Dr Beatriz Pichel
@beapichel.bsky.social
Historian of photography, medicine and emotions. Leverhulme Research Fellow 25/26 & PI of the project The Ethics of Medical Photography Network https://empnetwork.our.dmu.ac.uk
My book! Picturing the Western Front (MUP 2021) http://bit.ly/3bzBSA5.
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My book! Picturing the Western Front (MUP 2021) http://bit.ly/3bzBSA5.
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The Institutionalisation of Medical Photography, Public Funding and Medical Reform in Parisian Hospitals (1878–1913)*
While historians of photography and medicine have rarely engaged with the financial aspects of medical photography, funding strategies had a key role in the early development of this practice. The ...
www.tandfonline.com
My latest article is out! It argues that the public subvention of photography in Parisian hospitals enabled the institutionalisation of photography and shaped the kind of photography that could be done #photohist #histmed 📷📸🗂️ It took me literal years to write!! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I'm writing the article I've been wanting to write since 2020, and it's focused on my favourite collection ever, so of course I'm swinging between OMG I LOVE THIS SO MUCH I'M HAVING SO MUCH FUN to ughhh writing is haaaard what am I even sayingggg 🫠
November 28, 2025 at 12:23 PM
I'm writing the article I've been wanting to write since 2020, and it's focused on my favourite collection ever, so of course I'm swinging between OMG I LOVE THIS SO MUCH I'M HAVING SO MUCH FUN to ughhh writing is haaaard what am I even sayingggg 🫠
This is happening on Monday 8 December, 2.30 pm, online! It's going to be a fantastic seminar with Dr Ayra Thampuran, Dr Chimwemwe Phiri and @duncanwilson78.bsky.social, who will share short provocations on the topic of consent, followed by plenty of time for questions and discussion #photohist
Sharing again the next online seminar, this time linking our website! empnetwork.our.dmu.ac.uk/2025/11/07/o... While consent always feature in conversations on ethics, how it can be applied or rethought in historical contexts leads to more questions than answers, as we'll see!
Online Seminar: ETHICS AND CONSENT IN MEDICAL PHOTOGRAPHY – The Ethics of Medical Photography Network
empnetwork.our.dmu.ac.uk
November 28, 2025 at 11:59 AM
This is happening on Monday 8 December, 2.30 pm, online! It's going to be a fantastic seminar with Dr Ayra Thampuran, Dr Chimwemwe Phiri and @duncanwilson78.bsky.social, who will share short provocations on the topic of consent, followed by plenty of time for questions and discussion #photohist
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Published a photography book recently? Submissions are now open Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards 2026. Deadline 31/1 free entry.
kraszna-krausz.org.uk/book-awards/
kraszna-krausz.org.uk/book-awards/
November 28, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Published a photography book recently? Submissions are now open Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards 2026. Deadline 31/1 free entry.
kraszna-krausz.org.uk/book-awards/
kraszna-krausz.org.uk/book-awards/
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If anyone wants to form a panel where any of the following fit, please get in touch...
~in/out classifications (intelligence testing&its impacts)
~in/out of 'trauma' (reparative archiving around birth 'trauma' v. 'experience')
~in/out of the academy (expertise/engagement)
sshm.org/sshm-2026/
~in/out classifications (intelligence testing&its impacts)
~in/out of 'trauma' (reparative archiving around birth 'trauma' v. 'experience')
~in/out of the academy (expertise/engagement)
sshm.org/sshm-2026/
SSHM 2026: In/Out
Location: University of Leeds Dates: 30 June to 3 July 2026 Submission Deadline: 5.00pm (GMT) 11th January 2026 Conference Co-Convenors: Dr Alexia Moncrieff & Dr Katherine Rawling Conference Co…
sshm.org
November 28, 2025 at 9:48 AM
If anyone wants to form a panel where any of the following fit, please get in touch...
~in/out classifications (intelligence testing&its impacts)
~in/out of 'trauma' (reparative archiving around birth 'trauma' v. 'experience')
~in/out of the academy (expertise/engagement)
sshm.org/sshm-2026/
~in/out classifications (intelligence testing&its impacts)
~in/out of 'trauma' (reparative archiving around birth 'trauma' v. 'experience')
~in/out of the academy (expertise/engagement)
sshm.org/sshm-2026/
Can't wait to read this! It looks fab
You may have noticed that I talk A LOT abt creative methods in my teaching. Well I’ve explained in this piece why it’s important for student learning& wellbeing as well as being fun. I use this as opportunity to define creativity & how we are creative teachers onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
November 28, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Can't wait to read this! It looks fab
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What makes historic collections difficult? And how do researchers work with “difficult” collections?
New CFP from Paper Trails here:
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...
Deadline for proposals 31/1/2026
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New CFP from Paper Trails here:
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...
Deadline for proposals 31/1/2026
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Call for Papers: Difficult Collections | UCL UCL Special Collections
UCL Homepage
blogs.ucl.ac.uk
November 27, 2025 at 6:21 PM
What makes historic collections difficult? And how do researchers work with “difficult” collections?
New CFP from Paper Trails here:
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...
Deadline for proposals 31/1/2026
🗃️
New CFP from Paper Trails here:
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...
Deadline for proposals 31/1/2026
🗃️
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📣 Applications are open for our 2026-27 Medical Humanities in Practice Research Fellowship scheme! The scheme supports professionals and researchers from health or voluntary and community sectors to develop research within the medical humanities.
Apply by 30 Jan:
Apply by 30 Jan:
Practice Research Fellowship Scheme
Announcing our Medical Humanities In Practice Research Fellowship Scheme
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November 27, 2025 at 9:00 AM
📣 Applications are open for our 2026-27 Medical Humanities in Practice Research Fellowship scheme! The scheme supports professionals and researchers from health or voluntary and community sectors to develop research within the medical humanities.
Apply by 30 Jan:
Apply by 30 Jan:
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
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Today for NC, @jakobburnham.bsky.social interviews our 2025 NC Prize winners! Read the fantastic interview here: nursingclio.org/2025/11/26/i...
Interview with Nursing Clio Prize 2025 Winners, Lisa Smith and Cathy McClive
Nursing Clio’s sixth annual best article prize competition was awarded to Cathy McClive, Ben Weider Professor in French Revolutionary Studies and Professor of History at Florida State University, a…
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November 26, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Today for NC, @jakobburnham.bsky.social interviews our 2025 NC Prize winners! Read the fantastic interview here: nursingclio.org/2025/11/26/i...
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'Exiting the market' is such a crap euphemism. It's not like the 'university' will then go and apply all its assets to another market. Those assets (human and non-human) will be dispersed, wasted, destroyed. Un-creative destruction. Which we can't afford as a society.
Chief exec of OfS 'said the OfS believes there are 24 institutions at risk of exiting the market in the next 12 months, seven of which are large providers with more than 3,000 students. There are another 25 or so institutions of various sizes at risk over a two- to three-year period, she added.'
Seven ‘large providers’ at risk of going under in the next year
Skills minister says no higher education institutions are at imminent risk of collapse this year but OfS confirms more than 20 providers are being closely monitored
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:54 AM
'Exiting the market' is such a crap euphemism. It's not like the 'university' will then go and apply all its assets to another market. Those assets (human and non-human) will be dispersed, wasted, destroyed. Un-creative destruction. Which we can't afford as a society.
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Universities closing is bad news for many reasons
One concern I haven't seen data on is that those universities w/more low income students are likely greater risk
It might be seen as an accidental consequence but i will have short and long term effects on social mobility and economic grwoth
One concern I haven't seen data on is that those universities w/more low income students are likely greater risk
It might be seen as an accidental consequence but i will have short and long term effects on social mobility and economic grwoth
Chief exec of OfS 'said the OfS believes there are 24 institutions at risk of exiting the market in the next 12 months, seven of which are large providers with more than 3,000 students. There are another 25 or so institutions of various sizes at risk over a two- to three-year period, she added.'
Seven ‘large providers’ at risk of going under in the next year
Skills minister says no higher education institutions are at imminent risk of collapse this year but OfS confirms more than 20 providers are being closely monitored
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Universities closing is bad news for many reasons
One concern I haven't seen data on is that those universities w/more low income students are likely greater risk
It might be seen as an accidental consequence but i will have short and long term effects on social mobility and economic grwoth
One concern I haven't seen data on is that those universities w/more low income students are likely greater risk
It might be seen as an accidental consequence but i will have short and long term effects on social mobility and economic grwoth
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The other problem with this is that research is a type of spread bet/lottery. You do lots of it and hope some of it pans out. If we had a perfect way of selecting which small bits of science and scholarship we "need", we'd have solved the funding problem. But we don't know this.
'Science minister Patrick Vallance has rejected concerns that focusing on “doing fewer things better” in research will lead to funding being concentrated in larger research-intensive universities from the Russell Group.' 1/3
Post-16 plan ‘not recipe for Russell Group domination’ – Vallance
Science minister dismisses as ‘bizarre’ fears that government push for ‘teaching-only’ specialists will further concentrate research activity in small number of institutions
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:11 AM
The other problem with this is that research is a type of spread bet/lottery. You do lots of it and hope some of it pans out. If we had a perfect way of selecting which small bits of science and scholarship we "need", we'd have solved the funding problem. But we don't know this.
This might be hard to grasp for British people, but the damage that this and Brexit are doing to the international reputation of British universities is huge. When I moved here 11 years ago, coming to the UK was basically the dream. Now I would never advise international colleagues to come here
Chief exec of OfS 'said the OfS believes there are 24 institutions at risk of exiting the market in the next 12 months, seven of which are large providers with more than 3,000 students. There are another 25 or so institutions of various sizes at risk over a two- to three-year period, she added.'
Seven ‘large providers’ at risk of going under in the next year
Skills minister says no higher education institutions are at imminent risk of collapse this year but OfS confirms more than 20 providers are being closely monitored
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:28 AM
This might be hard to grasp for British people, but the damage that this and Brexit are doing to the international reputation of British universities is huge. When I moved here 11 years ago, coming to the UK was basically the dream. Now I would never advise international colleagues to come here
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And still nobody cares
Chief exec of OfS 'said the OfS believes there are 24 institutions at risk of exiting the market in the next 12 months, seven of which are large providers with more than 3,000 students. There are another 25 or so institutions of various sizes at risk over a two- to three-year period, she added.'
Seven ‘large providers’ at risk of going under in the next year
Skills minister says no higher education institutions are at imminent risk of collapse this year but OfS confirms more than 20 providers are being closely monitored
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:58 AM
And still nobody cares
I moved offices at work today and I love that the bookshelf had a small shelf at the top the perfect size of the cameras 📸
November 25, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I moved offices at work today and I love that the bookshelf had a small shelf at the top the perfect size of the cameras 📸
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This promises to be a great conference. The call for papers has been announced.
#demontfortuniversity
#photography
#photohistory
#conference
#phrc
photographichistory.wordpress.com/annual-confe...
#demontfortuniversity
#photography
#photohistory
#conference
#phrc
photographichistory.wordpress.com/annual-confe...
Annual Conference 2026
Photography’s Tacit Knowledge Image: A reproduction photographer at work. 1934 (Deutsche Fotothek). Photographic History Research Centre, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK When: 15-16 June 2026…
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November 25, 2025 at 8:50 AM
This promises to be a great conference. The call for papers has been announced.
#demontfortuniversity
#photography
#photohistory
#conference
#phrc
photographichistory.wordpress.com/annual-confe...
#demontfortuniversity
#photography
#photohistory
#conference
#phrc
photographichistory.wordpress.com/annual-confe...
Also it's not lost on me that the photo that illustrates the article shows a woman of colour at the forefront
Kathleen Stock has written an article against "abortion permissiveness". She claims abortion requires "justification" saying the state should limit "unacceptable decision-making" by women about their own bodies.
This is who anti-trans activists proclaim as the feminist thought leaders of our time.
This is who anti-trans activists proclaim as the feminist thought leaders of our time.
November 21, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Also it's not lost on me that the photo that illustrates the article shows a woman of colour at the forefront
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ROLE: Ski Collections Cataloguer
FULL TIME: 37 hpw
DURATION: Fixed Term: 5 months
🔔 CLOSING DATE: 25-Nov-25🔔
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November 21, 2025 at 12:00 PM
🔔 4 DAYS TO GO! Job spec, salary details & how to apply here: buff.ly/q1SSXCM
ROLE: Ski Collections Cataloguer
FULL TIME: 37 hpw
DURATION: Fixed Term: 5 months
🔔 CLOSING DATE: 25-Nov-25🔔
@dmu.ac.uk @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social @icshc.bsky.social @librarydmu.bsky.social @araukie.bsky.social
ROLE: Ski Collections Cataloguer
FULL TIME: 37 hpw
DURATION: Fixed Term: 5 months
🔔 CLOSING DATE: 25-Nov-25🔔
@dmu.ac.uk @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social @icshc.bsky.social @librarydmu.bsky.social @araukie.bsky.social
I'm just a girl standing in front of a boy asking him to please not cite Susan Sontag's work in a photography conference ever again. Please.
November 20, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I'm just a girl standing in front of a boy asking him to please not cite Susan Sontag's work in a photography conference ever again. Please.
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Are there any freelancers who could help me with pitching my ideas? I'm based in Spain, but getting a job in the creative field is almost impossible, so I'm open to working remotely or as a freelancer.
My areas of expertise are photography (photos & history), cinema, and Korean studies
TIA!
My areas of expertise are photography (photos & history), cinema, and Korean studies
TIA!
November 19, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Are there any freelancers who could help me with pitching my ideas? I'm based in Spain, but getting a job in the creative field is almost impossible, so I'm open to working remotely or as a freelancer.
My areas of expertise are photography (photos & history), cinema, and Korean studies
TIA!
My areas of expertise are photography (photos & history), cinema, and Korean studies
TIA!
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Nominations are open for the BSHS Pickstone Prize 2026, recognising the best scholarly English-language book in the history of science.
📆 Deadline: 31 Jan 2026.
Anyone may nominate (self-nominations welcome).
Submit via our online form on the BSHS website www.bshs.org.uk/the-bshs-pic...
📆 Deadline: 31 Jan 2026.
Anyone may nominate (self-nominations welcome).
Submit via our online form on the BSHS website www.bshs.org.uk/the-bshs-pic...
November 19, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Nominations are open for the BSHS Pickstone Prize 2026, recognising the best scholarly English-language book in the history of science.
📆 Deadline: 31 Jan 2026.
Anyone may nominate (self-nominations welcome).
Submit via our online form on the BSHS website www.bshs.org.uk/the-bshs-pic...
📆 Deadline: 31 Jan 2026.
Anyone may nominate (self-nominations welcome).
Submit via our online form on the BSHS website www.bshs.org.uk/the-bshs-pic...
I had a great time with Kristof's students! They're brilliant. Thanks again for inviting me, it's such a privilege to discuss your work with people who've actually read it!
We discussed this article in class today and students took só much from it
My latest article is out! It argues that the public subvention of photography in Parisian hospitals enabled the institutionalisation of photography and shaped the kind of photography that could be done #photohist #histmed 📷📸🗂️ It took me literal years to write!! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 18, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I had a great time with Kristof's students! They're brilliant. Thanks again for inviting me, it's such a privilege to discuss your work with people who've actually read it!
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From hospital records to family papers, collections give unique insights into health across time and place.
But they don’t just have historical value. Collections have incredible potential for discovery research – and we need to unlock it.
Learn more in our report: wellcome.org/insights/rep...
But they don’t just have historical value. Collections have incredible potential for discovery research – and we need to unlock it.
Learn more in our report: wellcome.org/insights/rep...
Archives, manuscripts and material culture in health and wellbeing research | Reports | Wellcome
Archives, manuscripts and material culture collections hold profound potential for advancing knowledge about life, health and wellbeing. This report examines how these collections are currently used i...
wellcome.org
November 18, 2025 at 4:34 PM
From hospital records to family papers, collections give unique insights into health across time and place.
But they don’t just have historical value. Collections have incredible potential for discovery research – and we need to unlock it.
Learn more in our report: wellcome.org/insights/rep...
But they don’t just have historical value. Collections have incredible potential for discovery research – and we need to unlock it.
Learn more in our report: wellcome.org/insights/rep...
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Our next online research seminar in Photographic Cultures & Heritage will be on 27 Nov, 5.30 pm UK time, with Pippa Oldfield and Tom Allbeson, who will discuss "Peace Photographies". Free and open to all, register here! photographichistory.wordpress.com/autumn-2025-2/ #photohist
Autumn 2025 #2
Research Seminars in Photographic Cultures and Heritage Pippa Oldfield Teesside University, Middlesbrough, UK Tom Allbeson Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK Peace Photographies: Rethinking Photo…
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November 18, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Our next online research seminar in Photographic Cultures & Heritage will be on 27 Nov, 5.30 pm UK time, with Pippa Oldfield and Tom Allbeson, who will discuss "Peace Photographies". Free and open to all, register here! photographichistory.wordpress.com/autumn-2025-2/ #photohist
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None of these men can face the fact that certain revelations mean they should quite simply disappear from public life. Yes, that's right, gone. After what's come out, there is no workplace where you would be a positive presence. Go.
Larry Summers tells @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 18, 2025 at 11:16 AM
None of these men can face the fact that certain revelations mean they should quite simply disappear from public life. Yes, that's right, gone. After what's come out, there is no workplace where you would be a positive presence. Go.