What does it really mean to say Happy International Women’s Day beyond cliches, tick box exercises & marketing?
To me it means I’m with you my sisters in your struggles. I understand & empathise. I acknowledge our struggle as a source of both suffering & strength. We grow together. You’re not alone.
This International Women’s Day, we’re highlighting stories of women who helped shape movements for rights and equality, from early feminist writings to oral histories of activism.
Read the blog post here: link.bl.uk/15n
#TheBritishLibrary #InternationalWomensDay
Children continue to be exposed to this in our schools. It’s utter madness.
08.03.2026 10:08 — 👍 28 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 2Neurodiversity becomes more visible in highly standardised systems. The narrower the behavioural expectations, the more natural variation appears pathological. All may benefit if we consider alternatives!
01.03.2026 14:01 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Feeling guilty over doom scrolling? Stress responses are regulatory systems designed to allocate effort in response to perceived demands and uncertainty, chronic activation often reflects structural conditions not necessarily pure personal responsibility.
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"Men liked to put me down as the best woman painter... I'm one of the best painters"
- Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986)
US artist
#InternationalWomensDay
The simplest definition of trauma is that it’s a life experience we didn’t have the mental and/or physical and/or emotional capacity to deal with and the psyche was wounded in the process.~James Hillman, The Essential James Hillman
06.03.2026 18:34 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0Complex trauma training discount, from the world leaders in this field
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“I built a new life but the soil is thin. I can feel the heat of the fire beneath it…”
Zeynep Yasar, @bpsofficial.bsky.social member, Clinical Psychologist and author – on navigating geopolitical tremors in the therapy room.
www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
There is just something deeply disturbing and offensive about watching a Labour govt keep kicking the most vulnerable in our society.
05.03.2026 00:31 — 👍 505 🔁 148 💬 18 📌 4Jung said you can cure a psychotic patient if you can make him creative. In other words, if what is destroying him from within can be brought forth in writing or painting or some other form, then he can be cured. What we try to do is to help people bring forth the Self. ~Marie-Louise von Franz
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Why Open? Because what is a blossom anyway but a fist saying I can't do this anymore —Joseph Fasano
words for the new year
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Exposure-based interventions for chronic pain and bodily symptoms? It's possible! Together with an international group of experts, we summarize the current state of the art from theory to implementation across multiple conditions. doi.org/10.1016/j.br...
02.03.2026 07:36 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Oh wow I am so excited to read this, this is such a key part of my work, integrating exposure to pain symptoms with mindful self-compassion and brain spotting. Thank you!
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A doctor whose career ended after getting the virus says long Covid patients are being forgotten
6 years on there are "hundreds of thousands of people" in the UK with significant long Covid who could not work and were "not acknowledged," she says
www.bbc.com/news/article...
The Kirk Sessions: an evening of poetry & music
3 April, Kirriemuir. Tickets £12/£10
Poetry from Kathleen Jamie, Don Paterson, John Glenday, Lesley Harrison & Lisa Brockwell, with music from David Ogilvy & Don Paterson
@northseapoets.bsky.social #poetry
www.northseapoets.com/events/the-k...
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longcovidkids.eaction.org.uk/awarenessday
#LongCovidAwareness #LongCovidAwarenessMonth
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It has become clear to me that aging itself does not bring wisdom. It often brings regression to childishness, dependency and bitterness over lost opportunities. Only those who are still intellectually, emotionally, spiritually growing inherit the richness of aging.~James Hollis
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Blue lace shawl draped on a dress form. It’s a large, half-circle shawl with bands of lace motifs.
Large half-circle shawl pinned out on blocking mats. The yarn is blue with slight variations. Bands of lace motifs are repeated across the shawl.
#ShowMeYourKnits is lace this week. I have knit a lot of lace! Not sure I want to revisit when I did test knitting but I’ll post a few other things. This is Twelve Birds by Helen Stewart. “Starry Night” colorway, Pittura merino and bamboo yarn.
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📣Call for applications
We are recruiting the 2nd cohort of PhD students for the international research training group on women's mental health. If you care about translational pharmacoimaging work integrating hormonal states, please apply #neurojobs
jobs.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/Job/6598/PhD...
#Medsky🧪 #IDsky #immunosky #pedsky #publichealth @science.org
This study demonstrates that occupationally acquired immunity in pediatricians can be used to engineer potent antibody cocktails that neutralize and protect against both Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) and Human Metapneumovirus (hMPV)
These people are poison. They will unleash racist thugs on the streets of this country and call it security. They will subjugate us to the US and call it patriotism. They must be stopped. There is no more important task in politics.
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Next Consciousness Club is this Wednesday 25th Feb at 11am UK time!
Anat Arzi @anatarzi.bsky.social will be talking about "The Dynamics of (Un)Consciousness: Insights from Olfaction and Respiration"
All welcome, for more info and how to join please see: metacoglab.org/consciousnes...
I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day | Anonymous
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A clump of snowdrops at the back of Orkney Library and Archive
We have an announcement.
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Excellent article, thank you. It's so important to name the structures of oppression.
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"Holding on to small & significant truths, especially when difficult, can make the difference. Virginia Giuffre did, as she had no choice. Because of the survivors, the Epstein Files were released. They made darkness visible for us all"
My editorial on Andrew, contempt – and creating powerlessness:
Oh! I randomly found it tonight!
bsky.app/profile/caas...
Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.
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