envelope calculations on my grant writing cost/benefit - if counting staff time (my own, other academics, and professional services) then it would have been far more efficient to just give me £5k a year [potentially even £10k]... which I could do a lot with!
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MancHSTM @manchstm.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Congratulations to Eleanor Shaw, who successfully defended her PhD thesis on the history of the British Journal of Anaesthesia today. In the photo: Prof Carsten Timmermann (2nd supervisor), the candidate, Prof Roberta Bivins, and Dr Neil Pemberton (the external and internal examiners).
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ANU Press @anupress.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
We’re excited to unveil four compelling upcoming titles: 📚 A reflection on the gendering of politics 🌿 A new issue of our environmental history journal ⚖️ An exploration of law-making in a young democracy 🔍 The history of the Mauututu Nakanai of West New Britain Learn more at press.anu.edu.au
Text: Coming Soon register your interest today. Cover images of four titles: Gender and Politics Reimagined, Wild Partners, Law in the New Democracy and Internation Review of Environmental History.
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Alex Hibberts @hibbertsalex.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Sign-up for the Northern Environmental History Network's first talk of 2025/26 is now available! 📆28/10 15:00 @eseh.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org @ihr.bsky.social @imems.bsky.social @durhamhistory.bsky.social @cemsexeter.bsky.social @esehnextgate.bsky.social @asle-us.bsky.social
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Dave Vanness @djvanness.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.
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Alex Hibberts @hibbertsalex.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Looking forward to presenting on diaries as sources for reconstructing Little Ice Age weather and climate @eseh.bsky.social in Uppsala next week! 📕❄️🌡️ #envhist 🖼️ ©️KHLC @northernenvhistory.bsky.social @durhamhistory.bsky.social @eandhwhp.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org @roblnaylor.bsky.social
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Yixuan Li @yixuanli623.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
I'm delighted to share some good news in my first post on Bluesky! My book review, Reclaiming Vulnerability in Scientific Practice, has been published in @metasciencejournal.bsky.social Read more here: www.linkedin.com/posts/yixuan... #sts #histstm #bookreview #PhDLife
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I am happy to share that my book review, Reclaiming vulnerability in scientific practice, which is also my first publication in English, is now published! | Yixuan Li
I am happy to share that my book review, Reclaiming vulnerability in scientific practice, which is also my first publication in English, is now published! You can read the full text (free access via...
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Robert Naylor @roblnaylor.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Very proud to have published this piece on the radical Argentinian meteorologist Rolando García dx.doi.org/10.1002/wcc....
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Rolando García: Refugee, Radical, Climate's Attorney at Law
Having grown up in a poor household in Argentina, Rolando García went on to become an important science administrator, playing a leading role in large-scale weather and climate research projects.
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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Baroness Kidron in the House of Lords today: "It is extraordinary that the Government’s decided, immovable and strongly held position is that enforcing the law to prevent the theft of UK citizens’ property is unfair to the sector doing the stealing."
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Thomas Cheney @thomascheney.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
part of what pisses me off is that a lot of people already dont go to university (my wife didnt) so maybe focus on adding options and opportunities for them rather than taking away existing opportunities but then that wouldnt fit with their anti intellectual anti social mobility toryism
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Georgia E. Brown @astrobiologee.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Happy to share my first ever published paper (as a contributor). The product of my placement year just over 2 years ago. Looking at fossilised organic/inorganic tubules on Mars. So honoured to have been part of this team. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Azure Chi Art @azurechi.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Allow me to follow up with a lovely 15th c. map of winds I saw recently.
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Global Constitutionalism @globcon.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
📢 Editorial 'Contested compliance of obligations under international law: A take from Global Constitutionalism' by Antje Wiener, Jo Shaw, Jonathan Havercroft, Susan Kang and Stephanie Law #OpenAccess #GlobalConstitutionalism
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Contested compliance of obligations under international law: A take from Global Constitutionalism | Global Constitutionalism | Cambridge Core
Contested compliance of obligations under international law: A take from Global Constitutionalism - Volume 14 Issue 1
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Kiera Chapman @kierachapman.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
So sick of hearing "You're biased" used as a social, economic or political argument. I blame the school curriculum - we had to do a load of nonsense in history & science GCSEs about "identifying bias" in a way that left people utterly helpless at dealing with structure, ideology or epistemology.
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Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
If you’re looking for fiction that’s especially helpful in this perilous moment, I have a recommendation: Kalpa Imperial by the Argentinian writer Angélica Goridischer. Ursula K. LeGuin did the English translation. bookshop.org/p/books/kalp... 1/
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Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was
The Greatest Empire That Never Was
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Global Constitutionalism @globcon.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
📢 On First View 'Recognising differentiated affectedness within a global demos: promoting the democratic legitimacy of the UNFCCC' by Nicola Sharman #OpenAccess #GlobalConstitutionalism
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Recognising differentiated affectedness within a global demos: promoting the democratic legitimacy of the UNFCCC | Global Constitutionalism | Cambridge Core
Recognising differentiated affectedness within a global demos: promoting the democratic legitimacy of the UNFCCC
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Robert Naylor @roblnaylor.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Sometimes I dream about finding that specific email in my Outlook inbox with no fuss
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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
The Fennell Career Development Fellow in the History of the Americas The University of Edinburgh - College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences - School of History, Classics and Archaeology - History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLQ757/t...
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The Fennell Career Development Fellow in the History of the Americas at The University of Edinburgh
An opportunity for an academic position as a The Fennell Career Development Fellow in the History of the Americas is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job op...
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Global Constitutionalism @globcon.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
📢 On First View 'Managed freedom in precarious times: Maintaining academic freedom in transitional Hong Kong' by Hualing Fu #OpenAccess #GlobalConstitutionalism
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Managed freedom in precarious times: Maintaining academic freedom in transitional Hong Kong | Global Constitutionalism | Cambridge Core
Managed freedom in precarious times: Maintaining academic freedom in transitional Hong Kong
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Constance Bantman @constancebantman.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
PS: Branding yourself as a ‘global university’ (as most U.K. unis do) without giving your students any opportunity to learn a language is indeed a travesty.
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Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info · 31/01/2025
Please sign this petition from students at Cardiff to save their Ancient History degree 🗃️
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Sign the Petition
Save Cardiff University Ancient History Degree
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Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Today is the feast of St. Thomas Aquinas, d. 1274. The Angelic Doctor is known for many things, not least of which was his absolutely terrible handwriting, the "littera inintelligibilis." Here it is, in Vat. lat. 9850. Here's the whole MS: digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat... #medievalsky #paleography
The handwriting of Thomas Aquinas
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Laurent Bègue Shankland @lbegueshankland.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Yesterday in Nature. A new place for science 👌
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Jo Shaw @joshaw.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
You'll find here a few more details about the journal Global Constitutionalism @globcon.bsky.social, which is now based at Edinburgh Law School and Politics and International Relations. Delighted to be working closely with colleagues on this. Please send us your manuscripts!
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Global Constitutionalism @globcon.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
📢 On First View 'Responsive judicial remedies' by Rosalind Dixon and Po Jen Yap #OpenAccess #GlobalConstitutionalism
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Responsive judicial remedies | Global Constitutionalism | Cambridge Core
Responsive judicial remedies
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Global Constitutionalism @globcon.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
We are delighted to have found a new home at the University of Edinburgh!
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Duncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
JOB Assistant Professor in the History of British Architecture in its Global Contexts 1660-1900, University of Cambridge www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49315/
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Assistant Professor in History of British Architecture in its Global Contexts 1660-1900 - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Assistant Professor in History of British Architecture in its Global Contexts 1660-1900 in the Department of History of Art at the University of Cambridge.
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Alice Naisbitt @alicenaisbitt.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Updates
Views of the Lake District. Boat house in foreground, hills and lake in backViews across a lake in the Lake District. Hills in background, lake and shore in the front. Views across a lake in the Lake District. Hills in background, lake and shore in the frontViews across the Lake District, three figures in foreground.
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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Please follow @alicenaisbitt.bsky.social for updates from what looks like an excellent @manchstm.bsky.social ECR writing retreat!
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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Interesting new article on the role that academic journal editors have played in the history of climate change scholarship, by @manchstm.bsky.social ECRs @roblnaylor.bsky.social and @eleanorshaw.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S000...
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Atmospheres of influence: the role of journal editors in shaping early climate change narratives | The British Journal for the History of Science | Cambridge Core
Atmospheres of influence: the role of journal editors in shaping early climate change narratives
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Robert Naylor @roblnaylor.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
So proud to have written this article with the amazing @eleanorshaw.bsky.social, published in the British Journal for the History of Science! We use underutilized archive material to explore how editors helped shape climate change discourse in the 1970s 🗃️ #openaccess
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Atmospheres of influence: the role of journal editors in shaping early climate change narratives | The British Journal for the History of Science | Cambridge Core
Atmospheres of influence: the role of journal editors in shaping early climate change narratives
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Dr Eleanor Shaw @eleanorshaw.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
@roblnaylor.bsky.social and I's new paper has just been published with BJHS. We consider the role of editors in shaping early climate change narratives. Open access too!
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Atmospheres of influence: the role of journal editors in shaping early climate change narratives | The British Journal for the History of Science | Cambridge Core
Atmospheres of influence: the role of journal editors in shaping early climate change narratives
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Global Constitutionalism @globcon.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Special Issue: Liberal Democratic Constitutionalism and the Invasion of #Ukraine - Volume 13 - Issue 2 - cup.org/4fZJivs Global Constitutionalism is now an #OpenAccess title
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Global Constitutionalism: Volume 13 - Issue 2 | Cambridge Core
Cambridge Core - Global Constitutionalism - Volume 13 - Issue 2
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Thomas Cheney @thomascheney.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Exciting opportunity to apply for a FUNDED PhD in #spacelaw with me at Northumbria University - looking at extra-terrestrials as nonhumans in international law (Deadline 24 Jan 2025, for start date 1 October 2025) www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Beyond Metalaw: Extraterrestrial Life in the International Legal Order (RDF25/BL/LAW/CHENEY) at Northumbria University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Beyond Metalaw: Extraterrestrial Life in the International Legal Order (RDF25/BL/LAW/CHENEY) at Northumbria University, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Dr Ruby (she/her) @paperwhispers.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students. **Tell Everyone** www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...
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Gazan Humanitarian Scholarship
We offer scholarships for citizens of Gaza who have been displaced as a result of the ongoing conflict in the region and are living in a different country (outside of the UK).
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Jo Shaw @joshaw.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
The editorial team is refreshed, with Jared Holley and Andrea Birdsall joining the editors, and @roblnaylor.bsky.social also joining us as the new Managing Editor.
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The PhD Place - Academic Community @thephdplace.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
You’re allowed to disagree with your supervisors
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Robert Naylor @roblnaylor.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I’m happy to share that I’m starting a new position as Managing Editor (Global Constitutionalism) at The University of Edinburgh in addition to my lectureship at Manchester!
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Aske Hennelund Nielsen @askehn.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I would like to thank the editors for this very nice editorial! “When discussing the unexceptional, it is important to remember that what constitutes the ordinary, normal, or standard is always contested, as is excellently demonstrated by Aske Hennelund Nielsen and Maria Rentetzi in this issue.”
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MancHSTM @manchstm.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
JOB KLAXON: We are hiring a Lecturer in History of Medicine and/or Health (FT & permanent); we're encouraging applications from colleagues with expertise in history of mental health & mental illness. Please share and repost. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... #HistMed #HistSTM #HistPsych
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Lecturer in History of Medicine and Health (Teaching and Research):Oxford Road
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Physics in Perspective @physicspip.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
The Search for Radiation Standards and Science Diplomacy in the Interwar Period 🗃️ #openaccess
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The Search for Radiation Standards and Science Diplomacy in the Interwar Period - Physics in Perspective
This paper argues that international cooperation on devising radiation standards and measuring devices has been an issue not only of national concern but of binational and international conflict in th...
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Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Here is the starter pack for folks in science of science, meta science, STS, philosophy of science, history of science, economics of science, science policy, AI+science, and so on. Feel free to nominate and self-nominate! #SciSci #STS #MetaScience #SciPol #AI4Science #ScAISci go.bsky.app/2R1E4TD
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