Adam Mosley
historian: early modern science & scholarship | book history | collecting & museums | networks | dh-curious |🏳️🌈 |🇪🇺| ~he/him~
+ speculative fiction | games | other people's cats & dogs | octopodes | bears | personal views
- This is the time of year when I am inevitably reminded that pantone and pannetone are not fully distinct ideas in my tired excuse for a brain...
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- Reposted by Adam MosleyWe are VERY excited to announce the call for papers for our 2026 conference! 🎉🎉🎉 This year, we invite paper and poster proposals on the themes of power and/or performance! All proposals to be sent to cms-conference-enquiries@bristol.ac.uk by 17:00 on Friday 9th January. #medievalsky #skystorians
- From next semester, academic staff will be trusted* to set-up their own submission links on our VLE. I am hopeful** that this will allow me to add bespoke checks to the submission instructions, like 'Are you sure you've checked that's what is meant by Renaissance humanism?'...
- Reposted by Adam MosleyI wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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- Reposted by Adam MosleyNominations are open for the BSHS Pickstone Prize 2026, recognising the best scholarly English-language book in the history of science. 📆 Deadline: 31 Jan 2026. Anyone may nominate (self-nominations welcome). Submit via our online form on the BSHS website www.bshs.org.uk/the-bshs-pic...
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- You know, just last week someone said that I was being 'too political' when I suggested that they might want to consider using something other than Grok, if they were going to use an AI at all...
- The comments on this post should be required reading for every Labour MP and policy wonk.
- My internal rule used to be that I would stay in a shop only so long as someone didn't ask if I needed help in a way that I found intrusive and annoying. I rarely bought anything at Gap.
- I have had a beard for over twenty years. Many people have never seen me without one. And yet, when people who I haven't met in a while fail to recognise me, they always go for the 'it's because you have a beard' gambit.
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- A medieval/early-modern postdoc opportunity here -- please distribute across your networks.
- And this is where I went to school...
- I feel so out of touch with the language of research culture facilitation. I see people have moved on from sandpits and are now running fishbowls...
- The best thing about the QS survey is that QS stands for Quacquarelli Symonds, a name that conjures a certain image if your research and teaching is history of medicine adjacent. Apologies in advance if I send you an email inviting you to participate in the QS survey.
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- (a) *sigh* (b) What's that Kemi? Regulation and not marketised competition is the key to ensuring quality?
- Reposted by Adam MosleyMLGB is back!! Delighted that Medieval Libraries of Great Britain @bodleian.ox.ac.uk is now back online. We are also working had on plans for the next phase of the resource, enhancing & adding data & functionality. HUGE thanks to my colleagues for their hard & clever work mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
- Look, I'm as much of a fan of speculative fiction and casual thought experiments as the next nerdy-PhD with some training in both the sciences and philosophy. But maybe we could focus for now on respecting the rights of the persons we have, rather than those we're just imagining.
- I'm pleased to share the news that I have recently begun a term as co-editor of the British Journal for the History of Science (BJHS), working together with the now editor-in-chief, the brilliant Amanda Rees @amandarees.bsky.social.
- I'm pleased to share the news that I have recently begun a term as co-editor of the British Journal for the History of Science (BJHS), working together with the now editor-in-chief, the brilliant Amanda Rees @amandarees.bsky.social.
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- While we're waiting for growth, perhaps we could try human decency, basic fairness, empathy, familiarity with other cultures, and humanistic inquiry as antidotes to division -- facilitated by principled political leadership, ethical business practices, and a responsible media. Utopian, I know...
- Facebook is trash... It belongs in the bin.
- Guardian investigation into Facebook groups with 600k members in which the kind of extreme dehumanising language that socialises racist violence is rife. Facebook has become more permissive towards extreme content in the last year. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
- I don't think Digital ID is the solution to the 'migration crisis', regardless of its advantages and disadvantages (few and many in number) because I don't think there is a 'migration crisis'. What there is, is the repeated and avoidable human tragedy of adults and children being placed at risk...
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- For those of you who were thrilled by That Meeting Could Have Been an Email, Academic Horror Productions is delighted to present the sequel, That Other Thing That Could Have Been an Email is Now a Recorded Video.
