Angela Marques Filipe

Job opening: Lecturer in Urban Sustainability & Climate Change at UCL (London). Deadline to apply: 29-Mar-2026. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... #urban #sociology

This Thursday (05.03) at noon, we will be chairing a guest seminar by @johnmacartney.bsky.social (Warwick), in our Durham Health & Social Theory* research group lunchtime series. He will talk on end-of-life research and “On permeant ethnography: Reflections of a sociologist in a medical school”.

Overcoming the sad affects of the energy transition Join us for an instalment of the Weather, Climate, and Health Research Theme's online talk series.

Join us for another online seminar in the Weather, Climate & Health IMH theme series. Dr @benoitdillet.bsky.social (Bath) will talk on "Overcoming the sad affects of the energy transition" (w/ Sophia Hatzisavvidou), further marking their new book ("Transition Imaginaries"). Free registration ⬇️

CB266: Reimagining ecoanxiety, climate affects and planetary futures: What does it ask of STS? Following a planetary turn in social thought, we ask: if navigating chanigng climates affects our everyday lives, how do these affects shape, in turn, how we

Call for Abstracts for EASST2026 conference which takes place in September, in beautiful Krakow, will close on 9 March 2026 [23:59 CET]. Please submit your abstracts to our panel below welcoming submissions on topics across #STS #environmental #climate #socialscience #affect #planetary thinking.

🧧Xin Nian Kuai Le! 新年快乐

🌙 Ramadan (Eve) Mubarak!

🎉 E um bom Carnaval galera!

To all students, colleagues, and friends celebrating, in the UK and around the world.

You‘re welcome João! o lineup está fabuloso - espalhem a palavra e venham todxs online!

An overview of event series and the research theme @durhamimh.bsky.social can be found here: mhep.github.io/wch/

Intersections in Medical and Environmental Humanities An online talk by Dr Clare Hickman about Air, Weather and Multispecies Encounters in the British Tuberculosis Sanatoria.

Interested in the intersections of #medhum and #envhum? Join us for another instalment of our Weather, Climate, and Health Research Theme's online talk series with our wonderful colleague @drhick.bsky.social (Newcastle University). All details and registration (free) via link below.

Philosophy of medicine international online reading group is back Feb 11!

We will be reading "The New Modern Medicine: Disease, Evidence, and Epidemiological Medicine" by Jonathan Fuller
academic.oup.com/book/61541?l...

Join the group here: groups.google.com/g/philmed-rg/

Please share widely!

my Canadian half loves it. okay, “feeding sourdough starter“

I’m equipped and ready, so help me goddess; thanks Per!

Thanks Duncan! I’ll post shots of the outcome

love your precision, Dolly! 🙏🏻

People that bake your own sourdough or any kind of bread really: please say a little prayer for me and send me a recipe that works?! I’ll pay fwd

P.s. Our Weather, Climate and Health research theme co-led by @hepach.org, me, Jed Stevenson (Geog, Soci, Anthro) has a webpage and our event line-up can be found here: mhep.github.io/wch/#events
Inc. webinars+ in-person workshops + hybrid roundtables

#medhums #envhums #sociology #climate

Seasonal Bodies: Weather, Movement, and Wellbeing Join us for a hybrid roundtable on “Seasonal Bodies: Weather, Movement, and Wellbeing”.

Fab roundtable happening now on “Seasonal Bodies: Weather, Movement, and Wellbeing” with @hesterparr.bsky.social and Antonia Hodgson. Co-organised by Discovery Research Platform's Moving Bodies Lab, Durham's Department of Geography research clusters, and the Weather, Climate, and Health (IMH)

Info on the research theme and co-leads, and further details on our exciting line-up of events this semester via the link below. A couple of talks and in-person workshops TBC will be added shortly (all webinars are free but Eventbrite registration is required).

The Empire of Climate: A History of an Idea An interview of David N. Livingstone about his latest book, followed by a Q&A.

Join us for an instalment of the IMH Weather, Climate, and Health Research Theme's talk series.

The Empire of Climate: A History of an Idea by David Livingstone

Monday, 19 January 2026, 17:00 - 18:00 GMT | Online
Institute for Medical Humanities

📣 Call for Abstracts – ESHMS 2026

Submit your work to the ESHMS Conference in Hamburg (19–21 Aug 2026), themed Mental Health in Times of Uncertainty.

🗓️ Deadline: 15 Feb 2026

🔗 Info + submission: www.uke.de/english/depa...

#ESHMS2026 #HealthSociology #MentalHealth

Join us on 30 Jan 2026 (2–3 pm GMT) for the BSA webinar on applying for postdoctoral research funding with Dr Fei Huang (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow) & Prof Katherine Twamley (Professor of Sociology). Get tips on proposals, applications, mentors & more! Book now:
www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

UK weather: Month’s worth of rain to fall in 24 hours as Met Office issues amber warnings - United Kingdom Your support helps us to tell the story

UK weather: Month’s worth of rain to fall in 24 hours as Met Office issues amber warnings

https://www.europesays.com/uk/603511/

Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…#uk #news #uknews

The lesson that 'weeds' teach is that not everything can be controlled and calculated ad infinitum: to tackle a weed, we must "think like one", holding one's ground yet being adaptive enough to shifting conditions.

Palmer Amaranth weed against a blue-skies, green-crop background

New module trivia: agrobiz try to bolster crop yields by GM their herbicidal tolerance, only for weeds (p. amaranth) to learn glyphosate resistance (Landecker 2024). In 3,000 y.o. Chinese oracles, amaranth is used as elemental metaphor for longevity, holding on (tight-enough) in moral deliberation.

EASA Mentorship Webinar-Workshops 2025-26: “Women in Leadership” Series Join us on 3 December for the first webinar of the "EASA Women in Leadership Development Series: Building Inclusive Academic Allyships" - with Sertaç Sehlikoglu (UCL) and Roberta Raffaetà (Ca’ Foscari...

More info and registration here: easaonline.org/event/easa-m...

Image text says: Book now for ‘Applying for Postdoctoral Research Funding as an Early Career Scholar’, a @bsaecr.bsky.social event, 30 January https://tinyurl.com/muas4sk8 #sociology

Considering postdoctoral research opportunities? Book now for ‘Applying for Postdoctoral Research Funding as an Early Career Scholar’, an online @bsaecr.bsky.social event, 30 January tinyurl.com/muas4sk8 #sociology

Transformative Humanities PhD Scheme - Durham University

📢 @durham.ac.uk has announced the competition for eight PhD Studentships in Transformative Humanities, supported by our AHRC Doctoral Landscape Award and the Faculties of Arts & Humanities and Social Sciences, for candidates starting October 2026.

Find out more 👇
www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

Nothing like a digital tidy-up to rediscover one's own thinking. Found a cool paper I gave back in 2018 and the panel I convened for the Science in Public conference, on topologies of collaboration, interdisciplinary sites, and biosocial research.

Edinburgh’s radical book fair Lighthouse bookshop flyer

P Trevor photo of demo 1978 with commonwealth league members

@lighthousebks.bsky.social “ecosystems of change” book fair looking rad and Steve McQueen’s project “Resistance” on the history of protest + photography in Britain @nationalgalleries.bsky.social
Not to be missed!

What fizzy feeling is this? Starting the day overjoyed by the news?! Way to go #NYC 🗽

Overjoyed by this timeline (and policy speech) cleanse. Mamdani’s Immigrant Song is heard loud and clear. Thanks #nyc