Our edited volume Sick Jokes: Visual histories of humour, health and the body is almost here! It's up on the Manchester University Press website for preorders, ahead of its publication this September 🤩 🥳 📣 📖 lnkd.in/e47UeTsd

Our edited volume _Sick Jokes_ is officially on the @manchesterup.bsky.social website!! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526187970/

If you're interested in loneliness and epistemic injustice, I'm giving a talk about my book project next week! All the way back and all the way down: epistemic injustice and the history of loneliness 30/03/2026, 1pm - 2:15pm. epistemicinjusticeinhealthcare.org/epic-seminar...

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NEW CfP! 🌈🎓 📸 VISUAL HISTORY NOW: Using photographs to study the history of gender, sexuality, and space 8-9 Oct, Tampere Uni, Finland If you research gendered, sexual, queer or trans histories using visual materials, this is the conference for you! Deadline 31 March www.tuni.fi/en/research/...

***DEADLINE EXTENSION TO THE 2 MARCH*** We are extending the deadline for applications for the #BSECS-BECC award to the 2 March. £400 to support research using Birmingham's extensive #18thC resources held across the city @unibirmingham.bsky.social #skystorians www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/cen...

A sneak peak of our new book, Sick Jokes, which shares some of the best medical humanities research happening around visual humour & health! It's been so great to work on this w/ our contributors. On the @manchesterup.bsky.social website come spring 🌱 @slobogin.bsky.social @lauracowley.bsky.social

🥳 New publication! Art & the Critical Medical Humanities is now online, fully open access. Thrilled to have co-written “Punchlines and power: visual humour as a disruptive tool for the critical medical humanities" w. @slobogin.bsky.social & Laura Cowley: www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph-de...

all academic applications should have consolation prizes. doesn’t have to be much, like a mug that says “i applied for leverhulme 2020” or a t-shirt “UKRI reject 2023”

I'm really excited to finally be able to share this after months of work - our new Project EPIC report on the epistemic determinants of health. With over 20 contributors, we make the case for incorporating this new framework into existing determinants of health models: bci-hub.org/documents/ep...

Dubliners— this is today! 4.30pm, John Henry Newman building ⬇️

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...

THIS IS IT! You have until 11.59pm TONIGHT to submit your proposals for #BSECS2026 Ease yourself into the New Year by joining us @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social, 7-9 January 2026 #skystorians #18thC 🗃️ www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...

For the weekend crowd: CFP for online workshop *Object Stories in Health and Medicine 1700-1900*, deadline for abstracts Monday 6 October 💫

***CFP DEADLINE EXTENSION TO 22 SEPTEMBER 2025*** Due to some members experiencing issues with our submission site, we have decided to extend the #BSECS2026 #CFP deadline by a whole week. Get scribbling #skystorians! #18thC 🗃️

📢 I'm thrilled to announce the full - and stellar - lineup for our upcoming symposium on critical approaches to like and dislike in medicine, law, and society! 📢 Bristol Uni, 15th October - register (for free) below!! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/critical-a...

Planning the first month of term? Don’t miss @elementaladam.bsky.social at UCD, speaking as part of the Drinking Cultures project! All are welcome to this in-person seminar: “Hate, Shame, and Boozy Banter in the Eighteenth Century” 🍻 Full abstract here: texerenetwork.com/drinkingcult...

The deadline for submitting proposals for #BSECS2026 is only two weeks away. Get scribbling! #skystorians #18thC 🗃️ This year's theme is 'Big and Small', 7-9 January, Pembroke College, Oxford. www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...

Please help. Please sign. I work on a part-time degree for mature students to study for a BA in English Literature & Community Engagement. Its direct access and designed for those who didn't or couldn't go to Uni at 18. Bristol plan to close it. We want to save it. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

📣Exciting News 📣 Dates & host institution for the SSHM Biennial Conference #SSHM2026 are confirmed! Save the Date in your planners 📅 Theme and CFPs to follow later #histmed #medhumanities #histSTM

A lovely little bronze #Roman mouse figurine, shown holding a morsel of food in his little front paws (a nut or seed maybe?), perhaps about to take a little nibble from it. It is about 1900-2000 years old 🐭 (📷 Christie's) 🏺 AncientBlueSky #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology

The white cis body as the default setting for ‘human’? @nursingclio.bsky.social has published an interview I did with the curator of a new exhibition nursingclio.org/2025/07/23/u...

News from last year, but a good reminder that there are many satirical prints in this collection ☺️

This collection of foreign bodies removed from the oesophagus was donated to the museum in 1928.

Deeply honoured to say that I am one of the recipients of an Early Career Fellowship! From May 2026, I’ll be spending 3 years at Edinburgh’s Art History department (@edincollegeofart.bsky.social) to research Whiteness and Greco-Roman antiquity in eighteenth-century British history paintings

Eeeek this will be good'un! Happy publication day @slobogin.bsky.social ⭐ Essential reading for all medical history/medical humanities visual culture people.

Are you working in #VisualMedicalHumanities with a specific focus on art, anatomy and medicine? The BMJ Medical Humanities has just released this CFP for articles on "visuality in medical practice and history". Looking forward to seeing how this moves the field forward! mh.bmj.com/pages/topic-...

🚨Job Alert🚨 Looking for a 3 year postdoc in STS? Join us at Egenis! #STS #metascience #philsky

I was chairing the first panel so you will just have to take my word for it when I say that the papers by Vanessa Höving, Marta Ramón García, Katie Snow were all brilliant... here's Marta in our very fancy room at the Museum of Literature #womenandalcohol #dangerouspleasures

What a gorgeous setting for the @drinkingstudies.bsky.social women and alcohol #dangerouspleasures conference this week 🌸

Draft manuscript IN! @katiesnow.bsky.social @lauracowley.bsky.social

Medicine AND quilting in GLAM?? if it wasn't in London this would be my dream job 😭

A welcome new publication yesterday for those teaching medical humanities in UK medical schools, asking some key questions. Using visual body histories with medical students at Exeter and Plymouth (both recognised as innovators in the field) has been by far my most radical and rewarding teaching.

Exciting new CFP for a Special Issue of the OA journal, 'Neurodiversity' thinking through the critical turn(s) in #neurodiversity studies across the arts, humanities & social sciences. Editors @ainokash.bsky.social @louisecreechan.bsky.social @danielpjones.bsky.social & @dramypearson.bsky.social

For those on LinkedIn, I'm giving it a good go... 👋 👀 www.linkedin.com/in/katiesnow2025

📢 Deadline approaching!! 📢 Just ten days to send me an abstract for our symposium: Critical approaches to like and dislike in medicine, law, and society | University of Bristol |15/10/2025 epistemicinjusticeinhealthcare.org/epic-events/...

(Call for Papers) International Working Group on Medical Wax Models & Moulages histoiresante.blogspot.com/2025/05/grou... #histmed

Fascinating (& horrifying) to read about @midwifeteacher.bsky.social's Lost Mothers Project today. I've been thinking a lot recently about how we represent & experience breastfeeding & milk production (or suppression) within prisons & other systems of oppression. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Woo hoo, you can now pre-order Selling Sexual Knowledge, which is coming out next month! (or, uh, just download the FREE electronic version from Cambridge Core when it comes out) Many thanks to those who read and blurbed the book 😊 www.cambridge.org/ca/universit...

Pleased to see this vol published as part of Springer's Biomedical Visualisation series. It includes a chapter on 'The Evolution, Implementation, and Impact of Representative Research Practices in Anatomy Education,' co-authored w/colleagues at @plymuni.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/posts/katie-...

Oisín Wall’s new book, Prisoner’s Bodies, is available free online or as a PDF here: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK609... Or you can buy a paperback here: www.mqup.ca/prisoners---...

If you are based in Dublin, this looks great for @drinkingstudies.bsky.social bods. Alcohol and politics in 19th C visual culture sounds fab! texerenetwork.com/drinkingcult...

Art and the Critical Medical Humanities is almost out in the world! Edited by me, Allison Morehead & Imogen Wilshire, & with over 45 contributors, 29 chapters in a variety of formats, and 50 images, this will be available open access from Bloomsbury in December. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/art-and-t...

Lovely to see this amazing project coming to fruition, and even lovelier to have been a small part of it!

For those around @ucddublin.bsky.social on 17 April, Callum Smith is joining the Drinking Cultures project to give a talk, ‘Uncorking Old Sherry’: Alcohol, the body, & political decline in visual culture: The case of Richard Brinsley Sheridan'. It's going to be a good one! 🍾 Newman building, C217.

Post Doc! "Materialising the Scots in Northern Europe c.1500-1750: Mobilities, Communities and Materiel Culture" Focus on the Netherlands, Scandinavia or Poland www.iash.ed.ac.uk/iash-nationa... #Skystorians 🗃

🧠CALL FOR PAPERS! 🧠 Critical approaches to like and dislike in medicine, law, and society | University of Bristol, 15th of October 2025 epistemicinjusticeinhealthcare.org/epic-events/...

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Really thrilled to join the advisory group for the Campaign to End Loneliness, having admired their work for a long time!

Job Klaxon: come and join us. We are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Associate to work on a project on the history of intensive care medicine, directed by @fcondrau.bsky.social in Zurich and me in Manchester. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...