I've got a new article out @parlhistjournal.bsky.social 💥 It's about late 19thC socialist caravan tours & the production of everyday forms of cross-cultural connection & provincial internationalisms that were vital for the development of socialist ideas in this period
An array of illustrated postcards on a table. The central one is purple and has the words 'ReaderBank'
What kind of reader are you? On #WorldBookDay, take a deep dive into the mysteries of the reading imagination with @thereaderbank.bsky.social
👉 readerbank.org
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The Reading Room at Wellcome Collection. A room with objects and artefacts in display cases, as well as bookshelves, desks and chairs. Image credit: The Reading Room, Benjamin Gilbert. Source: Wellcome Collection.
🏛️ 📚 Read this Open Letter! @harrietbarratt.bsky.social @drfijohnstone.bsky.social & @coreenanne.bsky.social respond to the recent Wellcome report on the use of archives, manuscripts and material cultures in health research.
medhumsplatform.org/open-letter-...
This is going to be brilliant. I can't wait to discuss all things measurement with this incredible line up of speakers!!
This is going to be brilliant. I can't wait to discuss all things measurement with this incredible line up of speakers!!
Excited to host the Measurement Heretics Workshop: Being Meaning and Measuring Well on March 11-13, at the Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham University. The keynote will be hybrid so register for this free event!
@durhamimh.bsky.social
#histsci #histmed #hps #philsci #medhums #histtech #sts
The opposite of ai is not no ai, the opposite of ai is 'here and now:the steps musical'
Cannot wait to discuss
The opposite of ai is not no ai, the opposite of ai is 'here and now:the steps musical'
Brilliant turnout for my workshop on “The Senses and Medical Humanities” yesterday with @durhamimh.bsky.social.
I’ll be hosting an online workshop in May and a further in-person showcase on 10 July at Thackray Museum of Medicine in Leeds. Message me for further info!
🎉 Announcing the launch of an agenda-setting collection of essays exploring how art and art-history can transform understandings of health, illness, care and medical knowledge. Edited by @drfijohnstone.bsky.social Allison Morehead and Imogen Wiltshire 🧵
@durham.ac.uk @languagesdurham.bsky.social
I'm very excited to be taking on a new role as Book Reviews Editor for the British Journal for the History of Science alongside the wonderful @coreenanne.bsky.social! We receive a wide range of excellent books for review, so please do reach out if you are interested in writing a review for us!
Workshop programme with a list of speakers superimposed against a hand-drawn image of people using smelling salts and tasting substances. Please email imh.events@durham.ac.uk for an accessible Word version.
We have a fabulous line up of speakers at The Senses and Medical Humanities!
📅 24 Feb, 10.30–4PM
📍Collingwood College, Durham
A few tickets still available. Book now!
@claireturner.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-senses...
Great to see that the Master's thesis that Henry Lloyd-Hughes did with us at CHSTM a few years ago has transformed into an article in Isis:
The Deaf Right Stuff: Disability, Space Sickness, and the Making of the American Astronaut, 1955–1968
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
Next month we're excited to be running a free 3-day Measurement Heretics workshop, bringing together a variety of perspectives to guide the future of ethical, meaningful health data ⚖️
📆 11-13 March (Day 1 is hybrid, days 2 & 3 are in-person)
More info 👇️
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/measuremen...
Chicago UP is running a HUGE sale, and you can get extremely well-researched hard-bound books about all sorts of topics and all sorts of places for a price of a cheap paperback press.uchicago.edu/resource/Sal...
Delighted to share the programme for my upcoming workshop on 'The Senses and Medical Humanities', taking place at Durham University on 24 February. There are very few tickets left for this workshop, so get booking ASAP!
Please get in touch with me for a text-only version of this programme.
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Come and work with us on project EPIC at @unibirmingham.bsky.social. We are looking for a #Philosophy postdoc with an interest in the area at the intersection of philosophy, psychology, and mental health. edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... #philsky #jobs #epistemicinjustice
This was such a great, quietly radical keynote.
@estefwright.bsky.social has chosen Coreen Anne McGuire's review article, 'Disability History Gets to Work' - a "beautifully written piece [which] reflects on the broader social significance of this blossoming field" | @coreenanne.bsky.social [2/7]
tinyurl.com/yu93k7ua
Interested in the intersections of #medhum and #envhum? Join us for another instalment of our Weather, Climate, and Health Research Theme's online talk series with our wonderful colleague @drhick.bsky.social (Newcastle University). All details and registration (free) via link below.
Oh my gosh yes! Thank you so much! I love it 😂
Does anyone remember or have a copy of a post that was about what an archive can be? From the strictest interpretation to the loosest? It can in the form of a diagram?
Looking forward to the St Andrews Network for Medical Humanities 2nd Annual Symposium on January 23 @uniofstandrews.bsky.social events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/st-an...
1/ A shout out to seriously the most stunning article I have read perhaps ever - Erin Maglaque's in the December @Journalofmoder. I was one of the readers for this piece, and I even wrote in my report that it was such an intense read that I had to go for a walk afterwards to calm down.
One PhD and one postdoc position available in the interesting ERC research project on Beyond Thalidomide: The Patient as an Agent of Change (2024-2029) run by dr Birgit Nemec:
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
2 year Postdoctoral Research Fellow opportunity at the University of St Andrews on my project "Aesthetic Values and the Social Dimensions of Science"
www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
#philosophy #philsci
📆 This Friday at 10am! If you're interested in our Medical Humanities In Practice Fellowships, join us to get some insights into how to develop your research idea for your application.
Register your free spot 👇
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/medical-hu...
Really happy to see my new article published in the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences.
It looks at how early twentieth-century American physical culture defined success through measurement images and commercial claims to science.
Free access: bit.ly/4qvlswy
Topics Please see below for a non-exhaustive list of suggested topics; we particularly welcome contributions that make contact with this year's conference theme: Ground Truth and Validity. While the notion of measurement validity is comparatively familiar, ground truth may need more of an introduction. The concept of ground truth has origins in remote sensing, where it is used to contrast the outcomes of a near or ground level measurement with outcomes of a remotely sensed measurement. From these origins, the concept has now moved to a wider use, particularly in machine learning contexts, where it denotes data assumed to be true, which can then be used to calibrate and validate machine learning data. The time seems ripe for a more careful investigation from a measurement perspective of the concept of ground truth-both in its original understanding and in its more metaphorical use. Measurement and Simulation • Connections between measuring and simulating • Can simulation substitute for measurement? Measurement and Data Science
Measurement and Data Science • Measurement and data quality • Measurement and data analysis • Measurement and Al Models in Measurement • The role of models in measurement • The role of models in justifying measurement results • Models, intersubjectivity, objectivity, validation Models of Measurement • The general structure of the measurement process • The structure of measurement in social and human sciences • Transduction and calibration in measurement • History of the conception of the structure of measurement History, Philosophy and Sociology of Measurement
The structure of measurement in social and human sciences • Transduction and calibration in measurement • History of the conception of the structure of measurement History, Philosophy and Sociology of Measurement • Exploration across sciences with diverse philosophical perspectives • New quantification and measurement approaches • Epistemological and metaphysical approaches to measurement Measurement Applications and their conceptual foundations in any area of science • Life & Health Sciences
CFP: Society for the Study of Measurement will be held at the University of Edinburgh
June 22-25, 2026. Submit proposals for papers, symposia, & poster on any topics in the theory, history, philosophy, & application of measurement by January 15, 2026 app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/80364...
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