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Cover of book COVID Studies: A Reader. Blue with image of knitted globes in shape of a COVID molecule

Coming in July:
COVID Studies: A Reader.
Includes an article I co-authored with Hyeonbin Park on animals & care in a pandemic.
www.pennpress.org/978151282949...

Our Director of Communications, Jonatan Palmblad, has written an entry on environmental history for the Speak4Nature project's Dictionary on Ecological Justice. #envhist

Two weeks ago David Brydan's "Smart: A History of Intelligence" (Footnote) came out!

Don't miss the chance to hear the author, and @fayboundalberti.bsky.social and Federico Turkheimer's comments in our Book Launch Party next Tue 03 March.

Register via Eventbrite tinyurl.com/smart-brydan

📢In partnership with St Andrews University, we're looking for a 'Joseph Bell Writer in Residence at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh' to pursue a writing project drawing on our archives. Stipend of up to £15,000. Closing date 6 March 2026. www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Small Grants for Big Ideas launches today, providing seed funding for projects which promote solutions to global challenges.

Darwin students, alumni and Fellows are all encouraged to get involved.

Find out more on our website: www.darwin.cam.ac.uk/.../small-gr...

Discussions autour du livre « Cambridge Urban History of Europe » - Géographie-cités Le 12 mars, au Campus Condorcet, discussions organisées par Géographie-cités avec l'EHESS, Sciences Po, la Société française d’histoire urbaine.

🎤 Discussions autour du livre « Cambridge Urban History of Europe »
📍 Le 12 mars, au Campus Condorcet
⚙️ @geographie-cites.bsky.social @ehess.fr Sciences Po, SOCIETE FRANCAISE D'HISTOIRE URBAINE
geographie-cites.cnrs.fr/discussions-...

Very pleased to find these in the post this morning. Now available as a physical object!

Assessing Representativeness and Bias in Large Prospective Biobanks: Insights from Our Future Health Bio: Melinda Mills is a Professor of Demography and Population Health, Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science and Demographic Science Unit at NDPH and Nuffield College. Her work foc...

📢🎓 Upcoming talk by @melindacmills.bsky.social

"Assessing Representativeness and Bias in Large Prospective Biobanks: Insights from Our Future Health"

📆March 3, 13:00
📍Richard Doll Building

learn about the latest OFH data release covering >1.9 million participants.

talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/e2a...

IHR Internships IHR Internships support new researchers to develop their skills and broaden their experience within and beyond the historical research community.

We have just launched our IHR 2026 internship with the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH), focusing on environmental histories. For more information and to apply visit: buff.ly/Vzpz6G3 (application deadline 15 April 2026, 11:59 pm BST).

Promotional image for a scientific meeting organised by the Royal Society. The meeting is titled 'Love, actually and in theory', 5-6 March 2026. On the right of the image is a photograph of two older people dancing happily together.

Register for our upcoming scientific meeting in Edinburgh on 5-6 May as psychologists, neuroscientists, anthropologists, sociologists, and zoologists meet to discuss the evolution of love in human relationships: https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2026/05/love-actually-theory/

Making and unmaking AI metaphors and magic Twenty years ago, Noel and Amanda Sharkey, seminal contributors to early AI debates, wrote an article on artificial intelligence and natural magic which deserves to be read again today. They focus …

This week's post is about #AI, #metaphors and magic, and, inspired by @davemurrayrust.bsky.social and @mlucel.bsky.social, how to deal with the enchantment through design makingsciencepublic.com/2026/02/27/m...

Applications for Cambridge's MPhil in Digital Policy starting in October 2026, are open until 23 April.
The programme equips early career professionals with the latest knowledge & practical skills needed for leadership in AI & digital technology policy.
www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/study/mphil-...

Private money cannot replace public funding of science Who should pay for American science? In the current political climate, many are looking to the private sector to compensate for cuts in public funding. At the Harvard School of Public Health—particula...

My latest:

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Next column will address needed guardrails for private funding of science, esp. in light of #Epstein/ #Summers etc.

Cover of “The Technocratic International” (OUP) featuring a satellite image of the Suez Canal

My book “The Technocratic International” now has a cover — out this summer!

global.oup.com/academic/pro...

The Myth of the Perfect Writer’s Room For aspiring writers, the rooms of literary figures—Virginia Woolf, Maya Angelou, Joan Didion—are talismanic sites. But the quest to find the ideal creative space is often self-defeating, Joshua…

“The Writer’s Room elegantly describes the rooms kept by Maya Angelou, Charles Dickens, Joan Didion, John Keats, and other luminaries.” Joshua Rothman reflects on @kdclewin.bsky.social’s glimpse into famous writers’ creative spaces in @newyorker.com. Read more:

Science, Religion, and the Human Future: Conflict, Collusion, and Consequences Abstract. Science, Religion, and the Human Future: Conflict, Collusion and Consequences demonstrates that the myth of an inevitable conflict between scienc

New and important:

academic.oup.com/book/61786?l...

Rachel Laudan’s ‘dumpling map’ continues to be widely shared without attribution @rachellaudan.bsky.social. The whole book deserves your attention: Cuisine & Empire www.ucpress.edu/books/cuisin...

CFP: Mythical Archipelagos: Islands, Narratives, and Imaginaries Across Cultures and Media. University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria dfmti.ulpgc.es/app/pages/in...

Four images illustrating the CBC’s research themes: health and wellbeing, climate and sustainability, advancing behavioural science and its application, and organisational change.

⏰ 1 week left to apply for our Lecturer & Deputy Research Lead post.
Our interdisciplinary research tackles key societal challenges across four core themes, which you can read about on our website: www.ucl.ac.uk/behaviour-ch...
👉 Find out more & apply by 25 Feb: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Lecturer in Music History | King's College London

🚨WE'RE HIRING AGAIN!🚨 Music @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social

Permanent lectureship in historically European music (anywhere in the world) in the long 18C. Must have PhD in hand at application.

Deadline 12th March; job talks/interviews 1st & 2nd April for ASAP start.

www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/138148-...

A pleasure and duty!

Available #openaccess!

This agenda-setting volume highlights the contributions that artists and art historians can make to developments in critical medical humanities, alongside expanding the possibilities of art practice and art history.

🔓 https://bit.ly/4qnH8u1

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Demystifying Open Science Policy: A Funder-Focused Discussion. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Join the Center for Open Science (COS) for a deep dive into open science policymaking, featuring insights from research funders. We will be joined by representatives from two forward-thinking funding ...

How can research funders ask their grantees to share their work for others to reuse and build upon? Funders interested in exploring an open science policy should check out this @cos.io webinar: cos-io.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

The Origins of the New: Novelty and Innovation in the History of Life, Culture, and Technology by Douglas H. Erwin

A visionary look at how novel attributes arise and become transformative innovations in nature, culture, and technology.

The Origins of the New by Douglas H. Erwin is now available (14 April UK pub)!

Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

#Biology #Science #History #Evolution

When This Is Over When This Is Over - Reflections on an Unequal Pandemic; Academics, activists and artists remember and reflect on the COVID-19 pandemic in an inclusive commemorative overview which honours the experien...

Also published by Policy Press: "When this is Over: Reflections on an unequal pandemic." In this book, academics, activists and artists come together to remember, and to reflect on, the pandemic. How can things be different when this is over?
policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/trade/when-t...

Rachel Laudan’s ‘dumpling map’ continues to be widely shared without attribution @rachellaudan.bsky.social. The whole book deserves your attention: Cuisine & Empire www.ucpress.edu/books/cuisin...

Information slide: Science, Technology and the Politics of Knowledge: Critical insights from the Global South, 20 February 2026.

Information slide, speakers: Chidi Ugwu, University of Nigeria Mercedes Ejarque, National Institute of Agricultural Technology, Argentina Khetrimayum Monish, Monash University, Malaysia

Science, Technology and the Politics of Knowledge: Critical insights from the Global South

20 Feb, 1-6pm
CRASSH, 7 West Road, CB3 9DP
https://bit.ly/3OkFoEt

Scholars and community voices will discuss scientific and community-based knowledge production and circulation in the Global South

Evolution 2025 Registration Evolution 2025 - the joint conference of the SSE, ASN, and SSB

Registration is now open! Early-bird closes April 15. www.evolutionmeetings.org/registration...

📣 New report says a broader definition of “open research" is needed to include arts, humanities and social science practices.
Discover more about this landmark report by @morphss.bsky.social: https://loom.ly/7msI5RU

Junior Professor of Foundations of Artificial Intelligence

Open position: Junior Professor of Foundations of Artificial Intelligence

#science #career #jobs #job #jobsearch #professor #ai

www.lifescience.net/jobs/221394/...