UK mainstream media published 6,500 articles about trans people in 2023. It published a similar number in 2025, almost none of which were written by trans people
Reminds me of Hannah Arendt’s description of Adolf Eichmann & others like him becoming “experts” on The Jewish Question in 1930s Germany
If your pop-sci book shelf is looking for a new addition - Emma Chapman's Radio Universe is coming out this week. It's genuinely delightful and well worth picking up a copy!
👉@dreochapman.bsky.social
📖: www.waterstones.com/book/radio-u...
What is it about journalism that makes it such a magnet for gender critical radicalisation?
Musing because the guy who led on revealing the Post Office scandal has become a completely unhinged obsessive.
I have a few thoughts
A las declaraciones de Uta Frith en una reciente entrevista sobre dejar de lado el concepto de espectro autista, se sumó la teórica antitrans Kathleen Stock (que no es experta en TEA, ni siquiera médica) para hablar acerca de una supuesta "feminización del autismo".
📣📣📣Can you hear me now??? A Red-winged Blackbird making his presence felt this morning along Central Park's Harlem Meer. That's the Dana Discovery Center in the background for all the locals! ❤️🖤🧡 #Blackbirds #CentralPark #birding
Kathleen Stock's piece on PDA didn't intend to land alongside a report on dead children. But arguments do political work whether or not that work is intended.
Her son turned out fine. The children in the MWM investigation did not. www.canarysend.co.uk/canarysendbl...
On the morning the Schools White Paper dropped, Measure What Matters published findings on 25 neurodivergent children who died after documented SEND failures.
The same morning, the Government proposed removing the legal rights that should have protected them.
www.canarysend.co.uk/canarysendbl...
This is excellent on the harmful rubbish a certain prof emerita spreads about autism & autistic women
It shows what it will be used for - to hurt autistic kids by denying vitally needed help.
The similarity to the way TERFs have attacked trans people is absolutely striking and gut wrenching.
Who was smuggling in 18th century Britain? My refreshed database for prosecutions for smuggling in England and Wales c. 1721-1732 is live with over 4,000 entries. From naval officers to farmers, smuggling was big business. #twitterstorians #earlymod #history
www.davidchansmith.net/smugglingdat...
Yes there's an overlap which this has made very obvious.
I'm now calling them TOADs - Trans Oppressing Autism Deniers.
Trans Obsessing Autism Deniers works too :-)
Significant acceleration of global warming since 2015, finds news PIK study with @rahmstorf.bsky.social
Recent warming: around ~0.35°C per decade.
1970–2015 average: just under 0.2°C per dec.
➡️Current rate is higher than in any decade since records began in 1880.
www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
Today I want to talk about Jess’ Rule and Martha’s Rule, two new initiatives across NHS England that I think are really important and you should know about.
Tl;dr: if your symptoms are not improving or getting worse, at home or in hospital, you have the right and Drs the responsibility to review.
Anniesland Court Table Lamp
Just a fun project trying to turn something brutal into beautiful
#brutalglasgow #brutalism #Glasgow
Lorna Wing pioneered spectrum concept and also presented camouflaging hypothesis for girls (1981). She worried autistic females "may continue to go unrecognised or misdiagnosed" in DSM-5.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Tes suggesting autistic women are simply hyper-emotional is classic sexism
We are crazy for carnyx-es in this house!
A recreation of a different carnyx I got for my spouse's birthday last year
#IronAge #Celtic #instrument #OddInstruments
"Accommodation" still centers the idea that the standard is correct and the person is the deviation. Structural redesign asks: what if the standard was always wrong?
This is absolutely key. It's amazing how many organisations dont get it.
The neurodiversity movement is about dismantling systems of exclusion and building institutions that work for the full range of human neurology.
Neurodivergent people don't need to be fixed. We need institutions that stop requiring us to perform a neurology we don't have in order to be treated with dignity.
Accessibility is not a favor. It is not generosity. It is not going above and beyond. It is a baseline obligation that most institutions still treat as optional.
Neurodiversity Justice means we stop asking neurodivergent people to justify their existence in every room they enter and start asking institutions why they keep building rooms that exclude us.
Lazarus taxa?! Is that good? Yes it is! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!
Autism is not overdiagnosed.📜 Self-identifying vs diagnosed autistic adults tended to have similar autistic traits & understanding of autism but *higher* unmet needs, unemployment, & distress. They mostly wanted a diagnosis but barriers eg costs, lack of support.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Seeing more of the anti-autistic transphobes - Trans Oppressing Autism Deniers - TOADs
They're definitely a thing!
An ochre toned image capturing a Martian landscape, acquired by Perseverance on March 3, 2026, on the 1790th sol (martian day) of her mission. The rover casts her shadow on the foreground. A small nearby rocky mound occupies the centre of the image. A landscape of soft hills is seen in the background.
Martian vista with shadow selfie, captured two days ago by Perseverance
#Mars 🧪🔭
📷 areo.info/mars20/ecams... @areoinfo.bsky.social
Can't wait to read this! And what a brilliant name.
My colleagues Annie Tindley and @drhick.bsky.social have funding 📣 for a Collaborative Doctoral Award with Museums Northern Ireland for a PhD on "Reawakening the Living Landscape: Integrating Heritage and Sustainability at the Ulster Folk Museum" - www.ncl.ac.uk/hca/study/hi... Deadline 20 April.
The bejewelled binding of the gospel-book, which also bears cast figures representing Christ in Majesty and the Crucifixion.
Judith, countess of Flanders, died #OTD in 1094. She was widowed when Tostig, earl of Northumbria, died at the Battle of Stamford Bridge. Symeon of Durham says she 'loved St Cuthbert even more than did her husband'. One of Judith's gospel-books 📸The Morgan Library & Museum #medievalsky
Best wishes
