Re-watching Gatiss and Moffatt's Dracula. Dodgy accents aside, it's superb. The right amount of romp and gore

Are you ready for History of Medicine week? Join us October 6-10 for a week of conversations & community building for anyone interested in the history of medicine. And there's more - check our website for other events happening online and around the country! #histmed histmed.org/history-of-m...

On 21 October, co-hosted by the Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture, our speaker will be Dr Brandy Schillace, on Hope in the Dark: How a daring team of sexologists built the world’s first trans clinic in the shadow of the Third Reich. blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0...

I wanted today to be a good writing day but I have a cold

We have two jobs at KCL History! 16-month post in Modern Irish and/or British History: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU178/l... And 5-year post in Early Modern Europe & The World: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU182/l... (both to start in January 2026)

Under three hours?! I'm very jealous

Seriously how hard is it to say “This is an outrageous attack on our friends and neighbours who are in this country legally and have followed all the rules to get settled status, who are valued members of our communities, get to fuck frog-face”?

This is it. Overwhelming anti-intellectualism. Everywhere, all the time

A pope died in the year 2025 and I don't think I heard as much about it in the media as I'm hearing about the death of Charlie Kirk.

Basically me now

Feel even older than usual by going to an 18th birthday party. Good lord

Every time I look at this image I get annoyed for a different reason, it’s remarkable

A real, honest to goodness, entry-level, permanent, academic job in Economic History! #Economic #history #ecr #academic www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOT480/a...

And you're proud of this?

Brilliant

The point of going to university is to explore research and knowledge, not to start an effing business. The skills and experiences gained might help you start a business, as might the interactions with the people you meet, but it is not the purpose of a degree. Fed up of this manure.

Hope you're ok @hpsvanessa.bsky.social. 1st class is a joke!

Absolutely not

At five years old, I thought my daughter might actually sleep but apparently not.....😭

The launch of my new @manchesterup.bsky.social book Songs of Seven Dials will be at 6pm, Tues 21 Oct, at Waterstones Covent Garden. I'll be in conversation with the wonderful @julialaite.bsky.social. Please do come along. Free tickets, but register in advance www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/songs-of-s...

A wonderful blog post from our research project

Great idea. Do things differently then. Rather than following the same consultant template

CFPs - 'Historicising Commercial Determinants of Health' A workshop as part of the @kthabitproject.bsky.social to be held at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine @lshtm.bsky.social on 15 April 2026 Deadline for abstracts: 13 October #histmed #medhumanities #histSTM

Really grateful to @leverhulme.ac.uk for funding @francescatinti.bsky.social’s and my upcoming project on letter-writing in early medieval Britain. You can read about it in the current Leverhulme newsletter www.flipsnack.com/leverhulmetr... Info on postdoc positions coming soon 🙂

It's all coming together ... Completed manuscript sent off today. Wonderful, as always, working with Tracey Loughran on this and a host of brilliant contributors. #skystorians #earlymodern

Some big news: the University of Birmingham is launching a new MA in Gender & Sexuality. It's interdisciplinary, with a focus on combining theory & practice. It's going to be amazing. I'm convening it: message or email with questions. www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/postgr... @unibirmingham.bsky.social

I liked this one. Credit Guy Smallman

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One of the things that really grinds at the “elite” is that RAE/REF has shown for 30 years that research excellence really IS spread far beyond their narrow vision. They absolutely HATE it.

Can we shift away from low-quality UUK leadership?

Annemarie Mol strikes again: 'In practice the body and its diseases are more than one, but this does not mean that they are fragmented into being many. This is difficult to think.' Indeed

🎶Thrive out of spite, thrive out of spite, ooh aah 🎶

Yes exactly. Universities can't afford research but they can spend millions on consultants, who give them the same stock solutions they've given everyone else

The Senior Leadership Team at Kent have just stated that we are NOT on the verge of insolvency. Any reporting that says the contrary is incorrect. This is reassuring for staff.

A wonderful blog post from our research project

WE HAVE ALREADY BEEN RESTRUCTURED AT LEAST THREE TIMES IN FIVE YEARS

Imagine if these people put this same effort, time, and money went into housing homeless veterans or picking up litter or running a food bank. You know, ACTUALLY looking after "their own".

I'm trying to write this afternoon but honestly struggling to see the point

I'm more furious after the staff briefing. I'm actually listening to a chill out playlist

Remembering and trying to live by a valued friend/colleague's motto: thrive out of spite

Absolutely astounded that the UCU and Unison branches at Kent and Greenwich were not consulted, and that staff only found out about the merger this morning via BBC news and Kent Online. Solidarity to all colleagues.

For everyone else reading the news this morning about the Kent and Greenwich merger - it's been as big a shock for us too. Rumours always abound with constant cuts and redundancies, but they remained rumours until 7.45am this morning.

The fun thing is that ucu had asked management repeatedly if this would happen over the last year and the answer was always no…

Well, my levels of concentration are shot

So it's us then. We're the first 😭 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article....

Writing a book proposal and my brain feels like it's melting

Unreal. These people would do anything to avoid doing some actual work

Delighted to share our Call for Papers for the workshop *Object Stories in Health and Medicine 1700-1900*. Taking place online on 5 December. Pls share and consider submitting an object story! @rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...

Labour MP for East Thanet Polly Billington MP has accused the Reform UK leader in Kent of 'endangering lives' by questioning the safety of vaccinations - following the bonkers claims at conference about vaccines causing cancer among royals (1/x)

Where to begin with Jon? He was one of the nicest, and certainly the funniest, people I've known in academia; several of his one-liners still crease me with laughter. Indeed, I was quoting one on here just the other week. He gave me my start lecturing, 1/ hpsleeds.wordpress.com/2025/09/05/j...