Jennifer Wallis-Bernard
@harbottlestores.bsky.social
- Lecturer in History of Science & Medicine/Senior Teaching Fellow in Medical Humanities at Imperial College London - Headpress promo gal @headpress.com - Fan of nasty films and nasty music - Author (as Jennifer Wallis) - Bradford lass -
Pinned
Penny Gush fanzine No 1
Penny Gush fanzine No 1 — exploring the weird and wonderful aspects of 19th-century history.
headpress.com
Would you like to read an experiment in academic publishing, about #c19 medical devices, fashion, and masking? Then please consider buying my zine, Penny Gush, from the @headpress.bsky.social shop:
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Who, pray tell, is worshipping the liberal arts? Where is the mythical university alluded to here where STEM and business courses are criticized and somehow disincentivized by those in power?
It’s time to stop worshipping the liberal arts | Letters
Letters: While such institutions have intrinsic value, that doesn’t mean they are entitled to be socially favoured or economically exceptional for ever, says Jianyang Geng
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Who, pray tell, is worshipping the liberal arts? Where is the mythical university alluded to here where STEM and business courses are criticized and somehow disincentivized by those in power?
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“Mirek, could you provide a photo of you looking anxious”
“Sorry I only have this”
“Sorry I only have this”
November 27, 2025 at 5:58 AM
“Mirek, could you provide a photo of you looking anxious”
“Sorry I only have this”
“Sorry I only have this”
A movie that takes place where you're from. This is an easy one.
November 23, 2025 at 3:57 PM
A movie that takes place where you're from. This is an easy one.
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oh, that's... that's not... you can't call it that
November 21, 2025 at 7:48 PM
oh, that's... that's not... you can't call it that
Husband bought me Husker Du's 1985: The Miracle Year and I highly recommend it. They still sound perfect.
November 19, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Husband bought me Husker Du's 1985: The Miracle Year and I highly recommend it. They still sound perfect.
Some nice charity shop finds.
November 17, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Some nice charity shop finds.
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Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Radclyffe Hall and Lady Una Troubridge rendered in papier-mâché. A masterpiece, I'm sure you will agree.
November 17, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Radclyffe Hall and Lady Una Troubridge rendered in papier-mâché. A masterpiece, I'm sure you will agree.
The first year I've actually remembered to cut and freeze all the herbs before the frost comes 💪
November 16, 2025 at 3:01 PM
The first year I've actually remembered to cut and freeze all the herbs before the frost comes 💪
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Rafaela Ottiano in The Devil-Doll (1936)
November 15, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Rafaela Ottiano in The Devil-Doll (1936)
I don't know how I've never read any Michael G. Coney, but I loved the short story I just read in a 1973 issue of Worlds of If. Any #scifi fans have tips on what I should read by him next?
November 15, 2025 at 9:27 AM
I don't know how I've never read any Michael G. Coney, but I loved the short story I just read in a 1973 issue of Worlds of If. Any #scifi fans have tips on what I should read by him next?
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These guys hate Britain. Why don’t they move to the US if they don’t like it here.
Farage, Boris Johnson & Rees-Mogg apparently plotting assaults on UK democracy with Bannon, who was reporting back to Epstein. Nothing to see here, newspaper folk…
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Emails highlight Jeffrey Epstein and Steve Bannon relationship
New documents show the pair discussing travel arrangements and UK politics in messages from 2018.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 9:12 AM
These guys hate Britain. Why don’t they move to the US if they don’t like it here.
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‘I once planned to sue the bbc for suggesting I encouraged an insurrection the time I encouraged an insurrection on live tv’
November 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
‘I once planned to sue the bbc for suggesting I encouraged an insurrection the time I encouraged an insurrection on live tv’
I'm sure nothing at all could go wrong with this.
Problem: AI needs massive amounts of power to thrive. Nuclear makes lots of power. Nuclear takes a long long time to do safely.
Proposed solution that I'm sure will have no unpleasant consequences: Use AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear plants.
Proposed solution that I'm sure will have no unpleasant consequences: Use AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear plants.
Power Companies Are Using AI To Build Nuclear Power Plants
Tech companies are betting big on nuclear energy to meet AIs massive power demands and they're using that AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants.
www.404media.co
November 14, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I'm sure nothing at all could go wrong with this.
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London folks: come to @miskatonicihs.bsky.social on 9 December to hear Headpress Press Officer @harbottlestores.bsky.social talk about the history of the asylum on film.
#histpsych #horror #session9 #historyofhorror #horrorstudies
Tickets: miskatonicinstitute.com/events/the-a...
#histpsych #horror #session9 #historyofhorror #horrorstudies
Tickets: miskatonicinstitute.com/events/the-a...
"And where do you live, Simon"? The Asylum and its Patients on Film - The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies
Exploring film, folklore, and media, this lecture asks why female rage is pathologised while male violence remains disturbingly normalised.
miskatonicinstitute.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:50 AM
London folks: come to @miskatonicihs.bsky.social on 9 December to hear Headpress Press Officer @harbottlestores.bsky.social talk about the history of the asylum on film.
#histpsych #horror #session9 #historyofhorror #horrorstudies
Tickets: miskatonicinstitute.com/events/the-a...
#histpsych #horror #session9 #historyofhorror #horrorstudies
Tickets: miskatonicinstitute.com/events/the-a...
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Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down
November 10, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down
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It blows my mind that there are real people who see a post like this and actually believe the whole “Christmas is being cancelled by Muslims” BS 🙄
Let’s have a quick look at what’s happening to Sheffield so you can put your Express reading uncle’s mind at ease!😆
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Let’s have a quick look at what’s happening to Sheffield so you can put your Express reading uncle’s mind at ease!😆
1/15
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November 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
It blows my mind that there are real people who see a post like this and actually believe the whole “Christmas is being cancelled by Muslims” BS 🙄
Let’s have a quick look at what’s happening to Sheffield so you can put your Express reading uncle’s mind at ease!😆
1/15
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Let’s have a quick look at what’s happening to Sheffield so you can put your Express reading uncle’s mind at ease!😆
1/15
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Lindsey Vickers, the lovely chap who made THE APPOINTMENT, has died. I've written a tribute to him here:
www.bfi.org.uk/features/lin...
www.bfi.org.uk/features/lin...
Lindsey Vickers obituary: onetime feature director behind rediscovered British horror The Appointment
The British director, who has died at 85, only got one shot at a feature film and it never had a cinema release, but The Appointment was rediscovered 40 years later and won fans in Martin Scorsese, Gu...
www.bfi.org.uk
November 7, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Lindsey Vickers, the lovely chap who made THE APPOINTMENT, has died. I've written a tribute to him here:
www.bfi.org.uk/features/lin...
www.bfi.org.uk/features/lin...
Just mis-typed something but 'Assize of Dread' would make a great band name.
November 7, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Just mis-typed something but 'Assize of Dread' would make a great band name.
Urgh, this again. *screams in historian*
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
Should facial analysis help determine whom companies hire?
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
econ.st
November 7, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Urgh, this again. *screams in historian*
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Ooh, the absolute SLAY 😂
Big Ups Glamour UK
🙌❤️🙌
Big Ups Glamour UK
🙌❤️🙌
November 1, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Ooh, the absolute SLAY 😂
Big Ups Glamour UK
🙌❤️🙌
Big Ups Glamour UK
🙌❤️🙌
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🧵I've posted them before, but here's my thread of horror/kids' TV double-bill cinema posters. Happy Halloween...
#halloween #cinema #graphicdesign #poster
#halloween #cinema #graphicdesign #poster
October 31, 2025 at 9:39 AM
🧵I've posted them before, but here's my thread of horror/kids' TV double-bill cinema posters. Happy Halloween...
#halloween #cinema #graphicdesign #poster
#halloween #cinema #graphicdesign #poster
This Halloween @jasonbbernard.bsky.social and I are Regine and Bozworth ❤️ #iyknk #frightnight2 @juliecarmen3.bsky.social
October 26, 2025 at 7:05 PM
This Halloween @jasonbbernard.bsky.social and I are Regine and Bozworth ❤️ #iyknk #frightnight2 @juliecarmen3.bsky.social