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Kirsty
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-Occupatipnal Therapy Student 💚
-She/her🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺
-I love history (especially ancient history and healthcare!), plants, mythology, gardening and dance
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Little gentle reminder to all the human creatives out there 💪
April 9, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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From the quiet room I created in work.
February 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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February 10, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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More than “Brain Fog”: Cognitive Dysfunction and the Role of Occupational Therapy in Long COVID journals.lww.com/cptj/fulltex...
More than “Brain Fog”: Cognitive Dysfunction and the Role... : Cardiopulmonary Physical Therapy Journal
e activity is considered when working with people with long COVID, particularly when identifying triggers of post exertional symptom exacerbation. There are many potential mechanisms that could be dri...
journals.lww.com
December 31, 2024 at 11:34 AM
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Timoclea of Thebes throws man who raped her down a well. She next hurled in heavy stones until he was dead. Painted in 1659 by Elisabetta Sirani of Bologna, who had a thing for assertive heroines.
January 9, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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To see who they value, pay attention to their words. School massacres are labeled "mass shootings. Street executions are described as "officer-involved shootings." But the killing of a CEO is immediately called "terrorism."
December 19, 2024 at 9:26 PM
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A gathering of mental health occupational therapists (talking mental health and occupational therapy)

Drop some names if they need to be added.

go.bsky.app/FzgoGFL
November 18, 2024 at 7:49 PM
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Our recent paper (led by Phaedra Longhurst) argues that eating disorder measures lack validity for Autistic folks: leads to pathologising Autistic people's eating & missing EDs that don't present neurotypically.

Validated, Autistic-led measures urgently needed!

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Measuring eating disorders in Autistic people: a proposal for future research
While diagnostic pathways for identifying Autism in eating disorder (ED) populations have been developed, the field continues to lack validated psychometric tools to measure EDs for use in the Auti...
www.tandfonline.com
November 12, 2024 at 12:50 PM
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Andrew Tate got banned from Bluesky in less than one day.

Another reason things are so much better here than Twitter.
November 19, 2024 at 7:06 PM
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Good use of a tank.
An American tank rolls over a Nazi banner laid out in the street after its crew helped take the town of Lembach, spring 1945.
U.S. Signal Corps—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images
November 18, 2024 at 11:18 PM
Literal mood
#cats
November 18, 2024 at 8:29 AM
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Hello, #Bluesky!

The severe pitting in this skull is the direct result of tertiary syphilis, which was fatal before the discovery of penicillin. In the final stage, the disease attacks a person's skeletal structure. This 19th-century skull is from the Medical Museion in Copenhagen. #histmed
November 17, 2024 at 11:43 AM