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Harriet Barratt

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Researcher of objects & spaces of healthcare (the psychosocial, material culture, co-production; PhD on Winnicott). Postdoc at the Visual and Material Lab at @durhamimh.bsky.social 2025-29, researching materialities of donor conception treatment in the UK.

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Harriet Barratt @harrietbarratt.bsky.social · Aug 8

Extremely pleased to be joining @durhamimh.bsky.social's Visual & Material Lab in Sept to explore materialities of reproductive healthcare, specifically around donor conception - can't wait to get started!

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Angela Cassidy @angecass.bsky.social · 13h

Cross posting this to alert colleagues in #scicomm #sts #envhums #scipol about alarming developments at the BBC Written Archive. So many fundamental studies in these areas have drawn on this resource; it would be disastrous to lose access to it.

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 16h

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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Harriet Barratt @harrietbarratt.bsky.social · 1d

I'm at the wonderful Norsk Teknisk Museum in Oslo for the annual ARTEFACTS meeting of science, technology and medicine museums. Beautiful surroundings and fascinating talks on the multiple meanings of care and repair in object collections.

Entrance to Norsk Teknisk Museum in Oslo

Metal sculpture in front of trees and a lake, in outer Oslo

Modernist external architecture seen through double door windows

Banner announcing the National Medical Museum in Oslo as part of Norsk Teknisk Museum

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Chris Havergal @chrishavergal.bsky.social · 4d

More than 12K jobs going across UK universities so far this year, with more to come, says @ucu.org.uk www.timeshighereducation.com/news/cuts-eq... via @helenpacker.bsky.social

Cuts equivalent to 15,000 jobs planned at UK universities – UCU

Proposed job losses almost triple since March as unions prepare to vote on nationwide industrial action

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · 4d

Join us on 6th November for our annual Research Cabaret! An evening of live music 🎶 poetry 💬 dance 🕺💃 and chaos 🎉 exploring what it means to live between the lines. Featuring Durham IMH researchers and local performers!

Reserve your FREE ticket here 🎟️👇
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/between-th...

A flyer for the 'Between the Lines' event for a research cabaret, featuring the name in theatre lights and the curtains seen on a theatre stage. The descriptive text says: "How do we communicate that which cannot be categorized? Experiences from the margins and/or the marginalized? When medical language excludes, are there other ways to engage with health?

Join us for an evening of live music, poetry, dance, and chaos to explore what it means to live between the lines – with researchers from Durham University’s Institute for Medical Humanities and the best local performers. Featuring a specially commissioned response from New Writing North." The location is at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Durham, DH1 5TA and the event takes place from 7pm-10pm on 6th November 2025.

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 4d

"The (anti)microbial gaze"
Fab paper from the visualisations in science people on how representations of antimicrobial resistance shape and constrain our response to it.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

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Harriet Barratt @harrietbarratt.bsky.social · 15d

Durham!

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 16d

They're going to try to overturn Obergefell and end marriage equality. Eyes wide open, folks.

www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Not 'the gospel.' Ahead of Supreme Court term, Clarence Thomas weighs in on precedent

As the Supreme Court is about to revisit some major decisions, Justice Thomas said there's nothing sacred about precedent.

www.usatoday.com

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Harriet Barratt @harrietbarratt.bsky.social · 16d

*medical objects researcher starts jumping on the spot with horror and glee*

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 16d

I know a lot of people won’t click through to read about “med beds” so here’s the crucial quote to explain how fucking crazy this is.

Trump just posted an AI video of himself promising every American access to this.

An increasingly popular conspiracy theory falsely centers around the existence of "med beds" a fabled medical instrument that does everything from reversing aging to regrowing missing limbs.
The theory has grown in popularity among followers of far-right movements like QAnon, some of whom claim to be urgently awaiting a med bed to treat severe health conditions.

Harriet Barratt @harrietbarratt.bsky.social · 17d

Cambridge service station nailing it

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Dr Victoria Bates @victoriabates.bsky.social · Aug 19

'Feeling blue: Colour and the modern British hospital' is out! And it's free online (or a relatively affordable £25 hardback if you prefer print)! Thanks so much to everyone who helped with the research for this, from supporting site visits to reading drafts. www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...

www.manchesterhive.com

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Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social · Sep 5

The Society's AGM followed immediately by The SSHM Lecture 2025 with Jeremy Greene (all welcome).
'Wasted medicines and medical wastes: Notes from the trash-heap of medical history'

📅Monday 6 October [Online]
🕰️4:00-5:30pm (UK time)
Register via the link on the webpage
#histmed #histSTM

SSHM AGM & The SSHM Lecture 2025

Monday 6 October [Online] 4:00 – 5:30pm (UK time) As required, the Society gives notice to members that the Annual General Meeting to formally accept the accounts for 2024 and for…

sshm.org

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Harriet Barratt @harrietbarratt.bsky.social · 20d

Thanks Des!

Harriet Barratt @harrietbarratt.bsky.social · 20d

So excited to be joining this team!

Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · 20d

We are very pleased to welcome @harrietbarratt.bsky.social 🎉
Harriet joins us as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Visual & Material Lab.

Read about Harriet and her work in this interview: 👇 medhumsplatform.org/introducing-...

Introducing Harriet Barratt: New PDRA in the Visual & Material Lab

Discover more about new Postdoctoral Research Associate Harriet Barratt in our interview about her research and interests.

medhumsplatform.org

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Daniel Grey @djrgrey.bsky.social · 21d

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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Harriet Barratt @harrietbarratt.bsky.social · Sep 10

So shiny, so round, so bloody brilliant!!

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Rebecca Whiteley @rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social · Sep 5

CfP for an online workshop on Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900
@annafranjam.bsky.social and I can't wait to hear about your objects!

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Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · Sep 3

Happy Skyscraper Day!

(architects dressed as their NYC buildings, 1931)

Black and white photo of Seven people each dressed in cardboard constructions of famous buildings like the Chrysler and Rockefeller Center.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · Sep 1

Each day you should wake up thinking "how can I spend more time in TEAMS?" and "can the TEAMS app open up any faster when I start my computer??" or "is there a way TEAMS can be connected to every surface of my life? My food? Air? And love-making?????"

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · Aug 29

Those wonderful sheep-counting words from the North of England.
#language #dialect

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · Aug 28

The next sign for my office to be put next to “It’s an archive, not a corpus”:

“Quantitative data and math does not make your analysis objective”

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Regina Phalange @kabbiearlish.bsky.social · Aug 25

www.gofundme.com/f/help-baraa...

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Harriet Barratt @harrietbarratt.bsky.social · Aug 27

Wtf

Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · Aug 26

And the winner is …. UCL that increased its u/g offers by 65%. Where are you going to put all these students, UCL?!

These Russell Group unis are letting in way more students - and other unis aren't happy

One London uni is accepting 65 per cent more students than it did five years ago

thetab.com

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · Aug 25

"many ... wrongly believe there would be one clear unambiguous moment where we go from 'democracy' to 'authoritarianism.' Instead, this is exactly how it happens — a blurring here, a norm destroyed there, a presidential diktat unchallenged. Then you wake up one morning and our country is different."

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · Aug 25

The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...

America Tips Into Fascism

Today is different than before.

www.doomsdayscenario.co

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Harriet Barratt @harrietbarratt.bsky.social · Aug 25

Thanks Harriet! Hope all is well :)

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Pam Thurschwell @pamthur.bsky.social · Aug 22

Fellowship from Bloomsbury for early career academics who are Black, Asian or Ethnically Diverse: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/...

Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship 2025 - Bloomsbury

Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship scheme aims to help early career academics get their book idea into a form which is ready for publication.

www.bloomsbury.com

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