I passed my viva! Huge thanks to my examiners for such a constructive viva.

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Congratulations to Xinyue Li, who passed her viva today. Her PhD was on The Transformation of Meteorological Knowledge in China, 1840-1934. The photo shows her with the examiners, Dr Chris Courtney and Dr Amelia Bonea.

📢 Join us for CHSTM PG Seminar Series 25/26! 🗓️ Xinyue Li (University of Manchester) “More than Superstition: Rethinking Rainmaking as Drought Relief in an "Age of Science”” Tue 2 June, 1–2 pm (UK) · Zoom Email krittapak.ngamvaseenont@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk for the link #HistSTM

Thanks to the Marco Polo Center for Global Euro-Asia Connections for sponsoring our panel! Dr. Xiao Liu, Yifan Song @yifansong.bsky.social, and I will be presenting on meteorology in China on July 21 at the 26th biennial conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies. #EACS2026

Please join us on 29 April 2026 for PLANTS, an online workshop and the third event in our Manchester Workshop Series on Natural Archives and the History of Science in Asia. #HistSTM blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2026/0...

Workshop: Plants

Join us for Plants, the third event in our Manchester Workshop Series on Natural Archives and the History of Science in Asia.

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📢 Join us this spring for the CHSTM Postgraduate Seminar Series 2025/2026! Explore new perspectives in HSTM. Our seminars run throughout the year, typically on Tuesdays, 1–2 pm on Zoom. To receive the Zoom link, contact: krittapak.ngamvaseenont@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk #HistSTM #histmed

Magnificent Caucasus Mountains from the flight.

Call for Contributions to a Sourcebook for Histories of Weather & Weathering teleskopos.wordpress.com/2026/02/05/c... Full details linked and here teleskopos.wordpress.com/wp-content/u... It will be edited by me, @lottaleiwo.bsky.social and Tamara Culkins. Please share! #histSTM #envhist 🗃️📜

Call for Contributions: Histories of Weather & Weathering

Call for Contributions: A Sourcebook for Histories of Weather and Weathering (working title) Editors: Rebekah Higgitt, Tamara Caulkins and Lotta Leiwo We invite contributions to this planned open a…

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New on H-Sci-Med-Tech: Check out @xinyueli.bsky.social (@manchester.ac.uk)’s review of @simonnaylor.bsky.social (@glasgow.ac.uk)’s book _The Observatory Experiment: Meteorology in Britain and Its Empire _, pub 2024 @universitypress.cambridge.org #hstm Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social

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New book review: Li on Naylor, Simon: _Observatory Experiment: Meteorology in Britain and Its Empire, The_. Cambridge University Press, 2024. Published by H-Sci-Med-Tech. Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20140697

Laura Fumagalli has created a virtual BJA issue on the aesthetic appreciation of nature. It includes BJA papers ranging from 1963 to 2024. Check it out here. academic.oup.com/bjaesthetics... #philsky

The Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature

This collection highlights twelve contributions from the BJA archives, showing various approaches to the aesthetics of nature. The appreciation of nature was a

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📢 Call for Presentations! CHSTM Postgraduate Lunchtime Seminar Series (Spring 2026) invites PhD students to share their research in HSTM. 🗓️ Deadline: 15 Dec 2025 Apply here 👉 forms.gle/rN5SL487xvg1... Enquiries: krittapak.ngamvaseenont@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk #HistSTM #histmed

Another seminar date for your diary: we're looking forward to Dr Gemma Cirac Claveras speaking on 25 Nov on Data Wars: International Data Sharing (or not) in Meteorology, 1980s-1990s. #HistSTM #EnvHist blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/1...

CHSTM Research Seminar, 25 November 2025

Dr Gemma Cirac-Claveras Data Wars: International Data Sharing (or not) in Meteorology, 1980s-1990s

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One of our CHSTM PhDs, @xinyueli.bsky.social, will give her talk “Bringing the Past to the Future: Discovery of Folk Weather Knowledge in Republican China” 📍 Manchester China Institute 🗓️ 9 Oct 2025 | 🕧 12:30–2:00 pm Everyone is welcome!

Please mark your diaries for an online workshop on the history of glaciology and polar science in Asia. *(Melting) Ice* - 17 Nov 2025. Attendance is free, but please register for the event. blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/1... #histstm #histsci

Online Workshop: (Melting) Ice. 17 November 2025

Jointly with the JRRI and the MCI: Second event in our Manchester Workshop Series on Natural Archives and the History of Science in Asia. 17 November 2025, 2-4:30pm

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The CHSTM Lunchtime Seminar Series is back this semester! 🎉 Our first talk will be on Tuesday, 21 October 2025. Stay tuned for speaker details and more updates! #HistSci #HistMed #CHSTM

On 11 November, jointly with the colleagues in East Asian Studies, we are welcoming Dr Lewis Bremner (Cambridge) for a talk on The Heart of the Eye and the Heart of the Sun: The Struggle to Translate Science in Tokugawa Japan. blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0...

East Asian Studies and CHSTM Joint Seminar, 11 November 2025

Dr Lewis Bremner The Heart of the Eye and the Heart of the Sun: The Struggle to Translate Science in Tokugawa Japan

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Wrapped up our centre’s PGR lunch seminar series @manchstm.bsky.social for the semester today🎉🎉 I had a wonderful time co-hosting it with my brilliant colleague Daniela Dandes and meeting so many friends. Grateful for the opportunity to learn so much over the past two years.

A wonderful opportunity to apply for a fully-funded collaborative PhD studentship in partnership with @royalsociety.org. "Weather Sceptics: Almanacs and the Making of Scientific Meteorology in Nineteenth-Century Britain". Deadline 6 May. See link for full details. #histsci @bshsnews.bsky.social

Come read Fiona Williamson discuss her new book "Imperial Weather: Meteorology, Science, and the Environment in Colonial Malaya." meteohistory.org/2025/writing...