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If you are interested in macroevolution, macroecology, fossil record, stratigraphy and stuff, please consider applying for the 2026 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships (MSCA PF) grant this year in my lab.
🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/hosting...
Glad that UCS is doing this.
Working on hard topics -- like climate change, vaccines, etc. -- in the public eye is challenging.
Stay safe, folks. But also stay brave. And stay working!
Fully funded collaborative RHUL-Kew PhD:
www.royalholloway.ac.uk/media/j5lbzp...
Six days left to apply for this very cool #envhist postdoc with us here @greenhouseuis.net - it's a great opportunity to join a vibrant and active research environment with much support for career development and a good community.
Fully-funded AHRC PhD scholarship at Swansea University in conjunction with Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales, examining the imperial and colonial associations of their natural sciences collections.
Please share widely, and get in touch if you want to know more. Closing date 22 May.
Fully-funded AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership project:
'Cold War Socialism, Non-Alignment and Anti-Colonialism in the Yugoslav Press, 1961-1979' - British Library & University of Exeter
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
Deadline for student applications: 5 May (noon)
Do you or one of your colleagues need an index created for a book in the humanities?
I make beautiful indexes (yes, such a thing does exist!)
I have space to take on 1-2 additional projects in April/May. Get in touch!
I haven't found it yet. Please let me know if you wrote it. "On the medicalization of hunger" or something like that.
Delighted to share that Arabic, Persian, and Turkic Poetics: Towards a Post-Eurocentric Literary Theory (pub’d by @oxunipress.bsky.social & @britishacademy.bsky.social) has been shortlisted for the European Society of Comparative Literature’s Excellence Award
escl-selc.eu/2026/04/05/e...
The good news. The vast majority of the people on BlueSky are decent, reasonable, intelligent, educated, cultured, tolerant, and peace-loving. The bad news is that we are about 0.025% of the world's population.
We are looking to appoint an Assistant Professor in Physical Geography who who has expertise in the field of Earth Observation. Application deadline 10th May, with a possible start date of 1st October. Further details can be found here:
durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
PhD wise I’m going to link the stat about people regretting following health info from influencers into my presentation this afternoon. My PhD work looks at how people experience fitness and exercise info on social media through the study of runners. Excited to share my findings #lilac26
Learning from the Luddites “A still-underappreciated truism of our technological moment is that there is great solidarity to be found in refusing a technology—AI, mostly—that is used to exploit or replace a worker” www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-ai...
laleh khalili, lecture april 9 @yale
9 Aprill: LALEH KHALILI, "The Politics of Life and Death in Extractive Capitalism"
register here: bit.ly/sprcyale-apr9
'racisms & colonialisms in the longue durée,' a collaboration between ucl sarah parker remond centre and yale center for race, indigneity & transnational migration
Fully funded PhD at Université Côte d’Azur on ion channels and cellular excitability, using electrophysiology, AI and disease models in health research. Closing date: 15th April
www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/ion-chan...
Today is the LAST CHANCE to sign up to the first be notified when super early bird prices go on sale!
SAVE THE DATE: science writer and broadcaster Angela Saini will deliver our Public Lecture on 2 September 2026 at the SOAS Gallery Lecture Theatre, London.
Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.
An excellent analysis of the war on Black studies that also includes a deeply perceptive critique of the neoliberal logic of valuing disciplines based on # of undergrad majors: www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
Senior Associate Director Conference Services role at Alzheimer Association managing AAIC meetings housing logistics and major global dementia research events.
www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/senior-a...
Very cool postdoctoral opportunity on an ERC project looking at 'Art and Liberation Movements during 20th Century Decolonization'. werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for
Philosophers! I am now eligible to act as a supervisor for Marie Curie fellowships at the University of Vienna. If you’re interested in applying for one, you can find the details here: careers.univie.ac.at/en/research-...
So Philip Glass just joined TikTok. He only has like 4 posts and they’re simply him in what I assume is his living room playing the piano. First comment on one I saw was “your piano is too close to the fireplace, you’ll dry it out” and if that’s not the internet in a nutshell I don’t know what is.
Job opportunity! 🚨
Curator or Associate Curator of Maps and Geography @bplmaps.bsky.social
#maps #jobadvert #geography
Many medievalists and early modernists have fond memories of the Keele Palaeography Summer School - it lives on! Now in the convenient location of central Birmingham, organised with help from @ies-sas.bsky.social and @ihr.bsky.social Booking open now!
palaeography.uk/study/short-...
JOB
Assistant Professor of Political Theory
University of Cambridge
@thecambridgeschool.bsky.social
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/univers...
Very pleased to be speaking at his Royal Society conference 'Science as a Global Public Good, March 16th-17th. Hybrid event, organised by @michelamassimi.bsky.social and Geoffrey Boulton.
I'll be talking on "What could a human right to participate in science be?"
royalsociety.org/science-even...