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NEW: The Scottish Secretary has said that he expects Anas Sarwar is now clear his 'responsibility is not to be a commentator on British politics' after the Scottish leader called for the Prime Minister to resign

Read here: www.thenational.scot/news/2...

Brad Bolman, Lab Dog: What Global Science Owes American Beagles Brad Bolman’s Lab Dog is a fascinating and meticulously researched history of how beagles came to be a standardised laboratory dog breed, and how these dog

My review of @brad.bolman.com 's 'Lab Dog' has just been published with Social History of Medicine. This is a truly excellent book that will be of great interest to historians of animals, lab sciences, and beyond. doi.org/10.1093/shm/...

Call for MBH Book Review Editor Modern British History is seeking a Book Review Editor to replace Dr Shahmima Akhtar whose term of office is due to end in December 2024. The post involves

We're recruiting a Book Reviews Editor! This is a great role for ECRs working in Modern British History (broadly defined). Details at the link below. Any questions, don't hesitate to get in touch with Hannah! 🗃️
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I don't know the answers to any of these questions but this pamphlet is fantastic and has made my day! Please tell me this isn't a hallucination.

Important survey on impact of HE redundancies. It's really important that APM staff fill this in too.
@uonucu.bsky.social

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Publication day! My book Keeping Hold: A Cultural and Social History of Possession in Eighteenth-Century Britain is out now. 20% discount code KEHO2026. www.cambridge.org/core/books/k...

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Faculty Research Fellows Talk with Susan Stryker | The Clayman Institute for Gender Research Susan Stryker: "Sex-Change Science Fiction in the Radium Age"

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The Empire's treasure house: diplomatic gifts, bureaucratic indifference and the erasure of provenance in colonial India

Join us next Tuesday, at the IHR, London or on Zoom for 'The Empire's treasure house: diplomatic gifts, bureaucratic indifference and the erasure of provenance in colonial India'. Free and open to the public. #Skystorians

Rethinking ADHD as ‘hypercuriosity’ What if ADHD isn’t a deficit of attention, but an intensified curiosity? A new study explores how reframing ADHD could transform education

Yes! What if we treated extremely normal human variation as something other than a "disorder"???

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Hungary: Pride organiser faces prison in latest attack on LGBTI rights We uncover truth and hold the powerful to account. Take action, donate and join the Amnesty movement to protect human rights.

“Rather than being threatened with a criminal sentence, he should be commended for his courage in organising the largest Pécs Pride in history.”

Solidarity with Géza Buzás-Hábel and the many other activists in Hungary fighting for their freedoms. Everyone should be free to celebrate Pride.

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Jacob Price Fellowship in British Studies (18 month FTC) at University of London Apply for the Jacob Price Fellowship in British Studies (18 month FTC) role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQJ574/j....

Missing pieces added to ancient global fish puzzle Missing pieces added to ancient global fish puzzle New pieces have been added to the puzzle of the evolution of some of the oldest fish that lived on Earth more than 400 million years ago.

CJZ science in the news:

Missing pieces added to ancient global fish puzzle
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‘If I think about what this means, I want to cry’: what happens when a city loses its university? When Essex University’s Southend campus opened, it was a message of hope for a ‘left behind’ UK seaside town. Its closure will be felt far beyond its 800 students, some of whom will not get their degr...

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

18 month postdoc at the lovely IHR in London, $41,740. Deadline 7 March. 'The Fellow will play a key role within the IHR team responsible for hosting the 2027 North American Conference in British Studies (NACBS)' in London 2027.

Repost to spread the word. #Skystorians

Guidance for responding to 'A Fairer Pathway to Settlement' consultation We are Amnesty International UK. We are ordinary people from across the world standing up for humanity and human rights.

The UK government is proposing radical and punitive changes to settlement rules. This is settlement, not citizenship. The consultation is open until 12 February; please respond to it and oppose these evil proposals. Amnesty have a good guide: www.amnesty.org.uk/resources/gu...

Page of information outlining the aims of the Locating Loss research project which explores the histories of infertility in landscapes and spaces. This project aims to bring scholars from a wide range of disciplines together in 2026. Please DM me if more info is needed and this alt text is not enough!

Hello! I am sharing information about my @researchireland.ie project Locating Loss: histories of infertility in landscapes and spaces. I would love to connect with researchers/ practitioners from a wide range of backgrounds and disciplines, so please share widely! @nursingclio.bsky.social

If Reform are pushing propaganda through your letterbox, don’t engage with it. Don’t argue with it. Don’t platform it.

Return it to sender.
Write REFUSED on the envelope and put it straight back in the postbox. Unopened.

They pay for that. Every time.
Bulk mail returns are

2020 Academy of American Poets Prize On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs by Renée Nicole Macklin

Here is a poem Renee Good, under her earlier name Renee Macklin, wrote, "On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs." It won a prize. It's really good. "it’s the ruler by which i reduce all things now; hard-edged & splintering from knowledge." poets.org/2020-on-lear...

UK LGBTQ+ charities are in ‘hostile environment’ amid falling donations, experts warn Stonewall’s corporate funding halves against backdrop of US attacks on DEI and freezing of aid for LGBTQ+ causes

Charities are facing "a concerted effort to delegitimise their right to speak up for marginalised groups across the country, whether that was trans people, or refugees and asylum seekers.” www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

Give and be doubled! We're matching all week to help these families survive. Six families & a camp depend on this link for essentials. Right now, that's especially emergency healthcare for several young women and kids, unfortunately.

Click "weekly"!: chuffed.org/project/hope...

My book, The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism, will be out March 17, 2026

It is now available for pre-order from @princetonupress.bsky.social and other online booksellers! cart.press.princeton.edu/checkout/car...

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HUNGER STRIKERS DAY 50 UPDATE from today's zoom call with prisonersApalestine EVERY HUNGER STRIKER HAS NOW BEEN HOSPITALISED Amu Hospitalised (location unknown) Bronzefield no longer providing thiamine and electrolytes Only provided with wheelchair one day before hospital transfer Missed GP appointment due to inability to attend physically Qesser - Day 50 Still on hunger strike - starting to lose her vision Got a 5 min social call (policy: if in hospital for over 72 hours she gets one) Heba - Day 49 Not receiving care Recovering from suspected COVID caught from being refused a mask Losing memory and decision making skills Kamran In hospital - Pentonville told his father they were taking him to hospital for a test and said he'd be right back but it's been 2 days without updates Teuta - Day 43 Dangerously low blood sugar levels (1.8-2), ketones averaging 3 Takes her 10 seconds to fully stand up then she blacks out Her skin is turning grey Lewie Has no medical assistance, hasn't seen GP in 3 weeks Managing his insulin and blood sugars alone Concerned in the spikes and lows of blood sugars Umer Refeeding in Wormwood Scrubs

Via Prisoners for Palestine… take action: linktr.ee/prisoners4pal #Palestine

Growing transphobia and authoritarianism go hand in hand – they must be resisted Late one summer’s night in 2018, I was walking with a friend through central Thessaloniki when a man approached us to ask for directions. We stopped and, without warning, he attacked us. My friend got away but the man chased me down the street punching me on the forehead and kicking me in the back. The reason? A “man [my friend] was wearing a skirt”.  More than […]

Amnesty: Growing transphobia and authoritarianism go hand in hand – they must be resisted

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#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

We know this time of year can be difficult for many. If you are struggling, you can reach out to the following services:

Mindline Trans+: 0300 330 5468
Samaritans: 116 123
SHOUT: Text 85258
Switchboard LGBT+
Voda App – self-care for LGBTQIA+ communities
Mind’s Support Line: 0300 102 1234

We mourn the victims of the mass shooting on Bondi Beach at a celebration on the first night of Chanukah, bringing darkness into a festival of lights. Our hearts go out to those attacked and their families and friends, as well as the entire Australian Jewish community.

E.S. Wight | On Hunger Strike Qesser Zuhrah, Amu Gib, Heba Muraisi, Jon Cink, T Hoxha and Kamran Ahmed are on hunger strike. All are on remand in...

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Prisoners For Palestine – A prisoner-led collective in the UK representing all those detained under charges related to Palestinian liberation.

Support the hunger strikers

In prison for over a year without trial. They are victims of a system that has used the Terrorism Act to attempt to silence opposition to Israel’s genocide.

They are now at serious life-threatening risk. They must be given fair trials.

www.prisonersforpalestine.org