Postdoctoral Research Associate | King's College London
I'm hiring 2 postdocs on my Wellcome project "How Did Infectious Diseases Become Wild?: Plague, Yellow Fever, and Disease Ecology in the Brazilian Hinterland (1920-1975)"
Department of Global Health and Social Medicine
King's College
3 years 01/10/26- 30/09/29
Deadline: 01/02/26
shorturl.at/KZ6Vh
05.01.2026 17:22 — 👍 104 🔁 115 💬 1 📌 6
YouTube video by Panteralandia
Lobbyist Claims Monsanto's Roundup Is Safe To Drink, Freaks Out When Offered A Glass
This is worth watching. It reminds me of the claim that DDT was "so safe you could drink it." Yet another example of industry recycling refuted claims. @kaurov.org @michaelscherer.bsky.social @davidho.bsky.social
> www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovKw...
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24.12.2025 22:31 — 👍 124 🔁 57 💬 6 📌 3
New #Speak4Nature essay by 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐚𝐮𝐜𝐡, director of the Rachel Carson Center. Originally published in 2024, this Spanish-language article tells the story of Rachel Carson's ground-breaking 1962 book. Read it here for free: www.fuhem.es/wp-content/u...
#EnvHist #EnvHum #EnvJust #RachelCarson
16.12.2025 18:35 — 👍 13 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1
Quantifying the Environmental Footprint of Curating Datasets with LLMs
This study evaluates the environmental trade-offs of using large language models to curate cross-collection oral-history datasets in the Commoning Oral Histories of Knowledge (CORAL) project. Manual s...
Worried about the environmental impact of using #LLMs in ( #DH ) research, but not sure where to start?
I got you covered!
We reviewed the research & ran a #DigitalHumanities case study with carbon reporting, sharing all the tools, code & info:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno.... ( #DHd #GreeningDH)
15.12.2025 07:26 — 👍 33 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 0
El plazo para enviar vuestros abstracts a las jornadas CIMETEC termina el *20 de diciembre*. Animáos a participar! Serán unas jornadas estupendas para conocernos y fortalecer nuestra comunidad!
Más información aquí: acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:...
15.12.2025 10:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Me hace mucha ilusión anunciar que ya podéis enviar vuestras propuestas para las Jornadas CIMETEC.
Abiertas a estudiantes de máster, doctorado e investigadores posdoctorales (hasta 3 años post defensa de tesis).
✨ Animaos a participar ✨
06.11.2025 08:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Applications for 2026–2027 Beckman Center Fellowships Now Open
Researchers can apply by January 15 for various long- and short-term programs, including two-year curatorial fellowships.
Absolutely delighted to announce that applications are now open for our 26-27 postdoc, dissertation, distinguished, and short-term fellowships at @sciencehistory.org! 📚 🎉
Details and application info on our website; questions welcome here!
www.sciencehistory.org/about/news/a...
17.10.2025 15:43 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Collage of three images. The first reads: "Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. Career. We're hiring." The second image shows bookshelves in the institute's library (Photo by Vivienne Rischke, 2024). The third image shows the MPIWG Summer Publications Slam held in the institute's library (Photo by Marvin Müller (2024).
Three new funded #DoctoralPositions in the International Max Planck School "Knowledge and Its Resources: Historical Reciprocities!"
🗓️ Deadline: Jan 15, 2026
🔗 bit.ly/4peeKez
#HistSci #DH #STS #HistSTM #EnvHum #PolSci #SocSci
17.10.2025 10:55 — 👍 13 🔁 19 💬 0 📌 0
Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos Avanzados que analiza los impactos de las #crisis en #AméricaLatina con sede en 🇲🇽,🇦🇷,🇨🇷,🇪🇨 y 🇩🇪.
Mexican Historian & Philosopher of Biology • Postdoctoral Fellow at @theramseylab.bsky.social (@clpskuleuven.bsky.social) • Book Reviews Editor for @jgps.bsky.social • https://www.alejandrofabregastejeda.com • #PhilSci #HistSTM #philsky • Escribo y edito
Environmental historian, Trinity College Dublin. Author of "Burning Swamps: Peat and the Forgotten Margins of Russia's Fossil Economy" (CUP 2025) & "Als das Dorf noch Zukunft war: Agrarismus und Expertise zwischen Zarenreich und Sowjetunion" (Böhlau 2014).
Environmental Art Historian (she/her), University of Aberdeen | A CIRCUMPOLAR LANDSCAPE (2024) | Editor for NiCHE Canada | PI: From the Floe Edge & Teaching Arctic Environments ❄️ | isabellegapp.com
Environmental historian. Professor Univ of Stavanger. Co-director Greenhouse Center for #envhum. Extinction; animal history.
Books: The Medieval Pig (2024) & Ghosts Behind Glass (2025)
https://dolly.jorgensenweb.net/
The Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities is a research center at University of Stavanger, Norway.
- Webpage: https://www.uis.no/en/greenhouse
- Weekly book talks: https://newnatures.org/greenhouse
Tricolor
Historian of Medicine, Science, and Environment
PI of the Wellcome Trust project "How Did Infectious Diseases Become Wild? Plague, Yellow Fever, and Disease Ecology in the Brazilian Hinterland (1920-1975)", at King's College London
World-leading interdisciplinary research into the complexities of biodiversity gains and losses in the Anthropocene, funded by The Leverhulme Trust and based at the University of York. #LCAB
Historiadora del nuevo mundo de las cuatro partes | Con los quinotos en flor | 👉 https://sigloxxieditores.com.ar/libro/quienes-construyeron-el-rio-de-la-plata/
Project Coordinator & Lecturer, Rachel Carson Center
Ecological humanist interested in human–environment interaction and the role that cognition, ideas, and technology play therein. Philosophy, history, and whatever gets the job done.
ICEHO
ESEH
Lecturer in AI, Government & Policy at the OII (University of Oxford) | Author of "The Materiality of AI" (2027, Bristol University Press) | Associate Editor at Big Data & Society | Investigating algorithmic accountability and environmental impacts
Historian of early modern Science + Medicine + the Environment. Author of The Duke and the Stars (2013). Citizen of the World. Currently working on stones, water, and natural history. 2 kids and two rescue dogs. Against divide and rule. Opinions my own.
Museum curator, nature watcher, often intrigued. Likes three item lists.
Historian of science, environment, sound, and silence. Raising small kids through covid. Pie hobbyist. The Johnny Appleseed of googly-eyes.
historian of science & technology, itinerant potter
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Sericulture 養蚕 Amami Ōshima tsumugi 奄美大島紬
(animal) biomaterials (動物)生体材料・バイオマテリアル
Cocoon Cultures, under contract @Dukepress
RTAWD, Proteins & Fibers Working Groups @MPIWG-Berlin
Researcher and developer at the MPI for History of Science. Member of DH-Tech ADHO SIG. Developer of digilib image server. Active in the IIIF community […]
[bridged from https://fedihum.org/@robertcasties on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Exploring the intersection of science, technology, medicine & society through interdisciplinary research at UC Berkeley. Community for STS, the History of Science, Medicine and Technology, and Medical Humanities. https://cstms.berkeley.edu/
The Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) has pioneered interdisciplinary approaches to the history of health, welfare, medical science and practice https://sshm.org/
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