The crisis in UK higher education is worsening week by week — Exeter University is one of the best in the UK, with superb lecturers (and several You’re Dead To Me guests), but it’s planning massive job cuts in History, Archaeology, Classics — see the petition below to lend your voice in support

Dr Susan Greaney@suegreaney.bsky.social · last mo.

Petition against the job losses here: c.org/ddjtYXzdQQ

Me in Saturday's Lancet, thinking about justice, history, and time in relation to the infected blood scandal: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Justice out of time: infected blood and patient knowledge

Questions over right and wrong in past medical practices all too frequently resist easy answers. Formal ethical frameworks, and the imperfect ways that they are interpreted and applied, are products o...

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PROOFS! @katiesnow.bsky.social @lauracowley.bsky.social @manchesterup.bsky.social

Our edited volume Sick Jokes: Visual histories of humour, health and the body is almost here! It's up on the Manchester University Press website for preorders, ahead of its publication this September 🤩 🥳 📣 📖 lnkd.in/e47UeTsd

Our edited volume _Sick Jokes_ is officially on the @manchesterup.bsky.social website!! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526187970/

Manchester University Press - Sick jokes

Sick jokes - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Sick jokes by Christine Slobogin

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If you're interested in loneliness and epistemic injustice, I'm giving a talk about my book project next week! All the way back and all the way down: epistemic injustice and the history of loneliness 30/03/2026, 1pm - 2:15pm. epistemicinjusticeinhealthcare.org/epic-seminar...

Epistemic Injustice in Healthcare

The Universities of Bristol, Nottingham and Birmingham have been awarded a major £2.6 million Wellcome Discovery Award.

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This will only interrupt your scrolling for a few seconds. Just do it, please?

Gemma Clark 🧿🕯️@gemmaclark.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Use this link to email the lords it only takes a few seconds. Please share bpas-campaigns.org/time-to-act/...

NEW CfP! 🌈🎓 📸 VISUAL HISTORY NOW: Using photographs to study the history of gender, sexuality, and space 8-9 Oct, Tampere Uni, Finland If you research gendered, sexual, queer or trans histories using visual materials, this is the conference for you! Deadline 31 March www.tuni.fi/en/research/...

Presenting queer visual history (PicMe) | Tampere universities

Tampere University and Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK) constitute the Tampere Universities community. Our areas of priority in research and education are technology, health and societ...

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***DEADLINE EXTENSION TO THE 2 MARCH*** We are extending the deadline for applications for the #BSECS-BECC award to the 2 March. £400 to support research using Birmingham's extensive #18thC resources held across the city @unibirmingham.bsky.social #skystorians www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/cen...

A sneak peak of our new book, Sick Jokes, which shares some of the best medical humanities research happening around visual humour & health! It's been so great to work on this w/ our contributors. On the @manchesterup.bsky.social website come spring 🌱 @slobogin.bsky.social @lauracowley.bsky.social

🥳 New publication! Art & the Critical Medical Humanities is now online, fully open access. Thrilled to have co-written “Punchlines and power: visual humour as a disruptive tool for the critical medical humanities" w. @slobogin.bsky.social & Laura Cowley: www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph-de...

all academic applications should have consolation prizes. doesn’t have to be much, like a mug that says “i applied for leverhulme 2020” or a t-shirt “UKRI reject 2023”

I'm really excited to finally be able to share this after months of work - our new Project EPIC report on the epistemic determinants of health. With over 20 contributors, we make the case for incorporating this new framework into existing determinants of health models: bci-hub.org/documents/ep...

The Epistemic Determinants of Health

Health and illness are significantly determined by knowledge and its communication. At first glance, this might seem obvious; people use healthcare systems when they suspect that something might be wr...

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Dubliners— this is today! 4.30pm, John Henry Newman building ⬇️

Katie Snow@katiesnow.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Planning the first month of term? Don’t miss @elementaladam.bsky.social at UCD, speaking as part of the Drinking Cultures project! All are welcome to this in-person seminar: “Hate, Shame, and Boozy Banter in the Eighteenth Century” 🍻 Full abstract here: texerenetwork.com/drinkingcult...

On 21 October, co-hosted by the Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture, our speaker will be Dr Brandy Schillace, on Hope in the Dark: How a daring team of sexologists built the world’s first trans clinic in the shadow of the Third Reich. blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0...

CSSC and CHSTM Joint Seminar, 21 October 2025

Dr Brandy Schillace Hope in the Dark: How a daring team of sexologists built the world's first trans clinic in the shadow of the Third Reich

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THIS IS IT! You have until 11.59pm TONIGHT to submit your proposals for #BSECS2026 Ease yourself into the New Year by joining us @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social, 7-9 January 2026 #skystorians #18thC 🗃️ www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...

BSECS - Submit a Proposal

Submit a Proposal. BSECS welcomes proposals for the Annual Conference. The deadline for submission of papers and panel proposals is usually November.

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For the weekend crowd: CFP for online workshop *Object Stories in Health and Medicine 1700-1900*, deadline for abstracts Monday 6 October 💫

Dr Anna Jamieson@annafranjam.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Delighted to share our Call for Papers for the workshop *Object Stories in Health and Medicine 1700-1900*. Taking place online on 5 December. Pls share and consider submitting an object story! @rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...

***CFP DEADLINE EXTENSION TO 22 SEPTEMBER 2025*** Due to some members experiencing issues with our submission site, we have decided to extend the #BSECS2026 #CFP deadline by a whole week. Get scribbling #skystorians! #18thC 🗃️

📢 I'm thrilled to announce the full - and stellar - lineup for our upcoming symposium on critical approaches to like and dislike in medicine, law, and society! 📢 Bristol Uni, 15th October - register (for free) below!! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/critical-a...

Critical Approaches to Like and Dislike in Medicine, Law, and Society

Critical approaches to like and dislike in medicine, law, and society: University of Bristol

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Planning the first month of term? Don’t miss @elementaladam.bsky.social at UCD, speaking as part of the Drinking Cultures project! All are welcome to this in-person seminar: “Hate, Shame, and Boozy Banter in the Eighteenth Century” 🍻 Full abstract here: texerenetwork.com/drinkingcult...

The deadline for submitting proposals for #BSECS2026 is only two weeks away. Get scribbling! #skystorians #18thC 🗃️ This year's theme is 'Big and Small', 7-9 January, Pembroke College, Oxford. www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...

BSECS - Submit a Proposal

Submit a Proposal. BSECS welcomes proposals for the Annual Conference. The deadline for submission of papers and panel proposals is usually November.

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Please help. Please sign. I work on a part-time degree for mature students to study for a BA in English Literature & Community Engagement. Its direct access and designed for those who didn't or couldn't go to Uni at 18. Bristol plan to close it. We want to save it. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Save our pioneering widening participation undergraduate degree in English Literature and Community Engagement at the University of Bristol

19 August 2025 Dear Evelyn Welch (Vice-Chancellor) cc Judith Squires (Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost), Tansy Jessop (Pro Vice-Chancellor for Education and Students) The School of Humanities has ...

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📣Exciting News 📣 Dates & host institution for the SSHM Biennial Conference #SSHM2026 are confirmed! Save the Date in your planners 📅 Theme and CFPs to follow later #histmed #medhumanities #histSTM

A lovely little bronze #Roman mouse figurine, shown holding a morsel of food in his little front paws (a nut or seed maybe?), perhaps about to take a little nibble from it. It is about 1900-2000 years old 🐭 (📷 Christie's) 🏺 AncientBlueSky #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology

The white cis body as the default setting for ‘human’? @nursingclio.bsky.social has published an interview I did with the curator of a new exhibition nursingclio.org/2025/07/23/u...

“Unseen: Inequality in Medicine” at Rijksmuseum Boerhaave, Leiden

The medical field has long treated the 70 kg white male body as the norm — an assumption that continues to shape healthcare today. From March 7, 2025 to March 8, 2026, the award-winning Rijksmuseum…

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News from last year, but a good reminder that there are many satirical prints in this collection ☺️

Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · last yr.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use

This collection of foreign bodies removed from the oesophagus was donated to the museum in 1928.

Deeply honoured to say that I am one of the recipients of an Early Career Fellowship! From May 2026, I’ll be spending 3 years at Edinburgh’s Art History department (@edincollegeofart.bsky.social) to research Whiteness and Greco-Roman antiquity in eighteenth-century British history paintings

Leverhulme Trust@leverhulme.ac.uk · last yr.

From untangling the evolutionary roots of plant variation to how medieval nuns mastered the art of credit, we’ve had some fascinating applications for this year’s Early Career Fellowship scheme. The Trust is pleased to announce 152 Fellowships in this round. Congratulations to the 2025 cohort!

Eeeek this will be good'un! Happy publication day @slobogin.bsky.social ⭐ Essential reading for all medical history/medical humanities visual culture people.

Christine Slobogin@slobogin.bsky.social · last yr.

It's publication day!! Thank you to all of the folks at @urochester.bsky.social press and @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social who helped to make this book so beautiful. And thank you AGAIN to all of the folks in my (very earnest) acknowledgments.

Are you working in #VisualMedicalHumanities with a specific focus on art, anatomy and medicine? The BMJ Medical Humanities has just released this CFP for articles on "visuality in medical practice and history". Looking forward to seeing how this moves the field forward! mh.bmj.com/pages/topic-...

Topic Collection: Visual Medical Humanities | Medical Humanities

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