Amy Hall
@amyh4ll97.bsky.social
PhD student, history of medicine and psychiatry | illness narratives, experience, identity politics, patient advocacy 📚
Medical writer and dachshund wrangler. Views unserious & my own 🌈
https://amyhallhistorian.wordpress.com/
Medical writer and dachshund wrangler. Views unserious & my own 🌈
https://amyhallhistorian.wordpress.com/
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Amy Hall
@amyh4ll97.bsky.social
· Nov 17
Hello to new followers! I’m Amy, a part-time PhD student, examining the collection of mental illness narratives from 1945 onwards - incl. the varied justification and output across disciplines. Interested in all things history of medicine and medical humanities
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This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
January 20, 2026 at 10:53 PM
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
Been wiped out with the superflu all week, don’t think I’ve ever been this ill before ☹️
January 18, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Been wiped out with the superflu all week, don’t think I’ve ever been this ill before ☹️
My review of Stanley Kubrick’s ‘The Shining’ for Sheffield Gothic‘s Winter Film Series
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Winter Film Reviews: “The Shining” (1980)
A guest post by Amy Hall. A cult classic horror film debated since its release in 1980, Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining has become a landmark in the psychological thriller genre. Based on the book by…
sheffieldgothic.home.blog
January 12, 2026 at 4:09 PM
My review of Stanley Kubrick’s ‘The Shining’ for Sheffield Gothic‘s Winter Film Series
sheffieldgothic.home.blog/2026/01/09/w...
sheffieldgothic.home.blog/2026/01/09/w...
Me: did you hear about the government initiative to double the UKs bean intake by 2028?
Wife: Of all the political issues going on right now, this is what they choose to prioritise?!
Wife: Of all the political issues going on right now, this is what they choose to prioritise?!
December 12, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Me: did you hear about the government initiative to double the UKs bean intake by 2028?
Wife: Of all the political issues going on right now, this is what they choose to prioritise?!
Wife: Of all the political issues going on right now, this is what they choose to prioritise?!
*The enemy is within, don’t confuse me with him*
December 9, 2025 at 7:02 PM
*The enemy is within, don’t confuse me with him*
Fabulous day in Haworth visiting the Brontë Parsonage Museum. Very autumnal and got to see the only surviving likeness of Emily Brontë, on loan from the National Portrait Gallery. Amazing to see the restored artefacts and learn about their lives #history #literature #brontevillage
October 25, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Fabulous day in Haworth visiting the Brontë Parsonage Museum. Very autumnal and got to see the only surviving likeness of Emily Brontë, on loan from the National Portrait Gallery. Amazing to see the restored artefacts and learn about their lives #history #literature #brontevillage
October 2, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Yesterday discovered I have aphantasia!! When imagining or picturing something in my mind there is no image, I've always just described the details to myself with an internal narrator.
A revelation that people actually *see* things with their minds eye!!
A revelation that people actually *see* things with their minds eye!!
September 17, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Yesterday discovered I have aphantasia!! When imagining or picturing something in my mind there is no image, I've always just described the details to myself with an internal narrator.
A revelation that people actually *see* things with their minds eye!!
A revelation that people actually *see* things with their minds eye!!
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Academic historians rarely speak up like this but have made an exception in speaking in support of trans people in the UK and against the current trans exclusionary situation over there.
Not just a few historians but hundreds signed this.
www.thepinknews.com/2025/05/02/h...
Not just a few historians but hundreds signed this.
www.thepinknews.com/2025/05/02/h...
Warning from historians over government's treatment of trans people
Over 350 historians and academics have urged the government to turn back on its growing attacks on trans rights in the UK.
www.thepinknews.com
August 17, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Academic historians rarely speak up like this but have made an exception in speaking in support of trans people in the UK and against the current trans exclusionary situation over there.
Not just a few historians but hundreds signed this.
www.thepinknews.com/2025/05/02/h...
Not just a few historians but hundreds signed this.
www.thepinknews.com/2025/05/02/h...
Will never get tired of rewatching BTVS
August 8, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Will never get tired of rewatching BTVS
Academia but in a liberal, activist, equal rights, anti-elitist, anti-classist way
August 3, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Academia but in a liberal, activist, equal rights, anti-elitist, anti-classist way
Doing the things…confirmation review T-22 days
July 22, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Doing the things…confirmation review T-22 days
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How do we value subjective experiences in mental health research?
Are people’s experiences of depression, anxiety and psychosis properly integrated into mental health research?
Not really.
buff.ly/t5EyJzN
🧵 THREAD
#MentalHealthResearch #SubjectiveExperiencesResearch #Phenomenology #SUNRISE
Are people’s experiences of depression, anxiety and psychosis properly integrated into mental health research?
Not really.
buff.ly/t5EyJzN
🧵 THREAD
#MentalHealthResearch #SubjectiveExperiencesResearch #Phenomenology #SUNRISE
July 8, 2025 at 6:41 AM
How do we value subjective experiences in mental health research?
Are people’s experiences of depression, anxiety and psychosis properly integrated into mental health research?
Not really.
buff.ly/t5EyJzN
🧵 THREAD
#MentalHealthResearch #SubjectiveExperiencesResearch #Phenomenology #SUNRISE
Are people’s experiences of depression, anxiety and psychosis properly integrated into mental health research?
Not really.
buff.ly/t5EyJzN
🧵 THREAD
#MentalHealthResearch #SubjectiveExperiencesResearch #Phenomenology #SUNRISE
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David Woodhead reflects on the memories, legacies, and queer histories provoked by viewing- gazing upon- the AIDS memorial quilt in 1994 and in June this year.
thepolyphony.org/2025/07/02/q...
thepolyphony.org/2025/07/02/q...
Looking Again: The Quilt, the Gaze, and Queer Remembering
David Woodhead reflects on the memories, legacies, and queer histories provoked by viewing- gazing upon- the AIDS memorial quilt in 1994 and in June this year.
thepolyphony.org
July 2, 2025 at 11:09 AM
David Woodhead reflects on the memories, legacies, and queer histories provoked by viewing- gazing upon- the AIDS memorial quilt in 1994 and in June this year.
thepolyphony.org/2025/07/02/q...
thepolyphony.org/2025/07/02/q...
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An honour to talk with Prof Luna Dolezal and Dr Will Bynum about the difficult experience of shame in medicine: listen here if you’re interested open.spotify.com/episode/31ab... #medsky #medhums
Episode 27 - Shame /w Prof Luna Dolezal and Dr Will Bynum
Conversations about Arts, Humanities and Health · Episode
open.spotify.com
April 24, 2025 at 11:38 AM
An honour to talk with Prof Luna Dolezal and Dr Will Bynum about the difficult experience of shame in medicine: listen here if you’re interested open.spotify.com/episode/31ab... #medsky #medhums
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Don't forget, look up! 🔭🌕🍓
Why tonight's Strawberry Moon is a record-breaking, low-lying phenomenon we won't see again until 2043 #strawberrymoon #moon #nightsky
www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/strawbe...
Why tonight's Strawberry Moon is a record-breaking, low-lying phenomenon we won't see again until 2043 #strawberrymoon #moon #nightsky
www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/strawbe...
Why tonight's Strawberry Moon is a record-breaking, low-lying phenomenon we won't see again until 2043 | BBC Sky at Night Magazine
This Strawberry Moon of 10-11 June 2025 is the lowest full Moon for nearly two decades: a phenomenon that won’t occur again until 2043.
www.skyatnightmagazine.com
June 10, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Don't forget, look up! 🔭🌕🍓
Why tonight's Strawberry Moon is a record-breaking, low-lying phenomenon we won't see again until 2043 #strawberrymoon #moon #nightsky
www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/strawbe...
Why tonight's Strawberry Moon is a record-breaking, low-lying phenomenon we won't see again until 2043 #strawberrymoon #moon #nightsky
www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/strawbe...
Very snowy up in the hills this week, and temps down to -8 at night ❄️
January 9, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Very snowy up in the hills this week, and temps down to -8 at night ❄️
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I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️
Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.
January 9, 2025 at 3:06 AM
I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️
Hello to new followers! I’m Amy, a part-time PhD student, examining the collection of mental illness narratives from 1945 onwards - incl. the varied justification and output across disciplines. Interested in all things history of medicine and medical humanities
November 17, 2024 at 4:40 PM
Hello to new followers! I’m Amy, a part-time PhD student, examining the collection of mental illness narratives from 1945 onwards - incl. the varied justification and output across disciplines. Interested in all things history of medicine and medical humanities