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Jill Turner

@jillhturner.bsky.social

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M. Occ Therapy (Curtin, Perth WA) 50+💃 jillturnerarts.com 📖 📚 Researching neurodiversity, creativity, and wellbeing for ALL young folk. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy trained. Poetry, painting. PLAY Wadjuk Noongar Country.

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Jill Turner @jillhturner.bsky.social · Jan 23

The best book 📚 I have recommended frequently to young people (and their families).The DNA-V model is based on evidence based Contextual Behavioural Science. The exercises are immediately effective and the illustrations are wonderful. Start here and Move towards What Matters using your talents.
#ACT

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Jill Turner @jillhturner.bsky.social · 5h

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Bauxite Mine or Baudin's Cockatoo?

#vote
#Australianbirdoftheyear2025

Australian bird of the year 2025: vote for your favourite #birdoftheyear in the Guardian / BirdLife Australia poll

From little penguins to (very big) cassowaries, every bird has its fans. Vote for your favourite in the 2025 Guardian/BirdLife Australia poll

www.theguardian.com

Jill Turner @jillhturner.bsky.social · 5h

Migrating birds.
David Jones department store Christmas Decorations 2025.

Jill Turner @jillhturner.bsky.social · 21h

Business as usual.

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The Cosmic Shambles Network @cosmicshambles.com · 1d

The next Latitude panel going up is a #BookShambles with @robinince.bsky.social and @bechillcomedian.bsky.social chatting to @luciaoc.bsky.social about her hugely important book The Lasting Harm. Podcast version out next week, video for Patreon's tomorrow. Subscribe here - patreon.com/cosmicshambles

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 1d

Had an absolute blast in Bristol - I love performing so much Robinince.com

Robin Ince | Comedian | Writer | Broadcaster

Robinince.com

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Jill Turner @jillhturner.bsky.social · 2d

Spring in the back yard
AUSTRALIA 🇦🇺 🪃

#GARDENING #SEEDS #GRAPEVINE

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Jill Turner @jillhturner.bsky.social · 1d

Could humans and AI become a new evolutionary individual? | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

#genAI

PNAS

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

www.pnas.org

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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 2d

Curious about where science meets poetry?

Science Communication through Poetry is an online course exploring how creative language can make research more human and engaging.

Only a few places left. Register here:
napier.ac.uk/study-with-u...

#SciComm #Poetry #AcademicSky #SciArt 🧪

Science Communication through Poetry

At Edinburgh Napier University, we nurture talent and create knowledge that shapes communities all around the world.

napier.ac.uk

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Nick @gardenwizard.bsky.social · 2d

I’m out in the garden collecting seeds before this storm rolls in. The temperature is supposed to drop this week, but as of today I’m still seeing monarchs here in New York. #bugsky #bloomscrolling #gardening #butterfly #zinnia #catskills

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Jill Turner @jillhturner.bsky.social · 2d

open.substack.com/pub/jeanette...

My Uni Psychology dept Royal Holloway had a strong reductionist cognitive analytical bias in 1990. Success was Stastistical prowess and 'proving your hypothesis right' in the shortest amount of time. No room for the phenomenological or feminist...

#psychology

Passion or Process?

How to find what you love...

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Jill Turner @jillhturner.bsky.social · 2d

Spring in the back yard
AUSTRALIA 🇦🇺 🪃

#GARDENING #SEEDS #GRAPEVINE

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Jill Turner @jillhturner.bsky.social · 2d

theotstore.com.au/collections/...

Tools and tips for efficiency...
Treat yourself with respect.

Routine & Predictability

The OT Store supplies resources for children's learning and development and is Australian owned and operated. All of our products are tested and recommended by qualified Paediatric Occupational Therap...

theotstore.com.au

Jill Turner @jillhturner.bsky.social · 2d

If a psychiatrist - a person in a position of Authority and Power - and has Control of the report writing, perhaps their own 'neurodivergent traits' have worked well in their favour from a 'career dominance' perspective. Typical medical model, reductionist, left brained, analytical thinking ...

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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 2d

LIAR (Love Isn't A Right) is out on Friday. Not long to go until you can listen to my new album! Pre-save it now to get it in your library on release day ☀️
ttikaram.lnk.to/LIAR

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Jill Turner @jillhturner.bsky.social · 2d

substack.com/@poemz/note/...

"Your life matters... don't lose Hope... "

#JaneGoodall #restorenature
#Act

Amy King (@poemz)

Dr. Jane Goodall recorded this interview in March 2025, with the understanding that it would be released only after her death. #drjanegoodall

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Jill Turner @jillhturner.bsky.social · 2d

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Vote Every Day! 🦤

#birdoftheyear #birding #bird_captures #birdwatchingAustralia
#wildlifephotography

Australian bird of the year 2025: vote for your favourite #birdoftheyear in the Guardian / BirdLife Australia poll

From little penguins to (very big) cassowaries, every bird has its fans. Vote for your favourite in the 2025 Guardian/BirdLife Australia poll

www.theguardian.com

Jill Turner @jillhturner.bsky.social · 2d

birdlife.org.au/news/bird-of...

Bauxite or Baudin's?
Vote with your beaks and claws!

#birdoftheyear #birding #bird_captures #birdwatching #wildlifephotography
#endangered #Australianbird
#birdseyeview

Bird of the Year 2025: Baudin's Black-Cockatoo - BirdLife Australia

Western Australia’s most endangered black-cockatoo, Baudin’s Black-Cockatoo, is in the running for Bird of the Year.

birdlife.org.au

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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 20d

Lover Don't Come Around, the last single from LIAR (Love Isn't A Right) is out now! 🎉
This song makes me feel like a teenager, it’s such fun to play! Hope you enjoy it too!
Watch the lyric video to learn it before the tour, I'll see you soon!
Love, Tanita

Listen now: ttikaram.lnk.to/LDCA

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Jill Turner @jillhturner.bsky.social · 2d

I struggle to comprehend how any human can deliberately and knowingly murder innocent people, including thousands of children. But the Milgram Experiment [1963] - gives us insight into to human behaviour.
youtu.be/8bbVFeTIIg8?...

#Palestine #milgram #genocide