Interrupting the madness of reality to share some exciting news: the first Centre for Mad Culture in the UK will be launched in Edinburgh on 17 October! Below I have listed all the other activities planned by the Centre (including my own poetry workshop). Book your free tickets and see you there!

Interviewed by @juliametraux.bsky.social for @motherjones.com. Ableist misinformation will lead to harm of pregnant people and more eugenics, abuse, and services destruction against autistic people. We are descending to new depths, but lately I also think about old-fashioned normalization... 1/

The U.S. powers-that-be still want us to die or vanish into hyper-compliance that makes us more vulnerable to victimization: blogs.exeter.ac.uk/exploringdia...

Happy Right to Know Week! Celebrate your right to know by accessing over 500 Privacy Impact Assessments acquired via FOI at privacylibrary.ca. www.oic-ci.gc.ca/en/right-know

On Trump, autism and tylenol: A student I was talking to today had it exactly right on this latest White House bullshit claim “It’s at the perfect intersection of hating disabled people and wanting women to be in pain” There’s not only no link, the claim is both ableist and misogynist.

Protests, mass meetups, conferences—a youth-led movement is reclaiming the Luddite mantle, rejecting a future dominated by Silicon Valley companies, toxic apps, and generative AI. This fall, a "Luddite renaissance" is in full swing. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-luddit...

"It is important to understand how autistic people may experience abuse differently to non-autistic people, so that better systems can be created to catch these instances earlier and put a stop to them, and to help autistic survivors recover from their experiences as positively as possible.”

This just in: sex causes autism. www.frontiersin.org/journals/int...

Papers related to my talk include a critique of "profound autism" and functioning labels: www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/13... The strengths of speech divergence: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... and Sensory–movement underpinnings of lifelong neurodivergence: www.frontiersin.org/journals/int... 2/

Want to ask if by "sustainable budget" they mean finally making a plan that would mean the university didn't have to purge its most precarious staff on the regular as sacrifices to the boom and bust cycles of terminal stage capitalism (or, increasingly, bust and bust).

Librarians Are Being Asked to Find AI-Hallucinated Books www.404media.co/librarians-a...

Neurodiversity movement is in creative tension w/ medical model & psychiatry (Kapp & Ne'eman, 2020), not opposite them (Kapp, 2020; Kapp et al., 2013; Kapp, 2013). The Coalition of Autism Scientists (of which I am part) further illustrates common ground amid these tensions, against antivax+ nonsense

Ian Linkletter, a librarian at the British Columbia Institute of Technology, told the Washington Post that “Google is undermining academic integrity by shoving AI in students’ faces during exams.” www.thedailybeast.com/google-chrom...

Re-posting with correct tags of authors @bitarchivist.net @quinnanya.me @akijas.bsky.social @ilya.webrecorder.net @literaturegeek.bsky.social - great job on this zine, especially love the accessible instructions! zinebakery.com/homemade-zin...

I'm just finding out who Watson Kirkconnell was, and that he died in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, near where I grew up and that he is sometimes called the "father of Canadian multiculturalism...." and that he was a big ol' eugenicist, antisemitic conspiracy theorist....

Drops today: this week's ARB @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast features host Nicholas Gordon in conversation with Charles R Butcher, co-author of “Before Colonization: Non-Western States and Systems in the Nineteenth Century” @columbiaup.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/podcast-with...

It has always been bad, but if you’ve been on the fence, this is a great reason to delete your academia.edu account.

Don’t miss it and grab some of the last remaining online and in-person spots now for my public lecture at the end of my fellowship! 🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/centre-for...

We uncover how Google paid the media millions to avoid regulations, signing more than 2,000 secret contracts with publishers. A critic calls it “renting your enemy.” Our investigation into Big Tech lobbying continues with other news outlets around the world. buff.ly/SK9YCx2 #BigTechsInvisibleHand

Delightful read on an Indigenous-led program at Cal Poly Humboldt researching Indigenous foods and sharing Indigenous culture with the public.

"Oxford documentary exposes Kenya’s shadow scholars writing essays for UK students"

Universities have spent decades framing education as having no purpose other than providing a credential for employment. You're not here to do something wasteful like learn, you're here to increase your earning potential. Why not use the magical cheating machine?

It's been a 1.5 yrs since I wrote this & I wanted to add looking at it now that a disabled person *does not* need to submit a formal request to trigger the accommodation process. Just telling a supervisor you are struggling w/ job duties for health reasons is enough for the supervisor to trigger 1/2

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“A Brief History of Goths”: From the Goths, to Gothic Literature, to Goth Music

"Rigour" in education, from the same source as rigor mortis (“stiffness, rigidity, rigor, cold, harshness”).

"Ethical AI," brought to you by the same people who gave you "clean coal."

Newfoundland and Labrador has made it into international news for ridicule it absolutely deserves for using generative AI to “write” a report on the future of education. Great job to those MUN education profs.

Well, I just learned that James Watson’s first draft of “The Double Helix” was titled “Honest Jim” so that’s pretty funny www.sciencehistory.org/about/projec...

The first feature-length episode of Community of Praxis is out! I got to have a long chat with @cjdenial.bsky.social about kindness, ungrading, and the radical act of actually trying to assess learning. Please listen and share! www.wlupress.wlu.ca/Scholarly-Po...

“If we are going to be changed, and then change others, we must read intentionally, but more than intentionally I want to read radically.” — @daanis.ca #BookSky www.broadleafbooks.com/store/produc...

Reading in the first week of Critical AI and Curation class: 🗒️ Bender and Hanna (2025) “Chapter 2: It’s Alive! The Hype of Thinking Machines In The AI Con 🗒️ Kotliar (2024) “Can't stop the hype: scrutinizing AI’s realities” www.tandfonline.com/doi/citedby/...

There is FAQ added at the end of the news item. With amongst other Q&A:

The oldest surviving book owned by English speakers was a book made in North Africa. In this article from our archive, Alison Hudson traces how these radical fragments reveal that immigrants and cultural exchange have always been fundamental to Britain.

The IHPST is hiring! Assistant Professor - Philosophy of Science and/or Technology. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

What a fabulous book launch! Lovely hearing from so many of the authors of the various chapters! A really valuable resource! "Monotropism is rocket fuel for change. Monotropism is rocket fuel for learning." as quoted by @brianirvine.bsky.social - Indeed! www.igi-global.com/book/neurodi...

The smoke is so thick you can hardly see the hills, and I just once again got heckled by schoolchildren for masking in public on my way to get lunch.

I've seen several people refer to AI-resisters as having their heads in the sand over the last few days. But resisting doesn't mean the same thing as ignoring something. On the contrary, resisting means engaging with research, parsing information, offering critique, and making informed choices.

Collecting the resources at my 'against GenAI' page is not ignoring GenAI: catherinedenial.org/blog/uncateg...

We have a diner in Fishtown, Sulimay's, that always DMs me when I have a new zine or project to ask me to drop some off at the diner. It makes me feel SO appreciated. They just DM'd about this zine too 🥰 Their food is great, and they have a bunch of my friends' art on the walls. 10/10. COMMUNITY.

#SundayReading In academic reading this week, the top spot goes to, as usual, The Palgrave Handbook of Women and Science since 1660, edited by Claire G. Jones, Alison E. Martin, and Alexis Wolf.

Long stories are my specialty, so I wrote a very short book. "Oral History: A Very Short Introduction" is a compact, comprehensive, and global overview of oral history. I'm so proud of this little book. Shipping October 10. Pre-order your copy today! www.amazon.com/Oral-History... #OralHistory

Was recently introduced to this alternative to Doodle Polls: whenisgood.net/Create

One of the remarkable things about responding to reviewer 2 is just how often the body feels like it's involved in a protracted physical confrontation. The feeling of being flooded with cortisol, the low grade shaking, the darting attention, the feeling of suffocation, flight or fight.

“Why tradwives aren’t trad”. Delighted to feature in @prospectmagazine.co.uk today. Read online here: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/society/hist... #Economica #womenwealthpower

Nahum Dimitri Chandler analyzes correspondence between W. E. B. Du Bois and Max Weber in "The Possible Form of an Interlocution." Read the intro for free now. #BlackStudies #SocialTheory buff.ly/Uh89Quh