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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
One week to go!
Join us on 2 Dec at 6:30pm GMT for Renée Bergland’s online lecture on Natural Magic ✨ , the 2025 Hughes Prize–winning book exploring Dickinson, Darwin & the dawn of modern science.
Free—register on Eventbrite to receive the Zoom link www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/natural-ma...
November 25, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Nominations are open for the BSHS Pickstone Prize 2026, recognising the best scholarly English-language book in the history of science.
📆 Deadline: 31 Jan 2026.
Anyone may nominate (self-nominations welcome).
Submit via our online form on the BSHS website www.bshs.org.uk/the-bshs-pic...
November 19, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Join us online on 2 Dec 2025 at 6:30pm GMT for a lecture with Renée Bergland, winner of the 2025 BSHS Hughes Prize, discussing Natural Magic (Princeton UP).
Free on Zoom, registration via Eventbrite www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/natural-ma...
A deep dive into Dickinson, Darwin & 19th-century imagination!
November 17, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Online lecture, open to all: 2 Dec 18:30 (GMT)

Renée Bergland on her book 'Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science'

Winner of @bshsnews.bsky.social Hughes Prize, for the best #histSTM book accessible to a broad audience

www.bshs.org.uk/online-lectu...
November 12, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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heads up #histSTM people - nominations are open for the @bshsnews.bsky.social Pickstone Prize - best scholarly book (in English) published in the last 2 years. Don't assume your publisher will nominate you, be proactive about your book or books you love!
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The BSHS Pickstone Prize
The BSHS Pickstone Prize is awarded every two years to the best scholarly book in the history of science (broadly construed) in English. The Prize aims to recognize pioneering works that advance the s...
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November 13, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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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.
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...
October 7, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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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
October 7, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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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
October 7, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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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
October 8, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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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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October 8, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Ancient historians, we're so excited for this search! Spread the news far and wide!
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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October 8, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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News | New digital image library for Amgueddfa Cymru – more than 2,000 images newly available in public domain
New digital image library for Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales - Museums Association
More than 2,000 images newly available in public domain
www.museumsassociation.org
October 8, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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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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October 8, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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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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October 8, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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📙 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...
October 8, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Hey bluesky peeps 👋 fun folk at a loose end in London Weds evening? I have the #comedy night for you! @scienceshowoff.bsky.social at the Harrison 7-9pm, 🎫 wegottickets.com/event/673103
Science Showoff October 2025
Science Showoff is the chaotic science comedy show where your favourite comedians, favourite scientists and favourite friends get to be silly about serious stuff. Join a carefully-curated lineup of ...
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October 6, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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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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October 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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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
October 7, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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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 info@georgepadmoreinstitute.org
October 1, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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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...
October 3, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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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
October 3, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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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.
October 4, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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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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October 4, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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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
October 4, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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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
October 4, 2025 at 5:31 PM