One year ago Shropshire Council closed down the Making it Real Board, after 12 years of co-production with residents drawing on adult social care services and unpaid carers. 1/ 🧵

The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions. It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.

Remarkable work documenting a year of escalations, from @chrischirp.bsky.social. “a chart of actions over the last year – I’ve logged almost 200 and so have only been able to label the most significant”: christinapagel.substack.com/p/the-ice-st...

A must-read!

Just read this report. t.co/tKCjuhyEjw What isn't obvious from the sensationalist headlines in the news media is that it's about *reception* children. Originally, reception classes were set up in order to prepare children for school. 1/1

I tell this story periodically, but it seems like it's time again: General Motors ran an automobile manufacturing plant in Fremont, California, that was one of the worst in the country. Accident rates and defects were astronomical. Absenteeism was through the roof. 1/12

Look at that baby’s little face. Russia now making war on babies’ day care centres #RottenToTheCore Cowards.

New post just out: "On the edge" On my unexpected week in hospital and five things I learnt about the state of the NHS. (Free to read) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/o...

Bertrand Russell to Oswald Mosley. Perfection.

They are NOT protecting the women & the kiddies. They ARE protecting their NARRATIVE. Look what happens when someone who was actually groomed speaks out. Watch what they do. She's got bigger sphericals than ALL of them put together. & watch how they treat her truth.

«EXCLUSIVE: Silicon Valley billionaire Peter #Thiel behind #Trump is now exporting the #MAGA playbook to #Britain - embedding across three parties: Blue Labour, Tories, Reform - via a network of race science believers.» @nafeez.bsky.social and @peterjukes.bsky.social via @bylinetimes.bsky.social

What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own. Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week. Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Fantastic to see our TrumpActionTracker featured in this @yorkshirebylines.co.uk article! @sandylaping.bsky.social @peteduncanson.bsky.social Do have are read. Tracker is here: www.trumpactiontracker.info

Is the BBC Reform UK's mouthpiece? Yup. "Researchers at Cardiff University have produced a detailed analysis of every episode of the BBC’s flagship Question Time programme broadcast between September 2014 and July 2023 to see if the broadcaster was balancing political viewpoints."

Can't, not won't: Rethinking school avoidance www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

love this new york times clip. they recently did a story about how sesame street's set has changed over the years, along with our urban politics. IG nytimes

who's ready for the return of everybody's favourite chaos thread, ✨ travelling while disabled ✨

staffers are still cleaning up the Kristi Noem mess after she got gutted/filleted by @chrismurphyct.bsky.social this is A MOMENT. #MustWatch 🧢 @trumpfile.org

I’m so excited to share our preprint on how brainstem neurons sense and integrate multiple body signals during food consumption. We imaged 1000s of neurons across the lateral parabrachial nucleus (LPBN) in behaving mice. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

How could a slavery scandal involving the President of the United States be worse than we thought? This extremely long, extremely detailed, and fully sourced PROOF report explains. This—not the tariff war—is the most important story in America right now. I hope you will consider checking it out.

Reading Charles Spearman's 'General intelligence: Objectively determined and measured' (1904). That's the guy who came up with 'g' as a metric. His experimental design section is a hoot; 24 boys from a prep school collectively using apparatus designed for individuals. 1/1

Another plug for my blog post about what's missing from the disability benefits green paper logicalincrementalism.wordpress.com/2025/03/25/n...

Sue is really good at creating a clear pathway through government documents, unlike the government themselves. Well worth a read.

Just read the Green Paper 'Pathways to Work' about #disability and work. What's missing is important. Blogged about it here logicalincrementalism.wordpress.com/2025/03/25/n...

Important point about the number of educational psychologists in training. From @psychmag www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

A reminder for these times.

In the light of yet another #SEND review (closes tomorrow), a blog post I wrote over a decade ago is still relevant. logicalincrementalism.wordpress.com/2013/01/04/n...

Good to see flu hospital admissions falling more rapidly now. Back inside the medium threshold but still higher than last year's peak.

I'm doing a free giveaway to celebrate the publication of my latest book! Like and repost to enter (UK only). Winner announced on Sunday. See the link below to find out more about the book. #freebie #giveaway

I’m speaking at 'Downsides of Digital’ on January 27th at #SUinsights session. Aiming to better understand the trade-offs that may accompany the adoption of digital technologies in health and care. Registration link: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/67953a... #medsky #healthpolicy #digitalhealth

A majority of Brexit supporters now want to accept free movement in exchange for a return to the single market. Will this finally rid Labour of its Brexit bogeyman? East Anglia Bylines’ acerbic political diarist, Pecksniff, asks this and other thorny questions.

I’m struggling to find all of the lovely folk from Twitter/ X who care about the NHS. This is so important right now, because the NHS is in a state of emergency and EveryDoctor is running an important campaign involving 117 MPs already. Please could you help me to find everyone?🤞💙

The excellent Derek Gillard has updated his equally excellent Education in the UK website, with amongst other things, the Auld report from the public inquiry into the William Tyndale Affair in 1976. education-uk.org/update/47.html One for the 'trad/prog' debate.

Wondering how many people are actually deactivating their accounts at the other place. Not sure what to do. Advice welcome.

Bowen, C., & Snow, P., with Brandon, P. (expected UK Spring, 2025). Evidence-based support for children and young people with additional needs: The Roadmap. J&R Press. 📙 #EBPRoadmap written for #parents #teachers & #youngpeople about #children and YP with additional support needs. 🦋 #bskySpeechies

"Disabled or not, no one is completely self-reliant. We are all interdependent, and the real trick to successful adulting is knowing when, how, and who to ask for help." By Gyasi Burks-Abbott: autismspectrumnews.org/a-presumptio... #neurodiversity #adulting #disability

UK Covid inquiry? Read this to bring you up to date. And weep. www.pslhub.org/learn/corona...

Calling philosophers and cognitive scientists. Six, four year postdocs available at the University of Stirling for interdisciplinary work on place and memory with John Sutton. www.stir.ac.uk/about/work-a...

How 5 of history’s worst pandemics ended. The Black Death went on for 7 years and resurfaced 40 times in the next 300 years. www.history.com/news/pandemi...

NEW POST: Does the #SENDTribunal have to listen to the views, wishes & feelings of the child? An Upper Tribunal hearing has said it most certainly does. Solicitor, James Betts who was involved in the case, explains more in more detail www.specialneedsjungle.com/does-send-tr... #SEND #SENDfamilies

A couple of quick tips for bluesky newbies. There aren't the same algorithms here so you need to post/repost lots and follow plenty of people, otherwise it will feel quiet at first. Check out who other people are following to find your Twitter friends. 😘

Repeat after me. Do. Not. Eat. Mushrooms. Just. On. The. Basis. AI. Says. They're. Safe. cybernews.com/tech/ai-seve...

Did a thing for The Fence's coming-of-age issue, on my own coming of age in the sepia-tinted, patchouli-scented, pre-internetted, mysterious and vanished world of 1971. www.the-fence.com/but-to-be-yo...

Wishing everyone a happy day and hoping the new year brings good things.

Anybody else's Twitter timeline disappeared?

Petition launched to stop Boris Johnson wearing Grimsby football hat as he’s bringing town into ‘disrepute’ Quite right too