Recently did a guest article with @sahavoice.bsky.social about presenting your research in the media as an ECR 📻📺📖

Media engagement can be a great training ground to learn how to present your research to people way outside your field - a much-needed skill for job interviews and grant apps!

Was amazing to be part of BBC R4's In Our Time talking about all things Dragon 🐲 If you want to know more about the Chinese zodiac, rain dragons, and The Dragon Boat Festival, you can listen online! 🐉
#inourtime #herebedragons #BBCRadio4

We were totally blown away by the interest in our first workshop, so thank you again to all applicants and participants! #casn2025 #casnmunster 🐯

My book review of "Insect Histories of East Asia" has just been published in the latest issue of Animal History 🪰🪲🐞 It's a fantastic issue with articles on saints, street dogs, and serpents, all of which you can read here:
online.ucpress.edu/ah/issue/1/2

Thanks Gregory, I'm loving it here - such a great community!

Or in this fun blog-post I wrote for the Royal Asiatic Society on all things canine in early China! royalasiaticsociety.org/the-history-...

You can find out more about my current work here:
www.iash.ed.ac.uk/profile/dr-k...

Hi Bluesky 👋 I'm a historian of pre-1200 China and the wider Silk Roads, mostly looking at all things animal! 🐾 Currently working on papers related to postal horses, lapdogs, and pet parrots 🐎🐩🦜