Dr Ryan Sweet (@ryancsweet) 's Twitter Profile
Dr Ryan Sweet

@ryancsweet

Senior Lecturer in Humanities & Foundation Year Director. Researcher of #prostheses in literature. Co-designer of the #disability #boardgame Legless in London.

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UCU (@ucu) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Congratulations to our Goldsmiths UCU members! By standing together they have not only protected courses & their colleagues’ jobs. They have also saved an institution in danger of burning down its own house.

Dr Franziska Kohlt 🦤 (@frankendodo) 's Twitter Profile Photo

THIS IS NOT A DRILL! So thrilled Alice Through the Looking Glass is out TODAY!🪞All 516 pages of it-38 essays by 42 authors- theologians, art& science historians, translatologists, physicists, literary& film scholars- and poetry! For £28(!!) Get it here: peterlang.com/document/13267…

THIS IS NOT A DRILL! 
So thrilled Alice Through the Looking Glass is out TODAY!🪞All 516 pages of it-38 essays by 42 authors- theologians, art& science historians, translatologists, physicists, literary& film scholars- and poetry! For £28(!!) 
Get it here: peterlang.com/document/13267…
Dr Ryan Sweet (@ryancsweet) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Fascinating stuff in The Times and The Sunday Times: thetimes.com/comment/column…. The real-terms median earnings of grads 1, 3, 5, and 10 years after graduation below. Also notes the growth of creative industries, the lack of jobs in computer science, and the adaptability of humanities grads.

Fascinating stuff in <a href="/thetimes/">The Times and The Sunday Times</a>: thetimes.com/comment/column…. The real-terms median earnings of grads 1, 3, 5, and 10 years after graduation below. Also notes the growth of creative industries, the lack of jobs in computer science, and the adaptability of humanities grads.
Krista Kesselring (@kjkesselring) 's Twitter Profile Photo

So pleased to see this out in the world: a festschrift for Daniel Woolf (Daniel Woolf), co-edited by Matthew Neufeld and with contributions from, e.g., Paulina Kewes. Many thanks to the folks McGill-Queen's University Press for helping us honour such an outstanding scholar. mqup.ca/reckoning-with…

So pleased to see this out in the world: a festschrift for Daniel Woolf (<a href="/woolf_atthedoor/">Daniel Woolf</a>), co-edited by <a href="/mennoslayer89/">Matthew Neufeld</a> and with contributions from, e.g., <a href="/PKewes/">Paulina Kewes</a>. Many thanks to the folks <a href="/McGillQueensUP/">McGill-Queen's University Press</a> for helping us honour such an outstanding scholar. mqup.ca/reckoning-with…
Sam Brady (@sambrady.bsky.social) (@samb24) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Hey! My thesis about development of sport wheelchair technology is available on University of Glasgow's (University of Glasgow) online thesis repository! theses.gla.ac.uk/84497/ Neat! #ParalympicsGB #Paralympics2024 #DisHist #PhDone #History Paralympic Heritage Sporting Heritage

Dr Helena Esser (@esserhelena) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Happy publication day to my book, #Steampunk London! This baby will be interesting for you if you're into #neoVictorianism, urban studies, London history, cultural memory, cyberpunk, video games, New Woman studies, &/or queer Victoriana: bloomsbury.com/uk/steampunk-l…

Happy publication day to my book, #Steampunk London! This baby will be interesting for you if you're into #neoVictorianism, urban studies, London history, cultural memory, cyberpunk, video games, New Woman studies, &amp;/or queer Victoriana: 
bloomsbury.com/uk/steampunk-l…
Royal Historical Society (@royalhistsoc) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Applications are now welcome for our 2025 'History and Archives in Practice' event, held with The National Archives and Institute of Historical Research. Next year's event will be held in London on Wednesday 5 March on the theme of 'Working with Memory': bit.ly/3MepY0r #twitterstorians

Applications are now welcome for our 2025 'History and Archives in Practice' event, held with <a href="/UkNatArchives/">The National Archives</a> and <a href="/ihr_history/">Institute of Historical Research</a>.

Next year's event will be held in London on Wednesday 5 March on the theme of 'Working with Memory': bit.ly/3MepY0r #twitterstorians
James Aaron Green (@jaarongreen) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🚨 One week to go! Flash papers and provocations welcome for what should be a great one-day workshop. RTs also much appreciated

Dr Ryan Sweet (@ryancsweet) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Find out more about the #disability #history and #prosthetics #boardgame Legless in London and the broader project I've been working on with Serious Games & Simulations here: focusgames.com/blog.php?p=leg…. This may be of interest to #Paralympics2024 fans!

Dr Vic Clarke (@vjc_torianist) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I'm over the moon to report that Leeds is getting a new blue plaque, commemorating this important newspaper that integral to the Chartist movement and is a testament to working class literacy and history. We need your help to make it happen! crowdfunder.co.uk/p/a-blue-plaqu…

BAVS Postgrads (@bavs_pgs) 's Twitter Profile Photo

CFP (Extended Deadline): Education and Victorian Sensation Fiction (Due 30/09/24) victorianist.wordpress.com/2024/08/07/cfp…

SSHM (@sshmedicine.bsky.social) (@sshmedicine) 's Twitter Profile Photo

📢5 year post in the Modern History of Medicine (Global History/Colonial History) University College Dublin Closing date 13 September #histmed #twitterstorians jobs.ac.uk/job/DJC356/lec…

SSHM (@sshmedicine.bsky.social) (@sshmedicine) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Organising a conference or workshop on the history of medicine in 2025? Deadline for applications - Tuesday 1 October. Typical awards are from £500 up to maximum of £1,500 [Applicants must be members of the Society] #histmed #histSTM sshm.org/conference-fun…

Dr Emilie Taylor-Pirie (@dretaylorpirie) 's Twitter Profile Photo

My latest article on gut health, technology, modern life, & bodily rhythms in Journal of Medical Humanities for those with #medhums #litsci #c19th interests! link.springer.com/article/10.100… 🍽️⌛️⏱️📡🚽🧠🩺

Dr Ryan Sweet (@ryancsweet) 's Twitter Profile Photo

***Academic job klaxon*** A fixed-term post is available at Swansea University to cover my role as Humanities Foundation Year Director while I'm on leave in Semester 2. Please find all the details here: staff.swansea.ac.uk/human-resource…. Closing date for applications: 30 Sept 2024.

The BSLS (@thebsls) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Call for Organisers: The BSLS Winter Symposium 2024/25 Calling PGRs and ECRs: are you interested in organising a one-day online symposium on a theme of your choosing related to literature and science? Proposals welcome until 25 October! bsls.ac.uk/2024/09/call-f…