Amanda Rees
@amandarees.bsky.social
Historian of science working on histories of the future, the nature of human/animal relationships, and relationships between science and religion, as well as histories of the field sciences. Will witter on about SF at the drop of a warp drive. Cymraes.
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Amanda Rees
@amandarees.bsky.social
· Oct 14
SCIENCE RELIGION AND THE HUMAN FUTURE (Oxford UP) available Jan 16! So grateful to fabulous co-authors Charlotte Sleigh & David Wilkinson who stepped up after the dreadful loss of Tom McLeish (plus new jobs for other authors): book would not be here without them! @eclasproject.bsky.social
Historians of the Human Sciences! Early Career Prize now open for entrants - see below for details #hstm
History of the Human Sciences announces its 2025-26 ECR Prize. All details (including previous winners) on our para-site histhum.com. Deadline: 30 January 2026.
Also! Follow the journal on Bluesky at @histhum.bsky.social www.histhum.com/early-career...
Also! Follow the journal on Bluesky at @histhum.bsky.social www.histhum.com/early-career...
October 21, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Historians of the Human Sciences! Early Career Prize now open for entrants - see below for details #hstm
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This week we welcome Prof. Steven Shapin to the pod!🎙️
We explore his journey through interdisciplinary spaces, revisit Leviathan and the Air-Pump 40 years on, and explore how credibility, trust and expertise are shaped by the fragmentation of expertise and (recent) political & cultural challenges
We explore his journey through interdisciplinary spaces, revisit Leviathan and the Air-Pump 40 years on, and explore how credibility, trust and expertise are shaped by the fragmentation of expertise and (recent) political & cultural challenges
S5 E11 - Steven Shapin on the Social Life of Scientific Knowledge
Podcast Episode · The HPS Podcast - Conversations from History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science · 19/10/2025 · 50m
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October 19, 2025 at 10:25 AM
This week we welcome Prof. Steven Shapin to the pod!🎙️
We explore his journey through interdisciplinary spaces, revisit Leviathan and the Air-Pump 40 years on, and explore how credibility, trust and expertise are shaped by the fragmentation of expertise and (recent) political & cultural challenges
We explore his journey through interdisciplinary spaces, revisit Leviathan and the Air-Pump 40 years on, and explore how credibility, trust and expertise are shaped by the fragmentation of expertise and (recent) political & cultural challenges
SCIENCE RELIGION AND THE HUMAN FUTURE (Oxford UP) available Jan 16! So grateful to fabulous co-authors Charlotte Sleigh & David Wilkinson who stepped up after the dreadful loss of Tom McLeish (plus new jobs for other authors): book would not be here without them! @eclasproject.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 9:30 AM
SCIENCE RELIGION AND THE HUMAN FUTURE (Oxford UP) available Jan 16! So grateful to fabulous co-authors Charlotte Sleigh & David Wilkinson who stepped up after the dreadful loss of Tom McLeish (plus new jobs for other authors): book would not be here without them! @eclasproject.bsky.social
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Heads up for this excellent special issue of BJHS edited by @actgeppert.bsky.social . Insightful contributions on the cultural construction of 'founding fathers,' 'prophets,' etc. of the space age, taking a very global approach w/ works on Clarke, Sarabhai, Qian Xuesen, etc. I have a small epilogue.
It was such a pleasure to have you among the contributors, Asif. Here is the special issue 'Rocket Stars: Astrocultural Genealogies in the Global Space Age,' a special issue of the British Journal for the History of Science: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The British Journal for the History of Science: Volume 58 - Rocket Stars: Astrocultural Genealogies in the Global Space Age | Cambridge Core
Cambridge Core - The British Journal for the History of Science - Volume 58 - Rocket Stars: Astrocultural Genealogies in the Global Space Age
www.cambridge.org
September 9, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Heads up for this excellent special issue of BJHS edited by @actgeppert.bsky.social . Insightful contributions on the cultural construction of 'founding fathers,' 'prophets,' etc. of the space age, taking a very global approach w/ works on Clarke, Sarabhai, Qian Xuesen, etc. I have a small epilogue.
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I'm pleased to share the news that I have recently begun a term as co-editor of the British Journal for the History of Science (BJHS), working together with the now editor-in-chief, the brilliant Amanda Rees @amandarees.bsky.social.
October 2, 2025 at 1:16 PM
I'm pleased to share the news that I have recently begun a term as co-editor of the British Journal for the History of Science (BJHS), working together with the now editor-in-chief, the brilliant Amanda Rees @amandarees.bsky.social.
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Suddenly mad that we'll never get a Discworld book in which the wizards invent something like Large Language Monsters that eat everyone's stuff before regurgitating it, and Vimes arrests them all for being bloody stupid
December 24, 2024 at 7:42 AM
Suddenly mad that we'll never get a Discworld book in which the wizards invent something like Large Language Monsters that eat everyone's stuff before regurgitating it, and Vimes arrests them all for being bloody stupid
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We've created a Starter Pack of #History societies and groups working to support promote our disciple and historians, in higher education and related professions go.bsky.app/68FsvjY
Mainly UK but also international, with selected societies from related humanities subjects. Please share #Skystorians
Mainly UK but also international, with selected societies from related humanities subjects. Please share #Skystorians
December 9, 2024 at 7:37 AM
We've created a Starter Pack of #History societies and groups working to support promote our disciple and historians, in higher education and related professions go.bsky.app/68FsvjY
Mainly UK but also international, with selected societies from related humanities subjects. Please share #Skystorians
Mainly UK but also international, with selected societies from related humanities subjects. Please share #Skystorians
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Online talk on #art and #ecology on Thursday December 5 by a wonderful curator who spent many years at Wave Hill—so she knows her plant matter and the broader nature/culture systems in which they exist. She certainly knows art! www.eventbrite.com/e/fertile-gr...
Fertile Ground: Collaborations in Art and Ecology
This PAX Talk will explore the work of artists and scientists who bridge the gap between science, art and activism.
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December 5, 2024 at 1:43 AM
Online talk on #art and #ecology on Thursday December 5 by a wonderful curator who spent many years at Wave Hill—so she knows her plant matter and the broader nature/culture systems in which they exist. She certainly knows art! www.eventbrite.com/e/fertile-gr...
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Great news! In 2025, the British Journal for the History of Science will move to a Research Open publication model. From 13 August 2025, all research articles will be open-access - reaching more readers and free access to the newest research in HistSTEAM!
The British Journal for the History of Science | Cambridge Core
The British Journal for the History of Science - Dr Amanda Rees
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December 4, 2024 at 3:10 PM
Great news! In 2025, the British Journal for the History of Science will move to a Research Open publication model. From 13 August 2025, all research articles will be open-access - reaching more readers and free access to the newest research in HistSTEAM!
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Looking for radical histories on Bluesky?
We've made a Starter Pack of people & organisations who stretch our idea of what history is, who it is made by & what it is for.
Please share and let us know if you'd like to be added.
🗃️ & ✊🗃️
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We've made a Starter Pack of people & organisations who stretch our idea of what history is, who it is made by & what it is for.
Please share and let us know if you'd like to be added.
🗃️ & ✊🗃️
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Radical Histories
Join the conversation
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December 3, 2024 at 9:24 AM
Looking for radical histories on Bluesky?
We've made a Starter Pack of people & organisations who stretch our idea of what history is, who it is made by & what it is for.
Please share and let us know if you'd like to be added.
🗃️ & ✊🗃️
go.bsky.app/Bb57VmV
We've made a Starter Pack of people & organisations who stretch our idea of what history is, who it is made by & what it is for.
Please share and let us know if you'd like to be added.
🗃️ & ✊🗃️
go.bsky.app/Bb57VmV
If you're looking for an excellent holiday gift, why not try this???
Open Access Alert!!
Religion and AI: An Introduction. Read my new book for free! www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon...
Religion and AI: An Introduction. Read my new book for free! www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon...
Religion and Artificial Intelligence | An Introduction | Beth Singler
Artificial intelligence (AI) is rarely out of the news or the public imagination. Images of red-eyed Terminators illustrate press accounts of incremental
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December 2, 2024 at 9:48 AM
If you're looking for an excellent holiday gift, why not try this???
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Why should scientists listen to 'ordinary' people? And what do angels have to do with it? Check out today's #StoriesOfScienceAndFaith - with ADDED RADIOACTIVITY!
Shepherds, Sellafield, and citizen science: today's #StoriesOfScienceAndFaith has a bit of everything! It asks, how can the voices of those on the margins of society be included in scientific research? eclas.shorthandstories.com/advent/the-s...
The Shepherd, the Angel, and the Scientist
The angels entrusted ordinary people with the Christmas tidings. Slowly, researchers are also learning to trust ordinary people as participants in the making of scientific knowledge.
eclas.shorthandstories.com
November 29, 2024 at 9:58 AM
Why should scientists listen to 'ordinary' people? And what do angels have to do with it? Check out today's #StoriesOfScienceAndFaith - with ADDED RADIOACTIVITY!
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It's the last day to enter this Solarpunk Giveway! It includes:
- My collection Different Kinds of Defiance
- @susankayequinn.bsky.social's Halfway to Better
- Metaphorosis, by @gristnews.bsky.social
- Solarpunk Creatures, by World Weaver Press
brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/november-g...
- My collection Different Kinds of Defiance
- @susankayequinn.bsky.social's Halfway to Better
- Metaphorosis, by @gristnews.bsky.social
- Solarpunk Creatures, by World Weaver Press
brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/november-g...
November Giveaway: Solarpunk Starter Pack
Collections of Short Solarpunk Stories to Get You Through the Month
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November 29, 2024 at 11:51 AM
It's the last day to enter this Solarpunk Giveway! It includes:
- My collection Different Kinds of Defiance
- @susankayequinn.bsky.social's Halfway to Better
- Metaphorosis, by @gristnews.bsky.social
- Solarpunk Creatures, by World Weaver Press
brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/november-g...
- My collection Different Kinds of Defiance
- @susankayequinn.bsky.social's Halfway to Better
- Metaphorosis, by @gristnews.bsky.social
- Solarpunk Creatures, by World Weaver Press
brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/november-g...
Why should scientists listen to 'ordinary' people? And what do angels have to do with it? Check out today's #StoriesOfScienceAndFaith - with ADDED RADIOACTIVITY!
Shepherds, Sellafield, and citizen science: today's #StoriesOfScienceAndFaith has a bit of everything! It asks, how can the voices of those on the margins of society be included in scientific research? eclas.shorthandstories.com/advent/the-s...
The Shepherd, the Angel, and the Scientist
The angels entrusted ordinary people with the Christmas tidings. Slowly, researchers are also learning to trust ordinary people as participants in the making of scientific knowledge.
eclas.shorthandstories.com
November 29, 2024 at 9:58 AM
Why should scientists listen to 'ordinary' people? And what do angels have to do with it? Check out today's #StoriesOfScienceAndFaith - with ADDED RADIOACTIVITY!
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The advert for our Research Associate post in Victorian Cultural and Material History is now up on jobs.ac.uk - www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKS158/r...
Please spread the word!!!!
Please spread the word!!!!
Research Associate in Victorian Cultural and Material History at Lancaster University
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Research Associate in Victorian Cultural and Material History on jobs.ac.uk!
www.jobs.ac.uk
November 21, 2024 at 3:26 PM
The advert for our Research Associate post in Victorian Cultural and Material History is now up on jobs.ac.uk - www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKS158/r...
Please spread the word!!!!
Please spread the word!!!!
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With the world turning away from diversity we need public anthropology more than ever. I’ve decided to do my bit to share what we know about cultures of reproduction & why they matter for human evolution. PEOPLE LIKE US coming in 2027 🙏🏻 @zcosini.bsky.social
April 12, 2024 at 11:44 AM
With the world turning away from diversity we need public anthropology more than ever. I’ve decided to do my bit to share what we know about cultures of reproduction & why they matter for human evolution. PEOPLE LIKE US coming in 2027 🙏🏻 @zcosini.bsky.social
When is this thread going to become a book?
November 28, 2024 at 2:44 PM
When is this thread going to become a book?
So pleased to have been involved with the publication of this award-winning article! Many congratulations both! #HistSci #EarlyModern #HSTM
Last week, when the BJHS article by @cberiksen.bsky.social and I received the Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize at HSS Mérida, I wrote a 🧵 on X sharing our research process.
Now I'll redo it on BlueSky, this time with more images of our archival sources: 🗃️ #HistSci #EarlyModern
Now I'll redo it on BlueSky, this time with more images of our archival sources: 🗃️ #HistSci #EarlyModern
November 28, 2024 at 2:28 PM
So pleased to have been involved with the publication of this award-winning article! Many congratulations both! #HistSci #EarlyModern #HSTM
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The Music Instinct is about why we make and love music, how our brains make sense of it, how composers and performers engage the emotions, and why music is IMO one of the most profound products of the human mind.
www.penguin.co.uk/books/405735...
www.penguin.co.uk/books/405735...
The Music Instinct
Why have all human cultures - today and throughout history - made music? Why does music excite such rich emotion? How do we make sense of musical sound?
These are questions that have, until recently...
www.penguin.co.uk
November 25, 2024 at 3:36 PM
The Music Instinct is about why we make and love music, how our brains make sense of it, how composers and performers engage the emotions, and why music is IMO one of the most profound products of the human mind.
www.penguin.co.uk/books/405735...
www.penguin.co.uk/books/405735...
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Thanks @deevybee.bsky.social for looking at Elon Musk's record through the lens of ethical conduct in research. Having him in the @royalsociety.bsky.social Fellowship reflects really poorly on the organization IMO and I'm glad Fellows are speaking up. deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/11/why-...
Why I have resigned from the Royal Society
The Royal Society is a venerable institution founded in 1660, whose original members included such eminent men as Christopher Wren, Robert H...
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November 25, 2024 at 3:50 PM
Thanks @deevybee.bsky.social for looking at Elon Musk's record through the lens of ethical conduct in research. Having him in the @royalsociety.bsky.social Fellowship reflects really poorly on the organization IMO and I'm glad Fellows are speaking up. deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/11/why-...
In the run up to Advent, see our #StoriesOfScienceAndFaith - dealing with #IVF, #CitizenScience #ReproductiveHealth, different ways of #stargazing, #BigData and, of course, Michael Faraday and the candle!
One of our ongoing research projects is #StoriesOfScienceAndFaith, vignettes from history which show how science and Christianity can work together.
Today we launch our new Advent series, six stories which offer a fresh perspective in the lead up to Christmas.
www.eclasproject.org/new-narrativ...
Today we launch our new Advent series, six stories which offer a fresh perspective in the lead up to Christmas.
www.eclasproject.org/new-narrativ...
November 13, 2024 at 4:27 PM
In the run up to Advent, see our #StoriesOfScienceAndFaith - dealing with #IVF, #CitizenScience #ReproductiveHealth, different ways of #stargazing, #BigData and, of course, Michael Faraday and the candle!
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We're approaching 100 historians/organisations in the maritime historians starter park 🥳 It's wonderful to see maritime history being so well represented here!
If you would like to be added, just let me know below 👇
#MaritimeHistory
go.bsky.app/EcGGYJw
If you would like to be added, just let me know below 👇
#MaritimeHistory
go.bsky.app/EcGGYJw
November 12, 2024 at 6:48 PM
We're approaching 100 historians/organisations in the maritime historians starter park 🥳 It's wonderful to see maritime history being so well represented here!
If you would like to be added, just let me know below 👇
#MaritimeHistory
go.bsky.app/EcGGYJw
If you would like to be added, just let me know below 👇
#MaritimeHistory
go.bsky.app/EcGGYJw
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Looking for your SKAT colleagues on here? Check out our SKAT Starter Pack. Featuring sociologists of science, knowledge, and technology broadly defined.
go.bsky.app/UFYjuhM
go.bsky.app/UFYjuhM
November 12, 2024 at 4:42 PM
Looking for your SKAT colleagues on here? Check out our SKAT Starter Pack. Featuring sociologists of science, knowledge, and technology broadly defined.
go.bsky.app/UFYjuhM
go.bsky.app/UFYjuhM
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I’m co-organising, with Cathy Lucas and Simon Werrett of @stsucl, an ‘Experimental History of Science Workshop’ to take place in April 2025
Think about entirely new ways of doing #histsci Let your imagination go wild!
Think about entirely new ways of doing #histsci Let your imagination go wild!
October 29, 2024 at 6:21 PM
I’m co-organising, with Cathy Lucas and Simon Werrett of @stsucl, an ‘Experimental History of Science Workshop’ to take place in April 2025
Think about entirely new ways of doing #histsci Let your imagination go wild!
Think about entirely new ways of doing #histsci Let your imagination go wild!