Excited to welcome @danielpjones.bsky.social, who joins us as a Bridging Fellow in the Moving Bodies Lab and @dusportexsci.bsky.social. Find out more about Daniel's work on embodied experiences of Tourette Syndrome & the development of creative, inclusive research methods 🤩

@uofglasgow.bsky.social PGR Rhiannon Hawkins is launching her report 'Mental Health Vulnerability Index (MHVI): preparing communities, societies and authorities for the impacts of climate change on mental health' soon in London - Kudos! book a place are below: www.ucl.ac.uk/mathematical...

Today is my first day as a Bridging Fellow in Medical Humanities at @durhamimh.bsky.social! You can find out a bit about me and my work on this blog post! 😄 medhumsplatform.org/introducing-...

Social media app notifications are getting wild. Why am I being notified that someone "has commented on a post you haven't seen"? These apps are getting desperate to get people's attention now...

Had a wonderful day at the Wheely Workshop with @durhamimh.bsky.social and the Moving Bodies Lab today. My notepad and brain are full of thoughts to reflect on about things ranging from mountain biking to prams to museums, all connecting disability, moving bodies, and public space 🤩 #AcademicSky

This hits pretty hard, from the chair of the UN commission on Gaza www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o...

The face of a cat who woke her humans up at 4am by punching them - still adorable though 😄😸

In a moment of impulsivity I entered the ballot for the Great North Run 2026...I'm excited to announce that I was *unsuccessful* in getting a place and that I can continue to run casually this year 😂

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, UN commission of inquiry says www.bbc.com/news/article...

i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence

They’ll ask you to mourn the deaths they mourn, and no others. They’ll ask you to cherish the lives they cherish, and no others.

My PhD supervisor @whatisrobshaw.bsky.social recently published a great paper that explores what geography 'looks' like, calling for autonomous ways of sharing images of our practice to diversity what geography looks like. Definitely worth a read if you get a chance! doi.org/10.1111/area...

It was such a pleasure to be a part of two of these episodes, and I can't wait to share it with you all!

My colleague and friend @elainagmamaril.bsky.social has produced this podcast as a part of the @wellcometrust.bsky.social Anti-Ableist Research Cultures project! Be sure to subscribe so you don't miss any of Cripping Research Culture - Ep 1 releases October 2025! 😍 open.spotify.com/show/0f38to7...

Just published: Inclusion and Sharing Best Practice for Academic Events Facilitation ✨ The sharing of best practice is, and always will be, more important than competing for institutional accessibility accreditations! Read my reflections here: sheffield.ac.uk/sites/defaul...

We're excited to see our paper published in @bmj.com BMJ Open today! The paper highlights lacking prioritisation for #TicDisorders & #TS, compounded by a healthcare system with no space for multidisciplinary approaches! Always a pleasure to work with these folks! 🤩 bmjopen.bmj.com/content/bmjo...

At WAARC, we’ve just finished recording our limited series podcast! We’re now looking forward #BritishSignLanguage interpreters to help us interpret the episodes. It’s a paid opportunity, and the recordings will be hosted on @sheffielduni.bsky.social website. Any leads? #BSA #AcademicSky

Children are ***82%*** more likely to be killed when hit by an SUV than by a regular passenger car. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

In my current role, we're always talking about inclusion and events... so we thought we'd capture one of our conversations! Here, we reflect on what it means to curate inclusive events, and offer some guidance for others in our network who are wanting to improve! sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/waarc...

Nobody will ever convince me that RAYE is not one of this generations most incredible performers. If you disagree, watch/listen to her INCREDIBLE set at Montreux Jazz Festival last year. 🤩 www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GRf...

Approximately 15 seconds before 3 spiders fell on me from a tree above me, welcoming us into spider season earlier than I’m happy about 🥲😭

Finally managed to get a paper I've been working on for a long time submitted for peer review. I want this to be out in the world so badly, but there's only so much more thinking/writing about the clinical urge to electrocute folks like me (Tourettic) in the name of 'treatment' before I crash out 😅

Sadly I have had to pull out of presenting my work at the @rgsibg.bsky.social Annual Conference. I self funded a remote ticket this year, I'm really disappointed to find session convenors specifically requesting in-person only spaces, especially in topics of disability and digitality? #AcademicSky

I think it’s safe to say she’s settling in nicely. Welcome home, Tiger! 🥹🫶 #CatsOfBluesky

Today is ‘gotcha’ day for our rescue cat Tiger, who’s had such a rough start to life and deserves all the love in the world and to be spoilt rotten. We’re so excited to welcome this girl home! 🥹 #CatsOfBluesky

"…the major enemy, the strategic adversary is fascism [...] the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behaviour, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us." ― Michel Foucault #StreetArt Banksy, London

There are worse views for a morning of working on the move! 🚊

love this new york times clip. they recently did a story about how sesame street's set has changed over the years, along with our urban politics. IG nytimes

Mothers of Hind are urgently seeking #volunteer #lecturers from all #academic backgrounds to teach online and help students in #Gaza students complete their courses. Whether you can give a few hours or commit to an entire course, why not volunteer some of your time? forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Career update klaxon 🚨 I'm thrilled to share that I will be joining @durhamimh.bsky.social as a Bridging Fellow in late September! I'm excited to develop my scholarship into Tourette Syndrome and 'Tourettic Studies', and to use creative movement practice to do so! 🤩 #AcademicSky

This is so so depressing to read, as someone with kids in school. You see how cautious the schools already are, there's no way this won't massively increase the chilling effect

I finally graduated from my #PhD today, and it was *so* lovely to be in the same ceremony as some of the undergraduates I used to teach! Feeling proud, both of my own achievements and the students’ who I’ve seen grow so much over the last few years 👏

Guys, please turn on your AC if you have it. You, you yourself, are important and should be neither killed nor impaired by severe heat. The fact that you care about climate change is why we need you to survive it, to help us take away billionaires’ private jets and make the changes we need for all

Last summer I had the pleasure of chatting with @journals.sagepub.com about my work on #TouretteSyndrome and inclusive research methods - the video is now live as a part of the 'SAGE Knowledge' #DisabilityStudies Collection, and available here: sk.sagepub.com/video/touret... #AcademicSky

Hi BlueSky folks! Over the summer, this account is monitored intermittently due to team capacity, so please bear with us with response times! If you have an urgent query, please do email us at [email protected] 😊

Spent the weekend swimming, paddle boarding and eating picnics in the Lakes. I’m physically exhausted but my soul feels full 😊

This morning a man became violent with me on the train, because my tics were annoying him. I explained that I have Tourette Syndrome and he decided that throwing his drink on me and saying “oh yeah I have Tourette’s too” was appropriate. Naturally, nobody stood up for me in the full carriage.

Calling all Brits who believe in Live & Let Live. Please sign this parliamentary petition. It will show that people refuse to accept bullying against LGBTQ ppl. Your signature makes a difference. Please share:

What I don’t understand about academics is the continuous need to write “with apologies for cross posting” on everything, even on the 15th thing they’ve ’cross-posted’ that same week. If you are promoting something, surely starting with an apology isn’t a great way of generating interest? 🤷‍♂️

I’ll be in Manchester next week for the @wellcometrust.bsky.social Research Culture Midway Event, co-chairing a round table on ‘Bending Bureaucracy’ in anti-ableism work! Do I know anyone else attending? Looking forward to hearing about other fab research culture work happening across the UK! 💫

On the first day of #DisabilityPrideMonth, the UK Government’s #welfare bill has passed in the Commons. This is devastating news, and something about it happening in Disability Pride Month feels like a kick in the teeth. Time to dig in and find crip joy and pride in the fight. We’re not done yet.🤘

Lauren White and I recently blogged about some of our reflective musings from the @sheffielduni.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social Anti-Ableist Research Cultures project - why not check it out? What does '#inclusion' mean to you / your discipline / your area of research? 🤔 shorturl.at/NcuC5

Absolutely crying at this photo of me and the other @ndhumanities.bsky.social network leads at the Critical Neurodiversity Studies conference. The use of Photoshop is 👩‍🍳😙

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...

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

Day 2 of the Critical Neurodiversity Studies conference @durhamimh.bsky.social and REALLY looking forward to this presentation from my brilliant @ndhumanities.bsky.social colleague @ainokash.bsky.social

Excellent stuff from my @ndhumanities.bsky.social colleague @louisecreechan.bsky.social and looking forward to the Critical Neurodiversity Studies Conference takeover!

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