Cinzia Greco
@cinziag.bsky.social
Medical Anthropology& Humanities, Research Fellow, Univ of Manchester, CHSTM | Medical uncertainty| Autism| Gender (https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/cinzia.greco)
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Cinzia Greco
@cinziag.bsky.social
· Mar 23
My first monograph, Assemblages of Cancer. Experiences and contexts of #breastcancer in the UK, France and Italy, published by MUP
@manchesterup.bsky.social, is out.
If you are interested in having a look, the book is also available in open access here www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...
@manchesterup.bsky.social, is out.
If you are interested in having a look, the book is also available in open access here www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...
I'm quite neutral about Christmas, but the constant presentation of it as an endless opportunity for consumerism and drunk parties makes me uncomfortable.
November 23, 2025 at 10:09 AM
I'm quite neutral about Christmas, but the constant presentation of it as an endless opportunity for consumerism and drunk parties makes me uncomfortable.
This problem goes beyond the US. Until recently, the three-cueing system has been widely used in the UK as well (here known as the "searchlight model").
I have often had the impression that people do not understand written texts, even the simple ones. It turned out it was more than an impression.
I have often had the impression that people do not understand written texts, even the simple ones. It turned out it was more than an impression.
It is hard to emphasize enough how much Americans CANNOT READ and LITERALLY do not know what your post said before they reply to you. They have no skill for figuring out what you ACTUALLY said. They think this is how everybody experiences reading.
ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy
November 12, 2025 at 9:12 AM
This problem goes beyond the US. Until recently, the three-cueing system has been widely used in the UK as well (here known as the "searchlight model").
I have often had the impression that people do not understand written texts, even the simple ones. It turned out it was more than an impression.
I have often had the impression that people do not understand written texts, even the simple ones. It turned out it was more than an impression.
After all, "The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain"...
Miriam Margolyes: “The English judge people by their vowels.”
She’s not wrong there. Accents are used to judge people’s brains, competence and goodness. It’s a real problem.
She’s not wrong there. Accents are used to judge people’s brains, competence and goodness. It’s a real problem.
November 11, 2025 at 11:12 PM
After all, "The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain"...
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Libero e visionario, Rino Gaetano nasceva 75 anni fa
Libero e visionario, Rino Gaetano nasceva 75 anni fa - Notizie - Ansa.it
Per l'anniversario un inedito, un concerto e un film (ANSA)
www.ansa.it
October 29, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Libero e visionario, Rino Gaetano nasceva 75 anni fa
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Thanks @caraleavey.bsky.social hot off the press new paper from my ethnography of coastal towns highlighting how the political economy of housing is exploiting and harming vulnerable people and deprived communities www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
October 24, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Thanks @caraleavey.bsky.social hot off the press new paper from my ethnography of coastal towns highlighting how the political economy of housing is exploiting and harming vulnerable people and deprived communities www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
I wonder whether we have completed the circle of therapy and we are now recycling (chip versions of) psychoanalysis.
(Anyway, as an Italian in an article about dreams, I would expect that they suggest at least a couple of number).
(Anyway, as an Italian in an article about dreams, I would expect that they suggest at least a couple of number).
‘An unsolved mystery of science’: why do I dream about my teeth falling out?
Experts say such dreams of dental distress may relate to the processing of various emotions and experiences
www.theguardian.com
October 21, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I wonder whether we have completed the circle of therapy and we are now recycling (chip versions of) psychoanalysis.
(Anyway, as an Italian in an article about dreams, I would expect that they suggest at least a couple of number).
(Anyway, as an Italian in an article about dreams, I would expect that they suggest at least a couple of number).
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Also, isn't this standard narrative for mid 19C MCR, otherwise the 19th depopulation of the central districts by the emerging middle classes to the suburbs would make no sense...
October 21, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Also, isn't this standard narrative for mid 19C MCR, otherwise the 19th depopulation of the central districts by the emerging middle classes to the suburbs would make no sense...
"She uncovered evidence of doctors, engineers, architects, surveyors, teachers, managers and shop owners living alongside weavers and spinners."
Not very surprising since this has more to do with the transformation of the elusive concept of middle class, rather than with Engels being "wrong".
Not very surprising since this has more to do with the transformation of the elusive concept of middle class, rather than with Engels being "wrong".
Friedrich Engels ‘took creative liberties’ with descriptions of class divides in Manchester
Cambridge historian Emily Chung finds philosopher’s blistering depictions of segregation may have been exaggerated
www.theguardian.com
October 21, 2025 at 8:23 AM
"She uncovered evidence of doctors, engineers, architects, surveyors, teachers, managers and shop owners living alongside weavers and spinners."
Not very surprising since this has more to do with the transformation of the elusive concept of middle class, rather than with Engels being "wrong".
Not very surprising since this has more to do with the transformation of the elusive concept of middle class, rather than with Engels being "wrong".
Do British/anglophone people know what a B2 level is? Is not a rhetoric question. I have often been in conversations when someone was criticising someone else for their "very poor English" just to discover that the "poor English" was actually a B2 or C1 level.
A-level English, voluntary work, delayed citizenship: it’s Labour’s Orwellian Two Minutes Hate for immigrants | Nesrine Malik
It’s easier for politicians to blame others than to face the truth: Britain has been stripped of the spaces and opportunities that allow for true social integration, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Ma...
www.theguardian.com
October 20, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Do British/anglophone people know what a B2 level is? Is not a rhetoric question. I have often been in conversations when someone was criticising someone else for their "very poor English" just to discover that the "poor English" was actually a B2 or C1 level.
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There are so many Diane Keaton performances to remember, but a lot of people haven't seen Reds, and A) my God, see it, it is a masterpiece and B) her performance as Louise Bryant is one of the bravest, toughest, least sympathy-courting pieces of work by an American actress in the last 50 years.
October 11, 2025 at 7:20 PM
There are so many Diane Keaton performances to remember, but a lot of people haven't seen Reds, and A) my God, see it, it is a masterpiece and B) her performance as Louise Bryant is one of the bravest, toughest, least sympathy-courting pieces of work by an American actress in the last 50 years.
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Oh no. Sometimes the obituaries just seem to come in like waves. Generations pass, I suppose. The water gets closer.
October 11, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Oh no. Sometimes the obituaries just seem to come in like waves. Generations pass, I suppose. The water gets closer.
I am so sad to hear about Diane Keaton. She was one of the actresses I liked the most. Talented and unconventional, she has been such a refreshing presence in the cinematographic landscape of my youth, otherwise dominated by unreasonable images of perfection and ultra-femininity.
Diane Keaton, Oscar-winning star of Annie Hall and The Godfather, dies aged 79
The Oscar-winner best known for her many collaborations with Woody Allen, as well as films including Reds, The First Wives Club and The Book Club, has died
www.theguardian.com
October 11, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I am so sad to hear about Diane Keaton. She was one of the actresses I liked the most. Talented and unconventional, she has been such a refreshing presence in the cinematographic landscape of my youth, otherwise dominated by unreasonable images of perfection and ultra-femininity.
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If you're interested in history or social studies of mental health and illness, psychology or psychiatry, and are in Manchester on 16 October, please join us for our first Mind, History & Society Seminar, a conversation on the future of the #autism concept.
blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0...
blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0...
Mind, History and Society Seminar, 16 October 2025
The Future of the Autism Concept
Discussants: Dr Bonnie Evans and Professor Jonathan Green
blogs.manchester.ac.uk
October 1, 2025 at 1:14 PM
If you're interested in history or social studies of mental health and illness, psychology or psychiatry, and are in Manchester on 16 October, please join us for our first Mind, History & Society Seminar, a conversation on the future of the #autism concept.
blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0...
blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0...
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Now open access: BJRL back archive, including special issue on ‘Medical History in Manchester: Health and Healing in an Industrial City, 1750–2005’. Check it out.
This week, Professor Carsten Timmermann writes on Bulletin 87:1, ‘Medical History in Manchester: Health and Healing in an Industrial City, 1750–2005’.
Read the blog post: bit.ly/3KYQL39
Read the blog post: bit.ly/3KYQL39
BJRL Goes Open Access: Professor Carsten Timmermann on Manchester's Medical History - Manchester University Press
BJRL 87:1 is now Open Access on Manchesterhive.
bit.ly
October 7, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Now open access: BJRL back archive, including special issue on ‘Medical History in Manchester: Health and Healing in an Industrial City, 1750–2005’. Check it out.
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Un operaio è morto nel Salento. Costruiva la vasca per l'acqua piovana
Un operaio è morto nel Salento. Costruiva la vasca per l'acqua piovana - Notizie - Ansa.it
Un operaio di 58 anni è morto in un incidente sul lavoro a Corsano, in provincia di Lecce, mentre era impegnato, per conto di una ditta edile incaricata dal Comune, nella realizzazione di una vasca per la raccolta delle acque piovane. (ANSA)
www.ansa.it
October 4, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Un operaio è morto nel Salento. Costruiva la vasca per l'acqua piovana
I have noticed a resurfacing of controversial, old-fashioned psychological labels, such as personality disorder or, as in this case, narcissism, and they are often used to blame parents - or let's be honest, mothers. These are for mental health what ultra-processed foods are for nutrition: very bad.
The peacock parent problem: how to survive being raised by a narcissist
Psychotherapist Kathleen Saxton has written a book about growing up with a mother or father who is grandiose, entitled, exploitative and lacking in empathy. She discusses how to recognise the signs – ...
www.theguardian.com
October 2, 2025 at 9:20 AM
I have noticed a resurfacing of controversial, old-fashioned psychological labels, such as personality disorder or, as in this case, narcissism, and they are often used to blame parents - or let's be honest, mothers. These are for mental health what ultra-processed foods are for nutrition: very bad.
To be honest, I have been in meetings like that, just longer...
(P.S.: To me, it's wonderful to see that what LLM is reproducing are standard Anglo-American communication practices).
(P.S.: To me, it's wonderful to see that what LLM is reproducing are standard Anglo-American communication practices).
October 1, 2025 at 3:29 PM
To be honest, I have been in meetings like that, just longer...
(P.S.: To me, it's wonderful to see that what LLM is reproducing are standard Anglo-American communication practices).
(P.S.: To me, it's wonderful to see that what LLM is reproducing are standard Anglo-American communication practices).
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Lisbon for 3-9 months anyone?
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Fellowships Gulbenkian Institute for Advanced Study
Apply for a research opportunity at the GIAS in Lisbon. Submit your application for the academic year 2026/27.
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September 30, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Lisbon for 3-9 months anyone?
gulbenkian.pt/en/bolsas-li...
gulbenkian.pt/en/bolsas-li...
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4/ Skin colour, accent, name or whatever are used by some employers (and landlords) to judge whether to carry out a check. Foreigners face checks but so too do ethnic minority Brits. Existing system is a recipe for discrimination.
September 27, 2025 at 2:03 PM
4/ Skin colour, accent, name or whatever are used by some employers (and landlords) to judge whether to carry out a check. Foreigners face checks but so too do ethnic minority Brits. Existing system is a recipe for discrimination.
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1/ There’s quite a lot of misunderstanding by good journalists about how right to work checks operate. It’s not illegal to work without having provided proof of your right, as James goes on to say later in the thread. And employers are not under a legal duty to conduct checks: ID is not mandatory.
Not sure day one of the latest ID card rollout went very well at all, not least because the government couldn’t answer the absolute core question about why they’re being introduced.
The case is that digital ID will be required for anyone to get work. The problem is ID is already mandatory. 🧵
The case is that digital ID will be required for anyone to get work. The problem is ID is already mandatory. 🧵
September 27, 2025 at 2:03 PM
1/ There’s quite a lot of misunderstanding by good journalists about how right to work checks operate. It’s not illegal to work without having provided proof of your right, as James goes on to say later in the thread. And employers are not under a legal duty to conduct checks: ID is not mandatory.
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4) Generalised digital IDs have downsides and some upsides. Dematerialising the compulsory ID of most non-citizens in the UK had very little upside and made people vulnerable. That one would have been the policy to actually complain about
September 26, 2025 at 8:04 AM
4) Generalised digital IDs have downsides and some upsides. Dematerialising the compulsory ID of most non-citizens in the UK had very little upside and made people vulnerable. That one would have been the policy to actually complain about
In the UK, the highest level of identity theft is reported (almost 40%), compared to other EU countries, where it is significantly lower and usually does not have the same devastating impact due to the existence of more robust systems to verify identity.
And this is just one reason.
And this is just one reason.
Think about what you mean by ‘ID cards work fine in Europe’. What do they work for? When do you use them? How?
September 26, 2025 at 7:28 AM
In the UK, the highest level of identity theft is reported (almost 40%), compared to other EU countries, where it is significantly lower and usually does not have the same devastating impact due to the existence of more robust systems to verify identity.
And this is just one reason.
And this is just one reason.
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The biggest losers of this are undocumented migrants, who will see even less spaces in society they are not excluded for, but I am sadly confident that this government too sees this as a plus.
September 25, 2025 at 5:07 PM
The biggest losers of this are undocumented migrants, who will see even less spaces in society they are not excluded for, but I am sadly confident that this government too sees this as a plus.
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I do not think there is ultimately a valid reason for digital ID, but I can see some for a mandatory ID (as long as it is free or almost free of costs, and there are extensive resources to get more vulnerable populations on the system)
September 25, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I do not think there is ultimately a valid reason for digital ID, but I can see some for a mandatory ID (as long as it is free or almost free of costs, and there are extensive resources to get more vulnerable populations on the system)
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3) the pilot EU Settled Status was probably digital mostly to cut on costs. The UK probably would have the resources to put in infrastructures for routine in-person registration and the production of physical IDs as most European countries, but it would cost and take more time
September 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
3) the pilot EU Settled Status was probably digital mostly to cut on costs. The UK probably would have the resources to put in infrastructures for routine in-person registration and the production of physical IDs as most European countries, but it would cost and take more time