Jules Skotnes-Brown
Historian of animals, disease, science, and colonialism. Postdoc at University of Liverpool and Honorary Research Fellow at University of St Andrews. st-andrews.ac.uk/social-anthropology…
- Reposted by Jules Skotnes-Brown🚨History Job: Assistant Professor in Early Modern British History (Permanent) 🗃️ Come work with us at Warwick! You will join a group of excellent early-modernists and one of the nicest bunches of historians around! 👇👇👇 @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...
- Reposted by Jules Skotnes-BrownA great job opportunity @standrewsanthro.bsky.social: Lecturer in Social Anthropology - deadline for applications 06 March 2026 www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
- Reposted by Jules Skotnes-BrownI'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
- Reposted by Jules Skotnes-Brownplease share!
- Reposted by Jules Skotnes-Brown🚨 Just one week left to apply for one of the THREE postdoc positions in the #GreenFrontier project hosted at @fnp-wur.bsky.social #conservation #EnvJustice #wilderness #rewilding #rural #underdevelopment #LandAbandonment Deadline 25 November! Full details 👉 www.wur.nl/en/research-...
- Reposted by Jules Skotnes-Brown🚨#History #envhist Job Alert: My Department is hiring an Assistant Professor in Environmental History. 🗃️ Come work with us at Warwick. You'll get both excellent colleagues and great students! See details below... And do not hesitate to spread the word... 👇👇👇 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK289/a...
- Reposted by Jules Skotnes-BrownJoin us on Weds 19 November for the launch of our new co-hosted Applied History Fellowships for postdoc historians, with @ihr.bsky.social and DC Thomson bit.ly/4ofWArN Fellowships will develop historical skills for use in workplaces beyond higher education: 2.30pm, 19 November, online #Skystorians
- Reposted by Jules Skotnes-BrownVery valuable thread on the impact of UKHE cuts and what we stand to lose through them. I worked closely with the case study cited and wrote the Environment Template for that UoA. We have all of us been in scope for redundancy since January. Where does that leave such important research?
- Reposted by Jules Skotnes-Brown📢 JOB ALERT 📢 Come work with me! @rigb.org is hiring an Archivist, full time, 2 year, fixed-term contract, hybrid working possible. Please share widely! More details 👇 www.rigb.org/about-us/wor...
- Really excited to see this volume will be out soon! It was an honour to have contributed to this amazing collection. A big thanks to Raf, Vanessa, Tom, and the whole Moving Animals Team for inviting me to contribute.
- *Globalizing Wildlife*, a book edited by @vbateman.bsky.social, Tom Quick, and myself, is now available for pre-order with @uncpress.bsky.social! Using code 01SOCIAL30 at checkout, you can save 30% www.uncpress.org/book/9781469...
- "By using the concepts of pest in foregrounding the philosophy behind species segregation, Segregated Species makes a great contribution to agricultural history, animal history, histories of conservation, and histories of knowledge."
- "And yet, it does not trivialize, equalize, or prioritize human suffering over animal oppression but treats the two as connected." Thanks very much to Innocent Dande and Agricultural History for this nice review of Segregated Species!
- Reposted by Jules Skotnes-BrownA permanent post in my department. Closing date Dec 14th 2025, interviews in March. Please spread #histsci
- Reposted by Jules Skotnes-BrownIt was a real pleasure to write this afterword for a fantastic special issue on the history of invasive species by Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social and Jules Skotnes-Brown @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social
- Fantastic to see our special issue has now been formally published!
- So great to see the special issue on "Invasive Species, Global Health, and Colonial Legacies" that @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social & I edited published today! A big thanks to all contributors & to JHMAS editors & reviewers for their support & guidance in this process academic.oup.com/jhmas/issue/...
- Reposted by Jules Skotnes-Brown““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+
- It has been an absolute pleasure working with @visualplague.bsky.social, @alvesduarte.bsky.social and Oliver French on this wonderful project over the last five years. I have learnt an enormous amount and had great fun with this team. Thank you Christos for putting together this amazing project.
- Today marks the final day of The Global War Against the Rat project @standrewsanthro.bsky.social (funded @wellcometrust.bsky.social) after 6 wonderful years of collaborative interdisciplinary research with Oliver French, @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social & @alvesduarte.bsky.social
- Reposted by Jules Skotnes-BrownRHS Funding opportunity: Postgraduate and Early Career Research Support Grants. Grants of up to £1000 for graduate and early career historians to undertake research projects bit.ly/4nWLNlI Closing date for the next round: 5 December 2025
- I am thrilled to announce that I have been awarded a Wellcome Trust Career Development Grant. Over the next five years I'll be directing the research project "Conserving Global Health: Biodiversity Protection and the Prehistory of Planetary Health".
- Based at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, the project will explore the historical entanglements, collaborations and frictions between conservation theories and practices and international, global, and Planetary Health in the long twentieth century.
- In so doing, it will provide a prehistory of Planetary Health. Next year I will be advertising two postdoc positions - one on conservation and animal health (with a focus on trypanosomiasis) and the other on conservation and earth systems health (with a focus on carbon sinks) - so please stay tuned!
- A massive thank you to everyone who helped me prepare this grant application - I am truly grateful!
- A mostly fair critique of Segregated Species in South African Journal of Science from Anjuli Webster. The point that I have not engaged enough with Indigenous African language sources is a very important critique. doi.org/10.17159/saj...
- Sadly, I do not have these language skills, and this is indeed a major limitation of the book that could have been made clearer (though my language skills were stated in the introductory 'Notes on the Text'.)
- However, Webster has made a few leaps in claiming that I have tried to locate "the “roots” of settler colonial methods of dehumanising Indigenous communities in animal management during the 20th century", and that the book makes direct comparisons between the plight of humans and animals.
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View full threadIt’s a bit disappointing that despite me explicitly arguing against such comparisons, Webster has found two quotes and taken them out of context to claim that I do “precisely this”. Despite this, my thanks to Anjuli Webster and South African Journal of Science for the review!
- Reposted by Jules Skotnes-BrownRHS First Book and Early Career Article Prizes, 2026. We invite submissions for the Society's book and article prizes: for eligible titles published in 2025. Further details and how to apply: bit.ly/3KnR47v Submissions are by self-nomination by an author. Closing date: 15 December #Skystorians
- Reposted by Jules Skotnes-BrownA must-read for environmental historians, labour historians, & historians of embodiment, trade, Britain, the Thames, and more. Conceptually ambitious & a really good story with an unexpected & dramatic denouement. #envhist
- New on advance access: "Bodies, Tides, Timber, and the Global History of London’s Docks, 1860–1928" by Simeon Koole (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) and @benmechen.bsky.social (@uclhistory.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...
- Reposted by Jules Skotnes-BrownA reminder that we're collecting for our 2025 contingent publication lists!
- Pleased to have contributed to this roundtable discussion on Meredith McKittrick's book, 'Green Lands for White Men': eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
- Looking forward to talking on The Greenhouse tomorrow about my book!
- Join us online Monday 15 Sept 2025 for @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social discussing Segregated Species: Pests, Knowledge, and Boundaries in South Africa, 1910–1948 (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024) in Greenhouse #envhum book talk series at 16:00 in Norway / 15:00 in UK. newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
- Reposted by Jules Skotnes-BrownIsis, November 2025.
- Reposted by Jules Skotnes-Brown📣Annual Book Development Prize Competition 📣 Submissions are now invited for the 2026 Award, which funds authors to turn a proposal into a book in the Social Histories of Medicine series, published by @manchesterup.bsky.social Applications are accepted on a rolling basis until 16 Jan 2026. #histmed
- Looking forward to talking about my book on the Greenhouse on 15 September!
- I have gotten our @greenhouseuis.net #envhum book talks for September & October posted! Always on Mondays at 16:00 (4pm) Central European time. For details see: newnatures.org/greenhouse/
- Reposted by Jules Skotnes-BrownConference: Planetary Futures - Rethinking Extinction and Conservation in the Anthropocene. Manchester, 18-19 Sept 2025. Registration is free - please register your interest in attending by Friday 22 August. blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0...
- Interesting article on the introduction of rose-ringed parakeets into London. www.thetimes.com/article/b8d4... Can anyone recommend any environmental histories of these birds?
- Reposted by Jules Skotnes-BrownCFA The Human Diversity Dilemma: Navigating the intersection of microbes, ethics & society ISHPSSB Off-Year Workshop Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa October 1-3, 2025 Abstracts due Aug.18 Organizers @abigailnd.bsky.social & @msimang.bsky.social #philsci #STS 🦠 More info ⤵️
- This promises to be fascinating reading!
- So excited to share my new article in @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social: "Colonial World-Making and Global Knowledges at the Early Modern Cape of Good Hope" (Open access) academic.oup.com/past/advance...
- Reposted by Jules Skotnes-BrownOne week left to apply for this tenured #envhist job!
- We are hiring! Fully tenured associate professorship in environmental history! We are looking for someone who can be a strong contributor to the history group, to a new #envhum related MA program (if all goes well), and to @greenhouseuis.net. #envhist
- Reposted by Jules Skotnes-BrownGreat 3-year STS post-doc at Edinburgh, closes 18 August #sts
- Two very interesting papers from 2024 on birds and technology: 'Bird feeding devices exclude unwelcome visitors' by Heta Lähdesmäki, Tuomas Aivelo, and Panu Savolainen: doi.org/10.1177/2514... And 'Bird Boxes and Sparrow Traps' by @mattholmes.bsky.social : muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
- Reposted by Jules Skotnes-Brown"This highlights a critical but overlooked link between biodiversity loss and climate change, revealing how unmitigated animal declines undermine the ability of forest carbon to recover after disturbance and emphasizing the need to incorporate animal biodiversity into climate mitigation strategies"
- Reposted by Jules Skotnes-BrownMajor carbon sink may have vanished for 2nd year in a row. Record heat in 2024 caused ecosystems on land to emit nearly as much CO2 as they took out of the atmosphere. Every news outet should be reporting on this, not just the New Scientist. www.newscientist.com/article/2489...
- Reposted by Jules Skotnes-BrownAll famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.
- Interesting new environmental history / historical ecology of African horsesickness in JSAS: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Reposted by Jules Skotnes-BrownSo the @researchireland.ie Global Talent Scheme is now open for "exceptional mid-career and established researchers," currently employed outside Ireland, who want to move their research here. All disciplines (I think). Individual awards up to €3.25m (!) www.researchireland.ie/funding/glob...
- Reposted by Jules Skotnes-BrownReview of the two recent books on Dr Calhoun's rat experiments @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
- Reposted by Jules Skotnes-BrownWeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for. Stop using WeTransfer.
- Reposted by Jules Skotnes-BrownJob Opening at the Chair of Philosophy and History of Science and Technology at TUM! Research Fellow for 3 years (renewable). Preferably philosopher w interest in plant, crop & agricultural research (& their history and social studies) All details: www.sts.sot.tum.de/en/sts/arbei... #philsci #sts
- Reposted by Jules Skotnes-BrownCongratulations to @hopkinspress.bsky.social author @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social who has won the Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org First Book Prize! You can buy the book anywhere in Europe from your local bookstore or @blackwells.bsky.social. royalhistsoc.org/prizes/royal...
- Reposted by Jules Skotnes-BrownIn "Water, Race and Power," Kristin Brig-Ortiz analyzes the intersections among these dynamics in the context of British water management in South Africa. liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/abs/10.3...
- Nice to see Segregated Species on display at #BSHS2025
- Reposted by Jules Skotnes-BrownHistorians: this is a worrying development. Historians use the Hansard to analyze what was said in parliamentary discussions. If the Hansard is subject to editing out things that are politically unacceptable at the time, we (and future historians) have a problem.
- Reposted by Jules Skotnes-BrownSOAS is currently advertising a one-year fixed-term position in the History of the Middle East for 2025-2026. If this is for you, apply by 27 July 2025. For more info, go to vacancies.soas.ac.uk/job/727934
- Reposted by Jules Skotnes-BrownTOMORROW in Cambridge! Don’t miss Sadiah Qureshi live, sharing insight on memory, knowledge & empire from her new book "Vanished". With an introduction by Helen Macdonald 📍 David Attenborough Building | 6–10pm 🎟 Free: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1395979053... #PublicLecture #histSTEM #BSHS2025
- Reposted by Jules Skotnes-BrownThe hallmarks of settler colonial genocides: offering relief as an opportunity to kill; complete dehumanisation (“zombie hordes”) and an exultation at the infliction of pain & suffering. Gaza aid contractor tells BBC he saw colleagues fire on hungry Palestinians www.bbc.com/news/article...
- A big thank you to the judges for such kind words about my book!
- Jules's book was commended as: "A fascinating, original, highly engaging, conceptually smart and extremely well-written interdisciplinary study ... impressively researched, nimble in its analysis, successfully experimental at times in its approach.” bit.ly/3I4VdfB 2/2
- Reposted by Jules Skotnes-BrownWinner of the RHS First Book Prize (2025): 'Segregated Species: Pests, Knowledge, and Boundaries in South Africa, 1910–1948', by Jules Skotnes-Brown (Johns Hopkins University Press 2024) bit.ly/4kpuKXB 1/2 #Skystorians
