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Joshua Rushton @joshuarushton8.bsky.social · 13h

Brilliant - thanks for this Will!!

Joshua Rushton @joshuarushton8.bsky.social · Jul 25

☺️☺️☺️ xxx

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Joshua Rushton @joshuarushton8.bsky.social · Jul 25

Huge congratulations Claire! Great news and richly deserved! ❤️

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Claire Turner @claireturner.bsky.social · Jul 24

Excited to share that from October I’ll be working as a Bridging Fellow in Medical Humanities at Durham University! I’ll be developing my project on ‘The Sensescapes of Cancer, 1700-1950’ and publishing my PhD research on sensory experiences of plague in early modern London. I can’t wait to start!

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Joshua Rushton @joshuarushton8.bsky.social · Jul 21

Thank you so much Mattia! I’m really thrilled it worked out. Hope you’re doing well - I’ll write to you soon!

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Joshua Rushton @joshuarushton8.bsky.social · Jul 9

Congratulations Claire! 🥳🥳🥳

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Claire Turner @claireturner.bsky.social · Jul 9

I'll be in Manchester regularly between May and July next year, so do let me know if you're planning on being in the city in any of those months!

Claire Turner @claireturner.bsky.social · Jul 9

I'm delighted to share that I've been awarded a Visiting Early Career Research Fellowship at the John Rylands Research Institute in Manchester! I'll be working on my new project on 'The Sensescapes of Cancer, c.1700-1950'.

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Joshua Rushton @joshuarushton8.bsky.social · Jun 12

Thank you so much and sorry for my horribly late reply (not on here much)! Yes I’d like that too! Do you want to drop me an email at [email protected]? :)

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Joshua Rushton @joshuarushton8.bsky.social · Jun 5

Congratulations Sadiah! I’m looking forward to reading! 📖

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Sadiah Qureshi @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · Jun 4

Love’s Labour Launches with a roar! Thanks to many roarsome people I’ve gone from peasant to PhD, to Professor, and Penguin author with Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction out today. 🐅

Pls share, read, and help create a worthwhile world.
#WorldEnvironmentDay
#BookSky #HPS #Skystorians 🗃️

Book cover for Vanished. Features a nineteenth-century print with a fossilised mastodon skeleton, Asian elephant being ridden by a turbaned man, Native and colonial figures looking on. In the background is a mountainous landscape and there is also a single passenger pigeon in the sky. The whole scene is framed by an ornate frame and foliage.

Below the book is the following text: A love letter to the astonishing ways of being that have survived past extinctions, and an exhortation to create a worthwhile world.

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Joshua Rushton @joshuarushton8.bsky.social · Jun 5

Maybe look at Rachel Winchcombe’s article “The Limits of Disgust” which is about food and inedibility but might be useful to you?

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Claire Turner @claireturner.bsky.social · Jun 5

Rogue question of the day: does anyone happen to know of any references (primary or secondary) to feelings of disgust in relation to medical practice, past and/or present?

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Joshua Rushton @joshuarushton8.bsky.social · May 23

Thanks John! I’m so pleased!

Joshua Rushton @joshuarushton8.bsky.social · May 23

Thank you Amy!

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Claire Turner @claireturner.bsky.social · May 22

I am beyond proud of my bestie @joshuarushton8.bsky.social on securing Leverhulme funding for his amazing new project! Can’t wait to see what comes out of it.

Joshua Rushton @joshuarushton8.bsky.social · May 22

I’m so thrilled by this news and extremely grateful to the many people who have supported me with this! Looking forward to starting the project “Catholic Renewal and Environmental Change in the Early Modern World” in 2026! 🎉

Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective @bemccollective.bsky.social · May 22

Congratulations to our very own @joshuarushton8.bsky.social who has been awarded a prestigious Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship for his project "Catholic Renewal and Environmental Change in the Early Modern World". Read all about it here: sites.manchester.ac.uk/bodies-emoti...

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Joshua Rushton @joshuarushton8.bsky.social · May 22

Ah thank you so much mate! Thank you for all the encouragement! 🖤

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Joshua Rushton @joshuarushton8.bsky.social · May 22

Thank you so much Sasha - I’m really thrilled! 🎉

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Joshua Rushton @joshuarushton8.bsky.social · May 22

I’m so thrilled by this news and extremely grateful to the many people who have supported me with this! Looking forward to starting the project “Catholic Renewal and Environmental Change in the Early Modern World” in 2026! 🎉

Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective @bemccollective.bsky.social · May 22

Congratulations to our very own @joshuarushton8.bsky.social who has been awarded a prestigious Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship for his project "Catholic Renewal and Environmental Change in the Early Modern World". Read all about it here: sites.manchester.ac.uk/bodies-emoti...

Dr Joshua Rushton wins Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship

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Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective @bemccollective.bsky.social · May 22

Congratulations to our very own @joshuarushton8.bsky.social who has been awarded a prestigious Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship for his project "Catholic Renewal and Environmental Change in the Early Modern World". Read all about it here: sites.manchester.ac.uk/bodies-emoti...

Dr Joshua Rushton wins Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship

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MancHSTM @manchstm.bsky.social · Apr 15

Call for Papers #HistSTM #EnvHist: Planetary Futures - Rethinking Extinction and Conservation in the Anthropocene. Manchester, 18-19 Sept 2025. Organisers: @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social and @duncanwilson78.bsky.social

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Planetary Futures: Rethinking Extinction and Conservation in the Anthropocene

Conference, 18-19 September 2025, at the University of Manchester. Call for Papers

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Joshua Rushton @joshuarushton8.bsky.social · Apr 16

Thank youuuu!

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Sasha Handley @sashahandley.bsky.social · Jan 22

Don't forget to submit your abstract in for our June conference, 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World' - speaker expenses will be covered and we have two amazing keynotes in Marcy Norton & Sara Miglietti!

Sasha Handley @sashahandley.bsky.social · Dec 10

Please share the CFP for our conference: 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World'. Our keynotes are Marcy Norton @marcynorton.bsky.social (Pennsylvania) & Sara Miglietti (Warburg Institute). Join us 9-10 June at JRRIL, Manchester. Further details at: sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleeping-wel...

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Joshua Rushton @joshuarushton8.bsky.social · Apr 15

Huge congratulations Holly! 🥳🥳🥳 @drhollyfletcher.bsky.social

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Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective @bemccollective.bsky.social · Apr 15

Congratulations to @drhollyfletcher.bsky.social who has received a Wellcome Trust Early Career Award for 'The Fats of Life, 1500-1750: Matter in Multispecies Medicine', which she will take up at UCL in autumn 2025. Read more about this fascinating project here: sites.manchester.ac.uk/bodies-emoti...

Dr Holly Fletcher Receives Wellcome Trust Early Career Award

Holly Fletcher, who is currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate on the ‘Sleeping Well’ Project at the University of Manchester, has been awarded a prestigious Wellcome Trust Early Career Award for ...

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Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective @bemccollective.bsky.social · Apr 15

Congratulations to Joshua Rushton, whose article 'The Emotional Dimension of Shrine Formation in Early Modern Catholicism' is now out in Cultural and Social History. Read more about this fascinating work here: sites.manchester.ac.uk/bodies-emoti...

New Cultural and Social History Article by Dr Joshua Rushton

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