Manon Raffard

Women scientists promote their research online less often than men, study finds Many women scientists are staying silent online—and it could be costing them professionally. A new University of Michigan study finds that women are about 28% less likely than men to promote their sci...

Well sure, because they are also building a new program, mentoring 18 students, and carrying the service load.

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Carving out a space for intellectual autonomy in dangerous times: Theory and Social Inquiry launches at the Open Library of Humanities We're thrilled to announce the launch issue of Theory and Social Inquiry has been published at the Open Library of Humanities. As we reported in May 2024, Theory and Social …

The first issue of Theory & Social Inquiry is out via @openlibhums.bsky.social! Successor to Springer’s Theory & Society, the journal is now #DiamondOA / no APCs, no paywalls. Scholar-led & free from commercialisation, at a time when academic freedom needs defending: www.openlibhums.org/news/844/

History & Policy will shortly be unveiling the first publicly-searchable database of historians with policy-relevant expertise. If you are a professional historian who would like to engage more with policymakers, there's still time to submit a profile. Register your interest here: bit.ly/3YMcsXu

This is a rich and ambitious book—an intellectual and political history of inheritance law in France, from the Revolution to the early 20th century. Plouviez explores how legal debates intersect with philosophical ideas and the problem of wealth inequality.

Do you host a seminar series or have you seen a recent CFP? Are you looking for speakers working in medical humanities or health histories more broadly? I'm looking for opportunities to present my current postdoctoral research on the history of cancer. My research covers a wide range of themes and approaches, and I can present on any of the following topics: - male genito-urinary cancer cases in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and/or nineteenth centuries. - breastfeeding-related breast cancer cases in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and/or nineteenth centuries. - sensory experiences of cancer in the early modern period. - the 'contagious' nature of cancer in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. - 'cancer-doctors' and charlatanry in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. I'm particularly keen to broaden my experiences of speaking to a range of academic, non-academic, and interdisciplinary audiences. I'd like to network with health professionals as well as historians and medical humanities scholars. I can also sensitively tailor my work to suit wider audiences including museums, schools, and undergraduate and postgraduate courses. Please consider sharing my research with your colleagues, and if anyone knows of any opportunities to present, please send them my way!

Taken from my LinkedIn - I'm looking for opportunities to present my work to interdisciplinary, academic and non-academic audiences. I haven't seen my CFPs recently (probably due to my algorithm) and wondered whether anyone knew of any opportunities in the coming months. Please share! Thanks!

This is why academia is inaccessible - to the poor, the carers, the disabled etc. it's built on the exploited labour of incredibly dedicated people who are doing a massive amount of work. Love to you all, adjuncts and sessionals and over extended postdocs.

Embodied Experience, Emotions, & Creativity Interfaceing 2025 Call For Papers The 2025 INTERFACEing conference at Doğuş University focuses on the relationship between embodied experience, emotions, and creativity. Scholars, practitioners, and artists are invited to contribut…

#CFP: "Embodied Experience, Emotions, and Creativity" Conference. Org. Barış ÇOBAN & Charlène CLONTS, 17-19 Sept. 2025, at Doğuş University, Istanbul.

Deadline soon approaching: July 30, 2025!

More info here: champ.ly/Tm-TOxU1

#smellstudies #olfactorystudies #sensorystudies #embodiment

Neonicotinoid insecticides can pose a severe threat to grassland plant bug communities - Communications Earth & Environment Neonicotinoid insecticides can reduce nontarget plant bug abundance at field margins by up to 92%, as shown by a controlled field study; greenhouse and lab tests reveal high susceptibility to neonicot...

J'aurais aimé vous conseiller cet article récent publié dans Nature sur l'impact des néonicotinoïdes et notamment de l'acétamipride sur led populations d'insectes mais pour le moment je m'abstiens : si ça se trouve un des auteurs a déjà mangé du Nutella.

nothing like the geeky pleasure of your interlibrary loans coming in

We're delighted to announce that the CfP for our 2026 conference @stir.ac.uk, 'Sex in the Long C19', is now LIVE!

We are grateful to have received generous funding from @bavs-uk.bsky.social, allowing us to award travel bursaries to some delegates.

Abstracts due 22 September 2025. Share widely!

Dying Before Germ Theory As RFK questions germ theory, and measles ravages unvaccinated children, Americans need to know what is at risk. Americans died at higher rates and younger ages before the introduction of germ theo…

Today on @nursingclio.bsky.social, I share an account of falling ill and dying before germ theory and modern medicine. This #histmed is a peek into my current project, and an experience that I want everything thinking about health to know.

nursingclio.org/2025/07/21/d...

I should be at Cambridge, but I’m trapped in Gaza Home Office red tape strands dozens of Palestinian scholarship winners in war zone

Shaimaa has a scholarship to do a PhD on Palestinian literature with me at @uoe-llc.bsky.social, but she's stuck in Gaza because the foreign office won't help. Please share. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

Drove by an establishment in France called ‘Pain and Snacking’, which also happens to be my writing process.

*me and my book project*

Une pétition pour demander l’abrogation de la loi Duplomb bat des records sur le site de l’Assemblée nationale La pétition a déjà recueilli plus de 200 000 signatures en l’espace de huit jours. La conférence des présidents de l’Assemblée nationale peut décider d’organiser un débat en séance publique si elle en recueille au moins 500 000.

Il ne manque donc plus que 300 000 signatures.

Call for Applications: BARS Communications Fellow 2025-26

BARS would like to invite applications for a Communications Fellow to assist with the BARS Blog and social media for a period of one year tenable from August 2025.

Details: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6062

WeTransfer TOS says they can use all your uploaded content for genAI

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

I have a Kindle and I can put PDFs in it (drafts, full books, articles), though they're not as comfortable to read as EPUBs. I can annotate and add books/files from desktop, which is useful whenever I decide to download all the things.
But, again, J*ff Bez*s 🙄

Link to register: site.pheedloop.com/event/asle20...

@asle-us.bsky.social @asleuki.bsky.social #smellstudies #envhum #envhist @smellstudiesgroup.bsky.social

Next Friday, 7:30-9 PM (CEST), I'll be hosting an online panel titled 'Air, Smell and Socio-Environmental Inequality' for #ASLE2025!
I'm suuuper pleased with the team assembled: A. Kettler, J. Sriram and N. Sriram-Uzundal, @allylouks.bsky.social and C. Grapa! Plz come, we smell people r a deligtht!

The archives' coffee was extra pre-sweetened though, I was not prepared

First visit in the local archives ("Département de l'Yonne") this morning to look at a 1936 legal case against tannery owners who polluted a river. Found the detailed minutes for the whole case! Can't wait to find the expert report and civil testimonies

Yeah, see, i should have started there really, barely crossed my mind 😅

How many conferences is too many conferences in one year if you're doing research full-time? Keep in mind I'm not asking for a friend and I have no self-control

Thank youu :)
I'll probably have some very good news to share job-wise soon, which means more research and more pubs on the subject!

[ #VeilleESR #VeilleEN ] Taille des classes et inégalités territoriales : quelle stratégie face à la baisse démographique?
Etude @ippofficial.bsky.social

Traitement économique d'une question politique : l'orientation des moyens pour l'éducation face à la baisse du nombre d'élèves puis d'étudiants.

See, I have the opposite problem: I wanted to write about smells and I ended up writing about housing, urban planning and ventilation. Given how I've heard English people describe public urination as a "French thing", I'm not sure what to make of this anymore

a very tired and disgruntled looking man holding a large coffee with the caption “me at the job I begged god for”

all tenure-track assistant professors in the humanities:

People lacking good public transport more likely to feel lonely, UK study finds Research finds correlation between car dependancy and loneliness, particularly in rural towns

Interesting new study from @smfthinktank.bsky.social finds a correlation between car dependency & loneliness, particularly in rural towns.

This might be due to there being “fewer ways to reach others” and space given to cars creating “barriers in what might have been walkable neighbourhoods.”

Journal issue: "Taste and Democracy in Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Thought", L'Esprit Créateur, Volume 65, Number 1, Spring 2025 (Guest Editors: P. Bray and A. Aloisi).

OA access here: champ.ly/2g5XQxoD

#smellstudies #olfaction #sensorystudies #chemicalsenses #academia #tastestudies