An updated on Wellcome LEAP's $50 million FORM programme. deevybee.blogspot.com/2026/03/upda... #autism #microbiome

In case you missed it 👀 ❗ FORRT has launched the Open Research Games Portal — a collection of games and interactive activities for teaching open and reproducible science ! Explore it here: forrt.org/games/ and feel free to browse and use ✨

The reason the media are going after Zack Polanski: His opposition to Israel's genocide & Iran war The media is not your friend

Some calm-headed, commonsense is finally surfacing in UK politics

Day 1. Hope is already feeling a lot more normal again. Join.greenparty.org.uk

The journalists keep trying to find their "gotcha" moment and towards the end resort to clutching at straws. Meanwhile @zackpolanski.bsky.social just remains chill and honest and reasonable the entire time Man, I've been waiting my whole life for someone like this that I can fully stand behind 💚

We did it 💚💚💚 Hope triumphed over hate!!!

If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle. It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get. www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...

🚨 MAKE POLITICAL HISTORY in Gorton and Denton! 🤯😱 Shock the establishment 👇 Come campaign TOMORROW and THURSDAY! gorton-denton.greenparty.org.uk#action-days

Reform want to bring Trump’s thugs onto our own streets. They must be stopped. Only a vote for the Greens in Gorton and Denton on Thursday can stop them. Hope will defeat hate. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

It's hope vs hate. Green vs Reform. There is no alternative. I've spent some time volunteering with the Greens this by-election, because I'm horrified by the state of the world. The @greenparty.org.uk are the only ones talking sense, and have the ability to change things for the better.

"We look after each other and we work hard." Hannah Spencer providing the antidote to Reform's hate and division in the BBC Gorton and Denton by-election debate 💪

Tomorrow's episode of Bold Politics is so so rare in British politics: real people who are unafraid to just be themselves for an hour because they know they don't have to protect any vested interests. It's time for a clearout of robots in Westminster.

🚨 URGENT HELP NEEDED 🚫 Reform is funded by the rich 🥀 Labour are getting 1000 people to help 💪 Green people power can WIN! 💚 Zack Polanski + Hannah Spencer will be there! 👇 Join tomorrow and Sunday morning from 10am in Granada park for our biggest campaign day yet! 🔗 LINKS IN BIO + BELOW

The Atlantic Magazine just dropped a tremendous story on the Minnesota Resistance. The author is a war correspondent & sees the echoes of leaderless community empowerment around the globe: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202... (supposed to be a gift link, might not work, it’s in Apple News, too.)

I've found this resource helpful. naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...

For me, I've found donating to organizations and mutual aid groups or to people who just need some extra money to get by is a real sanity-saver in these times of feeling helpless but full of rage.

Board of Peace - Season 1

Help us make hope normal again. Join the Green Party now.

This is cool! National Autistic Taskforce offering small funding awards to autistic people based in the UK, for work supporting autistic people to live their best lives. Closing date is 28th Feb. nationalautistictaskforce.org.uk/nat-founders...

It's time to talk to you about my cat.

Renee Good had a pulse when EMS arrived. I’m not sure it would have made a difference if ICE had let that civilian physician render aid before EMS arrived, but now we will never know. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

Trump does not need you to believe that Renee Nicole Good rammed an ICE agent with her car and sent him to the hospital What they want you to believe—what they NEED you to believe—is that if you don’t behave the way they want you to behave, they will fucking kill you

The same old sentence wrapped in different words: look what you made me do. You pushed me. You deserved it. This is your fault. It’s the logic of abuse, a kind of moral alchemy that turns cruelty into consequence and makes a woman responsible for her own pain. open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...

Sir Paul Nurse is an impressive scientist but what the Royal Society needs is Dorothy Bishop to take the helm and clean the place out. Fellows who bring the Society into disrepute need tougher action than himpathy. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

I cannot put into words what I feel about this. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

This is the accurate headline

How likely is ‘likely’? Does ‘likely’ have a higher probability than ‘probable’? I put together a quick quiz so you can see how you interpret probability phrases, then see how you compare with others: probability.kucharski.io

Giving what we can has implemented a fun game where you spin a globe to see how your starting point in life would compare if you were reborn today, randomly somewhere on earth. www.givingwhatwecan.org/birth-lottery

When this guidance is published (given legal standing), as it almost certainly will be, as a trans man I will not be allowed to use non-unisex public toilets. Which is almost every public toilet. Just want that to sink in, there. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is the #poem I read at end of my resignation - it will be in the follow up collection to Ice Cream for a Broken Tooth , most likely called Let The Quiet Ones Rise flapjackpress.co.uk/shop/ice-cre...

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

Congratulations to all of the winners of the Bennett Prize in OpenPrescribing. You can read more on our LinkedIn and we will be sharing more on our blog over the coming days. www.linkedin.com/posts/bennet...

We are looking for clinicians who work with autistic people without Learning Disabilities to support their sensory motor needs to complete a survey asking experiences asssing and supporting autistic adults. www.qualtrics.manchester.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...

Irish Minister for Health calls the UK's descent into transphobia out for what it is.

" The late disability theorist Tobin Siebers called this the ‘masquerade’ of disability: the obligation to perform the disability, sometimes overperform it, so that it would be legible enough to secure the assistance that one genuinely needs. "

Nominations for the UKRN Dorothy Bishop Prize 2026 have opened! Named after @deevybee.bsky.social, the prize, first awarded in 2022, celebrates the contributions of early career researchers to research improvement. Nominations close 18 January 2026. #AcademicSky #Research

I'm delighted to say we have won the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Education with our work on OpenSAFELY, inventing new methods that let researchers analyse NHS GP data while protecting everyone's privacy, and with complete transparency, in a hugely productive platform! www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-11...

Proud to be a part of this organisation 😍 well done team 👏

📣 Join the ReproducibiliTea Steering Committee! 📅 Applications are open until 30th November 2025 (midnight CET). Full Announcement: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Application Form: forms.gle/R8FSHGJCFVk2... Please share!

Highly recommend this opportunity! I was on the steering committee about 5-6 years ago and it was incredibly rewarding! (P.S. where did the years go?? 😵‍💫)

Submission: I did a thing. Reviewer: Too bad it’s not the thing I imagined while half-reading your abstract. Revision: What a coincidence, it is now.

With all the milestones, how extraordinary this is can get lost! Last Sunday on the BBC I announced we overtook the Tories at 124k members. That's +26,000 members in the last week. Hope is feeling normal again....

UK Reproducibility Network is having a conference, July 2026 in Manchester! Please register your interest: www.ukrn.org/conference/ Bringing together researchers, institutions and research stakeholders from the UK and beyond to drive collaborative change within the UK #research sector.

I had a dream about my good old iPod last night. I bet it's still loaded with all my music from high school...which probably came from Limewire 🫠

There's a reason I've primarily joined MS Teams meetings from an incognito browser window wherever possible for the last 4 years. It's the only method I've found that doesn't include some form of disaster.

We have people in power making broad claims around certain drugs and autism that have been continuously disproven.

We are HIRING! Researchers & analysts Come and join us shipping code, papers and tools like OpenSAFELY and OpenPrescribing www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2025/09...

Sensible, thoughtful, and honest politicians still exist. There is...dare I say it...hope.

This looks like so much fun!