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Rebecca Wynter
@rebeccawynter.bsky.social
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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 🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Before numbers, Dutch city buildings were given distinctive stone tablets, or gable stones. Sometimes they said something about the resident, sometimes it was patriotic, but it could be anything.

My current favourite is this (17thc??) leopard on Zeedijk, Amsterdam. I love him.

#GevelsteenSunday
A weathered stone tablet on a building, on it sits a leopard that has an almost human face.
November 9, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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2:235 #3GoodThings

1) Went to an exhibition about the artist Paulus Potter in his birthplace, Enkhuizen.
2) Realised my Dutch isn't as bad as I think: I'm beyond the getting-the-gist stage.
3) Learned about works such as 'Dying Horses' and 'Pissing Cow'
Seventeenth-century etching of a cow urinating.
August 23, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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A new tactic is deployed in the Great Cat Computer War.
Black and white cat lies on a desk, in front of the computer and across the mouse and pinning down my hand, immobilising work.
August 22, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Two metal half figures, cast from body parts on white boxes sit in the now glass-roofed courtyard containing three original cells at Haarlem Dolhuys (literally translation 'crazy house').
#HistPsych #HistSTM
August 17, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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One of the few historical items on display at the Museum of the Mind, Haarlem. A uniform coat, richly embroidered on the inside by a patient in North Holland (1938).
#HistPsych #HistSTM #Embroidery
Black coat with large buttons, splayed out in a display case, showing the purple, embroidered interior. Close up of embroidered flowers on faded purple material. At the centre, perhaps placed in line with the small of the back is a small flower three-quarteres encircled by small ornage and white beads. Purple frabric on which are embroidered faded white, purple, yellow, rust and green flowers, flower basket, a bumble and two worker bees, as well as the small head of what looks to be a muntjack deer with tiny horns.
August 17, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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2:192 #3GoodThings

1) WEEKEND!!
2) One more week of hectic
3) BABY DEER GETTING ITS WEE HEED CLEANED (terrible pic)
Parkland with a line of three trees in the background. A small baby deer lies on the grass. Its mother is cleaning its head. A black crow looks on.
July 11, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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2:183 #3GoodThings

1) The public-school confidence of Dutch students (without the entitlement)
2) Cooler weather
3) Visited Amsterdam's oldest secular building. From e1600s, De Waag was the centre for guilds, incl. surgeons + their anatomy theatre (depicted in Rembrandt's famous anatomy painting)
Image of the anatomy theatre's ceiling. Four window lights sit in cruciform formation in the domed roof. This and the double wooden octagonal freezes have coats of arms painted; these are not those of ancient, rich families, but of skilled individuals who rose to the higher ranks of the guild.
July 2, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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🚨 #Skystorians of accidents, environmental health, drink, drugs, sex, crime, #police 🚨

CfP 'Policing and #PublicHealth, c.1800-2000' workshop www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...

[typo in desc': we *may* be able to make a small travel contribution]

#HistSTM #LegalHist #HistSex #HistGender #HistMed
1960s black and white photo of two women in police uniform. Both have metal and cloth masks across their mouths and noses.
June 30, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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🚨Historians of drink, drugs, sex, crime, law, #police🚨

CfP 'Policing and #PublicHealth, c.1800-2000' workshop www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...

[typo in description: we *may* be able to make a small travel contribution]

#HistSTM #LegalHist #HistSex #HistGender #HistMed
Two uniformed 1960s London police women looking to the left with metal and gauze masks over their mouths and noses.
June 17, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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I'm not sure what to feel about the new duck family in Amsterdam...
Momma duck and three chicks in a canal nest, made of twigs, faded traffic barrier, a bit of wood, a plastic pipe and plastic packaging and rubbish.
June 13, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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2:163 #3GoodThings

1) Spent time in the company of someone I really like
2) Signed off on a book review and an article
3) A That's Life carrot
A carrot with two 'legs' and a bulge that would fill a pair of budgie smugglers, leans nonchalantly against a window
June 12, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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2:146 #3GoodThings

1) OH
2) Okay, so, on the minus side cake and baking pulled me back in - but in the plus/minus side, it's Such Good Cake (it was my lockdown recipe) www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/doub...
3) Lots of grebe families
Momma grebe and two baby grebes, one on her back, tucked under her wing, swimming. Four grebe family, swimming. Mom, dad, two large chicks.
May 26, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Cat #2 is the letter 'c' today.

#CatSpelling
Black and grey striped cat lies in a 'c' shape on a white, deep-pile rug.
May 23, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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2:226 #3GoodThings

1) Ensured I inserted lots of small joys into my day, ensuring it's been a pleasant one.
2) Not being fluent in Dutch, of course, has plenty of drawbacks, but being able to tune out of my surroundings in this way can be fabulous.
3) A lovely juvenile heron 😍
A juvenile heron stalks the edge of the IJsselmeer, next to yellow waterweeded rocks. Brown rocks give way to dock leaves and other greens in the foreground.
May 6, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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2:222 #3GoodThings

1) Final, final proofs sent off
2) Cat #3 is experiencing rejuvenation in her senior years
3) Egyptian goslings 😍
Mom and dad Egyptian goose shepherd seven goslings in the calm blue-sky reflected water.
May 2, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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📢Today! April's PULSE seminar, 'Justice', 3-5pm at Bushuis, Amsterdam!📢

Featuring the very excellent Willemijn Ruberg, talking about forensics and bodily integrity, and Ian Burney, presenting on a muscular pre-cursor to the Innocence Project.

#HistMed #HistSTM #LegalHistory #MedHums
PULSE SEMINAR for Medical and Health Humanities. JUSTICE. 24 April: 3-5PM. Willemijn Ruberg (Universiteit Utrecht), 'On or in the body? Physical examinations by police and forensic doctors and the right to bodily integrity'. Ian Burney (University of Manchester), 'Partisans for Justice: Erle Stanley Gardner’s Pursuit of Innocence in Postwar America'. University of Amsterdam Kloveniersburgwal 48 / ROOM: E1.02.
April 24, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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ICYMI April's PULSE seminar, 'Justice', is tomorrow 3-5pm at Bushuis, Amsterdam!

We're pleased to say that Willemijn Ruberg will be talking about forensics and bodily integrity, and Ian Burney, a muscular pre-cursor to the Innocence Project.

#HistMed #HistSTM #LegalHistory #MedHums
The PULSE Seminar JUSTICE 15:00-17:00, 24 April, Bushuis E1.02 Willemijn Ruberg, Utrecht University, 'On or in the body? Physical examinations by police and forensic doctors and the right to bodily integrity' Ian Burney, University of Manchester, 'Partisans for Justice: Erle Stanley Gardner’s Pursuit of Innocence in Postwar America'
April 23, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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2:110 #3GoodThings

1) Realising saying 'you can only alter your own little corner' limits imagination and serves the bad 'uns.
2) Feeling really inspired by food atm
3) First baby grebes of the year 😍
Momma grebe carries three chicks on her back as she swims through the water.
April 20, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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In the wild in Amsterdam, @regretteruane.bsky.social
Rows of books in a bookshop. Stairs behind them next to the entrance. Beyond, in the distance, some pink tulips for sale outside. Close up of one of the shelves of books, showing in glorious fifties-like colours and ice cream cone held by a women's hand next to her bosom, the front cover of Rose Ruane's Birding.
April 15, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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2:97 #3GoodThings

1) I can watch the sun come up from our lounge window
2) Vegan aioli
3) Cat #3's bleps
Sleepy black and white cat lying on its side, paws outstretched, tongue poking out. Sleepy black and white cat lying in the sunsbine on its side, paws outstretched, tongue poking out.
April 7, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Today, Liz Truss be like
Beautiful camera angle of stilted Liz Truss losing her seat in the 2024 UK General Election.
April 3, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Salpêtrière en hiver
Inside the pale, warm limestone (?) religious complex at Salpetriere. In the foreground, covering two-thirds of the image is a wall on which is stencilled in capitals: 'tronc pour l'entretien de la chapelle sainte vierge' (trunk for the maintenance of the Sainte Vierge chapel). Peeking past, the remaining third on the right are wooden pews and a small confessional (?). Above, sculpture of Mary and a giant baby Jesus appear on the wall. A pale blue-grey sky hangs over five peak-gabled attic windows with pale blue sills, a series of five windows sit below, and below that five more. The windows are multi-paned in white frames. Part-closed external yellow blinds dot the windows. A pollarded tree to the left interrupts the scene. An inverted corner of small eighteenth-century two-storey retraced cottages. The surrounds of the two first-floor windows are arched and wood-clad. Two terracotta window boxes sit on the ledge of each window. External open yellow blinds sit across them. Lead flashing. A peaked bird box is attached to the left of the left window. A square mirror sits underneath both, reflecting the buildings opposite. A lantern and number 4 sit to the right A pale-green wooden covering sits on narrow columns. The verandah sits outside a single-le el long building. Hald moons sit against the wall, supported to become seats. Windows and narrow doors sit deep in the stone building.
February 11, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Come to Amsterdam this Thursday!

This year's first PULSE Seminar is here! With the theme of 'Environment', we're delighted to be joined by @noreenmasud.bsky.social and Ying-Tzu Lin.

15:00-17:00, 23 January, UvA, Bushuis E1.02.

#EnvHums #HistFood #MedHums #HistSTM #HistMed #Skystorians 🗃️
Pulse Medical and Health Humanities logo, above an image of prosthetic eyes, on which a panel says: The PULSE Seminar: Environment 15:00-17:00, Thursday 23 January 2025, Bushuis E1.02 'South Africa as a Health Resort: Writer Olive Schreiner's Breath and Medico-Colonial Narratives Around 'Good Air' and 'Variety', Dr Noreen Masud (University of Bristol, UK) 'Postgrowth cookbook: re-appropriating Dutch food history to envision a post-growth diet in a contemporary urban Dutch context', Dr Ying-Tzu Lin (NIAS, Amsterdam).
January 20, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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Oooo! I'd been looking a sthing like this (need an image and an explanation) - do you think this might do it? I didn't realise how lite I am on e20thc meds :s
Image of a med bottle for Compound Cerebral Sedation
January 16, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Join us in Amsterdam next week for the 1st PULSE Seminar of 2025!

We're v fortunate to be joined by
@noreenmasud.bsky.social and Ying-Tzu Lin.

15:00-17:00, Thurs. 23 January, UvA, Bushuis E1.02
Pulse Medical and Health Humanities logo, above an image of prosthetic eyes, on which a panel says: The PULSE Seminar: Environment 15:00-17:00, Thursday 23 January 2025, Bushuis E1.02 'South Africa as a Health Resort: Writer Olive Schreiner's Breath and Medico-Colonial Narratives Around 'Good Air' and 'Variety' Dr Noreen Masud (University of Bristol, UK) 'Postgrowth cookbook: re-appropriating Dutch food history to envision a post-growth diet in a contemporary urban Dutch context' Dr Ying-Tzu Lin (NIAS, Amsterdam)
January 16, 2025 at 12:39 PM