We're discussing youth sexuality in my 'Sex, medicine and society' tutorial tomorrow so wanted to flag these brilliant publications by @kristinwh0.bsky.social on unmarried women & contraception in Scotland and @carorusterholz.bsky.social's fantastic book on the Brook Centres! Links below (all OA).

does anyone know of anything academic written about the riots and asylum seeker hotel protests in the UK in 2024 and 2025?

Question for #histmed: what are your favourite continous histories of disease? By which I mean, there's been very little progress in atiology, treatment etc over a long period of time

Historians here: Anyone up for joining a panel on early modern translation practices in science and medicine with me and the wonderful Sare Arıcanlı? It’ll be for the 2026 ESHS–HSS Joint Meeting in Edinburgh. Let me know!

Call for papers - Special Issue of Social Science & Medicine 🔎 Overdiagnosis, Medicalization, and the Consequences of Too Much Medicine Guest editors: Alexandra Ryborg Jønsson, Cindi SturtzSreetharan 📆 Submission deadline: 31 May 2026 www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

FUNDED PhDs! We are advertising for three ESRC-funded PhD scholarships! Any specialism permitted, depending on departmental supervision available. Spread the word! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPH631/e...

"The most common response among men aged 18-25, as with their female peers, is to state that they would never consider voting for Reform." Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte & Emilia Belknap argue that most British young men reject the right https://ukandeu.ac.uk/most-british-young-men-reject-the-far-right/

Really interesting job opportunity (& project)! Researcher/Engaged Research Fellow New research project funded by the Wellcome Trust Contragestive Time: Pregnant Uncertainties in Fertility Control cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/post... ping @bconceived.bsky.social @pregnancylossie.bsky.social

#Job opportunity Lecturer in early modern history Full time - permanent

Do you research food, food systems or a topic related to food? TABLE & @foodpolicycitysg.bsky.social in partnership with @wellcometrust.bsky.social, have launched a new survey to learn what you want from food research, what you need from funders, & key topics. Take the survey here: buff.ly/ROPrwTY

📢 Join us this autumn for the CHSTM Postgraduate Seminar Series 2025/2026! Explore new perspectives in HSTM. Our seminars run throughout the year, typically on Tuesdays, 1–2 pm on Zoom. To receive the Zoom link, contact: [email protected] #HistSTM #histmed

This PhD on a reparatory history of the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, exploring the legacies of empire is open for applications. It features a great supervisory team (moi, Kerry Pimblott, and Sadia Habib) and fabulous public history opportunities. Please share. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

⭐Opportunity: Paid internships and artist residencies for PhD researchers at Edinburgh Printmakers via SGSAH to study: Value of Printmaking and the Arts Applicants must be a 2nd or 3rd year PhD student in the arts & humanities, registered at a Scottish HEI. Read more: https://f.mtr.cool/gszfszgutz

PhD scholarship opportunity, to work with @sherilynmacgregor.bsky.social and myself on the 'local politics of climate backlash' at @uompols.bsky.social and @justcentre.bsky.social. Please circulate to anyone who might be interested! www.findaphd.com/phds/project....

🚨JOB ALERT🚨 Come work with me in Brno in a new project on how Scots pine & forestry changed societies and environments in the 18th-19th centuries! 🌲🌳 👇Fully funded postdoc position 👇 www.ibot.cas.cz/en/vacancies... Application deadline: 13.11.2025 Please distribute widely! #envhist #histecol

It's Ada Lovelace Day, so worth noting that the era during which coders were mainly women (starting with her machine-language explication of the Bernoulli sequence in 1843) lasted about 130 years whereas the male-dominated period has lasted less than half that long

The 2026 SSHM Conference will be @universityofleeds.bsky.social. The theme will be In/Out and we are inviting papers that consider experiences of being in and/or out of health or health care in any period or geographical location. #HistMed #HistSTM sshm.org/sshm-2026/

We're delighted to announce publication of Greta Semplici's 'Moving Deserts', examining resilience among Turkana herders through fourteen months of ethnographic fieldwork. More info: www.whpress.co.uk/publications... #pastoralism. This book is #openaccess thanks to @openbookcollective.bsky.social!

Job! Postdoc in Digital Cultural Heritage: Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems, on new EU funded grant. 3.5 years, @designinf.bsky.social, Edinburgh. Design ethical processes, & evaluate open source tools for Digital Cultural Heritage Objects, with me! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Even as someone with (most of) a PhD, the Universal Credit system is impenetrable. It's punative, and since being transferred to it from tax credits, we have had multiple financial crises caused ONLY by UC failures. The system is rotten. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

If you're interested in history or social studies of mental health and illness, psychology or psychiatry, and are in Manchester on 16 October, please join us for our first Mind, History & Society Seminar, a conversation on the future of the #autism concept. blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0...

📣📣Call for papers sites.google.com/uniroma1.it/... Hybrid workshop, "Motherhood Without Poverty: Working-Class Women and Global Struggles for Work, Family, and Reproductive Autonomy (1918–1939)". 27 feb 2026, University of Glasgow. Please share!

Sign-up for the Northern Environmental History Network's first talk of 2025/26 is now available! 📆28/10 15:00 @eseh.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org @ihr.bsky.social @imems.bsky.social @durhamhistory.bsky.social @cemsexeter.bsky.social @esehnextgate.bsky.social @asle-us.bsky.social

Want to work on the history of hair? I am looking for a doc and postdoc to join my project team researching #earlymodern hair, race, trade and multispecies history at the University of Lucerne. Do apply and spread the word! www.unilu.ch/en/universit... www.unilu.ch/en/universit...

Physician who dabbles in history of medicine, historian of science and technology, historian of medicine and society.

Want to do a PhD in social science at Durham? Are you interested in health and mental well-being? Or in environmental and planetary health? Our ESRC NINE DTP scholarships come w/ a range of pathways and perks: call now open for 2026-27! Get in touch. www.ninedtp.ac.uk/the-application-process/

We’re advertising a PhD studentship for folks with good knowledge of Caribbean culture and society, with background in geography, human geography, humanities or interdisciplinary geosciences as part of our @leverhulme.ac.uk funded ‘volcanic histories’ project

I submitted my thesis! Anyone who knows me in real life knows what a (even huger than usual) thing this is. My body hasn't caught up yet but I'm so excited to not have this albatross round my neck anymore 😂 all my gratitude to everyone who helped me get here ❤

#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...