@killgrove.bsky.social I've just seen your post on LiveScience about the Scythian jaw surgery. Is there a paper out on this yet? I'm working on something at the moment, and it's tangentially relevant.

It's Vitamin K, which helps blood clot. Parents are refusing it because "it's a shot" and they don't know enough about human health to understand how to take care of a child.

Whoa the Corporation for Public Broadcasting website is totally gone👇 Thank god for the Internet Archive, so we at least have evidence of what they've erased: web.archive.org/web/20260122...

I swear I'm not using AI I was just reading at college level when I was in middle school.

This is absolutely amazing! (And relevant to what I'm working on at the moment). www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

News - Construction Work in Northern England Yields Historic Cannon - Archaeology Magazine share.google/8m7yJwMQk5TD...

Medical Historian here. Yes and no, but mostly yes. Which is why antibiotic resistance is abso-bloody-lutely terrifying.

Forget Henry Kissinger being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize...Satire is truly dead when "Honest Bob" Jenrick (who tried to do financial favours for a Tory donor) is Reform Shadow Chancellor, Suella Braverman has a remit for education and 30p Lee is Chief Whip (that is an image you can't unsee).

Cursing I missed the obvious joke. Farage is launching his new/old team on Pancake Day...the annual festival of tossers.

#Hancockalypse Postponed... indefinitely pending some actual evidence which can survive peer review.

this update/correction from @willdalrymple.bsky.social on the question of removing the term Palestine from British Museum gallery texts definitely raises more questions than it answers

He is also listed in the [REDACTED] files and the [REDACTED] flight logs. #health #medicine #lifestyle #fitness #hospital

Louisiana has to build three new natural gas power plants to accommodate the "AI" data center that Meta just crammed through because said center will use *Three Times* as much electricity (and, thus, attendant resources) as the *Entire City Of New Orleans*, every year. Y'all this isn't sustainable.

BBC News - How Leeds Royal Charter was saved from becoming lampshade - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Ichthyosaur snout and Roman farm found in Melton bypass digs - BBC News

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

This is Lexa. She really hopes you’ll be her valentine. Wouldn’t want to waste this look on just anybody. 14/10 (IG: bambiandlexa)

Since Valentine is also the patron saint of people with epilepsy I thought I would mark today by sharing this interesting piece from 2008 by Gerhard Kluger & Verena Kudernatsch - www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... - #ValentinesDay

Happy St Cyril and Methodius Day! May you all invent lots of lovely alphabets today.

For anyone in London on 13th March 2026 and interested in my research - tickets are now available for my talk at @paulmelloncentr.bsky.social - www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/whats-on/for... #disability #medhist #histmed #medievalsky #skystorians #medicine #history

Due to a terrible misreading of a hashtag, we prepared something to post tomorrow, then realised it was wrong. So today, let's celebrate #GalenTines Day. Here's what Galen of Pergamon (c129BCE-216BCE) had to say about the gynaecological anatomy which influenced physicians for over a millennium...

It feels like this is worth sharing again. Sir Ian McKellan giving The Strangers Case monologue from Sir Thomas Moore, attributed to William Shakespeare. youtu.be/wXq58BbhCO4?...

Welcome, welcome. If anyone is interested in the things I've contributed to Wellcome Stories ( @wellcomecollection.bsky.social ) I made a thread of them all so far... 🧵

Additional advisory, if you are a UK or Irish citizen but also a citizen of another country, you must use a UK paper to travel to the UK.

I published about this last year - wellcomecollection.org/stories/medi... An earlier reference is in 'The History of the Syon Monastery at Lisbon and Brentford' from 1450 (wasn't widely known when this was written in February 2025). Prior to this we debate what is 'language' and what is 'gesture'.

Since the #Olympics are on, let's repost a classic thread here: a brief history of the practice of "sex verification" in sport. Content warning: This thread will mention anti-intersex discrimination, FGM practices and body shaming.

Does anyone have access to this? No-one I have access to does, and I can't currently afford my own copy of the book. #medievalsky #skystorians #medhist BURRIDGE, CLAIRE. “EARLY MEDIEVAL SURGERY: CHALLENGING POPULAR STEREOTYPES WITH ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE.” doi.org/10.2307/jj.1....

archaeomedicus.blogspot.com/2026/02/in-n.... #archaeology

A short thread on Trepanning / Trepanation. It is interesting to note that across human history the practice has a high rate of 'success' (for a given definition of success). Also the techniques can be seen as the ancestors of modern bone marrow biopsies. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Trepanning/Trepanation is probably one of the most widely evidenced examples of surgery in history. The reasons for the practice varied but it often isn't as clear cut as a historical belief that it was to 'get the evil spirits out' (to quote a question I was asked) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Cornwall Council has an online translation service for the Cornish language. They have been translating some nursery rhymes for me to sing to Rowan, and it's made my day. I realise no one asked, but here's 'Heads, shoulders, knees and toes' in Kernewek:

This is deeply concerning. youtu.be/9s_NdidkbGM?...

BBC News - York St William shrine shown in Minster for first time in 500 years - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

FIVE IN MILLIONS (1978) | https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-five-in-millions-1978-online

“We are a Minneapolis 2nd grade Brownie Troop of 12 including trans and neurodiverse youth and 75% BIPOC kids. We want to go to summer camp and try horseback riding! During the current ICE occupation we need your support more than ever...” And that’s how I ordered 4 boxes of thin mints.

alan hinman was the greatest measles fighter on earth. his work on vaccination programs saves so many lives. and he died the same day as bill foege. it’s too much. our field losing two giants on the same day

BBC News - Headline-grabbing Yorkshire Dales church tower wins national award - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

And here it is, my post for #WorldLeprosyDay2026. Two days late, but hopefully it captures important themes of concern to #GlobalHealth & medical science now: constantinusafricanus.com/2026/01/27/w... #histmed #MedievalSky #aDNA

I hoped I wouldn't have to share this statistic again so soon. May Alex Pretti and Renee Good rest in peace and may light perpetual shine upon them.

"A regime based on terror, on the other hand, deploys violence precisely to reinforce the message that anyone can be subjected to it." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Appalling behaviour. All respect to the Wasdale Mountain Rescue.

BBC News - Sizewell princely cemetery reveals more Anglo-Saxon secrets - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Helvellyn is a serious challenge even in good weather. Helvellyn and Striding Edge, especially in snow and ice, are no joke. Please think twice before venturing into the fells in harsh weather. www.cravenherald.co.uk/news/2577200...

My parents, both principal Martha Graham dancers, would have been pleased. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/a...

'...stumble upon...' 🤦‍♀️ www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a...