The “Science of Reading” isn’t science—it’s a marketing slogan used to enshrine phonics-based instruction into law. This article explores how GLPs are excluded, remediated, and monetised by an industry built on enclosure. open.substack.com/pub/autside/...

Our leadership member, Daniel, has written this excellent article which reflects on matters of meaningful inclusion when organising and/or facilitating academic events.

Just published: Inclusion and Sharing Best Practice for Academic Events Facilitation ✨ The sharing of best practice is, and always will be, more important than competing for institutional accessibility accreditations! Read my reflections here: sheffield.ac.uk/sites/defaul...

Another shout out for @bloomsburylit.bsky.social 'Critical Neurodiversity Studies' in our med hums series, from @louisecreechan.bsky.social , Jenny Bergenmar and Anna Stenning. It's a foundational collection and one that will be very, very important for the field. www.bloomsbury.com/critical-neu...

We're excited to see our paper published in @bmj.com BMJ Open today! The paper highlights lacking prioritisation for #TicDisorders & #TS, compounded by a healthcare system with no space for multidisciplinary approaches! Always a pleasure to work with these folks! 🤩 bmjopen.bmj.com/content/bmjo...

#BSL interpretation job opportunity! WAARC’s anti-ableist research culture podcast is looking for someone to provide British Sign Language interpretation - get in touch with @danielpjones.bsky.social for info!

@ndhumanities.bsky.social @jamesaldridgeart.bsky.social @stimpunks.org @dr-nicky.bsky.social @the-polyphony.bsky.social @ombretarragnat.bsky.social & @emergentdivergence.com and more are listed as recommended reading /websites to explore/ follow morerealms.com morerealms.com/images/

Last summer I had the pleasure of chatting with @journals.sagepub.com about my work on #TouretteSyndrome and inclusive research methods - the video is now live as a part of the 'SAGE Knowledge' #DisabilityStudies Collection, and available here: sk.sagepub.com/video/touret... #AcademicSky

Hi BlueSky folks! Over the summer, this account is monitored intermittently due to team capacity, so please bear with us with response times! If you have an urgent query, please do email us at [email protected] 😊

Catching up on the recordings of the talks I couldn't attend at the Critical Neurodiversity Studies conference from last week. This conference was an epitome of accessibility, from being fully hybrid (including ways for online attendees to network with in person ones)... 1/

This really meant so much! I had to present remotely due to my health, but with all these incredible accessibility measures in place I wish I could have been there in person! Thank you @ndhumanities.bsky.social @louisecreechan.bsky.social @drrobertchapman.bsky.social and the other organisers 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

The conference was fabulous, thank you! So many new people and great connections here - very inspiring!

okay first post! Had a great time sharing my perspective on Mad and Neurodiversity literary approaches at the the Critical Neurodiversity Studies conference :) so grateful to be made a fellow and to meet other neurodivergent scholar-activists ~ @durhamimh.bsky.social @ndhumanities.bsky.social

You’re so welcome although we should clarify that it was @durhamimh.bsky.social who organised the conference! We just hosted the online elements on our website! so glad you enjoyed yourselves and McGee is the coolest 🥰

Helen of @autisticrealms.bsky.social has created a handy starter pack of all who were at and involved in the conference online and offline! Get in touch with Helen if you want to be added!

A Saturday reshare of this week's new starter pack inspired by @ndhumanities.bsky.social's Critical Neurodiversity Studies Conference 2025 go.bsky.app/6ftC1uS

Absolutely crying at this photo of me and the other @ndhumanities.bsky.social network leads at the Critical Neurodiversity Studies conference. The use of Photoshop is 👩‍🍳😙

And that’s it! Thank you so much to everyone who organised and took part in the Critical ND Studies conference. We are still reflecting on the closing words from the Fellows, as we (like many of you) take steps to recharge.

Day 3 of the Critical Neurodiversity Studies conference at @durhamimh.bsky.social is underway! We’ve got a call for papers (+ more) open at the moment for a special issue on critical ND studies, why not check it out? 👏 💫 @ainokash.bsky.social @louisecreechan.bsky.social @ndhumanities.bsky.social

Hi Helen! Fancy meeting you here! I just presented in person at the @durhamimh.bsky.social Critical Neurodiversity Studies conference hosted by @ndhumanities.bsky.social. Hope you got a chance to catch some good sessions. My brain is happy!

@ndhumanities.bsky.social thank you for a fabulous three days. McGee and I are taking a while to absorb our new experiences. We couldn’t have been more welcomed and for that we thank, the organisers, @ Louise.Creechan for giving McGee his delegate badge, which he wore pride.

Had a truly amazing time at the Critical Neurodiversity Studies conference at @durhamimh.bsky.social! Huge congratulations to @louisecreechan.bsky.social, Robert Chapman, @ndhumanities.bsky.social, and everyone involved in facilitating such a generative, galvanizing, and accessible event.

"A critical view of neurodivergent 'compensatory strategies' [in communication] makes it possible to frame them as chameleonic survival abilities to celebrate, rather than bad mimicking of neurotypical abilities." - @marocchini.bsky.social thepolyphony.org/2025/06/27/n...

As I leave @durhamimh.bsky.social, my contribution to the Critical ND Studies takeover comes out. It’s a brief version of my talk: an attempt to speak about actually neurodivergent communication (and not just autistic communication). Thank you again @ndhumanities.bsky.social for the support 🌱

Very excited to be attending the Critical Neurodiversity Studies conference today, from the @ndhumanities.bsky.social network. Sad I can't be there in person, but their online provision is wonderful, and lots of very cool speakers in the lineup...

Day 2 of the Critical Neurodiversity Studies conference @durhamimh.bsky.social and REALLY looking forward to this presentation from my brilliant @ndhumanities.bsky.social colleague @ainokash.bsky.social

I'm crap at social media, it still freaks me out, but I want to say that I'm having a wild mind ride at the Critical Neurodiversity Studies Conference here in Durham. @ndhumanities.bsky.social & @ndhumanities.bsky.social , you totally rock for putting this on & getting us all together ❤️ BIG thanks!

Inspired by the fabulous conference hosted by @ndhumanities.bsky.social here is a new starter pack of researchers, advocates and organisations all working hard to make the world a better place for Neurodivergent/ Disabled and other marginalised communities. Space for more go.bsky.app/6ftC1uS

@ndhumanities.bsky.social have had some fabulous conversations over the last two days plus tonight at the conference dinner. Thank you to everyone for all the hard work to making this such a special place to be.

After a PhD in Cognitive Science, I find it particularly funny (and telling of how far I got from where I started) that the 1st panel I ever chaired was about “The Social Beyond Normativity” at the Critical Neurodiversity Studies Conference. Thanks @ndhumanities.bsky.social for making this happen!

I've attended 2 conferences on #neurodiversity in 2 weeks! Run by @ndhumanities.bsky.social & @openuniversity.bsky.social To celebrate, here's a poem from my book Octopus Mind: 'Familiar, Divergent' createdtoread.com/about/poetry... #poetry @serenbooks.bsky.social

Last day of the Critical Neurodiversity Studies Conference at @ndhumanities.bsky.social @durhamimh.bsky.social I begin my day with a panel on Against Normativity: Spectral Logics, Mad Knowledge, and Neurodivergent Lives. Panellists: Protichi Chatterjee, El Dewar, Paz Martínez, & Cassandra Lovelock

Excellent stuff from my @ndhumanities.bsky.social colleague @louisecreechan.bsky.social and looking forward to the Critical Neurodiversity Studies Conference takeover!

Applications open for our remaining neurodivergent archive accessibility workshops @ukdishisthub.bsky.social @arainternational.bsky.social @sensationalmuseum.bsky.social @ndhumanities.bsky.social @amfoster.bsky.social @edicaucus.bsky.social ‬

CALL FOR PAPERS & PERFORMANCES: I’m excited to finally share that we are seeking proposals for a day symposium exploring ‘Hydropoetry in Practice’, set to take place on 30th July! Suggestions include embodiment, hydrofeminism, tidalectics, indigenous knowledge, oceanic archives, and more!🌊🌊🌊

I'm excited to be part of the first ever @tvce.bsky.social symposium. In my monologue, I share my experience of being a trans Autistic activist and accidental academic. What the academy makes of a fat, trans, queer, mad, disabled person and how I'm doing it anyways. tvce2025.eventbrite.com

Here's an open access (pre-print/accepted) version of Abs Ashley's @ainokash.bsky.social "Neurotrans Affect: Choreography, cocreation and coalitional resistance" research-information.bris.ac.uk/ws/portalfil...

Applications close 5pm tomorrow for our first research and knowledge exchange workshop at Imperial War Museums on 4th July! If you're a neurodivergent user of archives, or work in archives and heritage (ND or not), join us to explore neurodivergent archive accessibility. @edicaucus.bsky.social

Last two days to apply!

@danielpjones.bsky.social and I wrote a thing!

Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril and Daniel P Jones respond to a recent Polyphony essay exploring the access difficulties of wearing face-masks. thepolyphony.org/2025/06/02/m...

Important new article in @the-polyphony.bsky.social from NDHums co-lead @danielpjones.bsky.social and @elainagmamaril.bsky.social about access friction.

Centrism "is required by the most privileged in order for them to retain their privilege [...] If we embrace the world-making implied in being crip masking killjoys, without using centrist framings of access and disability, productive discussions around access friction can arise."

A new article by our own Dr Abs S. Ashley has been published in a special issue of Transgender Studies Quarterly ('Toward a Trans[]Crip Theory'): 'Neurotrans Affect: Choreography, Cocreation, and Coalitional Resistance'! @ainokash.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/tsq/article-...

I adore the term “Neurodivergent Archivist” … it implies a The existence of a “Neurotypical Archivist” … a hypothetical concept more elusive than a Tachyon …

Looking forward to meeting lots of cool archives and neurodiversity people at our first 'Divergent Minds in the Archive' workshop on 4th July! Travel funding available; apply by the 4th June forms.office.com/e/vNXha2TEUr @edicaucus.bsky.social

Delighted to be able to pop in to the Centre for Culture & #DisabilityStudies 15 year anniversary event at Liverpool Hope today. A timely reminder of the vibrancy of the field at a time when all of my former colleagues are at risk of redundancy 🥲

New article from NDHums co-lead, Abs S. Ashley exploring neurotrans affectual landscapes in the face of anti-trans violences.