✂️ What if academia was designed differently - more inclusive, more creative, and shaped by diverse ways of thinking? Join @ndhumanities.bsky.social for an online zine-making workshop to explore these ideas. No experience needed!
🗓 13 May 12.30–2pm
Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reimaginin...
Unfortunately, due to unforseen circumstances, we will be postponing this event. Watch this spaces for the rescheduled event later this year! 🔥
Where, and how, are conversations about neurodiversity unfolding today? What is lost, reshaped, or new when translating neurodiversity across cultures and disciplines?
Join us on April 23rd for a free, online roundtable on Translating Neurodiversity!
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One of our network leads @danielpjones.bsky.social has recently published a paper! It approaches Tourette Syndrome treatment approaches through the lens of technoableism. Why not give it a read?
#TouretteSyndrome
#AcademicSky #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs
🚨 NEURODIVERSITY IS MORE THAN... symposium 📅 4 March 2026, 9-5pm GMT, online. Free to attend, all welcome! Sign up below:
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Thrilled to be one of the presenters at this fantastic symposium. Can't wait!
This is going to be awesome - so excited to share this free online symposium!!
I am excited to share that I will be presenting at this event with @ndhumanities.bsky.social next year alongside @emergentdivergence.com
Free tickets!
Find out more:
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We were thrilled to meet Warda at the Critical Neurodiversity Studies conference last summer and are just as excited for this new, important book.
Are we nurturing a person’s capacity to express their truth or gently steering them toward an institutional ideal of what normal speech/language/communication should be? 👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿
www.routledge.com/White-System...
What forms of inclusion and exclusion does neurodiversity perform as a concept, field, and movement? How may lines of queer, trans, crip, decolonial, posthumanist, or Mad thinking shake up and overspill the conventional boundaries of neurodiversity?
Please join us for this important discussion! 🔥
This event is hosted by the Neurodivergent Humanities Network, in collaboration with the Wellcome Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities at @durhamimh.bsky.social, @bristolunienglish.bsky.social and Centre de Recherches sur les Arts et le Langage at bsky.app/profile/ehes...
Organised by NDHums network mentorship pairing @ombretarragnat.bsky.social and @ainokash.bsky.social, this symposium brings together academics, independent researchers and lived-experience activists from across the globe to chart new possibilities with and beyond the neurodiversity concept.
🚨 NEURODIVERSITY IS MORE THAN... symposium 📅 4 March 2026, 9-5pm GMT, online. Free to attend, all welcome! Sign up below:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/neurodiver...
"Pathology lite complements the now well-known concept of neurodiversity lite. It highlights equally risky ways that scientific discourse and practice can subtly reinforce harm against neurodivergent people"
Good thoughts from:
@ombretarragnat.bsky.social
ombretarragnat.com/2025/11/03/w...
Another blog post, this time exploring the unique ways in which neurodivergent people use their neurodivergence to support or oppose animal politics!
ombretarragnat.com/2025/11/10/f...
Calling all creative writers, both published and unpublished.
First prize is £1500, including publication in the Bristol Short Story Prize anthology.
Enter your short story of up to 4000 words until 31 Jan 2026, with low income entries available on a limited basis every month.
Network co-lead @danielpjones.bsky.social is facilitating this wonderful online roundtable on the future of Tourette Synrome research - tickets are free, and available in the original post!
We're excited and proud to share that network member Rhiannon Hawkins has produced the world's first Mental Health Vulnerability Index RE climate change, which is so important in the context of the climate crisis! Read her work here:
www.ucl.ac.uk/mathematical...
#ClimateChange #MentalHealth
Network co-lead @danielpjones.bsky.social is facilitating a roundtable on the interdisciplinary futures of Tourette Syndrome research!
More info below! 🤩
#TouretteSyndrome #MedicalHumanities #AcademicSky
Check out our 2 new neuro-affirming educational animation videos celebrating Autistic experiences and perspectives.
www.thrivingautistic.org/autistic-exp...
I’m excited to announce the first two webinars in the WAARC series “Dreaming Up A Disability-Inclusive Workplace”.
29 Oct: Intersecting Identities and Disabled Joy with Amelia Lander-Cavallo
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26 Nov: Complicated Pride: Disability, Neurodiversity and Ambivalence
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Two dancers lean against each other back-to-back, looking tired. Paper-mache body parts hang around them.
Two dancers are stained with charcoal, hands resting on each other
Tomorrow marks the start of my #Dance Residency with Dance City. I'll be exploring #urban #affect and its impact on the Tourettic body, and considering the value of tics in performance spaces for translating experiences of #TouretteSyndrome! 🕺
Here's to making art! 🌟
(Photos from previous work!)
3. Scoping Methods in Translational Research with Lara Keuck, Bielefeld. Deadline 31/10/25
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2. Reframing Autism: A Historical Perspective on Shifting Models and Meanings with Steeves Demazeux, Bordeaux
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1. Philosophical Perspectives on Animal Models in Translational Neuroscience with Sara Green, Copenhagen
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