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Heather Craddock @hcraddock.bsky.social · Aug 13

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

Image of Nova Scotia Steel and Coal Company workshops with smoke escaping from tower. Reference: CO 1069/280 from The National Archives, UK.

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Kristin Hussey @kristinhussey.bsky.social · Jul 16

This has been so great to work on with @drhick.bsky.social and our students - reinterpreting the Great North Museum through the lens of environmental history. The trail is on until the end of September! @northeastmuseums.bsky.social

Clare Hickman @drhick.bsky.social · Jul 15

Exciting news! The trail that @kristinhussey.bsky.social & I have developed with HCA 2nd year undergraduate students is opening on the 26/7 at Great North Museum @northeastmuseums.bsky.social. With huge thanks @bshsnews.bsky.social for funding 📗 More info: www.northeastmuseums.org.uk/greatnorthmu...

Destroying Nature: Histories of people and environments at the Great North Museum: Hancock

This trail highlights objects from the Museum’s permanent exhibitions through the lens of environmental history.

www.northeastmuseums.org.uk

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Kristin Hussey @kristinhussey.bsky.social · Jun 30

Looks so cool! I don't work on policing specifically but am very interested in the night work aspects of this profession. I'm actually organising a workshop on this topic in Newcastle in September if that's something that comes up in your research!

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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · Jun 26

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

Associate Professor in Environmental History (281801) | University of Stavanger

Job title: Associate Professor in Environmental History (281801), Employer: University of Stavanger, Deadline: Thursday, August 7, 2025

www.jobbnorge.no

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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · Jun 27

⏰ the deadline is 30 June for this role with our new #Multispecies #Mutualisims project, generously funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social pls do get in contact if you have any questions ⬇️

Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · Jun 20

🚨Job Alert 🚨 🐕‍🦺 🐄🐎🐦‍⬛
Do you have project management skills & an interest in human-animal relations? We are recruiting a project manager role (5 years) for our new project (info in the 🧵) @sheffielduni.bsky.social
📆 deadline 30 June www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNO134/p...

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Fiona Johnstone @drfijohnstone.bsky.social · Jun 24

Are you working in #VisualMedicalHumanities with a specific focus on art, anatomy and medicine? The BMJ Medical Humanities has just released this CFP for articles on "visuality in medical practice and history". Looking forward to seeing how this moves the field forward!

mh.bmj.com/pages/topic-...

Topic Collection: Visual Medical Humanities | Medical Humanities

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Kristin Hussey @kristinhussey.bsky.social · Jun 12

Calling all scholars of night work! I am organising a workshop on the night shift since 1900 this September at Newcastle. Looking for scholars across disciplines who think about working at night in critical context to give short working papers. More info here: kristinhussey.co.uk/research/34u...

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · Jun 11

Really interesting interview with the fab historian @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social about her new book on the ethics and colonial legacies of extinction, and how we talk about that

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘A billionaire will pay a lot of money to shoot a recreated being’: historian Sadiah Qureshi on extinction and empire

In her new book, Vanished, the history professor picks apart the political and philosophical dimensions of species loss

www.theguardian.com

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Kristin Hussey @kristinhussey.bsky.social · Apr 17

The Easter weekend begins with a trip to the Discovery Museum @northeastmuseums.bsky.social to check out their new under 5s area. But my daughter preferred the industrial heritage - naturally.

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Kristin Hussey @kristinhussey.bsky.social · Apr 16

A great catch up at GNM Hancock to discuss an upcoming collaborative project on environmental history generously funded by @bshsnews.bsky.social. So much of academia is feeling really bleak right now so trying to enjoy the better moments.

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Kristin Hussey @kristinhussey.bsky.social · Apr 11

In the archives and it feels so goooood. Exploring the health trade union archives @mrcwarwick.bsky.social this last week - searching for elusive might shift experiences and finding plenty of other insights along the way.

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Leeds Centre for the History and Philosophy of Science @hpsleeds.bsky.social · Apr 2

A wonderful opportunity to apply for a fully-funded collaborative PhD studentship in partnership with @royalsociety.org. "Weather Sceptics: Almanacs and the Making of Scientific Meteorology in Nineteenth-Century Britain". Deadline 6 May. See link for full details. #histsci @bshsnews.bsky.social

AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) - Weather Sceptics: Almanacs and the Making of Scientific Meteorology in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Project opportunity - AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) - Weather Sceptics: Almanacs and the Making of Scientific Meteorology in Nineteenth-Century Britain at the University of Leeds

phd.leeds.ac.uk

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Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Newcastle Uni @hassfacultyncl.bsky.social · Mar 27

Listen to historian Dr @kristinhussey.bsky.social discuss Patrick Manson, the founder of tropical medicine, on BBC Radio 4's Human Intelligence series with @naomialderman.bsky.social. @medicalsciencesncl.bsky.social

Episode airs at 1.45pm today or you can listen here >> /bit.ly/41WduSu

BBC Radio 4 - Human Intelligence, Travellers: Sir Patrick Manson

'Mosquito Manson' found a travelling parasite and unravelled a medical mystery.

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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · Mar 14

Job Klaxon: come and join us. We are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Associate to work on a project on the history of intensive care medicine, directed by @fcondrau.bsky.social in Zurich and me in Manchester.

www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Research Associate - Life Support: Technologies, Institutions and Experiences in the History of Intensive Care Medicine, 1945-2020:Oxford Road

www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk

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Kristin Hussey @kristinhussey.bsky.social · Mar 5

Thank you!

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Kristin Hussey @kristinhussey.bsky.social · Mar 4

Hi hello - I'm a historian of the body and the environment - working mainly on sleep at the moment! (But previously on acclimatisation)

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David Rooney @rooneyvision.bsky.social · Feb 18

Museum job! The Clockworks is looking for an experienced curator to run its unique London museum: world-class objects, wonderful premises, stable funding, great people. Full-time, £45k. Interested? Find out more and come meet us!

www.museumjobs.com/jobdetails.p...

Curator - The Clockworks, London - MuseumJobs.com

Museum Jobs - Cultural Recruitment for Museums, Galleries, Libraries and Archives Worldwide.

www.museumjobs.com

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Jonathan Reinarz @reinarz.bsky.social · Jan 30

A film still from the first degree progression of University of Birmingham students to the Town Hall through Victoria Square. Medical students can be seen waving bones at the camera.

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Kristin Hussey @kristinhussey.bsky.social · Jan 27

Treating PFAS contamination with bloodletting. £200,000 to treat 50 patients - someone catch some leeches! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Bloodletting recommended for Jersey residents after PFAS contamination

The island’s private drinking water supplies were polluted by use of firefighting foams containing ‘forever chemicals’

www.theguardian.com

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · Jan 23

Say YES to collaborative history! Say YES to showing messy workings! Say YES to acknowledging the sticky fingers of everyone who shapes your work & your ideas! The only way we will survive this academic climate is by working with each other not in competition, building community and making space.

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Kristin Hussey @kristinhussey.bsky.social · Jan 22

Less than a week until teaching starts and an email from the nursery to say they have cases of chicken pox and hand foot and mouth. This should be fun.

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Helene Scott @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social · Jan 21

I promised you guys more of these. Here is one that I find particularly great.

Materials: plastic, metal, wiring, and human tears. (See ALT text for full transcript of the sign).

Photo showing the corner of a printer, and an art-like label on the wall.
Label reads:

Konica Minolta (b. 2003).

Title: Temperamental printer, 2019
Materials: plastic, metal, wiring, and human tears.

This stunning piece emulates a fully functioning printer. It is an interactive sculpture, which allows the viewers to engage in a deeper level, as the various episodes of operational failure that the viewer may experience confront them with their own frustrations. The piece calls us to engage with the mundane volatility that excuses within each of us.

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Kristin Hussey @kristinhussey.bsky.social · Jan 19

Low tide treasure hunt with the little explorer

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Atmospheric Edinburgh wanders to chase away gloomy January

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Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social · Jan 7

Interested in the history of health, heating & hygiene? 🤒😷🔥🌡️🛀🧼

There's still time to APPLY for the funded PhD studentship on the 'Carbon Bodies' project.

⏰ Deadline 24th Jan ⏰

The project: wellcome.org/grant-fundin...

The job: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

a cartoon of an astronaut looking through a telescope with the words " we 're hiring " below it

Alt: a cartoon of an astronaut looking through a telescope at a moon with the words "we're hiring" floating above in the dark sky

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