@tobiasa1994
"I said who put all those things in your head?" Associate Lecturer, Lancaster University Medical School. He/they. Interested in neurodiversity, disability, gender, sexuality, critical/anti-psychiatry, affect and psychoanalysis. Shares not endorsements.
I love watching people use LLMs in public. They’ll reply to a breaking news article and say “@grok is this true?” Babe where do you think it’s about to pull its answer from
On Tuesday 17th March from 4.00 to 5.15pm, I'll be having a virtual book launch
We are keeping the event small so that it can feel more intimate and conversational, which means there will be a limited number of tickets available.
Register below
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Reading an advance copy of White System, Black Therapist by @wardasworld.bsky.social. Cannot recommend it highly enough: for understanding speech therapy, education, colonial institutions, and more. Its so well written and filled with great personal insight theoretical nuance. Preorder and read!
Ah, another of Prof. Uta's regular, "The world moved on & I don't like it" articles, claiming that autism is a disease, & inferring most autistic women are likely misdiagnosed - not autistic, that if you can manage a conversation you're not autistic, & there's no such thing as masking.
Oh dear.
feels like what happens if the manosphere seized control of the Pentagon
come to this FREE Mad Studies launch
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The image shows page 1 of the letter from the BRISMES Committee on Academic Freedom to The Open University. The letter is available to read in full on the BRISMES website: https://www.brismes.ac.uk/news/academic-freedom-letter-to-the-open-university-regarding-use-of-the-term-ancient-palestine
The image shows page 2 of the letter from the BRISMES Committee on Academic Freedom to The Open University. The letter is available to read in full on the BRISMES website: https://www.brismes.ac.uk/news/academic-freedom-letter-to-the-open-university-regarding-use-of-the-term-ancient-palestine
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#AcademicFreedom | We have written to The @openuniversity.bsky.social to express our profound concern about the university’s response to a letter from the UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) regarding the use of the term ‘#ancientPalestine’.
Read our letter: bit.ly/4r0j68L 1/3
BRISMES is featured in @thenewarab.bsky.social following our recent letter raising serious concerns about the @openuniversity.bsky.social's decision to remove the term “ancient Palestine” from teaching materials. #Academicfreedom and scholarly integrity must be upheld.
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Statement from PACBI regarding boycott efforts against Spotify owing to its connection to military A.I. development, Israel's apartheid and occupation and American border violence.
I wouldn’t put it past our political class to draw the conclusion that, in the absence of an economy that creates graduate jobs, we will just have to cut back on graduates.
Can Replicants Read? is a deep dive into the messy intersection of tech, culture, and power. I deconstruct the stories we tell about the future and explain why they matter today. If you want sharp, critical analysis that cuts through the AI hype, subscribe and read for free: emilyehoyle.substack.com
Crucial - and generally totally overlooked part of this story - is *what* the journalists that Labour Together smeared were reporting on
How Labour Together used £730k in illegal political donations to boot strap Keir Starmer’s political rise
That’s why they were targeted
The key aims of health visiting – supporting children to be healthy, identifying risk early, and helping families access support – are vital, but does the current system best serve those goals?
@jasonstrelitz.bsky.social speaks to @newstatesman1913.bsky.social ⬇️
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Useful video essay on contemporary trends in popular online discourses.
Event flyer featuring a glitchy image of an anguished-looking classical statue repeated with different levels of colour, grain, and opacity, as if the statue is fading in or out of existence.
EVENT: Hearing voices, suicidality, and 'AI psychosis'
A @uobphenomenal.bsky.social seminar drawing on perspectives from philosophy, mental health research, psychology, and lived experience.
Friday 20 March, 9am - 4.30pm UK time, online and in person.
#HearingVoices #MentalHealthResearch
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Relates to analysis from @emilyehoyle.substack.com regarding transhumanist and pro-natalist imaginaries amongst sections of the Tech Right.
CN: discussion of sexual violence
Grim but useful read on connections between Epstein network and reconfigurations of eugenics and race science by contrarian pundits, scientists and psychologists since the 1990s.
Lancaster UCU sends huge solidarity to comrades at Northumbria University in their dispute. Shame on Northumbria University management for forcing you out the Teacher’s Pension Scheme; and even more shame for freezing the pay of staff members trying to stay in it! Lancaster UCU stands with you ✊
If .you are interested in presenting at this years Autistic mental health conference
You do not need to be an academic or professional, all voices from the community matter. Self-identification is valid.
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#ActuallyAutistic #autism #Autistic #MentalHealth
Promotional poster for Thriving Autistic’s Discovery Programme. Text reads: “Last Chance! Aged 18–24? Newly Identified Autistic? Join our Discovery Programme Tonight 18th Feb 7pm (GMT). 6 weeks. Neuro-affirming. Find out more about your Autistic identity. Build community support. Funded spaces available for Irish participants. Thanks to ReThink Ireland. Sign up now.” The bottom shows a group of smiling young adults outdoors with arms around each other, and the Thriving Autistic logo with an infinity symbol and website www.thrivingautistic.org
Last chance to sign up for our online neuro-affirming 6 week Discovery Programme starting TONIGHT 18th Feb 7pm UK/Irish Time.
Specifically for Autistic 18-24yr olds!
A few fully funded spaces still available for Irish participants, thanks to Rethink Ireland
thrivingautistic.org/discovery-pr...
Research poster titled “The Lived Experiences of Autistic Adults with Cleft Lip and Palate.” The poster outlines a qualitative doctoral study using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, invites autistic adults born with cleft lip and/or palate to take part in interviews, and includes contact details for the researcher.
Jane Grogan from Uni of Lancashire is carrying out a research project exploring the lived experiences of Autistic adults with cleft lip and palate.
If you'd like to take part in this research, please contact jgrogan2@lancashire.ac.uk
A colourful poster recruiting children for a research study on visual comfort. The heading reads: "Autistic and non-autistic children needed for study of visual comfort levels," with logos for the Sensory Processing, Inclusion and Neurodiversity Lab, University of Birmingham, and The Visual Comfort Project. Text explains that children aged 6 to 14 and their parents are invited to help researchers understand what images feel comfortable or uncomfortable to look at. The study can be done at the university or online and takes under two hours. Parents complete questionnaires. A section titled "Who can take part?" says children aged 6 to 14 with or without an autism diagnosis can join, and only ages 9 to 14 can take part online. A "Benefits" section lists a £10 voucher, travel costs, certificate, and summary of results for in-person participants, and a chance to win a £25 voucher online. Contact details are given for Dr Sam Tyler and Dr Cathy Manning. It states participants can withdraw at any time. The background shows a friendly illustrated garden scene with trees, a fence, a path, a dog playing with a ball, and a cat sitting nearby.
The University of Birmingham are finding out what Autistic and non-Autistic children aged 6 to 14 find comfortable and uncomfortable to look at. The findings will help make places and materials more comfortable
Find out more
Dr. Tyler s.l.tyler@bham.ac.uk
@cmanning.bsky.social: c.manning@bham.ac.uk
Fascinating piece by Melinda Cooper connecting Silicon Valley pronatalism, the household economies of billionaire compounds, and the Epstein case to argue for an emerging “master-and-servant” political economy. www.equator.org/articles/eps...
Please join us online on 11th March for our next (extended) research group seminar, on autistic people’s experiences of cancer and cancer services. Speakers: @kmunday.bsky.social, @georgiarivers.bsky.social, Char Goodwin and Rosie Tansley.
Sign up at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/autistic-p...
#AutRes
The UK student loan system — and its danger for Labour Growing anger among millions of graduates who face decades of debt is causing unease in Westminster
“I graduated with £42,000 of debt and even though I’m paying it off, it’s now £72,000.”
It's truly an abomination: On a normal job you keep paying forever. 40 years!
“Why would I trust a government that mis-sold me a loan when I was a child?” is a very good question.
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As media and cultural studies and gender studies courses continue to be cut and slashed society's critical response to these forms of power are at stake. How does a society reckon with the Epstein Files without the tools to do so?
