Sunny and icy walk has made this November feel much more manageable 😊

Great piece - understands policy context and asks the right questions about what that means for the university and the city.

These look fab 😊

We all know the difficulty the HE sector is in. But let’s work together to come up with solutions. The nuclear option damages our students & the reputation of our institutions. @ucflangs.bsky.social & @artsandhums.bsky.social are supporting colleagues www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is a good thread 👇

Spread the word - new MA in Classics and Ancient History at Leeds now recruiting for September 2026 entry!

Leeds looking lovely yesterday 😊

Don't miss this #LeedsCityofLanguages webinar with the amazing Yoshito Darmon-Shimamori, teacher, author and multilingual speaker, on #multilingualism.

Come and work with us! We have two grade 8 teaching and research lectureships in Psychology at University of Leeds. Its a great department, in a great University, in one of the best cities in the UK. jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... Closing date 9th November, get in touch if you have any questions!

We’re advertising two lectureship positions. Come join us. It’s a great place to work. Deadline is 9th November jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Great thread 🧡

Good thread. "autism and seizures are different; autism and developmental delays are different; autism and attention challenges are different."

This is worth reading.

Always thought that the name Rebecca meant "a knot". This seemed fair enough: persistent, stubborn, perhaps. But I looked up name meanings for our daughter and her friend earlier and for Rebecca it said "to tie/bind", representing "strong bonds, connection, and enduring strength". Today's tiny joy 😊

Lovely day 😍

This is brilliant

Interesting article giving perspective of Chinese students in the UK www.timeshighereducation.com/news/easy-ea...

I love this thread 😊

Interesting article

Things I needed to learn as an autistic kid: - how to rest & recover from overstimulation - how to connect with other kids in ways that were meaningful to me - how to self advocate, and how to know when advocacy could help & what to do when it couldn't - how to notice my mind being anxious

Haopy Autistic Pride Day! A study came out a couple weeks ago by an autistic researcher and 2 allistic researchers where they interviewed autistic people about their social experiences, centred their words and beliefs & thoughtfully analyzed them. share.google/oimkmUR28t3g...

This is a really good point. Up until the age of 8 or 9 I could take my daughter to the park annd she would always find someone to play with. Age 10 there's rarely anyone. The boys aren't there either, as far as I can see.

Always a favourite, as people go and look for elephants! Go outside, and name the biggest and smallest creature you can find - in any language :)

#ADHD IS NOT becoming more common "Lead researcher Dr Alex Martin said it was likely to be a case of under-diagnosis of the condition in the first place." That is what we ourselves keep saying. There are a lot of adults around the world struggling, not being recognised as ADHDers. #ADHDAcceptance

The different Japanese names for sweet potato in this thread are interesting.

My son just sent me a video of a film editor who makes the past tense of "to sync" ... "sunc". As in "a clip here that isn't sunc to any audio". Fascinating!

Interesting!

Reclaiming Rest: Autistic Burnout, Monotropism & Resistance Exploring Autistic burnout through the lens of monotropism, questioning systems that demand productivity over presence. Reclaiming rest is a vital not just to survive but to honour flow & ways of being autisticrealms.com/reclaiming-r...

Nueva palabra del día: aranceles

Language education has to involve unsettling all of the oppressive language ideologies which posit that there is a singular way to use a language.

A 🧵 on dǎdī 打的. The Mandarin word dǎdī 打的 meaning ‘hail a cab’, ‘ride in a taxi’ is strange, right? It sounds strange. It looks strange. What’s up with this word? 1/

📣 My dissertation students Freya & Lauren are doing cool intersectional research on #aphantasia / #hyperphantasia & #autism, testing a task to make it easier for people to join research online. If you're one or several of the above (or none), please go to edin.ac/4h1ghPU or get in touch w them! TY

This survey about meanings and forms of family for LGBTQ+ people allows plenty of space for self-definitions & free responses, whilst also being quite quick to fill in - a rare and welcome combination! The researcher is particularly looking to recruit more older people as respondents. Please reskeet

This is such a moving thread 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Brilliant opportunity for a permanent full-time role in Ancient History in our fabulous School! 🥳 ⚔️ @lcsleeds.bsky.social

PERMANENT! CLASSICS! JOB! At Leeds! 😁 Get your applications in! #ClassicsSky

Good thread

This has given me the giggles

With Valentine's Day coming up, A Twitter thread about saying "I love you" in neurodivergent that I want to share over here:

Better reporting than usual re the UK SEND crisis 🌟 Good to see reference to ‘needs’ rather than ‘demand’ 🌟 Great to see Matt Keer from @spcialndsjungle.bsky.social quoted 🌟 www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Every time we see reports of the number of autism diagnoses going up, I see people responding with 'alarm' and 'concern', when all I feel is relief. Because every rise in number represents less people living their whole lives struggling to understand why everything is just so much harder for them.

Today in Hell Yes, Research! and also Journalists, Take Note: Autistic people in North America consistently prefer the term "autistic" compared to "person with autism"—and also dislike/don't use functioning labels like "high-" or "low-functioning autism." www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/... #autism

This is very interesting

Super interesting thread for those of us who work with (live with and maybe are!) neurodivergent folk.

Oh no, now I've no idea how I say it! /fɛbɹi/? /fɛbɹəɹi/?

Wonderful thread 🙏

What is autism? Worth a quick run-through of the modern understanding of autism, since so many teams are still using the outdated DSM-5 descriptions from 2013. So many changes in the last 12 years. This is all from research studies. Thread. It's part of wider neurodivergence, a brain difference/

I learnt SO MUCH from this thread!

Call for input from autistic researchers - thread. (please repost) In a recent conversation with @audhd-psychnp.com they mentioned how researchers might find some of the exchanges here useful. The autistic community could help researchers find them more easily if we agreed on a standard #tag

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