Reposted by Clare HickmanLev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Happy birthday Steve Reich appy birthday Steve Reich H ppy birthday Steve Reich Ha py birthday Steve Reich Hap y birthday Steve Reich Happ birthday Steve Reich Happy birthday Steve Reich Happy irthday Steve Reich Happy b rthday Steve Reich Happy bi thday Steve Reich Happy bir 14463124
Reposted by Clare HickmanSally Watson @salawatson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The Byker Community Archive is launched! We’ve had a busy but fun couple of days- giving people a peek at what’s to come when we open in November and hosting a talk for two architects who were part of the original Byker team. @silviefisch.bsky.social @heritagefunduk.bsky.social www.bykerarchive.orgbykerarchive.orgByker Community Archive 1153
Reposted by Clare HickmanThomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"I've declared myself a traitor by mistake!" 113630
Reposted by Clare HickmanThe Polyphony @the-polyphony.bsky.social · 01/10/2026What is contragestive time? In our latest essay, the research team behind the Contragestive Time project (funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social Discovery Award) explore how alternative forms of fertility control can reshape how we think about contraception and abortion. thepolyphony.org?p=29224thepolyphony.orgWhat is Contragestive Time? Pregnant Uncertainties in Fertility ControlThe research team behind the Contragestive Time project explore how alternative forms of fertility control can reshape how we think about contraception and abortion. 021
Clare Hickman @drhick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Ah this I can fully sympathise with. Despite bleeding well, years of doing blood glucose finger pricks took its toll in my fingers and they used to be so sore. Can’t tell you how glad I am they developed CGM sensors. Hope they recover quickly! 010
Reposted by Clare HickmanJon Simons @jonsimons.bsky.social · 27/08/2026The advert for the Hatton Professorship of Sustainability is now out. A fantastic opportunity for someone with expertise in social psychology, behavioural science, etc, to help address the greatest threat of our age. Please share with anyone who might be interested! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/hatton-...cam.ac.ukHatton Professorship of SustainabilityThe Board of Electors to the Hatton Professorship of Sustainability invite applications for this Professorship from persons whose work falls within the general field of the Professorship (combining be... 0712
Reposted by Clare HickmanDr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Speakers 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! 0115
Clare Hickman @drhick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Used to love childhood trips to Barmouth! When you lived in the Northants/Leics border region it was either Hunstanton or Barmouth for the sea. And I much preferred Wales even though it was much further for my parents to drive. Obviously I’ve always been called to the mountains 🤣 021
Reposted by Clare HickmanThe White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 29/09/2026We're delighted to be working again with the Oak Springs Garden Foundation on a virtual programme for 'Plant Perspectives' – "Gardens as Spaces of Healing". The session is on Wednesday 21st October; more info attached; and register here: www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket... #envhum #plantstudies #gardens 052
Reposted by Clare HickmanBen Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social · 29/09/2026First the Academy of Natural Sciences, and now the Sternberg Museum of #NaturalHistory. In a better world, leaders would divert some of the money currently being spent on AI or data centers to maintain our libraries, museums, and archives... #histSTM #histsci #STEM #paleontology 🗃️📜📚kwch.comSternberg Museum in Hays to close by year’s endThe president of Fort Hays State University cited a budget shortfall in the closure decision. 12716
Reposted by Clare HickmanNicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Weather Report pt 2: contrails for comets at sunset. Words I’ve held dear since 1987: ‘A comet that was lost Should be visible at sunset, Those million tons of light Like a glimmer of haws & rose-hips’ Ravens homeward on taffeta wings. Blowing up sparks from embers of light. *Seamus Heaney 1243
Reposted by Clare HickmanDr CC Flinn @bostonoxford.bsky.social · 28/09/2026On sale again! UK: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/rebuildin... US: www.bloomsbury.com/us/rebuildin...bloomsbury.comRebuilding Britain's Blitzed CitiesNamed one of the Books of the Year 2019 by History Today.Many British cities were devastated by bombing during the Second World War and faced stark economic dil… 052
Reposted by Clare HickmanAlan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 27/09/2026For the anniversary of Silent Spring, published on this day in 1962. This Peanuts cartoon is from February 1963. #envhist @carsoncenter.bsky.social 03417
Reposted by Clare HickmanAlison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026An ancient and magical amber bear 🐻 ✨ Carved some 10,000 years ago, it washed up on a beach at Fanø in Denmark from a submerged Mesolithic settlement under the North Sea. National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen 📷 by me #Archaeology 111052242
Reposted by Clare HickmanHelsbels @helenus3.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Loving the beautiful @petroc.bsky.social sea-themed programme now drawing to a close on Radio3, Where the Light Sings. Broadcast from the lighthouse on St Agnes, Isles of Scilly. Islands very close to my heart after several idyllic holidays there My 📷, Higher Town Bay, St. Martin's, Isles of Scilly 2123
Clare Hickman @drhick.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Oh this is such sad news. Lovely tribute though Patrick. 000
Reposted by Clare HickmanPatrick Barkham @patrickbarkham.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I've written Joe Harkness's obituary for the Guardian. I hope it pays good tribute to a wonderful man who was brave, honest and made the world a better place. www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comJoe Harkness obituaryWriter, teacher and naturalist who explored the effects of the natural world on neurodivergency 1421364
Reposted by Clare HickmanRob Dale @robdale.bsky.social · 25/09/2026My excellent colleague Claudia Soares is advertising a funded PhD studentship with us in History at Newcastle. Closing date 16 October. ,📢 Please spread the word. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSX723/n...jobs.ac.ukNUAcT PhD Studentship – Histories of Child Protection at Newcastle Universityjobs.ac.uk now advertising a NUAcT PhD Studentship – Histories of Child Protection Visit jobs.ac.uk to apply and to browse more PhD opportunities. 0813
Reposted by Clare HickmanMargot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026'Accounts described elephants selecting particular plants when they seemed unwell, and mothers reportedly giving medicinal plant material to their calves. ...the researchers concluded that the elephants use 35 different plant species, and that 25 of those are known locally to have medicinal uses.'bbc.co.ukElephants treat themselves with medicinal plants, witnesses sayAfrican elephants use dozens of different medicinal plants to treat themselves and their families when they are sick, research reveals. 15517
Reposted by Clare HickmanAngela Cassidy @angecass.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The geographers already got there! rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.comTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online LibraryThis paper develops the concept of an atmospheric politics of capital. The latter can be understood as the intensification of relations between life and productivity through the incorporation of nonh... 152
Reposted by Clare HickmanDr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026"Every page the model reads exists because a historian in Havana did this work, and any honest account of AI in the humanities has to include the unevenly distributed labour, energy, and access on which these systems rest." Yes! No notes. If we're going to do this there's only one honest way. 1111
Reposted by Clare HickmanDr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026'History is a Human Craft'. In piece about ethics, our classrooms and AI, I suppose I've put up my barricades and drawn my lines. I suggest 8 'considerations' before we do any teaching with AI. This is part of a new @royalhistsoc.org short series on 'AI and History Teaching' in Transactions.blog.royalhistsoc.orgHistory is a human craft | Historical Transactions 611657
Reposted by Clare HickmanNiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 24/09/2026"Unlike infectious diseases like smallpox and cholera, malaria was firmly place-based, meaning that local and environmental histories are best suited to telling its history–if we can reconstruct past environments." - @gabtm.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2024/05/29/t... #envhist #histmed #cdnhistniche-canada.orgTropical Disease in Untropical Places: Thinking of Malaria in CanadaThe processes designed to “soften” Upper Canada’s disease landscape—such as agriculture and settlement—were also tools of settler colonialism. 1145
Reposted by Clare HickmanRichard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 24/09/2026AI thrives for the same reason that invasive species often thrive: they're being released into an environment that is already fucked. 1223
Clare Hickman @drhick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Surely this is something an environmental historian has done/thought about doing?! 📗 @eseh.bsky.social @nichecanada.bsky.social 171
Reposted by Clare HickmanSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Has it occured to him that someone saying "school wasn't for me" went to a crap school? Or wasn't taught to read properly at primary? 2434325
Reposted by Clare HickmanMunicipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social · 24/09/2026🚨 New on Substack, my post on the Meadow Well estate, North Shields. The estate became infamous for its 1991 riots but they were part of a much more complex and richer history. municipaldreams.substack.com/p/the-meadow...municipaldreams.substack.comThe Meadow Well Estate, North Shields I: ‘a victim of labelling’‘Decent people living on a decent estate’ – that’s how Carole Bell, a Meadow Well community activist wanted people to think of the Estate in 2012. 0134
Reposted by Clare HickmanRachel Salvidge @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social · 24/09/2026We’ve found alarmingly high levels of PFAS “forever chemicals” in the blood of people living near a chemicals site in Lancashire. 49 people tested. 70% had levels in a high risk health category. The BBC, Times and ITV are reporting the findings today. www.itv.com/news/2026-09...itv.com 1139
Reposted by Clare HickmanMona Bieling @monabie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Please consider applying 👇🏼We'll discuss your work in progress in a friendly and constructive environment, invite an expert discussant to join the conversation, and help you make connections with peers in environmental history #envhist #envhum 095
Reposted by Clare HickmanTim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 23/09/2026Barbara Bender wrote in 1993, “Operating … at the juncture of history and politics, social relations and cultural perceptions, landscape has to be … ‘a concept of high tension’.” 131
Reposted by Clare HickmanGlen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 23/09/2026THIS FRIDAY: You can come to my @royalhistsoc.org public lecture on rights of way and the struggle for land access in England and Wales... It's at London's Senate House at 6pm. Still a few tickets left! And an online version. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rhs-lectur...eventbrite.co.ukRHS Lecture: 'In All Our Footsteps?' with Professor Glen O'Hara IN PERSON'In All Our Footsteps? Rights of Way and the Battle for the Land after the 1949 National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act' at the IHR 13220
Reposted by Clare HickmanEd Morrish @edmorrish.com · 22/09/2026this is a great piece of writing about how comedy works. even if you don’t like snluk - perhaps, particularly if you don’t like snluk - it’s well worth listening to joel rummage underneath the bonnet 2183
Reposted by Clare HickmanAlice Bennett @aliceponderland.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I do want him to be prosecuted (how isn’t he being arrested?!) but if I’m honest, I also slightly want the kraken to emerge and then drag him to the depths. 0134
Reposted by Clare HickmanMiles King @milesking.bsky.social · 22/09/2026What a farce. As farmers fail to access funds to support sustainable farming, this will undoubtedly mean valuable wildlife habitat (recently created or much older) will be destroyed, as farmers feel they have no option but to intensify their farming systems. www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.com‘Worse than the scramble for Oasis tickets’: England’s sustainable farming funds run out in just six hoursEntire £233m budget for 2026 allocated in less than a day, leaving thousands of farmers disappointed 37947
Reposted by Clare HickmanRobert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 22/09/2026Hard to explain how gobsmacking this is. The government opened applications for farm subsidies this morning at 10. And closed it just before 4 because they'd run out of cash. Applying for your livelihood like it's Oasis tickets. defrafarming.blog.gov.uk/2026/09/22/s...defrafarming.blog.gov.ukSFI26: Window 2 now closedWindow 2 of the Sustainable Farming Incentive 2026 (SFI26) has now closed. Thank you to everyone who took the time to submit an application. 1415472
Reposted by Clare HickmanDr Hannah Fluck @hannahfluck.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Anyone fancy a job helping deliver for nature and climate in one of the most extraordinary historic landscapes in the NE of England? One of those once in a decade opportunities just came up at @NationalTrust Wallington/Heart of Northumberland estate www.simplyhired.co.uk/job/d9vU9N7C...simplyhired.co.ukGeneral Manager - National Trust | Morpeth 0109
Reposted by Clare HickmanCharlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026literally thousands of jobs in higher education were cut *last year alone* and there's been almost no media coverage and no government action 8698221
Reposted by Clare HickmanDr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 22/09/2026📢**NEW** MANY HEADED MONSTER POST!📢 A little case study where I apply rigorous, critical thinking to a very modern matter 🗃️ #Humanities manyheadedmonster.com/2026/09/22/a...manyheadedmonster.comA plea for critical thinking humans in our world of extremesLaura Sangha A companion piece to: What is history for? Or: Doing history/thinking historically The train to Totnes this weekend was full of late holiday makers heading for Cornwall. They were grat… 45124
Reposted by Clare HickmanSaima Nasar @saimanasar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Please join us in celebrating the Centre for Black Humanities’ tenth anniversary. CBH is holding a two-day symposium titled ‘Collectivity, Community, Collaboration’. Our keynote will be Professor Christina Sharpe. Cfp below. Please spread the word! 12119
Reposted by Clare HickmanDavid Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Can we make a comparison to deindustrailisation now? The slashing of wages, the redundancies, the subordination of learning to profit? The intellectual impoverishment of communities and generations, not to mention the literal impoverishment through unemployment and shrinking of local economies? 36627
Reposted by Clare HickmanAnand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026God I hate this 'people who create wealth' nonsense. Let's see how much wealth we have in a society without teachers, nurses etc...... 491140256
Reposted by Clare HickmanDr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Really 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 23319
Reposted by Clare HickmanDr Eleanor Shaw @eleanorshaw.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Fancy 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...nationalmuseums.org.ukJobs - National Museum Directors' Council WebsiteAssociation of directors and chief executives of the UK's national museums, galleries, libraries and archives. 512099
Reposted by Clare HickmanDr Beckie Rutherford (she/her) @beckierutherford.bsky.social · 17/09/2026"Including disabled people in the story of Britain, which is what the book grandly tries to do, is about showing that disabled people are always there and that disability isn’t some kind of modern trend." Extremely timely reflections from @profdavidturner.bsky.social's new book project ...substack.comDavid Turner: “Disabled people have always been part of history"The historian on his landmark new book ‘Disability: A History of Resistance’ 22215
Clare Hickman @drhick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026www.wildlifetrusts.org/news/governm...wildlifetrusts.orgGovernment inaction on access to nature risks public health, warns The Wildlife Trusts | The Wildlife TrustsNearly half parliamentary constituencies have limited access to nature, despite climate extremes increasing need for cool, shady and nature-rich spaces 030
Clare Hickman @drhick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Interesting to see this green paper from @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social on Unlocking Nature and the connections made between the health of humans and other species. www.wildlifetrusts.org/sites/defaul...wildlifetrusts.org 141
Reposted by Clare HickmanDolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026The University at Buffalo archives had a great exhibit on electricity + medicine at the exposition. There was a premature infant incubator demonstration hall - with actual premature infants from the area who were being “saved” through the electrical technology of the incubator. 131
Reposted by Clare HickmanVictoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · 11/09/2026NEW JOB! We are pleased to share news from our friends at VCH Hampshire who are advertising for a contributing editor to edit, research, and write work towards the county's first #BigRedBook for over a century. Applications close 1 October. #Skystorians #LocalHistoryjobs.ac.ukContributing Editor at Victoria County History HampshireRecruiting now: Contributing Editor on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board 13047