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Dr Daniel P Jones
@danielpjones.bsky.social
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Crip-queer disability scholar + creative practitioner | Tourette Syndrome, Creative Research Methods, Public Space (+ more) | Bridging Fellow in Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social | Co-Lead @ndhumanities.bsky.social |

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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.
November 8, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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ndhumanities.bsky.social
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
November 5, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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rachelcdailey.bsky.social
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
October 31, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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durhamimh.bsky.social
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
October 29, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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durhamimh.bsky.social
📅 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...
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October 28, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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durhamimh.bsky.social
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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October 24, 2025 at 4:49 PM
danielpjones.bsky.social
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
October 28, 2025 at 9:45 AM
danielpjones.bsky.social
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.
October 27, 2025 at 6:48 PM
danielpjones.bsky.social
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
October 27, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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claireturner.bsky.social
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!
October 23, 2025 at 5:42 PM
danielpjones.bsky.social
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
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October 22, 2025 at 10:38 AM
danielpjones.bsky.social
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
October 21, 2025 at 7:56 PM
danielpjones.bsky.social
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... 😂
October 20, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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ndhumanities.bsky.social
🚨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
October 13, 2025 at 2:14 PM
danielpjones.bsky.social
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!
danielpjones.bsky.social 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... 🤐
danielpjones.bsky.social 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
October 14, 2025 at 10:03 PM
danielpjones.bsky.social
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
October 14, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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elainagmamaril.bsky.social
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
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26 Nov: Complicated Pride: Disability, Neurodiversity and Ambivalence
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October 14, 2025 at 8:54 AM
danielpjones.bsky.social
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... 🤐
danielpjones.bsky.social 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
October 12, 2025 at 11:19 AM
danielpjones.bsky.social
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. 🫠
pengzell.bsky.social Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · Oct 9
Academia rewards resilience, by which I mean the ability to rewrite the same sentence forever
October 9, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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durhamimh.bsky.social
🛞 How might wheeled technologies, such as bicycles, wheelchairs, skateboards, and prams, afford different experiences of space, mobility, and performance?

Catch up on the recent Wheely Workshop hosted by our Moving Bodies Lab here! 👇
medhumsplatform.org/a-wheely-wor...
A Wheely Workshop with the Moving Bodies Lab
A one-day workshop hosted by the Moving Bodies Lab explores and engages with an array of wheeled technologies: bicycles, wheelchairs, skateboards and prams.
medhumsplatform.org
October 8, 2025 at 12:56 PM
danielpjones.bsky.social
I've got a student who would love to do some #PhD research on #TouretteSyndrome and the dismantling of the invisible/visible disability binary. Is there anyone in my network in the UK who is accepting #SocialScience PhD students / sponsoring them for #ESRC funding?

#TS #AcademicSky
October 8, 2025 at 10:54 AM
danielpjones.bsky.social
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
October 7, 2025 at 10:02 AM
danielpjones.bsky.social
Hi BlueSky. Here's your semi-regular reminder to stop calling people 'dumb' (or things like this) for their political views... or *anything* for that matter! Your ableism is not excused just because you identify as left-wing. 🫠
October 5, 2025 at 6:28 PM
danielpjones.bsky.social
Added a couple of new additions to the hand-poked tattoo collection today!

#Tattoo #HandPoked
The back of Daniel's calf with lots of thick lined tattoos in black ink, including a large eagle design and a new tattoo of handwritten text that reads "free the people" The right side of Daniel's lower legs can be seen, featuring a new doodle-styled tattoo of a cat in a wonky frame, below an older abstract floral design.
September 26, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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alisonstenning.bsky.social
UKIP have been given permission to march through Newcastle City Centre tomorrow to a hotel housing asylum seekers and people with refugee status.

Please email complaints and concerns to Northumbria Police and Newcastle politicians (MPs and councillors).

Link to template letter in alt text.
Screenshot of a call from ne.antifascist on Insta to write and complain about permission given to UKIP to march through Newcastle tomorrow. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mh5sfD6VRAtQ1kdF-AaZMx1ZGILzOVWMcwApC2gmdFA/edit?usp=drivesdk
September 26, 2025 at 2:37 PM