The BSLS

The British Society for Literature and Science promotes interdisciplinary research into the relationships of science and literature in all periods.

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CfP: Science Narratives and the Public, a conference taking place on 20 November 2026 at the Royal Society. More details: https://t.co/mo09NBYAv5

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Calling all PGRs and ECRs: three more weeks to submit to the BSLS/JLS essay prize!

All entries receive feedback from the judging panel.

https://t.co/FAhakKozdr

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Monograph Prize Winner 2025:
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 and to all the shortlisted scholars.

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CoSciLit Conference 2026 – Registration now open
For more see: https://t.co/2YzXR15wmj

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If you are an ECR or PGR who presented at this years conference at @UniStrathclyde , please do consider submitting a polished draft of your paper!

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The BSLS and the @ScienceJlit are pleased to announce the opening of the 2026 PGR/ECR Essay Prize Competition! Entries should be between 4,000-5,000 words in length, and are due by 5 June. More details here: https://t.co/FAhakKozdr

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Would anyone like to review Tara Lee's William Blake and Romantic Biology: Evolution, Originality, and Organic Form (https://t.co/8rXeycFRdy)? Get in touch at [email protected] if so.

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We have a new review on the BSLS website: Jake Street reviewing Evie Kendal's Science Fiction and the Ethics of Artificial Wombs (https://t.co/VafOseM31f).

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Would anyone like to review Sally Shuttleworth's new book In Quest of a Cure: Literary and Medical Cultures of the Health Resort (https://t.co/NcbJQJTKmn)? Get in touch at [email protected] if so.

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We have a new review on our website: Nithya Maheswari Chidam reviews Kunjana Parashar's They Gather Around Me, The Animals (https://t.co/43MNl29XTi).

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We have a new review on our website: Georgina Kosanovic reviews Sofia Ahlberg's book Magic, Literature and Climate Pedagogy in a Time of Ecological Crisis (https://t.co/4RjCCCIF4P).

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A new review is on our website: Lisa Ann Robertson reviews Mike Jays' Free Radicals: How a Group of Romantic Experimenters Gave Birth to Psychedelic Science (https://t.co/UbYKjsTO1a)

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We have a new review on the BSLS website: Abraham Dayalu reviews Elfed Huw Price's William Lawrence and the Organ of Mind: The Theology, Medicine and Politics of the Brain (https://t.co/JSWTUV7Wbb)

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We have a new review on the BSLS website: Dong Xia reviews Conor Heffernan, Emma Tonkin, Linda Flores Ohlson (eds), Zombies in Contemporary Culture: Journeys, Bodies, Pandemics and Politics (https://t.co/lbS5ZZHa2o).

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We have a a new review on our website: Daniel Bowman reviews John MacNeill Miller's The Ecological Plot: How Stories Gave Rise to a Science (https://t.co/rI2BSnPmLj)

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PhD opportunity – Recording nature and writing the self: time, entomology and the archive in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
More info: https://t.co/N1wdVO5FrI

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Want to help keep the BSLS running smoothly? Ahead of the 2026 annual conference, we are seeking expressions of interest and nominations for two positions on the executive committee: Treasurer and Book Reviews Editor.

Interested? More info here: https://t.co/r92Vu8tG9n

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We have a new review on our website: Rhonda Mayne reviews Patrick Armstrong's Microscopy, Magnification and Modernist Fiction: Micro-Modernism from Hardy to Beckett (https://t.co/e9yFmPZQTH).

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Would anyone like to review Mandy-Suzanne Wong's Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl (https://t.co/gSaEHMq7cw). Get in touch at [email protected].

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Who would like to review Christian R. Gelder's The Search for a Science of Verse, 1880 to the Present (https://t.co/3uBU46Ok7Q)? Get in touch at [email protected] if so.