www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAM-... If you want a well reasoned, professional piece on Frith's strange autism article in TES, try this. Thoroughly recommend.

Oof completely. Nail biting.

Please pause to consider for a moment 193 years of age. Jonathan the tortoise had been on the scene for nearly three decades by the time the US civil war started. The best part of a century when Titanic sank. We’ve lost a real-life time lord

So excited to watch the Artemis II launch 🤩 🚀 Sitting with my space-obsessed 18 year old who will shortly be off to uni on her path to being a Space Psychologist (hopefully), perhaps involved in selecting the astronauts of the future 🌑

This is a very odd aspect to the Artemis mission. The astronauts themselves still speak of being proud of the diversity of the crew - the agency, not so much.

Old school April Fools courtesy of our 11 year old 👀

NEW on Wonkhe: Danny Clegg argues that equality impact assessments must shift from records of compliance to tools for co-production and foresight buff.ly/17oPJ9l

New euphamism just dropped, I hate it :

The words 'a new DfE consultation on DSA' elicit an immediate eyeroll, deep sigh, and distinct state of déjà vu. Will I respond to the consultation? Probably. Is there any point? Probably not. wonkhe.com/blogs/dfe-pr...

Happy 'HBO Max Launch I Can Finally Watch The Pitt Day' to all who celebrate! 🎉

Oh

This is genius!

Nothing riles me more than corporate speak! It always reminds me of my Director of Studies at uni who used to use a massive red marker pen on essays he deemed too wordy or flowery, scrawling the words 'UGLY VERBOSITY!' right over every page.

Drove to work and back using every fuel-saving method imaginable, refuelled with two kidneys' worth of diesel at the least extortionate petrol station I could find on the way home. So of course the engine warning light comes on on the way home 😭 At this point, ready to go back to horse and cart.

Oh this, a hundred thousand times over!

The ongoing meningitis outbreak in Kent really removes any doubt about the lasting impact of Covid trauma on our kids. High stress levels all round at the sight of masks and queues for vaccines and talk of deadly disease 😕

Looking forward to explaining to the GP surgery why they shouldn't charge my daughter for completing her DSA form (not least because it literally says so on the form!)

Live in just a few minutes: me on the Universe’s 100th birthday, and on the mysterious Little Red Dots. Join us online @greshamcollege.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/9CaWqYf...

“The World’s Really Not Set Up for the Neurodivergent Person”: Understanding Emotion Dysregulation from the Perspective of Autistic Adults by Beck et. al. identifies key contributors to emotion dysregulation to inform future service development. NEW FREE journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Our new paper on autism and hypermobility is out! Results indicate autistic people may experience more pronounced symptoms of hypermobility and more co-occurring health conditions. Full paper, open access, at the link 🔽 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Reposting one of the best write ups about Sinners, which I still think about after seeing it last year. @daviddennisjr.bsky.social andscape.com/features/sin...

Happy Mothers Day to the decent mum's out there. While my daughter treats my amazing wife to a special lunch, seemed like a good time to speak about autism and emotional impermanence, because I know a lot of autistic individuals can feel really bad about this, including myself, and why we shouldn't.

A reminder that anyone investigating mysterious urban phenomenon should check the proximity of the nearest art school

Durham wins out over York in the battle of steps completed on Offer Holder Days (+ bonus points for the Durham hills!) 🏆 Busman's holiday visiting other unis at the weekend 😆

Always use the mic! Even if you are Brian Blessed, you need to use the mic. The microphone will support the hearing loop - it doesn't matter how loud your voice is or how admirable your projection, it needs to be picked up by the hearing loop for anyone using a hearing aid. 1/

White autistic women aren’t exempt from ableism or racism 🙂‍↔️ When Black autistic women speak about harm in autistic spaces, the response is often defensiveness, or silencing. Autism doesn’t erase racial privilege. Listening, accountability, and confronting racism are necessary for real inclusion. 👍🏽✨

“Maybe I could say a bear stole them”

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Saw these levitating chickens on Sunday and my eleven year old is still laughing about them 😆

17 March 13:00-14:00 GMT online, free. Neurodiversity and Disability: Designing Inclusion That Works for Everyone. from U of East London and Office for Institutional Equity. events.teams.microsoft.com/event/65a588...

The People of Bluesky Crowd Round to Appreciate Andrew O’Hagan Eviscerating Mr Windsor, 2026, Rembrandt van Rijn

We have a free #SelfAdvocacy Complaint Template, which can help you or someone you work with to plan and then make a complaint about a service you have accessed. It includes sections for planning what you want to say and listing outcomes from the complaint: advonet.org.uk/resources/se...

Super article from an old friend and colleague, and others: Inclusive Neurodiverse Campuses: A Participatory Approach to Understanding Neurodivergent Belonging in Higher Education, Hamilton, L. G., Williams, J., Neilson, D., & Petty, S. (2026) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In what my husband says is a very 'me' thing to do, I lost my second favourite pair of running gloves somewhere on my 10km run over the fields today so had to retrace the entire route to find them because I couldn't just leave them out there on their own in the cold and the mud! Found them though 🥳

Parents, pls tell your autistic kids they are autistic: "You may think that an autistic child won’t notice they are different than their non-autistic peers; I have not met one autistic person (me included) who hasn’t noticed their difference early in life." thinkingautismguide.com/2017/02/pare...

Absolutely this. I've seen first hand what it can do to people to find out, when it the depths of a terrible situation and struggling to access support, that they were diagnosed all along. Especially with private diagnoses that don't appear on your medical record

Anyone can become disabled at any time. Your life can change in an instant, no matter how strong and healthy you think you are. People will leave you. Funds will dry up. Life will get tougher. It’s not a moral failing. It’s a minority group you can join anytime.

There is “no evidence that attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is overdiagnosed in the UK” and the condition could even be “underdiagnosed”, a team of experts has said www.itv.com/news/2026-03...

@petewharmby.com isn't active on here these days, but he, along with others, has written a response to that Uta Frith TES article www.twinkl.co.uk/news/experts...

Now that all our kids are safely at secondary school/sixth form, I can breathe the sweet relief that is my first year without the angst of World Book Day. After 13 years, freedom from its tyranny!

I read this earlier and I wasn't impressed, a bit like all the other quote posters. I guess I'm wondering why we're seeing this framing at the same time as the SEND white paper comes out? 😒

Ah, another of Prof. Uta's regular, "The world moved on & I don't like it" articles, claiming that autism is a disease, & inferring most autistic women are likely misdiagnosed - not autistic, that if you can manage a conversation you're not autistic, & there's no such thing as masking. Oh dear.

Brilliant. An expat im Dubai has a startling revelation, by @stephencollins.bsky.social

We should not underestimate the massive amount of cognitive processing power currently being taken up by having to map and re-map constantly the position and location of every single ruddy pothole on every single road so as to avoid losing a wheel whenever venturing forth from home

Middle kid and I stopped on the moors on the way home to yell at the whopping great Worm Moon! 🌕

When modern researchers or orgs talk about “preventing” autism, they don’t mean “curing” living #autistic people. That is impossible; there is no non-autistic version of us hiding underneath! “Preventing autism” means “eliminating autism from the gene pool” by screening out autistic pregnancies.

The rise of rejection sensitive dysphoria: ‘My chest feels like it’s collapsing’ - lots of neurodiverse folks get this. Do you? How does it manifest? www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

The cherry on what has been a bizarrely brilliant, good news sort of a week!

📣 Competence standards klaxon! 📣 I do really like the approach this article is talking about (we have something similar on some modules here). But we HAVE to talk about speaking and presenting skills in the legal context of competence standards wonkhe.com/blogs/stop-l...

If #UKHE wants to ensure it's doing a better job of supporting disabled students, and to future-proof itself against potential regulation in this area, then signing up to the Disabled Student Commitment is a great starting point wonkhe.com/blogs/prepar...