Why is an early-modernist downloading my thesis??

📅 Join us on Monday 24 November for an online interdisciplinary symposium on Tourette Syndrome, imagining a future of Tourettic Studies that is looking beyond the syndrome, featuring Bridging Fellow @danielpjones.bsky.social. Find out more & register here 👇 medhumsplatform.org/event/toward...

Tickets for this year's Research Cabaret #BetweentheLines are selling fast! 🎶 💃 Feat. performances from @louisecreechan.bsky.social, Ruben Verwaal, @danielpjones.bsky.social, Emily Davis & @georgiapunton.bsky.social Get your tickets while you still can! @beinghumanfest.bsky.social

New publication! Our v. own @beccajackson.bsky.social discusses the racial history of the Apgar Score – a score assigned to infants one minute after birth. Find out more: medhumsplatform.org/the-apgar-sc...

6th November and my Kate Bush impersonation is ready!!

We’re baaaaaaaaack!! The set list is coming together and I am so ready to compere. We’ve got dance, poetry, music and a special commission from New Writing North all confirmed. Red dress is in the post and my Kate Bush impersonation/research just needs an audience! Get your tickets below

Another shout out for @bloomsburylit.bsky.social 'Critical Neurodiversity Studies' in our med hums series, from @louisecreechan.bsky.social , Jenny Bergenmar and Anna Stenning. It's a foundational collection and one that will be very, very important for the field. www.bloomsbury.com/critical-neu...

I am very scholar.

Highly recommend this landmark book:

Happy publication day indeed, for what is a field-defining volume and a huge contribution to knowledge. Thanks to all involved for their hard work on this. I'm so proud to have published it on the list here!

HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY TO US!! So excited for this to be out in the world! @annastenning.bsky.social @bergenmar.bsky.social @ainokash.bsky.social @alicehagopian.bsky.social and everyone not on BSky!

Asking for a friend...Is it acceptable to write 'is for the director's cut' rather than 'is beyond the scope of this chapter'? Because, honestly, I'd prefer it

Congrats @annastenning.bsky.social, @louisecreechan.bsky.social and @bergenmar.bsky.social!! This book is the future of neurodiversity & literary studies. Beyond 'representation', it thinks in new expansive ways about nd minds, storyings & practices. It was the biggest honour to contribute to it.

I have read this and it is a landmark book. Essential reading for anyone interested in the intersections between neurodiversity, literature, and literary studies - but also a really engaging, thought-provoking read!

"itinerancy has become a way to craft an alternative to standardised work opportunities... largely engineered according to neurotypical models... which do not allow my neurodivergences to breathe within my professional identity." - @thewelcomehut.bsky.social thepolyphony.org/2025/07/28/i...

HUGE DAY My editor copies of 'Critical Neurodiversity Studies: Divergent Textualities in Literature and Culture' arrived!! I'm so excited for this to be out in the world (officially 7th Aug) The volume asks 'what would a neurodivergent framework for literary studies look like'?

Now @louisecreechan.bsky.social gives #BAVS2025 a truly fantastic paper arguing for critical neurodiversity studies to arrive in Victorian Studies. L reads "The Lifted Veil" as neurodivergent: her voice recording of ideas echoes Latimer's self-conscious omniscient address to a future reader...

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I’m at BAVS 2025 - lovely to be donning my Victorian Studies hat (bonnet) after some time only sporting my critical neurodiversity studies one!

Still a few spaces in our Liverpool 'Divergent Minds in the Archive' workshop on 14th August! If you're neurodivergent and could share your experiences of using archives, or a professional who wants to make archives more accessible, apply by 30th June. (UK-based; we can pay travel.)

Had a truly amazing time at the Critical Neurodiversity Studies conference at @durhamimh.bsky.social! Huge congratulations to @louisecreechan.bsky.social, Robert Chapman, @ndhumanities.bsky.social, and everyone involved in facilitating such a generative, galvanizing, and accessible event.

The Critical Neurodiversity Studies conference has been so great. Thanks so much @durhamimh.bsky.social, and everyone who worked on it, came, contributed, asked me difficult questions, told me about their special things. Here's me and Producer Haf, screaming.

🎬 And it's a wrap! Day 3 of our Critical Neurodiversity Studies conference ends with Daniel Oliver's keynote 'Performance Dork' and closing remarks from our Fellows. Huge thanks to everyone, especially our fab events co-ordinators @aryaray.bsky.social & Haf Serajee.

Day 3 of the Critical Neurodiversity Studies conference at @durhamimh.bsky.social is underway! We’ve got a call for papers (+ more) open at the moment for a special issue on critical ND studies, why not check it out? 👏 💫 @ainokash.bsky.social @louisecreechan.bsky.social @ndhumanities.bsky.social

What a great first day!!!

It was a pleasure this morning to welcome all participants at the hybrid @durhamimh.bsky.social Critical Neurodiversity Studies conference. There is so much energy, investment, creativity & criticality in this field 🤩 ndhumanities.com/critical-neu...

A warm welcome to everyone joining us today in Durham for Critical Neurodiversity Studies: Directions/Intersections/Contradictions! ndhumanities.com/wp-content/u...

Welcome to the Critical Neurodiversity Studies Conference's takeover of the Polyphony site, from today until Tuesday next week. Here co-organiser @louisecreechan.bsky.social kicks us off by asking: 'What is critical neurodiversity studies'? thepolyphony.org/2025/06/23/c...

Aaaaaaaaaah!! We start TOMORROW and I am so so excited

News of more workshops incoming for our @edicaucus.bsky.social funded project on neurodivergent archive accessibility, 'Divergent Minds in the Archive'! Sign up to our mailing list to be the first to know: forms.office.com/e/MDNma65e53

Unspeakably tired of the labour that comes with being marginalised and precarious in already marginalised communities. Esp when challenging cowardly gestures that claim to be rooted in justice but actually reify authoritarian, white supremacist shit - all over the most vulnerable of said community.

135ish signatures from the international #DisabilityStudies community on Jill Pluquailec's open letter on proposed redundancies including the entire DS team at Liverpool Hope! Thank you all - things are tough for my former colleagues and they really appreciate the support #SaveHopeDisabilityStudies

TSQ's newest Special Issue: TOWARD A TRANS[]CRIP THEORY edited by @jlsmilges.bsky.social and @slavagreenberg.bsky.social is out now. ✨ So thankful to have been able to contribute to such an important issue.

A fantastic opportunity for neurodivergent researchers who work with archives!

Now recruiting for the first workshop for our @edicaucus.bsky.social funded project on neurodivergent archive accessibility!

In case you missed it! Me, @louisecreechan.bsky.social and @danielpjones.bsky.social are co-editing this Special Issue of the open-access journal Neurodiversity. A huge choice of formats incl. but not limited to video, zines and poetry, as well as research articles and reviews. Check out below.

Please sign and share widely - Liverpool Hope is one of *the* centres for cultural Disability Studies research. This threat is a threat to the field itself and to its important commitment to challenging societal prejudices and advocating for social justice through cultural analysis.

Devastated to learn that EVERY SINGLE ONE of my former #DisabilityStudies colleagues at Liverpool Hope are at risk of redundancy. Lovely people and a brilliant team that has transformed the lives of so many students. If you know them please do reach out - things are very tough right now.

I’m so excited to share that our call for papers for a special issue of ‘ #Neurodiversity’ is now live! We’re looking for papers, podcasts, videos (and more) that align with the critical turn in #ND studies! 🤩 @ainokash.bsky.social @louisecreechan.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cm...

📣🚨 CFP: Neurodiversity Special Issue: A Critical Turn in Neurodiversity Studies: Bridging the Arts, Humanities and the Social Sciences 📣🚨 📝Abstract deadline: 3 August 2025 ✉️ Please share widely with arts, humanities and social science networks! Full call: journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cm...

Delighted this is now LIVE! CFP for a Special Issue of ‘Neurodiversity’ - towards a critical turn in neurodiversity studies via arts/humanities/social sciences - we want to hear from you!!

When the Cass Report was published members of our community expressed concerns about the use of neurodivergence as a means of discrediting trans youth (see link). We want to extend our support and solidarity to those impacted by recent news. ndconnection.co.uk/blog/cass-re...

Applications are open for the next round of our mentorship scheme! We’re looking for both mentors/mentees who are looking to connect over ND research methods and modes of being ND in the academy. You could get saddled with your own @danielpjones.bsky.social! [jokes, it’s been a pleasure xoxo]

Thank you to everyone who submitted abstracts to our Critical Neurodiversity Studies Conference. Here we reflect on the process of abstract selection and how we made difficult decisions: ndhumanities.com/2025/04/16/c...

so much gender critical hysteria derives from a complete inability to bear the idea that people will judge you for being a dickhead. yesterday just makes me think you’re a bigger dickhead than ever. if you ever lock eyes with me, I hope you can see YOU’RE A DICKHEAD shining out and haunting you

Come and work with us! We're seeking 2 x Postdoctoral Research Associates in Visual and Material Medical Humanities. Applications close: 28 April 2025. The 36 month full-time posts will be based in The Visual & Material Lab led by @drfijohnstone.bsky.social Find out more about & apply!

🌍 👀 An interactive map of global medical & health humanities institutes, centres & networks! We are excited to launch this new resource to help raise the visibility & connectivity of researchers in the field. medhumsplatform.org/global-medic...

SO THRILLED FOR THESE WONDERFUL FOLK!!

I did not see weekends at train museums in my future. But, the unbridled toddler enthusiasm for MODES OF TRANSPORT is unmatched.

Overwhelmed by the response to the CFP for the Critical Neurodiversity Studies conference in June - over 200 abstracts! An amazing sign for the development of the field! I guess we've got some reading to do...