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- 60 years ago, Luna 9 gave us our very first images from the lunar surface. The pictures dropped into a debate about the nature of the Moon, and scientists rushed to interpret them. #HistSTM 🗃️ #moon daily.jstor.org/the-first-lu...
- Latest in a series of posts on the Linda Hall Library's earliest editions of Sacrobosco's book on late medieval astronomy, combined with Georg Peurbach's planetary models and including an early use of printing with color woodblocks: www.lindahall.org/about/news/s... #HistSTM #MedievalSky
- Sad news in the UK #histSTM community - my former University of Kent colleague and admired historian of 19thC energy physics and steam ocean navigation, Crosbie Smith, died at the weekend following a short illness. We owe him a great deal. www.kent.ac.uk/history/peop...
- #Job #PhD #Vienna Check out potential supervisors in #HistSTM #HPS #HistMed here careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/p... Deadline for application: 2 March 2026. 40 fully funded 4y PhD positions across various doctoral schools @univie.ac.at
- Doctorate SSH Call 2026! 40+ fully funded doctoral positions in the social sciences, humanities, and cultural studies @univie.ac.at #PhD #PhDposition #Phdsky Join and international research community at one of Europe’s leading universities & apply now ⬇️⬇️⬇️ careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/p...
- The deadline to submit an abstract/proposal for #ICOHTEC2026 has been extended to 28 February 2026. Please see icohtec2026.hs.duth.gr for more details. #histtech #histstm #envhist #envhum #museum #museumstudies #heritagestudies
- #job #HistMed #HistSTM #Vienna 3 fixed-term positions in the ERC project "Beyond Thalidomide" are open at University of Vienna. Deadline February 9, 2026. 1x PhD (3 ys) jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi... 2 x Postdoc (each 2 ys) jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi... jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
- 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
- Excited to learn about the launch of the Injury Studies Network. Lots of talented scholars are involved, including @safetyworkhstm.bsky.social, @bachynski.bsky.social & @slobogin.bsky.social! (Many thanks to @neurotimes.bsky.social for calling attention to this group on LinkedIn!) #histSTM #STS 🗃️
- If any of your postdocs have research that overlaps with history of science and/or technology, the Linda Hall Library has a variety of grants including even "virtual" fellowships for remote use of materials, as well as a bibliography fellowship: www.lindahall.org/research/lin... #HistSTM
- The 2026 SSHM Conference will be @universityofleeds.bsky.social. The theme will be In/Out and we are inviting papers that consider experiences of being in and/or out of health or health care in any period or geographical location. #HistMed #HistSTM sshm.org/sshm-2026/
- Did I mention this? 🚨Online today, 6 Oct, 4-5:30pm BST. Still time for free registration!🚨 For The SSHM Lecture 2025, Prof. Jeremy Greene will be presenting 'Wasted medicines & medical wastes: Notes from the trash-heap of medical history' #histmed #histSTM #skystorians 🗃 sshm.org/sshm-agm/
