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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 14h

“Orlando had become a woman… Their change of sex, though it altered their future, did nothing whatever to alter their identity… but in future we must, for convention’s sake, say ‘her’ for ‘his’ and ‘she’ for ‘he’.”

Virginia Woolf having no problems with pronouns in 1928.

#InternationalPronounsDay

a woman with red hair leans against a tree with the word iworm below her

Alt: Tilda Swinton as Orlando - a woman with red hair leans against a tree.

media.tenor.com

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chstmphds.bsky.social @chstmphds.bsky.social · 1d

📢 Join us this autumn for the CHSTM Postgraduate Seminar Series 2025/2026!
Explore new perspectives in HSTM. Our seminars run throughout the year, typically on Tuesdays, 1–2 pm on Zoom.

To receive the Zoom link, contact:
[email protected]

#HistSTM #histmed

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chstmphds.bsky.social @chstmphds.bsky.social · 17h

📢 Join us for the CHSTM Postgraduate Seminar Series 25/26!
🗓️ Allegra Hahn (University of Manchester) — “Philosophical Therapeutics: The ‘Doctor–Patient’ Relationship in Seneca’s Dialogues”
🕐 Tue 21 Oct, 1–2 pm (UK) · Zoom
Email [email protected] for the link
#HistMed

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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 14h

The excellent review in The Conversation is not by me; it's by @bethjohnsontv.bsky.social, an expert on Sally Wainwright's work. Check out the book on Wainwright she published with Kristyn Gorton:

bsky.app/profile/manc...

Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 2d

Watched #RiotWomen yet? Once again, Sally Wainwright proves why she’s one of TV’s finest #screenwriters/producers

Find out how Wainwright's reshaping representations of women on screen in a new article by Kristyn Gorton and @bethjohnsontv.bsky.social
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2025/10...

Graphic promoting a new book reviewing the work of Sally Wainwright

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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 16h

NEXT WEEK!

MancHSTM @manchstm.bsky.social · 23d

On 21 October, co-hosted by the Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture, our speaker will be Dr Brandy Schillace, on Hope in the Dark: How a daring team of sexologists built the world’s first trans clinic in the shadow of the Third Reich.

blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0...

CSSC and CHSTM Joint Seminar, 21 October 2025

Dr Brandy Schillace Hope in the Dark: How a daring team of sexologists built the world's first trans clinic in the shadow of the Third Reich

blogs.manchester.ac.uk

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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 16h

TOMORROW

MancHSTM @manchstm.bsky.social · 14d

If you're interested in history or social studies of mental health and illness, psychology or psychiatry, and are in Manchester on 16 October, please join us for our first Mind, History & Society Seminar, a conversation on the future of the #autism concept.

blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0...

Mind, History and Society Seminar, 16 October 2025

The Future of the Autism Concept Discussants: Dr Bonnie Evans and Professor Jonathan Green

blogs.manchester.ac.uk

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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 16h

That doesn't mean that I haven't accidentally misgendered people, even if they were sharing their preferred pronouns. I'm not proud of it, but it happens.

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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 16h

I'm a Generation X cis male presenting as a cis male; discussing pronouns feels like a fairly recent thing for me. It doesn't hurt to include a he/him in email signatures etc, and normalising this to help others to not get misgendered is a good thing, so I'm doing it. #InternationalPronounsDay

Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 18h

I am They/Them, but don't mind He/They too much, and fully understand why people would automatically default to He/Him so don't get annoyed when it is a genuine mistake, I do when they continue if, and I rarely do offline, I have corrected them.
#InternationalPronounsDay

__________ @jenbren.bsky.social · 18h

I'm She/Her, but I don't mind being They/Them either.

It's so simple and doesn't cause anyone any harm.

#InternationalPronounsDay

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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 17h

That London.

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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 17h

Funny that it's an MUP book that provides space for untold London stories.😂

Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 17h

'An essential insight into the voices that are often silenced by a city's ego, and a timely spotlight on a political agenda that is ever-present today.' - @thecrackmagazine.bsky.social

The untold story of a remarkable neighbourhood and the battle to define modern London. #booksky #London

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Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · 23h

Unexpectedly, there's an 'education focused' job in HPS at Sydney! At snr lecturer/assoc prof level, which means associate professor in US terms. You'll need to scan down below ruminant science etc to see it, though (perhaps a message there?):
#STS #bioethics #histstm #histsci #histmed

Education Focused Academics (Sydney Horizon Educators) Faculty of Science

Full time and Part-time continuing (tenure-track) academic Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor (Education Focused) positions at The University of Sydney Opportunity for the best and brightest talented...

usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com

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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 17h

Incidentally: this conversation between Jon Stewart and Geoffrey Hinton is quite insightful.

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

AI: What Could Go Wrong? with Geoffrey Hinton

Podcast Episode · The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart · 10/09/2025 · 1h 43m

podcasts.apple.com

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Vanessa is the name of the Doctor! @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 17h

Q for UK #skystorians - has anyone who is NOT AN ECR won a 'traditional' style grant recently, e.g. pays for your time & expenses to go to archives/do oral history, write up findings, run a workshop for colleagues, do small amount of community feedback/forward and/or public engagement, or similar?

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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 18h

(With apologies to Randall Munroe)

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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 18h

“If AI products were a car or a new medicine, the impact would be tested and modelled before it was let loose on the community. But simply by being new, Big Tech seeks a free pass based on a trust that it hasn’t earned.”

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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 18h

On related issues.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Big Tech deploys Orwellian doublespeak to mask its democratic corrosion | Peter Lewis

As AI asserts its power to shape social evolution, regulation is decried as ‘state control’ rather than the expression of our collective will

www.theguardian.com

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Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 18h

Finally, AI saves humanity with something worth all those carbon emissions/water excesses!

The Verge @theverge.com · 1d

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

buff.ly

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Sebastian Huhnholz @huhnholz.bsky.social · 1d

Der jüngste Historiker*innentag war ziemlich politisch-aktualistisch und der @vhdonline.bsky.social hat einen sehr nützlichen Medienspiegel erstellt.
Darin ein Interview mit Ute Daniel — u.a. zum Auftakt von Hendrik Wüst, die Alte Bundesrepublik habe für ihre Mitglieder drei Versprechen gehalten: …

Politik - Interview mit der Historikerin Ute Daniel zum Vertrauen in der Politik

www.deutschlandfunk.de

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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 18h

And @bethjohnsontv.bsky.social‘s review of the series is excellent, too.

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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 19h

Riot Women is a must-watch.

theconversation.com/with-riot-wo...

With Riot Women, Sally Wainwright is turning menopause into punk rebellion

By placing menopause at the centre of a punk-inflected drama, Wainwright opens a new televisual space for midlife women.

theconversation.com

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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 2d

Watched #RiotWomen yet? Once again, Sally Wainwright proves why she’s one of TV’s finest #screenwriters/producers

Find out how Wainwright's reshaping representations of women on screen in a new article by Kristyn Gorton and @bethjohnsontv.bsky.social
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2025/10...

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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 1d

It’s Tuesday and there’s another post on the blog to celebrate the Bulletin of @thejohnrylands.bsky.social going fully #OpenAccess🔓

This week, Dr Janette Martin writes on Bulletin 74:2, The Manchester Guardian archives as a search-engine of the pre-digital age.

Read the blog post: bit.ly/46PfNdJ

BJRL Goes Open Access: Dr Janette Martin on The Manchester Guardian - Manchester University Press

BJRL 74:2 is now Open Access on Manchesterhive.

bit.ly

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 27d

Are you a researcher in the field of history of science, technology and medicine? The #NotesAndRecord essay award is now open for entries until 28 February 2026. Visit our website find out more: buff.ly/dedMm93 #HistSci #HistSTM

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d

For reasons, it would be v. helpful to have information from a broad range of academic and non-academic (incl. GLAM) users of the BBC Written Archives OTHER THAN historians, briefly on: 1) What you've used it for and 2) How the proposed changes would impact on your research.

Reposts welcomed.

Historians dismayed by ‘scandal’ of BBC cutting access to...

Critics say new limit to trove of information sounds knell for independent research

observer.co.uk

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 1d

Latinx communities across the USA have been targeted by ICE. This summer, four LA historical and cultural institutions spoke out in solidarity, amongst silence in the museum sector.

Mary Rizzo on the role of museums in not only historical storytelling, but taking a stand:

No Going Back

Mary Rizzo examines how four LA historical and cultural institutions mobilize history and practice solidarity in the fight against immigration raids and deportations.

www.historyworkshop.org.uk

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