Could basic research income help fix a funding system in crisis? www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-worl... Yes it could. And should.

@drkyliesmith.bsky.social 's book "Jim Crow in the Asylum" must be in demand: when the package from the publisher arrived, someone had opened it and pinched the book! That's never happened to me before as a reviewer or reviews editor. Fortunately, they were kind enough to provide another copy.

cdbu.org.uk/universal-ba... A different approach to funding research, modelled on universal basic income: universal basic RESEARCH income.

Exciting news for us too, @healthhistory.bsky.social!

Exciting news (for me at least): my new book, Why We Need the History of Health and Medicine is in production @politybooks.bsky.social and will be published this December in the UK (February in North America). I've enjoyed working on this book more than any other (though it was bloody hard work!).

Celebrating the latest book in our Mental Health in Historical Perspective Series (Palgrave) co-edited with @healthhistory.bsky.social. Now 35 titles & counting! Covers many places & time periods in histories of mental health.

Interested in learning more about the history of health and medicine? Curious about doing a Master's degree? Please fill out the survey link below about a part-time and online Master's course we are developing at the University of Strathclyde. Deadline 18 March forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Yo Fifa, this what peace prize recipients look like. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... Such a good bit of radio

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r... The words deck chairs and Titanic spring to mind.

Yo MAGA peeps, aren't you like a little embarrassed by all of that? #FIFA make football great again

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Wouldn't it be nice if they involved a historian to help explain the emergence and rise of ADHD? Wonder who they could ask?

scottsantens.substack.com/p/marshall-i... How Bluesky is this? #UBI

Join us for the online launch of the Winter 2025 Issue of @asylummagazine.bsky.social Friday 19th December, 6pm GMT Register here to attend: bit.ly/Asylumlaunch... All welcome ❤️

I’ve spoken up for Scotland’s nature! The Natural Environment Bill's next debate on 19 November must make sure its strong enough to restore wildlife, protect our future, and unite us in recovery. action.rspb.org.uk/page/181323/...

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Not much makes me too homesick, but Blue Rodeo definitely does. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMt0...

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... This was brilliant.

The Relationship Between Social Class and Mental Health | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/a-sh...

I logged in to write another blog for 'A Short History of Mental Health' (Psychology Today ) and realized that I've written 50 of these things! Here they are: www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/shor...

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... I guess they'd be Trump supporters?

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/voces-y-tr... An online series of public conversations on the ethical, political and experiential dimensions of psychiatric deinstitutionalisation. Organised as part of the project "Transitions: the Ethics and Politics of Psychiatric Deinstitutionalisation in South America"

Thanks to Nicolas Henckes for his kind review of The First Resort: The History of Social Psychiatry in the United States. This year has been tough personally (to say the least), but I am nearing completion of book #5: Why We Need the History of Health & Medicine academic.oup.com/shm/advance-...

Good morning Toronto! 💙 #BlueJays #WantItAll

On a trip to Spain my son's arm erupted in a huge swelling due to an insect bite. A quick trip to a pharmacy & some antihistamine did the trick. But allergies are rarely that simple. That's why we need historians & social scientists to try to figure them out. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Our Local Nature grants are for young people, and selected by young people. There's just over a fortnight until the deadline for this year, so get your applications in now! The scheme provides funding for youth-led projects to connect with and protect nature across the UK. Apply at buff.ly/ChleErt

universityaffairs.ca/opinion/lets... Teach students HOW to know and think, not WHAT to think

Oh my, there are some clanking errors in this podcast. Apparently, you could be treated with lobotomies and electroconvulsive therapy in Victorian asylums - except you couldn't because they weren't invented until the 1930s. The Noiser Network and the BBC can do better www.noiser.com/short-histor...

A great opportunity to shape, define research in n Philosophy of Science and enhance ones own research career. And it's in Vienna.

Not too surprising. theconversation.com/the-more-in-...

academic.oup.com/shm/article/... The ‘Predelinquent’ and the Community: Psychiatric Surveillance and Predictive Policing in Interwar Berkeley

www.nsun.org.uk/trauma-menta... Another poignant piece on the close links between migration/refugee status and mental health

Honoured to have a poem about PTSD included in this issue. Looking forward to hearing from all the other contributers on the 26/09 online launch.

'Two-tier REF causes concerns amid rumours of radical change' Here's a radical change: bin the whole damned thing! Save millions and really help universities out. www.researchprofessional.com/0/rr/news/uk...

BBC News - Should all pupils get the right to an outdoor education week? www.bbc.com/news/article... Yes!

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r... Pause it permanently. Such a complete and utter waste of time and resources at a time when universities are skint and demoralised. Speaking as someone who was responsible for 7 UoAs during the last contortion.

Amazing issue of Asylum Magazine out just now. So much valuable insight within its pages. If you don't experience mental illness, reading Asylum is one way to approach understanding it a little more. The only mag I subscribe to anymore. @asylummagazine.bsky.social

Melvyn Bragg decides to step down from presenting In Our Time share.google/Np5qcGaZioQy... End of an era. Ok, who should replace him?

Lovely tribute to what should be Canada's national anthem - Northwest Passage - and its creator, the late, great Stan Rogers. southernwoodenboatsailing.com/news/tracing...

BBC News - Glasgow's Citizens Theatre to reopen after seven years www.bbc.com/news/article...

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Wonderful tribute to Canadian jazz legend Oscar Peterson in his centenary.

Saturday morning joke: What did one guy in the shower at the gym say to the other guy in the shower at the gym? "I think it's clean by now..."

@bbc if you're claiming to present the history of something, maybe bring in a historian? Certainly people with lived experience should present their views, but that's not history www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... One of the most insightful, inspiring and important writers today. Living Scottish Legend.