🌈 Dr Ross Brooks

Less than 1 week to submit an abstract to the European Geographies of Sexualities Conference! 📣 Deadline: 16 March.

If you research sexualities/LGBTQ+ and space/place, you're more than welcome!

MORE INFO and to submit: sites.google.com/view/egsconf...

Pic: EGSC in Brighton 2024. 🌈🎓

Stone Age woman was buried like a man, revealing flexible gender roles 7,000 years ago in Hungary A study of 125 skeletons from two Neolithic cemeteries in Hungary has revealed that men and women had clear gender roles — but sometimes those roles were fluid.

Stone Age woman was buried like a man, revealing flexible gender roles 7,000 years ago in Hungary www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

COVER REVEAL. Really excited to show off the fantastic cover for my new book Sniff from @yalebooks.bsky.social. It’s a history of smells across time and space and hits the shelves on the 8th September. Pre-order from Yale, your local bookshop, or the usual suspects! yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

International Women's Day 2026: Hidden histories Discover the stories of three women curators, collectors, and designers at The Museum of English Rural Life in the 20th century.

Women curators, designers, and collectors have played a huge part throughout our history at The Museum of English Rural Life.

For #InternationalWomensDay 2026, read about the stories of three women from our earlier years in our new blogpost.

merl.reading.ac.uk/news-and-vie...

Excerpt from Lydia Becker's 1869 article 'On the Study of Science by Women' in the Contemporary Review. It reads: 'When a naturalist seeks to group a number of individuals into a distinct class, he fixes on some character or set of characters common to them all, and distinguishing them from other individuals. When he finds such a group distinctly defined, he calls it a species. But when he finds two individuals differing very widely from each other, yet so connected by intermediate forms that he can pass from one extreme to the other without a violent break any where in the series, he considers them to be of one and the same kind. If we apply this principle as an illustration of the variety in human intellects, taking the conventional masculine type of mind as one end of the scale, and the conventional feminine type as the other, we shall find them connected by numerous intermediate varieties, distributed indiscriminately among male and female persons ; that what is called a masculine mind is frequently found united to a feminine body, and sometimes the reverse, and that there is no necessary nor even presumptive connection between the sex of a human being and the type of intellect and character he possesses.'

Portrait of Lydia Becker by Susan Isabel Dacre. Becker sits in a black dress with a lace neckline with red flowers attached.

Happy #InternationalWomensDay! 👩‍🔬💜

Working on my forthcoming book, finding out about English suffragist and naturalist Lydia Ernestine Becker was a revelation. In 1869, she made an inclusive, science-based case for women's rights. Just awesome! 🤩

#Victorian #women #numerousintermediatevarieties 🌈🗃️

Queer British History – 1714 to 1785 YouTube video by HistoricalAssocUK

Really pleased that my video lecture on queer British history, 1714-1785 is now on YouTube: youtu.be/nTrxX28_dKw?... #HistoricalAssociation #LGBTHistoryMonth #QueerHistory #18thcentury

Awesome! ✨

#histbio #histsci #sts #glams #museums #1920s 🗃️

There is No Consensus on Biological Sex At this critical moment when misinformation about sex is being applied to policy globally, scientific clarification on the definition of biological sex is valuable. Here, we evaluate the primary appr...

New paper out in ecology letters! with @andylee.bsky.social @allydefduf.bsky.social

We synthesized the active debate on how scientists define sex, including limitations and assumptions. We believe this discussion will lead to more accurate science.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Physical Disability and Deformity in Nineteenth-Century Britain Offering historical primary sources that outline both medical and experiential perspectives of physical disability, this book provides frequently mentioned but rarely provided material and supports re...

I have an edited primary source collection coming out on disability and deformity in c19th Britain. My hope is that you find it useful for teaching (apologies for the abstract, I did not write it! and the cost) #histmed #dishist www.routledge.com/Physical-Dis...

It's World Book Day (UK & Ireland)! 🌍📚🤩

For young people brandishing book tokens today, there are are some marvellous queer-themed science and nature books out there . . . 🏳️‍🌈🦆🏳️‍⚧️ 🦋

#LGBTQ #booksky #skybooks #WorldBookDay #WorldBookDay2026 #LoveLibraries #QueerInSTEM

The Cold War and the Soviet KGB's Same-Sex Entrapment Operations in the 1950s and 1960s: The Perpetrator in Focus In August 1963, The New York Times informed its readers that a U.S. citizen had been arrested in the USSR.1 According to the newspaper, the Soviet travel agency Intourist had announced that Bernard L....

This is my first article on Soviet history relied exclusively on declassified American and British archives. It is also my first piece to be reviewed by five peer reviewers. The story of the Cold War, the KGB, and same-sex entrapment that no one has ever written about.
direct.mit.edu/jcws/article...

The Clarendon Building at twilight featuring its coloumns and a muse figure on the roof. The statute appears to be holding up the full moon, creating an optical illusion.

The perfect spot at the perfect time!

Thank you for this fantastic picture of the Clarendon Building, Kshitij Mohan 👏

📸 | kshitijmohan.oxford (Instagram)

Here's a link to the exhibition webpage. It looks wonderful. Congratulations and well done @jonsleigh.bsky.social! 🌈🎨🗃️

www.sheffieldmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/rev... @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social #queer #art #arthistory #glams #museums #Sheffield

Handwritten recipe with title 'Oystar Pie'.

Handwritten recipe for Oystar Pie continued.

Typed transcript of the Oystar Pie recipe

To celebrate British Pie Week, our #ArchiveOfTheWeek is this recipe for oyster pie from about 300 years ago! Up to you whether to make it, or just enjoy the vocabulary, such as caudle and verjuice.

#BritishPieWeek #HistoricRecipe

My piece about the Theory of Evolution being an April Fool that 'got out of hand' contained herein. In the new Viz, out this Thursday!

Free live-streams of the blood Moon lunar eclipse. In Europe, Africa or clouded out? Here's how to see it | BBC Sky at Night Magazine How to watch the March 3, 2026 blood Moon lunar eclipse online. Free live-streams of the whole event from start to finish.

Free live-streams of the blood Moon lunar eclipse. In Europe, Africa or clouded out? Here's how to see it. 🔭🌕🩸🧛

www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/march-3... #nightsky #bloodmoon #lunareclipse

Free live-streams of the blood Moon lunar eclipse. In Europe, Africa or clouded out? Here's how to see it | BBC Sky at Night Magazine How to watch the March 3, 2026 blood Moon lunar eclipse online. Free live-streams of the whole event from start to finish.

Free live-streams of the blood Moon lunar eclipse. In Europe, Africa or clouded out? Here's how to see it. 🔭🌕🩸🧛

www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/march-3... #nightsky #bloodmoon #lunareclipse

Is it the first time seals have been documented killing common dolphins, this just so happening in Wales; or is it that other such killings have been recorded elsewhere, but this is the first time it's been observed in Wales? Tell, me, Josh, or I won't sleep tonight . . . 🤔

Spring 2025 - Orion Magazine The more-than-human world has always been queer.

We’re so proud of the Queer Ecology issue, and honored to be a finalist for best single-topic issue. If you want to get your own for your collection, you can do so here.
orionmagazine.org/product/spri...

The front of a purple booklet. Title reads: Quex House & Gardens Queer Nature Explorer Guide Suitable for all ages The edges of the cover are decorated with drawings of animals, objects and plants, below the text there is the intersex inclusive pride flag.

I wrote a new #QueerNature trail! Come and give it a try this weekend, or join one of the guided tours by yours truly. Includes queer animals, queer plants, and even some fungi 🍄🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

powell-cottonmuseum.org/event/queer-...

Book cover: Writing Queer History by Matt Cook. The title and author's name appear in a pink circle. There are also two black and white photographs relevant to queer history.

Matt Cook's 'Writing Queer History' just missed out on my 'coming soon' list (by a week or so!), but it's definitely a *must read* for all #queerhistory fans . . . 🌈📚🗃️

Deus in Machina: AI and Divine Rhetoric “The urgent message from history concerning the process of forcing the metaphorical deus into his machina is that social domination readily takes up the language of philosophy or religion when seeking...

I have a new essay out today with the North American Conference on British Studies about the oligarchical urge to say that AI is going to become God

www.nacbs.org/post/deus-in...

Book cover: Writing Queer History by Matt Cook. The title and author's name appear in a pink circle. There are also two black and white photographs relevant to queer history.

Matt Cook's 'Writing Queer History' just missed out on my 'coming soon' list (by a week or so!), but it's definitely a *must read* for all #queerhistory fans . . . 🌈📚🗃️

As far as I know, farm archives have never really been used to track queer histories before. Given they mostly record the financial ongoings on a given farm, you can understand why. However, my year of research at The MERL has proved their potential.

Find out more in this blog:

Book cover: A Queer Scrapbook: Britain and Ireland since 1945 by Justin Bengry, Matt Cook, Rebecca Jennings, and E-J Scott. It features colourful 'scraps' of photographs and printed ephemera.

Book cover: Weimar's Queer Visual Cultures, edited by Brigit Lang, Ina Linge, and Katie Sutton. It features a colour painting of a person dancing on a table as others sit watching.

Book cover: Deviants and Trailblazers: A History of Trans Activism in Britain by Rebecca Jane Morgan. It has a blue border with writing in pink and features a black and white photograph of a woman being dragged by the arm by a policeman.

Book cover: How Queer Bookshops Changed the World by A.J. West. It features a picture of a bookshop with a cat and bicycle outside.

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@justinbengry.bsky.social, Matt Cook, @rebeccajennings.bsky.social, E-J Scott, Brigit Lang, Ina Linge, @katielmsutton.bsky.social, @rebeccajanemorgan.bsky.social, & @ajwestauthor.bsky.social. 🏳️‍🌈📚🏳️‍⚧️🗃️ #booksky #skybooks #LGBTHM #lgbthistorymonth

Book cover: Tales of the Suburbs: LGBTQ+ Lives Behind Net Curtains by John Grindrod. It has an orange border with text in black and yellowy orange and features a black and white photograph of two men embracing each other as they stand in a kitchen.

Front cover of I Will Not Abandon You: Queer Women in Nazi Germany by Samuel Clowes Huneke

A book cover, showing the title 'Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation' by Tom Hulme. It is lavender coloured with yellow text, and shows two men sat on a bench, c. 1935.

Book cover: My Bad: A Personal History of the Queer Nineties and Beyond by Hugh Ryan. The bright yellow cover features a marble stature of two men suggestively wrestling, on top of which sits an unspooling mix tape.

LGBTQ+ History Month (UK) is almost over, but #queerhistory is being made all year round! 🌈📚🗃️

Here are just a few fab-looking books that will be published in the coming months by wonderful authors @grindrod.bsky.social, @schuneke.bsky.social, @tomhulme.bsky.social, @hughryan.bsky.social . . . 1/2

this is the ONLY annotation the previous owner made in my second-hand copy of the Sonnets

My Bad A powerful and hilarious personal history that tells the true story of the queer ’90s and how it transformed queer life in the decades that followed.“Dee...

Delighted by my new MY BAD: A PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE QUEER NINETIES AND BEYOND banner! Order the hardcover from @hachetteus.bsky.social's website with the code MYBAD20 and get 20% off www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/hugh-...

Six-planet alignment, February 2026. How to see it | BBC Sky at Night Magazine Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are all present at once, late February 2026. How much of the planet alignment is visible?

'Six-planet alignment, February 2026. How to see it
Another planet parade is visible now. How excited should we be?'

Very. 🤩🪐👽✨

www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/planet-... #nightsky #planetaryparade

Christine Jorgensen visiting the Kinsey Institute in 1953.