Iain Sturges

A few weeks ago ACORN Norwich took action at the Eastern Landlords Association conference.

Since then, the landlords have been busy trying to paint themselves as the reasonable people in the room.

But as this recording passed to ACORN shows the reality is a little different…

Cat selfie

Listening to Deafheaven's Sunbather in the hopes it will manifest better weather

Looooooooooooooong

Black and white cat, stretched out on my legs over a blanket.

Cat is long

Excited to announce 3 #AcademicJobs in Humanities at Uni Strathclyde funded through the Charlotte Lythe bequest. I'm new here, so appreciate your help in getting the word out! The jobs are in History, Media and English/Creative Writing. Details below in my first bsky thread (drumroll please...)

New Formations: Volume 2024 Issue 112 (2024) - Lawrence Wishart New Formations: A Journal of Culture / Theory / Politics - Issue contents for Volume 2024 Issue 112 (2024)

Brilliant new issue of New Formations out now, guest edited by @ajsecor.bsky.social and Ben Anderson, exploring the theoretical potential for engaging 'affect and ideology'.

Lots of free to download content: journals.lwbooks.co.uk/newformation...

Got a new mug from family friends (Dr. Actually)

Last chance to register for this *free* webinar on the 6th November on Conflicts of Interest in Public Health and Addiction Research.

Over 250 people have registered so far!!! Hosted by @healthpromint.bsky.social and ICARA.

Register here: events.oup.com/oup-academic...

Farm Tools for Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse - The MERL For centuries, tools like billhooks, forks, and saws kept rural people housed and warm. They're also perfect for the zombie apocalypse.

🎃 POV: it’s the zombie apocalypse, and you’re at The Museum of English Rural Life.

Luckily, we’ve collected thousands of agricultural tools that sustained England's rural people for centuries. With some lateral thinking, they might be exactly what you need today.

merl.reading.ac.uk/blog/2024/10...

Small pleasure in life, discovering a seemingly mostly unused reading room hidden in the back corridors of a library.

Cat

Banner stating the content of the post with an old-fashioned rolleiflex camera and a black globe.

Calling all ECRs & PGs working on the #HistSTEM! Have you unearthed an interesting object from the archive? Researched the pivotal history of an individual? Viewpoint is open to submissions for its upcoming issue. Submissions should be ~1200 words, sent to viewpoint@bshs.org.uk

What is the deadline for submissions?

Of interest to @manchstm.bsky.social folk

The AI revolution is always just out of reach - Nature Reviews Physics Claims that artificial intelligence will usher in a new scientific and social era have been attracting funding for decades, but the changes they’ve achieved have not been as advertised. Historian Jame...

Great writing on the AI zeitgeist from James Sumner: "Historians are sceptical. It is not merely that we have been here before: we have seldom been anywhere else." www.nature.com/articles/s42...

What if academic publications came with FFOs (for fans of) like music releases

Postgrad funding, especially for masters, is scarce. We are trying to maximise its availability and reach. Follow this link for info on a new HPS Futures Studentship for Widening Participation in History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine. Deadline Dec 3rd, tell your students! #philsci #histsci

We're looking for an Exhibition Curator | News | Royal College of Nursing The RCN Library & Museum are hiring a freelance curator to lead our upcoming exhibition exploring art and nursing.

An interesting short-term opportunity for a freelance curator for the Royal College of Nursing. They're planning an exhibition on art and nursing www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-eve... #histmed #histSTM 📜

Reading Titmuss' 1970 book on blood donations, and thinking how not far off FromSoft's vision of a society built on an ever increasing demand for blood healing is. At least our blood administration hasn't turned us into beasts feasting on each other (yet . . .)

the polyphony Conversations across the medical humanities

Link to Polyphony blog thepolyphony.org

Picture of four people inspecting a monitor connected to a CT head scanner. On the screen is an cross-section of a brain re-constructed through the CT machine. Two notable people in this picture are Queen Elizabeth II and Sir Billy Butlin.

Currently great series of articles on the role of charity in healthcare on the Polyphony. In relation to @agnesjuliet.bsky.social piece on relationship of Royals to the Great Ormond, here is Queen Elizabeth and Sir Billy Butlin (in the back) inspecting a CT scanner Butlin donated to Ormond in 1977.

I’m co-organising, with Cathy Lucas and Simon Werrett of @stsucl, an ‘Experimental History of Science Workshop’ to take place in April 2025

Think about entirely new ways of doing #histsci Let your imagination go wild!

Job ad for qualitative researcher interested in health-justice intersection, esp in terms of public health & community wellbeing approaches to police work: strathvacancies.engageats.co.uk/Vacancies/W/... Please get in touch if you're interested.

pretty sure we've seen similar stories before

Call for Submissions - Global History of Psychedelics Chacruna invites submissions to our Global History of Psychedelics series. The ongoing series highlights the dynamic ways that historic traditions, cultures, and research spaces have contributed to th...

REMINDER! @erikadyck.bsky.social and I are still accepting submissions and proposals for our Global History of Psychedelic series that we are publishing with @chacruna.bsky.social!!

A wide range of disciplinary topics will be considered!

chacruna.net/call-for-sub...

#histmed #histdrugs

A reminder that the deadline for abstracts for this June 2025 conference to be held in Naples, Italy, has been extended to 15 November. #histmed #skystorians #EpiSky

Teaching in a Time of Crisis As we begin another academic year, history feels both more fragile – and more essential – than ever. In a world of global pandemics, political unrest, environmental collapse, the cost o…

📣Call for papers!

Conference on 'Teaching in a Time of Crisis'

⏲️29 May 2025
🏢University of Warwick
📜Collab between @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social, History Lab+& History UK exploring history education at a time of crisis

⏰CFP deadline 17 Jan 2025
👉Info here: socialhistory.org.uk/shs_event/te...

I can't believe there is only one week to go before this is published in the US. I have been working on radioactive history for 12 years now and this project was a really challenging one. How do you tell a hopeful history when you are also dealing with so much devastation?

Very happy to share a report of the conference on 1970s climate discourse I recently put together in Manchester with Elliot Honeybun-Arnolda and @ruthamorgan.bsky.social. Thanks to ICHM, @bshsnews.bsky.social and Manchester's CHSTM for the support. Follow-up event at ANU Nov 6–7 🗃️