@brucealexb.bsky.social and I have a new OA article in History Australia: 'Enlightenment enslavement and the Indigenous dead: trafficking slaves and skulls in the early colonisation of Australia'. Read it here: doi.org/10.1080/1449...

1 year fixed post, £36k, at British Museum working on their eighteenth-century collections. #18thC bmrecruit.ciphr-irecruit.com/Applicants/v...

Project Curator: Eighteenth-Century Britain and Europe (Documentation)

About the Documentation & Digitisation Programme

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UK government visa changes are “driving universities towards a cliff edge”. www.scotsman.com/education/so...

Glasgow University cuts: Social sciences to see biggest drop in overseas students

Voluntary redundancy scheme to open in August

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Warm congratulations to the wonderful Maria Floruțău on winning the @RoyalSociety's Notes and Records biennial Essay Award! Maria's prize-winning essay, "The manul or Pallas's cat" It was praised by the judges as "outstanding" and "beautifully written." More: royalsociety.org/journals/aut...

Notes and Records Essay Award | Royal Society

Open to early career researchers in the history of science.

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Millie Schurch's article 'Paper Colonialism: Instructions and Institutions at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 1770–1820', written as part of her postdoc in our ‘Early Citizen Science’ project is now published in Eighteenth-Century Studies ! muse-jhu-edu.ezproxy.its.uu.se/article/993281 🧵

Call for papers | Women in Long Eighteenth-Century Scotland and Beyond 41st Annual Conference of the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society, 6–9 July 2027, Sorbonne Université, Paris oraprdnt.uqtr.uquebec.ca/portail/gscw...

oh permanent full-time pre-1800 job at Limerick! Deadline 14 August -- start of the job in January 2027. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRU993/a... #earlymodern #MedievalSky #Skystorians #Jobfairy

Assistant Professor in European and or Global History (pre-1800) at University of Limerick

Apply for the Assistant Professor in European and or Global History (pre-1800) role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.

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Permanent lectureship in Modern British History at the University of Manchester. FT, £42-58k, closing date 30 June 26, starting Sept 26 onwards. For international people, this is equivalent to a tenure-track Assistant Lectureship. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... #SkyStorians

Lecturer in Modern British History (post-1800):Oxford Road

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Reminder: WOMNH Online Seminar, Wed. 10 June ,18:00–19:00 CET 🌿 Rosa Luxemburg’s Herbarium: Radical Ecology and the Global Plantation, Speaker: Claudia Horn To attend, please email laurence.talairach@univ-tlse2.fr for the link to the virtual room. 1/

Seminar reminder, @nulybranch.bsky.social Caomhanach : 'Collecting Rarity: The Conundrum of Instructing and Constructing - Histories of Malagasy Endemism from Colonial Plant Specimens', Wed 27 May, 15-16 CET, for Zoom link: instructingnaturalhistory@uu.se. instructingnaturalhistory.com/events

Enjoying a quiet moment of interspecies intellectual exchange with Laali. Reading the excellent 'Race & the Scottish Enlightenment' by @brucealexb.bsky.social and @lindaaburnett.bsky.social.

Please help spread the news far and wide! We have a new, full-time, permanent Lecturer in Global History of Science job @stsucl.bsky.social Don't be fooled by the application of deadline of only 9 June 2026. This is an open search #histsci #skystorians www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Our book Race and the Scottish Enlightenment: A Colonial History, 1750–1820 is currently half price in the Yale University Press Spring Sale. yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

Race and the Scottish Enlightenment - Yale University Press London

How colonialism shaped the Scottish Enlightenment’s conception of race and humanity   In the decades after 1750, an increasing number of former me...

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New review! Charles W.J. Withers on 'Race and the Scottish Enlightenment: A Colonial History, 1750–1820', by Linda Andersson Burnett and Bruce Buchan.

Review: Race and the Scottish Enlightenment: A Colonial History, 1750–1820, by Linda Andersson Burnett and Bruce Buchan — Yale University Press, New Haven and London (2025), The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History, 294 pages, hardback.

Journal of Historical Geography

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We desperately need to get away from arguments for the humanities that elevate them because of what they do for technology. The humanities should not be understood as service disciplines. They are an extension of us, and that is enough.

Honoured to see our book Race and the Scottish Enlightenment: A Colonial History (@brucealexb.bsky.social), shortlisted for the Pickstone Prize by the British Society for the History of Science bshs.org.uk/pickstone-pr... It’s a real privilege to be included alongside such inspiring scholarship.

WOMNH seminar! 6 May, 15:00–16:00 (CET) 'Everywhere and Nowhere: Women in the Making of Natural History' Luisa Kapp. Please contact Laurence Talairach for link: laurence.talairach@univ-tlse2.fr womnh.hypotheses.org/events Please circulate. Abstract below.

Seminar alert! Nuala Caomhanach (@nulybranch.bsky.social) : 'Collecting Rarity: The Conundrum of Instructing and Constructing - Histories of Malagasy Endemism from Colonial Plant Specimens', Wed 29 April, 15-16 CET, for Zoom link: please email instructingnaturalhistory@uu.se. 🧵

We’re excited to share our seminar line-up for Women in Natural History Museums & Collections. Please join us and help circulate! First out: Wednesday 6 May – 15:00–16:00 (CET) Luisa Kapp (Senckenberg Nature Research) “Everywhere and Nowhere: Women in the Making of Natural History” 🧵#histsci #HPS

Lecturer in Medieval & Early Modern History The School of History at the ANU seeks to appoint a Lecturer in History. Applicants working at the forefront of gender history between the 12th & 18th centuries, and on regions beyond Europe & Australia, are encouraged to apply. Applications due 19 April.

ANZAMEMS@anzamems.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Lecturer in Medieval and Early Modern History, ANU #medieval #earlymodern anzamems.org/lecture...

More than you think, but still not enough women in STEM -history of women in STEM in the 19th and early 20th centuries #feminism #feministscience #womeninSTEM feministscientist.substack.com/p/more-than-...

More than you think, but still not enough

The secret history of women in STEM Before WWII

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Join Environment & Society's @uvahumanities.bsky.social book preview tomorrow at midday in the Bushuis, room E1.01E. Patrick Anthony (Uppsala) will present his forthcoming book, Unearthed: Science and Environment across Mineral Frontiers, with commentary by @mathijsboom.bsky.social Boom (IISG)

Unearthed: Science and Environment across Mineral Frontiers

Patrick Anthony presents his new book Unearthed: Science and Environment across Mineral Frontiers, which tells the story of earth and atmospheric sciences assembled across world mineral frontiers in t...

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Call for Papers: Women’s Fieldwork and the Making of Nineteenth Century Natural History Collections We seek articles to complete a special issue on women’s field collecting, and contributions to nineteenth century natural history for Nuncius. #Histsci #NaturalHistory #WomensHistory #Fieldwork

There is a long and bitter history here, that does not seem to be well-known despite a very substantial (and growing) historical scholarship. A short thread on scientific head hunting… www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Vast scale of overseas human remains held in UK museums decried by MPs and experts

Exclusive: Guardian study finds UK museums hold more than 260,000 items of remains, often in sacrilegious ways

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Permanent post in the history of the Middle East after 1800 at York! Plus three fixed term posts 1) Medieval History 1100-1450 2) Modern China 3) Britain/Public History

York History Department - Academic Jobs

Uncover the past to define the future. We are seeking research-led historians to join our world-class, collaborative community. Discover career-defining opportunities within one of the UK’s most disti...

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There is still time to register for tomorrow's seminar: Yunting Gu (28th Jan, 3-4, CET) Disputing the lacquer tree: Visual Evidence and Global Knowledge in the Early Modern World. Zoom link: instructingnaturalhistory@uu.se instructingnaturalhistory.com/events/yunti... #skystorians #envhist #museums

Linda Andersson Burnett@lindaaburnett.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Seminar on colonial instructinons by Yunting Gu 28th of Jan, 3-4, CET (Zoom): Disputing the lacquer tree: Visual Evidence and Global Knowledge in the Early Modern World. Zoom link: instructingnaturalhistory@uu.se, Welcome! instructingnaturalhistory.com/events/yunti... #skystorians #envhist #museums

Where are Obama, Bush, Biden, Clinton, the CEOs of the companies that helped talked Trump down from Greenland, ANYONE with authority or market power who can command a microphone and back up the brave citizens of Minneapolis, and say this is morally wrong and an existential threat to the republic?

MPR News@mprnews.org · 7mo ago

The Columbia Heights school district says ICE detained four of its students, including a 5-year-old boy, as "bait" to draw out family members.

Seminar on colonial instructinons by Yunting Gu 28th of Jan, 3-4, CET (Zoom): Disputing the lacquer tree: Visual Evidence and Global Knowledge in the Early Modern World. Zoom link: instructingnaturalhistory@uu.se, Welcome! instructingnaturalhistory.com/events/yunti... #skystorians #envhist #museums

Yunting Gu (Fudan University/University of Cambridge) - Disputing the lacquer tree: Visual Evidence and Global Knowledge in the Early Modern World — Instructing Natural History

This presentation investigates a scientific controversy over the identity of the lacquer (‘varnish’) tree in the 1750s, a dispute that linked Asia, Europe, and North America through the circulation of...

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New seminars on Instructing Colonial Natural History 🌿 We can look forward to papers by Yunting Gu, Adriana Craciun and @nulybranch.bsky.social. For more info see instructingnaturalhistory.com (more info will be added). #skystorians #museums #collecting #histsci #envhist