Dr Franziska Kohlt

Epstein Files Contain a Big Clue About Cambodia’s Missing Masterpieces The documents indicate that billionaire Leon Black had a significant collection of Khmer Empire artwork.

Ok this is WILD 🏺 paging my repatriation community peeps
www.Bloomberg.com/news/article...

Might design a guessing game for students: Who said it? Victorians or Manosphere Influencers?

To celebrate the publication of 'Science, Religion and the Human Future' you can grab a limited time 30% discount - so get our new book for £13.99 ($17.50) here:
global.oup.com/academic/pro...

The cover choice was made in honour of Tom McLeish.

There'll shortly even be a discount code, to make that price even better - watch this space.

But yes, I am a great fan of affordable academic publications, I really hope it reaches & inspires many.

Let me know what you think!

Thank you! It's somehow become more timely with each passing year since we started this work. Very glad it's come out now - and at a surprisingly affordable price!

This is also the first publication of my work on Religious Metaphor in Climate Change & Biodiversity crisis communication, and Hagiographic Storytelling and the Public scientist & also contains a chapter with my work on science-religion narratives during the Pandemic. 2/2
#scicomm #histsci #envhist

Just arrived in the mail: 'Science, Religion, and the Human Future' (OUP 2026) - from our @eclasproject.bsky.social, on the history of conflict narratives in Science and Religion, and their present ramifications.

Now available as e-book & in print: global.oup.com/academic/pro... 1/2

This spring, I’m having my Paleoecology undergrads read one popular science book about a topic related to course themes (the history of life on Earth, any time or taxonomic group). What’s your favorite book in that vein? I’ve got a list of ~20 but want to make sure I’m not missing any good ones!

Why are UK universities failing? - LSE Impact The HE sector in the UK faces the prospect of a university going into administration. How have universities fallen so low and is change possible?

Candid summary of where we are in Higher Ed:
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Do I know anyone who knows journalists/ academics/ contacts who are/have been reporting on/ researching Airbnb related crime// housing issues? (urgent-ish)
Please re-post!
@clanfear.bsky.social @ayuhas.bsky.social

Do I know anyone who knows journalists/ academics/ contacts who are/have been reporting on/ researching Airbnb related crime// housing issues? (urgent-ish)
Please re-post!
@clanfear.bsky.social @ayuhas.bsky.social

It's great to see so many signing up for the @asleuki.bsky.social Online Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Literature and Environment, on 29 Jan 2026, 3-7 pm GMT, but there's still room for more! Further details and registration information at: asle.org.uk/events/semin...

Spotted in Cambridge

Now live! Call for papers for our next conference, the 21st European Conference on Science & Theology (ECST XXI). Leeds, UK; 19-22 August 2026

Conference title: 'Lost in Translation? Celebrating Language Diversity in Science and Religion'

Deadline: 31 Jan 2026

esssatconference.org/call-for-pap...

My special issue on gardens and plants as laboratories of premodern science is out on @royalsocietypublishing.org #notesandrecords #nrrs #histplants #histsci #vegscilif #envhist with articles by me, Luzzini on minerals, @johedesan.bsky.social on Guy de La Brosse, Jalobeanu on Bacon, and Benharrech🌱

[This is obvs a largely rhetorical question]

270-page academic monographs for £150 - and a peer-reviewer recently responded to a book proposal of mine why I am not pitching the book to a "better" publisher (who would give me fewer pages at £110 purchase price more).
How did we get here?

Attracting the brightest and best still going swimmingly

How, after all this, is it still Monday...?

Last day to submit abstracts for the Cambridge University Entomological Society symposium is tomorrow! Please send your abstracts to entosoc@cambridgesu.co.uk!!

@royentsoc.bsky.social @frankendodo.bsky.social @britentsoc.bsky.social @camzoology.bsky.social @zoologymuseum.bsky.social

✨Deeply honoured to deliver this year's Annual Digital Lecture at The National Archives! Drawing on our @erc.europa.eu Data Loss project, I'll explore how preservation creates loss in the digital age and what that means for the politics of archives. Nov 20 6pm at Senate House, London. Do join us!

How, after all this, is it still Monday...?

We are currently open to receiving proposals for themed issues with @advancesjournal.bsky.social, which is published through Taylor and Francis, and is the official journal of @incsa.bsky.social. If you have ideas for a collection, email me.

Details👇
in-csa.com/themed-speci...

Let’s say, hypothetically, you appreciated our position paper and @olivia.science and I would be recording answers to questions about it. What questions would you have?

The Cambridge University Entomological Society is hosting a symposium on ”The good, the bad, and the monstrous: insects in mythology, literature and media”, at the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, on 20th November 2025.

Huge thanks to @royentsoc.bsky.social for supporting us!

Oh what a wonderful thing to see in my news feed today! I have such fond memories of their congregation when Ilived in Cairo as a child

I feel that deeply.

Yess! Amazing! (Not that I didn't know all along, haha!)

Great news for everyone working on cultural entomology - Call for Papers from the @cam.ac.uk Entomological Society & @royentsoc.bsky.social - “The good, the bad, and the monstrous: Insects in mythology, literature and media"
Deadline for Abstracts: 20 October '25
Symposium Date: 20 November '25

Oldest winged insects: first Megasecoptera from the early Carboniferous (Serpukhovian) of Argentina Mississippian insect records are extremely rare. Formally, winged insects occur only at two sites from the Serpukhovian: Delitzsch in Germany, with one species of Palaeodictyoptera; and Guandacol 1 i...

New paper by Petrulevičius & Gutiérrez presents the oldest winged insects 🦟 from Argentina 🇦🇷 dating back to the early #Carboniferous - More insight into the early diversification of animal life & ecosystems on land. ⬇️

#Paleontology #Science

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