In April we held 'Dancing Across Disciplines' - a sector-wide event exploring the role of dance across research and practice. Event leads @danielpjones.bsky.social, @marieminden.bsky.social and Emily Davis recap the day in this news piece.

I have two spaces left on this month's workshop. Get in touch if you're interested!

You know it's #TouretteSyndromeAwarenessMonth when you start to get the annual "we're trying to produce a dating show and want you to talk about how it's hard to date with tics" emails. EVERY year. To others in the TS community: please tell me it's not just me?

Today marks the start of Tourette Syndrome Awareness Month. Instead of showing you're aware of us, show solidarity. Challenge ableism. Recognise our experiences as more-than-tics. Listen to tourettic voices over non-tourettic parents. Question media portrayals. We deserve more than acknowledgement.

I’m delighted to finally share details of my upcoming workshop, ‘Medicine and the Senses: Past, Present, Future’, an in-person, interactive event exploring the complex and fascinating relationship between bodies, health, medicine, and the senses. www.eventbrite.com/e/medicine-a...

This afternoon I attended a wonderful session from some of our brilliant @ndhumanities.bsky.social members. A powerful space for collab discussion and imagining a future of neuroaffirming humanities. Thanks to the organisers for holding such a wonderful event with us! Watch this space for more!

"We regret to inform you that we will not be progressing with your application [...]We had over 470 applicants for the position." 470+ applicants for ONE entry level job in academia. Something needs to change, surely? How is this sustainable?

NEW: ChatGPT advised a woman in South Korea before she poisoned 3 men, police say. 2 of them died. She asked about whether mixing certain substances could kill, and what dosages were dangerous, according to authorities. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

Bridging Fellow @danielpjones.bsky.social recently gave a public lecture for the European Society for the Study of Tics & Tourette Syndrome. ▶️ Find out more and watch the lecture here: medhumsplatform.org/new-public-l...

The language and assumptions we bring to Tourette Syndrome are never neutral. Framings of TS as arhythmic are having an impact on clinical decision making - I argue that performance art can play a role in reframing tourettic folks as human in this recent lecture! medhumsplatform.org/new-public-l...

Solidarity to my fellow fixed-term academics. It's damn hard out here - be gentle with youlselves tonight 💚

My lecture for the European Society for the Study of #Tics & #TouretteSyndrome is now live! Here, I explore the role that my performance artist-scholar practice plays in re-humanising narratives about the tourettic community. Now available for free at the link below! www.essts.org/news/the-rol...

✂️ What if academia was designed differently - more inclusive, more creative, and shaped by diverse ways of thinking? Join @ndhumanities.bsky.social for an online zine-making workshop to explore these ideas. No experience needed! 🗓 13 May 12.30–2pm Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reimaginin...

When Labour next tell you there is no money left and that's why they can't help people to heat their homes, show them this.

Or read the transcript and watch the BSL translation here: shef.ac.uk/ihuman/waarc/cripping-research-culture-podcast Cripping Research Culture is a Wellcome Anti-Ableist Research Culture podcast and is supported by the Wellcome Trust.

The final episode of #CrippingResearchCulture is out! Listen to @danielpjones.bsky.social and me interview @louisecreechan.bsky.social and Haf Serajee on "Daring to Plan Inclusive Events" here or wherever podcasts can be found: creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...

Nice to see this confirmed, I hope it leads to much more openness and compassion in how we speak about suicide with children and young people.

Unfortunately, due to unforseen circumstances, we will be postponing this event. Watch this spaces for the rescheduled event later this year! 🔥

Well, the cat's out of the bag and it's official. I've been nominated to stand in the local elections as a Green councillor for Fawdon and West Gosforth. This city has become my home, and it deserves leadership that cares, listens, and acts. Vote Green on May 7th! 💚 #GetGreensElected #GreenParty

Where, and how, are conversations about neurodiversity unfolding today? What is lost, reshaped, or new when translating neurodiversity across cultures and disciplines? Join us on April 23rd for a free, online roundtable on Translating Neurodiversity! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/translatin...

Thrilled to share I've had TWO papers accepted for the European Society for the Study of Tics & Tourette Syndrome Meeting in Ljubljana, Slovenia this June! 🇸🇮 I'll be sharing findings from a recent roundtable on the future of TS research, and a recent paper of mine on technoableism in TS treatment 👏

Join us in Durham on 28th April for a 1-day event exploring dancing across different disciplines, forms, spaces and communities. The day will explore the links between dance, literature, geography, health, and more! Tickets are free but limited 🕺 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dancing-ac... #AcademicSky

The BSL translation of #CrippingResearchCulture episode 7 with Lucy Killerby and Freya Douglas Oloyede is now live on the Wellcome Anti-Ableist Research Culture website! sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/waarc... Cripping Research Culture is made possible with support from the @wellcometrust.bsky.social.

This is Apartheid. It's morally disgusting - and comes at the same time as Israel is committing an ongoing genocide. To see the Labour Government defend Israel repeatedly will horrify the British public - it cannot go on like this.

For me, one of the strangest things about being an interdisciplinary academic is being asked to return a peer-review for a clinical science journal in 5 days, whilst waiting 10 months for the first round of reviews on your latest social science manuscript. The speed differences give me whiplash 😅

NEW CfP! 🌈🎓 📸 VISUAL HISTORY NOW: Using photographs to study the history of gender, sexuality, and space 8-9 Oct, Tampere Uni, Finland If you research gendered, sexual, queer or trans histories using visual materials, this is the conference for you! Deadline 31 March www.tuni.fi/en/research/...

A new publication by our Moving Bodies Lab researcher Emily Davis, explores professional perspectives on Scottish Ballet’s developing ‘dance on prescription’ model 🩰 Find out more about the publication 👇 medhumsplatform.org/prescribing-...

'Dancing Across Disciplines', Durham, UK | 28 April 2026 Join us for a FREE 1-day event exploring dance across disciplines, forms, spaces, + communities. We'll explore historical connections across dance, literature, geographies, community practice, and more! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dancing-ac...

My latest paper is now out in Neurodiversity (Open Access!) In it, I critically examine emerging technology-based treatment interventions for Tourette Syndrome, considering median nerve stimulation and the Neupulse device in particular. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Absolutely appalled at every single person involved in this. Once again, the tourettic community is being punched down at. Tourette Syndrome is not an excuse. We are not your punchline. Your ableism is showing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkKb...

Tomorrow marks the start of a week spent at the wonderful 'The HopBarn' for my Artist's Residency! Looking forward to drifting around rural spaces, choreographing with #tics, and #DJing rural soundscapes to explore the role of rural affect on my tourettic body 🕺 #Dance #AcademicSky #TouretteSyndrome

Can we also include the postgraduate loan in this, which has been frozen at £21k repayment threshold at 6% since it was introduced

It seems like a lot of 'experts' on Tourette Syndrome are coming out of the woodwork since the BAFTAs, though it's strange that they seemingly can't even spell 'ticced' or 'Tourette Syndrome' properly, let alone understand that tics are involuntary 🫢

Stealing from the needy to line their own pockets – DWP hands out £12.7 million in bonuses, up from £11.2m last year.

I really appreciate this TikToker with Tourette syndrome, Shay, for taking the time to educate so many of us (including me) about her disability and coprolalia in light of what happened at the BAFTAs with John Davidson when Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo were on stage. I learned a lot.

Tonight, I Swear won "Rising Star", "Best Lead Actor", and "Best Casting". This is awful, awful news. 'Best Casting' implies Tourettic characters can/should not be played by tourettic actors. The others reward active choices to not cast disabled people. What a disappointment

Drop the charges. 🇵🇸

Calls grow for Labour to lift the proscription of Palestine Action, after court finds the decision was unlawful

Bridging Fellow @danielpjones.bsky.social has published a commentary in the journal Neurodiversity titled ‘Centring Tourettic Experiences in Technology: Tourette Syndrome, Median Nerve Stimulation, and the Role of Technoableism in Self-Harm and Stigma’. See more:

"Why is this device even an issue?" I present to you, my latest Open Access paper! Here, I approach Neupulse (and median nerve stimulation more broadly) through the lens of technoableism. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #TouretteSyndrome #Tics #AcademicSky #DisabilityStudies

Still seeking participants for my PhD research on neuroqueer youth digital resistance practices! (ERGO: 103967) Know someone who’d be interested? All info is at linktr.ee/nqresearch.s..., or email me with any questions at ✉️[email protected]

I'm delighted to share details of the first of two workshops I'm hosting this year on The Senses and Medical Humanities. The first workshop will take place in Durham on 24 February. Spaces are limited, so reserve yours now. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-senses...

It’s your last chance to sign up for the WAARC webinar on “Organisational accountability on disability in the workplace” with Deepa Shastri and Faye Stewart at noon GMT today! buytickets.at/wellcomeanti...

On this note, I've just had word that my paper on this so-called treatment is now in-press! "Centering Tourettic Experiences in Technology: Tourette Syndrome, median nerve stimulation, and the role of technoableism in self-harm and stigma" will be out soon. Watch this space, stop electrocuting us.

#CrippingResearchCulture now has 4 BSL translations provided by Marcel Hirshman of Weald BSL: sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/waarc...

'I Swear' has made the BAFTA Longlist for 6 awards this year, including 'Best Film', 'Leading Actor', and 'Casting'. As a disability scholar focused on Tourette Syndrome, and a tourettic person myself, here's a couple of my concerns in a short thread... #TouretteSyndrome #BAFTA #Disability

A new episode of #CrippingResearchCulture with Stuart Moore of @nadsn.bsky.social has just dropped wherever podcasts can be found! open.spotify.com/episode/5Q7r... Full transcript here: sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/waarc...

disabled people who cannot work deserve good things too.

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...