Graham Mead
@twillierod.bsky.social
Enactive Autistic Synaesthete
https://neurodissidence.org.uk/
Alice in Wonderland Syndrome
Posts from this account may contain madness
Path Diversity
https://neurodissidence.org.uk/
Alice in Wonderland Syndrome
Posts from this account may contain madness
Path Diversity
Interdisciplinarity to leave the science blind spot behind
Claudia E. Vanney
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Claudia E. Vanney
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Interdisciplinarity to leave the science blind spot behind - Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
The authors of The Blind Spot emphasize the need for a new scientific worldview to navigate the crisis of meaning in contemporary science. They hold that objective scientific knowledge, developed from...
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November 28, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Interdisciplinarity to leave the science blind spot behind
Claudia E. Vanney
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Claudia E. Vanney
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
In next month’s @springernature.com -
What can wood-carvings from the Spanish Inquisition tell us about autism?
What can wood-carvings from the Spanish Inquisition tell us about autism?
November 28, 2025 at 10:35 AM
In next month’s @springernature.com -
What can wood-carvings from the Spanish Inquisition tell us about autism?
What can wood-carvings from the Spanish Inquisition tell us about autism?
If, like me, you’re an autistic person who struggles to decipher the meaning of emojis, there is a site here that gives quite good descriptions of what the various squiggles represent.
www.emojimeanings.net
www.emojimeanings.net
All popular Whatsapp and Facebook emojis with their meaning!
You'll find all current WhatsApp and Facebook Emojis as well as a description of their meaning.
www.emojimeanings.net
November 28, 2025 at 9:13 AM
If, like me, you’re an autistic person who struggles to decipher the meaning of emojis, there is a site here that gives quite good descriptions of what the various squiggles represent.
www.emojimeanings.net
www.emojimeanings.net
As an autistic person one becomes accustomed to reading half-arsed theory and research. Now AI drivel is propelling this phenomenon into even more farcical territory.
November 28, 2025 at 8:45 AM
As an autistic person one becomes accustomed to reading half-arsed theory and research. Now AI drivel is propelling this phenomenon into even more farcical territory.
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UPDATE: The publisher intends to retract the paper, but insists it went through two rounds of review from two independent peer reviewers: nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/riding-the... by @jacksonwryan.com. No word on how they will make sure this sort of thing never happens again.
Riding the Autism Bicycle to Retraction Town
Does anyone *really* know their Factor Fexcectorn?
nobreakthroughs.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:17 AM
UPDATE: The publisher intends to retract the paper, but insists it went through two rounds of review from two independent peer reviewers: nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/riding-the... by @jacksonwryan.com. No word on how they will make sure this sort of thing never happens again.
Richard Wright and James Baldwin’s critique of his most famous novel, Native Son
Narrating Self-Abolition: On Richard Wright
John Bohn
www.e-flux.com/journal/158/...
Narrating Self-Abolition: On Richard Wright
John Bohn
www.e-flux.com/journal/158/...
Narrating Self-Abolition: On Richard Wright - Journal #158
John Bohn argues for the profound radicalism and psychoanalytic acuity of Richard Wright’s novel Native Son.
www.e-flux.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Richard Wright and James Baldwin’s critique of his most famous novel, Native Son
Narrating Self-Abolition: On Richard Wright
John Bohn
www.e-flux.com/journal/158/...
Narrating Self-Abolition: On Richard Wright
John Bohn
www.e-flux.com/journal/158/...
“exhibition of design by and for “Disabled, Deaf, and neurodivergent people””
Victoria and Albert Museum until 15th February, 2026
Kenny Fries
www.e-flux.com/criticism/67...
Victoria and Albert Museum until 15th February, 2026
Kenny Fries
www.e-flux.com/criticism/67...
“Design and Disability” - Criticism - e-flux
Visitors entering this exhibition of design by and for “Disabled, Deaf, and neurodivergent people” are confronted by Finnega
www.e-flux.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:34 PM
“exhibition of design by and for “Disabled, Deaf, and neurodivergent people””
Victoria and Albert Museum until 15th February, 2026
Kenny Fries
www.e-flux.com/criticism/67...
Victoria and Albert Museum until 15th February, 2026
Kenny Fries
www.e-flux.com/criticism/67...
“A third of care leavers become homeless within the first two years of leaving care.”
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Warnings after care leavers face increase in homelessness
It follows a trend of homelessness among the youngest care leavers which campaigners say is growing more acute.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 8:06 PM
“A third of care leavers become homeless within the first two years of leaving care.”
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Body plan organization and the evolution of conscious agency
Alvaro Moreno. Andrea Gambarotto
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Alvaro Moreno. Andrea Gambarotto
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Body plan organization and the evolution of conscious agency - Biology & Philosophy
This article examines the distribution of cognitive capacities across animal taxa and advances an organizational account of the evolution of conscious agency. It explores how vertebrate and invertebra...
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November 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Body plan organization and the evolution of conscious agency
Alvaro Moreno. Andrea Gambarotto
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Alvaro Moreno. Andrea Gambarotto
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Due to severe economic inequalities in the Global South, we have emphasized this point from the beginning. This is very important to us. Since I started teaching from Miranda's book, students themselves have pointed out the lack of examples and discussion about class-based social prejudices.
Today was the last class of my KIP course, and we spent it on the neglect of class/classism in the epistemic injustice literature, focusing on this paper:
The Epistemic Injustice of Epistemic Injustice, Part I, Thomas J. Spiegel
Abstract This paper argues that the current discourse on epistemic injustice in social epistemology itself perpetuates epistemic injustice, namely hermeneutic injustice with regards to class and…
social-epistemology.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Due to severe economic inequalities in the Global South, we have emphasized this point from the beginning. This is very important to us. Since I started teaching from Miranda's book, students themselves have pointed out the lack of examples and discussion about class-based social prejudices.
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Last month, I found out I have hypermobile Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, after decades of chronic pain and medical disinterest.
I've decided to write publicly about this, not just about hypermobility and its health impacts, but about how it feels when doctors don't care:
medium.com/p/4fea6398b8ba
I've decided to write publicly about this, not just about hypermobility and its health impacts, but about how it feels when doctors don't care:
medium.com/p/4fea6398b8ba
Welcome to my body
After twenty years of pain and repeated medical dead ends, a stranger sent me a message on Instagram. It led to a diagnosis all the doctors…
medium.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Last month, I found out I have hypermobile Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, after decades of chronic pain and medical disinterest.
I've decided to write publicly about this, not just about hypermobility and its health impacts, but about how it feels when doctors don't care:
medium.com/p/4fea6398b8ba
I've decided to write publicly about this, not just about hypermobility and its health impacts, but about how it feels when doctors don't care:
medium.com/p/4fea6398b8ba
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Uhh,,, Figure 1 shows you... what exactly? Trying to understand Medical fryrmbial, runctitional features and mum's legs going through concrete.
This whole article is a bit of a disaster. And it's very difficult to find other published work for the author. Strange! 🧪
(via @smutclyde.bsky.social)
This whole article is a bit of a disaster. And it's very difficult to find other published work for the author. Strange! 🧪
(via @smutclyde.bsky.social)
November 27, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Uhh,,, Figure 1 shows you... what exactly? Trying to understand Medical fryrmbial, runctitional features and mum's legs going through concrete.
This whole article is a bit of a disaster. And it's very difficult to find other published work for the author. Strange! 🧪
(via @smutclyde.bsky.social)
This whole article is a bit of a disaster. And it's very difficult to find other published work for the author. Strange! 🧪
(via @smutclyde.bsky.social)
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This new edited volume on the colonial genealogies of EU Law looks interesting. Great to see a few familiar EUI names there, including the wonderful editor, and it's Open Access. www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
Colonialism and the EU Legal Order
Cambridge Core - European Law - Colonialism and the EU Legal Order
www.cambridge.org
November 26, 2025 at 10:59 AM
This new edited volume on the colonial genealogies of EU Law looks interesting. Great to see a few familiar EUI names there, including the wonderful editor, and it's Open Access. www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
“Some important areas, often seen in epilepsy, such as autism, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, learning difficulty, intellectual disability or movement disorders, were not covered.”
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Epilepsy and mental health disorders: current challenges and potential solutions | The British Journal of Psychiatry | Cambridge Core
Epilepsy and mental health disorders: current challenges and potential solutions
www.cambridge.org
November 26, 2025 at 10:03 AM
“Some important areas, often seen in epilepsy, such as autism, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, learning difficulty, intellectual disability or movement disorders, were not covered.”
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Shocking. SUDEP 4 times higher in prisons than outside.
“A damning review commissioned by the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) found inmates with epilepsy had been found dead after being locked in single cells despite having uncontrolled seizures.”
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
“A damning review commissioned by the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) found inmates with epilepsy had been found dead after being locked in single cells despite having uncontrolled seizures.”
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
Revealed: The inmates dying needlessly in Britain’s prisons
Exclusive: Epileptic prisoners are dying in their cells without receiving the care they are entitled to
www.independent.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Shocking. SUDEP 4 times higher in prisons than outside.
“A damning review commissioned by the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) found inmates with epilepsy had been found dead after being locked in single cells despite having uncontrolled seizures.”
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
“A damning review commissioned by the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) found inmates with epilepsy had been found dead after being locked in single cells despite having uncontrolled seizures.”
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
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We hope the learnings from this report will go some way in ensuring health conditions such as epilepsy are better understood and cared for in custody, and that further future deaths are prevented.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/epilepsy-prison-deaths-ombudsman-warning-b2869319.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/epilepsy-prison-deaths-ombudsman-warning-b2869319.html
Revealed: The inmates dying needlessly in Britain’s prisons
Exclusive: Epileptic prisoners are dying in their cells without receiving the care they are entitled to
www.independent.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 10:11 AM
We hope the learnings from this report will go some way in ensuring health conditions such as epilepsy are better understood and cared for in custody, and that further future deaths are prevented.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/epilepsy-prison-deaths-ombudsman-warning-b2869319.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/epilepsy-prison-deaths-ombudsman-warning-b2869319.html
“In my experience even the most severely disabled people retain an ineradicable conviction that they are still fully human in all that is ultimately necessary” Paul Hunt, A Critical Condition. Chapter in Stigma: The Experience of Disability, Editor, Paul Hunt, 1966
November 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
“In my experience even the most severely disabled people retain an ineradicable conviction that they are still fully human in all that is ultimately necessary” Paul Hunt, A Critical Condition. Chapter in Stigma: The Experience of Disability, Editor, Paul Hunt, 1966
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@deevybee.bsky.social @rosewind.bsky.social I finally finished writing a thing.
forbetterscience.com/2025/11/25/a...
forbetterscience.com/2025/11/25/a...
A bit of Frye and Rossignol
“Trapped inside every autist, a normal child with normal cognition is struggling to get out – only needing the right drug or therapy to be released”, – Smut Clyde
forbetterscience.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:37 AM
@deevybee.bsky.social @rosewind.bsky.social I finally finished writing a thing.
forbetterscience.com/2025/11/25/a...
forbetterscience.com/2025/11/25/a...
When I were a lad, some hyperactive ADHD folk were told they had ‘ants in their pants.’ Personally think our understanding has improved.
November 23, 2025 at 9:29 PM
When I were a lad, some hyperactive ADHD folk were told they had ‘ants in their pants.’ Personally think our understanding has improved.
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"Drawing on a corpus of over 15,000 scholarly articles published between 1800 and 2024, we map the linguistic landscape of eugenics in scholarly discourse to reveal its institutional, scientific, and sociopolitical entrenchment"
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
Echoes of Eugenics: Tracing the Ideological Persistence of Scientific Racism in Scholarly Discourse | Proceedings of the 5th ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimiza...
dl.acm.org
November 23, 2025 at 9:24 AM
"Drawing on a corpus of over 15,000 scholarly articles published between 1800 and 2024, we map the linguistic landscape of eugenics in scholarly discourse to reveal its institutional, scientific, and sociopolitical entrenchment"
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
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📆 ‼️ Workshop announcement ‼️ 14th Jan 2026
⭐ Metaphorical Framings of Emotions in Mental Health ⭐
Organised by myself with Prof. Jeannette Littlemore
Please see here for the full schedule and to sign up (in-person places are limited):
lnkd.in/dZ57MKwt
⭐ Metaphorical Framings of Emotions in Mental Health ⭐
Organised by myself with Prof. Jeannette Littlemore
Please see here for the full schedule and to sign up (in-person places are limited):
lnkd.in/dZ57MKwt
November 22, 2025 at 6:18 PM
📆 ‼️ Workshop announcement ‼️ 14th Jan 2026
⭐ Metaphorical Framings of Emotions in Mental Health ⭐
Organised by myself with Prof. Jeannette Littlemore
Please see here for the full schedule and to sign up (in-person places are limited):
lnkd.in/dZ57MKwt
⭐ Metaphorical Framings of Emotions in Mental Health ⭐
Organised by myself with Prof. Jeannette Littlemore
Please see here for the full schedule and to sign up (in-person places are limited):
lnkd.in/dZ57MKwt
The Roots of the Neoliberal Subject: Margaret Thatcher and the Creation of Homo Oeconomicus
Alexander Curtis
www.jhiblog.org/2025/11/10/t...
Alexander Curtis
www.jhiblog.org/2025/11/10/t...
The Roots of the Neoliberal Subject: Margaret Thatcher and the Creation of Homo Oeconomicus
by Alexander Curtis
This think piece is part of the forum “The Return of Political Economy in Intellectual History.”
www.jhiblog.org
November 22, 2025 at 6:16 PM
The Roots of the Neoliberal Subject: Margaret Thatcher and the Creation of Homo Oeconomicus
Alexander Curtis
www.jhiblog.org/2025/11/10/t...
Alexander Curtis
www.jhiblog.org/2025/11/10/t...
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Please tell us about disabled communists and anarchists we have not already covered.
See zine 1 here: files.libcom.org/files/2025-0...
See zine 2 here: files.libcom.org/files/2025-0...
See zine 1 here: files.libcom.org/files/2025-0...
See zine 2 here: files.libcom.org/files/2025-0...
November 22, 2025 at 10:26 AM