My brother is taking on one of Britain’s most demanding endurance challenges for @meresearchuk.bsky.social ME/CFS can leave people unable to work, study, socialise, or manage ordinary daily activities. ME Research UK commissions and funds high-quality biomedical research into ME/CFS. Thank you🙏🏻

It could be me

A short film about living with chronic conditions and dynamic disability. About devastation and grief. About unpredictability and risk. About music and art and people and passion and hope. Thanks @wearejames.bsky.social for the music to end the day www.threads.com/@stevenshorr...

I've listed tickets for James at Glasgow OVO Hydro on 8 April (standing). The fair fan to fan marketplace seetickets.com/rd/event/james… via @seeticket#SeeFan2Fanan

“Rather than medicalising normal autistic experience, an autism diagnosis can provide an explanatory and legitimising framework for autistic people and for parents, teachers, and others”

Uta Frith is right to call for rigour in autism research and diagnosis. But some of her recent public claims about the spectrum, later diagnosis, and masking risk overlooking current evidence and autistic people's lived realities. My response: humanisticsystems.com/2026/03/13/r... #Autism

Uta Frith is right to call for rigour in autism research and diagnosis. But some of her recent public claims about the spectrum, later diagnosis, and masking risk overlooking current evidence and autistic people's lived realities. My response: humanisticsystems.com/2026/03/13/r... #Autism

The catastrophic impact to local health where the air is poisoned, as well as to our global ecosystem as they literally set the planet on fire and fill the atmosphere with pollutants

My hunch is that non-autistic people do not spend months/years reading books about autism, following accounts of autistic people, paying for assessments, or feel the need for a formal process. And if you pass the test…you have a label that non-autistic people would not want.

The school system we have is designed to produce professors, not the vast majority of life paths that people go on to take and the skills they need. Little about the planned secondary school experience, in particular, prepares children for what they are about to encounter on leaving education.

Frith has joined Peterson and Mate on the end career hot take podium. #autism

So, they’re going after autistic people. Next it’ll be people with ME/CFS. Wait…they already did those.

Dr @binitakane.bsky.social explains how a theory that #MECFS is caused by deconditioning and a fear of exercise permeated medicine and framed the illness as psychological. This led to the patients being neglected, gaslit, and some would say abused. Causing huge trauma for the community.

16y/o: I think it’s classist that my journalism course isn’t counted as a Scottish Higher, nor the course on creative thinking.

Putting EHF into practice: five (more) challenges www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Understanding culture and conversation in organisations with Prof Tom Reader and Prof Elizabeth Stokoe A EUROCONTROL ‘double bill’ webinar on Tuesday, 24 June 2025 - 13:30 to 15:30 (CEST; Brussels time) 🔗 Register here (free): lnkd.in/e2zc3jFt

Please Help to Save Beau’s Vision This is a friend of my daughter's. She is studying law and will lose her vision if she cannot access treatment only available in the US. www.gofundme.com/f/save-beaus...

A very strong start to 2025 on the British and Irish alternative music scene open.spotify.com/playlist/6DD...

Starbucks’s UK retail business paid no corporation tax last year “after paying £40m in royalty and licence fees to its parent company.” www.theguardian.com/business/202... Support local coffee shops

High levels of toxic chemicals found in paper receipts used by US retailers Holding the receipts for 10 seconds absorbs enough bisphenol S to break California’s safety rule “People can protect themselves by not taking a receipt or asking for an email receipt” 😳 apple.news/ACuZPYCF3Tn-...

Common artificial sweetener makes you three times hungrier than sugar “artificial sweeteners may encourage overeating” www.newscientist.com/article/2474...

Over-50s urged to attend bowel cancer screening - BBC News apple.news/AzkZMBF09Tja... If you receive the kit, PLEASE do it straight away.

Quaker Parents Were Ahead of Their Time - The Atlantic www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...

As an autistic (level 1) person... I feel like my autism is only about 10% observable (and due to YEARS of masking, you'd have to be looking VERY closely to see it) and 90% internal, which impacts every aspect of how I exist. And I feel like more people should know this.

There is virtually no better commercial you can run for the European defense industry than these two sentences uttered by Trump. No matter with whom I’m talking about this on this side of the pond, the common understanding is that this is going to severely damage the US industry.

I mean... holy shit.

German man with green card ‘violently interrogated’ by US border officials - The Guardian apple.news/AVVKtq6wTSt-... It was bad enough before. Not sure I’ll ever enter US again.

Columbia Journalism Review tested eight generative AI search tools and found their answers were wrong 60% of the time, and the paid ones actually fared worse than the free ones. Meanwhile, millions of people trust the way they present total bullshit with confident language.

Arrest warrant issued for member of Lighthouse life coaching cult exposed by BBC apple.news/A-_ZtxFGwQAO...

15y/o: If you were in prison for something, what would that thing be?

If you were in prison for something, what would that thing be

15y/o: I think the world would be a lot better place if we had a compulsory psychology and sociology at S1 and S2 at high school. Instead we have religious education and now we’re in revision period…with no exam.

5/11 ⚠️ Notably, we found no evidence that physician associates add value in primary care or that anaesthetic associates contribute positively in anaesthetics. If you add cost of supervision, which the studies don’t, it’s very unlikely they are cost-effective

Yes, if there's one thing our murderously divided polity needs at this point, it's a trusted brand feeding it news tailored to confirm their own biases.

15y/o: If you could have done a different job, what would it be. Me: I often think about this. Anthropologist…but there aren’t many jobs. And it’s a bit similar to what I do. Park ranger. I’m drawn to that. Doctor. That was a missed calling in a way. Hmm, what else…? 15: I only asked for one.

New podcast. Why me not being able to get my bicycle repaired in Limerick is deeply connected to the Portuguese colony of Madeira in 1420 open.spotify.com/episode/4Emb...

Kate Bush and Damon Albarn among 1,000 artists on silent AI protest album - The Guardian apple.news/AigIMdoAMToS...

Elon Musk's first month of destroying America will cost us decades - The Verge apple.news/A72jthOvUTh-...

Just a reminder that fascists, authoritarians, dictators of all stripes destroy archives— books, museums, databases, &c— because those things provide windows onto a plurality of other ways we might organize the world. And so preserving, defending, and spreading that knowledge harms those regimes.

A federal judge in Wyoming received a motion citing nine cases. Of the nine, eight don't exist. When she demanded an explanation, the lawyers said their "artificial intelligence platform ‘hallucinated’ the cases in question." @courtwatch.bsky.social www.courtwatch.news/p/lawyers-ca...

Elon Musk’s Toxicity Could Spell Disaster for Tesla - WIRED UK Tesla sales down 75% in Spain, 63% in France! apple.news/AfJqedDOvQPy...

Out now Download free at skybrary.aero/articles/hin...

A glorious episode. I’ve cut my own hair for 15-20 years but that’s more about a dislike of small talk/hair down my next and back/lights/hairdryer noise/waiting or needing to book/being touched lightly.

I was a content moderator for Facebook. I saw the real cost of outsourcing digital labour - “It was not just a Facebook problem. It was the way the entire tech industry operated – outsourcing the most brutal digital labour and profiting from our pain.” apple.news/AUr_x76DgRBG...

On supermarket honey - “some brands may blend EU honey with non-EU honey, which is allowed to contain glucose syrup … banned under EU guidelines.” “opt for honey produced in the UK, other single origin EU nations, or to buy from local beekeepers” apple.news/APmQGQwZ5TxG...

Prof David Anderson on ADHD in adults. Comprehensive overview and well worth watching youtu.be/4hqPrJZ2vqc

Superb lecture from on Autism and mental health, specifically PTSD by Prof Francesca Happé. In a nutshell, autistic people are much more susceptible to PTSD and probably cPTSD, and the events may be quite different youtu.be/SMIHcllIZw0?...

BBC just released damning research on AI assistants' news accuracy. Results: 51% of AI responses had significant issues. 19% introduced errors when citing BBC. 13% misquoted or made up BBC content entirely. 🤐🤐 www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/... via @ezraeeman.bsky.social

Well this wasn’t predictable based on thousands of studies </sarcasm>

“[A] key irony of automation is that…you deprive the user of the routine opportunities to practice their judgement and strengthen their cognitive musculature, leaving them atrophied and unprepared when the exceptions do arise” www.404media.co/microsoft-st...