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Emily Cock

@emilyncock.bsky.social

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Historian of health and disability c1600-1850 at Cardiff University. Dysgwr Cymraeg. Also keen on our garden, cat, and chickens. https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/cocke

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Emily Cock @emilyncock.bsky.social · Jun 18

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Publication day! ‘Disability, Gender and Segregation in the Britain–Australia Convict System’ #OpenAccess in a @genderandhistory.bsky.social sky.social‬ special issue on Gender and Segregation. How did disability affect prisoners’ fates? Was it gendered? 1/6

Disability, Gender and Segregation in the Britain–Australia Convict System

This article assesses the gendered experiences of disability and segregation among prisoners in colonial (1830s) New South Wales. I use the distinction between impairment and disability from the ‘soc...

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · Apr 15

"It’s not your job to be resilient, it’s your employer’s job to provide you with decent working conditions. The purpose of your hobbies and your free time is your enjoyment and fulfilment, not recuperation from work stress."

Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · Apr 15

We've made this article from @cash4questions.bsky.social free to read, as it is proving very popular.

University funding crisis: How to stay serene when wellbeing sessions are offered.

"Beware employers bearing yoga mats..."

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Coping with the university funding crisis - Research Professional News

Positive steps in uncertain times, including how to stay serene when wellbeing sessions are offered

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Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · 11d

Today is publication day for PAPER AND THE MAKING OF EARLY MODERN LITERATURE! Available in paper or digital form www.pennpress.org/978151282744... @pennpress.bsky.social

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Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

"Minister rules out international student levy in Wales - BBC News"

Minister rules out international student levy in Wales - BBC News

There are plans for such a tax in England to fund maintenance grants for some students.

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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 3d

You know who doesn't integrate? People like Robert Jenrick. You think he works out at the local leisure centre? Goes to the Tuesday night pub quiz? You think his golf club lets anyone play? Or his private members' clubs let anyone in? He puts the ick in prick

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Mark Hailwood @markhailwood.bsky.social · 9d

Delighted to see our new book - The Experience of Work in Early Modern England - out now, and open access (free!)

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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · 14d

For anyone who is #teaching #18thcentury politics and/or electoral culture, or is doing #localhistory or #familyhistory, do check out our ECPPEC web resource : it's chock-full of short informative essays, polling data, and artefacts #skystorians ecppec.ncl.ac.uk

Eighteenth-Century Political Participation & Electoral Culture

18th-century Britain is notorious for corrupt and restrictive politics, when few could vote, bribery and debauchery were commonplace. But it was also an age when modern democracy was being shaped.

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Rebecca Whiteley @rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social · Sep 5

CfP for an online workshop on Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900
@annafranjam.bsky.social and I can't wait to hear about your objects!

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Niema Moshiri @niema.net · Sep 9

Pro-tip for faculty who are more trusting than me: any time anyone tells me to do something verbally, I always send an email to them right after saying "For my memory, just to recap our conversation a few minutes ago, you asked me to do X. Please let me know if I misunderstood." Paper👏trail👏ALWAYS!👏

Terrence Peterson @tgpeterson.bsky.social · Sep 9

This shit is happening in Florida, too, only more quietly. Deans are regularly strangling readings, grants, entire courses. They do it all verbally. No paper trail, no policies cited, just vague threats about the need to "follow the laws." Colleagues in China report less surveillance over teaching

Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · Sep 9

Texas A&M’s President just removed a dean and department head from their positions after they supported a professor whose lesson on gender was challenged by a student. www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...

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BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social · Sep 9

***The #CFP for the #BSECS2026 conference closes on the 15 September 2025***
Submissions are welcome on any aspect of #18thC history, culture, and literature, but particularly on our conference theme 'Big and Small'.
@pembrokeoxford.bsky.social, 7-9 January 2026
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BSECS - Submit a Proposal

Submit a Proposal. BSECS welcomes proposals for the Annual Conference. The deadline for submission of papers and panel proposals is usually November.

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Emily Cock @emilyncock.bsky.social · Sep 8

If you are also in the midst of updating any early modern teaching materials and student guides for this year, this list is invaluable!

Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social · Sep 1

I've updated #EarlyModern Resources earlymodernweb.org/resources/ Quite a few new links but also a big overhaul of the site to be more usable + a visual refresh.

(If you can't see a change, you may need to clear your browser cache and refresh hard. 😬)

Welcome to Early Modern Resources – EMR

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Isa / EvilCleverDog @evilcleverdog.bsky.social · Sep 7

Important reminder for UK peeps today! The alert test is at 3pm so if you’re someone with a secret phone, switch off your phone or put it in airplane mode to avoid it making noise.

Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · Sep 7

This whole test should have been far better organised to ensure that those people who need to have secret phones, such as domestic abuse victims, have been far better informed about how to prevent the alerts.
It's been primarily left to charities to raise that awareness.
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'Keep your cool' during emergency alert test, government says

A nationwide test of the system will see most phones signal an alert at 15:00 BST on Sunday.

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Emily Cock @emilyncock.bsky.social · Sep 6

I inherited three overgrown plum trees on an allotment this year and can recommend chutney for something different (makes good cheese toasties, especially): www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/rich...

Plum chutney

Make-ahead this rich plum chutney for special occasions or simply enjoy al fresco with your favourite cold cuts. Flavour with spices such as cumin, paprika and ginger.

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Barry Doyle @profbarrydoyle.bsky.social · Sep 4

Save the Dates in your planners!
The dates and host institution for the Society for the Social History of Medicine Biennial Conference #SSHM2026 are now confirmed.

Tues 30 June - Fri 3 July 2026
University of Leeds
@sshmedicine.bsky.social

Theme and CFPs to follow later
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Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · Sep 5

we should all run an informal additional class that’s just ‘how the university works’ — would do wonders for solidarity between staff and students probably

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CILIP Rare Books and Special Collections Group @ciliprarebooks.bsky.social · Sep 4

First up, Karen Pierce and Vicky Stallard of @cardiffunilib.bsky.social will tell us about their efforts to make their library catalogue anti-racist and inclusive. #RBSCG25

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Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · Sep 4

Australian writers shocked and ‘disgusted’ by closure of 85-year-old literary journal Meanjin

Meanjin published the cream of Australia’s writers. With its sudden closure, a vital, 85-year thread of our cultural conversation will fall silent.

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Emily Garside @emilygarside.bsky.social · Sep 3

Newport locals, I'm running a couple of workshops with The Place on LGBTQ+ literature this month...no no pre-reading necessary, just come along and talk Queer stories!

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Introduction to LGBTQ+ Literature

Discover LGBTQ+ literature throughout the decades.

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Catherine Fletcher @cathfletcher.bsky.social · Sep 1

SEPTEMBER SPECIAL!

Back to work today, but with the happy news that THE ROADS TO ROME is only 99p on Kindle all month so you can get away from it all in virtual fashion and enjoy the ancient routes.

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Cover of THE ROADS TO ROME on a Kindle, with image of straight Roman road running between pine trees towards a distant city.

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Emily Cock @emilyncock.bsky.social · Aug 30

I read a novel recently in which the main character/narrator was killed midway and narrated the rest of the book as a ghost. Hated it.

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Pat Thomson @patthomson.bsky.social · Aug 30

Use little windows of time to progress your academic writing patthomson.net/2025/08/30/f...

Five steps towards writing in fragments

The myth of ideal academic writing time persists. We all long to be in a quiet office, surrounded by books, with hours of uninterrupted time to craft elegant arguments. But the reality is very diff…

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · Aug 28

If you have published anything, please consider doing this. The window is closing and you should get your details registered now for a chance at a settlement. The form works wherever in the world you are based.

Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · Aug 27

There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used.

As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how

Part 1: is your work in Libgen?

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Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

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Emily Cock @emilyncock.bsky.social · Aug 28

Thanks!

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artofstumbling.bsky.social @artofstumbling.bsky.social · Aug 27

Possibly the world's creepiest gym

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Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social · Aug 27

Still can’t believe cutting skilled and experienced frontline admin, hiring a billion Dean level overseers, and passing tasks down to academics who will either do them grumpily or not at all isn’t working? Maybe rolling out a new IT project can smooth this one over

Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · Aug 26

University efficiency drives may have opposite effect, study finds.

The administrative burden in Australian universities is most keenly felt by teaching and research staff, according to a study from the University of Melbourne’s faculty of education.
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University efficiency drives may have opposite effect, study finds - Research Professional News

Teaching and research staff say reforms mean more red tape for them, Australian survey reports

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Emily Cock @emilyncock.bsky.social · Aug 26

It wasn't common, but Prynne certainly wasn't alone. There are a cluster of high-profile ear-cuttings at this time. I've written bits and pieces about it.
Does a Face Have Ears? – the polyphony share.google/UDm8mkiDy0UZ...

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Does a Face Have Ears?

In this review of Mat Collishaw’s art installation ‘The Mask of Youth’, Queen’s House, Greenwich, Emily Cock reflects on portraiture and facial difference through the ages Mat Collishaw’s The Mask …

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