Dr Daniel P Jones

love this new york times clip. they recently did a story about how sesame street's set has changed over the years, along with our urban politics.

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6 days until the deadline for abstracts!

A digital poster calling for volunteer lecturers to support Gaza universities. At the top are four logos, including “Mothers of Hind” and two university emblems. The main text reads: “Share Your Knowledge, Rebuild Gaza” “We are urgently looking for volunteer lecturers to support undergraduate education at Gaza universities across all faculties.” The background shows a destroyed city street. Students sit among rubble, studying by laptop light. Two floating screens show a man and a woman representing online lecturers. Contact: admin@mothersofhind.org, @mothersofhind, @mothers-of-hind.

Mothers of Hind are urgently seeking #volunteer #lecturers from all #academic backgrounds to teach online and help students in #Gaza students complete their courses.
Whether you can give a few hours or commit to an entire course, why not volunteer some of your time?

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I'm thrilled to share that I will be joining @durhamimh.bsky.social as a Bridging Fellow in late September!

I'm excited to develop my scholarship into Tourette Syndrome and 'Tourettic Studies', and to use creative movement practice to do so! 🤩

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This is so so depressing to read, as someone with kids in school. You see how cautious the schools already are, there's no way this won't massively increase the chilling effect

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I finally graduated from my #PhD today, and it was *so* lovely to be in the same ceremony as some of the undergraduates I used to teach! Feeling proud, both of my own achievements and the students’ who I’ve seen grow so much over the last few years 👏

Guys, please turn on your AC if you have it. You, you yourself, are important and should be neither killed nor impaired by severe heat. The fact that you care about climate change is why we need you to survive it, to help us take away billionaires’ private jets and make the changes we need for all

Last summer I had the pleasure of chatting with @journals.sagepub.com about my work on #TouretteSyndrome and inclusive research methods - the video is now live as a part of the 'SAGE Knowledge' #DisabilityStudies Collection, and available here:
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Hi BlueSky folks! Over the summer, this account is monitored intermittently due to team capacity, so please bear with us with response times!

If you have an urgent query, please do email us at NeurodivergentHumanities@gmail.com

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Calm lake reflecting a forested hill, with tall grass and a rock in the foreground under a clear blue sky

Spent the weekend swimming, paddle boarding and eating picnics in the Lakes. I’m physically exhausted but my soul feels full 😊

I’m also tired of nobody even caring when we experience violence like this; tired of people watching in silence as we have drinks thrown on us, people screaming at us, etc. I’m just *tired*.

Additionally, yesterday a ‘disability scholar’ told me my tics were a nuisance. I’m tired of people responding to my body with violence. I’m tired of people telling me to stop faking. I’m tired of how it’s becoming increasingly dangerous for me and other Tourettic folks to exist in public.

This morning a man became violent with me on the train, because my tics were annoying him. I explained that I have Tourette Syndrome and he decided that throwing his drink on me and saying “oh yeah I have Tourette’s too” was appropriate. Naturally, nobody stood up for me in the full carriage.

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Calling all Brits who believe in Live & Let Live. Please sign this parliamentary petition. It will show that people refuse to accept bullying against LGBTQ ppl. Your signature makes a difference. Please share:

What I don’t understand about academics is the continuous need to write “with apologies for cross posting” on everything, even on the 15th thing they’ve ’cross-posted’ that same week. If you are promoting something, surely starting with an apology isn’t a great way of generating interest? 🤷‍♂️

I’ll be in Manchester next week for the @wellcometrust.bsky.social Research Culture Midway Event, co-chairing a round table on ‘Bending Bureaucracy’ in anti-ableism work! Do I know anyone else attending?

Looking forward to hearing about other fab research culture work happening across the UK! 💫

On the first day of #DisabilityPrideMonth, the UK Government’s #welfare bill has passed in the Commons. This is devastating news, and something about it happening in Disability Pride Month feels like a kick in the teeth. Time to dig in and find crip joy and pride in the fight. We’re not done yet.🤘

NCRM News | Revisiting access and inclusion in research methods As a part of the Wellcome Anti-Ableist Research Cultures (WAARC) project at the University of Sheffield, we have been exploring ways of making research more inclusive and accessible, and considering

Lauren White and I recently blogged about some of our reflective musings from the @sheffielduni.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social Anti-Ableist Research Cultures project - why not check it out?

What does '#inclusion' mean to you / your discipline / your area of research? 🤔

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Absolutely crying at this photo of me and the other @ndhumanities.bsky.social network leads at the Critical Neurodiversity Studies conference. The use of Photoshop is 👩‍🍳😙

What they said! So happy to collaborate with Daniel and Louise on this. Please do send us your abstracts (whether or not you were at the conference!!)

I’m so excited to share that our call for papers for a special issue of ‘ #Neurodiversity’ is now live!

We’re looking for papers, podcasts, videos (and more) that align with the critical turn in #ND studies! 🤩

@ainokash.bsky.social @louisecreechan.bsky.social

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Day 3 of the Critical Neurodiversity Studies conference at @durhamimh.bsky.social is underway! We’ve got a call for papers (+ more) open at the moment for a special issue on critical ND studies, why not check it out? 👏 💫

@ainokash.bsky.social @louisecreechan.bsky.social @ndhumanities.bsky.social

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Day 2 of the Critical Neurodiversity Studies conference @durhamimh.bsky.social and REALLY looking forward to this presentation from my brilliant @ndhumanities.bsky.social colleague @ainokash.bsky.social

Excellent stuff from my @ndhumanities.bsky.social colleague @louisecreechan.bsky.social and looking forward to the Critical Neurodiversity Studies Conference takeover!

Aaaaaaaaaah!! We start TOMORROW and I am so so excited

I genuinely can't remember the last time I had peer-reviewed feedback that I was genuinely excited about engaging with before this!

#DisabilityDialogues Another brilliant piece from Daniel Jones who reflects on conflicts within ethnographic research on research cultures and asks how can we innovate and conduct research in inclusive ways www.sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/our-w...

I recently received some revisions for quite a large paper based on my PhD research, and the feedback is firm, fair, and genuinely *so* helpful. Also, Reviewer 2 has recommended some literature I "might be interested in" and it's SO GREAT! Shoutout to my Reviewer 2 for sharing great work with me! 👏

Am I right in thinking the game Dread has a ‘heroic action’ feature where the player can choose to kill their own character but do something heroic that pushes the story forwards as a result? I wonder if there’s Dread play shows anywhere… not a specific rec, but perhaps of use / interest?

Disappointed to see the only disability-focused panel at the @rgsibg.bsky.social conference this year is in-person only. This is a large-scale conference with no specific measures in place to mitigate against the spread of COVID-19. Disability studies scholars need to stop excluding disabled people.