How did people describe the brain before computer metaphors? Charles S. Sherrington in 1942 called it "that enchanted loom where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern."

The Victorian Novel & the Health Humanities ONLINE SEMINAR 16 Oct 2024 5pm-6:45pm BST Speakers: Sally Shuttleworth, Andrew Mangham, Anne Stiles. Free registration: eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-victoria…

Ooh! Publishing on Thursday, The Ghost Stories of Wilkie Collins. These covers get better & better & look at those endpapers, so ghoulishly pretty. Edited by Xavier Aldana Reyes, cover by Mauricio Villamayor & Mag Ruhig. #GildedNightmares

Don’t care where Angela Rayner stayed during her holidays. What’s being done to fix the NHS, Schools, Universities, Railways? Ffs British media. Get your act together.

BAVS NAVSA folks! – if you would like to listen to Sally Shuttleworth, Anne Stiles, & Andrew Andrew Mangham in an online seminar on “The Victorian Novel and the Health Humanities” on Wednesday 16 October, 5–6:45pm (BST), please register for free here: tinyurl.com/y2pjuupw

Famous anatomist Andreas Vesalius dies on this day, 15 October, in 1564, and that makes today #WorldAnatomyDay. To celebrate, here's a 17th century anatomical flap diagram from the RCP Heritage Library, recently digitised and now brought to life. history.rcp.ac.uk/blog/exactly-r…

Slightly shy about posting this. But I took on Sir Jonathan Bate in the Scotsman this week. I love some of his critical writing, but he’s wrong when he says that state school students have lost the ability to read long books. They just need adaptable, realistic curricula.

Sophie Franklin Sophie Franklin has written a blogpost for the BMJ Medical Humanities blog introducing her DOROTHY MSCA COFUND project on the "violence as contagious" narrative. blogs.bmj.com/medical-humani… HealthHumanities UoR English Literature and Creative Writing @UoR

That speech Michelle Obama just gave was one of the best of this entire cycle. She is unbelievable. Here’s how she brought it home.

Very happy to share our new Winter webinar series poster for Literature and Science (theme is "Medical and Digital Humanities)! All are welcome to attend (via Zoom)! Arya Aryan Sophie Franklin Literature and Science 🤖🤖🤖#literatureandscience #digitalhumanities

Join CNCSI on Thursday #Halloween  from 9.45-5pm (Central European Time) for all or parts of the day for Horror and Nature in the C19! Our many amazing speakers: Jon Joan Passey Ellie Dobson Daisy Boooootcher 👻, Matthew Wynn Sivils & Dr Janette Leaf 🪲 🐝👻 🌊👩‍🦰: cn-csi.com/event/2024-nat…

Hospital league tables are nasty, simplistic, retrograde & counterproductive. They will demoralise staff, generate cultures of fear & fail to value all that is unquantifiable in healthcare - kindness, compassion, humanity, discretionary effort. My piece: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

📢Join us for Stephanie Stratton's talk on bodily dissection 🦴🧠& mesmerism 😵‍💫 in 19th-century lit (27 Nov., 5 pm UK time) Zoom Link: cesnet.zoom.us/j/99864417129?… Dr Curtis Runstedler Sophie Franklin #medicalhumanities #19thcentury #mesmerism #realism #literature #aryaaryan #medicine

Delighted to be a part of this fantastic new book from Gail Marshall: tinyurl.com/2nyvsmzc

We are thrilled to release the CFP for ‘Unquiet Shores’, a hybrid conference at Edinburgh Napier and online, which we will be hosting in collaboration with the wonderful team at Danse Macabre — send us your abstracts on apply coastal acoustics! haunted-shores.com/unquiet-shores…

“There is no friend as loyal as a book,” Hemingway said. Reliance on Instagram influencers can only get you so far. We still need Our Mutual Friend. theguardian.com/education/2024…

CFP for our 2025 PGR Migration Conference on 20/06/2025 at the University of Sheffield More information on how to submit your work 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇 sheffield.ac.uk/migration-rese…

Where do I spend my Saturday afternoons? My local library. As well as a supportive environment for reading, books & knowledge, they are places that give the community a warm place in the winter and even hot drinks for those that need it. Libraries really are pillars of our local

Looking forward to our seminar series starting in just under a month!