Rebecca Wynter
@rebeccawynter.bsky.social
Historian of Medicine & Mental Health. Health Humanities @uvahumanities.bsky.social. Co-convenor Mental Health Humanities Researcher Network https://mhhrn.bham.ac.uk/. Policy Officer @sshmedicine.bsky.social. She/her 🌈🏳️⚧️
#Skystorian #HistPsych #HistSTM
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Rebecca Wynter
@rebeccawynter.bsky.social
· Apr 16
fannie lou hamer singing into a microphone with the words if i fall i 'll fall freedom
Alt: fannie lou hamer with microphone, with the words if i fall i'll fall - five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom
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Taps the sign 👉 Nobody's free till everybody's free.
Because I can't remember names, I'm hoping the person who contacted me about a history of cancer evaluation project'll see this. You emailed several months ago, when I was v busy. I have tried, unsuccessfully, to search my emails to find yours. This message is to say apologies for not responding :s!
November 14, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Because I can't remember names, I'm hoping the person who contacted me about a history of cancer evaluation project'll see this. You emailed several months ago, when I was v busy. I have tried, unsuccessfully, to search my emails to find yours. This message is to say apologies for not responding :s!
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Nic John Ramos, Health as Property: Racial Capitalism and Sexual Liberalism in Los Angeles www.ucpress.edu/books/health...
Health as Property by Nic John Ramos - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
www.ucpress.edu
November 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Nic John Ramos, Health as Property: Racial Capitalism and Sexual Liberalism in Los Angeles www.ucpress.edu/books/health...
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As an inherent part of war, protection of the dead has received little attention until now.
The new IRRC edition “Protection of the Dead” addresses that gap, focusing on contemporary wartime realities and humanitarian responses.
📚 Read the full edition: bit.ly/43vqz6N
The new IRRC edition “Protection of the Dead” addresses that gap, focusing on contemporary wartime realities and humanitarian responses.
📚 Read the full edition: bit.ly/43vqz6N
Protection of the Dead
Whether lawful or unlawful, death is an inherent part of war - and has been throughout history. Yet, until now, IHL rules on the protection of the dead have received relatively little attention in sch...
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November 14, 2025 at 9:05 AM
As an inherent part of war, protection of the dead has received little attention until now.
The new IRRC edition “Protection of the Dead” addresses that gap, focusing on contemporary wartime realities and humanitarian responses.
📚 Read the full edition: bit.ly/43vqz6N
The new IRRC edition “Protection of the Dead” addresses that gap, focusing on contemporary wartime realities and humanitarian responses.
📚 Read the full edition: bit.ly/43vqz6N
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The hardback edition of our book ‘In Solidarity, Under Suspicion: The British Far Left from 1956’ is out via @manchesterup.bsky.social next week. Please encourage your institutional library to order a copy!
A paperback edition will follow!
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/
A paperback edition will follow!
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/
Manchester University Press - In solidarity, under suspicion
In solidarity, under suspicion - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of In solidarity, under suspicion by Daniel Frost
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 7:47 AM
The hardback edition of our book ‘In Solidarity, Under Suspicion: The British Far Left from 1956’ is out via @manchesterup.bsky.social next week. Please encourage your institutional library to order a copy!
A paperback edition will follow!
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/
A paperback edition will follow!
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/
Every time I think Labour have put the last nail in the coffin, they go and find more.
November 14, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Every time I think Labour have put the last nail in the coffin, they go and find more.
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So much unnecessary cruelty and devastation. Medical libraries and museums are a treasure trove of information and history. Not to mention staff getting double RIFed.
Can someone please invent a time traveling machine so we can reset this timeline? Something to get us back on a humane one.
Can someone please invent a time traveling machine so we can reset this timeline? Something to get us back on a humane one.
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🧵1/6 #FedFam, reporters - urgent help needed
🚨CDC Museum (a Smithsonian affiliate) is being shuttered🚨
Staff are being “un-RIFed” just to close the museum permanently — then RIFed again in Jan
This is bureaucratic cruelty & cultural vandalism
CDC Library is a national treasure
#SaveCDCLibrary
🧵1/6 #FedFam, reporters - urgent help needed
🚨CDC Museum (a Smithsonian affiliate) is being shuttered🚨
Staff are being “un-RIFed” just to close the museum permanently — then RIFed again in Jan
This is bureaucratic cruelty & cultural vandalism
CDC Library is a national treasure
#SaveCDCLibrary
The David J. Sencer CDC Museum: In Association with the Smithsonian
Free museum exhibiting public health topics and the history of CDC.
www.cdc.gov
November 13, 2025 at 7:15 PM
So much unnecessary cruelty and devastation. Medical libraries and museums are a treasure trove of information and history. Not to mention staff getting double RIFed.
Can someone please invent a time traveling machine so we can reset this timeline? Something to get us back on a humane one.
Can someone please invent a time traveling machine so we can reset this timeline? Something to get us back on a humane one.
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This is Carl. He was just woken up from a nap. Hopes for your sake the house is on fire. 12/10 (IG: grumpus.steve.carl)
November 13, 2025 at 8:01 PM
This is Carl. He was just woken up from a nap. Hopes for your sake the house is on fire. 12/10 (IG: grumpus.steve.carl)
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A man I love in a time travel film where he saves the future from evil Al?
Hell yes.
youtu.be/CaSxNAZUKsM?...
Hell yes.
youtu.be/CaSxNAZUKsM?...
GOOD LUCK, HAVE FUN, DON'T DIE | Teaser Trailer | February 13 - Only in Theaters
YouTube video by Briarcliff Entertainment
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November 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM
A man I love in a time travel film where he saves the future from evil Al?
Hell yes.
youtu.be/CaSxNAZUKsM?...
Hell yes.
youtu.be/CaSxNAZUKsM?...
Although he has been one of the few politicians to call out racism, here's a smol reminder that Wes Streeting remains a bad 'un.
November 13, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Although he has been one of the few politicians to call out racism, here's a smol reminder that Wes Streeting remains a bad 'un.
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🔉What dangers does X pose to our democracy? And should the government stop using it?
Good to hear yesterday from @sundersays.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on the immense risk of X as it ignores legal obligations and its owner tries to influence UK politics.
@commonswec.parliament.uk
Good to hear yesterday from @sundersays.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on the immense risk of X as it ignores legal obligations and its owner tries to influence UK politics.
@commonswec.parliament.uk
November 13, 2025 at 10:33 AM
🔉What dangers does X pose to our democracy? And should the government stop using it?
Good to hear yesterday from @sundersays.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on the immense risk of X as it ignores legal obligations and its owner tries to influence UK politics.
@commonswec.parliament.uk
Good to hear yesterday from @sundersays.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on the immense risk of X as it ignores legal obligations and its owner tries to influence UK politics.
@commonswec.parliament.uk
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Album artwork by the great Alex Steinweiss via www.deliciousindustries.com/blog/alex-st...
November 9, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Album artwork by the great Alex Steinweiss via www.deliciousindustries.com/blog/alex-st...
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An absolutely fascinating and infuriating history of the development of "Rape kits." www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Tess Little · Nutshell Crime Scenes: The Rape Kit
The rape kit is a cardboard box containing ordinary items anyone might own: envelopes, combs, swabs, nail clippers....
www.lrb.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 10:58 AM
An absolutely fascinating and infuriating history of the development of "Rape kits." www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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#OtD 13 Nov 2002 the first strike by the UK's Fire Brigades Union – @FBUnational – in their 2002-2003 rolling campaign of action for increased pay took place stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8521...
November 13, 2025 at 11:10 AM
#OtD 13 Nov 2002 the first strike by the UK's Fire Brigades Union – @FBUnational – in their 2002-2003 rolling campaign of action for increased pay took place stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8521...
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The UK govt: "Hmm, we might have to ban VPNs & a whole range of otehr basic privacy safeguards, to Protect The Children, y'know."
Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."
Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."
November 13, 2025 at 9:28 AM
The UK govt: "Hmm, we might have to ban VPNs & a whole range of otehr basic privacy safeguards, to Protect The Children, y'know."
Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."
Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."
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if you're a #Skystorian in the UK, at assoc/full prof level who hasn't won a grant since 2020 and/or with a 'lifetime' capture (indiv. share) <£100,000 I'd love to have you as an example that this is normal. I know DMs are hard for us in the UK -I am also at drvheggie at the mail that is g dot com
November 13, 2025 at 8:45 AM
if you're a #Skystorian in the UK, at assoc/full prof level who hasn't won a grant since 2020 and/or with a 'lifetime' capture (indiv. share) <£100,000 I'd love to have you as an example that this is normal. I know DMs are hard for us in the UK -I am also at drvheggie at the mail that is g dot com
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International students decline by 5%, Dutch enrolments also down www.dutchnews.nl?p=259891
International students decline by 5%, Dutch enrolments also down
www.dutchnews.nl
November 12, 2025 at 11:56 AM
International students decline by 5%, Dutch enrolments also down www.dutchnews.nl?p=259891
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Reform in Kent are “a threat to public safety”, the Fire Brigades Union said.
Reform haven’t signed off on fire brigade budgets, “failed to govern and lead the fire service” and haven’t even met with the fire service which is one of their responsibilities.
Reform haven’t signed off on fire brigade budgets, “failed to govern and lead the fire service” and haven’t even met with the fire service which is one of their responsibilities.
Reform leader branded “captain chaos” as Kent fire authority in disarray
The Fire Brigades Union has slammed the record of Reform’s ‘flagship council’ as it emerged that Kent and Medway Fire Authority was in disarray following the removal of five councillors, including its...
www.fbu.org.uk
November 12, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Reform in Kent are “a threat to public safety”, the Fire Brigades Union said.
Reform haven’t signed off on fire brigade budgets, “failed to govern and lead the fire service” and haven’t even met with the fire service which is one of their responsibilities.
Reform haven’t signed off on fire brigade budgets, “failed to govern and lead the fire service” and haven’t even met with the fire service which is one of their responsibilities.
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If you're in London and at a loose end this Saturday (15 Nov) I'm doing some walking tours of Seven Dials with the wonderful @stanfordstravel.bsky.social. Sign up link below.
Come for the coffee, stay for the whistle stop tour of the Dials and sideways look at the history of 1920s and 1930s London.
Come for the coffee, stay for the whistle stop tour of the Dials and sideways look at the history of 1920s and 1930s London.
Interested in the history of Seven Dials or London or the 1920s and 1930s? I'm doing some walking tours of the Dials with @stanfordstravel.bsky.social on Sat 15 Nov.
There's loads to see, but Seven Dials is so small you don't need to walk far.
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/events/songs...
There's loads to see, but Seven Dials is so small you don't need to walk far.
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/events/songs...
November 12, 2025 at 3:23 PM
If you're in London and at a loose end this Saturday (15 Nov) I'm doing some walking tours of Seven Dials with the wonderful @stanfordstravel.bsky.social. Sign up link below.
Come for the coffee, stay for the whistle stop tour of the Dials and sideways look at the history of 1920s and 1930s London.
Come for the coffee, stay for the whistle stop tour of the Dials and sideways look at the history of 1920s and 1930s London.
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There are moments of magic in misty autumnal mornings.
📷: Ian Brierley
📷: Ian Brierley
November 12, 2025 at 8:30 AM
There are moments of magic in misty autumnal mornings.
📷: Ian Brierley
📷: Ian Brierley
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1951
First Aid in Atomic Warfare
First Aid in Atomic Warfare
November 11, 2025 at 1:39 PM
1951
First Aid in Atomic Warfare
First Aid in Atomic Warfare
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a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,
November 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,
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COHSE
Sexual harassment at Work
Circa 1985
Sexual harassment at Work
Circa 1985
November 11, 2025 at 1:35 PM
COHSE
Sexual harassment at Work
Circa 1985
Sexual harassment at Work
Circa 1985
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Just been invited to the launch event of a report considering the 'future of the UK's research system' where they will be considering the creation of disruption labs named after Ada Lovelace and the report will be introduced by a panel of five men
November 11, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Just been invited to the launch event of a report considering the 'future of the UK's research system' where they will be considering the creation of disruption labs named after Ada Lovelace and the report will be introduced by a panel of five men
Higher Education, where consultants advocate death as a means for survival and everyone else knows they're simply murdering everything.
Very sad news. Arts and Humanities are vital.
Why is it that when trying to cut costs, university execs go for the arts and humanities subjects that are frequently cheaper to teach and bring in strong income?
Don’t they realise this will create less income and cause additional cuts in the future?
Why is it that when trying to cut costs, university execs go for the arts and humanities subjects that are frequently cheaper to teach and bring in strong income?
Don’t they realise this will create less income and cause additional cuts in the future?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Closing vital programmes is not the answer to resolving the issues faced by Universities- senior management need to work with students and staff to find long term solutions.
Closing vital programmes is not the answer to resolving the issues faced by Universities- senior management need to work with students and staff to find long term solutions.
November 11, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Higher Education, where consultants advocate death as a means for survival and everyone else knows they're simply murdering everything.
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If Britain is 'sliding "into economic crisis over £85bn sickness bill', what can UK Arts, Humanities & Social Science research tell us about alternative pathways?
Swansea University historians have some excellent answers. 1/4
@torstenbell.bsky.social @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social
Swansea University historians have some excellent answers. 1/4
@torstenbell.bsky.social @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social
Britain sliding 'into economic crisis' over £85bn sickness bill, ex-John Lewis boss warns
The number of people who are out of work for health reasons has grown by 800,000 since 2019.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 12:39 PM
If Britain is 'sliding "into economic crisis over £85bn sickness bill', what can UK Arts, Humanities & Social Science research tell us about alternative pathways?
Swansea University historians have some excellent answers. 1/4
@torstenbell.bsky.social @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social
Swansea University historians have some excellent answers. 1/4
@torstenbell.bsky.social @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social