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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 08/10/2026

It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.

X post from AI industry insider Alvin Sng :

My wife: Can you read our baby a book?
Me: I can just play an audiobook from my phone.
My wife: But then it won't be in your voice.
Me: I can train a voice model.
Parenting hits different when you work in Al.

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Maria Berghs @mariaberghs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

An Introduction to Global Health Interventions critically analyses how a range of different interventions – medical, social, cultural, environmental and legal - have impacted upon the key issues within Global Health #globalhealth #publichealth #interventions www.routledge.com/An-Introduct...

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An Introduction to Global Health Interventions: Key Issues and Case Studies

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, literally used himself as a human shield to protect students from police violence

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

ah, this is going to be SO GOOD! And we're luring Aditya Chakrabortty to Mile End! Do join if you've got even just a passing interest in #SocialHistory, #BritishHistory, #UrbanHistory, history of photography, or a bunch of cool brains in one room. #SkyStorians

How do we write histories of small towns in the post-1945 period? Towns such as Halifax in the Calder Valley feature little in an otherwise thriving historiography of contemporary Britain. Yet for an earlier generation of social historian, most notably E. P. Thompson, who wrote The Making of the English Working Class while living there, such towns were crucial to understanding the processes of industrialisation and capitalist modernity. How can we include such places in more purposeful narratives of the more recent past? How do we write inclusive histories of belonging for the residents of these towns that do not consign them to being ‘left behind’, as though their histories are only considered to explain their ‘unmaking’ and marginalisation: towards an overdetermined present of post-Brexit Britain, flags and Reform?

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Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

560 (!!!) FTE cuts approved & closure of music and languages courses. absolutely horrific proposals coming out of Nottingham. measuring ‘interest’ in languages in n of students on UG degrees is so disingenuous—language modules can be combined with anything! www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...

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Uni to axe hundreds of jobs and scrap courses to cut costs

The university said the changes are 'among the most significant' in its 145-year history

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Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

📣 Important Membership News 📣 Keep informed with latest issue of The Gazette (September 2026). This issue explains changes to membership management with a new system from November. Look out for your renewal letters arriving early December. #histSTM #histmed

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Stay Informed with The Gazette of SSHM

The Gazette of the SSHM launched in 1990 to keep subscribers of Social History of Medicine informed about professional events within as well as outside the SSHM. It not only provides a means to com…

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Dr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Teaching starts on Monday and I had planned to be responsible and work on preparing lectures (beyond Monday! Next week is sorted!) but you know what? I'm going to write. My little rebellion

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The big but hidden impact of the implosion of smaller regional universities is the pressure on research academics to prioritise teaching or switch to teaching contracts and abandon research as a frivolous pursuit in this financially unstable crisis. This will dramatically shrink future scholarship.

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Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Today is the first day of the 5-year ERC Advanced Grant project Zoonosis Before Bacteriology cordis.europa.eu/project/id/1... Website with more info, plus 2 postdoc (4-year) vacancies & PhD post/scholarship soon to be made public

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Dr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Speakers announcement! We're super lucky Jen Wallis @harbottlestores.bsky.social and Victoria Cranna (LSHTM archives) will speak at this event, alongside Kat Rawling and me on behalf of the project. Oh and we'll be recording and sharing the event afterwards. Can't wait to share this with the world!

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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Dr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Que interesante! Saluda a Nuria de mi parte 😄

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Politics & IR @ De Montfort University @dmupoliticsir.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

DMU Politics & IR is proud to contribute to the Institute of Global Challenges and Cultures’ 2026–27 Migration, Integration and Conflict research seminar series. A great line-up of speakers and topics, beginning with Andreas Bieler in a couple of weeks! @dmuhistory.bsky.social @campolis.bsky.social

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Justin Carville @justinmcarville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Call For Papers: @forarthistory.org.uk annual conference 2027 - along with Holly O’Farrell (IADT) we are co-convening a session on photo-albums and colonialism and welcome submissions from all stages of researchers; follow link for guidelines below; forarthistory.org.uk/conference-2...

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87. The Album as Archive – photography, materiality and colonialism. - For Art History

This session invites papers that explore photographic albums as valuable records of visual expressions of the cultural politics of colonialism during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Produced a...

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Dr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We always promote (as we should!) research-led teaching but tbh I find teaching-led research even more enjoyable. I love working through ideas because I'm teaching something related, or making connections because of something I had to teach

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Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

As an anthropological archaeologists i’m just dying to find out what Suella thinks makes ‘English’ an ‘ethnicity’ that she doesn’t belong to (dya think it is whiteness????)

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Brian Jacobson @bleudeciel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We are once again searching for a 2-year postdoctoral fellowship in Visual Culture, focus on visual culture and the environment - deadline November 15 - details and application here: applications.caltech.edu/jobs/vcpd

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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Please join us on 29 October for the 2nd Biennial Pickstone Lecture. Our speaker will be Prof Roberta Bivins (Warwick) on A Positive Difference: Minoritised Communities in British Healthcare and Innovation. blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2026/0...

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Pickstone Lecture 2026

Professor Roberta Bivins A Positive Difference: Minoritised Communities in British Healthcare and Innovation 29 October 2026

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

literally thousands of jobs in higher education were cut *last year alone* and there's been almost no media coverage and no government action

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Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

a) 'it is no bad thing' if universities close ❌ - think about who they employ and what they offer local area and people. b) Cap on fees should go ❌ - wrong cap: cap on numbers at each institution would help. c) Cost of student loans is often borne by public money ✅ - so get rid of fees altogether!

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Dr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Honestly the lengths to which this country will go just to keep their classism and xenophobia is astonishing. Britain will shoot itself in the foot before it allows poor kids to succeed

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 21/09/2026

The Society is pleased to launch a new programme to support research bit.ly/4iFNuF0 The RHS / Social History Archive Partnership offers free access to resources in @socialhistarchive.bsky.social, published by DC Thomson. Applications for 6-month access to Archive content invited #Skystorians 1/2

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Society launches new programme for researchers, in partnership with The Social History Archive - RHS

The Society is pleased to launch a new programme for researchers, in partnership with The Social History Archive, published by DC Thomson. The Social History Archive is a comprehensive online archive ...

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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

UK-based postdoctoral – or equivalent – researchers in the humanities and social sciences can still apply for the British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants. The deadline is 4 Nov for institutional applicants and 28 Oct for independent scholars. Find out more: bit.ly/4iwQQtI

British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants, deadline of 4 November 2026. Independent scholars deadline 28 October 2026

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Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

📣New issue now available online 📣 10 articles (7 open access) & 15 book reviews. Article topics include: asylums, T.B., death data, AIDS policy, & public hospitals with research exploring Britain, Denmark, Spain, Turkey and the Mediterranean covering 15-17th, 19th & 20th centuries!

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Volume 39 Issue 3 | Social History of Medicine | Oxford Academic

The official journal of the Society for the Social History of Medicine. Publishes research concerned with all aspects of health, illness, and medical treatment in the past. Articles treat the social h...

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Dr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Very excited to attend the conference "Photographs within and without communities" organized by @phrc-dmu.bsky.social PhD students! @javedsultan.bsky.social ltan.bsky.social it's going to be a good one! 📸 #photohist

Projected screen of the Arrival and Registration slide for the conference Photographs within and without their communities, with a QR code to the programme

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Rebecca Whiteley @rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Anyone who is interested in Material Culture and the Medical Humanities should definitely come and join our new Collective! medhumsplatform.org/call-for-col... @annafranjam.bsky.social @harrietbarratt.bsky.social @drfijohnstone.bsky.social

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Call for collaborators – launching the Material Medical Humanities Collective | The Platform

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Dr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Really excited to announce the online launch of The Ethics of Medical Photography Toolkit, the result of two years of work between academics, archives and museums. Register here forms.gle/PYBjxGNDitDp... to join us on Friday 16 Oct at 3 pm BST online #histmed #photohist #ethics #medhums

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joannad-c.bsky.social @joannad-c.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Hiring! 🧠❤️🤔If you’re a philosopher working in ethics/ x-phi/ empirically informed moral philosophy / moral psychology / applied ethics, consider applying for a 2.5 year research postdoc with me in my lab at Oxford. Deadline noon 16th Oct. Details 👉 philjobs.org/job/show/32101 Hit me up with q’s!

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Shameless Fiona Gallagher

ALT: Shameless Fiona Gallagher

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Dr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I've loved collaborating with you! Here's to more 🥂

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Barts Health Archives @bharchives.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Do you work with historic medical images? Join the launch of the new Ethics of Medical Photography Toolkit, a new resource for researchers, GLAM professionals, and anyone thinking about the challenges of working with historical medical photography

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Dr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I love Maria Puig de la Bellacasa's Matters of Care to think about care. There are other pieces like this one journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... that are also really good. They all touch on ethics and inequalities

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Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Dr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

oh brilliant! thank you so much, see you there!

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Dr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Obviously the toolkit will be available then! Join us to discuss the toolkit, how to use it, and what's next for The Ethics of Medical Photography Network!

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Dr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I can't express with words how proud I am of this toolkit and the team that has co-written it. We all came together and shared ideas, and worked really hard to lift everyone's writing. I think the toolkit reflects this well. We don't give answers, but try to support the process

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Dr Eleanor Shaw @eleanorshaw.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Fancy coming to work with me at the British Library? Part time for 18 months, collecting oral histories about covid and thinking about covid commemoration. www.nationalmuseums.org.uk/jobs/job/228...

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Jobs - National Museum Directors' Council Website

Association of directors and chief executives of the UK's national museums, galleries, libraries and archives.

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Dr. Heather Dichter @hdichter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Come join our amazing @ijhs.bsky.social Editor team! Looking for sport historians who work on Europe. Email me with any ❓about the role. Deadline October 20 #skystorians #sporthistory 🗃️

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First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

We are recruiting new Associate Editors! First World War Studies, the interdisciplinary journal of the International Society for First World War Studies, published by Taylor & Francis, is seeking to expand its editorial team.

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Kate McAllister @katemcal993.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Last week was World Suicide Prevention Day. I saw lots of well meaning posts elsewhere on social media, about how ‘asking someone if they are okay’, or ‘sending them a song because it reminded you of them’, is suicide prevention. But it’s really not and it’s dangerous to pretend it is

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I think the essential point here is right: people who have lost communities don’t know why they’re doing the job anymore

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Dr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It's one I'm definitely trying to learn!

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Dr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

haha exactly! I'm embarrassed to say how long I spent today finding the right combination of fonts and colours 😅

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Dr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Every single year I forget that the most time consuming part of preparing lectures is doing the power point. Im teaching all new new modules for the second time in a row so I can't even use old material...le sigh

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 08/09/2026

Each summer the Society hosts a number of funding calls to support historians. Today, we're pleased to announce the 30 recipients of these recent programmes bit.ly/4yoVYor Funding offers support for MA & PhD students, as well as early and later career historians, in and beyond HE #Skystorians 1/2

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Recent RHS Grant and Fellowship Recipients: summer 2026 round of awards - RHS

The Royal Historical Society is very pleased to announce the 30 recipients for the following six funding programmes hosted by the Society. Calls for these programmes were held over the summer for proj...

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Applications are open for our (free) early career researcher leadership programme. We will provide 62 ECRs from humanities and social sciences with coaching, mentoring and peer networking. We can contribute to childcare costs. Apply by 28th October www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/early-career...

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British Academy Elevate Programme - Leadership Stream: key information

An intensive, CPD‑accredited leadership programme for Early Career Researchers delivered through training, mentoring and coaching.

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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Anyone working in the sector already knows, but still good to see it in black & white. Professional services *people*--not just interchangeable hubs of administration--are essential to a good university. Their institutional knowledge has been consistently undervalued & their loss is catastrophic.

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