Floris Winckel
@fwinckel.bsky.social
PhD student in History of Science @ Rachel Carson Center, LMU Munich | History of Snowflake Science 🔎❄️
🔗 www.floriswinckel.com
🔗 www.floriswinckel.com
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The @scottpolar.bsky.social are looking for a librarian. This is a rare opportunity! Work with (probably) the world's largest dedicated polar library alongside archive and museum colleagues. The dream 😍
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Librarian
The Library of the Scott Polar Research Institute is one of the most comprehensive collections of published polar information in the world. This highly specialist reference collection, which attracts
www.cam.ac.uk
November 25, 2025 at 8:45 PM
The @scottpolar.bsky.social are looking for a librarian. This is a rare opportunity! Work with (probably) the world's largest dedicated polar library alongside archive and museum colleagues. The dream 😍
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Een ‘zondvloedland,’ zo karakteriseerde ik het beeld van de Lage Landen in 17de- en 18de-eeuwse geleerde natuurgeschiedenissen. Het denken over het verleden van de Aarde bewoog tussen Bijbelse zondvloed en de volgende dijkdoorbraak, tussen schriftgeleerden en turfstekers. 1/
November 19, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Een ‘zondvloedland,’ zo karakteriseerde ik het beeld van de Lage Landen in 17de- en 18de-eeuwse geleerde natuurgeschiedenissen. Het denken over het verleden van de Aarde bewoog tussen Bijbelse zondvloed en de volgende dijkdoorbraak, tussen schriftgeleerden en turfstekers. 1/
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📢 JOB ALERT 📢
Come work with me! @rigb.org is hiring an Archivist, full time, 2 year, fixed-term contract, hybrid working possible.
Please share widely!
More details 👇
www.rigb.org/about-us/wor...
Come work with me! @rigb.org is hiring an Archivist, full time, 2 year, fixed-term contract, hybrid working possible.
Please share widely!
More details 👇
www.rigb.org/about-us/wor...
Work with us
Help us to create more opportunities for everyone to enjoy and benefit from science.
www.rigb.org
November 7, 2025 at 4:18 PM
📢 JOB ALERT 📢
Come work with me! @rigb.org is hiring an Archivist, full time, 2 year, fixed-term contract, hybrid working possible.
Please share widely!
More details 👇
www.rigb.org/about-us/wor...
Come work with me! @rigb.org is hiring an Archivist, full time, 2 year, fixed-term contract, hybrid working possible.
Please share widely!
More details 👇
www.rigb.org/about-us/wor...
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Highly recommend!
November 4, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Highly recommend!
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We are also currently hiring a curatorial fellow to work with the papers of Rosalind Franklin and others in the History of Molecular Biology Collection!
This is a 2-year staff position in the archive with a salary of $55k/year and full benefits:
www.sciencehistory.org/research/fel...
This is a 2-year staff position in the archive with a salary of $55k/year and full benefits:
www.sciencehistory.org/research/fel...
For those with a scholarly interest in Franklin, Watson, and other pioneering researchers in molecular biology, @sciencehistory.org has just opened our new landmark collection of their papers, and applications for research fellowships are currently open:
www.sciencehistory.org/hmbc
www.sciencehistory.org/hmbc
History of Molecular Biology Collection
This unparalleled collection includes Rosalind Franklin's historic 'Photo 51,' which revealed the double-helix structure of DNA.
www.sciencehistory.org
November 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
We are also currently hiring a curatorial fellow to work with the papers of Rosalind Franklin and others in the History of Molecular Biology Collection!
This is a 2-year staff position in the archive with a salary of $55k/year and full benefits:
www.sciencehistory.org/research/fel...
This is a 2-year staff position in the archive with a salary of $55k/year and full benefits:
www.sciencehistory.org/research/fel...
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We're hiring in history of science at UW Madison! TT Assistant Professorship with a focus on water. Joint appointment between the History and Integrated Liberal Studies depts, and part of a university-wide hiring cluster on earth/sustainability science. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/profess... #STS #HSMT
Professor of History - Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...
jobs.wisc.edu
November 6, 2025 at 7:37 PM
We're hiring in history of science at UW Madison! TT Assistant Professorship with a focus on water. Joint appointment between the History and Integrated Liberal Studies depts, and part of a university-wide hiring cluster on earth/sustainability science. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/profess... #STS #HSMT
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Historians here: Anyone up for joining a panel on early modern translation practices in science and medicine with me and the wonderful Sare Arıcanlı? It’ll be for the 2026 ESHS–HSS Joint Meeting in Edinburgh. Let me know!
November 6, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Historians here: Anyone up for joining a panel on early modern translation practices in science and medicine with me and the wonderful Sare Arıcanlı? It’ll be for the 2026 ESHS–HSS Joint Meeting in Edinburgh. Let me know!
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Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
November 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
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I’m late getting myself together for HSS in Edinburgh but is anyone still looking for a panelist or chair? Polar science, history of exploration, material & visual culture, history of skincare, working outside the academy, etc!
October 20, 2025 at 2:58 PM
I’m late getting myself together for HSS in Edinburgh but is anyone still looking for a panelist or chair? Polar science, history of exploration, material & visual culture, history of skincare, working outside the academy, etc!
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I am please to announce that this is the 1000th review that I have facilitated for H-Environment! Thank you so much to all of the reviewers who make this position such a pleasure! #envhist #envhum #ecrocrit #envphil #aghist #oceanhist #conservation #sustainability #plantstudies #animalhist #energy 🏞️
Check out Jack Bouchard's review of "Oceanic Japan: The Archipelago in Pacific and Global History," edited by Stefan Huebner, Nadin Heé, Ian J. Miller, and William M. Tsutsui, published in 2024 by University of Hawai'i Press; now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social
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www.h-net.org
October 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I am please to announce that this is the 1000th review that I have facilitated for H-Environment! Thank you so much to all of the reviewers who make this position such a pleasure! #envhist #envhum #ecrocrit #envphil #aghist #oceanhist #conservation #sustainability #plantstudies #animalhist #energy 🏞️
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If you’re interested in practicing the philosophy of science in practice why not come along to an online workshop “the philosophy of science in practice - in practice”? #philsci
October 8, 2025 at 1:01 PM
If you’re interested in practicing the philosophy of science in practice why not come along to an online workshop “the philosophy of science in practice - in practice”? #philsci
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Call for Applications!
@esehnextgate.bsky.social is seeking new members to join its committee for a two-year term 2025–2027.
More info below!!
@esehnextgate.bsky.social is seeking new members to join its committee for a two-year term 2025–2027.
More info below!!
September 27, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Call for Applications!
@esehnextgate.bsky.social is seeking new members to join its committee for a two-year term 2025–2027.
More info below!!
@esehnextgate.bsky.social is seeking new members to join its committee for a two-year term 2025–2027.
More info below!!
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I hope Melvin Bragg's retirement will not end In Our Times. He has a lovely voice and manner but it's the people he invites that hold the show. I'll take this chance to post a thread of some of the more memorable episodes for me. Starting with Schaffer, Worrall, and @michelamassimi.bsky.social
BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The Scientific Method
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Scientific Method.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 22, 2025 at 1:55 PM
I hope Melvin Bragg's retirement will not end In Our Times. He has a lovely voice and manner but it's the people he invites that hold the show. I'll take this chance to post a thread of some of the more memorable episodes for me. Starting with Schaffer, Worrall, and @michelamassimi.bsky.social
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#HPS program at the University of Copenhagen invites applications for Postdoc in History and Philosophy of Science as part of research project Human Variables in Biodiversity Assessment (PI: Joeri Witteveen): employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho...
#philsky #PhilJobs #philsci
Deadline is November 7, 2025.
#philsky #PhilJobs #philsci
Deadline is November 7, 2025.
Post-doc position in History and Philosophy of Science
employment.ku.dk
September 21, 2025 at 12:31 PM
#HPS program at the University of Copenhagen invites applications for Postdoc in History and Philosophy of Science as part of research project Human Variables in Biodiversity Assessment (PI: Joeri Witteveen): employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho...
#philsky #PhilJobs #philsci
Deadline is November 7, 2025.
#philsky #PhilJobs #philsci
Deadline is November 7, 2025.
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Frostbite by Nicola Twilley: "Exemplary writing showcased in a book with a very clear thesis that brings together some fascinating and unexpected tales from the history of refrigeration."
September 17, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Frostbite by Nicola Twilley: "Exemplary writing showcased in a book with a very clear thesis that brings together some fascinating and unexpected tales from the history of refrigeration."
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***CfP***
Spannender Workshop zur Lehre an der Schnittstelle Umwelt- und Technikgeschichte nächstes Frühjahr in Karlsruhe, siehe: www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...
#envhist
#histtech
#envhum
Spannender Workshop zur Lehre an der Schnittstelle Umwelt- und Technikgeschichte nächstes Frühjahr in Karlsruhe, siehe: www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...
#envhist
#histtech
#envhum
September 4, 2025 at 7:11 PM
***CfP***
Spannender Workshop zur Lehre an der Schnittstelle Umwelt- und Technikgeschichte nächstes Frühjahr in Karlsruhe, siehe: www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...
#envhist
#histtech
#envhum
Spannender Workshop zur Lehre an der Schnittstelle Umwelt- und Technikgeschichte nächstes Frühjahr in Karlsruhe, siehe: www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...
#envhist
#histtech
#envhum
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We're hiring a new lecturer @stsucl.bsky.social. We're looking for someone with particular interests in the environment. Please share widely www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
September 4, 2025 at 11:18 AM
We're hiring a new lecturer @stsucl.bsky.social. We're looking for someone with particular interests in the environment. Please share widely www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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Great session yesterday at #eseh2025 #boardgaming empathy and uncertainty in the Anthropocene with Sven Seelinger (Uni Augsburg). So much fun! #envhist
August 23, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Great session yesterday at #eseh2025 #boardgaming empathy and uncertainty in the Anthropocene with Sven Seelinger (Uni Augsburg). So much fun! #envhist
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The Call for Papers for 'Talking Records: Pollution in the Archive', a symposium at The National Archives in London, 4 December 2025, is now open!
Submission deadline: Friday 19 Sept
See the CFP and details about bursaries for speakers here: orlo.uk/Z8StS
#envhum #envhist
Submission deadline: Friday 19 Sept
See the CFP and details about bursaries for speakers here: orlo.uk/Z8StS
#envhum #envhist
August 13, 2025 at 10:13 AM
The Call for Papers for 'Talking Records: Pollution in the Archive', a symposium at The National Archives in London, 4 December 2025, is now open!
Submission deadline: Friday 19 Sept
See the CFP and details about bursaries for speakers here: orlo.uk/Z8StS
#envhum #envhist
Submission deadline: Friday 19 Sept
See the CFP and details about bursaries for speakers here: orlo.uk/Z8StS
#envhum #envhist
On the train up to Uppsala for #ESEH2025 🛤️ Together with Albert van Wijngaarden, I'll be convening two sessions:
🧊 Wednesday @ 11:00-12:30: "Historians in the Decade of Action for Cryospheric Science"
🌦️ Thursday @ 09:00-10:30: "Should We Rethink Histories of Weather and Climate Modification?"
🧊 Wednesday @ 11:00-12:30: "Historians in the Decade of Action for Cryospheric Science"
🌦️ Thursday @ 09:00-10:30: "Should We Rethink Histories of Weather and Climate Modification?"
August 17, 2025 at 9:51 AM
On the train up to Uppsala for #ESEH2025 🛤️ Together with Albert van Wijngaarden, I'll be convening two sessions:
🧊 Wednesday @ 11:00-12:30: "Historians in the Decade of Action for Cryospheric Science"
🌦️ Thursday @ 09:00-10:30: "Should We Rethink Histories of Weather and Climate Modification?"
🧊 Wednesday @ 11:00-12:30: "Historians in the Decade of Action for Cryospheric Science"
🌦️ Thursday @ 09:00-10:30: "Should We Rethink Histories of Weather and Climate Modification?"
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Travelling to Uppsala for ESEH later this month? Please consider filling this VERY short survey so the ESEH Sustainability Committee can better understand delegates travel options! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
ESEH Conference Travel Survey
The ESEH Sustainability Committee is gathering data on ESEH conference delegates' travel plans and would be grateful for your responses to the below questions. Thank you in advance.
docs.google.com
August 6, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Travelling to Uppsala for ESEH later this month? Please consider filling this VERY short survey so the ESEH Sustainability Committee can better understand delegates travel options! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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I am developing a course titled “Anthropocene Histories, History in the Anthropocene” at UCPH.
My idea is to structure the it thematically through planetary boundaries.
But what are the best texts around these days. I have the obvious stuff: Chakrabarty, Bonneuil & Fressoz, McNeill, Brown
My idea is to structure the it thematically through planetary boundaries.
But what are the best texts around these days. I have the obvious stuff: Chakrabarty, Bonneuil & Fressoz, McNeill, Brown
August 14, 2025 at 5:31 AM
I am developing a course titled “Anthropocene Histories, History in the Anthropocene” at UCPH.
My idea is to structure the it thematically through planetary boundaries.
But what are the best texts around these days. I have the obvious stuff: Chakrabarty, Bonneuil & Fressoz, McNeill, Brown
My idea is to structure the it thematically through planetary boundaries.
But what are the best texts around these days. I have the obvious stuff: Chakrabarty, Bonneuil & Fressoz, McNeill, Brown
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@naomioreskes.bsky.social's brilliant @rigb.org lecture: how military secrecy delayed plate tectonic theory for 3 decades - a narrative that remains ever relevant to science today...
⚒️ 🧪 #histsci #skystorians #science #academicsky #STS #geoscience @miguelohn.bsky.social
⚒️ 🧪 #histsci #skystorians #science #academicsky #STS #geoscience @miguelohn.bsky.social
Rethinking the origin of plate tectonics - with Naomi Oreskes
YouTube video by The Royal Institution
youtu.be
August 13, 2025 at 10:47 AM
@naomioreskes.bsky.social's brilliant @rigb.org lecture: how military secrecy delayed plate tectonic theory for 3 decades - a narrative that remains ever relevant to science today...
⚒️ 🧪 #histsci #skystorians #science #academicsky #STS #geoscience @miguelohn.bsky.social
⚒️ 🧪 #histsci #skystorians #science #academicsky #STS #geoscience @miguelohn.bsky.social
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I'm thrilled that @issygapp.bsky.social are co-editing the *fifth* series for @nichecanada.bsky.social on Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North-this time, on "States of the Field–New Research in Arctic Pasts." We want to hear from up and coming Arctic researchers! niche-canada.org/2025/08/04/c...
Call for Submissions: Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North Part V
In Part V, we want to assess the current state of the field of Arctic history.
niche-canada.org
August 4, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I'm thrilled that @issygapp.bsky.social are co-editing the *fifth* series for @nichecanada.bsky.social on Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North-this time, on "States of the Field–New Research in Arctic Pasts." We want to hear from up and coming Arctic researchers! niche-canada.org/2025/08/04/c...