Abs Ashley
@ainokash.bsky.social
Lecturer in 20th and 21st century literature at bristolunienglish.bsky.social thinking/writing about affect & (a)sociality, gender, neuroqueer | Co-lead @ ndhumanities.bsky.social | Runs a lot, they/them, own views, etc.
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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! 🔥
Please join us for this important discussion! 🔥
🚨 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...
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Neurodiversity is More Than...
A symposium organised by Abs S. Ashley and Ombre Tarragnat
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December 3, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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! 🔥
Please join us for this important discussion! 🔥
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🚨 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...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/neurodiver...
Neurodiversity is More Than...
A symposium organised by Abs S. Ashley and Ombre Tarragnat
www.eventbrite.co.uk
December 3, 2025 at 3:56 PM
🚨 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...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/neurodiver...
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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).
Writers, get ready - you can submit your short stories from the 19th November. All info on our website (link in bio).
November 13, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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).
Writers, get ready - you can submit your short stories from the 19th November. All info on our website (link in bio).
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Over the 🌙 that Life Writing & The End of Empire is joint winner of the 2025 @bacls.bsky.social Monograph Prize 🎉
Congrats to co-awardee @drdominicdean.bsky.social & brilliant shortlistees @olihaslam.bsky.social @gabriele-lazzari.bsky.social. I can’t wait to read your books!
bacls.org/news/187/
Congrats to co-awardee @drdominicdean.bsky.social & brilliant shortlistees @olihaslam.bsky.social @gabriele-lazzari.bsky.social. I can’t wait to read your books!
bacls.org/news/187/
November 12, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Over the 🌙 that Life Writing & The End of Empire is joint winner of the 2025 @bacls.bsky.social Monograph Prize 🎉
Congrats to co-awardee @drdominicdean.bsky.social & brilliant shortlistees @olihaslam.bsky.social @gabriele-lazzari.bsky.social. I can’t wait to read your books!
bacls.org/news/187/
Congrats to co-awardee @drdominicdean.bsky.social & brilliant shortlistees @olihaslam.bsky.social @gabriele-lazzari.bsky.social. I can’t wait to read your books!
bacls.org/news/187/
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We've been sitting on a very special announcement, and we can't wait to share it with you. Writers - get ready, and stay tuned for updates!
November 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
We've been sitting on a very special announcement, and we can't wait to share it with you. Writers - get ready, and stay tuned for updates!
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Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
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Neuroqueer Theory and the Posthuman Symposium: Symbiogenesis in the Between, organised by Angelique Joy in Melbourne and online, March 2026. The call is open and I’m definitely considering sending something 🔥 angeliquejoy.com/xxi/
Symbiogenesis – In the between - Xxi
This symposium aims to nurture space for academic discourse and creative play with neuroqueer theory and the posthuman.
angeliquejoy.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Neuroqueer Theory and the Posthuman Symposium: Symbiogenesis in the Between, organised by Angelique Joy in Melbourne and online, March 2026. The call is open and I’m definitely considering sending something 🔥 angeliquejoy.com/xxi/
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Call for Contributions: Special Issue on the Systems Novel in the Twenty-First Century
Orbit is a peer-reviewed, digitally preserved, open-access journal with no author-facing charges. Part of @openlibhums.org
orbit.openlibhums.org/news/869/
Orbit is a peer-reviewed, digitally preserved, open-access journal with no author-facing charges. Part of @openlibhums.org
orbit.openlibhums.org/news/869/
Call for Contributions: Special Issue on the Systems Novel in the Twenty-First Century
Guest editor: Ali Dehdarirad (University of Rome, Sapienza) In 1987 Tom LeClair formulated the concept of the “systems novel,” a generic category that included highly erudite works that “master the …
orbit.openlibhums.org
November 6, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Call for Contributions: Special Issue on the Systems Novel in the Twenty-First Century
Orbit is a peer-reviewed, digitally preserved, open-access journal with no author-facing charges. Part of @openlibhums.org
orbit.openlibhums.org/news/869/
Orbit is a peer-reviewed, digitally preserved, open-access journal with no author-facing charges. Part of @openlibhums.org
orbit.openlibhums.org/news/869/
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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/mathematical...
#ClimateChange #MentalHealth
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 5, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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/mathematical...
#ClimateChange #MentalHealth
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Network co-lead @danielpjones.bsky.social is facilitating a roundtable on the interdisciplinary futures of Tourette Syndrome research!
More info below! 🤩
#TouretteSyndrome #MedicalHumanities #AcademicSky
More info below! 🤩
#TouretteSyndrome #MedicalHumanities #AcademicSky
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...
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
October 27, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Network co-lead @danielpjones.bsky.social is facilitating a roundtable on the interdisciplinary futures of Tourette Syndrome research!
More info below! 🤩
#TouretteSyndrome #MedicalHumanities #AcademicSky
More info below! 🤩
#TouretteSyndrome #MedicalHumanities #AcademicSky
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For all followers: I am an ECR in English and the broader Humanities, and I am out of work. I have applied for numerous teaching jobs both at unis and colleges, admin jobs, museum collection assistant jobs, research jobs, NGO communication jobs.
I have a forthcoming book and research chapters.
I have a forthcoming book and research chapters.
October 16, 2025 at 11:15 AM
For all followers: I am an ECR in English and the broader Humanities, and I am out of work. I have applied for numerous teaching jobs both at unis and colleges, admin jobs, museum collection assistant jobs, research jobs, NGO communication jobs.
I have a forthcoming book and research chapters.
I have a forthcoming book and research chapters.
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Materiality and Museum Extraction
19 November, Watershed
Join historian Zakiya McKenzie and scientist Kirill Vlasov for an insightful evening exploring Bristol’s colonial past and present through the lens of two co-created projects. brigstow-materiality-extraction.eventbrite.co.uk
19 November, Watershed
Join historian Zakiya McKenzie and scientist Kirill Vlasov for an insightful evening exploring Bristol’s colonial past and present through the lens of two co-created projects. brigstow-materiality-extraction.eventbrite.co.uk
Materiality and Museum Extraction
Bristol glass, taxidermy pangolin and disrupting colonial silences
Brigstow-materiality-extraction.eventbrite.co.uk
October 24, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Materiality and Museum Extraction
19 November, Watershed
Join historian Zakiya McKenzie and scientist Kirill Vlasov for an insightful evening exploring Bristol’s colonial past and present through the lens of two co-created projects. brigstow-materiality-extraction.eventbrite.co.uk
19 November, Watershed
Join historian Zakiya McKenzie and scientist Kirill Vlasov for an insightful evening exploring Bristol’s colonial past and present through the lens of two co-created projects. brigstow-materiality-extraction.eventbrite.co.uk
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can't believe we got to the stage of human history where we've just placidly and collectively decided to stop learning stuff
Today's word for UK HE is "dégringolade".
Say it with me, "dé-grin-go-lade".
Say it with me, "dé-grin-go-lade".
October 21, 2025 at 7:56 AM
can't believe we got to the stage of human history where we've just placidly and collectively decided to stop learning stuff
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When I said we weren't here to be disappointed in Labour but to replace them. I meant it.
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October 16, 2025 at 12:58 PM
When I said we weren't here to be disappointed in Labour but to replace them. I meant it.
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Calling all prospective PhD students working in the humanities and/with:
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- Digital Humanities
- Environmental Humanities
- Medical Humanities
- Science-Humanities
- Social Justice, Communities, and Policy
🚨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.
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📄 Tuition fee waiver, 3.5 year stipend.
📄 8 studentships available.
⁉️ Q&A session 10/11/25.
⏱️ Application deadline: 16/01/26.
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PhD Studentships in Transformative Humanities - Durham University
www.durham.ac.uk
October 13, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Calling all prospective PhD students working in the humanities and/with:
- Culture, Creativity, and Heritage
- Digital Humanities
- Environmental Humanities
- Medical Humanities
- Science-Humanities
- Social Justice, Communities, and Policy
- Culture, Creativity, and Heritage
- Digital Humanities
- Environmental Humanities
- Medical Humanities
- Science-Humanities
- Social Justice, Communities, and Policy
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🚨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/...
📄 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
October 13, 2025 at 2:14 PM
🚨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/...
📄 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/...
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🎉 We've done it. We've passed 100,000 Green Party members!
📈 But we're not stopping there.
💚 Let's make hope normal again! Join the Green Party today!
📈 But we're not stopping there.
💚 Let's make hope normal again! Join the Green Party today!
October 13, 2025 at 7:01 AM
🎉 We've done it. We've passed 100,000 Green Party members!
📈 But we're not stopping there.
💚 Let's make hope normal again! Join the Green Party today!
📈 But we're not stopping there.
💚 Let's make hope normal again! Join the Green Party today!
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I'm so excited about this upcoming volume by @wardasworld.bsky.social and have asked my subject librarian to pre-order it. Farah's book works at the nexus of race, neurodiversity and culture to rethink speech language therapy practices.
www.routledge.com/White-System...
www.routledge.com/White-System...
White System, Black Therapist: Racism, Resistance and Reimagining Speech Language Therapy
In this book, Warda Farah brings a fresh perspective to the field of Speech and Language Therapy, challenging traditional approaches and opening crucial conversations about race, culture, and neurodiv...
www.routledge.com
October 9, 2025 at 11:45 AM
I'm so excited about this upcoming volume by @wardasworld.bsky.social and have asked my subject librarian to pre-order it. Farah's book works at the nexus of race, neurodiversity and culture to rethink speech language therapy practices.
www.routledge.com/White-System...
www.routledge.com/White-System...
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Genuinely got more writing prep done in 20 minutes of pinging ideas back and forth at lunchtime with @azathotenergy.bsky.social than I have in some 2-hour focused seminars.
October 6, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Genuinely got more writing prep done in 20 minutes of pinging ideas back and forth at lunchtime with @azathotenergy.bsky.social than I have in some 2-hour focused seminars.
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Lex Academic scholarships for dyslexic postgraduate students doing groundbreaking research in the humanities!
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October 6, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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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...
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...
sheffield.ac.uk
September 10, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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...
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...