Neurodivergent Humanities Network

This afternoon I attended a wonderful session from some of our brilliant @ndhumanities.bsky.social members. A powerful space for collab discussion and imagining a future of neuroaffirming humanities. Thanks to the organisers for holding such a wonderful event with us! Watch this space for more!

✂️ What if academia was designed differently - more inclusive, more creative, and shaped by diverse ways of thinking? Join @ndhumanities.bsky.social for an online zine-making workshop to explore these ideas. No experience needed! 🗓 13 May 12.30–2pm Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reimaginin...

Unfortunately, due to unforseen circumstances, we will be postponing this event. Watch this spaces for the rescheduled event later this year! 🔥

Where, and how, are conversations about neurodiversity unfolding today? What is lost, reshaped, or new when translating neurodiversity across cultures and disciplines? Join us on April 23rd for a free, online roundtable on Translating Neurodiversity! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/translatin...

One of our network leads @danielpjones.bsky.social has recently published a paper! It approaches Tourette Syndrome treatment approaches through the lens of technoableism. Why not give it a read? #TouretteSyndrome #AcademicSky #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs

🚨 NEURODIVERSITY IS MORE THAN... symposium 📅 4 March 2026, 9-5pm GMT, online. Free to attend, all welcome! Sign up below: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/neurodiver...

Thrilled to be one of the presenters at this fantastic symposium. Can't wait!

This is going to be awesome - so excited to share this free online symposium!!

I am excited to share that I will be presenting at this event with @ndhumanities.bsky.social next year alongside @emergentdivergence.com Free tickets! Find out more: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/neurodiver...

We were thrilled to meet Warda at the Critical Neurodiversity Studies conference last summer and are just as excited for this new, important book.

Are we nurturing a person’s capacity to express their truth or gently steering them toward an institutional ideal of what normal speech/language/communication should be? 👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿 www.routledge.com/White-System...

What forms of inclusion and exclusion does neurodiversity perform as a concept, field, and movement? How may lines of queer, trans, crip, decolonial, posthumanist, or Mad thinking shake up and overspill the conventional boundaries of neurodiversity? Please join us for this important discussion! 🔥

"Pathology lite complements the now well-known concept of neurodiversity lite. It highlights equally risky ways that scientific discourse and practice can subtly reinforce harm against neurodivergent people" Good thoughts from: @ombretarragnat.bsky.social ombretarragnat.com/2025/11/03/w...

Another blog post, this time exploring the unique ways in which neurodivergent people use their neurodivergence to support or oppose animal politics! ombretarragnat.com/2025/11/10/f...

Calling all creative writers, both published and unpublished. First prize is £1500, including publication in the Bristol Short Story Prize anthology. Enter your short story of up to 4000 words until 31 Jan 2026, with low income entries available on a limited basis every month.

Network co-lead @danielpjones.bsky.social is facilitating this wonderful online roundtable on the future of Tourette Synrome research - tickets are free, and available in the original post!

We're excited and proud to share that network member Rhiannon Hawkins has produced the world's first Mental Health Vulnerability Index RE climate change, which is so important in the context of the climate crisis! Read her work here: www.ucl.ac.uk/mathematical... #ClimateChange #MentalHealth

Network co-lead @danielpjones.bsky.social is facilitating a roundtable on the interdisciplinary futures of Tourette Syndrome research! More info below! 🤩 #TouretteSyndrome #MedicalHumanities #AcademicSky

Check out our 2 new neuro-affirming educational animation videos celebrating Autistic experiences and perspectives. www.thrivingautistic.org/autistic-exp...

I’m excited to announce the first two webinars in the WAARC series “Dreaming Up A Disability-Inclusive Workplace”. 29 Oct: Intersecting Identities and Disabled Joy with Amelia Lander-Cavallo lnkd.in/e7v9dNkf 26 Nov: Complicated Pride: Disability, Neurodiversity and Ambivalence lnkd.in/e3y32vkg

Tomorrow marks the start of my #Dance Residency with Dance City. I'll be exploring #urban #affect and its impact on the Tourettic body, and considering the value of tics in performance spaces for translating experiences of #TouretteSyndrome! 🕺 Here's to making art! 🌟 (Photos from previous work!)

🚨FUNDED PhD STUDENTSHIPS in Transformative Humanities, Durham University. 🚨 📄 Tuition fee waiver, 3.5 year stipend. 📄 8 studentships available. ⁉️ Q&A session 10/11/25. ⏱️ Application deadline: 16/01/26. www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Lex Academic scholarships for dyslexic postgraduate students doing groundbreaking research in the humanities! www.lexacademic.com/scholarships/

The “Science of Reading” isn’t science—it’s a marketing slogan used to enshrine phonics-based instruction into law. This article explores how GLPs are excluded, remediated, and monetised by an industry built on enclosure. open.substack.com/pub/autside/...

Our leadership member, Daniel, has written this excellent article which reflects on matters of meaningful inclusion when organising and/or facilitating academic events.

Just published: Inclusion and Sharing Best Practice for Academic Events Facilitation ✨ The sharing of best practice is, and always will be, more important than competing for institutional accessibility accreditations! Read my reflections here: sheffield.ac.uk/sites/defaul...

Another shout out for @bloomsburylit.bsky.social 'Critical Neurodiversity Studies' in our med hums series, from @louisecreechan.bsky.social , Jenny Bergenmar and Anna Stenning. It's a foundational collection and one that will be very, very important for the field. www.bloomsbury.com/critical-neu...

We're excited to see our paper published in @bmj.com BMJ Open today! The paper highlights lacking prioritisation for #TicDisorders & #TS, compounded by a healthcare system with no space for multidisciplinary approaches! Always a pleasure to work with these folks! 🤩 bmjopen.bmj.com/content/bmjo...

#BSL interpretation job opportunity! WAARC’s anti-ableist research culture podcast is looking for someone to provide British Sign Language interpretation - get in touch with @danielpjones.bsky.social for info!

@ndhumanities.bsky.social @jamesaldridgeart.bsky.social @stimpunks.org @dr-nicky.bsky.social @the-polyphony.bsky.social @ombretarragnat.bsky.social & @emergentdivergence.com and more are listed as recommended reading /websites to explore/ follow morerealms.com morerealms.com/images/

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: sk.sagepub.com/video/touret... #AcademicSky

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 😊

Catching up on the recordings of the talks I couldn't attend at the Critical Neurodiversity Studies conference from last week. This conference was an epitome of accessibility, from being fully hybrid (including ways for online attendees to network with in person ones)... 1/

This really meant so much! I had to present remotely due to my health, but with all these incredible accessibility measures in place I wish I could have been there in person! Thank you @ndhumanities.bsky.social @louisecreechan.bsky.social @drrobertchapman.bsky.social and the other organisers 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

The conference was fabulous, thank you! So many new people and great connections here - very inspiring!

You’re so welcome although we should clarify that it was @durhamimh.bsky.social who organised the conference! We just hosted the online elements on our website! so glad you enjoyed yourselves and McGee is the coolest 🥰

Helen of @autisticrealms.bsky.social has created a handy starter pack of all who were at and involved in the conference online and offline! Get in touch with Helen if you want to be added!

A Saturday reshare of this week's new starter pack inspired by @ndhumanities.bsky.social's Critical Neurodiversity Studies Conference 2025 go.bsky.app/6ftC1uS