📣 Early-career historians of science & technology: save the dates! The 2nd DHST Early-Career Scholars Workshop Series runs online from 30 Sept–2 Dec 2026. 6 sessions on archives, museum careers, DH & AI, international collaboration, and more. Register: www.chstm.org/group/early-...

📍 Are you in Edinburgh today? Join SCIEMP at the joint ESHS/HSS meeting for our symposium series Science and Empire in the Anthropocene. From 11 am to 5:45 pm we will be at the Edinburgh Futures Institute, room 1.40. Come by and say hello! Full programme @ cdn.ymaws.com/hssonline.or...

📣 Reminder: SCIEMP is looking for 2 early career scholars to help lead our Early Career activities. This opportunity is open to PhD students and to scholars within 5 years of defending their PhD. 🧵 1/4 #ScienceAndEmpire #AcademicOpportunities

📚📣 Online event: II Jornadas de Historia de la Ciencia desde América This open call invites contributions around methods, archives, and collections for thinking about the history of science from and across the Americas. Find out more here @ www.instagram.com/p/DZLd1Ehxix9/ #HistoryOfScience

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📚 Recommended reading from SCIEMP’s June newsletter: Empire, Nation-Building, and the Age of Tropical Medicine, 1885–1960, edited by Mauro Capocci and Daniele Cozzoli. A valuable resource on imperial medicine, colonial health, and global histories of science. Find more @ scienceandempire.com

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📣 Looking for museum-sector opportunities? The National Museum of the American Latino at the Smithsonian Institution is advertising a Museum Curator position in Washington, DC. 🗓️ Deadline: 29 June More information: trustcareers.si.edu/postings/a06... #Museums #AcademicJobs #HistoryOfScience

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Job Opening: Museum Curator IS-1015-11 at Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.

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Have you subscribed to the Science and Empire newsletter? We’re working on the June edition, which will be released soon. Subscribe to receive it in your inbox as soon as it’s out! Subscribe here: scienceandempire.com/highlights/

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📣 SCIEMP is looking for 2 early career scholars to lead our Early Career activities. They will organize a Science and Empire Online Seminar Series, planned to run monthly from October 2026 to June 2027. The selected scholars will also join monthly SCIEMP meetings and contribute to other activities.

The 16th biennial congress of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science takes place between 22–25 June at Ohio State University. It promotes research in the history of philosophy of science across all periods. Check the full programme: hopos2026.dryfta.com/81-program

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Our colleagues from the Commission on Science and Literature are organising a conference! How scientific and narrative literacy intertwine across cultural and historical contexts? It'll take place at Ghent University on 17-19 June. Check the full programme: coscilit2026.prd.ugent.be/en/programme

SCIEMP has a new logo! And it was chosen with help from our community. Check our profile for a closer look and tell us: what do you think?

We are excited about the 2026 European Society for the History of Science/History of Science Society Joint Meeting in Edinburgh! SCIEMP is organising four sessions which will happen on Wednesday, July 15, at the Edinburgh Futures Institute. See the full programme at: cdn.ymaws.com/hssonline.or...

Question for the community: What source, object, or archive most changed the way you think about science and empire? A travelogue, map, herbarium sheet, museum catalogue, photograph, letter, or something else? Share what has most surprised you and why. #ScienceAndEmpire #HistoryOfScience

You can still help SCIEMP choose its new logo! You can vote on the thread below or on Google Forms: forms.gle/iuDGLFzm3VkW... Voting ends tomorrow and the new logo - chosen by our community - will be revealed next week. Make your voice heard and cast your vote now!

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🗳️ We need your help! SCIEMP is choosing a new logo, and we’d love to hear what our community thinks. In the next posts of this thread, we’ll share three options. To vote, simply like the post with your favourite logo. Feel free to reply too as we’d love to know why you chose it.

🗳️ You can now also vote for SCIEMP’s new logo via Google Forms! Please help us choose our new logo by casting your vote here: forms.gle/iuDGLFzm3VkW... We’d love to hear from our community. Thank you for helping us choose SCIEMP’s new visual identity. Voting will only be open until Friday.

New Logo – Science and Empire Commission

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🗳️ We need your help! SCIEMP is choosing a new logo, and we’d love to hear what our community thinks. In the next posts of this thread, we’ll share three options. To vote, simply like the post with your favourite logo. Feel free to reply too as we’d love to know why you chose it.

📣 Call for proposals: the Journal for the History of Knowledge is accepting proposals for its 2028 special issue. They should include a description of the theme, article abstracts, CVs and bios. 🗓️ Deadline for proposals: 1 May 2026 💻 More info @ journalhistoryknowledge.org/announcement...

🖋️📜 How are your paleography skills? The U.S. National Archives is looking for online volunteers to help transcribe and tag handwritten historical documents. A great reminder that archives are also built through public collaboration. More info @ www.archives.gov/citizen-arch...

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One day all of our records will be online. You can help make it happen. You can become a citizen archivist — just click one of the options below to get started. You Can Tag It! Add tags to images...

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Today we highlight Education and Progress: The Escuela de Ingenieros and Engineers’ Training in Peru (1911–1930) by Nashely Villcas. In this, she explores how technical education in early 20th-century Peru became a space of negotiation between empire and nation. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Education and Progress: The Escuela de Ingenieros and Engineers’ Training in Peru (1911–1930)

During the first half of the twentieth century, engineers consolidated themselves as members of an early elite of technical professionals.To achieve this status, these professionals deployed a seri...

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📖Have you checked the book review section of the latest issue of the British Journal for the History of Science? It's a good place to start if you're looking for the next addition to your library.

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📖 New issue of the BJHS now out! This issue brings together a rich set of contributions that explore how scientific knowledge is produced, communicated, and imagined across different contexts. BSHS members enjoy full access to all articles! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📣 Looking forward to the 20th National Seminar on the History of Science and Technology organized by the Brazilian Society for the History of Science in July in Brazil. You can still enroll in minicourses. More info @ www.20snhct.sbhc.org.br/site/capa #HistoryOfScience #HistoryOfTechnology #Brazil

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📖 How about we begin the week reading something from SCIEMP's public Zotero library? On this paper, Fa-ti Fan discusses the concepts of cultural borderlands and scientific imperialism, and how they can be used in the analysis of cross-cultural encounters in field sciences. doi.org/10.1215/s122...

Science in Cultural Borderlands: Methodological Reflections on the Study of Science, European Imperialism, and Cultural Encounter

This article examines the methodological issues arising from the study of science and European imperialism. Drawing upon recent scholarship in a variety of fields, it argues for a combination of th...

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📣Open call: Forum on the Conceptual History of Technology The Journal of the History of Ideas Blog is seeking essays that discuss the concept of technology, intersecting intellectual history and the history of technology. Calls are open until 7 May More info @ www.jhiblog.org/2026/03/18/c...

Call for Submissions: Forum on the Conceptual History of Technology

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📣 Call for papers: Public Humanities (Cambridge) is organising a special Museum Issue. They invite reflections on museums as sites where research, public culture, material objects, politics, ethics, and theory meet. 🗓️ Deadline: 1 June 2026 More information at www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📣 Opportunity for graduate students and early career scholars! The 2026 Nuncius Essay Award is now open for submissions. The prize recognises the best original essay on the material and visual history of science, technology, and medicine. Want to know more? 👇 #ScienceAndEmpire #HistoryOfScience

🎓 Need funding for dissertation research travel? The History of Science Society is offering individual grants of up to US$2,500 for graduate student members to work in archives, laboratories, and field sites. You can apply until March 31 - there's still time! hssonline.org/general/cust...

🗣️💬 Let's get a conversation started: if you were introducing a student to the history of science and empire with just one text, what would you choose? We'll begin highlighting our secretary Daniel Gamito-Marques's own Science for Competition among Powers: doi.org/10.1002/bewi... #ScienceAndEmpire

Science for Competition among Powers: Geographical Knowledge, Colonial‐Diplomatic Networks, and the Scramble for Africa**

Historical studies on the relationship between science and diplomacy tend to focus on events since World War II and on initiatives for the maintenance of peace or to achieve cooperation over contenti....

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📢 SCIEMP is going to Edinburgh! Did you know we’re hosting a symposium at the joint meeting of the History of Science Society/European Society for the History of Science? Supported by the British Society for the History of Science, the conference takes place in Scotland from 13 - 16 July 2026 🧵1/4

Looking for key readings on science and empire? SCIEMP's shared Zotero library brings together references on the histories of science, technology, medicine, and empire. It's a useful resource for researchers, students, and anyone interested in the field. Find it on: www.zotero.org/groups/61773...