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Dr Fabiola Creed @fabiolacreed.bsky.social · 19h

📙 Bluesky is the only platform where I haven’t circulated my book, as I’d recently joined and was waiting for the physical copy. So here it is (last book post, I promise) 📙

☀️ Sunbed in Britain: Tanning Culture from Fad to Fear is free to download via: dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781...

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Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · 21h

An amazing opportunity for a PhD and a 4-year postdoc on this important project with the brilliant and lovely @smschober.bsky.social - hair, race, trade and multispecies history!

#EarlyModern 🗃️

Sarah-Maria Schober @smschober.bsky.social · 1d

Want to work on the history of hair? I am looking for a doc and postdoc to join my project team researching #earlymodern hair, race, trade and multispecies history at the University of Lucerne.

Do apply and spread the word!

www.unilu.ch/en/universit...

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PhD position in History (100%, 4 years) - Vacancies - University of Lucerne

Assistant or doctoral positions, employment or internship: Looking for a job at the University of Lucerne? Find our listed open positions and apprenticeships here.

www.unilu.ch

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Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social · 1d

Sent this q to VICTORIA, but also figure I should ask here — does anyone know of scholarship on strategies that advertisers (e.g. of fraudulent or illegal goods or services) used to evade surveillence, esp in Victorian Britain? Or strategies that advertisers used to track responses to ads in +

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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 1d

Now open access: BJRL back archive, including special issue on ‘Medical History in Manchester: Health and Healing in an Industrial City, 1750–2005’. Check it out.

Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 1d

This week, Professor Carsten Timmermann writes on Bulletin 87:1, ‘Medical History in Manchester: Health and Healing in an Industrial City, 1750–2005’.

Read the blog post: bit.ly/3KYQL39

BJRL Goes Open Access: Professor Carsten Timmermann on Manchester's Medical History - Manchester University Press

BJRL 87:1 is now Open Access on Manchesterhive.

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Jack Gann @jackgann.bsky.social · 1d

The museum's lecture series, Insights, is back from this Saturday.

To tie in with our POO! exhibition, the first lectures come from Dr Piers Mitchell from Cambridge's Ancient Parasites Laboratory and gut microbiome scientist Dr Jane Freeman.

Tickets here:
thackraymuseum.co.uk/event/thackr...

An image of microscopic gut bacteria in shades of purple. It has the title "Insights 2025/2026" over the image.

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Nicole Maceira Cumming @nicolemaceira.bsky.social · 6d

Are there any Leverhulme Early Career scholars (past or present) on here who might be willing to share their application with me? 🙏

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Nicole Maceira Cumming @nicolemaceira.bsky.social · 7d

Today is day 1 of my @srsrensoc.bsky.social Postdoc Fellowship. Excited to get started on my new project 'Animals, the environment & the 'Protestant' worldview in c.17th Scotland' 🐄🌷⛪

Now to make an elaborate to do list for the next few months of research, monograph writing & a whole load more ...

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Claire Turner @claireturner.bsky.social · 9d

Updated my bio to reflect some upcoming changes - this week marks my last week working with @srsrensoc.bsky.social and @hematopolitics.bsky.social. Next week, I'll be starting at @durhamimh.bsky.social, where I'll be continuing my research on the sensecapes of cancer.

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Claire Turner @claireturner.bsky.social · 9d

Looking forward to sniffing these out at some point!

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AromaPrime Themed Scents @aromaprime.bsky.social · 9d

There are not 10, not 20, but 39 AromaPrime smells at Alton Towers Resort's Scarefest this year! 🤯

Carefully concocted to immerse, 3 of the smells are bespoke blends exclusively designed for Scarefest's attractions.

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Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · 14d

We are very pleased to welcome @harrietbarratt.bsky.social 🎉
Harriet joins us as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Visual & Material Lab.

Read about Harriet and her work in this interview: 👇 medhumsplatform.org/introducing-...

Introducing Harriet Barratt: New PDRA in the Visual & Material Lab

Discover more about new Postdoctoral Research Associate Harriet Barratt in our interview about her research and interests.

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Hematopolitics @hematopolitics.bsky.social · 14d

At the heart of the event is a one-hour live storytelling performance by Matthew Bellwood. Please spread the words to anyone who may be interested! festivalofsocialscience.com/events/amazi...

Amazing Blood Ties! | Events | Festival of Social Science

A 5-hour interactive drop-in session introducing Amazing Blood Ties!, a children’s book on blood donation co-created by sociocultural anthropologist Dr Jieun Kim and textile artist…

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Hematopolitics @hematopolitics.bsky.social · 14d

Our sessions will run twice in person: first at the Thackray Museum of Medicine on 28 October 2025 (10:30–15:30), and again at Moor Allerton Library on 1 November 2025 (10:30–15:30). Children can enjoy hands-on activities throughout the day, including crafting, colouring, quizzes, and games.

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Hematopolitics @hematopolitics.bsky.social · 14d

Hematopolitics are taking part in the ESRC Festival of Social Science! This event runs from 18th October to 8th November 2025. We will be introducing 'Amazing Blood Ties!', a children's book on blood donation that she co-created with textile artist Leigh Bowser.

An embroidered image of three mice, each holding a strand of red thread. The mice are smiling and looking towards the viewer. They are emerging from a red blood drop. At the top in red font reads 'Amazing Blood Ties!'.

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Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · 15d

And our FIVE YEAR teaching and research position in Early Modern Europe and the World is now live..... Please do circulate and/or think about applying. I truly love our department! @kingshistory.bsky.social

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Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · 19d

First post of the new academic year and it's a good one: JOBS! There are THREE fixed-term research jobs in @kingshistory.bsky.social attached to my colleague Francisco Bethencourt's new ERC project on the Visual and Material Culture of New Christians. Please circulate!

#EarlyModern 🗃️

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Alex Bamji @alexbamji.bsky.social · 21d

Short-term post-doc for arts/humanities researchers! Do you love rare books, manuscripts, archives, art and/or objects? Would you like to explore one of our amazing Cultural Collections @universityofleeds.bsky.social for c. 6 weeks (longer part-time)? Find out more lahri.leeds.ac.uk/brotherton-f...

Brotherton Fellowship | Leeds Arts and Humanities Research Institute

lahri.leeds.ac.uk

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Claire Turner @claireturner.bsky.social · 21d

Starting a postdoc at Durham Uni in a couple of weeks so went to check out the terrain today and why is it SO wet, hilly, and slippy

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Claire Turner @claireturner.bsky.social · 26d

Huge thanks to @aromaprime.bsky.social and @willtullett.bsky.social for providing me with an abundance of smells to inflict upon my attendees!

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Claire Turner @claireturner.bsky.social · 26d

Back home after a brilliant day at York as part of their Public History Conference where I hosted a workshop on the ethics of using sensory technology in heritage, museums, and historical research. Many a smell was sniffed!

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Claire Turner @claireturner.bsky.social · 28d

I noticed this yesterday too! Great papers but difficult to establish a contribution sometimes.

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Claire Turner @claireturner.bsky.social · 28d

Had a brilliant day yesterday at the ESHS Early Careers Network meeting in Manchester! Really enjoyed presenting my work on breast cancer and breastfeeding in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

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Claire Turner @claireturner.bsky.social · 29d

let me know if you hear anything from them!

Claire Turner @claireturner.bsky.social · 29d

nope! still not letting me contact anyone there! I’ve emailed IT services.

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Claire Turner @claireturner.bsky.social · Sep 8

apparently this is just a me problem 💀 sorry if you're expecting an email from me!

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