Dr Marie Allitt
@marieallitt.bsky.social
Researcher, Writer, (Over)Thinker.
Literary medical historian
Medical Humanities. Life-writing. Chronic illness. Disability. Mental health. Healthcare spaces. she/her. Views own
Live in Scotland
Literary medical historian
Medical Humanities. Life-writing. Chronic illness. Disability. Mental health. Healthcare spaces. she/her. Views own
Live in Scotland
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Medical Caregiving Narratives of the First World War
Medical Caregiving Narratives of the First World War
edinburghuniversitypress.com
(To pin) You can download my book *Medical Caregiving Narratives of the First World War: Geographies of Care* for free (open access) here: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-medical...
Paperback coming Feb 2025
Paperback coming Feb 2025
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Your not so gentle reminder that so called ‘Whamageddon’ is really stupid. We should all play it as much as possible because the proceeds go to charity. It’s also a bop
November 29, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Your not so gentle reminder that so called ‘Whamageddon’ is really stupid. We should all play it as much as possible because the proceeds go to charity. It’s also a bop
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If anyone missed the launch event last week for our guidance on more inclusive workplaces for academics with ELC, the recording is now available on our website (along with the guidance) exhaustioneconomy.uk/guidance/ @alisonallam.bsky.social @catherinehale.bsky.social @equihealthfutures.bsky.social
December 1, 2025 at 12:32 PM
If anyone missed the launch event last week for our guidance on more inclusive workplaces for academics with ELC, the recording is now available on our website (along with the guidance) exhaustioneconomy.uk/guidance/ @alisonallam.bsky.social @catherinehale.bsky.social @equihealthfutures.bsky.social
It’s an unfortunate combination of bad pain day and I really cannot day today 😩
December 1, 2025 at 12:30 PM
It’s an unfortunate combination of bad pain day and I really cannot day today 😩
YES! Now it’s Christmas! 🎄🎄🎄
Yes, everyone, it's time for another Very Theory Xmas. We're here until early January with Terry Eagleton's chocolate orange, shameless theory puns, and of course #LastZizekIGaveYouTheReal. Rejoice!
November 30, 2025 at 9:08 PM
YES! Now it’s Christmas! 🎄🎄🎄
I’m waiting for my mum to call me ASAP, so that I can be ready for a call with my cousin later on. But my mum is waiting for my auntie to call her back, because she had to cut earlier call short to speak to my cousin! 🤦♀️🤣🙄
November 30, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I’m waiting for my mum to call me ASAP, so that I can be ready for a call with my cousin later on. But my mum is waiting for my auntie to call her back, because she had to cut earlier call short to speak to my cousin! 🤦♀️🤣🙄
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Modern dating is already like talking to an AI chatbot. They may or may not respond to you. They might flood you with compliments & things you want to hear. They say what they estimate you want to hear: cliche, generic questions. They cannot respond interestingly unless there is the perfect prompt.
November 30, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Modern dating is already like talking to an AI chatbot. They may or may not respond to you. They might flood you with compliments & things you want to hear. They say what they estimate you want to hear: cliche, generic questions. They cannot respond interestingly unless there is the perfect prompt.
Ignore me - just discovered it was made in 2015!!! 🤣🤣🤣 wondered why the clothing looked dated at times!
I usually don’t fall for the New on Netflix but actually not new thing 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️ doy, doy, doy!
I usually don’t fall for the New on Netflix but actually not new thing 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️ doy, doy, doy!
Started watching Cuffs on Netflix. It’s…bad 🫣. The writing is not good, despite some great actors, the acting is off - maybe due to the pacing & editing, & shaky camera.
Keeping the camera on a face does not a complex character make.
Keeping the camera on a face does not a complex character make.
November 30, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Ignore me - just discovered it was made in 2015!!! 🤣🤣🤣 wondered why the clothing looked dated at times!
I usually don’t fall for the New on Netflix but actually not new thing 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️ doy, doy, doy!
I usually don’t fall for the New on Netflix but actually not new thing 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️ doy, doy, doy!
Started watching Cuffs on Netflix. It’s…bad 🫣. The writing is not good, despite some great actors, the acting is off - maybe due to the pacing & editing, & shaky camera.
Keeping the camera on a face does not a complex character make.
Keeping the camera on a face does not a complex character make.
November 30, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Started watching Cuffs on Netflix. It’s…bad 🫣. The writing is not good, despite some great actors, the acting is off - maybe due to the pacing & editing, & shaky camera.
Keeping the camera on a face does not a complex character make.
Keeping the camera on a face does not a complex character make.
Modern dating is already like talking to an AI chatbot. They may or may not respond to you. They might flood you with compliments & things you want to hear. They say what they estimate you want to hear: cliche, generic questions. They cannot respond interestingly unless there is the perfect prompt.
November 30, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Modern dating is already like talking to an AI chatbot. They may or may not respond to you. They might flood you with compliments & things you want to hear. They say what they estimate you want to hear: cliche, generic questions. They cannot respond interestingly unless there is the perfect prompt.
This was retold in a presentation I saw a wee while ago, and I can’t for the life of me remember who or where now!!
November 29, 2025 at 8:57 PM
This was retold in a presentation I saw a wee while ago, and I can’t for the life of me remember who or where now!!
Jesus, I thought I might watch The Wheel as when I’ve seen bits I’ve quite liked some of the people. But this must be the worst lineup for me: David Walliams, Richard Madeley, Rachel Riley, Spencer Matthews 😵😵😵
At least they’re all together smoother weeks can be better
At least they’re all together smoother weeks can be better
November 29, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Jesus, I thought I might watch The Wheel as when I’ve seen bits I’ve quite liked some of the people. But this must be the worst lineup for me: David Walliams, Richard Madeley, Rachel Riley, Spencer Matthews 😵😵😵
At least they’re all together smoother weeks can be better
At least they’re all together smoother weeks can be better
Has this guy actually read the book it’s adapted from? Among many other things, the book is a fascinating example of a historical novel, transcending time and place in many ways
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
The new film “Hamnet” offers up a vision of William Shakespeare as “Marlon Brando in Elizabethan drag,” writes Drew Lichtenberg. While this character may appeal to some, it “played to me like mumblecore Shakespeare, conceived for the TikTok generation.”
The new film “Hamnet” offers up a vision of William Shakespeare as “Marlon Brando in Elizabethan drag,” writes Drew Lichtenberg. While this character may appeal to some, it “played to me like mumblecore Shakespeare, conceived for the TikTok generation.”
Opinion | ‘Hamnet’ Reimagines Shakespeare for the TikTok Generation
Our love of his plays have led to a centuries-long fascination with the writer. So why does each new fictional iteration get his life so wrong?
nyti.ms
November 29, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Has this guy actually read the book it’s adapted from? Among many other things, the book is a fascinating example of a historical novel, transcending time and place in many ways
Your not so gentle reminder that so called ‘Whamageddon’ is really stupid. We should all play it as much as possible because the proceeds go to charity. It’s also a bop
November 29, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Your not so gentle reminder that so called ‘Whamageddon’ is really stupid. We should all play it as much as possible because the proceeds go to charity. It’s also a bop
To the tune of Nirvana’s Where Did You Sleep Last Night?
🎶My back, my back, don’t painful be, how did you sleep last night🎶
🎶My back, my back, don’t painful be, how did you sleep last night🎶
November 29, 2025 at 12:37 PM
To the tune of Nirvana’s Where Did You Sleep Last Night?
🎶My back, my back, don’t painful be, how did you sleep last night🎶
🎶My back, my back, don’t painful be, how did you sleep last night🎶
Compounded by the marketisation of HE. Degrees will still be awarded. The customer is always right. Students can do (or not do) whatever they want because they’ve paid for it. Universities are rated & funded according to pass rates & “student satisfaction”
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 29, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Compounded by the marketisation of HE. Degrees will still be awarded. The customer is always right. Students can do (or not do) whatever they want because they’ve paid for it. Universities are rated & funded according to pass rates & “student satisfaction”
I lose all respect to be honest
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 6:53 PM
I lose all respect to be honest
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Super disappointing to see the people - who I would otherwise respect - in the comments saying "but I do use it so it's fine".
Even if you don't think it's a red flag for intellectual laziness... it's stolen data! It's THEFT! You're showing your lack of ethics to me & that matters!
Even if you don't think it's a red flag for intellectual laziness... it's stolen data! It's THEFT! You're showing your lack of ethics to me & that matters!
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Super disappointing to see the people - who I would otherwise respect - in the comments saying "but I do use it so it's fine".
Even if you don't think it's a red flag for intellectual laziness... it's stolen data! It's THEFT! You're showing your lack of ethics to me & that matters!
Even if you don't think it's a red flag for intellectual laziness... it's stolen data! It's THEFT! You're showing your lack of ethics to me & that matters!
The paperback of my book is currently available for a MERE £12.50!!!
As always, downloads are free due to Open Access
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-medical...
As always, downloads are free due to Open Access
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-medical...
Medical Caregiving Narratives of the First World War
Medical Caregiving Narratives of the First World War
edinburghuniversitypress.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:50 PM
The paperback of my book is currently available for a MERE £12.50!!!
As always, downloads are free due to Open Access
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-medical...
As always, downloads are free due to Open Access
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-medical...
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Honestly, it is possible to think 'I work hard to earn money; I deserve that money' and *also* 'it would be good if we created a more equal society: I'll help'. Exhausting to see everything presented as a fight to the death between those two ideas, seemingly forever.
November 27, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Honestly, it is possible to think 'I work hard to earn money; I deserve that money' and *also* 'it would be good if we created a more equal society: I'll help'. Exhausting to see everything presented as a fight to the death between those two ideas, seemingly forever.
Does this week’s House of Games have the most annoying contestant ever, or ?
November 27, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Does this week’s House of Games have the most annoying contestant ever, or ?
Can we have a moratorium on comparing everything to ‘Adolescence’?
(Can you believe that only came out this year?)
(Can you believe that only came out this year?)
November 26, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Can we have a moratorium on comparing everything to ‘Adolescence’?
(Can you believe that only came out this year?)
(Can you believe that only came out this year?)
Two words that have been put together which I would like to unsee: ‘sex cardigan’
November 26, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Two words that have been put together which I would like to unsee: ‘sex cardigan’
Went on a slight rant-tangent about performative democracy I todays tutoring session on Animal Farm - it involved my impression of the horrible jeering in the House of Commons (I’ve never jeered before)
November 26, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Went on a slight rant-tangent about performative democracy I todays tutoring session on Animal Farm - it involved my impression of the horrible jeering in the House of Commons (I’ve never jeered before)
I want to exit the market
November 26, 2025 at 10:25 AM
I want to exit the market
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It goes without saying that the neoliberal language of a higher education "market" from which providers will "exit" is bleak. No media organisation challenges it, though. They all just repeat the mantra, as though education could never be a public good.
November 25, 2025 at 8:02 PM
It goes without saying that the neoliberal language of a higher education "market" from which providers will "exit" is bleak. No media organisation challenges it, though. They all just repeat the mantra, as though education could never be a public good.