Clare Hickman

Reminder that this is happening on Thursday! Kat, Kate and Savannah are careful, insightful, brilliant speakers. Can't wait

The Senses and Medical Humanities A one-day workshop exploring sensory studies and medical humanities through short talks, creative activities, and networking.

The Senses and Medical Humanities – 24 February

A one-day workshop exploring sensory studies and medical humanities, organised by @claireturner.bsky.social with the Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham University

Details here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-senses...

Join me for this talk tomorrow morning!
#envhist #envhum

The logic laid bare: further degrade the labour of university workers; further degrade students' experiences of learning, thinking, writing; further embed ed tech companies into every remaining crack of the university.

Huge congratulations! 🙌 🥳✨

Without America, "right now, you'd all be speaking German" Trump tells an audience in Switzerland.

Sensing Heat, Finding Cool: The Search for Water in Summertime Paris, New York, and London, 1880–1930 Abstract. At the turn of the twentieth century, Paris, New York, and London were epicenters of urban modernity, but these cities and their inhabitants were

Our @meltingmetropolis.bsky.social article on keeping cool in summertime Paris, New York and London is free to read in the Journal of Social History. doi.org/10.1093/jsh/...

CALL for PAPERS for The Zoological Society of London (ZSL) at 200: Science, Society, and the Natural World, 1-3 July 2026 - Society for the History of Natural History Call for papers This three-day international meeting, held in SHNH’s 90th year, will mark the bicentenary of the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and delve into its history and impact on our knowled...

CFP: The Zoological Society of London (ZSL) at 200: Science, Society, and the Natural World, 1-3 July 2026

shnh.org.uk/all-events/c...

#zoo #envhist #animalhistory

1 [A spoof advert for a life management app. It opens with a glossy, sorted-looking person smugly addressing us]   Hey there. 2 Feeling the January panic already?  3 [Title panel] Then sign up for Stressifyly today.  4 [Show the app on a phone] Stressifyly (We couldn't decide between ‘Stressly' and ‘Stressify') 5 Stressifyly is the cute stress-management app that has given up pretending it's all ok. [the rest of the advert depicts on-screen app tools a la Headspace / Liven / Grammarly etc] 6 Complete your daily freak-out rings  'You've nearly been anxious all day!' 7 Get daily reminders to your devices [A woman jogging, her watch saying to her: "Hey! You should’ve met the right guy by now."] 8 Use innovative visualisation tools  [Show a visualisation of a mountain of work: ‘your work mountain / you’ next to a tiny person] 9 Delve into our ambient sound library [Listening to a recording called ‘The background hum of global decline’ illustrated with an image of trump, putin, a robot, flames etc] 10 Chat to our AI Berater Buddy to start manifesting failure [AI person on phone]: You’re gonna cock this up [Person holding phone, eyes closed] I’m gonna cock this up 11 Do some journaling thing as if that will somehow help [person typing a journal entry on phone: "Today I had too many difficult things to do" 12 And generally pay us to tell you that adult life will go away if you just fiddle around with your phone some more 12 [Advert ending image]: Stressifyly: Stay underwater. [Ends]

Stressifily

This is great and I completely agree! I’d also argue we can learn from historic designed landscapes too in terms of water management, tree shade, etc. Plus looking at adaptation & change over long periods of time.

'The past is an underused tool': An Elizabethan mansion's secrets for staying warm In a deadly cold period known as the Little Ice Age, clever Elizabethan designs kept a magnificent stately home unusually warm – with lessons for how we can heat our own homes better.

I enjoyed speaking with Graihagh Jackson of the BBC about the adaptations to #ClimateChange that may be embedded within Elizabethan architecture. History, I maintain, is an underused tool for helping us understand the present and imagine possible futures. #EnvHist www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

Pharmaceutical pollution from health care: a systems-based strategy for mitigating risks to public and environmental health Human pharmaceuticals are increasingly detected in environments around the world, with growing international calls to mitigate the ecological and huma…

Excited to share a new paper in Lancet Planetary Health!

Our analysis of UK #pharmaceuticalpollution highlights growing environmental and health risks & identifies 37 intervention points for technical & structural reform:

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#IDSky #STS #HistMed #HistSci #AMR

Outdoor Singing in Modern Britain Cambridge Core - History of Ideas and Intellectual History - Outdoor Singing in Modern Britain

Another publication from m'learned colleagues on the 'All Our Footsteps' project, funded by @ukri.org. This time it's @drhick.bsky.social of Newcastle and @draflint.bsky.social of Oxford on 'Outdoor Singing in Modern Britain'... What a topic!👍 It's free to read:
www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Isabelle Gapp, A Circumpolar Landscape: Art and Environment in Scandinavia and North America, 1890-1930. Cover of book with northern lights over arctic scene on right.

Our 1st #envhum #book talk of 2026 is on Monday, 19 Jan, 16:00 CET/15:00 GMT.
Join us to hear Isabelle Gapp @issygapp.bsky.social discuss her book A Circumpolar Landscape: Art and Environment in Scandinavia and North America, 1890-1930.
All are welcome!
newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...

Colourful cover of 1950 guide book The Romance of Kew: Where Flowers always bloom. Interior of Palm House with red hibiscus and snowy scene outside.

Open-the-flap of cover of guide, The Romance of Kew, reveals summer scene of the pagoda.

Charming open-the-flap cover of 1950 guide to Kew.
The wintery scene in the Palm House transforms to summer and a view of the Pagoda when the door opens. Truly, a garden for all seasons!

(Un)intended consequences: a social sciences stocktake of a decade of Global Action Plan-inspired antimicrobial governance Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) remains a major global health threat. Despite increasing international attention, AMR governance has often neglected so…

Hot off the press in @lancetmicrobe.bsky.social!

In (Un)intended Consequences, we conduct a #socsci stocktake of 10 years of research on #AMR interventions, highlight the need for more contextual #antimicrobial governance & make recommendations #GAP'26! #IDSky

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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

Going to tell people in the South that this is actually what the North looks like

The FT got is architecture critic Edwin Heathcote to write about data centres and it's wonderful. www.ft.com/content/7692...

State control of historical memory is a classic hallmark of authoritarian regimes, just FYI.

Ooh fascinating project

Outdoor Singing in Modern Britain Cambridge Core - History of Ideas and Intellectual History - Outdoor Singing in Modern Britain

👀Online publication day🥳
'Outdoor singing in modern Britain: a sensory & emotional history' by me and @drhick.bsky.social is now available to read online & download (for free). Part of CUP's Elements in Histories of Emotions & the Senses series
www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Ghosts Behind Glass How museums display extinct species—and what these exhibits say about us.   While it’s no longer possible to encounter a dodo in the wild, we can still come face-to-face with them in museums. The rema...

Are you in UK and want to hear about my book Ghosts Behind Glass? 3 public talks in Feb:
Cambridge Museum of Zoology, 11 Feb www.museum.zoo.cam.ac.uk/events/talk-...
M Shed Bristol, 12 Feb  www.bristolmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/m-s...
Oxford NatHist Museum, 13 Feb www.oumnh.ox.ac.uk/event/dead-a...

Thanks Rob!

Outdoor Singing in Modern Britain Cambridge Core - History of Ideas and Intellectual History - Outdoor Singing in Modern Britain

NEWS 📣 The CUP Element @draflint.bsky.social & I wrote on 'Outdoor Singing in Modern Britain: A Sensory and Emotional History' has been published & free to download here. Thanks to editorial team incl @boddice.bsky.social, reviewers and all who commented on WIP 🙏 www.cambridge.org/core/element...

We are well over a decade into the prominence of academic blogging in knowledge dissemination and democratization, and yet our institutions continue to not recognize this labour financially or in regards to promotion and hiring practices, leading these important publications to serve as symbols of academic precarity and inflexibility.

"Reimagining Academic Publishing: Community, Knowledge, and the Future Beyond Academia."

I have a short new article out in the Practitioner's Forum of the Sustainable Publishing special issue of Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies, "Reimagining Academic Publishing: Community, Knowledge, & the Future Beyond Academia"

Find it here: imaginationsjournal.ca/index.php/im...

"It is thanks to Tupaia’s skill as a linguist that European botanists were able to discover the Māori names and uses for many of the plants they were observing for the first time, according to Rose."
@nichecanada.bsky.social

Tweet of the Day - Polly Atkin on the Short-Eared Owl - BBC Sounds Writer Polly Atkin observes the wintering of short-eared owls in Cumbria.

The poet and author of #TheCompanyOfOwls @pollyrowena.bsky.social observes the wintering of short-eared owls in Cumbria. They are the UK's most nomadic owl, seeking a gentler version of the season.

🎧Listen to BBC Radio 4's #TweetOfTheDay:
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
#owls #birds #nature

Edwin Rose in front of the front cover of his latest book - British Practices of Natural History.

What counted as knowledge in Britain’s age of exploration...and who decided?

On Wed 4 Feb, @edwinrose.bsky.social explores how natural knowledge was shaped by travel, collecting, and exchange - and whose voices were left out.

6–8pm · Burlington House

Find out more: buff.ly/ypMIRvt

Birmingham trains delayed after wartime bomb found - BBC News Disruption through Birmingham New Street is expected to last until 12:30 GMT.

You've dodged all the usual stuff eg:

"Lack of/ missing/ late train crew"

"Engineering works"

"[something] on the line"

"Signalling fault"

"Bad weather"

But then...

"Birmingham trains delayed after wartime bomb found - BBC News"

(Pleased I set off before 9)

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