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Jennifer Wallis-Bernard

@harbottlestores.bsky.social
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Senior Teaching Fellow in Medical Humanities/Teaching Fellow in History of Science & Medicine at Imperial College London - Headpress promo gal @headpress.com - Fan of nasty films and nasty music - Bradford lass

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Peter Whitewood @pwhitewood.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A shadowy network of hedgehogs and owls, operating at the highest levels of the British establishment.
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Jennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It's quite obvious what's going on here.
Screenshot from They Live, where two aliens are revealed in their real form under their human masks.
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Jennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is quite a wild ride. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
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A death, a plagiarism scandal and a quest for revenge: the bizarre tale of Otto Z
The long read: After his mother died, Otto became convinced he’d been wronged by the forensic investigators – and that one of them was a fraud. The truth was even stranger
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Kim Newman @annodracula.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I've contributed some commentaries to this massive and welcome box set ... severinfilms.com/en-gb/blogs/...
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MORBID PLEASURES: A COMPENDIUM OF GRAND GUIGNOL & THE GRAND GUIGNOLESQUE
Severin’s Most Ambitious Box Set Ever Explores The Grand Guignol’s Influence on Film, Theater, Music & Beyond From the birth of cinema to the enduring influence of macabre horror, Severin Films presen...
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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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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 25/09/2026
We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)! Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/
a cartoon of three fieldworkers. One has a small trans flag. The logos of the university of leeds, research england, and canopy robin are shown, as well as the URL: InclusiveFieldwork (dot) Leeds (dot) AC (dot) UK (slash) trans
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NEW: I came across a bookseller who was afraid that a mysterious company trying to buy some of his rarest books was going to use them to train AI models. I went down the rabbithole with him, and was confused and altogether existentially weirded out by what I found www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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A bookseller confronts a mysterious company hunting his rarest books
Was a Kentucky retailer targeted by a destructive AI "predator"?
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Jennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Just picked this up from Imperial Library today and, after looking at the contents, I think I'm definitely going to have to buy my own copy ✍️✍️✍️✍️
Photo of a book cover: Do Less Harm: Ethical Questions for Health Historians, edited by Courtney Thompson and Kyle Smith.
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Katie Porter’s White Board @ohdangitevie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This poor cat has been fated to answer phones in a call center for life.
White cat with black markings that look like a call center headset
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
something has gone very, very wrong with the UK
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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 18/09/2026
Bluesky cuties, consider this a good old fashioned call-out for work! I've landed safely thanks to your support, but financially things are still a little struggletown. This thread is really to remind commissioning type folks, producers and editors of the kind of work I do. Signal boosts welcome! 🧵
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
'The strike action, planned for 22 September, marks the first time staff have organised to walk out in The Lancet’s 200-year history. The Lancet Group, now owned by the Elsevier publishing conglomerate, comprises 29 monthly specialty titles, in addition to the flagship weekly medical journal'.
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Staff at prestigious medical journal set to strike over pay
For the first time in The Lancet’s 200-year history, union members plan to strike over “unacceptable” pay offer
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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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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
If your employer uses Lyra Health for its EAP, please read the fine print. Recordings of sessions are the default, and while coaches and therapists will ask you if you want to continue recording, they will not tell you that a transcript of your session will be used to train AI.
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Jennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Things I was frightened of as a child: 1. The actors in Blackadder III; 2. The supply teacher who my friend Michelle and I convinced ourselves was a witch; 3. My dad's pathology/microbiology handbook; 4. VHS tape of The Changeling recorded off TV; 5. Swallowing an apple pip/chewing gum.
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Jennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
you are not going to get from AI. I am so bored of explaining why your "clever" little bit of tech can't replace rigorous historical reading and research. As @marieallitt.bsky.social said to me last week "reading *is* a method".
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Jennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Would be really nice if journals saved wasting our and their own time by also sending any info about AI use along with the abstract 🙃 Historic psychiatric records are notoriously "messy" to use and interpret, they require an understanding of language, broader context, and paper technologies that
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Jennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
...to be, in effect, a completely different article. I refused to review it because a) even if you "removed" your AI use, it's still informing your analysis, and b) it's a NEW article and any decent journal ought to treat it as such.
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Jennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I recently agreed to review an article based, as is typical, on the abstract. On receiving the whole thing I see that the article is a revised version of an earlier paper that used AI to analyse historical records. The revised version claims not to use AI (in response to first reviewer concerns) and
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Jennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Here goes: read my book if you want to know about scientific work in #c19 asylums. Each chapter focuses on a part of the body that was deemed important for understanding General Paralysis of the Insane (neurosyphilis). Also, it's open access and *free*. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Investigating the Body in the Victorian Asylum
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book explores how the body was investigated in the late nineteenth-century asylum in Britain. As more and more Victorian asylum doctors looked t...
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Louise, Prof/Dr @louiselocock.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Oxford - please join another unity march against the far right. 12pm Manzil Way, Sat 17th October. It's really important that we show them 'there are many many more of us than you'. The first unity march last autumn was a really joyful event, music, drums and a positive welcome all along Cowley Rd
Poster saying Oxford Unites against the far right, march and rally, 12pm Saturday 17th October. Assemble Manzil Way. Also showing the logos of many supporting g organisations, unions and charities
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Everyone Hates Elon @everyonehateselon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Londoners say NO to Ray-Ban pervert glasses
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
They're now just targeting random groups of dark-skinned people. What's going to have to happen before the government starts taking this seriously? www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/politic...
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Protestors confuse Pakistan cricket team for migrants after gathering at hotel
Misinformation caused groups of people to gather at The Marriott Hotel
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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Truly wild to have lived through moral panics about teenagers wearing hoodies and Muslim women wearing the head dress to now experience 'but is a large group of organised far right activists in balaclavas really that scary'
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Jennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Thread 👇
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Ian McClellan @ianmac.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Isn’t this terrorism? When this kind of thing happened in Northern Ireland it was terrorism. If someone protests about an issue, that’s their democratic right. But wearing masks and blocking roads is terrifying members of the community, so isn’t that an act of terror?
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Kent police said 'no arrests were made' of the people who blocked a port and roads. There's your two-tier policing, folks www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...
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Port of Dover delays: Disruption as masked 'stop the boats' protesters block roads
Hundreds of demonstrators, wearing black with their faces covered, caused delays to traffic reaching the port.
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William Hayes @williamhayes.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
So if you protest a genocide you are automatically a "terrorist" but hold up a major shipping route while wearing balaclavas and you are a "protester" and the police "engage with you"? www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Disruption at Port of Dover as masked men hold protest
Images appear to show hundreds of protesters, all dressed in black and wearing face coverings.
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Theresa @tlc57.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
If anyone was ever in any doubt about Farage & Reform being a Fascist enterprise this should remove any doubt. All they are missing is the Black Shirts. The so called media should be all over this or they are complicit.
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Hwaet @cog1.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Reform are all about protecting women and girls. Until one of them opens her mouth. Then she needs to be shown who’s boss. Every woman (or man) who has ever cast a vote for or platformed this shower shares some of the responsibility for this.
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Jennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Can't resist a TV movie paperback.
Image of a paperback book titled Cry for the Strangers by John Saul. The cover image depicts a young boy looking afraid as large waves crash behind him.
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Jennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
It's not often I buy books at conferences, but this - by @angiesuttonvane.bsky.social - looked too fascinating to leave behind.
Photo of a book, Murder in the Archives by Angie Sutton-Vane.
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Jennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Anyway, I think almost everyone in the audience has either instantly bought or is about to buy Louise's book: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
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The Fallen: The Magdalene Laundries and Ireland’s Legacy of Silence
*Shortlisted for the 2026 Cundill History Prize*When the gates of the last Magdalene Laundry closed in 1996, Ireland moved on. Or so it seemed. 'Enraging ... superb' JOHN BANVILLE, Guardian'Remarkable...
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Jennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The idea that we, as a culture, tell ourselves the historical stories we *want* to hear very much resonated with my own experiences of asylum history. It also made me want to return to my work on the St James's Home for Inebriate Women, which modelled itself on the laundries #histpsych #drinkhistory
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Jennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Another fascinating day at the British Crime Historians symposium, but the highlight was undoubtedly @louisebrangan.bsky.social's keynote on memories of the Magdalene laundries. Such a nuanced and sensitive exploration of how the laundries have been remembered and misremembered through time.
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Hatchlings Games ~ Shop opening soon! @hatchlingdm.itch.io · 04/09/2026
Hatchlings Games has secured a small shop in the heart of Bristol. If you’re a UK-based zine creator/publisher, please sound off below. We may soon have a space to sell your indie RPGs. No AI permitted and please no graphic content.
Sparks shopping centre front.
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Jennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Thank you so much, Coreen 😍
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Chris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
this is a wonderful piece of writing that I missed when first published - the bit about being surprised by a detail you later realise you already knew is such a wonderful and generously reflexive window onto the process of writing history
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Jennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Thank you, Chris!
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Jennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
They were, I'm so sorry you're missing it. Are you feeling any better?
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Jennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Plus @morbidmae.bsky.social (and Neil Pemberton)'s paper was a tour de force, looking at how Netflix's Monsters series often problematically blurs the boundaries between fact and fiction. #horror
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Jennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
And @emilyrosehay.bsky.social's paper on researcher "allegiances" to their historical subjects was genuinely exciting - it was great to see #histemotion work linking up with #histcrime, plus a big shout-out for @chrismillard83.bsky.social's book!
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Jennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
@drstephaniebrown.bsky.social's paper on the spatial politics of abortion was also brilliant, with the "retrospective policing" of domestic space reminiscent of Amy Bell's work on crime scene photos. Really useful for my own research on post-mortems in domestic space too. #c19
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Jennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
An excellent day at the British Crime Historians symposium today. Helen Rutherford and Clare Sandford-Couch's paper on c19 crime scene maps was fascinating: the second front page illustration The Times ever printed in 1806 was a house floor plan of a murder site. #history #c19 #crimehistory
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Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
What in the condescending misogyny is this, @wired.com? “Perimenopause” isn’t a “buzzword” invented by pharma startups — if you haven’t heard it much until recently, maybe that’s because women’s health in midlife was almost completely disregarded www.wired.com/story/inside...
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Inside the Perimenopause Industrial Complex
How an alliance of tech startups, MAHA operatives, and actual medical experts made millennial women the new face of hormone therapy.
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Jennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"The anomaly in a row of terraces", yet the (arguably worse looking) anomaly of the estate/lettings agent two doors down isn't a problem 🤷‍♀️
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Jennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Nooo! Well, I shall try to post lots of conference content here to keep you updated 🙂 x
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Jennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Health is more important - rest up and get waited on by everyone else in the house! x
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Jennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Oh no, I was looking forward to seeing you (it's just up the road from me, so rude not to attend)! Get well soon and I'll look forward to your online paper x
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