Reminder that this is tonight! :)

Hey @durham.ac.uk people and Durham residents! If you like a pub quiz and a good cause, come along to the Station House’s medical mysteries pub quiz on April 19! all proceeds go to the Institute for Cancer Research!!

We talk about the recent disinformation crisis, but even the legacy information ecosystem has been falling for these bad faith campaigns for decades

Two postdoc positions on a really cool project with @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social!

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRD198/p...

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRD410/p...

Emily's page This is a cause that is deeply personal to me - in more ways than one. I was 27 years old when, just days after I graduated from my PhD program, a routine medical scan uncovered a large tumor in my ap

I’m trying to raise £2500 for the Institute for Cancer Research by race day (April 26), and I’m halfway there! Any amount really helps (even a coffee’s worth!) please consider donating! #londonmarathon #ICR #appendixcancer #melanoma
2026tcslondonmarathon.enthuse.com/pf/emily-web...

“Cancer research is one of the most important fundraising causes out there” – Emily’s London Marathon story “Cancer research is one of the most important fundraising causes out there” – Emily’s London Marathon story

So honored that the #ICR featured my London Marathon story this week! As many of you know, I was diagnosed with a (luckily early stage) rare cancer in 2021. A few years later, we lost my wonderful father-in-law to his cancer.
www.icr.ac.uk/research-and...

Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental History (297163) | University of Stavanger Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental History (297163), Employer: University of Stavanger, Deadline: Monday, April 20, 2026

We're hiring! 🌿 The Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities at the University of Stavanger invites applications for a 3-year postdoc in Environmental History. See thread for more details. #envhist #envhum

A group walking on a gravel path on a sunny and cold day

Three sheep grazing on a green field

The Interest in Cattle workshop had a morning outing to Beamish, where we had a lovely time walking around with the Keeper of Animals discussing their current herds (including their shorthorn cattle and Teeswater sheep)!

Coming your way next week! With @emilywebz.bsky.social @durham.ac.uk

@durhamimh.bsky.social

Interested in multispecies health? Why not come work with my excellent colleague Hannah Brown at Durham?

durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

Job opening at the Royal Observatory Greenwich (3 year fixed term): Heritage Operations Officer, responsible for coordinating public engagement and events for the Heritage Fund programme associated with the First Light redevelopment of the site #scicomm 📜

a cartoon of a boy reading a book in front of a stack of books . ALT: a cartoon of a boy reading a book in front of a stack of books .

I'm very excited to be taking on a new role as Book Reviews Editor for the British Journal for the History of Science alongside the wonderful @coreenanne.bsky.social! We receive a wide range of excellent books for review, so please do reach out if you are interested in writing a review for us!

Stages of article revision: “I have written trash, the reviewer has seen through me, how can I possibly make anything of this…oh wait, that wasn’t so hard, cool!”

One week left to enter @sshmedicine.bsky.social Roy Porter Essay Prize 2025/6
Deadline: Sunday 1 February
#histmed #histSTM #medhumanities

Be on the lookout here for reflections on our discussions, our website, and loads of cow content!

In practice this means I get to spend my weeks reading and talking about cattle infrastructures in Southern and Eastern Africa with a formidable group of historians, anthropologists, economists, and geographers, and I genuinely cannot think of a more fun way to spend a term.

This term, Durham’s IAS is sponsoring myself, Hannah Brown, Francis Massé, and Justin Willis to run a project, “Interest in Cattle: Value, Risk, and Security in Eastern and Southern Africa,” alongside a great group of fellows from the Universities of Zambia, Cape Town, and Reading.

Life in Durham improved substantially when I realized I could get a really solid cup of vegan chai at basically any time of day

Back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cows Brown Swiss in Austria has been discovered using tools in multiple ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees

COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS

When your D&D group is made up of a bunch of historians and history buffs, you naturally do age of sail homages @robertsuits.bsky.social

The world is pretty crappy right now, but at least I managed to make a perfect vegan grilled cheese for lunch today (no picture because that’s how fast I ate it).

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

If I remember right, Randy Packard’s History of Global Health is good for this as well!

Cattle Commodification in Global History - International Workshop Call for Papers - CATTLEFRONTIERS International Workshop, 3-5 June, Ghent University

#CFP: "Cattle Commodification in Global History: Capitalism, Science and Empire". International Workshop, Ghent University, 3-5 June 2026.

Deadline for abstracts: 23 January 2026

Info: cattlefrontiers.eu/workshop-cat...

#envhum #envhist #agriculture #environment #hstm #histsci

Hundreds Quarantined in South Carolina as Measles Outbreak Shows No Sign of Slowing The outbreak shows no signs of slowing, likely because of the affected area’s “lower-than-hoped-for vaccination coverage,” a state health official said.

More than 250 people who were exposed to measles, including dozens of unvaccinated school-aged children, are quarantining in South Carolina as the state wrestles to contain an outbreak that has sickened more than 110 people.

Had such an excellent couple of days thinking and speaking about Planetary Health with some brilliant people (and some of my academic role models!). Merci à tous! :)

Interested or know someone interested in doing a PhD on environmental histories/materialities of zoonotic or infectious animal disease as part of Transformative Humanities @durham.ac.uk Then please get in touch by Dec 8th! @pollenetwork.bsky.social @emilywebz.bsky.social @rgs-agwg.bsky.social

A Social History of Polio Vaccination in Australia, 1950s to 1970s

Amazing History of Medicine PhD scholarship opportunity at the University of Newcastle (Australia), part of Prof Cathy Coleborne's ARC grant on Australian experiences of polio: www.newcastle.edu.au/study/resear...

Emily's page This is a cause that is deeply personal to me - in more ways than one. I was 27 years old when, just days after I graduated from my PhD program, a routine medical scan uncovered a large tumor in my ap

Hi all - I’m running the London Marathon this year for the Institute for Cancer Research. Those who know me know that this is a deeply personal cause to me. Please consider donating if you can!
2026tcslondonmarathon.enthuse.com/pf/emily-web...

Absolutely! I’ll send you an email?