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Dr Beatriz Pichel
@beapichel.bsky.social
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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. She/her
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Dr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social · Feb 6
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....
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 ...
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Dr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social · 1d
Absolutely this. There's nothing like the high of things clicking in a classroom.
It should be compulsory that VCs, deans, etc keep teaching at least one class (it's possible! Back in Madrid my VC taught me Contemporary French Thought!) Nothing grounds you like teaching
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will o’the wisp pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 1d
one of the astonishing things about working in a UK uni in the last decade is complete DISCONNECT between (on one hand) hostile media stories, ill informed govt policy, end of unis as we know them

and (on the other) the joyful work of actually talking w/students and discovering new things together
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Dr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social · 1d
I might use this to justify why we need to reintroduce visual literacy skills in the curriculum
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d
Trump doesn’t like the photo lol
Trump: Time Magazine wrote a relatively good story about me, but the picture may be the Worst of All Time. They "disappeared" my hair, and then had something floating on top of my head that looked like a floating crown, but an extremely small one. Really weird! I never liked taking pictures from underneath angles, but this is a super bad picture, and deserves to be called out. What are they doing, and why? 8 ReTruths 22 Likes 10/13/25, 10:36 PM
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Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social · 2d
The 2026 SSHM Conference will be @universityofleeds.bsky.social. The theme will be In/Out and we are inviting papers that consider experiences of being in and/or out of health or health care in any period or geographical location. #HistMed #HistSTM
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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…
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Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social · 6d
So great to see the special issue on "Invasive Species, Global Health, and Colonial Legacies" that @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social & I edited published today! A big thanks to all contributors & to JHMAS editors & reviewers for their support & guidance in this process academic.oup.com/jhmas/issue/...
Volume 80 Issue 4 | Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences | Oxford Academic
Publishes original research on the written beginnings of medicine in all its aspects. It focuses on what practitioners of the healing arts did or taught, and how their peers, as well as patients, rece...
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Museums Association @museumsassociation.org · 7d
News | MA members vote in favour of revised Code of Ethics – updated code passes at AGM in Cardiff with large majority
MA members vote in favour of revised Code of Ethics - Museums Association
Updated code passes at AGM in Cardiff with large majority
www.museumsassociation.org
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Sarah Crook @sarahcrook.bsky.social · 8d
The fundraiser is still open, so you can help kids in Gaza and inspire my little champions too if you’d like www.launchgood.com/v4/campaign/...
Evelyn, Alastair & Elspeth's Walk for Children in Gaza | LaunchGood | LaunchGood
Help raise funds for women and children in Gaza with Forgotten Women Charity
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Dr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social · 8d
What a wonderful thing to do! Your kids sound lovely ❤️
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Dr Rose Teanby @roseteanby.bsky.social · 10d
Join me in person or online on 5th November 1pm for a Photo Oxford talk at @bodleianlibs about the photographic and artistic life of Constance Talbot. She witnessed the birth of #photography but maintained a love of art throughout her life. Details here:

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Constance Talbot, early photographer and lifelong artist Talk by Rose Teanby — Photo Oxford
Sir Victor Blank Lecture Theatre, The Bodleian Library Wednesday, 5 November
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The Wynter in Black 🎃🐈‍⬛ @rebeccawynter.bsky.social · 9d
Did I mention this?

🚨Online today, 6 Oct, 4-5:30pm BST. Still time for free registration!🚨

For The SSHM Lecture 2025, Prof. Jeremy Greene will be presenting 'Wasted medicines & medical wastes: Notes from the trash-heap of medical history'

#histmed #histSTM #skystorians 🗃

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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…
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Dr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social · 14d
Look what I found at the Wellcome Collection shop! Obviously I couldn't resist @drbeldavis.bsky.social
Cover of the book Conceiving Histories. Trying for Pregnancy, Past and Present by Isabel Davis, illustrated by Anna Burel
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Dr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social · 14d
Very happy on my way to London to spend the day at the Wellcome Library and then the Picturing Health event, which is sold out! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/picturing-...
A selfie of a white woman with blondish hair, red glasses, a dark dress and a red cardigan on a train
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El Espectro 👻 🎃 @telescoper.bsky.social · 15d
A meme for the modern university...
Meme showing a worker labelled "academic staff" digging a hole in the ground while 10 others look labelled with management titles such as "Director of Human Resources" look on. The caption underneath reads "The only way we can cut costs is to reduce the number of academic staff..."
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Dr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social · 15d
You have until tomorrow to submit applications! #histmed
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Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social · 15d
Deadline approaching! Are you organising a #histmed conference or workshop in 2026? Applications for SSHM Conference funding awards close 1 October.
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Conference Funding
The Society for the Social History of Medicine awards financial assistance for conferences and workshops on the history of medicine.  Applicants should note that grants are not retrospectively awar…
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The Wynter in Black 🎃🐈‍⬛ @rebeccawynter.bsky.social · 16d
📢New online event!💥

Roll-up, roll-up! Come for @sshmedicine.bsky.social's AGM, stay for The SSHM Lecture 2025: Prof. Jeremy Greene, 'Wasted medicines & medical wastes: Notes from the trash-heap of medical history'

6 Oct, 4-5:30pm BST. Deets & free registration 👇

#histmed #histSTM #matcult
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…
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Dr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social · 16d
I love Platonic so so much
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 16d
Platonic: Seth Rogen’s sitcom is the most lovable comedy on TV. It should be as big as Friends
Platonic: Seth Rogen’s sitcom is the most lovable comedy on TV. It should be as big as Friends
Sure, The Studio may have recently won Rogen more Emmys than any other comedy, but his other show – a sitcom about two pals hanging out – is hilarious and a total revelation. You want to be in their company for ever
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Vanessa is the name of the Doctor! @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 16d
Been saying this repeatedly - it's not a 'bit', I genuinely don't understand why we waste our time teaching students about research ethics if we're encouraging them to use tools that ignore every single one of those requirements. If we support skipping ethics why just for genAI? sheer hypocrisy.
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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · Sep 13
This point hasn’t been given nearly enough attention. If you applied actually existing research principles to genAI, it would never be allowed anywhere near a university, research project or classroom.
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · Sep 12
Loved how I got to clarify that the 5 principles in section 4 of the paper were nothing new. They came straight out of The Netherlands Code of Conduct for Research Integrity, that every scientists in The Netherlands already ought to know. All we did is apply them to AI. www.nwo.nl/en/netherlan...
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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 17d
Migrants already carry out work for their communities, it’s called ‘having a fucking job’ and it’s mandatory because we aren’t eligible for benefits
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 17d
"Migrants will have to carry out community work or volunteering to qualify to permanently remain in the UK, according to the Home Secretary." [Telegraph]
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Dr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social · 19d
I'm already dreading having to choose a primary school, I hadn't even thought about secondary 🙈
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Dr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social · 19d
Next in the list is Aryn Martin, Natasha Myers and Ana Viseu's "The Politics of Care in Technoscience", the perfect article for what I'm think about at the moment. I'd gladly take more recommendations on #STS literature on care! www.jstor.org/stable/43829...
The politics of care in technoscience on JSTOR
Aryn Martin, Natasha Myers, Ana Viseu, The politics of care in technoscience, Social Studies of Science, Vol. 45, No. 5, Special issue: The Politics of Care in Technoscience (October 2015), pp. 625-64...
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Molly Caenwyn @mollycaenwyn.bsky.social · 19d
Resharing as many people thought was about a different kind of darkroom 😂
📸🏠🏳️‍🌈I wish to speak to LGBTQIA people who have experience of having a home darkroom/using a darkroom (in Britain) that felt like home.

If you are interested please get in touch:
📧 [email protected]
📞 +447902489831
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 19d
We need an associate lecturer in history of modern science @stsucl.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Dr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social · 20d
What does the future of medical and scientific imaging look like?
Join Dr Savannah Dodd, Susan Kett-Smart, Prof Mark Lythgoe, Dr Chimwemwe Phiri, Georgie Wileman & me as we explore ethics, innovation, and inclusion in image-making bit.ly/WPPPanelTalk
📷 Image credit: @georgiewileman.bsky.social
A poster with a read background and a photograph of a woman lying on a white sheet, with her top just under her chest. There are marks on her bade belly, her hands lying on the sides of her hips. On the right top corner it says Picturing Health: Ethics, Experience and the Evolution of Medical Photography. On the left bottom corner it says Free Talk and Discussion Wednesday 1 October. The Wellcome Trust logo is on the left top corner.
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Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social · 20d
Our History Research Seminar @uninorthampton.bsky.social kicks off next Wed 1 Oct with a talk by me on my new project 'Medievalism, gender and politicised nostalgia in the British extreme right, 1962 – 1982'. It will be at 12pm UK time and on Teams. Email rachel.moss @ northampton.ac.uk for a link.
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Dr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social · 20d
We're organising a workshop funded by a grant, which has a buget for catering. Oh but the workshop is not taking place in my university. Guess how many emails I've exchanged and how many people are involved.
Anyway, if anyones knows of a catering company in London that invoices lmk! thank you!
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DMU Archives and Rare Books @dmuspecialcolls.bsky.social · 20d
Excited to welcome our 1st class of the year with a visit from @dmuhistory.bsky.social students! We have all our faves out - medieval docs, the weird and wonderful and preservation nightmares! What's not to ❤️ @dmu.ac.uk @librarydmu.bsky.social #EYAEducation @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social #archives
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