👏 stop 👏 requiring 👏 recommendation letters 👏 in 👏 the 👏 first 👏 round 👏 of 👏 academic 👏 job 👏 applications

I'm so glad you said this, because about 30 seconds ago, I published a newsletter piece detailing how conservatives have dump-trucked through all of the previously established common sense, nuanced, compromise positions on trans rights to get here: burns-notice.ghost.io/what-would-t...

'centrists', liberals, whatever you want to call them who think that facts will beat out fascism and that science will win the day should be reminded of things like this they all keep saying transphobia is 'reasonable concerns' or 'common sense' while completely ignoring what scientists have to say

This is what a real leader and Nobel prize winner sounds like!

This! 🥰⬇️💯

Picket lines are stronger when students walk with us - thank you for your solidarity!

Andy Burnham has called for the UK to rejoin the EU at the Labour Party conference. Now things are getting interesting.

My super-talented tutee there with her balloon skills that says it all. When I have a moment I’ll do a thread explaining what is going on but in brief LEICESTER IS ON STRIKE!

Mothers regularly shoulder the "blame" for having a child with autism. So when autistic moms watched Trump insist — despite little scientific evidence — that Tylenol use during pregnancy causes autism, it felt like a return to a dark era. #disability #autism www.statnews.com/2025/09/25/a...

If my writing about autism does anything, whether it be in my books, my columns or my reported stories, I hope it advances the idea that autistic people are whole human beings as they are with legitimate needs and inner lives that deserve to be told the same as other stories.

Excited to report: Academic Twitter didn’t die, it just replicated itself on Bluesky academic.oup.com/icb/article-...

“To be Black, autistic, and a woman is to walk through a world shaped by the constant weight of racism, ableism, and misogyny , not separately, but all at once. all at fucking once” phenomenallyautistic.substack.com/p/why-we-mus...

Call for collaborators! 🧵 The TL;DR: we seek collaborators on a #ManyLabs #RegisteredReport about what causes rapid forgetting. In-principle accepted Stage 1: osf.io/ahjn5 Expressions of interest: cardiffunipsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Further details in the 🧵:

Disabled people can’t “just move” to escape fascism. Moving requires resources, money and health that most of us don’t have. Many countries won’t accept disabled people, especially if they have universal healthcare. People are trapped, so we must fight for them.

The battle of our day is no longer about Democrats versus Republicans or left versus right. The choice right now is democracy or dictatorship. And we're sliding faster than I ever thought possible into the latter. Everyone must choose which side they’re on.

"“AI isn’t magic; it’s a pyramid scheme of human labor,” said @adiod.bsky.social , a researcher at the Distributed AI Research Institute based in Bremen, Germany. “These raters are the middle rung: invisible, essential and expendable.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

A person can say well, the rules don't cover this, going to have to make something up A platform will either crash, ignore the error, or treat your situation like it's one of the ones it knows what to do with (which is called "coercion")

📰 New preprint: Replicability and transparency in physical therapy research: Time to wake up 📰 Where does physical therapy stand on the replication crisis and open-science practices? We have identified significant shortcomings in current physical therapy research practice 👉 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Very excited to announce that yesterday I submitted my PhD thesis: The Linguistic Life of the Kufr Qassem Deaf Community: Language Emergence, Variation, Change, and Persistence. I dedicate this thesis to my people: the resilient Palestinian people

Black professors open up about being on the Professor Watch List started by the organization Charlie Kirk co-founded. capitalbnews.org/black-profes...

Dr Melissa Colloff, Prof. Heather Flowe, not on BlueSky, and us contributed to an international study showing semantic priming is a robust cognitive mechanism across 30 languages. Lead by the indomitable forces of @aggieerin.bsky.social and @slewis5920.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

In this Registered Report, Buchanan et al. show strong evidence confirming the phenomenon of semantic priming across speakers of 19 diverse languages. #priming #semantics #psychology #linguistics #psycholinguistics #wordnerds

I think it's very hard to address student behavior while ai is also being pushed by admins and often faculty. But as that's the situation many are in, I think the best approaches focus not on tactics to catch or prevent use, but on why learning is worthwhile

Autism isn’t “caused” by Tylenol. Or vaccines. Or anything. It’s inherited. It’s natural. It’s human. The hunt for a “cause” is just the hunt for someone to blame - and blame only makes sense if you think being autistic is bad. We’re not. But if you continue saying this shit, you are.

We are not okay. You are killing us. We are the canaries, and y’all selling coal. stimpunks.org/together/

if you said the BBC editorial line was being set by straight up Nazis, you'd make a series of correct predictions

Fun article about “outsider” scientists and their breakthroughs. “Academia filters most funding, publishing, and hiring decisions through senior insiders, which favors ideas within existing paradigms.” worksinprogress.co/issue/why-sc...

“Being surrounded by people who truly understand is something really special.” – Sam, Youth Panel Leader 💬 Applications for ASC’s Youth Panel are OPEN! For 15–25 year olds who stammer Read Samuel blog: actionforstammeringchildren.org/from-stammer...

Apply here: actionforstammeringchildren.org/join-the-asc...

New Otter just dropped. www.earth.com/news/scienti...

Tomorrow at 11am-1 pm ET/4-6 pm BST I'll present to Autism National Committee "Challenging the ‘Profound Autism’ Label: How Severity Scores and IQ Tests Obscure the Strengths of Nonspeaking Autistics" Registration is free but required in advance, at autcom.org or via us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Thank you Copyright Agency for telling Big Tech to get stuffed with their demand for a 'text and data mining (TDM) exception' Big Tech should also not be given government-sanctioned permission to steal artists' work It is odious that the Productivity Commission @pc.gov.au advocates 4 AI industry

Also thought back to davidgraeber.org/articles/it-...

i wrote this in *2017.* since then the right wing media has grown extensively. and yet it looks like no lessons learned. www.buzzfeednews.com/article/char...

Education is the enemy of fascism.

Cognitive scientists and AI researchers make a forceful call to reject “uncritical adoption" of AI in academia www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/cognitive-...

I absolutely agree with this! It’s so sad that millions don’t. #Pinks

The answer is "no". And to add more: "no, and what's the real (economic) reason you are asking this question?"

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Remember cancel culture? When sexual predators, racists, and various types of bigots experienced mild criticism for apparently the first time in their lives? What's the name for the current thing where people are murdered, stochastic terrorism-ed, kidnapped by the institutions that support bigots?

As part of the Pilot Reporting Task Force, founded at @improvingpsych.org conference 2023, I would like to share a preprint with you: osf.io/preprints/ps.... We are looking for feedback on our perspective piece, promoting more transparency in the reporting of piloting in psychological science. 1/4

Margaretta Hare Morris was born 228 years ago today. She was a leading figure in the development of agricultural entomology in the United States, overcoming gender bias to become a respected expert on the life cycles of insects that affect crops. tinyurl.com/4tfscbh7 #WomenInSTEM #Entomology 🐛

#ESCOP2025 ESCoP 2025 starts tomorrow with Pre-Conference Satellite Events and Workshops. See you there 🙂 www.escop2025.com/event-progra...

Nice article arguing that psychology must continue to learn from its past mistakes or we will create a new AI-flavoured replication crisis.

You can’t manufacture relationships. Children know when you are genuinely bothered or if real it’s about your openness as well as theirs. Don’t disagree with the above but it’s so much more and it truly can move mountains. This list by the late wonderful Tim Brighouse nails it better (on my wall)

It's impossible to deny that #Dyspraxia has an awareness problem. I came across an article today on LinkedIn that paints a globally oriented picture of just how bad that awareness is & progress made in improving upon it. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Autistic humans are tired of clinicians calling unmasking “regression”

@radld.bsky.social are relatively new on BlueSky. Please give them a follow and join the growing community raising awareness of Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). Learn about DLD, connect and make a difference. #DevLangDis #DLDday