Adding that myself and Sue Fletcher-Watson have "Neurodiversity: a very short introduction" coming out very soon and we take a very different approach!
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Something I'm not clear about is what's the fix for those of us who dont use wheelchairs/ scooters but can't walk all that far in these pedestrianised spaces? It seems to me there should be a plan for that if buses/cabs are being taken away but I can never see it spelled out what it is?
Epistemic Injustice: The Great Gaslighting of Autistic Lives www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/posi...
Black and white photo of a british ww2 minesweeper, who looks like she could pass as french with a bit of posh makeup and a nice dress.
As mines are in the news:
Meet HMS Manxman. Spent a chunk of 1941/1942 laying mines off Italy in WW2.
Why wasn't she sunk?
Looked like a Vichy destroyer if you squinted. So they did a "paint me like one of your French girls" on her.
Extra funnel. Fake bow.
"Bonny jour mez ameees eye-talians!"
Ellie Mulligan, 29, has been going to therapy ever since she learned that other people don’t feel terrible all the time. Although she has made excellent progress since then, each visit to her parents’ house threatens to send her spiralling back to her undiagnosed, misunderstood childhood self.
Fwiw its really striking to have written this in a book in that specific series too, which is generally framed as world leading experts providing unbiased overviews of academic fields or themes, rather than just the author's personal opinions on stuff.
On Uta Frith, its worth noting she's been doing this kind of thing for decades. In her 2008 book "Autism: A Very Short Introduction" she wrote that attempt to shift from a deficit to difference perspective is "peverse" and said that if you hold that perspective then the book is "not for you".
Today in the @scotnational.bsky.social public history column. What can we learn of the lives of coal miners in the 17th century? I spoke to Dr Robbie Tree about his research into marginalised communities in early modern Scotland. 🌳 www.thenational.scot/culture/2592...
Interesting to see that a review with 32 experts published in British Journal of Psychiatry last week found no evidence that ADHD is being overdiagnosed
www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/no-over...
These kind of people generally make out that they're the victims while harming others. It's whatever the allistic version of 'white fragility' is
This is open to *anyone* in receipt or eligible for housing benefit. Esse House intentionally cap the rent at the Local Housing Authority rate, enabling the employed to have cheap accommodation, amd the unemployed to be housed....
Because a safe and secure home is a human right.
Folklore Material in Ruaraidh Erskine’s Gaelic Magazines
13 March, free online
Dr @poncarova.bsky.social discusses materials on Scottish & other Celtic #folklore published in Ruaraidh Erskine of Mar’s Gaelic magazines from 1900 to the 1930s
llc.ed.ac.uk/celtic-scott...
🔴EXCLUSIVE: The vape shop at the centre of the fire on Glasgow's Union Street had not paid business rates and does not appear on a legal register to sell tobacco or vaping products, The Ferret has found.
Read the full story 👉 www.theferret.scot/revealed-com...
Sex-specific metrics for success: Gaps in social word use are bigger for autistic girls than boys
journals.sagepub.com...
'shows that online space can support meaningful experiences of bodily comfort and human connection for some autistic persons. It also questions the idea that in-person communication is always the best or most real for everyone'
Another reason against social media bans- autistic kids will suffer too
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The book-cooking and shenanigans that's gone on here to make an attack on healthcare for a politically- targeted group should frighten everyone. It's shameful. Next it will likely be ND people then women's reproductive healthcare...
We've gone from noone even talking about it, to a almost daily attack on needs, access, care, behaviour, funding.
It's not normal. It's a focused campaign.
Think it is about time realise there's a war on #Autism & #ADHD not just misinformation.
It's a active campaign to sow division and mistrust. To undermines our voice and send us back to a darker time. Noone is misinterpreting in good faith here anymore. There's enough evidence.
There's political context which is very likely why this piece was commissioned, why now and why it first appeared where it did. She may not care about that, but the person who commissioned it very likely does know and care.
I say this every year, but:
The uni students I'm teaching are thoughtful, intelligent, will make everything they encounter better.
With a new addition for 2026:
They deeply hate AI.
I didna speak
whan it bleetert doon.
Ma man wis gey taen up wi’ getting us
sortit, an’ it wis fell lang afore we had
the bastes in an’ the fowl settled…
—Eunice Buchanan, “Wife to Noah”
published in MARKINGS 30 (2010)
#poem #poetry
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/wife-no...
Two rabbits capture a man from the margins of the Smithfield Decretals.
A rabbit decapitates a man with a sword.
A rabbit fires arrows at a hound with a longbow, from the margins of the Smithfield Decretals.
Murderous bunny rabbits from the margins of the Smithfield Decretals 🐇🐇🐇
c. 1300-1340, Royal MS 10 E IV
A miniature of the construction of the Tower of Babel, from Boccaccio's Des cas de nobles hommes et femmes (Add MS 35321).
The British Library’s Medieval MSS team now have a presence on Bluesky @blmedieval.bsky.social
Follow for updates as we restore more of our digitised content online!
Walsingham writes to Bowes and Davison in Edinburgh, telling them off for not writing more frequently. He's worried that James is not 'so forwardlie disposed in heart to embrace th'amitye of England as he doth outwardlie pretend', and to be fair his grumbling is probably displacement ... 4/
Kirk of the Covenant, Dalmellington in East Ayrshire could become a community observatory and museum for a Scottish Dark Sky location.
Read about the Dark Sky Discovery👇
www.darkskydiscovery.org.uk
And the story here 👇
www.cumnockchronicle.com/news/2590685...
Correct!
We are UK-wide, and our pilot for online tuition for trans or non binary students starts in the summer.
We are delivering the pilot at a heavily subsidised rate this summer -the equivalent of just £2/lesson.
1/2
"Never forget that a political, economical or religious crisis is enough to cast doubt on women's rights. These rights will never be vested. You have to stay vigilant your whole life."
Simone de Beauvoir, 1949
#WomensDay #IWD2026 #8M
Two firefighters resting, sitting on the plinth of the "Citizen Firefighter" statue.
Quite an image on the BBC live page (www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...; no photographer credited).
Sounds as if they've saved the station and the hotel, and more importantly, without loss of life.
Citizens; heroes.
While we're acknowledging heroes, hats off to Mr Kongira here.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...
