Kevin Matthew Jones

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

ANCESTRY AND POPULATIONS Clarifying concepts for inferences about human demographic histories

ROADMAP OF THE TALK 01 Latest developments about human origins (focus on genetic models) 02 Ancestry and Populations: scientific concepts and philosophical focus 03 Taxonomy of populations concepts 04 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
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@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

Save Language Centre Staff! Save Language Learning in Nottingham! To UoN Management, Casualised Language Centre staff at the University of Nottingham have been demanding the basic dignity of direct employment, including through a recent letter to management signed b...

Save language classes @uniofnottingham.bsky.social

This decision makes no sense at all given the high enrolment numbers in recent years.

Please consider signing this letter to resist these irrational cuts.

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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.

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'.

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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

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'.

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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 ⬇️

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…

Henry Cohen History of Medicine Lecture 2025 Rates of mental illness are rising, waiting lists are lengthy and recent BBC programmes have revealed scandalous conditions and abuse at psychiatric facilities. Apart from demanding more funds to supp...

If you are in Liverpool on Thursday and are interested in how history can help solve the mental health crisis, please come along!
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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"

Next week!

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Book Review: Autism in Film and Television Serafina Paladino reviews Murray Pomerance and R. Barton Palmer’s recent edited volume Autism in Film and Television: On the Island.

Autism on film, Polyphony book review thepolyphony.org/2025/05/09/b...

Yeah the neurodivergence chapter doesn’t look promising if I’m honest

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…

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

Getting started with my review of Overdiagnosis - I think I disagree with the main argument, but not yet sure why

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.

A Trove of Data about Philosophy Departments in the US - Daily Nous How many philosophy departments are there in the United States? How many people do they employ? How many students are there in philosophy courses each year? How many people major or minor in philosoph...

All you ever wanted to know about philosophy departments, but were too busy teaching and doing your own research to ask. A new report provides valuable data about departments of philosophy and 13 other humanities fields...

The Hindle Fellowship Visit the post for more.

The Brooke Hindle Postdoctoral Fellowship in History of Technology deadline is 15 May 2025 #HPS #histtech
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🚨 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.

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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

Don't miss out on these fantastic opportunities to come and work with us in Leeds. Deadlines coming up shortly!

🚨 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

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

Print copies of my book have arrived!

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?

Diagnosis is determined to a large scale by the administrative categories used in medical bureaucracies

Print copies of my book have arrived!

Kevin Matthew Jones Visit the post for more.

I've picked up a few new followers recently so I just wanted to direct attention to my website, hope some of you find what's on there useful: kevinmatthewjones.co.uk