🚨🚨🚨The CfP for the 2025 BSA #Death, #Dying and #Bereavement symposium is now open! This year's theme is #Care and #Caring, and the University of Nottingham is hosting us. Please submit your abstracts by Tuesday 30th September to [email protected]. We're looking forward to reading them!

Enjoying a cup of tea from my new mug @deathstudiespod.bsky.social #DDD17

Behind the scenes of the @asdsdeath.bsky.social awards ceremony this afternoon at @ddd17-2025.bsky.social Congratulations to all! A special well done to CDAS members @drrenskevisser.bsky.social and Bethan Michael-Fox for being nominated for their awesome @deathstudiespod.bsky.social

Are you attending @ddd17-2025.bsky.social? I will be hosting a book club session with Ashes to Admin author @christinamartin.bsky.social Do join us if you can! ddd17.sites.uu.nl/additional-e...

Unexpected item in an army surplus shop in Finland #RoyalMail

Small Matters doctoral researcher Inka Laisi wrote some reflections on this year’s @cendeathsociety.bsky.social conference on Death and Transitions ⬇️ small-matters.com/cdas-confere...

I might be biased, but isn’t this the most handsomest cat?! #catsky

open.spotify.com/episode/02kZ... #podsky

DDD attendees! Have you ordered our special Death Studies mug yet? @ddd17-2025.bsky.social @asdsdeath.bsky.social ko-fi.com/s/d864bdc0c1

Congrats Prof Claire Nally on the publication of the article Death is not the End, and thank you for the lovely mention of the podcast and our book chapter on @salenagodden.bsky.social Mrs Death Misses death 💙📚 Article available open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New blog! Legacy by @ucheblackstockmd.bsky.social is a powerful anger and thought-provoking memoir that outlines the ongoing and pervasive racism present in healthcare, and how skin colour affects health outcomes and life expectancy. 💙📚 deadgoodreading.com/legacy/

New blog! Legacy by @ucheblackstockmd.bsky.social is a powerful anger and thought-provoking memoir that outlines the ongoing and pervasive racism present in healthcare, and how skin colour affects health outcomes and life expectancy. 💙📚 deadgoodreading.com/legacy/

F is for Fisk is one of the entries, beautifully illustrated by @landisblair.bsky.social, from my book A is for Arsenic: An ABC of Victorian Death, defining and explaining some basic terms of Victorian death culture, using 19th c. primary sources, anecdotes, and even jokes. Available worldwide.

A recent @newscientist.com cartoon #fungi

#WHAI2025 REGISTRATION OPEN 👉 BOOK NOW 👉 tinyurl.com/2jnkuw4s 👇 Conf site QR Code 👇 Brilliant program made possible by our brilliant ⭐ #skystorians @whaireland.bsky.social #WomensHist #History #GenderHist #RevolutionaryHist #IrishResearch #Speirgorm #HealthHist #Carlow #Ireland

In the Library Book by @susanorlean.bsky.social I may have found my favourite phrase to describe someone has died. In Senegal they say “someones library has burned”, and I think that’s beautiful. Full blog here: deadgoodreading.com/the-library-... 💙📚

What a lovely gesture 🥰📚

Book mail is the best mail! A copy of the edited collection Death & Institutions, including my chapter Institutional Thoughtlessness: prison as a place for dying landed in my mailbox Thanks to the editors for inviting me to contribute! @cendeathsociety.bsky.social 💙📚

The Great Dead Body Teachers by Jackie Dent is a fascinating account on full body donation, human anatomy and the history and ethics of dissection 💙📚 deadgoodreading.com/the-great-de...

@arielgore.bsky.social recommends five books to read when your spouse is diagnosed with cancer, including work by Audre Lorde, Barbara Ehrenreich, Teva Harrison, and more.

🐣New blog 🐣 🪺 Happy Easter🪺 The Great Dead Body Teachers by Jackie Dent delves into the world of body donation, dissection and teaching human anatomy 💙📚 deadgoodreading.com/the-great-de...

Starting Easter Sunday with a book about books, as the rain pours down outside- what is everyone else reading? 💙📚

A Stone Is Most Precious Where it Belongs review on Dead Good Reading 📚💙 deadgoodreading.com/a-stone-is-m...

New blog! deadgoodreading.com/a-stone-is-m...

A call for pitches I wish we'd never had to think about.

Call for Papers! We are seeking abstracts for a Special Issue on Young Children’s Perspectives on (Multispecies) death and dying Abstract Deadline May 15 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

New review published in the Social History of Medicine #BookSky academic.oup.com/shm/advance-...

How lovely to see @talkdeath.bsky.social has moved here! We interviewed co-founder @jeremyfcohen.bsky.social a few years ago. Listen here: thedeathstudiespodcast.com/dr-jeremy-co...

Tomorrow! There still time to register: shorturl.at/Ymgyl

New month, new episode! We spoke with @totomcgee.bsky.social about his soon to be published book Gone Gone @dukepress.bsky.social on experiencing grief through losing a loved one to drugs and overdose deaths Listen wherever you get your podcasts 🎧 thedeathstudiespodcast.com/todd-meyers/

Just googled the word “flint” as there are a lot in my current read, and I was today years old when I understood why the Flintstones are called the Flintstones

6 januari 1667 - the Swedish sailor Swen Roelofsen (20) is arrested and detained, he denies he had a snowball in his hand, nor did he throw that snowball to 'an important man from the government' ('sienelijk heer in Reegerrigh'). #Amsterdam #17thCentury #OTD

Maggie Nelson’s Bluets taught me a Dutch expression: ‘dat zijn maar blauwe bloempjes’ 📚💙

This such a sweet initiative

If you’re the kind of person who easily forgets what you’ve accomplished, you need a practice for reminding yourself. Count the years, the finished projects, the progress, the praise, count it all up and use it as evidence against the ever present criticism in your head that you’re not doing enough.

Finishing a bunch of books so they count towards this year’s book count (the down side of reading multiple books at the same time is that I am disappointed by the number I’ve achieved 😂) 💙📚

Please show off your new Holiday book titles 📚💙

Today marks 20 years ago since the tsunami in South East Asia. Sonali Deraniyagala miraculously survived but lost her family. Wave is her moving memoir recounting her experiences and the aftermath of (personal) disaster deadgoodreading.com/wave/

Some households left fat or grease from the Christmas Goose outside as an offering to witches. It was believed that witches rubbed their bodies with an ointment made from goose fat mixed with other ingredients that enabled them to fly. #FolkloreThursday

Merry Christmas! Hyvää Joulua! Vrolijk kerstfeest! 📚💙💙📚

🎄⭐️🎁 Day 23 🎁⭐️🎄 ⭐️ Listen to Dr John Troyer from @cendeathsociety.bsky.social talk about the relationship between dead bodies and technology

🎄⭐️🎁 Day 22 🎁⭐️🎄 ⭐️ Today we think about deathy books, particularly Critical Approaches to Death, Dying and Bereavement co-written by host @drrenskevisser.bsky.social & @ericaborgstrom.bsky.social 💙📚

🎄⭐️🎁 Day 21 🎁⭐️🎄 ⭐️ On the shortest day of the year we think about the social nature of death and dying ⭐️ Listen to @katewoody.bsky.social from @cendeathsociety.bsky.social wherever you find your podcast

Sarah Ahmed is getting me through the shortest day of the year- what are other people reading? 💙📚📚💙