Desmond Morris passed away yesterday. He was one of the last living links to classical ethology. While most famous for his book "The Naked Ape" (I wasn't a fan), his work in bird behavior was foundational for both ethology and the behavioral sciences broadly. www.bbc.com/news/article...
More Cambridge jobs! Research Assistant/Associate in Sociology: Data Collection and Analysis (Part Time, Fixed Term) @camsociology.bsky.social
Further info: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRD489/r...
Translating Conflict and Refuge: Language, displacement, and the politics of representation.
Translating Conflict and Refuge: Language, displacement, and the politics of representation
Translators, interpreters, scholars, refugees, and NGO representatives will explore the complex realities of translating conflict and refuge
24 April 2026
West Hub, CB3 0US
https://bit.ly/4bOBThO
Charles Darwin died OTD in 1882.
Stories of a deathbed renunciation of his doubts about Christianity and recantation of his theory circulated widely (mostly in the US, predictably). They were, however, lies.
He was buried in Westminster Abbey, next to John Herschel.
🧪🌱🐋 #HistSTM #Evobio #PhilSci
On advance access: "Colonial world-making and global knowledges at the early modern Cape of Good Hope"
by @gianamar97.bsky.social (@uvahumanities.bsky.social)
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/past...
The Unfolding World: Causal & physical cognition in humans and other animals.
The Unfolding World: Causal & physical cognition in humans and other animals 🐦⬛
This workshop brings together experts from animal cognition, developmental psychology, computational modelling, and philosophy to investigate
24-25 April 2026
Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP
https://bit.ly/4by8cCM
Veronica the cow, with a broomstick she uses as a back scratcher.
How does a cow learn to use a broom as a tool? 🐂 🧹
Join experts to explore some scientific puzzles at our event 'Thinking Through Things: How human and animal minds understand the physical world'
24 April, 3.30-5pm
Selwyn College, CB3 9BN
https://bit.ly/4bMLeqj
Abandoned buses in a desert.
How do we think, create, and act when the trajectories of life and knowledge are disrupted by war, exile, precarity, or the crises of the contemporary world?
Rethinking Exile: On fractured lives and the capacity of beginning anew
12 May 2026, 2-6pm
CRASSH, CB3 9DP
https://bit.ly/48qHauS
The Unfolding World: Causal & physical cognition in humans and other animals.
The Unfolding World: Causal & physical cognition in humans and other animals 🐦⬛
This workshop brings together experts from animal cognition, developmental psychology, computational modelling, and philosophy to investigate
24-25 April 2026
Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP
https://bit.ly/4by8cCM
Translating Conflict and Refuge: Language, displacement, and the politics of representation.
Translating Conflict and Refuge: Language, displacement, and the politics of representation
Translators, interpreters, scholars, refugees, and NGO representatives will explore the complex realities of translating conflict and refuge
24 April 2026
West Hub, CB3 0US
https://bit.ly/4bOBThO
📢 JOB OPENINGS at CSIC @cchscsic.bsky.social (Madrid)!
As part of my ERC project WILDHIST, the Institute of History is hiring two 3-year postdoctoral researchers in the global history of rubber.
Application deadline: 24 April 2026.
More info 👉 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/422012
@erc.europa.eu
Just discovered the wonderful covers of 'Genes to Cells', the journal of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan @mbsj-official.bsky.social – absolutely beautiful!
here some examples inspired by mitosis, CRISPR, the DNA helix, and plant pigments
Join us on Friday, May 1 for Sparks After Dark 2026, an electrifying late-night celebration where science, nightlife, and purpose collide!
Get tickets: https://bit.ly/3NG3j1p
How can universities shape the future of Europe?
From 7–9 May, the European University Institute invites you to explore this question as it celebrates its 50th anniversary in Florence.
Discover the rich programme and join the conversation: https://loom.ly/WGdu_Q4
#EUI50
For #CoffeeWithACodex on April 9 (12pm Noon ET, on Zoom), @leoba.bsky.social will bring out LJS 478, a collection of astronomical treatises, with a particular focus on the astrolabe. The copy was completed in A.H. Jumādá al-Ākhirah 625 (May 1228). #medievalsky
Register here: https://bit.ly/4d0PPYh
(Parution) Misère de la psychiatrie histoiresante.blogspot.com/2026/04/mise... #histpsych #philo
Ancient Egyptian scribes may have paid a price for their work: skeletal remains show signs of joint degeneration linked to prolonged sitting and repetitive writing tasks, reports Scientific Reports: spklr.io/63320EyxQO
#AncientEgyptBluesky #Skystorians🏺
@natureportfolio.nature.com
🗣️"More than one million scholarly articles were cited by policymakers between 2019 and 2024"
#EvidenceForPolicy #EvidenceBasedPolicy
Coming soon!
Duncan Bell & Sarah Cole (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of H. G. Wells
The Table of Contents can be seen here:
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
It's me in the Financial Times, detailing the deep and pernicious influence of one-size-fits-all management consultancy in our universities... Take a look! 👇
www.ft.com/content/5032...
The Unfolding World: Causal & physical cognition in humans and other animals.
The Unfolding World: Causal & physical cognition in humans and other animals 🐦⬛
This workshop brings together experts from animal cognition, developmental psychology, computational modelling, and philosophy to investigate
24-25 April 2026
Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP
https://bit.ly/4by8cCM
Thinking Through Things: How human and animal minds understand the physical world.
How does a cow learn to use a broom as a tool? 🐂 🧹
Join experts to explore some scientific puzzles at our event 'Thinking Through Things: How human and animal minds understand the physical world'
24 April, 3.30-5pm
Selwyn College, CB3 9BN
https://bit.ly/4bMLeqj
Translation networks in the decolonising world, 1950s–1970s.
📣 Open for registration
Translation networks in the decolonising world, 1950s–1970s
24-25 April
King's College, CB2 1ST
Join us in exploring how cultural, linguistic and political translation served as a bridge for ideas, theories, and strategies for anticolonial struggles
https://bit.ly/47lMfV1
Join us for the launch of the Cambridge branch of I-CIVIC, a new network of researchers, educators, policy makers and civic organisations, rethinking how we teach, learn and exercise democracy in Europe. ✨
Monday 27 April, 5 - 7pm
Book your place: https://bit.ly/47v4NlN
Translating Conflict and Refuge: Language, displacement, and the politics of representation.
Translating Conflict and Refuge: Language, displacement, and the politics of representation
Translators, interpreters, scholars, refugees, and NGO representatives will explore the complex realities of translating conflict and refuge
24 April 2026
West Hub, CB3 0US
https://bit.ly/4bOBThO
This looks like a pretty cool and rare vacancy: the ICRC is looking for a historian #HistIR careers.icrc.org/job/Geneva-%...
Til debatten om røtter/føtter, globalist/nasjonalist: Professor Inanna Hamati-Ataya ved Groningen-universitetet skriver langt om globaliseringens lange historie. Ligger åpen og verdt å lese i sin helhet. aeon.co/essays/there...
Call for art.
📣 Call for art
Artists and creatives - submit your work to CRASSH's 25th anniversary exhibition!
The theme is 'Knowledge in a Fractured World' and can be interpreted broadly, from personal to global
Deadline 31 July 2026
Find out more at bit.ly/4svggKv
