I know you know this on bluesky, but I posted it on insta so I thought I should post here too. And if it makes someone second guess using AI for these things then maybe it helps.

I am taking a pause from "frantically emailing everyone in connection with a funding bid" and am looking at children's illustrators for hire. May not go back to actual work (though this is, to be fair, for work).

If I were Nigel Farage, I’d dip into that £5 million crypto gift just to fund a video that can compete with this! 🤣 HILARIOUS ⬇️

Dissent? they wouldn't advertise @can-sg.bsky.social conference. No confidence at all that they even slightly believe in diversity of thought.

Women's rights are a "growing threat". Lesbians saying "no" to men are a "threat." Raped women not wanting to see men are a "threat." A threat to who exactly? Never imagined Amnesty would become the enforcer of the patriarchy.

Here is a list of the organisations Amnesty has branded as dangerous and "anti-rights". In fact it's a list of mostly grassroots organisations advocating for women's rights. By calling them "anti-rights" Amnesty now makes it clear that they believe women deserve no rights of their own.

The Summer of Very Short Grant Applications commences. I am hoping that my previous record of "tiredness plus caffeine = brutal word count reductions" translates into "heat plus irritability = brutal character count reductions".

And humanity. WE LOVE YOU NORWAY🇳🇴😘 Thanks for the memories.

Well I'm exhausted having been parent helper on a Scout camp with my son this weekend - and maybe a tad sunburnt.

I'd also like an answer @amnestyuk.bsky.social as I'm a member of several left of centre organisations campaigning for the retention of women's legal rights as based on the protected characteristic of sex, that you list as 'anti-rights'. Do you want to remove all sex discrimination legislation?

I have not been on much because I've been speaking at the @can-sg.bsky.social conference and all I can say is, thanks so much for inviting me - what a lineup!

“If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman."

What the British do best: not taking things seriously. Count Binface refuses to deny he lives 400 million light years from Clacton trendingsheet.com/article/coun...

Me on UK toddlers' language learning www.lucid.ac.uk/2026/05/27/t...

Hugely significant and a judgment some people who don’t understand that women also have Article 2, 3 and 8 rights could do with reading.

They think the law is wrong. It can only work in one way as it's written.

Congratulations @forwomen.scot - vulnerable women in prison are now safe from male prisoners.

June 19, 1865, Union Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger issued General Order No. 3 ordering the enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas: “The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free.” #Juneteenth

I'm a bit pleased to be recruiting parents to take part in the largest ever survey of UK toddler language. I use Prolific for some of my recruitment and it's been a bit of a minefield with various indirect routes to obtaining child DOB but now I can get it directly so I'm waiting for a flood of data

RIP my keyboard. I'm pretty sure it was the beads my daughter dropped on the desk and NOT the snacks I eat while working nor me trying to get the spacebar off and then back on...

The marches were offensive freak shows. Now they’re most “trans” brats. I marched in 1975, signed up for mail notifications. Next year I was urged to show up in the most offensive attire I could manage. I attended on the sidewalk, never went again. I wanted to be ordinary, not fabulous.

DSD Reality Is Being Misused — And Intersex People Deserve Better 🔗

Apparently I've been "Looped In" to a Loop workspace. What fresh Microsoft hell is this???

They're actually proposing to "triage" (sic) kids using Anne Health which has been blacklisted by the NHS for the same reason as WellBN.

How's your Saturday going? Today we have three-activity normality with an added side of confusion and madly going back for the guitar.

NEW: "WellBN GP practice was inappropriately prescribing medications to children and young people for the clinical indication of gender dysphoria.... potential harm has been caused to... 78 children and young people." www.surreysussex.icb.nhs.uk/ipsi-wellbn-...

In such scenarios, the one thing we know for sure is that there will be lots of unknown unknowns, as my co-authors @shaicarmi.bsky.social, @hankgreely.bsky.social and I describe here: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

If Muslims or members of the Asian and Black community had set fire to white people’s homes with children running for their lives, do you think we would be discussing legitimate concerns or focussing on who radicalised them and ideological and contributing cultural factors?

Aaand having attempted to get rid of forced mantra "transwomen are women" we now have forced prayers. Bet the Greens don't even see the irony.

'They built a [lesbian & gay rights] movement ... Then they called that love a heresy and rented the flag to any corporate taker. Pride comes before a fall. But the cause beneath it, love without shame, truth without fear, solidarity without sale, remains.' labourheartlands.com/pride-and-fa...

A new, and previously unconsidered threat of AI: Our students have all regurgitated the same theory of Vygotsky in their in-person, hand-written developmental psychology exams. Problems? 1. the curriculum included only a very brief, one line mention of Vygotsky 2. it wasn't relevant to the question

Students go to university to hear things they disagree with, and to learn to disagree politely. Not to be allowed to behave like children. Academics - sign this open letter to the VC of @ox.ac.uk /ht @profalices.bsky.social johnarmstrongmaths.com/openletters/...

The latest asylum figures show a 58% decrease in the number of asylum cases waiting for an initial decision since Labour took office. Our updated explainer looks at the government’s progress with the asylum backlog.

Exam marking update: nearly finished! Small amount of moderation, and one more project to mark. Wondering what to do to celebrate finishing marking as I cannot have alcohol or chocolate...

Exceptional piece of bureaucratic design, where a council accidentally reinvents the core logic of the menstruation hut because they refuse to just design a default single-sex space that accommodates normal human biology with basic privacy.

Blog by me, for Transgender Trend. www.transgendertrend.com/autistic-peo...

Best insurance plan available – and we still couldn’t afford care. We chose which child saw a doctor, and who just “managed”. Find out more from Matthew Pugh – why “choice” in healthcare is often an illusion.

Quite a lot of people very upset over Health Secretary's return to actual science on the biology of sex. Good to see though that the ruling party is happy to obey the law. Now let's get NHS trusts obeying it, and vulnerable patients safeguarded properly. www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...

Paul Kragg “why is your campaign not about building new facilities for transgender use, but specifically about access to women’s existing ones?” labourheartlands.com/trans-rights...

'The honest version of the argument would require its advocates to say plainly: we want the legal category “woman” to be defined by identity rather than sex, & we want that definition to take precedence over the sex-based protections women currently hold... Made plainly, that argument would lose.'

You can't just do that, Steve!??

Updates include: 'Transgender athletes are not excluded from IOC events, including the Olympic Games. Like all other athletes, they are eligible to compete in the category that aligns with their biological sex.' Exactly so. www.olympics.com/ioc/athletes...

All 3rd year exam papers marked. Blissfully AI free but approx 10% actually read the question. All of my own projects that came in on time marked. 4 to go of those I'm second marking but unfortunately 3 of them are on syntactic priming in Chinese (no, me neither). Cooler weather today here too.

Scorchio! youtu.be/hX68-on7kZk?...

As a developmental psychologist who observes adult logic and finds it wanting, this could be me every day.