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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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British Psychological Society @bpsofficial.bsky.social · 6h

This #BlackHistoryMonth, we celebrate Dr Waveney Bushell.

As the UK's first Black female educational psychologist, she championed Black children’s education & paved the way for future generations.

Read her inspiring story: www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

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Liam J. Liburd @liamliburd.bsky.social · 6h

York people, I'm giving a paper at the Uni History Department's research seminar on Wednesday 15 October. Particularly keen for feedback from historians of crime, historical criminologists, and criminologists.

An Accidental History of Prisons and Race in Late Twentieth Century Britain

Join us for research seminars hosted by the Department of History with a selection of visiting academics, alongside University of York researchers. All students and staff are very welcome.

www.york.ac.uk

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 7h

I’ve just learned that John Searle, whose Chinese Room thought experiment is often used to challenge ideas of “understanding” in LLMs, died at age 93 on Sunday. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

John Searle obituary

American philosopher whose Chinese Room thought experiment rebuts the idea that computers can think as humans do

www.theguardian.com

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Corinne Fowler @corinnefowler.bsky.social · 9h

1. On political gaslighting. Yesterday Jenrick defended his comments on Handsworth by lashing out at 2 pieces of work I was centrally involved with to imply it's people like me who are divisive, not him...

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 1d

New collections added, part 1

• Jura Poster Archive (Australia)
• Antifa-Rundbrief (Germany)
• Antifaschistisches Infoblatt (Germany)
• Hope Not Hate (UK)
• James Brown African American Room Newspaper Collection (US)
• Kommunistische Volkszeitung (Germany)

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Rebecca Wynter @rebeccawynter.bsky.social · 10h

I don't 100% recognise the 'woo-hoo conference' characterisation here, but do recognise that is spoken from a position of privilege. A thought- and action-provoking read about the damage of academic conferences and their place in a cis-white-male-built university structure 👇🗃️

Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 1d

A new piece by us up on Substack: "Against Colonial Conferencing," where we reflect on the akademic conference circuit as an integral part of the global tourism industry, as well as the destruction of Native Hawaiian and Palestinian lands and knowledge.

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Against Colonial Conferencing: A w4g screed against the phenomenon of academic conferences in general

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October 07, 2025

If you are thinking of visiting my homeland, please don’t. We don’t want or need any more tourists, and we certainly don’t like them. If you want to help our cause, pass this message on to your friends. Thank you.

“Lovely Hula Lands” by Haunani Kay-Trask

Recently, the Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) announced that it will be convening its 2026 annual conference in Honolulu, Hawai‘i.

The call for proposals describes Hawai‘i as a “space, place, and time through which to collectively reflect on, respond to, and reckon with settler colonial and U.S. imperial desires and designs that continue to shape everyday life and futures.” So far, neither the participants nor the conveners appear to see a contradiction between the theme of the conference and its very material and environmental impact, in which hundreds of primarily North American scholars and their families will flock to a place that is actively under U.S. colonial military occupation.

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Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 7d

Stand by for photos from my visit to the amazing Musée du Service de santé des armées at Val-de-Grâce, Paris. First up, the helmet invented by Bercher and Ginestet for the treatment of facial and jaw injuries (undated 1930s?).

Metal helmet with probes extending against the skull and jaws.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 22h

I don't even know what to say about @aaron.bsky.team announcing that actually they feed all images posted on Bsky into an AI that just a year ago they told everyone they had banned from using Bsky images

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 21h

Excellent letter from the Bishop of Birmingham to Robert Jenrick.

At a time when so many other voices have been silent, the bishops have been admirably outspoken against attempts to stir up division.

The churches do a lot of community cohesion work & do not want to see this trashed for party gain.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 23h

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

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Rebecca Wynter @rebeccawynter.bsky.social · 21h

2:280 #3GoodThings

1) Birmingham and its amazingly beautiful and vibrant diversity and culture
2) Sneaking a bit of OH's giant Toblerone (shhhh)
3) Slowly getting back on track

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Barry Doyle @profbarrydoyle.bsky.social · 22h

Hi @urbanhistorygroup.bsky.social
CFP for @eurohealthhist.bsky.social session at European Association for Urban History conf in Barcelona (2-5 Sept 2026). Urban Healthcare Architecture: Networks and Exchanges in 20th Century www.eauhbarcelona2026.eu/sessions/#session83 deadline: 22 Oct 2025).

Sessions - EAUH2026

Sessions go to quick Sessions’ overview Session 1 Main Session The Cities that made the Empire: Connectivity and Urban Networks from Late Republican to Imperial Times Organizers Noelia Cases MoraUnive...

www.eauhbarcelona2026.eu

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Royal College of Emergency Medicine @rcem.ac.uk · 1d

RCEM has published its response to the independent review of the physician associate and anaesthesia associate roles conducted by Professor Gillian Leng.

View here: rcem.ac.uk/news/rcem-pu...

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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 1d

TODAY

MancHSTM @manchstm.bsky.social · 15d

The new academic year is kicking off! Please join us on 7 October for our first seminar of the semester. Our speaker will be Alan D. Meyer (Auburn University), on Flying While Black: The Slow Pace of Racial Integration in the U.S. Airline Industry.

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

CHSTM Research Seminar, 7 October 2025

Dr Alan D. Meyer Flying While Black: The Slow Pace of Racial Integration in the U.S. Airline Industry

blogs.manchester.ac.uk

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The Red Cross Red Crescent Movement MHPSS Hub @mhpsshub.bsky.social · 1d

#WorldMentalHealthDay 2025 focuses on #MentalHealth in catastrophes & emergencies – the daily workspace for millions of RCRC staff & volunteers across the globe.

We asked our colleagues for some words on MHPSS in emergencies in their respective countries & regions ❤️

Rebecca Wynter @rebeccawynter.bsky.social · 1d

2:279 #3GoodThings

1) Feeling cosy (rather than overheating) at my desk
2) One of the older grebe chicks that visits, kicks so splashily it reminds me of the way a human toddler might
3) My last duty as Roy Porter Prize Chair done - onto policy pastures new

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 1d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 1d

Friends, with the world on fire, it feels useless to be here selling my services. But I do need to keep the lights on, and the #maps pay the bills.

So...if you need a map(s) for a book project, let me know! I have space for new commissions.

Here are a few of my favorite maps I've done lately:
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Grayscale map of the Atlantic showing most of the Americas, Europe, and Africa. There are arrows showing the direction of trade, and each arrow has at least one number attached to it. The numbers match a key on the side that lists the products being traded and their place of origin. There are 15 different sets of commodities listed:
1:Midlands & Birmingham: Guns, Gunpowder, Metalware, Silks
2: Liverpool & Lancashire: Cotton-linens
3: Lancashire: Linens, Cottons, Cotton-linens
4: India: Cottons Cowries
5: Midlands & London: Metalware, Silks, Ceramics, Glassware, Guns
6: London & Glasgow: Credit, Shipping Insurance
7: New England: Beef & Pork, Fish, Rum, Wood, Whale products
8: Mid-Atlantic: Grain
9: Chesapeake Colonies: Tobacco
10: Carolinas, Rice, Indigo
11: Caribbean: Sugar, Molasses
12: Brazil: Coffee
13: Brazil: Gold
14: Mexico / Peru: Silver
15: Britain: Grain, Manufactures

The map has a set of grey arrows going from West Africa to the Americas showing the number of enslaved workers transported. The arrows are sized relative to the numbers. The largest arrow shows 6 million enslaved workers going to the Caribbean. 3.5 million went to Africa, 650,000 to the Spanish colonies in Central and South America, and 400,000 to North America.

A key in the bottom right lists a set of African kingdoms that participated in the selling of enslaved workers, including Benin, the Oyo Empire, Dahomey, the Ashanti Confederacy, the Kingdom of Allada, the Kingdom of Whydah, and the Nupe people. These kingdoms are outlined on the map.

Greyscale drawing of a floor plan of what looks like the first floor of a house, with ten rooms and a flight of stairs. The title at the bottom reads: "The Magic Bookshop." There are two exterior doors: a front door and a back door. The floor plan is on a tattered piece of paper that looks as if it is being unrolled from the top, so there is a curl of paper, or a scroll, at the bottom. Around the floor plan are four animals. A cat, labeled Angel, is resting on top of floor plan, dangling a paw down. To her left is a huntsman spider named Drusilla. At the bottom of the page on the left is a golden retriever named Willow, sitting behind the scroll like a good boy. On the right side is a cat named Spike, who is sitting on top of the scroll and crushing it like an jerk. Typical dog and cat stuff. There are four piles of books around the outside of the floor plan: two large, and two small

From top left down in a switchback pattern, the rooms are labeled:
Yellow: Books with gold covers
Possibility: Mystery, Crime (where they do the spell)
Exeunt Omnes: Older books (where Kennedy finds the magic book)
The Office (where hazel makes tea)
Bathroom
Gurgler: Sci-fi, Fantasy (where Hazel goes to hide out)
The Scriptorium: More modern books (where Hazel sends Luke to find a book for his niece)
Taboo
The Fishbowl: Romance (where Luke makes a pink and purple bookcase)
Pooh Corner: Children, Young adult (where Bob has his armchair and the silent book club happens)

A label in the central hallway reads: "(where they put a bookcase for Today's Donations). Another label on the stairs reads "Hazel's loft apartment" and there is an arrow pointing up the stairs.

Art. A greyscale map of southern Africa showing different biomes. The map map key indicates 7 different biomes: Succulent Karoo; Fynbos; Albany Thicket; India Ocean Coastal Belt; Mixed Woodland; Grassland; Nama-Karoo; and Kalahari Savanna. Each is represented on the may by a different shade of grey, with areas of more rainfall being darker, and areas of less rainfall being lighter. Several of the rivers are labeled, as is the Indian Ocean.

Art. Colored map showing the locations of Alderely Edge, done in a fantasy style. The map is drawn to look like an old map done on parchment, with torn edges curling up. Two bars with ribbons wrapped around them form a frame at the top and right sides of the map. The ribbon on top is blue, the one on the right is a dusty red. On the right side of the map, between the frame and the edge, the map is colored turquoise and does not show any land forms. Written in large vertical letters in this space is the maps' title: "The Edge".

The main part of the map is cut with forests and cliffs, and has 13 locations noted. Each location name is in a small frame that looks like a torn piece of parchment. Two roads cut across the map, one labeled Macclesfield Road and the other labeled Artists Lane. They meet in the bottom 3rd of the map by a location called "The Wizard Tearoom." An arrow at the top left points up one of the roads and has a label reading "to Alderely Edge (village). An arrow a the other end of the road, at the bottom of th emap, reads: "To Macclesfield."

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 1d

Boycott TEVA, and come to our workshop, "Medical BDS: On Boycotting Israeli Pharmaceuticals" online on October 23rd to learn how.

www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/med...

flyer for Medical BDS: A Workshop on Boycotting Israeli Pharmaceuticals, by Boycott TEVA USA
Thursday, October 23
7:30-9:30 PM EST on zoom
Workshops for Gaza X Healthcare Workers for Palestine

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1d

#OTD 6 Oct 1917 civil rights and women's rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer was born in Mississippi. She defied arrests, white supremacists, and police to vote, then organised to register thousands of other Black people to vote across the South stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1066...

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 1d

FYI happening this Thursday—free and open to all. Just click the link to register. Featuring @dwcongdon.com, @dawnd.bsky.social, and Alyssa Napier talking all things diss to book—what’s the diff b/w them, how to find a press/approach an editor, tips for proposal writing. Join us & spread the word!

Association of University Presses @aupresses.bsky.social · 2d

All are invited to the first in Publishing with University Presses Webinar Series, "Turning Your Dissertation into a Book," Oct 9 at 1pm ET. Organized by our Faculty Outreach Committee with the Rutgers Ctr for Minority Serving Institutions.

Register here: https://buff.ly/UiOAr5M

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 2d

1. 4 months ago, The Supreme Court gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education in schools.

Now, in Montgomery County, Maryland, where the case originated, the results are in.

Only 43 families out of 160,000 students have exercised that new right.

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Only 0.03% Opt Out Of LGBTQ+ Education In Maryland After SCOTUS Gives Them A Right To

After SCOTUS gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education, Montgomery County, Maryland is reporting only 43 families took them up on it.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Michael H Whitworth @profmhwhitworth.bsky.social · 2d

A long shot: does anyone have an image of Iseult Gonne’s signature?

I acquired a 1930s book signed “Iseult” on the flyleaf and, as it’s an uncommon name, wondered if it had been hers.

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Academy of Social Sciences @acadsocsciences.bsky.social · 2d

As part of our joint EDI Project, @bpsofficial.bsky.social shared their learning from creating & delivering a pilot teaching resource for secondary school students on the history of IQ testing in the UK education system. Find out more➡️ acss.org.uk/edi-project-...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 2d

#OtD 6 Oct 1971 30 people including @PeterTatchell held a sit-in at the Chepstow pub in London organised by the Gay Liberation Front, in protest at it refusing to serve LGBT+ people. Police evicted them but landlord agreed to stop discriminating stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1140...

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Police History Society @polhissoc1985.bsky.social · 3d

The Police History Society is delighted to preview the front cover of this year's Journal which will be landing slightly earlier than normal this year, due to conference being earlier.

This year marks our 40th anniversary, so we are celebrating our ruby anniversary with a change of cover colour.

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