The Nerdy Researcher

Thinking of opening up commissions for February, is there any interest?

Just saw an Amazon ad which used the words “now brace your urethra for turbulence” and I am ready to walk into the sea.

So, um, yeah. I screwed up my statistics portfolio for my uni module but apparently I screwed it up with such finesse that I still somehow got a distinction.

So, umm, that's a thing, apparently

Just a bit of light reading for a Tuesday...

Honestly, I feel it'll be a miracle if I don't have a stroke or heart attack over this statistical portfolio for my Masters.

I loved stats at BSc. This? This is hell!

#AcademicMeltdown

Vintage holiday card with the caption “Loving Christmas Greetings” and showing a boy dressed in green and a girl dressed in red standing together in the snow holding an umbrella looking down at a dead red-bellied robin on the ground.

This Victorian Christmas greeting card showing children staring at the dead body of a robin—typically a symbol of hope and good cheer—captures the 2025 holiday vibe:

Anyone else tried this? Can't tell if i like it or not!

Attacks on feminism are similar to attacks on vaccines. We begin to take for granted a world where women have rights and most children live to see adulthood, and then, over time, we begin to forget, neglect, and (now) reject the movements and innovations that brought us here.

a man with a beard is in the dark with the words " your fate is set and you cannot escape it " below him ALT: a man with a beard is in the dark with the words " your fate is set and you cannot escape it " below him

Oh no, there is photographic evidence of me at #TFN

Guess there's no escaping it now

Ok, let's see if Scotland want me...

And a fairly instant no. Though due to no capacity from the academic rather than me/my research (I hope!)

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Genuinely terrifying sending an email to a potential PhD supervisor.

I've told myself to expect a no, but im jumping everything the email inbox pings

TRDQ: Blokees Wheels - C-01 - Full Set Review! YouTube video by TRDQ

Listen up, fellow petrol-heads!

Blokees have dropped some wonderful new Motors in my lap.

I look at them in this video I made and then posted to YouTube so you can watch too!

youtu.be/_B5iDKXJ1QI

Vroom vroooooom!

#Blokees #Transformers #Review #Motors #Lap #petrol #brum #dropped #have #new #up

I don't know quite what my Masters is doing to my brain, but I'm watching a drama and finding myself analysing it through a Foucauldian lens!

UCU members strike at Derby University over 'punitive' job cuts UCU members at Derby University worry about losing their jobs before Christmas, as one person says "we are here to defend our colleagues"

UCU members strike at Derby University over ‘punitive’ job cuts www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

NHS England » Report of the independent ADHD Taskforce: Part 1 April 2025

An independent taskforce *just* did a huge review of ADHD in England, and the conclusion was that it's "under-recognised, under-diagnosed and under-treated."
www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/re...

'Flu surges only happen after the vaccines, stop the vaccines and there won't be flu'

Flu was around and surging a long time before the vaccine was invented, you bloody cretins!

The vaccines are timed to give the most protection to vulnerable people, i.e a few weeks before an anticipated surge.

needs. We need reasonable adjustments, support, flexibility, time off for appointments, etc.

If the government wants everyone working, they need to make employers the focus of their reviews rather than blaming people with neurological and physiological differences for existing

getting people into non-existent jobs (I mean, the neurotypical, fit and well are struggling to find jobs so how you expect anyone else to?!)...

Employers do not want to employ neurodivergent, mentally unwell, chronically ill or disabled people. Because we're not good little worker drones with zero

timely manner. Enable clinical psychologists to also diagnose ADHD to take the pressure off psychiatry. Improve support at school, work and at home by maintaining DLA/PIP, Access to Work, consistent access to good counselling, occupational therapy and overall health care.

And while the focus is on

framed to look at 'overdiagnosis' tells me there is one objective here and its not about actually helping people. Much like the debunked Cass Review hasnt helped Trans kids.

All Streeting has to do is open up more clinical psychologist training posts so there are enough to diagnose people in a

changed. Greater academic demands from a younger age. A massive shift in occupations (so those quiet, solitary, manual roles are mostly gone). Greater financial pressures, and then just the general hostility to anyone that is 'different' right now adding to it all...

The way the review has been

to Work provide, which the government is reducing btw).

There is increased diagnosis. Mostly due to better understanding and awareness of these conditions but also because the world has become harder to live in if you're neurodivergent. It's sensory overload out there! Social expectations have

this capitalist government. You can't fit neurodivergence into neat little boxes on a diagnosis chart with simple cures/support to get people into work. There is no cure, everyone needs their own unique scaffold of support to meet their individual needs (you know the kind of things PIP and Access

better picture of how neurodivergence actually manifests. Showing that the stereotypes may be true in some cases but not for all. That they are spectrum conditions not from mild to severe in a linear line but like a colour wheel which looks different for everyone.

And therein lies the issue for

about what these conditions are meant to look at.

These stereotypes were created by biased research (misogyny, 1930s Germany, the class system, and capitalism to name a few). Over the last 20 years research has got better, its more ethical and empirical, its peer-reviewed and it's given us a much

Streeting orders review into mental health and ADHD diagnosis The health secretary said the aim was to tackle a rising demand for services and the increased pressure on the NHS.

They are underdiagnosed not overdiagnosed. There is no support (unless you have other comorbidities) as an adult, and very little for children

There's already a huge body of peer-reviewed research highlighting and explaining this. We don't need another

The issue is people believe stereotypes

Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen: (discounting festivals)

The Birthday Massacre
Ghost
Halestorm
Toyah
James

Stats portfolio update

Question 1 of 5 first draft done. 176 pages. 4 are the actual assessment. The other 172 are the SPSS output I have to include (stats software).

Now taking bets on how many pages this will end up as, and will it be too big for turnitin!