You may have seen reports of the devastating cuts that I & my colleagues in history at Exeter are facing. Thousands have already signed a petition to try & stop this attack on the humanities. But we need more help. Please consider signing the petition & share as widely as possible. c.org/wW5jZVLSJR

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Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter

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Your June reminder that if you're a UK-based holder of an Arts, Humanities or Social Science (SHAPE) degree, or equivalent, within 10 years (excluding career breaks) of your PhD, you are warmly invited to join the British Academy's Early Career Researcher Network. 1/2

Early Career Researcher Network

An inclusive, researcher-led network for UK-based early career researchers working in the humanities and social sciences

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We’re hiring! We are recruiting for a Lectureship in Global History of Science to join our Department from September 2026. For more info and to apply, please visit: https://bit.ly/3R94V58 Closing Date: 9th June 2026 #WeAreSTS #Science #Historyofscience #Globalscience

Looking forward to exploring all things bodily fluid next week to launch Ruben Verwaal's new book - Blood, Sweat and Tears! Both online and in-person.

Durham Institute for Medical Humanities@durhamimh.bsky.social · 3mo ago

💧 Join us for the book launch of Blood, Sweat and Tears with Ruben Verwaal. With Amanda Herbert, @claireturner.bsky.social & @harrietbarratt.bsky.social, this discussion explores bodily fluids across society, culture, and medicine. 📆 Monday 11 May, 4-5.30pm (BST) Book here:

🎬 How can arts and film reshape experiences of care at the end of life? Join us for this online talk with artist Steve Geliot, who will explore the powerful role of creative practice in hospice settings. 🗓 29 April 2026, 1–2pm (BST) Book for free 👇

After the War – Arts and film practice in hospice care

Lab Coat Lunches 2026 – visual and material practices within and beyond the medical humanities (online)

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We had such a treat of a talk yday from Paulina Yurman (yurman.co.uk) on ambivalence towards tech, bodily involvement w materials, & how drawing opens up ambiguity. Join us next on 29th April to hear artist Steve Geliot on visual & material practice in hospices! medhumsplatform.org/lab-coat-lun...

Genuinely fascinating work!

Christine Slobogin@slobogin.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Our ✨open access✨ research agenda essay for injury studies is now out! We argue that injuries are pivotal events deserving sustained attention within the critical medical humanities. And we have provided a ✨large✨ bibliography to give folks a place to start. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

We are one week in and have reached 26%! We're incredibly grateful for all the support so far. But we've still got a long way to go to bring a radical bookshop back to Newcastle. So please do send our crowdfunder to anyone you think might want to support! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb...

👇 This looks like a cracking session for #Skystorians and #Archivists #MedHums #HistMed #HistNursing #HistMidwifery #ReproHist #Archives www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/working-wi...

Working with medical and mental health records

This session will explore the complexities of working with records related to medical scandals, terrorism, and personal trauma.

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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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A workshop for early-career researchers based in the UK on challenging Western-centric perspectives in the #medhumanities Facilitated by Global History of HIV Activism project and Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research (NNMHR) 📆29-30 Oct 2026 University of Stirling Applications by 15 April

Decentring the Medical Humanities - Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research

Decentring the Medical Humanities: NNMHR (Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research) early career workshop Date: Starting on 29 October 2026 at 13.00, and concluding on 30 October at 13.00. Pla...

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Join @durhamimh.bsky.social on Weds 25 Mar, 1-2pm, to hear the brilliant Paulina Yurman talk about how speculative design, drawing & making can help us imagine alternative futures for spaces of care. Reg: shorturl.at/VS1Xq & share! Full event series programme: medhumsplatform.org/lab-coat-lun....

500 cardboard portraits is a series of faces which are cut or torn into corrugated board but these are pencil drawings. By Russell Herron. www.russellherron.com/pencil Sometimes cute, sometimes frightening but they all capture an emotion & technically they're amazing.

Join @durhamimh.bsky.social on Weds 25 Mar, 1-2pm, to hear the brilliant Paulina Yurman talk about how speculative design, drawing & making can help us imagine alternative futures for spaces of care. Reg: shorturl.at/VS1Xq & share! Full event series programme: medhumsplatform.org/lab-coat-lun....

🏛️ 📚 Read this Open Letter! @harrietbarratt.bsky.social @drfijohnstone.bsky.social & @coreenanne.bsky.social respond to the recent Wellcome report on the use of archives, manuscripts and material cultures in health research. medhumsplatform.org/open-letter-...

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

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#jobfairy this is an intriguing one - 18 month research fellowship for an object-focused historian, museums studies person or similar at Chatsworth House! £48k + £11k travel, outreach etc #skystorians www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQK358/d...

Devonshire Collections Research Fellow at Chatsworth House Trust

Searching for an academic job? Explore this Devonshire Collections Research Fellow opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.

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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Turns out that you can simply chose not to sell your warehouse and prevent it from becoming a detention center www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Jim Pattison won't sell U.S. warehouse proposed as new ICE facility | CBC News

Jim Pattison Developments has announced it will not sell an industrial building in Ashland, Va., that was set to be turned into an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) processing facility.

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The Art of the Label. 1990. Full book here archive.org/details/arto...

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Pls share - a must for anyone interested in interdisciplinary working & material methods in the medical humanities! A truly innovative project by glass artist Matt Durran and the Royal Free Hospital. Weds 4th Feb (1-2pm, online, free). Register at shorturl.at/GpkG6 Full series: shorturl.at/T6WDE

Bringing together glass art and tissue engineering to improve cancer care

Lab Coat Lunches 2026 – visual and material practices within and beyond the medical humanities (online)

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Durham Institute for Medical Humanities@durhamimh.bsky.social · 8mo ago

📣 Introducing Lab Coat Lunches: A new free online event series from the Visual & Material Lab! 🥼 Starting in February 2026, these events will explore visual and material practices within and beyond the medical humanities. Find out more: medhumsplatform.org/lab-coat-lun...

Delighted to be speaking at this!

Claire Turner@claireturner.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I'm delighted to share details of the first of two workshops I'm hosting this year on The Senses and Medical Humanities. The first workshop will take place in Durham on 24 February. Spaces are limited, so reserve yours now. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-senses...

Stair cases we have enjoyed. Berlin, Paris, Munich, London. www.instagram.com/p/DTxlFISjGY6/

A reminder of this brilliant practice-based research fellowship scheme - accepting applications until 30th Jan.

Durham Institute for Medical Humanities@durhamimh.bsky.social · 8mo ago

📣 Applications are open for our 2026-27 Medical Humanities in Practice Research Fellowship scheme! The scheme supports professionals and researchers from health or voluntary and community sectors to develop research within the medical humanities. Apply by 30 Jan:

Pls share - a must for anyone interested in interdisciplinary working & material methods in the medical humanities! A truly innovative project by glass artist Matt Durran and the Royal Free Hospital. Weds 4th Feb (1-2pm, online, free). Register at shorturl.at/GpkG6 Full series: shorturl.at/T6WDE

Bringing together glass art and tissue engineering to improve cancer care

Lab Coat Lunches 2026 – visual and material practices within and beyond the medical humanities (online)

eventbrite.co.uk

Durham Institute for Medical Humanities@durhamimh.bsky.social · 8mo ago

📣 Introducing Lab Coat Lunches: A new free online event series from the Visual & Material Lab! 🥼 Starting in February 2026, these events will explore visual and material practices within and beyond the medical humanities. Find out more: medhumsplatform.org/lab-coat-lun...

Fancy a trip around the British Museum with a weird nerd lecturing you about Videogames?! This Friday I'm running an evening tour... it's the next closest experience to being locked in a lift with me for a couple of hours. Marketing is my passion... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-videog...

The Videogame Tour of The British Museum

This tour of the British Museum by writer and historian Sacha Coward will explore the ancient history behind your favourite videogames!

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Alice Murphy at st Andrews is looking for a 2 year postdoc on a super cool aesthetics-meets-values-in-science project, real quick turn around on applications so get in thar! #philsci www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Pre-xmas lit request! Does anyone happen to know of any critical writing on the exec order Trump that issued in March this year to try to force the Smithsonian Museum to remove 'improper' ideology from its displays? It was entitled 'Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History'. Thanks!