We are seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow to work with us in our Creative Labour and Critical Futures (CLCF) project at the University of Toronto. Deadline for application: Sep 20 Details here: utsc.utoronto.ca/acm/sites/utsc…

🚨📝 New blog The Illusion of Inclusion: My Journey as a Junior Disabled Researcher in Academia by Anon "I was compared to able-bodied researchers [...] and was left with a warning that they would terminate my position if the pace remained the same" voicesofacademia.com/2024/09/06/the…

TikTok’s auto caption feature makes it easy to add and edit captions. Once TikTok generates your caption, review it for accuracy. You can (and should) edit before publishing, especially to make it more readable and to fix errors. blog.hootsuite.com/tiktok-auto-ca…

Covid infection levels remain MODERATELY HIGH, but there are already early signs that the Autumn Wave is building. Around 1 in 196 people in England were infected with Covid as of 1 September. buds.org.uk/covid-19-risk-…

I am looking after a child. I can confirm that Bluey is surprisingly witty and Peppa Pig is an absolute piece of shit.

‘The world was against us’ - artist Alison Lapper on the son she lost bbc.com/news/articles/…

4.55am: “Mummy, do we have Tellotape [Sellotape]? “Yes lovely boy, but let’s go back to sleep for now” By 6.01am, of course we are making Sellotape planets… 😬

On Weds, at Centre for Disability Studies, I was at a fab Queer Disability Studies Network panel featuring Trans, Queer and Crip research, challenging transphobia in academia. Uplifting. 48 hours later, we learned that Sheffield SU's fantastic LGBTQ+ committee (Sheffield SU LGBTQ+) had been effectively shut down. Sigh.

At night of trying new things! We took the Glider into town and went to The Avenue Cinema cinema for a very lush viewing experience. And the ultimate win was the Changing Places UK close to the cinema 🙌🏻

Where I live ‘strengths based’ rhetoric has been at the forefront of cuts to services for people with learning disabilities. Welsh Labour. Opponents are caricatured as wanting to cling to rubbish congregate services. Meantime people wander from costa to costa.

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Six 4.5-year postdoc research fellowships in our new Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory, University of Stirling, central Scotland! Please circulate this ad for outstanding researchers to work with me in an interdisciplinary team stir.ac.uk/about/work-at-… (closing 6 Oct).

Excellent use of flow charts to illustrate the way disabled people are often expected to do 10x the labor and spend 10x time to do things as simple as taking a train.

Seeing quite a few tweets from #ERSCongress2024 #ERSCongress and wondering if folks there would enjoy a look at this really ground breaking and ongoing research study @CrippingBreath sheffield.ac.uk/cripping-breath

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Deinstitutionalization was a two part policy: close expensive hospitals where people became institutionalized....AND redirect those resources to building up state of the art community based options including crisis services. Canada did one...and has yet to do the second.

Learning Disability England is going to stop using Twitter. Find out why this is here: bit.ly/3z94grH

Missed our recent Symposium hosted by our friends in Sydney UNSW Disability Innovation Institute ? Not to worry, you can watch the full recording and read the papers on our website: tinyurl.com/mu673nvw Jackie Leach Scully Professor Dan Goodley iHuman

It’s been 63 years since suicide was decriminalised in the UK. But so many of us still use the term ‘commit suicide’. Why does it matter? Language that links suicide and crime can increase stigma and prevent people struggling with suicidal thoughts from speaking out. If we

Let me say it again for the folks in the back: COVID. Doesn't. Get. Milder. With. Subsequent. Infections.