Widows Bay is one of the best TV series I’ve seen in a long while
Amy Hall
@amyh4ll97.bsky.social
PhD student, history of medicine and psychiatry | illness narratives, experience, identity politics, patient advocacy 📚 Scientific writer and dachshund wrangler. Views unserious & my own 🌈
Recently wondered to myself why Francis Galton is having a comeback in pop culture discourse, and then remembered the general political landscape Aaaaahaghcjvribevxhcuie good times we love the 2020s, going so well so far
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Storytelling Beyond the Psychiatric Gaze: Resisting resilience and recovery narratives
This paper explores the politics of resilience and recovery narratives by bringing critical ethnography and auto-ethnographic methods to bear on my own experiences with storytelling distress in differ...
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I have 2-3 projects with actual impending deadlines, but all my brain can think about is surprise mystery new project contestant number 4
all the sunshine has brought out the roses, and also a wild scooby
My hometown is where the dam (almost) collapsed, and Boris Johnson was flown to the scene by Chinook. 6 years later and it’s in final repairs
Matt vs. the relentlessness of entropy@mcs-phd.bsky.social · last mo.every hometown’s got the ominous megastructure, what’s yours?
As someone who works in pharmaceuticals and studies history of science, I could write a series on the new Eli Lilly advert ‘Obesity is a disease’ Now a product is available, the narrative around obesity has entirely shifted, to the much more biological ‘it’s not your fault’ ‘it’s a disease’ trope
The full quilt is also on display at Wakefield exchange this weekend only - might have to go and visit
Wakefield Museums and Castles@wakefieldmuseums.bsky.social · 2mo agoFour panels of the UK AIDS Memorial Quilt have arrived at Pontefract Castle 💜 Wakefield is the first city to welcome the Quilt outside of London. The Quilt represents over 384 individuals affected by HIV / AIDS. We're proud to be part of the city-wide display across the Wakefield district.
Brain is firing all cylinders on history mode, but need to be in my scientific job mode, aaghducchygfebfodnxo
On the edge of an idea and trying to put the pieces together
Deviants and Trailblazers is now out! 🎉 If you're looking for a long-form, joined-up history of trans activism and trans rights in the UK going all the way back to the 1940s, this is it! D&T covers many events, groups, and people never before chronicled. www.plutobooks.com/product/devi...
Publishing today! A beautifully illustrated compendium of LGBTIQ+ life. 'A queer scrapbook' is a rich archive of histories from across Britain & Ireland. Featuring interviews, photographs & flyers, it captures the diversity of queer & trans lives since WW2. Out now. #booksky
Suddenly it’s 8pm and I’m walking Scooby in her field, while the moon is out and it’s still light
I'm delighted to finally share details of a workshop series I'm hosting with @thackraymuseum.bsky.social! 'Researchers in Museums' is open to a wide range of early career researchers and offers the opportunity to go 'behind the scenes' in a fantastic medical museum. Please share widely!
my new laptop has arrived, after a year of my old one crashing when any single programme was running new laptop, new me 💅🏼
Oh my god it is actually out - like actually now. Over a week early! They snuck it out without telling me! lol. Well, here it is people, and you can download the whole thing for free - thanks to @wellcometrust.bsky.social Fill your boots: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon...
The Politics of Personal Experience | Writing a History of Munchausen
How should a historian with personal experience of their topics write about them? Exploring the author’s own experiences with Munchausen Syndrome and Munchausen
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This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
Been wiped out with the superflu all week, don’t think I’ve ever been this ill before ☹️
Fabulous day in Haworth visiting the Brontë Parsonage Museum. Very autumnal and got to see the only surviving likeness of Emily Brontë, on loan from the National Portrait Gallery. Amazing to see the restored artefacts and learn about their lives #history #literature #brontevillage
