I had a wonderful time discussing the history of social care and social work with @crhhms.bsky.social, thank you for the opportunity to present work that historically frames the crisis in social care in the United Kingdom.
28.05.2025 11:22 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
In “Concepts and Principles for the New Biology: Development, Disruption and Normalization”, some provocative questions about whether changes caused by disruption should inevitably be thought of as “negative” or a “loss”. Mix of historical, philosophical and experimental papers at #ISHPSSB2025
21.07.2025 14:42 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
ANCESTRY AND POPULATIONS
Clarifying concepts for inferences about human demographic histories
ROADMAP OF THE TALK
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Latest developments about human origins (focus on genetic models)
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Ancestry and Populations:
scientific concepts and philosophical focus
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Taxonomy of populations concepts
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Application of the taxonomy
CONCLUSIONS
Concepts and research practices:
"Ancestry" and "populations" need to be clearly defined.
Expanding the philosophical analysis:
A taxonomy of different population concepts in the modelling stages of population genetics
Possible applications: model misspecification, model equifinality and ethical issues when inferring ancestry and population histories
Great talk by our #PhiGeo member @matildecarrera.bsky.social on "Ancestry & Populations: Clarifying concepts for inferences about human demographic histories" at @ishpssb2025.bsky.social
#philsci #ISHPSSB2025
21.07.2025 15:03 — 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
@merikatariina.bsky.social kicks off the next session on “Oceans and Deserts”. She starts with a great question: “what is a good life for an animal?” She’s interested in tensions between captivity and the wild. We’re going to be hearing about dolphins! #ISHPSSB2025
21.07.2025 15:37 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
I had a wonderful time discussing the history of social care and social work with @crhhms.bsky.social, thank you for the opportunity to present work that historically frames the crisis in social care in the United Kingdom.
28.05.2025 11:22 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Don't forget! Tomorrow we have our next History and Policy seminar.
Tuesday 27 May, 5-6.30pm. Online via Teams.
@kevinmatthewjones.bsky.social on 'Why are we still waiting for a National Social Service? Lessons from the history of health and social care'.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1024078194...
26.05.2025 09:37 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
We're offering a full-time, 4-year PhD position in the history of science and technology, starting Fall 2025. The topic is open—come join us! #histsci #histtech #histSTM
23.05.2025 11:02 — 👍 10 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 1
History and Policy: Lessons from health and social care – Kevin Jones
Dr Kevin Jones presents "Why are we still waiting for a National Social Service? Lessons from the history of health and social care"
Tuesday 27 May, 5-6.30pm
For our next History and Policy online seminar we will have @kevinmatthewjones.bsky.social speaking on 'Why are we still waiting for a National Social Service? Lessons from the history of health and social care'.
Register for free via: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/history-an...
20.05.2025 15:11 — 👍 1 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 3
For NTU's next History and Policy online seminar, @kevinmatthewjones.bsky.social will be speaking about the history of health and social care and why there is as of yet no effective social care service in place.
Not to be missed! Register for free via the Eventbrite link below ⬇️
20.05.2025 15:15 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
180,632 files released at the National Archives in April 2025. Most are even more records from the Grenfell inquiry (152,185 documents) plus WO wartime service records (19,632). Other than that, a mixture, plenty if your interests are BL building or gas privatisation
Curious file vote (=❤️) follows…
20.05.2025 09:32 — 👍 4 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
Yeah the neurodivergence chapter doesn’t look promising if I’m honest
09.05.2025 14:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thanks! I’ll post the link to the review soonish (it’s a double review for History of the Human Sciences with Santhouse’s No More Normal), - first impressions are that it does not go too deep into the theoretical issues, and I’m not especially looking forward to reading the neurodiversity chapter…
09.05.2025 14:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Microsoft Forms
History & Policy will shortly be unveiling the first publicly-searchable database of historians with policy-relevant expertise. If you are a professional historian who would like to engage more with policymakers, there's still time to submit a profile. Register your interest here: bit.ly/3YMcsXu
09.05.2025 11:05 — 👍 37 🔁 30 💬 0 📌 1
Getting started with my review of Overdiagnosis - I think I disagree with the main argument, but not yet sure why
09.05.2025 10:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Image of Jon Topham standing to the left of a screen with "Science and Religion from the Ground Up" on it centre front. And a periodic table in the background on the left.
Utterly delighted and privileged to be back at @unileedsnews.bsky.social this afternoon for the inaugural lecture of @jontopham.bsky.social It brings back many memories of studying @hpsleeds.bsky.social 2010-2015 when Jon was my supervisor.
25.04.2025 14:56 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The Hindle Fellowship
Visit the post for more.
The Brooke Hindle Postdoctoral Fellowship in History of Technology deadline is 15 May 2025 #HPS #histtech
www.historyoftechnology.org/about-us/awa...
23.04.2025 13:36 — 👍 11 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
🚨 Join this event tomorrow to hear from Prof Catherine Pitt and other global health experts as they discuss how to protect progress and refocus research amid funding cuts.
More info 👇
24.04.2025 13:12 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The image shows Anopheles coluzzii mosquito midguts heavily infected with Plasmodium falciparum oocysts (orange circles). Each single oocyst can produce around 10,000 sporozites that have the potential to infect a human with malaria when the mosquito next bites.
The image shows Anopheles coluzzii mosquito midguts heavily infected with Plasmodium falciparum oocysts (orange circles). Each single oocyst can produce around 10,000 sporozites that have the potential to infect a human with malaria when the mosquito next bites.
Ahead of #WorldMalariaDay2025, @lshtm.bsky.social ’s Human Malaria Transmission Facility reports its most successful P. falciparum / A. coluzzii infections to date—advancing lab-based research in the global fight against malaria.
Read more 👉 bit.ly/4lL8YiA
24.04.2025 13:25 — 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
Don't miss out on these fantastic opportunities to come and work with us in Leeds. Deadlines coming up shortly!
24.04.2025 13:26 — 👍 5 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
🚨 Tomorrow!
Don’t miss Prof. Jon Topham’s jontopham.bsky.social inaugural lecture & BSHS PG Conference keynote: Science and Religion from the Ground Up.
📆 25 April | 3.30pm BST
📍 Leeds & Online
🔗 Register now: bit.ly/4hDxuyV
Join us live online! #HistSci #BSHSPG2025
24.04.2025 13:31 — 👍 2 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Amazing history PhD opportunity at Trinity College Dublin to work on women’s experiences of maternity care in Dublin, 1950-2020. Dream supervisory team of @drdeefoley.bsky.social and @earner.bsky.social. 🤩Closing date 23 May. #histmed
22.04.2025 15:12 — 👍 45 🔁 43 💬 0 📌 2
Print copies of my book have arrived!
11.04.2025 13:06 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Is Tan et al. The End of Social Science Genomics?
What happens when everything is unconfounded?
I know it's a rough time to be talking science, but in case anyone wants some distraction, I wrote about the Tan et al (2024) analysis of heritability and polygenic indices for complex human behavior. Title: Is Tan et al The End of Social Science Genomics?
04.04.2025 15:16 — 👍 97 🔁 33 💬 7 📌 11
Diagnosis is determined to a large scale by the administrative categories used in medical bureaucracies
11.04.2025 15:09 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Professor in Science and Technology Studies, UCL @stsucl.bsky.social. Science policy, responsible innovation, emerging technologies. Book https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-32320-2. Responsible AI UK (www.rai.ac.uk)
Historian of Medicine. Loneliness, epistemic injustice, medical humanities, shame. SRA on the Wellcome-funded Epistemic Injustice in Healthcare project (EPIC), University of Bristol Law School.
Historian of science and medicine living in Berlin writing about biomedicine and psychosis. Postdoc Research Fellow at the MPIWG. He/him.
Historian of Modern Europe
| poverty & inequality, centre & periphery, health & housing in c19 France🏠🏚️🇫🇷 | Tired dad | posts represent my views | He/him
https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/will-clement
historian of 19th and 20th gender&religion; currently writing about feminist Catholics; religious communities in the inner city; lay sisters, female medical missioners
Historian of medicine and stuff. Writer. Curator. Socialist. Obsessive. Author of “Psyche on the Skin: A history of self-harm” (2016) and “Am I Normal? The 200-year search for normal people and why they don’t exist” (2022)
Interdisciplinary Humanities scholar (religion, death, material/visual culture, history) long time single mum, neurodivergent, book dragon, and cat-mum to a big black rescue kitty with anxiety issues
Posting regularly about the St Vincent Botanical Garden
Doing comms for a charity tackling health inequalities at a hyperlocal level. Recovering museum professional. Historian of vaccination, smallpox, and Edward Jenner. Life between Bristol and Gloucester. Personal account, own views. He/him.
owengower.co.uk
Professor | Historian of crime, law, living standards, & social control in Western Europe, 7th-13th centuries | Dog lover | Pasta addict.
Background picture is of Nanaimo.
Portrait is from the Luttrell Psalter.
Early modernist and Lecturer in English at Queen Mary University of London. Love all histories of metal, military worlds, and material culture. Can also be found board-gaming, TTRPG-ing, walking, and pasta-making ~ she/her
A medical museum housing the oldest operating theatre in Europe (1822) in the heart of London Bridge. Likes and retweets are not endorsements. #OldOpTheatre
www.oldoperatingtheatre.com
PhD student at Edge Hill University & The British Library, researching the nineteenth-century press, focussing on short-lived newspapers. Funded by the AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership scheme.
Historical criminologist specialising in all things alcohol. Professor of Criminology at University of Leeds. Once described as bearing a 'striking resemblance to Peter Beardsley'.
Hello! I'm Lucy, I'm a historian, I write books like biographies of Agatha Christie and present a VERY GOOD @BBCSounds podcast called #LadyKillers. For ages I was Chief Curator of Historic Royal Palaces, now an Ambassador for the charity.
Cultural and Environmental Historian, Keele University UK
bbcR3/AHRCpress Newgenthinker 2018. www.keele.ac.uk/surf/ Co-Director. Outdoors leisure, Industrial heritage and decommissioning, Ultraviolet. Views my own.
Historian of the early twentieth century, especially clothing and shopping; mum; crafter; bibliophile; lover of all things 1930s. Treasurer of Art Deco Soc UK. Represented by Past Preservers.
www.emmabastin.com
The best history events and courses all year round.
Mary, Queen of Scots | Annas Keith | Lady Anne Percy | PI AHRC Scottish Women Letter-Writers 1480-1625 @ UofGlasgow History |
https://www.waterstones.com/book/captive-queen/dr-jade-scott/9781789296464
Also: dogs, horses, books
Teller of small stories. Professor of history at Birkbeck. Rider of bikes, grower of vegetables, Brook custodian & friend to five ducks. Townie Cantabrigian. Eternally homesick Newfoundlander; researching the island's history & the legacies of empire.
Historian. Vanished shortlisted for Royal Society’s Trivedi Prize. A best book of 2025 for FT, Guardian, BBC History Extra, Smithsonian Mag, New Indian Express & Waterstones.
Views own/No DMs
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/309254/vanished-by-qureshi-sadi
