Max Long

I’d want to check out that mould in the bathroom!

Ross!!! Many, many congratulations. So pleased for you and can’t wait to read💖🎉🥳

Jacket design for Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life: A History of Sex and Science by Ross Brooks. It features a historic, drawn image of a gynandromorph gypsy moth, with distinctive female patterning on its left side and male on its right. Against a black background, the image and text (title and author's name) are brightly rendered in a spectrum of colours resonant of the Progress Pride Flag.

My first book, Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life, will be published by Yale University Press on 11 August (UK) and 8 September (US). Please help spread the word! 🙏

UK: yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300... @yalebooks.bsky.social 🏳️‍🌈📚🐵

US: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... @yalepress.bsky.social 🏳️‍⚧️ 🗃️🦋

my dad didn’t go to university and he was extremely happy to pay taxes for his four children to do so; and, indeed, for the doctors who treated him at Addenbrookes to have gone to university as well.

A page describing the role of the zine in encouraging children to think critically about gaming.

A page from the zine showing a prompt about what a better phone design may look like

A page showing drawings from the zine

Are you a teacher, parent or youth worker looking for an engaging way to get young people to think critically about digital technologies?

Use our new zine series, which provides arts-based activities and prompts for children to explore the personal, social and environmental impacts of technologies.

Amazon literally hosts the Palantir ICE surveillance database -- so this is not even a hypothetical. Buy local!

AI cannot feel.
Its incredibly demeaning to both humans and non-human animals that feel actual emotions to frame it like this, Amanda, you weirdo.
You should feel judged.

The Overall Winner is Wouldn’t Hurt a Fly by Zeke Rowe, a PhD candidate at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands

Capturing Ecology 2025 Ecologists in Action Winner: 'Ready for Everything' by Roberto García Roa

Capturing Ecology 2025 Interactions Winner: 'Lioness one eye behind birds' by Willem Kruger

Capturing Ecology 2025 Highly Commended: 'Fading Giants' by Ashane Marasinghe

The winners of last year's Capturing Ecology photography competition are truly amazing. You can see them all here:

www.britishecologicalsociety.org/capturing-ec...

Two weeks left to apply for a postdoc position on my project!

I'm looking for historians, anthropologists, STS and Global Health researchers with a broad interest in #Brazil, #rural populations, #health, #medicine, and #zoonosis.

For more information👇

My latest in History Today, on the Pride of Derby river pollution case of 1952. Now available in newsagents etc!

Do you have Zotero installed? This was happening for me a while back and discovered I had allowed Zotero to redirect these kinds of links via a proxy, which became really annoying when sharing links with others!

Huge news for the little owl! Its transformation from 'vermin alien' and 'worst bird in Britain' to 'cute little bird' is now almost complete 🦉

It’s funny how Wikipedia used to seem relatively unreliable, because it was written by regular people instead of encyclopedia experts, and now it seems relatively reliable, because it’s written by regular people instead of glib CliffsNotes robots

Nice workshop on georeferencing coming up Jan 31 w/ @oldinsurancemaps.net @openhistoricalmap.org & more as a part of the @osmus.bsky.social virtual conference - openstreetmap.us/events/mappi...

We’ve got a stellar lineup for this term’s Modern British History Seminar in Oxford. Do come along if you’re around!

talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/series...

Nobody in The Moral Maze gets eaten by the Moral Minotaur, which is a fundamental flaw in the programme.

Nick Robinson's political interviews perfectly illustrate the invariable reality of the BBC: strong with the weak and weak with the strong.

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

What if there was a way to link museum collections based on the way an object looks? Kaspar Beelen and I have a paper out now talking about 'Heritage Weaver,' a project that used multimodal AI to link and explore museum data across collections: doi.org/10.63744/txx...

Just discovered that my nemesis has a very obviously self-written Wikipedia page. My moral victories abound!!!!

The Wolfson History Prize - Celebrating Outstanding History The Wolfson History Prize is awarded annually to promote and recognise outstanding history written for a general audience.

Graduate of the American Studies programme that the University of Nottingham wishes to close wins 2025 Wolfson History Prize for Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade.

History, it's a long game. Divest in haste, repent for the longue durée.

Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.

Colour photograph of a little owl on a tree branch

Little Owl of the day.

Colour photograph by Skoflek István (1960s-1970s), from the collections of the Museum of Kuny Domokos (Tata, Hungary)

Black and white photograph of a Little Owl (or, Athene noctua) peeking out of a hole in a tree.

Little Owl of the day: ‘I think you will consider this proof enough of the mischief it does’.

The Field, 1919

It is amusing to me that some people were speculating that The Times had been taken in by a deepfake as part of some shadowy political interference campaign.

Nope. They just emailed and then interviewed the wrong Bill DeBlasio.

Congratulations, Holly! It looks fasntastic. And a wonderful appearance on R4 Today this morning too!

My book UP IN THE AIR: A HISTORY OF HIGH-RISE BRITAIN is out today!

Teaching Slavery This groundbreaking book brings together the latest academic research on Britain’s involvement in transatlantic slavery, with innovative thinking on the teaching of such challenging histories in the c...

Teaching the histories of slavery and keen to inform your students with insights from the most recent research?

Just a month to go before @uclpress.bsky.social publishes this open access (free to download) expert volume. uclpress.co.uk/book/teachin...

A black and white photograph of a rather alarmed looking Little Owl, or Athene Noctua, sitthin on a large log

Little Owl of the day, 1938

Photograph by G. A. L. Bisseling & F. Kooymans, published in the Illustrated London News