Good morning Luxembourg

I am also here! See you at Belval!

The Science History Institute @sciencehistory.org is pleased to cohost the Fall 2025 meeting of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (SHAC) October 16-17. Invited speakers will present papers for discussion on topics ranging from medieval medicine to modern climate science.

36 mo postdoc / research fellow position in Philosophy, History, and/or Social Studies of the Life Sciences in the STS dept. at Technical Universtiy of Munich, apps due Oct 31: #histphil #histsci #histSTM

www.sts.sot.tum.de/en/sts/arbei...

Delighted to tell everyone that we’ve acquired and are swiftly making available a world class archival collection in the history of science!

Delighted to tell everyone that we’ve acquired and are swiftly making available a world class archival collection in the history of science!

Wow!

2 tenure-track Asst or Assoc professor jobs in History/Anthropology of Science, Technology & Medicine at
Carnegie Mellon U to begin in August 2026. Tech & social change or environmental & social impacts of STM; time period & geographic specialization open.
#HPS #HistSTM #STS
Deadline: Sep 15, 2025

When you're learning Swedish as a native English speaker, "semester" is the falsest false cognate.

Our regular Monday pickup was successfully made midday yesterday!

And I’ve seen neighbors put out couches and have them picked up! It’s wild to me but I appreciate that it’s part of the service. Apparently city rules allow up to 2 mattresses on the curb as long as they’re bagged

a northern european woman will eat this, work 4hrs at the Langfaart Logistik shipping container company, repeat, work 4 more hours, then eat something called "pasta mexikansk" and live to be 112

We have especially good archives related to NASA, US Antarctic science, ranching history, American nature writing, and the Vietnam War. Our museum's Clothing/Textile department has a huge collection, with strengths in quilts and southwest history. Come hang out for a year! #envhist #histsci

We are hiring! Fully tenured associate professorship in environmental history! We are looking for someone who can be a strong contributor to the history group, to a new #envhum related MA program (if all goes well), and to @greenhouseuis.net. #envhist

Today starts the new fellowship year and I am absolutely delighted to announce the 2025-26 class of Beckman Center Fellows at @sciencehistory.org!!

In addition to some familiar merch the team did a phenomenal job making cards, magnets, and pins with images in the collections 💙

You guys we have a GIFT SHOP now at @sciencehistory.org !!!

Beautiful!

End of an era today! I just signed away the title to the little blue Kia hatchback I bought new in 2007.

18 years, 160k miles, titled in 4 states, and an appearance in the NYT…definitely got my $17k out of it.

(And it’s still going - I’ve signed it over to a family member for commuting to work!)

(To note, I am referring as much or more to my own speed of writing the book as to the multi-year process of peer review and publication for each of my two Rare Earths pieces so far)

I have always said that having your historical research be “relevant” is a curse 😭

Anyway until I can get anything of mine through the glacial scholarly process everyone should read Julie Klinger’s amazing (open access!) Rare Earth Frontiers on how this myth of rarity justifies the unconscionable

Dozens of responses and nobody is pointing out that Latour closed the case in 1991?

I’ll be 8 mos short of 7 years by the deadline, but if they run it again next year I’m applying. 🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪
(I know it’s intended for, like, hotshot assoc profs in biochem but idc)

(For photographs specifically we’re currently around 3600 copyright free or public domain and another 2200 with unlocatable rights holders)

Our collection is fairly niche but we do have quite a lot, and simple filters for copyright: digital.sciencehistory.org