Max Loomes
@maxloomes.bsky.social
President of ASTSS. Psychologist and researcher looking to integrate social justice into Mental Health
https://linktr.ee/maxloomes
https://linktr.ee/maxloomes
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...
If you agree, please sign this petition for the state parliament! 👇
www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/lc/pages/epe...
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL - Signing ePetition - Defend jobs, support staff and fix university governance
www.parliament.nsw.gov.au
July 29, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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...
If you agree, please sign this petition for the state parliament! 👇
www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/lc/pages/epe...
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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...
This interactive webinar will look at FAIR data practices, insights, and applications in clinical psychology and trauma!
Register here: events.humanitix.com/making-resea...
July 22, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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...
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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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
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
June 24, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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
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
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.
Very cool to hear a former college and executive committee of @astss.bsky.social talk about their hugely pivotal work in the #humanitarian space.
June 13, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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.
Very cool to hear a former college and executive committee of @astss.bsky.social talk about their hugely pivotal work in the #humanitarian space.
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
#ESTSS2025
June 13, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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
#ESTSS2025
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
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
June 13, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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
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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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...
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...
GCTS Newsletter
June 2025
global-psychotrauma.net
June 2, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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...
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...
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...
Link: events.humanitix.com/grief-trauma...
May 4, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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...
Link: events.humanitix.com/grief-trauma...
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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-...
www.booktopia.com.au/in-spite-of-...
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.
www.booktopia.com.au
April 22, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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-...
www.booktopia.com.au/in-spite-of-...
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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....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
April 22, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@astss.bsky.social's first webinar of 2025! Come along and find out how art therapy can be used to help #trauma and #grief.
Come along to our upcoming webinar with Alicia Seymour, an art therapist who brings together the worlds of art therapy and grief counselling with deep empathy and experience.
This event is free for ASTSS members and $45 for non-members.
🔗 Register now: lnkd.in/gRBZVrAh
This event is free for ASTSS members and $45 for non-members.
🔗 Register now: lnkd.in/gRBZVrAh
April 18, 2025 at 1:39 AM
@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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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
Our members Monique Pfaltz, Julia Ditzer, Antonia Lüönd, Eleonora Bartoli, and Stefanie Balle spoke about various research on #childmaltreatment
March 19, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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
Our members Monique Pfaltz, Julia Ditzer, Antonia Lüönd, Eleonora Bartoli, and Stefanie Balle spoke about various research on #childmaltreatment
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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
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
February 28, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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
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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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...
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...
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 ...
forms.gle
March 12, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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...
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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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 👇
If you have a recommendation, please post it below 👇
January 6, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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 👇
If you have a recommendation, please post it below 👇
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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...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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
www.theguardian.com
February 20, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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This is terrifying? How is this accepted by anyone?!
February 16, 2025 at 9:36 PM
This is terrifying? How is this accepted by anyone?!
It's giving... totalitarian government
February 16, 2025 at 9:29 PM
It's giving... totalitarian government
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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??
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??
February 2, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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??
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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A call to preserve access to cultural foods as gentrification transforms neighbourhoods – Croakey Health Media www.croakey.org/a-call-to-pr...
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
www.croakey.org
January 30, 2025 at 9:28 AM
A call to preserve access to cultural foods as gentrification transforms neighbourhoods – Croakey Health Media www.croakey.org/a-call-to-pr...
hey siri, what's an oligarchy?
February 2, 2025 at 2:06 AM
hey siri, what's an oligarchy?
Twitter the past few weeks 🫠
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
media.tenor.com
February 2, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Twitter the past few weeks 🫠
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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!
January 30, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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!
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“If RFK Jr. gets to helm HHS, global health is at risk”
@angierasmussen.bsky.social
foreignpolicy.com/2025/01/30/r...
@angierasmussen.bsky.social
foreignpolicy.com/2025/01/30/r...
Make America Highly Pathogenic Again
If RFK Jr. gets to helm HHS, global health is at risk.
foreignpolicy.com
January 30, 2025 at 7:58 PM
“If RFK Jr. gets to helm HHS, global health is at risk”
@angierasmussen.bsky.social
foreignpolicy.com/2025/01/30/r...
@angierasmussen.bsky.social
foreignpolicy.com/2025/01/30/r...
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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!
@shashikalb.bsky.social & I will co-direct the next course
Registrations will open shortly!
Stay tuned!
January 30, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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!
@shashikalb.bsky.social & I will co-direct the next course
Registrations will open shortly!
Stay tuned!