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Dr Daniel P Jones @danielpjones.bsky.social · 1d

Our hearts are heavy today. Rest in peace, Alice Wong.

Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 1d

“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”

Black text on a yellow background - This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing.
Hi everyone, it looks like I ran out of time. I have so many dreams that I wanted to fulfill and plans to create new stories for you. There are a few in progress that might come to fruition in a few years if things work out. I did not ever imagine I would live to this age and end up a writer, editor, activist, and more. As a kid riddled with insecurity and internalized ableism, I could not see a path forward. It was thanks to friendships and some great teachers who believed in me that I was able to fight my way out of miserable situations into a place where I finally felt comfortable in my skin.
We need more stories about us and our culture.
You all, we all, deserve the everything and more in such a hostile, ableist environment. Our wisdom is incisive and unflinching. I'm honored to be your ancestor and believe disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.

Dr Daniel P Jones @danielpjones.bsky.social · 1d

Shoutout to my PIP renewal assessor who literally wrote "you have a bank account which indicates you have no concerns relating to Tourette Syndrome". Yes, really.

I hate it here 🫠

Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 1d

“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”

Dr Daniel P Jones @danielpjones.bsky.social · 3d

Great to see Élaina's expertise along with our @the-polyphony.bsky.social piece 'Being a masking crip killjoy' making an appearance here! 🤩

Dr Élaina is cripping out @elainagmamaril.bsky.social · 3d

What's this? I got cited in @theskinnymag.bsky.social? @danielpjones.bsky.social People of the media, hmu for my masking and cross-movement solidarity tips. 😎 www.theskinny.co.uk/intersection...

Mask Up: Community care and wearing masks in 2025 – The Skinny

Masks aren’t just for lockdowns. One writer explores how mask wearing – and other measures to reduce COVID transmissions – can help us look after one another.

www.theskinny.co.uk

Dr Élaina is cripping out @elainagmamaril.bsky.social · 3d

What's this? I got cited in @theskinnymag.bsky.social? @danielpjones.bsky.social People of the media, hmu for my masking and cross-movement solidarity tips. 😎 www.theskinny.co.uk/intersection...

Mask Up: Community care and wearing masks in 2025 – The Skinny

Masks aren’t just for lockdowns. One writer explores how mask wearing – and other measures to reduce COVID transmissions – can help us look after one another.

www.theskinny.co.uk

Bristol Short Story Prize @bristolshortstory.bsky.social · 3d

The Bristol Short Story Prize will officially re-open next week!

Writers, get ready - you can submit your short stories from the 19th November. All info on our website (link in bio).

Dr Daniel P Jones @danielpjones.bsky.social · 4d

The photos in this post are by Alyona Metela! 🌟

Dr Daniel P Jones @danielpjones.bsky.social · 4d

I'll be giving a public performance lecture at Dance City in Newcastle on Thu 27th November as a follow up to my Artist Residency. Sign up (for free!) for all things #TouretteSyndrome, affect, and pom pom-related!

www.dancecity.co.uk/performance/...

#PerformanceArt #Dance #AcademicSky

Daniel leans forwards, arms to his side, and extends his right leg backwards. He is on a black stage.

Daniel looks directly up towards theatre lights, his arms down at his side

Daniel kneels, tangled in yarn whilst he makes a pom pom

Dr Daniel P Jones @danielpjones.bsky.social · 8d

Over the last few months I've been developing some performance work through an Artist Residency at Dance City. It's been a really powerful and valuable period of reflection for me on Tourette Syndrome, rhythm, and disability aesthetics, and I'm looking forward to sharing more soon!

📸 Rhiannon Banks

Daniel lies on the floor, with pom poms laying around him. He holds a cluster of them in one hand, and had another cluster attached to his shoulder. He also holds up one very large pom pom towards the ceiling.

Daniel runs across a stage, with pom poms attached to his body. A ball of yarn is being pulled along behind him as he runs.

Daniel sits on the floor cross-legged, with pom poms attached to his shoulder. As he sits, he is making pom poms.

Neurodivergent Humanities Network @ndhumanities.bsky.social · 11d

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

www.ucl.ac.uk

Rachel Charlton-Dailey @rachelcdailey.bsky.social · 16d

DWP wanted to give fraud officers the power to use physical force on benefits claimants

www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

DWP wanted to give fraud officers the power to use physical force on benefits claimants

DWP plans to allow their officers to forcibly enter the houses of claimants - and use physical force on them - finally scrapped

www.thecanary.co

Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · 18d

Throughout October and November @danielpjones.bsky.social, artist and researcher in the Moving Bodies Lab, is undertaking a dance-based artist residency at Dance City Newcastle 🩰

Read about it in our blog post 👇

medhumsplatform.org/exploring-mo...

Dancer in a dance studio, folded forwards over some ballet barres

Dr Daniel P Jones @danielpjones.bsky.social · 19d

My supervisor is appalled that you're thinking of working instead of giving scritches

A brown, orange and white cat lying in a sunny spot in the window and meowing at the camera.

Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · 19d

📅 Join us on Monday 24 November for an online interdisciplinary symposium on Tourette Syndrome, imagining a future of Tourettic Studies that is looking beyond the syndrome, featuring Bridging Fellow @danielpjones.bsky.social.

Find out more & register here 👇
medhumsplatform.org/event/toward...

Presentation slide featuring photographs of 5 speakers for the event

Dr Daniel P Jones @danielpjones.bsky.social · 19d

It's been a pleasure to be in residence at Dance City this semester! Read more about it here:

medhumsplatform.org/exploring-mo...

#AcademicSky #Dance #TouretteSyndrome #Disability #Research

Dr Daniel P Jones @danielpjones.bsky.social · 20d

On Thursday 27th November I'll be giving a public #performance lecture at Dance City, titled 'Clarifying the amorphous rhythms of #TouretteSyndrome'!

If you're near Newcastle, why not stop by to see my impulsive performance #research in practice!

#AcademicSky

www.dancecity.co.uk/performance/...

A person in a black shite bends forward to touch their toes, leaning over parallel ballet barres.

Dr Daniel P Jones @danielpjones.bsky.social · 20d

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Dr Daniel P Jones @danielpjones.bsky.social · 20d

What is the future of Tourette Syndrome research, beyond the 'syndrome'?

I'm really excited to be facilitating a remote roundtable of provocations with these folks. Why not come along, and see what the future of interdisciplinary TS research holds?

Tickets⬇️

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/towards-to...

Towards Tourettic Studies: The Future of Tourette Syndrome Research

An interdisciplinary symposium on Tourette Syndrome, imagining a future of Tourettic Studies that is looking beyond the syndrome.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · 23d

Tickets for this year's Research Cabaret #BetweentheLines are selling fast! 🎶 💃

Feat. performances from @louisecreechan.bsky.social, Ruben Verwaal, @danielpjones.bsky.social, Emily Davis & @georgiapunton.bsky.social

Get your tickets while you still can!
@beinghumanfest.bsky.social

Between the Lines: A Research Cabaret

Join us on Thursday 6 November at 7pm for an evening of live music, poetry, dance, and chaos to explore what it means to live between the lines – with researchers from the Durham Institute for Medical...

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Claire Turner @claireturner.bsky.social · 24d

I'm planning an interactive workshop on the senses and medical humanities, to be held in Leeds in July 2026. It will involve creative practitioners, academics, and clinicians. If this is something you'd be interested in attending, please drop me a message or reply to this post and we can chat more!

Dr Daniel P Jones @danielpjones.bsky.social · 25d

The first episode of the Cripping Research Culture podcast is out!

In this episode, Nicole Brown, @elainagmamaril.bsky.social and I discussed consent in #CreativeResearch methods, anti-binary approaches to crediting work, and more!

#Research #CreativeMethods

open.spotify.com/episode/1USW...

Inclusive Creative Methods with Nicole Brown

open.spotify.com

Dr Daniel P Jones @danielpjones.bsky.social · 26d

This is Tiger. Tiger doesn't know about climate change, modern day facsism, or my ever increasing rent prices. Oh, to be a house cat!

Tiger, an orange, white and brown cat, staring at the camera

Dr Daniel P Jones @danielpjones.bsky.social · 26d

My ADHD assessor told me that Tourette Syndrome doesn't exist in adulthood and so obviously I raged. Turns out he did it just to see if I showed signs of 'justice sensitivity'. I was diagnosed with ADHD, naturally... 😂

Dr Daniel P Jones @danielpjones.bsky.social · Oct 14

I'd like to bring attention to the fact that this device is now available to pre-order for an eye-watering £500, with no returns allowed if you decide that self-administered electrocution isn't your cup of tea. People are desperate for relief and I worry how many will bankrupt themselves over this!

Dr Daniel P Jones @danielpjones.bsky.social · Oct 12

To some extent this is a film about being free to tic, yet concludes in a documentary styled advert for self-administered electrocution as a means of 'controlling' tics. Why is everyone so unwilling to engage critically and call out sub-humanising practice? We don't have to settle... 🤐

Dr Daniel P Jones @danielpjones.bsky.social · Oct 7

Something doesn't sit well with me, seeing the same people in the Tourettic (Read: #TouretteSyndrome) community who publicly accuse social media creators of faking tics whilst simultaneously being excited about a non-Tourettic actor *acting* #TS in the new "I Swear" film...

#ISwear #Tics #Tourette

Dr Daniel P Jones @danielpjones.bsky.social · Oct 14

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!)

Two dancers lean against each other back-to-back, looking tired. Paper-mache body parts hang around them.

Two dancers are stained with charcoal, hands resting on each other

Dr Élaina is cripping out @elainagmamaril.bsky.social · Oct 14

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

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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Neurodivergent Humanities Network @ndhumanities.bsky.social · Oct 13

🚨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/...

PhD Studentships in Transformative Humanities - Durham University

www.durham.ac.uk

Dr Daniel P Jones @danielpjones.bsky.social · Oct 12

To some extent this is a film about being free to tic, yet concludes in a documentary styled advert for self-administered electrocution as a means of 'controlling' tics. Why is everyone so unwilling to engage critically and call out sub-humanising practice? We don't have to settle... 🤐

Dr Daniel P Jones @danielpjones.bsky.social · Oct 7

Something doesn't sit well with me, seeing the same people in the Tourettic (Read: #TouretteSyndrome) community who publicly accuse social media creators of faking tics whilst simultaneously being excited about a non-Tourettic actor *acting* #TS in the new "I Swear" film...

#ISwear #Tics #Tourette

Dr Daniel P Jones @danielpjones.bsky.social · Oct 9

This is how it feels to research Tourette Syndrome. My resilience is starting every single publication/presentation (in medical, social science, humanities and arts spaces alike) with "Tourette Syndrome is categorised by motor and vocal tics..." or something similar. 🫠

Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · Oct 9

Academia rewards resilience, by which I mean the ability to rewrite the same sentence forever

Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · Oct 9

Academia rewards resilience, by which I mean the ability to rewrite the same sentence forever

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