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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 13h

Fellow immigrants: if you are on the ILR visa and citizenship is available to you, please consider locking that down before a disastrous Reform electoral win, which would outstrip many of us of our rights. Anyone who thinks this isn't a possibility isn't paying attention to global politics.

Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 14h

A policy this expansive would certainly mean mass stripping of permanent residence status from people with ILR (including pensioners and parents of British children) on a scale far beyond anything any democracy has ever done before. There is no public support for such an extreme policy.

Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 15h

Via @sundersays.bsky.social the Conservatives' draft legislation - absolutely clear that it applies to (and is intended to apply to) legal permanent residents claiming state pension (on the basis of their contributions) or child benefit for British kids.

publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbi...

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Kate So @drsoandsoresearch.bsky.social · 12h

I miss my girl Tallulah so much. I love how her St Tallulah tattoo is on my dog petting arm, so I can pass on a blessing with each pat.

A beagle sitting on a wooden floor. Kate’s right hand reaches down to pet the dog, showing a tattoo of her late dog, Tallulah, with a halo

A small whippet cross with big ears sat on an orange rug

A dog with large ears sat on a chair at a dining table

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Kate So @drsoandsoresearch.bsky.social · 4d

Gives me the ick to see social media history girlies do press with Rylan. They preach empathy and ethics in the portrayal of history + the representation of marginalised people and then do press with someone who recently said very awful things towards refugees. Empathy pending 70+ years post death??

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Kate So @drsoandsoresearch.bsky.social · 7d

So precious 😭😭😭😭😭😭

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Kate So @drsoandsoresearch.bsky.social · 7d

I hope the parents who dress their babies up in fluffy animal clothes understand their positive impact on my life 🙏

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 8d

Boo!

Happy looking ghost annotation at the top right of a printer page.

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 9d

Tomorrow: DEAD ENDS comes out in the US! Aimed at kids aged 8-12, @tealcartoons.bsky.social and I think everyone will love this grisly romp through medical history. Please consider ordering a copy, and enjoy the weird stories we've uncovered that prove failure is essential to scientific progress.

Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 13d

When does death begin?

In the 18th century, no one could agree—some said when the pulse stopped, others when the body began to rot. Out of that debate came a century of strange experiments on severed heads.

Learn more in our kids’ book DEAD ENDS (w/ @tealcartoons.bsky.social): shorturl.at/FS3nd

A cartoon by Adrian Teal that depicts a guillotine and a severed head, with a modern-looking doctor holding a stethoscope to the head.

The cover of DEAD ENDS featuring a cartoon man being electrocuted back to life

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Kate So @drsoandsoresearch.bsky.social · 12d

a cartoon of a rabbit with the words " stap it " above it

ALT: a cartoon of a rabbit with the words " stap it " above it

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Kate So @drsoandsoresearch.bsky.social · 12d

So great to be back at The North Wing to celebrate its reopening and the hard work of the teams who made it all happen. 💕 ✨

Kate standing at the top of the Hogarth Staircase looking at the painting of the Pool of Bethesda on the wall opposite her

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Kate So @drsoandsoresearch.bsky.social · 13d

This sounds like a medical school interview question 😂😂😂

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Kate So @drsoandsoresearch.bsky.social · 15d

Could be done as a chaser to the vampire blood…or, if the vampire blood needs to incubate a little, a few days later. Bada bing bada boom irreversible transformation that isn’t reliant on the vamp2B making a kill. I watch this yearly and have done since I was 12 and only just had this thought.

a close up of a man 's face with the words fun huh below him

Alt: a close up of David from Lost Boys with the words fun huh below him

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Kate So @drsoandsoresearch.bsky.social · 15d

If in The Lost Boys you turn into a half vampire by drinking vampire blood and then a full vampire by drinking human blood, why couldn’t David give Michael his blood wine and then at another point give him wine with human blood in it?

a woman is sitting in a chair holding a cup of coffee with the words let 's talk written below her

Alt: Lucy, the mum from Lost Boys, is sitting in a chair holding a cup of coffee with the words let 's talk written below her

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Danielle Terrazas Williams @drdanielletw.bsky.social · 15d

Job Opportunity!

Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World
King's College London - Department of History

Fixed-Term/Contract
Closes: 13th October 2025

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU182/l...

Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World at King's College London

Recruiting now: Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board

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Kate So @drsoandsoresearch.bsky.social · 23d

I know! They're so cute. My need for soup is too strong though 😂

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Kate So @drsoandsoresearch.bsky.social · 23d

I’m going to make the best autumnal soup 🥣 🍁

An assortment of squashes, mini pumpkins and sweet potatoes

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Kate So @drsoandsoresearch.bsky.social · 23d

It was under duress 😂 I said give me your phone Im downloading Bluesky for you😂

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Kate So @drsoandsoresearch.bsky.social · 24d

Thank you so much!!

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Daniel Grey @djrgrey.bsky.social · 29d

Fantastic #openaccess article 📄 by @dralanagharris.bsky.social & Laura Mitchison in Transactions @royalhistsoc.org on disability, ethics, public history, photography & oral history: Essential read for any of us doing public engagement work on sensitive histories. 🌟

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Us and Them: Disability Ethics, Oral History and Inclusive Praxis in the Reuse of Asylum Photography | Transactions of the Royal Historical Society | Cambridge Core

Us and Them: Disability Ethics, Oral History and Inclusive Praxis in the Reuse of Asylum Photography

www.cambridge.org

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Kate So @drsoandsoresearch.bsky.social · 24d

Thank you!!!!

Kate So @drsoandsoresearch.bsky.social · 24d

Thesis? Submitted! The next few days will be spent reading spooky books.❤️❤️ I debated sharing I’d submitted because I’m so unsure about the Viva, but honestly if that goes badly I’ll be talking about it publicly too. Success comes in all forms and on its own timeline. Celebrate the little wins!

Acknowledgments
I am grateful to be a recipient of LAHP/AHRC funding, which has opened a world of opportunity and academic, professional, and personal growth that would otherwise remain unavailable to me. As part of this doctoral funding, I was able to undertake a placement at the Royal College of Physicians London library, which was a dreamy six months under the tutelage of Dr Katie Birkwood and the wider RCP team.
This thesis would not be possible without the expertise of Information Professionals.
The names of those who made significant contributions are present in the body of my thesis, where they should be.
This journey was by no means solitary, nor did it start with the PhD. I am indebted to many wonderful tutors who supported my enthusiasm for all things books. I would like to thank the late Dr Nora Bartlett, Dr Abi Shinn, Dr Katie Garner, and Dr Olivia Smith. This thesis is also indebted to Dr Matt Symonds and Dr Robyn Adams and their colleagues at the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters. I am also grateful to Dr Hannah Leah Crummé for her insights on Recusant receipts.
A special thank you goes to Dr Daniel Starza Smith for convening the remarkable
MA now known as Books That Matter at KCL. Not only did this MA light my brain on fire (in a good way), but also gave me a ready-made community of peers, some of whom have become the truest of friends.
I am extremely grateful for the patience and guidance of my supervisory team made up of Prof Jane Gilbert, Prof Alison Shell, and Dr Debbie Lee. They also quickly identified that I may have dyslexia, confirmation of which has been a soothing balm on a lifetime of frustration and self-doubt.
Sam Brown and Dr Grace Murray have been the most steadfast of PhD pals throughout my thesis, but they have been a boon towards the end. Together they have gently but firmly steered me towards the finish line with kind words, even kinder feedback, and an extremely generous number of coffees. Their co-founding of the online Miscell…

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Kate So @drsoandsoresearch.bsky.social · 27d

I have so many school memories of learning about diseases and illnesses that were seen as untreatable. Quite a few of them have had major break throughs since then. I was also in first cohort of the cervical cancer vaccine! Fund research! Get your vaccines!

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Kate So @drsoandsoresearch.bsky.social · 27d

There is nothing more beautiful than science and research offering new possibilities of treatment for diseases that have previously been seen as untreatable.

Julien Hoez @julienhoez.eu · 28d

One of the cruellest and most devastating diseases known to humanity, Huntington's disease, has been successfully treated for the first time in our history.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time

One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that could transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.

www.bbc.com

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Kate So @drsoandsoresearch.bsky.social · 29d

'A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard' Duchess of Malfi (1612) 💅

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Kate So @drsoandsoresearch.bsky.social · 29d

This is a bizarre compliment I know - but there is something so aesthetically pleasing about how your signatures balance each other.

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 29d

There's a lot of bad in the world right now. But @tealcartoons.bsky.social and I have a new kids' book coming out called DEAD ENDS that reminds us that failure isn't just inevitable but essential to success. There are a limited number of SIGNED copies from @mysteriousbookshop.com - shorturl.at/1A9CS

A photo of the cover of DEAD ENDS featuring a cartoon of a doctor zapping a patient in a coffin back to life. There are signed book plates and medical oddities all around the book.

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