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CALL FOR REVIEWERS: PUBLISH WITH US Journal of Literature and Science The Journal of Literature and Science http://www.literatureandscience.org is looking for reviewers to review various articles published in the last year to 18 months in the field of literature and science. Please find below a number of articles that we would like to offer for…

Manchester Metropolitan University’s School of English is seeking to appoint an outstanding Research Associate to support the project: The Oxford Complete Works of Mary Shelley, edited by Professor Sharon Ruston and Professor Daniel Cook and scheduled for publication by Oxford University Press between 2028 and 2035. This is an exciting opportunity for an early-career researcher with…

Posting on behalf of Dr Francesca Mackenney Research Associate: ‘The Making of Natural History, 1797 – Present’ – (9221) | Manchester Metropolitan University Careers Manchester Metropolitan University is seeking to recruit a postdoctoral Research Associate in History (full-time, 3 years) to join the team for Dr Francesca Mackenney’s Leverhulme-funded project, ‘The Making of Natural History, 1797 -…

The HUMAN PROGRESS project aims to advance research in the natural sciences by drawing on methods, insights, and knowledge from across the humanities and social sciences. In doing so it also offers fresh frameworks of thinking for the humanities and social sciences, and works to develop the modern, integrated, and broadly interdisciplinary approach that is…

Dear all – the 2026 BSLS Book Prize is now open for nominations! Since 2007 the BSLS has awarded an annual prize for the best book in the field of Literature and Science. If you have read, or written, a book published in 2026 that you think worthy of consideration for the prize please send…

A conference taking place on 20 November 2026 at the Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, SW1Y 5AG, London 9.30am – 5.00pm Deadline for submissions: Friday 26 June 2026 2026 sees the 100th birthday of Sir David Attenborough FRS, perhaps the greatest exponent of natural history through television. His work is part of a long…

STAND is looking for early career scholars – either PhD students or those within the first few years of sitting their viva – who are interested in taking over responsibility for our early career activities. Your research interests should broadly align with STAND’s (i.e. be focused on science diplomacy, including medicine, technology, innovation diplomacy etc.)…

The BSLS is delighted to announce that the winner of the 2025 monograph prize is Shannon Lambert’s Science and Affect in Contemporary Literature: Bodies of Knowledge (Bloomsbury). Many congratulations to Shannon for an outstanding book, and to all the shortlisted scholars.

Registration is now open for the Commission on Science and Literature (CoSciLit) conference – being held in Ghent, Belgium 17-19 June 2026: https://coscilit2026.ugent.be/en. This edition of CoSciLit will showcase papers by over 100 speakers from all over the world – see the website for the full programme. The conference will be semi-hybrid, so if any…

Please join us for the next session of the BioCriticism webinar, “Imagining the Holobiont”, with guest speakers Kristien Hens (ethics and philosophy) and Joana Formosinho (art-science). The 2026 BioCriticism webinar series offers interdisciplinary approaches to “Health across Scales”. Guest speakers discuss how scientists, writers, and artists imagine the networks and dynamics that shape health across scales,…