iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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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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Alun Withey @dralun.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

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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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

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

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UCL Science and Technology Studies (STS) @stsucl.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

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: bit.ly/3R94V58 Closing Date: 9th June 2026 #WeAreSTS #Science #Historyofscience #Globalscience

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Harriet Barratt @harrietbarratt.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

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.

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Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

🎬 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 👇

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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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Harriet Barratt @harrietbarratt.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

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...

A flyer with details of a new online event series showcasing visual and material practices in health and care. See https://medhumsplatform.org/lab-coat-lunches/ for more details

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Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

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...

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Chris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

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...

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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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Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

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

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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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Harriet Barratt @harrietbarratt.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

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....

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Maternal Machines and other fantasies of care

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

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Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

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.

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Maternal Machines and other fantasies of 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 · 04/03/2026

🏛️ 📚 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-...

The Reading Room at Wellcome Collection. A room with objects and artefacts in display cases, as well as bookshelves, desks and chairs. Image credit: The Reading Room, Benjamin Gilbert. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

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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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

#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...

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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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Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

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

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Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · 31/08/2023

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

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Harriet Barratt @harrietbarratt.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

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

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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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Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

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

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Harriet Barratt @harrietbarratt.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

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

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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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Sacha Coward @sachacoward.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

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...

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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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Adrian Currie @adrian-currie.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

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/...

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Research Fellow - AR3233

Research Fellow - AR3233, Unit: Philosophical, Anthropological and Film Studies Salary: Grade 6 / £38,784-£42,254 pa Full time Fixed term: 24 months, <p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Application...

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Harriet Barratt @harrietbarratt.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

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!

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Harriet Barratt @harrietbarratt.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

International family limits on donor gametes are urgently needed - the psychosocial impact of multiple siblings or, as in this terrible case, the medical impact, can be huge www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #donorconception

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Sperm from donor with cancer-causing gene was used to conceive almost 200 children

Some children have already died and only a minority who inherit the mutation will escape cancer in their lifetimes.

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Harriet Barratt @harrietbarratt.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Excited to be launching this new series of online talks, running Feb-July 2026. We'll be talking to a bioengineer, an immersive reality specialist, a visual artist, a glass artist, and a speculative designer on how a whole range of visual & material practices can transform healthcare. Sign up below!

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Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

📣 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:

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Practice Research Fellowship Scheme

Announcing our Medical Humanities In Practice Research Fellowship Scheme

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Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

📣 The Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research is pleased to present RETHINKING RIGOUR, a two-day symposium exploring creative-critical research in medical humanities. 📅 4-5 December 2025 Find out more about the event and book your free tickets 👇

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Rethinking Rigour: Conditions of Creativity & Criticality in the Academy - Durham University

4 December 2025 - 4 December 2025

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Harriet Barratt @harrietbarratt.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

This is great: 'When someone recovers outside of traditional parameters [...] the system is left with a problem: It has no script for what to do with someone who is well and no longer needs it—especially if it challenges the framework that initially defined them as ill.' Thank you Monica

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Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

The 2026 SSHM Conference will be @universityofleeds.bsky.social. The theme will be In/Out and we are inviting papers that consider experiences of being in and/or out of health or health care in any period or geographical location. #HistMed #HistSTM sshm.org/sshm-2026/

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SSHM 2026: In/Out

Location: University of Leeds Dates: 30 June to 3 July 2026 Submission Deadline: 5.00pm (GMT) 11th January 2026 Conference Co-Convenors: Dr Alexia Moncrieff & Dr Katherine Rawling Conference Co…

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Harriet Barratt @harrietbarratt.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Someone's taken down the St George's flag by Brighton pier and replaced it with a BIPOC Trans Pride flag with 'Everyone is welcome here' on it. I wonder how much of this very localised stuff gets lost to history, but so many people will see and remember this - hooray!

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

"Since when did we become Big Tech's free PR department?" I'm really pleased to see an article like this pushing back on the uncritical adoption of (gen)AI by our universities. It hits all the major concerns.

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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

This is how you blurb

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Fred Cooper @histloneliness.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

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...

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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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Angela Cassidy @angecass.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Cross posting this to alert colleagues in #scicomm #sts #envhums #scipol about alarming developments at the BBC Written Archive. So many fundamental studies in these areas have drawn on this resource; it would be disastrous to lose access to it.

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Harriet Barratt @harrietbarratt.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

I'm at the wonderful Norsk Teknisk Museum in Oslo for the annual ARTEFACTS meeting of science, technology and medicine museums. Beautiful surroundings and fascinating talks on the multiple meanings of care and repair in object collections.

Entrance to Norsk Teknisk Museum in Oslo

Metal sculpture in front of trees and a lake, in outer Oslo

Modernist external architecture seen through double door windows

Banner announcing the National Medical Museum in Oslo as part of Norsk Teknisk Museum

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Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Join us on 6th November for our annual Research Cabaret! An evening of live music 🎶 poetry 💬 dance 🕺💃 and chaos 🎉 exploring what it means to live between the lines. Featuring Durham IMH researchers and local performers! Reserve your FREE ticket here 🎟️👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/between-th...

A flyer for the 'Between the Lines' event for a research cabaret, featuring the name in theatre lights and the curtains seen on a theatre stage. The descriptive text says: "How do we communicate that which cannot be categorized? Experiences from the margins and/or the marginalized? When medical language excludes, are there other ways to engage with health?

Join us for an evening of live music, poetry, dance, and chaos to explore what it means to live between the lines – with researchers from Durham University’s Institute for Medical Humanities and the best local performers. Featuring a specially commissioned response from New Writing North." The location is at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Durham, DH1 5TA and the event takes place from 7pm-10pm on 6th November 2025.

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

"The (anti)microbial gaze" Fab paper from the visualisations in science people on how representations of antimicrobial resistance shape and constrain our response to it. journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

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