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Emily Shaw
@emilyshaw.bsky.social
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Nurse practitioner in psychiatry (child/adolescent and adult). Knitter. Two toddlers, one dog, all chaos. 🏳️‍🌈
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naylandblake.bsky.social
How the Bay Area is preserving the legacy of Black quilting traditions share.google/exLl9MdhXeQB...
African American quilts honored in the Bay Area: ‘The tie that binds us to our ancestors’
African American quilts, long overlooked in U.S. archives, are being preserved in partnership with BAMPFA, honoring Bay Area families and their quilting legacies.
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September 25, 2025 at 12:24 PM
emilyshaw.bsky.social
Okay THIS is Christian.
Screenshot from the New York Times mobile app; the headline reads “He Forgave His Mother’s Killer. Now He’s Fighting to Spare the Man’s Life” the sub headline is “William Berry has urged Alabama officials to stop the execution of Geoffrey West, arguing that it would bring neither justice nor closure.” There is a photograph of a tall man with gray close-cropped hair and a trim grey goatee and mustache wearing a pink collared t-shirt, khaki pants and black shoes. He is holding a microphone up to his mouth in one hand and has the other hand in his pocket. He is standing in front of a group of demonstrators holding signs that protest against the death penalty, in front of a white building with columns and a rotunda.
September 25, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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twitter.rip
i recommend actually googling the thing you are telling people to google before telling them to just google it because google doesn't really work anymore
December 1, 2024 at 3:55 PM
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bookshop.org
Uhhh, hi! It's me, Bookshop.org, a place to buy books online where every purchase financially supports indie bookstores instead of some billionaire.
November 20, 2024 at 5:42 PM
emilyshaw.bsky.social
Oof I do not want to go into a lot of detail but six years ago someone I knew sent me this book in the mail and it ended up changing the trajectory of my entire life.

Required reading.
November 27, 2024 at 12:46 AM
emilyshaw.bsky.social
@mrsdtuson.bsky.social inspired me to start a little cabled headband yesterday! (is one of the cables wonky? Shhh. It’ll be just as warm) 🧶
A half-finished knitted headband on a shiny speckled white countertop. the yarn is grey (“slate” is the name of the colorway) and there are three cables. There’s a small error in the leftmost one where one of the twists goes the wrong way.
November 26, 2024 at 1:41 PM
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pronounced-ing.bsky.social
In the past day I’ve heard two people who really should know better say they asked ChatGPT for factual info.

ChatGPT is not a search engine. It is predictive text based on other people’s stolen writing; its whole job is to make stuff up. Please do not ask it for facts. Tell a friend.
November 25, 2024 at 2:37 PM
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alexwoodroe.com
There is no "never asked for help" award, we need to stop nominating ourselves for it
November 25, 2024 at 9:42 PM
emilyshaw.bsky.social
Been checking every once in a while to see if @rebeccanagle.bsky.social is here and she is now! Her podcast This Land is a riveting/enraging/heartbreaking listen if you need something for your holiday travels
November 24, 2024 at 3:36 PM
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jennifersilk.bsky.social
Check out this new work from our lab led by Stanley Seah, showing that better skills in emotion differentiation protect against intergenerational transmission of social anxiety symptoms from parents to teens. Effects are driven by reduced behavioral avoidance in teens with better ED! #PsychSciSky
Negative emotion differentiation buffers against intergenerational risk for social anxiety in at-risk adolescent girls
Social anxiety disorder (SAD) tends to emerge during adolescence and is more prevalent among those assigned female at birth. Parental social anxiety c…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 22, 2024 at 6:54 PM
emilyshaw.bsky.social
*taps foot impatiently*
emineirmakyucel.bsky.social Emine Yücel @emineirmakyucel.bsky.social · Nov 21
Rep. Chip Roy: “If you release this report, then you know, what’s good for the goose is good for the gander. Let’s start talking about releasing other reports.”
November 22, 2024 at 7:24 PM
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isaacwinterburn.bsky.social
Hello BlueSky! I am an MSc (1+3) student studying psychological research @ University of Oxford, interested in child and adolescent mental health, particularly how young people understand, conceptualise, and talk about their mental health.

I am also interested in 70s music, sports, and snacks 😎
November 21, 2024 at 4:54 PM
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trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social
This cardigan is called Teams. Every square is a meeting that could have been an email. It’s actually Teams Mk II as its predecessor had a bad experience with the washing machine.
#knitting 🧶
November 21, 2024 at 6:57 PM
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tupped.bsky.social
Every step of accessing services for children is like completing an escape room puzzle only to get out and find it was just inside a bigger harder escape room puzzle.
eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · Nov 21
In a way the AON delays are the least of it because they are a formal assessment for services which in many cases barely exist at all. Gaslighting on an industrial scale
November 21, 2024 at 10:40 AM
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lucyfoulkes.bsky.social
I've just hosted an excellent talk by Dr Jo Billington from the University of Reading, about the lived experience of autistic children in mainstream primary schools. I ended with a great feeling of sadness, about how hard school is for some young people, but also with a sense of hope..
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November 21, 2024 at 2:27 PM
emilyshaw.bsky.social
“Huh, why is no one having kids?”
A screenshot of an opinion piece from the Wall Street Journal with text highlighted “If federal employees don’t want to show up, American taxpayers shouldn’t pay them for the Covid era privilege of staying home”
November 20, 2024 at 7:21 PM
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rogueknytter.bsky.social
Non-knitters: the people in the meetings who are knitting are the ones who are paying attention. 🧶
www.nytimes.com/2023/03/31/w...
Excerpt from NYT article: The fine-motor movement required for knitting, crocheting, doodling or using a fidget spinner activates the same parts of the brain used for focus, said John Ratey, an associate clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. So, these activities really do help to sharpen awareness. But other activities that require too much concentration, like reading a social media feed or playing a game on a smartphone, can push a person out of productivity and into unfocused multitasking. “Being involved with something will make a person with flagging attention be more attentive,” Dr. Ratey said. “You will turn on the prefrontal cortex if you’re doing something like knitting.”
November 19, 2024 at 3:36 PM
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arghavansallesmd.medsky.social
MedSky every time a new Trump appointee is announced
a very fluffy cat is sitting on a table
Alt: a very fluffy cat is sitting on a table looking confused or concerned but relatively lacking energy, perhaps from exhaustion
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November 20, 2024 at 4:22 AM
emilyshaw.bsky.social
My husband, scrolling: “wait, Dr. Oz is a real doctor?”

… which is pretty telling.
November 20, 2024 at 1:40 AM
emilyshaw.bsky.social
Been at this IRS office a whole 28 minutes and I’m very disappointed Alpha Waymond hasn’t showed up to recruit me to save the multiverse yet. I have no skills, I would be perfect.
November 19, 2024 at 6:54 PM
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drsebastianbarr.bsky.social
Please spread the word about this webinar I'm putting together on short notice to address an urgent need. Registrants get access to recording so you don't need to attend live.

Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #trans #mentalhealth #election #Trump #stress #transgender #nonbinary #lgbtq
Flyer advertising low-cost webinar titled strategies for supporting trans & nonbinary clients with post-election distress. Live & on-demand Friday Nov 22, 3pm-5pm EST. $30
November 18, 2024 at 10:55 PM
emilyshaw.bsky.social
Wow this was not on my bingo card for phone calls I would have to make tomorrow.
ezralevin.bsky.social Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · Nov 18
Now Polis is praising Booker for being open to RFK for HHS Sec. If you're in NJ, please call Booker's office tomorrow and tell him to back off of this: (202) 224-3224.
November 18, 2024 at 11:52 PM
emilyshaw.bsky.social
“a new line of research on academic procrastination” — Bluesky, it is too late for me but maybe others can be saved.
hannahrsnyder.bsky.social Hannah R Snyder @hannahrsnyder.bsky.social · Sep 6
I will be recruiting a PhD student for my lab at Brandeis this year. We study cognitive risk for anxiety and depression in emerging adulthood + a new line of research on academic procrastination. Brandeis has a small but mighty PhD program with a focus on the interface of brain, body and behavior 1/
November 18, 2024 at 10:35 PM
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hannahrsnyder.bsky.social
I will be recruiting a PhD student for my lab at Brandeis this year. We study cognitive risk for anxiety and depression in emerging adulthood + a new line of research on academic procrastination. Brandeis has a small but mighty PhD program with a focus on the interface of brain, body and behavior 1/
September 6, 2024 at 8:03 PM
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nwanu.bsky.social
X: Blocked people can read your tweets

Bluesky: We will send an agent back in time to stop the blocked person's parents from ever meeting
November 18, 2024 at 8:12 AM