Such a superb, insightful & brave paper from @gailfdavies.bsky.social who so eloquently captures and describes what many of us have noticed about the evolution of symptoms as a result of patients’ interactions with the medical system👏👏💪🏻💪🏻 Straight into my top 10 of best papers ever on FND👌👌

New paper outlining a spatial account of #FND and proposing an approach to the co-production of functional symptoms. It draws on my longstanding work on geographies of health knowledges, my recent health experiences, and emerging interdisciplinary conversations www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📣Join the States of Precarity team for the launch of the States of Precarity in UK Higher Education Geography report. 📅 Wednesday 14 January 🎦 Online 👉 Sign up to attend: https://bit.ly/4rvQgP2 Check out the report before the launch: https://bit.ly/44HTUvg

Our Chief Executive Vicky Robinson appears in @resprofnews.bsky.social today, in an opinion piece focusing on the UK government's ambitious strategy to replace the use of animals in research and testing: www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v....

Upcoming Event: Social and Cultural Geography beyond the Academy – Opportunities in Policy and Practice Friday 28 November, 11.00-12.30, ONLINE (UK) This event joins academic and non-academic geographers to discuss their transition from the academy into the world beyond Further info: scgrg.co.uk

This is on Monday. Do join us if you can and are interested in more inclusive academic workplaces

Tom Harper, Nick Dykes, & Magdalena Peszko, Secret Maps: Maps You Were Never Meant to See, from the Middle Ages to Today @uchicagopress.bsky.social, November 2025 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... Secret Maps exhibition @britishlibrary.bsky.social until 18 January 2026 events.bl.uk/exhibitions/...

This SI places plant and multispecies studies in dialogue with anthropological debates on emplacement, displacement, mobilities and migration. Highly recommend!

*Globalizing Wildlife*, a book edited by @vbateman.bsky.social, Tom Quick, and myself, is now available for pre-order with @uncpress.bsky.social! Using code 01SOCIAL30 at checkout, you can save 30% www.uncpress.org/book/9781469...

New in Geo: 'Repairing epistemic injustice and loss in the era of climate coloniality' by Farhana Sultana This paper critically examines the intersections of power, pedagogy and praxis in producing inequitable climate knowledge, global governance, policies and solutions. doi.org/10.1002/geo2...

"Lab Dog is a landmark study. Brad Bolman’s history of what might seem a niche subject is, in fact, an original and illuminating exploration of key aspects of the biological and biomedical sciences in the twentieth century." Read Michael Worboys' review here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A call for 🦕🦖🦣 contributors! With Victor Monnin, I'm editing a collection about extinct animal parks—it's a field guide, of sorts, that turns a critical eye on places real, imagined, and yet to be. Find the full CFP for LANDS OF THE LOST here: tinyurl.com/dinoparks #PaleoSky #HistSci #EnvHist #STS

Join us at the *free* FUTURES Festival (11–12 Oct Exeter) for inspiring events celebrating history, archaeology, science & culture! With @lsangha.bsky.social and Chris Hoban live music based on stories from 16-18th century wills🎵 and Laura Evis in the SHArD 3D Lab news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e...

3 year PhD position at U of Copenhagen for a philosophical analysis of animal models in translational neuroscience. Those with MA in HPS, philosophy, anthropology, psychology, STS, etc. are welcome to apply. Application deadline is Oct 31 #HPS #STS employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...

On my way to Oxford to chat about the new project led by Beth Greenhough and colleagues on #PPI and #AnimalResearch. Will be sharing relevant insights from our 2022 report web-archive.southampton.ac.uk/animalresear... This fantastic summary of issues and resources was put together by Gabrielle King

Some (no doubt annoyingly) glass-half-full reflections on REF2029 pause, for academic and PS staff involved in HEI submission(s). If, like me, you're having to deal with the hiatus in the known unknowns, what's a viable approach to take? Some very preliminary thoughts. 1/7

So many untold stories of women's innovation in electronic music still to be brought to light, including this key figure who developed Casio backing tracks that enabled a revolution in reggae. Great profile!

5. Today I read a paper by @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social and Alexander Mussgnug that I think illustrates this point perfectly. philsci-archive.pitt.edu/24891/1/Phil...

My University has opened a virtual scholar scheme for scholars from Gaza. Please share widely and help stop scholasticide. www.exeter.ac.uk/faculties/ha...

Our chapter on ‘Fabricating mice and dementia: opening up relations in multi-species research’ is now OA. @richgorman.bsky.social, Richard Milne and I explore the ways patient data, animal models and plaque concepts are woven together in making dementia www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK615...

This year’s academic marking season is coming to a close. Assignments used to sing in different voices: some in clarity, originality, creativity, some chaos. Gen AI has layered on an ‘academic autotune’ removing many enjoyable aspects of engaging with authentic student work. #highered #AI #marking

PhD studentship at Geography Exeter and Penryn assessing activities, outputs, outcomes and impact of the Isles of Scilly Community Research Network (CRN). Deadline: 25 June 2025. More details: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

Wonderful to spend the day with colleagues in Geography @exeter.ac.uk mapping the complex ways open science intersects with our research across the discipline. We covered experiences of preregistration, open databases, archiving, IP, legal challenges, and more, with more conversations to come 👐

Are you curious about expanding your social research practice to include nonhuman species, but don’t know where to start? Come and join this immersive three-day workshop at the University of Manchester, with a mix of indoor seminars and outdoor fieldwork: store.southampton.ac.uk/short-course...

This is a calm, clear and thoughtful piece on experiences around #FND, simply and beautifully illustrated. Thanks to all involved. A lot resonated, especially how hard it is to produce a meaningful account of your body when both embodied experiences and medical encounters are so fragmented

Absolutely stoked to share that my @renewbiodiversity.bsky.social colleague Ryan Shum has been awarded the AsSIST-UK Andrew Webster PhD prize for his work, 'Caring for microplastics: a multi-sited laboratory ethnography'! #STS #EnvHums #geography assistuk.org/2025/06/03/2...

#3Rs #AnimalResearch #AnimalWelfare - #FELASA2025 conference starting tomorrow in Athens! www.felasa2025.eu

Calling all researchers and public engagement professionals: we want to find out the factors affecting public engagement in 2025, including opportunities, risks and barriers. Help shape the future of public engagement with STEM by taking our survey: www.research.net/r/RS_public_...

The banner’s up… the #DartmoorTorsFestival starts today! Lots to enjoy inc talks with writers, archaeologists, artists incl @lisaschneidau.bsky.social @guyshrubsole.bsky.social , @lewis-winks.bsky.social and walks shorturl.at/Oomce

Incredible story by prof Kevin Aho on what it's like to live with Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) in @aeon.co and the current lack of FND care. I so appreciate how clearly Aho writes about this in a way that people can *get it.* A landmark in the discourse And thanks for the kind mention❤️

Folks, you read that right: this whole book on #GlobalHealth is available #OpenAccess! #histmed

Today is the day! My book Lab Dog is out from @uchicagopress.bsky.social a week early and you can find it wherever you find books. For @thedrift-mag.bsky.social, I put it in context with xenotransplantation, “trans rats,” & contemporary lab animal politics newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/from-capit...

Do you have a research interest in how AI can harm or benefit non-human animals? I'm recruiting a Research Officer to drive forward the "Animals and AI" priority area of The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience at the LSE. Please apply by 6 May! 🐖🐔🐟 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

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It's that season once again 🍂 ☀️ ❄️ 🌱 so please spread the word: Science, Technology, & Human Values are pleased to announce that we are taking proposals for Special Issues of the journal 📬 ⏰ The call closes 21 June 2025 - and you can find details in the form: forms.gle/6uYdQim9J1z5...

Great talk last night by Sophie Pierce & Alex Murdin on their fab new book, conceived as a Wainright-like guide for Dartmoor, in dialogue with 18th-20th century antiquarian works. Copies from Bookbag, exhibition of original artwork in Princeton, and look out for the Tors Festival in May.

In this part of Devon, commercial daffodil fields were dug up in the 1940s to grow war time food, the bulbs thrown onto the low walled boundaries, where an amazing range of varieties still flower

How did computers change zoos? I discuss the question in an article that just came out in the Journal of Global History - touching upon databases, 'infrastructural globalism' and transcontinental flows of Siberian tigers. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Our workshop report from Zurich 2024 on the role of universities in replacing animal research is now out journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... It focuses on the Swiss context and was not a consensus conference, but there was lots of collective creative thinking about replacement strategies #3Rs

Am still processing my experience of an afternoon of talks on FND organised at @bnpa.bsky.social on Thursday, opening and closing with patient perspectives. Was great to meet and hear such inspiring people working together to create supportive pathways for patients, sometimes seemingly from nothing!

📣Postdoc Aarhus University! 2.5 yr post working with @mettehoybye.bsky.social on an ethnographic project investigating the ethical & societal impacts of transitioning from animal to human-based biomedical research models. #STS #MedAnthro #MedicalHumanities au.career.emply.com/ad/postdoc-i...

A reminder that the next 'Globalising Animal Geographies' seminar from is happening this Friday at 4pm. We will hear from @annaguasco.bsky.social and her research on 'reimagining whales' geographies'! Sign up using the QR code :)

In London tomorrow to give a @stsucl.bsky.social seminar on ‘How the FDA animal rule is remaking the experimental geographies of drug discovery and development’. Looking forward to catching up with former colleagues and discussion: with disruptions to US science, is this now an historical geography?

Note to self: ask the uni library to order this today! 🤩

📣ARTIST OPPORTUNITY Open call for artists to apply to make new work for the exhibition Living Labyrinths: Art and Fungi 🍄 We're looking for work that breaks down boundaries + engages with scientific concepts through a lens of critically engaged art. Deadline 28 Apr. Apply: ramm.uk/artist-oppor...

Fabulous to see this all come together! So many great articles 🤩 Also the final output from the mighty & lovely hospital senses collective @victoriabates.bsky.social @marieallitt.bsky.social @harrietbarratt.bsky.social @agnesjuliet.bsky.social and Rebecca Fleetwood-Smith

I'm researching the folklore of "nonsense" place name derivations in Britain. One of my favourites (19th century) is that the city of Exeter was so-called because "when the Romans first came in sight of it they exclaimed in delight, ‘Ecce terra!"

I keep thinking about a course I taught recently called 'Experimental Geographies'. This used history to look at where and how science takes place, tracing the intersections between identity, institutions, colonial and military practices, commercial pressures, and geopolitical contexts 1/6

Have spent the last two days with colleagues in our role on the Wellcome social science advisory panel. This is year 4 for me and, apart from learning from a great team, the biggest satisfaction is seeing projects now running on key issues in health, equity & inclusion wellcome.org/grant-fundin...

Excellent piece on the wanton destructiveness playing out in federal research agencies: “The US took nearly a century to craft its rich scientific ecosystem; if the unraveling that has taken place over the past month continues, Americans will feel the effects for decades to come.”