Sue Gerrard
@suzyg.bsky.social
Neuroscience, autism, child development, education, conceptual modeling. Still channeling Fullmetal Alchemist's Mei Chang.
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Look at that baby’s little face.
Russia now making war on babies’ day care centres
#RottenToTheCore
Cowards.
Russia now making war on babies’ day care centres
#RottenToTheCore
Cowards.
October 22, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Look at that baby’s little face.
Russia now making war on babies’ day care centres
#RottenToTheCore
Cowards.
Russia now making war on babies’ day care centres
#RottenToTheCore
Cowards.
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New post just out:
"On the edge"
On my unexpected week in hospital and five things I learnt about the state of the NHS.
(Free to read)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/o...
"On the edge"
On my unexpected week in hospital and five things I learnt about the state of the NHS.
(Free to read)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/o...
On the edge
My week in the NHS
open.substack.com
October 19, 2025 at 8:14 AM
New post just out:
"On the edge"
On my unexpected week in hospital and five things I learnt about the state of the NHS.
(Free to read)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/o...
"On the edge"
On my unexpected week in hospital and five things I learnt about the state of the NHS.
(Free to read)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/o...
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Bertrand Russell to Oswald Mosley. Perfection.
October 16, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Bertrand Russell to Oswald Mosley. Perfection.
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They are NOT protecting the women & the kiddies.
They ARE protecting their NARRATIVE.
Look what happens when someone who was actually groomed speaks out.
Watch what they do.
She's got bigger sphericals than ALL of them put together.
& watch how they treat her truth.
They ARE protecting their NARRATIVE.
Look what happens when someone who was actually groomed speaks out.
Watch what they do.
She's got bigger sphericals than ALL of them put together.
& watch how they treat her truth.
September 28, 2025 at 2:47 PM
They are NOT protecting the women & the kiddies.
They ARE protecting their NARRATIVE.
Look what happens when someone who was actually groomed speaks out.
Watch what they do.
She's got bigger sphericals than ALL of them put together.
& watch how they treat her truth.
They ARE protecting their NARRATIVE.
Look what happens when someone who was actually groomed speaks out.
Watch what they do.
She's got bigger sphericals than ALL of them put together.
& watch how they treat her truth.
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«EXCLUSIVE: Silicon Valley billionaire Peter #Thiel behind #Trump is now exporting the #MAGA playbook to #Britain - embedding across three parties: Blue Labour, Tories, Reform - via a network of race science believers.»
@nafeez.bsky.social and @peterjukes.bsky.social via @bylinetimes.bsky.social
@nafeez.bsky.social and @peterjukes.bsky.social via @bylinetimes.bsky.social
'Blue Labour' and the Thiel Effect: How MAGA Is Making In-Roads Into British Politics
The ideology of the ‘Make America Great Again’ movement, which has transformed politics in the United States, is having an impact in the UK. But how is this influence being transmitted?
bylinetimes.com
September 26, 2025 at 11:00 AM
«EXCLUSIVE: Silicon Valley billionaire Peter #Thiel behind #Trump is now exporting the #MAGA playbook to #Britain - embedding across three parties: Blue Labour, Tories, Reform - via a network of race science believers.»
@nafeez.bsky.social and @peterjukes.bsky.social via @bylinetimes.bsky.social
@nafeez.bsky.social and @peterjukes.bsky.social via @bylinetimes.bsky.social
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What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own.
Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social
We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.
Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social
We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.
Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
Former Observer big-hitters inc @carolecadwalla.bsky.social launch new title The Nerve with redundancy payouts
After Observer sale: "We decided to launch a title that the journalists themselves would own, that would be truly independent"
pressgazette.co.uk/news/former-...
After Observer sale: "We decided to launch a title that the journalists themselves would own, that would be truly independent"
pressgazette.co.uk/news/former-...
Former Observer big-hitters launch new title with redundancy payouts
Five former Observer journalists including Carole Cadwalladr have launched their own culture publication using their redundancy money.
pressgazette.co.uk
September 26, 2025 at 11:03 AM
What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own.
Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social
We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.
Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social
We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.
Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
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More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
www.miamiherald.com
September 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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Fantastic to see our TrumpActionTracker featured in this @yorkshirebylines.co.uk article!
@sandylaping.bsky.social @peteduncanson.bsky.social
Do have are read.
Tracker is here: www.trumpactiontracker.info
@sandylaping.bsky.social @peteduncanson.bsky.social
Do have are read.
Tracker is here: www.trumpactiontracker.info
✍️ Tracking Trump’s actions
Democracy under siege: how Trump’s authoritarian playbook threatens both US and European institutions
By Helen Johnston
@hj4euinspain.bsky.social
Democracy under siege: how Trump’s authoritarian playbook threatens both US and European institutions
By Helen Johnston
@hj4euinspain.bsky.social
Tracking Trump’s actions
Democracy under siege: how Trump’s authoritarian playbook threatens both US and European institutions
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
September 22, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Fantastic to see our TrumpActionTracker featured in this @yorkshirebylines.co.uk article!
@sandylaping.bsky.social @peteduncanson.bsky.social
Do have are read.
Tracker is here: www.trumpactiontracker.info
@sandylaping.bsky.social @peteduncanson.bsky.social
Do have are read.
Tracker is here: www.trumpactiontracker.info
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Is the BBC Reform UK's mouthpiece? Yup.
"Researchers at Cardiff University have produced a detailed analysis of every episode of the BBC’s flagship Question Time programme broadcast between September 2014 and July 2023 to see if the broadcaster was balancing political viewpoints."
"Researchers at Cardiff University have produced a detailed analysis of every episode of the BBC’s flagship Question Time programme broadcast between September 2014 and July 2023 to see if the broadcaster was balancing political viewpoints."
Is the BBC now the official mouthpiece for Reform?
A study of the BBC’s Question Time has raised concerns about representation and political impartiality
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
August 27, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Is the BBC Reform UK's mouthpiece? Yup.
"Researchers at Cardiff University have produced a detailed analysis of every episode of the BBC’s flagship Question Time programme broadcast between September 2014 and July 2023 to see if the broadcaster was balancing political viewpoints."
"Researchers at Cardiff University have produced a detailed analysis of every episode of the BBC’s flagship Question Time programme broadcast between September 2014 and July 2023 to see if the broadcaster was balancing political viewpoints."
Can't, not won't: Rethinking school avoidance www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
Can’t, not won’t: Rethinking school avoidance | BPS
Educational Psychologist Meg Fairclough considers the research and what can be done.
www.bps.org.uk
August 7, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Can't, not won't: Rethinking school avoidance www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
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love this new york times clip. they recently did a story about how sesame street's set has changed over the years, along with our urban politics.
IG nytimes
IG nytimes
August 6, 2025 at 2:25 AM
love this new york times clip. they recently did a story about how sesame street's set has changed over the years, along with our urban politics.
IG nytimes
IG nytimes
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who's ready for the return of everybody's favourite chaos thread, ✨ travelling while disabled ✨
May 20, 2025 at 9:13 PM
who's ready for the return of everybody's favourite chaos thread, ✨ travelling while disabled ✨
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staffers are still cleaning up the Kristi Noem mess after she got gutted/filleted by @chrismurphyct.bsky.social
this is A MOMENT. #MustWatch
🧢 @trumpfile.org
this is A MOMENT. #MustWatch
🧢 @trumpfile.org
May 8, 2025 at 7:52 PM
staffers are still cleaning up the Kristi Noem mess after she got gutted/filleted by @chrismurphyct.bsky.social
this is A MOMENT. #MustWatch
🧢 @trumpfile.org
this is A MOMENT. #MustWatch
🧢 @trumpfile.org
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I’m so excited to share our preprint on how brainstem neurons sense and integrate multiple body signals during food consumption. We imaged 1000s of neurons across the lateral parabrachial nucleus (LPBN) in behaving mice. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Brainstem sensing of multiple body signals during food consumption
Studies of body-to-brain communication often examine one stimulus or organ at a time, yet the brain must integrate many body signals during behavior. For example, food consumption generates diverse or...
www.biorxiv.org
April 29, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I’m so excited to share our preprint on how brainstem neurons sense and integrate multiple body signals during food consumption. We imaged 1000s of neurons across the lateral parabrachial nucleus (LPBN) in behaving mice. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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How could a slavery scandal involving the President of the United States be worse than we thought? This extremely long, extremely detailed, and fully sourced PROOF report explains.
This—not the tariff war—is the most important story in America right now. I hope you will consider checking it out.
This—not the tariff war—is the most important story in America right now. I hope you will consider checking it out.
The Trump-El Salvador Scandal Deepens
As President Trump prepares to fête brutal far-right El Salvadoran dictator Nayib Bukele in DC on April 14, the scandal involving a vile new international slave trade between the two men is growing.
sethabramson.substack.com
April 10, 2025 at 2:27 AM
How could a slavery scandal involving the President of the United States be worse than we thought? This extremely long, extremely detailed, and fully sourced PROOF report explains.
This—not the tariff war—is the most important story in America right now. I hope you will consider checking it out.
This—not the tariff war—is the most important story in America right now. I hope you will consider checking it out.
Reading Charles Spearman's 'General intelligence: Objectively determined and measured' (1904). That's the guy who came up with 'g' as a metric.
His experimental design section is a hoot; 24 boys from a prep school collectively using apparatus designed for individuals. 1/1
His experimental design section is a hoot; 24 boys from a prep school collectively using apparatus designed for individuals. 1/1
March 30, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Reading Charles Spearman's 'General intelligence: Objectively determined and measured' (1904). That's the guy who came up with 'g' as a metric.
His experimental design section is a hoot; 24 boys from a prep school collectively using apparatus designed for individuals. 1/1
His experimental design section is a hoot; 24 boys from a prep school collectively using apparatus designed for individuals. 1/1
Another plug for my blog post about what's missing from the disability benefits green paper logicalincrementalism.wordpress.com/2025/03/25/n...
No pathway, only signposts
I’ve just read the Green Paper Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefit and Support to Get Britain Working. Over recent weeks there’s been much speculation about what would be in the paper. What’s…
logicalincrementalism.wordpress.com
March 26, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Another plug for my blog post about what's missing from the disability benefits green paper logicalincrementalism.wordpress.com/2025/03/25/n...
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Sue is really good at creating a clear pathway through government documents, unlike the government themselves. Well worth a read.
Just read the Green Paper 'Pathways to Work' about #disability and work. What's missing is important. Blogged about it here logicalincrementalism.wordpress.com/2025/03/25/n...
No pathway, only signposts
I’ve just read the Green Paper Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefit and Support to Get Britain Working. Over recent weeks there’s been much speculation about what would be in the paper. What’s…
logicalincrementalism.wordpress.com
March 25, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Sue is really good at creating a clear pathway through government documents, unlike the government themselves. Well worth a read.
Just read the Green Paper 'Pathways to Work' about #disability and work. What's missing is important. Blogged about it here logicalincrementalism.wordpress.com/2025/03/25/n...
No pathway, only signposts
I’ve just read the Green Paper Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefit and Support to Get Britain Working. Over recent weeks there’s been much speculation about what would be in the paper. What’s…
logicalincrementalism.wordpress.com
March 25, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Just read the Green Paper 'Pathways to Work' about #disability and work. What's missing is important. Blogged about it here logicalincrementalism.wordpress.com/2025/03/25/n...
Important point about the number of educational psychologists in training. From @psychmag www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
Educational Psychology training is being eroded | BPS
Ben Hayes writes in.
www.bps.org.uk
March 10, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Important point about the number of educational psychologists in training. From @psychmag www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
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A reminder for these times.
March 1, 2025 at 10:24 PM
A reminder for these times.
In the light of yet another #SEND review (closes tomorrow), a blog post I wrote over a decade ago is still relevant. logicalincrementalism.wordpress.com/2013/01/04/n...
not enough jam: select committee report on SEN legislation
Sad person that I am, I love reading Parliamentary Select Committee reports. Select Committees don’t always get it right, but they are an example of democracy at its most transparent. Evidence, wri…
logicalincrementalism.wordpress.com
January 29, 2025 at 8:08 AM
In the light of yet another #SEND review (closes tomorrow), a blog post I wrote over a decade ago is still relevant. logicalincrementalism.wordpress.com/2013/01/04/n...
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Good to see flu hospital admissions falling more rapidly now. Back inside the medium threshold but still higher than last year's peak.
January 16, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Good to see flu hospital admissions falling more rapidly now. Back inside the medium threshold but still higher than last year's peak.