Whitchurch Hospital Historical Society @whitchurchhospital.bsky.social Whitchurch Hospital is a closed Mental Health Hospital in Cardiff 🏴
1908-2016
Used as a military hospital during both World Wars.
Originally known as the Cardiff City Mental Hospital.
Account run by Whitchurch Hospital Historcial Society (Est. 2009)
Luminiferous Ether/Or(wellian) @cira.bsky.social Was Orwellian, now we all are. BASEBALL! SABR member! Ohtani enthusiast/baseball generalist. +History/philosophy of science (esp quantum), museum exhibit dev, global postpunk obscurities, HAMSTER PIX too 🐹🧡
Massachusetts | Elder Millennial AF | she/her
Graham Mooney @histgeoghealth.bsky.social Historian of public health at Johns Hopkins University. Manc. Homebrew. Native American plants. Bees. Geography.
Casebooks Project @hpscasebooks.bsky.social A digital edition of Simon Forman's and Richard Napier's medical records, 1596-1634 Directed by @laurenkassell.bsky.social Funded by the Wellcome Trust www.casebooks.lib.cam.ac.uk #histmed #histsci #earlymodern #astrology
Dr Ola Michalec @olamichalec.bsky.social The absolute pinnacle of British engineering • unprofessional account of a Bristol Uni STSish researcher interested in digital energy infrastructure, cyber security expertise, and hyped up technologies • cover by https://disect.me/
The University of Manchester @manchester.ac.uk A proud Manchester institution with teaching, research and social responsibility at the heart of everything we do. 
Autism@Manchester @autismmanchester.bsky.social Bringing together academics, practitioners, autistic individuals and family members to produce high quality autism research.
WEB: http://www.autism.manchester.ac.uk/
BLOG: https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/autism-at-manchester/
The John Rylands Library @thejohnrylands.bsky.social Promoting world-leading research using the unique special collections of The University of Manchester Library.
Open to visitors Wednesday-Saturday, 10am-5pm
CSHHH @cshhh.bsky.social Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare,
@UniStrathclyde
& @CaledonianNews
Scotland's leading centre for the history of health and medicine 📚💊
https://tinyurl.com/3y2u52bw
Historical and Archaeological Studies at Lincoln Bishop 🗃️ @lbishophisarch.bsky.social Updates from the History, Military History, and Archaeology team at Lincoln Bishop University.
Find more information about our degrees here: https://www.bgu.ac.uk/course-types/undergraduate
University of Galway Library Heritage Collections @uniofgalwayasc.bsky.social Archives, Special Collections and Digital Collections at the University of Galway Library
Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social Official account for the Joint Center for History and Economics at Harvard University, University of Cambridge and Sciences Po.
https://histecon.fas.harvard.edu/
https://www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/
https://histecon.fr/en/
LSHTM Centre for History in Public Health @lshtmhistory.bsky.social CHiPH is part of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine @lshtm.bsky.social and at the forefront of historical research into public health and health services
https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/centres/centre-history-public-health
Media and Epidemics @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social Media and Epidemics (MEDEP): Technologies of Science Communication and Public Health in the 20th and 21st Centuries. Project funded by EU CHANSE. https://mediaepidemics.com
North West Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership @nwssdtp.bsky.social The NWSSDTP is a consortium of the Universities of Keele, Lancashire, Lancaster, Liverpool, and Manchester. Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), we provide studentships and training for postgraduates from across the social sciences.
Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health @fbmh-uom.bsky.social The Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health at the University of Manchester.
Jules Skotnes-Brown @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social Historian of animals, health, science, and colonialism. PI of 'Conserving Global Health: Biodiversity Protection and the Prehistory of Planetary Health' (Wellcome Trust), University of Liverpool: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/people/jules-skotnes-brown
Jade Shepherd @jadevshepherd.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain; PhD; writing a book about mentally ill offenders & their families in the c19th; former senior lecturer; research associate at Newcastle University
https://www.ncl.ac.uk/hca/people/profile/jadeshepherd.html
Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social Historian, occasional anthropologist, working on disability, race and Empire; histories of public health. Eternal immigrant, writer, teacher. Indifferent cook. There will be many dogs on this feed. Luddite, yes, in the best way.
Lives with epilepsy.
Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social Professor Emeritus (University of Manchester), writes on biology, history of science & French Resistance. Most recent book: a biography of Francis Crick. Now writing THE IDEA OF HEREDITY.
Link to publications: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8258-4913
Hannah Barker @historyhannahb.bsky.social Professor of British History, University of Manchester. Social historian of northern England. Currently partial to a bit of material culture, religion, digital community history, popular culture and boxing. 🗃️
German Historical Institute London @ghilondon.bsky.social The GHI London is a research centre supporting and connecting history students and scholars from Britain and Germany. One of 11 independent research institutes of the @maxweberstiftung.de.
Open Mo-Fri, 9.30am-5pm
https://www.ghil.ac.uk
Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social Improving health by understanding hidden experience.
Supported by Wellcome.
durham.ac.uk/imh
medhumsplatform.org
Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social Historian of science; Principal Curator of Science @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social & Hon Fellow, STIS, Uni of Edinburgh. President @bshsnews.bsky.social #histSTM. Views own.
Formerly known as @beckyfh
https://teleskopos.wordpress.com/profile
Mette Bruinsma @mette.bsky.social Cultural Historian at Utrecht University
Gregory A Good @geocosmohistory.bsky.social I am Gregory (Greg) Good, historian of science, with an eye on technology, environment, and bigger worldviews. I write about human understanding of Earth and our near-space environment since about 1800. #histsci #histech #envhist #histgeo
Maria Winter @mariawinter.bsky.social Historian • Medievalist • research on body & power • EHESS PhD • no career researcher • escaped school teaching • now learning specialist at a research institute • qualified project manager (GPM Basic Certificate & Scrum Master) • opinions my own • Berlin
Samara Greenwood @samaragreenwood.bsky.social Historian and Philosopher of Science / Public Humanities Advocate / PhD Candidate / Co-Founder of The HPS Podcast / Architect / Interested in Everything
University of Melbourne
samaragreenwood.com
Christopher M. Rudeen @cmrudeen.bsky.social Historian of science and medicine by day, asleep by night. He/him/his
Alexandre Simon-Ekeland @asimonekeland.bsky.social Academic librarian at the University of Oslo and historian of exploration in the 19th and 20th centuries, particularly interested in the polar regions, the history of celebrity and the history of emotions
Floris Winckel @fwinckel.bsky.social Postdoc | History of the Physical Sciences | University of Copenhagen & Niels Bohr Archive | Cryosphere and Cryospheric Science | Snowflakes ❄️
🔗 www.floriswinckel.com- V Rachel Smith @valuequestion.bsky.social Lecturer in Anthropology & Museum Studies. Vanuatu/Western Pacific; labour migration, kava, social change. Co-editor @anthropologyofwork.bsky.social
🌈 Dr Ross Brooks @rossbrooks.co.uk Historian #histsci #queerhistory. DARWIN AND THE QUEER ORIGINS OF LIFE (Yale, 2026). Curator of queeroxford.info. LGBTQ+ life & culture. Classical music. Seaside living (near Brighton). He/him/they. rossbrooks.co.uk. Agent: www.philippasitters.co.uk.
Keri Cronin @kericronin.bsky.social Historian of Visual Culture. Human-Animal History. Writer. Pteridomaniac. Kayaker. Has a chronic illness you probably haven’t heard of. Fan of #PWHL hockey 😷 🍁 🏳️🌈 🌱 she/her
https://kericronin.com/
https://instagram.com/kericronin/
Prof. Bethan Evans @drbevans.bsky.social Professor of Human Geography at Uni of Liverpool, research on chronic illness, energy limiting conditions, fat embodiment. Feminist, Fat Activist, Spoonie, PwME, Friend, Sister, Daughter, Person. Hobbies: SF, cats, knitting/crochet. she/her or they/their 🏳️⚧️
Chris Manias @chrismanias.bsky.social Historian of science based at King's College London, working on history of evolutionary & deep-time sciences and environmental history. Runs #PopPalaeo ( www.poppalaeo.com ) and co-leads the King's Environmental Humanities network
Katie Snow @katiesnow.bsky.social Researching bodies across the medical humanities.
Book on breasts in caricature and satirical prints forthcoming from Rutgers.
Wellcome postdoc @ University College Dublin, Drinking Cultures project 🥃
Anna Dijkstra @annakarlien.bsky.social Repeated dreams of tornadoes
Modernism and epistemology fanatic
Dreams of research // eternally looking for a PhD position
🏳️⚧️
A.M. Roos @handle.invalid Historian of science and medicine. Early modernist. Author. Editor, Notes and Records for the Royal Society. Love to garden.
Heini Hakosalo @hhakosalo.bsky.social Historian of medicine and health. Senior Research Fellow / Associate Professor at the University of Oulu, Finland.
Toby Donegan-Cross @tdonegancross.bsky.social PhD student (ESRC) at durhamhistory interested in late medieval monasteries. DurhamMEMSA Co-chair. Editor of John's Chronicle.
Al Coppola @qu1x0tical.bsky.social 18c Lit at John Jay CUNY. First book: Science, Spectacle, Stupidity. Lately, it's the little things.
Dr ViPi™ (he/they/Dr.) ⏚🇵🇸 @pivi1312.bsky.social Angry sociologist | Academia survivor
#mentalhealth #teaching #ethnography #writing #histSTM #histpsych #sociology #STS #histmed 🇨🇭🏴🏳️🌈🦓 ⏚ 🔻 ☭
Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social Bookhoarder. Soi-disant intellectual of the outer suburbs.
Heta Tarkkala @hetatarkkala.bsky.social PhD (STS). Studies non-quantifiable issues related to science, technology & society and data. Currently: (health) data & wastewater. Knits at conferences.
Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social Data, Information and their Histories. At UCL.
danielwilson.info
🤖 Computational Humanities #dh | History 🗃️ | STS #histsci
Emma-Louise Hill @hillemmalouise.bsky.social Recently quit my PhD but have created a census of John Flamsteed’s two star catalogues (AMA).
awmerck @awmerck.bsky.social Historian by training. she/her/ma'am. personal account
Melina Antonia Buns @melinabuns.bsky.social international, environmental, and energy historian · associate professor at University of Stavanger and the Greenhouse Center · radioactive waste and Nordic environmental cooperation · project leader of Energy Lives! · member of the Young Academy of Norway
Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize, Royal Society’s Trivedi Prize. 2025 best book for FT, Guardian, BBC History & Smithsonian.
Views own. https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/309254/vanished-by-qureshi-sadi
Lukas Engelmann @engelmal.bsky.social Chancellor's Fellow at Uni of Edinburgh (STIS & CBSS)
Author of 'Mapping AIDS' (CUP), co-author of 'Sulphuric Utopias' (MIT)
PI at the Epidemy Lab (ERC): http://epidemy.org 
Ehud @duhe.bsky.social Do you really don’t know?
(I’m a philosopher and historian of biology, interested in all things evolutionary, #genetic, or #cognitive. I find most things ridiculous.)
http://www.ehudlamm.com 
Jon Agar @jonagar.bsky.social historian of modern science and technology 
David Freis @davidfreis.eurosky.social Medical historian at the University of Augsburg | Writes about psychiatry, psychotherapy, hospital architecture, past futures of medicine #histmed #histsci #histtech #histSTM
Private account
Daniel Grey @djrgrey.bsky.social Sociology & History at University of Hertfordshire | FRHistS | SFHEA | Works on gender & crime in Britain & India. He/Him.
Nathalie Sage Pranchère @nsagepranchere.cpesr.fr Historienne (miraculée du CNRS), Corrézienne, amatrice de sages-femmes, naissance, santé, BnF et archives, cofondatrice de l'@alubnf, et tant d'autres choses
Andrew Lea, MD, PhD @andrewlea.bsky.social physician-historian professing at the university of rochester. book: DIGITIZING DIAGNOSIS (jhu press), order: https://bit.ly/diagnosis-lea. working on next book, AID TO THOUGHT, a history of the peripheral brain in medicine.
Justyna Bandola-Gill @justynabandola.bsky.social UKRI AI Metascience Fellow - exploring how AI re-shapes the evidence-for-policy ecosystem
Assistant Professor at the University of Birmingham
More information: https://www.bandola-gill.com/
Robert Ranisch @robranisch.bsky.social Medical Ethics & Digitization @ethicslab.bsky.social, University Potsdam, Head of Research Unit "Ethics of Genome Editing" at University of Tuebingen. #bioethics #digitalethics
Robert Naylor @roblnaylor.bsky.social Lecturer (Assistant Professor) @manchstm.bsky.social, specialising in history of climate studies. Managing Editor @globcon.bsky.social. President of International Commission for the History of Meteorology. Glasgow-based. He/they. AVMO.
Rocío Gomez @historyrocio.bsky.social Historian of Latin America + Historian of the Environment 🍃, Science and Medicine 🧪💉, and Extraction ⛏️.
Also, cheese consumer, cyclist, dog expert, and linocut novice on the side.
Cinzia Greco @cinziag.bsky.social Medical Anthropology& Humanities, Research Fellow, Univ of Manchester, CHSTM | Medical uncertainty| Mental health
(https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/cinzia.greco)
Editor Anthropologie&Santé (https://journals.openedition.org/anthropologiesante/)
Nate O @nateo.bsky.social An ‘award-winning’ (per one philosophy conference) ‘academic’ (per Daily Mail) (they gave me a free book; not an academic) ✡️ 🏳️🌈 (he/him)
Thomas Cheney @thomascheney.bsky.social Academic, (outer) Space Governance. Legal geography and environmental humanities of space governance (space resources, planetary protection, astrobiology, settlement etc). Writing a book on space mining and how we think about natural resources. He/him.
Brian Hughes @bmhughes.bsky.social Prof Psych • Writer • Galway • he/him
New book 'Psychology's Quiet Conservatism': https://link.springer.com/book/9783032077233
Blog: https://thesciencebit.net/
Bio: https://brianmhughes.com/
📷 https://www.photoblogism.net
Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me Professor of Environmental History at University of Stavanger, Norway. Co-director of the Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities. Photographer, author, boardgamer. More at finnarne.net. Portrait photo: Kristin Aafløy Opdan.
Elizabeth Toon @eblucyclio.bsky.social #histmed (women's health, prev & #healthcomm); tweets #scicomm #medhum #sts. Avid knitter, coffee drinker, cat lover. She/her.
Anja Katharina Peters @thesismum.bsky.social Professor of Nursing/Nursing Science. No nursing profession without nursing history. Experientially trained expert on How to Be an Academic Mum Without Going Nuts. Just my own 5 cent of opinion. She/her.
Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social Soc of Work + Platform Labor | Head of Sociology, University of Edinburgh | https://workersobservatory.org | @jcultecon + Platforms & Society
Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social Epidemics, environments, and state power in the USSR. Currently: Research Fellow in Global Health History at the University of Leeds. 🇨🇦 in 🇬🇧. PhD from New York University (2025)
Thomas Carpentier @thocarp.bsky.social PhD Researcher at the EUI in Firenze, studying the history of the European Space Agency.
Processing space telescopes data for fun
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He/him
Jack Kirby @jdk653.bsky.social Associate Director of Collections Services at Science Museum Group, walker, fan: maps, culture, heritage, local distinctiveness. Gay, use hearing aids. Views own
Arno Görgen @pachuki.bsky.social All things #GameStudies @ HKB Bern
Podcasts:
„Design. Macht. Gesellschaft.“ (https://podcast337600.podigee.io)
"Kritische Controller" (https://kritische-controller.letscast.fm/)
Krach bei DER ATOMAT. (https://deratomat.bandcamp.com/)
Dan Morrison (he/him) @danielrmorrison.bsky.social Sociologist of science, technology, and medicine. Currently writing on antiblackness in higher ed, TBI, ignorance. The views expressed on this platform are my own and do not reflect the views of The University of Alabama in Huntsville.
Máiréad Enright @maireadenright.bsky.social Irish academic (@lawatloughborough.bsky.social) living in Birmingham. Working on women, law, religion (Catholicism mostly) and reproduction broadly understood. Often legal history, sometimes just law.
Mirjam Galley @megalley.bsky.social Historian and editor for history and heritage at transcript academic publishing (Bielefeld, GER). PhD in Soviet history from The University of Sheffield. Berliner. Likes people, music, cats, food & going outside. she/her
Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh @gianamar97.bsky.social Historian @uvahumanities.bsky.social | PhD @HPSCambridge.bsky.social | Author of https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo290149621.html | https://shorturl.at/i7kip | he | 🍉🌻🟥
George Adamson @drgeorgeadamson.bsky.social Reader in Climate and Society, King's College London.
Climate variability, history, knowledge, politics and risk, particularly El Niño.
Dr. Cecília Tomori @drtomori.bsky.social 🇭🇺🇺🇸 Anthropologist/Public Health Prof breastfeeding, lactation, MNCH, reproduction, public health, health policy, equity, justice 🤱🏾🤱🏽🤱 posts - my own. https://nursing.jhu.edu/faculty-research/faculty/directory/cecilia-tomori/
Sarah Emily Duff @sarahemilyduff.bsky.social Radiant ambiguity/unclassified residuum/ enigmatic relief/seasoned harridan (historian of age, gender, reproduction, opinions my own and not my employer’s etc.)
https://www.colby.edu/people/people-directory/sarah-duff/
Barry Doyle @profbarrydoyle.bsky.social Prof of History of Health @manchstm.bsky.social interested in hospitals and cities. Also some contemporary British Politics. Like walking in hills sometimes go running!
Chair EuroHealthHist COST Action https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA22159/
Clare Hickman @drhick.bsky.social Environmental & medical historian at Newcastle University - hospitals, gardens, landscapes, senses, inclusive interpretation, story teller.
Matthis Krischel @matthiskrischel.bsky.social Historian of Medicine and of the Life Sciences @hhu.de | Clinical Ethicist | Independent Ethics Advisor
Medicine under National Socialism | Public Health | Human Genetics and Eugenics | Urology and Sexology
EN & DE
http://matthiskrischel.de/
Gabriel Finkelstein @gabrielfinkelstein.bsky.social Historian of neuroscience, modern Europe, and history.
Currently working on “Scientific History,” a study of Buckle, Taine, and du Bois-Reymond.
https://ucdenver.academia.edu/GabrielFinkelstein #histsci #histSTM
Geoff Belknap @curatorgeoff.bsky.social Keeper of Science and Technology at National Museums Scotland. Historian of photography, science, museums and visual culture. He/him. Views my own.
Dr Anne Chapman @anniechapman.bsky.social Head of Learning, Teaching and Quality- GCU London. Academic Development. 19th century literature and culture, periodicals.
David Pyle @davidmpyle.bsky.social Volcanologist at the University of Oxford: volcanic histories, imaginaries, resources and futures. https://curatingcrises.omeka.net/ https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/rethinking-natural-resources/ https://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/vesuvius-22
Yamina Saheb @yamsaheb.bsky.social #PoliticalEconomyResearcher #IPCCAR6author
#climatemitigationpolicies #sufficiency
Lecturer #climaterisks #energysystems #sufficiency
Kate Jarman @ermerlindaj.bsky.social Archivist, misanthrope, haver of opinions. Posting archives, history of medicine, music, cats, kids, South London goings-on. she/her.
If you like this, you'll love https://bsky.app/profile/bharchives.bsky.social
Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social English professor, book historian. 19th C, mainly. I wrote Selling Sexual Knowledge (CUP, 2025). Now working on MANUFACTURING LITERATURE and a few smaller projects. https://sarahbull.me/
Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social Health Humanities and c18/19 British and Irish Literature. Must love dogs.
Most recent book: Tales of Health: Illness, Disability, and Citizenship in the Romantic National Tale from Liverpool University Press (2026)
Dr Samuel Saunders @samfordsaunders.bsky.social Educational Developer at the University of Liverpool (@livunicie.bsky.social): assessment and feedback, academic integrity, curriculum design, and (sceptical thoughts on) Generative AI. PhD: English, LJMU (2018) C19 crime fiction. SFHEA. He/him.
Hanna Lucia Worliczek @hworliczek.bsky.social Historian of Biomedicine & the Life Sciences, esp.of Parasitology, Cell Biology & Microscopic Imaging. Microbiologist. Cats. She/her.
Dr Lucy Carolan @icarousse.bsky.social Creative practice research about dementia.
'Picturing Clouds of Unknowing: Photography, Lostness, and Cognitive Decline' DOI: https://doi.org/10.22501/rc.1862857
European (English origin, sorry). Mainly fair: good occasionally rough.
Alex Bamji @alexbamji.bsky.social Leeds-based Venetianist. Works on religion, disease and death. Director of @lahri.bsky.social
@rosemarygolding.bsky.social @rosemarygolding.bsky.social Music historian @ Open University, research interests in health history, 19th century Britain, social and cultural history, education history. Views my own.
https://musichealthandhappiness.wordpress.com/
William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social Lecturer in Heritage at a university near Colchester. ‘Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology’ out now with Cornell UP. Fellow, RHistS. https://williamcarruthers.co.uk
Will Thomas @williamthomas.bsky.social Director of Research in History, Policy, and Culture at the American Institute of Physics. Author of Rational Action: The Sciences of Policy in Britain and America, 1940-1960. Views expressed are my own.