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Prof. Rich Firth-Godbehere FRHistS

@profrichfg.bsky.social
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#Writer of Many Things from books to YouTube Scripts viewed by tens of millions. Writing and Emo Intelligence #Consultant #History Of #Emotion Thinker, #Musician. Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Humanities @Woxsen Uni.

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Many congratulations to my colleagues in the Forms of Labour project team on the publication of their new monograph! 🗃️👏🎉 Brilliantly, The Experience of Work in #EarlyModern England is available open access: www.cambridge.org/core/books/e... news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...
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A woman’s place was not in the home: New book challenges assumptions about women’s work in early modern history
New research has revealed that women played a fundamental role in the development of England’s national economy before 1700. Far from being the unpaid homemakers and housewives of traditional historic...
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Prof. Rich Firth-Godbehere FRHistS @profrichfg.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Yesterday I FINALLY finished writing my second book. I've been chipping away at it for nearly 3 years. Today, I don't know what to do with myself. Don't get me wrong - I have loads to do. But I don't know what to do with myself.
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Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Fascinated by health and wellbeing? So were our medieval ancestors. Curious Cures exhibition brings together texts, diagrams and case-notes from special collections cared for by Cambridge University Library #histmed
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Curious Cures: Medicine in the Medieval World
Saturday 29 March – Saturday 6 December 2025 Monday – Friday 9am – 6:30pm Saturday 9am – 4:30pm Closed Sundays Booking is essential. Entry is FREE. Book your free exhibition tickets here Forthcoming
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Something grimly predictable about the way that the conversation about 'ripoff degrees' in the UK is always about degrees that aren't rip-offs, but are instead fairly obvious 'this student has chosen something unlikely to pay off economically' rather than the short tail of crap business degrees:
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Everyone needs educating in the fight over university degrees
Political confusion over the purpose of these institutions means the obvious fixes are being neglected
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
The reason the Right are so invested in the myth that the arts have no value isn’t because the arts don’t generate wealth (they do); it’s that studying the arts teaches people to imagine better ways of judging the value of an idea than by counting how much money it makes…
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Prof. Rich Firth-Godbehere FRHistS @profrichfg.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Reformers: They took the winter fuel away. All our pensioners are good to freeze to death! Labour u-turns on winter fuel payments. Reformers: They can't do that! How are they going to pay for it? Tax more or magic money tree? Reformers are simply contrarians. They aren't serious people.
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Jess Craven ❌👑 @jesscraven101.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
I am in downtown Los Angeles right now and it is completely surreal to hear that Trump is sending Marines here. We are listening to mariachi music. People have dogs. There are teenagers here. It is utterly and completely peaceful. Please tell your friends.
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Prof. Rich Firth-Godbehere FRHistS @profrichfg.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Funnily enough, I bought 3 bags of popcorn just yesterday.
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Natalie Christie Peluso 🧠 @nataliepeluso.com · 06/06/2025
I urge all researchers interested in #emotion - or using facial expressions as emotive stimuli - to read this response paper 👇 by @lisafeldmanbarrett.com @eblissmoreau.bsky.social @jtheriault.bsky.social @katiehoemann.bsky.social & others doi.org/10.1177/1745... #neuroskyence #affectsci
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The Theory of Constructed Emotion: More Than a Feeling - Lisa Feldman Barrett, Shir Atzil, Eliza Bliss-Moreau, Lorena Chanes, Maria Gendron, Katie Hoemann, Yuta Katsumi, Ian R. Kleckner, Kristen A. Li...
A recently published article by van Heijst et al. attempted to reconcile two research approaches in the science of emotion—basic emotion theory and the theory o...
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Brooke Newman @brookenewman.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
New or forthcoming trade and academic releases by talented early modern/18th-century historians that I look forward to reading this summer.👇 Spread the word! @juliagaffield.bsky.social @marcusrediker.bsky.social @kawulf.bsky.social
Freedom Ship by Marcus RedikerI Have Avenged America by Julia GaffieldThe Painter’s Fire by Zara Anishanslin Lineage by Karin Wulf
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Prof. Rich Firth-Godbehere FRHistS @profrichfg.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
I'm at the point now where I think all Deep Fakes should simply be illegal and heavily monitored. Especially if they're political. And I think political parties caught using bots, DF, or any of that should be threatened with jail terms.
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Prof. Rich Firth-Godbehere FRHistS @profrichfg.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
I ordered a new tremolo ark for my guitar. I do not think this is a tremolo arm.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 06/05/2025
It's tough to overstate just how shockingly unusual an article like this is. Despite the fact that this is the response of the vast, vast majority of neighbours for both wind and solar farms, they are mostly erased from existence in coverage of attitudes of neighbours to utility-scale renewables
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David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Our book has now appeared, a bit ahead of schedule. Its in Open Access, meaning the chapters are all free to download either as epub or pdf from this link. I’ll put a thread together on what the individual chapters are about. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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How Republics Die
Authoritarianism is everywhere on the advance; democracies seem fragile and threatened. We console ourselves that where rule by the people has long established itself, it has never collapsed from inte...
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Prof. Rich Firth-Godbehere FRHistS @profrichfg.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Being 2026, I'm used to reading painfully stupid things in the Tory client media. But this one is especially special.
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 05/05/2025
Funding for teaching innovation: applications are now invited for the Society's Jinty Nelson Teaching Fellowships, 2025-26 bit.ly/4cg7wid Fellowships support new projects and teaching practices, with funding of up to £1250 per award. Closing date for applications: 11 July 2025, 1/2 #Skystorians
Graphic of lightbulbs with the text: 'Jinty Nelson Teaching Fellowships, 2025-26. Applications now invited before the closing date of 11 July'.
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Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
New publication claxon: Lauren Mancia on Embodied Epistemology as Rigorous Historical Method, in the Cambridge Elements Series on Histories of Emotions and the Senses. This is *free* to download till May 19. Go get it! www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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Embodied Epistemology as Rigorous Historical Method
Cambridge Core - History of Ideas and Intellectual History - Embodied Epistemology as Rigorous Historical Method
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Prof. Rich Firth-Godbehere FRHistS @profrichfg.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
An older friend of mine recently claimed that no other generation has come up with their own language and words like this one does. He seemed angry about it. I said, "Chill. Don't be a bad cat, daddy-o. It's totally far out, you dig?"
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Prof. Rich Firth-Godbehere FRHistS @profrichfg.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
I just took a quick peak at my Threads account. Yikes.
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Prof. Rich Firth-Godbehere FRHistS @profrichfg.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Zazzy Rascalface's annual vet trip. If she owned a harmonica, she'd be playing it.
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Prof. Rich Firth-Godbehere FRHistS @profrichfg.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Hello wonderful persons. Long shot, but does anyone I know know how you navigate at sea using the stars and want to help me write a script? It's for a YouTube maritime channel that likes all the technical nerdy details you can throw at it.
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Prof. Rich Firth-Godbehere FRHistS @profrichfg.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Zazzy trying to demonstrate that Elon really was making a Nazi salute.
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Prof. Rich Firth-Godbehere FRHistS @profrichfg.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
It's so ironic that Bezos has said the WSJ opinions section is to advocate for freedom of speech, but only the speech he feels for. So you have to be a pillock to be a billionaire, I wonder?
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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
The Ukrainian government has a list of places where you can donate to the war effort here. I personally just donated $100: war.ukraine.ua/donate/ Slava Ukraini.
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Donate to Ukraine’s defenders
The National Bank of Ukraine has decided to open a special fundraising account to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
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Prof. Rich Firth-Godbehere FRHistS @profrichfg.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
I'm starting to feel like Europe is a sleeping giant that badly needs to wake up.
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Prof. Rich Firth-Godbehere FRHistS @profrichfg.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Today I reviewed a funding application for a History and Philosophy of Science project that I think is really important. I hope they get it. #academia
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Prof. Rich Firth-Godbehere FRHistS @profrichfg.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Guess who just became a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Well, isn't that marvellous. Thank you @boddice.bsky.social for the kind, and clearly persuasive, words.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
“In a continent losing the security we relied on all our lives, trade disputes become trivial, Brexit an irrelevance. Merz is calling for Europe to come together in foreign, trade & security policy. Starmer ought to seize the chance and abandon fears of Brexiters” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Starmer has the backing of Britons to stand up to Trumpism. At the White House, he should do so | Polly Toynbee
The PM will not and should not pick a fight with the president. But it is his duty to go there upholding British and European values, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
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Prof. Rich Firth-Godbehere FRHistS @profrichfg.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
I did a full IQ test a while back as part of a general assessment. They had to adjust it for my dyslexia because it turns out that dyslexics are below average at word and number puzzles. Who knew! PS. I didn't get a bad score, a pretty good one in fact, but who cares, ffs?
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Prof. Rich Firth-Godbehere FRHistS @profrichfg.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
I wonder if everyone at X, Space X etc., has to do this childish helicopter-manager BS?
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Prof. Rich Firth-Godbehere FRHistS @profrichfg.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Very interesting. Of course, it depends on the companion 😀
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Julia Ditzer @juliaditzer.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Considering everything that's going on, this seems likely a timely announcement: Our primer on emotion regulation is out now! 🤩 We break down what emotion regulation is, why it matters, and how to assess & improve it. 🤓 doi.org/10.1093/acre... #PsychSciSky #AffectiveScience #EmotionRegulation
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Prof. Rich Firth-Godbehere FRHistS @profrichfg.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
This is why I really dislike personality tests. They're absolute nonsense.
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Diana Tamir @dianatamir.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Are you a junior faculty member interested in spending 2-4 weeks at Princeton Psych? Please apply for our Microsabbatical program! It’s a fully funded visit for professional development and creating long-term collaborations. psych.princeton.edu/diversity/mi...
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Microsabbaticals at Princeton Psychology
Microsabbaticals at Princeton Psychology provide a several-week-long visit to our department for early-career faculty from groups that are historically under-represented in academia. The program focus...
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Prof. Rich Firth-Godbehere FRHistS @profrichfg.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
How is Trump even worse than we thought he'd be? How? And why are so many Republicans who must know better not furious about it?
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Prof. Rich Firth-Godbehere FRHistS @profrichfg.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
I, for one, insist on deadnaming the Gulf of Mexico.
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Prof. Rich Firth-Godbehere FRHistS @profrichfg.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
This pillock will kill us all.
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Prof. Rich Firth-Godbehere FRHistS @profrichfg.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
I agree with Trump. People should be hired on merit. So the first thing the dems should do in power is create an independent vetting committee who makes sure Presidential candidates are qualified and not criminals before they're allowed to stand. What? They don't mean that?
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Prof. Rich Firth-Godbehere FRHistS @profrichfg.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Quick reminder. This bastard is the real reason for the season.
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Prof. Rich Firth-Godbehere FRHistS @profrichfg.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
There's a myth that overweight = lazy. Not true. It's a fact that genetics play a huge role in compulsive overeating. There's a myth that overweight = uniformed. Not true. Like many who struggle with weight, I know more about diet and nutrition than most dieticians and all nutritionists
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Prof. Rich Firth-Godbehere FRHistS @profrichfg.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
In the middle of all this doom, Zazzy Rascalface asks you to stay calm, and find any moment of joy you can.
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Prof. Rich Firth-Godbehere FRHistS @profrichfg.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
In a break from normal proceedings, how are PayPal still in business? They have easily the worst exchange rate and highest fees of anyone out there. They just literally cost me £30 for a payment transaction compared to, well, everyone else. Another business to put in the bin.
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Prof. Rich Firth-Godbehere FRHistS @profrichfg.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
I also think it's now untenable for the UK to remain outside the EU, and for the EU to make us jump through hoops to return. Sod the brexiteers. Fiscal and military security are more important than weeping gammons.
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Prof. Rich Firth-Godbehere FRHistS @profrichfg.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
I'm starting to think we need to isolate America. I'm also Starting to think that if the Dems get organized and get the house a Senate in the midterms, they need to stop playing at it. Impeach Trump and Vance. Install Democrat speaker as President. Give Puerto Rico and DC statehood. Pack SCOTUS.
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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
With science falling under increasing attack, this medical historian is here to remind people of the power of #vaccines. THREAD🧵 Hard-hitting polio advert from 1958. In the first half of the 20th century, polio was the leading cause of death in children and young adults. 1/7
An advertisement for the polio vaccine which reads: "they all got vaccine except dad...don't take a chance...take your polio shots!" It depicts a photo of a family gathered around a father who is in an iron lung.
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Since RFK Jr just got confirmed today, I am taking this chance to share this wonderful @sciam.bsky.social piece on The Staggering Success of Vaccines www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...
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See How Many Lives Vaccines Have Saved around the World
Vaccines are the first step toward health equity in many parts of the world
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European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotions @epsse.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Passion Special Issue: Faces of Affective Injustice CFP! Join our amazing contributors - Eleanor Byrne, Myisha Cherry, Francisco Gallegos, Federica Gregoratto, Carme Isern Mas, Imke von Maur, Jan Slaby, Shiloh Whitney, and Michalinos Zembylas - and send us your work on Affective Injustice
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Encyclopaedia Britannica @britannica.com · 12/02/2025
Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons: -We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S. -The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous. 🧵⬇️
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Prof. Rich Firth-Godbehere FRHistS @profrichfg.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
After being told about the miracle of feeding the 5 thousand at my CofE school, I asked, "So 5 thousand people walked miles and miles to a talk, and only one kid thought to take a packed lunch?" I was 8.
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🪷MsGrumpyBunny🪷 @msgrumpybunny.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
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