A long shot: is anyone currently doing research at the Biblioteca Nacional del Perú in Lima? I'm trying to track down two seventeenth-century single-sheet printed broadsides. I'd be very grateful to connect. Thanks! #earlymodern
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Screenshotted, because dunking on the author with a quote skeet would be unfair. But, wow -- as pure an example of 'I know history of science is a thing, but I cannot imagine the existence of historians of science' as I think I've ever seen.
Not sure if I have the discipline but gonna attempt to post something Some Like It Hot related every (most) days in the run up to publication of Nobody’s Perfect: The Making of Some Like It Hot at the end of August. It’s been a real labour of love and appreciate any support you can give the project!
Boosting the signal for any medievalists, digital humanists, historians of the book, or manuscript enthusiasts in the audience... #skystorians #MedievalSky #Manuscripts #BookHistory #DigitalHumanities #metadata 🗃️📜
Dot Porter@leoba.bsky.social · 5d agoDo you use digitized medieval manuscripts in any capacity? Do you have opinions about the metadata that describes them? We want to hear from you! Please take a moment to fill out our very short survey. Please repost and share with anyone you know who might be interested! forms.gle/sBPXAnoRhwe1...
Finally updated my #womenalsoknowhistory profile. The database is a great resource for those who need expertise (and value equality). #skystorians @womenknowhistory.bsky.social 🗃️
Scholar - Women Also Know History
Expert Historians. Women Also Know History is a media and curriculum tool for promoting and connecting the work of professional women historians to other scholars, journalists, and anyone looking to l...
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deadline for entry 1 September 2026; featuring @swanseahistory.bsky.social colleague Hilary Orange on the judging panel...
Dr Mike Nevell@archaeotea.bsky.social · 3mo agoImages of Industrial Heritage: ICOMOS UK Photography Competition 2026
#skystorians -- I've encountered a few references to Mary Louise Pratt and the 'contact zone' in recent weeks, and I have a possibly phantom memory of some posts on the bird app suggesting that credit should go to one or more earlier scholars for developing that idea. Can anyone help me out?
Reading articles on the amounts HE has spent in APCs over the last 5-10 years, and slowly watching my blood pressure rise. Millions upon millions, on something WE CAN ABSOLUTELY DO OURSELVES FOR A FRACTION OF THE COST - what universities couldn't do with that kind of money now... 😠 And breathe...
I've confirmed that the UK's new Sovereign AI Fund does no due diligence on whether AI companies use copyrighted work without permission before investing in them. It took me 3 Freedom of Information requests to find this out: 🧵 1/10
🏆 Congratulations to Lucy Jameson (Durham) and Michelle Pfeffer (Oxford), winners of the 2026 BSHS Singer Prize! Read about their award-winning essays, the special commendations and the panel's comments here: bshs.org.uk/singer-prize... More on the authors coming soon!
Are you a PhD student, an ECR and/or an historian looking to improve your public speaking skills? Do you find the idea of presenting your research overwhelming? If so, then come along to our new IHR masterclass, expertly led by the historian @lisapine.bsky.social www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Masterclass in Public Speaking and Presentation Skills for Historians
IHR Short Course (PAID)
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We are hiring a new Editorial Fellow who specialises in pre-1800 CE history from any part of the globe 🌍 👉 this 2-year fellowship runs from October 2026 - September 2028 👉 this role is paid and part-time (3 hours per week) 👉 the application deadline is Friday 7 August Please share widely!
Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowship at History Workshop, 2026
History Workshop is seeking to appoint one Editorial Fellow in 2026, with specialism in pre-1800 CE history from any part of the globe.
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This is a blunt assessment of what the Trump regime is proposing for US science: they plan to take all the funding, essentially collapsing university-based research, in order to give that money to themselves, and they are lying about it.
Derek Lowe@dereklowe.bsky.social · 2w agoThoughts on the various Trump administration proposals to revamp US science funding - and what they all have in common:
(cryptic complaint) -- I just love learning that a useful process which used to require just one colleague to donate time and attention, but not expertise, now requires the same time and attention plus additional time and some expertise to be extracted from a second colleague as well. So efficient!
Thread (1/38) Three Baseless Taboos are Derailing National Renewal
Just stop using Google, full stop. Late Stage Capitalism has turned a once great company into nothing more than a bully who only cares about stealing for profit. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/t...
How Google’s A.I. Search Is Imperiling the Open Web (Gift Article)
As Google incorporates more artificial intelligence into search, people are spending more time on Google. Some website operators are crying foul.
nytimes.com
The new posters for the 2027 Great Debate have arrived! The Great Debate is the HA's public speaking competition open to school years 10-13. It is an ideal opportunity for students to develop their oratory and debating skills. The competition is sponsored by Rayburn Tours. tinyurl.com/37k5sb4e
I’ve just learned that Dracorex hogwartsia is no longer a valid dinosaur (just a juvenile Pachycephalosaurus). I’m not normally happy to “lose” a dinosaur, but it does mean that at least the stain of Rowling has been expunged from palaeontology. Small victories, etc…
" ‘Bona nit’ – goodnight in Catalan but also a 1960s gay man complimenting your head lice in the murky glow of a public lav." Outstanding work here by Justin.
Justin Myers@theguyliner.bsky.social · 3w agoIn the latest Guardian Blind Date: oh. Oh no. Don't do that. Nor that. Oh. My review:
Thread (1/2) I've just signed "Tell Andy Burnham to launch a National Commission on Electoral Reform" - Will you support the campaign too? actionstorm.org/petitions/na... @OpenBritainHQ
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Interested in Arts, Humanities or Social Sciences in Wales? In Languages throughout the UK, or in Linguistics, Anthropology, Classics or Theology and Religious Studies? If so, this briefing on the health (sic) of the nation is for you. www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/62...
So a key question now is whether the new @andyburnham.bsky.social led administration will take the higher education funding crisis seriously as a threat to his aspirations around regional growth and skills…
BSHS EGM just started with sandwiches and thanks to the fantastic people who made this meeting possible! Welcome to all new council members and our greatest thanks to the retiring council members and chairs! The BSHS would not be possible without all your hard work!
Are you an early career researcher or postgraduate joining us in Edinburgh this week? 👋 Don't miss our Postgrad Rep's short guide to activities and opportunities during the conference. With a packed programme, it's a great way to meet & exchange! #Edinburgh26 bshs.org.uk/early-career...
Early Careers @ Edinburgh 2026 – BSHS – The British Society for the History of Science
BSHS – The British Society for the History of Science
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Tempted to turn this into a student exercise for some occasion: please provide this essay published by a Cambridge professor of history in 1997 with the apparatus required to meet the standards expected of any undergraduate historian in this institution currently...
Adam Mosley@adamjmosley.bsky.social · 4w agoLove discovering essays by prominent historians, full of assertions and quotations, published without notes or bibliography in the pre-rigour decade of *squints at copyright page* the 1990s...
Love discovering essays by prominent historians, full of assertions and quotations, published without notes or bibliography in the pre-rigour decade of *squints at copyright page* the 1990s...
Paywalled here, but I was able to read it via www.pressreader.com/uk/daily-pos.... Sad to say, it is now astonishing to see a politician taking the UK HE crisis seriously, and acting like a minister _for_ higher education rather than a minister _against_ it. Fingers crossed for good outcomes.
Major review to look at all options for Wales' universities including mergers
Deputy minister for skills and tertiary education Cefin Campbell spoke with Sion Barry
walesonline.co.uk
