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Workshop at University of Glasgow on 15th May 2025, titled Mapping the Histories and Geographies of Water Knowledge. Info here: www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/... To register to attend please complete one of these forms: forms.office.com/e/ZDzNVeedvb (in person) Or forms.office.com/e/vmJrvmgGSR (online)

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My recollection of Nan Shepherd is rather faint but I wrote about the quiet late life (and literary afterlife) of my mother’s friend and teacher, prompted by the new correspondence edited by @kerriandrewsuk.bsky.social

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The Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society will take place in Birmingham, 26-29th August 2025. If you’re interested in ‘Library Encounters’, whether it be campaigning, collaborating or creating, then do take a look at our session Call for Papers. @hesterparr.bsky.social

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Great to see the full "History of Science and the 'Big Picture'" issue of BJHS Themes out. What a cover, too! Had fun working with @feyerabender.bsky.social on our piece on crises and sciences (doi.org/10.1017/bjt....) Read the full issue here: cambridge.org/core/journal... @bshsnews.bsky.social

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For the opportunity to present at this celebration and have Professors Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer respond to their work in conversation with Professor John Tresch, early career scholars are invited to send abstracts of max. 200 words. For more details go to: www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/news/202...

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My article on urban medieval pigs that appeared in BBC History magazine is available to hear as a podcast online! 🏰 + 🐷 open.spotify.com/episode/7vIq...

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Two wonderful days of discussing weather(ing), affect and material cultures. Lots to think and do in the coming days. #weatheringworkshop @greenhouseuis.net @finnarne.me @rhiggitt.bsky.social @melinabuns.bsky.social #envhum #envhist

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Two permanent human geography posts at Durham University ( a focus on nature, climate change and just futures) durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

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Remember to register for next week's hybrid seminar: Maïa Pal (Oxford Brookes University) on "The law of infrastructure: jurisdictional accumulation and neo-imperialism at British and French undersea cable landing sites". Details here: www.history.ac.uk/events/law-i... 🗃️

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Thank you to @bshsnews.bsky.social for featuring an extract from my new book, The Observatory Experiment: Meteorology in Britain and its Empire, in their Viewpoint magazine.

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oooooooo! Nick Popper's book on #earlymodern archives coming up! 🗃️ press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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My new book—Contesting Earth's History in Transatlantic Literary Culture, 1860–1935: Believers and Visionaries on the Borderlines of Geology and Palaeontology—will be out in March 2025 with Oxford UP. Pithy title, I know. Might as well announce it, as you can already preorder the book on Blackwell's

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Looking for a geospatial archaeologist or geographer technical specialist - deadline 25 Nov!

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My monograph was published a few weeks ago! Still can’t believe it’s actually finished and out in the world. #academicsky I would be very grateful if you could ask your university libraries to stock it. www.exeterpress.co.uk/products/alt....

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My brief review of @wilkohardenberg.bsky.social’s Sea Level in the TLS. Well most of it anyway! www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-feat...

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We’re honored to announce the forthcoming publication of A TERRITORY IN CONFLICT: ERAS OF DEVELOPMENT AND URBAN ARCHITECTURE IN GAZA by Fatina Abreek-Zubiedat, a ground-breaking study of urban and architectural history in Gaza. On sale 3/18/25

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We’re thrilled to announce the forthcoming publication of Reading the World: British Practices of Natural History, 1760-1820 by @edwinrose.bsky.social • Reading the World joins our Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century series on 3/18/25.

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Come work with us!

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Very happy to share a report of the conference on 1970s climate discourse I recently put together in Manchester with Elliot Honeybun-Arnolda and @ruthamorgan.bsky.social. Thanks to ICHM, @bshsnews.bsky.social and Manchester's CHSTM for the support. Follow-up event at ANU Nov 6–7 🗃️

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Rather pleased with my silver coin commemorating 40 years of China's polar scientific expeditions. Thanks to my PhD student, Xin Yang!

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Delighted to see The Observatory Experiment finally out in the real world. Available to buy from Cambridge University Press on 10 October. In the meantime, do join the book launch on 9 October! Register here: forms.office.com/e/GtfdghVJen

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We are organising a session on the historical geographies of science at the ICHG 2025 conference in Shanghai and looking for a fifth contributor. Deadline is very tight - 30 September! If you are interested please get in touch.

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It's publication day! Metropolitan Science: London Sites & Cultures of Knowledge & Practice, c.1600-1800 by me, Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin & Noah Moxham Decent discount online now (or your library may subscribe to Bloomsbury Publishing) www.bloomsbury.com/uk/metropoli... #histSTM 🗃️📜 #earlymod

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If you're in Glasgow and have nothing better to do / need to shelter from the autumn rain, you're very welcome to come to my book launch and inaugural lecture, 4-5pm on 9th October. Or join the livestream! Scan the QR code to register. Would be lovely to see you there.

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#Geosky

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If you're at the RGS-IBG conference this Friday, 30 August (9am in Royal School of Mines, just off Exhibition Rd), do please consider coming to our session, Mapping the Historical Geographies of Water Infrastructures, co-organised with Lawrence Dritsas.

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New #OA paper in Transactions: 'Geographies of slavery in the Les Malouines/Las Malvinas/Falklands Islands: The Maroon connection' by Ana Laura Zavala Guillen This paper investigates the historical geographies of slavery and indigenous dispossession in Argentina. doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky

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I'm thrilled to share with #skytorians that my book #LandscapingPatagonia is coming out with @uncpress.bsky.social in early 2025. It tells the story of how people make sense of the 'nation' through their experiences & ideas of geographical space. 🗃️🌿 #envhum #booksky #academicsky

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Interested in the history of climate and the past few decades of research and discourse? Don't miss the hybrid one-day workshop "Workshop: Climate & the Beginning of the Crisis Decades" co-sponsored by the BSHS! Check out the programme and register here: blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2024/0...

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"The whole world was spread out before me (or at least, the 70% of it covered by oceans). I had a blank canvas to fill...mapping the world’s vast hidden seafloor. It was a once-in-a-lifetime—a once-in-the-history-of-the-world—opportunity for anyone, but especially for a woman in the 1940s"🥳 #histsci

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