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The British Society for the History of Science is Britain's largest learned society devoted to #HistSTM #HSTM #HistSci. Handled by Comms Officer: Alexander Stoeger
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We're super excited to be hosting Prof. Alison Bashford at @globalaffairslu.bsky.social to hear her talk about her fascinating new book on the history of reading the hand. You can imagine why we'd be interested and we are sure you will be too. Please sign up for free tickets at the link below.
victorianhand.bsky.social
How might hands reveal an inner self – a soul, a character, an identity?

Join us on 12 November at Lancaster University to explore this question with Professor Alison Bashford (University of New South Wales) as she presents her book, Decoding the Hand.

Tickets: thevictorianhand.uk/alison-bashf...
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richove.bsky.social
MLGB is back!! Delighted that Medieval Libraries of Great Britain @bodleian.ox.ac.uk is now back online. We are also working had on plans for the next phase of the resource, enhancing & adding data & functionality. HUGE thanks to my colleagues for their hard & clever work mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
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The queer tour of St Fagans was my personal highlight of the MA Conference so far! Lovely to see a PERMANENT queer display in such a prominent spot in the gallery 🩷 #Museums2025
Museum gallery called "Cymru... / Wales is..." with a display of LGBTQ+-themed objects around the theme "Wales is... proud" Ladies of Llangollen teapot
The most famous lesbian couple in Welsh history. They often feature on Welsh costume souvenirs. Rainbow Football v Homophobia football, signed by the Cymru Women's team, 2023 Framed photographs (most of them black-and-white) depicting Welsh everyday life. Two of them include a gay couple.
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If you’re enjoying Empowering voices and finding out about the Young Curators project at the Museum of Cardiff, come along to our closing party at the museum tonight to see the exhibition, Voices of Grangetown, for yourself 📍

#Museums2025
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We’re here today (Wednesday 8th) at the Museums Association Conference at St Fagans Museum.

Come along to Gweithdy (11:15 am - 12:15pm) and join other members for a networking meet-up!  

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Ancient historians, we're so excited for this search! Spread the news far and wide!
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New History Job Posted Today: Assistant Professor of Ancient History | University of Maryland Department of History
Assistant Professor of Ancient History | University of Maryland Department of History
College Park, Maryland, The University of Maryland, College Park Department of History, invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position from historians of the Ancient Mediterranean worlds within the broad geographical zone that extends into Asia, Africa, and Europe. Chronological specialization is open. However, expertise in the Roman Imperial or late antique periods in particular aligns with existing areas of teaching and research expertise in the department.  Preference will be given to scholars whose work engages with the diversity and complexity of the Mediterranean world in such areas as ethnicity, gender, environment, or connectivity. In addition to exceptional scholarly promise, the successful candidate will demonstrate excellence in teaching. Responsibilities include teaching a general survey of the ancient Mediterranean and the Near East, other lecture courses, and upper-level undergraduate and graduate seminars as they align with the candidate’s interests and departmental requirements, as well as engaging in curriculum development. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS Education: A Ph.D. in History or a related field is required in hand by August 1, 2026 Experience: Teaching experience at the college or university level is required. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS We seek candidates whose research, teaching, and service have prepared them to contribute to all the pillars of the College of Arts and Humanities’ Strategic Plan: Transformative Thinking; Boundless Creativity; Expansive Empathy; and Meaningful Futures. Contributions toward those goals and values might include leadership in teaching, mentoring, research, or service toward building an equitable and inclusive scholarly environment and/or increasing access or participation of all individuals equitably and fairly. The University of Maryland, College Park, actively subscribes to a policy of equal employment opportunity, and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, age, sex, color, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, religion, ancestry or national origin, marital status, genetic information, political affiliation, and gender identity or expression. This search is contingent upon the availability of funds. Apply Here
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My new chapter on scholarly dogmatism just got published! It's featured on Brill's Kudos showroom. Check it out if you are interested in silly accusations of dogmatism from antiquity to the present and the striking question of why this weird scholarly vice persists 📜🧐🤬 link.growkudos.com/1beqe51ozr4
Bad scientists - Why have scientists accused each other of dogmatism since antiquity?
What does it mean to call someone dogmatic — and why has that accusation survived for over two thousand years? This article explores how the charge of dogmatism, from ancient philosophy to modern scie...
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Insightful new article by Stefan Bernhardt-Radu in the Journal of the History of Biology about Julian Huxley's biological views. 🧬🗃️ #openaccess

link.springer.com/article/10.1... #histbio #hpbio #philbio #histsci #hps @hpsleeds.bsky.social
“Helping to Bridge the Gap Between Genetics and Development:ˮ Julian Huxley, Early 20th Century Oxford Biology, and the Epigenetic Origins of Animal Characters - Journal of the History of Biology
Julian Huxley is remembered as the author of his landmark 1942 Evolution: The Modern Synthesis. Nowadays, however, he is criticized for having reduced biology to the selection of genes. Some have nevertheless suggested that Huxley’s biological views were more expansive—including rather than excluding issues regarding development or environment. In this paper, using hitherto unexamined sources, I show that Huxley’s developmental understanding of animal characters was rooted in his education at Oxford in the early 20th century. From embryologically and physiologically trained Oxford teachers, he learned to see characters as things that could not be predicted from the cell’s physico-chemical properties. Characters arose anew through dynamic interactions between parts. Huxley and his teachers labeled these as “epigenetic” processes that integrated multiple cross-pollinating causes such as heredity and development. After briefly exploring Huxley’s understanding of character development, I show how we can get to grips with Huxley’s biological views by exploring the context of his education at Oxford from 1906 to 1909. I then show how Huxley received and used these ideas, before I illustrate how they played an important role in his academic and socio-political work.
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fabiolacreed.bsky.social
📙 Bluesky is the only platform where I haven’t circulated my book, as I’d recently joined and was waiting for the physical copy. So here it is (last book post, I promise) 📙

☀️ Sunbed in Britain: Tanning Culture from Fad to Fear is free to download via: dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781...
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🎙️ Just published: Communicable E37: 'Peer review is broken'

Hosted by @angelahuttner.bsky.social & @anniejoseph.bsky.social

w/ invited guests: Melinda Baldwin @mbaldwin.bsky.social & Serge Horbach

Listen on Communicable:

#IDSky #Clinmicro #MedSky #peerreview #AI
Communicable E37: 'Peer review is broken'
Contrary to popular belief, peer review has only recently become an...
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Want to find out more about museums changing lives across the UK? 💭

Join us in the temporary exhibition space at 11.15am for 'Museums Change Lives Awards: spotlight on the nominees', where we'll be hearing from some of the nominated projects and people ahead of the awards ceremony later today.
Museums Change Lives Awards 2025 - Museums Association
Recognising and celebrating outstanding work by UK museums delivering social impact
www.museumsassociation.org
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gpadmoreinstitute.bsky.social
Calling Haringey Residents!

Free Creative Writing Workshop celebrating Black Haringey History 365

Inspired by the creativity, resilience and activism of the Black Parents Movement.

Saturday 1 November at 12 to 2pm. Venue: Marcus Garvey Library.

Book: email us at [email protected]
Free Creative Writing Workshop on Saturday 1 November at 12 to 2 pm. Inspired by the resilience, creativity and activism of the Black Parents Movement. 

Free for Haringey Residents

At the Marcus Garvey Library, Tottenham N15 4JA 

Email info@georgepadmoreinstitute.org to book your place.
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📢Call for Papers📢 ‘Folklore on the Move’: The Folklore Society’s annual conference 2026 in collaboration with the Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen. In person conference: 5-7 Jun 2026; online conference day: 10 Jun 2026. Proposal deadline 14 Dec www.folklore-society.com/event/call-f...
‘The Wayfarer’ by Hieronymus Bosch
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CONSTRUCTION HISTORY & FILM INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM
19 - 20 february 2026
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS 6 November 2025: spehc.pt/CHFilmabstra...

More at : www.spehc.pt/noticias.html
The symposium marks the first step towards creating an academic forum dedicated to exploring film images as a valuable source for the study of Construction History. By bringing together scholars from diverse fields, we aim to foster discussion, share recent research findings, and open new perspectives in this emerging area of study.

Since the late nineteenth century, moving images have captured every aspect of daily life in communities around the world. As with earlier artistic media, motion pictures revealed the everyday realities of new construction in urban, rural or natural landscapes as well as restoration and maintenance of existing structures. Newsreels and documentaries are among the main categories of historical sources providing valuable insights into building practices since the invention of cinema. These films document the extraction, transportation, and use of materials, machines, and building techniques, the activities of architects, engineers, master builders, and work crews on construction sites, as well as in their leisure time. They also document a wide range of events, including foundation-stone ceremonies, inaugurations and trade union demonstrations, among many others.
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For anyone else who's two weeks into the term and wondering if it was ever thus.

This is "H2O", aka John Logie Baird, writing for his student magazine in November 1912.
The Lecturer’s Lament
Woe! unto ye. Woe! Woe! Woe! for ye have hidden the chalk, and have omitted the dates from your exercises, and ye are all utterly condemned, save only Mr Brash, who hath gotten him full marks.

Woe! unto ye. Woe! for the day of the final examination cometh, and all of ye stand unprepared except only Mr Brash, who hath full marks.

Verily I say unto you, there shall be lamentation and great weeping, and many shall cry “Sir, Sir. Give unto me a class certificate,” and there shall be none given unto them.

And there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Ye laugh and make merry; ye make a great tumult with your feet; and one among you hath smitten me with a pea.

But woe unto Mr Russell, who sitteth on a back bench and doeth his mathematical exercise. Verily it shall be exceeding hard for him on the day of the examination.

What came ye here for to see? Fain would I have shown you crystals of Perthalium Tetroxide, very beautiful. Yea, and the Rhomboidal crystals of Formaloid, like unto which there are none others, and ye would not; putting me to confusion with your tumult.

And when I would have shown you Alums, very precious, ye mocked me, singing, “I care not for the stars that shine.”

Depart ye far from me. Get ye hence unto monkey houses; depart ye unto breweries, for I, having suffered long, will tarry here no longer with you.
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This week the Society also launched the call for its First Book and Early Career Article Prizes, 2026.

Eligible titles, published in 2025, should be submitted by the author before the closing date of 15 December. Further details and how to apply: bit.ly/3KnR47v

#Skystorians
Royal Historical Society Book and Article Prizes, 2026: submissions now invited - RHS
The Royal Historical Society invites applications for its First Book Prize, 2026 and Early Career Article Prize, 2026. The call for submissions opens on Monday 29 September 2025 and runs to Monday 15 ...
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Two days to go until MA Conference 2025! If you're joining us in Cardiff, it's time to check the finer details ✅

Head to our website for everything you need to know about logistics, access and transport, including getting to and from St Fagans using our MA coaches 👇

#Museums2025
Everything you need to know about Conference 2025 - Museums Association
Essential information on the venue, transport, accessibility, our conference app, sustainability and more
www.museumsassociation.org
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Congratulations to Renée Bergland, whose book Natural Magic is the Winner of the @bshsnews.bsky.social's Hughes Prize! This award celebrates the best book in the history of science which is accessible to a wide audience of non-specialists.

Explore this exceptional book here: hubs.ly/Q03Lz1pb0
Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science by Renée Bergland Renée Bergland
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One day to go – tomorrow we'll be welcoming you to Cardiff at our MA Conference 2025 opening party 🕺

There's not much left to say other than that we're excited to meet you there! We'll leave you with some useful info 👇

#Museums2025
A person speaks into a microphone at the MA's 2024 conference
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Booking is now open for this year's Royal Historical Society Public History Lecture, with @greshamcollege.bsky.social:

'Minor Criminal: The Trial of the Man Who Murdered My Grandmother', with Daniel Finkelstein bit.ly/4op6Wpd

6-7pm, Tuesday 4 November: in person and online #Skystorians 1/2
Minor Criminal: The Trial of the Man Who Murdered My Grandmother
This is the annual Royal Historical Society Lecture.
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Really looking forward to this!
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Join me on Oct 16 for a free virtual book talk on the medical history of uranium with science and tech historian @lucyjanesantos.bsky.social.

#histmed
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Event flyer for Zoom talk with science historian Lucy Jane Santos. Black and white photo on a green background with illustrations of uranium-related artifacts.
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Such a pleasure to talk with @tespiteri.bsky.social on the HPS Podcast about Patriarchy Inc.

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I sat down with Prof. Cordelia Fine for an in-depth discussion about her wonderful new book “Patriarchy, Inc.”

She critiques two dominant stories of inequality — the “different but equal” view and the “business case for diversity” — and sets out a richer vision of what equality should mean today.
S5 E10 - Cordelia Fine on
Podcast Episode · The HPS Podcast - Conversations from History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science · 03/10/2025 · 53m
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14 hours left ❤️‍🔥 it’s my birthday and I have one ask: to sustain electricity for DOZENS of students taking their exams this week. In the north, yall.

Among ground invasion, bombing, mass displacement, Spark Space is a project of resistance. 734/1000
🇵🇸 Gaza Needs Your Support: Help Build a Lifeline for Students and Remote Workers!
In Gaza, war has destroyed homes, blocked roads, and left countless people without work. Yet, amidst the rubble, hope remains. Students and remote workers face daily struggles—power outages, broken…
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