Ria Cheyne
@riacheyne.bsky.social
Liverpool-based academic. Disability, medical humanities, genre fiction, neurodiversity, accessibility and inclusion in HE.
#DisabilityStudies #MedHums
Disability, Literature, Genre book (Liverpool UP, 2019) #OpenAccess at https://shorturl.at/5ykqk
#DisabilityStudies #MedHums
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...
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ICYMI: We are running an online symposium on 11th December in honour of Anita Ghai featuring three brillliant Indian disability studies scholars: Sandeep Singh, Shubhangi Vaidya, and Sruti Mohapatra. Book your tickets here: www.tickettailor.com/events/disab...
Select tickets – Disability Matters Online Symposia 2025: Honouring the Legacy of Professor Anita Ghai – Zoom
Disability Matters Online Symposia 2025: Honouring the Legacy of Professor Anita Ghai – Zoom, Thu 11 Dec 2025 - What is Disability Matters?
Disability Matters is a major six year pan-national programm...
www.tickettailor.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:49 AM
ICYMI: We are running an online symposium on 11th December in honour of Anita Ghai featuring three brillliant Indian disability studies scholars: Sandeep Singh, Shubhangi Vaidya, and Sruti Mohapatra. Book your tickets here: www.tickettailor.com/events/disab...
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The paperback of my book is currently available for a MERE £12.50!!!
As always, downloads are free due to Open Access
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-medical...
As always, downloads are free due to Open Access
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-medical...
Medical Caregiving Narratives of the First World War
Medical Caregiving Narratives of the First World War
edinburghuniversitypress.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:50 PM
The paperback of my book is currently available for a MERE £12.50!!!
As always, downloads are free due to Open Access
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-medical...
As always, downloads are free due to Open Access
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-medical...
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This is happening on Monday 8 December, 2.30 pm, online! It's going to be a fantastic seminar with Dr Ayra Thampuran, Dr Chimwemwe Phiri and @duncanwilson78.bsky.social, who will share short provocations on the topic of consent, followed by plenty of time for questions and discussion #photohist
Sharing again the next online seminar, this time linking our website! empnetwork.our.dmu.ac.uk/2025/11/07/o... While consent always feature in conversations on ethics, how it can be applied or rethought in historical contexts leads to more questions than answers, as we'll see!
Online Seminar: ETHICS AND CONSENT IN MEDICAL PHOTOGRAPHY – The Ethics of Medical Photography Network
empnetwork.our.dmu.ac.uk
November 28, 2025 at 11:59 AM
This is happening on Monday 8 December, 2.30 pm, online! It's going to be a fantastic seminar with Dr Ayra Thampuran, Dr Chimwemwe Phiri and @duncanwilson78.bsky.social, who will share short provocations on the topic of consent, followed by plenty of time for questions and discussion #photohist
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A reminder that this fantastic event is taking place on Thursday and Friday next week - the programme has just been finalised and we are very excited for it! 🤩
📣 The Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research is pleased to present RETHINKING RIGOUR, a two-day symposium exploring creative-critical research in medical humanities.
📅 4-5 December 2025
Find out more about the event and book your free tickets 👇
📅 4-5 December 2025
Find out more about the event and book your free tickets 👇
Rethinking Rigour: Conditions of Creativity & Criticality in the Academy - Durham University
4 December 2025 - 4 December 2025
www.durham.ac.uk
November 28, 2025 at 1:47 PM
A reminder that this fantastic event is taking place on Thursday and Friday next week - the programme has just been finalised and we are very excited for it! 🤩
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An older male academic once used up several minutes of our limited panel Q&A time pontificating on his own (seemingly unrelated) research. When he paused I said, very politely, "I'm sorry, was there a question?"
The room ERUPTED, and my colleagues still talk about it 10+ years on.
The room ERUPTED, and my colleagues still talk about it 10+ years on.
I heard a story about a female academic giving a paper at the IHR who, after receiving a long and aggressive question from a senior male professor, simply leaned back with her hands behind her head and replied “Oh, do fuck off.”
One of my colleagues went to a seminar at Berkeley and when someone asked a question Derrida brushed it off saying ‘what you ask may be important but it is not interesting’.
November 28, 2025 at 8:12 AM
An older male academic once used up several minutes of our limited panel Q&A time pontificating on his own (seemingly unrelated) research. When he paused I said, very politely, "I'm sorry, was there a question?"
The room ERUPTED, and my colleagues still talk about it 10+ years on.
The room ERUPTED, and my colleagues still talk about it 10+ years on.
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Oh the nostalgia!
This BBC kids tv advert from 1998 is still very impressive and very lovely
November 28, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Oh the nostalgia!
My recollection is that I was genuinely wondering whether I'd missed something, and didn't actually intend it as a smackdown. Given how well-acquainted Past Me was with conference blowhards and weaponised politeness, this seems unlikely though.
An older male academic once used up several minutes of our limited panel Q&A time pontificating on his own (seemingly unrelated) research. When he paused I said, very politely, "I'm sorry, was there a question?"
The room ERUPTED, and my colleagues still talk about it 10+ years on.
The room ERUPTED, and my colleagues still talk about it 10+ years on.
I heard a story about a female academic giving a paper at the IHR who, after receiving a long and aggressive question from a senior male professor, simply leaned back with her hands behind her head and replied “Oh, do fuck off.”
November 28, 2025 at 8:26 AM
My recollection is that I was genuinely wondering whether I'd missed something, and didn't actually intend it as a smackdown. Given how well-acquainted Past Me was with conference blowhards and weaponised politeness, this seems unlikely though.
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You may have noticed that I talk A LOT abt creative methods in my teaching. Well I’ve explained in this piece why it’s important for student learning& wellbeing as well as being fun. I use this as opportunity to define creativity & how we are creative teachers onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
November 28, 2025 at 8:14 AM
You may have noticed that I talk A LOT abt creative methods in my teaching. Well I’ve explained in this piece why it’s important for student learning& wellbeing as well as being fun. I use this as opportunity to define creativity & how we are creative teachers onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
An older male academic once used up several minutes of our limited panel Q&A time pontificating on his own (seemingly unrelated) research. When he paused I said, very politely, "I'm sorry, was there a question?"
The room ERUPTED, and my colleagues still talk about it 10+ years on.
The room ERUPTED, and my colleagues still talk about it 10+ years on.
I heard a story about a female academic giving a paper at the IHR who, after receiving a long and aggressive question from a senior male professor, simply leaned back with her hands behind her head and replied “Oh, do fuck off.”
One of my colleagues went to a seminar at Berkeley and when someone asked a question Derrida brushed it off saying ‘what you ask may be important but it is not interesting’.
November 28, 2025 at 8:12 AM
An older male academic once used up several minutes of our limited panel Q&A time pontificating on his own (seemingly unrelated) research. When he paused I said, very politely, "I'm sorry, was there a question?"
The room ERUPTED, and my colleagues still talk about it 10+ years on.
The room ERUPTED, and my colleagues still talk about it 10+ years on.
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This is beautiful. A real "gives me the words for things I was never able to express" kind of piece. @elsawilliams.bsky.social
Ooh, this is very, very good.
I wrote about systemic medical bias, chocolate medals and Eamonn Holmes
November 27, 2025 at 1:09 PM
This is beautiful. A real "gives me the words for things I was never able to express" kind of piece. @elsawilliams.bsky.social
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1. WTF
2. WTF NATURE?!*
3. Umm, did the peer reviewer even look at this?
4. Is this some kind of Sokal-Hoax-for-AI thing?!
5. Even if it is, I still hate it.
5. Jeopardising autistic people's wellbeing for an AI generated slop "publication" is morally repugnant.
*I know it's different, don't @ me
2. WTF NATURE?!*
3. Umm, did the peer reviewer even look at this?
4. Is this some kind of Sokal-Hoax-for-AI thing?!
5. Even if it is, I still hate it.
5. Jeopardising autistic people's wellbeing for an AI generated slop "publication" is morally repugnant.
*I know it's different, don't @ me
This absolute shitshow was published in Nature www.nature.com/articles/s41... Tag yourself! I'm "Frymblal". Or perhaps "Runctional Feature", hard to decide.
November 27, 2025 at 12:51 PM
1. WTF
2. WTF NATURE?!*
3. Umm, did the peer reviewer even look at this?
4. Is this some kind of Sokal-Hoax-for-AI thing?!
5. Even if it is, I still hate it.
5. Jeopardising autistic people's wellbeing for an AI generated slop "publication" is morally repugnant.
*I know it's different, don't @ me
2. WTF NATURE?!*
3. Umm, did the peer reviewer even look at this?
4. Is this some kind of Sokal-Hoax-for-AI thing?!
5. Even if it is, I still hate it.
5. Jeopardising autistic people's wellbeing for an AI generated slop "publication" is morally repugnant.
*I know it's different, don't @ me
PERFECTLY sums up how I feel about the advert for Karcher cleaners that plays when I watch anything on YouTube.
Christine Smout, 46, will reportedly do anything to avoid sitting through 30 unsolicited seconds about the fucking postcode lottery including, but not limited to, turning the volume right down, playing exactly 30 seconds of a gem-swapping game and clawing her own eyes out.
AuDHD woman would rather drop dead than suffer through indignity of unskippable ad
An AuDHD woman would literally rather expire on the spot than have to watch one single second of an unskippable ad, it has been confirmed. Christine Smout, 46, will reportedly do anything to avoid…
thedailytism.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:56 PM
PERFECTLY sums up how I feel about the advert for Karcher cleaners that plays when I watch anything on YouTube.
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We're rewatching The Night Manager which remains very exciting, well plotted, staggeringly cast, and extraordinarily pretty. Most notable, however, is the sheer number of schemes in which someone asserts that everyone would very much like to boink Tom Hiddleston.
November 27, 2025 at 10:07 AM
We're rewatching The Night Manager which remains very exciting, well plotted, staggeringly cast, and extraordinarily pretty. Most notable, however, is the sheer number of schemes in which someone asserts that everyone would very much like to boink Tom Hiddleston.
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*small embarrassed voice*
A little plug for my article on Devon book sales c. 1700, which has gone online open access. tl;dr book auctions weren't just a London/Oxbridge thing: a flourishing second-hand book market centred on Exeter included auctions from the 1680s.
doi.org/10.1093/libr...
A little plug for my article on Devon book sales c. 1700, which has gone online open access. tl;dr book auctions weren't just a London/Oxbridge thing: a flourishing second-hand book market centred on Exeter included auctions from the 1680s.
doi.org/10.1093/libr...
A Provincial Market in Second-Hand Books: Book Sales in Devon, 1688–1725
Abstract. Comparatively little is known about England’s early book-auction trade outside of London and the university towns, with few catalogues surviving
doi.org
November 27, 2025 at 9:31 AM
*small embarrassed voice*
A little plug for my article on Devon book sales c. 1700, which has gone online open access. tl;dr book auctions weren't just a London/Oxbridge thing: a flourishing second-hand book market centred on Exeter included auctions from the 1680s.
doi.org/10.1093/libr...
A little plug for my article on Devon book sales c. 1700, which has gone online open access. tl;dr book auctions weren't just a London/Oxbridge thing: a flourishing second-hand book market centred on Exeter included auctions from the 1680s.
doi.org/10.1093/libr...
This is beautiful. A real "gives me the words for things I was never able to express" kind of piece. @elsawilliams.bsky.social
Ooh, this is very, very good.
I wrote about systemic medical bias, chocolate medals and Eamonn Holmes
November 27, 2025 at 1:09 PM
This is beautiful. A real "gives me the words for things I was never able to express" kind of piece. @elsawilliams.bsky.social
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Ooh, this is very, very good.
I wrote about systemic medical bias, chocolate medals and Eamonn Holmes
Diagnosed but not believed: Autistic women and the medical gaze
A GP I met for the first time three minutes ago is glancing over my electronic health record, trying to match it with the woman before him…
medium.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Ooh, this is very, very good.
1. WTF
2. WTF NATURE?!*
3. Umm, did the peer reviewer even look at this?
4. Is this some kind of Sokal-Hoax-for-AI thing?!
5. Even if it is, I still hate it.
5. Jeopardising autistic people's wellbeing for an AI generated slop "publication" is morally repugnant.
*I know it's different, don't @ me
2. WTF NATURE?!*
3. Umm, did the peer reviewer even look at this?
4. Is this some kind of Sokal-Hoax-for-AI thing?!
5. Even if it is, I still hate it.
5. Jeopardising autistic people's wellbeing for an AI generated slop "publication" is morally repugnant.
*I know it's different, don't @ me
This absolute shitshow was published in Nature www.nature.com/articles/s41... Tag yourself! I'm "Frymblal". Or perhaps "Runctional Feature", hard to decide.
November 27, 2025 at 12:51 PM
1. WTF
2. WTF NATURE?!*
3. Umm, did the peer reviewer even look at this?
4. Is this some kind of Sokal-Hoax-for-AI thing?!
5. Even if it is, I still hate it.
5. Jeopardising autistic people's wellbeing for an AI generated slop "publication" is morally repugnant.
*I know it's different, don't @ me
2. WTF NATURE?!*
3. Umm, did the peer reviewer even look at this?
4. Is this some kind of Sokal-Hoax-for-AI thing?!
5. Even if it is, I still hate it.
5. Jeopardising autistic people's wellbeing for an AI generated slop "publication" is morally repugnant.
*I know it's different, don't @ me
This looks interesting!
@owenbarden.bsky.social
@owenbarden.bsky.social
cfp Life Histories in Mind: Mental Ill Health and Learning Disability in Context Manchester 21 July 2026 deadline 15 January royalhistsoc.org/calendar/lif...
Life Histories in Mind: Mental Ill Health and Learning Disability in Context - CALL FOR PAPERS - RHS
Life Histories in Mind: Mental Ill Health and Learning Disability in Context Manchester Metropolitan University | Tuesday 21st July 2026 (Plus, a second reserve day of Wednesday 22nd July, subject to ...
royalhistsoc.org
November 27, 2025 at 12:31 PM
This looks interesting!
@owenbarden.bsky.social
@owenbarden.bsky.social
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📣 Applications are open for our 2026-27 Medical Humanities in Practice Research Fellowship scheme! The scheme supports professionals and researchers from health or voluntary and community sectors to develop research within the medical humanities.
Apply by 30 Jan:
Apply by 30 Jan:
Practice Research Fellowship Scheme
Announcing our Medical Humanities In Practice Research Fellowship Scheme
medhumsplatform.org
November 27, 2025 at 9:00 AM
📣 Applications are open for our 2026-27 Medical Humanities in Practice Research Fellowship scheme! The scheme supports professionals and researchers from health or voluntary and community sectors to develop research within the medical humanities.
Apply by 30 Jan:
Apply by 30 Jan:
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Calling online PGRs!
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Are you studying for a doctorate at a UK university via a programme that is wholly or mostly online? If so, please take part in an anonymous, 10 min survey about the impacts of online doctoral study on wellbeing and share the link lancasteruni.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_....
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November 27, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Calling online PGRs!
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A reminder that we have two current calls for papers - the Peter Nicholls Essay Prize (deadline: 11 January 2026) and a special issue on pulp sf (deadline: 5 April 2026). Details in the newsfeed. www.sf-foundation.org/fresh-about
SF Foundation UK News Science Fiction Journal
Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction is a critical peer-reviewed literary magazine established in 1972 that publishes articles and reviews ab
www.sf-foundation.org
November 10, 2025 at 12:09 PM
A reminder that we have two current calls for papers - the Peter Nicholls Essay Prize (deadline: 11 January 2026) and a special issue on pulp sf (deadline: 5 April 2026). Details in the newsfeed. www.sf-foundation.org/fresh-about
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The opportunity for Black UK-domiciled students to undertake PhD research at @uofglasgow.bsky.social is still available!
Apply by 31 January 2026 for entry to our Scholarships in October 2026.
@uofgstem.bsky.social
@uofgmvls.bsky.social
@uofgartshums.bsky.social
@uofgsocsci.bsky.social
Apply by 31 January 2026 for entry to our Scholarships in October 2026.
@uofgstem.bsky.social
@uofgmvls.bsky.social
@uofgartshums.bsky.social
@uofgsocsci.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 3:40 PM
The opportunity for Black UK-domiciled students to undertake PhD research at @uofglasgow.bsky.social is still available!
Apply by 31 January 2026 for entry to our Scholarships in October 2026.
@uofgstem.bsky.social
@uofgmvls.bsky.social
@uofgartshums.bsky.social
@uofgsocsci.bsky.social
Apply by 31 January 2026 for entry to our Scholarships in October 2026.
@uofgstem.bsky.social
@uofgmvls.bsky.social
@uofgartshums.bsky.social
@uofgsocsci.bsky.social
This was thought-provoking: 'When everything turns into television, every form of communication starts to adopt television’s values: immediacy, emotion, spectacle, brevity'.
November 27, 2025 at 7:15 AM
This was thought-provoking: 'When everything turns into television, every form of communication starts to adopt television’s values: immediacy, emotion, spectacle, brevity'.
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So dismayed by the lack of resolution - industrial action at UoS continues 🥹 #DigitalPicket @ucu.org.uk As a researcher, striking for me is about mitigating the endless restructuring of, & redundancies for, our excellent professional services colleagues, whose labour makes our research possible 💪🏽
November 26, 2025 at 9:33 AM
So dismayed by the lack of resolution - industrial action at UoS continues 🥹 #DigitalPicket @ucu.org.uk As a researcher, striking for me is about mitigating the endless restructuring of, & redundancies for, our excellent professional services colleagues, whose labour makes our research possible 💪🏽