If you're in London and at a loose end this Saturday (15 Nov) I'm doing some walking tours of Seven Dials with the wonderful @stanfordstravel.bsky.social. Sign up link below. Come for the coffee, stay for the whistle stop tour of the Dials and sideways look at the history of 1920s and 1930s London.

🎆📯 Northern Lights klaxon 📯🎆 Yes that's right, tonight offers another chance to catch a glimpse of the beautiful aurora borealis. It looks like the strongest aurora will happen before midnight – but it'll depend on where you are in the UK and if you have clear skies. ☁️ Good luck!

Interested in the MA in Gender & Sexuality? Come talk to me this Saturday at our postgrad open day. (Or just email me, that's cool too.) www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/postgr...

#TeamUP and #ReadUP in Gender and LGBTQIA Studies with @nyupress.bsky.social, @brandeispress.bsky.social, @iupress.bsky.social, plus @concordiapress.bsky.social (book cover not pictured). Discover their amazing work in the University Press Week Gallery https://bit.ly/3WpQuZI#TeamUP

Book for the Mermaid's Tail tour or Queer Legends workshop, part of #queermaritimes at the National Maritime Museum. Both take place this Saturday, 15 Nov. This is part of the wonderful work of the Queer History Club, which meets at the NMM. #skystorians 🗃️

This is such an amazing painting - I can't stop exploring it. The details in the crowd scene alone are absolutely compelling and so poignant. Like this small moment:

Two Minutes' Silence by Charles Spencelayh (1928) #RemembranceDay #RemembranceDay2025 #LestWeForget #art 🗃️

Armistice was declared on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, 1918. In this extract from Peace at Last, Guy Cuthbertson examines how people across the world reacted to the news of peace. yalebooks.co.uk/peace-at-last/ @guywjc.bsky.social #ArmisticeDay #RemembranceDay

Happy University Press Week! Join us in celebrating how authors, university press publishing professionals & so many others #TeamUP to advance knowledge. Explore this @bookshop.org collection of university press books to find your next thought-provoking read: https://bit.ly/4nhTQcc#TeamUP #ReadUP

BREAKING: The Supreme Court rejects a call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide.

We are very happy to share the first part of our our LGBT+ History Month UK resources in collaboration with Pop'n'Olly! prideinstem.org/primary-scho...

The theme for LGBT+ History Month UK 2026 is ‘Science and Innovation’. The new badge is available from our website (lgbtplushistorymonth.co.uk/shop/). Find out more about the month and our five figures at: lgbtplushistorymonth.co.uk/lgbt-history... #LGBTQIA #LGBTplusHM #lgbthm26

Immensely proud to share that I am the designer of the official badge for LGBT+ History Month 2026. Last night, @lgbthm.bsky.social revealed that the 2026 theme for the month will be 'Science and Innovation', so get ready to learn about some amazing queer scientists next year!

We’re at the Royal Society of Chemistry, Burlington House, for the @lgbthm.bsky.social 2026 theme launch… which is… 🥁… ‘Science and Innovation’ 🧫🏳️‍🌈🧪🏳️‍⚧️🧬! #LGBTplusHM #LGBTplusHM26

So excited that the theme of LGBT+ History Month UK 2026 is 'Science and Innovation,' with super badge designed by @canopyrobin.com! 🧬🏳️‍⚧️🔭🏳️‍🌈🚆 Wonderful launch event at the Royal Society of Chemistry @rsc.org this evening. 👏 lgbtplushistorymonth.co.uk/lgbt-history... @lgbthm.bsky.social #LGBTplusHM 🌈🗃️

Excited to say it will be hitting the warehouse soon! #skystorians #histmed #histsci #philsci press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Well... this is fabulous news! The (unofficial) relaunch of 'Queer As Folklore' will be at the incredible @queerbritain.bsky.social on December 6th!!!! Tickets here: www.outsavvy.com/event/31166/...

Looks fab 🤩 Published today, Queer Life, Queer Love: The Third Anthology, edited by Matt Bates, Karen McLeod, Kate & Sarah Beal. @muswellpress.bsky.social muswell-press.co.uk/product/quee... 🌈📚 #queer #lgbtq #books #booksky #skybooks

Remember, remember, the fifth of November... four historians consider the extraordinary longevity of the #BonfireNight celebration and the memory of #GuyFGawkes. 🔓 This archive article is free for 7 days www.historytoday.com/archive/head...

This is the only firework we'll need this evening, albeit weather dependent (a few gaps in the clouds here in Brighton atm, so fingers crossed!). 🌕🔭🤩 'Bonfire Night's Beaver supermoon to be biggest and brightest of 2025' www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti... #sky #nightsky #fullmoon

Pet Classics is back for the 2025 fireworks season! 🐾 Dan Walker and Charlotte Hawkins will keep the nation’s pets calm through the whizzes and bangs of Bonfire Night, with two shows of relaxing music. 📻 Pet Classics | 5pm–9pm on Wednesday 5 and Saturday 8 November. clssicfm.co/4753wRi

Here's your reminder to look out for hedgehogs this Bonfire Night. Stacks of logs and leaves look real inviting to hedgehogs searching for places to hibernate. Remember to check your bonfires before lighting them!

Check out this advertised professorship in Bern with my colleagues at the Institute of Plant Sciences! Please share widely to reach candidates from across the world and beyond our local academic bubbles. 🫧 #QueerInSTEM #DisabledInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #WomenInSTEM #CarersInSTEM #AcademicSky #HigherED

Alan Hollinghurst has been awarded this year’s David Cohen Prize for Literature. He wrote in May about gay London: ‘Queer men were alert for any sign of the illicit subject, relying on a sort of cultural gaydar that detected and fed on subtext and suggestion.’ www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

📣Manchester folks! “Making Queer Photography Visible Now,” featuring V & A museum curator Zorian Clayton, in conversation with Prof. Jackie Stacey, on his fab new book, Calling the Shots: A Queer History of Photography, is on @manchester.ac.uk next Wed, 12 Nov from 4-5 pm in Sam Alex A113.

🎉 And it’s History Day! 👋 Come and say hello and delve into our rummage box to see some of the items that our team have chosen for the queer history and heritage trail. 🌈 @senatehouselib.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social #HistDay25

We look forward to meeting all those attending #HistDay25 today: bit.ly/4nvfl9v We're one of 70 exhibitors making this an ideal opportunity to discover new resources and archives to support your research. Thanks to @ihr.bsky.social & @senatehouselib.bsky.social for making this possible #Skystorians

We are all set up for History Day 25! You can pick up a FREE BOOK from our stand if you sign up to our monthly history email update. We are on the ground floor - stand B11. Come and say hello! @ihr.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social @senatehouselib.bsky.social #HistDay25

New Blog post for #HistDay25 Antinous in the collection of the ICS library Part of the Queer History & Heritage Trail, Dr Rosario Rovira Guardiola explores how Antinous and his image have fascinated so many since his death in October 130 AD through the collections of the Library: shorturl.at/munV2

come visit us at @senatehouselib.bsky.social with @jisc.bsky.social ArchivesHub for #HistDay25 - we are part of the Queer History and Heritage Trail! www.archivesportaleurope.net/blog/ape-at-... @ihrlibrary.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social

Holocaust Researcher Says Up to 1/3 of Imprisoned LGBTQ+ People Reported by Friends and Family https://www.them.us/story/lgbtq-holocaust-history-facts-illinois-museum-concentration-camps

In our new journal article, @tomhulme.bsky.social and I chart the biographies of three queer men who lived in N. Ireland between the 1900s and the 1970s. We show how their lives and sexual subjectivities were shaped by knowledge from beyond Ireland. muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic...

@bsky.app now has over 40M users! 🦋💙 To celebrate, I thought I'd repost the cover image of The Science of Life (August 1929) from which the beautiful butterflies on my profile banner are taken. The central specimens are all gynandromorphs (simultaneously female and male). #histsci #queerhistory 🌈🗃️

Our extraordinary winter offer is live - get 50% off thousands of books with free UK postage! Only available from yalebooks.co.uk in November Includes all books except those priced £100+, preorders & books published after 31/10/25 Not available N/S America & Australia/NZ #booksale #universitypress

Was gonna catch up with #Strictly this evening, but Georgia Mann (on BBC Radio 3 Essential Classics) was just raving about Queen of Hearts La Voix pasodobling with King Aljaž to Beethoven's Symphony No. 5. Couldn't resist peaking - it's fabulous! #tv #dance 👑❤️🌈👠 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs0a...

@bsky.app now has over 40M users! 🦋💙 To celebrate, I thought I'd repost the cover image of The Science of Life (August 1929) from which the beautiful butterflies on my profile banner are taken. The central specimens are all gynandromorphs (simultaneously female and male). #histsci #queerhistory 🌈🗃️

This History Day, explore hidden queer histories and surprising discoveries in the Queer History and Heritage Trail, with collections from The Postal Museum, @rcphysicians.bsky.social @qmullibrary.bsky.social and beyond! Blog: buff.ly/pzsC6wm #HistDay25 @ihr.bsky.social @senatehouselib.bsky.social

This coming week (Tuesday 4 November), we look forward to meeting all those attending #HistDay25 @ihr.bsky.social and @senatehouselib.bsky.social: bit.ly/4nvfl9v We'll be bringing badges and our new set of postcards #Skystorians

This is the origin of the expression "bats for the other side"...

Not only are all vampires gay, many bats are too! 🦇

This bat, coming out of the closet in the most fabulous way.

🦇🩸⚰️ Happy Halloween! 🧛🩸🦇 Same-sex sexual behaviours in bats were first documented in 1895! Here's a more recent study: www.italian-journal-of-mammalogy.it/Same-sex-sex... #Halloween #HappyHalloween #histsci #histbio #STS #GLAM #queer #lgbtq #queernature #PrideInSTEM 🌈🗃️

Happy Halloween! There’s not a bat nor a pumpkin in sight for this episode. Enjoy some different spooky species! 🦀 🌱

Another fantastic episode! 🏳️‍🌈🐑 The two podcasts with @timjerrome.bsky.social, @olliedouglas.bsky.social, & @joevaughan.net together provide a masterclass in 'How To Do' queer history. Commitment and persistence are key and Tim personifies both in abundance. Wonderful for students . . . #lgbtq 🌈🗃️

‘Il primo endocrinologo’: Paolo Mantegazza and the Theory of Internal Secretion royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1...

We are very proud to announce the five winners of our Small Grant Scheme for 2025! We strongly believe that these projects (and our contribution to them) can truly make a positive impact on our community! #PrideinSTEM 🧪🔭🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 prideinstem.org/2025/10/28/p...

Critical introduction to forthcoming "Gender & Segregation" special issue of @genderandhistory.bsky.social by Lisa Hellman, @writinghelena.bsky.social, Rachel Jean-Baptiste & me is now out and #OpenAccess! Issue itself to follow shortly... 🌟 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Gestern Abend wurde unsere Wanderausstellung “gefährdet leben. Queere Menschen 1933-1945” in #Düsseldorf eröffnet. Sie ist in der Mahn- und Gedenkstätte in der Mühlenstraße 29 bis zum 5. Juli 2026 kostenfrei zu sehen. Weitere Stationen im Ausstellungskalender: ➡️ tinyurl.com/yc87fn3m

'This widespread sense of insecurity is rooted in the very real threat of significant, targeted harm that trans people can be exposed to simply by existing in public. Almost two-thirds (65%) of trans adults reported verbal abuse in public spaces'. By simply existing in public.

Consanguity riddle from the 15th century: A count had twelve knights, all of whom had the same mother – four were his sons, four his brothers-in-law and four his sons-in-law. How could this be possible? Use these handy figures to work it out.