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Robert Naylor
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Lecturer (Assistant Professor) @manchstm.bsky.social, specialising in history of climate studies. Managing Editor @globcon.bsky.social. European Rep/President-Elect at International Commission for the History of Meteorology. Glasgow-based. He/they. AVMO.
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anupress.bsky.social
We’re excited to unveil four compelling upcoming titles:

📚 A reflection on the gendering of politics
🌿 A new issue of our environmental history journal
⚖️ An exploration of law-making in a young democracy
🔍 The history of the Mauututu Nakanai of West New Britain

Learn more at press.anu.edu.au
Text: Coming Soon register your interest today. Cover images of four titles: Gender and Politics Reimagined, Wild Partners, Law in the New Democracy and Internation Review of Environmental History.
September 4, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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hibbertsalex.bsky.social
Sign-up for the Northern Environmental History Network's first talk of 2025/26 is now available!

📆28/10 15:00

@eseh.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org @ihr.bsky.social @imems.bsky.social @durhamhistory.bsky.social @cemsexeter.bsky.social @esehnextgate.bsky.social @asle-us.bsky.social
northernenvhistory.bsky.social Northern Environmental History Network @northernenvhistory.bsky.social · Oct 8
For those looking forward to Thomas' talk on historical environmental medicine in a a couple of weeks, you can now sign up using the eventbrite link below. Looking forward to seeing you online at 1500 GMT on the 28th of October.
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October 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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djvanness.bsky.social
A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.
September 29, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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hibbertsalex.bsky.social
Looking forward to presenting on diaries as sources for reconstructing Little Ice Age weather and climate @eseh.bsky.social in Uppsala next week! 📕❄️🌡️ #envhist

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@northernenvhistory.bsky.social @durhamhistory.bsky.social @eandhwhp.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org @roblnaylor.bsky.social
August 16, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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yixuanli623.bsky.social
I'm delighted to share some good news in my first post on Bluesky!

My book review, Reclaiming Vulnerability in Scientific Practice, has been published in @metasciencejournal.bsky.social

Read more here: www.linkedin.com/posts/yixuan...

#sts #histstm #bookreview #PhDLife
I am happy to share that my book review, Reclaiming vulnerability in scientific practice, which is also my first publication in English, is now published! | Yixuan Li
I am happy to share that my book review, Reclaiming vulnerability in scientific practice, which is also my first publication in English, is now published! You can read the full text (free access via...
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August 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
roblnaylor.bsky.social
Very proud to have published this piece on the radical Argentinian meteorologist Rolando García dx.doi.org/10.1002/wcc....
Rolando García: Refugee, Radical, Climate's Attorney at Law
Having grown up in a poor household in Argentina, Rolando García went on to become an important science administrator, playing a leading role in large-scale weather and climate research projects.
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July 14, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Baroness Kidron in the House of Lords today:

"It is extraordinary that the Government’s decided, immovable and strongly held position is that enforcing the law to prevent the theft of UK citizens’ property is unfair to the sector doing the stealing."
June 2, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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thomascheney.bsky.social
part of what pisses me off is that a lot of people already dont go to university (my wife didnt) so maybe focus on adding options and opportunities for them rather than taking away existing opportunities but then that wouldnt fit with their anti intellectual anti social mobility toryism
pwhitewood.bsky.social Peter Whitewood @pwhitewood.bsky.social · May 29
As ever, the loudest voices calling for the collapse of universities, presumably in the post-92 sector, benefitted from privileged educations.
May 29, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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astrobiologee.bsky.social
Happy to share my first ever published paper (as a contributor). The product of my placement year just over 2 years ago. Looking at fossilised organic/inorganic tubules on Mars.

So honoured to have been part of this team.

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May 16, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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azurechi.bsky.social
Allow me to follow up with a lovely 15th c. map of winds I saw recently.
November 20, 2024 at 12:18 PM
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globcon.bsky.social
📢 Editorial 'Contested compliance of obligations under international law: A take from Global Constitutionalism' by Antje Wiener, Jo Shaw, Jonathan Havercroft, Susan Kang and Stephanie Law #OpenAccess #GlobalConstitutionalism
Contested compliance of obligations under international law: A take from Global Constitutionalism | Global Constitutionalism | Cambridge Core
Contested compliance of obligations under international law: A take from Global Constitutionalism - Volume 14 Issue 1
doi.org
March 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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kierachapman.bsky.social
So sick of hearing "You're biased" used as a social, economic or political argument. I blame the school curriculum - we had to do a load of nonsense in history & science GCSEs about "identifying bias" in a way that left people utterly helpless at dealing with structure, ideology or epistemology.
February 17, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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humantransit.bsky.social
If you’re looking for fiction that’s especially helpful in this perilous moment, I have a recommendation:

Kalpa Imperial by the Argentinian writer Angélica Goridischer. Ursula K. LeGuin did the English translation.

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Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was
The Greatest Empire That Never Was
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February 15, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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globcon.bsky.social
📢 On First View 'Recognising differentiated affectedness within a global demos: promoting the democratic legitimacy of the UNFCCC' by Nicola Sharman #OpenAccess #GlobalConstitutionalism
Recognising differentiated affectedness within a global demos: promoting the democratic legitimacy of the UNFCCC | Global Constitutionalism | Cambridge Core
Recognising differentiated affectedness within a global demos: promoting the democratic legitimacy of the UNFCCC
www.cambridge.org
February 14, 2025 at 2:32 PM
roblnaylor.bsky.social
Sometimes I dream about finding that specific email in my Outlook inbox with no fuss
February 11, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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profelainechalus.bsky.social
The Fennell Career Development Fellow in the History of the Americas
The University of Edinburgh - College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences - School of History, Classics and Archaeology - History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLQ757/t...
The Fennell Career Development Fellow in the History of the Americas at The University of Edinburgh
An opportunity for an academic position as a The Fennell Career Development Fellow in the History of the Americas is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job op...
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February 3, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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globcon.bsky.social
📢 On First View 'Managed freedom in precarious times: Maintaining academic freedom in transitional Hong Kong' by Hualing Fu #OpenAccess #GlobalConstitutionalism
Managed freedom in precarious times: Maintaining academic freedom in transitional Hong Kong | Global Constitutionalism | Cambridge Core
Managed freedom in precarious times: Maintaining academic freedom in transitional Hong Kong
www.cambridge.org
January 31, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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constancebantman.bsky.social
PS: Branding yourself as a ‘global university’ (as most U.K. unis do) without giving your students any opportunity to learn a language is indeed a travesty.
constancebantman.bsky.social Constance Bantman @constancebantman.bsky.social · Jan 31
Solidarity with all colleagues at Cardiff affected these brutal cuts.
It’s so depressing (and short-sighted) that the same essential subjects keep being targeted.

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We Can Make an Impact.
Save MLANG at Cardiff University!
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January 31, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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Please sign this petition from students at Cardiff to save their Ancient History degree 🗃️
Sign the Petition
Save Cardiff University Ancient History Degree
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January 31, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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carinr.bsky.social
Today is the feast of St. Thomas Aquinas, d. 1274. The Angelic Doctor is known for many things, not least of which was his absolutely terrible handwriting, the "littera inintelligibilis." Here it is, in Vat. lat. 9850.

Here's the whole MS: digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat...

#medievalsky #paleography
The handwriting of Thomas Aquinas
January 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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lbegueshankland.bsky.social
Yesterday in Nature. A new place for science 👌
January 25, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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joshaw.bsky.social
You'll find here a few more details about the journal Global Constitutionalism @globcon.bsky.social, which is now based at Edinburgh Law School and Politics and International Relations. Delighted to be working closely with colleagues on this. Please send us your manuscripts!
uoelawschool.bsky.social Edinburgh Law School @uoelawschool.bsky.social · Jan 20
We are delighted to share that Global Constitutionalism is now based at the University of Edinburgh, supported by Edinburgh Law School and the School of Social and Political Sciences.

The journal publishes cutting-edge articles that advance global constitutionalism.

Read more: edin.ac/4g6NybZ
The dome of Old College against a blue sky
January 20, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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📢 On First View 'Responsive judicial remedies' by Rosalind Dixon and Po Jen Yap #OpenAccess #GlobalConstitutionalism
Responsive judicial remedies | Global Constitutionalism | Cambridge Core
Responsive judicial remedies
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January 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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globcon.bsky.social
We are delighted to have found a new home at the University of Edinburgh!
uoelawschool.bsky.social Edinburgh Law School @uoelawschool.bsky.social · Jan 20
We are delighted to share that Global Constitutionalism is now based at the University of Edinburgh, supported by Edinburgh Law School and the School of Social and Political Sciences.

The journal publishes cutting-edge articles that advance global constitutionalism.

Read more: edin.ac/4g6NybZ
The dome of Old College against a blue sky
January 20, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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duncanbell.bsky.social
JOB

Assistant Professor in the History of British Architecture in its Global Contexts 1660-1900, University of Cambridge

www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49315/
Assistant Professor in History of British Architecture in its Global Contexts 1660-1900 - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Assistant Professor in History of British Architecture in its Global Contexts 1660-1900 in the Department of History of Art at the University of Cambridge.
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December 13, 2024 at 12:55 PM