Screenshot of PhD advert: "PhD studentship: From the frontline: Witnesses to War - Exploring the role, perspectives and impact of war correspondents during the Cold War and late 20th century" ag the University of Bristol.
Desperately trying to convince myself I can't do another PhD. This one looks like a lot of fun.
A ginger cat sitting on a pink blanket, eyes closed, head up, and basking in sunshine.
Good morning
It's Good Friday so it's time to bring out the Fabulous Folklore article and episode about the Widow's Son and its collection of hot cross buns... www.icysedgwick.com/hot-cross-bu...
Struggling with interview practice & a neurospicy brain is both very literal & likes to ramble
Having researched, there's so much, like these 👇, to make the whole process easier for everyone involved
I genuinely don't understand why we don't do this as standard
www.rcn.org.uk/Get-Help/Mem...
@wellcometrust.bsky.social @sshmedicine.bsky.social It is with great pleasure that we present a selection of recorded papers from our recent funded conference series. Listen to them here #milwelfhist #histmed
#military #welfare #benefits
historyhub.ie/military-com...
Written by a woman...
I think Linda has some things she needs to work through
I'm so sorry.
Good morning.
If I have to read this, so does everyone else.
Recovering from the worst job interview by drowning myself in pastry.
Maybe if I stay here long enough, the post-academic bookshop-coffeeshop-bakery will manifest itself, and everything will be fine 😭😭
'What's the point? Medicine needs the Humanities' - fantastic new podcast episode from @bmj.com Medical Humanities. #medhums #medicaleducation
www.podbean.com/ew/pb-hbcfs-...
Thank you!
First Parkrun... and my first 5k...
Appreciate it's not far for actual runners, but thoughts & prayers please
Just a reminder to Arts, Humanities & Social Science postdocs with 10 years of the PhD that membership in the British Academy's Early Career Researcher Network is free and available across the UK. Independent researchers welcome; if employed at an, you do not need to be in a research position. 1/2
"My name may be forgotten when it comes, but the time will arrive when great outbreaks of cholera will be things of the past. And it is the knowledge of the way in which the disease is propagated which will cause them to disappear"
Happy birthday to John Snow! His name & his work is not forgotten.
Our ✨open access✨ research agenda essay for injury studies is now out!
We argue that injuries are pivotal events deserving sustained attention within the critical medical humanities. And we have provided a ✨large✨ bibliography to give folks a place to start.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
This is a BRILLIANT thread!
In honor of the 30th anniversary of The Birdcage, I wrote about only some of the brilliant layers of its confrontations of gender performance.
Truly, The Birdcage is an exceptional and important film for our moment for challenging bigots who can't wrap their minds around differences in human nature
Thank you. That's a great idea & probably the quickest way to find it
A photo of a laptop showing a white title screen that says "War, Wine & Whisky".
In the kind of presentation where you realise you've become the wrong kind of academic
All this time I've been studying war & trauma, I could have been writing about whisky 🥃
In the first week of my PhD, I treated myself to a fancy fountain pen. It's been in my bag for 8 years, and now it's disappeared and I can't find it anywhere
Sometimes the universe is very on the nose.
A photograph of a laptop in the centre of a wooden table, under a red canopy, in the sunshine.
When you've got Reviewer 2 comments to sort, three days to write a book chapter, and a dozen jobs to apply to...
But the sun is out for the first time in months, and suddenly everything will be fine & everything seems possible
In yet another career change talk where the first thing they talking about is introspection and self-reflection mapping your values
Is it unprofessional to snap and write a very long-form piece on the middle-class entitlement on these events
I just want to be able to eat and pay rent 😭
At a training day on moving into non-ac jobs...
The speaker's very proud that "all postdocs who decided to leave academia (by choice or force), 100% were successful"
Like, the other option is accidentally staying and succeeding in a field that has a 90% failure rate when you're *trying to win*
I grew up next door to the ranges there, and had forgotten having to casually explain the bangs & shaking windows to visitors as "don't worry... it's just the bombs..."
'A statement on 23 February explained the Bloomsbury-based research institute will be “disbanded” at the end of July 2026 because it “in its current form is not sustainable”.'
Goodbye utopia, hello myopia?
While this might apply to STEM (I doubt it does) for the humanities I'm gonna tap the sign:
How we say things is a huge, and irreplaceable, part of what we are saying.
The UK *is* losing a generation of scientists.
I know lots of brilliant people who have left their jobs / the country because of the limited jobs & funding.
Once lost, they cannot ever be replaced.
The UK government is overseeing the death of UK academic science, and it doesn't seem to care.
HistoryLab 20th Anniversary Annual Conference 2026 — Call for Papers Embodied Histories: Body, Mind, and Experience 17th July 2026 | Hybrid Conference, in-person at University of Birmingham, Staff House, Grand Central Room The human body is both a biological reality and a cultural construct. It is a site of meaning, experience, and power. From rituals of health and healing to practices of regulation, discipline, and display, bodies have both shaped and been shaped by their historical contexts. We invite papers that place the body and lived experience at the centre of historical inquiry, engaging with themes such as medicine, disability, gender, the senses, and the emotions. We welcome contributions that explore how bodies and experiences have been represented, regulated, or performed, and how these processes intersect with broader questions of identity, power, culture, and society across periods and regions. This conference also marks the 20th anniversary of HistoryLab. Since its founding, HistoryLab has provided a national platform for postgraduate and early career historians to share ideas, foster collaboration, and build community. We invite participants to join us in celebrating this milestone year.
Our conference #cfp is now live! This year's conference, "Embodied Histories: Body, Mind and Experience" will take place on 17th July 2026 at University of Birmingham!
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A screenshot reading: "Open Positions. Join our teams based in Israel, Ukraine, and the U.S..
Found the perfect job in the perfect city. Clicked through to the recruiter's website...
Perhaps not.
Imagine discovering that the entire structure of state secondary education was about to collapse, and musing "Ah well, we'll always have Eton, Harrow and Winchester..."
This is basically how the political class thinks about higher education.