Steve Sturdy

Bluesky hive: Can anyone recommend any studies on eugenics and disability in France during the first half of the C20? Especially anything on neo-Lamarkianism and puericulture.

Depreciating the University of Edinburgh into the Ground — UCU Edinburgh There are four key takeaways from the University of Edinburgh’s 2024-25 annual report, which this post explores: The University continues to make a sizeable surplus. What financial pressures exi...

Great work by @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social on UoE's latest financial report. Depressing that a university doing pretty damn well financially (no deficit) compared to most of the sector choosing to destroy itself, and staff are all just sitting helplessly in the backseat of a slow motion car crash.

Marketed to/features slightly younger kids, but v engaging and of local (Alderley Edge) topographic interest: The Weirdstone of Brisingamen by Alan Garner.
Dark teenage: The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks.

One of those captcha things. This one says ‘select all images with bicycles. Click verify once there are none left’. There are 9 squares - 4 contain photos of bicycle seats, with the remaining 5 showing the beautiful head and face of a grey greyhound with a white stripe going from the top of their head to the tip of their nose.

Hats off to whoever did this (and the beautiful model).

Joy to the Wordle. (And a very happy holiday.)

Movie poster for The Graduate.

Ahem.

A real penguin would have realised there was something fishy about it.

Something for the weekend - I'll be smiling till Monday.

Huge congratulations to the wonderful Donna Haraway for winning the 2025 Erasmus Prize:
erasmusprijs.org/en/laureates...

Can all the folk who just got reminded that they’ve listened to a tonne of music on streaming this year, have a look at the music they heard and buy some on bandcamp today? 🫡🙏🏼

See also Scotland, where Scottish Labour is desperately trying show it's different from Westminster Labour, but being sidelined by WL on Scottish issues. The Holyrood elections in May will be interesting...

Scarcely a month after Labour lost a supposedly comfortable Welsh seat to Plaid too.

An exciting opportunity to do some important groundwork for a growing museological interest in video games at the National Museum of Scotland.

Domesticating models: On the contingency of Covid-19 modelling in UK media and policy - Lukas Engelmann, Catherine M Montgomery, Steve Sturdy, Cristina Moreno Lozano, 2023 Our article traces the representation of pandemic modelling in UK print media from the emergence of Covid-19 to the early stages of implementing the first UK-wi...

It wasn't just the policy makers who panicked. The SAGE modellers did too, when one of their less prominent members (who happened to have real-world experience of epidemics) pointed out the futility of modelling for herd immunity. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

And Robert Fripp is Norwegian for Robert Freakout.

There's likely a few spare kidneys among them too.

Poster for Apocalypse Now showing Willard emerging from the swamp.

There was a star danced, and under that was I born.

JOB: inaugurated Chair in the History
of Technology at the rank of advanced assistant, associate, or full professor at UC Irvine
#histtech

networks.h-net.org/jobs/69257/u...

I'm a professor giving a talk.

What on?

(Looking into camera): The use of biometrics for immigration control.

Are you trying to be funny sir? (I had to show him conference the programme.)

Ontario is still deeply infused with Scottish presbyterianism.

Professor of History - Madison, Wisconsin, United States Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...

We're hiring in history of science at UW Madison! TT Assistant Professorship with a focus on water. Joint appointment between the History and Integrated Liberal Studies depts, and part of a university-wide hiring cluster on earth/sustainability science. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/profess... #STS #HSMT

There are important questions to ask about how organised crime networks are able to exploit migrants. Instead, the BBC - and now the Home Secretary - choose to dump on those being exploited.

www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

Nelson's Victory crew included a Brazilian and a Russian, 2 Indians, 2 Swiss, 2 Portuguese, 3 Danes and 3 Norwegian sailors. There were 3 Germans, 4 Italians, 6 Swedes, 7 Dutchmen, 9 West Indians and an African, as well as 21 Americans, 63 Irish, 64 Scots, 441 English.... oh, and 3 French men, too.

Feeling super old as I remember that the entire reason the internet was invented was to create a distributed network that could resist single points of failure.

A great job, application due November 17th. Please spread and help me with the right hashtags

See also Kafka, In the Penal Colony.

Historians dismayed by ‘scandal’ of BBC cutting access to... Critics say new limit to trove of information sounds knell for independent research

For reasons, it would be v. helpful to have information from a broad range of academic and non-academic (incl. GLAM) users of the BBC Written Archives OTHER THAN historians, briefly on: 1) What you've used it for and 2) How the proposed changes would impact on your research.

Reposts welcomed.

Cartoon of a plesiosaur. Seen from the side, the top line of its shape is echoed in ripples up the page, reminiscent of the artwork for the Joy Division album Unknown Pleasure. Caption: Unknown Plesiosaurs

www.worldofmoose.com/collections/...