Happy friday 🌷

I don’t like to be the one to break this information. Booktok lives for two things only, hallmark holiday romance and scandalous smutty romance novels. Epilogues are as good as end credits to them ❤️‍🩹

Publishing today! A beautifully illustrated compendium of LGBTIQ+ life.
'A queer scrapbook' is a rich archive of histories from across Britain & Ireland. Featuring interviews, photographs & flyers, it captures the diversity of queer & trans lives since WW2.
Out now. #booksky

For some reason brought to mind festival season, to this day I think my top one was download 2014 with avenged sevenfold, BMTH, linkin park, and aerosmith

Suddenly it’s 8pm and I’m walking Scooby in her field, while the moon is out and it’s still light

I see where you’re coming from, and how LLMs can be useful for data collection. I come from a biomedical + historical background so the topic is interesting. I suppose it’s the implied knowledge - can it replace what historical research does? what about undigitised documents, or necessary nuances?

a shock to the industry of science, that history is not just reading and repeating texts from the past, but actually learning how to interpret the social and political meanings of those texts

Mini eggs have taken over my life

Researchers in Museums: Collections and Archives Workshop Series. Thackray Museum of Medicine, Leeds. 13 May; 18 June; 9 July; 1-4pm. I am delighted to be working with Thackray Museum of Medicine to host three workshops for ‘Researchers in Museums’. These interactive workshops offer early career researchers an opportunity to learn about the potential of museum collections to enrich their research. Each workshop will include: ‘Cancer in the Collections’: a unique insight into how one researcher, Dr Claire Turner (Durham University) uses Thackray’s extensive collections and archives to support her own research. Stores Tour: an exclusive guided tour of Thackray’s stores by its Collections Team, with the opportunity to learn more about the history of the museum and the objects, books, and archival materials it holds. Research Room Time: a chance to look in greater depth at books, objects and archival materials drawn from the museum’s collections. Personal Research: option to request and view an object related to your own research. Each session can accommodate up to 8 attendees, each of whom will receive a £20 bursary towards travel to the workshop. To be eligible to attend, you must be: An early career researcher (MA, PhD, or within two years of finishing the PhD) Working broadly within the field of medical humanities Expressions of interest should include a short summary of your research, how you meet the workshop criteria, and your preferred workshop date (max 250 words). All EOIs should be submitted to claire.o.turner@durham.ac.uk by 5pm on Friday 17 April.

I'm delighted to finally share details of a workshop series I'm hosting with @thackraymuseum.bsky.social! 'Researchers in Museums' is open to a wide range of early career researchers and offers the opportunity to go 'behind the scenes' in a fantastic medical museum. Please share widely!

my new laptop has arrived, after a year of my old one crashing when any single programme was running

new laptop, new me 💅🏼

Congratulations! So happy for you the book is complete and published. Looking forward to reading - already it seems an essential critique of ‘experience’, moving through and beyond the immediate self, to start a wider conversation on authority and authenticity. No small feat but you’ve done it 👏🏼

The Politics of Personal Experience | Writing a History of Munchausen How should a historian with personal experience of their topics write about them? Exploring the author’s own experiences with Munchausen Syndrome and Munchausen

Oh my god it is actually out - like actually now. Over a week early! They snuck it out without telling me! lol.

Well, here it is people, and you can download the whole thing for free - thanks to @wellcometrust.bsky.social

Fill your boots: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon...

IMHO, it largely ends up ‘weeding out’ those who are more privelige versus those who aren’t

What can be described as ‘resilience‘ or ‘dedication’ often times relies on background economic stability...

Productive day on campus, blue skies and archives

This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.

www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Been wiped out with the superflu all week, don’t think I’ve ever been this ill before ☹️

Congratulations Kate 👏🏼 Perhaps see you around campus one day!!

Fabulous day in Haworth visiting the Brontë Parsonage Museum. Very autumnal and got to see the only surviving likeness of Emily Brontë, on loan from the National Portrait Gallery. Amazing to see the restored artefacts and learn about their lives #history #literature #brontevillage

Today’s delivery from @workingclasshistory.com ✅ #begaydocrime #queerhistory

Yesterday discovered I have aphantasia!! When imagining or picturing something in my mind there is no image, I've always just described the details to myself with an internal narrator.

A revelation that people actually *see* things with their minds eye!!

Go on #Grimsby 👏🏼

Warning from historians over government's treatment of trans people Over 350 historians and academics have urged the government to turn back on its growing attacks on trans rights in the UK.

Academic historians rarely speak up like this but have made an exception in speaking in support of trans people in the UK and against the current trans exclusionary situation over there.

Not just a few historians but hundreds signed this.

www.thepinknews.com/2025/05/02/h...

Will never get tired of rewatching BTVS

Not sure this is entirely possible but we can dream

Academia but in a liberal, activist, equal rights, anti-elitist, anti-classist way

throwing one out there…. Health and wellness trends as a means of individual vs social responsibility - how increasing population demand replaces food rituals and culture?! Very specific guess 😂

Doing the things…confirmation review T-22 days

How do we value subjective experiences in mental health research?

Are people’s experiences of depression, anxiety and psychosis properly integrated into mental health research?

Not really.

buff.ly/t5EyJzN

🧵 THREAD

#MentalHealthResearch #SubjectiveExperiencesResearch #Phenomenology #SUNRISE

Summertime Scooby

Looking Again: The Quilt, the Gaze, and Queer Remembering David Woodhead reflects on the memories, legacies, and queer histories provoked by viewing- gazing upon- the AIDS memorial quilt in 1994 and in June this year.

David Woodhead reflects on the memories, legacies, and queer histories provoked by viewing- gazing upon- the AIDS memorial quilt in 1994 and in June this year.

thepolyphony.org/2025/07/02/q...