Delighted to have this paper out in Disability & Society on autistic students' & graduates' experiences of negotiating diagnoses / identities whilst at university. Important insights for other autistic ppl at uni + staff and peers. It's #openaccess via link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Delighted my article 'The definition of educational quality in a quasi-marketised HE system: stumbling towards a knowledge crisis' is now published open access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... & even happier it's part of a brilliant special issue edited by @jo-annebaird.bsky.social & Gemma Moss

I was asked by the editor of The Geographer, the @royalscotgeosoc.bsky.social magazine, to comment on the discussion around imposing domestic student fees in Scotland. This is an online accessible version of my piece. ddubdrahcir.wordpress.com/2025/09/03/f... #academicsky #studentfees #highered

Really looking forward to hearing @jmvincent.bsky.social talking about how to support successful transition to employment for autistic students. We need to ensure excellent graduate outcomes for all our students, and disabled students face more barriers when leaving University. #INIP

Excited to have received copies of the Chinese translation of ‘Transforming University Education: A Manifesto’

“Retirement never seemed like something that would be in my reach, and it still isn’t. But at WeStillWork, now I can continue to work fifteen-hour days, and occasionally indulge in building perks like Thursday-night bingo.”

Well done! This looks like a great project!

If you need a breather from all this bullshit, here's a photo of Earth. From Saturn. We're that slightly brighter star at centre right.

"What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination: indiscriminate, unrestrained, brutal, and criminal killing of civilians,” [former Prime Minister Olmert] said." www.huffpost.com/entry/israel...

Yeah Lancaster is good but Bristol is not a bad alternative!!

A timely reminder of our @centreforhere.bsky.social public online roundtable on Monday next week: Why is UK HE in crisis, and (how) can we fix it? Discussants are @gunjans.bsky.social , @ronaldhartz.bsky.social, Kalpana Shankar, and Susan Robertson. www.lancaster.ac.uk/educational-...

ICYMI. 48 animations The History of Ideas by @wearecognitive.bsky.social from my scripts www.openculture.com/2015/09/47-a...

“Not a single party is standing up for working class people and Reform offers nothing but division. No plan for the NHS. No plan for transport. No answer to the cost of living crisis. If we want change, we need to come together and demand it.” drjogrady.bsky.social on BBC Question Time tonight.

Could you mentor a neurodivergent, early career humanities academic? I did this last time: it's not a big time commitment and is massively rewarding. You don't necessarily have to be neurodivergent/in humanities yourself. @ndhumanities.bsky.social

This @beranews.bsky.social Blog Special Issue examines possible futures for tertiary education in England and the challenges that are faced by policymakers, institutional leaders, educators and researchers in realising these futures. (1/13)  www.bera.ac.uk/blog-special...

Reminder: our unmissable online roundtable on the crisis in UK HE and how/whether it's fixable. We'll be hearing from @gunjans.bsky.social, @ronaldhartz.bsky.social, Kalpana Shankar, Susan Robertson, before opening up the discussion. #academicsky #highereducation www.lancaster.ac.uk/educational-...

Next week's online @edreslancaster.bsky.social on the 7th of May, 12:30-2pm UK time. NEET Youth: Education, Needs, Hopes and Aspirations, from Dr Liam Wrigley @leedstrinity.bsky.social Details and registration: www.lancaster.ac.uk/educational-...

Still time to sign up to our online @edreslancaster.bsky.social seminar this week - Wednesday 30th of April, 12:30-2pm. Do boys really need saving? A critical exploration of ‘Boy Crisis’ - learning from the Chinese case - Yuhan Wu from @uomseed.bsky.social www.lancaster.ac.uk/educational-...

Hugely privileged to give oral evidence at House of Lords Committee of #Autism Act and next Strategy. With @suereviews.bsky.social and Prof Karen Guldberg @unibirmingham.bsky.social we shared evidence on how to improve education and transitions to adulthood for #ActuallyAutistic ppl in England.

📢 Very happy to share new #OA paper w Michael Tomlinson that unpacks valued and diverse ways ND grads engage in employment following #uni. bit.ly/42YxQfm Data show importance of grad capitals and choice for meaningful work. But also how context can either enable or constrain outcomes. Pls share! 📑

"It should be noted that there is a relatively low chance that spending just ten minutes in a room with Vice President Vance is enough to cause someone to die—out of either a feeling of deep disappointment in humanity or, as online forums describe it, 'too much cringe.'"

A farmer from Peru is taking Germany's biggest energy company to court over the climate crisis RWE is among the top three CO2 emitters in the EU power sector, & farmer Saul Luciano Lliuya says it must take responsibility for the impact of its actions in his country. www.thecanary.co/global/world...

Walter Benjamin writing about fascism in 1936 "Fascism attempts to organize the newly proletarianized masses without affecting the property structure which the masses strive to eliminate. Fascism sees its salvation in giving these masses not their right, but instead a chance to express themselves."

"Now that Republicans control the government and most media platforms, everyone’s right to free speech is protected. Assuming you aren’t using that right to peacefully protest the war in Gaza, of course, in which case, we will detain you and kick you out of the country."

We loved counting you as a profitable demographic. We loved publicly performing our allyship in the loudest way possible. But the fact is, that time in our life is over. It’s dead. And it’s never coming back. Unless, of course, the political and cultural landscape radically changes.

Jawdropping. You would expect this in a dictatorship, not the United States. This country is unrecognizable.

Absolute disaster If you are a Labour MP in government right now, what are you doing? Public services HELP the economy 🚄🚌🧑‍⚕️🏥🏫 - tax multi millionaire wealth then invest £££ Social contract needs mending, you are trying to smash it to smithereens? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Israeli strikes on Gaza kill hundreds, Francesca Albanese reacts | podcast youtu.be/DvoY66qwWCY

Reminder - Dr Mikateko Mathebula is talking about HE im-/mobility in our online @edreslancaster.bsky.social seminar this week (Wednesday 19th, 12.30 UK time).

Musk is actively working to discredit our movement. We raised legitimate concerns about the threat of SSA phone line cancellations—yet now they’re dismissing it as misinformation. This follows a clear pattern of deception.

Elon Musk is pushing to end phone services at Social Security, which 73 million retired and disabled Americans rely on to apply for and access their earned government benefits.

Pro-Palestine student faces deportation by Trump administration www.channel4.com/news/pro-pal...

📣 @edreslancaster.bsky.social event Really looking forward to hearing from Dr Mikateko Mathebula talking about higher education (im)mobility in contexts of socio-spatial exclusion, next week: 19th of March, 12.30 UK time (online). Details/registration below: www.lancaster.ac.uk/educational-...

So you'd like a research grant from @britishacademy.bsky.social but you've got an additional need that makes that difficult? Well we still believe in equality, diversity, inclusion, and so there is a fund you can apply to for help with that www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/addi...

Reminder that this week (Wednesday 5th of March, 12:30)Louis Major from @educationuom.bsky.social will be talking about Educational Technology and ‘Personalised Learning’ as part of our online @edreslancaster.bsky.social seminar series. Details/registration at: www.lancaster.ac.uk/educational-...

The recording of Pascal Angerhausen's #EdResSeminar entitled "The inclusion and exclusion of students with disability in German higher education" is now available to watch youtu.be/rG7pvj6x8nw @centreforhere.bsky.social

In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…

We bought and framed some posters for @edreslancaster.bsky.social to highlight some of the non-Eurocentric scholars whose work has been seminal to educational thinking and research. How many of them can you name?🧵 (I know some of them are quite "70s", but academic posters is a narrow genre.) 1/8

My book chapter on the (ubiquitous) metaphor of the 'higher education landscape' is officially out! Even though scholars rarely say what they mean when they use it, implicitly and cumulatively they seem to mean 'loads of related stuff' but the metaphor sounds better😀 www.emerald.com/insight/cont...

On LBC this morning, I spoke about why we should be far more worried the power Elon Musk is accruing, especially in light of his Open AI moves. The normalisation of his actions and activity by quite a bit of the US and even UK media is a big part of the problem. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGnt...

It's wonderful to see Gerlese Åkerlind's brilliant OPEN ACCESS book on #phenomenography is out. I was deeply honoured to write the foreword for this important and beautifully written book: www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...

New video with Dr Day talking about the recently published paper on understanding the barriers to hiring autistic people as perceived by employers in the UK. Watch the full video on our YouTube: youtu.be/V-VnuFnynT4 Read the paper here: doi.org/10.1177/1362...

Full paper link: journals.sagepub.com... 2/2

I do not speak on this much but think this sums up my thoughts well. I am okay with opposition - but be specific.

I work with @thrivingautistic.bsky.social & support their Discovery Programme workshops for Autistic adults. We have monthly online community meet-ups covering different topics, offer an advocacy service & have lots of free downloadable resources. Explore: www.thrivingautistic.org/advocacy-sup...

Autism, while listed in the DSM as a disorder, is better explained as a neurotype comprised of a constellation of traits that diverge from what is currently considered typical. The defining traits are not disordered by nature but pose challenges when attempting to meet expectations of peers.

Petroc Trelawney on Radio 3 marking Holocaust Memorial Day, from Auschwitz, very appropriately with music, or musicians connected to those terrible events. Remembering also the hundreds of thousands of disabled people, including people with serious mental illness, who were killed by the Nazis.

There is still time to join our webinar to chat with @paulashwin.bsky.social, the Programme Director, this afternoon ....

A piece for @wonkhe.bsky.social on how 'the student interest' in the OfS draft strategy appears to be remarkably similar to the priorities of the previous government: wonkhe.com/blogs/ventri...