Coruscate Counselling
@coruscate.bsky.social
therapist | activist | amateur bookbinder | academic escapee | interests: climate, community, grief, religion, apocalypse, temporalities | Also here for sci-fi & music chat! (she/her) 🏴
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I don't follow many folk, but I do use lists A Lot. I often add followers to lists I've created & keep all lists pinned to my home tab. I also use a 'followers' feed (also pinned) for folk that don't fit lists.
This gives me the best chance to see your posts & engage without feeling overwhelmed. 💜
This gives me the best chance to see your posts & engage without feeling overwhelmed. 💜
Fully agree with 'only cite stuff you've actually read' re: AI in academia, but it needs to be paired with 'give folk proper time to read & reflect'. The pressure to read/write/produce can drive shortcuts. Primarily thinking students here, but also academics, who need proper (paid) research leave.
December 21, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Fully agree with 'only cite stuff you've actually read' re: AI in academia, but it needs to be paired with 'give folk proper time to read & reflect'. The pressure to read/write/produce can drive shortcuts. Primarily thinking students here, but also academics, who need proper (paid) research leave.
I'm a bit embarrassed at how long it's taken me to switch from Spotify to Tidal, I think because I've long had a practice of buying physical versions of repeat listens. But I *do* still stream stuff I own physically, & folk should be paid properly for their work.
December 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I'm a bit embarrassed at how long it's taken me to switch from Spotify to Tidal, I think because I've long had a practice of buying physical versions of repeat listens. But I *do* still stream stuff I own physically, & folk should be paid properly for their work.
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Our Scottish Albums of the Year list: a bit loud, a bit tender, lots of dancing, some sad bits, 10 great records from another great year in Scottish music...
www.theskinny.co.uk/music/opinio...
@mogwai.scot @dancerband.bsky.social @kathrynjoseph11.bsky.social
www.theskinny.co.uk/music/opinio...
@mogwai.scot @dancerband.bsky.social @kathrynjoseph11.bsky.social
The Skinny's Scottish Albums of 2025
We take a moment to celebrate the wealth of music that's come out of Scotland this year, as we celebrate ten of the best Scottish albums of the past year.
www.theskinny.co.uk
December 8, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Our Scottish Albums of the Year list: a bit loud, a bit tender, lots of dancing, some sad bits, 10 great records from another great year in Scottish music...
www.theskinny.co.uk/music/opinio...
@mogwai.scot @dancerband.bsky.social @kathrynjoseph11.bsky.social
www.theskinny.co.uk/music/opinio...
@mogwai.scot @dancerband.bsky.social @kathrynjoseph11.bsky.social
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Little boys. 💕 Postcard from my collection, unsent, 1902.
December 10, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Little boys. 💕 Postcard from my collection, unsent, 1902.
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December 8, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Personally, I choose not to use GenAI/ChatGPT & variants for ethical and environmental reasons. In my personal life I do judge folk who use it casually.
BUT, in my therapy work I hold a far more neutral position on folk using it, and I think it's important to be clear on why. (1)
BUT, in my therapy work I hold a far more neutral position on folk using it, and I think it's important to be clear on why. (1)
December 9, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Personally, I choose not to use GenAI/ChatGPT & variants for ethical and environmental reasons. In my personal life I do judge folk who use it casually.
BUT, in my therapy work I hold a far more neutral position on folk using it, and I think it's important to be clear on why. (1)
BUT, in my therapy work I hold a far more neutral position on folk using it, and I think it's important to be clear on why. (1)
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anyone got any advice on the following situation? I wrote and did a big chunk of the admin for a large MRC grant which also also awarded. I am named in the Staff breakdown on the grant as "researcher co-lead" with 100%FTE, and I am mentioned by name as "postdoctoral researcher Maria Niedernhuber"
December 9, 2025 at 1:37 PM
anyone got any advice on the following situation? I wrote and did a big chunk of the admin for a large MRC grant which also also awarded. I am named in the Staff breakdown on the grant as "researcher co-lead" with 100%FTE, and I am mentioned by name as "postdoctoral researcher Maria Niedernhuber"
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Recently at a Q&A, the chair asked me an excellent question: Why do you push so hard against the idea of a ‘nature cure’ when moments in your book Drystone - A Life Rebuilt might look like exactly that?
The answer is simple.
#Reading #Writing #NatureWriting #Nature #Scotland #Books
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Recently at a Q&A, the chair asked me an excellent question: Why do you push so hard against the idea of a ‘nature cure’ when moments in your book Drystone - A Life Rebuilt might look like exactly that?
The answer is simple.
#Reading #Writing #NatureWriting #Nature #Scotland #Books
December 6, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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If you're local, please sign and share a petition to create an exclusion zone for protests around the asylum seekers accommodation in Falkirk:
c.org/NZ7MGf7Wsg
c.org/NZ7MGf7Wsg
Sign the Petition
Protect Local Residents: Exclusion Zone at Cladhan Hotel & Kemper Avenue
c.org
December 4, 2025 at 9:07 PM
If you're local, please sign and share a petition to create an exclusion zone for protests around the asylum seekers accommodation in Falkirk:
c.org/NZ7MGf7Wsg
c.org/NZ7MGf7Wsg
Reform are holding their conference on my doorstep this weekend, under the guise of 'ease of parking', but the reality is that Falkirk has been ripe for Reform influence for years. This last year of Cladhan Hotel protests is just it being more visible. We need support here to help push back.
By no coincidence, Farage and reform are coming to Falkirk on the 6th of December for their Scottish Assembly. On the same day local organisations and unions have organised a unity march and rally 😏
December 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Reform are holding their conference on my doorstep this weekend, under the guise of 'ease of parking', but the reality is that Falkirk has been ripe for Reform influence for years. This last year of Cladhan Hotel protests is just it being more visible. We need support here to help push back.
Honestly, this.
We aren't limited to two separate choices here. It isn't one or the other. He gets to be both. Two things get to be true: he was racist then, he is racist now.
What actually matters is what are we going to do about it *now*.
We aren't limited to two separate choices here. It isn't one or the other. He gets to be both. Two things get to be true: he was racist then, he is racist now.
What actually matters is what are we going to do about it *now*.
really getting fed up with the Farage's Schoolboy Racism stuff - he is still that racist, he's just slightly polite about it, and that current racism is a million times more dangerous but the media refuse to call it out
December 5, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Honestly, this.
We aren't limited to two separate choices here. It isn't one or the other. He gets to be both. Two things get to be true: he was racist then, he is racist now.
What actually matters is what are we going to do about it *now*.
We aren't limited to two separate choices here. It isn't one or the other. He gets to be both. Two things get to be true: he was racist then, he is racist now.
What actually matters is what are we going to do about it *now*.
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Deck your posts with stunning alt text, fa la la la la, la la la la 🎁
December 3, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Deck your posts with stunning alt text, fa la la la la, la la la la 🎁
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We have a cover! 🪶
December 3, 2025 at 10:34 AM
We have a cover! 🪶
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* CURRENTLY RECRUITING *
Do you have experience of hearing loss? Do you regularly listen to music? If you can answer yes to both questions, then we would like to hear from you.
This study is concerned with understanding the link between everyday music listening, mental health & wellbeing.
1/4
Do you have experience of hearing loss? Do you regularly listen to music? If you can answer yes to both questions, then we would like to hear from you.
This study is concerned with understanding the link between everyday music listening, mental health & wellbeing.
1/4
December 3, 2025 at 10:26 AM
* CURRENTLY RECRUITING *
Do you have experience of hearing loss? Do you regularly listen to music? If you can answer yes to both questions, then we would like to hear from you.
This study is concerned with understanding the link between everyday music listening, mental health & wellbeing.
1/4
Do you have experience of hearing loss? Do you regularly listen to music? If you can answer yes to both questions, then we would like to hear from you.
This study is concerned with understanding the link between everyday music listening, mental health & wellbeing.
1/4
This is such a joyful thread. Worth saving for whenever you need a shot of wonder to counter all the horror. 💜
trying to think of good UK-Based Nature Phenomena. so far I got:
- starling murmurations in Somerset
- bluefin tuna jumping in Cornwall
- salmon jumping in NE England
what else. more ideas pls. ideally ones which aren't jumping fish
- starling murmurations in Somerset
- bluefin tuna jumping in Cornwall
- salmon jumping in NE England
what else. more ideas pls. ideally ones which aren't jumping fish
December 3, 2025 at 10:22 AM
This is such a joyful thread. Worth saving for whenever you need a shot of wonder to counter all the horror. 💜
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This cross-pollination IS how new ideas happen. EVERY field needs humanistic thinking, that's why they call PhDs "Doctors of Philosophy"
Alt text for those who need it. This is amazing.
December 2, 2025 at 11:38 AM
This cross-pollination IS how new ideas happen. EVERY field needs humanistic thinking, that's why they call PhDs "Doctors of Philosophy"
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Last year his estate donated the royalties for Last Christmas to his charity that offers funding for LGBTQIA+ orgs and they said they'd do it again this year. Listen to it loads!
Listening to Last Christmas because it is an all-time banger and George didn't die on Christmas Day for you to disrespect his memory by participating in Whamageddon
December 1, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Last year his estate donated the royalties for Last Christmas to his charity that offers funding for LGBTQIA+ orgs and they said they'd do it again this year. Listen to it loads!
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Designed in my brain with movable type, vintage printing plates and linocut, and printed on a tiny press by hand, taking five impressions to print each card. Each has unique details making them one-off.
No AI, just real art made by a real person.
Last chance for shipping next week!
No AI, just real art made by a real person.
Last chance for shipping next week!
Hi! Would you like some of my lovely Christmas cards?
I still have a small number of packs available and sending out a couple of times a week.
You can find them here:
ko-fi.com/s/1af2e209ad
I still have a small number of packs available and sending out a couple of times a week.
You can find them here:
ko-fi.com/s/1af2e209ad
November 29, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Designed in my brain with movable type, vintage printing plates and linocut, and printed on a tiny press by hand, taking five impressions to print each card. Each has unique details making them one-off.
No AI, just real art made by a real person.
Last chance for shipping next week!
No AI, just real art made by a real person.
Last chance for shipping next week!
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I was diagnosed with #HIV in 1998, when I was 30.
Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50.
I’m 58 now.
HIV treatment works.
Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex.
Ensure HIV treatment for all.
End HIV stigma.
#WorldAIDSDay
Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50.
I’m 58 now.
HIV treatment works.
Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex.
Ensure HIV treatment for all.
End HIV stigma.
#WorldAIDSDay
December 1, 2025 at 8:46 AM
I was diagnosed with #HIV in 1998, when I was 30.
Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50.
I’m 58 now.
HIV treatment works.
Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex.
Ensure HIV treatment for all.
End HIV stigma.
#WorldAIDSDay
Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50.
I’m 58 now.
HIV treatment works.
Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex.
Ensure HIV treatment for all.
End HIV stigma.
#WorldAIDSDay
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Hoping some historians can help me.
Are there any primary sources from the founding fathers who were openly anti slavery justifying the 3/5 clause?
I’m interested in seeing how they personally, if at all, they considered it temporary or a lesser of two evil.
Are there any primary sources from the founding fathers who were openly anti slavery justifying the 3/5 clause?
I’m interested in seeing how they personally, if at all, they considered it temporary or a lesser of two evil.
November 30, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Hoping some historians can help me.
Are there any primary sources from the founding fathers who were openly anti slavery justifying the 3/5 clause?
I’m interested in seeing how they personally, if at all, they considered it temporary or a lesser of two evil.
Are there any primary sources from the founding fathers who were openly anti slavery justifying the 3/5 clause?
I’m interested in seeing how they personally, if at all, they considered it temporary or a lesser of two evil.
"We make our own sacred spaces — spaces on no maps — through repeated rituals of resistance whose meanings stretch beyond borders. Because our “grief knows no borders.”"
Another vital offering from @cbmilstein.bsky.social which is well worth the time. 💜
Another vital offering from @cbmilstein.bsky.social which is well worth the time. 💜
Today is the official start of my season to urge the abolition of Xtian supremacist holidays.
Reclaim sacred, heretical, liberatory spiritual practices, stolen for 500+ yrs by colonialism, capitalism, states & yes, Christianity.
itsgoingdown.org/ritual-as-re...
kolektiva.social/@cbmilstein/...
Reclaim sacred, heretical, liberatory spiritual practices, stolen for 500+ yrs by colonialism, capitalism, states & yes, Christianity.
itsgoingdown.org/ritual-as-re...
kolektiva.social/@cbmilstein/...
Cindy Milstein (they) (@[email protected])
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Today is the official start of my season to encourage the abolition of Xtian supremacist holidays.
Let’s reclaim our sacred, heretical, liberatory spiritual practices, stolen for ...
kolektiva.social
November 27, 2025 at 1:58 PM
"We make our own sacred spaces — spaces on no maps — through repeated rituals of resistance whose meanings stretch beyond borders. Because our “grief knows no borders.”"
Another vital offering from @cbmilstein.bsky.social which is well worth the time. 💜
Another vital offering from @cbmilstein.bsky.social which is well worth the time. 💜
I have always loved Cara Dillon's version of 'Black Is The Colour', but I just heard the Nina Simone version there and damn, it just lands differently from Nina. 💜🔥
November 27, 2025 at 12:42 PM
I have always loved Cara Dillon's version of 'Black Is The Colour', but I just heard the Nina Simone version there and damn, it just lands differently from Nina. 💜🔥
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How is this not the top story on every news bulletin?
This has been happening for years and instead of doing anything to protect children successive governments have made the situation worse. This isn't just on councils. It is part of failings on a State level.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
This has been happening for years and instead of doing anything to protect children successive governments have made the situation worse. This isn't just on councils. It is part of failings on a State level.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
More then 2,000 trafficked children and lone child asylum seekers missing from UK councils’ care
Charities say vulnerable young people are being failed by local authorities, the police and central government
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:43 AM
How is this not the top story on every news bulletin?
This has been happening for years and instead of doing anything to protect children successive governments have made the situation worse. This isn't just on councils. It is part of failings on a State level.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
This has been happening for years and instead of doing anything to protect children successive governments have made the situation worse. This isn't just on councils. It is part of failings on a State level.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Still spaces available for our wee online 'Shelf Care' Silent Book Club, Tues 25 Nov, 7-9pm (UK GMT) on zoom.
All types of 'reading' are welcomed - all you need is something to read! 💜
Free to attend:
buytickets.at/coruscatecom...
#BookSky #ReadingCommunity #SilentBookClub
All types of 'reading' are welcomed - all you need is something to read! 💜
Free to attend:
buytickets.at/coruscatecom...
#BookSky #ReadingCommunity #SilentBookClub
November 24, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Still spaces available for our wee online 'Shelf Care' Silent Book Club, Tues 25 Nov, 7-9pm (UK GMT) on zoom.
All types of 'reading' are welcomed - all you need is something to read! 💜
Free to attend:
buytickets.at/coruscatecom...
#BookSky #ReadingCommunity #SilentBookClub
All types of 'reading' are welcomed - all you need is something to read! 💜
Free to attend:
buytickets.at/coruscatecom...
#BookSky #ReadingCommunity #SilentBookClub
(Note to self: Step away from that capitalism hot take thread. I repeat, step away from that capitalism hot take thread. No-one needs your therapist/nuance bullshit over there and you have Other Stuff To Do. 🙄)
November 24, 2025 at 12:52 PM
(Note to self: Step away from that capitalism hot take thread. I repeat, step away from that capitalism hot take thread. No-one needs your therapist/nuance bullshit over there and you have Other Stuff To Do. 🙄)