A strong and well argued reply to Uta Frith’s TES interview from Dr. Chloe Farahar: aucademy.co.uk/2026/03/10/w...
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A strong and well argued reply to Uta Frith’s TES interview from Dr. Chloe Farahar: aucademy.co.uk/2026/03/10/w...
"We can’t keep underfunding health and social care and then blame the consequences on autistic advocates on TikTok who in all likelihood aren’t getting any supports themselves." TY @embergreen.bsky.social. Video + transcript at TPGA:
tinyurl.com/DebunkingAntiNeurodiversity #neurodiversity #autism
Truly. The ocean is too deep for fish.
deepseanews.com/2015/08/why-...
A while back, we decided to start providing accessible toilet keys to trans and non-binary people in the UK.
To date, we have sent out over 100, with nearly 1/3 being sent totally for free.
If you can imagine a scenario where you might need one - get one
www.essehouse.co.uk/pee-in-peace-program
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I have a contact (a trans woman) in Portland, Maine, who is willing to host trans and non-binary people seeking refuge from unsafe states.
1 to 3 months, with support to engage with organisations in the area to enable a fresh start.
Email: contact@essehouse.co.uk for more details.
Whenever I see posts like “Instead of going out drinking or doing karaoke, I just want to stay home and play Super Smash Bros.,” I can’t help but think, “Why not just do what you like?”
Meanwhile, I’m here enjoying tidepooling, reading them with a completely straight face.
The #autistic community is rocked by the interview given by a veteran #autism researcher, Uta Frith.
The reaction does not just stem from what Uta Frith had said, but from a long history of epistemic injustice in #research. #psychology #EpistemicInjustice
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/posi...
This! Absolutely this!
The mystery is above the history.”
Ann Bathurst, giving the best ever definition of mysticism
I guess that I like being me, it doesn't sound much, but spending my first two and a half decades in what felt like an alien body, that I absolutely loathed seeing in the mirror and then, like magic, I was able to change it, I was able to be contented in a way that I didn't know was possible
A small sea slug called Goniobranchus geometricus crawls slowly across a sandy seafloor. The animal is about the size of a thumb and shaped like a soft oval with a wide skirt around its body. Its surface is deep violet-purple and covered with many rounded white bumps, giving it a texture similar to a tiny cluster of pearls or a soft pinecone. The outer edge of the body forms a ruffled white rim that looks like a delicate border around the slug. Rising from the front are two tall sensory organs called rhinophores. They are pale at the base but fade to bright green at the tips, resembling small green antennae. Just behind them is a feathery cluster of gills, also tinted green, standing upright like a tiny underwater plant. The nudibranch sits on coarse brown sand scattered with bits of rock and algae. The background fades into soft blue and gray tones, suggesting deeper water and making the slug’s vivid colors stand out sharply against the muted seafloor. Interesting facts: Toxic warning colors: The bright purple, white, and green coloration warns predators that the slug is chemically defended. Stolen defenses: It feeds mainly on sea squirts (tunicates) and can store their defensive chemicals in its own tissues. Shell-less mollusk: Although related to snails, nudibranchs lose their shells as adults. Sensitive “antennae”: The green rhinophores detect chemicals in the water, helping the animal find food and mates. Simultaneous hermaphrodite: Each individual has both male and female reproductive organs, allowing two slugs to fertilize each other when they mate. Despite its striking appearance, this species usually moves slowly and quietly across tropical Indo-Pacific reefs, where it blends surprisingly well among sponges and tunicates it feeds on.
#GoniobranchusGeometricus
Such a long name for such a diminutive critter.
#EastCoastKin #ColorADay #GreenSat #Scuba #OceanLife #PhotographersUnited #NikonZ8
A split image showing the flipped over rock on the left, and on the right, a macro shot of a light purple sea slug with three yellow stripes and a yellow and white stripe around its margins.
#worldwildlifeday A couple of days ago I tried flipping rocks while #tidepooling... and found my favorite #socal nudibranch (sea slug), MacFarland's chromodorid (Felimida macfarlandi). 🦑🦀
A photo of an undescribed Goniobranchus Nudibranch from Abu Dhabi. It’s mainly white but covered in claret spots
A photo of an undescribed Goniobranchus Nudibranch from Abu Dhabi. It’s mainly white but covered in claret spots
A photo of an undescribed Goniobranchus Nudibranch from Abu Dhabi. It’s mainly white but covered in claret spots
A photo of an undescribed Goniobranchus Nudibranch from Abu Dhabi. It’s mainly white but covered in claret spots
So this was the result from this mornings dive in the Abu Dhabi Marina. Very poor visibility and masses of silt did not mar good conditions - but was much better than what was going on up in the sky at the time.
A spiny nudibranch (sea slug) made of elaborately folded paper, crawling onto a page with pictures of other sea slugs (nudibranchs).
An origami nudibranch looks itself up in the nudibranch book.
(Origami by @neilbanas.bsky.social and others, from an exhibition at the Transmission Gallery, Glasgow.)
A red-tipped sea goddess nudibranch crawling on the sand. The main body is white with a ribbon of yellow around the edges and a line of red inside that. The rhinophores and gills are both tipped with red.
I had seen Red-tipped Sea Goddess nudibranchs only once or twice before, but I saw probably 10 of them on this trip to the Bahamas.
Captured with my Olympus OM-1 + 60mm macro + AOI +20 diopter
Prints: buff.ly/Hd7lQco
#nudibranchs #underwaterphotography #macro #sand #olympus #om1 #nauticam 🦑 📷
Orange-yellow nudibranch (sea slug) barely under the ocean water
Two Orange-yellow nudibranchs (sea slug) barely under the ocean water
Orange-yellow nudibranch (sea slug) out of the ocean water with kelp and rocks exposed by low tide in the background
There were gorgeous nudibranchs near my house today. Zoom in to see their little horns!!
Probably the great comet we were waiting for...🤩
Easy to translate to your favourite language:
theconversation.com/el-cometa-ma...
Image is from B06 MontsenyObservatory on March 9th
#PlanetSci
💔 Boys and men take 15-20 years on average to disclose sexual trauma.
New review found masculine norms, shame & fear of disbelief create unique barriers.
Disclosure less likely when perpetrator was someone close.
Gender-sensitive support needed.
buff.ly/ELBKXzx
#SexualTrauma #MensMentalHealth
Remembering the Reformation: A talk by Professor Alexandra Walsham, President of the Historical Association, is a renowned expert on the Reformation in Britain and the author of a number of prize-winning works of history. Tickets are now available on Eventbrite buff.ly/pepSgVd
They're just the same creeps who go after other disabled people, unemployed people, people who come here for asylum or work and trans people. Yes it feels like a lot, but we also stand with a lot of good people against the nasty, narrow, selfish and ignorant.
Uta Frith @utafrith.bsky.social no longer thinks that #autism is a spectrum. She explained this view in an interview with the TES. Let’s examine her argument.
My reply to Uta Frith's interview in the TES: redinthespectrum.co.uk/uta-frith-re...
Anyone who has experienced sensory sensitivity at some point knows that there's no habituation, but actually accumulation over time, in the day or a lifetime, and that resting from exposure is what helps, not what makes us "worse".
It's so bad that this reality is also rejected in my field. :(
The @scotchurchhist.bsky.social essay prize is open! All entries will be considered for publication in the Society’s journal and the winning author will be awarded £500
This year's deadline is 30 July 2026. Full details here www.scottishchurchhistory.org/prize
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So cabs would be allowed to use those to access to come to eg. the door of a shop or residence to help someone who for whatever reason cant make it to a side road/ cant carry things - just not use the street as a thoroughfare?
Adding that myself and Sue Fletcher-Watson have "Neurodiversity: a very short introduction" coming out very soon and we take a very different approach!
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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.
