#Autism is a diverse group of brain development conditions. In 2021, about 1 in 127 people worldwide were estimated to be on the autism spectrum. Signs may appear in early childhood, but many go undiagnosed for years. Early understanding and support can make all the difference. 👉 bit.ly/4pGvgnP

Hobbyhorse: at university, lectures remain an incredible format. They introduce & explore a huge amount of content in a short period of time. They scaffold further reading, with a personal twist. Workshops, etc, do their own thing, but don't replace effective lectures: share.google/AyFxBwYh5BYM...

For an English audience. This is paracetemol. Totally and completely nuts.

It's going to be an interesting time for the furry community for a bit....

I don’t think it’s hyperbolic to say that every single time you scroll on twitter you are enabling and enriching Musk and his ilk to spread their lies and disinformation. Even if you’re not swayed, you’re allowing it to be viewed by ever more people. Please leave the platform to rot.

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It feels hard to focus at the moment, seeing such horrors in the world. A genocide. Open racism and hostility in the UK. Martyring somebody in the US who wished I didn't exist. The world on literally fire because of the eagerness to use ai to solve non-existent problems. Eugh.

How British TV is prepping for Trump's visit: "More than 100 of Donald Trump’s inaccurate statements are to be dissected by Channel 4 to coincide with his state visit, in what it described as 'the longest uninterrupted reel of untruths, falsehoods and distortions ever broadcast on television.'"

Just been for a nice early walk through the woods near me. An old(ish) lady stopped me and asked me the quickest way back to the canal. Dear reader, I told her the longest way because if she'd gone the quickest we'd have walked side by side as that's where I was heading too.

Reading automated transcriptions of interview data. "Divergent people" was transcribed as "dirty virgin people".

Pet parrots which typically live alone (whilst those in the wild live in large flocks) were given the technology to call each other. They would use it for up to three hours a day, and developed favourite friends 💔 on.ft.com/3K05vhS

This is what I needed today.

NOTHING will prepare you for this 45-second story arc. From "I'm just doing this because I love the flag, it's totally grassroots, and I'm not part of anything political"... to who actually gave him the flags the night before. Anyone who believes it is an innocent movement needs to see this.

Went to my first music gig in a while yesterday. Alt metal/rock. 90% of People had ear protectors, they sold out of alcohol free beer, and everybody kept a good distance while head banging, and I was in bed by 10.30. Bliss.

Here's something a bit different. We've been reporting from Edinburgh to try to get to the bottom of a mystery in London. Princes Street is the Scottish capital's most famous shopping street — and it's gaining the *exact same* tatty gift shops as London. www.londoncentric.media/p/edinburgh-...

I will not be using AI in teaching (environmental impact reasons). We cannot ignore that students will be using AI, especially in assessments, and we need to adapt. We cannot bury our heads in the sand or simply "resist" the forthcoming changes.

Issue 7 of #JSexResearch is now available online with contributions from @jamesbrooksphd.bsky.social @andraskolto.bsky.social @liamwignall.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/toc/hjsr20/6... @kinseyinstitute.bsky.social @sexsciencesociety.bsky.social

Spending the day making the most minor of formatting tweaks to a paper to submit to a journal. It'll be worth it at the end, but I am currently not enjoying moving the location of decimal points from the bottom to middle of the number

Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

Reading a submission to the journal, which describes themes as being "conjured" - I will now be using the label of qualitative magician to describe how I conjure themes from data.

Exciting new post-doc fellow post just announced at University of Edinburgh - working alongside The Love Tank on the new Medicine Without Doctors collaboration. Closing date 02 Oct 2025. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

If the AI takeover of education is indeed just getting started then it's really important to highlight why this could be bad, not just accept the unevidenced assumptions it will be good for education. 21 reasons to argue against AI in education coming up 🧵 www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

This report is doing the rounds, but it's advocacy research - it's constructed in a way to find the evidence the author/sponsor wants to enact the policy change they already have decided upon. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

A majority of undergraduate students use AI for classwork, several studies show. Ian Bogost spoke with college students to explore their motivations behind using the tool—and the painful revelation professors may face this in classrooms this fall.

I have 1069 citations. Nice.

In a new digital twist to environmental individualisation of responsibility, the UK government is now advising people to “[d]elete old emails and pictures” in data centres to help with the current drought. www.gov.uk/government/n...

We made it into the Independent! “NHS ‘needs to do more to support autistic people” www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home... #AutRes #AutismResearch #ADHDResearch #ADHD #Autism

Who could have predicted that harassment of cis women, who do not conform to feminine stereotypes, in public toilets and changing rooms would increase after the Supreme Court ruling? Pretty much everyone who paused to consider it, that’s who.

The University of Warwick has paid a lot of money, I'm guessing, for their internet banner ads on the Guardian and elsewhere. But they can't spell "curiosity". This isn't a US-UK variant. They just, genuinely, have a massive spelling error in their banner ads.

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

This is so fucking stupid.

Here's a talk I gave as a keynote for the BPS @qmip.bsky.social conference (July 2025) - the result of @vicclarke.bsky.social & I recognising we needed to "dive in" & grapple with the beast that is GenAI & qualitative/(reflexive) thematic analysis www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zFQ...

Every UK petition is like this

the UK’s Internet age verification law has led to the effective censorship of all LGBT content on Reddit what a shocking and unexpected turn of events!

Antiporn groups said they were only going after games with violence against women. But what got censored? Award-winning games about disordered eating, LGBTQ+ games and anything flagged NSFW. @megannicolett.bsky.social's reporting raises alarms about the real danger of this censorship campaign.

Super interesting to hear more on the overlap on neurodiversity and kink

A fair read: healthydebate.ca/2025/06/topi...

Germany gave people €1,200/month no strings attached. They kept working, slept better, switched to better jobs, and even gave more to others. Turns out, when people aren’t drowning, they swim further. #UBI doesn’t kill ambition, it frees it.

A third of UK universities have now ceased posting on X. I've updated my data to see whether they are adopting Threads and/or Bluesky as a microblogging alternative. The simple answer is that they are, slowly. 1/9

That’s a wrap on 2024–25 for the Centre for Transforming Sexuality and Gender! 💥 Our AGM celebrated our research, shared highlights, welcomed our Paul Cottingham Trust Scholar & our dissertation prize winner! Huge thanks to all our amazing members & contributors, you make CTSG what it is. 💜

1. Kevin Gross and I just posted a new science-of-science preprint. This one explores the looming peer review crisis. As many of you know, it's becoming significantly more difficult for journal editors to find scholars willing to serve as peer reviewers for submitted manuscripts.

🆕🚨 New statutory Relationships and Sex Education guidance published today will: - Restrict schools from using materials that "encourage pupils to question their gender" - Teaches children the laws about "biological sex" - Removes all references to the word transgender What we know so far 🧵

As a gay man, I've got some great ones to add! Let's start with: parliamentarians openly saying, in parliament, that gay people are abhorrent perverts and it being broadcast on national telly!

I was interviewed for this @advocate.com article - a response to the #HHS new guidance on the Teen Pregnancy Program @kinseyinstitute.bsky.social @liamwignall.bsky.social

Two versions of the same talk. One for an academic confernce, one for a group of kinksters. I hope I have the slides the right way round...

Travelling from Brighton, to Leeds, to London, to Leeds, to London to give talks at conferences, community events, and London Fetish Week is exhausting but so rewarding. Thank god for Greggs coffees and sausage sandwich combo.

Travelling to Leeds for the Qual Methods in Psych conference. The start of a long two weeks of travels and talks, but excited to meet people @qmip.bsky.social

I promise I'll get a new picture. But until then, I wrote an article for Recon on how and why people should feel pride in their kinkiness: What Is Kink Pride? www.recon.com/Blog/Article...

Out of office is on. Let summer begin! (Writing 3 presentations, finishing 3 different papers, co-editing a journal, delivering 4 research talks across the UK, and conducting field research at a festival)

Now published in Contemporary Drug Problems - online first #drugs #queerstudies #criticaldrugstudies