Len Smith
Historian of psychiatry / mental health / asylums in Britain and former British Caribbean colonies.
Follower of West Bromwich Albion F.C.
@osirisrankin.bsky.social
Clinical psychology PhD student at Harvard. Community college graduate. I study people’s ideas about life, death, suicide, & seeking support | Science of science | Diversity
@drlibraryben.bsky.social
(he/they) Scholar. Geek. Nova Scotian. 🌍 Libraries (#GLAM), science and technology studies (#STS), history of science, technology, and medicine (#HSTM), neurodiversity and disability studies. 🌍 Geekier at: @willow0wisp.bsky.social
@hpsvanessa.bsky.social
historian of science, medicine, food, sport and exploration; other content generally but not limited to: my dinner, a weird bug, feminist beer, complaining about bad parking. Latest book: tinyurl.com/HigherColder
@djbaggie.bsky.social
@dranamorphosis.bsky.social
Mad studies in conversation with psychiatry & religious studies. Also #Celt #indyref2 #psychedelics. https://independent.academia.edu/RichardSavilleSmith Isle of Skye Book: Acute Religious Experiences: Madness, Psychosis & Religious Studies (Bloomsbury)
@chrislepkowski.bsky.social
Academic | sports journalist | author | comms Birmingham City University sports journalism course director. Freelance, FWA member. Ghostwriter of The Third Degree, autobiography of Brendon Batson OBE Sport, media, football finance, politics
@reinarz.bsky.social
Historian of medicine, accidents, hospitals, medical simulation, medical education, museums, alcohol, breweries, the senses, smell… oh, and a keen cyclist, if I’m not reading a good book.
@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/
@hackneyabbott.bsky.social
Re-elected as Labour MP for Hackney North & Stoke Newington. Mother of the House.
@dawnbutlerbrent.bsky.social
Labour Member of Parliament for Brent East First elected African-Caribbean UK Minister Chair London PLP Vice Chair Women's PLP Author Columnist Great laugh and karaoke queen https://linktr.ee/dawnbutlerbrent
@ianmillerhistor.bsky.social
Author of eight books, most recent "History of Ireland in 10 Body Parts" shortlisted for An Post Irish Book Awards. Senior Lecturer/Historian Ulster University PI Epidemic Belfast Reviews Editor Social History of Medicine www.ianmillerhistorian.co.uk
@burmanphd.bsky.social
Theory & History of Psychology at the University of Groningen (@rug-gmw.bsky.social). Elected fellow of the APA in History 26 and Developmental 7. Elected president of the APA division for History, 2024-2026. Advisor to NWO SSH Roundtable for Humanities.
@alexmendelsohn.bsky.social
Physicist who writes about the psychiatric system. Currently in long-term recovery from generalised anxiety disorder. The Psychiatric Multiverse: https://psychiatricmultiverse.substack.com/ | Personal Blog: https://theanxiousphysicist.com/
@baggieboy21.bsky.social
I’m a partially sighted baggies fan, so every cloud and all that! Dad and husband loves music nearly as much as the Albion
@shelbyzimme.bsky.social
Social historian of medicine, institutions, poverty, and death | PhD from Trinity College Dublin | Based in London
@hanblythe.bsky.social
Research Fellow at LSHTM, affiliated at Birkbeck. Health humanities and history of mental health, charity and the NHS. Former policy person. Trying to play squash.
@rinnywee.bsky.social
| History #PhD Researcher (experiences of patients in the Sussex County Asylum 1890-1913) | #Librarian | Pagan Chaplain | Sussex Uni | Priestess | Ceridwen | Danu | Macha | Banbha | Lilith | Inanna | #MultipleSclerosis | 🇦🇺🇫🇷 in 🇬🇧 |
@manuelmerkofer.bsky.social
historian trying to grasp how we made sense of our minds and tried to cure them #histmed phd student in history of #neurosurgery @UniversitätZürich
@quackdoctor.bsky.social
Writer focusing on the history of medicine, especially patent remedies and fraudsters at thequackdoctor.com and thequackdoctor.substack.com Also co-host of literature podcast @shewrotetoo.bsky.social
@riacheyne.bsky.social
Liverpool-based academic. Disability, medical humanities, genre fiction, neurodiversity, accessibility and inclusion in HE. #DisabilityStudies #MedHums Disability, Literature, Genre book (Liverpool UP, 2019) #OpenAccess at https://shorturl.at/5ykqk
@katemcal993.bsky.social
Historian of Modern British Medicine and Psychiatry ■ Research Associate, University of Kent ■ https://research.kent.ac.uk/buzzers-for-bedwetters/ she/her
@annalisamartin.bsky.social
Historian of gender, labour, sexuality and welfare in modern Germany Postdoc @ Univ of Glasgow
@healthhistory.bsky.social
Historian of health and medicine at the University of Strathclyde. I research mental health, food/nutrition, and immunology/allergy. Cycling, hiking, kayaking, nature, basic income, music, Gaidhlig, Scotland, Canada.
@milkwknives.bsky.social
Drugs & Alcohol Historian | Research Fellow @lshtm.bsky.social | "Kicking the Habit" - Addictive Sponsorship in British Sport | Managing Editor @History of Pharmacy & Pharmaceuticals
@sshmedicine.bsky.social
The Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) has pioneered interdisciplinary approaches to the history of health, welfare, medical science and practice https://sshm.org/ #histmed
@rebeccawynter.bsky.social
Historian of Medicine & Mental Health. Health Humanities @uvahumanities.bsky.social. Mental Health Humanities, Institute for Mental Health, UoBirmingham. Exec Committee @sshmedicine.bsky.social. She/her 🌈🏳️⚧️ #Skystorian #HistPsych #HistMed #HistSTM #Cats
@jadevshepherd.bsky.social
Historian of modern Britain (crime, psychiatry, family); former senior lecturer; research associate at Newcastle University https://www.ncl.ac.uk/hca/people/profile/jadeshepherd.html
@deanothebaggie.bsky.social
Follower of the mighty West Bromwich Albion. Chair of the Warwick Baggies. #WBA
@rehistories.bsky.social
Lecturer and (Public) Historian of Madness, mental ill-health and institutions. University of Huddersfield, Pennine Heritage and the Mental Health Museum.
@irish-abroad.appspot.com
Statistics and live updates for Irish football players around the world #COYBIG #COYGIG
@harbottlestores.bsky.social
- Lecturer in History of Science & Medicine/Senior Teaching Fellow in Medical Humanities at Imperial College London - Headpress promo gal @headpress.com - Fan of nasty films and nasty music - Author (as Jennifer Wallis) -
@peterstefanovic.bsky.social
Lawyer, Filmmaker, Big Issue top 100 Changemaker 2024, CEO CAMPAIGN FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE https://www.cfsj.co.uk/
@joelherman.bsky.social
Research Fellow @virtualtreasury.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social, Houses of Parliament | Historian of the press, publicity, and popular political action in Ireland, America, Britain, and the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World