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Katie Snow @katiesnow.bsky.social · 13d

Dubliners— this is today! 4.30pm, John Henry Newman building ⬇️

Katie Snow @katiesnow.bsky.social · Sep 2

Planning the first month of term? Don’t miss @elementaladam.bsky.social at UCD, speaking as part of the Drinking Cultures project!

All are welcome to this in-person seminar: “Hate, Shame, and Boozy Banter in the Eighteenth Century” 🍻 Full abstract here: texerenetwork.com/drinkingcult...

Poster advertising talk with time, date and place details

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MancHSTM @manchstm.bsky.social · 16d

On 21 October, co-hosted by the Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture, our speaker will be Dr Brandy Schillace, on Hope in the Dark: How a daring team of sexologists built the world’s first trans clinic in the shadow of the Third Reich.

blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0...

CSSC and CHSTM Joint Seminar, 21 October 2025

Dr Brandy Schillace Hope in the Dark: How a daring team of sexologists built the world's first trans clinic in the shadow of the Third Reich

blogs.manchester.ac.uk

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BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social · 16d

THIS IS IT!
You have until 11.59pm TONIGHT to submit your proposals for #BSECS2026
Ease yourself into the New Year by joining us @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social, 7-9 January 2026
#skystorians #18thC 🗃️
www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...

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.

www.bsecs.org.uk

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Dr Anna Jamieson @annafranjam.bsky.social · 25d

For the weekend crowd: CFP for online workshop *Object Stories in Health and Medicine 1700-1900*, deadline for abstracts Monday 6 October 💫

Dr Anna Jamieson @annafranjam.bsky.social · 29d

Delighted to share our Call for Papers for the workshop *Object Stories in Health and Medicine 1700-1900*. Taking place online on 5 December. Pls share and consider submitting an object story! @rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social

www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...

Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900 - University of Birmingham

x9artsandlaw-event,x9history-event,x9historycultures-event,x9clemt-event

www.birmingham.ac.uk

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BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social · 25d

***CFP DEADLINE EXTENSION TO 22 SEPTEMBER 2025***
Due to some members experiencing issues with our submission site, we have decided to extend the #BSECS2026 #CFP deadline by a whole week.
Get scribbling #skystorians! #18thC 🗃️

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Fred Cooper @histloneliness.bsky.social · Sep 4

📢 I'm thrilled to announce the full - and stellar -
lineup for our upcoming symposium on critical approaches to like and dislike in medicine, law, and society! 📢

Bristol Uni, 15th October - register (for free) below!!

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/critical-a...

Critical Approaches to Like and Dislike in Medicine, Law, and Society

Critical approaches to like and dislike in medicine, law, and society: University of Bristol

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Katie Snow @katiesnow.bsky.social · Sep 2

@ucddublin.bsky.social @ucdhumanities.bsky.social @drinkingstudies.bsky.social @bsecs.bsky.social @georgianlords.bsky.social

Katie Snow @katiesnow.bsky.social · Sep 2

Planning the first month of term? Don’t miss @elementaladam.bsky.social at UCD, speaking as part of the Drinking Cultures project!

All are welcome to this in-person seminar: “Hate, Shame, and Boozy Banter in the Eighteenth Century” 🍻 Full abstract here: texerenetwork.com/drinkingcult...

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BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social · Sep 1

The deadline for submitting proposals for #BSECS2026 is only two weeks away. Get scribbling! #skystorians #18thC 🗃️
This year's theme is 'Big and Small', 7-9 January, Pembroke College, Oxford.
www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...

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.

www.bsecs.org.uk

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Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · Aug 21

Please help. Please sign. I work on a part-time degree for mature students to study for a BA in English Literature & Community Engagement. Its direct access and designed for those who didn't or couldn't go to Uni at 18. Bristol plan to close it. We want to save it.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Save our pioneering widening participation undergraduate degree in English Literature and Community Engagement at the University of Bristol

19 August 2025 Dear Evelyn Welch (Vice-Chancellor) cc Judith Squires (Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost), Tansy Jessop (Pro Vice-Chancellor for Education and Students) The School of Humanities has ...

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Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social · Jul 12

📣Exciting News 📣
Dates & host institution for the SSHM Biennial Conference #SSHM2026 are confirmed!
Save the Date in your planners 📅
Theme and CFPs to follow later
#histmed #medhumanities #histSTM

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Dr Jo Ball @drjeball.bsky.social · Jul 23

A lovely little bronze #Roman mouse figurine, shown holding a morsel of food in his little front paws (a nut or seed maybe?), perhaps about to take a little nibble from it. It is about 1900-2000 years old 🐭

(📷 Christie's) 🏺 AncientBlueSky #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology

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Helen King @helenking.bsky.social · Jul 24

The white cis body as the default setting for ‘human’? @nursingclio.bsky.social has published an interview I did with the curator of a new exhibition nursingclio.org/2025/07/23/u...

“Unseen: Inequality in Medicine” at Rijksmuseum Boerhaave, Leiden

The medical field has long treated the 70 kg white male body as the norm — an assumption that continues to shape healthcare today. From March 7, 2025 to March 8, 2026, the award-winning Rijksmuseum…

nursingclio.org

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Katie Snow @katiesnow.bsky.social · Jul 18

News from last year, but a good reminder that there are many satirical prints in this collection ☺️

Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · Jul 17

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use

Update: The Metropolitan Museum of Art has put online 492,000 high-resolution images of artistic works. Even better, the museum has placed the vast majority of these images into the public domain, mea...

www.openculture.com

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Surgeons' Hall Museums @surgeonshall.bsky.social · Jul 17

This collection of foreign bodies removed from the oesophagus was donated to the museum in 1928.

A cardboard sheet with 18 tins of foreign bodies attached to it 1. - 12.: Halfpennies 13. Shilling 14. Florin 15. Button 16. Whistle 17. Chicken bone 18. Flakes of enamel.

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Katie Snow @katiesnow.bsky.social · Jun 30

Congratulations Hardeep, how cool!

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hardeep dhindsa (he/him) @hardeepdhindsa.bsky.social · Jun 27

Deeply honoured to say that I am one of the recipients of an Early Career Fellowship! From May 2026, I’ll be spending 3 years at Edinburgh’s Art History department (@edincollegeofart.bsky.social) to research Whiteness and Greco-Roman antiquity in eighteenth-century British history paintings

Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk · May 22

From untangling the evolutionary roots of plant variation to how medieval nuns mastered the art of credit, we’ve had some fascinating applications for this year’s Early Career Fellowship scheme. The Trust is pleased to announce 152 Fellowships in this round. Congratulations to the 2025 cohort!

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Katie Snow @katiesnow.bsky.social · Jun 24

No way! 🤩

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Katie Snow @katiesnow.bsky.social · Jun 24

Eeeek this will be good'un! Happy publication day @slobogin.bsky.social ⭐ Essential reading for all medical history/medical humanities visual culture people.

Christine Slobogin @slobogin.bsky.social · Jun 24

It's publication day!!

Thank you to all of the folks at @urochester.bsky.social press and @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social who helped to make this book so beautiful. And thank you AGAIN to all of the folks in my (very earnest) acknowledgments.

Happy author (me) holding a bunch of hardcover copies of _Putting Plastic Surgery on Paper_. I am a white blonde woman with short hair wearing a white top and in an office with bookshelves visible in the background.

Holding the hardcover version of _Putting Plastic Surgery on Paper_ up in front of two framed posters. The cover of the book shows a face being surgically reconstructed, in six steps, drawn with pencil on beige paper. The title (in caps) is backed by a dark red (the full title is Putting Plastic Surgery on Paper: How Art and Archives Defined Second World War Reconstructive Surgery in Britain).

The dedication page of the book reads "For my dad"

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Fiona Johnstone @drfijohnstone.bsky.social · Jun 24

Are you working in #VisualMedicalHumanities with a specific focus on art, anatomy and medicine? The BMJ Medical Humanities has just released this CFP for articles on "visuality in medical practice and history". Looking forward to seeing how this moves the field forward!

mh.bmj.com/pages/topic-...

Topic Collection: Visual Medical Humanities | Medical Humanities

mh.bmj.com

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Celso Neto @celsoneto.bsky.social · Jun 19

🚨Job Alert🚨
Looking for a 3 year postdoc in STS? Join us at Egenis!

#STS
#metascience
#philsky

Adrian Currie @adrian-currie.bsky.social · Jun 19

3 year postdoc in STS of health (“health” and “STS” construed broadly) here at Egenis! jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

Powered by MHR

jobs.exeter.ac.uk

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James Kneale @jameskneale.bsky.social · Jun 19

I was chairing the first panel so you will just have to take my word for it when I say that the papers by Vanessa Höving, Marta Ramón García, Katie Snow were all brilliant... here's Marta in our very fancy room at the Museum of Literature #womenandalcohol #dangerouspleasures

Marta Ramón García speaking in our swanky conference room at MOLI

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Katie Snow @katiesnow.bsky.social · Jun 19

What a gorgeous setting for the @drinkingstudies.bsky.social women and alcohol #dangerouspleasures conference this week 🌸

Maeve bunchy quote sign 'it was peaceful there and unfamiliar. Not like almost every square inch of Dublin'

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Christine Slobogin @slobogin.bsky.social · Jun 9

Draft manuscript IN!

@katiesnow.bsky.social @lauracowley.bsky.social

Screenshot of title page.

_Sick jokes: Visual histories of humour, health and the body_

Edited by:
Christine Slobogin
Katie Snow
Laura Cowley

Series:
Social Histories of Medicine

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Dr Francis Osis @fosis.bsky.social · Jun 4

Medicine AND quilting in GLAM?? if it wasn't in London this would be my dream job 😭

The Victorian Hand @victorianhand.bsky.social · Jun 4

Job Alert! We're hiring a 3-year F/T Public Engagment Fellow based @lcflondon.bsky.social to lead our exciting programme of activities. We're looking for collegial & creative people with expertise in History, Galleries, Archives, Libraries, or Museums. Spread the word! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNI861/p...

Public Engagement Fellow (The Victorian Hand Project) at University of the Arts London, London College of Fashion

Don't miss your chance to apply for professional services job openings, including the Public Engagement Fellow (The Victorian Hand Project) role, listed on jobs.ac.uk. Start your search now!

www.jobs.ac.uk

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