Waiting with baited breath for the arrival of my paper copy of Victorian Interdisciplinarity and the Sciences edited by Efram Sera-Shriar 👻 (@dreframss.bsky.social) and Prof. Bernard Lightman. My chapter is kind of about drainpipes but don't let that put you off upittpress.org/books/97808229…

Join Dr. Vanessa Bartlett and I for the UK launch of the #stomachacheproject research network...

Wednesday 24 April, 2pm
The Doctoral School, High Holborn, London University of the Arts London UAL Research.

For more info and how to RSVP 👇🏻

Network grant awarded by Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research, funded by Wellcome

my book BURNOUT is out today with Verso Books - here's an excerpt in The Baffler about why existing theories of 'left melancholy' didn't quite seem to describe the kinds of experiences I was trying to write about

thebaffler.com/salvos/beyond-…

Arrived in the office: RUMBLES: A Curious History of the Gut by Elsa Richardson, a Financial Times most anticipated read for 2024.

Published 9 May by Profile Books & Wellcome Collection and available for pre-order now.

Marianne Moore welcoming me to the first day of a ransomcenter fellowship, author of best animal poem ever that describes the pangolin as a ‘near artichoke with head and legs with grit equipped gizzard’

Rare Spring sunshine and finally holding an actual physical copy of something long confined to a series of badly labelled word docs. Rumbles coming very soon Profile Books Wellcome Collection

Have you ever had a gut feeling? Found something hard to stomach? Gone belly up under pressure...?

Don't miss Elsa Richardson's fascinating new book all about our gut-brain connection and its long history.

#Rumbles is out 9th May 💥Wellcome Collection

tinyurl.com/RumblesBook

Miraculous actual paper copies in production right now. Rubles: A Curious History of the Gut is out May 9th with Wellcome Collection Profile Books. Official launch at the Wellcome Collection, will bother you with details of that soon.

What should I read on race and the history of emotions?

Next week the CSHHH Glasgow will hear from our fabulous new cohort of MHCUK Fellows: Dr Kaija-Liisa Koovit, Dr Luis Bernardi Junqueira and Dr Mia Chen Ma. 4-5.30 Tuesday 20th join us in person in TL324 or email for the zoom details

Excited for our first CSHHH Glasgow seminar of the year as we will be joined by Sasha Handley who will talking about two of my favourite things: sleeping and cooking. But in the Renaissance. Join us Tuesday 16th 4 pm in the Teaching and Learning building (324) University of Strathclyde

Would absolutely love to do this! Failing that perhaps me and British Animal Studies Network🕷🐄 💙 🇪🇺 😷 🦩 can send some of our Fleshy Histories MA students off to Amsterdam...

Putting together a reading list on theories of 'everyday life', got the usual suspects (Michel de Certeau, Lefebvre etc) but anyone got any recommendations for good things published in the last decade?

Putting together an issue of Humanities & Social Sciences Communications 'Modernity and the Gut' with Scottish Gut Project and Dr. Maya Hey (find me at heymayahey.bsky.social). Anyone with a feminist, queer, philosophical, literary, decolonial, historical, social, political, or more-than-human take on the gut please get in touch nature.com/collections/cg…

First time ever on NPR talking about chatty bellies and farting parrots with Colin McEnroe ahead of 'Rumbles' US release next year with Pegasus Books
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First ‘rumbles’ about my new book (sorry). Out May 2024 with Wellcome Collection and Profile Books. A cultural history of the gut featuring cheese dreams, meat demons, tormented terriers, stressed posties, scatologists, alchemists, hunger striking suffragettes and much much more!

Last of this semester's CSHHH Glasgow seminars and it is a real cracker! Join us Tuesday 5th 4-5.30 to hear from Andrew Seaton on his recent book Our NHS: 'A History of Britain's Best Loved Institution'. As usual all welcome, email [email protected] to book for details

Come to our conference in July! SSHM (@sshmedicine.bsky.social)
hosted by CSHHH Glasgow, our theme is 'Resistance' and we have the excellent Alondra Nelson, Rana A. Hogarth, Matt Smith, Martijn van der Meer confirmed and we would love to welcome you to Glasgow so apply! Deadline for abstracts in February.

this afternoon at 4pm! CSHHH Glasgow seminar w/ Grace Redhead

Featuring a chapter from me on interdisciplinarity at the International Health Exhibition. The first and last time drainpipes were displayed for entertainment purposes. Thanks to the excellent Efram Sera-Shriar 👻 (@dreframss.bsky.social) and Bernie Lightman for their editorial prowess! U Pittsburgh Press