Dr Rachel Bynoth
rachelbynoth.bsky.social
Dr Rachel Bynoth
@rachelbynoth.bsky.social
Historian of 18th/19th c. Family, lifecycle, gender, emotion esp. anxiety, distant comms and politics. Bath Spa Senior Lecturer. PhD: PM George Canning and family’s letters/anxiety https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/our-people/rachel-bynoth/
Also a huge shout out to @bathspauni.bsky.social for funding this trip - there will be so much to bring back for my research, development, partnership/collaboration working and for my teaching too.

And look out for our upcoming publication news for the next distant communications publication… 👀
November 13, 2025 at 1:07 PM
This will form part of my book manuscript which fleshes out these ideas further.

This is part of a brilliant panel on distant communications in the long 19th century which is taking place on Saturday morning - including my fab distant comms research project pal Ellen Smith!
November 13, 2025 at 1:05 PM
This workshop is based on my research into slow comms, 18thc anxiety, + distant relationships and what we can learn about emotion + well-being today.

It’s all about slowing down and making meaningful comms + connections, ideal thinking for different relationships and situations today. 3/3
October 25, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Participants will learn all about the ideas of slow communication and eighteenth-century modes of communication to think about how we communicate today. We will then get crafting, making cards, letters and envelopes and choose another attendee to send our communications in the post to! 2/
October 25, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Lots of lovely things to build on for our critical design thinking module next semester! Congrats to the team (I was helping out from the critical design thinking side and getting inspiration) 👏
October 14, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Lots of lovely things to build on for our critical design thinking module next semester! Congrats to the team (I was helping out from the critical design thinking side and getting inspiration) 👏
October 14, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I think you have missed the point I was making - it is not about using it, it is about understanding it. If you understand it, and think about it critically and ethically, you are unlikely to use it and you can justify why.
September 14, 2025 at 9:02 PM
100% - they also often do not have the knowledge to know when the information is not right or helpful
September 14, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I do not entirely see it like that but I can see why you would see it in this way. Regardless, AI is something that is in the world and should be critically discussed and ethically considered rather than avoided entirely, even if it is not allowed to be used in some contexts.
September 14, 2025 at 4:11 PM
We tend to get students to learn what it is and how it works and most tend to come to these conclusions on their own. AI literacy for me comes from being able to explain why you are not using it (by understanding what it does and doesn’t do) and when it is used, justify why.
September 14, 2025 at 3:05 PM