Remember @hbuxton.bsky.social new book 'Disabled Empire: The Colonial Body in Girst World War Britain' has dropped with Uni of Chicago Press. You can get 30% off the book through the end of the year with the code UCPNEW press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... #milwelfhist #histmed #disabilityhist

Disabled Empire

Explores the minute interactions between military servicemen and medical caregivers during World War I to tell a broader story about race, colonialism, labor, and global health.  Disabled Empire exami...

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I have been muttering for literal decades that the sexy narrative on vibratory devices was not taking into account the development of physiotherapy + massage and technical aids thereunto (or electrotherapy) www.lesleyahall.net/factoids.htm... and article herein has done the necessary work

Coreen McGuire@coreenanne.bsky.social · 2d ago

Good god this months technology and culture feels like a special issue just for me muse.jhu.edu/journal/194

We're not going to miss out on an opportunity to re-up Hallie Lieberman's classic article, "Selling Sex Toys: Marketing and the Meaning of Vibrators in Early Twentieth-Century America."

Selling Sex Toys: Marketing and the Meaning of Vibrators in Early Twentieth-Century America | Enterprise & Society | Cambridge Core

Selling Sex Toys: Marketing and the Meaning of Vibrators in Early Twentieth-Century America - Volume 17 Issue 2

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Coreen McGuire@coreenanne.bsky.social · 2d ago

Vibrators! Telephones! Embodied knowledge! Hand transplants! Gender historiography!

Good god this months technology and culture feels like a special issue just for me muse.jhu.edu/journal/194

Project MUSE - Technology and Culture

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🏆 Congratulations to Lucy Jameson (Durham) and Michelle Pfeffer (Oxford), winners of the 2026 BSHS Singer Prize! Read about their award-winning essays, the special commendations and the panel's comments here: bshs.org.uk/singer-prize... More on the authors coming soon!

We have made the news! #eshs-hss (overlooking the blandly sweeping statements made about Edinburgh and #histSTM) www.heraldscotland.com/news/2627512...

Thousands of academics descend on Scottish capital for 'landmark' event

The five-day conference is being held at Edinburgh University, the Edinburgh International Conference Centre (EICC), and the National Museum of…

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“Martha Lillard had just turned 5 when she was diagnosed with polio and depended on an iron lung to live. She died June 26 in Oklahoma, the last U.S. polio patient who used the machine, her sister said… As a child, she went to grade school for two hours a day and was tutored the rest of the time”

Martha Lillard, last U.S. polio patient using iron lung, dies at 78 in Oklahoma

Martha Lillard, last U.S. polio patient using iron lung, has died at 78 in Oklahoma.

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“A.i.” reproduces all the sexism and racism and bigotry of its inputs. If you use it uncritically, you’re accepting and furthering all that bullshit.

Mel Andrews@bayesianboy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

Permanent lectureship in Modern British History at the University of Manchester. FT, £42-58k, closing date 30 June 26, starting Sept 26 onwards. For international people, this is equivalent to a tenure-track Assistant Lectureship. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... #SkyStorians

Lecturer in Modern British History (post-1800):Oxford Road

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New guidance published by @advancehe.bsky.social today, relating to the Disabled Student Commitment, this time on effective information sharing for disabled students in #UKHE. Pleased that @universityofleeds.bsky.social features as a case study! advance-he.ac.uk/knowledge-hu...

#philsky #philsci Come teach with me! 0.5 FTE for 2 years to start with

UCL Science and Technology Studies (STS)@stsucl.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We’re hiring! We are recruiting for a Lecturer in Philosophy of Science to join our Department from September 2026. For more info and to apply, please visit: bit.ly/3Q7do8w Closing date 21-Jun-2026. #WeAreSTS #Science #Philosophyofscience

We're down to the last handful of tickets for my workshop on 'Medicine and the Senses' in Leeds on 10 July. Please share! www.eventbrite.com/e/medicine-a...

Oh yay, the new Bulletin of the History of Medicine is out! It features my positioning paper on objects and materiality in the history of medicine. After years, it is finally out! muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Recently, for *obvious reasons*, I've been thinking about what it means when anxiety and sadness are caused not by individual predispositions, but by the state of the world itself. This led me to early 19th-c. France and the notion of "mal du siècle" (sickness of the century) aeon.co/essays/young...

In the story of eugenics, disabled people are often depicted as passive victims – but for some it seemed an opportunity. Read this article co-authored by @coreenanne.bsky.social, assistant professor in the Dept of History @durham.ac.uk & published in @aeon.co. medhumsplatform.org/the-sterilis...

'The Sterilisation Seekers'

In the story of eugenics, disabled people are often depicted as passive victims. Coreen McGuire’s co-authored article in Aeon explores how, during the interwar years, some viewed it as an opportunity.

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Applications are now invited for the Society's 2026 Funded Book Workshops - for historians currently writing a 2nd or 3rd monograph bit.ly/4uwep8C. Grants enable authors to hold a day workshop with upto 6 specialist readers to discuss a MS in detail before submission to a publisher #Skystorians

Applications now invited for the Society's 2026 'Funded Book Workshops' for mid-career historians - RHS

The Society’s Funded Book Workshops Grants support historians, currently working on a second or third major research project, and which will lead to publication of a monograph. The Book Workshops enab...

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I guess she was using an academic marking scale.

Really interesting CFP about history and philosophy of measurement in the social and human sciences. Cannot do it justice in several hundred characters! medhumsplatform.org/call-for-abs...

Call for Abstracts: The New Measurement Heretics

We invite proposals from researchers in the philosophy, history, sociology and anthropology of measurement for a new edited collection. Deadline 15 June 2026.

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My essay review on three new and intriguing edited volumes on history of science and knowledge and urban spaces was just published by BJHS @bshsnews.bsky.social Check it out 🔓 and have a look at the books, too - it was a pleassure to read them! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

An interesting and thoughtful review, that asks what #histsci was/is/will be. I'm also sympathetic to Dear - the Q of how science gained authority, and was shaped in the process, underlies much of what I do - but we gain from research on other kinds of natural knowledge. But is that #histsci?

Random Jetship@randomjetship.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Apparently what use this site for now is posting book reviews. The latest of Peter Dear’s The World as We Know It. No acknowledgments allowed in press, but thanks due to @coreenanne.bsky.social and Ludmilla Jordanova. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JAHQP...

"An opportunity." Today's #history article pick from Damn History, a free newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to writers @coreenanne.bsky.social / Alex Aylward & @aeon.co! Read/subscribe to Damn History: damn-history-16d93f.beehiiv.com/subscribe aeon.co/essays/why-d...

'ignoring the temporal and geographical specificity of ‘science’ as a way of organising that labour divests us from intellectual resources vital for understanding its power in today’s world.'

Random Jetship@randomjetship.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Apparently what use this site for now is posting book reviews. The latest of Peter Dear’s The World as We Know It. No acknowledgments allowed in press, but thanks due to @coreenanne.bsky.social and Ludmilla Jordanova. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JAHQP...

Live from New York, because #ScholarSunday travels, here’s my 272nd thread of great public scholarly writing, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ + blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

#ScholarSunday Thread 272 (4/19/26) – Black and White and Read All Over

Live from New York, because #ScholarSunday travels, here’s my 272nd thread of great public scholarly writing, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, share as wid...

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Apparently what use this site for now is posting book reviews. The latest of Peter Dear’s The World as We Know It. No acknowledgments allowed in press, but thanks due to @coreenanne.bsky.social and Ludmilla Jordanova. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JAHQP...

Canon Fodder. The World as We Know It: From Natural Philosophy to Modern Science

Published in History of European Ideas (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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'ignoring the temporal and geographical specificity of ‘science’ as a way of organising that labour divests us from intellectual resources vital for understanding its power in today’s world.'

Random Jetship@randomjetship.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Apparently what use this site for now is posting book reviews. The latest of Peter Dear’s The World as We Know It. No acknowledgments allowed in press, but thanks due to @coreenanne.bsky.social and Ludmilla Jordanova. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JAHQP...

In the story of eugenics, disabled people are often depicted as passive victims. But for some it seemed an opportunity. An Essay by @coreenanne.bsky.social & Alex Aylward

Why did disabled people support eugenics in the 1930s? | Aeon Essays

In the story of eugenics, disabled people are often depicted as passive victims. But for some it seemed an opportunity

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"We think of the eugenicist and the disabled person antagonistically, as perpetrator and victim. But it turns out their aims and interactions have long been entangled." Today's #histSTM lunch read: @coreenanne.bsky.social & Alex Aylward's @aeon.co essay on disabled views of #eugenics in the UK 🗃️📜

It is surprising how so few of the many histories of eugenics centre the voices of disabled people. Uncovering these perspectives contradicts all previous narratives of eugenics in interwar Britain

Why did disabled people support eugenics in the 1930s? | Aeon Essays

In the story of eugenics, disabled people are often depicted as passive victims. But for some it seemed an opportunity

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A brilliant OA article by @manoncwilliams.bsky.social in BJHS @bshsnews.bsky.social on: Diagnosing the dead: post-mortem examinations and medical ship culture in the Royal Navy www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📖 New issue of the BJHS now out! This issue brings together a rich set of contributions that explore how scientific knowledge is produced, communicated, and imagined across different contexts. BSHS members enjoy full access to all articles! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...