Jules Skotnes-Brown
@julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social
Historian of animals, disease, science, and colonialism. Postdoc at University of Liverpool and Honorary Research Fellow at University of St Andrews. https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/social-anthropology/people/jasb1/
I am thrilled to announce that I have been awarded a Wellcome Trust Career Development Grant. Over the next five years I'll be directing the research project "Conserving Global Health: Biodiversity Protection and the Prehistory of Planetary Health".
September 30, 2025 at 9:52 AM
I am thrilled to announce that I have been awarded a Wellcome Trust Career Development Grant. Over the next five years I'll be directing the research project "Conserving Global Health: Biodiversity Protection and the Prehistory of Planetary Health".
Next up is @visualplague.bsky.social with "From Affliction to Zoonosis: Imagining and Mastering Multispecies Relations"
June 16, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Next up is @visualplague.bsky.social with "From Affliction to Zoonosis: Imagining and Mastering Multispecies Relations"
The first panel, "Reconsidering Zoonosis" is commencing. First up is Stephen Hinchliffe with "Absorbing Zoonoses, Slowly".
June 16, 2025 at 10:39 AM
The first panel, "Reconsidering Zoonosis" is commencing. First up is Stephen Hinchliffe with "Absorbing Zoonoses, Slowly".
@visualplague.bsky.social is presenting his research on how plague became a disease associated with rats.
June 16, 2025 at 10:26 AM
@visualplague.bsky.social is presenting his research on how plague became a disease associated with rats.
Oliver French is currently presenting his research on rat poisoning, a highly ambivalent practice in the 19th C, often framed as risky to health.
June 16, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Oliver French is currently presenting his research on rat poisoning, a highly ambivalent practice in the 19th C, often framed as risky to health.
OK I've been informed its actually the second review 😂. Shout out to "kb" for this review on Amazon
May 22, 2025 at 3:43 PM
OK I've been informed its actually the second review 😂. Shout out to "kb" for this review on Amazon
A big thank you to the archivists of the National Archives of Namibia for a fantastic week of research!
May 16, 2025 at 1:53 PM
A big thank you to the archivists of the National Archives of Namibia for a fantastic week of research!
I love how the publisher of this 1945 agricultural manual on "Rat Control on Hawaiian Sugar Cane Plantations" took the time to create this collage for the frontispiece:
May 2, 2025 at 12:52 PM
I love how the publisher of this 1945 agricultural manual on "Rat Control on Hawaiian Sugar Cane Plantations" took the time to create this collage for the frontispiece:
Searching for the link to one of my articles to pass on to a colleague and this misleading AI summary comes up. 'Scurrying Seafarers' is just the title of the article, not a concept discussed in it at all...
April 28, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Searching for the link to one of my articles to pass on to a colleague and this misleading AI summary comes up. 'Scurrying Seafarers' is just the title of the article, not a concept discussed in it at all...
Delighted to have won the South African Journal of Science Outstanding Reviewer Award for 2024! Really happy to know that my reviewing work is appreciated. A big thank you to the journal for awarding me this.
March 17, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Delighted to have won the South African Journal of Science Outstanding Reviewer Award for 2024! Really happy to know that my reviewing work is appreciated. A big thank you to the journal for awarding me this.
Honoured to have been nominated for the South African Journal of Science Outstanding Reviewer Award for 2024. I put a lot of effort into peer review, and did not know such awards exited, so it is lovely to receive this recognition. The winner of the award will be announced in a few weeks.
March 10, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Honoured to have been nominated for the South African Journal of Science Outstanding Reviewer Award for 2024. I put a lot of effort into peer review, and did not know such awards exited, so it is lovely to receive this recognition. The winner of the award will be announced in a few weeks.
Didn't realise I was this slow to join!
September 17, 2024 at 7:50 AM
Didn't realise I was this slow to join!
Thrilled to share the cover design for my book 'Segregated Species: Pests, Knowledge, and Boundaries in South Africa, 1910-1948', coming out soon with Johns Hopkins University Press. Thanks to the designers for doing such an amazing job!
March 7, 2024 at 3:31 PM
Thrilled to share the cover design for my book 'Segregated Species: Pests, Knowledge, and Boundaries in South Africa, 1910-1948', coming out soon with Johns Hopkins University Press. Thanks to the designers for doing such an amazing job!
Send in your abstracts to our upcoming conference on collections and zoonotic disease. Papers from the humanities, social sciences and life sciences are all welcome. This is our first in-person project conference! CFP here: wwrat.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/conferences/
February 14, 2024 at 6:29 AM
Send in your abstracts to our upcoming conference on collections and zoonotic disease. Papers from the humanities, social sciences and life sciences are all welcome. This is our first in-person project conference! CFP here: wwrat.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/conferences/