Elise Garritzen

Workshop: Contentious Topics in the History of Science - Tiedeakatemia Time and place: 16–17 December 2025, Helsinki, Finland By focusing on the uncomfortable legacies and darker aspects of the past, this workshop aims to bring together scholars interested in the problem...

📣 Call for papers 📣
CONTENTIOUS TOPICS IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE
Apply by 31 August

#skystorians

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A Note for Summer Benjamin Jowett, Master of Balliol College, Oxford, had something important to say in his old age in 1892: I am sure that ‘we authors’ require ‘boundless leisure’ […] the best of air, no care…

"I am sure that ‘we authors’ require ‘boundless leisure’ [...] the best of air, no care, a walk and a drive daily, and times in which to read and lie fallow." Benjamin Jowett, 1892.
Time to switch off the work mode for a moment 🌞
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"The Hagley Digital Archives is currently offline due to a sustained bot attack" begins a message from the archive, explaining that AI is using bots to train machine learning learning models.

Just went looking for something at the excellent Hagley Digital Archives, and was greeted by the message below.

They're being overrun by bots, as "AI systems increasingly target sites like ours to train machine learning models."

The web is being murdered. So aggravating.

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Suuret onnittelut 🥳 Todella tärkeä ja (valitettavan) ajankohtainen hanke!

Assistant Professor (Associate Senior Lecturer) at the Joint Faculties of Humanities & Theology, Lund University We are looking for an up-and-coming researcher who wants to conduct pioneering research to take up a position as Assistant Professor at the Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology, Lund University.

Great job opportunity for an emerging historian in global history of knowledge at the Lund University lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

A lot of things clicked into place for me once I realized that, for a lot of journalists, podcasters, and popular nonfiction writers, "research" means "reading books other people already wrote."

Scandalous Celebrities, Lousy Mothers: Victorian Women Writers and Perilous Celebrity Robert Southey, Poet Laureate, wrote to Charlotte Brontë to warn her about the dangers of literary pursuits for women’s moral character. Southey advised (ordered?) Brontë to drop all literary aspir…

What can Charlotte Brontë and Britney Spears possibly have in common? As celebrities, a lot! More about women celebrities pushing the boundaries of appropriate domesticity here: cliosfootnotes.wordpress.com/2025/05/30/s...

YouTube video by Equylia - Tes cours en chanson ! La révolution française de 1789 ⚔️Chanson Histoire 4ème 🎶

Kuka suomalaisartisti voisi olisi sopiva tekemään jotakin vastaavaa? Entä mitä biisi käsittelisi? Pähkinäsaaren rauhaa, Nuijasotaa, Turun akatemiaa, Porvoon valtiopäiviä, kieliasetusta, naiskagaalia, kieltolakia, peruskouluasetusta vai jotakin muuta 🤔 youtu.be/yoAeKvtY_dE?...

College Records Add New Depth to Women’s Genealogy | Timeless -This is a guest post by Candice Buchanan and Wanda Whitney in the History and Genealogy Section. Buchanan wrote the first entry; Whitney, the second. Lucy Lazear, the valedictorian of her 1853 gradua...

"...the records female students left behind at these early institutions created a genealogical window into women’s lives that had not previously existed. " 📜
College Records Add New Depth to Women’s Genealogy
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In and Out of the Canon in Intellectual History | Centre for Intellectual History | University of Helsinki The Helsinki Centre for Intellectual History devotes its 2025 conference to exploring the question of being in and out of the canon of intellectual history. We welcome proposals for panels and individ...

Join us in December 2025 at the Helsinki Centre for Intellectual History for a conference on “In and Out of the Canon in Intellectual History”. Paper submissions open until 17 April 2025. Spread the word: www.helsinki.fi/en/researchg...

Almost all Dutch universities will go on strike next week, against the budget cuts. Join us!

10 March: Leiden
11 March: Utrecht
13 March: Nijmegen
17 March: Amsterdam
18 March: Groningen
25 March: Twente
8 April: Rotterdam
10 April: Tilburg
14 April: Wageningen
15 April: Maastricht

❤️‍

PhD student in the history of ideas - Uppsala University PhD student in the history of ideas, Department of History of Science and Ideas, Uppsala University

If you know anyone looking for a funded PhD, Uppsala Idéhistoria is recruiting two - in "history of ideas" and "history of science" (both *very* broadly defined).

International applicants welcome! You can write in English or Swedish. 1/4

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Tutkijatohtorin määräaikainen tehtävä Turun yliopiston humanistisen tiedekunnan historian, kulttuurin ja taiteiden tutkimuksen laitoksessa laitoksessa on haettavana tutkijatohtorin määräaikainen tehtävä ajalle 1.9.2025 – 30.11.2027. Tutki...

OBaMa - Osallistumisen esteiden yli -hankkeessamme on avoinna tutkijatohtorin tehtävä Turun yliopistossa. Tule tutkimaan kanssani eduskuntakeskusteluissa rakentuvia osallistumisen esteitä ja niiden purkamista. Hakuaikaa 8.5. asti #STN_OBaMa #STN_DEMOC #tutkijatohtori #rekry

On 8–10 October 2025, LUCK will organise the second international History of Knowledge Conference.

Our Call for Papers/Panels has now been published and we encourage you to submit an abstract: newhistoryofknowledge.com/2025/02/17/t...

Business as usual in an early modern library 🫢

Awesome 👏

#120 Tieteen historia Suomessa Menneisyyden Jäljillä · Episode

Vuoden eka podijakso ja samalla 120 jaksoa täynnä täyttä tavaraa historiasta!🥳

Jaksossa keskustelemme dosentti Stefan Nygårdin ja emeritusprofessori Kimmo Kasken kanssa suomalaisen tieteen tekemisen historiasta.

Tärkeä ja varsin ajankohtainen aihe, kuuntele täältä:
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Door of a subway seen from the inside closing automatically with a flashing red light

Universities all over Europe are cutting language programs and closing the doors to the world. We want to get a more complete picture: where, when, why?
If you know of any such cases, please tell us (and share the link with your language and linguistics contacts)!
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Doctoral Research Fellow in the History of Ideas (270386) | University of Oslo Job title: Doctoral Research Fellow in the History of Ideas (270386), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Friday, February 7, 2025

Fully funded 3-year PhD-position in Intellectual History available at the University of Oslo. Come work with us! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Jos sinulla on jonkinlainen suhde Otaniemeen, auta meikä-kulttuuriperinnöntutkijaa mäessä (...tai siis kivikasassa) ja vastaa pieneen kyselyyni! Postdoc-tutkimukseni käsittelee arkeologisten kohteiden uusia merkityksiä, mm. tämän röykkiön 🪨🪨 Linkki kyselyyn: link.webropolsurveys.com/S/E552861009...

Multilingualism in Nineteenth-Century Archives: Archivo General de Simancas as a Scholarly Tower of Babel Archivo General de Simancas, situated in the Castilian heartlands, engrossed nineteenth-century historians. As the word spread about the historical treasures stored in this remote Spanish village, …

Historians have had many good reasons to learn foreign languages. Gaining access to archives is one of them: cliosfootnotes.wordpress.com/2024/11/28/m...

The castle where the Archivo General de Simancas is located

Four wonderful and super productive weeks in Archivo General de Simancas. I am grateful for the kindness and helpfulness of the archive staff as they hauled dozens and dozens of boxes for me to explore! #archivefever

The University of Helsinki decided to use online competency assessment tests developed by a private company in the application process for salaried PhD positions. I'm the PI of a project on pseudoscience in work life. We wrote this. tint-helsinki.fi/2024/10/21/c...

A Complete List of Our Free to View Newspaper Pages

This is very useful: a full list of all the newspapers that the British Newspaper Archive allows free access to:

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#History 🗃️

Professor Morgan’s Broken Heart: Historians, Antiquaries, and Archaeologists in Victorian Fiction Victorian culture was soaked in history. Victorians, though, were not only absorbed by the past but also by those who studied the dusty manuscripts, tramped the muddy fields to chase the very last …

Victorian readers loved fictional characters of delightfully eccentric, recluse, and effeminate historians and antiquaries. One of them was Professor Morgan with a broken heart:
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Two days of thought provoking and inspirig papers on history of expertise 🤓 And lovely collegial conviviality 😊 Big thanks for everyone who made this such a great event 👏

In 1771, historian Catherine Macaulay burned herself out so badly writing the fifth volume of her recent history of England that she spent four months eating ice cream and bathing in the sea to recuperate.

Writers, I present to you your role model.

Are we entering a period of digital retrenchment?

Me on a digital database tool that went offline recently and some pessimistic thoughts about broader patterns 🗃️

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This is (unfortunately) so true 😞