Apply for a History of Biology internship at the APS!

Interns will conduct research using the rich archival collections at both the APS and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. https://www.amphilsoc.org/grants/apscshl-undergraduate-summer-internship-history-biology

#internship #history #undergraduates

go, student newspaper of Notre Dame and Saint Mary

"employ in-class essays, oral exams+ rigorous discussions — that are far more difficult to use AI tools to complete. a close reading of the text should constitute the bulk in any introductory humanities class."
www.ndsmcobserver.com/article/2025...

Gillian Rose's on law, history, and Marxism.
This should be an essential workshop with deep intellectual and theoretical engagement that is becoming rarer by the day in UK legal academia. Organised by the wonderful Rosie Woodhouse. Registration and more info here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/...

Still thinking about (digesting?) last week's fantastic Association for German Studies annual conference. Many thanks to the organisers!

“Just when you think you’ve seen it all, social insects reveal another surprise.” https://scim.ag/47sVFyS

Das Buch zu diesem tollen Cover ist nun OA erschienen, d.h. es kann heruntergeladen & gelesen werden. Korrigieren begreifen wir darin als Kulturtechnik, die Produktionsverhältnissen unterliegt, aber auch selbst zur Produktion & Veränderung von Texten beiträgt.

www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Every British person on the internet is complaining about you

CALL FOR SUPPORT: Secure the Future of BHL
Following the Smithsonian Institution’s decision to conclude its long-standing role as BHL’s host on 1 January 2026.
#HistSTM #HistSci #Biodiversity #Ecology #EnvHist #NatHist #EnvironmentalStudies
about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-sup...

My article for #PhilosophyCompass on the Metaphysics of Pregnancy has been accepted for publication! It has been the result of some years of teaching and I think it’s such a cool topic. 🎉 Here is the link to the AAM version: philpapers.org/rec/BELTMO-20
@assemblinglife.bsky.social 🦋

If you are able and willing to do so, could you please add your voice to our wall of support at the Save Cardiff Modern Languages website: www.savecardifflanguages.org
The more voices we have on there from across the world, the better! Thanks and love to all.

An ammonite fossil, probably carved into a face during the Late Iron Age / Romano British period, with hair ingeniously styled from the shell

A #FindsFriday / #FossilFriday crossover 🤩

📷 Feb 2022

Found at Great Bedwyn and a favourite find in the always excellent @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social

Is the 'deadly double' – living in Clapham, working in Canary Wharf – the most depressing life a Londoner can lead?

www.the-fence.com/the-deadly-d...

so much of teaching is teaching students that they are worth taking seriously, that they should take themselves seriously, that the world is in their hands, that they are up to its challenges

(this will be my only contribution to the current discourse about ai in the classroom)

The closure of humanities & social science departments is very short-sighted, and we will come to regret it, but the closure of an English department at an English university is incomprehensible to me. I just tried to picture a German university closing down German Studies or a French one French...

📣Great opportunity for students in #HistSci & #PhilSci: Spring School on Forms of Knowledge and Values in Science and Society at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social next April! 🤓 Find all information here: utrechtsummerschool.nl/courses/huma...
Deadline for application: 13/12/24
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Greetings colleagues-friends. What a dream to open this app and see lots of lovely people and also that I’ve been followed by the Hebbel-Gesellschaft. 🤝