“Compared with children without cerebral palsy, children with cerebral palsy were at a fivefold risk for ASD and a doubled risk for ADHD.” bmjpaedsopen.bmj.com/content/8/1/...

Today the Supreme Court, found in favour of the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care to, once again, allow for removal of rights and undermine protection for marginalised and vulnerable people, in this case disabled individuals. This is part of a wider erosion of human rights in the UK. 1/

Mariátegui’s Indo-American Socialism and the Problem of Privileged Solidarity César Cabezas doi.org/10.5840/radp... Pdf: philpapers.org/archive/CABM...

“The lived present contains a past and a future within its thickness.” Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception

Embodied mineness and background agency: a neurophenomenological approach to the minimal self Juan Diego Bogotá link.springer.com/article/10.1...

“While targeting climate change or altering families' socioeconomic status to reverse food insecurity may not be feasible” - what you need is “caregiver mindfulness” ffs www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“For young people with learning disabilities, Mencap’s evidence is stark: only 5% of those known to their local authority are in paid employment, despite 86% wanting a paid job.” www.gov.uk/government/p...

'Temporary housing was like a prison for my neurodivergent son' www.aol.com/news/tempora...

New open access article: Intersectionality, NGOs and executives: who has which minister’s ear? With @drashleec.bsky.social and @cerifowler.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

What is the minimal machinery needed for complex, cognition-like behavior? Very cool.

🎶 Just one collider, give it to me Just one collider, from the EEC 🎶 It’s official: Europe physicists plan to build 91-kilometer particle collider The $19 billion Future Circular Collider would build on results from CERN’s Large Hadron Collider www.science.org/content/arti...

📢 12–13 Sept, Aarhus University: the Phenomenology of Autism Research Network (PARN) hosts "Embodying Divergence: New Directions in Autism and Neurodiversity Research." In-person, free, open to all. Register by 1 Sept: event.au.dk/events/embod... #AutismResearch #ActuallyAutistic

Appalling rise in “racist, homophobic and disablist abuse” in schools. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The long and sorid history of American eugenics is all too relevant to understanding RFKJr and the rest of the regime. h/t @michaelanes.bsky.social sph.umich.edu/pursuit/2022...

#Disability Rights UK is doing a survey on disabled people’s experience of PIP. Those wanting to inform research, policy discussions and recommendations on PIP, please do the survey. Responses before 28/05 will be part of a separate submission to the Timms Review. disabilityrightsuk.org/pip-survey

Claiming PIP with Ben Furner. Ben focuses on health care and disability FREE PIP webinar - Join as member here www.sedsconnective.org 🗓️ 3 JUNE 🕗 7 -8.30pm ✉️ Events@sedsconnective.org Donate here https://www.sedsconnective.org/donation

Is this history of the term ‘Fordism’ correct? Friedrich von Gottl-Ottlilienfeld introduced it in a public lecture in 1924 and a pamphlet, "Fordismus: Über Industrie und Technische Vernunft" Gramsci gave the term theoretical depth in his Prison Notebooks, particularly "Americanism and Fordism".

New paper out in Adaptive Behavior! On why cognitive scientists need a better account of purposive of behaviour, why cybernetics and dynamical systems won't do the trick, and how biological autonomy might. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Bank boss uneconomic with the truth Bank boss sorry after describing workers as 'lower value human capital' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It's just obvious that there is no good reason, at all, for the government to legislate what toilets you can go into. This is a thing that civil society was quite capable of working out. We're here because the GCs found civil society didn't share their rabid obsessive hatred so they played the refs.

Gradients as the First Symbol: Biological Time and the Origin of Meaning Rodolfo Rojas philarchive.org/rec/ROJGAT

Want to know what 'enactivism' is? Consider reading my new paper, 'What is Enactivism?', open access in Adaptive Behavior! journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.... Short version: It's what Varela, Thompson & Rosch said it was in 'The Embodied Mind' ages ago. Slightly longer version... 1/

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That's the internet I love!

I just saved a little snapping turtle from a busy footpath at a Buddhist temple. If y'all need me I'll be in Nirvana.

Affordances for deaf and hard of hearing students’ social participation in mainstream school environments www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

What makes this book unique & important? UK's education is stuck in behaviouro–classical cognitivism. It emphasises telling, repeating, and storage. Teaching Meaning looks to enactive cogsci, a contemporary field based on sense-making, meaning, and systemic relations. @wiringthebrain.bsky.social

Mohammad Nahleh's writing is mind-bogglingly good:

Brand new edited volume!! Loneliness in Our Time: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. Edited by Axel Seemann, Emily Hughes, Tom Roberts and Joel Krueger. Open access! www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...

See behavior analysts use punishment (response blocking) to stop autistics from "arranging and ordering" (e.g. "lining pens up" "straightening tables or chairs" "fixing items that were out of place" "closing drawers" "capping or uncapping pens") onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... ABA in 2026

Multinucleation as a recurring evolutionary strategy for scaling and plasticity Gautam Dey, Markus Ganter, and Marie Jacobovitz www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

First real post on the new blog! If you follow human genetics, you've likely of "missing heritability". If you look at twins to estimate heritability, you get values much larger than what molecular genomic methods produce. IQ, for example, goes from 50-80% heritability to 10-15%. Which is right?

Affective framing in self-organizing interaction: a cognitive event analysis across two cases Ayse Uslu www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

For much of psychiatric diagnosis—and for many contested somatic conditions—the patient's narrative isn't supplementary to the clinical evidence. It is the clinical evidence. New essay on what that costs the patients whose stories don't yet fit a clinical template.

Aftab's critique of the NYT article is right, but having spent years working on the far right links with critical psychiatry, and facing backlash including legal threats to get my work taken down, it is good to see the links more recognised in the mainstream. open.substack.com/pub/awaisaft...

The always great @awaisaftab.bsky.social on the nature of psychiatric diagnosis.

Abu Hamid al-Ghazali: How one of Islam’s most revered figures still speaks to the modern world www.middleeasteye.net/discover/abu...

NYU Langone Releases Grand Jury Subpoena: Feds Want Names Of Every Trans Youth Care Patient www.erininthemorning... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Excellent new paper on Husserl and Merleau-Ponty by my doctoral student Yamina Venuta @ubcphilosophy.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A Systematic Review of Outcomes for People With Intellectual Disabilities and/or Autistic People Following Resettlement From Long-Stay Hospitals in the UK onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

We have had a fair few more followers lately - so we would like to re-introduce ourselves! Welcome to anyone who is new around here, you can swipe to learn a little more about OCD-UK ☺️ #OCDUK #MentalHealth #OCDAwareness #MentalHealthSupport #OCDRecovery #OCDHelp #OCDCommunity #OCDRecovery

Intercorporeity qua natural: Merleau-Ponty on the institution of nature Hayden Kee link.springer.com/article/10.1...

It is publication day for The Organism-Environment Pairing (@mitpress.bsky.social)! This 📗 has been deeply formative for me as a scholar, and it owes so much to so many wonderful people. I truly hope it finds many readers! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205282... #booksky #philsci #histsci #philsky #evosky

Beautiful piece by Awais. Money quote below. My one concern is that many psychiatrists do not in fact mean what Awais means when they say "you have ADHD". They mean it in exactly the same way one says "you have liver cancer". And it's very harmful for mental health science and practice.

New paper out! 🎉 We took a close look at the phenomenology of self-touch and how it relates to the involved body parts, movement velocity, and agency. TLDR: It's complicated 😅 @adamenmalm.bsky.social @eleonoravagnoni.bsky.social @katerinafoto.bsky.social online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...

New paper showing insufficient evidence for neuroimaging features to define reproducible, biologically valid, & clinically meaningful schizophrenia subtypes. The subtypes identified to date likely reflect continuous variation within the disorder rather than discrete, biologically distinct entities.

Good luck getting the message across. I've been wrestling with this in the context of dyslexia for a long time. doi.org/10.3390/brai...

“diagnosed with autism and ADHD at 42” Man Spends His Life Thinking Something Is Wrong With Him Until One Diagnosis Changes Everything www.boredpanda.com/man-diagnose...

Ever tried getting a dyslexia diagnosis via the NHS? It is nigh impossible.