Taylor C Sherman

Job! Thanks to a generous donation from anonymous donors & matching funding from UNSW, we are advertising for 2 x two-year postdocs in History. Open region, period and method.

external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/53...

Connection to Australia or NZ, via residency or education is required.

10 AI Prompts for Academics making those hard jobs a little easier ...

Here are your 10 -essential- AI prompts for academics ... make your life easy with help from @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/10-ai-prom...

Rewriting the Grand Plan of Clinical Neuroscience A Review of “Elusive Cures” by Nicole C. Rust

Rewriting the Grand Plan of Clinical Neuroscience

A Review of “Elusive Cures: Why Neuroscience Hasn’t Solved Brain Disorders—and How We Can Change That” by Nicole C. Rust ( @nicolecrust.bsky.social )

www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/rewriting-...

Fab to see another article available as part of our SI with @hisjournalha.bsky.social! Check out: Dina Freeman, ‘The Counter-Hegemonic Internationalism of Josué de Castro: A Radical Brazilian in the Mid-Twentieth Century World Government Movement’, doi.org/10.1111/1468...

Yes, that’s a human brain on a cafeteria tray. UCLA fair shows off science cuts under Trump UCLA's researchers go low-tech to plead their case to the public with poster boards and props. The Trump administration has suspended more than $500 million in research grants to the university.

We shared research about things affecting us all: addiction, autism, brain injury, dementia, mental illness. This work has been arbitrarily cut or delayed.
Thats a human brain on cafeteria tray. UCLA fair shows off science cuts. @sfn.org @standupforscience.bsky.social www.latimes.com/california/s...

ASEH Fellow Program Open Call : ASEH FELLOWS PROGRAM

American Society for Environmental History - @aseh.bsky.social - has opened the application process for the 2026 ASEH Fellows Program to provide funding for full-time faculty as they pursue initiatives in #envhist related to research, teaching, and community engagement.

aseh.org/Fellows-Prog...

Nehru's India: A History in Seven Myths is now out in paperback and it has an evocative new cover! To me, it brings to mind some of René Magritte's paintings from the 1950s and 60s. Thanks to Princeton University Press for the new design.

You might already be familiar with it, but Partha Chatterjee's A Princely Imposter comes to mind. More of a narrative than theory.

Imposters to the Russian throne were common, particularly in times of instability, so you might find something looking at Russian Imperial history.

Help! I'm looking for scholarship on "the impostor" in social history. Not spies, not those who used pseudonyms, but figures who embellished their records to gain social status, entry into certain circles, or credentials among socialists, revolutionaries, or anarchists.

Lost in Extraterrestrial Translation The University celebrates the success of area studies alumni, all the while erasing the programs that made those careers possible.

My op-ed in the @chicagomaroon.bsky.social on the University of Chicago’s appalling plans to gut the humanities and possibly eliminate the South Asian studies department chicagomaroon.com/48353/viewpo...

Postdoc Opportunity!

Aarhus University - 2 Postdoctoral Positions in Environmental Histories with a focus on Denmark/Mexico

networks.h-net.org/jobs/69029/a...

‘What if it’s just good enough, useful to many without being revolutionary?’

Great read on the current status of genAI and how it may further develop and affect our near future

Advancing Cures for Rare Diseases With the launch of the new center, we're one step closer to making personalized CRISPR cures a reality for children born with rare genetic diseases.

Something to celebrate! A push for on-demand gene-editing cures for children with severe genetic diseases, supported by @cziscience.bsky.social.

What warms my heart: family advocates inspired this, and individuals who had the power to do so made it happen.

chanzuckerberg.com/newsroom/cen...

For historian Jim Masselos (1940-2025), Mumbai was a city that was both his archive and his muse Masselos wrote about the world of the urban mohalla, crowds and popular culture, and the changing rhythms of everyday life in the city.

Prashant Kidambi writes about Jim Masselos, the historian who spent six decades detailing so many aspects of Bombay's history, who passed away this week: scroll.in/article/1083...

Super happy to see our latest work out in @plosbiology.org : N2 sleep during short naps increased the likelihood of insight in a decision task. The steepness of the spectral slope best predicted insight, beyond sleep stages alone. With dream team @maritpetzka.bsky.social @nicoschuck.bsky.social

It's out! Such a wonderful evening celebrating the launch of A TRICK OF THE MIND at Pushkin House. So lovely to see so many, and to be able to thank everybody who made my first book happen. Thank you!

Available in all good bookshops now!

www.penguin.co.uk/books/451515...

Inside Palestinian Anti-Nazi Political Art of the 1940s - Part 1 Rare political art from a 1940s Palestinian newspaper reveal a lost antifascist and anti-Nazi expressions during WWII. Part 1 of a series on Palestine’s antifascist tradition.

I wrote this piece exploring rare Palestinian anti-Nazi political art from the 1940s, highlighting a forgotten chapter of Palestine’s antifascist tradition during WWII.

open.substack.com/pub/jehadabu...

This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

Lecturer = assistant professor. And yes, I agree with Sonja....

from the other site: "The Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi, invites applications for a research capacity building workshop for SC/ST scholars to be held between 24 February and 8 March 2025. For Details, Click www.csds.in/research_wor...

southasiasky

It's been a busy week at #GrandTamasha. Two episodes out this week:

Populism in South Asia with/ @dnaseemullah.bsky.social & Pradeep Chhibber: grand-tamasha.simplecast.com/episodes/pop...

Best Books of 2024: grand-tamasha.simplecast.com/episodes/gra...

We will be back in mid-Jan with new episodes

Grief Makes Us Time Travelers (Gift Article) A neuroscientist studying memory, I used to believe time was linear. Then my mother had a stroke.

Honored that a piece I wrote made it to NYTimes. It’s about how my mom’s stroke changed my connection to time, science, and nature. What a privilege to honor my mom in Modern Love.
Below is a gift link. Let me know your thoughts 🙏🏼

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/s...

Postdoctoral position in critical caste studies at the university of Chicago- still accepting applications!

apply.interfolio.com/157701

Rapid modulation in music supports attention in listeners with attentional difficulties - Communications Biology Rapid temporal modulation added to music affects attentional performance and brain activity; parametric manipulation of this added modulation reveals rates that differentially affect individuals with ...

Music helps attentional focus. I hope so. I'm not going to stop listening to music when I work.
Rapid modulation in music supports attention in listeners with attentional difficulties
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
#neuroscience

glad that proofing day is over and this is sent off to the press

Call for papers for a workshop on "Travels of Expertise in Modern South Asia and Beyond" at South Asian Studies at Yale
on May 8-9, 2025. Proposals due Jan 6. Link Below

macmillan.yale.edu/southasia/wo...

Modern South Asia Workshop

Call for Papers for the Yale Modern South Asia Workshop, to be held June 7-8, 2025. Travel, accommodation, and meals will be provided to all selected candidates for the duration of the Workshop in South Asia.

macmillan.yale.edu/southasia/mo...

Conflict, statelessness and state succession: reflections from South Asia and Africa

Rather than a dramatic first post, just a heads up that on 5th December I’ll be speaking at a Refugee Law Initiative seminar in London, bringing some old and new research together:

rli.sas.ac.uk/events/confl...

The image is the cover of the book, Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic by Cambridge University Press.

✍️Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic
💭 An intellectual history exploring how free & enslaved Black people in the early Atlantic conceptualized & contested ideas about slavery & freedom
🕰️Out on Dec 5th '24
🤫 already available online: www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...

New Zealand South Asia Centre Annual Symposium Join us for the New Zealand South Asia Centre Annual Symposium - a virtual gathering celebrating the cultural diversity and academic excelle

I would like to welcome everyone to the annual symposium of the New Zealand South Asia Centre.

Don't miss this chance to connect with scholars working in #Aotearoa #NewZealand and expand your knowledge of #SouthAsia.

Come support our students

www.eventbrite.com.au/e/new-zealan...