✨ Happy publication day to Queer in a Wee Place: Small Nations, Sexuality & Scotland! In my chapter, I use hate crime as a starting point for a broader discussion of the cracks in Scotland’s liberal and inclusive imaginary as a queer, wee place. www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph-de...

“I hope that identifying the existence of LGBTQ+ people... will encourage us to think more deeply” A Queer Inheritance explores the LGBTQ+ histories and identities behind @nationaltrust.org.uk properties. Read our interview with author Michael Hall ⬇️ www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/...

🔔Hear ye, hear ye🔔 New blog post by me & Len Smith: 'Women in the Private Asylum Business in Nineteenth-Century England'. Hosted by the Economic History Society's The Long Run, we argue that these women open up mental health histories in a whole new way. #HistPsych #HistSTM #HistGender #HistMed 🗃️

I have my Boarding Pass ready, I'm off around the moon - my name carried with 5.6 million others on a micro SD card! 🚀👩‍🚀👨‍🚀👨‍🚀👨‍🚀 #ArtemisII #NASA Nice night for it . . . 🌕 🔭 #fullmoon #pinkmoon www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/artemis...

My first blog post in a series of three sharing some of my research from @norfolkro.bsky.social. This is about friendship and intimacy between women in the 1920s - from Great Yarmouth to Paris!

Not an #AprilsFools! My book Lavender Sounds: From Lesbian Radio to Queer Feminist Soundwork (July 2026) is now available for pre-order through @uofmpress.bsky.social and @livunipress.bsky.social 💜 #feminism #mediastudies #queerhistory #podcasting www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

I have my Boarding Pass ready, I'm off around the moon - my name carried with 5.6 million others on a micro SD card! 🚀👩‍🚀👨‍🚀👨‍🚀👨‍🚀 #ArtemisII #NASA Nice night for it . . . 🌕 🔭 #fullmoon #pinkmoon www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/artemis...

my I add another to this excellent list of queer natural history books 🙏🏻🌈🐧

This #TransDayOfVisibility, we’re highlighting our favorite queer ecology reads. These books, essays, and memoirs break down binaries and explore the expansiveness of gender & identity in nature.

I love when he accidentally tells the truth!

On International Transgender Day of Visibility, Kansas should remember Dr. Alan L. Hart, a Kansas-born doctor who helped pioneer a lifesaving tuberculosis treatment, was also one of the first known transgender men in the U.S. to undergo gender-affirming surgery.

From #AHAPerspectives in 2016: The Digital Transgender Archive (DTA) provides "accessible digitized materials related to transgender history gathered from collections across the world." Read more on its scope by Sadie Bergen. 🗃️ #TransDayofVisibility

Publishing today! A beautifully illustrated compendium of LGBTIQ+ life. 'A queer scrapbook' is a rich archive of histories from across Britain & Ireland. Featuring interviews, photographs & flyers, it captures the diversity of queer & trans lives since WW2. Out now. #booksky

When I was younger, my mother took me to the Royal Albert Hall to see her favourite stars, among them Shirley Bassey, Liza Minnelli, and Frank Sinatra. I'm so happy to return this evening to see *my* favourite stars, the brilliant Stornoway (@stornowayband.bsky.social)! 🎸🐦🎹 #livemusic #London

Starting work soon on a new 3 year book project. People keep asking me if I’ll use AI to help me? I would rather wear a hornet’s nest for underpants than ever delegate thought to a plagiarism engine

Wonderful! Plant illustrations by Charles Darwin’s botanical mentor Rev. John Stevens Henslow (a thoroughly good egg) have been rediscovered in Cambridge. #histsci

Good morning from Boston University. Pride flags EVERYWHERE

The group exhibition ‘QUEER ART IN THE GDR? Biographies between Underground and Propaganda’ presents works by queer artists living in the GDR at Kvost, Museum der Dinge, Mitte Museum and nGbK. Lars Holdgate interviews the exhibition's curator Stephan Koal: www.berlinartlink.com/2026/03/25/i...

For over 50 years, @pflag.org has brought together LGBTQ+ people, families, and allies to fight for equality. As someone who’s been involved with PFLAG for decades, I can tell you that with attacks on our community escalating across the country, that work has never felt more urgent.

📣 BSHS Outreach & Engagement Project Grants Have an idea for sharing #HistSci with wider audiences? We offer grants of up to £500 to support creative engagement projects — from events to collaborations with museums or heritage sites. Next deadline is May 15, 2026! bshs.org.uk/oec/#project...

I refer His Holiness to my blogpost on the subject: lesleyahall.blogspot.com/2022/11/whit...

I'm looking forward to returning to the Oxford Museum of Natural History on 9 May! I'll be schm-oozing with Bi-Curious George, @jazzywildheart.bsky.social & @connorbutler.bsky.social prior to George's new show, Snail Trail. 🐌🏳️‍🌈🐌🏳️‍⚧️🐌 www.oumnh.ox.ac.uk/event/bi-cur... @morethanadodo.bsky.social #queer

There’s no such thing as the history of science (and this is a blog post about it) (inspired by a great 2017 article by Lorraine Daston) williamgpooley.wordpress.com/2026/03/25/t... 🗃️

Here is my pride flag everybody! I hung one up yesterday in my office at Boston University, as they seek to enforce and defend a policy of removing them (along with other banners in public view, they say). This is a small act of love for my corner of the world, in a dark time. This flag goes deep.

In Illyria, a shipwreck tears two siblings apart and sets off a chain of mistaken identities and confused desires. Edited by @oldfortunatus.bsky.social, this edition foregrounds Twelfth Night’s queer potential and explores madness, mourning and migration. Coming this winter: https://bit.ly/4bKgSoi

Hey if anyone could offer some insight into what's going on in this postcard we've found we'd massively appreciate it.

We're excited to be hosting Jim Costa and Beth Yale on 15 May, with a talk exploring Darwin's The Descent of Man. They'll explore its cultural context, how conversations with Alfred Russel Wallace shaped Descent in crucial ways, and how Darwin's ideas were received. buff.ly/IVmDU1h

Deadline this Friday, 27 April: fully-funded Bloomsbury Scholarship on 'Queer Meaning-Making in South Asian Literature: New Comparative Perspectives'. Due to start in 2026-7; supervised by Anandi Rao at SOAS and me. bloomsbury.ac.uk/queer-meanin... 🌈🎓

The Journal of the Finnish Society for Queer Studies (SQS) is welcoming abstracts for a Special Issue on: 📍QUEER SPACES AND CARTOGRAPHIES🌍 Submissions can be in Finnish, Swedish or English. Deadline 4th May! More info (in FI and EN): sqsseura.fi/cfp-queer-sp...

Die neue Ausstellung "Queer Nature Photography Awards" im Naturmuseum Südtirol zeigt die Vielfalt von Natur, hinterfragt Vorstellungen von Geschlecht und Normalität - und sorgt für Streit in der Landesregierung

Northern Lights forecast to reappear across UK on Saturday 🤩 www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti... #aurora #nightsky #uk

🥳The Routledge Handbook of Health and Environmental Humanities is published today! Ed. by the fab Amber Abrams, @victoriabates.bsky.social & @rothiotome.bsky.social. It also includes a chapter 'Research on the Move' by @draflint.bsky.social and me. (Probably one to ask your library to order tho' £)

Join author @schuneke.bsky.social and moderator Rachel Jones for the launch of I Will Not Abandon You: Queer Women in Nazi Germany! Fri, Apr 3, 12:30pm, @georgemasonu.bsky.social Register: bit.ly/472u0ns #QueerHistory #BookLaunch

Hello again #Oxford! I lived, studied, and worked here for 15 years; visiting now always feels like a homecoming. ☀️📚🎓

Roberto Benavidez’s bird series depicts examples of queer nature—same-sex couplings, hybrids, gynandromorphs—all while using a joyous medium: the piñata. orionmagazine.org/article/pape...

Brighton Marina is applying — again — to dump dredged sediment at Beachy Head West Marine Conservation Zone.  Dredging may be necessary. But dumping 1000s of tonnes of sediment in a protected area is not.  Use our template email to object. https://f.mtr.cool/tgghjihrta

Come to Aberystwyth & do some medieval gender! Still plenty of time to get your abstracts in 👉 Gender in Medieval Insular Literature Symposium 📍 Prifysgol Aberystwyth University 🗓️ 29-30 May, 2026 ⏱️ Abstracts due 6 April wp-research.aber.ac.uk/medievalgend... #CfP #MedievalGender 🗃️

The MA in Gender & Sexuality at the University of Birmingham is a rare thing: a chance to explore cutting-edge interdisciplinary research in queer, trans, feminist, and gender studies, with a practical placement built-in. #queerhistory #womenshistory www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/postgr....

I learned to love cinema at the Ultimate Picture Palace in Oxford as an undergrad. It's been around since 1911, and is now a fantastic community-owned venue. But it's at risk of development by Oriel College. This would be a terrible loss for independent cinema. Save the UPP! c.org/TpFdQMnhRN

📖 New issue of Viewpoint (Spring 2026) This issue explores “elemental mastery” in the history of science — from Singapore’s dengue crisis and alchemical notation to water knowledge, East African soil science, and more. Find this issue and many more on our website for free: bshs.org.uk/viewpoint/

So, BlueSky, one of my passions is the study of tea in WW2. I need you to watch this oral history from three ex-tea ladies from the Bermondsey WVS. Because you could guess for ONE THOUSAND YEARS and you would not guess where it is going... #skystorians #history #tea

Coming soon... 🌸 🪻 🌿 🪴 Our next major exhibition In Bloom: How Plants Changed Our World opens on 19 March. 🏛️ Ashmolean Members enjoy free unlimited entry with no need to book. 🎟️ Plan your visit: www.ashmolean.org/exhibition/i...

The next edition of our member's magazine, The Victorian, is winging its way in the post. 🌈 Our theme is queer heritage. It brings into focus lives, places and histories that were long obscured or marginalised. 🧵 Join us to get your copy of our magazine regularly www.victoriansociety.org.uk/join/

Come To Celebrate 10 Years Of Pride in STEM on April 17 in London!! www.outsavvy.com/event/34281/...

This week on the pod: 🐟 Unravelling the genetics of an asexual fish that should be extinct 🌠 How a superluminous supernova got so bright go.nature.com/4b7PGkt

Today is publication day! johngrindrod.substack.com/p/tales-of-t...

Our new exhibition, Homo Sapiens, opens next week, and we're launching it with a panel discussion with our Curatorial Board on 19 March. Join us to get an insight into the exhibition, which explores Linnaeus’ classification of humans and its legacies. Tickets at buff.ly/LA4tBB0

ICYMI: in our new paper, we contend there is "no current consensus on a definition of sex that is free of assumptions and limitations... and most importantly,...no biological definition of sex should be used to dictate human rights" #evolsky #LGBTQSTEM #ecology #evolution #biologicalsex

I'm looking forward to celebrating the achievements of historian of science Dan Kevles in Oxford next week. I'll be talking about the mercurial associations between the pursuit of eugenics through the 20th century and ideas about sex selection. #histbio #histsci #sts @oxmedhum.bsky.social 🗃️

Less than 1 week to submit an abstract to the European Geographies of Sexualities Conference! 📣 Deadline: 16 March. If you research sexualities/LGBTQ+ and space/place, you're more than welcome! MORE INFO and to submit: sites.google.com/view/egsconf... Pic: EGSC in Brighton 2024. 🌈🎓