no one likes historians because every time someone says “oh this is unheard of” historians are all like “well actually” and fundamentally it just doesn’t sound as impressive if you have to say “in these slightly precedented times”

See the new issue of History of Social Science, just published! Half the articles are free, including @brad.bolman.com’s account of Bruno Latour’s blocked appointment at the Institute for Advanced Study and Chas Camic’s short bio of Veblen’s Theory of the Leisure Class muse.jhu.edu/issue/56614

What does epistemic justice mean for young people seeking support for their mental health? In this open access chapter, Michael Larkin and team explore the importance of being understood: link.springer.com/ch... #philsky #philosophyforeveryone

📣 Call for papers: Caring Communities: Rethinking Histories of Care, Class, and Kinship, 1800-present Newcastle University, Thursday 3 - Friday 4 September 2026. Deadine for submissions: Friday 24 April 2026. caringcommunities.co.uk/conference/

Fully-funded AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership project: 'Cold War Socialism, Non-Alignment and Anti-Colonialism in the Yugoslav Press, 1961-1979' - British Library & University of Exeter www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... Deadline for student applications: 5 May (noon)

historians: “archive fever” other humanists *rolling eyes*: “historian flu”

'The most enduring legacy of Plague, which devastated Britain between 1348 and 1665, was that it set the conditions for how we deal with outbreaks.' Dr Evan Jones (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) on new research in Local Population Studies by BA History graduate Matthew Kilner Read 👉 brnw.ch/21x1ub2

CfA: International Visiting Fellowship Programme in the History of Knowledge (Lund) We invite early career/postdoctoral scholars to join us at LUCK during a period of one week between 2 November and 6 November, 2026. Read more here: newhistoryofknowledge.com/2026/04/13/c...

📚️ Join us on Mon 11 May 4–5.30pm for the launch of 'Blood, Sweat and Tears: A History of Bodily Fluids'. Author Ruben Verwaal will be joined by historians & scholars of medical humanities to take a deep dive into the story of bodily fluids. Book your free spot! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

To be fair to Jenrick, making a list of cheap days out for skint people might be the first useful thing he's done in his whole entire life

Bozena Zoric summarises the argument of her recently published monograph ADHD, Attachment Theory, and #EpistemicInjustice on the #projectEPIC blog epistemicinjusticeinhealthcareproject.blogspot.com/2026/04/adhd... #philsky

i think if you tweet "a whole civilization will die tonight" you shouldn't go to the hague, the hague should get to come to you

What the last few years of watching some scholars and professors defend GAI universalization in academia has taught me is that way too many of us actually don’t like to do the work. ‘It finds sources for you’ ‘it writes for you’ ‘it comes up with teaching plans’. Sir, I actually like doing all this

Something to look forward to: Seçil Yılmaz's book on the history of syphilis in the Ottoman Empire @stanfordpress.bsky.social www.sup.org/books/middle...

We’re welcoming applicants for a fully funded history PhD project researching the first 100 years of the UK's Public Record Office, ahead of its bicentenary in 2038. Find out more and apply here by Friday 8 May: phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/2475... (1/2)

Predictably, Matt Goodwin's GB News debate was a disaster. He opens with defending the idea "everyone" uses AI tools for research now, and it's entirely legitimate. So the book is undeniably a product of using LLMs on some level. 1/

🎓 Need funding for dissertation research travel? The History of Science Society is offering individual grants of up to US$2,500 for graduate student members to work in archives, laboratories, and field sites. You can apply until March 31 - there's still time! hssonline.org/general/cust...

It ended the practice 30 years ago after its own internal report said was scientifically flawed, discriminatory, and a cause of emotional trauma www.wearequeeraf.com/olympics-end...

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EPIC: Epistemic injustice in Healthcare⁣ ⁣⁣ Epistemic injustices include ignoring patient questions, dismissing their testimonies, and other ways of 'silencing' the perspectives and voices of ill persons.⁣ ⁣⁣ More: epistemicinjusticeinhealthcare.org⁣ ⁣#philosophyh#healthcarere

This week’s horror is our introductory module, which examines the literature, art, music, dialect, film and TV from the region 1500-2025 being forcibly replaced by an entire ‘success in HE’ module featuring two weeks on how to use AI. I designed my module to incorporate proper study skills…

If you're interested in loneliness and epistemic injustice, I'm giving a talk about my book project next week! All the way back and all the way down: epistemic injustice and the history of loneliness 30/03/2026, 1pm - 2:15pm. epistemicinjusticeinhealthcare.org/epic-seminar...

A workshop for early-career researchers based in the UK on challenging Western-centric perspectives in the #medhumanities Facilitated by Global History of HIV Activism project and Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research (NNMHR) 📆29-30 Oct 2026 University of Stirling Applications by 15 April

I work with historical sources that have and never will be digitized, I collect oral histories and work in hospitals. So no I don’t think that ‘AI can do research better than humans with PhDs’. And I’m tired of AI pushers who don’t know my fields demanding that I ‘try LLMs’ or risk redundancy

Oh my god it is actually out - like actually now. Over a week early! They snuck it out without telling me! lol. Well, here it is people, and you can download the whole thing for free - thanks to @wellcometrust.bsky.social Fill your boots: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon...

On strike today and tomorrow, joining @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social colleagues in making the apparently outrageous demand that the university not cut my pension by £100,000

This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon. Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org

NEW CfP! 🌈🎓 📸 VISUAL HISTORY NOW: Using photographs to study the history of gender, sexuality, and space 8-9 Oct, Tampere Uni, Finland If you research gendered, sexual, queer or trans histories using visual materials, this is the conference for you! Deadline 31 March www.tuni.fi/en/research/...

We're excited to share a programme preview for our Measurement Heretics workshop! Starting tomorrow, this 3-day workshop brings together international & interdisciplinary perspectives to guide the future of ethical, meaningful health data. You can still book 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/measuremen...

We are delighted to announce the winner of the WHN Book Prize. The judges chose Female Servants in Early Modern England by @charmianmansell.bsky.social The highly readable & engaging book, interrogates long-standing assumptions about the domesticity & constraints of women’s lives in service.

My extra radical far loony left position is that no one should ever be allowed to make a profit from academic publishing. It is a public good. See also: education, healthcare (on a good day, public transport…)

BBC Verify confirms that the United States killed 110 young children, in their school, on just the first day of this war. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Cool opportunity to work at the intersections of climate/environmental history and history of medicine! History and Medicine – Associate Professor or Professor with Tenure – McMaster University Apply by March 31st niche-canada.org/2026/03/05/h... #envhist #histmed #climhist #cdnhist

This is amazing and I have saved it for all appropriate occasions.

Job Opening: Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Medicine & Medical Humanities to begin 7/1/2026. For more info & to apply: hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/2026/03/06/j... Deadline to apply is April 5th.

Happy to say I'm now an associate editor for @the-polyphony.bsky.social. I'm particularly interested in pitches on the intersections between health and the built environment, but would love to hear from anyone who wants to write about their #medhums work! More info: thepolyphony.org/get-involved/

Excited to host the Measurement Heretics Workshop: Being Meaning and Measuring Well on March 11-13, at the Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham University. The keynote will be hybrid so register for this free event! @durhamimh.bsky.social #histsci #histmed #hps #philsci #medhums #histtech #sts

Kansas has, overnight, invalidated the drivers’ licenses of trans people, a pointless cruelty that upends their lives If Brits think “it won’t happen here” think again! Groups in the U.K. who want the same thing are routinely invited to consult with Labour and normalised in our press!

Shocking news. Obviously one doesn't know the ins and outs, but it's hard to comprehend how such a large and weathy university as UCL finds itself unable to support a cutting-edge humanities research institute. Solidarity with everyone affected. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Publication day! 🥳 Some thoughts on the pros & cons of 'retrospective diagnosis' for enriching disability archives. Portraiture and Disability: Cripping Retrospective Diagnosis: Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies: Vol 20, No 1 liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...

We are advertising a two-year lectureship in Modern British History at University of Cambridge, please spread the word! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

Reminder that the Consortium for #histSTM has research fellowships available (d/l april 15) for travel to 2 or more of its constituent members. Tho' most are in US, McGIll, U of Toronto and Wellcome Collection are also options for ppl who can't travel safely to US for research 🗃️

A common fictional narrative shows people with nonconforming identities finding self-acceptance in towns and cities. This #LGBTQHistoryMonth, archivist Lottie Wood explores how author E. M. Barraud found the opposite, through rural work and the Women’s Land Army. merl.reading.ac.uk/news-and-vie...

The @ihr.bsky.social has brought all its online resources - journals, @vch-home.bsky.social, OA book series, @bho.bsky.social, BBIH, @layersoflondon.bsky.social, and more - into one section of its website for easier access bit.ly/4cCrpUD. Much of this content is free to use online #Skystorians

Applications are open for a Bloomsbury College PhD studentship, to work on the history of the voluntary organisation Release. The student will be based at UCL, supervised by Prof. Toby Seddon, and co-supervised by Prof. Alex Mold at LSHTM. Further details below. bloomsbury.ac.uk/drugs-civil-...

I think we have a new winner.

Cath Roper and Nina Joffee-John present abolitionist perspectives on #epistemicinjustice in #psychiatry on the #projectEPIC blog epistemicinjusticeinhealthcareproject.blogspot.com/2026/02/abol... #philsky

First piece out by @busedp.bsky.social, about growing up 'gifted' - well done Buse! She's still recruiting also for interviewees, link in the blog - www.history.ox.ac.uk/article/revi...