Dr Jo Edge 🏴
@hagenilda.bsky.social
historian of medicine & the occult 1200–1700 | palaeography & editing | convenor @ihrlifecycles.bsky.social | 🐕 | karaoke | food | ucu nec | ucu commons | FRHistS
https://joanneedge.co.uk
Autism moon
ADHD sun
OCD rising
agent: @knifewitch.bsky.social
https://joanneedge.co.uk
Autism moon
ADHD sun
OCD rising
agent: @knifewitch.bsky.social
Pinned
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I’m deeply moved: I’ve been awarded an #ERCCoG for my project on early modern parish politics in East Central Europe. Biggest lesson of 2025: the people around me believed in me and my success more than I ever believed in myself. Thank you all. @erc.europa.eu
The results of the ERC Consolidator Grant call have been announced! 📣
349 researchers have been selected for funding. Congratulations to all! #ERCCogG!
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#FrontierResearch #EUfunded #HorizonEurope
@scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu
349 researchers have been selected for funding. Congratulations to all! #ERCCogG!
👉 buff.ly/uu62uFV
#FrontierResearch #EUfunded #HorizonEurope
@scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu
December 9, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I’m deeply moved: I’ve been awarded an #ERCCoG for my project on early modern parish politics in East Central Europe. Biggest lesson of 2025: the people around me believed in me and my success more than I ever believed in myself. Thank you all. @erc.europa.eu
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VC loses confidence vote:
December 9, 2025 at 4:50 PM
VC loses confidence vote:
God, so many. Mother! made me really angry
Never mind movies you’ve watched multiple times, name a movie you’ve watched once and would never watch again.
December 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM
God, so many. Mother! made me really angry
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A powerful message from our colleagues in Ukraine.
Together, we helped stop legislative attacks on teachers’ rights.
Solidarity changes outcomes.
Together, we helped stop legislative attacks on teachers’ rights.
Solidarity changes outcomes.
December 9, 2025 at 4:20 PM
A powerful message from our colleagues in Ukraine.
Together, we helped stop legislative attacks on teachers’ rights.
Solidarity changes outcomes.
Together, we helped stop legislative attacks on teachers’ rights.
Solidarity changes outcomes.
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We’re immensely proud of our very own @hagenilda.bsky.social who is now a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society!
The Society is very pleased to welcome 234 new Fellows, Associate Fellows, Members and Postgraduate Members who join @royalhistsoc.org after the latest meeting of the RHS Council bit.ly/48Nd30f
Our new Fellows and Members practice history across many professions and as independent researchers 1/2
Our new Fellows and Members practice history across many professions and as independent researchers 1/2
Society elects 234 new Fellows, Associate Fellows, Members and Postgraduate Members - RHS
At its latest meeting on 21 November 2025, the RHS Council elected 58 Fellows, 30 Associate Fellows, 51 Members and 95 Postgraduate Members, a total of 234 people newly associated with the Society, fr...
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December 9, 2025 at 4:08 PM
We’re immensely proud of our very own @hagenilda.bsky.social who is now a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society!
😍
The Society is very pleased to welcome 234 new Fellows, Associate Fellows, Members and Postgraduate Members who join @royalhistsoc.org after the latest meeting of the RHS Council bit.ly/48Nd30f
Our new Fellows and Members practice history across many professions and as independent researchers 1/2
Our new Fellows and Members practice history across many professions and as independent researchers 1/2
Society elects 234 new Fellows, Associate Fellows, Members and Postgraduate Members - RHS
At its latest meeting on 21 November 2025, the RHS Council elected 58 Fellows, 30 Associate Fellows, 51 Members and 95 Postgraduate Members, a total of 234 people newly associated with the Society, fr...
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December 9, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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I'd love a book that explains neurotypical thinking lol
What book feels like your brain? 🧠
We’re preparing a new theme for the Weston Library’s Space for Reading: Neurodiversity.
Do you have a book that helps others understand different ways of thinking?
Share your recommendation here: https://forms.office.com/e/bRHBxTXBSY
We’re preparing a new theme for the Weston Library’s Space for Reading: Neurodiversity.
Do you have a book that helps others understand different ways of thinking?
Share your recommendation here: https://forms.office.com/e/bRHBxTXBSY
December 9, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I'd love a book that explains neurotypical thinking lol
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Are there any historians of #EarlyModern, especially sixteenth-century, German arms and armor on here that I could ask an armor-terminology question? 🗃️ #SkyStorians
More specifically it relates to jousting and tournaments.
More specifically it relates to jousting and tournaments.
December 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Are there any historians of #EarlyModern, especially sixteenth-century, German arms and armor on here that I could ask an armor-terminology question? 🗃️ #SkyStorians
More specifically it relates to jousting and tournaments.
More specifically it relates to jousting and tournaments.
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Holy CRAP.
Retired engineer takes random pics of *kids*, without consent or attribution, bins them into “autistic” or “not autistic”, and uploads that “data” for free on Kaggle.
Well over a HUNDRED papers are published, 38 in Springer Nature, 25 in IEEE, using it.
And no reviewers objected? WTF.🧪
Retired engineer takes random pics of *kids*, without consent or attribution, bins them into “autistic” or “not autistic”, and uploads that “data” for free on Kaggle.
Well over a HUNDRED papers are published, 38 in Springer Nature, 25 in IEEE, using it.
And no reviewers objected? WTF.🧪
Springer Nature retracts, removes nearly 40 publications
The dataset contains images of children’s faces downloaded from websites about autism, which sparked concerns at Springer Nature about consent and reliability.
www.thetransmitter.org
December 8, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Holy CRAP.
Retired engineer takes random pics of *kids*, without consent or attribution, bins them into “autistic” or “not autistic”, and uploads that “data” for free on Kaggle.
Well over a HUNDRED papers are published, 38 in Springer Nature, 25 in IEEE, using it.
And no reviewers objected? WTF.🧪
Retired engineer takes random pics of *kids*, without consent or attribution, bins them into “autistic” or “not autistic”, and uploads that “data” for free on Kaggle.
Well over a HUNDRED papers are published, 38 in Springer Nature, 25 in IEEE, using it.
And no reviewers objected? WTF.🧪
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asking 'can you work on the history/literature/culture of X without learning the language' is like asking if you can poo without eating food or have kids without having sex. why would you skip that part, it's the most fun
December 9, 2025 at 3:25 PM
asking 'can you work on the history/literature/culture of X without learning the language' is like asking if you can poo without eating food or have kids without having sex. why would you skip that part, it's the most fun
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Home Office Ministers state publicly, on the record, that they are deliberately making life worse for older people and people with disabilities who depend on care services, but it's worth it because it reduces net migration.
December 9, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Home Office Ministers state publicly, on the record, that they are deliberately making life worse for older people and people with disabilities who depend on care services, but it's worth it because it reduces net migration.
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The WI and Girlguiding have been pressured to exclude trans women – yet the law is clear as mud | Jess O’Thomson
The WI and Girlguiding have been pressured to exclude trans women – yet the law is clear as mud | Jess O’Thomson
Since the supreme court decision, organisations have faced lobbying and legal threats. But trans people are protected by discrimination law too, says Jess O’Thomson of the Good Law Project
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:52 PM
The WI and Girlguiding have been pressured to exclude trans women – yet the law is clear as mud | Jess O’Thomson
LAD
It's 1607 and the Royal Family have invited themselves to your hall. Who are you gonna call? Big Ben, that's who.
December 9, 2025 at 1:59 PM
LAD
Really just appalling. Won't help anyone.
If Australia's ban on social media for kids and teens came with a massive investment in free spaces to hang out and social programmes for young people maybe I'd be less apoplectically angry about it.
December 9, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Really just appalling. Won't help anyone.
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Badenoch says the Conservatives would want fewer “low value degrees” and many more apprenticeships. As ever with such announcements I will perhaps take it more seriously when the kids of government ministers and MPs are routinely doing apprenticeships and not degrees.
December 9, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Badenoch says the Conservatives would want fewer “low value degrees” and many more apprenticeships. As ever with such announcements I will perhaps take it more seriously when the kids of government ministers and MPs are routinely doing apprenticeships and not degrees.
Just got the news to say I’ve been elected as a Fellow of the @royalhistsoc.org! With many thanks to my referee @adamchapman.bsky.social
December 9, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Just got the news to say I’ve been elected as a Fellow of the @royalhistsoc.org! With many thanks to my referee @adamchapman.bsky.social
Amazing news! Keep it up @pcsunion.bsky.social!
Due to ongoing strike action, all St Pancras Reading Rooms will be closed today (8 December). We are also likely to have to close our Reading Rooms for the rest of the week and will update if this is the case. Please make sure you check our service updates before you visit: bit.ly/StrikeAction...
Planned strike action in St Pancras
We have been notified of planned strike action taking place between Monday 8 and Friday 12 December 2025.
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December 9, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Amazing news! Keep it up @pcsunion.bsky.social!
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What's up, BlueSky? This is up...
December 9, 2025 at 9:44 AM
What's up, BlueSky? This is up...
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This is absurd, yes? I mean ordinary behavior OF A COURT being targeted by a claimant under the guise of “bias” is absurd.
(the tribunal says they'll refer to the trans woman solely by name because using the trans woman's she/her pronouns would constitute pro-trans bias unfairly disfavoring the cis woman's preferred pronouns for the trans woman)
December 9, 2025 at 9:25 AM
This is absurd, yes? I mean ordinary behavior OF A COURT being targeted by a claimant under the guise of “bias” is absurd.
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Reading through this is wild. Fife's lawyer is asking about rotas, Peggie's is talking about where spunk goes.
It's an employment tribunal.
It's an employment tribunal.
July 29, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Reading through this is wild. Fife's lawyer is asking about rotas, Peggie's is talking about where spunk goes.
It's an employment tribunal.
It's an employment tribunal.
Sandie Peggie deliberately and knowingly harassed and bullied Beth Upton. She CHOSE TO BE IN THE SAME SPACE AS SOMEONE WHO SHE CLAIMED WAS DANGEROUS.
It’s all here in the judgment.
It’s all here in the judgment.
i admit this one is pretty funny. i can't take any shifts except for ones that coincidentally align with the shifts of the person i'm harassing because i have to take care of my dog the rest of the time
December 9, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Sandie Peggie deliberately and knowingly harassed and bullied Beth Upton. She CHOSE TO BE IN THE SAME SPACE AS SOMEONE WHO SHE CLAIMED WAS DANGEROUS.
It’s all here in the judgment.
It’s all here in the judgment.
We never have milk in our house and I always feel ashamed about it if there’s a workman in who might want a cuppa
Yes. It really is one of those stereotypes that hold true in my experience. To go somewhere and not to be offered a cuppa is akin to not being offered a seat. Unconscionable. Once we ran out of milk when some family came round and we didn’t see them again for months because of it.
Watching a British police procedural, and they are making tea all the damned time.
The cops go to a witness or suspect's house, and they don't even wait for it being offered, they ask the person to make them a cup of tea.
Is this normal behavior in England? I just don't pop over and demand coffee.
The cops go to a witness or suspect's house, and they don't even wait for it being offered, they ask the person to make them a cup of tea.
Is this normal behavior in England? I just don't pop over and demand coffee.
December 9, 2025 at 9:07 AM
We never have milk in our house and I always feel ashamed about it if there’s a workman in who might want a cuppa
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Remember: the EHRC's Interim Guidance, and we understand the draft statutory guidance too, recommended a trans bathroom ban. Two tribunals have now disagreed.
This is the second decision - both first instance - since the appalling For (Some) Women Scotland decision to find that there is no trans bathroom ban. www.gov.uk/employment-t...
B M Kelly v Leonardo UK Ltd: 8001497/2024
Employment Tribunal decision.
www.gov.uk
December 8, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Remember: the EHRC's Interim Guidance, and we understand the draft statutory guidance too, recommended a trans bathroom ban. Two tribunals have now disagreed.
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Honestly they hate kids so much.
"After her hearing ended, three-year-old Lucy cuddled her teddy bear as she walked back from the lawyer’s table and took a seat.
Moments later, the next child was called up to face the judge..."
coppercourier.com/2025/12/05/c...
Moments later, the next child was called up to face the judge..."
coppercourier.com/2025/12/05/c...
December 8, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Honestly they hate kids so much.