Ruth Beecher
Historian (mainly of medicine and child abuse), sea swimmer, greyhound guardian from the People’s Republic of Cork
@traumasupervision.bsky.social
#Psychodynamic #Psychotherapist #Psychologist #SocialWork #Researcher #Feminist -interested in amplifying marginalised voices,relational working,systems change,social justice,sexual violence,MVAWG,class,material realities,sexuality,critical thinking
@michaelbroussard.bsky.social
Playwright, poet, storyteller, and performing artist. Mental health activist. He/Him/They/Them. Neurospicy. Subscribe to my newsletter: michaelbroussardarts.beehiiv.com sexabusesurvivor.com
@clareshawpoet.bsky.social
Poet. I love moss, mudlarking and broken things. Proud to be Northern, non-binary and neurodivergent.
@asylummatters.bsky.social
A national charity working to improve the lives of refugees and people seeking asylum through social and political change.
@dranastevenson.bsky.social
| anastevenson.phd | feminist historian + ISG @ UFS | ✍ social movements + women in politics + AcLits 📚 | @auswhn.bsky.social + #VIDAblog | archivingsocialmovements.com | 🗳 The Suffrage Postcard Project | 🗺️ Mapping Monuments | 🎼 blockflute ♫♬♫ | 😷 |
@disability-history.bsky.social
@auswhn.bsky.social
~ https://www.auswhn.com.au/ ~ the Australian Women’s History Network (AWHN) promotes research, writing + advocacy in feminist, gender + women's history + publishes the peer-reviewed Lilith: A Feminist History Journal + #VIDAblog ~
@janetweston.bsky.social
Historian in London for money (histories of modern British health, mental illness, law, and such: I wrote a book called 'Looking after Miss Alexander'). Mediocre musician & gardener in north Wales for fun. Vegan, cyclist, likes both cats *and* dogs.
@sonia-sodha.bsky.social
Columnist & broadcaster. Presenting for BBC Radio 4, news reviews for This Morning & Sky News. Highly commended/shortlisted Society of Editors' Commentator of the Year 2023 & 2024.
@recovery-histories.bsky.social
Recovery Histories is a project that investigates the histories of child sexual abuse, trauma and recovery in Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales (1950s to present day). It is co-produced with survivors and practitioners and funded by Wellcome.
@histchild.bsky.social
Official account of the Children’s History Society - Exploring and sharing the diverse history of children, childhood and youth. https://www.histchild.org/
@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
@drhick.bsky.social
Environmental & medical historian at Newcastle University - hospitals, gardens, landscapes, senses, inclusive interpretation, story teller.
@drdouglassmall.bsky.social
Drug Historian. Author of ‘Cocaine, Literature, and Culture, 1876-1930’. Histories of Victorian medicine & science. #c19th #medhums he/him 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Website: https://douglassmall.com
@bshsnews.bsky.social
The British Society for the History of Science is Britain's largest learned society devoted to #HistSTM #HSTM #HistSci. Handled by Comms Officer: Alexander Stoeger
@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.
@jonathansjones.bsky.social
Asst. Prof. of History at James Madison University | US Civil War era, History of Medicine | Author of Opium Slavery: Civil War Veterans & America’s First Opioid Crisis (preorder: https://tinyurl.com/opiumslavery) | proud #firstgen | jonathansjones.net
@drjamesbrown.bsky.social
Recovering early modern historian, now professional services at the University of Sheffield. Enthusiastic about: intoxicants and the supernatural; the digital humanities; public engagement, KE, and impact; project management; folk horror; 📷; 🏋️.
@dorotadias.bsky.social
anthropologist/historian: alcohol, drinking culture, excess, addiction, gender. PI in the NCN_PL funded projects www.womenandalcohol.net and www.boundariesofdrinking.pl Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology PAS Warsaw
@lilachambers.bsky.social
Historian of Race, Slavery, Commodification, Consumption, Intoxication in the Early Modern Atlantic | Research Fellow @CaiusCollege
@wine18thcirl.bsky.social
Food historian. Independent Researcher. Drinking studies, material culture, gastronomy. Author of "Honest Claret": The Social Meaning of Georgian Ireland's Favourite Wine (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2022).
@zoe-dubus.bsky.social
English account ! French PhD in history of medicine. Post-doc at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. Psychotropic drugs, psychedelics, medicine, 19th - 21st centuries. Totally woke Website: https://dubuszoe.wordpress.com
@himeshmehta.bsky.social
PhD Student at the University of Warwick - Researching the History of the Psychedelic Renaissance in 20th/21st Century Britain
@hagenilda.bsky.social
cultural historian of medicine & the occult 1200–1700 | welsh | precarious | palaeographer | ocd | neurodivergent | dogs | karaoke | food | ucu nec | ucu commons | cofounder MadCovid | she/her agent: Fabienne @kiagency.bsky.social www.ki-agency.co.uk
@kristinwh0.bsky.social
Historian of sex, gender and medicine 🪴 she/her Horror fan ⚰️ tattoo connoisseur 👻 mother of cats (Salem and Binx) 🐈⬛♥️ #histmed #genderhistory #histsex 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸
@durhamimh.bsky.social
Improving health by understanding hidden experience. Supported by Wellcome. durham.ac.uk/imh medhumsplatform.org
@madraspondy.bsky.social
History ABD at Duke Writing a diss on consumer spaces & material culture in early modern Madras & Pondicherry 🍷🖼️🌴🕰️
@angelamcshane.bsky.social
Historian of 17th cent polito-pop, intoxicants and material culture Now Hon Reader at Uni of Warwick Formerly Head EM Studs V&A/RCA History of Design Head of Research Wellcome Collection Finishing a book and slightly insane as a consequence.
@majben.bsky.social
Historian at C2DH (University of Luxembourg) Mainly publishing on the history of psychiatry and the history of the financial place in Luxembourg
@judithweisenfeld.com
Scholar of African American religious history and religion and race in America Director: @xroadproj.bsky.social Website: https://www.judithweisenfeld.com/ Most recent book: Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery's Wake (NYU 2025)
@igorstudart.bsky.social
MD | Psychiatrist @uspoficial | Phenomenology and History of Psychiatry
@elianders.bsky.social
Historian of medicine and public health, singer, podcast enthusiast, Lecturer at Princeton
@mxmcadam.bsky.social
Executive Editor for Humanities and History of STM at Johns Hopkins University Press
@adamquinn.bsky.social
History PhD candidate @ University of Oregon and union member (AFT 3544). Writing a labor & environmental history of the computer industry. Comms & organizing with EWOC.
@sauthoff.bsky.social
Historian of rasaśāstra (Sanskrit alchemy) and tantra. Researches: medicine, gender, sexuality, religion, history of science and technology. Assistant Professor at HKBU. News junkie with a journalism past. https://hkbu.academia.edu/PatriciaSauthoff
@helenking.bsky.social
Sort of retired (not), Professor Emerita, The Open University. Classics, history of medicine/the body/gynaecology. Writer, blogger, C of E lay preacher, chair of Together on General Synod (formerly Gender & Sexuality Group). She/her. Likes flowers.
@profrichardson.bsky.social
Aramont Professor of the History of Science and Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University More about my work at https://scholar.harvard.edu/srichard/
@antiquatedmeds.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies @unlv.bsky.social. Author #MastersofHealth: slavery & racial science in #MedEd @uncpress.bsky.social. Editor #Medicine&Healing in the Age of Slavery @lsupress.bsky.social. views mine
@doravargha.bsky.social
Prof. of History and Medical Humanities at @exeter.ac.uk , @humboldtuni.bsky.social & MPIWG.bsky.social . Berlin. Connecting Three Worlds, Socialist Medicine, After the End. Occasional stress baking.
@surliertexan.bsky.social
Taking the scenic route through life. Formerly: PhD in the history of science @Harvard. Currently: Foraging in the woods, tarot, & other historical shenanigans Tarot readings, historical research, writing & editing, tutoring, & consulting at drturners.com
@susanrensing.bsky.social
Historian of science, medicine, & gender | Health Equity | Reproductive Justice | Bluegrass & Tallgrass
@sscottgraham.bsky.social
Currently: on fellowship for a global study of anatomical museums. Usually: Writing about health, ethics, and technology at UT-Austin. https://sscottgraham.com
@17cmedicalwomen.bsky.social
PhD-ing at York on '17C Private Diseases'. Aspiring historical fiction writer about women medical practitioners and their adventures in 17C London.
@beckhistorian.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 they/them 🗃️ PhD in progress at CHSTM @ University of Manchester ♿️ History of white canes in twentieth century Britain 🧑🦯➡️ #DisHist 🌳 I have an egg called Dippy and we go on adventures together
@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
@hhakosalo.bsky.social
Historian of medicine and health. Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oulu, Visiting Fellow (2023‐24) at the University of Cambridge
@hanspols.bsky.social
Interested in community mental health all over the world, but in particular in Indonesia and Australia. Also chickens. History of medicine.
@re-histories.bsky.social
Lecturer and (Public) Historian of madness, mental ill health and LD. Manchester Metropolitan University, Pennine Heritage and the Mental Health Museum.
@lisamalich.bsky.social
Professor for the history of psychology, University of Lübeck, Germany, Research interests: history of knowledge, history of sex & gender, Psychological Humanities, hormones, psychotherapy