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Angela Marques Filipe @angelaofthenorth.bsky.social · 1d

In re: to DMs: Yes, depending on the topic and your foci, we're able to set interdisciplinary co-supervision teams across Sociology, Anthropology, Geography, or other x-disc combos.

Angela Marques Filipe @angelaofthenorth.bsky.social · 1d

Want to do a PhD in social science at Durham? Are you interested in health and mental well-being? Or in environmental and planetary health? Our ESRC NINE DTP scholarships come w/ a range of pathways and perks: call now open for 2026-27! Get in touch.
www.ninedtp.ac.uk/the-application-process/

Prospective Students - NINE DTP

The competition for 2026-27 is open Tuition FeesHome fees (£5,006 in 2025-26) covered for all students. Additional support for international students facilitated through university agreements.StipendT...

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Angela Marques Filipe @angelaofthenorth.bsky.social · 5d

You jest but someone explain “1536”

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Angela Marques Filipe @angelaofthenorth.bsky.social · 5d

Global historians of food could’ve been consulted

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Angela Marques Filipe @angelaofthenorth.bsky.social · 5d

Unbearable stuff.

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Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 5d

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

Article reads:
Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first

The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.

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Justin Weinberg @dailynous.com · 7d

A memorial event for Helen de Cruz, featuring talks, remembrances, and musical performances, is taking place later this month.

Memorial Event for Helen De Cruz - Daily Nous

This past June, Helen De Cruz, professor of philosophy at Saint Louis University, died at the age of 46. Remembered not merely as a professor, but as a source of assistance, advice, and kindness for o...

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Angela Marques Filipe @angelaofthenorth.bsky.social · 8d

Part-time RA role in my Leverhulme project "Reframing Ecoanxiety". Ideal for PGRs in the social sciences and environmental-medical humanities looking for flexible, remote work. Oppts for career advacement detailed. Right to work in the UK required. Apply by October 17th for a start November 1st.

CASUAL ACADEMIC - Research Assistant

Click the link provided to see the complete job description.

durham.taleo.net

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Angela Marques Filipe @angelaofthenorth.bsky.social · 12d

Council for British Research in the Levant will call for research applications, later in 2025, in the following areas:
Heritage; States, societies and cultures of the Levant; Cities and urbanisation; Refugees, migration, displacement, diasporas; Challenges of sustainability and resilience.

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Angela Marques Filipe @angelaofthenorth.bsky.social · 15d

Leverhulme Trust and Wellcome Trust combine support for the Humanitarian Archive Emergency (HAE) project based at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute at The University of Manchester: www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/l...

Leverhulme Trust and Wellcome Trust Combine Support

Leverhulme Trust and Wellcome Trust combine support for the Humanitarian Archive Emergency (HAE) project based at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute at The University of Manchester. This...

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 17d

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win (h/t @miriamposner.com)

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Angela Marques Filipe @angelaofthenorth.bsky.social · 17d

Hot tip: while the odd bloke’s rallying against migrants, hanging around flags to remind them of where they live, try and refrain from forcefully asking your migrant colleagues: “where do you come from? No, I mean, where are you from? I mean, before that? No, I mean, originally?”

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Angela Marques Filipe @angelaofthenorth.bsky.social · 19d

Ros Edwards and Val Gillies are two absolutely impressive scholars in our field - I've been following their work on early childhood intervention, for a while now, and their latest project on British sociologists' wives. This is top-notch!

Hidden traces: Writing sociologists’ wives into existence - Rosalind Edwards, Val Gillies, 2025

In this article we draw on our investigation of the un- and under-acknowledged contributions of major post-war sociologists’ wives to the development of the dis...

journals.sagepub.com

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Angela Marques Filipe @angelaofthenorth.bsky.social · 27d

I don’t think so but it’s been circulated via Jisc-MedSoc today with all deets

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Angela Marques Filipe @angelaofthenorth.bsky.social · 28d

Our Sociology of Health & Illness editorial team is advertising for a PGR RA to drive our social media strategy. Apply with a CV + 1 page letter outlining your skills and approach by 26th September 5pm to Prof. Janice (dot) McLaughlin (at) Newcastle (dot) ac (dot) uk.
Come join us!
#medsoc #medhums

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · Sep 2

ICYMI:

@chacruna.bsky.social is soliciting abstract proposals for their Psychedelic Culture 2026 conference. Abstracts featuring the environmental and historical dimensions of psychedelic plant medicines are encouraged.

niche-canada.org/2025/08/29/c...

#envhist #envhum #histmed #ecology

Call for Abstracts - Psychedelic Culture 2026 Conference

Psychedelic Culture 2026 will explore cutting-edge themes that are largely absent from the mainstream psychedelic conversation, all related to our main initiatives: Indigenous Reciprocity & Decolonial...

niche-canada.org

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · Aug 30

UC Berkeley Depart of History tenure-track asst prof job in Global History of Technology. History of technological artifacts & infrastructures through a global & transnational lens. All fields, areas, & periods of #HistTech considered
For more info:
aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05065
#HPS 🗃️

Assistant Professor – Global History of Technology - Department of History

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

aprecruit.berkeley.edu

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Natural History Museum, London @nhm-london.bsky.social · Aug 27

We’re excited to share a first look at the 61st Wildlife Photographer of the Year images! 😲 📸

Featuring 100 awe-inspiring photographs awarded for their creativity and skill, our yearly exhibition celebrates the beauty and the fragility of the natural world.

Which one is your favourite?

A lioness standing on the top of a rocky surface. It has light brown fur, with its tail in the air. The animal looks down at a cobra, which has its crest looking up at the lion. By Gabriella Comi.

An icy landscape, with a tall ice shelf on the right-hand side and icy water on the left-hand side. Along the ice shelf, there are hundreds of Emperor penguin chicks walking. By Bertie Gregory.

A close up of a coyote. It has light orange fur with specks of black hair, and orange eyes. Its face is partially covered by its tail. By Parham Pourahmad.

A close up of a flamingo bird. Only its head and one of its legs are visible. Its head is covered in hair feathers, with a bright pink and black beak. Its leg is pink too. By Leana Kuster.

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Angela Marques Filipe @angelaofthenorth.bsky.social · Aug 22

Vast areas of my home region have burned to the ground. Fires continue to rage, some of which in the hearts and souls of those most affected: no political accountability and no reparative justice in sight, but equally, no lexicon for what we collectively feel.

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · Aug 20

Firefighters are battling 21 blazes in western Spain, while a man in Portugal was killed while fighting wildfires.

Winds complicate wildfire battles in Spain; Portugal suffers third death

Firefighters are battling 21 blazes in western Spain, while a man in Portugal was killed while fighting wildfires.

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · Aug 20

Call for Papers! 🧵

The Public's Science–A New Social Contract for American Research Policy a Special Issue of The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Editors: Alondra Nelson (IAS) and Jenny Reardon (UC, Santa Cruz)

Abstract Deadline: Sept 19

www.ias.edu/stsv-lab/pub...

Public Science

Call for Papers Special Issue of The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social ScienceThe Public's Science–A New Social Contract for American Research Policy

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · Aug 14

Extraordinary dissonance between reports of record numbers of students going to university and the huge cutbacks going on across the sector. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cv...

A- level results: Record number of students get into first-choice university

Hundreds of thousands of students are receiving A-level, T-level, BTec National and other Level 3 results in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Angela Marques Filipe @angelaofthenorth.bsky.social · Aug 14

3-year Postdoc RF in “liveable futures” project w/ our good colleague and friend @martinsavransky.bsky.social
EoIs Deadline: 5th September 2025, 5pm CET. Further details here: forms.gle/ZU3VDt1UVKot...
Informal inquiries to [email protected]

#EnvHum

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Adam Crymble @adamcrymble.bsky.social · Aug 14

Job Advert to join my team at UCL

💭Lecturer in Humanities Data Science
💭£54,931 - £57,979
💭Open Ended Contract
💭Great interdisciplinary team

Closes 15 September 2025

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

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Angela Marques Filipe @angelaofthenorth.bsky.social · Aug 13

Au revoir, Michel! One of the brightest, most humored, and suprisingly modest scholars that I’ve been lucky to learn and work with.

Michel Callon (1945-2025)

Michel Callon passed away on July 28, 2025.

www.csi.minesparis.psl.eu

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Abrahm @abrahm.bsky.social · Jul 25

A looming global water crisis may be under appreciated as climate change takes hold. Today I report on a new study that finds the planet is quickly drying, with mega-regions of water loss now stretching across continents. www.propublica.org/article/wate...

“Staggering” Water Loss Driven by Groundwater Mining Poses Global Threat

A new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.

www.propublica.org

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