Monica Azzolini
@m-azzolini.bsky.social
Historian of Science, Medicine and the Environment (15th-18th cent.). Author of The Duke and the Stars (2013). Citizen of the World. Currently working on stones, water, and natural history. 2 kids and a rescue dog. Against divide and rule. Opinions my own.
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It was announced in the HSS business meeting, so I can share some exciting news: I am one of the new co-editors of Osiris, with Prakash Kumar, Hugh Cagle, & Monica Azzolini, serving in a 5-year term. I am honored and thrilled to be on this team, and eager to embark on this new endeavor! #HSS2025
November 16, 2025 at 3:20 PM
It was announced in the HSS business meeting, so I can share some exciting news: I am one of the new co-editors of Osiris, with Prakash Kumar, Hugh Cagle, & Monica Azzolini, serving in a 5-year term. I am honored and thrilled to be on this team, and eager to embark on this new endeavor! #HSS2025
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Excellent news from the HSS business meeting! Congratulations to the new Osiris co-editors: @cethompson.bsky.social, @m-azzolini.bsky.social, Hugh Cagle & Prakash Kumar!
Looking forward to learning more about their plans for the journal: www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/osiris/c...
#HSS2025
Looking forward to learning more about their plans for the journal: www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/osiris/c...
#HSS2025
November 16, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Excellent news from the HSS business meeting! Congratulations to the new Osiris co-editors: @cethompson.bsky.social, @m-azzolini.bsky.social, Hugh Cagle & Prakash Kumar!
Looking forward to learning more about their plans for the journal: www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/osiris/c...
#HSS2025
Looking forward to learning more about their plans for the journal: www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/osiris/c...
#HSS2025
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New issue of the Journal of the History of Collection Vol. 37, No. 2 (2025) academic.oup.com/jhc/issue/37/2 @oupprimary.bsky.social @m-azzolini.bsky.social @ana0dias.bsky.social @sarahchurchill.bsky.social
Volume 37 Issue 2 | Journal of the History of Collections | Oxford Academic
Publishes contributions on all aspects of collecting activity, including the contents of collections, the processes which initiated their formation, and the circumstances of the collectors themselves.
academic.oup.com
August 26, 2025 at 5:39 PM
New issue of the Journal of the History of Collection Vol. 37, No. 2 (2025) academic.oup.com/jhc/issue/37/2 @oupprimary.bsky.social @m-azzolini.bsky.social @ana0dias.bsky.social @sarahchurchill.bsky.social
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"Slaves in Paris: A Digital Mapping Project" - a partnership between Miranda Spieler and Colonial Networks slavesinparis.org. Created with the support of our Kress Foundation Digital Art History Grant. Officially launched today in Paris at #GCFHSResist
July 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM
"Slaves in Paris: A Digital Mapping Project" - a partnership between Miranda Spieler and Colonial Networks slavesinparis.org. Created with the support of our Kress Foundation Digital Art History Grant. Officially launched today in Paris at #GCFHSResist
Prizes!!
🏆 New on StModerna: the Paola Bora Prize (2025)
An award for unpublished MA and PhD theses on gender studies (including history).
Open to theses written in Italian or English.
Deadline: 31 October 2025
👉 See this and other awards and calls here: www.stmoderna.it/it/premi-per...
An award for unpublished MA and PhD theses on gender studies (including history).
Open to theses written in Italian or English.
Deadline: 31 October 2025
👉 See this and other awards and calls here: www.stmoderna.it/it/premi-per...
Premi per la ricerca
In questa sezione puoi trovare un elenco di premi destinati a nuove ricerche o ricerche scientifiche già concluse che coinvolgono la Storia moderna.
www.stmoderna.it
July 31, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Prizes!!
I so wish there were workshops like these when I started! Get as much support as you can get! Fabulous initiative.
Writing History Articles: A Workshop for PhD students and ECRs - @hisjournalha.bsky.social is organising this event on 19 September for those looking for support with preparing their first journal articles for publication. Do think of applying!
www.history.org.uk/higher-ed/re...
www.history.org.uk/higher-ed/re...
Writing History Articles: A Workshop for PhD students and ECRs
www.history.org.uk
July 31, 2025 at 8:14 AM
I so wish there were workshops like these when I started! Get as much support as you can get! Fabulous initiative.
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The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh also had exceptional links with slavery, including owning a plantation for a period. NHS Lothian Charity has done some impressive and thoughtful work with the Health Board on this shameful history: org.nhslothian.scot/aboutus/atla...
July 28, 2025 at 10:49 AM
The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh also had exceptional links with slavery, including owning a plantation for a period. NHS Lothian Charity has done some impressive and thoughtful work with the Health Board on this shameful history: org.nhslothian.scot/aboutus/atla...
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Fabulous job (STS/sociolegal studies of medical disinformation) in a wonderfully collegial, intellectually stimulating research center:
Research Fellow at The University of Edinburgh share.google/yRbrFbrn4DyT...
Research Fellow at The University of Edinburgh share.google/yRbrFbrn4DyT...
Research Fellow at The University of Edinburgh
Explore an exciting academic career as a Research Fellow. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.
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July 29, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Fabulous job (STS/sociolegal studies of medical disinformation) in a wonderfully collegial, intellectually stimulating research center:
Research Fellow at The University of Edinburgh share.google/yRbrFbrn4DyT...
Research Fellow at The University of Edinburgh share.google/yRbrFbrn4DyT...
Material culture is so much more interesting; more texts and objects for historians of science.
#FossilFriday: cave hyaena fossils from Kirkdale Cavern, Yorkshire, used by William Buckland in his 1822 study of cave faunas, Reliquiae Diluvianae, and currently on display @morethanadodo.bsky.social's Breaking Ground exhibition.
July 11, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Material culture is so much more interesting; more texts and objects for historians of science.
Insanely warm in Edinburgh. First stop: bookstore.
July 11, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Insanely warm in Edinburgh. First stop: bookstore.
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And they also encouraged people to not vote in the recent citizenship referendum....
July 3, 2025 at 3:35 PM
And they also encouraged people to not vote in the recent citizenship referendum....
They also said that taxes were going down: the fiscal levy is now at 47%. It has never been so high. People should pay attention to facts and not words. They do the opposite of what they preach.
I had to read this twice to believe it...Meloni, who ran for office on an anti-immigration platform, has now announced plans to let in hundreds of thousands of immigrants, in order to deal with the Italian labor shortage
www.reuters.com/world/italy-...
www.reuters.com/world/italy-...
Italy to issue half million non-EU work visas over next three years
The move is part of a strategy to expand legal immigration channels in response to labor shortages.
www.reuters.com
July 3, 2025 at 3:25 PM
They also said that taxes were going down: the fiscal levy is now at 47%. It has never been so high. People should pay attention to facts and not words. They do the opposite of what they preach.
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I had to read this twice to believe it...Meloni, who ran for office on an anti-immigration platform, has now announced plans to let in hundreds of thousands of immigrants, in order to deal with the Italian labor shortage
www.reuters.com/world/italy-...
www.reuters.com/world/italy-...
Italy to issue half million non-EU work visas over next three years
The move is part of a strategy to expand legal immigration channels in response to labor shortages.
www.reuters.com
July 3, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I had to read this twice to believe it...Meloni, who ran for office on an anti-immigration platform, has now announced plans to let in hundreds of thousands of immigrants, in order to deal with the Italian labor shortage
www.reuters.com/world/italy-...
www.reuters.com/world/italy-...
I have fallen off the (Blue)Sky! Anything exciting happened/ is happening while the world is burning and people are dying in the thousands under bombs? Apologies for the bleakness. It has been a difficult year for many of us.
July 1, 2025 at 10:01 AM
I have fallen off the (Blue)Sky! Anything exciting happened/ is happening while the world is burning and people are dying in the thousands under bombs? Apologies for the bleakness. It has been a difficult year for many of us.
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Two milestones this past week: 1) Inspired and thrilled to have joined such a great crew at HSS Summer School in Bologna! I learned a lot from everyone. (So nice to meet @m-azzolini.bsky.social finally!)
....and....
....and....
June 30, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Two milestones this past week: 1) Inspired and thrilled to have joined such a great crew at HSS Summer School in Bologna! I learned a lot from everyone. (So nice to meet @m-azzolini.bsky.social finally!)
....and....
....and....
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Or see for a teaser: mittelalter.hypotheses.org/35318
Future experts?
Die Dissertation untersucht die Selbstdarstellung von Astrologen als Experten im dreizehnten und vierzehnten Jahrhundert und konzentriert sich hierbei auf die Handlungsfelder Hof und Universität in It...
doi.org
January 28, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Or see for a teaser: mittelalter.hypotheses.org/35318
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One further step on the way to #PhDone🥳 If you want to know more about how late medieval astrologers✨ convinced people to see them as trusted experts, my thesis is now accessible online: doi.org/10.13154/294...
Future experts?
Die Dissertation untersucht die Selbstdarstellung von Astrologen als Experten im dreizehnten und vierzehnten Jahrhundert und konzentriert sich hierbei auf die Handlungsfelder Hof und Universität in It...
doi.org
January 28, 2025 at 6:51 PM
One further step on the way to #PhDone🥳 If you want to know more about how late medieval astrologers✨ convinced people to see them as trusted experts, my thesis is now accessible online: doi.org/10.13154/294...
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Many thanks again to my brilliant and truly expert supervisors @kpo.bsky.social and @m-azzolini.bsky.social
January 28, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Many thanks again to my brilliant and truly expert supervisors @kpo.bsky.social and @m-azzolini.bsky.social
This is exactly what I needed.
#Skystorians: if, like I do, you sometimes find it challenging to explain to students what it means to *engage* with a source, what David Runciman does in this excellent podcast is a good example.
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
The final episode in our great political films series explores Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest (2023), his haunting take on the home life of the man who ran Auschwitz. This is a film like nothing else.
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
The final episode in our great political films series explores Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest (2023), his haunting take on the home life of the man who ran Auschwitz. This is a film like nothing else.
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
January 12, 2025 at 1:03 PM
This is exactly what I needed.
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OTD in 1852, radical thinker and feminist Eliza Sharples died.
Madeleine Goodall discusses the radical life of Eliza Sharples, whose letters to poet Thomas Cooper in the mid-19th century depict an idealistic figure struggling to survive:
www.historyworkshop....
Madeleine Goodall discusses the radical life of Eliza Sharples, whose letters to poet Thomas Cooper in the mid-19th century depict an idealistic figure struggling to survive:
www.historyworkshop....
Radical Objects: Eliza Sharples’ Letters to Thomas Cooper
Madeleine Goodall discusses the radical life of Eliza Sharples, whose letters to freethinking poet Thomas Cooper in the mid-19th century depict an idealistic figure struggling to survive.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
January 11, 2025 at 7:00 AM
OTD in 1852, radical thinker and feminist Eliza Sharples died.
Madeleine Goodall discusses the radical life of Eliza Sharples, whose letters to poet Thomas Cooper in the mid-19th century depict an idealistic figure struggling to survive:
www.historyworkshop....
Madeleine Goodall discusses the radical life of Eliza Sharples, whose letters to poet Thomas Cooper in the mid-19th century depict an idealistic figure struggling to survive:
www.historyworkshop....
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Great letter in today's Guardian. What sort of free speech is prevented by factchecking, Zuck?
January 9, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Great letter in today's Guardian. What sort of free speech is prevented by factchecking, Zuck?
The mighty castor of Canada against Trump. I know who’ll be supporting!
Look at this absolute unit (h/t: tinyurl.com/97xd4j63) standing on guard. Castor du Canada tinyurl.com/385vc3h9 #cdnhist #envhist
January 9, 2025 at 11:51 AM
The mighty castor of Canada against Trump. I know who’ll be supporting!
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$1,131,794,901
That's how much Big Oil has spent over the last 30 years paying off Congress to look the other way on climate action while the planet burns.
Well, the planet is burning.
Don't let them look away.
That's how much Big Oil has spent over the last 30 years paying off Congress to look the other way on climate action while the planet burns.
Well, the planet is burning.
Don't let them look away.
January 9, 2025 at 2:12 AM
$1,131,794,901
That's how much Big Oil has spent over the last 30 years paying off Congress to look the other way on climate action while the planet burns.
Well, the planet is burning.
Don't let them look away.
That's how much Big Oil has spent over the last 30 years paying off Congress to look the other way on climate action while the planet burns.
Well, the planet is burning.
Don't let them look away.
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Ideally I'd like it engaged throughout but it's good to see this research framed from the beginning as supporting traditional indigenous knowledge. Thus, these are not new discoveries, but freshly evidenced. That's a good distinction for many of us to keep in mind.
‘Extraordinary longevity’: great whales can live a lot longer than we thought – if we leave them alone
Bowhead whales may not be the only species that can live to 200 years old. Researchers have found that the industrial hunting of great whales has masked the ability of these underwater giants to also ...
www.theguardian.com
January 2, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Ideally I'd like it engaged throughout but it's good to see this research framed from the beginning as supporting traditional indigenous knowledge. Thus, these are not new discoveries, but freshly evidenced. That's a good distinction for many of us to keep in mind.