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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. Policy Officer @sshmedicine.bsky.social. She/her 🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #Skystorian #HistPsych #HistMed #HistSTM #Cats

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Rebecca Wynter @rebeccawynter.bsky.social · Apr 16

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

fannie lou hamer singing into a microphone with the words if i fall i 'll fall freedom

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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Justin Salhani @justinsalhani.bsky.social · 7h

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 · 7h

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 · 12h

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...

www.404media.co

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Petra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social · 12h

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.

blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk

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Stuart McDonald @actuarybyday.bsky.social · 12h

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 · 13h

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 · 28d

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 · 29d

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.

www.bl.uk

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Inquest @inquest.bsky.social · 15h

"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.

inquest.org

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 15h

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.

www.thepinknews.com

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Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick @mrcwarwick.bsky.social · 17h

In 1968, against the backdrop of the Race Relations Act and Powell's 'Rivers of Blood' speech, local Birmingham groups campaigned against racism and in support of civil rights

The archives of activist Margaret Stanton capture some of the grassroots activities mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/MSP/...

Ticket for the inaugural meeting of the Birmingham Area Civil Rights Campaign.

Photograph from the Birmingham Post, 6 May 1968, captioned 'A grim struggle for the police as they link arms to hold back the large crowd of demonstrators in Victoria Square, Birmingham, yesterday during the Prime Minister's visit'. The most visible placard says 'Would you let your daughter marry Enoch Powell'.

Letter sent to newspaper editors in August 1968 by the Birmingham Committee of the International Year for Human Rights. It deplores "the recent recommendations of the Birmingham City Council that all immigration into the city should be stopped, and we affirm that this policy is both morally wrong, and unworkable in practise. We remind the Council that the prosperity of this great city has been built on a long tradition of welcoming immigrants of all races. ... The proud motto of Birmingham is "Forward". Let the Council abandon its present backward-looking policy, and go forward to lead the nation in creating a society in which all races can work together in harmony."

Circular issued by the Birmingham Area Civil Rights Campaign Steering Group in 1968. It identifies four main fields of activity for the newly formed Birmingham Area Civil Rights Campaign: education, research, community action and political activity.

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Rebecca Wynter @rebeccawynter.bsky.social · 18h

Excellent work, Maaike! Will pass your kind words along :)

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Slava Greenberg 🩼🏳️‍⚧️✡️🇺🇦 in 🇳🇱 for 🍉 @slavagreenberg.bsky.social · Aug 19

Friends, colleagues, comrades, I hope to share more about the journey of working with the dysphoria archive for the past 6 years, but for now, I am overjoyed to announce that
GENDER DYSPHORIA: AN UNATHORIZED BIOGRAPHY
is now under contract with @uminnpress.bsky.social
@lpennywark.bsky.social!

🪬🏳️‍⚧️🧿🩼

BOOK PUBLICATION AGREEMENT
Memorandum of Agreement
This Agreement made this nineteenth day of August, 2025
by and between: Slava Greenberg
(hereinafter the "Proprietor") and

the Regents of the University of Minnesota (hereinafter the "University")

regarding (tentatively titled):
(hereinafter the "Work")
Gender Dysphoria: An Unauthorized Biography

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Heather Burns @heatherburnstech.bsky.social · 19h

Policy peeps - I want to write something about the UK’s ECHR/HRA Article 8 review in the private communications context, but I don’t really want to put it on my personal blog. Who’s up for it?

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UK Data Service @ukdataservice.bsky.social · 19h

💡 Did you know we run a free introductory training series every spring and autumn to introduce different aspects of the UK Data Service?

Our next workshop is on ethical and legal guidelines in data sharing:

📅 16 October 2025
⏰ 10:00-11:30
📍 Online
🧷

Ethical and legal guidelines in data sharing - UK Data Service

16 Oct 2025 @ 10:00 am - 11:30 am - Data management is essential to make sure that well-organised, well-documented, high quality and shareable research data can be produced from our research…

ukdataservice.ac.uk

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 19h

Make no mistake. Those who spearheaded the Gaza genocide will try to relaunch it in a more ruthless manner, at the earliest opportunity.
They will fail only if there will be an alternative vision, one of recognition, life and equality for everyone.

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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus @drtedros.who.int · 20h

I welcome President Trump's announcement about the ceasefire in #Gaza & hostage release. It is a big step towards lasting peace for both Israelis & Palestinians. I hope all parties will respect the agreement, so the suffering of all civilians finally ends & all hostages are brought home respectfully

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Rebecca Wynter @rebeccawynter.bsky.social · 19h

The #Amsterdam Time Machine - new and developing public research tool about the history of Amsterdam, its geography, streets, people, and more. Launched by @uvahumanities.bsky.social and digital colleagues, in this, Amsterdam's 750th birthday year🥳

#UrbanHist #HistGeo #DutchHist #SocialHist 🗃️

Amsterdam Time Machine

Navigeer door het verleden van Amsterdam

uva.shorthandstories.com

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MancHSTM @manchstm.bsky.social · 8d

If you're interested in history or social studies of mental health and illness, psychology or psychiatry, and are in Manchester on 16 October, please join us for our first Mind, History & Society Seminar, a conversation on the future of the #autism concept.

blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0...

Mind, History and Society Seminar, 16 October 2025

The Future of the Autism Concept Discussants: Dr Bonnie Evans and Professor Jonathan Green

blogs.manchester.ac.uk

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Rebecca Wynter @rebeccawynter.bsky.social · 19h

HUGELY underappreciated specialists (and magicians) - 100% with you! Hoping they can help this time...

Rebecca Wynter @rebeccawynter.bsky.social · 21h

👍👋 out of cast - hoorahhhh - which think also did some damage, and have physio to come. Thanks for checking in x.

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Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · 1d

"Information Sick" explores how misinformation erodes public health—and how new media innovations can help create healthier communities.

https://ow.ly/zJQk50X8xzS

The book "Information Sick: How Journalism's Decline and Misinformation's Rise Are Harming Our Health—and What We Can Do About It" by Joanne Kenen, Lymari Morales, and Joshua M. Sharfstein in an outdoor setting.

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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 1d

Cast your vote in our Annual General Meeting before midnight on 31 Oct: buff.ly/aczpS66

You can help shape the Trust now and for generations to come so that we remain a place for everyone, for ever.

A photo of a young boy in a blue waterproof coat looking up through a pair of binoculars at something unseen in the surrounding woodland scene. Text overlay reads: "have you cast your vote yet? Make your voice count in this year's AGM"

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Rebecca Wynter @rebeccawynter.bsky.social · 1d

My occasional seasonal prod for those who can, to get the covid and flu vaccines. There are people walking around who are immuno suppressed, who are going through cancer treatment, or a myriad of other therapies or conditions. Protect yourself, protect them.

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 1d

Quakers: the OG challengers of violent Christian nationalism

Friends Journal @friendsjournal.org · 9d

Many of the men and women in the first generations of the Religious Society of Friends spent time imprisoned for challenging the intertwined religious and political power structures of England.

When you take on the world’s ruling powers, persecution comes with the job.

quaker.org/2025/09/29/s...

A portrait of John Perrot, a 17th-century Friend who was held in an insane asylum by the Vatican for several years after he tried to convince the pope to abandon Catholicism. (Since he spoke no Italian, and the pope spoke no English, the meeting went poorly.)

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Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social · 1d

So great to see the special issue on "Invasive Species, Global Health, and Colonial Legacies" that @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social & I edited published today! A big thanks to all contributors & to JHMAS editors & reviewers for their support & guidance in this process academic.oup.com/jhmas/issue/...

Volume 80 Issue 4 | Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences | Oxford Academic

Publishes original research on the written beginnings of medicine in all its aspects. It focuses on what practitioners of the healing arts did or taught, and how their peers, as well as patients, rece...

academic.oup.com

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