Congratulations to PhD researcher Monica Stenzel, who has secured a grant from @pasoldresearchfund.bsky.social to support her project on the history of "wool science"! Supervised by @kingtekkers.bsky.social and @graemegooday.bsky.social, her work bridges science, textiles and sustainability #histsci
13.08.2025 13:23 — 👍 27 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
A whole clutch of out staff and postgraduates were at #BSHS2025 a couple of weeks ago, and we have a contingent in Porto for the next few days at #ISHPSSB2025. Look out for papers from them spanning the breadth of history and philosophy of biology, from evolution and individuality to microbes!
21.07.2025 13:28 — 👍 17 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Huge congratulations to our own Dr Ellen Clarke on the publication of "The Units of Life: Kinds of Individual in Biology"! academic.oup.com/book/60068
04.07.2025 09:19 — 👍 30 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1
Our Museum of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine holds some incredible collections. Look out for a complete refresh of our permanent gallery spaces - “Proper #Yorkshire Science” - launching very soon! It explores the connection between science and regional identity #histsci
02.07.2025 15:12 — 👍 15 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
’Founder of sociology’, Harriet Martineau, abolitionist, feminist, champion of equal education for women, born #OTD 1802.
Portrait by Richard Evans (assistant to Sir Thomas Lawrence)1834, National Portrait Gallery | The Armitt Museum @ucuuoc.bsky.social | @hpsleeds.bsky.social
’Founder of sociology’, Harriet Martineau, abolitionist, feminist, champion of equal education for women, born #OTD 1802.
Portrait by Richard Evans (assistant to Sir Thomas Lawrence)1834, National Portrait Gallery | The Armitt Museum @ucuuoc.bsky.social | @hpsleeds.bsky.social
’Founder of sociology’, Harriet Martineau, abolitionist, feminist, champion of equal education for women, born #OTD 1802.
Portrait by Richard Evans (assistant to Sir Thomas Lawrence)1834, National Portrait Gallery | The Armitt Museum @ucuuoc.bsky.social | @hpsleeds.bsky.social
’Founder of sociology’, Harriet Martineau, abolitionist, feminist, champion of equal education for women, born #OTD 1802.
Portrait by Richard Evans (assistant to Sir Thomas Lawrence) 1834, National Portrait Gallery | The Armitt Library & Museum @ucuuoc.bsky.social | @hpsleeds.bsky.social
12.06.2025 05:51 — 👍 47 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
BSHS Postgraduate Conference – Postgraduate Conference of the British Society for the History of ScienceBSHS PG Conference 2025 - Draft ProgrammeBSHS PG Conference 2025 - Day 2: Paper Sessions
Coming soon: reports from attendees, photos and even a film which capture the @bshsnews.bsky.social Postgraduate Conference hosted by our wonderful PG community last month. We're still basking in the warm glow of this amazing event! pg-conference.bshs.org.uk #histsci #histSTM
20.05.2025 11:08 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Visiting Speaker Seminar Series – HPS Leeds
Updated twice a year with seminar programmes for the semester.
Our Visiting HPS Seminar tomorrow is the final one of the academic year! We welcome Dr Charu Singh from the University of Cambridge for “Challenging the Tridosha: Elements, humors and an Ayurvedic controversy in British India, c.1935”. Full details here: hpsleeds.wordpress.com/category/vis... #HPS
06.05.2025 17:09 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
Thackray Insights Late: Unnatural Selection - Thackray Museum of Medicine
Taking place across our Autumn/Winter season, Thackray Insights invites you to delve deep into eye opening topics and explore the...
Delighted that @adamrutherford.bsky.social and @hpsleeds.bsky.social's Prof Gregory Radick will be joining us @thackraymuseum.bsky.social on Thursday evening for our newest Insights Late on the legacy of eugenics. Just a few tickets left now … 🎟️
thackraymuseum.co.uk/event/thackr...
29.04.2025 12:44 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
We can't believe it: the ninth (9th) episode in our podcast series has dropped!
This time Dr Mike Finn, Director of our Museum, chats about psychiatry and how the modern science of neurology was inspired by research in a Yorkshire asylum... #histmed #histSTM
open.spotify.com/episode/2o43...
29.04.2025 07:18 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1
Visiting Speaker Seminar Series – HPS Leeds
Updated twice a year with seminar programmes for the semester.
Meanwhile, we welcome Dr Stavros Ioannidis (online, U. Athens) and Dr Charu Singh (in-person, U. Cambridge) on 30 April and 7 May respectively, for papers in our Visiting Speaker Seminar Series. Details here: hpsleeds.wordpress.com/category/vis... #histsci #histSTM #hps @leedsprhs.bsky.social
29.04.2025 06:58 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
WiP Seminar Series – HPS Leeds
Updated biannually with details of our Work-in-Progress seminar series
The final events in our seminar series are coming up! For details of our wonderful work-in-progress papers, all run online, see here: hpsleeds.wordpress.com/category/wip.... Join us on 29 April and 6 and 13 May, to hear about topics as diverse as engineering and smallpox eradication #hps #histSTM
29.04.2025 06:58 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
A wonderful event! Professor Jon Topham’s @jontopham.bsky.social inaugural professorial lecture, introduced here by Greg Radick, doubling as keynote for the @bshsnews.bsky.social postgraduate conference. An exploration of how history of the book can make us see anew the science-religion relationship
25.04.2025 16:29 — 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Prof J. Topham - "Science and Religion from the Ground Up"
YouTube video by The British Society for the History of Science
Can't make it to Leeds? You can still watch the live stream of Jon Topham's Professorial Inaugural Lecture here: www.youtube.com/live/W1KQBZV...
We much look forward to seeing those us in person, and particularly all the attendees at the @bshsnews.bsky.social Postgraduate Conference! #histsci
25.04.2025 13:29 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
Conférence autour du livre de Max Kistler : "The Material Mind" | UFR de Philosophie
Please join us for the launch of our 3rd BSPS Open volume, The Material Mind by Max Kistler, on 7 May.
philosophie.pantheonsorbonne.fr/evenements/c...
#bspsopen #philsci #openaccesspublishing #ucalgarypress #thematerialmind
21.04.2025 08:41 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 1
1.8 - Physical Sciences with Graeme
The Science of 1875 · Episode
It's our regular Monday announcement... New podcast episode!
Graeme Gooday explores the history of the physical sciences 150 years ago, and why they were core subjects first taught at the Yorkshire College of Science #histsci #skystorians #chemistry #physics
open.spotify.com/episode/5Dln...
14.04.2025 10:59 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 2
HPS in 20 objects
This resource was produced by academics from the Centre for History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Leeds, where we have our Museum filled with artefacts that tell a stories about the H
Did you know: our researchers have developed a suite of resources for A-Level students and teachers? "History & Philosophy of Science in 20 Objects" draws on an incredible array of items from our own collection ft. prompts, questions, videos and more! sway.cloud.microsoft/cEekCFBF5CGF... #histsci
04.04.2025 09:25 — 👍 30 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 2
Congratulations, Kevin!
01.04.2025 17:28 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A crowd of people waiting expectantly in a large hall for some speeches to mark the launch of an exhibition.
Lovely to attend the launch of SICK and SICK TOO - a pair of parallel exhibitions at @lulgalleries.bsky.social by Sarah Roberts. It was a real privilege to host Sarah for some sessions with the LivingBodiesObjects project, and to see her draw inspiration from collections in @hpsleeds.bsky.social!
01.04.2025 17:23 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
📢 Reminder!
Prof. Jon Topham’s jontopham.bsky.social Keynote Lecture explores the intertwined histories of science, religion, and publishing
📆 25 April 2025 | 3.30–5.00pm BST
📍 Leeds & Online
🔗 bit.ly/4hDxuyV
A joint event by hpsleeds.bsky.social, leedsprhs.bsky.social & BSHS Postgrads
31.03.2025 09:00 — 👍 10 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
1.7 - Literature with Fran
The Science of 1875 · Episode
Our latest podcast episode is out! Hear our own @frankendodo.bsky.social chat with @kingtekkers.bsky.social about the relationships between literature and science in the nineteenth century. Featuring Lewis Carroll and public debates about science open.spotify.com/episode/1iVl... #histsci #HPS
31.03.2025 11:09 — 👍 27 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 1
📢Upcoming lecture! Professor Jon Topham jontopham.bsky.social on ‘Science and Religion from the Ground Up’
Join us for this joint event between the BSHS, hpsleeds.bsky.social and leedsprhs.bsky.social in Leeds and online!
📆Friday 25th April, 2025 | 3.30pm–5.00pm
www.eventbrite.com/e/science-an...
20.03.2025 15:01 — 👍 7 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
1.6 - Wool with Monica
The Science of 1875 · Episode
Our latest podcast episode is out!
Monica Stenzel, one of our PhD researchers, chats about the "science of #wool" and how fuzzy fleeces became an unlikely source of inspiration for science, especially at the Yorkshire College!
open.spotify.com/episode/2Zc1...
#histsci #histSTM #skystorians
18.03.2025 10:08 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Welcoming the world's researchers to share ideas in Medieval Studies at @UniversityofLeeds.bsky.social. Temporalities, 6-9 July 2026.
University Archivist and Records Manager at Heritage Quay, the archive service of the University of Huddersfield. Lover of all things Georgian, especially book/library related. All views my own.
Historian of Science & Technology, University of Leeds. Intermittent singer & viola player (and a secretly disreputable blues pianist).
Historian of science, medicine, animals, humans, microbes...
PhD candidate at University of Leeds PRHS
PhD student at the University of Leeds studying the history of advertising, health, and nutrition.
Policy Leeds is the policy engagement hub for the University of Leeds, strengthening connections between researchers and policy actors.
policyleeds@leeds.ac.uk for all enquiries.
A network for science and technology studies (STS) scholars in Australia and New Zealand
Highlights from Cultural Collections & Galleries @universityofleeds.bsky.social
Free and open to all. Visit us at The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, Treasures of the Brotherton, and Brotherton Research Centre.
bit.ly/LULGWebsite
PhD student at the University of Leeds, researching the philosophy of disability and the social model. Working with Chronic Illness Inclusion. Writer of weird little stories. Living with ME/CFS and trying to stay safe from covid!
Director of The Old Operating Theatre Museum.
Previous: Science Museum, HSMOxford, Cambridge HPS & STS UCL.
Material Culture, History of Science and Medicine.
Easily distracted. Tea-drinker. Muma-bear.
Own views.
Labour and Co-operative MP for Leeds Central & Headingley
Historian of health and disability c1600-1850 at Cardiff University. Dysgwr Cymraeg. Also keen on our garden, cat, and chickens.
https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/cocke
Innovation and partnerships at the University of Leeds | Innovate UK specialist |
Climate education & climate actions | Degrowth | Solarpunk |
Learning to collaborate for collective action | b. 341 ppm
Consulting sociologist, researcher, writer and entrepreneur. Medical sociology; sociology of law; STS; ethnomethodology; CA. Re-post does not imply endorsement.
Lecturer in Psychological & Social Medicine | IBD & PsA patient | Research: chronic illness narratives & social media | Qual & arts-based methods | Views my own
Historian of European science policies, #fascism, #eugenics, #racism, Cold War science, #PrimoLevi. Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Genova. Director of CENTRA (www.centrastudies.org) Born at 331 ppm
Philosophy of Science, History of Physics; Postdoc University of Antwerp (Belgium)
Political Theorist, Ethicist, and Moral Sentimentalist at the University of Glasgow https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/socialpolitical/staff/michaelfrazer/
http://bit.ly/MLFrazerGoogleScholar
World-leading education and research from the Schools of Earth & Environment, Food Science & Nutrition, Geography, and the Institute for Transport Studies.
Pursuing a cleaner, greener world. 🌍🌊🔬🥬🚆
environment.leeds.ac.uk #AcademicSky #geosky #EnvSci
