Dear Jan, I'm sorry for only replying now. I was on leave last week. You're welcome to share this information directly to the DHASA mailinglist: dhasa@lists.digitalhumanities.org Best regards, Menno -- Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen@nwu.ac.za Professor in Digital Humanities South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org On Mon, 2026-04-27 at 11:47 +0200, Jan Baedke wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Dear colleagues, > Please kindly circulate the call below for 2 PhD positions and 1 > postdoctoral position in the ERC project “BOTLEG – Botanical > Legacies: Towards a New History and Philosophy of Virtual Herbaria” > within your networks. > > Many thanks and all the best, > Jan Baedke > > --- > Call for application: ERC Project BOTLEG – 1 Postdoc and 2 PhD > positions in History and Philosophy of Science and Digital > Humanities, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany > > > The Institute of Philosophy I at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, > seeks applications for 1 PostDoc position (3 years) and 2 PhD > positions (4 years) in the ERC Consolidator Project “BOTLEG – > Botanical Legacies: Towards a New History and Philosophy of Virtual > Herbaria”, PI Dr. Jan Baedke. > This ERC project aims to help develop more historically informed, > theoretically sound, and socially just botanical research by focusing > on virtual herbaria—digitized collections of plant specimens. From a > perspective of integrated history and philosophy of science, it > addresses several historical, epistemic, and conceptual challenges of > herbarium research in light of current digitization trends. BOTLEG > will collaborate with historians, philosophers, digital humanists, > botanists and herbarium experts in Central America, Southeast Asia, > and the Netherlands. For more information on the > project: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101230109 > > > Details: > 1x Postdoc in History of Science or Digital Humanities > Information on Call and Application page for PostDoc position. > 2x PhDs in Philosophy of Biology or History of Biology > Information on Call and Application page for PhD positions. > Deadline of all Applications: 25th May 2026 > For any further inquiries please contact jan.baedke@rub.de. > > -- > Jan Baedke > Ruhr University Bochum > Department of Philosophy I > Universitätsstrasse 150 > D-44801 Bochum > > Tel.: ++49-234-32-24727 > Email: Jan.Baedke@ruhr-uni-bochum.de > Internet: www.pe.rub.de/philosophie/i/wtwg/index.html.de > www.rotorub.wordpress.com > > > > ________________________________ NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorised review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you have received the e-mail by mistake, please contact the sender or reply e-mail and delete the e-mail and its attachments (where appropriate) from your system. ________________________________