@editmapleridge.bsky.social
Editor and plain language advocate. Interests include (in no particular order) global development, language, history, science, law, and art(s).
Appplications open for the Maple Ridge Pitt Meadows Arts Council. See theactmapleridge.org/board-nomina...
02.06.2025 22:20 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Hoping we don't have too many like it.
22.02.2025 01:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I was in a video mtg. We all watched the shaking that was happening at my end. It was vaguely surreal.
21.02.2025 22:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Blue plaque to be unveiled for George Brewster an 11 year old chimney sweep at house where he died in 1875. He died trapped in the chimney in the former Victorian pauper asylum at Fulbourn, Cambridgeshire & was the last 'climbing boy' to die before the law was changed.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
📣 I am excited to co-edit a book w/ Fabrice Jaumont on embracing the imperfection of language learning. Do you have a story, a case study, a biography that challenges the paralyzing "gold standard" of achieving native-like fluency in an L2? For submission guidelines, visit
calec.org/2024/11/28/b...
🤖 The Future of Assessment: Leveraging Artificial Intelligence
🗓 Join us for a FREE webinar on Wednesday, April 17th at 4 PM EDT to explore how AI is transforming the landscape of assessment. #Edusky
➡️ Register now to reserve your spot: event.on24.com/wcc/r/454051...
Scabby Queen by Kirstin Innes and The Facemaker by Lindsey Fitzharris.
31.01.2024 04:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hey Bluesky #writers, spread the word...
#WriteStuff leads a #WritingCommunity chat on Tuesday at 9:00 ET|6:00 PT - join us!
Our topic will be: Your TBW – To Be Written – Pile (and what that looks like)
Abstract for Philippa Carter, 'Managing Mental Health Emergencies'. Today, words like ‘frantic’ and ‘frenzy’ are the stuff of hyperbolic newspaper headlines. Five hundred years ago, they described someone who was judged to be suffering from an episode of severe mental illness. Among frenzy’s hallmark symptoms were sudden, uncharacteristic changes in mood and behaviour; ‘those that be frantic… rage furiously, so that they cannot be ruled without bonds’, one sixteenth-century surgeon warned. Too often, this portrait proved true to life: many mentally ill individuals did end up shackled by their own relatives and friends. But we cannot simply chalk this up to a period-specific shortage of compassion. Instead, the nature of an early modern community’s response to a mental health emergency was determined by a complex push-and-pull of factors, ranging from the availability of housing through to the perceived moral worth of the sufferer.
'Managing Mental Health Emergencies in Early Modern England'
In two weeks, on Thurs Feb 1st, join us at the @ihr.bsky.social to hear Philippa Carter's talk on how early modern communities responded to mental health emergencies. Register for free here: www.history.ac.uk/events/manag...
Have you seen our book development award? #MedHist #SciHist #DisHist
23.01.2024 13:29 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0I just joined this platform recently. Kept my Twitter account active. It's been an interesting experience rebuilding my list of people to follow.
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