Jules Skotnes-Brown

This promises to be fascinating reading!

Congratulations, so great to see this work is published, looking forward to reading!

Chelsea Davis at Missouri State. Don't think she is on Bluesky though. history.missouristate.edu/profile-disp...

One week left to apply for this tenured #envhist job!

Research Fellow at The University of Edinburgh Recruiting now: Research Fellow on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board

Great 3-year STS post-doc at Edinburgh, closes 18 August
#sts

Two very interesting papers from 2024 on birds and technology: 'Bird feeding devices exclude unwelcome visitors' by Heta Lähdesmäki, Tuomas Aivelo, and Panu Savolainen: doi.org/10.1177/2514...
And
'Bird Boxes and Sparrow Traps' by @mattholmes.bsky.social : muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Seed dispersal disruption limits tropical forest regrowth | PNAS Identifying linkages between biodiversity loss and climate change is required for understanding the scope of these interconnected challenges and de...

"This highlights a critical but overlooked link between biodiversity loss and climate change, revealing how unmitigated animal declines undermine the ability of forest carbon to recover after disturbance and emphasizing the need to incorporate animal biodiversity into climate mitigation strategies"

Major carbon sink may have vanished for a second year in a row Record heat in 2024 caused ecosystems on land to emit nearly as much carbon dioxide as they took out of the atmosphere

Major carbon sink may have vanished for 2nd year in a row.

Record heat in 2024 caused ecosystems on land to emit nearly as much CO2 as they took out of the atmosphere.

Every news outet should be reporting on this, not just the New Scientist. www.newscientist.com/article/2489...

Congratulations Marianna, looks great!

All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.

Species Extinction, Infrastructure Development and Epidemics: The Changing Ecology of African Horsesickness in the Cape Colony, c.1653–1900 The virus that causes African horsesickness does not affect any indigenous species, but produces high mortality among horses, a species introduced by the Dutch East India Company in 1653. While the...

Interesting new environmental history / historical ecology of African horsesickness in JSAS: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

So the @researchireland.ie Global Talent Scheme is now open for "exceptional mid-career and established researchers," currently employed outside Ireland, who want to move their research here. All disciplines (I think). Individual awards up to €3.25m (!) www.researchireland.ie/funding/glob...

Jon Day · The Beautiful Ones: The Rat in the Head Those who keep them as pets know them to be clean, gregarious creatures with a highly developed social life, but for...

Review of the two recent books on Dr Calhoun's rat experiments @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for.

Stop using WeTransfer.

Job Opening at the Chair of Philosophy and History of Science and Technology at TUM! Research Fellow for 3 years (renewable). Preferably philosopher w interest in plant, crop & agricultural research (& their history and social studies)
All details: www.sts.sot.tum.de/en/sts/arbei... #philsci #sts

Congratulations to @hopkinspress.bsky.social author @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social who has won the Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org First Book Prize!

You can buy the book anywhere in Europe from your local bookstore or @blackwells.bsky.social.

royalhistsoc.org/prizes/royal...

In "Water, Race and Power," Kristin Brig-Ortiz analyzes the intersections among these dynamics in the context of British water management in South Africa. liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/abs/10.3...

Nice to see Segregated Species on display at #BSHS2025

Thanks so much, I hope you enjoy it 😊

Historians: this is a worrying development. Historians use the Hansard to analyze what was said in parliamentary discussions. If the Hansard is subject to editing out things that are politically unacceptable at the time, we (and future historians) have a problem.

SOAS is currently advertising a one-year fixed-term position in the History of the Middle East for 2025-2026. If this is for you, apply by 27 July 2025. For more info, go to
vacancies.soas.ac.uk/job/727934

"Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction" by Sadiah Qureshi Join us for a fantastic lecture by Prof Sadiah Qureshi with an introduction by Helen MacDonald at the Babbage Lecture Theatre in Cambridge!

TOMORROW in Cambridge!
Don’t miss Sadiah Qureshi live, sharing insight on memory, knowledge & empire from her new book "Vanished".

With an introduction by Helen Macdonald

📍 David Attenborough Building | 6–10pm
🎟 Free: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1395979053...

#PublicLecture #histSTEM #BSHS2025

Thanks so much Chris 😊

Thanks! Great to meet you too and to hear about your research. And all the best for your move (congratulations about that too!)

Gaza aid contractor tells BBC he saw colleagues fire on hungry Palestinians The Israel- and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has strongly denied the allegation.

The hallmarks of settler colonial genocides: offering relief as an opportunity to kill; complete dehumanisation (“zombie hordes”) and an exultation at the infliction of pain & suffering.

Gaza aid contractor tells BBC he saw colleagues fire on hungry Palestinians www.bbc.com/news/article...

A big thank you to the judges for such kind words about my book!

Cover for 'Segregated Species: Pests, Knowledge, and Boundaries in South Africa, 1910–1948', by Jules Skotnes-Brown (Johns Hopkins University Press 2024)

Winner of the RHS First Book Prize (2025):

'Segregated Species: Pests, Knowledge, and Boundaries in South Africa, 1910–1948', by Jules Skotnes-Brown (Johns Hopkins University Press 2024)

bit.ly/4kpuKXB 1/2 #Skystorians

Thank you so much! 😊

Thank you, and likewise 😊

Thank you Christos 😊