Pretty odd feeling driving past lads in full England kit rolling out of the pub while I was on my way into work this morning 😆

Interesting listen but disappointed that there was no mention of disabled students (almost a quarter of the student population) who are significantly impacted by attempts to combat AI misuse, especially in assessment. BBC Radio 4 - Currently, The Artificial University share.google/yHBZeVzQkWXM...

Well here’s a thing that surprises no one.

I have a Singer sewing machine from 1927 which works perfectly and is a thing of beauty as well as function. It's also strangely therapeutic to use. And I use my granny's Mason Pearson hairbrush daily which is at least 60 years old. I've got loads of old things I still use regularly!

www.autismcentral.nhs.uk/news/blog-sc... Lovely people, please consider sharing this new blog from me. Commissioned work for the NHS-funded Autism Central team. Avoiding the pitfalls of autism 'cures and treatments'. Seen too many parents bankrupted, and too many children harmed ....or worse.

Missed the lightning but caught the rain! 🌧️

I am very lucky in that I love the heat, and generally operate better when it's hot than when it's cold. But I do not love today's bonkers humidity, and neither do my asthmatic lungs, and that's one of the reasons why weather like this is so dangerous

It's probably time European journalists wrapped their heads around Heat Index (temp + relative humidity). In high humidity, sweating is less efficient, making heat worse, e.g.: Experiencing 35°C in London UK (70% RH) is more dangerous than 50°C in Phoenix Arizona (15% RH)

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... So excited to see this research paper out, from this amazing team. Double Empathy, for autistic people. What it is, and what it isn't. We see too many researchers failing to understand the subject. An opportunity to learn.

Dawn yomping to beat the heat 🫠

Short 5am dog walks in the shade for us this week!

For anyone who needs it this week

I miss the old door.

This is supposed to be our 'quieter/quietish' time of year but my inbox and the 50+ hour weeks tell a different story 😵‍💫 I mean, it's never quiet, but it's not usually this full on at this point in the year 😭

Welcome to womanhood, here is your obligatory question mark which you must carry at all times and put at the end of your every statement? It helps men cope with you speaking?

autisticnotweird.com/autismsurvey/ May I recommend this fantastic autism survey again? Thousands of autistic people, parents and professionals answered questions on a huge range of topics. Be prepared to be amazed/affirmed/astonished.

Big kid finished her A Levels and school forever today, and middle kid finished her GCSEs today and we've all agreed that we each need a big cry and a big sleep because living through two lots of exam stress for months is exhausting and overwhelming (me included, will no one think of the parents!)

Do you watch YouTube? Are you interested in the fantastic stuff available from Autism Central on there? All sorts of brilliant information and top tips on there. Please consider subscribing, and sharing this post. Many thanks, lovelies. www.youtube.com/@AutismCentr...

Forgot the heating is now off on campus, so currently sat wearing my coat and scarf, and thinking about going out to buy a hot water bottle 🥶

Time for me to repeat one of my ‘sayings’. If you try to solve a problem by passing a law, but people don’t obey the law, you now have two problems where you used to have one.

@angusmain.bsky.social this made me think of you and your late night chats with random strangers!

Currently relying on YouTube (and Instagram) to access brilliant content by amazing tutors who explain secondary school concepts in an easily digestible, visual, repeatable way to my 12 year old. 16 year old uses both every day for GCSE revision, and has done for the last year or two.

If I have to listen to one more Damien Lewis interview and worse, one of his songs, I won't be held responsible for my actions

BBC News - Meningitis B vaccine to be offered to a million young people www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Grateful for this, as the mother of a current Y13 who is off to uni in the autumn. BBC News - Meningitis B vaccine to be offered to a million young people www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

New guidance published by @advancehe.bsky.social today, relating to the Disabled Student Commitment, this time on effective information sharing for disabled students in #UKHE. Pleased that @universityofleeds.bsky.social features as a case study! advance-he.ac.uk/knowledge-hu...

This is yet another area of tension for disabled students, who often need access to devices or equipment for disability-related reasons. Think noise cancelling headphones, apps to assist with managing diabetes, hearing aids that happen to be bluetooth-enabled etc etc...

Thousands sign petition against cuts to tech support for disabled students in England

🚨NEWS 🚨 "One in four of us is Disabled. It’s time the UK government heard us" Labour needs a new direction. Its first step must be to stop treating Disabled people as a problem to be managed - DR UK Head of Policy, Fazilet Hadi for @opendemocracy.net 👇 www.opendemocracy.net/uk-goverment...

Trying to submit ethics approval via a portal for ethics approval for involvement in an external project which already has ethics approval when I'm in a role that never normally has to go anywhere near ethics approval. Probably not a job for a Friday afternoon

The great @petewharmby.com is running an event on Wednesday, the 24th of June at 8pm BST, on Autistic Hyperfocus and Interests. "I'll be looking at monotropism, as a major feature of being autistic, and the variety of ways it can manifest" Tickets cost £9.38. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/autistic-h...

What other sector could make severance payments to over 28,000 people in 2 years and no one in government even blinks? These are skilled, highly educated people who should be contributing to UK productivity.

These stats coming out at the same time as the Graduate Futures report on outcomes for disabled graduates, and the employment gaps that persist, is making me have a think

The latest report from Graduate Futures is out, detailing what happened to the 2022/23 cohort of disabled graduates. As with most things to do with disabled students, it doesn't make for pretty reading. Snip of the key findings here, full report at www.graduatefutures.org/Resources

Our (large) village used to have a public pool right in the centre, much used by families, teenagers and older people. It closed a few years ago and we were all directed to another pool 5 miles away, with no direct public transport.

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

This is the face of the dog who just cost £612 at the emergency vet because he somehow ingested cannabis on his walk this morning and is now 100% totally stoned 🙄

What a glorious evening, hopefully heralding some sunny days (at last) 😍

Oh so familiar in #UKHE and also very much so in Disability Services, where whole sentences are just strung together lists of acronyms.

This is taken from this reddit thread and contains AI, but I think this is one of the most useful explanations of ADHD productivity: www.reddit.com/r/ADHD_Progr...

Ahh Red Route (or North South Campus Access Route, as no one calls it). Essential for accessibility for a campus built on the side of a hill, but also great for getting from A-B when it's raining, or just having a lunch time stroll when it's cold/wet/inclement. Just not on the hour.

Naturally the Red Route/L10 corridor is first on Paul’s list of outstanding features of UK HE; but to think of it as a long corridor is to miss how magnificent it is from the outside. (Photos from Simon Phipps’s brilliant Brutal North book)

Two of the most important ideas in autism research that every educator should know: Monotropism. The double empathy problem. Nine minutes of video. A changed classroom. stimpunks.org/access/educa... #autistic #education

Sense of belonging is so important!

FE colleagues - there’s a survey from JISC - let them know what your digital needs are www.jisc.ac.uk/news/all/sec...

The three new Reform councillors for our Ward (who all look identical, it's uncanny) have finally broken cover with their email addresses and a post on the village Facebook group and it is all KICKING OFF. The list of things people expect them to fix is hilarious! 🍿

The only good thing about this cold, wet, miserable weather is that the two of my kids who are doing their A Levels and GCSEs at least don't feel like they're missing out on any sunshine and sunny weather good vibes 🌧️

oh is Starmer banging on about steel again