And this is… a bad thing?

Most definitely one for the reading list!

Each morning, laptop seems to be taking longer and longer to turn on, same

Has anyone written something historical on the ‘… for Dummies’ book series? Just seen that there is one on chronic pain(!) and now obsessed with figuring out what that means

Left all my footnotes to the last minute. Will I ever learn (no)

"In a lot of ways Ive spent a lot of time being the one person willing to say we're all afraid to die and afraid to lose our loved ones..." Oh really, Justin? You're the only one willing to say death is scary? www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmQt...

I think this is more common than many of us feel able to admit… myself included…

: Half of UK universities face a deficit next year. Up to 50 could close. That is a sector in crisis. Simply blaming a tuition fee freeze and nudging fees up with inflation is not a plan. Where is the long-term strategy for higher education? #Universities #HigherEducation

For those of you also hanging on by a thread, there is a story out there at the moment about a little monkey called Punch who was first abandoned (😔) by his mum but has now found a friend in a stuffed orangutan toy and has learnt to walk, honestly have a look

Small joys. This dressing table belonged to my Grandma, and was recently refurbished by my Mum. Every morning when I sit there, I think about them and all they’ve given to me

"We have a challenge here in the face of appalling things happening around the world not to give in to a politics of despair because that's exactly what the people in power want us to do." Laura C. Forster, Julia Laite, Laura Schwartz, Anne Irfan and Jo Kelcey on doing history in turbulent times.

this saturday! I haven't heard it yet, but there's not only interviews with Carolyn Steedman and Miriam Stoppard, but also live audio of me attempting to get my kids out the door for school in the mornings www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Such a great paper—rich comparative analysis of “baby farms” in Britain, France, and the USA (late 19th–early 20th c.), showing how labor and care were reconfigured differently despite similar feminist arguments. Can’t wait for the book @emilybaughan.bsky.social! (also check out this wild image)

How are things going? Well, I just sighed off an email with ‘All the best, Ket’, so

#jobfairy this is an intriguing one - 18 month research fellowship for an object-focused historian, museums studies person or similar at Chatsworth House! £48k + £11k travel, outreach etc #skystorians www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQK358/d...

Friends, can I ask you to spread the word that we have a THREE-YEAR postdoc in American history at Cambridge up for grabs - ANY field, but applications are due March 1 so don't delay - apply, apply, apply! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69790/u...

We're looking for a new editor for @histhum.bsky.social's para-site histhum.com (founding editor @desfitzgerald.bsky.social; subsequent editors @sarahvmarks.bsky.social @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social), who will also be the journal's social media editor Honorarium Deadline: 9 March 2026 Please circulate

Bad Bunny has a consulting historian. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...

🚨History Job: Assistant Professor in Early Modern British History (Permanent) 🗃️ Come work with us at Warwick! You will join a group of excellent early-modernists and one of the nicest bunches of historians around! 👇👇👇 @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

Taking some much-needed time to reflect and refocus, and want to know, what have you read recently that has cracked open your thinking on history, health, disability, pain, inequality, experience?

Full time AHRC doctoral studentships now available in Arts & Humanities at University of Hertfordshire for October 2026 start - please do share widely!! This includes both History & Heritage Studies among other subjects 🌟😀 www.herts.ac.uk/research/res...

Great job opportunity, 18 month research fellowship in British Studies, linked to @thenacbs.bsky.social 2027 www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Taking some much-needed time to reflect and refocus, and want to know, what have you read recently that has cracked open your thinking on history, health, disability, pain, inequality, experience?

18 month postdoc at the lovely IHR in London, $41,740. Deadline 7 March. 'The Fellow will play a key role within the IHR team responsible for hosting the 2027 North American Conference in British Studies (NACBS)' in London 2027. Repost to spread the word. #Skystorians

At the point where I’ve been looking at screens so long that my eyes are burning, so that’s fun

Check out @notchesblog.bsky.social by Jess, my wonderful PhD student, on the massage house scandal c. 1900: notchesblog.com/2026/01/23/t...

Great opportunity for an early career researcher historian! #Skystorians

#job #HistMed #HistSTM #Vienna 3 fixed-term positions in the ERC project "Beyond Thalidomide" are open at University of Vienna. Deadline February 9, 2026. 1x PhD (3 ys) jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi... 2 x Postdoc (each 2 ys) jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi... jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

Join us for the online seminar "Sensitivity and Ethics in Medical Photography" on 29 Jan, 2 pm GTM with Dr Katherine Rawling @katrawling.bsky.social Kate Jarman @ermerlindaj.bsky.social @bharchives.bsky.social and Dr Savannah Dodd #photohist #medhist #ethics empnetwork.our.dmu.ac.uk/2026/01/16/s...

A short description of the Algorithmic Kitchen, funded by Wellcome Trust, is up on CRASSH. Nancy Salem joins the project to work on the futures of ageing and disability. Archival Image courtesy of the J. A. Manter Photographs, UConn Photograph Collection. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/research/pro...

I’ve been listening to this podcast on my walks to/from work recently. Very well done and thought-provoking. Particularly interesting in where ideas about the psychologisation of birth as an experience come from (imo, at least in part, from mid-century psychiatry) podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

One for the #HistMed crowd. Great #OpenAccess article with 15 colour images.

'it was men from the past that collated that data'. I mean no, but also yes, and that is entirely the problem.

Our house is a couple of doors down from a childminder, so we hear the kids outside a lot. Today, they seem to be playing a game where one kid is just repeatedly shouting ‘WE ARE FURIOUS, WE ARE ABSOLUTELY FURIOUS’

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...

Brilliant new article by @malcolmrussell73.bsky.social on glue-sniffing panics, youth boredom and deindustrialising towns c. 1970s-80s, published in @mbhjournal.bsky.social This began life as an exceptional MA dissertation at @uclhistory.bsky.social Congrats Malcolm! doi.org/10.1093/tcbh...

We are delighted to share the programme for our upcoming conference! We will be running fourteen panels across two days in early February - all online and open to everyone 😊 please see our website for more details on speakers, panels and how to book.

I found this little gem in a local flea market yesterday! The cover features different types of Liquorice made by the Bassett’s Company, which was founded in Sheffield in the 1840s.

Deadline to submit your proposals is 11 January! #SSHM2026 Histories of health and medicine will explore what ‘in’ & ‘out’ can reveal about the impact of different gateways, routes, breaks, and barriers on people’s experiences of health, disability, illness, and healthcare in the past. #histmed

Three-year research fellowship (i.e a postdoc) in History at Cambridge @girtoncollege.bsky.social. A great job at a great institution. No restrictions on the field of history studied. Deadline 12 January.

I'm hiring 2 postdocs on my Wellcome project "How Did Infectious Diseases Become Wild?: Plague, Yellow Fever, and Disease Ecology in the Brazilian Hinterland (1920-1975)" Department of Global Health and Social Medicine King's College 3 years 01/10/26- 30/09/29 Deadline: 01/02/26 shorturl.at/KZ6Vh

New year, new postdoctoral fellowship! Be our next Visiting Research Fellow in Sustainability & Environment (£10k bursary, P/T, flexible, Apr-Oct 26). Applications invited from arts and humanities researchers within 10yr of PhD. Deadline 9 Feb noon. For more information: www.bl.uk/services/res...

A gorgeous sunrise this morning to start my first day as a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow! @britishacademy.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social

I came across this over the weekend… a true novelty now (released November 2003)

If you are a historian with policy-facing interests who has recently submitted their PhD (or will do so imminently), this fantastic new London-based postdoc fellowship in Applied History could be for you. www.history.ac.uk/fellowships/...

Once again hurtling through the last bit of the year, getting more and more tired until eventually, when we get to the Christmas break, I will simply collapse

Writing about twentieth century physiology: release of inhibition My millennial brain: feel the rain on your skin

23k lives could have been saved if lockdown had been 1wk earlier. My mind turns away from those weeks of Feb/March 2020: the memories are too painful. Desperately trying to push universities to close. All of us who fell so ill **infected before Johnson finally locked down**. All those of us who died

At that stage of our move where I keep dreaming that I have found the two recipe books, which I tried to put aside so I could use them, but which in irl have been lost to the boxes

I’ve be co-editing a special issue of @histhum.bsky.social with @sarahvmarks.bsky.social on Recovery and rehabilitation in mental health: historical perspectives Our Intro article is available now! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...