History of the Human Sciences
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Yes, “How autism became autism” by Bonnie Evans published in 2013 in @histhum.bsky.social is a great article!
ctimmermann.bsky.social
I recommend this article, which provides an excellent introduction to the history both of the term autism and the ways in which the label has been applied to a changing set of human characteristics, in line with changing scientific and diagnostic approaches.

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How autism became autism - Bonnie Evans, 2013
This article argues that the meaning of the word ‘autism’ experienced a radical shift in the early 1960s in Britain which was contemporaneous with a growth in e...
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felicitycallard.bsky.social
Jessica Dubow's review of Forrester/Cameron's Freud in Cambridge is part of article I'm trying to write. I love how she writes - as well as how she reads the institution of early 20C Cambridge Univ through the fantasy of the family romance @histhum.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Freud in Cambridge: An institutional romance? - Jessica Dubow, 2022
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dimiktz.bsky.social
Published this doi.org/10.1177/0952... at @histhum.bsky.social striving to fairly represent SSGAC’s apparent efforts to be ethical and progressive while pointing out contradictions. Feels like time wasted! How swiftly eugenics was unmasked under a ‘fair-wind’ far-right govt. The future looks grim.
Genetics for ‘equality’? The politics of knowledge production in educational genomics - Dimitra Kotouza, 2025
Educational genomics is an emerging field of research that analyses associations between vast samples of human DNA and educational outcomes. I trace how this fi...
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histhum.bsky.social
Congratulations also to Heewon Kim who was awarded a commendation fro the article "Face in Codes: Trained Observers and Sensory Multipliers Across Competing Universes, 1952–1971"

This article will also appear in the journal & interviews with both scholars will appear on our site
histhum.bsky.social
Congratulations to Jonah Walters the winner of this year's ECR Prize!

The winning article "The Taser in the Skinner box: Science fiction, aversive conditioning, and the paradigm of electric shock policing" will be published in a forthcoming issue of the journal!

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dimiktz.bsky.social
Just published: ‘Equality’ has been mobilised (in nuanced and less nuanced ways) to support the genomics of who ‘makes it’ economically and educationally, drawing long-fraught links between cognitive ability, class and, potentially, ‘ancestry’. doi.org/10.1177/0952...
Genetics for ‘equality’? The politics of knowledge production in educational genomics - Dimitra Kotouza, 2025
Educational genomics is an emerging field of research that analyses associations between vast samples of human DNA and educational outcomes. I trace how this fi...
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histhum.bsky.social
"The feeling that citizens are no longer bound by collective projects, and in hard times, by a collective fate, is perhaps the biggest cultural sickness of all."

Katie Joice reviews Danny Dorling's Seven Children: Inequality and Britain's Next Generation

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Review: Seven Children by Danny Dorling
Stretched Apart Seven Children: Inequality and the Next Generation by Danny Dorling (Hurst Press, 2024) Katie Joice In 2016 Annie Liebowitz took a 90th birthday photograph of Queen Elizabeth II wit…
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// History of the Human Sciences journal is now on BlueSky.

Also: Early Career Prize deadline is 28 March 2025 //