Glorious incidental burn here: "the retreat of Times Higher as the house journal of the sector to rankings, reputations, and rage bait"

A piece I wrote for the @isrfoundation.bsky.social blog series on the current state of HE. In it I reflect on ableism and a sector running on exhaustion. Based on research with @alisonallam.bsky.social and @equihealthfutures.bsky.social Illustrations by @stacybias.bsky.social

For Disability Pride Month, please consider changing your setting to remind you to use Alt text

Attendees at #SSHM2026 might also be interested in our #CFP for an event at @britishlibrary.bsky.social in November! You have until the end of the month to submit your ideas to us! #DisHist

I'm super excited about this workshop! 📚 Gender, Autism, and Affective and Epistemic Injustice workshop @durhamimh.bsky.social Tuesday 7th July 10-3.30 A HYBRID workshop developing interdisciplinary conversations around key issues www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

Really enjoying this article: Gualano, R. J., (2026) ““We’re the Ones Making the Future:” Reflections on the Community Co-Curation of a Disability and Neurodiversity Arts Exhibition”, Disability Studies Quarterly 45(3). doi.org/10.18061/dsq...

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

ICYMI - We are running another online symposium in August on disability education and employment in China! Get tickets here: www.tickettailor.com/events/disab...

We're booking up the queue for July and August and I'd love to learn more about some of your phenomenal projects -- and if you or your colleagues are doing data collection, do please consider reaching out for a chat or a quote!

Seconding Jodi's rec - loved this!

Robin Cook: submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of the scary medicine King: wow! scary medicine! Cook: and the scariest part? Cook: it's real King: what?! Cook: that's right! Cook: it could all happen in the not so distant future!

Today on @thefantasyhive.bsky.social I’m interviewing Jenni Daiches about her new climate change novel They Know Where They’re Going fantasy-hive.co.uk/2026/06/inte...

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New issue of Fandom | Cultures | Research is out now ⬇️⬇️⬇️ #FanStudies journals.uni-marburg.de/fcr/issue/vi...

Our partners at the Disability Innovation Institute at UNSW are conducting a series of online workshops to explores methods that are most useful when researching people with disability and their health priorities. Learn more and register here: events.humanitix.com/disability-m...

🌸Have a lovely Friday! ✨ Go sportsball (if that's you're thing) Bookings for our #Neurodivergent #Librarian conference are open for 2 weeks. It would be lovely to see you there♥️ Please reach out if you have questions/concerns. www.eventbrite.com/e/nlisn-conf... (Never not a time to share this gif)

Cleaning out my photos and found this, which may be a helpful guide at this time of year, when discussing jobs with the precarious academic in your life:

Accessing Disability Library is a new resource for researchers around the world who want to include learning disabled voices in their researc: sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/a...

Join us for our online symposium on China and disability on 13th August 2026, with three brilliant speakers presenting their work on disability inclusion in education and employment in China: Register here: www.tickettailor.com/events/disab...

"I came to University X because I love the design of the new Spunklord-Chough Building and it's ample parking" said no student ever.

"Finally—deodorant for your entire disgusting body. That’s right. It’s time to start spraying chemicals directly onto your genitals."

Funded one month Residential fellowship for scholars studying any aspect of #histSTM across the Mediterrean 👇 #histmed

Deadline for abstracts 30 June👇 #DistHist

Why don't they call parasols sunbrellas?

Social media: the place where because you don't put a widely-known fact in a post people automatically assume you don't know the widely-known fact.

Tick tock ⏰ There's just over a week left to book onto our in person conference for #neurodivergent #information & #library workers. Happening in July in Lovely Leeds. Can't wait for this!

if you don’t apologize for cross posting then everyone in your discipline will know you are a terrible person with no feelings

I'll be there on July 1st! Looking forward to meeting other independent historians.

Congratulations to Markéta! [The thesis, about "English Folkloric Liminality in Queer Paranormal Historical Popular Romance", can be downloaded from the link below!]

When we talk about equality, diversity & inclusion... we're not just talking about race and gender. We're also talking about UK geographical diversity. We're talking more than half of research funding going to 24 unis. "Large, well-resourced institutions can be read as a signal of quality."EDICa 🧵

Looking for a #RomanceResearch piece to read during this Pride Month? We've got you covered: Jessica Taylor analyzes E.M. Hull’s The Sheik (1919) through the lens of queer and trans studies in JPRS' article "Garçon Manqué: A Queer Rereading (of) The Sheik". Find the article: doi.org/10.70138/VBE...

Please consider signing this petition - this is the university I work at, and this process has been awful and inhumane for everyone impacted.

TWO WEEKS until our inaugural Neurodivergent Music Studies Conference! You can see our programme and register (for free!) on our website: www.neurodivergentmusicnetwork.com/2026-virtual... #AutRes #MusicResearch #NeurodivergentMusic #ResearchSky #PhD

My garden robin just had an ‘everything’ bath-watch to the end bc she’s drenched, spiky haired & in need of towelling down. One academic study shows that when we watch footage of ‘cute’* animals it dials down stress levels-my small pal’s bathtime is for yr brain. *actual word used in the experiment:

Our social mission is three-fold: - Support research with a social justice focus - Improve accessibility for all, especially in academia and for academic research - Create flexible accessible work for disabled, chronically ill and neurodivergent professionals https://academicaudiotranscription.com

This morning I got to met members of St Hilda’s East Community Centre’s over 50s group called Chit, Chat, Chai. We started a banner project together. I discussed history & shared sources. We thought about belonging. I’m making a banner square celebrating what goes on behind the centre’s front door!

If you’re doing #QualitativeResearch or #ParticipatoryResearch and want uniquely principled, 100% human done and amazing quality transcription support, please do get in touch with my team for a quote. We’re booking up July and August, and we’d love to learn about your work!

This is excellent

History Job Klaxon. Join us at the University of Manchester!

Happy to share that my digital exhibit "Childhood Madness" is now live. It looks at young people's experiences in Canadian asylums between 1900-1930 and includes art by Maia Weintrager. Explore here: madnesscanada.com/childhood-ma... #PublicHistory #MadStudies #MadHistory #CdnHist

Kicked started an exciting zine making project today at Shoreditch’s St Hilda’s East. I shared photographs & titbits I have collected from my archive adventures at Tower Hamlets Local Library and Archives. Over the next 3 weeks we’re going to make a zine that explores belonging & history.

It's a little known fact that back in the old days #Orkney horses were masters of disguise and could easily blend into their surroundings. You might not believe this but there is a horse standing in this photograph. LIKE if you think you see it. SHARE if you DEFINITELY see it.

Very sad to learn of @raulpachecovega.bsky.social’s passing. He was a stalwart supporter of PhDisabled, which he regularly promoted via his ScholarSunday conversations, along with thousands of junior and marginalised scholars over the many years of his work and service work.

Managed to sleep through 4 separate alarms this morning but fortunately my backup system - a small child repeatedly hollering "MUMMY I DID A POO" - was fully operational.

Today is International Archives Day We’re really pleased to be able to support children & young people to access our collections at Glamorgan Archives Since September over 1000 learners & teachers have visited us onsite to discover more about the history of their local area through our collections

New aftershave in Lidl: gives you the precise aroma of a widowed policeman investigating the murder of his daughter, drawn into a wide-ranging political conspiracy involving nuclear weapons.

You can learn more about autism as both a difference *and* a disability through the neurodiversity movement, eg Loud Hands Project autisticadvocacy.org/book/loud-ha... and scientific research that it is a lifelong neurodivergence www.frontiersin.org/journals/int... 7/

Surely the transaction is: I give you the paper for free; you handle all the administration associated with it; you get to commoditise the paper, package it, and keep the revenue associated with it. Why would I additionally have a duty ro provide free peer review labour?!