Anne Murphy

Developmental Language Disorder as a Multidimensional Neurodevelopmental Spectrum: Implications for Diagnosis Purpose: We aimed to create a comprehensive understanding of the dilemmas involved in the diagnosis of developmental language disorder (DLD) and ...

JUST WHEN I THOUGHT TODAY COULDN'T GET ANY BETTER, 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES❗@karlamcgregor.bsky.social and co are 🔥on fire🔥 in @ashajournals.bsky.social in a 🆓🔓 article about #devlangdis and its spectral nature. This assertion will stay with me: "To diagnose is to categorize". pubs.asha.org/doi/full/10....

Today at The Comprehensive Futures AGM we heard about the devastating impact on self-belief that failing the 11+ has on young children, especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds. Why does selection at 11 still happen in English state schools? It makes a mockery of the idea of inclusion.

This is literally the point of offering people protection. They are talking about undermining the entire principle of refugee status and punishing people for having the misfortune of being forced to leave their country. I cannot imagine a more callous, cruel thing to think, let alone say out loud.

Every time I hear a politician say that an issue is “dividing” this country they always then come down on the side of the right wing view of it. Just once I’d love to hear someone say “this issue is divisive, which is why I’m making the argument that kindness and compassion is important”

Shabana Mahmood's Asylum Plans Will Put Human Trafficking Victims at Risk, Warn Anti-Slavery Groups Leading anti-slavery organisations have told Byline Times that the new measures could allow trafficking and forced labour to thrive

🔴Shabana Mahmood’s Asylum Plans Will Put Human Trafficking Victims at Risk, Warn Anti-Slavery Groups

Leading anti-slavery organisations have told Byline Times that the new measures could allow trafficking and forced labour to thrive
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/s...

My post on why Kent and Reform's other councils have got into such a mess....

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In the last episode of Empire, David Olusoga points out that while Windrush was disgorging immigrants, even greater numbers of Brits were emigrating to Canada, Australia and NZ. So this is not a new phenomenon

Up until relatively recently the UK was one of the top ten countries in the world for nationals emigrating, ironically when politicians seem so fixated on people coming here. Work, family, cost of living (all three reasons why I left at one point) etc. It's not new, but so, so, often ignored.

How the portrayal of Deaf people in film has evolved over time | American Masters | PBS March 30th, 1987—21-year-old Marlee Matlin, bespectacled and in a puff-sleeved purple gown, cautiously took the stage and changed the course of film

ICYMI and want to read about Something Else for a minute: I wrote about the history and evolution of deaf representation for @pbs.org American Masters. You can stream their documentary "Not Alone Anymore" on Marlee Matlin for free on the site, including an ASL version 🤩. www.pbs.org/wnet/america...

Shabana Mahmood accused of ‘ethnic stereotyping’ by Albania’s PM Edi Rama says home secretary using ‘rhetoric of populist far-right’ after 700 Albanian families singled out for deportation UK politics live – latest updates

This isn't new, Mahmood is just the latest in an increasingly long line of Home Secretary's, and others, to actively stereotype and dehumanise Albanians in the UK.
It is rhetoric which has actively worsened the situation for many trafficking victims.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

six separate reactions to hearing that the grand jury didn't see the operative indictment in the Comey case, all variations on "LOL" or "Holy shit" or the like.

when all the lawyers on your timeline go off at once

In Steubenville, fresh snow on the ground would turn gray after a few hours. The nuns who wore black and white had to launder their white habits twice as often or they turned gray as well.

The rainforest the world forgot: the Congo basin is the second largest on Earth, so why is it being neglected? It is one of the world’s most vital carbon sinks, but this tropical rainforest is losing out when it comes to climate policy and funding

Priestley member, Prof Simon Lewis, features in The Guardian, discussing the Congo Basin and how it is one of the world’s most vital carbon sinks, but it is losing out when it comes to climate policy and funding

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#COP30 #tropicalrainforests #CongoBasin

Machine Learning Analysis of Post-Acute COVID Symptoms Identifies Distinct Clusters and Severity Groups Questionnaires that capture patient-reported symptomatology provide low-cost but potentially high-value data for the de novo discovery of disease phenotype, severity, and responsiveness to interventio...

Researchers analyzed symptoms from 1,661 long COVID patients and found at least 10 biological subtypes and 3 severity levels.

Machine learning predicted recovery and even linked symptoms to antibody levels.

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.

Doing shit to make the country better is the only way to be a Minister. Wonderful thread from this MP.

ICE has been raiding my neighborhood and surrounding ones for the last couple of weeks now. They commandeered my local church (against the pastor's will) for a staging site and raided supermarkets, parks, Goodwills, bus stops, you name it.

The national media's been silent. So has @mayor.lacity.gov.

ICE Raided My Son’s Daycare to Abduct a Teacher. This Kind of Trauma Lasts. Children in Illinois have suffered months of systematic abuse by federal agents enacting Trump’s immigration raids.

"Children at my son's Spanish immersion preschool in Chicago bore witness to a teacher being violently abducted by ICE agents who entered their school, armed with weapons, earlier this month."

Church members flee as federal agents arrive at east Charlotte place of worship Witnesses say one man was detained while doing yard work while his wife and child were inside.

Just vile: "About 15 to 20 church members were doing yard work on the property while their children played games and their spouses cooked meals... The agents asked no questions and showed no identification before taking one man away, whose wife and child were inside. They attempted to grab others."

Microsoft has ‘ripped off the NHS’, says MP amid call for contracts with British firms Samantha Niblett highlighted government’s multi-billion-pound deals with Microsoft and ‘getting locked in’

Tbh we’ve known this since Blair cosied up to Bill Gates on the Number 10 sofa and locked us into paying squillions for stuff that open source software would have done better www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

My jewellery designs, individually handmade by casting real flowers & feathers in silver and I sculpt much-loved British birds to make tiny wearable versions of them

Some of the Victorian ink bottles available in my shop as part of creative mental health kits

One of my photos that I create using recent research into the beneficial effects to our brains of looking at images of nature, botanical patterns and things we find beautiful, of a collection of flowers I grew and others I bought at a tiny local honesty florist in Wicken, Cambridgeshire

The botanical and nature collection photos that make up my 2026 calendar

I'm taking🌲etsy orders for just a few more days:
🌿Real flowers cast in silver+ tiny hand-sculpted silver wren necklaces
💐Victorian ink bottle kits to improve mental health
🗓️A very few calendars*
🪸Ltd ed'n art prints of my photos*
*Looking at them's likely to ⬇️⬇️ anxiety:
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...

To Survive the Next Pandemic, Walk More, the NIH Says The agency is picking up Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s argument that a healthy immune system can keep even pandemic germs at bay.

The only way to understand this is to realize that they are eugenicists.

Anyone in academic medicine or public health who attempts to rehabilitate Bhattacharya, Makary, Prasad etc and grant them endowed chairs or professorships should be asked to account for the generational damage these dangerous men are inflicting on millions of

One of the most powerful, lucid and actionable blueprints about how to turn the boat around on the UK economy.

Truly excellent - if you want to learn how the UK economy dysfunctions, and how it could work better, read this.

(London should maybe hire John and Andrew as advisors to stoke growth).

From the great new NBER paper by Bloom et al on the cost of Brexit.

It ain't pretty - they estimate UK GDP is down between 6-8%. Consistent with the doppelgang model of @johnspringford.bsky.social for CER.

A lot of 'free' GDP available availabe for Labour if it had the courage to reset properly.

The Danish Social Democrats are currently on course for their worst election result since at least the Second World War, despite their brand of far-right accommodationism being touted as a blueprint for other centre-left parties.

Italy’s AI Law: the good, the bad…and the actual substance On 10 October 2025, Italy's AI Law (Law No. 132/2025) entered into force – the first comprehensive national AI framework in the EU. While its scope spans areas such as minors' protection, AI training ...

Italy has enacted its first AI regulation laws including detail around consent of data use & legislating against deep fakes - some real substance here & positive steps - full legal analysis here:

www.hoganlovells.com/en/publicati...

Labour has comprehensively trapped itself by agreeing to play entirely by their opponents’ rules.

The game is fixed so the only move that’s ever available is more and worse cruelty, while at the same time no level of cruelty will ever be enough to win.

A moral & political death-spiral.

L.A. child dies from complication of measles infection contracted in infancy The child died from subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, a fatal progressive brain disorder that strikes roughly 1 in 10,000 people infected with measles.

Evidence-based child vaccine recommendations are about more than individual decisions

A baby too young to be vaccinated contracted measles & recently died in childhood of a complication

Vaccines protect kids who receive them — & babies & others in their communities

www.latimes.com/science/stor...

Imagine escaping the literal Nazis, making it to America, living three quarters of a century there making your life, and then this: