#histSTM - can anyone reccommend historically focused work on genetic privacy/tissue ownership & similar since the 1990s in *Europe* (excl UK) for teaching with? looking for European "Alder Hey" moments, responses to ancestry testing or similar stuff & their historical analysis, any leads? 🗃️

I know everything is terrible BUT my son just joined the cheerleading club at his school and said some of his friends "think it's just for girls but they're wrong" (and two of his male friends joined with him) 🥰

My brilliant colleague (for 3 more weeks) Holly!

Save the Dates in your planners! The dates and host institution for the Society for the Social History of Medicine Biennial Conference #SSHM2026 are now confirmed. Tues 30 June - Fri 3 July 2026 University of Leeds @sshmedicine.bsky.social Theme and CFPs to follow later #histmed

In the newest article in our series Indigenous Historical Practices, Solveig Marie Wang uncovers Saami histories in medieval texts, challenging whitewashed myths of a monocultural medieval North.

Just a few days to go before the deadline - 25 August. There's huge scope within the project to develop work related to trade, cross-cultural encounter and empire in the early modern world, in geographies stretching across Africa and Asia. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

We asked. You said. We did. ✨ New guide: What co-production is & what it isn’t Clear definitions, links to the 5 ways of working (under the Well-being of Future Generations Act), plus a handy visual of the 5 core principles. Download & share: buff.ly/oqkAGnX

This is an extraordinarily cool study: Two unrelated young people buried in cemeteries in Anglo-Saxon times in England probably had grandparents who came from West Africa. It was a joy to cover this for @newscientist.com #science #archaeology #history 🧪 www.newscientist.com/article/2492...

'Updating their work on the amount of money students need to get by, the Higher Education Policy Institute (Hepi) and Loughborough University researchers have estimated that first-year students in halls of residence need £418 per week to cover their living costs – including £158 on rent.' 1/3

Today is official publication day of @cethompson.bsky.social and my little collection “Do Less Harm: Ethical Questions for Health Historians”. It has 28 essays on names, images, museum and archival practices, teaching, reparations, positionality, citation and more. www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

Kreitzer and Sweet-Cushman have a great summary of the research here. I am not joking in the least when I say it's easier to detect instructor gender than teaching or learning in evals. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

CfP for Leeds IMC 2026 on Premodern Masculinities. Do join 😊 #skystorians #medieval #masculinities #genderstudies #imc2026 @imc-leeds.bsky.social

My book 'Between Feast and Famine: Food, Health and the History of Ghana's Long Twentieth Century' is out today with UCL Press! This also means its fully open access and fully free to read and share and discuss with your friends and family. uclpress.co.uk/book/between...

What's happening in Gaza is mind-bogglingly inhumane. But I'm not sure it's useful to say that "the world" has been "silent" about it. Plenty of people and orgs - including the UN, several states, and the majority NGOs have been *screaming* about the destruction for at least eighteen months. 1/2

📣 call for applications 📣 Two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop. Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team. Please share widely! www.historyworkshop....

I'm looking for participants for my oral history on space and feminism! Please share with anybody you feel may have contacts and email me if you have any questions or would like to get involved: [email protected]

Literally the only time I miss the other place is when I need the scoop on pop culture (K-pop demon hunters is ❤️‍🔥) and this timeline is not giving me what I need ... (yes the kids made me watch it, they were correct)

Heads up that someone is successfully spoofing the Cooperative Bank's number for text alerts - will show up in the same thread you've had genuine conversations with the bank, super convincing. Basically; never click on a link in a text, always call. :/

New opportunity! We are offering funding for two researchers to embed themselves at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace to work on one of the themes outlined below www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/glob...

“The report, by Prof Alice Sullivan of University College London” ohhhhh okay right so not a *real* report then

🚀We’re #hiring a postdoc (3-years) for our research project – “Talking Empire – Prime Ministerial Rhetoric and the Search for a Usable Past in Post-Imperial Britain (1960-2025)”🇬🇧 – funded by the Carlsberg Foundation! 👉 fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... 📅4 Sep 2025

This is so important and in the midst of so much horror, I could cry with joy. Women in England & Wales 'who terminate their pregnancy outside the rules, for example after the time limit or by buying pills online, will no longer face arrest or prison'. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The London Society for Medieval Studies is recruiting for its 2025/26 committee! One of the longest running IHR seminars, we are also one of the few ECR-led. If you are a PGR or ECR based in London, working on anything medieval, please do get in touch! @ihr.bsky.social

A call-out on behalf of a student who is researching textile art and craft as environmental activism/action - looking for readings please!

Research Fellow in Psychology - Making Every Contact Count Northumbria University Newcastle upon Tyne / Bolton £40,497 - £45,412 Closes 22/06 work4.northumbria.ac.uk#en/sites/CX_...

Here’s the current Chair of the EHRC saying that she doesn’t think trans people have the right to privacy. Absolutely shameful. Not to mention a serious breach of the human rights she is supposed to safeguard. (And she’s wrong. The Supreme Court didn’t address the privacy issue so far as I’m aware.)

I’m excited to share that my article with Centaurus on: The UK-UAR Scientific Agreement (1961): The Role of the British Council and Science Diplomacy in Post-Suez Anglo-Egyptian Reconciliation, is now available to read! #sciencediplomacy #historyofscience #BritishCouncil #hstm

📜 Archives, Bodies and Creative Methodologies 📍 The University of Edinburgh 📅 26 June, 10am-1pm FREE workshop exploring how archives can serve as both sites and sources for #CreativePractice. For Scotland-based PhDs. Led by artist + researcher, Dr Kate Sweeney. ➡️ tockify.com/sgsah/detail...

Funded PhD studentship of €25,000/year for 4 years plus fees available @tcddublin.bsky.social to work with me on Irish women's life writing from the long 18th century! Please spread the word! @ecfjournal.bsky.social @cecs-york.bsky.social @clhlwr.bsky.social @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social

YESSSS god I haven't heard anywhere near enough discussion about student poverty and student employment in any assessment/teaching context let alone re. AI and honestly when I've brought it up I've been treated like I have two heads "that's not an issue" I'm told.

We are currently advertising for a 1-year fixed term 0.8 FTE post in Modern History at Lancaster. It goes without saying that it would have been nice had it been a F/T post but, in the current climate, it is something ... hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Job Alert! We're hiring a 3-year F/T Public Engagment Fellow based @lcflondon.bsky.social to lead our exciting programme of activities. We're looking for collegial & creative people with expertise in History, Galleries, Archives, Libraries, or Museums. Spread the word! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNI861/p...

My PhD student Monique Lerpiniere is looking for oral history participants for her @sgsah.bsky.social project on South Asian medical practitioners in Scotland. Please see the poster for info and share if you know anyone. Thank you! @rcpsgheritage.bsky.social @strathhumanities.bsky.social #histmed

🚨Job klaxon🚨 Opportunity for an oral historian interested in the history of swimming, water access and ‘blue spaces’ to work at Newcastle with the wonderful Elizabeth Turk on an interdisciplinary Wellcome project. Full details here jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...

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www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a... - Guardian 👇

Once, one of my professors said that if, in place of a murdered journalist, dozens of others appear and turn everything upside down to finish their colleague’s work – those responsible for the killing should start to worry. Well, I became part of such a project. Retweet 👇

Amazing history PhD opportunity at Trinity College Dublin to work on women’s experiences of maternity care in Dublin, 1950-2020. Dream supervisory team of @drdeefoley.bsky.social and @earner.bsky.social. 🤩Closing date 23 May. #histmed

Absolutely stonking statement by @glasgowunisrc.bsky.social. Really glad to see them standing by women, trans, and intersex students in such a strong way. www.glasgowunisrc.org/news/article...

PhD opportunity at TCD under the supervision of Dr Deirdre Foley and Dr Lindsey Earner Byrne.

📢📢📢 We are looking for contributors to respond to RFK’s recent eugenic-laden speech, his response to the measles outbreak, or any of his other policies. If you are interested you can DM this account or send us a pitch via our website. Please share widely! nursingclio.org/write-for-us...

🚨 “We’ve professionalised” says Reform UK. 🗳️ Doncaster candidates: “Hold my pint.” We’ve uncovered multiple candidates with a history of posting Hitler memes, sharing neo-nazi content, pushing racist conspiracies and fanboying over Tommy Robinson.

Solidarity ✊ Show your support this Saturday:

This this this!!!

if you are a cis person it costs you nothing to just say today that you see & hear your trans sisters & brothers & others over in the UK today -- and around the world, too, knowing that rulings like today's ripple out in ugly ways.

This. Protect trans kids. Protect trans rights. Gender is a spectrum. Trans women are women. Trans men are men. Non-binary people exist. Inter-sex & DSD people exist. Gender-non-conforming people exist. Transphobia is anti-feminist. Laws are often wrong and unjust. We must fight for a fairer future.

In response to today's Supreme Court ruling, we'd like to encourage you to pre-order @elierlick.bsky.social's book, Before Gender. Discover the trailblazing lives of 30 trans people who will change everything you've been told about transgender history: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526192714/

Similes like this are so helpful; it seems really obvious when you say it out loud but there is a genuine perspective shift when you're emphatic that the point of your teaching is not to create 15 essays, but 15 students who can write an essay.

Who wants to be official historian of UK policy in Northern Ireland during the Troubles? (Don’t all shout at once) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMQ310/e...

Two wonderful opportunities for early career and postdoctoral researchers to participate in the @Cambridge_Uni  Collections-Connections-Communities initiative (natural history humanities theme). www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/... and www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...