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Dr Beatriz Pichel

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Historian of photography, medicine and emotions. Leverhulme Research Fellow 25/26 & PI of the project The Ethics of Medical Photography Network https://empnetwork.our.dmu.ac.uk My book! Picturing the Western Front (MUP 2021) http://bit.ly/3bzBSA5. She/her

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Dr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social · Feb 6

My latest article is out! It argues that the public subvention of photography in Parisian hospitals enabled the institutionalisation of photography and shaped the kind of photography that could be done #photohist #histmed 📷📸🗂️ It took me literal years to write!! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Institutionalisation of Medical Photography, Public Funding and Medical Reform in Parisian Hospitals (1878–1913)*

While historians of photography and medicine have rarely engaged with the financial aspects of medical photography, funding strategies had a key role in the early development of this practice. The ...

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Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social · 1d

So great to see the special issue on "Invasive Species, Global Health, and Colonial Legacies" that @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social & I edited published today! A big thanks to all contributors & to JHMAS editors & reviewers for their support & guidance in this process academic.oup.com/jhmas/issue/...

Volume 80 Issue 4 | Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences | Oxford Academic

Publishes original research on the written beginnings of medicine in all its aspects. It focuses on what practitioners of the healing arts did or taught, and how their peers, as well as patients, rece...

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Museums Association @museumsassociation.org · 2d

News | MA members vote in favour of revised Code of Ethics – updated code passes at AGM in Cardiff with large majority

MA members vote in favour of revised Code of Ethics - Museums Association

Updated code passes at AGM in Cardiff with large majority

www.museumsassociation.org

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Sarah Crook @sarahcrook.bsky.social · 3d

The fundraiser is still open, so you can help kids in Gaza and inspire my little champions too if you’d like www.launchgood.com/v4/campaign/...

Evelyn, Alastair & Elspeth's Walk for Children in Gaza | LaunchGood | LaunchGood

Help raise funds for women and children in Gaza with Forgotten Women Charity

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Dr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social · 3d

What a wonderful thing to do! Your kids sound lovely ❤️

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Dr Rose Teanby @roseteanby.bsky.social · 5d

Join me in person or online on 5th November 1pm for a Photo Oxford talk at @bodleianlibs about the photographic and artistic life of Constance Talbot. She witnessed the birth of #photography but maintained a love of art throughout her life. Details here:

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Constance Talbot, early photographer and lifelong artist Talk by Rose Teanby — Photo Oxford

Sir Victor Blank Lecture Theatre, The Bodleian Library Wednesday, 5 November

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Rebecca Wynter @rebeccawynter.bsky.social · 4d

Did I mention this?

🚨Online today, 6 Oct, 4-5:30pm BST. Still time for free registration!🚨

For The SSHM Lecture 2025, Prof. Jeremy Greene will be presenting 'Wasted medicines & medical wastes: Notes from the trash-heap of medical history'

#histmed #histSTM #skystorians 🗃

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SSHM AGM & The SSHM Lecture 2025

Monday 6 October [Online] 4:00 – 5:30pm (UK time) As required, the Society gives notice to members that the Annual General Meeting to formally accept the accounts for 2024 and for…

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Dr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social · 8d

Look what I found at the Wellcome Collection shop! Obviously I couldn't resist @drbeldavis.bsky.social

Cover of the book Conceiving Histories. Trying for Pregnancy, Past and Present by Isabel Davis, illustrated by Anna Burel

Dr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social · 9d

Very happy on my way to London to spend the day at the Wellcome Library and then the Picturing Health event, which is sold out! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/picturing-...

A selfie of a white woman with blondish hair, red glasses, a dark dress and a red cardigan on a train

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El Espectro 👻 🎃 @telescoper.bsky.social · 10d

A meme for the modern university...

Meme showing a worker labelled "academic staff" digging a hole in the ground while 10 others look labelled with management titles such as "Director of Human Resources" look on. The caption underneath reads "The only way we can cut costs is to reduce the number of academic staff..."

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Dr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social · 10d

You have until tomorrow to submit applications! #histmed

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

Deadline approaching! Are you organising a #histmed conference or workshop in 2026? Applications for SSHM Conference funding awards close 1 October.
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Conference Funding

The Society for the Social History of Medicine awards financial assistance for conferences and workshops on the history of medicine. Applicants should note that grants are not retrospectively awar…

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Rebecca Wynter @rebeccawynter.bsky.social · 11d

📢New online event!💥

Roll-up, roll-up! Come for @sshmedicine.bsky.social's AGM, stay for The SSHM Lecture 2025: Prof. Jeremy Greene, 'Wasted medicines & medical wastes: Notes from the trash-heap of medical history'

6 Oct, 4-5:30pm BST. Deets & free registration 👇

#histmed #histSTM #matcult

SSHM AGM & The SSHM Lecture 2025

Monday 6 October [Online] 4:00 – 5:30pm (UK time) As required, the Society gives notice to members that the Annual General Meeting to formally accept the accounts for 2024 and for…

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Dr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social · 11d

I love Platonic so so much

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 11d

Platonic: Seth Rogen’s sitcom is the most lovable comedy on TV. It should be as big as Friends

Sure, The Studio may have recently won Rogen more Emmys than any other comedy, but his other show – a sitcom about two pals hanging out – is hilarious and a total revelation. You want to be in their company for ever

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Vanessa is the name of the Doctor! @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 11d

Been saying this repeatedly - it's not a 'bit', I genuinely don't understand why we waste our time teaching students about research ethics if we're encouraging them to use tools that ignore every single one of those requirements. If we support skipping ethics why just for genAI? sheer hypocrisy.

Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 27d

This point hasn’t been given nearly enough attention. If you applied actually existing research principles to genAI, it would never be allowed anywhere near a university, research project or classroom.

Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 27d

Loved how I got to clarify that the 5 principles in section 4 of the paper were nothing new. They came straight out of The Netherlands Code of Conduct for Research Integrity, that every scientists in The Netherlands already ought to know. All we did is apply them to AI. www.nwo.nl/en/netherlan...

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 12d

Migrants already carry out work for their communities, it’s called ‘having a fucking job’ and it’s mandatory because we aren’t eligible for benefits

Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 12d

"Migrants will have to carry out community work or volunteering to qualify to permanently remain in the UK, according to the Home Secretary." [Telegraph]

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Dr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social · 14d

I'm already dreading having to choose a primary school, I hadn't even thought about secondary 🙈

Dr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social · 14d

Next in the list is Aryn Martin, Natasha Myers and Ana Viseu's "The Politics of Care in Technoscience", the perfect article for what I'm think about at the moment. I'd gladly take more recommendations on #STS literature on care! www.jstor.org/stable/43829...

The politics of care in technoscience on JSTOR

Aryn Martin, Natasha Myers, Ana Viseu, The politics of care in technoscience, Social Studies of Science, Vol. 45, No. 5, Special issue: The Politics of Care in Technoscience (October 2015), pp. 625-64...

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Molly Caenwyn @mollycaenwyn.bsky.social · 14d

Resharing as many people thought was about a different kind of darkroom 😂
📸🏠🏳️‍🌈I wish to speak to LGBTQIA people who have experience of having a home darkroom/using a darkroom (in Britain) that felt like home.

If you are interested please get in touch:
📧 [email protected]
📞 +447902489831

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 14d

We need an associate lecturer in history of modern science @stsucl.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Dr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social · 15d

What does the future of medical and scientific imaging look like?
Join Dr Savannah Dodd, Susan Kett-Smart, Prof Mark Lythgoe, Dr Chimwemwe Phiri, Georgie Wileman & me as we explore ethics, innovation, and inclusion in image-making bit.ly/WPPPanelTalk
📷 Image credit: @georgiewileman.bsky.social

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Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social · 15d

Our History Research Seminar @uninorthampton.bsky.social kicks off next Wed 1 Oct with a talk by me on my new project 'Medievalism, gender and politicised nostalgia in the British extreme right, 1962 – 1982'. It will be at 12pm UK time and on Teams. Email rachel.moss @ northampton.ac.uk for a link.

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Dr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social · 15d

We're organising a workshop funded by a grant, which has a buget for catering. Oh but the workshop is not taking place in my university. Guess how many emails I've exchanged and how many people are involved.
Anyway, if anyones knows of a catering company in London that invoices lmk! thank you!

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DMU Archives and Rare Books @dmuspecialcolls.bsky.social · 15d

Excited to welcome our 1st class of the year with a visit from @dmuhistory.bsky.social students! We have all our faves out - medieval docs, the weird and wonderful and preservation nightmares! What's not to ❤️ @dmu.ac.uk @librarydmu.bsky.social #EYAEducation @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social #archives

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Dr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social · 16d

This goes directly to the top of my reading list! #histmed #photohist #ethics

Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 16d

New this week in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society'.

"Us and Them: Disability Ethics, Oral History and Inclusive Praxis in the Reuse of Asylum Photography", by Alana Harris and Laura Mitchison bit.ly/4gH9e0f

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First page of new TRHS article: 'Us and Them: Disability Ethics, Oral History and Inclusive Praxis in the Reuse of Asylum Photography'

Abstract in full
‘Us and Them’ is a community history project and artistic collaboration exploring physical and intellectual disability and mental illness, in the past and present. It is part of a broader initiative to open out wider conversations about the history of psychiatric care in Epsom (Surrey, UK) and to explore ways in which medical histories, creative engagement strategies and oral history praxis can illuminate the instability of contemporary understandings of ‘healthy minds’ and ‘normative bodies’. This article charts our recent reuse of asylum photography and the restaging of wet-plate collodion portrait making, opening out key ethical questions about our complicity as consumers of historical sources, the role of re-enactment and empathy, and the place of the haptic and the ludic in exposing the porous and precarious boundaries between ableism and disability. Exploring our own vulnerabilities and solidarities in co-producing a public history project with our disabled artist collaborators, it offers insight into our evolving ‘micro ethics’, foregrounds lived experience perspectives, and offers some initial thoughts on ways to rethink critically some core tenets of oral history methodology.

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Lukas Engelmann @engelmal.bsky.social · 16d

Yes 📣 @katewomersley.com 📣

"This political theatre highlights a longstanding and harmful problem: pregnant women, and their babies, are routinely let down by partial, poor-quality and missing medical evidence."

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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Pregnant women deserve so much better than Trump’s theatre of scaremongering and shame | Kate Womersley

There is no credible evidence linking autism with maternal paracetamol use. But the US president’s ‘tough it out’ message could harm mothers and babies, says doctor Kate Womersley

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Voices of Motherhood @voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social · 16d

We're pleased to share this call for papers for our upcoming conference!

📍Online via Zoom
🗓️Thursday 5 - Friday 6 February 2026
⏱️Abstract deadline Saturday 1 November 2025

See our website for full details 👇

voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk/index.php/news-and-resources/updates-from-the-project

The Politics of Motherhood: Maternalism, Maternity and Mothering.

Thursday 5 and Friday 6 February 2026, Online Conference.

Ruth Davidson, Anna Muggeridge, Eve Pennington and Beckie Rutherford.

Keynote address by Dr Sarah Crook, Swansea University: ‘Cradles of Discontent: Motherhood as a pathway to activism in modern Britain’.

This conference is supported by a UKRI Future Leaders’ Fellowship ‘Voices of Motherhood’ Project reference MR/Y018184/1 and the University of Worcester.

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