Dr Franziska Kohlt
@frankendodo.bsky.social
Leverhulme Research Fellow HPS Leeds | Inaugural USC Carrollian Fellow | Tutor Oxford ContEd | Editor Lewis Carroll Review | Public Speaker | Polymath | Erdős–Bacon No 8 | #histsci #sts #scicomm #envhist #histmed
270-page academic monographs for £150 - and a peer-reviewer recently responded to a book proposal of mine why I am not pitching the book to a "better" publisher (who would give me fewer pages at £110 purchase price more).
How did we get here?
How did we get here?
October 22, 2025 at 11:31 AM
270-page academic monographs for £150 - and a peer-reviewer recently responded to a book proposal of mine why I am not pitching the book to a "better" publisher (who would give me fewer pages at £110 purchase price more).
How did we get here?
How did we get here?
Great news for everyone working on cultural entomology - Call for Papers from the @cam.ac.uk Entomological Society & @royentsoc.bsky.social - “The good, the bad, and the monstrous: Insects in mythology, literature and media"
Deadline for Abstracts: 20 October '25
Symposium Date: 20 November '25
Deadline for Abstracts: 20 October '25
Symposium Date: 20 November '25
September 25, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Great news for everyone working on cultural entomology - Call for Papers from the @cam.ac.uk Entomological Society & @royentsoc.bsky.social - “The good, the bad, and the monstrous: Insects in mythology, literature and media"
Deadline for Abstracts: 20 October '25
Symposium Date: 20 November '25
Deadline for Abstracts: 20 October '25
Symposium Date: 20 November '25
Really excited to be returning to Amsterdam as Keynote Speaker for the Capegemini Executive Congress to reflect on lessons, in the many fast-moving debates we can learn from the history of Artificial Intelligence& Automata, with Industry& Academic leaders in the field www.sogeti.com/summit2025/s...
September 22, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Really excited to be returning to Amsterdam as Keynote Speaker for the Capegemini Executive Congress to reflect on lessons, in the many fast-moving debates we can learn from the history of Artificial Intelligence& Automata, with Industry& Academic leaders in the field www.sogeti.com/summit2025/s...
Like many others, I will be deleting my academia [dot] edu account this morning in light of their change of policy.
September 20, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Like many others, I will be deleting my academia [dot] edu account this morning in light of their change of policy.
Honestly, writing about 19th century women scientists is never not a ride.
August 6, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Honestly, writing about 19th century women scientists is never not a ride.
New extinction theory just dropped 🦤 🦖
@morethanadodo.bsky.social
@morethanadodo.bsky.social
July 10, 2025 at 3:53 PM
New extinction theory just dropped 🦤 🦖
@morethanadodo.bsky.social
@morethanadodo.bsky.social
...particularly ironic, as this project uses innovative #AI & large language models, compiling a "code cook book" to be used& refined in under-graduate teaching, for students to apply the code in their projects on underrepresented individuals in science (in partnership w Science Stories& Wikimedia)
July 9, 2025 at 1:40 PM
...particularly ironic, as this project uses innovative #AI & large language models, compiling a "code cook book" to be used& refined in under-graduate teaching, for students to apply the code in their projects on underrepresented individuals in science (in partnership w Science Stories& Wikimedia)
And PLOT TWIST, if you're reading along: DOGE terminated funding for this research project.
Which sits so uncomfortably alongside the experience of 19th century women, as recalled by Harriet Martineau, outlined in my preceding paper.
Which sits so uncomfortably alongside the experience of 19th century women, as recalled by Harriet Martineau, outlined in my preceding paper.
July 9, 2025 at 1:37 PM
And PLOT TWIST, if you're reading along: DOGE terminated funding for this research project.
Which sits so uncomfortably alongside the experience of 19th century women, as recalled by Harriet Martineau, outlined in my preceding paper.
Which sits so uncomfortably alongside the experience of 19th century women, as recalled by Harriet Martineau, outlined in my preceding paper.
Mary, Kristen& Bethany now speaking abt their #digitalhumanities project "No longer at the margins"- amplifying women's voices in the archive & the collab nature of science, dovetailing w my archive-based study of the barely known history of the the Soc for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge's women
July 9, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Mary, Kristen& Bethany now speaking abt their #digitalhumanities project "No longer at the margins"- amplifying women's voices in the archive & the collab nature of science, dovetailing w my archive-based study of the barely known history of the the Soc for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge's women
Curricula created upon those books
July 9, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Curricula created upon those books
Examples of early matriarchal pre-histories - origins of weaving in the cradle, mother's sewing - to make children value textile industry
July 9, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Examples of early matriarchal pre-histories - origins of weaving in the cradle, mother's sewing - to make children value textile industry
First Speaker and MC - Elizabeth Hoiem - Speaking about the "Women Writers who Invented Deep History for Child Readers"
July 9, 2025 at 12:35 PM
First Speaker and MC - Elizabeth Hoiem - Speaking about the "Women Writers who Invented Deep History for Child Readers"
Busy day today, teaching two seminars on Through the Looking Glass at @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social at my old college @brasenoseoxford.bsky.social in the morning, and now off to talk about 19th Century "Ladywriters" in science at Rochester, NY @sharpnews.bsky.social (remotely!) #SHARP2025
July 9, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Busy day today, teaching two seminars on Through the Looking Glass at @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social at my old college @brasenoseoxford.bsky.social in the morning, and now off to talk about 19th Century "Ladywriters" in science at Rochester, NY @sharpnews.bsky.social (remotely!) #SHARP2025
Great to be back at York today for the Anna Letitia Barbauld at 200 Conference at Kings Manor. Thrilled about papers on science & children's literature, of course.
June 27, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Great to be back at York today for the Anna Letitia Barbauld at 200 Conference at Kings Manor. Thrilled about papers on science & children's literature, of course.
Absolutely loved working on the Magical Mechanical Museum exhibition & book at Compton Verney
(-- even though that was also my first taste of seeing all my work attributed to the more senior, male collaborators on the project in media & academic reviews 🙃) /2 www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
(-- even though that was also my first taste of seeing all my work attributed to the more senior, male collaborators on the project in media & academic reviews 🙃) /2 www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
June 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Absolutely loved working on the Magical Mechanical Museum exhibition & book at Compton Verney
(-- even though that was also my first taste of seeing all my work attributed to the more senior, male collaborators on the project in media & academic reviews 🙃) /2 www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
(-- even though that was also my first taste of seeing all my work attributed to the more senior, male collaborators on the project in media & academic reviews 🙃) /2 www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Can't wait for Keynote #2 this year, on how Automata History helps us think through challenges of AI applications in Society 🤖
I'll revisit questions on automation & society, intelligence & culture I first explored in both my BBC "In Our Time" & Curatorial debuts ➡️ /1 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
I'll revisit questions on automation & society, intelligence & culture I first explored in both my BBC "In Our Time" & Curatorial debuts ➡️ /1 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
June 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Can't wait for Keynote #2 this year, on how Automata History helps us think through challenges of AI applications in Society 🤖
I'll revisit questions on automation & society, intelligence & culture I first explored in both my BBC "In Our Time" & Curatorial debuts ➡️ /1 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
I'll revisit questions on automation & society, intelligence & culture I first explored in both my BBC "In Our Time" & Curatorial debuts ➡️ /1 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
Gnnn.
It's five letters. Only five letters.
(Cover page vs headers on all subsequent pages)
It's five letters. Only five letters.
(Cover page vs headers on all subsequent pages)
April 11, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Gnnn.
It's five letters. Only five letters.
(Cover page vs headers on all subsequent pages)
It's five letters. Only five letters.
(Cover page vs headers on all subsequent pages)
Thrilled to be delivering a Keynote at the @royentsoc.bsky.social Conference at @uniofreading.bsky.social alongside @davegoulson.bsky.social &
@hatbirder.bsky.social - tune in to hear more about Storytelling Insects, and my work on the intersections of Humanities, Natural & Social Sciences.
@hatbirder.bsky.social - tune in to hear more about Storytelling Insects, and my work on the intersections of Humanities, Natural & Social Sciences.
March 27, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Thrilled to be delivering a Keynote at the @royentsoc.bsky.social Conference at @uniofreading.bsky.social alongside @davegoulson.bsky.social &
@hatbirder.bsky.social - tune in to hear more about Storytelling Insects, and my work on the intersections of Humanities, Natural & Social Sciences.
@hatbirder.bsky.social - tune in to hear more about Storytelling Insects, and my work on the intersections of Humanities, Natural & Social Sciences.
If you're curious about what sort of book we're hoping to produce, have a look at the previous volume here - www.peterlang.com/document/132...
February 21, 2025 at 1:31 PM
If you're curious about what sort of book we're hoping to produce, have a look at the previous volume here - www.peterlang.com/document/132...
The time has come! The Call for Papers for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - A Companion, the follow-up volume to our recent Looking-Glass Companion, is open! Please share widely!
🦤Full CFP here tinyurl.com/WonderlandCo...
🦤Abstract submission form here forms.gle/XUsmPfBsXju2... (due 15 May 2025)
🦤Full CFP here tinyurl.com/WonderlandCo...
🦤Abstract submission form here forms.gle/XUsmPfBsXju2... (due 15 May 2025)
February 21, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The time has come! The Call for Papers for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - A Companion, the follow-up volume to our recent Looking-Glass Companion, is open! Please share widely!
🦤Full CFP here tinyurl.com/WonderlandCo...
🦤Abstract submission form here forms.gle/XUsmPfBsXju2... (due 15 May 2025)
🦤Full CFP here tinyurl.com/WonderlandCo...
🦤Abstract submission form here forms.gle/XUsmPfBsXju2... (due 15 May 2025)