Topham Inaugural_4/25/2025
Recording now available in full at mymedia.leeds.ac.uk/Mediasite/Pl...
25.11.2025 08:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Topham Inaugural_4/25/2025
Finally, the recording has landed! If you missed @jontopham.bsky.social's inaugural lecture on "Science and religion from the ground up" back in April, you can now catch up online at mymedia.leeds.ac.uk/Mediasite/Pl.... @bshsnews.bsky.social @leedsprhs.bsky.social
25.11.2025 08:02 — 👍 7 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Good point @richardfallon.bsky.social. Join link on Teams: teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...
19.11.2025 11:00 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Don't miss out on this super talk about scientific printing by our own @edwinrose.bsky.social later today - join us either online or in person.
19.11.2025 10:37 — 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
HPS/Centre CHoP Talk: Edwin Rose (19 Nov)
Announcing HPS/Centre CHoP Talk, 19 November: Edwin Rose: A Surplus in the Sciences? Printing, Publishing and Distributing Cambridge’s first Scientific Journal, 1821-1928 Next Wednesday, 19 November 2025, 4-5pm, in the School of English (Ground Floor of House 10, access through House 6), there will be a joint seminar of the Centre for HPS and the Centre for the Comparative History of Print (Centre-CHoP), exploring the history of scientific printing.
HPS/Centre CHoP Talk: Edwin Rose (19 Nov)
Announcing HPS/Centre CHoP Talk, 19 November: Edwin Rose: A Surplus in the Sciences? Printing, Publishing and Distributing Cambridge’s first Scientific Journal, 1821-1928 Next Wednesday, 19 November 2025, 4-5pm, in the School of English (Ground Floor of…
17.11.2025 14:18 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
Are you a researcher in the field of history of science, technology and medicine? The #NotesAndRecord essay award is now open for entries until 28 February 2026. Visit our website find out more: buff.ly/dedMm93 #HistSci #HistSTM
18.09.2025 10:00 — 👍 17 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 2
Who knew that the British JAIL for History of Science was in the Leeds School of Philosophy? We'll keep you on the historiographical straight and narrow!
18.10.2025 12:36 — 👍 24 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 2
Rose, Edwin D.. Reading the World: British Practice of Natural History, 1760-1820. : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2025. xii + 395 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780822948513.$45.00 (paper), ISBN 9780822967705. Reviewed by Nathan Cornish (University of Southampton, Exeter University, Kew Gardens) Published on H-Sci-Med-Tech (October, 2025) Commissioned by Penelope K. Hardy (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse)
New book review:
Cornish on Rose, Edwin D.: _Reading the World: British Practice of Natural History, 1760-1820_. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2025. Published by H-Sci-Med-Tech.
Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20129660
22.10.2025 14:32 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
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 💬 2 📌 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 — 👍 48 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 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 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 2
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
History of Science, Technology and Medicine Network of Ireland fosters research, teaching & engagement in #hismed #histech #hisscience
Historian of occultism and science, Victorianist, anthropologist, associate professor at the University of Copenhagen, and bass player. Lover of classic videogames. 🎮 Views own. (https://www.eframserashriar.com)
Medical historian of modern Britain/curator (thinks/writes about: condoms, toothbrushes & lately, urine; secretary of Society for the Social History of Medicine @sshmedicine.bsky.social); music & horror film fan; singer; runner; mum; find me at the beach ⛱
Exploring the use of science & medicine to curtail crime in the 19th & 20th Century.
https://substack.com/@curingcrime
Also 20th history of biology (evolution, genetics).
Educator with focus on supporting teachers
& empowering students.
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historian: early modern science & scholarship | book history | collecting & museums | networks | dh-curious |🏳️🌈 |🇪🇺| ~he/him~
+ speculative fiction | games | other people's cats & dogs | octopodes | bears | personal views
A digital edition of Simon Forman's and Richard Napier's medical records, 1596-1634 Directed by @laurenkassell.bsky.social Funded by the Wellcome Trust www.casebooks.lib.cam.ac.uk #histmed #histsci #earlymodern #astrology
The Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) at the Institute of Philosophy (@kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social) focuses on #logic and #philsci, with a concentration on the philosophies of the special sciences • https://hiw.kuleuven.be/clps #philsky
water@leeds is one of the largest interdisciplinary centres for water research in any university in the world. #academicsky #EITwater #WaterInnovation
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UCL's Arts and Sciences department. Home of the BASc Arts and Sciences, MASc Creative Health & BA Creative Arts and Humanities programmes. #art #science #interdisciplinary
Il Network Italiano di Filosofia della Medicina (PhilHeaD) promuove la ricerca filosofica riguardo le scienze mediche e psichiatriche, favorendo il dialogo tra filosofi, medici e altri professionisti della salute. Website: https://philhead.org/
PhD student at CHSTM, University of Manchester | Assistant Professor of History at Chiang Mai University #histmed
Director, Centre for the Sciences of Place & Memory, Stirling Uni, Scotland. Skill, memory, embodied cognition, philosophy, cognitive history, cricket, music, collaboration, wayfinding. Leverhulme International Prof: johnsutton.net & placememory.net
Online reviews in the humanities & social sciences: https://networks.h-net.org/search-reviews
This is the official account of the philosophy department at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore).
More information can be found at https://www.ntu.edu.sg/soh/about-us/philosophy/faculty-members.
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
