A recent article I’d recommend:
journals.plos.org/mentalhealth...

Hey @mind.org.uk and @autisticsociety.bsky.social - why are you quoted in here as welcoming this? How is this likely to help people with mental health issues, autism or ADHD when it’s clearly about saving money and cutting off people’s benefits?

www.bbc.com/news/article...

visual notes from my social media absence featuring (1) anti-fascist protesting, (2) the conclusion of the lived experience academy research project, (3) the Centre for Mad Culture UK launch and (4) a cool ceiling I saw at the Neurodiversity and the Church event at Westminster College.

I'm one of the invited speakers for this symposium, can't wait! 😁 Sign up here...

Excited to be contributing some thoughts about how a Maddened Neurodivergent literary analysis looks in practice to this forthcoming issue 😁 look out for it next year!

Some photos from the Japanese early modern palaeography summer school at Cambridge!! So cool to get more to terms with using these kinds of materials

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Hi all, I will be offering some limited translation support for the event 'Disability and Critical Psychology in Japan' taking place tomorrow (9am-11am UK Time), hosted by The Critical Psychology Colloquium of the Japanese Psychological Association and Afro-Asian Critical Psychology 🙂

Happy Mad Pride day 💜🩷 had fun at Mad Insight’s picnic yesterday in Edinburgh. Was great to exist in community, celebrate mad culture and discuss resistance to psychiatry 💪

ChatGPT Weakens Your Ability to Think, MIT Study Finds
by Peter Simons

“Interaction with AI systems may lead to diminished prospects for independent problem-solving and critical thinking,” the researchers write.
buff.ly/XtA6yfu

Graduated today with a distinction in Cert Public Involvement and Co-production!! Had a great day celebrating in the sun, huge congratulations to my entire cohort ☀️ #NUGrad @northumbriauni.bsky.social

Had a great time last night at the National LD and Autism awards representing the Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training at @northumbriauni.bsky.social as one of the autistic lived-experience co-trainers 😁 we didn’t win but is amazing to be nominated for the transformational training partnership award ✨

Off to the national learning disability and autism awards tonight at the Birmingham ICC representing The Oliver McGowan training programme at @northumbriauni.bsky.social 😁😁

Important to remember this
From @ritb.bsky.social

On Day 6 of the Critical Neurodiversity Studies takeover @tasha-tasha.bsky.social calls for literary scholars within Mad Studies & Neurodiversity Studies to engage with one another, exploring the possibilities of and justifications for a ‘Mad[]Neurodiverse’ literary analysis.
tinyurl.com/mr3dr8kc

okay first post! Had a great time sharing my perspective on Mad and Neurodiversity literary approaches at the the Critical Neurodiversity Studies conference :) so grateful to be made a fellow and to meet other neurodivergent scholar-activists ~

@durhamimh.bsky.social @ndhumanities.bsky.social