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Rebecca Wynter

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Historian of Medicine & Mental Health. Health Humanities @uvahumanities.bsky.social. Co-convenor Mental Health Humanities Researcher Network https://mhhrn.bham.ac.uk/. Policy Officer @sshmedicine.bsky.social. She/her 🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #Skystorian #HistPsych #HistSTM

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Rebecca Wynter @rebeccawynter.bsky.social · Apr 16

Taps the sign 👉 Nobody's free till everybody's free.

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Alt: fannie lou hamer with microphone, with the words if i fall i'll fall - five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom

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Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 14h

so Google just added a bunch (more) AI bullshit to Chrome

Go through these steps to disable it:

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#chrome #aibullshit

How to Remove AI From Your Google Chrome Experience - Opus

Follow these steps to resist the AI-pocalypse in your everyday web browsing.

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Rebecca Wynter @rebeccawynter.bsky.social · 5h

Storyville has some amazing documentaries atm, centred on brilliantly brave women. If you haven't already caught The Librarians and Black Box Diaries, make time to view them.

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Black Box Diaries - Official UK Trailer

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Rebecca Wynter @rebeccawynter.bsky.social · 16h

2:283 #3GoodThings

1) Physiotherapists
2) Just absolutely lovely colleagues going out of their way to support me
3) WEEKEND!

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Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · 28d

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW
CUSP: Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Cultures
Volume 3, Number 2, Summer 2025
Special Cluster: Cosmopolitanism on the Cusp
#S2O #OpenAccess via @ProjectMUSE
tinyurl.com/yamapeh2

CONTRIBUTORS
Shinjini Chattopadhyay
Joshua Brorby
Tim Clarke
Yasmin Akhter
and more!

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Rebecca Wynter @rebeccawynter.bsky.social · 19h

Oh, great! Conor's article on 19thc women coaches and women's fitness is fabulous.

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Vanessa is the name of the Doctor! @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 20h

Throwing this into the #skystorians feed - chance to win what is sure to be an excellent book.

Conor Heffernan @physcstudy.bsky.social · 1d

To mark the release of my new book, When Fitness Went Global: The Rise of Physical Culture in the Nineteenth Century (Bloomsbury, 2025), I’m giving away a copy.

To enter:
💪 Repost
🌍 Comment with your favorite strength tradition

I’ll pick a winner next week.

#StrengthHeritage #SportHistory

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Dutch News @dutchnewsnl.bsky.social · 21h

The universities’ warning comes as the government prepares new legislation to limit internationalisation, including rules requiring most degrees to be taught in Dutch.

"Cutting foreign student numbers will hit Dutch economy hard" - DutchNews.nl

Limiting the number of international students coming to the Netherlands for a degree course could cost the Dutch economy up to €4.8 billion, five major universities have warned. Erasmus University in…

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Tom Hulme @tomhulme.bsky.social · 23h

New article just published from the ‘Queer Northern Ireland: Sexuality before Liberation’ project. Charlie lays out in brilliant (and often depressing) depth how the complex forces of psychiatry and religion shaped the responses to male homosexuality in the decades after WWII.

Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social · 23h

“I knew that homosexuality was a sin - I didn’t want to be homosexual. I went to my G.P and said I had read Freud’s book on dreams, that I suffered from homosexuality, and that I would like to change.”

My new article now out in Irish Historical Studies:

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Between sickness and sin: models of male homosexuality in Northern Ireland c.1960-1990 | Irish Historical Studies | Cambridge Core

Between sickness and sin: models of male homosexuality in Northern Ireland c.1960-1990

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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 1d

Today is World Mental Health Day. Through the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH), you can research the history of mental health. BBIH’s free reading list on the history of emotions highlights some recent scholarship on the history of mental health in the UK and Ireland buff.ly/OK5HSbu

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National Survivor User Network @nsunnews.bsky.social · 1d

On #WorldMentalHealthDay, we once again ask whether sanitised awareness days are truly the solution to decades of chronic underfunding of statutory services, and the social and material conditions that continue to drive distress.

www.nsun.org.uk/when-world-m...

When World Mental Health Day is over, we will still be Mad

Each year, NSUN and its members witness the fleeting spark of attention which awareness days attract quickly fizzle back into inaction.

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Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick @mrcwarwick.bsky.social · 1d

On #WorldMentalHealthDay we're sharing a leaflet from the TUC archive encouraging nurses to take a break. The leaflet also highlights the dangers of work place stress and exhaustion. Be fair to yourself! #histnursing #histmed #archives #MRCArchives

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Page from 'Off Duty' dated 1937. Headed 'Self-sacrifice' it is illustrated with a picture of a stressed looking nurse alongside a patient. Part of the text reads 'be fair to yourself - and you will be fair to your patients'. There is also a photograph of nurses standing next to a statue of Florence Nightingale.

Photograph of two nurses taking a well-earned tea break. Captioned 'Off duty'.

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 1d

Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today.

Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology

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Whitchurch Hospital Historical Society @whitchurchhospital.bsky.social · 1d

#WorldMentalHealthDay

Looking after our #mentalhealth is important every day

#MentalHealthMatters
#MentalHealthAwareness
#WMHD
#WMHD2025

The Mental Health Foundation was founded by Derek Richter (📷wiki) in 1949. He was Director of the Neuropsychiatric research Centre at Whitchurch Hospital

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Tips to manage overwhelm from the Mental Health Foundation

A portrait photo of Dr Derek Richter, wearing a pin stripe jacket, shirt and tie. Photo from Wikipedia

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Hallie Rubenhold @hallierubenhold.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely love this post. Another example why we need to study history from the bottom up, not necessarily top down.

Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 2d

In @thetimes.com letters page today

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Rebecca Wynter @rebeccawynter.bsky.social · 1d

💫New on the updated website for the Mental Health Humanities Research Network, our occasional 'Meet the Researcher' slot features Dr Grace Lucas💫

Want to join the Network and gain space for your own profile? Read on 👇

mhhrn.bham.ac.uk/2025/10/meet...

#MHHums #MHHRN #MedHums #Interdisciplinary

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Christina Wilkins @stinaface.bsky.social · 1d

It's World Mental Health Day. I wrote something briefly on male mental illness on television for The Conversation to mark it: theconversation.com/the-evolutio...

The evolution of male mental health in television

The differences between portrayals in the UK and US suggests different understandings of masculinity and expectations of male mental health.

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Justin Salhani @justinsalhani.bsky.social · 1d

Israeli attacked a residential building in Gaza City and, according to Al Jazeera, killed and injured more than 70 civilians with most of them still under the rubble.

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Rebecca Wynter @rebeccawynter.bsky.social · 1d

2:282 #3GoodThings

1) Found something I'd lost
2) Singing
3) New simple (!) Ottolenghi recipe, tweaked for practicality and less salt/added paprika. Twas lovely

Yotam Ottolenghi’s recipes for one

Three ideas for solo meals: za’atar salmon baked in tahini, fried rice spiked with slow-cooked ginger and garlic, and roast sweet potato and feta in a piquant tomato sauce

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404 Media @404media.co · 1d

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

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Petra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social · 1d

The British Newspaper Archive now includes Jackie and I was delighted to note problem pages in prominent position blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2025/10/06/j...

Hot Off The Press – New Titles This Week

We welcome iconic best-selling teen magazine Jackie to The Archive. Browse every single edition of the weekly magazine for girls, from 1964 through to 1993.

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Stuart McDonald @actuarybyday.bsky.social · 1d

First Covid wave for 12 months is well underway. Hospital admissions are already higher than last year's peak, but are much lower than we were seeing in earlier waves.

There will be weekly surveillance reports through the winter months here:
www.gov.uk/government/s...

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Rebecca Wynter @rebeccawynter.bsky.social · 1d

I'm spending way too much time addressing random stories and people in the media by asking "What's wrong with you?!"

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Alice Marples @alicemarples.bsky.social · Sep 11

All arts and humanities approaches welcome!

- 'Dispersal of Manuscripts From the Cotton Library'
- 'Libraries, Literacy, and Learning in Leeds'
- 'New Sources & Perspectives on Sarah Sophia Banks'
- 'Cold-War Socialism, Non-Alignment & Anti-Colonialism in Yugoslav Press, 1961-1979'

Alice Marples @alicemarples.bsky.social · Sep 10

Absolutely delighted to invite applications from prospective HEI supervisors for four Collaborative Doctoral Partnership opportunities, to start October 2026.

Deadline for applications Fri 28th Nov, 5pm.

Further details below and here: www.bl.uk/services/res...

Collaborative Doctoral Partnerships

The Collaborative Doctoral Partnerships scheme offers PhD studentships fully funded by the AHRC and supervised jointly by a university and the British Library.

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Inquest @inquest.bsky.social · 2d

"When feminist struggles enter phases of rapprochement with the state, they throw Indigenous, 'deviant,' Black, sexualized, sex-working women and other gender minorities under the bus." @reproutopia.bsky.social talks with Aya Gruber about truly abolitionist feminism.

Leaning In to State Violence - Sophie Lewis interviewed by Aya Gruber - Inquest

In ‘Enemy Feminisms,’ philosopher Sophie Lewis engages with the feminism of racists, colonizers, fascists, cops, and jailers to better understand what a truly liberatory politics needs to look like.

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 2d

Wes Streeting extended the puberty-blocker ban on 6 November 2024.

Leia died by suicide on 11 November 2024.

17-year-old trans girl's suicide over NHS wait times was preventable says coroner

A 17-year-old trans girl's death by suicide over NHS wait times could have been prevented with swift intervention, a coroner has ruled.

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