Here's another postdoc position on the Wellcome-funded 'After the End' project, this time working alongside Prof Patricia Kingori at Oxford. Please do share. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Interesting approach on #r4today: like, the existence of transgender people is going to cause problems and costs for organisations and businesses. No, Amol: our state-mandated bigotry will cause problems and costs. It’s a political choice.

Today staff in the School of Creative Arts, including the Humanities department, were called to a redundancy consultation meeting. We were informed that 23 posts were to go by August this year, with further redundancies as the Humanities programmes are taught out over 2 years.

I know it's usual for a book to be published before it's launched, but we are having an early launch of our co-authored book - Waiting Times: Crisis, Chronicity and Care - at Birkbeck's Social Science week. Please do sign up if you'd like to attend in person/virtually. www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

“…hallucinated references disproportionately assign credit to already prominent and male scholars, suggesting that LLM-generated errors may reinforce existing inequities in scientific recognition…” 🧪 arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723

We have a postdoc medical humanities position available at Exeter on the Wellcome-funded After the End project. Are you interested in endings and aftermaths? If so, please do apply and join our research team. careers.exeter.ac.uk/vacancies/79...

Good. I'm delighted that Sasha Roseneil and Sussex found the moral clarity to stand up to the OFS, which is unfit for purpose in its current form. A coincidence that Sasha is a feminist researcher who works on women's and queer community? It is not. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

WRITING / REWRITING: CULTURAL STUDIES AND DECONSTRUCTION - ‘THE LINGUISTICS OF WRITING’ 40 YEARS ON June 4, 4-7pm, University of Strathclyde Please join for this event on the legacies of cultural studies and deconstruction today... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writingre-...

Great to hear the latest 'After the End' podcast, where Lukas Engelmann from the University of Edinburgh speaks about infectious disease modelling and when and if we can say that an epidemic is over. soundcloud.com/user-7994152...

Why has the notion of peace being a deal been so easily taken up in the media? A deal is a dividing up and distribution of assets or materials. Peace emerges from discussion and, yes, negotiation, but a just and lasting peace requires, above all, a process.

Delighted to discuss Eurydice and the resistance of the muse by way of Bracha Ettinger and Billie Whitelaw in the latest issue of Samuel Beckett Today – and in such good company! Thanks so much @laurasalisbury.bsky.social and Nadia Louar brill.com/view/journal...

Every hospital in England has been urged to disobey an NHS directive to use software operated by controversial US analytics software company Palantir www.bmj.com/content/392/...

Thrilled that Anna Burel's illustrations in my @mitpress.bsky.social book 'Conceiving Histories' are shortlisted for the @vamuseum.bsky.social Illustration Awards 2026 in the Adult Factual category. Adults like pictures too!

I dropped out of high school, gained a huge amount of often difficult life experience, then went to community college, and now I'm a professor in a prestigious university. There HAS TO BE A PLACE for non-traditional students. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

A long time ago I wrote about Ian McEwan's problematic intellectual dalliance with Brockman and Edge. Useful essay below on some of the power behind the 'just asking questions', 'biology is destiny', 'anti theory' positions that the British and US press have so cheerfully mainstreamed.

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

Come and work with us on project EPIC at @unibirmingham.bsky.social. We are looking for a #Philosophy postdoc with an interest in the area at the intersection of philosophy, psychology, and mental health. edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... #philsky #jobs #epistemicinjustice

Go outside, rest your hand on the ground, keep very still, and you will feel a gentle thrum. It's the entire generation of British post-1945 national leadership spinning in their graves.

Two fully funded studentships at Manchester to support research in queer and trans healthcare and creativity www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Niche UK academia question: does anyone have experience of producing accurate figures of how grants from charities contribute to university finances across a research cycle. The usual 'cost recovery' model produces anomalies. There must be other and more holistic ways of accounting for their value.

If you work in a university, please join us in signing this open letter calling on the UK government to drop the charges against Palestine Action: click through to the link at the bottom of the @versobooks.bsky.social page www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...

What happens when reading books gets positioned as a health intervention? And what does this case tell us about the wider landscape of austerity therapeutics? I'm glad to have contributed to a new paper addressing these questions, led by Hayley Redman. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

good to see, more of this from everyone please

An industry with world impact being hollowed out with thousands of redundancies: barely a ripple of concern

Currently rereading Carolyn Steedman's account of mid-century motherhood and childhood _Landscape for a Good Woma_ and reeling under its intellectual and affective power. It begins by remembering a health visitor saying to her mother 'This house isn't fit for a baby'. Steedman reflects:

This looks interesting, forthcoming from Pluto Press. www.plutobooks.com/978074534960...

A day that demands posting @reproutopia.bsky.social’s “TERF island” published in last autumn’s @readlux.bsky.social “there are strands of thought that are both authentically feminist and irredeemable — even fascist” lux-magazine.com/article/terf...

Conceiving Histories - our NHM colleague @drbeldavis.bsky.social discusses the ambiguities of pregancy over time on Woman's Hour BBCRadio4 from 44:46 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

I'm doomscrolling again. A lot. During that first lockdown, I started thinking about doomscrolling not just as a paranoid mode of reading, but as a form of anxious care. It's not the best or only thing to do, but there is something that might be made from it. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Who translated Foucault's The Order of Things? progressivegeographies.com/2025/04/06/w... Not the most important thing even in Foucault studies, but a chance archival discovery and an old oddity...

Rachel Reeves is right that the world has changed - so why won’t she change her strategy to reflect it? Rigid adherence to arbitrary fiscal rules & refusing wealth taxes is a political choice that’s causing huge pain & harm, as well as laying out the welcome mat for the populists at Reform UK

Apply now - the deadline is tomorrow!

Dear BlueSky, Please widely share that my book is out today. 🚀 It tells wild & wonderful, (& arrestingly illustrated) little-known histories from the reproductive frontline. It is a history like no other and like any other, ie brill & for any history lover anywhere. Discount code in replies 👇🏾

Enheartened to read this from the @bmj.com www.bmj.com/content/388/...

seeing takes about the aid institutions and their role in imperialism. correct. If someone said "investor-owned hospitals exploit the vulnerable to benefit shareholders" I'd nod. If their followup was "and that's why I'm turning off your mom's dialysis machine" I'd...have some followup questions

With endings seeming to be everywhere, our research group is pleased to have this piece in The Lancet reflecting on how the idea of making an end gets used in global health. What happens after? Available if you sign up to The Lancet (it is free), or DM me for a PDF. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

A very insightful piece, drawn from lived experience, about pain, care and the storying.

An important read on the reality of much post-industrial labour, and its health consequences. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is such a good (and TIMELY) article by Greg Hollin on attempts to unionize pro wrestlers, and what organisation and activism look like in a space when narratives are always openly constructed, contingent an "zany." journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca...

When you have conducted an extensive review of the existing criticism

3 year postdoc at Liverpool John Moores University to work on the 'After the End' Wellcome Discovery Award. jobs.ljmu.ac.uk/vacancy/rese.... The post would suit someone with a PhD in psychology, sociology or a related discipline, or with equivalent experience.

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Bumping my Medical/Health Humanities Starter Pack go.bsky.app/SjcWN1X

As an experimental first post, I'm sharing details of our current research project: 'After the End'. How do declarations of ends in global health shape personal experiences of crises, ongoing access to care, health and obligations? aftertheend.squarespace.com

This is the cover for my book: 'Conceiving Histories: Trying for Pregnancy, Past and Present', showing one of the book's many illustrations, by my long-term collaborator, artist Anna Burel. I like this image because it reminds me of the people who ride fish in the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch. 🐠🐟🦈