Monday mornings look like: ‐ The same job rejection being sent to me for the fourth time, just in case I'd forgotten - My local café running out of ALL dairy-free milk - A bird deciding to poop on not one, but both of my shoulders Big sighs all around! 🫠

On Monday 24 November, the Moving Bodies Lab Bridging Fellow @danielpjones.bsky.social facilitated an international roundtable titled ‘Towards Tourettic Studies: The Future of Tourette Syndrome Research’. Read Daniel's recap of the event here: medhumsplatform.org/towards-tour...

Had the privilege of digitally hosting some debates about the future of Tourette Syndrome research a few weeks back. For those who might be interested in a short summary, check the link below! 🌟 medhumsplatform.org/towards-tour...

Looking for SWers to have on my podcast Disability After Dark to talk sw and disability. If you are interested, shoot me an e-mail [email protected]. Thanks.

My shadow for the weekend... (I think this mighy be Daisy's BlueSky debut?)

🚨 NEURODIVERSITY IS MORE THAN... symposium 📅 4 March 2026, 9-5pm GMT, online. Free to attend, all welcome! Sign up below: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/neurodiver...

Every budget from the past two decades has followed the same formula: more money for weapons, more tax cuts for corporations and yet ordinary people are told we have to tighten our belts and face cuts in our community. DR UK for @opendemocracy.net 👇 www.opendemocracy.net/en/rachel-re...

This week has been wild, and it's only Monday. Tiger is demonstrating how your emails will find me for the rest of the week. 😴

Why not start next week off with a discussion about the future critically engaged directions for #TouretteSyndrome #research? The event features the wonderful Rena Zito, Danni Phoenix-Kane, Dan Whittaker and Diana Beljaars (and your's truly!) @durhamimh.bsky.social www.dur.ac.uk/research/ins...

Solidarity to my friends and colleagues at TUOS! Keep fighting the good fight ✊️

Network co-lead @danielpjones.bsky.social is facilitating this wonderful online roundtable on the future of Tourette Synrome research - tickets are free, and available in the original post!

One week to go! 🎉 24 Nov, 3–5pm GMT 'Towards Tourettic Studies: The Future of #TouretteSyndrome Research' features a Tourettic-majority panel sharing bold provocations on #TS, ownership of diagnosis, art-science collaboration, and more! Free registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/towards-to...

Our hearts are heavy today. Rest in peace, Alice Wong.

Shoutout to my PIP renewal assessor who literally wrote "you have a bank account which indicates you have no concerns relating to Tourette Syndrome". Yes, really. I hate it here 🫠

Great to see Élaina's expertise along with our @the-polyphony.bsky.social piece 'Being a masking crip killjoy' making an appearance here! 🤩

What's this? I got cited in @theskinnymag.bsky.social? @danielpjones.bsky.social People of the media, hmu for my masking and cross-movement solidarity tips. 😎 www.theskinny.co.uk/intersection...

The Bristol Short Story Prize will officially re-open next week! Writers, get ready - you can submit your short stories from the 19th November. All info on our website (link in bio).

I'll be giving a public performance lecture at Dance City in Newcastle on Thu 27th November as a follow up to my Artist Residency. Sign up (for free!) for all things #TouretteSyndrome, affect, and pom pom-related! www.dancecity.co.uk/performance/... #PerformanceArt #Dance #AcademicSky

Over the last few months I've been developing some performance work through an Artist Residency at Dance City. It's been a really powerful and valuable period of reflection for me on Tourette Syndrome, rhythm, and disability aesthetics, and I'm looking forward to sharing more soon! 📸 Rhiannon Banks

We're excited and proud to share that network member Rhiannon Hawkins has produced the world's first Mental Health Vulnerability Index RE climate change, which is so important in the context of the climate crisis! Read her work here: www.ucl.ac.uk/mathematical... #ClimateChange #MentalHealth

DWP wanted to give fraud officers the power to use physical force on benefits claimants www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

Throughout October and November @danielpjones.bsky.social, artist and researcher in the Moving Bodies Lab, is undertaking a dance-based artist residency at Dance City Newcastle 🩰 Read about it in our blog post 👇 medhumsplatform.org/exploring-mo...

📅 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

It's been a pleasure to be in residence at Dance City this semester! Read more about it here: medhumsplatform.org/exploring-mo... #AcademicSky #Dance #TouretteSyndrome #Disability #Research

On Thursday 27th November I'll be giving a public #performance lecture at Dance City, titled 'Clarifying the amorphous rhythms of #TouretteSyndrome'! If you're near Newcastle, why not stop by to see my impulsive performance #research in practice! #AcademicSky www.dancecity.co.uk/performance/...

What is the future of Tourette Syndrome research, beyond the 'syndrome'? I'm really excited to be facilitating a remote roundtable of provocations with these folks. Why not come along, and see what the future of interdisciplinary TS research holds? Tickets⬇️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/towards-to...

I'm planning an interactive workshop on the senses and medical humanities, to be held in Leeds in July 2026. It will involve creative practitioners, academics, and clinicians. If this is something you'd be interested in attending, please drop me a message or reply to this post and we can chat more!

The first episode of the Cripping Research Culture podcast is out! In this episode, Nicole Brown, @elainagmamaril.bsky.social and I discussed consent in #CreativeResearch methods, anti-binary approaches to crediting work, and more! #Research #CreativeMethods open.spotify.com/episode/1USW...

This is Tiger. Tiger doesn't know about climate change, modern day facsism, or my ever increasing rent prices. Oh, to be a house cat!

My ADHD assessor told me that Tourette Syndrome doesn't exist in adulthood and so obviously I raged. Turns out he did it just to see if I showed signs of 'justice sensitivity'. I was diagnosed with ADHD, naturally... 😂

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I'd like to bring attention to the fact that this device is now available to pre-order for an eye-watering £500, with no returns allowed if you decide that self-administered electrocution isn't your cup of tea. People are desperate for relief and I worry how many will bankrupt themselves over this!

Tomorrow marks the start of my #Dance Residency with Dance City. I'll be exploring #urban #affect and its impact on the Tourettic body, and considering the value of tics in performance spaces for translating experiences of #TouretteSyndrome! 🕺 Here's to making art! 🌟 (Photos from previous work!)

I’m excited to announce the first two webinars in the WAARC series “Dreaming Up A Disability-Inclusive Workplace”. 29 Oct: Intersecting Identities and Disabled Joy with Amelia Lander-Cavallo lnkd.in/e7v9dNkf 26 Nov: Complicated Pride: Disability, Neurodiversity and Ambivalence lnkd.in/e3y32vkg

To some extent this is a film about being free to tic, yet concludes in a documentary styled advert for self-administered electrocution as a means of 'controlling' tics. Why is everyone so unwilling to engage critically and call out sub-humanising practice? We don't have to settle... 🤐

This is how it feels to research Tourette Syndrome. My resilience is starting every single publication/presentation (in medical, social science, humanities and arts spaces alike) with "Tourette Syndrome is categorised by motor and vocal tics..." or something similar. 🫠

🛞 How might wheeled technologies, such as bicycles, wheelchairs, skateboards, and prams, afford different experiences of space, mobility, and performance? Catch up on the recent Wheely Workshop hosted by our Moving Bodies Lab here! 👇 medhumsplatform.org/a-wheely-wor...

I've got a student who would love to do some #PhD research on #TouretteSyndrome and the dismantling of the invisible/visible disability binary. Is there anyone in my network in the UK who is accepting #SocialScience PhD students / sponsoring them for #ESRC funding? #TS #AcademicSky

Something doesn't sit well with me, seeing the same people in the Tourettic (Read: #TouretteSyndrome) community who publicly accuse social media creators of faking tics whilst simultaneously being excited about a non-Tourettic actor *acting* #TS in the new "I Swear" film... #ISwear #Tics #Tourette

Hi BlueSky. Here's your semi-regular reminder to stop calling people 'dumb' (or things like this) for their political views... or *anything* for that matter! Your ableism is not excused just because you identify as left-wing. 🫠

Added a couple of new additions to the hand-poked tattoo collection today! #Tattoo #HandPoked

UKIP have been given permission to march through Newcastle City Centre tomorrow to a hotel housing asylum seekers and people with refugee status. Please email complaints and concerns to Northumbria Police and Newcastle politicians (MPs and councillors). Link to template letter in alt text.

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 😄😸