AUTISM and TYLENOL A study of 2.5 million children showed a small association between acetaminophen use during pregnancy and autism—but this finding DISAPPEARED when full siblings were compared. “Acetaminophen use during pregnancy was not associated with children’s risk of autism…” Full article:

Just spotted the new eps of @thedailytism.com and it's relatable stuff. Esp the Autistics who struggles get one word out on autism (all the time) and the funeral for a bowl. The wake for my fork (It bent 😱) is next week... youtu.be/SSrQpabAD_c?...

Hurrah! We can finally share the animations I have been working on with @thrivingautistic.bsky.social Lightbulb Moments: Being Autistic Please do let us know what you think and share if you find valuable! youtu.be/3O6hy-usIug?...

Hurrah! We can finally share the animations I have been working on with @thrivingautistic.bsky.social First short film is: Discovering You're Autistic Please do let us know what you think and share if you find valuable! youtu.be/-eDv2omDMko?...

The other animation is Lightbulb Moments: Being Autistic. So much about Autistic experience is still missing from most professional accounts, which have been formulated from the outside. Many people talk about all these little epiphanies: 'I thought it was just me!' www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O6h...

First up is Discovering You're Autistic, about the experience of realising you're autistic, and the things we've found most valuable for anyone starting out on that journay. Realising that there are many other people out there with similar experiences is so powerful. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eDv...

A very important read...

New post: Science students don't get experiment variables? Try causal diagrams instead. Link ↴ cmooreanderson.wixsite.com/teachingbiol... #SciTeachUK #iTeachBio

Good decisions here

The Stars of Avalon. Photo taken on Glastonbury Tor last night. As usual I am rubbish at knowing exactly what I am capturing in the night sky but I really love being up there at night and we were the only ones up there too.

NEW #AUTISM RESEARCH (@gavrobstew.bsky.social + @proffrancescahappe.bsky.social): Nearly 90% of middle-aged and older #autistic adults are undiagnosed in the UK; autistic adults are facing higher rates of mental and physical health conditions as they age www.kcl.ac.uk/news/up-to-9...

I'm not an English teacher but this is a very interesting insight and I can see how it applies to science (and any other subject) too. A great read.

📢 New Post 📢 Reflecting on the 2023 paper, "Communication miscalibration: The price leaders pay for not sharing enough", read my thoughts here: Too Quiet at the Top? What Happens When School Leaders Don’t Say Enough: researcherteacher.home.blog/2025/08/24/t...

🎉New Blog Post 🎉 Creating a culture of curiosity in schools. Practical ideas to build a curious culture in schools. Reflected on this after going through my EdD work and came up with these ideas as I went. researchtoclassroom.com/so/98PZggWwE... #EduSky #EduBlogUK #teacher #academicsky

If you are new to teaching or just like to read useful tips to get ready for school, this is one of my favourites from @drwilkinsonsci.bsky.social I read it every year and it helps my return-to-school anxiety as well. drwilkinsonscience.wordpress.com/2019/08/05/s...

God damn, what an update.... #nomanssky youtu.be/qHZLz1MW0aE

A new post with some of our collective thinking on where curriculum can go wrong

Love this sort of thing...

Planning inset days? Read this...

'Peaceful Dawn' Glastonbury Tor this morning before sunrise.

It’s amazing how no one ever points out the reason we can’t return asylum seekers to France (or the EU) is because of Brexit. The same folks who said we could take back control, are the same folks who didn’t mention this particular consequence of such actions. Funny that.

Personally, I think the percontation point would be particularly useful! And the irony mark too. Would a sarcasm flag for verbal communication be a step too far? www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/art...

Woken up by tawny owls last night and I didn't mind. In the twenty years I've lived here, this is the first year I've heard them. After the huge decline in numbers round here since the 1970's, this is a welcome sound. www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wi...

Full moon through the archway of St Michael's tower on Glastonbury Tor. Photograph taken this morning as the sun rose behind me.

Because you needed a video of a group of doggies playing with bubbles... You're welcome. ☺️ #dog #dogday #bluesky

📢 New blog post: Putting free game engines to the test! 👇 🎮 I've looked at #MakeCode Arcade, #Construct3, #GDevelop, #Struckd Studio and #Godot from a teaching perspective. . . 👉 www.interactiveclassroom.net?p=2027 #EdTech #teamCompSci

Find my YouTube channel here 👉 youtube.com/@mrlovellcom... I'm adding more coding tutorials for teachers with a @microbit.org gaming focus and more! Click subscribe to see my tutorials first 🕹️👾

Clearly there's a reason we've been married 25 years. Great minds...

When you twirl your hair so much your Fitbit auto exercise detection thinks you're doing a spin workout...

Hey All- we are deep in the swing of data collection season for our MSc, and some of the students are looking for autistic/ADHD adults for a study (see poster below). Please share if you can.

Autism Defined ...

Me: i’m Autistic Them: Oh you take things literally Me: No that’s kleptomania

For many years I have been posting little observations online. What you may not know is that for many years, artists have been illustrating them - for no reason other than they wanted to respond. Below is a thread of some of these beautiful drawings because they should be seen 🧵

Just to confirm, as another celebrity is trying this. Being #Autistic doesn't excuse you being an awful human, nor is it an excuse for shit behaviour.... Ever.

#GreggWallace autism. 1. Autistics can be awful humans like everyone else 2. It's not an excuse for this behaviour or shit behaviour ever 3. Making out it is strips autistics of the rights to responsibility and ownership 4. Nowhere in the DSM is 'sexism & abusive' Come on... it's adding to stigma

Geology Murder xkcd.com/3112/

This is the litmus test for whether you're a decent human being or not. Fuck Trump and anybody who supports this inhumane treatment of human beings.

Everyone should read this. Thank you to Dr Nathan Keates and the Language of Autism Project in County Durham. Use the right words to describe us. 🙏 Find out more here captapnetwork.wordpress.com/2023/09/19/h...

A bit of sunshine from Avalon gate. Photo taken this week in Avalon Orchard at the base of Glastonbury Tor.

Every time I think it can't get any worse...

As a science-fiction fan, this from @xkcd.com made me laugh quite loudly. xkcd.com/3111/

Apropos nothing: bagpipes correspondence in @theguardian.com

Well #RoyalMail have outdone themselves: look what arrived in the mail! Turns out you can send me a letter with only "The Astronomer Royal, Edinburgh, Scotland" on the address! 🙏 to 95yo Mr Pritchard: a very lovely letter about telescopes 🔭 and his childhood ambitions to discover a new star 🥰.

You may recall that I was caught up in the collapse of publishers Unbound. I now have the rights to my book Why Do Birds Suddenly Disappear? And I have a lot of them to get rid of. So if you felt like buying one I might see my office floor again before 2027. levparikian.com/index.php/pr...

Sunday morning listen! Fun episode this week, and a bit different

Is there research on autism and programming that doesn't relate to ability? We have students who are happy to answer questions about theory topics but are reluctant to do programming tasks. They don't like English as there's no "right" answer - is it the same? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

5 years ago, we put some topsoil down in the new flower beds then in the summer we had hundreds of poppies. Great for the pollinators so we left them and didn't plant anything until they'd finished.

The moon rolling down the hill this morning. Taken in Glastonbury about an hour before sunrise.

And another peony this morning. I like peonies. The peony might well be my new favourite flower.