Of course, that's great because I love White-throated Sparrows so much. Did you know that their two color morphs aren't actually the male and female plumages (as some old field guides say)? Thanks to a genetic quirk, they've basically got 4 sexes! www.sciencehistory.org/stories/disa...
Are we up and running again? I missed y'all!
Don't miss this:
'If you enjoy meteor spotting then you are in for a treat with the oldest recorded shower set to light up our skies from 16 April.' 🔭☄️🤩
www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti... #nightsky #Lyrids
We've got over a week with this, so keep looking up, Max!
London-based #skystorians (and other interested parties!). My London book launch for WE HAVE COME TO BE DESTROYED: GROWING UP IN COLD WAR BRITAIN is at Waterstones Gower St on Weds 13th May at 6.30pm, and I'd love to see you there! Book tickets here: www.waterstones.com/events/we-ha... #histchild
Are we up and running again? I missed y'all!
Don't miss this:
'If you enjoy meteor spotting then you are in for a treat with the oldest recorded shower set to light up our skies from 16 April.' 🔭☄️🤩
www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti... #nightsky #Lyrids
Born Again Queer: A History of Evangelical Gay Activism and the Making of Antigay Christianity by William Stell. A groundbreaking history of evangelicalism and homosexuality in the United States
Born Again Queer by @wmstell.bsky.social is a groundbreaking history of evangelicalism and homosexuality in the United States.
Available May 12 (7 July UK pub).
Preorder yours here: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
#Sociology #History
The book cover for Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation. It shows two men sat on a bench in the 1930s.
"Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation" is published TODAY by @cornellupress.bsky.social! I tell the story of how queer men didn't just exist in Belfast but could be accepted by friends, family & colleagues... at least until a moral panic about homosexuality in the 1950s. 🧵
A few weeks ago, I attended the Natural History Queer Symposium at The Linnean Society of London. I leant a lot about how we could see the natural world
#diversity #naturaldiversity #naturalhistory #QueerEcology #ecology #microscope
Read my blog here.
mosssafari.com/2026/04/14/q...
I will be presenting a paper titled "Fragmentary Remains: Archival Ambiguity and Making History" at a conference in Halifax next month about the role ephemera plays in critical evidence in the recovery of queer and trans histories.
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Several years ago I co-started a collection of LGBTQ+ resources for library, knowledge & information workers, which I now maintain ie I add useful links when I come across them. Follow this new Bluesky account which updates when new items are added. Feel free to suggest resources!
‘They accomplished so much, even as they were dying’: the groundbreaking gay art of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek
‘What if we conceive of Gustave Caillebotte as having a gay or queer male gaze, which structured or directed much of his work? We look over the paintings, and remember the images of men watching men, alone or in pairs.’
Tom Crewe on the painter.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
It is surprising how so few of the many histories of eugenics centre the voices of disabled people. Uncovering these perspectives contradicts all previous narratives of eugenics in interwar Britain
The victory of the opposition in Hungary yesterday, like the Polish election in 2023, is a victory for democracy, not just in Europe but around the world.
I have a new article in @historyworkshop.org.uk that explores the resourcing of feminist activism in the 1970s. Come for the rants about typing, stay for the study of jumble sales as feminist praxis! 🗃️
academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...
#Manchester Bloomfies, I am taking Invisible Rainbows🌈 to your lovely city on June 24. I'll chat about all things space and queer at Social Refuge/Queerlit!
Come along!! 🙏
www.socialrefuge.com/event-detail...
A Queer Scrapbook (@manchesterup.bsky.social) is a tremendous achievement: fun and informative, perfect for teaching in schools and universities. I'm delighted to be included, alongside this fabulous cover of Oxford student mag Isis from May 1973.
#queer #lgbtq #Oxford #booksky #queerhistory 🌈📚🗃️💋
Join me in Leeds for A Queer Scrapbook: Book Launch, Conversation and Scrapbooking Workshop with Matt Cook hosted by @krheyam.bsky.social . See you soon!
Date: Wed 22nd April 2026
Time: 7-9pm
Venue: @thebookishtype.bsky.social 77a Great George Street, LS1 3BR
thebookishtype.co.uk/products/a-q...
📣 A perspective with @allydefduf.bsky.social @madeline-eppley.bsky.social and others out in @ecol-evol.bsky.social 📣
Drawing from queer lived experiences, we offer new perspectives to confront existing biases in #ecology and #evolution.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
They’re here and they’re gorgeous!!!
CfP "Feeling the Archive: Affect as Method in Feminist Queer Research" in Münster, Germany. Deadline: 30 April 2026. #QueerHist #GenderHist
www.gendercampus.ch/de/aktuelles...
The President of the United States is threatening to commit war crimes and wipe out a "whole civilization" — all because he started a disastrous war of his own making and had no plan and no strategy for how to end it.
This is abhorrent, and the American people do not support this.
Here's something I have been writing for my next book, about two insights into heredity from the seventeenth century that were misinterpreted.
Easter is a time for reproduction, new life and sexy times, and we got down and dirty with the science of sex, and the history and future of zoos on Start the Week. For the sensitive souls it’s PG-13, mostly.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...
Very happy to announce the Call for Papers – Forecasting the Weather between Divination & Science (Antiquity to the Present)
Submission deadline: 31 May 2026. Feel free to share.
A screenshot of the British Journal of Healthcare Management website with the abstract for the comment piece, 'The multispecies hospital: how the past can inform the future'
Exciting to see this comment piece written by myself and @victoriabates.bsky.social out in the British Journal of Healthcare Management! Unfortunately it is paywalled but hopefully there will be more on this subject coming from us in the future... #MultispeciesHospital
Yuki Kihara's inspirational, and evolving, exhibition Darwin in Paradise Camp will next be shown at Wereldmuseum Leiden (from 7 May). I'm looking forward to seeing it there later this year . . .
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leiden.wereldmuseum.nl/en/whats-on/... #drag #queer #art #artist #exhibition #Leiden #Netherlands
And taking No.1 in the Classic FM Hall of Fame is... 'The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace' by Sir Karl Jenkins! 🎉🥇
This is the first time in 3 years that Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No.2 has been dethroned, and the first time in the chart's history that a living composer has taken No.1.
If you’ve been cheering people at Boston University for putting up pride flags in defiance of the administration’s prohibitions, you should know that you can donate DIRECTLY to the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality program!
100% of your gift goes to WGS (not some random uni account)
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