Good to be me! Sharing the most amazing video from @spectrumgaming.bsky.social a charity for Autistic young people in UK. Many Autistic people struggle with their autism diagnosis; they made a wonderful video about it. youtu.be/0pibDq98raQ?... I cry happy tears EVERYTIME I watch this - beautiful!

Yesterday, NHS England published the independent ADHD Taskforce interim report with initial recommendations for improved cross-sector support. The full report is still to come, but I hope that this shows that the work is starting in earnest, and is being supported at the highest levels.

I’m looking for a small number of secondary schools to help us with a research study exploring self-diagnosis of mental health problems in young people For more info or to express interest, please email @nhigsonsweeney.bsky.social: nina.higson-sweeney [at] psych.ox.ac.uk Or DM us! Thank you 🙏🏼

Tomorrow night at 9pm on BBCTwo our second series of ‘Inside Our Minds’ begins with a programme exploring the lived experience of those with ADHD . Necessary , urgent , powerful and heartfelt . . . please watch and share on @bbciplayer.bsky.social

Something cruelly ironic about wisdom teeth deciding to implode while you're in final stages of writing up your dissertation. NOT NOW!

This is now peer reviewed and out in Neurodiversity - my first published PhD output! 📰 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Exciting week this week as the book that I co-wrote a chapter for has been published. The Holistic Career Coaching Handbook. I wrote a chapter on neurodiversity in the workplace with Aretha Rutherford (who is too sensible to have social media, so I can't tag her). 1/3

When you're totally in the zone and in your head you had a cup of hot tea next to you and you take a swig and it's half full and cold. That. 🫠

“Huge intellectual and political energy is, and will be, dedicated to ensuring that national economies can survive now that that system has been upended and a previously indispensable trading partner has gone off the rails” @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social for @theguardian.com

Tmrw evening at 8 I'll be opening my Etsy for a limited no. of Victorian ink bottle posy kits designed to👇 anxiety while you make something lovely. Contents: Victorian ink bottle booklet:neuroscience of improving mental health with creative activity tiny dried flower posy. A RT would help so much🌿

Lovely reminder, when our world seems to have lost its way, how wonderful human interaction can be. Love a flash mob! www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNLI... #pinkfloyd

So, not trying to brag or anything, but I just took the last Christmas decorations down and it's not even Easter yet... #ADHDLifeGoals

If you are a carer, parent, educator, clinician, peer worker who supports young people (14-25) with mental ill health and is based in Europe, please do consider joining our Mental Health Advisory Group for our YouthReach study. Please see details in flyer and can sign up via link or QR code

Every time I think about writing something about a relevant recent issue, in this case overdiagnosis, @garwboy.bsky.social writes something infinitely better than I would have managed. It's like a psychic public service he's doing. open.substack.com/pub/theneuro...

The journey is never linear. Embrace the imperfections and keep going Image: www.instagram.com/oliviaherric...

If the government wants real change, it has to improve employment support, tackle workplace stigma, and make sure people aren't stuck on mental health waiting lists for years. 3/4

With special thanks to Rosie Underhill, who waded through a huge amount of Reddit data to produce this thoughtful analysis 🙏 Full text here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

“After we’ve discriminated against, deported, or disparaged all the immigrants, the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women, and minorities. Once we’ve ostracized our neighbors and betrayed our friends… what comes next?” - Gov. JB Pritzker

Really pleased to have been part of the team who authored this new article: 'Applied Principles for Inclusive Practice in Neurodevelopmental Research: A Selection and Report of Illustrative Case Studies'. Huge thanks to @cjcrompton.bsky.social & @suereviews.bsky.social for bringing us all together!

Currently reading some thoroughly disheartening ADHD papers. Many are recent but still SO pathologising and generalising. I think that as well as being able to search for 'peer-reviewed' papers, there should be functionality to search for 'at least one lived-experience researcher' papers.

Trying to write an assignment and not get distracted by LinkedIn, news sites, BlueSky (I ditched FB, Insta and Twitter when it was still Twitter). But now getting distracted by different focus app options instead... Send Help! #ADHD

There are now just 3 spaces left. Beginners' zoom class, open to anyone anywhere. Full recording available indefinitely afterwards. Discount on materials. Workshop designed to relax your brain & teach you how continuing to draw afterwards behaves like anti anxiety meds. Link in tweet below✒️🌿 👇

If anyone is able to share a copy of the now offline FDA guidance on including underrepresented populations in clinical trials with me I’d be very grateful. Apparently ensuring medications work for women is part of the “woke” agenda now.

Supervised by Dr Ellie Dommett and the ADHD Research Lab, we're looking for prospective students for a new PhD studentship to research the relationship between #ADHD and #menopause, and better support processes. #MedSky #AcademicSky Apply now by 19 Feb: www.kcl.ac.uk/study-legacy...

What do we do with a lost fox cub? 'SootFoot', named by a friend, has been hanging outside our house all afternoon. If this was a Hallmark Movie, we would have a fox cub snuggled up by a roaring fire in our sitting room...

My day of study has been utterly derailed. Went for a walk and this little cub was on the doorstep. Stayed for a full minute looking at me and then followed me up the road for a few houses. When I came back she was curled next to the doorstep in the sun. Still there now ❤️

I have family members dealing with this assessment issue right now (in the UK). And where I live, there are no options unless you can pay.

The Quiet Power of Introverts: "...our quiet approach to life, our need for solitary time ... is a gift." www.bbc.co.uk/videos/cqv59... #PublicHealth #Edusky #Medsky

Ok, the MESSAGE webinar sub-5 min summary video is now on Youtube. Please have a listen, even if you think sex and gender has nothing to do with your clinical work or research. You may be surprised. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MJv...

Absolutely gorgeous stuff here by the super-talented @silverpebble2.bsky.social

A List of Things People Blamed on Short Skirts 🧵

🚨New paper alert: Exploring experiences of autistic burnout in motherhood, led by the fantastic Ashton Ferguson for her undergraduate (!!) dissertation. (Short thread)... www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/...

#LongCOVID community: do you personally or via your network, policy analysis or press have feedback to share on CURRENT Long COVID care access & affordability in: ▶️ Finland ▶️ France ▶️ Germany ▶️ Netherlands ▶️ Norway ▶️ Portugal ▶️ Spain ▶️ Sweden ▶️ Switzerland ▶️ UK Thanks in advance for any thoughts!

We are also working on a #singlesessionintervention for parents of teens who are struggling with their mood. We need uk based parents of 13-18 year olds to help us - by taking part in online interviews - email [email protected] if interested

This cardigan is called Teams. Every square is a meeting that could have been an email. It’s actually Teams Mk II as its predecessor had a bad experience with the washing machine. #knitting 🧶

Brilliant thread on why it *is* important to understand how different brains work.

Hello one and all. My field is the emerging social science that is restorative and relational practice. #psychsky #edusky Connecting with folk in health, care, education and I'm here to bring about CHANGE in workplace relationships. Here's my first podcast: restorativethinking.co.uk/resources/

Love this - and also possibly the best explanation/utilisation of 'epistemology' and 'ontology' that I've read in years of studying! Thank you!

Such great work from @autisticdoctor.bsky.social and her team…

Regular post looking for UK based home educators. Where are you all hiding? #HomeEducation #HomeSchool

It's one of those days where you're watching Masterchef, but whacking fish fingers and potato waffles in the oven... Aspiration vs Reality....

If you have started following me recently from a kids' literature starter-pack, could you tell me who owns it so I can come off it? Worried I'm going to be letting you down with content that is likely irrelevant to your feeds! (Unless you are also neurodivergent and/or looking to change careers)...

All getting very busy and exciting on here... would love to connect with any career coaches, or anyone who is interested in, or doing research in the fields of ADHD, neurodiversity and/or careers. Currently in my second year of MSc Psychology at MMU, and doing PGCert Neurodiversity Coaching at BBK.

Do we do job ads here? Great job for a qual policy researcher on public health policing in Scotland, as part of our CSO programme on the health-justice nexus. We’re building a brilliant team across 3 unis, do take a look: www.linkedin.com/posts/elizab...

My Etsy shop's now open for orders of my intricate silver casts of real flowers,nature finds & tiny wearable versions of much-loved bird species. I make each individually by hand using recycled silver. V few spaces in my order book.I ship anywhere. Delivery in time for 🌲 www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...

Highly recommend following @silverpebble2.bsky.social for her stunning nature posts x

OK, this is getting crazy now... I'm anxious about the number of fabulous children's authors & illustrators out there who are now following me - I am genuinely a waste of a follow-limit (if there is such a thing?) Am I on a starter pack somewhere? I'll mostly be posting about #ADHD and #Careers...

Reporting participatory methods and author positionality in autism New editorial from @suereviews.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Anyone else here doing/following ADHD research? #ADHD #Neurodiversity #Research