Caroline @Ka81
@ka81.bsky.social
Data Scientist, Award Winning Teacher, Maker, PhD Researcher 📚 #Tes #Edtech50 #Bima100 #Judge #Crafting edu/tech narrative.
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Since you all love #Oddsock. He has a statement.
"My human is at risk in UK only because she's autistic. Here we lock up autistic kids & adults for decades for no reason - 2500 of them right now & we do nothing about it. No dog should lose their humans this way. This is what should be trending"
"My human is at risk in UK only because she's autistic. Here we lock up autistic kids & adults for decades for no reason - 2500 of them right now & we do nothing about it. No dog should lose their humans this way. This is what should be trending"
Lovely day spent teaching again with a keen #ECT today and honestly found myself reminding them teaching is a great profession to go into. I know its tough out there (like really tough) but talk up teaching if you can, new ECTs need to know they are making a great choice.
You are btw. 👍
You are btw. 👍
December 9, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Lovely day spent teaching again with a keen #ECT today and honestly found myself reminding them teaching is a great profession to go into. I know its tough out there (like really tough) but talk up teaching if you can, new ECTs need to know they are making a great choice.
You are btw. 👍
You are btw. 👍
Wobbly but alive and physio has successful identified I've rotated one side of my hip completely why it keep subluxing. So hobbling a little longer whilst I try and move it back. Anyone has a functioning skeleton for Xmas 🙏 🤣 #SurprisinglyChipper
#ButOnAlotOfStrongMedication 👍
#ButOnAlotOfStrongMedication 👍
December 8, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Wobbly but alive and physio has successful identified I've rotated one side of my hip completely why it keep subluxing. So hobbling a little longer whilst I try and move it back. Anyone has a functioning skeleton for Xmas 🙏 🤣 #SurprisinglyChipper
#ButOnAlotOfStrongMedication 👍
#ButOnAlotOfStrongMedication 👍
I asked at BESA earlier in the year on the SEND panel do they know the risks of getting this wrong given the population of send, neurodivergent, disabled and carers equals about 35-40% of the population and they are pretty livid. Apprently not ⬇️
www.specialneedsjungle.com/performative...
www.specialneedsjungle.com/performative...
"Performative, chaotic and desperate” The DfE’s national SEND “conversation” - Special Needs Jungle
"Performative, chaotic and desperate” The Department for Education’s national SEND “conversation” is anything but a two-way discourse.
www.specialneedsjungle.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:36 AM
I asked at BESA earlier in the year on the SEND panel do they know the risks of getting this wrong given the population of send, neurodivergent, disabled and carers equals about 35-40% of the population and they are pretty livid. Apprently not ⬇️
www.specialneedsjungle.com/performative...
www.specialneedsjungle.com/performative...
Reposted by Caroline @Ka81
A couple weeks ago a well meaning colleague of mine told me "If you don't put yourself in uncomfortable situations you'll never learn" and I have been seething in autistic ever since.
What this means, I gather, is something like "take advantage of chosen, purposeful, supported challenges"
What this means, I gather, is something like "take advantage of chosen, purposeful, supported challenges"
December 7, 2025 at 7:36 PM
A couple weeks ago a well meaning colleague of mine told me "If you don't put yourself in uncomfortable situations you'll never learn" and I have been seething in autistic ever since.
What this means, I gather, is something like "take advantage of chosen, purposeful, supported challenges"
What this means, I gather, is something like "take advantage of chosen, purposeful, supported challenges"
Reposted by Caroline @Ka81
#TrackOfTheDay Monday again already? 😴 🧡🎶
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December 8, 2025 at 6:36 AM
"What if the reason we are no longer functioning is physical, not motivational? Hypermobility affects nearly 80% of #ADHD women and over 30% of ADHD men, compared to just over 20% & 10% in the neurotypical population. Hypermobile people are more vulnerable to viruses, pollution & yes, covid" ⬇️
December 7, 2025 at 10:37 PM
"What if the reason we are no longer functioning is physical, not motivational? Hypermobility affects nearly 80% of #ADHD women and over 30% of ADHD men, compared to just over 20% & 10% in the neurotypical population. Hypermobile people are more vulnerable to viruses, pollution & yes, covid" ⬇️
Reposted by Caroline @Ka81
Adjustments to PhDs are not complicated. Disabled PGRs are not complicated. None of this is complicated. It just goes back to the basis of reasonableness: is the adjustment effective (will it work) and is it practicable (can we do it)? And we can do much more than we think we can - if we want to
December 5, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Adjustments to PhDs are not complicated. Disabled PGRs are not complicated. None of this is complicated. It just goes back to the basis of reasonableness: is the adjustment effective (will it work) and is it practicable (can we do it)? And we can do much more than we think we can - if we want to
So @harrietcannon.bsky.social making a super great point here. It's a nightmare, but if your at Lancashire University I got you covered there having personally fought for a PGR policy 👍
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...
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...
wonkhe.com
December 7, 2025 at 9:30 PM
So @harrietcannon.bsky.social making a super great point here. It's a nightmare, but if your at Lancashire University I got you covered there having personally fought for a PGR policy 👍
Go email ....⬇️
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December 7, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Go email ....⬇️
Examining the extent to which people with #hypermobility #EDS are at risk of Long COVID was just published in BMJ Public Health ⬇️
bmjpublichealth.bmj.com/content/3/2/...
bmjpublichealth.bmj.com/content/3/2/...
Variant connective tissue as a risk factor for long COVID: a case-control study of data from a retrospective online survey of adults in the USA and UK
Introduction This study explored the extent to which two measures of joint hypermobility, a marker of variant connective tissue, predict the development of long COVID after COVID-19 infection, and whe...
bmjpublichealth.bmj.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Examining the extent to which people with #hypermobility #EDS are at risk of Long COVID was just published in BMJ Public Health ⬇️
bmjpublichealth.bmj.com/content/3/2/...
bmjpublichealth.bmj.com/content/3/2/...
Reposted by Caroline @Ka81
I have mild hypermobility, the other end of the spectrum from EDS. But I still experience everything on the LHS of the diagram, except I've never dislocated anything. Young, I was just flexible. Now, it's usual for me to have a dozen strains or sprains at any time. Gut-aches too; thin skin... 🤷♂️
FYI just reminding everyone with #Neurodivergent #Autistic #ADHD themselves or kids the co occurring #EDS might be up to 50% ....like theres alot of us, so it might be pain thats the issue. See @sedsconnective.org for all the info there.
December 7, 2025 at 2:12 PM
I have mild hypermobility, the other end of the spectrum from EDS. But I still experience everything on the LHS of the diagram, except I've never dislocated anything. Young, I was just flexible. Now, it's usual for me to have a dozen strains or sprains at any time. Gut-aches too; thin skin... 🤷♂️
Reposted by Caroline @Ka81
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November 28, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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FYI just reminding everyone with #Neurodivergent #Autistic #ADHD themselves or kids the co occurring #EDS might be up to 50% ....like theres alot of us, so it might be pain thats the issue. See @sedsconnective.org for all the info there.
December 7, 2025 at 1:32 PM
FYI just reminding everyone with #Neurodivergent #Autistic #ADHD themselves or kids the co occurring #EDS might be up to 50% ....like theres alot of us, so it might be pain thats the issue. See @sedsconnective.org for all the info there.
#EDS Tip if you getting xrays because your joints are subluxed ...when you lay down flat your joints can go back into place and then it shows up nothing. Then you stand up put then under weight and they move again....
You need a stress X-rays/dynamic xray to show the slippage or subluxate. ⬇️
You need a stress X-rays/dynamic xray to show the slippage or subluxate. ⬇️
December 7, 2025 at 12:27 PM
#EDS Tip if you getting xrays because your joints are subluxed ...when you lay down flat your joints can go back into place and then it shows up nothing. Then you stand up put then under weight and they move again....
You need a stress X-rays/dynamic xray to show the slippage or subluxate. ⬇️
You need a stress X-rays/dynamic xray to show the slippage or subluxate. ⬇️
For my birthday I'd really like it if every talk on AI isn't a bunch of abled bodied white people...often guys.
On my birthday list dont care who. Just find some diverse people. #BirthdayWishes ♥️👍
On my birthday list dont care who. Just find some diverse people. #BirthdayWishes ♥️👍
December 7, 2025 at 11:57 AM
For my birthday I'd really like it if every talk on AI isn't a bunch of abled bodied white people...often guys.
On my birthday list dont care who. Just find some diverse people. #BirthdayWishes ♥️👍
On my birthday list dont care who. Just find some diverse people. #BirthdayWishes ♥️👍
Thank you to everyone who sending me happy birthday msgs.
I'm older I can't remember how old ( Born in 81 you work it out) But I'm grateful for the good wishes I'd forget it was today 🤣
I'm older I can't remember how old ( Born in 81 you work it out) But I'm grateful for the good wishes I'd forget it was today 🤣
December 7, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Thank you to everyone who sending me happy birthday msgs.
I'm older I can't remember how old ( Born in 81 you work it out) But I'm grateful for the good wishes I'd forget it was today 🤣
I'm older I can't remember how old ( Born in 81 you work it out) But I'm grateful for the good wishes I'd forget it was today 🤣
Hey Daisy,
I'd really like to tell you all about my special interests at length. Do you enjoy Xmas? #AutisticDogFlirt
Yours #Oddsock 🎄
I'd really like to tell you all about my special interests at length. Do you enjoy Xmas? #AutisticDogFlirt
Yours #Oddsock 🎄
December 6, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Hey Daisy,
I'd really like to tell you all about my special interests at length. Do you enjoy Xmas? #AutisticDogFlirt
Yours #Oddsock 🎄
I'd really like to tell you all about my special interests at length. Do you enjoy Xmas? #AutisticDogFlirt
Yours #Oddsock 🎄
Heads up if your continously making this face ⬇️ so much you get a wrinkle in your 20s as demonstrated here. Maybe it wasn't maybelline you needed...
maybe it's a #AuDHD diagnosis. 👍
maybe it's a #AuDHD diagnosis. 👍
December 6, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Heads up if your continously making this face ⬇️ so much you get a wrinkle in your 20s as demonstrated here. Maybe it wasn't maybelline you needed...
maybe it's a #AuDHD diagnosis. 👍
maybe it's a #AuDHD diagnosis. 👍
Reposted by Caroline @Ka81
A talk I gave earlier this year has, unfortunately, become relevant again this week so I've published it here.
open.substack.com/pub/neurodiv...
open.substack.com/pub/neurodiv...
The Fascist Echo in Labour's "Over-diagnosis" Inquiry
Why Wes Steeting's new inquiry is about more than just renewed austerity
open.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:40 AM
A talk I gave earlier this year has, unfortunately, become relevant again this week so I've published it here.
open.substack.com/pub/neurodiv...
open.substack.com/pub/neurodiv...
Slowly working my way through hitchcock back catalogue and forgot how much I love Rear Window. ( I happen to have a side special interest in 1940-early 70s films, North by Northwest, Some like it hot, La Dolce Vita )
December 5, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Slowly working my way through hitchcock back catalogue and forgot how much I love Rear Window. ( I happen to have a side special interest in 1940-early 70s films, North by Northwest, Some like it hot, La Dolce Vita )
Reposted by Caroline @Ka81
#TrackOfTheDay🥳🎉 Friday - hurray!!! 🎉🥳🧡🎶
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December 5, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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Text messages are great because it means if you have a dad he can keep you regularly updated on everything he's been up to.
December 5, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Text messages are great because it means if you have a dad he can keep you regularly updated on everything he's been up to.