Today people went around my neighborhood in north east London spray painting St George’s crosses onto people’s homes. Many of these houses have non British people living in them.

This is getting very dark, very quick.

Deeply disturbed to see today's 'Unite the Kingdom' march in London with 100,000+ attendees.

This was likely the largest far-right protest in British history and was led by Tommy Robinson and addressed by Elon Musk.

The far right are emboldened like never before. But, here's the good news... 🧵

Does anyone in the UK have career advice for a 40 yr-old academic - historian of science and medicine - who may need to build a new career outside the academy? This is a serious request - any ideas and tips would be much appreciated.

“In the late 1960s, Dr. Rossiter was working on her Ph.D. at Yale, when a comment from one of her male professors puzzled her. Who, she had asked, were the women in science? There were none, he said. Another professor mumbled something about Marie Curie being the exception.”🙃

Thank you Lisa! It’s an experiment of mine and I’m hoping to develop this approach further.

Also congratulations 👏 to the two honourable mentions:

Xinyi Wen (Cambridge University) 'Inventing a Healing Tradition across Time and Space - a reversed history of the doctrine of signatures, 1885-1609'

And

I’m very happy to announce that I’ve been awarded an IRFD Starting Grant for the project “Sovereign Flowers: Flora Danica and the Emergence of the National Flora, 1750–1900.” Hooray! The project allows me to build a small research group of a PhD student and a postdoc at Aarhus University (@au.dk).

RIP #histsci Margaret Rossiter, who coined term Matilda Effect
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margare...
#philsci #feministsky

article now published >> artreview.com/what-isnt-at...

The brilliant @lmbd1418.bsky.social has suggested people write to the Home Secretary Yvette Cooper re: my case. If you could spare five minutes, she's created a draft letter which you can use to send to coopery@parliament.uk. I appreciate everyone's support. ❤️

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

So excited to share my new article in @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social:
"Colonial World-Making and Global Knowledges at the Early Modern Cape of Good Hope" (Open access)
academic.oup.com/past/advance...

My next book—The Genealogy of Genealogy: Nietzsche, Foucault, and the Coils of Critical History—has an official publication date: April 5, 2026! The publisher’s page is up with TOC & a preorder button (no cover yet): press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Look here for more details as they materialize.

Excited to be part of this great line up of natural history talks and walks at the Forest Learning Centre, Perdana Botanic Gardens, KL later this month!

This is getting close to 150K signatures now. It might not do anything, but it will serve as evidence for the future that the UK government were aware of the opposition of its own people to its complicity in the Israeli genocide on Gaza & the fact that it did nothing to stop it.

Following announcement of the Roy Porter Essay Competition winner, two entrants have also been awarded Commended for their essays:
Congratulations to Elena Danieli (Università di Bologna and Université Paris Cité) and Zhilin Chu (University of Cambridge)
#histmed @rebeccawynter.bsky.social
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Bye forever, WeTransfer.

Please check the latest post on my page from my sister Aseel’s account.
It’s the eighth time we’ve been forced to flee, and we’re really falling apart.💔
Just… from a place of humanity🙏🏻