Kristin Hussey
@kristinhussey.bsky.social
Historian of medicine, science and the environment. Lecturer in Environmental History at Newcastle University researching sleep and circadian rhythms. Author of Imperial Bodies in London. Also sea swimming, museum-ing and mom-ing. Kristinhussey.co.uk
CFP for HSS/ESHS 2026 - The Science and Medicine of Bodily Habits.
I am excited to be working with @wraggem.bsky.social to co-organise symposia on bodily habits from the medieval to modern periods. From sleeping to eating and urinating, how much do we control our bodies? Abstract deadline 21st Nov
I am excited to be working with @wraggem.bsky.social to co-organise symposia on bodily habits from the medieval to modern periods. From sleeping to eating and urinating, how much do we control our bodies? Abstract deadline 21st Nov
October 17, 2025 at 10:08 AM
CFP for HSS/ESHS 2026 - The Science and Medicine of Bodily Habits.
I am excited to be working with @wraggem.bsky.social to co-organise symposia on bodily habits from the medieval to modern periods. From sleeping to eating and urinating, how much do we control our bodies? Abstract deadline 21st Nov
I am excited to be working with @wraggem.bsky.social to co-organise symposia on bodily habits from the medieval to modern periods. From sleeping to eating and urinating, how much do we control our bodies? Abstract deadline 21st Nov
Colleagues doing very cool things! One for the labour, maritime and mining historians among you.
CfP: The British General Strike of 1926: New Directions of Research, 7-8 May 2026 @newcastleuni.bsky.social
Deadline: 6 February 2026
More details:
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Kindly supported by @leverhulme.ac.uk
#GeneralStrike1926 #GeneralStrike100
Deadline: 6 February 2026
More details:
@sslh.bsky.social
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#GeneralStrike1926 #GeneralStrike100
CfP: The British General Strike of 1926: New Directions of Research
To commemorate the centenary of the British General Strike and miners’ lock-out, Newcastle University’s Labour & Society Research Group (LSRG) is organising a conference that revisits the…
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October 15, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Colleagues doing very cool things! One for the labour, maritime and mining historians among you.
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The Call for Papers for 'Talking Records: Pollution in the Archive', a symposium at The National Archives in London, 4 December 2025, is now open!
Submission deadline: Friday 19 Sept
See the CFP and details about bursaries for speakers here: orlo.uk/Z8StS
#envhum #envhist
Submission deadline: Friday 19 Sept
See the CFP and details about bursaries for speakers here: orlo.uk/Z8StS
#envhum #envhist
August 13, 2025 at 10:13 AM
The Call for Papers for 'Talking Records: Pollution in the Archive', a symposium at The National Archives in London, 4 December 2025, is now open!
Submission deadline: Friday 19 Sept
See the CFP and details about bursaries for speakers here: orlo.uk/Z8StS
#envhum #envhist
Submission deadline: Friday 19 Sept
See the CFP and details about bursaries for speakers here: orlo.uk/Z8StS
#envhum #envhist
This has been so great to work on with @drhick.bsky.social and our students - reinterpreting the Great North Museum through the lens of environmental history. The trail is on until the end of September! @northeastmuseums.bsky.social
Exciting news! The trail that @kristinhussey.bsky.social & I have developed with HCA 2nd year undergraduate students is opening on the 26/7 at Great North Museum @northeastmuseums.bsky.social. With huge thanks @bshsnews.bsky.social for funding 📗 More info: www.northeastmuseums.org.uk/greatnorthmu...
Destroying Nature: Histories of people and environments at the Great North Museum: Hancock
This trail highlights objects from the Museum’s permanent exhibitions through the lens of environmental history.
www.northeastmuseums.org.uk
July 16, 2025 at 8:04 AM
This has been so great to work on with @drhick.bsky.social and our students - reinterpreting the Great North Museum through the lens of environmental history. The trail is on until the end of September! @northeastmuseums.bsky.social
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We are hiring! Fully tenured associate professorship in environmental history! We are looking for someone who can be a strong contributor to the history group, to a new #envhum related MA program (if all goes well), and to @greenhouseuis.net. #envhist
Associate Professor in Environmental History (281801) | University of Stavanger
Job title: Associate Professor in Environmental History (281801), Employer: University of Stavanger, Deadline: Thursday, August 7, 2025
www.jobbnorge.no
June 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM
We are hiring! Fully tenured associate professorship in environmental history! We are looking for someone who can be a strong contributor to the history group, to a new #envhum related MA program (if all goes well), and to @greenhouseuis.net. #envhist
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⏰ the deadline is 30 June for this role with our new #Multispecies #Mutualisims project, generously funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social pls do get in contact if you have any questions ⬇️
🚨Job Alert 🚨 🐕🦺 🐄🐎🐦⬛
Do you have project management skills & an interest in human-animal relations? We are recruiting a project manager role (5 years) for our new project (info in the 🧵) @sheffielduni.bsky.social
📆 deadline 30 June www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNO134/p...
Do you have project management skills & an interest in human-animal relations? We are recruiting a project manager role (5 years) for our new project (info in the 🧵) @sheffielduni.bsky.social
📆 deadline 30 June www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNO134/p...
June 27, 2025 at 7:43 AM
⏰ the deadline is 30 June for this role with our new #Multispecies #Mutualisims project, generously funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social pls do get in contact if you have any questions ⬇️
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Are you working in #VisualMedicalHumanities with a specific focus on art, anatomy and medicine? The BMJ Medical Humanities has just released this CFP for articles on "visuality in medical practice and history". Looking forward to seeing how this moves the field forward!
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Topic Collection: Visual Medical Humanities | Medical Humanities
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June 24, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Are you working in #VisualMedicalHumanities with a specific focus on art, anatomy and medicine? The BMJ Medical Humanities has just released this CFP for articles on "visuality in medical practice and history". Looking forward to seeing how this moves the field forward!
mh.bmj.com/pages/topic-...
mh.bmj.com/pages/topic-...
Calling all scholars of night work! I am organising a workshop on the night shift since 1900 this September at Newcastle. Looking for scholars across disciplines who think about working at night in critical context to give short working papers. More info here: kristinhussey.co.uk/research/34u...
June 12, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Calling all scholars of night work! I am organising a workshop on the night shift since 1900 this September at Newcastle. Looking for scholars across disciplines who think about working at night in critical context to give short working papers. More info here: kristinhussey.co.uk/research/34u...
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Really interesting interview with the fab historian @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social about her new book on the ethics and colonial legacies of extinction, and how we talk about that
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘A billionaire will pay a lot of money to shoot a recreated being’: historian Sadiah Qureshi on extinction and empire
In her new book, Vanished, the history professor picks apart the political and philosophical dimensions of species loss
www.theguardian.com
June 11, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Really interesting interview with the fab historian @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social about her new book on the ethics and colonial legacies of extinction, and how we talk about that
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The Easter weekend begins with a trip to the Discovery Museum @northeastmuseums.bsky.social to check out their new under 5s area. But my daughter preferred the industrial heritage - naturally.
April 17, 2025 at 11:02 AM
The Easter weekend begins with a trip to the Discovery Museum @northeastmuseums.bsky.social to check out their new under 5s area. But my daughter preferred the industrial heritage - naturally.
A great catch up at GNM Hancock to discuss an upcoming collaborative project on environmental history generously funded by @bshsnews.bsky.social. So much of academia is feeling really bleak right now so trying to enjoy the better moments.
April 16, 2025 at 1:02 PM
A great catch up at GNM Hancock to discuss an upcoming collaborative project on environmental history generously funded by @bshsnews.bsky.social. So much of academia is feeling really bleak right now so trying to enjoy the better moments.
In the archives and it feels so goooood. Exploring the health trade union archives @mrcwarwick.bsky.social this last week - searching for elusive might shift experiences and finding plenty of other insights along the way.
April 11, 2025 at 6:31 PM
In the archives and it feels so goooood. Exploring the health trade union archives @mrcwarwick.bsky.social this last week - searching for elusive might shift experiences and finding plenty of other insights along the way.
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A wonderful opportunity to apply for a fully-funded collaborative PhD studentship in partnership with @royalsociety.org. "Weather Sceptics: Almanacs and the Making of Scientific Meteorology in Nineteenth-Century Britain". Deadline 6 May. See link for full details. #histsci @bshsnews.bsky.social
AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) - Weather Sceptics: Almanacs and the Making of Scientific Meteorology in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Project opportunity - AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) - Weather Sceptics: Almanacs and the Making of Scientific Meteorology in Nineteenth-Century Britain at the University of Leeds
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April 2, 2025 at 7:16 AM
A wonderful opportunity to apply for a fully-funded collaborative PhD studentship in partnership with @royalsociety.org. "Weather Sceptics: Almanacs and the Making of Scientific Meteorology in Nineteenth-Century Britain". Deadline 6 May. See link for full details. #histsci @bshsnews.bsky.social
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Listen to historian Dr @kristinhussey.bsky.social discuss Patrick Manson, the founder of tropical medicine, on BBC Radio 4's Human Intelligence series with @naomialderman.bsky.social. @medicalsciencesncl.bsky.social
Episode airs at 1.45pm today or you can listen here >> /bit.ly/41WduSu
Episode airs at 1.45pm today or you can listen here >> /bit.ly/41WduSu
BBC Radio 4 - Human Intelligence, Travellers: Sir Patrick Manson
'Mosquito Manson' found a travelling parasite and unravelled a medical mystery.
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March 27, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Listen to historian Dr @kristinhussey.bsky.social discuss Patrick Manson, the founder of tropical medicine, on BBC Radio 4's Human Intelligence series with @naomialderman.bsky.social. @medicalsciencesncl.bsky.social
Episode airs at 1.45pm today or you can listen here >> /bit.ly/41WduSu
Episode airs at 1.45pm today or you can listen here >> /bit.ly/41WduSu
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Job Klaxon: come and join us. We are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Associate to work on a project on the history of intensive care medicine, directed by @fcondrau.bsky.social in Zurich and me in Manchester.
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Research Associate - Life Support: Technologies, Institutions and Experiences in the History of Intensive Care Medicine, 1945-2020:Oxford Road
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk
March 14, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Job Klaxon: come and join us. We are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Associate to work on a project on the history of intensive care medicine, directed by @fcondrau.bsky.social in Zurich and me in Manchester.
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Museum job! The Clockworks is looking for an experienced curator to run its unique London museum: world-class objects, wonderful premises, stable funding, great people. Full-time, £45k. Interested? Find out more and come meet us!
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Curator - The Clockworks, London - MuseumJobs.com
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February 18, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Museum job! The Clockworks is looking for an experienced curator to run its unique London museum: world-class objects, wonderful premises, stable funding, great people. Full-time, £45k. Interested? Find out more and come meet us!
www.museumjobs.com/jobdetails.p...
www.museumjobs.com/jobdetails.p...
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A film still from the first degree progression of University of Birmingham students to the Town Hall through Victoria Square. Medical students can be seen waving bones at the camera.
January 30, 2025 at 7:27 PM
A film still from the first degree progression of University of Birmingham students to the Town Hall through Victoria Square. Medical students can be seen waving bones at the camera.
Treating PFAS contamination with bloodletting. £200,000 to treat 50 patients - someone catch some leeches! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Bloodletting recommended for Jersey residents after PFAS contamination
The island’s private drinking water supplies were polluted by use of firefighting foams containing ‘forever chemicals’
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January 27, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Treating PFAS contamination with bloodletting. £200,000 to treat 50 patients - someone catch some leeches! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Say YES to collaborative history! Say YES to showing messy workings! Say YES to acknowledging the sticky fingers of everyone who shapes your work & your ideas! The only way we will survive this academic climate is by working with each other not in competition, building community and making space.
January 23, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Say YES to collaborative history! Say YES to showing messy workings! Say YES to acknowledging the sticky fingers of everyone who shapes your work & your ideas! The only way we will survive this academic climate is by working with each other not in competition, building community and making space.
Less than a week until teaching starts and an email from the nursery to say they have cases of chicken pox and hand foot and mouth. This should be fun.
January 22, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Less than a week until teaching starts and an email from the nursery to say they have cases of chicken pox and hand foot and mouth. This should be fun.
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I promised you guys more of these. Here is one that I find particularly great.
Materials: plastic, metal, wiring, and human tears. (See ALT text for full transcript of the sign).
Materials: plastic, metal, wiring, and human tears. (See ALT text for full transcript of the sign).
January 21, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I promised you guys more of these. Here is one that I find particularly great.
Materials: plastic, metal, wiring, and human tears. (See ALT text for full transcript of the sign).
Materials: plastic, metal, wiring, and human tears. (See ALT text for full transcript of the sign).
Low tide treasure hunt with the little explorer
January 19, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Low tide treasure hunt with the little explorer
Atmospheric Edinburgh wanders to chase away gloomy January
January 12, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Atmospheric Edinburgh wanders to chase away gloomy January
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Interested in the history of health, heating & hygiene? 🤒😷🔥🌡️🛀🧼
There's still time to APPLY for the funded PhD studentship on the 'Carbon Bodies' project.
⏰ Deadline 24th Jan ⏰
The project: wellcome.org/grant-fundin...
The job: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
There's still time to APPLY for the funded PhD studentship on the 'Carbon Bodies' project.
⏰ Deadline 24th Jan ⏰
The project: wellcome.org/grant-fundin...
The job: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
a cartoon of an astronaut looking through a telescope with the words " we 're hiring " below it
Alt: a cartoon of an astronaut looking through a telescope at a moon with the words "we're hiring" floating above in the dark sky
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January 7, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Interested in the history of health, heating & hygiene? 🤒😷🔥🌡️🛀🧼
There's still time to APPLY for the funded PhD studentship on the 'Carbon Bodies' project.
⏰ Deadline 24th Jan ⏰
The project: wellcome.org/grant-fundin...
The job: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
There's still time to APPLY for the funded PhD studentship on the 'Carbon Bodies' project.
⏰ Deadline 24th Jan ⏰
The project: wellcome.org/grant-fundin...
The job: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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#histmed Postdoc at University of Edinburgh School of Law. Post is for a historian of medicine, esp. one interested in the history of emotions and/or the law. Modern (1750-present) focus.
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow
We are seeking a post-doctoral research fellow to work on a Leverhulme-funded interdisciplinary project titled ‘A History of Hurt Feelings and the Law’. The project is a collaboration between Prof Chl...
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December 16, 2024 at 5:44 PM
#histmed Postdoc at University of Edinburgh School of Law. Post is for a historian of medicine, esp. one interested in the history of emotions and/or the law. Modern (1750-present) focus.
elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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