Robert Naylor

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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It will be edited by me, @lottaleiwo.bsky.social and Tamara Culkins. Please share! #histSTM #envhist 🗃️📜

One of the core rots at the heart of UK higher education is the unquestioned belief that the more expensive research is the better it is.

easy to believe, own back of the envelope calculations on my grant writing cost/benefit - if counting staff time (my own, other academics, and professional services) then it would have been far more efficient to just give me £5k a year [potentially even £10k]... which I could do a lot with!

Congratulations to Eleanor Shaw, who successfully defended her PhD thesis on the history of the British Journal of Anaesthesia today. In the photo: Prof Carsten Timmermann (2nd supervisor), the candidate, Prof Roberta Bivins, and Dr Neil Pemberton (the external and internal examiners).

Text: Coming Soon register your interest today. Cover images of four titles: Gender and Politics Reimagined, Wild Partners, Law in the New Democracy and Internation Review of Environmental History.

We’re excited to unveil four compelling upcoming titles:

📚 A reflection on the gendering of politics
🌿 A new issue of our environmental history journal
⚖️ An exploration of law-making in a young democracy
🔍 The history of the Mauututu Nakanai of West New Britain

Learn more at press.anu.edu.au

Sign-up for the Northern Environmental History Network's first talk of 2025/26 is now available!

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A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.

Looking forward to presenting on diaries as sources for reconstructing Little Ice Age weather and climate @eseh.bsky.social in Uppsala next week! 📕❄️🌡️ #envhist

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I am happy to share that my book review, Reclaiming vulnerability in scientific practice, which is also my first publication in English, is now published! | Yixuan Li I am happy to share that my book review, Reclaiming vulnerability in scientific practice, which is also my first publication in English, is now published! You can read the full text (free access via...

I'm delighted to share some good news in my first post on Bluesky!

My book review, Reclaiming Vulnerability in Scientific Practice, has been published in @metasciencejournal.bsky.social

Read more here: www.linkedin.com/posts/yixuan...

#sts #histstm #bookreview #PhDLife

Rolando García: Refugee, Radical, Climate's Attorney at Law Having grown up in a poor household in Argentina, Rolando García went on to become an important science administrator, playing a leading role in large-scale weather and climate research projects.

Very proud to have published this piece on the radical Argentinian meteorologist Rolando García dx.doi.org/10.1002/wcc....

Baroness Kidron in the House of Lords today:

"It is extraordinary that the Government’s decided, immovable and strongly held position is that enforcing the law to prevent the theft of UK citizens’ property is unfair to the sector doing the stealing."

part of what pisses me off is that a lot of people already dont go to university (my wife didnt) so maybe focus on adding options and opportunities for them rather than taking away existing opportunities but then that wouldnt fit with their anti intellectual anti social mobility toryism

Happy to share my first ever published paper (as a contributor). The product of my placement year just over 2 years ago. Looking at fossilised organic/inorganic tubules on Mars.

So honoured to have been part of this team.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Allow me to follow up with a lovely 15th c. map of winds I saw recently.

@astrologee.bsky.social any pointers?

Many are capable of both

📢 Editorial 'Contested compliance of obligations under international law: A take from Global Constitutionalism' by Antje Wiener, Jo Shaw, Jonathan Havercroft, Susan Kang and Stephanie Law #OpenAccess #GlobalConstitutionalism

So sick of hearing "You're biased" used as a social, economic or political argument. I blame the school curriculum - we had to do a load of nonsense in history & science GCSEs about "identifying bias" in a way that left people utterly helpless at dealing with structure, ideology or epistemology.

Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was The Greatest Empire That Never Was

If you’re looking for fiction that’s especially helpful in this perilous moment, I have a recommendation:

Kalpa Imperial by the Argentinian writer Angélica Goridischer. Ursula K. LeGuin did the English translation.

bookshop.org/p/books/kalp...

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📢 On First View 'Recognising differentiated affectedness within a global demos: promoting the democratic legitimacy of the UNFCCC' by Nicola Sharman #OpenAccess #GlobalConstitutionalism

Sometimes I dream about finding that specific email in my Outlook inbox with no fuss

The Fennell Career Development Fellow in the History of the Americas at The University of Edinburgh An opportunity for an academic position as a The Fennell Career Development Fellow in the History of the Americas is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job op...

The Fennell Career Development Fellow in the History of the Americas
The University of Edinburgh - College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences - School of History, Classics and Archaeology - History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLQ757/t...

📢 On First View 'Managed freedom in precarious times: Maintaining academic freedom in transitional Hong Kong' by Hualing Fu #OpenAccess #GlobalConstitutionalism

PS: Branding yourself as a ‘global university’ (as most U.K. unis do) without giving your students any opportunity to learn a language is indeed a travesty.

Sign the Petition Save Cardiff University Ancient History Degree

Please sign this petition from students at Cardiff to save their Ancient History degree 🗃️

The handwriting of Thomas Aquinas

Today is the feast of St. Thomas Aquinas, d. 1274. The Angelic Doctor is known for many things, not least of which was his absolutely terrible handwriting, the "littera inintelligibilis." Here it is, in Vat. lat. 9850.

Here's the whole MS: digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat...

#medievalsky #paleography

Yesterday in Nature. A new place for science 👌

You'll find here a few more details about the journal Global Constitutionalism @globcon.bsky.social, which is now based at Edinburgh Law School and Politics and International Relations. Delighted to be working closely with colleagues on this. Please send us your manuscripts!

📢 On First View 'Responsive judicial remedies' by Rosalind Dixon and Po Jen Yap #OpenAccess #GlobalConstitutionalism

We are delighted to have found a new home at the University of Edinburgh!