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Medical Museum Curator at TCD, queer #deathpositive artist, childfree cat-lady, based in Dublin, Ireland. Aspiring sociologist writing about death, mortality, and display. 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 🐈‍⬛🪶📚📷💀🎨 www.evinumen.com www.thanatography.com Views, my own.
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If you are a cis person *please* take 2 minutes to do this. Trans people with non-updated gender markers, historical gender marker changes, and X markers are terrified to travel right now; rolling back this policy would mean a lot.

F. Sandeman: the Black and the White. 2025.

Pass it on

by Agostino Arrivabene

The art world tends to favour self-promoting extroverts, but it is often the eccentrics and wallflowers who make the most interesting work – Hettie Judah mounts a defence of the retiring artist https://buff.ly/4b4RvwY...

We have many expressions for the pain of loss—heartache, a broken heart, a punch in the gut. These aren't just figures of speech; grief is both an emotional and physical experience. In today’s episode, why grief hurts. Listen here 🎧: https://buff.ly/4bbMqCI

The tenants' union CATU has compiled a list of Ireland's Top Evictors, which really should be a spin-off RTE show like Ireland's Fittest Families: topevictors.ie

THIS.

Ok, an object which demonstrates my passion for death history. A fragile Delftware plate titled ‘You and I are Earth. 1661’ It was found in a sewer and went into the collection of @londonmuseum.bsky.social #skystorians

Ancient critters

Emergency Food, TB Tests and H.I.V. Drugs: Vital Health Aid Remains Frozen Despite Court Ruling. Story by @stephanienolen.bsky.social Gift link: nyti.ms/3CMMSeg

WE HAVE A BOOK COVER!! To pre-order, use the following link: nursingclio.org/the-nursing-...

A sweeping exhibition of works by the acclaimed American painter Amy Sherald, best known for her portraits of Michelle Obama and Breonna Taylor, is coming to the Whitney Museum this spring.

Update in anti-science and health: NIH Office of Research on Women’s Health shut down the initiative on “Sex and Gender”..here is a special volume from its earlier work. www.sciencedirect.com/journal/soci...

Biologists on biology: “The biology of sex and gender makes it very clear,” Lents says. “These are not hard categories with clear definitions.” Yep. www.sciencenews.org/article/biol...

We’re hearing from multiple sources that center directors at CDC and/or NIH may be let go tomorrow. We are hoping this is just a rumor- passionate, dedicated leadership is needed during this time. We’ll keep you updated as we learn more.

🧵1/7: What is Immunological Amnesia? Immunological amnesia refers to the immune system’s loss of memory to previously encountered pathogens. This phenomenon is notably triggered by measles infection, which can erase immune protection against other diseases.

View of the ribs and internal organs from Francis Sibson's book, Medical anatomy : or, illustrations of the relative position and movements of the internal organs (c.1869). The coloured lithographs are by William Fairland and JB Leveille. #histmed #anatomy

I can hear this image 🫣

If I'm not mistaken, this is the same #ossuary depicted here:

As someone with an above-average love for both rare books and tiny things, today has now turned into a great day.

Important kitten update:

Look in the top right-hand corner! We have several copies of Paolo Sarpi's 'History of the Council of Trent' from 1619, but this one was owned by a certain Jonathan Swift who wrote his name on the title page.

One side of this "memento mori" features a human face crawling with worms and insects; the other side shows a skull - the flesh eaten away. Date unknown. This unusual object is from the Wellcome Collection in London.

Ooooh 😍

"...targeting a minority for political points" "Transgender people are entitled to safety like everyone else." "By allowing this hatred to go unchecked, we open the door for more and more groups to be targeted, until they finally target you or your loved ones" Beir Bua @jennymaguire.bsky.social 👏

Eliza Gilbert (aka Lola Montez), born #OTD 1820, had a life so colourful it can’t be captured in one post - she carried a bullwhip, pursued Franz Liszt, crashed a male-only banquet to dance on the tables and toasted a mob with champagne & chocolate. www.dib.ie/biography/gi... #DIBLives

Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring (German physician and anatomist) used this illustration to argue that corseting lead to tuberculosis, cancer and curvature of the spine. He advocated instead the wearing of pantaloons and other loose clothing

#RandomActsofKindnessDay Consider taking a moment from your day to encourage #kindness – pay it forward to someone else, however small the gesture. 📷 ‘Irish hospitality - a kindly Irish woman handing out sandwiches to the troops on their arrival in Cork’, 1922; catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls0...

GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references. Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.

| ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄| It benefits the far-right if Nazi Germany is viewed as an anomalous outlier rather than an ethno-nationalist model |___________| (\__/) || (•ㅅ•) || /   づ #HistorianSignBunny

📢 Access to birth control in Ireland & challenges faced by women & men in navigating religious doctrine & the law vs social justice & health care on @newstalkfm.bsky.social panel made up of @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social @jenniferredmond.bsky.social @earner.bsky.social & me. @whaireland.bsky.social

Arguing for the importance of archiving - especially now, as we generate a myriad digital records daily... by @richove.bsky.social director of @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social "There is no political power w/o power over the archive..." www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

This photo is a powerful representation of mid-century medical education, emphasizing the dedication and learning involved in the field of surgery and nursing. The scene represents a time when medical education relied heavily on direct observation and hands-on experience.

While allegorical maps have a long history stretching back millennia, heart maps for the hills and valleys of love can be traced back to seventeenth-century France.

We are also rather fond of these hearts in our collection 🫀🧵 Repost your favourite! #ValentinesDay #MuseumValentine #Archivalentine #thisIsTrinityMed 1. Cardiac Anatomy, A system of Anatomical Plates of the Human Body, John Lizars, F.R.S.E, Edinburgh, 1822

Happy #ValentinesDay! 🫀 We are absolutely in love with this colourful illustration of the circulatory system from the "Atlas of Human Anatomy and Physiology" by William Turner M.R.C.S., Edinburgh, 1857, in our book collection. #MuseumValentine #ArchivalValentine

DO NOT OBEY IN ADVANCE —this it #history you are erasing and FUCK you

Some good news!

The Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine is an annual international award for an unpublished poem on a medical subject. Entries are open until Feb 14! #poetry #health #medicine #humanities www.hippocrates-poetry.org/enter-the-hi...

www.popularmechanics.com/science/arch...

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science 🧪👩‍🔬

You can't make this up.

Yaaaayy.... :/ www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

If you missed last Fridays #RTENationwide which told the fascinating story of Grangegorman in Dublin - Go to shorturl.at/2HKiw now! #GrangegormanHistories

An FBI official urged the American Academy of Forensic Sciences to cancel a conference presentation titled “Taking on the FBI.”

I've started to take apart the first EO on Sex and Gender. I'm doing it in easy-to-digest bites. Here's part 1. open.substack.com/pub/sterling... #transrights #feministsky #lgbtSTem #transSTEM #womeninscience