New to Latin and old handwriting (Palaeography?) in your archival work/family history/historical project? Rusty with these skills or looking to improve them? Not sure how to get started properly? Then this series of summer schools in Birmingham are for you. #Skystorians

We're excited to welcome @bschillace.brandyschillace.com back to Manchester. Join us on 18 May for a couple of events, one online, the other f2f: - Coming Out As Disabled - How Typical is Typical All welcome; attendance free; registration via the link below. blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2026/0...

HECK it's all gone BALLS!! Join us for some comedic own goals from Melanie Ashcroft who'll be refereeing Beth Facer, Gordon Hart, Katherine Holmes, Brian Clarke, Bruno Sanches, Alicia Archer & Mark Collinson - be there for kick off 7pm on 9 June at the Ducie Arms! www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Man...

For Mother's Day here in the U.S., we want all other moms of autistic kids to know that we see you. You are not alone. And if this day is hard for you because of your own mother, or because you are struggling to be a mother, extra empathy is coming your way. www.squidalicious.com/2019/05/dear...

Great paper by @manchstm.bsky.social alumna @erinbeeston.bsky.social on the history of Manchester's science museum. #HistSTM #HistSci www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Call for participants! I am researching the views of autism community on early support practices. Seeking autistic adults (self-ID or professionally diagnosed) and/or parents of autistic children (<18), UK-based. Estimated completion time: 7-40 minutes. tinyurl.com/earlysupport... Thank you!

Ooh! Article on a science museum initially shaped by 1960s academic history of science #histSTM 📜

This evening @petermandler.bsky.social gives the 2026 UCL Neale Lecture: ‘Eight Reasons to Study History: The Rise (and Fall?) of History as an Undergraduate Degree’. In-person and online from 6pm bit.ly/4n8KcKE #Skystorians @ihr.bsky.social @histassoc.bsky.social

Chuffed* to see the first view of my article on the development of Manchester's science museum @sim-manchester.bsky.social With very big thanks to @bshsnews.bsky.social Journal crew 🎊 *pun IYKYK www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

⏳ Deadline Approaching! If you’re a postgraduate researcher or within five years of your PhD, don't miss the chance to submit an original research essay for the Singer Prize. We’re excited to see the new work emerging in the history of science, technology, and medicine. bshs.org.uk/grants/#sing...

So autistic coded 🧐

You’re invited to the Universally Manchester Festival, Saturday 13 June. Together we’ll explore what makes for a greener, healthier and fairer world 🌍 Family-friendly and completely free! Oxford Road campus 11am – 4:30pm Info: universallymanchester.com #universallymanchesterfestival #umf26

Great to see LITMUS by Natalie Linney & the Cottonopolis Collective re-displayed at Manchester Museum for 'Human Natures' - you can read about artwork & wider project here www.sci.manchester.ac.uk/research/pro...

In London this Saturday and enjoy your #comedy with a smattering of smart 🧠 science? Join us for a FREE @scienceshowoff.bsky.social at the Raven 6pm www.mediculture.co.uk/all-events/s...

We've grown a knowledge garden — 1,522 pages of openly licensed free cultural works about neurodiversity, learning, and care. Built on the neurodiversity paradigm. Free to use. Free to share. Yours. stimpunks.org

In London this Saturday and enjoy your #comedy with a smattering of smart 🧠 science? Join us for a FREE @scienceshowoff.bsky.social at the Raven 6pm www.mediculture.co.uk/all-events/s...

Me & both my #autistic kids (5 year old was a bonus!) plus Mr Neuron just completed our 5km fundraiser for National Autistic Society 🎊 pls donate if you can!

I'm delighted to finally share details of a workshop series I'm hosting with @thackraymuseum.bsky.social! 'Researchers in Museums' is open to a wide range of early career researchers and offers the opportunity to go 'behind the scenes' in a fantastic medical museum. Please share widely!

Call for #parent #carers of #autistic #children 📣 My colleague @ericabphd.bsky.social @salforduni.bsky.social is researching media use by autistic kids & their families for her PhD. If you can spare 15mins please share your views here: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/salford/fa... Many thanks!!

🎨 Calling neurodivergent visual artists! @neurohubcomjournal.bsky.social founded by @neurohubcommunity.org is open for submissions for our May 2026 edition. A space built by and for neurodivergent people — your art belongs here.All welcome! ⏰ Deadline: 30th April 2026 👉 forms.gle/P43gHF42fbTS28vw5

Me & my 9 year old #autistic kiddo are doing our 5km fundraising for National Autistic Society this weekend! waam.autism.org.uk/fundraising/...

Great short read on the Earthset photo #artemisII & historical precedents by Robert Poole theconversation.com/how-artemis-...

📣Bookings now open! 👉Celebrating 50 years of the Social History Society with our 'Festival of Social History' @ihr.bsky.social Panels, zine-making stall, tours, lunch, a roundtable, & keynote by Naomi Tadmor 📅 24 Apr 2026 💷 from £10 for members All welcome! socialhistory.org.uk/events/festi...

Episode 4 is out now! Join us as we ask "Am I Too Perfect?" and get major religions, alongside a man sleeping under a bridge in Manchester, to help us step towards an answer. Available from all podcast platforms. Please subscribe and leave us ratings and reviews. It all helps!

👋 Bluesky peeps, you might know me from history of science/heritage work, or as a lived-experienced autism researcher, or generally silly person. Whichever way, please consider donating: I'm walking 5km w my autistic son to raise money for National Autistic Society waam.autism.org.uk/fundraising/...

March is #Endometriosis awareness month, April is #Autism awareness & apparently May is #mentalhealth. I'm just going to rebrand my spring as self-awareness quarterly 🤔

We are live! Download episode one and decide who is getting converted; Babies into dogs or dogs into babies? Can philosophy help us to decide? Available now on Spotify & Apple Podcasts. Other platforms coming very soon. open.spotify.com/show/6ryHSeM... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

This parent's letter warmed my heart this evening - especially as my AuDHDer also discovered the Doctor during Tennant's comeback! #doctorwho #autism #adhd

Fully funded PhD studentship: ‘Recording nature and writing the self: time, entomology and the archive in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries’. Closes 3 May. With Ruth Abbott, Staffan Müller-Wille, Ed Turner & me. @theul.bsky.social @zoologymuseum.bsky.social www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...

Have left the way open for a new 1st should they be found, though - always important to be open to revising thinking & research!

Wonderful research by Mike and the team! I often find the 'great firsts' all too straightforward, it's wonderful to see earlier records of women in these roles on the #railway track side

Resting up after excision of deep pelvic #endometriosis & been sent the new film... Here's a Q ladies, are you also late or self diagnosed #ADHD / #autistic? I've got #PMDD as well, like endo linked to ovulation. We know numerous soft tissue related co-occuring conditions w neurodivergence

Can't even engage in the #SEND reform discussions this week, as I'm having surgery soon & my 5 year old autistic kid is in bits... The reality for many is you get so worn down by every day there's no fight left 😞

Did you know that most self-identifying autistic adults actually want a diagnosis? Diagnosis barriers(financial, waitlists, outdated criteria, diagnosis deserts) are the real issue. Yet another reason why scoffing at self-diagnosed autistic is an a**hole move. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

📢 Calling all creatives: join the February edition of the GM Creative Industries Mixer series! 📅 Wednesday 11 February, 6–9pm 📍The Social at Aviva Studios @factoryintl.bsky.social Register: https://ow.ly/bemW50YbIx2 Greater Manchester Combined Authority

We have to be active in dismantling gendered assumptions about autism in children. I've seen how hard girl-parent friends have found getting diagnosis, support, ehcps compared to my boys who present 'typically'. Their girls are no less #autistic @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

New call for volunteers: we're looking for #clinicians who work with #autistic people without learning disabilities, supporting their #sensory motor needs. Please see attached advert & survey link here: www.qualtrics.manchester.ac.uk/.../SV... For more info contact: [email protected]

A while back I did a facebk thread on how you could teach #European #imperial #history through #British biscuits, today I present you #Celebrations

Don't go Andy 😭

Brilliant to see an article out in the Conversation last week, referencing some research published previously in our open access journal, Cogent Education! The blog post is "How realistic is Mattel’s new autistic Barbie?", found below: theconversation.com/how-realisti...

She’s just autistic Barbie – let children play | Letters

I wrote to the @theguardian.com re.autistic Barbie sharing my thoughts that children's views matter the most & it's in print today 📃 www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

She's just Barbie 🎶 www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

*update* #autistic #barbie reviewed - showed images (only) to my 9 YO who concluded: 'niccce' 'it looks just like me but a girl' 'I wear headphones all day and I'm always fidgeting' (big smile on his face) 'that looks cool' 💞

Insightful piece on #autistic Barbie's design: theconversation.com/how-realisti...

In Britain we're familiar with stories of the London underground providing shelter in WW2, in Ukraine trains are being used for warmth and community - sadly the bombing continues: BBC News - No power or water and -19C: Kyiv seeks relief from Russian strikes and cold www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Winter Blog post📢 #autism #research reflections including our December Cafe Autistique, an update on the research involvement toolkit & the new 2nd year Autism module co-developed with #autistic people for second year psychology students @fbmh-uom.bsky.social sites.manchester.ac.uk/autism-at-ma...

I've seen backlash #autistic #barbie @theguardian.com thoughts: representation has to start somewhere. My kids see themselves in TV characters so why can't a kid walk down the toy aisle and pick the Barbie with 🎧 autistic or not 🤷 I'd go floral or goth put pin stripes are cool. Purple seems solid.

Mattel launches its first autistic Barbie

Happy New Year Bluesky peeps! Are you #autistic? Please see our latest call for survey volunteers for a PhD project exploring autistic #inertia. Interested? More information & the survey can be found here: www.qualtrics.manchester.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...