A couple of #histSTM #histsci #philsci positions opening up: Asst Prof in Philosophy of Science & Technology (TT) at University of Toronto, apps due Oct 15 (including letters of rec). jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
Historian of science, mostly medieval to early modern astronomy & mathematical arts. Things German, Polish, Egyptian, or hey that looks interesting. Ex public policy + occasional tuba. Copernicus book in progress. Don't get long covid, it sucks.
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A couple of #histSTM #histsci #philsci positions opening up: Asst Prof in Philosophy of Science & Technology (TT) at University of Toronto, apps due Oct 15 (including letters of rec). jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
#CallforApplications 📣 The GHIL awards a number of #scholarships to #postgraduate students, Habilitanden and #postdocs at German universities to enable them to carry out research in Britain. Scholarships are generally awarded for a period of up to three months. 📜 1/3
One month left to apply for our travel fund! Are you doing research in #earlymodern #bookhistory or print culture? The Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library and Plantin-Moretus Museum offer a Nottebohm Fellowship. Apply before Oct. 1st! Details: consciencebibliotheek.be/en/fellowshi...
Can be framed as a sequel to Ahmed Saadawi's novel? 🤔 bookshop.org/p/books/fran...
Yes, that was a really good set of episodes. Also don't sleep on @scalzi.com's Kaiju Preservation Society (although Covid is more of a framing plot point in the latter case): 👀 🦖 bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
Even Andreas Osiander had some fairly interesting philosophical things to say on the subject of plagues and their causes, despite the fact that he gets a bad rap from Copernicans...
Oooh, thanks for pointing out this edition -- I think I'd heard it was on the way years ago, but then completely forgotten it was out. 🙏
The Department of Science & Technology Studies at Cornell University invites applications for a two-year Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the area of “Science, Technology, and Governance.” #HPS #STS #PhilJobs academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30301
Thrilled to be hosting this ONLINE, FREE Art Break to talk to Anthony Bale (@realmandeville@bsky.social) about travel in the Middle Ages on Sept. 4th at 12pm PST--sign up here: www.getty.edu/calendar/art...
“She found occasional work as a visiting professor… She earned grants to fund her research, including a fellowship at Harvard, but she was often living on unemployment benefits. When she won a MacArthur Fellowship in 1989 — the coveted “genius” award — for her scholarship, she was hired full time.”
The University of Southern Maine, just down the street from me, is hiring a medievalist. jobs.chronicle.com/job/37871743....
They're apparently trying over at DoD: 🧐 bsky.app/profile/nyma...
New job: Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute Warsaw (full time) German Historical Institute Warsaw jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69022
Was just thinking it might be time to give that film another watch. 🧐
DOUBLE #hpbio job alert! The @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social has 2 postings for full-time tenure stream positions in the #Philosophy of Science and/or Tech at the Assistant and Associate prof levels (general #philsci or phil. of race/indigenous knowledge/non-western sci). 🐋🌱
Medieval Warship Reveals Secrets of Shipboard Artillery www.medievalists.net/2025/08/medi... #militayhistory #navalhistory
Great review on how to bury subliminal fascism within an art exhibition, in this case a futurism exhibit in Italy earlier this year:
Where do we apply for swanky membership cards? 🧐
If today is the day we're all doing takes on objective data and classic historiography, I will say I was pleased to finally get around to reading Michel-Rolph Trouillot's work after a copy recently turned up for $1 at a local charity shop -- really excellent: bookshop.org/p/books/sile...
The latest Pasts Imperfect is out! This week, Manuel Medrano discusses a stable isotope analysis of Inka khipus. Then, replacing the Mercator projection, cuts at Virginia Tech & Oregon, a Labubu versus Pazuzu demon face-off, new ancient world journals from @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social & much more!
Living the retired consultant dream! 😂
Coming soon: "Pages of Stars: Case Studies in the History of the Astral Sciences from the Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection," a lecture from SIMS Fellow Michael Zellman-Rohrer, Freie Universität Berlin. Friday, September 19, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EDT, on ZOOM Register here: https://bit.ly/3UjpXfE 1/4
Applications are open for the Renaissance Society of America's short-term research fellowships, including many that give preference to contingent faculty and independent scholars -- apply by September 16th, applicants must be @rsaorg.bsky.social members: www.rsa.org/general/cust... #earlymodern
OTD 142 years ago, Krakatoa's volcano exploded, causing tens of thousands of deaths, dramatically coloring skies around the world, and contributing to the invention of the cloud chamber via scientific attempts to understand this latter phenomenon: www.lindahall.org/about/news/s...
The daughters of Hermann Göring's aide - who refused for years to talk with art-theft investigators - put their home in Argentina up for sale, and GUESS WHAT.
It should work, but unfortunately WP now wants people to enter an email address before allowing you to see the free article.
Many thanks to our friends @hyperallergic.com for spreading the word about @ransomcenter.bsky.social's 2026-27 #fellowships! Learn more by visiting the Center's website: www.hrc.utexas.edu/fellowships/ #Humanities #Photography #Literature #ArtHistory #RareBooks #Theatre #FilmHistory 🗃️📜📚
Interesting piece on what's required in undertaking a massive renovation and conservation project on Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater house: wapo.st/3HMU1O3 [gift link]
Have your agent call Guillermo del Toro, I'm sure he needs some more glamorous #earlymodern book authors accompanying him alongside all those boring Hollywood actors on the red carpet. 🤔
All in stock @stanfordpress.bsky.social books, including their wonderful Middle East Studies list, are 50% off from now until September 8!
It sure sounds like @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social needs to wrangle an invitation to the Venice film festival to talk about her book: 😉 www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au...
‘Few women could read Latin, so writing in Italian meant writing, in part, for the “ladies” who typically consumed romances and other light fare.’ Barbara Newman on Boccaccio’s female readership: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
If you believe there’s no such thing as too many books, here’s a wonderful opportunity for a bargain, including titles in our “Studies in German History” series… www.berghahnbooks.com/series/studi...
Our department "Artifacts, Action, Knowledge" is hiring a Postdoc for the "Common Knowledge and Its Sources in the Sinosphere" working group! This research role will also involve #DigiHum, #Coordination, #Publishing, and #SciComm. 🗓️ Deadline: Sep 30, 2025 🔗 bit.ly/41oY89 #AcademicJobs #HistSci
Huge sale! @uncpress.bsky.social is letting their amazing catalogue go for 50% off to celebrate their new website. But don’t dither - it’s 48 hours only! You can get all kinds of great books including THE WOMEN OF RENDEZVOUS at half price with code 01NEWSITE50 🗃️ uncpress.org
Your average junior high science fair participant could probably give a dozen reasons why this is idiocy, and yet we're still expected to treat these dudes as special boy geniuses and hand them billions of dollars more to burn 🤷♂️
Make medieval historians slightly less relevant to modern politics again... 🧐 🙃
Yes, and conveniently located right next to the Friends of MoCo Library bookstore 😆
Shin Godzilla is the best government satire of the last decade and it’s not even close
Here's non-paywalled reporting on this. Looks temporary, but also looks very broad, covering much of Europe and most shippers, and like a right mess. We're in for it, lads.
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On a brighter note, here's a video and article of fish climbing vertically up a waterfall as an inspirational animal video to get you through the weekend: 🐠 👇
Yeah, other sites don't do this (yet), but I guess WP now wants at least the ability to send you emails later saying "didn't you like that gift article, now pleeez subscribe."
Fit in a medical check-up on the same trip, and you'll practically turn a profit. 🧐
I think the idea is that we're no longer supposed to communicate with anyone either overseas or next door, because we all need to sign up for subscriptions to having fake chatbot buddies.
Screenshot from the article indicating some of the scale of new import charges that are now likely to apply to small package orders that were formerly exempt. 👇
Heads up to anyone in the US who occasionally or regularly orders books, art supplies, or whatever from overseas -- this is going to be an expensive mess. wapo.st/45P7k8M [gift link]
My local public library has a DVD of it (don't know if they would invest in the new 4K version, though), so that might be another option?
Truth! 🙌
DC-area folks can catch it at the AFI Silver Spring: silver.afi.com/movies/detai...
Currently listening, some Friday evening tuba jazz. 🎶
Giant ugly monsters are attacking the government. In possibly unrelated news, a 4K restoration of Shin Godzilla opens in theaters this weekend, and it's a heartwarming story about heroic government committees coming together to (at least temporarily) defeat a monster. wapo.st/4fPJXAc [gift link]
Yeah, this one for me is kind of the John Bolton of university news. When I was a grad student in that program, faculty were mostly a mix of Charles-Murray-worshiping bigots, psychopaths, & sexual harassers. Nonetheless, we do need to fight the current movement of torching humanities programs. 👀 🫤
Coming soon: "Pages of Stars: Case Studies in the History of the Astral Sciences from the Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection," a lecture from SIMS Fellow Michael Zellman-Rohrer, Freie Universität Berlin. Friday, September 19, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EDT, on ZOOM Register here: https://bit.ly/3UjpXfE 1/4
The damage from these cuts will run so deep. An entire generation of health workers traumatized. projects.propublica.org/federal-heal...
Interesting piece by @bradykate.bsky.social on efforts to preserve an endangered western Slavic language and heritage traditions within Germany: wapo.st/3JqnKga [gift link]
This triggered a vague memory, and yes, Bill Ashworth gave the theremin a feature in his Linda Hall Library "Scientist of the Day" series: 😃 www.lindahall.org/about/news/s...
Department "Knowledge Systems and Collective Life" seeks a Collaborative Research Coordinator! 🤝 Help expand its community-based, publicly engaged research 🎤 Advise researchers on cooperative methods 📋 Coordinate cooperation agreements 🗓️ Deadline: Sep 28, 2025 🔗 bit.ly/45FXu8R #HistSci #EnvHist
René Descartes has entered the chat. 🧐 🌀
UCLA- John W. Baldwin Post-Doctoral Fellow (Global Medieval Studies) memorients.com/news/ucla-jo...
These both look fantastic. 🥳🙌
Bacteria and archaea living in the Earth’s crust collectively outweigh more than 200 million blue whales, according to calculations by the microbial geochemist Karen Lloyd.
If you're in DC next Wednesday, August 27, I'm very excited to be talking about the book with my friend @rossandersen.bsky.social at the Wharf Politics & Prose
Working Group “Heavens in your Hand” seeks a Student Assistant with a focus on historical #Arabic and #Persian manuscripts! 🌌 work with manuscripts connected to the history of astral science 🌐 support development of the "Visualization of the Heavens" database 🔗 bit.ly/39R2z #HistSci #DigiHum #DH
No problem. Another thread I just saw, fyi: bsky.app/profile/ylep...
Imagine telling the ancients, “in the 20th century we figured out a way to convince sand and metal to do mathematical computations that no human could ever complete. In the 21st century, we decided to give up on math, and convinced sand and metal to cast pretend spells instead."
Sorry, just automatically comes to mind because it was one of the most memorable shows I saw back during grad school (original cast in London, and Frayn was coincidentally in the audience the night I was there). 😆
Very excited for your acting debut! Which role and which theatre? 😉 bookshop.org/p/books/cope...
New job: A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, DC jobs.h-net.org/jobs/68978
An image collection about astrology and astronomy from the 1920s was considered lost after WWII — until art historian Uwe Fleckner found it in a trash heap in 1987. The Fleckner-curated reconstruction is now on view at the Hamburg Planetarium.
Sorry, it was supposed to be a gift link, but sometimes they want you to enter an email address? Maybe try archive.ph on the main story link?
This was the latest as of a couple days ago, not yet approved, not yet certain who might be covered: 🫤 wapo.st/47D0CF7 [gift link]
Hey, history and medievalist friends. If you're doing any teaching on maps this semester, I have a couple of digital resources you might find useful. #skystorians 🗃️ 1. Matthew Paris's Map A fully annotated & interactive copy of Paris's c.1250 map of England. 1/3 historiacartarum.org/annotated-cl...
"More than 40 percent of Americans are in some form of medical debt ... even though the latest U.S. Census Bureau figures show that about 92 percent of Americans were insured for all or part of 2023." wapo.st/4lH0rwc [gift link]
Wow, I'd call that a win! 📗 🥳
Reading one of George Saliba's brilliant pieces on medieval Arabic astronomy and, ouch, shots fired at a poor anonymous librarian in footnote 30. 🧐 😆 #HistSTM #medievalsky
Did you miss yesterday's #CoffeeWithACodex with @lisafdavis.bsky.social, featuring the realistic facsimile of the Voynich Manuscript? Fear not! It was recorded, and I just posted it to YouTube. Take an almost-look at one of the world's most inscrutable manuscripts. youtu.be/LlwjwLYTJug
Yes! I read that years ago and enjoyed it but should have another perusal now that I'm a bit more familiar with the characters involved.
Think it's obligatory for skeets on early #BookHistory to include at least one printer error -- like I obviously meant to say either "for Reaktion's 'Medieval Lives' series" or "for the Reaktion 'Medieval Lives' series," but 🤷♂️.
Yes, I don't know if there was a behind the scenes cage match between editors of the two series about where he really belonged! 😂 Probably @adapalmer.bsky.social would have something to say on how different the temporal dividing lines are for "Renaissance" depending on which subfield you work in. 🤔
For anyone interested in a just-the-documents-and-books focused study of Johannes Gutenberg, this new biography by Eric Marshall White for the Reaktion's "Medieval Lives" series is very good: bookshop.org/p/books/joha... #medievalsky #BookHistory
Fascinating findings by Sabine Hyland et al on "Stable isotope evidence for the participation of commoners in Inka khipu production" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Join the AAAC meeting via Zoom Friday Aug 15, starting at 10 AM EST for astronomy & astrophysics program updates from NSF, NASA, and DOE & a talk on the state of the profession by AAS President Dara Norman 🔭 www.nsf.gov/events/astro...
Yes, this book is excellent -- highly recommend. 👇 📗
Italian mathematician Giovanni Battista Benedetti, critic of Aristotle and writer on sundials and music theory in the decades before Galileo, featured today on the Linda Hall Library website: www.lindahall.org/about/news/s... #HistSTM #earlymodern
We have an entry-level opening in Cambridge on our terrific Education Programs team. bit.ly/45ynwe7
It was a pleasure to chat with @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social on Not Just The Tudors about HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY, a history of the idea of "human" from antiquity to the present. 🧵 💙📚 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH podfollow.com/not-just-the...
Looking forward to Allison Marsh's presentation on her NEH-sponsored efforts to uncover the contributions women made to #ElectricalEngineering. Click here to register for tonight's event, which will be livestreamed beginning @ 7 PM, CDT events.lindahall.org/ladieswillbe... #histSTM #WomenInSTEM 🗃️📜
Such a great book! ☝️
Opening tomorrow: "The UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies is pleased to announce a John W. Baldwin Post-Doctoral Fellowship for a recent Ph.D. whose work focuses on European medieval studies within the global comparative context." recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10513 #GlobalMiddleAges #MedievalSky
Only Central Asia capital I never made it to in my past policy life. 😢 (US-Uzbek govt relations were terrible at the time.)
#MedievalSky Financial Times has a free behind-the-scenes piece on the diplomatic negotiations btw France & England that brought about the "exchange" of the Bayeux Tapestry, scheduled for 2026: www.ft.com/content/3f1e...
Oh hey, I'd work for those rates! Sadly not sure I have any trips to Leiden in my future, but hit me up with tacos-per-kilo rates if you ever see me start talking about one. 😂
We need a global academic courier system with fungible credits. "Traveling to an overseas archive this summer? Carry x kilos of books/goods to someone at your site, & receive equivalent credit toward future deliveries to your own city." 🤔
Pomona College - Assistant Professor of History (Early Modern European History): memorients.com/news/pomona-...
There are even a couple of videos and design plans online for how to make your own version, for any woodworking or crafty types. 😃 📚 www.finewoodworking.com/2010/02/14/j... and www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SD_...
Oh look! More evidence that people and things have been mixing up between medieval Europe' and 'Africa" all along ... ...which *only now* becomes visible as the field's epistemological and methodological frameworks continue to change (for the better, if you ask me)!
US Fellowships available for researchers from the University of Manchester, to John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress and Huntington Library. For guidance and application details follow this link: www.library.manchester.ac.uk/rylands/rese...
