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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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 · 20/01/2025

We are delighted to have found a new home at the University of Edinburgh!

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Robert Naylor @roblnaylor.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

As it currently stands, the caption suggests that Bryson and Tolba were senior Rockefeller Foundation administrators which is quite embarrassing. BJHS editors are kindly looking into getting the error changed

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Robert Naylor @roblnaylor.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Unfortunately, I noticed an error that appeared to crop up during the typesetting process. In the caption of figure 3, "Rockefeller Foundation administrators Reid Bryson and Mostafa Kamal Tolba" should read "Rockefeller Foundation administrators, Reid Bryson, and Mostafa Kamal Tolba".

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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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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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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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Robert Naylor @roblnaylor.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

This comment makes me think about eating photons 😂🤔

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Robert Naylor @roblnaylor.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

It would be great if I could be added! Thanks for putting this together

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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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