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President of ASTSS. Psychologist and researcher looking to integrate social justice into Mental Health linktr.ee/maxloomes

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Max Loomes @maxloomes.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Universities are in a dire situation: staff cuts, course repeals, corporatisation of research and teaching. We need intervention, especially by governments at different levels. If you agree, please sign this petition for the state parliament! 👇 www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/lc/pages/epe...
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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL - Signing ePetition - Defend jobs, support staff and fix university governance
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Australasian Society for Traumatic Stress Studies @astss.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
We're excited to announce our next #free webinar available for everyone! This interactive webinar will look at FAIR data practices, insights, and applications in clinical psychology and trauma! Register here: events.humanitix.com/making-resea...
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Chiara Mastrogiovanni @chiaramastro.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Are you an Australian Mental Health Professional and have 5-10min? We aim to understand how to promote physical activity in mental healthcare, so your contribution would be greatly appreciated! Link 👉 lnkd.in/gtr-FrNW @srosenbaum.bsky.social @gracemckeon.bsky.social @gulsahkurt.bsky.social
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Max Loomes @maxloomes.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Listening to @gulsahkurt.bsky.social discussing the C4C program based out of UNSW Medicine. Very cool to hear a former college and executive committee of @astss.bsky.social talk about their hugely pivotal work in the #humanitarian space.
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Max Loomes @maxloomes.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Opening address by co-chair Professor Jana Javakhishvili. She's discussing the current weakening of democracy, human rights, and ongoing trauma around the world #ESTSS2025
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Max Loomes @maxloomes.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
I'm here in #Tbilisi for the European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies conference! Super excited to present tomorrow on a panel for Global Collaboration on Traumatic Stress on the global prevalence of PTSD! Come say hi if you're here! #ESTSS2025
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Global Collaboration on Traumatic Stress (GCTS) @gtrauma.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Our latest newsletter is out! 🎉 In this edition, we announce our first Lived Experience Council, a new group-based hiking intervention for #PTSD, the updated MARBLES Archive, and that our Global Psychotrauma Screen (GPS) is now available in Xosa! global-psychotrauma.net/so/3bPSHL-4g...
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GCTS Newsletter
June 2025
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Max Loomes @maxloomes.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Extremely stoked for our first webinar tomorrow with Alicia Seymour and Dr Henry Bowen! Join us at 11am AEDT and learn some new skills and knowledge and potentially integrate #arttherapy into your trauma-informed practice Link: events.humanitix.com/grief-trauma...
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Patrick Lenton @patricklenton.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Pre-orders are up for my rom-com novel, which is ridiculous. I’m linking to Booktopia because I want to support Australian publishing and not put any more money in the pocket of a certain billionaire www.booktopia.com.au/in-spite-of-...
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In Spite of You
Buy In Spite of You, Don't get mad. Get hot - and get even. by Patrick Lenton from Booktopia. Get a discounted Paperback from Australia's leading online bookstore.
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Dr Lucy Foulkes @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Really interesting new qual paper about university careers advisors, and how they feel their job increasingly involves support, guidance and discussions about students' mental health www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
ABSTRACTSixteen careers advisers based in five Scottish universities were asked a range of questions designed to explore possible impacts of alterations in student mental health and wellbeing on their practice. Throughcombining key insights from a critical analysis of the relevant literatureand policy documents with others that were gleaned from the viewsof practitioners themselves, evidence is provided for conclusions whichsuggest that shifts in how universities support psychological health maynot only fuel concerns but also change how students and careersadvisers engage in one-to-one careers guidance appointments.Recommendations were first that given these holistic mental health andwellbeing policies may well be contributing to a poorer studentoutlook, then they should be reviewed immediately. Secondly, as thesepreventative approaches have obliged careers advisers to change howthey work with students, their ongoing role, training and practicerequires pressing reappraisal.
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Max Loomes @maxloomes.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
@astss.bsky.social's first webinar of 2025! Come along and find out how art therapy can be used to help #trauma and #grief.
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Global Collaboration on Traumatic Stress (GCTS) @gtrauma.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
We're excited to share some pictures from the recent symposium in #Hamburg held by the Deutschsprachige Gesellscharft für Psychotraumatologie (DeGPT)! Our members Monique Pfaltz, Julia Ditzer, Antonia Lüönd, Eleonora Bartoli, and Stefanie Balle spoke about various research on #childmaltreatment
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Australasian Society for Traumatic Stress Studies @astss.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
We're excited to welcome back and congratulations to our newly elected president, Max Loomes! Max is a clinical psychologist registrar, researcher, and mental health expert. For more information read the presidential address in our latest newsletter: shorturl.at/1mky7
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Australasian Society for Traumatic Stress Studies @astss.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Are you interested in holding a #webinar or #workshop for ASTSS? 🙋 Our MC is currently mapping out our next two years of events and we'd like to hear from you! Pitch your ideas in the form below and we'll get back to you as soon as we can! forms.gle/tDqiw5mbMTbf...
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Webinar and Workshop Proposal Form
This form is for ASTSS and non-ASTSS members to propose a potential webinar or workshop. The current MC will look at these submissions at the next monthly meeting and communicate the outcome to those ...
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Max Loomes @maxloomes.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
I'm searching for literature and books written from a firsthand perspective of those who have been #homeless. If you have a recommendation, please post it below 👇
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David Wright @dwrightvisa.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Want to find waste & corruption in the govt? The deportation industrial complex has lots! With just a few exceotions, there is no reason to lock up immigrants. The for-profit companies that live off govt contracts donate to the GOP & push for more detention. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Revealed: US firm running Guantánamo migrant jail accused over rights abuses
Corporate conglomerate Akima subject of critical audits and complaints over detainee treatment at facilities in US
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Dani @dani-kml.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
This is terrifying? How is this accepted by anyone?!
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Max Loomes @maxloomes.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
It's giving... totalitarian government
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
I’m a seasoned global health teacher I’m struggling these days to explain the state of the world to young people, give them hope or answer their inevitable question: “what can we do?” How are other teachers coping??
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Melissa Sweet @melissasweetdr.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
A call to preserve access to cultural foods as gentrification transforms neighbourhoods – Croakey Health Media www.croakey.org/a-call-to-pr...
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A call to preserve access to cultural foods as gentrification transforms neighbourhoods
Introduction by Croakey: The gentrification of urban neighbourhoods undermines many determinants of health, including access to cultural foods, which is
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Max Loomes @maxloomes.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
hey siri, what's an oligarchy?
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Max Loomes @maxloomes.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Twitter the past few weeks 🫠
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a group of people are gathered in a living room with a fire coming out of the floor
ALT: a group of people are gathered in a living room with a fire coming out of the floor
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Karen (always looking for a road trip) @camarowrx.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Thank you everyone for being part of the #ParkChat community (live and asynchronously!). Nights like this are tough, trying to cross-post while also participate, but having the community makes it worthwhile. Thank you #StoneRoadPress for the questions! Here's a gratuitous bison photo for you!
bison of all ages on the grasslands of the Badlands in South Dakota
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
“If RFK Jr. gets to helm HHS, global health is at risk” @angierasmussen.bsky.social foreignpolicy.com/2025/01/30/r...
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Make America Highly Pathogenic Again
If RFK Jr. gets to helm HHS, global health is at risk.
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
We had an incredible response to this online course last year! @shashikalb.bsky.social & I will co-direct the next course Registrations will open shortly! Stay tuned!
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Rebecca Turner (she/her) @turnerebecca.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Thanks Max! Worked really hard to find all the evidence. Took a while but glad it worked out well. I’ve stared at for so long I’m glad it makes sense.
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Rebecca Turner (she/her) @turnerebecca.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
NEW POST open.substack.com/pub/turnereb...
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I spent eleven years in therapy (and so should you)
A 'coping-with-anxiety' starter kit
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Max Loomes @maxloomes.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Me in every meeting
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
To overcome vaccine hesistancy, we must do a better job of explaining the risks of illness vs vaccine side effects Really important & timely @plosglobalpublichealth.org commentary by Dr Peter Hotez journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
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Reuters @reuters.com · 08/01/2025
A rapidly growing wildfire raged across an upscale section of Los Angeles, destroying homes and creating traffic jams as 30,000 people evacuated beneath huge plumes of smoke that covered much of the metropolitan area reut.rs/3C2TioZ
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Wildfire rages in Los Angeles, forcing 30,000 to evacuate
A rapidly growing wildfire raged across an upscale section of Los Angeles on Tuesday, destroying homes and creating traffic jams as 30,000 people evacuated beneath huge plumes of smoke that covered much of the metropolitan area.
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Max Loomes @maxloomes.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
I'm searching for literature and books written from a firsthand perspective of those who have been #homeless. If you have a recommendation, please post it below 👇
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Max Loomes @maxloomes.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
What's your favourite Christmas movie? Mine's a recent watch: Klaus (2019)
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Max Loomes @maxloomes.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
I was never invited to a Christmas party in the first 5 years of my working life. Safe to say I've greatly overcompensated with 8 in the past two weeks 🤶
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Ruth Malone, RN, PhD @remalone.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
If you won’t stop driving gas cars for your kids and grandkids’ sake, will you consider driving less to save wildlife? #OurFellowTravelers
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Max Loomes @maxloomes.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Who said cityscapes can't be pretty?
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Max Loomes @maxloomes.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
There are only three certainties in life 1. Death 2. Taxes 3. Your instagram being hacked by cryptophishers
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Belkis Wille @belkiswille.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
1/ New @hrw.org #Sudan report : The Rapid Support Forces & allied militias carried out war crimes in South Kordofan, killing and raping civilians, and looting & destroying homes in attacks that displaced 10s of thousands & left ghost towns in their wake. www.hrw.org/news/2024/12...
screenshot of Human Rights report title
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Max Loomes @maxloomes.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Is it possible to save money in December? 🫠
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Max Loomes @maxloomes.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
People on Facebook Marketplace never cease to disturb me
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Max Loomes @maxloomes.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Guilty
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Max Loomes @maxloomes.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Come join the GCTS! Registration is free and it's a great way to connect with international research in #trauma and associated fields!
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Lisa Bortolotti @lisabortolotti.com · 29/11/2024
Dear #philsky I think we need a starter pack for people who work on epistemic injustice. Can be philosophers, psychologists, lived experience researchers, the sky is the limit! Suggest yourselves or others for inclusion in the replies. Thanks 🤩 go.bsky.app/RMAoxiW
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Dr Jay Watts @shrinkatlarge.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
👋 Hi, I am new to Bluesky. I am a psychiatric survivor with a Mad history going back to the 90s. This is the blood and passion in all I do with my role as a psychologist a VERY firm second. I lobby for benefits justice, calling out iatrogenic harm, and banishing diagnoses that character assassinate👋
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John Delmenico @thebigjohnnyd.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
I wish I could forget the moment I saw the tragedy that was a guy at uni trying to hit on one of my friends using the ‘techniques’ he learned from paying for one of those online pick up artist/dating couch courses It felt like time was going in slow motion watching this train-wreck play out
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Max Loomes @maxloomes.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Just reviving this Christmas Survival Guide I wrote for Punkee a few years ago. Enjoy! punkee.com.au/surviving-ch...
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Our Foolproof Guide To Surviving Christmas Day
Stress, conflict, rain, and uncomfortable conversations with extended family? We've got you covered.
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Max Loomes @maxloomes.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
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Max Loomes @maxloomes.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
This ban is unscientific and will open create opportunities to experience harm and not have any avenues to seek help.
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Max Loomes @maxloomes.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
True tho
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
World’s largest known coral discovered in Solomon Islands buff.ly/40Mpl6r 🦑🌎🧪
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World’s largest known coral discovered in Solomon Islands
Gigantic multicoloured organism is visible from space and has grown for between 300 and 500 years
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 18/11/2024
We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how: docs.bsky.app/docs/advance... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics
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Action Intent Links | Bluesky
Authors, websites, and apps can use action intent links to implement "Share on Bluesky" buttons, or similar in-app actions. Logged-in users will be directed to the corresponding action view in the Blu...
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