Based on the phrasing I don't believe this letter was ever meant to stay private

Plug for the excellent seminar series run by my research group, LCD-PSYC at University of Manchester, in collaboration with LuCID. All your language development interests catered for! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... @childstudycentre.bsky.social

I’m in a webinar about rolling teaching materials over to 2026/27 and we’re being taught about ctrl+F

This is going to be great for University of Manchester's reputation among international students

Trillian was standing alone in the middle of the chamber, tired out but with fiercely burning eyes.

Cutting PIP for ADHD, autism anxiety etc is the perfect example of government policies looking to grab headlines while actually costing more. PIP helps support many people to work. Cutting it means they risk being unable to, that means more costs in the long term. 1/ inews.co.uk/news/politic...

No YOU tried to fix a lunchbox and now have super glue on your fingers, chin and lips

The World's Most Divorced Man Laurence Fox has declared as a candidate for Clacton. www.clactonandfrintongazette.co.uk/news/2626255...

Someone clearly has a bone to pick with us, but has chosen to rip off our branding and use generative AI to do it. If you happen to be on Facebook (or see them crop up elsewhere), we'd really appreciate you reporting this page.

I have just had to do two tasks that involve calendars and timings (one of which was fixing a cock-up I’d made of a previous task involving calendars and timings) and now I need a lie down. My palms are actually sweating.

Autism parents saying what a tragedy being autistic is

I'm sorry but today has been brilliant

😃 this is getting more and more funny

Also not tobhave to go to two different doctors and get a letter from their therapist so their employer believes them (TBC on the last bit)

This is funny in many ways, but my personal favourite is that all the people at work who've started relying on Copilot nonsense in their "workflows" are going to be pissed off when they work even less well than usual because they've learned how to prompt a different model

I don’t suppose anyone wants a notebook? 🤷‍♀️ ko-fi.com/loreandordur...

Game on, Nige.

that most of your time will be spent doing research

OK some good news at last! Now do Nigel

Reading a thesis for a viva whilst simultaneously trying to pay attention to a talk I’m attending online challenge GO (I am having to do two things at once because I was sent the thesis with hardly any time before the viva, hurrah university admin systems)

"Any time in the last 20 years, Simon Baron-Cohen could have asked the autism community or looked beyond his own biases at the existing literature […] but he was too busy being galaxy brained about autistic people." @ejwillingham.bsky.social on SBC, in our newsletter. buttondown.com/TPGA/archive...

This is amazing; 40 women’s organizations standing in support of trans people’s human rights against this government’s targeting of trans people against the EHRC transphobic code. Trans people and cis women’s rights are not in opposition.

The UK govt is spending £1.2m a day (about £1.5bn total by 2028) supporting remnants of an inefficient, doomed, steel industry that employs under 40k people Meanwhile it throttles what was a vibrant, growing, internationally competitive HE sector that employs >440k Explain industrial policy to me

This is an absolutely brilliant online comedy show (yes, there is still such a thing - it's this, right here). It may be too hot to go out, but you can laugh your flip-flops off from the comfort of your own home. Highly recommended.

My dad as a baby, my brother at birth, same brother in his mid 30s, my partner in his early 30s, my uncle in his 60s, my auntie in her 60s. I mean, all of us really.

🍓TOMORROW NIGHT🍓 This is going to be off the chain, while firmly being secured to a chain we’ve checked several times. Join us. Tickets below 👇 #CoherentComedy

This, and also a lot of the early studies are horribly confounded, underpowered and just not very good. I have not read the recent ones for obvious reasons.

The irony of an autism researcher who is not autistic, who had a ridiculous theory about autistic people and theory of mind, saying "my theory was misunderstood."

Family zoom update: dad's been hitting the hot marmite too hard of an evening and has had to knock it on the head

This is not a "crackdown" as the FT reported in January. It is a deliberate restriction of necessary medication predicated on a prevailing attitude, reinforced for government rhetoric, that ADHD and autism is being "over diagnosed, despite evidence to the contrary, and therefore can be ignored. 2/

Overdiagnosed person here! Nothing wrong with me, just making a fuss now that I can eat and leave the house again.

We put on CNN to see what was happening on the US and it had a countdown timer going, so we decided to watch along. There was a lady with a musket and a man with a cake in a tray. Then we realised we didn't know what the timer was for and we were queuing in THE MOST BRITISH WAY POSSIBLE.

Saw this ad for a goat on Facebook. It’s perhaps the greatest advert I’ve ever read. It’s just superb.

Our very own @bparsia.bsky.social has done a useful #TPS explainer for those who might be puzzled. #UCU

Just had kippers. Day has peaked. Might go back to bed

Please help me finish my thesis so I can finally be free of academia 🫶✨ aidetectionsurvey.carrd.co

Over 6000 signatories in just a few hours. I am hoping we could make a massive statement with this. This is the kind of thing you need to get your mum to sign 👇

I don't think it's really fair that they make you wait for two hours until the penalties

I have been told on more than one occasion at work that I use too many unusual words. "I have to use a dictionary after I've been speaking to you lolooolollol". Apparently it's ok to say that in a meeting, not humiliating or othering at all. Funny old me with my esoteric language.

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That movie Brazil is really a masterpiece that predicts a world filled with technology but none of it fucking works.

She's such a poster that she can't even resist posting to chastise other people posting.

"AI literacy" feels like it's become a synonym for "we know you don't like it but we are bringing in people who don't understand what you do to BS you about your area of expertise." I feel like this happens to teachers a lot and I'm not surprised it's happening to librarians too.

Two more weeks until Neurocracy expands once more with a batch of new stories! Starting now and running for the duration of these stories, we've discounted the game to half price, with all proceeds donated to help the people of Venezuela after the devastating earthquakes Please share if you can 🙏

The emphasis on *want* is important. If you're struggling with this, let it sit with you. Society can make you feel that your value is linked to your productivity. It's unfair, and it's untrue.

👇 but let’s all do in-person meetings shall we?

NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...

For anyone who feels that their speech is too, like, informal, @pkwalkersharpe.bsky.social has just flagged up this fascinating (open access!) paper journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

At least I can be proud of one of my nationalities 🇮🇪🏳️‍⚧️

In ‘terrible but also funny’ news, the state of Florida is currently beefing with… An Coimisiún Le Rincí Gaelacha, aka the world’s largest and oldest governing body for Irish Dance because the NA championships are being held in Orlando and CLRG refuses to ban trans girls from competing as girls