RNIB Bookshare is a phenomenal resource for students at any level of study, including in #UKHE

We're pleased to announce this collection of contributions to The Polyphony from attendees at the 2025 International PhD School on Queer Methodologies in Medical Humanities, which took place in Durham in March 2025. 📖 Read the collection 👇 thepolyphony.org/category/col...

More exciting events coming up! Our partner UNSW Disability Innovation Institute @disabilityunsw.bsky.social will be running an online symposium on emotional labour for people with disabilities on 10th March 2026. Details and registration: events.humanitix.com/disability-m...

A new episode of #CrippingResearchCulture with Stuart Moore of @nadsn.bsky.social has just dropped wherever podcasts can be found! open.spotify.com/episode/5Q7r... Full transcript here: sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/waarc...

The party line has gone from "women have to start using genAI or they'll be left behind" to "everyone has to start using genAI or they'll be left behind" to "everyone has to start using genAI or genAI will be left behind."

Solidarity with my colleagues who are experiencing this - as the leaflets we handed out to students on the picket lines said - when you go on strike you lose your wage because you stop working. It's ridiculous to have to make up the work you've already lost pay for 😡

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No school tomorrow, which is great but I’ll have to 6-7 everything myself.

Received official notice today that my employer will be withholding 100% of pay for the next three weeks, to myself and all other members of @sheffielducu.bsky.social who refuse (as is our legal right, and our solidaristic duty) to reschedule classes cancelled due to strike action. Outrageous.

Don't miss our session on Thursday at 9.35am at this year's REDS conference! We'll be presenting “Empowering Established Researchers to Both Access and Enable Cultures of Development". Registration is still open here: redsconference.co.uk/2025/09/15/r...

Join us on 29 Jan at 2 pm GMT for our next Ethics of Medical Photography Network online seminar on the theme of SENSITIVITY! We'll have three incredible speakers: @ermerlindaj.bsky.social @katrawling.bsky.social and Savannah Dodd. Free but registration needed empnetwork.our.dmu.ac.uk/2026/01/16/s...

Research Associate Christina Lee will be presenting at the Building Anti-Ableism Through Representation in Children’s Material Culture seminar series on February 26th. Register for the hybrid event here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-tic...

Free Training Workshops on how to improve employment for #disabled and #neurodivergent employees, and those having to manage their menstrual health. Two dates - 6 March & 1 May will be led in #BSL, suitable for deaf employees & interpreters. Watch video for info./1 youtu.be/qbevzCusarI?...

For anyone in London I’m going to be giving a paper on settlement bedrooms on 19th February, 6.30-8.00. I’ll share titbits on how they were used by settlers&wardens. I’ll also discuss servants too! This will be with a building tour of Oxford House, Bethnal Green! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/building-t...

Poe: Submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of eureka Poe: it's actually a scientific meditation on the nature of the universe Barker: is this one of those things where you have to be high to get it Barker: cuz if it is, i want to know now

I’m doing a live thing in two weeks, come hang out

Loved seeing Australian queer sports romances highlighted in this Heated Rivalry piece by my colleague @kaseysymons.bsky.social !

ICYMI: Wellcome Anti-ableist Research Culture (WAARC) will be running another webinar on Dreaming up a Disability Inclusive Workplace on 28th Jan 2026. Details and registration here: www.tickettailor.com/events/wellc...

Today @advancehe.bsky.social published the Disabled Student Commitment Year Two Report, highlighting all the work that has happened around the DSC over the last year. I had a great time annotating it to highlight all the ways we've been involved here at Leeds 😊 advance-he.ac.uk/knowledge-hu...

[scottish castle] JK Rowling's agent: hey joanne agent: you wanted to see me? JK Rowling: yesss Rowling: i want to enquire Rowling: how are sssales of the hallmarked man? agent: agent: sales of what? Rowling: the latesst cormoron ssstrike book agent: agent: you're still writing cormoron strike?

I'm constantly revising my list of reasons why we don't use AI in my class. This one is specific to a first-year writing intensive. Free to borrow/adapt! 🙂

Nominations are now open for the @nursingclio.bsky.social Prize for Best Journal Article, an award for the best peer-reviewed academic journal article on the intersection of gender and medical histories in English. Self-nominations are encouraged! 🗃️

Totally made up figure, but it feels like about 90% of our casework with disabled students is wrangling group work, and especially any that has a live feedback or presentation element. MANY students find this stuff hard, and many disabled students find it deeply inaccessible and exclusionary

It’s really lovely to see @cathfeely.bsky.social & my Creative History in the Classroom Forum out in @hisjournalha.bsky.social. There’s lots of suggestions here for using creativity from activities, assessments, to why now… onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/1468229x... #skyhistorians #highereducation

A recent cartoon for @newscientist.com. To order my new book of science cartoons 'Physics for Cats', see here: www.tomgauld.com

Also reminds me of one of the best pieces of advice I ever got re. teaching. As a new lecturer I was frustrated about students being late to class. A friend suggested I CHOOSE to believe that late students had done their very best to be there on time, and been prevented from doing so. [cont]

A useful reference for anyone working in HE, especially the discussion of rent costs.

Today we launch States of Precarity in UK HE Geography. Thank you to the 364 colleagues whose experiences shaped this work. Download the report, share widely, and join us in advocating for change. Launch event (1:00-2:30GMT): www.rgs.org/events/upcom... Read report: www.rgs.org/research/hig...

Was about to post a bunch of specific things I've done in this situation, but they're all underpinned by this: start by assuming this is something the students find genuinely difficult, not due to laziness or unwillingness. #1000SmallThings for a more inclusive HE

So local gem of a bookstore @charliesqueerbooks.bsky.social got wrongly marked as “closed” in a database, meaning UPS stopped delivering new book shipments right at the peak of holiday shopping/hockey romance enthusiasm. But you can help! Buy a book! www.fox13seattle.com/news/seattle...

Call for Contributions – Expressing Scotland: Holding the Intangible – Archives, Culture & Connection 20 March 2026, St Cecilia’s Hall, Edinburgh Find out more and submit a proposal: www.scottisharchives.org.uk/latest/call-...

This week we’re sharing some of the new material received by the Archives during 2025. This is Flying Officer William Austin Harvey. His papers arrived at Glamorgan Archives in September. He was born in Gilfach, Bargoed, in 1922. He served with the RAF during the Second World War.

✨Join my research team ✨ Exciting opportunity for Research Associate (Research Ethics & Law) to join new Wellcome-funded Addressing consent-based challenges to improve inclusivity in research (ACCORD) Full-time G6 Fixed term 8 yrs From 1 March Closes 10 Feb krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...

One PhD and one postdoc position available in the interesting ERC research project on Beyond Thalidomide: The Patient as an Agent of Change (2024-2029) run by dr Birgit Nemec: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

Today is publication day! The Open Access version is now online so you can read for free on @manifoldscholar.bsky.social With huge thanks to @uncpress.bsky.social @ecds-emory.bsky.social and @foxcenteremory.bsky.social Go to jimcrowintheasylum.com

I'm running a popular romance course at the University of Liverpool... but only if enough people sign up! Come and join us! www.liverpool.ac.uk/continuing-e...

Me: laughing derisively at a student email asking whether the words "word count" count for the word count. Me: A little later, looking my draft journal article that is 10,002 words long and pausing for a moment on my hubris.

This small collection will be in my Etsy shop this evening. I’ll tweet photos of a few of the finished pieces later today 🗝️

Most Read in JLCDS | 'Noor Einy Movie: Portraying Egyptian Blind Women as Helpless, Dependent, and Incapable Mothers' by Ibrahim Emara. ➡️ Read it online: bit.ly/JLCDS-Emara @davidbolt13.bsky.social @riacheyne.bsky.social

Creative writing post-doc! I can't even remember the last time I saw one of these advertised, so if it sounds like you, jump on it.

A massive shot in the dark, but does anyone out there have the following file photographed/copied from a visit to the National archives at Kew? Try to avoid the expense of a trip down! DEFE 69/585: Targets for Allied nuclear offensive: probable nuclear targets in UK 1957 Jan 01 - 1969 Dec 31

I am feeling like a little island, an eyot perhaps, and need some more connection in my life What are your favourite ways to bring new connections into your spaces and places, and deepen those you already have?

EDICa's latest newsletter is out! Packed with research reports we recommend or published, photos of our symposium & links where you can catch-up with the recordings, photos of our newly finished virtual reality simulation of the enabling workspace. Our VR is on tour! Edinburgh & London dates. 1/5

Very good list of tips for clambering out of autistic/AuDHD burnout ⬇️

Today is the release day for mine and @dramyburge.bsky.social 's new book! The Bonkbuster: Women's Popular Reading in the Long 1980s is now out with Bloomsbury, focusing on the glitzy, glamorous novels of authors like Jackie Collins, Jilly Cooper, Shirley Conran and Judith Krantz.

Today is our first day open after the Christmas holidays and with our new opening hours. Everyone is welcome at Gwent Archives and we strive to make our service accessible for all. To highlight this, why not check out our new Neurodivergent Access Guide to visiting us here. buff.ly/03Lmnv4

Fantastic thread!

📣Our next event is open for booking 🥳 📄'Navigating Environmental Mismatch as a Neurodiverse Academic Librarian'📚🧠📗 📆14th Jan, 3-4pm. 💻 www.eventbrite.com/e/navigating... #Librarian #LibraryWorker #Neurodivergent #Neurodiversity #Employment #HiddenDisability #Academic #HE #Academia

Madness Canada's HEWTON GRIFFIN GRANTS fund students and/or people with lived experience to do archival research about the Canadian history of psychiatry, madness, mental health, addiction, mad activism, advocacy, or culture. DEADLINE: 23 January 2026. Details & application form: buff.ly/cPnHnHs

Leuven Centre for Health Humanities organises a yearly lecture series. Join online (or on campus, at KU Leuven) This series explores entangled relations between nature and health with perspectives from medical history, psychology, disability & colonial studies, & environmental humanities. #histmed