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.

Philosophy of medicine international online reading group is back Feb 11! We will be reading "The New Modern Medicine: Disease, Evidence, and Epidemiological Medicine" by Jonathan Fuller academic.oup.com/book/61541?l... Join the group here: groups.google.com/g/philmed-rg/ Please share widely!

People that bake your own sourdough or any kind of bread really: please say a little prayer for me and send me a recipe that works?! I’ll pay fwd

Fab roundtable happening now on “Seasonal Bodies: Weather, Movement, and Wellbeing” with @hesterparr.bsky.social and Antonia Hodgson. Co-organised by Discovery Research Platform's Moving Bodies Lab, Durham's Department of Geography research clusters, and the Weather, Climate, and Health (IMH)

Join us for an instalment of the IMH Weather, Climate, and Health Research Theme's talk series. The Empire of Climate: A History of an Idea by David Livingstone Monday, 19 January 2026, 17:00 - 18:00 GMT | Online Institute for Medical Humanities

#EASST26 I'm convening what I sense will be an incredible Open panel (hybrid format) and edited collection workshop – calling all presenters and discussants, in and outside STS! nomadit.co.uk/conference/e...

📣 Call for Abstracts – ESHMS 2026 Submit your work to the ESHMS Conference in Hamburg (19–21 Aug 2026), themed Mental Health in Times of Uncertainty. 🗓️ Deadline: 15 Feb 2026 🔗 Info + submission: www.uke.de/english/depa... #ESHMS2026 #HealthSociology #MentalHealth

Join us on 30 Jan 2026 (2–3 pm GMT) for the BSA webinar on applying for postdoctoral research funding with Dr Fei Huang (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow) & Prof Katherine Twamley (Professor of Sociology). Get tips on proposals, applications, mentors & more! Book now: www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

UK weather: Month’s worth of rain to fall in 24 hours as Met Office issues amber warnings https://www.europesays.com/uk/603511/ Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…#uk #news #uknews

New module trivia: agrobiz try to bolster crop yields by GM their herbicidal tolerance, only for weeds (p. amaranth) to learn glyphosate resistance (Landecker 2024). In 3,000 y.o. Chinese oracles, amaranth is used as elemental metaphor for longevity, holding on (tight-enough) in moral deliberation.

More info and registration here: easaonline.org/event/easa-m...

Considering postdoctoral research opportunities? Book now for ‘Applying for Postdoctoral Research Funding as an Early Career Scholar’, an online @bsaecr.bsky.social event, 30 January tinyurl.com/muas4sk8 #sociology

📢 @durham.ac.uk has announced the competition for eight PhD Studentships in Transformative Humanities, supported by our AHRC Doctoral Landscape Award and the Faculties of Arts & Humanities and Social Sciences, for candidates starting October 2026. Find out more 👇 www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

Nothing like a digital tidy-up to rediscover one's own thinking. Found a cool paper I gave back in 2018 and the panel I convened for the Science in Public conference, on topologies of collaboration, interdisciplinary sites, and biosocial research.

@lighthousebks.bsky.social “ecosystems of change” book fair looking rad and Steve McQueen’s project “Resistance” on the history of protest + photography in Britain @nationalgalleries.bsky.social Not to be missed!

What fizzy feeling is this? Starting the day overjoyed by the news?! Way to go #NYC 🗽

Fascinating collection of essays on #philosophy in public life: www.nuffieldfoundation.org/research/our...

As we surf the post-X wave of “oh, they’ve resuscitated LinkedIN?!” here’s some unsolicited (visual) advice:

"..our health & social care system only functions bcs nursing staff of every ethnicity, nationality & faith make it so. We're urging govt & politicians of all parties to recognise their role in tackling racism...that must include an end...of anti-migrant rhetoric" www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

The Polycrisis Network at Leeds led by Sebastien Nobert, is running a truly star-studded hybrid series with talks from Olivier Borraz, Michael Lawrence, Colm Murphy, Noémi Tousignant, Yves Citton, and Dimitris Papadopoulos, tmw!

This week, we launch 6 Durham IMH research themes for 2025-27. Jed Stevenson, Maximilian Hepach and I will lead Weather, Climate & Health bridging #medhum and #envhum: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins... In it, we bring together our foci on Weird Weather, Climate Anxieties, and Seasons. Events TBA!

Want to do a PhD in social science & humanities at Durham? Interested in social justice or health / digital / environmental humanities or a mix of these? I’ve been working in fab cross-dept PhD supervisions and further to to our ESRC DTP, we’ll open a call for 8 H&SS PhD on 3 Nov. #EnvHum #MedHum

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/

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

A memorial event for Helen de Cruz, featuring talks, remembrances, and musical performances, is taking place later this month.

Part-time RA role in my Leverhulme project "Reframing Ecoanxiety". Ideal for PGRs in the social sciences and environmental-medical humanities looking for flexible, remote work. Oppts for career advacement detailed. Right to work in the UK required. Apply by October 17th for a start November 1st.

Council for British Research in the Levant will call for research applications, later in 2025, in the following areas: Heritage; States, societies and cultures of the Levant; Cities and urbanisation; Refugees, migration, displacement, diasporas; Challenges of sustainability and resilience.

Leverhulme Trust and Wellcome Trust combine support for the Humanitarian Archive Emergency (HAE) project based at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute at The University of Manchester: www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/l...

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win (h/t @miriamposner.com) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Hot tip: while the odd bloke’s rallying against migrants, hanging around flags to remind them of where they live, try and refrain from forcefully asking your migrant colleagues: “where do you come from? No, I mean, where are you from? I mean, before that? No, I mean, originally?”

Ros Edwards and Val Gillies are two absolutely impressive scholars in our field - I've been following their work on early childhood intervention, for a while now, and their latest project on British sociologists' wives. This is top-notch!

Our Sociology of Health & Illness editorial team is advertising for a PGR RA to drive our social media strategy. Apply with a CV + 1 page letter outlining your skills and approach by 26th September 5pm to Prof. Janice (dot) McLaughlin (at) Newcastle (dot) ac (dot) uk. Come join us! #medsoc #medhums

ICYMI: @chacruna.bsky.social is soliciting abstract proposals for their Psychedelic Culture 2026 conference. Abstracts featuring the environmental and historical dimensions of psychedelic plant medicines are encouraged. niche-canada.org/2025/08/29/c... #envhist #envhum #histmed #ecology

UC Berkeley Depart of History tenure-track asst prof job in Global History of Technology. History of technological artifacts & infrastructures through a global & transnational lens. All fields, areas, & periods of #HistTech considered For more info: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05065 #HPS 🗃️

We’re excited to share a first look at the 61st Wildlife Photographer of the Year images! 😲 📸 Featuring 100 awe-inspiring photographs awarded for their creativity and skill, our yearly exhibition celebrates the beauty and the fragility of the natural world. Which one is your favourite?

Vast areas of my home region have burned to the ground. Fires continue to rage, some of which in the hearts and souls of those most affected: no political accountability and no reparative justice in sight, but equally, no lexicon for what we collectively feel.

Call for Papers! 🧵 The Public's Science–A New Social Contract for American Research Policy a Special Issue of The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Editors: Alondra Nelson (IAS) and Jenny Reardon (UC, Santa Cruz) Abstract Deadline: Sept 19 www.ias.edu/stsv-lab/pub...

Extraordinary dissonance between reports of record numbers of students going to university and the huge cutbacks going on across the sector. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cv...

3-year Postdoc RF in “liveable futures” project w/ our good colleague and friend @martinsavransky.bsky.social EoIs Deadline: 5th September 2025, 5pm CET. Further details here: forms.gle/ZU3VDt1UVKot... Informal inquiries to [email protected] #EnvHum

Job Advert to join my team at UCL 💭Lecturer in Humanities Data Science 💭£54,931 - £57,979 💭Open Ended Contract 💭Great interdisciplinary team Closes 15 September 2025 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Au revoir, Michel! One of the brightest, most humored, and suprisingly modest scholars that I’ve been lucky to learn and work with.

A looming global water crisis may be under appreciated as climate change takes hold. Today I report on a new study that finds the planet is quickly drying, with mega-regions of water loss now stretching across continents. www.propublica.org/article/wate...

CfP are invited for contributions to a new ‘toolkit’ (or textbook) for learning and practice in the field of *public health humanities* Deadline: September 30th, 2025. Further details and contacts: www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...

The ICJ Advisory Opinion on Obligations of States in respect of Climate Change livestream has begun. The Court begins by concluding that the questions put to it are legal in nature and that it has jurisdiction to provide an Advisory Opinion. (1/n)

Had interesting chats this week about potentials and limits of doing biosocial research while also researching the biosocial. Reminded that I forgot to share our BBCRN piece which overviews key issues in experience/exposure measurement, data harmonisation and interdisciplinary collaboration.

Steven Rose was a neuroscientist and critic of genetic determinist views of human behaviour; he was also a founder member of the now defunct British Society for Social Responsbility in Science (which perhaps needs to be resurrected…) www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

CIP’s 12 month Fellowship Program for emerging researchers with disabilities from LMICs to develop their own research projects based on their local contexts: inclusive-policy.org/fellowship/

To mark the Trust’s centenary this year, the Leverhulme Trust Board has announced a funding boost in the Early Career Fellowship scheme: an additional investment of £3.35 million. Read more here: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/news/leverhu...

Lots of evidence Sure Start had many lasting beneficial effects so this is an encouraging development

Have you completed a PhD in the #sociology of health or in a cognate interdisciplinary field #medhum? Interested in #ADHD and neurodiversity, wellbeing or #ecoanxiety? I'm a member of FSHI and open to mentoring applicants for this postdoc fellowship (deadline 31 Oct 2025): t.co/fAg5iXaPy9