Some of my favourite people on a panel @ historical materialism @drrobertchapman.bsky.social

Come and work with me! :D

I recently wrote a reflective piece for the Polyphony blog @the-polyphony.bsky.social explaining the motivations behind my work on ME, and what I think a medical humanities approach has to offer this field - and health research more generally thepolyphony.org/2025/10/09/p...

Katharine Cheston reflects on her own experience of ME and the need for a more caring, curious, and compassionate approach to health research. thepolyphony.org/2025/10/09/p...

This year, I've been lucky enough to work with @actionforme.bsky.social, as part of a collaboration between Action for ME and @durhamimh.bsky.social. (More on this soon!) For now, this reflective post explains my motivations - and what I believe a collaborative, cross-sector approach can achieve.

Employing Alison Kafer's 'crip time' as a mode of writing, Ayeong unravels the recovery paradigm and its institutional salience. thepolyphony.org/2025/10/10/c...

Really enjoyed working with Yann on this, important and thoughtful reflections from clinical practice

Yann Phesans interrogates the concept of therapeutic neutrality, combining personal history and clinical experience to offer an alternative. thepolyphony.org/2025/10/02/n...

Queer science in action: “As Max put it, ‘Be open to surprises…biology will surprise you. Let the animals tell you something different about the world than what you thought.’ He was talking abt frogs, of course. But also abt the many, many other animals who don’t live quite the way we might expect.”

I spoke to the Irish Times for this very good and rounded piece on the real-world effects of C***GPT in the humanities classroom: www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

Really like Christina's interrogation of the terms "town hall" and "circus" in this piece on listening exercises and the question of who is able to speak / who can be heard #DisabilityMatters

Christina Lee introduces the context behind Disability Matters' upcoming 'Online Town Hall Circus' event which will take place on the 19th of September. thepolyphony.org/2025/09/05/t...

Our research into historical #pandemics and literature has just been published on the medical humanities platform @the-polyphony.bsky.social - find it here ⬇️ #medhums #hstm #histsci #litsi

Members of the Institute for Medical Humanities' Moving Bodies Lab reflect on a series of talks and workshops exploring what it means to be slow, still, and sedentary. thepolyphony.org/2025/08/01/s...

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Two weeks ago the Three Societies Meeting commenced at the American University Paris. It was filled with fascinating talks around the theme of Milieux and Places in the History of the Human Sciences. Thank you to all who contributed to the success of the conference. Hope to see you next year!

The 8th page of my dear friend's thesis

Really important and thought-provoking piece

Great to have the European Society for the History of Human Science on Bsky- give them a follow @eshhs.bsky.social ! Also pleased that I'm now the ESHHS archivist- I've previously written about the richness of their archive for the @the-polyphony.bsky.social: thepolyphony.org/2022/09/13/i...

Sofia Wanström reflects on the epistemic injustice experienced by people with endometriosis related pain thepolyphony.org/2025/07/09/n...

Talking about paradoxical responsibility at the three societies meeting in Paris!

Great to be at the European Society for the History of Human Science conf this year in a hot but beautiful Paris!

Beautiful reflections!

On Day 6 of the Critical Neurodiversity Studies takeover @tasha-tasha.bsky.social calls for literary scholars within Mad Studies & Neurodiversity Studies to engage with one another, exploring the possibilities of and justifications for a ‘Mad[]Neurodiverse’ literary analysis. tinyurl.com/mr3dr8kc

A preprint of mine and Matt's paper theorising critical OCD studies (accepted for publication Jan 2026) www.researchgate.net/publication/...

"There are illuminating commonalities between prophets and neurodivergent people navigating neurocognitive/value dissonance with oppressive systems, unwilling/unable to tolerate falsehood and oppression". C Day and J Dunn in Critical Neurodiversity Studies takeover. thepolyphony.org/2025/06/24/p...

Shaul Bar-Haim reviews Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat by Hannah Proctor (Verso, 2024): "Proctor’s book puts the connection between politics and care at the forefront of any political project from the left" thepolyphony.org/2025/06/12/b...

"In contemporary therapy research the dominance of clinical trials has all but dissolved theoretical debates, instead focusing almost solely on which therapeutic interventions can best alleviate the symptoms of mental disorder"

Neil Pemberton and Beck Heslop discuss their participation in Jo Longhurst’s installation, In Plain Sight? The graffiti installation uses images of bindweed to provoke questions about disability, belonging, and exclusion. thepolyphony.org/2025/06/05/i...

Sahanika Ratnayake discusses the intersection between cognitive-behavioural therapy and evidence-based health research. thepolyphony.org/2025/06/04/t...

Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril and Daniel P Jones respond to a recent Polyphony essay exploring the access difficulties of wearing face-masks. thepolyphony.org/2025/06/02/m...

Sreeparna Chattopadhyay offers a first-person account of the harmful health effects of air pollution from burning waste in India. thepolyphony.org/2025/05/12/t...

Fascinating blog applying #Posthumanism thinking to the medical humanities My fav so far thepolyphony.org/2023/12/14/s... Proposes engaging speculative #ethics, rather than abstract biomedical ethics, to make visible the messy, situated, relational networks of care within & beyond the health system

@irisacroft.bsky.social uses poetry to untangle the relationship between neurodivergence, being articulate, and receiving care. thepolyphony.org/2025/05/06/i...

"Not enough hours in the day? Not a problem." Today marks my first ever publication! A hybrid poem and essay in @the-polyphony.bsky.social exploring the lived experience of navigating neurodiversity and mental illness as a woman. #academicsky #mentalhealth #neurodiversity #poetry #womenshealth

An excellent introduction from @kthabitproject.bsky.social giving an insight into 'addictive' sports sponsorship - our experts @shwardle.bsky.social @fabiolacreed.bsky.social are leading on the gambling strand.

Here's our first blog post on our project: 'Kicking the Habit: ‘Addictive’ Sport Sponsorship in Britain, 1965-2025'. The project explores tobacco, alcohol and gambling industries' sports sponsorship (football, rugby, tennis, cricket and F1). Delighted to be working with such a fantastic team!

@eevasavolainen.bsky.social. explores her lived experience of transient aphasia, finding language through poetry in this three-part poem. thepolyphony.org/2025/04/14/t...

Thanks to @the-polyphony.bsky.social for posting a blog introducing our project, 'Kicking the Habit: ‘Addictive’ Sport Sponsorship in Britain, 1965-2025', on the tobacco, alcohol and gambling industries’ sponsorship of football, rugby, cricket, F1 & tennis. Funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social

Sophie Phillips and Armineh Soorenian outline some of the access difficulties wearing face masks can pose for Disabled people, and how to account for conflicting impairments. thepolyphony.org/2025/04/08/f...

Was great to work with you on this Jacob!

wrote this short essay on sanitation, urban space, and state violence in Accra for The Polyphony, a really neat platform for research in the critical medical humanities based out of @durhamimh.bsky.social. check it out 👇🏻

The researchers (@kthabitproject.bsky.social) leading the Wellcome-funded ‘Kicking the Habit’ project introduce us to its key themes, socio-historical contexts, and guiding ambitions. @kthabitproject.bsky.social thepolyphony.org/2025/04/04/k...

Jacob Badcock elucidates the parallels between 19th century colonial notions of sanitation and urban space and the recent demolition of an e-waste scrapyard in Accra (Ghana). thepolyphony.org/2025/04/03/a...

So proud of this, and of @alyfixit.bsky.social for all their work putting it together!

I’m seeing even well-meaning accounts criticise disability cuts as hitting “the most vulnerable.” Reminder: disabled people are not inherently vulnerable. We are vulnerable when governments choose to withhold the resources disabled people need to live dignified and secure lives.

I wrote about William Sargant years ago for the Polyphony, he loved peforming leucotomies on what he described as 'obstinate' obsessionals. horrific: thepolyphony.org/2021/01/19/o...

More dark stories of William Sargant #HistPsych #HistSTM

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