Claire L Jones
@claireljones.bsky.social
Medical historian of modern Britain/curator (thinks/writes about: condoms, toothbrushes & lately, urine; secretary of Society for the Social History of Medicine @sshmedicine.bsky.social); music & horror film fan; singer; runner; mum; find me at the beach ⛱
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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
Malthus anybody?
Kemi Badenoch says welfare spending is unchristian
Kemi Badenoch says welfare spending is unchristian
Kemi Badenoch says welfare spending is unchristian
www.thetimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Malthus anybody?
Does anyone actually think this is good for anyone? Does anyone serious believe that because one university scored 0.000045 more than the next in a league table that the teaching is better there? Just put the cap back on as a bare minimum!
November 28, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Does anyone actually think this is good for anyone? Does anyone serious believe that because one university scored 0.000045 more than the next in a league table that the teaching is better there? Just put the cap back on as a bare minimum!
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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/
Each year? Until when?
Job losses in the UK university sector could run at 10,000 each year, UEA vice-chancellor David Maguire warns www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-univ... via @helenpacker.bsky.social
UK universities ‘could cut 10,000 jobs every year’
Academics claim changes made to higher education system a decade ago have divided sector into ‘winners and losers’, with government-imposed limits on income exacerbating financial challenges
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Each year? Until when?
Hero
I heard a story about a female academic giving a paper at the IHR who, after receiving a long and aggressive question from a senior male professor, simply leaned back with her hands behind her head and replied “Oh, do fuck off.”
One of my colleagues went to a seminar at Berkeley and when someone asked a question Derrida brushed it off saying ‘what you ask may be important but it is not interesting’.
November 27, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Hero
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#SkyStorians #History @socialhistsoc.bsky.social 50th anniversary conference CFP now live! A Lancaster, historic home of SHS, 1-3 July 2026. CFP deadline 16 Jan 2026.
socialhistory.org.uk/events/confe...
socialhistory.org.uk/events/confe...
Conference
Visit the post for more.
socialhistory.org.uk
November 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
#SkyStorians #History @socialhistsoc.bsky.social 50th anniversary conference CFP now live! A Lancaster, historic home of SHS, 1-3 July 2026. CFP deadline 16 Jan 2026.
socialhistory.org.uk/events/confe...
socialhistory.org.uk/events/confe...
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
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'The committee had heard about one institution that had been approached by another regarding a potential merger. The institution approached had been “doing their due diligence” by gathering information, but after examining the financial situation concluded that the other provider “can’t go on”.' 2/3
November 25, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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I stopped here, I can't face listening to much more of this, it's morally, strategically, and just politically appalling how little care, thought, and effort has gone into higher education. They thoroughly do not care.
Asked about funding balance, Smith demonstrates how irrevocably we all live in George Osborne's world.
She just says its not their problem. "We might take a view."
I'm stopping now, this is simply the British state shrugging its shoulders about a profound aspect of our society. That's all it is.
She just says its not their problem. "We might take a view."
I'm stopping now, this is simply the British state shrugging its shoulders about a profound aspect of our society. That's all it is.
November 25, 2025 at 11:32 AM
I stopped here, I can't face listening to much more of this, it's morally, strategically, and just politically appalling how little care, thought, and effort has gone into higher education. They thoroughly do not care.
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Finally, the recording has landed! If you missed @jontopham.bsky.social's inaugural lecture on "Science and religion from the ground up" back in April, you can now catch up online at mymedia.leeds.ac.uk/Mediasite/Pl.... @bshsnews.bsky.social @leedsprhs.bsky.social
Topham Inaugural_4/25/2025
mymedia.leeds.ac.uk
November 25, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Finally, the recording has landed! If you missed @jontopham.bsky.social's inaugural lecture on "Science and religion from the ground up" back in April, you can now catch up online at mymedia.leeds.ac.uk/Mediasite/Pl.... @bshsnews.bsky.social @leedsprhs.bsky.social
Yes, this. In this kind of environment, it doesn't seem to matter that there's no longer a universities minister
What’s so infuriating is that everything they do is completely random and often contradicts other things they are doing, or policy objectives they claim to want. There is no strategy, coherence or even entry level competence.
November 24, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Yes, this. In this kind of environment, it doesn't seem to matter that there's no longer a universities minister
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Two #histmed CFPs with deadline for abstracts Jan 2026!
Life Histories in Mind: Mental Ill Health and Learning Disability in Context (Manchester) &
Blood is the price of coal: Coal communities, health and welfare in Britain and beyond from the 19th century to the present (Warwick)
For more details 👇
Life Histories in Mind: Mental Ill Health and Learning Disability in Context (Manchester) &
Blood is the price of coal: Coal communities, health and welfare in Britain and beyond from the 19th century to the present (Warwick)
For more details 👇
History of Medicine CFPs
If you wish to share your CFPs on the SSHM website please contact the Exec Sec, Dr Justine Pick [email protected] Life Histories in Mind: Mental Ill Health and Learning Disability in Context Location:…
sshm.org
November 24, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Two #histmed CFPs with deadline for abstracts Jan 2026!
Life Histories in Mind: Mental Ill Health and Learning Disability in Context (Manchester) &
Blood is the price of coal: Coal communities, health and welfare in Britain and beyond from the 19th century to the present (Warwick)
For more details 👇
Life Histories in Mind: Mental Ill Health and Learning Disability in Context (Manchester) &
Blood is the price of coal: Coal communities, health and welfare in Britain and beyond from the 19th century to the present (Warwick)
For more details 👇
But where else to go for the rest of us? Everybody I speak to from every sort of industry says their sector is in complete meltdown
I’m 60, and a professor. HE will probably survive just about long enough to take me to retirement, but not much longer. A kind of ‘merrie old England’ version of Oxbridge will survive, but the rest will be unrecognisable in a decade or so.
November 24, 2025 at 12:01 PM
But where else to go for the rest of us? Everybody I speak to from every sort of industry says their sector is in complete meltdown
Visually, the best venue for a night of punk rock (although acoustics not great)
November 22, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Visually, the best venue for a night of punk rock (although acoustics not great)
Writing update: I have some words but they not necessarily any good or in the right order
November 21, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Writing update: I have some words but they not necessarily any good or in the right order
Lambrini Girls tonight. Hell yes!
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Lambrini Girls tonight. Hell yes!
Evergreen!
I mean, why do people continue to believe those who have a track record of being completely wrong about pretty much everything?
November 21, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Evergreen!
Tomorrow is the day. At last, I can give back to the school the crumbling bottle of 20 year old fizz that I won at last year's Christmas fair tombola
November 20, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Tomorrow is the day. At last, I can give back to the school the crumbling bottle of 20 year old fizz that I won at last year's Christmas fair tombola
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🚨 BREAKING: Kent County Council is hurtling towards financial oblivion under Reform.
A shocking new council report reveals a projected budget black hole of £46.5 million for this year. The Reform Administration has completely lost control of our finances. 🔶
A shocking new council report reveals a projected budget black hole of £46.5 million for this year. The Reform Administration has completely lost control of our finances. 🔶
November 20, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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It really is disgusting. Tice is an expert in neurodiversity now is he?
I think you can get the measure of the deadness of someone's soul from the fact they kick up a stink about [checks notes] autistic kids wearing ear defenders
November 17, 2025 at 3:14 PM
It really is disgusting. Tice is an expert in neurodiversity now is he?
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Sharing my recent article from the Journal of the History of Sexuality, "The Politics of Penetration: Sexual Self-Fulfillment and the G-Spot in 1980s America." It is the first piece I have published from my new project, and it is great to have it out in the world (such as the world is).
Project MUSE - The Politics of Penetration: Sexual Self-Fulfillment and the G-Spot in 1980s America
muse.jhu.edu
November 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Sharing my recent article from the Journal of the History of Sexuality, "The Politics of Penetration: Sexual Self-Fulfillment and the G-Spot in 1980s America." It is the first piece I have published from my new project, and it is great to have it out in the world (such as the world is).
I literally cannot read one book at a time when researching, I just endless follow up footnotes until I have 50 books open at once.....
November 17, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I literally cannot read one book at a time when researching, I just endless follow up footnotes until I have 50 books open at once.....
Watched The Big Short again last night. Such a good film. But it still blows my mind that the world basically relies on large scale gambling
November 17, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Watched The Big Short again last night. Such a good film. But it still blows my mind that the world basically relies on large scale gambling
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heads up #histSTM people - nominations are open for the @bshsnews.bsky.social Pickstone Prize - best scholarly book (in English) published in the last 2 years. Don't assume your publisher will nominate you, be proactive about your book or books you love!
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The BSHS Pickstone Prize
The BSHS Pickstone Prize is awarded every two years to the best scholarly book in the history of science (broadly construed) in English. The Prize aims to recognize pioneering works that advance the s...
www.bshs.org.uk
November 13, 2025 at 11:46 AM
heads up #histSTM people - nominations are open for the @bshsnews.bsky.social Pickstone Prize - best scholarly book (in English) published in the last 2 years. Don't assume your publisher will nominate you, be proactive about your book or books you love!
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