Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

A four-day week has been on @greenparty.org.uk manifestos since 2017. 💚 We should all have extra time for family and friends, hobbies, or new qualifications, or simply for some decent rest and time away from work. www.theargus.co.uk/news/2529269...

Boo!

Literally one of the greatest soft power brands on planet earth driven into the ground by successive British governments that embrace failure, decline and irrelevance. on.ft.com/3Wq1XIT

Nope. No no no. Autistic students do not 'face growing challenges on campus'. They do however experience existing, entrenched, systemic barriers created and perpetuated by structural inequities that are baked into pretty much every element of the student journey from pre-applicant to graduate...

Just KNEW it!

“Amidst increasing corporate pressure on editors to compromise academic integrity in favour of increasing profit margins, there are signs that a tipping point has been reached in recent years”. Check out Rose Harris-Birtill’s piece on editorial freedom, radical hope, and the mission of the OLH

We’ve just released our 2024–2025 Annual Report! Lots of exciting updates and highlights inside — take a look 👇

It is so heartening to see @openlibhums.org (and its publishing model that prioritises research integrity over profit!) growing at such a challenging time for the humanities. We all need to start thinking more carefully about where we publish our work... www.openlibhums.org/news/865/?fb...

Wintry and beautiful at #FingringhoeWick today.

This is good (also, short). youtu.be/bw5zxdSObso?...

not only does Gary Larson still have the juice, it seems to have only gotten stronger

We all need the freedom to travel, but time restrictions on bus passes lock Disabled people out of work, study and our community. It’s time to #UnlockTransportAccess @transportforall.org.uk #TransportForAll #ActiveTravel

Show-off Bird or Harbinger? Seen from the #WivenhoeTrail at Hythe. I’m still unsure whether the bird was covered by sewage discharge (the smell was overpowering) or simply a dark shadow against the light.

Coach firm to pay thousands to accessible transport activist after driver lied that he threatened violence www.disabilitynewsservice.com/coach-firm-t...

Mobility justice is one of our core campaigning principles but what does it mean, & why does it matter? The latest in our Language Matters series looks at our definition & how it applies to active travel, transport, public space and environmental schemes. wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk/language-mat...

English graduate here, busily using the skills I learnt every single day in a job that requires careful, flexible communication, the ability to argue effectively, think critically, write convincingly in a variety of styles, parse text quickly and 'lay the track' when talking. And still love reading!

Picard devops tip: No, you are not allowed to connect your brain to the computer. Learn to type like everyone else.

Officially Halloween season - Archer came back from grooming with a novelty collar accessory.

I’m guessing this is how GP surgeries like mine who were reluctant to make their booking accessible to those who can’t communicate by telephone are getting around the new online booking rules. I wonder if there are ever any appointments available?

I am learning to type in Braille on a Hable One. Now that I work all day on a computer I can’t manage a bright screen in the evening too and so I’ve not been writing. This is my attempt to bypass the problem. And with contractions I’m getting faster.

pressgazette.co.uk/news/former-... #Butterflies & Skybabies I'm guessing this group of women will be worth watching as another source of Quality Independent Journalism free from the media oligarchs & their biased self serving disinformation. We need the FACTS & journalists prepared to call out BS

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Tuesday

🦉 Attention, night owls! Radio 4 are repeating series 10 on Tuesday evenings! Tomorrow at 11pm you can spend the night with Aphrodite… 👀❤️‍🔥 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

Today an amazing medical breakthrough was announced and you know how it was achieved? FUNDING RESEARCH www.bbc.com/news/articles/cevz13xkxpro.amp

Jessica Kingsley Publishers is kindly offering a 20% discount across all books on their UK and US websites. If you're looking to learn more about autism, this is a great time! Discount Code: AUTAUT20 UK: uk.jkp.com US: us.jkp.com #Autism #Autistic #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodiversity #BookSky

A Late Summer Secondment in the World of OLH Tech / @janewayolh.bsky.social: Read the blog post by Emily Gresham Beamer, CHASE Doctoral Training Partnership Intern: www.openlibhums.org/news/856/

“Keyboard traps, focus indicators, pulling branches…before my time with tech these terms would have had more of a poetic resonance for me than a technical one. But… they left the world of abstraction & became not only recognisable, but practical to my running of accessibility tests.” Great post!

CAT ADVISORY: Today is the first day of Autumn in the northern hemisphere. Ensure your human servants procure extra snacks to see you through until the Spring, then eat them all this weekend.

How many PhDs does it take...

beautiful day to walk along the Wivenhoe Trail.

I'm really not enjoying the escalating chaos of Your Party, but it *does* validate my first instinct, which was that the British left really just needs to get behind the UK's Green Parties. They've had their problems, but they have solid, left-wing policies, and in many ways a strong track record.

Yes, I know hybrid is harder to organise, and requires a bit more effort to ensure everyone is engaged, but if it ain't hybrid, it ain't accessible. If it's totally impossible, at the very least offer an online equivalent of whatever you're doing in person.

Education is the enemy of fascism.

The Sorbonne's justification of its decision to leave the Times Higher Education league table game raises key issues for universities in an era of attacks on science and for UK science (SHAPE & STEM) & the escalating growth of proprietary bibliometrics. 1/4

Please consider signing this. I am clinically vulnerable, I care for someone who is 96 and has dementia, yet the Government has decided that I now have to pay ~£100 for a covid vaccine. Many clinically vulnerable people cannot afford this. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

I feel so seen!

Written by a doctor at St Thomas' Hospital, London after the Tommy Robinson march on 13/9.

Specialists have a new phrase for autistic children too exhausted to attempt school. "Emotionally based school avoidance". Well, no. Forcing exhausted children to endure yet more pain, overwhelm, bullying and bewilderment, in a system 100% not designed for them, isn't an 'emotional' failure, is it.

Bus Users UK 'deeply disappointed' by Government vote to reject levelling up of concessionary travel for disabled people tinyurl.com/4ubjsb9x

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Seen on The Facebook My daughter came home from school and said, "Mom, you're not going to believe what happened in history class today." Her teacher told the class they were going to play a game. He walked around the room and whispered to each kid whether they were a witch or just a regular person.

So happy that this is being received so positively... 6 THINGS I DIDN'T KNOW WERE AUTISM #actuallyautistic #autistic #autism #audhd #neurodiverse www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1Wv...

"My school saves thousands of pounds every year from those solar panels." The TUC directly takes on Reform, a party funded by the fossil fuel Industry. Posted on IG by tradesunioncongress

This is how the death of any one who was killed while cycling needs to be covered. I'm tired of seeing so many wonderful peoples lives cut short and then be found at fault because think of the poor impatient, road raging driver who's never done nothing wrong. Manslaughter is still manslaughter.

"is this going to be on the test?"

Yet less than 1 per cent of autism research has focused on older autistic people.