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Rebecca Wynter

@rebeccawynter.bsky.social
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Historian of Medicine & Mental Health. Research Fellow, NTU-UK. Senior Researcher, UvA-NL. Honorary, UoB-UK. Policy Officer @sshmedicine.bsky.social. Co-convenor Mental Health Humanities Researcher Network mhhrn.bham.ac.uk She/her 🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #Skystorian

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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Happy #WorldAnimalDay! Do you have a favourite in the Ashmolean? World Animal Day exists to celebrate animals but also to raise their status and improve welfare standards around the globe. The 4th of October is the feast day of St Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals.
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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Hey everyone, I currently have availability for freelance writing, researching, and/or teaching work between now and the end of the calendar year. Please see this document for further details, and share with anyone else who you think might be interested.
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AVAILABILITY FOR WORK
Hello everyone, This is just a notice to say I'm available for freelance paid work in the following areas until the end of 2026: WRITING: Whether for academic or public-facing audiences, in the areas ...
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Mish J Holman @mishjholman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
If you have your copy, let me know what you think? I'd love to hear your thoughts. 'A History of the Census Takers' - find out about the men and women who took the census and how your ancestors felt about them and the process of filling out the schedule. #Ancestry #Genealogy #GenHour
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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For colleagues who do research in Belgium: the new Flemish government austerity budget cuts 47 million Euros in support to cultural institutions like archives, libraries and museums. It sounds truly awful. 🗃️ www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/2340...
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'Difficult measures needed': Flemish government presents €2 billion in cuts
The Flemish government has approved nearly €2 billion in spending cuts, rising to €3 billion by 2029, to balance the region’s budget over the next three years.
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Rebecca Wynter @rebeccawynter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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This Is Fine Meme Dog
Alt: 'This Is Fine' meme dog. (A cartoon dog in a hat sits at.a table with a mug of coffee. Fire rages all around.)
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 26/09/2026
Imagine being sent to prison because the criminal justice system messed up 😳 That happened to 79 year old Gaie Delap. Now we're helping her to make sure it never happens again 👇 goodlaw.social/9np5
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Help Gaie Delap take on the failing justice system that put her in prison | Good Law Project
We helped get Gaie released from jail last year. Now we’re helping her sue the Ministry of Justice for discrimination for not finding a tag that fitted.
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Rebecca Wynter @rebeccawynter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Oh noooo! I missed it :( Hey, better late than never...
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Earth, Wind & Fire - September (Official HD Video)
YouTube video by EarthWindandFireVEVO
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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 23/09/2026
So I think maybe I just figured out why @timeshighered.bsky.social has not reported anything negative about James Orr. I could very well be wrong, but here we go: In 2024, THE signed an agreement with Hungary's Culture and Innovation Ministry which oversees Hungarian higher education..
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Rebecca Wynter @rebeccawynter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Wtf is this sh?? (Excusez-moi pour mon Canadien Francais.)
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The King's Fund @thekingsfund.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🏩 The hospital of the future: designing for a changing NHS Join over 1000 health and care professionals, online. 📆 Tuesday 29 September 🕛 12.00pm - 1.00pm 💻 Online This event is free to attend Book your place today ➡️ bit.ly/4fKwRpQ
Image showing a tall, modern building against a clear blue sky. Text reads: “Free online event. The hospital of the future: designing for a changing NHS. 29 September 2026 | 12.00pm - 1.00pm.” The King's Fund logo is in the bottom left corner.
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Rebecca Wynter @rebeccawynter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Paging @fabiolacreed.bsky.social
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Quakers in Britain Peace Team @peace-campaigns.quaker.org.uk · 23/09/2026
Which UK Universities Have Ties to the Arms Industry? This is damning @sheffielduni.bsky.social From Demilitarise Education demilitariseeducation.com/what-we-do/b...
Bar chart with 'Top 20 most militarised universities' at the top, and a bar chart with 20 universities listed, starting with Sheffield, Bristol and Manchester.
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International Institute of Social History @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Join us tomorrow to explore our new exhibition and listen to talks on the First International and the emerging global anarchist movement, of which a group of 19th-century Swiss watchmakers found themselves in the midst of. More info: iisg.amsterdam/en/events/op...
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Dutch News @dutchnewsnl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The pen is mightier than the scrub: hospitals warn of ink stains www.dutchnews.nl?p=273010
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The pen is mightier than the scrub: hospitals warn of ink stains - DutchNews.nl
Utrecht University Medical Center is warning its doctors and nurses to check their pockets before putting their scrubs in the wash, as ink stains have become a spot of problem for the laundry.…
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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
You're going to be needing specialists in: languages, narrative, history, psychology, information, mythology, conspiracies, etc, etc. then? #humanities #socialscience
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meave (frown) @meave.nyc · 22/09/2026
hey this is an incredible new resource www.gazaindex.org
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GazaIndex
GazaIndex is a program of the Gaza Genocide Center, a sourced and continuous record of the humanitarian situation in Gaza during the genocide.
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RCP museum @rcpmuseum.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
📣New blog 📣 ‘The Gàidhealtachd in the World of British Medicine’. PhD researcher Euan Bowman on placement at the RCP kept an eye out for wee slices of his Scottish home in our collections. His blog shares his insights into Gaels & the British medical establishment history.rcp.ac.uk/blog/gaidhea...
A small Scottish croft is just visible on a otherwise empty coastal heath by the sea in Kilmaluag, Skye.
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Rebecca Wynter @rebeccawynter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Always one of my fave charities (my GrAunt lived by the coast and was a stalwart supporter) - donate if / when / however much you can.
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RNLI - Royal National Lifeboat Institution - Saving Lives at Sea
The RNLI is the charity that saves lives at sea. We do this through lifeboat search and rescue, lifeguards, water safety education and international interventions.
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.
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Rebecca Wynter @rebeccawynter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
These plans impact everyone, not only Dutch folks. #Skystorians, spare a minute, take a read and sign if you might ever use the Dutch National Archives.
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London Nurse @londonnurse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
22 September 1982 COHSE Health Workers London Rally
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
saw this on Instagram and it so perfectly encapsulated my rage
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being so fr when I say that transmisogyny has put feminism back like 50 years

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what i thought we had distanced ourselves from was the reduction of women to vaginas and wombs and the ability to bear children. i thought we had progressed past 'dresses are for women and pants are for men. i thought we progressed past the idea that someone is less of a woman if she does not adhere strictly to beauty standards. i thought we progressed past the idea that naturally being comfortable adhering to highly feminine standards is vulgar. but i (sarcastically) guess no one could have predicted that trans-exclusive feminism would be the downfall of all the progress we've made
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Salvation Army International Heritage Centre @salvarmyarchive.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This week sees 55,508 pages of 'The Musician', a weekly newspaper of Salvation Army band news, join 'The War Cry', 'The Social Gazette' and 'The Young Soldier' on the British Newspaper Archive. www.britishnewspaperarchive.com/newspapers/e... 🔒
Cover of The Salvation Army's Bandsman, Songster and Local Officer for 6 November 1910, showing four female Salvationists wearing bonnets holding musical instruments - captioned 'Bandswomen Bellchester, Leening, Holland and Crumbleholme, [from] Preston II [corps]'.
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Dutch News @dutchnewsnl.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
AP says sharing images from Meta glasses is not allowed www.dutchnews.nl?p=272989
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AP says sharing images from Meta glasses is not allowed - DutchNews.nl
Dutch privacy watchdog AP warned on Tuesday that sharing images made with camera glasses violates GDPR rules unless permission is given by everyone in the image. The glasses, the most popular version…
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Rebecca Wynter @rebeccawynter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Great news: 'Nearly 4m records of enslaved people in 20 former British colonies now searchable online'. Useful write-up indicating what information is recorded too. #Skystorians 🗃
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Nearly 4m records of enslaved people in 20 former British colonies now searchable online
Exclusive: Collection’s 300,000 pages record lives of enslaved people in countries including the Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa and Trinidad
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Rebecca Wynter @rebeccawynter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
New issue of @sshmedicine.bsky.social just dropped - plenty of #HistSTM #HisMed, including #HistPsych 🗃️
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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Repeat after me, the legal definition of redundancy is that the work has "substantially ceased or diminished". This is not that.
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
(Are we allowed to post about this publicly? Who knows. But if you send a message *during welcome week* to tell your entire staff that they might lose their jobs, I’m not sure you can demand that the recipients behave with honour and discretion.)
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Mark Doyle @markdoyle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Was very happy to beam into QUB today to launch the Africans in Ireland website that I and a number of colleagues have been working on for years. Maps, database, & other resources documenting the African presence in Ireland from the late 16th to early 20th centuries. africansinireland.com
A right-facing silhouette of the Black preacher and seaman John Jea, Methodist preacher and seaman, from his 1816 book The Life, History, and Unparalleled Sufferings of John Jea, the African Preacher
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Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Really cool website that students will love. A great resource. Well done to all involved (with a special shout out to my brilliant colleague in Maynooth Jonathan Wright).
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Canada is already in talks to join the EU’s Erasmus+ student exchange programme, Euronews reports.
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Rebecca Wynter @rebeccawynter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I'm happy to confirm that under no circumstances will I be touring with Ed Sheeran.
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Irish Women's Rugby Supporters Club @irishwomens.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Zero tolerance, not quiet acceptance
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
‘The report is expected to say that there is no direct evidence of widespread overdiagnosis of autism and ADHD in Britain’ Preview of what is expected in the independent review led by @britishacademy.bsky.social Fellow Peter Fonagy liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/476...
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ADHD is not being overdiagnosed, major Government report set to find
Landmark report expected to rule out mass overdiagnosis but warn support can be hard to obtain
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Louise, Prof/Dr @louiselocock.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Oh blimey, here we go again. Time to vote in the National Trust AGM to keep so-called 'Restore Trust' off the council. Use the quick vote to ensure we don't split the anti-Restore vote. Or.... 1/2 www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
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Annual General Meeting
Your Annual General Meeting will take place online and in person on Saturday 7th November 2026 at the STEAM Museum, Swindon.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 14/09/2026
Some good news today with this becoming TUC policy
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Daniel C. Blight @danielcblight.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
***URGENT PLEASE SHARE*** University of Brighton management have announced today that they ‘give notice of termination of all collective agreements’. This is a fundamental erasure of workers' rights. Management have announced the termination of all contractual documents, which includes:
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Rebecca Wynter @rebeccawynter.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Joyous.
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PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Switzerland moves towards national conversion therapy ban ➡️ bit.ly/4xi5OYl
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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 07/09/2026
Beyond satire.
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Animal History Group @animalhistories.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
CALL FOR PAPERS The Animal History Group will be holding an online, international conference on the 11th December. Would you like to give a paper? 📗 #envhist #animalhistory Wide scope for places, animals, centuries, disciplines! Grad students welcome. 💚 animalhistorygroup.org/events/summe...
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10 Year Conference 2026
CALL FOR PAPERS Animal Histories: A Decade with Animals Animal History Group International Conference Online, Friday 11th December 2026 AHG26 The Animal History Group is an international network fo…
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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
All those expensive Palantir contracts and the police are still surprised by the covert organisation and mobilisation of far right thugs in Dover and Portsmouth
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Jonathan Boff @jfb1066.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Exciting news. Out March 2027 global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
#MondayNetwork - a regular appeal to any #skystorians with intersecting interests: food /nutrition, surviving climate change, environmental determinism, race science, exploration, acclimatisation & physiology, cit sci, Indigenous knowledge, & related topics to say hi or share link to your work! 🗃️
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Elaine Mitchell @elaineamitchell.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Some great events coming up from @theironroom.bsky.social for Birmingham Heritage Week. theironroom.wordpress.com/2026/09/07/b...
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Birmingham Heritage Week 2026
It’s back and still refusing to conform to any woke ideas of how long a week is.  This year, BHW takes place 11 – 20 September 2026 and I’m thrilled to walk you through the events Birmingham A…
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PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
San Diego repeals bathhouse ordinance passed during HIV/AIDS crisis ➡️ bit.ly/4gJ7eF7
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Dr Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Jesus Christ, vice-chancellor of MMU and president of UUK Malcolm Press *attending the Reform UK conference and sharing a stage with Suella Braverman*. With friends like this... #UKHE www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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#universities #socialmobility #wideningparticipation #opportunity #scholarships | Malcolm Press CBE
I believe it's important to engage with politicians across the political spectrum on issues that matter. Today I participated in a discussion at the Reform Party conference alongside Suella Braverman...
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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
“Protecting our women” This footage is genuinely distressing
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