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Today #MuseumWeek has a theme of movement. So, how about bowel movements? Specifically, keeping them regular. More specifically this Kellogg's All Bran promo from the museum's collection that makes taking a dump look like a slice of Norman Rockwell Americana. #MovementMW

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#MuseumWeek has AI as its first theme. Medicine and healthcare is one of the few areas where large language models can clearly do a lot of good. But even so, it's worth exercising some caution. Hence the "side effects" warning on this box of "AI pills" from our You Choose exhibition. #AImuseumsMW

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Not sure if the decluttering trend of "if it had poo on it, would I clean it or throw it out?" has value for museum rationalisation and disposal, but it does present some difficulty when the object is itself both made of poo and designed for cleaning. 💩🧼

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After rates of blood donation plummeted during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Japanese Red Cross adapted the tradition of goshuinchō (stamps and calligraphy seals collected at Shinto shrines by pilgrims and tourists) to reward people who gave blood.

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I have written many healthcare stories, but never before have I written about my own health. I decided to do so after learning one of my drugs costs nearly $1,000 a pill and just 25 cents to make. What I found was an incredible story of discovery and exploitation. www.propublica.org/article/revl...

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All aboard! This is (we think) a train drawn by Charles Meade in 1884, who was then 3 years and 8 months old. If you've got a better interpretation for what this is, please let us know.

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At the university for the launch of the LivingBodiesObjects toolkit and there's the digital remnant of our old exhibition, long outliving their physical counterparts.

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Thank you to #pintofscience for allowing me to ramble about dog blood transfusions, Russian tram crashes, and beer being too pricey. (And then pretend all that was relevant to the downer ending of the infected blood scandal). I had a lot of fun. #pintofscienceleeds

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International Museum Day yesterday emphasised the theme of community. Our own community here in Harehills and East Leeds have been writing poetry at the museum as part of a writing group. Their work recently went on display, adding to the array of different voices that speak in our museum galleries.

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To celebrate International Museum Day this week, here’s our round-up of brilliant UK medical museums we want to visit: -The Old Operating Theatre -The Surgeons' Hall Museum -The Thackray Museum -MED-Lab at W5 Belfast Have you been? #GeneralPractice #PrimaryCare #TeamGP #museums

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Convenient to see this poster pop up on the poster drum we use to practice reading on the way to school just at the time when her phonics lessons have introduced different ways to say "oo".

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This blood transfusion apparatus was taken by allied servicemen from the aviso Grille, Adolf Hitler's state yacht, after the war ended. Decades later the museum bought it at auction. Our Blood exhibition is about connections, but it is also about how blood has been used to divide and discriminate.

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On Saturday we'll be sharing some of the international stories behind our exhibition of blood, connections and division, alongside our partners @hematopolitics.bsky.social and the Korea Leukemia Patients Organization. Come along, it's free. thackraymuseum.co.uk/event/inside...

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Lovely bank holiday weekend in Sherwood Forest, getting our four year old to understand the charms of Robin Hood. (Yes, she has brought home a toy bow and arrow).

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If you're not sure what to do this Bank Holiday weekend, why not pop down to the Thackray Museum of Medicine and check out this exhibition, including art installations by Gemma Wood, that forms part of our colleague @jinikim.bsky.social Hematopolitics project. thackraymuseum.co.uk/event/blood/

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In the 1960s unscrupulous American for-profit blood banks were known as offering "booze for ooze". Apropos of nothing, I'm talking about our latest exhibition at Pint of Science on May 21st. pintofscience.co.uk/event/power-...

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OPEN LETTER: HISTORIANS FOR TRANS RIGHTS Are you a historian in the UK or working on UK history fed up at seeing the history of LGBTQIA+ discrimination repeat itself? Sign this open letter to MPs demanding they stand up for trans rights now! Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn

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Image of trepanation by 16thc Spanish medic Franciscus Arceus. After the operation, Arceus recommended plastering the wound with a combination of turpentine, suet and lard

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This weekend we'll be hosting this fascinating panel on human remains, collecting them, preserving them, displaying them, and the associated ethical choices.

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We’ll be at Be Curious this year! Come and explore our stall on blood donation and discover all the great research happening in Leeds. We can’t wait to share what we’ve been working on with you! More details here: www.leeds.ac.uk/becurious

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In the 1960s unscrupulous American for-profit blood banks were known as offering "booze for ooze". Apropos of nothing, I'm talking about our latest exhibition at Pint of Science on May 21st. pintofscience.co.uk/event/power-...

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We can't believe it: the ninth (9th) episode in our podcast series has dropped! This time Dr Mike Finn, Director of our Museum, chats about psychiatry and how the modern science of neurology was inspired by research in a Yorkshire asylum... #histmed #histSTM open.spotify.com/episode/2o43...

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Enjoying the authentic Black Mirror Common People experience of Netflix crashing every time it gets to one of the ads our cheap ass subscription tier demands but can't really handle.

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Oh sure but when I pitch that column idea it’s ’upsetting your colleagues’ and ‘a bit weird that you keep bringing that up every week’

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The museum's put out a really pretty good statement on being a safe space for all genders. I'm pleased by how unequivocal we're being. thackraymuseum.co.uk/statement-fr...

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EXTENDED DEADLINE We've extended the deadline on our call for papers to midday (BST), 2 May 2025. Please share widely!

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Who needs generative AI? Toys, dolls and figures of people in medical history already exist in real life.

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Lots of the visitors to our Blood exhibition have been sharing their own stories of giving and receiving blood. I like to imagine that these two Christmas ones are two halves of the same story. (And that the "special patient" saved by a Christmas transplant was Santa)

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Proper Eglinton Tournament weather at the Royal Armouries jousting.

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They said the same things 100 years ago and they’ll say the same things 100 years from now.

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The Thackray company made instruments for Harold Gillies, the "father of plastic surgery". In the 1940s and 50s, Gillies performed the UK's first gender affirming surgeries. Gillies gave trans woman fighter pilot and race car driver Roberta Cowell this country's first vaginoplasty surgery in 1951.

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Have you checked out our new Digital Exhibition? Curated and designed by @claireturner.bsky.social, the exhibition examines how differences in our blood influence our identity. There are even opportunities for you to donate your own blood stories! hematopolitics.org/digital-exhi...

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The Blood exhibition's youngest contributor takes an interest in the work of children on the other side of the world.

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Medical practitioners in 17th century Edinburgh were often at loggerheads. Here's 6 metres of grievances by the surgeons about the apothecaries for having the audacity to "practice the art of chirurgery". Suffice to say they were absolutely livid! #Archive30 #SomethingBig

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On the radio talking about our Blood exhibit. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

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City centre businesses in Leeds say 'infuriating' construction projects and roadworks are putting their future at risk. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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EVENT Sat 5 April 2025 (10.30am): Thackray Insights: Blood Relations. Join us as we explore how people make sense of who should donate blood for whom and why. Featuring our very own @jinikim.bsky.social and Dr Ros Williams (Sheffield). Please share! thackraymuseum.co.uk/event/thackr...

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Want to help make sure my Number 2 exhibition of the year is the shit and not just shit? We're looking for artists, designers and creatives to work on our family exhibition all about poo. Follow this link: thackraymuseum.co.uk/about-us/des... #medicalmuseum #exhibitiondesign #museumdesign

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