✂️ 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...
When Labour next tell you there is no money left and that's why they can't help people to heat their homes, show them this.
Or read the transcript and watch the BSL translation here: shef.ac.uk/ihuman/waarc/cripping-research-culture-podcast
Cripping Research Culture is a Wellcome Anti-Ableist Research Culture podcast and is supported by the Wellcome Trust.
The final episode of #CrippingResearchCulture is out! Listen to @danielpjones.bsky.social and me interview @louisecreechan.bsky.social and Haf Serajee on "Daring to Plan Inclusive Events" here or wherever podcasts can be found:
creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
Nice to see this confirmed, I hope it leads to much more openness and compassion in how we speak about suicide with children and young people.
Unfortunately, due to unforseen circumstances, we will be postponing this event. Watch this spaces for the rescheduled event later this year! 🔥
Well, the cat's out of the bag and it's official. I've been nominated to stand in the local elections as a Green councillor for Fawdon and West Gosforth. This city has become my home, and it deserves leadership that cares, listens, and acts. Vote Green on May 7th! 💚
#GetGreensElected #GreenParty
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!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/translatin...
Thrilled to share I've had TWO papers accepted for the European Society for the Study of Tics & Tourette Syndrome Meeting in Ljubljana, Slovenia this June! 🇸🇮
I'll be sharing findings from a recent roundtable on the future of TS research, and a recent paper of mine on technoableism in TS treatment 👏
Join us in Durham on 28th April for a 1-day event exploring dancing across different disciplines, forms, spaces and communities. The day will explore the links between dance, literature, geography, health, and more!
Tickets are free but limited 🕺
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dancing-ac...
#AcademicSky
The BSL translation of #CrippingResearchCulture episode 7 with Lucy Killerby and Freya Douglas Oloyede is now live on the Wellcome Anti-Ableist Research Culture website!
sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/waarc...
Cripping Research Culture is made possible with support from the @wellcometrust.bsky.social.
This is Apartheid.
It's morally disgusting - and comes at the same time as Israel is committing an ongoing genocide.
To see the Labour Government defend Israel repeatedly will horrify the British public - it cannot go on like this.
For me, one of the strangest things about being an interdisciplinary academic is being asked to return a peer-review for a clinical science journal in 5 days, whilst waiting 10 months for the first round of reviews on your latest social science manuscript. The speed differences give me whiplash 😅
NEW CfP! 🌈🎓
📸 VISUAL HISTORY NOW: Using photographs to study the history of gender, sexuality, and space
8-9 Oct, Tampere Uni, Finland
If you research gendered, sexual, queer or trans histories using visual materials, this is the conference for you!
Deadline 31 March
www.tuni.fi/en/research/...
A new publication by our Moving Bodies Lab researcher Emily Davis, explores professional perspectives on Scottish Ballet’s developing ‘dance on prescription’ model 🩰
Find out more about the publication 👇
medhumsplatform.org/prescribing-...
'Dancing Across Disciplines', Durham, UK | 28 April 2026
Join us for a FREE 1-day event exploring dance across disciplines, forms, spaces, + communities. We'll explore historical connections across dance, literature, geographies, community practice, and more!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dancing-ac...
If Neupulse is to be understood as “promising”, we need to extend the conversation beyond cure and towards centring disabled technology users themselves. We need a technoableist lens to be applied!
I argue that we need a shift in how these technologies are framed when talking about Tourette Syndrome, drawing on Ashley Shew’s concept of technoableism.
From soundproof masks, to muting tourettic people on Zoom, to algorithmic filtering of coprolalia, technoableism operates in distinct ways.
Tourette Syndrome is becoming an increasingly technologised experience. We see this in 'treatment options', especially wearable technologies designed specifically for tic disorders.
Neupulse is being positioned as a gold standard intervention to reduce tics and premonitory urges.
My latest paper is now out in Neurodiversity (Open Access!)
In it, I critically examine emerging technology-based treatment interventions for Tourette Syndrome, considering median nerve stimulation and the Neupulse device in particular.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Absolutely appalled at every single person involved in this. Once again, the tourettic community is being punched down at. Tourette Syndrome is not an excuse. We are not your punchline. Your ableism is showing.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkKb...
Daniel holds a bundle of pom poms of varying colours and sizes to his chest. He is tensing his face, and lifting his knee to his chest.
Tomorrow marks the start of a week spent at the wonderful 'The HopBarn' for my Artist's Residency! Looking forward to drifting around rural spaces, choreographing with #tics, and #DJing rural soundscapes to explore the role of rural affect on my tourettic body 🕺
#Dance #AcademicSky #TouretteSyndrome
Can we also include the postgraduate loan in this, which has been frozen at £21k repayment threshold at 6% since it was introduced
It seems like a lot of 'experts' on Tourette Syndrome are coming out of the woodwork since the BAFTAs, though it's strange that they seemingly can't even spell 'ticced' or 'Tourette Syndrome' properly, let alone understand that tics are involuntary 🫢
Stealing from the needy to line their own pockets – DWP hands out £12.7 million in bonuses, up from £11.2m last year.
I really appreciate this TikToker with Tourette syndrome, Shay, for taking the time to educate so many of us (including me) about her disability and coprolalia in light of what happened at the BAFTAs with John Davidson when Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo were on stage.
I learned a lot.
Tonight, I Swear won "Rising Star", "Best Lead Actor", and "Best Casting". This is awful, awful news.
'Best Casting' implies Tourettic characters can/should not be played by tourettic actors. The others reward active choices to not cast disabled people.
What a disappointment
Drop the charges.
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