We’re delighted to publish a new Policy Paper today by Jonathan Moss & @emilyrobinson.bsky.social. They suggest that Mass Observation @massobsarchive.bsky.social - founded in the 1930s - can help us understand the reasons behind contemporary voter apathy. historyandpolicy.org/policy-paper...

Our #projectEPIC on #EpistemicInjustice in healthcare is 2 years old, our blog reached 103k views and our open access book had 15k downloads… curious? Here’s our website! epistemicinjusticeinhealthcare.org @jelliedsours.bsky.social @histloneliness.bsky.social @kmurphyhollies.bsky.social #philsky

We're pleased to share this call for papers for our upcoming conference! 📍Online via Zoom 🗓️Thursday 5 - Friday 6 February 2026 ⏱️Abstract deadline Saturday 1 November 2025 See our website for full details 👇 voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk/index.php/news-and-resources/updates-from-the-project

A review of 'X-Ray' by Nicole Lobdell that I wrote over Christmas was published this month in Victorian Periodicals Review: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl.... The book is part of Bloomsbury's Object Lessons series on the fascinating history of everyday things and was a delight to read! 🩻

I really enjoyed speaking about my new book with Dr Miranda Melcher for the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast 📖 Now available online! 👇📻 newbooksnetwork.com/birth-death-... @universitypress.cambridge.org @uoearchhist.bsky.social @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @uniofexeternews.bsky.social

Take a look at some of our project’s work on narrative vulnerability during the #Covid19 pandemic and its impact on young people and textual expression, perhaps what we could see as a form of scriptotherapy ✍️

Autism is back on the front pages. Why not read the book that my excellent @manchester.ac.uk @manchstm.bsky.social colleague Dr Bonnie Evans has published on the history of autism? It's open access and you can read it online for free. www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...

My latest article has just been published in the Journal of British Studies! It's open access and you can read it here. Huge thanks to the archivists and librarians across Birmingham for their help with this research. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

A devastating read, I hope people spend a few minutes with it:

If you write professionally in the UK, make sure to sign up to ALCS for your fair share of royalties

An actual quote from the Secretary of State for Business and Trade Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’ Look forward to Wes S saying 'too often people go to hospital to have operations' or Heidi Alexander saying 'too often people go to the station to catch a train'

Grateful for a rich few days in Oslo with the Curating Cultural Heritage for the Medical & Health Humanities project (MNU). Highlights: inspiring sessions at Norsk Teknisk Museum & MUNCH, deep dives into art, ethics & medicine—and a sauna swim to wrap it all up! medhumsplatform.org/curating-cul...

New post today on the #projectEPIC on the first day of the conference of expertise in mental health hosted by Radboud University: epistemicinjusticeinhealthcareproject.blogspot.com/2025/09/who-... #philsky #epistemicinjustice @who-knows-what.bsky.social

This is genuinely (academically) dystopian — Kings featuring a lecturer who has to mark 100 scripts in a fortnight (!) and presenting AI as the approved workaround to that problem. This is why we can’t let this stuff into our working practice…

Cover reveal for my forthcoming book, WE HAVE COME TO BE DESTROYED: GROWING UP IN COLD WAR BRITAIN which tells the history of Cold War Britain (c.1956-89) through the eyes of children & young people! Out with @yalebooks.bsky.social 28 April 2026 #booksky #skystorians yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

The Journal of the History of Sexuality is looking for new editor(s) networks.h-net.org/group/announ... 🌈🎓

Having decided I want my public scholarship to be properly public, rather than behind a paywall, I've decided to make everything I've written for my newsletter - going back over two years - free to read for the foreseeable future.

📢 I'm thrilled to announce the full - and stellar - lineup for our upcoming symposium on critical approaches to like and dislike in medicine, law, and society! 📢 Bristol Uni, 15th October - register (for free) below!! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/critical-a...

Wonderful new post on the #projectEPIC blog by @jelliedsours.bsky.social. Jodie reports from the #EpistemicInjustice in Healthcare symposium at the meeting of the International Network of Philosophy and Psychiatry epistemicinjusticeinhealthcareproject.blogspot.com/2025/09/inte... #philsky #philpsy

This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”

Hello world! EAHMH is now officially on Bluesky. Follow us to receive updates about all things #histmed (but also #histsci, #STS) etc. For those of you joining us in Berlin for our biannual conference, please help us spread the word by using #eahmh25!

Chris Sandal-Wilson uses the #eahmh25 conference to move from his book on Palestine to his new project on politics of mental illness in state of collapse #histpsych

No 10's use of Keir Starmer’s Twitter feed is not something Keir Starmer could credibly defend. What is he doing with the imagery here & why? x.com/Keir_Starmer...

Check out our brand new special issue “Socialist Health: of Shortages and Solidarity” at the Brill book stand of #eahmh25 ! also fully OA at brill.com/view/journal... #histmed

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😇 extremely grateful to have this summary of what was a really lovely day ☀️

But also, how can ANYONE look around at what is happening to science in the US today—the systemic attacks on public health, on the very idea that evidence matters—and not perceive how interconnected everything is?? We cannot understand this moment without the humanities and social sciences.

🔥Hot off the press! New pre-print with the v. first findings from our study of reading, the imagination and mental health in collab with @edbookfest.bsky.social doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Finally, some plausible spam

Next paper in our special issue on 'Understanding oneself through others' is out! Zoey Lavallee, Anke Snoek and Frøydis Gammelsæter on addiction and affective recovery niches: #philsky www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

One of the students in Gaza with a funded university place in the UK has written about her story for @aljazeera.com: www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

Can't fault the clarity of Labour's message on protest. There are BAD protesters who must be punished (Irish musicians, anti-genocide vicars) and there are GOOD protesters whose views deserve respect (masked thugs with petrol bombs trying to start a pogrom)

Friends, a group of us are undertaking a 48-hour hunger strike, to raise funds for The Sameer Project helping distribute aid in Gaza. Please donate anything you can here: hungerstrikeforgaza.co.uk/about

✨ New(ish!) publication alert ✨ Toward Epistemic Justice: Using a Multimodal Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis Methodological Approach in Research With Autistic Children bit.ly/47eT8YO Part of a special IPA issue in @ijqmonline.bsky.social

Incredible things are happening in Kemi Badenoch's Conservative Party

📣Exciting News 📣 Dates & host institution for the SSHM Biennial Conference #SSHM2026 are confirmed! Save the Date in your planners 📅 Theme and CFPs to follow later #histmed #medhumanities #histSTM

What a brilliant idea: exploring the recent history of mothering by revisiting Ann Oakley's 1970 landmark study and carrying its themes forward into our post-Covid present www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/departme...

I posted this earlier, but came back to it again. It's just unbelievable. Warwick's consultants telling people how to write terribly so they are "on brand". It's Beyond ridiculous. Or rather "Beyond is ridiculous". brand.warwick.ac.uk/en/brand-gui...

Don't lose sight of massive loss of professional services. They keep unis running. Without them, academics spend their time on admin which is hugely inefficient (I do NOT have their skills). Everyone loses. Who is running library? Student support? Paying me to do admin makes NO sense. Save them too!

"This is my third time in Gaza since December 2023 as a volunteer surgeon with Medical Aid for Palestinians. [...] nothing has prepared me for the sheer horror I’m witnessing now: the weaponisation of starvation against an entire population."

Grant rejected. I really wish reviewers would understand that giving a grant anything lower than an 80% grade is going to get it rejected in these times. It's weird to read an extremely positive referee feedback report and then see they've given it a score which means it's an inevitable fail.

UKHE in 2025

New publication (not on hands, but on emotions and senses) from project leads @jbhist.bsky.social and @medhistoryman.bsky.social. It's completely Open Access and free for anyone to read.

Terrible. When I got my AHRC PhD funding I applied directly to the AHRC with my own project. Now students are increasingly tied in to what universities and partner organisations want them to do, stifling research independence - plus fewer projects getting funded overall.

Job alert! Come and join us for 12 months in our lovely @chppc.bsky.social team. We're seeking a fixed-term Lecturer in Historic Environment, who'll work on our projects, including research, publishing and digitisation. Closing date 29 August. Please share! www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

This looks like a fantastic 2 year RA job on the history of paper money in Britain C18th-C19th for those completing/or with an MA or PhD.

'The number of student-initiated PhD scholarships funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) is set to fall by 60 per cent when new doctoral training arrangements come into effect next year, new figures show.' 1/3

Shaimaa has a scholarship to do a PhD on Palestinian literature with me at @uoe-llc.bsky.social, but she's stuck in Gaza because the foreign office won't help. Please share. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

Planning ahead for summer 2026? Don’t miss the EPIC Summer School in Bertinoro (Italy)! Details and a link to apply here: epistemicinjusticein... #EpistemicInjustice #philsky #MedHum