Some Other Sphere returns next week with the first episode of 2026! My guest is author and academic Alice Vernon, who joined me to discuss her new book 'Ghosted: A History of Ghost Hunting and Why We Keep Looking'. Available next Wednesday! @alicevernon10.bsky.social #Podcast #Paranormal #Ghosts

This is a very good piece on the policy changes at the BBC Written Archives at Caversham, which have closed off most of the archive even to established researchers. It may seem a small thing, but it’s indicative of the wider assault on public institutions. Do read & sign the petition.

Today's pick for my paperbacks of the year is @oliverklangmead.bsky.social's Calypso: epic space scifi... as an epic poem! It's so unusual and creative: a tale of a character awakening from cryosleep on a colonising spaceship, but the narrators & style make this something really special. 📚💙🪐

Great to see our project well underway. Our thanks as ever to @leverhulme.ac.uk for funding this Research Project Grant.

Thrilled to announce our new issue, Novel Media/Media Novel, edited by Dong Xia and Sandro Eich: c21.openlibhums.org/issue/1286/i...

One of our reviews editors @heyitsdenisew.bsky.social has a book out! Congratulations Denise!

Happy Halloween! My interview with @historyextra.bsky.social is quoted in this article about the infamous Harry Price and his Borley Rectory investigation. Mollie Goldney, his secretary and fellow ghost-hunter, deserves just as much research and discussion! www.historyextra.com/period/victo...

As part of the @openlibhums.org C21 never charges authors processing charges. One of the many positives of open access publishing

We've refreshed out author guidelines for submissions to our journal, including new guidance for anyone looking to submit an interview. We'd love to hear from you! c21.openlibhums.org/site/authorg...

In need of academic copyediting and/or proofreading? Please consider me: allitteditorialservices.co.uk Please share! Strictly no AI is used! I love correcting spelling! #Editing #Spellcheck #Proofing

Great to see this exhibition now live onsite and with online version. You can see my recent interview also bit.ly/47nb0QO and article bit.ly/4nItMrIin both in BJPsych Bulletin, where I get further into 'responsible' media work @uofglasgow.bsky.social

Contributors' copies of THIS WAY LIES MADNESS are in. Can't wait to check out these stories by @ramseycampbell.bsky.social @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social @sumikoska.bsky.social @timwaggoner.bsky.social Stephanie Wytovich @alanbaxter.bsky.social & more

Delighted to see this latest book in the Series now in print, and with a great endorsement from @literarti.bsky.social: 'As compassionate as it is razor-sharp, Writing Contested Illness will reshape our understanding of what illness narratives can be and achieve.'

Part-time RA role in my Leverhulme project "Reframing Ecoanxiety". Ideal for PGRs in the social sciences and environmental-medical humanities looking for flexible, remote work. Oppts for career advacement detailed. Right to work in the UK required. Apply by October 17th for a start November 1st.

Massive opportunity to work with us in Edinburgh on Medicine without Doctors. 5 full-time postdocs each for 5 years starting in April 2026. Please share widely!

24 month 1.0FTE RA post on Leverhulme Project, ‘A Mutual Fascination: British horror and the psy disciplines, c.1955-present’ with me and co-I Dr Timothy Jones (University of Stirling). Open to range of humanities disciplines. @leverhulme.ac.uk www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...

24 month, 0.16 post at Glasgow University to cover my teaching while I'm leading a Leverhulme Project Grant. Desirable: Up-to-date knowledge and specialist understanding in science fiction, literature and medicine, and/or post-war literature. www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...

This is not only a serious issue for historians and not only a serious issue for academics (although it is that). It's a development that's also deleterious for the GLAM sector, for example, and part of a much larger trend nationally and internationally to restrict and dismantle access to archives.

It’s no wonder there are so many signatories to this letter objecting to BBC restrictions to archive access. Such records are so important, and the best insights and stories are always accidental discoveries

@falkirklibraries.bsky.social @royalsoced.bsky.social

@royalsoced.bsky.social @dmcmenemy.bsky.social @davidwclarke.bsky.social

"Penguins and Pelicans: media psychiatrists and psychiatrists in the media" - I'm interviewed by Gordon Bates regarding a pending Royal College exhibition on psychiatrists (and other 'psy' folks) who published with Penguin www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

For saucerians out there, I'll be speaking on 'Scotland's History with UFOs' on Monday 8 September 7pm as part of the RSE Curious festival. rse.org.uk/event/scotla...

Funding news! I'm PI on a 2-yr Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant, 'A mutual fascination: British Horror and the Psy Disciplines, c.1955-present', with Tim Jones of Stirling University as Co-I. We'll be recruiting a Research Assistant in the coming months. Watch this space...

The talk I gave yesterday for the Literature and Science forum is now live on YouTube. I talk about Boots Riley's I'm A Virgo, the Edinburgh Companion to Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities, and @lancasteruni.bsky.social's Future of Human Reproduction project: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtAJ...

I'm going to be speaking online on the topic of 'Science Fiction Techno-Futures and the Medical Humanities' for the Literature and Science Forum on Wed 2nd July, 5pm BST: literaturesa.co.uk/about-us

The secrets are out! Great to see this years-long labour of love out in the world. The official publication date is June 28; available for pre-order on the OUP website now! global.oup.com/academic/pro...

...in a coupla weeks time...

For those of us in the UK who’ve had our work stolen by people developing gen AI models.

The Scottish Government could easily make their SFC money conditional on university salaries being public (like in Canada). Promotes fairness, reduces gender pay gap.

Scotland! Ireland! Gothic! All in one afternoon. Come and hear @claireconnolly.bsky.social @dalegothic96.bsky.social @mjrsangster.bsky.social @madelinepotter.bsky.social @drtinamorin.bsky.social

I just received my copy of The Edinburgh Companion to Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities, feat. a lengthy introduction my @drgavinmiller.bsky.social and I, and a chapter on pregnancy from me. #medicalhumanities #sf #sciencefiction #disabilitystudies

Congratulations Gavin and to all involved - this looks fantastic. Would be great to review for @the-polyphony.bsky.social

This looks great!

'An essential addition to every medical humanities and science fiction studies bookshelf and reading list' - gets you a free copy.

NOW OUT! Edinburgh Companion to Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities, ed. by me, @mariettarosetta.bsky.social, and Donna McCormack. @edinburghup.bsky.social @durhamimh.bsky.social @the-polyphony.bsky.social tinyurl.com/5f6x94se

We are disappointed but not surprised that Meta has used millions of pirated books to develop its AI systems. As a matter of urgency, Meta needs to compensate the rightsholders of all the works it has been exploiting. But what can authors do? Read here: societyofauthors.org/2025/03/21/t...

Well, they got plenty of my books and article to train with, and many of my colleagues and collaborators are in there too.

Job alert - Lecturer in Book & Archival Materials Conservation @uofgartshums.bsky.social here at the *very sunny* University of Glasgow @uofglasgow.bsky.social: #AcademicSky www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...

UKRI’s economic mission is built on a delusion www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

Come work in our School of Critical Studies, as a Lecturer in Communications: @uofglasgow.bsky.social @uofgartshums.bsky.social www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...

@ucl-ias.bsky.social welcomes Professor Neil Vickers (KCL) for a series of three lectures on the history of the health/medical humanities. In person in London on 23 Jan, 6 Feb & 27 Feb #histmed

My take on the problems of 'silo' discourse: the myth of the organisation as a living organism www.hepi.ac.uk/2024/11/28/t... @durhamimh.bsky.social @mariettarosetta.bsky.social

My survey is now on display at Bonnybridge Library and soon at Falkirk Library. Library customers can follow the QR code to let me know their views on the Bonnybridge UFO triangle of the 1990s and 2000s. 'Why Bonnybridge? .... Why Bethlehem?' (Councillor B. Buchanan)

Delighted to receive my Series Editor's copy of Joe Wood's Cicely Saunders and Total Pain, sure to be a landmark book at the interface of English Literature with End of Life Studies, more details: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-cicely-...

A great audience and great questions last night at my talk in Bonnybridge Library on the local UFO Triangle. More on the way in the coming months as we engage further with the community and start sprucing up the library's collection of press clippings.

Tired by the jargon of incremental vs disruptive research? Try my soothing, refreshing & non-hierarchical alternative: TOPSOIL vs BEDROCK. thepolyphony.org/2024/10/08/d...

Great to get started on my UFO project with Falkirk Libraries on the Bonnybridge Triangle! More in pic!

It's time to stop talking about "disruptive" research. wonkhe.com/blogs/lets-s...