Research was absolutely a laugh with this brilliant crew of clever comedians on Thursday for the Festival of Ideas in Chester 💡 (still on this wknd!)

Many Autistic people have very strong opinions about the DSM.

🆕 From the latest issue of BJHS: 🏛️⚙️ A science museum 'to rival South Kensington'? @erinbeeston.bsky.social examines how post-war Manchester used the history of science and industry to forge civic identity and inspire a new generation of scientists. 🔗 👇️

Next week! 2 July join a host of funny researchers bringing you stand-up comedy at 'Research is a Laugh' FREE at the Storyhouse as past of @uochesterpress.bsky.social festival of ideas 💡 🎟️🔗 festivalofideas.chester.ac.uk/event/resear...

Daily bunny no.3360 is doing the washing

"Neurodivergents like Musk can even be leaders, who provide an ideal for other resentful cishet neurodivergent white men to aspire to, one which seems mainly about being wealthy, powerful, cruel, and impregnating large numbers of white women."

Just seen #toystory5 really enjoyable family movie, and aged 8 Bonnie is very autistic coded - not in a way that NT viewer would necessarily notice but resonated with my auti boys - the difficulties making friends, interest in toys and collectibles 'younger' than your age, being the outsider... 💞💞

What's inside? 🕸️ Global silk networks 🏛️ Museums and nuclear energy ⚙️ Science and industry in Manchester 🧬 Cold War genetics 🥔 Plant virology and regulation 🇮🇳 Science and empire in India 💊 Penicillin and Cold War diplomacy Stay tuned for article spotlights and links to each paper!

🆕 The June digital issue of BJHS is out now! This issue explores topics ranging from silk networks and museum politics to Cold War genetics, penicillin diplomacy and the history of science in India. All the articles are Open Access 🔓️ Over the coming weeks, we'll highlight each article in turn

“As long as you live, keep learning how to live.” – Seneca #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

Had a heart warming time talking to lots of interesting people and chaotic kids today at the @manchester.ac.uk community festival - of course it had to be🌻at the face painting stand!

@autismmanchester.bsky.social are here at the University of Manchester Community Festival 'Universally Manchester' we're in Alliance Business School - come chat research and make a sensory bag 🛍️🎨🧶

📢 Freelance opportunity: Cultural Programmer Strawberry Hill House & Garden is seeking an experienced freelance cultural programmer to help shape our future public programme. 💼 Up to £26,000 flat fee (3 days/week, 12 months) 📅 Apply by 6 July, 12 noon www.strawberryhillhouse.org.uk/wp-content/u...

Still tickets left for @brightclubmcr.bsky.social gig 48 'Balls' tomorrow, only £4 Ducie Arms, Manchester 👇

Research Participant Request Would you like to be part of Research to Improve Cancer Care for Autistic Patients in Northwest England? Find out more: [email protected]

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