Ria Cheyne
@riacheyne.bsky.social
Liverpool-based academic: neurodiversity, disability, accessibility, medical humanities, genre fiction (phew!). "Divergent Minds in the Archive" project PI.
Disability, Literature, Genre book (Liverpool UP, 2019) #OpenAccess at https://shorturl.at/5ykqk
Disability, Literature, Genre book (Liverpool UP, 2019) #OpenAccess at https://shorturl.at/5ykqk
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Ria Cheyne
@riacheyne.bsky.social
· Nov 11
Hello Bluesky! I'm a Liverpool-based academic w/interests in neurodiversity, representations of disability, genre fiction, 20th/21st C lit and more. I identify as a Disability Studies scholar, literature scholar or medical humanities scholar depending on the time of day...
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Ackerman is reportedly just sizing everyone up and looking for weaknesses they can exploit when Monopoly starts to heat up, which they believe is “as inevitable as death”.
“Quiet” autistic cousin just conserving energy to destroy everyone at board games
A "quiet" autistic relative is just preparing to absolutely decimate their family at board games, it has been reported. Des Ackerman, 21, has been silently observing the Christmas festivities since…
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December 26, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Ackerman is reportedly just sizing everyone up and looking for weaknesses they can exploit when Monopoly starts to heat up, which they believe is “as inevitable as death”.
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Charles Dickens: hey it's Christmas!
Dickens: you know what that means!
Clive Barker: Christmas was last week, man
Dickens: it means
Dickens: what?
Dickens: no no that can't be!
Dickens: you know what that means!
Clive Barker: Christmas was last week, man
Dickens: it means
Dickens: what?
Dickens: no no that can't be!
December 27, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Charles Dickens: hey it's Christmas!
Dickens: you know what that means!
Clive Barker: Christmas was last week, man
Dickens: it means
Dickens: what?
Dickens: no no that can't be!
Dickens: you know what that means!
Clive Barker: Christmas was last week, man
Dickens: it means
Dickens: what?
Dickens: no no that can't be!
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“The last-minute christmas rush at the bookshop.” - my latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books
December 21, 2025 at 4:02 PM
“The last-minute christmas rush at the bookshop.” - my latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books
People who co-author are going to need to have a frank discussion about this with their collaborators 🙁
Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
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December 19, 2025 at 9:07 PM
People who co-author are going to need to have a frank discussion about this with their collaborators 🙁
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29 January, online and in-person at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social, open to all, I'll be talking about my recent adventures in memoir and #drinkhistory:
www.imperial.ac.uk/events/19867...
www.imperial.ac.uk/events/19867...
Jennifer Wallis: Writing Oneself Into History: Researching Alcohol and Family Histories
In this talk Dr Jennifer Wallis discusses recent research that melded her usual historical work on the history of alcohol with memoir and family history.
www.imperial.ac.uk
December 18, 2025 at 11:10 AM
29 January, online and in-person at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social, open to all, I'll be talking about my recent adventures in memoir and #drinkhistory:
www.imperial.ac.uk/events/19867...
www.imperial.ac.uk/events/19867...
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Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
December 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
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Really excited to have a chapter in the UK edition of Someone Like Me, an anthology of writing by autistic women and gender minorities (me being nonbinary/genderqueer).
My chapter is titled 'Growing up with Monotropism and Weird Pride'.
The book is out 2025-09-25.
vervebooks.co.uk/bookpage.php...
My chapter is titled 'Growing up with Monotropism and Weird Pride'.
The book is out 2025-09-25.
vervebooks.co.uk/bookpage.php...
July 2, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Really excited to have a chapter in the UK edition of Someone Like Me, an anthology of writing by autistic women and gender minorities (me being nonbinary/genderqueer).
My chapter is titled 'Growing up with Monotropism and Weird Pride'.
The book is out 2025-09-25.
vervebooks.co.uk/bookpage.php...
My chapter is titled 'Growing up with Monotropism and Weird Pride'.
The book is out 2025-09-25.
vervebooks.co.uk/bookpage.php...
@alyfixit.bsky.social one for you?
Really excited to have a chapter in the UK edition of Someone Like Me, an anthology of writing by autistic women and gender minorities (me being nonbinary/genderqueer).
My chapter is titled 'Growing up with Monotropism and Weird Pride'.
The book is out 2025-09-25.
vervebooks.co.uk/bookpage.php...
My chapter is titled 'Growing up with Monotropism and Weird Pride'.
The book is out 2025-09-25.
vervebooks.co.uk/bookpage.php...
December 19, 2025 at 1:18 PM
@alyfixit.bsky.social one for you?
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I have a low stakes conspiracy theory that all guests on the Graham Norton show are offered cocaine before filming.
December 19, 2025 at 12:09 PM
I have a low stakes conspiracy theory that all guests on the Graham Norton show are offered cocaine before filming.
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Back in August, I ran a poetry workshop for psychiatrists at St Nicholas Hospital in Newcastle. It was one of the most rewarding experiences of my academic career, and I hope more will follow.
A special thanks to the History of Psychiatry Special Interest Group of the @rcpsych.bsky.social!
A special thanks to the History of Psychiatry Special Interest Group of the @rcpsych.bsky.social!
Mila Daskalova reflects on the importance of poetry to psychiatry, both in the nineteenth-century and the present day.
thepolyphony.org/2025/12/15/p...
thepolyphony.org/2025/12/15/p...
A Return to the Poetic Roots of Psychiatry
Mila Daskalova reflects on the importance of poetry to psychiatry, both in the nineteenth-century and the present day.
thepolyphony.org
December 19, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Back in August, I ran a poetry workshop for psychiatrists at St Nicholas Hospital in Newcastle. It was one of the most rewarding experiences of my academic career, and I hope more will follow.
A special thanks to the History of Psychiatry Special Interest Group of the @rcpsych.bsky.social!
A special thanks to the History of Psychiatry Special Interest Group of the @rcpsych.bsky.social!
@luciejones83.bsky.social might be of interest?
If you want to find our more about creative facilitation , join us on 15 January to take a deep dive into how creative facilitation has been developed at Durham and taken up in different contexts.
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Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creative-f...
Creative Facilitation in Health Research: Insights, Practice and Futures
Join us to explore the practice and future of creative facilitation in interdisciplinary and cross-sector health research.
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December 19, 2025 at 1:16 PM
@luciejones83.bsky.social might be of interest?
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happy “putting all the separate unfinished word documents into one big word document for your book manuscript because you promised yourself you’d have a rough first draft by the end of the year” day to all who celebrate
December 19, 2025 at 10:55 AM
happy “putting all the separate unfinished word documents into one big word document for your book manuscript because you promised yourself you’d have a rough first draft by the end of the year” day to all who celebrate
So Americans apparently don't have the word "rota"?! Would US folks use "roster" instead for a work schedule (ie the thing that shows when different people are working)?
December 18, 2025 at 11:19 PM
So Americans apparently don't have the word "rota"?! Would US folks use "roster" instead for a work schedule (ie the thing that shows when different people are working)?
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"Riding in upon a teal Ford Focus came a great warrior, a suitor of the gentlefolks' granddaughter. Word had spread through the kingdom that this warrior worked with computers and perhaps even knew the true nature of the Router."
In Which I Fix My Girlfriend’s Grandparents’ WiFi and Am Hailed as a Conquering Hero
Lo, in the twilight days of the second year of the second decade of the third millennium did a great darkness descend over the wireless internet co...
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December 18, 2025 at 2:20 AM
"Riding in upon a teal Ford Focus came a great warrior, a suitor of the gentlefolks' granddaughter. Word had spread through the kingdom that this warrior worked with computers and perhaps even knew the true nature of the Router."
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"This student seemed to have stumbled across that famous short story about my life as a bug. I’d read this story before, of course, but now that I was a grad student instead of a disgusting cockroach, it resonated in a different way for me."
My Name Is Gregor Samsa, and This Time I Woke Up as a Grad Student at Cal State San Bernardino
You’ve probably heard about the first time this happened to me. You know: guy goes to sleep, wakes up as a giant bug, freaks out his family, worrie...
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December 18, 2025 at 2:04 PM
"This student seemed to have stumbled across that famous short story about my life as a bug. I’d read this story before, of course, but now that I was a grad student instead of a disgusting cockroach, it resonated in a different way for me."
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Today, we’re going to look at some of these objects, and work out whether the sensory distractions they offer are worth the horrid unpredictable bang noise.
Christmas cracker dilemma: is the potential new fidget object worth the bang?
Christmas is a sensory hellscape at the best of times; visiting family and drinking their weird tap water that Just Doesn’t Taste Right, scratchybad festive jumpers that make you feel like you’re…
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December 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Today, we’re going to look at some of these objects, and work out whether the sensory distractions they offer are worth the horrid unpredictable bang noise.
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Normalize out of office notices that enable fully ignoring work emails and requests folks resend their messages when we're back. You can schedule send those messages! (A feature I forget to use but will get better at with practice.) Fully walk away. Those are January problems. 😎
December 18, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Normalize out of office notices that enable fully ignoring work emails and requests folks resend their messages when we're back. You can schedule send those messages! (A feature I forget to use but will get better at with practice.) Fully walk away. Those are January problems. 😎
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This is so useful. I don't know how anyone can confidently identify LLM-generated text just from vibes alone, and I think assuming we can presents a real danger of bias. This is a much better way.
"How to Spot AI Hallucinations Like a Reference Librarian" HT @tjowens.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/cardcata...
How to Spot AI Hallucinations Like a Reference Librarian
The verification tricks that would make fact-checkers weep with joy.
open.substack.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:26 PM
This is so useful. I don't know how anyone can confidently identify LLM-generated text just from vibes alone, and I think assuming we can presents a real danger of bias. This is a much better way.
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Our Research Associate Christina Lee will be speaking at Queen Margaret University Toy Box Diversity Lab's hybrid seminar on disability representation and access through toys and play. Register here for an online ticket: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-tic...
Online Ticket: Anti-Ableism in Children’s Material Culture: Seminar 1
The first hybrid seminar in the series based at Queen Margaret University, will examine anti-ableism through toys and play.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
December 18, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Our Research Associate Christina Lee will be speaking at Queen Margaret University Toy Box Diversity Lab's hybrid seminar on disability representation and access through toys and play. Register here for an online ticket: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-tic...
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🚨 A new Special Issue has been published today! The volume "(Un)defined YA / Series / Romance" features an introduction by Amanda K. Allen (@amandaallenphd.bsky.social) and six research articles. Follow the link and keep reading to discover them: www.jprstudies.org/special-issu...
#RomanceResearch
#RomanceResearch
Special Issue: (Un)defined YA / Series / Romance | Journal of Popular Romance Studies
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December 17, 2025 at 7:52 PM
🚨 A new Special Issue has been published today! The volume "(Un)defined YA / Series / Romance" features an introduction by Amanda K. Allen (@amandaallenphd.bsky.social) and six research articles. Follow the link and keep reading to discover them: www.jprstudies.org/special-issu...
#RomanceResearch
#RomanceResearch
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A great event towards the end of Jan - m'learned colleague Daniel Gordon, who recently took voluntary redundancy from academia, is going to reflect on how that feels and what it's like. Since many academics are going to be in that position, important. 👇
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/uk-univers...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/uk-univers...
UK Universities in Crisis: Reflections on Leaving Salaried Academia
Join fellow Gramscian Daniel Gordon, navigating personal reflections on the fractures of UK Academia.
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December 17, 2025 at 5:26 PM
A great event towards the end of Jan - m'learned colleague Daniel Gordon, who recently took voluntary redundancy from academia, is going to reflect on how that feels and what it's like. Since many academics are going to be in that position, important. 👇
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/uk-univers...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/uk-univers...
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I’m so excited to finally say I’ll soon be joining Manchester Jewish Museum as their Curator (not that I’ve been keeping it secret well!)!! This is a dream role, sparked after using the museum’s collection for research years ago. I hope to serve Manchester’s rich and diverse Jewish history well!
December 16, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I’m so excited to finally say I’ll soon be joining Manchester Jewish Museum as their Curator (not that I’ve been keeping it secret well!)!! This is a dream role, sparked after using the museum’s collection for research years ago. I hope to serve Manchester’s rich and diverse Jewish history well!
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Autism researchers have decided to drop any pretence of adhering to scientific or ethical methodology and are to begin simply peering through autistic people’s windows, it has been revealed.
Autism researchers to begin simply peering through people’s windows
Autism researchers have decided to drop any pretence of adhering to scientific or ethical methodology and are to begin simply peering through autistic people's windows, it has been revealed. Project…
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December 17, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Autism researchers have decided to drop any pretence of adhering to scientific or ethical methodology and are to begin simply peering through autistic people’s windows, it has been revealed.
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People out here blaming their sad lives on "DEI" while the bounty that is their parents is literally /right there/
December 17, 2025 at 12:53 PM
People out here blaming their sad lives on "DEI" while the bounty that is their parents is literally /right there/
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Thanks to @elainagmamaril.bsky.social for inviting @alisonallam.bsky.social @thelrm.bsky.social @equihealthfutures.bsky.social Ana Bê Periera and I to discuss creating inclusive research cultures for people with energy limiting conditions as part of this brilliant podcast series
A brand new episode of #CrippingResearchCulture, a Wellcome Anti-Ableist Research Culture podcast, is out now!
Listen to “Disabled-led Research with Bethan Evans et al” wherever podcasts are found.
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Listen to “Disabled-led Research with Bethan Evans et al” wherever podcasts are found.
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December 17, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Thanks to @elainagmamaril.bsky.social for inviting @alisonallam.bsky.social @thelrm.bsky.social @equihealthfutures.bsky.social Ana Bê Periera and I to discuss creating inclusive research cultures for people with energy limiting conditions as part of this brilliant podcast series