Dr Becca Watterson (she/her)
@rebeccawatterson.bsky.social
*Personal account
(find me @drrebeccawatterson.bsky.social for all things work)
Historian. Working class academic.
Ruled by a three-legged pug named Uncle Waldo.
Neurodivergent and mad.
Lift weights, love dinos, collect rocks, play games.
Nerd and menace.
(find me @drrebeccawatterson.bsky.social for all things work)
Historian. Working class academic.
Ruled by a three-legged pug named Uncle Waldo.
Neurodivergent and mad.
Lift weights, love dinos, collect rocks, play games.
Nerd and menace.
Introducing Uncle Waldo. The 3-legged wonder rescue pug. 💜🥰 He’s named after Emerson & the drunk goose in the Aristocats. I will not be accepting questions at this time. 🤣
March 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Introducing Uncle Waldo. The 3-legged wonder rescue pug. 💜🥰 He’s named after Emerson & the drunk goose in the Aristocats. I will not be accepting questions at this time. 🤣
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HSTM Network Ireland Conference 2025
Submissions of papers on any theme relating to HSTM are welcome. Abstracts (no more than 300 words) and a short biography (no more than 100 words) should be submitted by 21 March 2025 using this Google Form: forms.gle/bn5G8K3m8chDUj…
Submissions of papers on any theme relating to HSTM are welcome. Abstracts (no more than 300 words) and a short biography (no more than 100 words) should be submitted by 21 March 2025 using this Google Form: forms.gle/bn5G8K3m8chDUj…
February 10, 2025 at 5:57 PM
HSTM Network Ireland Conference 2025
Submissions of papers on any theme relating to HSTM are welcome. Abstracts (no more than 300 words) and a short biography (no more than 100 words) should be submitted by 21 March 2025 using this Google Form: forms.gle/bn5G8K3m8chDUj…
Submissions of papers on any theme relating to HSTM are welcome. Abstracts (no more than 300 words) and a short biography (no more than 100 words) should be submitted by 21 March 2025 using this Google Form: forms.gle/bn5G8K3m8chDUj…
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Grainne & Becca delivering the first (of hopefully many) workshops on community-based participatory research methods to PhD researchers from law, arts, humanities, heritage, life sciences and more! The change is happening! CHOICE IS LEADING A MOVEMENT.
February 7, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Grainne & Becca delivering the first (of hopefully many) workshops on community-based participatory research methods to PhD researchers from law, arts, humanities, heritage, life sciences and more! The change is happening! CHOICE IS LEADING A MOVEMENT.
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The application deadline for these @historylabplus.bsky.social roles is BUT ONE WEEK AWAY!
January 24, 2025 at 7:41 AM
The application deadline for these @historylabplus.bsky.social roles is BUT ONE WEEK AWAY!
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📢 Calling all historians and researchers! The Women's History Network is now accepting abstracts for its 33rd Annual Conference, themed "Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums, and Personal Collections."
More info: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c...
#WomensHistory #GLAM
More info: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c...
#WomensHistory #GLAM
WHN Annual Conference 2025, Call for Papers
First Call for Papers Women’s History Network 33rd Annual Conference Online via Zoom Thursday 4 & Friday 5 September 2025 Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums and Pe…
womenshistorynetwork.org
January 24, 2025 at 9:44 AM
📢 Calling all historians and researchers! The Women's History Network is now accepting abstracts for its 33rd Annual Conference, themed "Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums, and Personal Collections."
More info: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c...
#WomensHistory #GLAM
More info: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c...
#WomensHistory #GLAM
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#OtD 24 Jan 1919 staff and patients barricaded themselves inside the Monaghan Lunatic Asylum in Ireland and declared a soviet (workers' council). They also made demands on pay and working hours, including equal pay for women. They won in February stories.workingclasshistory.c...
January 24, 2025 at 8:59 PM
#OtD 24 Jan 1919 staff and patients barricaded themselves inside the Monaghan Lunatic Asylum in Ireland and declared a soviet (workers' council). They also made demands on pay and working hours, including equal pay for women. They won in February stories.workingclasshistory.c...
Hoping to make this! It will be great!
Online HSTM Network Ireland webinar 6 Feb. 1-2pm (Irish Time). Elena Schaa via Zoom. Registration here: t.co/XcAgamnICK
All Welcome.
All Welcome.
January 24, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Hoping to make this! It will be great!
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Registration open for what should be an excellent talk @hstmnetworkireland.bsky.social
Online HSTM Network Ireland webinar 6 Feb. 1-2pm (Irish Time). Elena Schaa via Zoom. Registration here: t.co/XcAgamnICK
All Welcome.
All Welcome.
January 24, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Registration open for what should be an excellent talk @hstmnetworkireland.bsky.social
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Great to see @hstmnetworkireland.bsky.social on Bluesky. Welcome! #hstm
January 24, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Great to see @hstmnetworkireland.bsky.social on Bluesky. Welcome! #hstm
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*Deadline looming!*
Teaching in a Time of Crisis CFP: exploring how history education can navigate & respond to contemporary crises.
Come & join @historylabplus.bsky.social, @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social, & HistoryUK at @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social in May! Bursaries available!
Teaching in a Time of Crisis CFP: exploring how history education can navigate & respond to contemporary crises.
Come & join @historylabplus.bsky.social, @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social, & HistoryUK at @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social in May! Bursaries available!
CfP Deadline TOMORROW!
@ihrhistorylab.bsky.social and the social history society
Teaching in a Time of Crisis: exploring how history education can navigate and respond to contemporary crises. Click the link for details and to submit a paper:
socialhistory.org.uk/shs_event/te...
@ihrhistorylab.bsky.social and the social history society
Teaching in a Time of Crisis: exploring how history education can navigate and respond to contemporary crises. Click the link for details and to submit a paper:
socialhistory.org.uk/shs_event/te...
Teaching in a Time of Crisis
As we begin another academic year, history feels both more fragile – and more essential – than ever. In a world of global pandemics, political unrest, environmental collapse, the cost o…
socialhistory.org.uk
January 16, 2025 at 1:49 PM
*Deadline looming!*
Teaching in a Time of Crisis CFP: exploring how history education can navigate & respond to contemporary crises.
Come & join @historylabplus.bsky.social, @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social, & HistoryUK at @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social in May! Bursaries available!
Teaching in a Time of Crisis CFP: exploring how history education can navigate & respond to contemporary crises.
Come & join @historylabplus.bsky.social, @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social, & HistoryUK at @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social in May! Bursaries available!
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“To turn off, go to Settings > Apps > Photos on iOS and turn off Enhanced Visual Search. On Mac, open Photos and go to Settings > General to do the same. You must do it on each of your Apple devices.”
Apple has opted iOS and MacOS users into an AI photo scanning feature which tries to extract landmarks from your photos called Enhanced Visual Search by default with little notice.
www.theregister.com/2025/01/03/a...
www.theregister.com/2025/01/03/a...
Apple opts everyone into having their Photos analyzed by AI
Homomorphic-based Enhanced Visual Search is so privacy-preserving, iPhone giant activated it without asking
www.theregister.com
January 4, 2025 at 10:27 PM
“To turn off, go to Settings > Apps > Photos on iOS and turn off Enhanced Visual Search. On Mac, open Photos and go to Settings > General to do the same. You must do it on each of your Apple devices.”
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Happy new year to everyone in this pack (and those who aren’t). I’m resharing because we’ve had new people added, so worth checking through (again?) for kindred researchers to follow.
go.bsky.app/7YAhtdD
go.bsky.app/7YAhtdD
January 2, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Happy new year to everyone in this pack (and those who aren’t). I’m resharing because we’ve had new people added, so worth checking through (again?) for kindred researchers to follow.
go.bsky.app/7YAhtdD
go.bsky.app/7YAhtdD
Finally exiting the throes of the worst lurgy. Nearly 3 weeks I’ve been down. But I have started my 2025 reads list. Up first is The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk. Hoping to understand myself more after this one.
January 3, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Finally exiting the throes of the worst lurgy. Nearly 3 weeks I’ve been down. But I have started my 2025 reads list. Up first is The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk. Hoping to understand myself more after this one.
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In this feature I explore some of the places in Bedfordshire associated with health and healing, from medieval holy wells to Victorian innovations.
www.cprebeds.org.uk/discover/h-i...
#LocalHistory
www.cprebeds.org.uk/discover/h-i...
#LocalHistory
H is for... health - CPRE Bedfordshire
CPRE Bedfordshire is working to enhance, promote and protect Bedfordshire's countryside. Love Bedfordshire's beautiful rural areas? Find out more and get involved.
www.cprebeds.org.uk
January 2, 2025 at 3:09 PM
In this feature I explore some of the places in Bedfordshire associated with health and healing, from medieval holy wells to Victorian innovations.
www.cprebeds.org.uk/discover/h-i...
#LocalHistory
www.cprebeds.org.uk/discover/h-i...
#LocalHistory
Starting my Bluesky off
on 1st January 2025 ✨ here’s an overview of 2024… the year I finished my Scouloudi fellowship, became a Dr, got a job, hiked a mountain, and a lot more 💜 Happy New Year you lovely lot!
on 1st January 2025 ✨ here’s an overview of 2024… the year I finished my Scouloudi fellowship, became a Dr, got a job, hiked a mountain, and a lot more 💜 Happy New Year you lovely lot!
January 1, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Starting my Bluesky off
on 1st January 2025 ✨ here’s an overview of 2024… the year I finished my Scouloudi fellowship, became a Dr, got a job, hiked a mountain, and a lot more 💜 Happy New Year you lovely lot!
on 1st January 2025 ✨ here’s an overview of 2024… the year I finished my Scouloudi fellowship, became a Dr, got a job, hiked a mountain, and a lot more 💜 Happy New Year you lovely lot!