🎉 Announcing the launch of an agenda-setting collection of essays exploring how art and art-history can transform understandings of health, illness, care and medical knowledge. Edited by @drfijohnstone.bsky.social Allison Morehead and Imogen Wiltshire 🧵 @durham.ac.uk @languagesdurham.bsky.social

I'm very excited to be taking on a new role as Book Reviews Editor for the British Journal for the History of Science alongside the wonderful @coreenanne.bsky.social! We receive a wide range of excellent books for review, so please do reach out if you are interested in writing a review for us!

We have a fabulous line up of speakers at The Senses and Medical Humanities! 📅 24 Feb, 10.30–4PM 📍Collingwood College, Durham A few tickets still available. Book now! @claireturner.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-senses...

Great to see that the Master's thesis that Henry Lloyd-Hughes did with us at CHSTM a few years ago has transformed into an article in Isis: The Deaf Right Stuff: Disability, Space Sickness, and the Making of the American Astronaut, 1955–1968 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

Next month we're excited to be running a free 3-day Measurement Heretics workshop, bringing together a variety of perspectives to guide the future of ethical, meaningful health data ⚖️ 📆 11-13 March (Day 1 is hybrid, days 2 & 3 are in-person) More info 👇️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/measuremen...

Chicago UP is running a HUGE sale, and you can get extremely well-researched hard-bound books about all sorts of topics and all sorts of places for a price of a cheap paperback press.uchicago.edu/resource/Sal...

Delighted to share the programme for my upcoming workshop on 'The Senses and Medical Humanities', taking place at Durham University on 24 February. There are very few tickets left for this workshop, so get booking ASAP! Please get in touch with me for a text-only version of this programme.

Come and work with us on project EPIC at @unibirmingham.bsky.social. We are looking for a #Philosophy postdoc with an interest in the area at the intersection of philosophy, psychology, and mental health. edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... #philsky #jobs #epistemicinjustice

This was such a great, quietly radical keynote.

@estefwright.bsky.social has chosen Coreen Anne McGuire's review article, 'Disability History Gets to Work' - a "beautifully written piece [which] reflects on the broader social significance of this blossoming field" | @coreenanne.bsky.social [2/7] tinyurl.com/yu93k7ua

Interested in the intersections of #medhum and #envhum? Join us for another instalment of our Weather, Climate, and Health Research Theme's online talk series with our wonderful colleague @drhick.bsky.social (Newcastle University). All details and registration (free) via link below.

Does anyone remember or have a copy of a post that was about what an archive can be? From the strictest interpretation to the loosest? It can in the form of a diagram?

Looking forward to the St Andrews Network for Medical Humanities 2nd Annual Symposium on January 23 @uniofstandrews.bsky.social events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/st-an...

1/ A shout out to seriously the most stunning article I have read perhaps ever - Erin Maglaque's in the December @Journalofmoder. I was one of the readers for this piece, and I even wrote in my report that it was such an intense read that I had to go for a walk afterwards to calm down.

One PhD and one postdoc position available in the interesting ERC research project on Beyond Thalidomide: The Patient as an Agent of Change (2024-2029) run by dr Birgit Nemec: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

2 year Postdoctoral Research Fellow opportunity at the University of St Andrews on my project "Aesthetic Values and the Social Dimensions of Science" www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... #philosophy #philsci

📆 This Friday at 10am! If you're interested in our Medical Humanities In Practice Fellowships, join us to get some insights into how to develop your research idea for your application. Register your free spot 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/medical-hu...

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!

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-...