Spotted these on a FB teaching funnies page. Feel I should refer my students to them when teaching about developmental disorders.

#sgtpX10 TOP FIVE VILLAINS chrisbarkerprints.co.uk

New paper with @statsepi.bsky.social and @deevybee.bsky.social in which we show there's really no evidence for a link between the gut microbiome and autism www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

There was a literal "trans desk" that policed language and reports across the BBC, leading one newsreader to be publicly chastised for adding the word "women" after balking at having to say, "pregnant people". That is dehumanising.

BREAKING: Olympics to BAN transgender athletes from all female events after review www.mirror.co.uk/sport/other-...

They're not going to ban transgender athletes from female events; they're going to ban MALE athletes from female events.

Come and do a PhD with us! Please RT! Funding opportunities and projects: I'm also advertising projects on "How can we tell which children might have later language impairments" and "Why are autistic people more likely to suffer from gender dysphoria"? www.lancaster.ac.uk/psychology/s...

Girlguiding faces legal action from parent over trans policy ⬇️ Charity is accused of failing to follow Supreme Court ruling on gender, leaving girls ‘exposed to harassment’

So yesterday was the first day for over 2 weeks to see any small boat arrivals in the UK. There were 9 boats with 621 people. But despite this, numbers remain very low compared to earlier in the year and most of the last 5 years. Here is the 28 day averages for people and boats. 1/4

I am only sorry I didn't do this (mainly due to having many many other things to concentrate on including being harassed by my students). www.thetimes.com/article/1993...

“Sorry we can’t come to your party. Please can you deliveroo a kids meal and party bag to exactly the same value at a more convenient time” vibes. #MumsnetNuggets

This is the oppression ladder in action. A black lesbian counts for less than a white man who claims to be a woman. BTW: this man has served time for drug dealing and has domestic abuse on his record. How can anyone think this is OK?

Oxford University Hospitals: Couple called scandal-hit NHS trust 44 times for scan www.channel4.com/news/oxford-...

Many of us who don't believe in universal gender identity have noticed this. I won't pay for the Torygraph but it's good to have this confirmed. archive.ph/2025.11.05-2...

Unboxing Schrödinger's cat.

IT'S THE CHUFFING LAW JUST ADHERE TO IT from @naomicunningham.bsky.social www.legalfeminist.org.uk/2025/10/31/c...

Male rights activists strike again.

My daughter in town today: Don't these people know it isn't even November yet and they have the Christmas stuff up? People these days have no sense. She's 11.

Please check your kids’ Halloween candy. I just found Ska Punk legends The Mighty, Mighty Bosstones in this Twix bar

Beatrix Potter, Four rabbits on bicycles, 1895 #womensart

the falling leaves of autumn give way to the bear trees of winter

This gull has laid claim in the nick of time to the piling that the heron was going to land on. #birdoftheday #birds #nature #photography #birdphotograpy

I may have cracked Bluesky because logging on today to my "Discover" feed it isn't all Trump mania and contains some amusing #AcademicChat nuggets I actually want to see. On the other hand, maybe it's still US early morning.

The hypocrisy of Reform going on TV to allege that certain groups are constantly over represented on TV is truly epic.

Yes, so good. Here’s Sally’s post on Instagram about it.

'Before William Wordsworth’s imagination had wandered, lonely as a cloud, and before John Keats’s nib had quivered with notions about nightingales, a Black woman named Phillis Wheatley was circulating a treasury of nature-inspired verse in London.'

"That's a robot, a Nazi, and a poorly-disguised Russian. Give us your phone, love." Brilliant. ~AA

A brief update: After founding inquisitivemag.org for HxA, I left that position and just took a new job as inaugural editor for the Center for Scientific Integrity’s Medical Evidence Project. Yes, I now work for the people who bring you @retractionwatch.com 😀

Current mood

My hot take is that if "all" Malala had ever done with her life was gotten shot in the head by the Taliban at age 15 for wanting to go to school, that would have been more than enough.

Scream! Tell everybody how awful xyz funding agency is! Calm down! Get as many talks and articles out the proposal as possible! And/or resubmit somewhere else. I once had a grand rejected by the AHRC, ESRC AND Leverhulme though - that was bad. Still got some nice talks, articles, chapters out of it.

I found out last week I didn't get a large grant I applied for in April (large to me, in any case). What's the first thing fellow academics do when they have a grant rejected (and the second, third etc.!) #AcademicChatter @academic-chatter.bsky.social

Today in "how stupid is Scotland" we have "held their census a year later because reasons and we can't do anything like England" meaning I now have incompatible data for my values of how many under 5s there are likely to be in each region and nation of the UK.

stop thinking right now

As a Labour Party member and a woman I am saddened to see this response from Leader of Brighton & Hove Council, Bella Sankey. No mention of the trans activists violence being directed at a feminist women's conference.

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

US activist Angela Davis and novelist Toni Morrison walking together in 1974, by photographer Jill Krementz #womensart #BlackHistoryMonth US

I do biomedical research to help people. When people come in this space making things up, it makes it harder for people not in the field to trust the extensive studies that we do and distinguish fact from fiction. Baseless claims reduce future cures. Willful ignorance drives us backwards.

Why, you might ask, as a housing lawyer have I not commented on the Green Party's new policy to end the private rented sector? Simple answer - it is mad. I'm all in favour of largely ending the PRS, but their policy is simply, practically, mad. Bring back an owl for everybody and then we are talking

Grace Hopper was an American computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral. She was a pioneer of computer programming who was the first to devise the theory of machine-independent programming languages. #COBOL #FLOW-MATIC #WomeninSTEM #WyrdWomen

This cartoon perfectly sums up what's been happening the last 10 years.

This is how you respond to male violence.

"...America dominates in part because it is big. As a proportion of population, the number of medal winners is higher in European countries such as Britain, Denmark, Sweden and Switzerland..." #nobelprize www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

Men who think they're women really hate women.

I see local MP @sianberry.bsky.social tried to get a feminist conference @filiacharity.bsky.social banned by the local council. I'm guessing she's pro VAWG then. Or maybe pro trafficking for prostitution or against poverty reduction or equal rights for migrant women?

The venue for #FiLiA2023 #Glasgow cancelled at the last minute. We spent 2 days in a lawyer's office & won! We are pleased & reassured that #Brighton & Hove CC have been in touch & confirmed they are not considering cancelling. See you @ #FiLiA2025 🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets #Sisterhood #Solidarity

More #FiLiAFlag pictures being shared, this one is from two of our trustees, Sally & Ragani! ♀️♀️ Share a pic with us of you arriving in #Brighton for #FiLiA2025 with the hashtag #FiLiAFlag in it – one sleep to go! 🎉 🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets #Sisterhood #Solidarity

Did they think that hanging up flags, spray-painting and smashing the venue windows would stop us? #FiLiA2025 in #Brighton has started! See you there. Sisterhood and Solidarity!