Come do your PhD with me! I am offering a fully-funded, four-year PhD position in the School of Education @ucddublin.bsky.social. If you want to do critical research on technology and education, especially combining philosophical and qualitative methods, please apply! www.ucd.ie/education/re...

🌟 We're hiring! 🌟 We're looking for a Legal Writer to join our team! If you want to demystify the law, foster community trust, and turn complex litigation into a powerful tool for social change…. ⬇️Apply here ⬇️ https://goodlawproject.org/vacancy/legal-writer/

This is torture.

Kansas has, overnight, invalidated the drivers’ licenses of trans people, a pointless cruelty that upends their lives If Brits think “it won’t happen here” think again! Groups in the U.K. who want the same thing are routinely invited to consult with Labour and normalised in our press!

Coming in November from @brisunipress.bsky.social, In the Aftermath of Empire explores the impact of British imperialism on gender and sexuality law in four jurisdictions. Please tell your libraries to pre-order! bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/in-the-after...

Irish studies folks. I feel like How to Get to Heaven from Belfast is an allegorical re-telling of twentieth century Irish history. Am I wrong??? (slightly-spoilery spoilers in the thread) (not a spoiler: I loved it)

Queer history is everywhere, including Leamington Spa. At Warwickshire Pride's LGBT History Month we heard about regional pride, networks of queer publishing and the ever-wonderful Ladies of Llangollen. I spoke on trans history in the West Mids. Local queer community is everything, especially now.

Boston blizzard from the 46th floor.

My talk is up on YouTube! 🏳️‍🌈

Today is the publication date for Matthew Hilton's Charity After Empire: www.qmul.ac.uk/media/news/2...

Publication day! My book Keeping Hold: A Cultural and Social History of Possession in Eighteenth-Century Britain is out now. 20% discount code KEHO2026. www.cambridge.org/core/books/k...

"The idea of the guidance is to manage risk, and help prevent harm to young people. Yet the Labour government’s proposed changes will have the opposite effect. ... If implemented, the new guidelines will ensure that schools cannot possibly be an affirming or safe space for young trans people."

It came from Berkeley to Derry and now passed back over the ocean to Minneapolis!

Honoured to be a part of this vital conversation at the Free University of Brussels on 2 March on "Refusing Conformity: Trans Bodies as a Site of Resistance" rhea.paddlecms.net/refusing-con...

This is a really good piece. What does walking do for our research? "Does being in a landscape automatically imbue us with a greater understanding of it? Sounds a bit like saying if you immerse yourself in historical documents, they ‘speak for themselves’."

Calling transfeminist researchers! See our call for abstracts below - deadline 1-15th March (with full papers in August)

📢 Join us at Notre Dame London to celebrate 20 years of the Journal of Global History! JGH is hosting an ECR workshop and a Guest Lecture with Prof. Stefanie Gänger. In person and online. Find out more and register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/distinguis...

the magic of the Muppets is that there are two fourth walls. they constantly break the one that reminds the audience they are performers. they NEVER break the one that reminds the audience they are puppets. this dynamic is the key to their entire comedy style

I'll be speaking on 25 Feb @historytcd.bsky.social about capitalism and agriculture in 20th century Irish history - based on my work with the Sites of Fracture project. www.tcd.ie/trinitylongr...

Inhumane 'detention' centre in Burlington, Mass. Solidarity to my friends and loved ones who are out protesting this every week.

It’s like -8C and I’m impressed by the number of Bostonians walking around with iced coffees.

We're looking to capture experiences of what it means to be queer in the UK today! To do that we're collecting day diaries for 12th February. It doesn't matter what you get up to, or how you record it, we'd love to have it!🧵 (1/4) #LGBTplusHM #lgbthm26

I stand firmly with @markpendleton.bsky.social for UCU Vice-President (HE). Mark manages uniquely combines three traits - emphatic driver of political change; a close reader of letter/spirit of protocol; a caring human with deep collectice sense. The only person I trust can change UCU from within.

📣 Today @felicitycallard.bsky.social and I have published the first peer-reviewed response to the 'Sullivan Review' of research and data on sex and gender. doi.org/10.1111/tran... The Review could threaten trans rights and inclusion, erode academic freedom, and undermine research quality.

It's taken me five weeks to write this essay on knowing and, more importantly, not knowing; on epistemology & the Epstein episteme, or the 'knowledge' economy (Biblical sense). It took a panicking, trapped fox to unlock it, and it includes a hottt pic of young Engels. www.somayer.net?na=view&id=6

In the month of St Brigid and St Valentine - not to mention LGBT History Month - here's my favourite queer love story from @unibirmingham.bsky.social www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2026/th...

Tu me manques, Montréal

I wrote about my time in Minneapolis last week, about what is involved in creating bottom-up, decentralized networks of care. margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/our-neighb...

For UK and Irish students - scholarships are available for our MA programme in Gender & Sexuality (and other MAs). See www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/schola... for details.

Applications now open. Find out more at birmingham.ac.uk/gender-ma

This year, History Workshop Journal will celebrate two milestones: its 50th anniversary and its 100th issue. To mark the occasion, eleven historians share how they've used the journal in their own teaching.

'Despite persistent myths, employment rates for humanities graduates are comparable to those of STEM graduates, as Humanities Indicators data shows. Early earnings differ but the salary gap narrows significantly mid-career, particularly for graduates who pursue further study'. 1/2

Thrilled to see Eva Gore-Booth biography anniversary edition now included in the @manchesterup.bsky.social trade catalogue 2026. Due in print March 2026! dhjhkxawhe8q4.cloudfront.net/manchester-u...

Bernie Wagenblast, best known as the “please stand away from the closing doors” voice is the announcer for Mamdani’s inauguration.

We are a team at the University of Manchester researching what UK undergraduates with ADHD and/or autism would like to see in university staff training on ensuring undergraduate courses are accessible to them. Study link: www.qualtrics.manchester.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...

Give me your best recent British & Irish LGBTQI+ history recommendations! I'm updating the reading list for my queer & trans history module. Looking for things published in the last 2-3 years. 🌈🎓 ‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ #queerhistory

They say imitation crab is the sincerest form of crab

Eight Palestine Action activists are being left to die in prison – all without even facing trial. We must force the government to act, before it’s too late ⬇️ https://goodlaw.social/3e3320

It's a few weeks away - January 23rd - but it would be great to see a good turnout for this Dublin discussion of Averill Earls' important new book on male same-sex desire in 20th c. Ireland!

My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area. (15 in Manhattan btw)

WORLD: alright well... FRANCE: they are called Mr. and Mrs. Crunchy

It's been a good few weeks for reading. First, John Gibbons on the steps he sees Ireland needing to take in the climate emergency.

The PDF version of "Mobility Justice and the Big Ride for Palestine" is now available. #OpenAccess

Today in marine invertebrates and safe streets

Had a very good time talking about stomach aches, pain, and conservatism at #nacbs in Montreal while also representing @mbsbirmingham.bsky.social

I'm glad to have signed this statement in support of queer and trans staff at the National Library of Scotland, who by the sounds of it are going through an awful time at the moment: docs.google.com/document/d/e...

Interested in the MA in Gender & Sexuality? Come talk to me this Saturday at our postgrad open day. (Or just email me, that's cool too.) www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/postgr...

How can we see the ecology of what isn't there? A pharmaceutical plant that wasn't built - and the industrial agriculture that lives in its place. A lake that was built for fishing and drained for industry and is mourned to this day. The ghosts of the landscape are also the history of capitalism.

Return of the MBS! See you all in July.