Short-term post-doc for arts/humanities researchers! Do you love rare books, manuscripts, archives, art and/or objects? Would you like to explore one of our amazing Cultural Collections @universityofleeds.bsky.social for c. 6 weeks (longer part-time)? Find out more lahri.leeds.ac.uk/brotherton-f...

Starting a postdoc at Durham Uni in a couple of weeks so went to check out the terrain today and why is it SO wet, hilly, and slippy

Back home after a brilliant day at York as part of their Public History Conference where I hosted a workshop on the ethics of using sensory technology in heritage, museums, and historical research. Many a smell was sniffed!

Had a brilliant day yesterday at the ESHS Early Careers Network meeting in Manchester! Really enjoyed presenting my work on breast cancer and breastfeeding in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Manchester people!! are your emails down? I've tried to email three separate ppl and they're all bouncing back to me!

Absolutely chuffed to have also been awarded a research grant by Thackray Museum's Research Trust to undertake my research on cancer and the senses using their fantastic archives and collections! I'll also be hosting some related events, so watch this space!

Very excited to be giving a Thackray Insights lecture on February 7 with the wonderful @victoriabates.bsky.social! Our event is titled 'The Sick Sense', and will centre on the significance of the senses and colour in experiences of illness and recovery. thackraymuseum.co.uk/event/thackr...

This is a momentous Friday - it's up and running! 😄 The fruits of my 2024-5 Nottingham postdoc, transforming an underused space at Shakespeare's Schoolroom & Guildhall. (The only permanent exhibition on early modern drama beyond Shakespeare, within an authentic early modern performance space.)

My profile is now viewable on the Rylands Institute website: www.library.manchester.ac.uk/rylands/abou... I'll be based at the Rylands from December (2025) to May (2026) undertaking research on sensory experiences and perceptions of cancer. If you're in Manchester during that time, let me know!

Lots of nice sensory stuff here!

This was the first time I've done a review essay ft multiple books and I found it very challenging but very rewarding!

This week we are paying tribute to our friend and colleague Bob Gann. Bob was a tireless campaigner for health literacy and digital inclusion. He had a hugely successful career but was always willing to share his knowledge and expertise. He will be greatly missed. pifonline.org.uk/news/bob-gan...

Does anybody have a successful FHEA application they'd be willing to share with me? Thanks!

POSTDOCTORAL SHOWCASE! Come and hear all about the exciting work our post-doctoral fellows have done this past year! Starring @claireturner.bsky.social & Jean David Eynard. 25 September, 5-6pm, Crowdcast. Register here: www.crowdcast.io/c/postdoctor... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

This Friday!

Loudly tooting this CFP, please retweet: sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

Check out this super cool learning toolkit out in October. www.nai010.com/en/product/c.... It's been put together by the leaders of the Dutch 'Senses-Based-Learning' network (sensesbasedlearning.org) to try and get more sensory learning into education inside and outside academia #sensorystudies

Publishing today - Feeling blue by @victoriabates.bsky.social 💙 The first book-length history of colour in modern hospitals, thinking expansively about the role of colour in shaping how hospitals felt. Now #OpenAccess on manchesterhive.com 🔓 - from our @sshmedicine.bsky.social series. #histmed

'Feeling blue: Colour and the modern British hospital' is out! And it's free online (or a relatively affordable £25 hardback if you prefer print)! Thanks so much to everyone who helped with the research for this, from supporting site visits to reading drafts. www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...

We are recruiting to a variety of roles, check out our Careers pages for all the details of research and operations positions including: 🥼 Scientific Officer 💻Computational Immunologist 🧪 Laboratory Aide 📝 Executive Assistant www.cruk.manchester.ac.uk/careers/ Join us to advance #Cancer Research

Looking forward to this

So so excited to announce that I'll be staying on @royalholloway.bsky.social for the next two years as a Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Early Modern Studies! ☺️🤸‍♀️

A very niche request - does anyone have any references to people 'sucking' poison/disease/infection out of someone's body? Looking particularly at 17/18c. Thanks!

A very niche request - does anyone have any references to people 'sucking' poison/disease/infection out of someone's body? Looking particularly at 17/18c. Thanks!

📣Call for Papers 📣 I am delighted to announce that 'Speech/less in the Early Modern World' will be held 23 April 2026 at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge. Please share far and wide and do consider submitting a proposal! 🙊 Link to PDF version: bit.ly/4lZz80R

I'm chuffed to announce that I've just signed a contract with Manchester University Press to publish my book 'Plague and the Senses in Early Modern London'.

I'm chuffed to announce that I've just signed a contract with Manchester University Press to publish my book 'Plague and the Senses in Early Modern London'.

Some might remember when @aromaprime.bsky.social was called Dale Air. This came from an earlier name, Dale Air Conditioning. Did you know that in the 1960s and 70s, the founder Fred Dale mostly worked in *removing* bad smells? Now we are known for putting bad smells into places.

Members of the Institute for Medical Humanities' Moving Bodies Lab reflect on a series of talks and workshops exploring what it means to be slow, still, and sedentary. thepolyphony.org/2025/08/01/s...

Huge congratulations to this year’s incoming postdoctoral fellows!

Thank you @srsrensoc.bsky.social for this wonderful opportunity to develop my research 🤩 🎉 I cannot wait to get started with my project on Animals, the environment and the ‘Protestant’ worldview in seventeenth-century Scotland

As you can imagine, I’m overjoyed to have contributed to Thackray Museum of Medicine’s newest exhibition on POO! The highlight of my career will forever be my seeing my name hidden inside a toilet seat (right in the centre of the display, of course!). More info: thackraymuseum.co.uk/event/poo/

New exhibition opens today. It's about poo. And answering children's questions. It's both silly and informative. And can be enjoyed throughout the summer and up to the end of the year. 💩 thackraymuseum.co.uk/event/poo/

Taken from my LinkedIn - I'm looking for opportunities to present my work to interdisciplinary, academic and non-academic audiences. I haven't seen my CFPs recently (probably due to my algorithm) and wondered whether anyone knew of any opportunities in the coming months. Please share! Thanks!

Excited to share that from October I’ll be working as a Bridging Fellow in Medical Humanities at Durham University! I’ll be developing my project on ‘The Sensescapes of Cancer, 1700-1950’ and publishing my PhD research on sensory experiences of plague in early modern London. I can’t wait to start!

Thackray has, somewhat unfairly, a reputation for being a museum of "weird shit". I would counter that this is actually a very ordinary shit. Having it spotlit in the middle of a gallery is a little idiosyncratic, I'll admit.

Disturbed at the amount of people who responded with the word 'tasty' when asked about our blood exhibition...

there's no way I've just seen an academic position advertised at 0.05FTE lol

Front page of the @museumsassociation.org Museums Journal website is all job losses, repatriation issues, concerns about Israel... and me saying "we made a lot of plasticine poo"! www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...

Taken from my LinkedIn - I'm looking for opportunities to present my work to interdisciplinary, academic and non-academic audiences. I haven't seen my CFPs recently (probably due to my algorithm) and wondered whether anyone knew of any opportunities in the coming months. Please share! Thanks!

Academics! Have you worked in open plan environments? I'm curious to hear about your experiences & to understand more of the evidence base around how evolving space on campus can support the broader aims of interdisciplinary research teams. Insights, anecdotes, cautions, links gratefully received 🙏🏻

I wrote an article about the Gerson Therapy, and what it is about cancer and its history that attracts so many alternative treatments. For the @sciencehistory.org’s Distillations magazine www.sciencehistory.org/stories/maga...

The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh @rcpedin.bsky.social has launched a digitised and transcribed collection of 18th century case notes of Edinburgh Public Dispensary. Over 10,000 pages of records offering details of the diseases, treatments and experiences of patients in 1700s. #histmed

-- medical historians -- have you come across any instances of patients attempting to intervene in their own medical care out of desperation or irritation? either surgically or therapeutically. please share!

-- medical historians -- have you come across any instances of patients attempting to intervene in their own medical care out of desperation or irritation? either surgically or therapeutically. please share!

HL is a brilliant committee to be part of. I thoroughly enjoyed my two years as publicity officer!

The programme for the ESHS Early Career Network Meeting is available here: eshs.org/2025-early-c...

Looking forward to presenting my research on breast cancer and breastfeeding at this event in September!

Reading about impotency, sterility, and the anatomy of the penis in the nineteenth century and there's no way the attending surgeon is called Mr Cock hahaha