Debates about the importance of the humanities versus the natural sciences in education are nothing new, writes @isakhammar.bsky.social â though the dominant view in early 19th-century Europe might come as a surprise to us today.
âď¸ One from the JHoK Blog archive (2021)
#CFP Female Networks of Knowledge: Natural History between Private and Public Spaces (Vienna, November 19-20, 2026), due May 30.
Conference explores how women shaped scientific knowledge via networks that crossed the domestic, social, and institutional from early modern to 19th c. #envhist #histstm
More on the closure of the Parks Canada Library @juliedabrusin.bsky.social #cdnhist #envhist www.journaldemontreal.com/2026/04/18/l...
đ are you interested in working with a team on understanding animal-human interactions and health? There is just under one week left to apply for these post doc roles.
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April 7, 1980 â C02 problem is most important issueâŚâanother decade will slip byâ warns Wally Broecker to Senator Tsongas
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Katharina Reiche hat Scholz & Friends (u.a. "Mit Gas gehtâsâ Greenwashing Kampagne fĂźr Gas-Lobby "Zukunft Gas") und FGS Global (KKR Tochter, PR fĂźr die COP Dubai bzw. Gastgeber VAE) fĂźr Kommunikation beauftragt.
Wir Steuerzahler finanzieren jetzt also das PR-Lobbying der fossilen Industrie mit! đľ
Text of a Call for Papers: The Horse in History: Animal Agency, Labour and Mobility, c. 1500-1900 Call for papers for a panel for the ESSHC 2027 in Lyon, FR. April 21-24 Bob Pierik (Vrije Universiteit Brussels) Humans and horses have shaped each other's histories during an intense symbiosis of millennia. From the Columbian Exchange to industrialization, during grand transformative moments in history as well as during more structural longue durĂŠe shifts, the horse was not just there, but was a crucial piece of the puzzle, a co-constitutive actor that supplemented human bodies with strength and mobility. McShane and Tarr famously characterized horses as âliving machines.â But horse history is not just a story of practical utility. Horses were deeply ingrained in social and cultural fabrics. Through thousands of years of Eurasian history, one's relation to horses shaped and signified one's social status. The social, economic and cultural status of the horse (or in fact of different types of horse) reveals a lot about a given historical society and is in fact an underappreciated lens to âreadâ historical societies through. Going even further, in recent decades, human-animal studies have challenged us to think beyond anthropocentric perspectives and accentuate animal agencies. This session is aimed at bringing together scholars with an interest in the horse as historical subject. It invites perspectives that consider human-horse symbiosis from a social, economic and/or cultural angle. Proposals are invited to consider themes such as: - The working horse, horsepower and horse labour. - Mobility, carriages, driving, riding. - Horses and social status/class - Animal agency, more-than-human perspectives. - Horse geography: Fields, stables, streets and roads - Comparing urban/rural horse experiences - History of veterinary medicine
Proposals for other topics that fit the broader theme of the history of the horse are also very welcome. I am open to changing accents of the session theme if that is constructive to the overall goal of bringing scholars interested in this broader theme together. I am myself working on Europe in the long eighteenth century, but promising abstracts from other periods and places are very welcome. Submit your abstract (max. 500 words) as soon as possible and before the 11th of April to bob.pierik@vub.be Image: Archives Municipales Lyon. Plan scĂŠnographique de Lyon, chevaux tractant des embarcations le long de la SaĂ´ne: gravure NB par Seon et Dubouchet (1872-1876, cote : 2SAT/6/32, pl. 24, dĂŠtail)
Hey #skystorians! In case you are working on the history of horses directly or indirectly, or know someone who is: Check out my CfP for a session for the @esshc.bsky.social in Lyon 2027.
Link to PDF:
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Two-panel chart. Top: total emissions (black trend line) and total sink (blue trend line) 1959â2024, with the widening orange gap between them representing COâ remaining in the atmosphere. The emission slope (+0.418) is roughly twice the sink slope (+0.230). Bottom: scatter of annual airborne fraction with a dashed upward linear trend and 95% confidence interval, with decade averages annotated: 0.35 (1960s), rising to 0.51 (2020s).
5/ In the 1960s, natural sinks absorbed ~two thirds of our emissions. Today they absorb barely half.
The sink is growing, but not keeping pace. So more of every tonne of fossil fuel burned now stays in the atmosphere, and that share is still rising.
#Skystorians: What are your favorite papers and books that discuss working with historical life writing?
Announcement text: "The Institute of History at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) is recruiting 2 postdoctoral researchers for the ERC Consolidator Grant Project âWILDHIST â Wild Rubber in the Industrial Age: A Global History of Productionâ, led by Dr. David Pretel. Postdoc 1. The history of rubber production in the Amazon rainforest. Postdoc 2. The history of rubber production in the Congo Basin. For details, see the project description and objectives below. Application deadline: 24 April 2026. Starting date: 1 September 2026 (flexible). Requirements: ⢠PhD in history, history of science, economic history or associated fields (Latin American studies, African studies, science and technology studies, anthropology, digital humanities), and a strong interest in the project. ⢠Good command of written and spoken English and, depending on research specialisation, Portuguese, Spanish and/or French. ⢠Be based in Madrid for the duration of the project. ⢠Expected to publish articles, book chapters, and/or a book manuscript / edited volume. ⢠Ability to collaborate within a team and to work independently. Benefits: ⢠A three-year contract (full-time). ⢠A gross salary of 43,827 EUR. ⢠A fully equipped workspace at the Institute of History. ⢠Funding for research-related purposes, participation in international conferences, and organisation of events. ⢠Mentorship in applying for tenure-track and tenure positions at CSIC."
Project description text: "The Project WILDHIST aims to offer a comprehensive, multi-sited and multi-scale global history of wild rubber production during the industrial age. It investigates the hypothesis that wild rubber industries in the tropical rainforests of Africa and Latin America were key sites in the broader dynamics of industrialisation and scientific research from the early 19th century to the Second World War, forming an integral part of the eraâs expanding global networks of knowledge exchange. The project moves beyond plantations to focus on wild production and smallholdersâ cultivation in rainforests, emphasizing production processes rather than consumption or trade, and placing much stronger emphasis on the study of exploration, extraction, processing, transportation, experimentation, and manufacturing than has been typical of historical research on rainforest commodities. WILDHIST combines an analysis of contrasting non-plantation histories of rubber production in the Amazon, Congo Basin and so-called Maya Forest with broader histories of transnational interaction. The project rethinks and rewrites the global history of wild rubber by systematically and critically exploring a rich array of written, visual and oral sources located throughout the world. Its trans-local, interdisciplinary, comparative, digital and visual methodology will provide a comprehensive historical account of how rubber was transformed into commodities and then final goods for local, regional or global markets. Beyond academia, WILDHIST contributes to discussions about bioprospecting, sustainability and labour in rainforests. To address the challenge of writing more inclusive histories of science, technology, and industrialisation, the project also considers collective memory as represented in museums, material culture, and industrial heritage.
Two 3-year postdoctoral research positions available at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in Madrid to study the history of wild rubber production in the Amazon rainforest and Congo basin; apply by April 24th, 2026: #HistSTM
Forgot to include the project & application website đ, it's here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/422012 #HistSTM
My graphic novel Mrs. Orwell, illustrated by the great @elrevel.bsky.social, is finally out in the world. The story has been a decade in the making, one of many projects, like Gaslit Nation, that came out of the making of Mr. Jones. Grateful to share it with you all
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Award - Intimate Energies: How Do Museum Collections Help Us See Unrecognised Actors in the History and Future of Energy?- University of Leeds - School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRB080/a... #skystorians đď¸
A woman wearing a red dress sits in a reading room consulting an open book laid out on a cushion and writes down notes with a pencil.
Weâre welcoming applicants for a fully funded history PhD project researching the first 100 years of the UK's Public Record Office, ahead of its bicentenary in 2038.
Find out more and apply here by Friday 8 May: phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/2475... (1/2)
A lucrative four-year full-time PhD position in the history of ideas with focus on psychiatry at Uppsala University is now open for applications. Deadline 30.04.2026. #histmed
www.hsozkult.de/opportunity/...
đCALL FOR PROPOSALS: The Journal for the History of Knowledge is now receiving proposals for the Special Issue 2028. The submission deadline is 1 May 2026. All information is available on our website: journalhistoryknowledge.org/announcement...
Vacancy: assistant managing editor đź
JHoK is looking for an assistant editor (0.1 fte) to start on 1 June 2026 for 6 months. Employment can be prolonged following positive evaluation and continued registration as a student. More information at: journalhistoryknowledge.org/announcement...
apparently Wikipedia has more rigorous standards than every university on the planet, university administrators, edtech enthusiasts, (certainly more than) AI bros, several prominent academic journals, and too many professors and teachers
The Jane Goodall Institute of Canada is deeply saddened by the passing of Dr. BirutĂŠ Galdikas â a renowned scientist and educator, an extraordinary conservationist, an Officer of the Order of Canada, and a tireless advocate for the orangutan.
Photos: Daniela and Catalin Mitrache / JGI / OFI
Please share: we are hiring @jhokjournal.bsky.social !! Great opportunity for a humanities masterâs student. Note: applicants must be based in NL⌠#histknow #histsci #studentjob
Great lecture from Jason W. Moore
"Slaveship Earth: Capitalismâs Secret 500-Year Climate History"
"The climate crisis didnât begin with factories, smokestacks, or fossil fuels. It began with slave ships."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lykF...
#envhist #climhist #anthropocene
I don't "feel" my work has been stolen.
I know it.
This kind of language use by the NYT is part of the problem.
Framing it as some kind of emotional woo woo instead of a clear copyright breach...
âMethane emissions cause 25% of global heating today.â
âIt is really maddening,â said Cara Horowitz at UCLAâŚif you upgraded the infrastructure a little bit, did good housekeeping, you could solve a really important part of the problem.â
www.theguardian.com/environment/...