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Thinks about Modern Literature and Medical Humanities, especially time, waiting, and ending.
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.
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AFTER THE END
Welcome to AFTER THE END from the ETHOX CENTRE at the UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, funded by the WELLCOME DISCOVERY AWARD SCHEME. AFTER THE END is an eight-year collaboration bringing together researchers
https://soundcloud.com/user-799415203/sets/after-the-end
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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.
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Celia Graham-Dixon
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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 â and in such good company! Thanks so much
@laurasalisbury.bsky.social
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The BMJ
about 1 month ago
Every hospital in England has been urged to disobey an NHS directive to use software operated by controversial US analytics software company Palantir
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Isabel Davis
about 2 months ago
Thrilled that Anna Burel's illustrations in my
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book 'Conceiving Histories' are shortlisted for the
@vamuseum.bsky.social
Illustration Awards 2026 in the Adult Factual category. Adults like pictures too!
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Tim Waterman
about 2 months ago
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...
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Vice-chancellor calls for review into student loans for those without A-levels
Adam Tickell, of University of Birmingham, says money is loaned to people who âare not really capable of graduatingâ
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/mar/06/university-vice-chancellor-review-student-loan-a-levels-education
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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.
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The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science
Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...
https://www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-billionaires-eugenics-project-harvard-academia-john-brockman?fbclid=IwY2xjawQXpmlleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEevKHDvCbQTMEPyVm60olbOvJjwWeFP_pkKBVNPiz6uIXWUk7BeleKMJu6gfQ_aem_qUogYUjy0rz8-5vPlk2wCA
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Louise A Ray
about 2 months ago
www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/2590162...
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Funds sought to open archive of renowned Dorset writer and LGBTQ+ pioneer
Dorset Archives Trust launches ÂŁ48,000 appeal to catalogue and digitise Sylvia Townsend Warner archive, preserving the Dorset author and LGBTQ+âŠ
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/25901620.dorset-archives-trust-seeks-donations-archive-catalogue/?ref=li
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Felicity Callard
2 months ago
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
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Lisa Bortolotti
2 months ago
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
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Dave Andress
3 months ago
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.
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naoise murphy
3 months ago
Two fully funded studentships at Manchester to support research in queer and trans healthcare and creativity
www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/study/postgr...
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Queer and Trans Healthcare and Creativity studentships | Faculty of Humanities | The University of Manchester
Explore Queer and Trans Healthcare and Creativity studentships at The University of Manchester, supporting inclusive postgraduate research funding options.
https://www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/study/postgraduate-research/funding/list-of-awards/queerandtranshealthcareandcreativitystudentships/
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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.
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Felicity Callard
9 months ago
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/...
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âWe support Palestine Action in Their Campaign Against Proscriptionâ
As scholars dedicated to questions of justice and ethics, we are astonished and dismayed by the current priorities of Keir Starmer and his ministers. On the one hand they continue to offer material, m...
https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/news/we-support-palestine-action-in-their-campaign-against-proscription
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Des Fitzgerald
11 months ago
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.
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Reading as therapy: medicalising books in an era of mental health austerity
In the UK, a range of everyday activities are being re-framed as interventions to promote public mental health. Drivers of this include the rising burden of mental ill-health and constrained fundin...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14461242.2025.2509941#d1e170
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OlĂșfáșčÌmi O. TĂĄĂwĂČ
12 months ago
good to see, more of this from everyone please
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Roger Luckhurst
12 months ago
An industry with world impact being hollowed out with thousands of redundancies: barely a ripple of concern
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UK university redundancies: latest updates
As higher education institutions shed thousands of jobs, we track developments and bring together latest analysis with resources for affected staff and students
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-university-redundancies-latest-updates
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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:
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Robert Chapman
12 months ago
This looks interesting, forthcoming from Pluto Press.
www.plutobooks.com/978074534960...
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A People's History of Psychoanalysis
It has been decades since Freud fell out of favour, not only in mainstream psychiatry but also in radical thought, where both he and Lacan were accused of se...
https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745349602/a-peoples-history-of-psychoanalysis/
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Felicity Callard
about 1 year ago
A day that demands posting
@reproutopia.bsky.social
âs âTERF islandâ published in last autumnâs
@readlux.bsky.social
âthere are strands of thought that are both authentically feminist and irredeemable â even fascistâ
lux-magazine.com/article/terf...
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TERF Island - Lux Magazine
There Have Always Been Enemies Inside the Feminist Camp
https://lux-magazine.com/article/terf-island/
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John Jackson
about 1 year ago
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/...
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Woman's Hour - Friendships, Nursery safety, Sudan - BBC Sounds
Can friendships between three people work?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0029rl8
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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.
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On not being able to read: doomscrolling and anxiety in pandemic times
This article analyses âdoomscrollingâ, or the compulsive reading of anxiety-inducing online content during the COVID-19 pandemic, against the common idea that it is simply an addictive social pract...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0950236X.2022.2056767
about 1 year ago
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Stuart Elden
about 1 year ago
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...
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Caroline Lucas
about 1 year ago
Rachel Reeves is right that the world has changed - so why wonât she change her strategy to reflect it? Rigid adherence to arbitrary fiscal rules & refusing wealth taxes is a political choice thatâs causing huge pain & harm, as well as laying out the welcome mat for the populists at Reform UK
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Heike Bauer
about 1 year ago
Apply now - the deadline is tomorrow!
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Isabel Davis
about 1 year ago
Dear BlueSky, Please widely share that my book is out today. đ 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 đđŸ
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Angela Woods
about 1 year ago
Enheartened to read this from the
@bmj.com
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
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Medical journal editors must resist CDC order and anti-gender ideology
The news that on 31 January 2025 the Trump administration instructed scientists employed by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to withdraw or retract articles from medical and sci...
https://www.bmj.com/content/388/bmj.r253
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OlĂșfáșčÌmi O. TĂĄĂwĂČ
about 1 year ago
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
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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...
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The end, and what comes after
In March, 2024, Paul Alexander, the last person in the world living with an iron lung, died. Alexander had contracted poliomyelitis in 1952 when he was 6 years old, and from that point onwards was onl...
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)00044-3/abstract
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A very insightful piece, drawn from lived experience, about pain, care and the storying.
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An important read on the reality of much post-industrial labour, and its health consequences.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Chronic pain and ravaged mental health: this is the brutal reality of Britainâs new working class | Aditya Chakrabortty
The story of former Amazon worker Karolina Sobczak reveals much about the people who keep our society running â at huge personal cost, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/22/britain-working-class-pain-mental-health
over 1 year ago
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Des Fitzgerald
over 1 year ago
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."
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The Wrestler and His World: Precarious Workers, Post-Truth Politics, and Inauthentic Activism | Cultural Anthropology
https://journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca/article/view/5569
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John Attridge
over 1 year ago
When you have conducted an extensive review of the existing criticism
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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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Research Fellow (Fixed term for 36 months) (4905)
https://jobs.ljmu.ac.uk/vacancy/research-fellow-fixed-term-for-36-months-573245.html
over 1 year ago
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over 1 year ago
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Dr Marie Allitt
over 1 year ago
Bumping my Medical/Health Humanities Starter Pack
go.bsky.app/SjcWN1X
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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
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After The End
https://aftertheend.squarespace.com/
over 1 year ago
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Isabel Davis
over 1 year ago
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. đ đđŠ
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