Durham!

They're going to try to overturn Obergefell and end marriage equality. Eyes wide open, folks. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

*medical objects researcher starts jumping on the spot with horror and glee*

Cambridge service station nailing it

'Feeling blue: Colour and the modern British hospital' is out! And it's free online (or a relatively affordable £25 hardback if you prefer print)! Thanks so much to everyone who helped with the research for this, from supporting site visits to reading drafts. www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...

The Society's AGM followed immediately by The SSHM Lecture 2025 with Jeremy Greene (all welcome). 'Wasted medicines and medical wastes: Notes from the trash-heap of medical history' 📅Monday 6 October [Online] 🕰️4:00-5:30pm (UK time) Register via the link on the webpage #histmed #histSTM

So excited to be joining this team!

Fantastic #openaccess article 📄 by @dralanagharris.bsky.social & Laura Mitchison in Transactions @royalhistsoc.org on disability, ethics, public history, photography & oral history: Essential read for any of us doing public engagement work on sensitive histories. 🌟 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

CfP for an online workshop on Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900 @annafranjam.bsky.social and I can't wait to hear about your objects!

Happy Skyscraper Day! (architects dressed as their NYC buildings, 1931)

Each day you should wake up thinking "how can I spend more time in TEAMS?" and "can the TEAMS app open up any faster when I start my computer??" or "is there a way TEAMS can be connected to every surface of my life? My food? Air? And love-making?????"

Those wonderful sheep-counting words from the North of England. #language #dialect

The next sign for my office to be put next to “It’s an archive, not a corpus”: “Quantitative data and math does not make your analysis objective”

Wtf

"many ... wrongly believe there would be one clear unambiguous moment where we go from 'democracy' to 'authoritarianism.' Instead, this is exactly how it happens — a blurring here, a norm destroyed there, a presidential diktat unchallenged. Then you wake up one morning and our country is different."

Fellowship from Bloomsbury for early career academics who are Black, Asian or Ethnically Diverse: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/...

🙌Call for Papers🙌 We are excited to invite abstracts for an interdisciplinary conference on The Hand: Emotions, Embodiment, Identity, at @unioftheartslondon.bsky.social on 8-9 Jan 2026 Send abstracts of 300 words to [email protected] by 22 Sep - please circulate among your networks!

The RCN Library and Museum is looking for objects, photographs and personal stories to feature in our upcoming exhibition on migration and nursing. Find out more and get in touch: buff.ly/nxxvo9Q (Image: International School Students outside the Royal College of Nursing, 1957, RCN Archive)

Applications for SHAPE Involve and Engage 2026-27 will open on 1 September. This innovative public engagement programme requires UK researchers to work in partnership with a gallery, archive, library or museum (GLAM organisation). Find out more: buff.ly/efUOSoL

Showing the endangered leader of an invaded country my hats

A beautiful and thoughtful essay from @lernerbarron.bsky.social on our new book out with @hopkinspress.bsky.social now! www.thehastingscenter.org/lets-not-era...

AI is robbing our students of the experience they are paying for, namely thinking hard & learning to be articulate. Even if they'll "inevitably" have to use it in a job one day, they'll only use it well if they can already think. Here's the AI statement I added to syllabi this year. It's staying.

I find this such a strange twisting of logic: presumably extreme anti-vaxxers think their violence is ultimately in the service of care and protection - a means to an end by which time their 'truth' will have been demonstrated? Or are they just waiting for any excuse and target?

To argue that science is non-political at a time when climate change, vaccines, evolution, and countless other forms of scientific research are all under intense assault seems ludicrous. The only way to understand these controversies about science is through the humanities.

"If you're a historian, your job is to help people understand not just what they want to remember, but what they need to remember." @SmithsonianSec quoting Princy Jenkins, caretaker at Friendfield in SC (lived w grandmother who had been enslaved there)....

The White House plans to conduct a far-reaching review of Smithsonian museum exhibitions, materials and operations ahead of America’s 250th anniversary to ensure the museums align with President Trump’s interpretation of American history. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Powerful post on the #ProjectEPIC blog today from co-investigator Havi Carel summarising her recent article in the Lancet on her experience of organ transplant and radical bodily doubt: epistemicinjusticeinhealthcareproject.blogspot.com/2025/08/radi... #healthcare #epistemicinjustice #phenomenology

'Put simply, we have a really strange system in higher education, where nobody admits how much things actually cost, nobody admits who’s paying for what, research is kept alive on the toil and goodwill of underpaid academics....'

Extremely pleased to be joining @durhamimh.bsky.social's Visual & Material Lab in Sept to explore materialities of reproductive healthcare, specifically around donor conception - can't wait to get started!

Enjoying this typo

How many children like Zainab must die before the governments of the world find the backbone to do something? Alex de Waal described this as Israel intentionally, carefully implementing "precisely designed starvation," without precedent since WWII. apnews.com/article/gaza...

An excellent opportunity to join the curatorial team at the Science Museum has come up! Please spread the word. 🌍Curator of Climate & Earth Sciences ⚗️Part of the excellent Team Science in London Curatorial ⌛ Permanent, Full-Time 💲 £41k p/a bit.ly/4m3uQFp

🧵Introducing the Trump Action Tracker website! Today I’m launching www.trumpactiontracker.info - a live, searchable list of authoritarian‑style actions from Trump’s second term (over 740 actions so far). 1/14

In 1967 Japan Air Lines issued a set of leaflets to educate their passengers about all aspects of Japanese life. We have scanned 24 of them presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/j...

Why is it so hard to imagine a world where care is free, universal & unconditional? Because the current system teaches us that care must be earned, health is a private matter, and dependence is failure. Health Communism traces the roots of that lie and how people have fought it.

Such a privilege to collaborate with @mcpinfoundation.bsky.social and Alison Faulkner on this study exploring how subjective experience is integrated (or not) into mental health research. If you're a researcher working in mental health, we want to hear your views! www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/774USE/

A lot of ink has been spilled lately—especially from a few particular publications—trying to paint the left as anti-child. The evidence? Cartoonish specters of abolition & family abolition, flattened to fit a smug little “we’re not like other leftists” performance for an imaginary reasonable middle.

Fascinating development in the donor conception world - v interested in the psychosocial implications of this and how clinics can support families in a time of such fast-moving technological development www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Macron: "He's a very clever cat" Merci monsieur le président x

Public Policy Research Fellow position ('25-'27) at the Centre for History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Leeds! Come work with me on my Wellcome Research Project on 'Moral Babies' and the 'Science' of Infancy in 19th-century America and Britain. jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

If you're getting notifications from Academia(.)edu about AI versions of your papers now being podcasts, that's because the (predatory) platform has opted you into AI-enhanced outputs, which you can turn off in your Account Settings here.

Should trans people have fewer rights? ‘Not in our name’, say over 35,000 women Women tired of being told that their rights are threatened by trans people are using a petition to stand up for inclusive feminism By Jennie Kermode

SCHRIER: Have you ever treated measles? RFK JR: No SCHRIER: Well I have. Let me tell you how miserable these kids is. The great thing is there's a vaccine to prevent it ... they only work if you actually give them

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-...

I'm looking to connect with anyone working at the intersection of AI, care, and the medical humanities. Are you exploring this yourself or do you know someone who is? Thanks in advance!

*Sussex artists call out * New commission for new mental health hospital - £60k commission 'The Natural World' - Bexhill www.sussexpartnership.nhs.uk/about-us/new...

People often publish *despite* their institutions and the diabolical treatment of staff. This is more evidence of the cultural embrace of dishonesty. Such craven determination to steal other people's work, research, writing, and creativity.

Typology of TV Test Screens. All images from Wiki.

Preparing next week in our interdisciplinary #ProfDoc programme: "...without being completely obsolete, the qualitative versus quantitative binary is largely overrated and does not deserve to organise curricula, research programmes, and academic fields in such an extensive way" #DundeeUni #RD62001