the babies are sleeping (mostly) through the night, I’m getting back into my work stride, we’ve perfected the morning/nursery drop off routine…I finally start to feel like i’m getting a handle on twin motherhood…. & then the dog starts having panic attacks! 🤦🏻‍♀️

🔓🔓My article on 'Sugar' in Victorian Literature and Culture 's 'Keywords Redux' issue is now available Open Access. It outlines how sugar got into Britain's cultural bloodstreams as well as our literal ones in the 19thC. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

British Historian of Science, Charles Singer on the #twocultures debate (24 Aug 1920) "I think it must have been the devil that put it into the stupid heads of our generation that there was some division in the interests of art, science & the humanities" #litsci #medhums

Haunting Ecologies is out in the world! Our senior researcher Ursula Kluwick’s new book on the agential capacities of various forms of water in Victorian literature! 🌊💧🚿🧊🌫️

So much scholarship on Sherlock Holmes but who's writing about Arthur Conan Doyle insisting (completely seriously) in 1926 that "every police station in the future will be furnished with a clairvoyant" making crime "impossible". 😶 Is this the inspo for The Mentalist? 🤔

Sometimes I think past vernacular is perfectly accessible & then other times: "owing to Sir Ronald’s 'Once aboard the lugger and the calculus is mine' temperament, and the disposition of primmer temperaments to throw cold water on all the doings of their natural opposite." 🤷‍♀️

In the modern, misinformation-prone world, I’m really questioning the wisdom of the acronym PHEIC—Public Health Emergency of International Concern (pronounced: “fake”) 😬 #scicomm

Petition to rename "cold-blooded" animals, animals with "dark frigescent blood" a la Erasmus Darwin. #thetempleofnature #litsci

Not a journal sending me proofs for an article—at 9 o’clock at night—asking me to return them in TWO working days! If I work part-time do my own “working days” get taken into account… #academia

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… 🍽️⌛️⏱️📡🚽🧠🩺

So she was first author on his key paper - in fact she's on most of his key papers, yet she didn't get the Nobel Prize, in spite of the fact they could have given 3 awards, not just 2. Explain to me how STEM is not institutionally sexist.

The Review of Reviews (1894) How to Teach Children to Play- "it is of the utmost importance that young children be trained how to play, not only that their health & tempers may be improved [...]for the development of physical, mental, & moral manhood & womanhood." how Montessori

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Fun fact! "The responsibility of the parent" was also the argument used in the 1860s against state schools...as in, it was the responsibility of the parents to educate their own children. Is this guy as against educating kids as he is against feeding kids?

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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…

My next read is definitely going to be Jerome de Groot 's "Double Helix History" 🧬 I wonder if there's discussion of the DNA emoji, which is clearly deemed important to public comms (other markers of the body are missing e.g. the stomach) #medhums #litsci bsls.ac.uk/2024/10/de-gro…

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