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...
Everyone in HE should be concerned about this:
Literally ALL Uk academics need to sign and share this
Northumbria Pay and Pension Petition: Stop the Steal!
If Northumbria does this, other universities will too.
These cuts will harm thousands of people, their students, families, and their local communities now and into the future.
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December 5, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Everyone in HE should be concerned about this:
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Boy do I have a lot to say about competence standards and PGR assessment (i.e. vivas). Happy to see a nod to the guidance I co-wrote in this article. FWIW it is NOT difficult to make adjustments for PGRs. People just don't want to....
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Why is it so difficult to make reasonable adjustments when assessing disabled PGRs?
Reasonable adjustments for disabled postgraduate research students are still running up against opposition. Theresa McKinven, Katherine Dean and Paula Holland explore what’s going wrong and how to put...
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December 5, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Boy do I have a lot to say about competence standards and PGR assessment (i.e. vivas). Happy to see a nod to the guidance I co-wrote in this article. FWIW it is NOT difficult to make adjustments for PGRs. People just don't want to....
wonkhe.com/blogs/why-is...
wonkhe.com/blogs/why-is...
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"When Hannibal tells Clarice he ate that guy’s liver with 'some fava beans and a nice chianti,' that is a metaphor for eating figgy pudding and eggnog with a big Christmas ham. Movies are filled with metaphors and symbols; you just have to look for them."
Yes, The Silence of the Lambs Is a Christmas Movie
It’s the debate that just won’t die: is The Silence of the Lambs a Christmas movie? Naysayers say “nay” and they say “nay” because it’s a movie wit...
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December 5, 2025 at 2:20 AM
"When Hannibal tells Clarice he ate that guy’s liver with 'some fava beans and a nice chianti,' that is a metaphor for eating figgy pudding and eggnog with a big Christmas ham. Movies are filled with metaphors and symbols; you just have to look for them."
"Sure, there’s a book that tells you how this is supposed to go and how you’re supposed to handle things. But you’ve never been a by-the-book kind of person. You’re driven purely by instinct and caffeine, and it’s always worked out fine."
"The whole place is covered in fingerprints." #NationalCookieDay
Are You Baking Cookies with Children or Starring in a Gritty Crime Procedural?
1. Every single surface of the room is sticky and coated with a fine, white powder. 2. You’ve shouted, “Don’t touch that! Bag that up right now! Ba...
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December 4, 2025 at 9:33 PM
"Sure, there’s a book that tells you how this is supposed to go and how you’re supposed to handle things. But you’ve never been a by-the-book kind of person. You’re driven purely by instinct and caffeine, and it’s always worked out fine."
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This is going to be awesome - so excited to share this free online symposium!!
🚨 NEURODIVERSITY IS MORE THAN... symposium 📅 4 March 2026, 9-5pm GMT, online. Free to attend, all welcome! Sign up below:
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Neurodiversity is More Than...
A symposium organised by Abs S. Ashley and Ombre Tarragnat
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December 4, 2025 at 4:41 PM
This is going to be awesome - so excited to share this free online symposium!!
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🚨 A new book review has been published in JPRS!
Qurratulaen Liaqat reviews Javaria Farooqui's (@javariafarooqui.bsky.social) book "Romance Fandom in 21st-Century Pakistan: Reading the Regency". Follow the link to read it: doi.org/10.70138/FRC...
#RomanceResearch
Qurratulaen Liaqat reviews Javaria Farooqui's (@javariafarooqui.bsky.social) book "Romance Fandom in 21st-Century Pakistan: Reading the Regency". Follow the link to read it: doi.org/10.70138/FRC...
#RomanceResearch
December 4, 2025 at 4:49 PM
🚨 A new book review has been published in JPRS!
Qurratulaen Liaqat reviews Javaria Farooqui's (@javariafarooqui.bsky.social) book "Romance Fandom in 21st-Century Pakistan: Reading the Regency". Follow the link to read it: doi.org/10.70138/FRC...
#RomanceResearch
Qurratulaen Liaqat reviews Javaria Farooqui's (@javariafarooqui.bsky.social) book "Romance Fandom in 21st-Century Pakistan: Reading the Regency". Follow the link to read it: doi.org/10.70138/FRC...
#RomanceResearch
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We are starting to plan our monthly events schedule for next year and we would love your input! Would you like to lead one of our sessions? Or do you have any ideas for speakers/themes that you would like to see explored? Please do get in touch! #DisHist
December 4, 2025 at 2:33 PM
We are starting to plan our monthly events schedule for next year and we would love your input! Would you like to lead one of our sessions? Or do you have any ideas for speakers/themes that you would like to see explored? Please do get in touch! #DisHist
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I'm hiring again! I want to increase our current team capacity across @aat-transcribes.bsky.social's two core teams, Customer Support & Operations Admin, and Sales & Marketing.
Reckon you might want to come and work with me?
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Reckon you might want to come and work with me?
Find out more here academicaudiotranscription.com/work-with-us/
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We’re hiring! Sales & Marketing Assistant (Freelance Jobshare) x 1-2 Are you passionate about intersectional disability rights, disability justice, and accessibility? Do you love having conversations ...
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December 4, 2025 at 1:53 PM
I'm hiring again! I want to increase our current team capacity across @aat-transcribes.bsky.social's two core teams, Customer Support & Operations Admin, and Sales & Marketing.
Reckon you might want to come and work with me?
Find out more here academicaudiotranscription.com/work-with-us/
Reckon you might want to come and work with me?
Find out more here academicaudiotranscription.com/work-with-us/
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Good Law Project is backing legal proceedings against Guiding and WI for excluding trans girls and women
Excluding trans people won’t stop you getting sued | Good Law Project
Girl Guiding and the Women’s Institute have announced that they will now exclude trans women and girls after legal threats – but organisations can and should remain inclusive.
goodlawproject.org
December 4, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Good Law Project is backing legal proceedings against Guiding and WI for excluding trans girls and women
@dismatters.bsky.social FYI - bad news from Cologne
Gutted to hear this - Cologne has been and continues to be a vital centre for #DisabilityStudies and the people there have significantly developed DS both within and beyond the German-speaking context.
Uni Cologne cancelling Disability Studies on the International Day of People with Disabilities - you really can't make this shit up...
December 4, 2025 at 8:57 AM
@dismatters.bsky.social FYI - bad news from Cologne
Pro tip for universities: if you're announcing the closure of your Disability Studies dept, don't do it on the International Day of People with Disabilities @privateeyenews.bsky.social
Uni Cologne cancelling Disability Studies on the International Day of People with Disabilities - you really can't make this shit up...
December 4, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Pro tip for universities: if you're announcing the closure of your Disability Studies dept, don't do it on the International Day of People with Disabilities @privateeyenews.bsky.social
A colleague said yesterday that they're using Bsky less because there's just so much bad news, especially on HE. I get that UKHE is in crisis (see my last eleventy thousand posts). I also really appreciate when people share those small brilliant moments that make the job worthwhile 🙏 #AcademicSky
December 4, 2025 at 8:45 AM
A colleague said yesterday that they're using Bsky less because there's just so much bad news, especially on HE. I get that UKHE is in crisis (see my last eleventy thousand posts). I also really appreciate when people share those small brilliant moments that make the job worthwhile 🙏 #AcademicSky
Gutted to hear this - Cologne has been and continues to be a vital centre for #DisabilityStudies and the people there have significantly developed DS both within and beyond the German-speaking context.
Uni Cologne cancelling Disability Studies on the International Day of People with Disabilities - you really can't make this shit up...
December 4, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Gutted to hear this - Cologne has been and continues to be a vital centre for #DisabilityStudies and the people there have significantly developed DS both within and beyond the German-speaking context.
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For the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, @riacheyne.bsky.social & I gave a short talk to uni research leaders on our Disabled Researchers project. I hope it encouraged some thought on dismantling the barriers disabled researchers face. We need a research culture where all can thrive.
December 3, 2025 at 7:05 PM
For the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, @riacheyne.bsky.social & I gave a short talk to uni research leaders on our Disabled Researchers project. I hope it encouraged some thought on dismantling the barriers disabled researchers face. We need a research culture where all can thrive.
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Today is #InternationalDayofPersonsWithDisabilities. To mark the days leading up to Anita Ghai's departure on 11th December last year, we have invited disability scholars to reflect on Anita's legacy. Read the contributions: sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/our-w...
Disability Dialogues Contributions
sheffield.ac.uk
December 3, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Today is #InternationalDayofPersonsWithDisabilities. To mark the days leading up to Anita Ghai's departure on 11th December last year, we have invited disability scholars to reflect on Anita's legacy. Read the contributions: sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/our-w...
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corollary: maybe the whole infrastructure and architecture of how we structure, manage and deliver learning across the whole education system is not especially geared towards supporting many learners and we could do better generally
“But then everyone will want a specific accommodation to make their learning easier!” Yeah man, maybe how you learn is an extremely individual thing and dedicating resources to personalizing the process as much as possible is a good use of university money, idk
The more I think about this, the more I don't understand why it's important to discourage people from "taking advantage of accommodations" when they're non-disabled, except insofar as there's some underlying commitment that accommodations are scarce, special stuff, uptake of which depletes the pot
December 3, 2025 at 12:44 PM
corollary: maybe the whole infrastructure and architecture of how we structure, manage and deliver learning across the whole education system is not especially geared towards supporting many learners and we could do better generally
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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...
This was cool and you don't need to sign in - just use the "search username" option.
Hello moths,
The harvest has arrived: anisota.net/harvest
It's like Spotify Wrapped, but for Bluesky and the ATmosphere. 🌾
See your most-used words, discover who you interact with most, explore your posting patterns, and find all sorts of fun insights.
The harvest has arrived: anisota.net/harvest
It's like Spotify Wrapped, but for Bluesky and the ATmosphere. 🌾
See your most-used words, discover who you interact with most, explore your posting patterns, and find all sorts of fun insights.
Anisota's Annual Bluesky Harvest 2025
A recap of your year on Bluesky. Discover patterns, connections, and insights from your journey in the ATmosphere.
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December 3, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Much like “pretending” to be trans for some imagined advantage, the hoops you would have to jump through to game the accommodations process are so ludicrously high that this is not a particular concern of anyone who has tried to get accommodations.
Balancing "no person with a disability should be denied accommodations" with "it's important to discourage non-disabled people from pretending to be disabled to take advantage of these accommodations" is really difficult and I don't have a great answer for what anyone should do about it.
December 2, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Much like “pretending” to be trans for some imagined advantage, the hoops you would have to jump through to game the accommodations process are so ludicrously high that this is not a particular concern of anyone who has tried to get accommodations.
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Royal Mail have written a GDPR policy for their letter to Santa scheme that is a) pitched at children explaining how their data is used and b) fully committed to the existence of Father Christmas and it’s just… really cute
December 2, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Royal Mail have written a GDPR policy for their letter to Santa scheme that is a) pitched at children explaining how their data is used and b) fully committed to the existence of Father Christmas and it’s just… really cute
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Once again, ILL remains the purest representation of scholarly community. I use it so much I often write little notes back and forth with the librarians when I’ve borrowed a lot from their library. It’s the closest you can get to those old penpal schemes and I love it.
Requested a book through ILL over break. It arrived today. Libraries man.
December 2, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Once again, ILL remains the purest representation of scholarly community. I use it so much I often write little notes back and forth with the librarians when I’ve borrowed a lot from their library. It’s the closest you can get to those old penpal schemes and I love it.
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The last Cripping Pedagogy Reading Group meeting is Fri 12 Dec: bsky.app/profile/did:...
The last Cripping Pedagogy Reading Group meeting (nr.108) is on 12 Dec 2025 [2nd Fri]
_ Topic: Trigger warnings and teaching with trauma
_ Reading: Carter, Angela M. (2015). "Teaching with trauma: Trigger warnings, feminism, and disability pedagogy". DSQ dsq-sds.org/index.php/ds...
_ Topic: Trigger warnings and teaching with trauma
_ Reading: Carter, Angela M. (2015). "Teaching with trauma: Trigger warnings, feminism, and disability pedagogy". DSQ dsq-sds.org/index.php/ds...
Disability Studies Quarterly
dsq-sds.org
December 2, 2025 at 9:54 PM
The last Cripping Pedagogy Reading Group meeting is Fri 12 Dec: bsky.app/profile/did:...
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This! Also, if you truly believe that accommodations (or reasonable adjustments, as we'd call them) have gone too far, there's an excellent method to ensure you never have to do any ever again. It's called inclusive learning, teaching and assessment design (or Universal Design for Learning).
We need to be able to see that the line "accommodations have gone too far" is an expression of the ableist notion that disabled students do not belong in higher ed. Its fundamentally an anxiety about the fact that disabled students get an "advantage" over abled students.
December 2, 2025 at 6:43 PM
This! Also, if you truly believe that accommodations (or reasonable adjustments, as we'd call them) have gone too far, there's an excellent method to ensure you never have to do any ever again. It's called inclusive learning, teaching and assessment design (or Universal Design for Learning).
"In the past year, I published two articles in peer-reviewed journals, including the leading journal Semiotics for Phlebotomists. I will submit copies to the committee as soon as I locate a library that still has the funds to subscribe to journals."
"Under my leadership, we have instituted an assessment program where we assess how we assess what we already assessed, using learning outcomes that include all of the buzzwords someone in admin told us were important."
A Faculty Member’s Self-Evaluation at the End of the Semester
Dear Committee Members, As part of the faculty review process, I am pleased to report to you on my work. In this letter, I will offer information ...
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December 2, 2025 at 5:46 PM
"In the past year, I published two articles in peer-reviewed journals, including the leading journal Semiotics for Phlebotomists. I will submit copies to the committee as soon as I locate a library that still has the funds to subscribe to journals."
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'Epistemic Injustice: An Introduction' is a Christmas movie
December 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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