Dr David Ben Shannon

They would be beyond perfect in every possible way.

So proud to have contributed!

We use sound methods to explore how young children make sense in museum spaces. We draw from Deleuze and Guattari's concept of the refrain to explore how rhythmic, fragile, and emplaced "little tunes" unfold during young children’s explorations of museum spaces.

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@abihackett.bsky.social, Christina MacRae, Maggie MacLure and I have a new article out open access in Journal of Early Childhood Literacies, sharing data from a collaboration with the Humber Museums Partnership.

This was such a wonderful project to be a part of, thinking and writing with colleagues in the university and in practice.

What the study shows is that white, well-off, gays and lesbians in mid-to-senior roles in workplaces that self-select for a hate group's mailing list do not like being included under the LGBT+ banner. Shocking!

I don't have to run a survey to know everybody else doesn't like them, either!

Meanwhile, Jon Pertwee had terrible back pain because of his time on the show (he writes about it in his autobiography "I am the Doctor").

Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi both had to have the same knee surgery because of the constant running and pivoting towards the camera.

Absolutely!

Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention Red Flag Alert on Anti-trans and intersex Rights in the UK Released on 30th of June 2025

“No denial or omission in law can erase the concrete reality that trans and intersex people have always and will always exist. Attempts to erase them as a class constitutes an intent to commit genocide.”

Always.

The next thing they always say is "imagine him meeting the Daleks again for the first time" as if the problem with the Dalek stories is the Doctor's overfamiliarity with them (rather than ours).

Toilet Access & Inclusion: Research Evidence to Guide Decision-Making After the Supreme Court Ruling

A downloadable PDF which uses our research evidence from the last decade to help guide organisations in their approach to toilet provision since the Supreme Court Ruling

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Yeah this is going to thoroughly doink staff on fixed-term contracts. Why give anyone a permanent job when you can just employ them for a day a week six years ago and still submit their papers?

Not all cis men have XY chromosomes

Not all cis women have XX chromosomes

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And Gloucester calls Regan a "naughty lady" while she plucks out his beard and eyes.

Dr Who is INFECTIOUS. It is in on the joke of how utterly silly it is. It gets you with big feels, even while being utterly, knowingly silly. It's for children but scares adults. It costs a fortune but looks cheap. The Doctor always wins or loses by being clever, kind or sorry, or because love.

“No doubt the clarity of its conclusion will be welcomed by some, but reducing a complex subject to an overly simple one is not what is needed. Their Lordships would have benefited from a refresher course on sex and gender differentiation.”

"The government does not support self-identification. We want to support the robustness of the process of gender recognition certificate applications" - we like making trans people jump through hoops and fill out endless forms for no reason

I taught in a system where funding for inclusion was separate from the EHCP and it was an absolute shit show. Please consider signing.

Such a BRILLIANT episode. I love it when you have no idea what you're going to get each week. Camp Star Wars, Alien, evil Roger Robert, Die Hard in space,... great season

Grumpy Doctor Who fans calling him riding a confetti cannon across interstellar space "camp trash" as if that's not literally my favourite type of Doctor Who story.

Using a confetti cannon to fly through space is only the third most ridiculous method the Doctor's used so far. Doctor 5 used a cricket ball, and Doctor 3 used his own oxygen supply.

I taught in a system where funding for inclusion was separate from the EHCP and it was an absolute shit show. Please consider signing.

Petition: Retain legal right to assessment and support in education for children with SEND Support in education is a vital legal right of children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). We ask the government to commit to maintaining the existing law, so that vulnerable chil...

The government is considering removing EHCPs for pupils with SEND in mainstream schools.
This is potentially really harmful for every child with SEND in UK.
Please consider signing and sharing.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
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The deluge or the DELEUZE? 🤣🤣😭

Alpha Centauri Oblique Curiosities is: Shanny - David Ben Shannon (Liverpool, England) Trumey - Sarah E. Truman (Melbourne, Australia)

Oh my gosh this would have been ASTOUNDING. We wrote this song about Alpha as a Delegate from an intergalactic genderqueer confederecy. They could have competed with it! 🤣😭
on.soundcloud.com/Cw6CNjgUvZMm...

I was thrilled to share survey and interview findings from the Eloping Project at the University of Sheffield yesterday. Thanks to @davidbenshannon.bsky.social and the School of Education for hosting!

Slides available through the link.

uwaterloo.ca/scholar/m23g...

In spite of everything, I had the most wonderful first day at #AERA.

We've known since Remembrance of the Daleks in the late 1980s that there is a show called DOCTOR WHO in the universe of #DoctorWho.