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Jules Skotnes-Brown

@julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social

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Historian of animals, disease, science, and colonialism. Postdoc at University of St Andrews. PhD from Cambridge History and Philosophy of Science. https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/social-anthropology/people/jasb1/

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Sabine Clarke @sabineclarke.bsky.social · 8h

It was a real pleasure to write this afterword for a fantastic special issue on the history of invasive species by Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social and Jules Skotnes-Brown @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social

Invasive Species, Health, and Global History Afterword: The Disavowal of Human Agency

Abstract. The papers in this special issue explore the metaphorical realms that inform discourses on disruptive plants and animals. They explore how specie

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Jules Skotnes-Brown @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social · 4h

Thank you so much for your afterword Sabine, it is the perfect conclusion to the volume!

Jules Skotnes-Brown @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social · 21h

Fantastic to see our special issue has now been formally published!

Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social · 21h

So great to see the special issue on "Invasive Species, Global Health, and Colonial Legacies" that @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social & I edited published today! A big thanks to all contributors & to JHMAS editors & reviewers for their support & guidance in this process academic.oup.com/jhmas/issue/...

Volume 80 Issue 4 | Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences | Oxford Academic

Publishes original research on the written beginnings of medicine in all its aspects. It focuses on what practitioners of the healing arts did or taught, and how their peers, as well as patients, rece...

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Jules Skotnes-Brown @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks very much George!

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Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social · 4d

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags

Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

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Jules Skotnes-Brown @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks so much! And that would be great 😊

Jules Skotnes-Brown @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you so much Dominik!

Jules Skotnes-Brown @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you Lena! 😊

Jules Skotnes-Brown @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks so much! 😊

Jules Skotnes-Brown @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks so much -- it's a bigger version of the proposal I submitted for that Nottingham Research Fellowship a few years ago. I'm very grateful to you and your colleagues for helping develop it in its early stages 😊

Jules Skotnes-Brown @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you Raf!

Jules Skotnes-Brown @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social · 5d

It's been a good year! 😅

Jules Skotnes-Brown @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you Margot!

Jules Skotnes-Brown @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks so much Angela!

Jules Skotnes-Brown @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks so much Clare!

Jules Skotnes-Brown @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks so much Christos!

Jules Skotnes-Brown @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks very much Finn and Dolly!

Jules Skotnes-Brown @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social · 8d

It has been an absolute pleasure working with @visualplague.bsky.social, @alvesduarte.bsky.social and Oliver French on this wonderful project over the last five years. I have learnt an enormous amount and had great fun with this team. Thank you Christos for putting together this amazing project.

Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social · 8d

Today marks the final day of The Global War Against the Rat project @standrewsanthro.bsky.social (funded @wellcometrust.bsky.social) after 6 wonderful years of collaborative interdisciplinary research with Oliver French, @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social & @alvesduarte.bsky.social

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 8d

RHS Funding opportunity: Postgraduate and Early Career Research Support Grants.

Grants of up to £1000 for graduate and early career historians to undertake research projects bit.ly/4nWLNlI

Closing date for the next round: 5 December 2025

Calls for research funding from the Royal Historical Society: current programmes - RHS

The Society currently invites applications for the following three schemes — open to historians across a range of career stages and backgrounds — with closing dates from 5 December 2025 onwards. For f...

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Jules Skotnes-Brown @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social · 8d

Thank you very much for your wishes! 😊

Jules Skotnes-Brown @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social · 9d

A massive thank you to everyone who helped me prepare this grant application - I am truly grateful!

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Jules Skotnes-Brown @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social · 9d

In so doing, it will provide a prehistory of Planetary Health. Next year I will be advertising two postdoc positions - one on conservation and animal health (with a focus on trypanosomiasis) and the other on conservation and earth systems health (with a focus on carbon sinks) - so please stay tuned!

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Jules Skotnes-Brown @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social · 9d

Based at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, the project will explore the historical entanglements, collaborations and frictions between conservation theories and practices and international, global, and Planetary Health in the long twentieth century.

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Jules Skotnes-Brown @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social · 9d

I am thrilled to announce that I have been awarded a Wellcome Trust Career Development Grant. Over the next five years I'll be directing the research project "Conserving Global Health: Biodiversity Protection and the Prehistory of Planetary Health".

Poster depicting an owl hunting gerbils in a field, juxtaposed with an image of the zoonotic cycle of plague. Arrows connect a rat with fleas, and a man sleeping in a bed. The image reads 'Friend of the Farmer Conserve Owls'.

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Jules Skotnes-Brown @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social · 9d

It’s a bit disappointing that despite me explicitly arguing against such comparisons, Webster has found two quotes and taken them out of context to claim that I do “precisely this”.

Despite this, my thanks to Anjuli Webster and South African Journal of Science for the review!