Really happy to see my new article published in the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. It looks at how early twentieth-century American physical culture defined success through measurement images and commercial claims to science. Free access: bit.ly/4qvlswy

CFP: Society for the Study of Measurement will be held at the University of Edinburgh June 22-25, 2026. Submit proposals for papers, symposia, & poster on any topics in the theory, history, philosophy, & application of measurement by January 15, 2026 app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/80364... #HPS

-- historians of death and dying -- I'm looking for any studies of men dying from illness/old age as opposed to '''exceptional''' circs i.e., war, execution

Are you even doing PhD unless you get your research permanently inked? Wee postage stamps of Durham and the Angel of the North! (Incase anyone doesn’t know by now, I’m from County Durham and research disabled expertise in the British Post Office)

Does anyone know how Google Scholar ranks articles? I'm doing a very specific search. The top 5 articles are all from the past 2 yrs. Top 3 have a total of 3 citations, but #4 and #5 have nearly 50 citations ea. It's not relevance that's driving this. However, #4 and #5 have women as lead authors.

If you’re a #Humanities #ECR & in/willing to travel to York on 17 December, join me & the @historylabplus.bsky.social team for our 2025 ‘Christmas Connections’ event, a FREE & informal opportunity to support each other, build professional connections, & sample the city’s heritage & eatables. 👇&🧵

🚨 NEURODIVERSITY IS MORE THAN... symposium 📅 4 March 2026, 9-5pm GMT, online. Free to attend, all welcome! Sign up below: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/neurodiver...

This #UKDisabilityHistoryMonth we're celebrating our Disability History Series, a selection of works exploring global perspectives on disability across society, culture, and time. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/disab...

I greatly enjoyed filming for this series. If you want to know which notorious gangster lived with #syphilis for many years, check out #OriginalGangsters with Sean Bean. Starts Tuesday 4 November 9pm on Sky HISTORY. (Catchup afterwards on Now TV and Apple TV+)

Eating sushi on a cross country train

When will this crisis get any attention whatsoever!? A THOUSAND ACADEMIC STAFF AT ONE INSTITUTION SERVED REDUNDANCY RISK NOTICES! And that's not counting what's surely being visited on professional services staff too. This is an economic catastrophe, to say nothing of the intellectual catastrophe!

I was working on equity at one point, & I remember reading a report where they had data on every other group —completely forgot to include the data they had on disability. This was by the people in charge of equity btw. When I pointed it out, they seemed perplexed why it would need to be included.

We are delighted to share the programme for our upcoming conference! We will be running fourteen panels across two days in early February - all online and open to everyone 😊 please see our website for more details on speakers, panels and how to book.

This is a really important new report that examines both the impact and importance of including disability history in curricula and the experiences and discrimination faced by disabled students and staff members working in history.

In the wake of Wes Streeting’s announcement of a review of mental health ‘over-diagnosis’ we have published this new policy paper by Prof Lucy Delap arguing that the government’s priority should be to address the historic stigma against sick & disabled people. historyandpolicy.org/policy-paper...

This is tonight! 6pm! York! Come along if you're in the neighbourhood

Vivid memories remain of our National Trust report, an audit of existing research on country houses' colonial histories. Here is a recent open access article about The National Trust and future possibilities for exploring colonial history by Jessica Moody. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Read my biography of Henri Bergson to find out about his philosophy of durée, his secret meeting with President Wilson during WWI, the experiments he and Pierre Curie conducted on an Italian medium, and why he caused the 1st traffic jam on Broadway! Order your copy here: linktr.ee/eherring

As a disabled historian I am so pleased that History UK (co-funded with @royalhistsoc.org) have published their report on disabled student & staff experiences of #highereducation & history. It makes for a difficult reading at times, but none of it is surprising. www.history-uk.ac.uk/projects/his...

🗃️Strongly, strongly recommend signing for this if you can. I benefited hugely from the time out, the support and the guidance on the residential course (and though i didn't get the grant I worked on, I did get an agent and real idea for a new book so...)

This is infuriating and tbh a good argument for why MDs should have to take more applied math coursework (Also I think the number has got to be higher than 2.5%; like half the menstruating people I know are like "I'm really tired and my ferritin is kinda low but my doctor says I'm fine" 🤬)

This was fantastic - moving, angering, and inspiring in turns. So proud of colleagues David and Julie-Marie, and the wonderful people at The Story, home of Durham archives - including archivist Victoria Oxberry (R), who is helping to build a community archive on HIV/AIDS in the county. 📜🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🗃️

This new report is actually pretty great. There's some areas I'd quibble with, for sure, especially around use of AI. But generally this is a long overdue recognition of the fragility of medical collections in the UK with some sensible insights and recommendations for intervention and consolidation

This week: "Why We Should Not Characterize Aging as a Disease" by Ahmed Al-Juhany philmed.pitt.edu/philmed/arti... Join using link below if you havent yet-all meetings are online, and we have a variety of meeting times to accomodate different timezones. Likes and shares very appreciated!

📣 Applications are open for our 2026-27 Medical Humanities in Practice Research Fellowship scheme! The scheme supports professionals and researchers from health or voluntary and community sectors to develop research within the medical humanities. Apply by 30 Jan:

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You can hire me to edit for you! I provide fast, professional, and personalised proofreading, copy editing, and developmental editing services www.wellreadherring.com/editing

📢Call For Papers📢 Sociability & Political life Marc Jaffré & I are organising a conference! We're asking: can there be politics without sociability? How have friendship, intimacy, socialising & informal attachments been central to political projects & movements? Get your abstracts in by Feb 14th!

Nominations are open for the BSHS Pickstone Prize 2026, recognising the best scholarly English-language book in the history of science. 📆 Deadline: 31 Jan 2026. Anyone may nominate (self-nominations welcome). Submit via our online form on the BSHS website www.bshs.org.uk/the-bshs-pic...

This piece was greenlit and then killed by a British newspaper, so I’ve decided to publish myself instead. Trans People Deserve Better. "Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right open.substack.com/pub/wellread...

Good to see the problems facing our colleagues @britishlibrary.bsky.social being raised here by @hetanshah.bsky.social (of @britishacademy.bsky.social). If this had happened in France it would be considered a national problem to be urgently addressed! www.cityam.com/the-british-...

Maternity leave cover for a health humanities post www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Excited to be at St Andrews to hear Professor Tom Shakespeare on 'Disability: what it is, and why it concerns everyone'.

A Halloween 'invitation to play' I made for my little boy- the anatomy lesson of Dr Noah. Attendees went in two by two...

Joel & I in conversation with the wonderful @marybethhamilton13.bsky.social - talking about friendship, forms of belonging, & revolutionary histories for @historyworkshop.org.uk

📢 final update from us 📢 1 November is a soft deadline and we will happily accept any abstracts that arrive a few days later! If you would like to put something together but don’t have anything ‘formal’ yet, just let us know and we’ll bear this in mind. Our email is: [email protected]

I don't know how I missed this when it first came out but it's such a good piece from two wonderful scholars

This is such a fun idea

History of the Human Sciences announces its 2025-26 ECR Prize. All details (including previous winners) on our para-site histhum.com. Deadline: 30 January 2026. Also! Follow the journal on Bluesky at @histhum.bsky.social www.histhum.com/early-career...

I'm excited to share this CfP for a Broadly Conceived edited collection. @bconceived.bsky.social has been such a rewarding project over the last 3 years & I can't wait to bring it all together in the pages of a book! We're particularly interested to hear from PhDs and ECRs. Please share!

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/

Reading a 1922 government report that refers to 'Air stations' and wondering why on earth we didn't go for plane stations as the preferred term? Petition to change all the airports to plane stations forthwith!

I'm very pleased to announce that the call for proposed Special Issues of the Historical Journal is now live, with a deadline of 12th December. Please do spread widely among your networks — @saracaputo.bsky.social and I look forward to reading your submissions! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Fabulous job for a death studies ECR in Manchester. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Come and work with our fab Americanists - a dynamic (and super nice!) group within @camhistory.bsky.social. We're hiring for a permanent position in twentieth century US history. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

I wrote about why it is imperative that we make fun of the maniacs who govern us and their billionaire friends app.thenewworld.co.uk?article=page...

Last chance to book for this evening’s special online seminar @ihr.bsky.social at 5.30pm BST. It will reflect on what we can learn from the history of equal pay legislation, with the help of Sally Brett and Megan Fisher. Please register below to join us. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...