Adam Mosley

Hans Rausing Doctoral Scholarship: PhD in the History of Science and Technology (Home/EU/Overseas) at King's College London Explore a Hans Rausing Doctoral Scholarship: PhD in the History of Science and Technology (Home/EU/Overseas) on jobs.ac.uk. Discover more PhD opportunities and apply today!

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This is the time of year when I am inevitably reminded that pantone and pannetone are not fully distinct ideas in my tired excuse for a brain...

Conference Coordinator Vacancy - ICOM UK In preparation for our annual 2026 Conference in Oxford, ICOM UK are recruiting a Part-time Freelance Conference Coordinator. The Conference Coordinator will be responsible for planning the event and…

📢We're looking for a Part-time Freelance Conference Coordinator for our 2026 Conference in Oxford:
- Shape a major UK museums and heritage conference.
- Unite museum sector professionals.
- Manage logistics and event planning.
⏰ Apply by 5 pm, Monday 8 December 2025.

Many happy returns, Sarah!

We are VERY excited to announce the call for papers for our 2026 conference! 🎉🎉🎉 This year, we invite paper and poster proposals on the themes of power and/or performance!

All proposals to be sent to cms-conference-enquiries@bristol.ac.uk by 17:00 on Friday 9th January.

#medievalsky #skystorians

and 'Do you really want to say, as a history student, that that person was ahead of their time?'.

* possibly not b/c we're trusted to do it, actually;
** but not, on reflection, optimistic.

From next semester, academic staff will be trusted* to set-up their own submission links on our VLE. I am hopeful** that this will allow me to add bespoke checks to the submission instructions, like 'Are you sure you've checked that's what is meant by Renaissance humanism?'...

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

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

Nominations are open for the BSHS Pickstone Prize 2026, recognising the best scholarly English-language book in the history of science.
📆 Deadline: 31 Jan 2026.
Anyone may nominate (self-nominations welcome).
Submit via our online form on the BSHS website www.bshs.org.uk/the-bshs-pic...

Some historians do sometimes mention philosophy of history to history students... Though maybe the propensity to do that is higher amongst those who also sometimes teach history of philosophy...

Near the start of term, we held a sinking ship debate with our students. Newton was voted the worst person and thrown overboard.

Society of Dilettanti (2026) Annual scholarships up to £1,000 for UK university students studying classics to visit Mediterranean sites, supporting independent travel and aesthetic appreciation of classical ar

CALLING ALL UG STUDENTS. Awards (up to £1000) for students of classical studies at a UK University to visit classical sites and museums in Greece, Italy or the Eastern Mediterranean in the Easter or summer vacation.

Society of Dilletanti travel awards now accepting applications: shorturl.at/fxXMI

Yes -- it works well for me.

You know, just last week someone said that I was being 'too political' when I suggested that they might want to consider using something other than Grok, if they were going to use an AI at all...

John of Gaunt -- see archive.org/details/kale...

Representative of what? Of the 2024 electorate as a whole, or of the voters for each party?

Meanwhile, YouGov is biased against the Green Party, Plaid, and the SNP.

The comments on this post should be required reading for every Labour MP and policy wonk.

My internal rule used to be that I would stay in a shop only so long as someone didn't ask if I needed help in a way that I found intrusive and annoying.

I rarely bought anything at Gap.

Yeah, it is awful. But it used to be awful in an attention-capturing way...

You sound like my ex.

I have had a beard for over twenty years. Many people have never seen me without one. And yet, when people who I haven't met in a while fail to recognise me, they always go for the 'it's because you have a beard' gambit.

Every time a tech entrepreneur says “we don’t need to stop global warming because AI will” I want to slap them with a fish that says, “if a superhuman intelligence came into being and we asked it how to stop global warming, it would say ‘stop burning fossil fuels, you fools.’”

It's #DigitalFriday ! This is my routine appeal to #skystorians and all other academics prepping for teaching to share any software, hardware, online resources (primary, secondary, teaching tools, blogs) tips and tricks that they've found useful this week! #AcademicSky 🗃️(pls boost to relevant feeds)

A medieval/early-modern postdoc opportunity here -- please distribute across your networks.

And this is where I went to school...

I feel so out of touch with the language of research culture facilitation. I see people have moved on from sandpits and are now running fishbowls...

Oh dear. Kemi made Katie Lam out of line with party policy retrospectively...

My view: treatises on the sphere came to be seen as cosmographical texts in the sixteenth century, but there's little evidence to suggest that that category would have been applied to Sacrobosco's text when he wrote it. De sphaera was considered an astronomical text.