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Dr David Ben Shannon @davidbenshannon.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I have a chapter out in this new (and open-access) edited-collection, alongside many brilliant others. Link here: www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph-de....

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Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I then got to Rory asking "how we can convince the public on Net Zero" We don't have to. It has strong public support. yougov.com/en-gb/articl... Only right wing politicians seem to fail to understand (which is in part why they lose elections) bsky.app/profile/adsq...

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I stand with trans and non binary people. This is a difficult and scary time - and the Govenrment must reject the framework. It's vital that everyone is treated with dignity and care and far too often trans and non binary people aren't. Solidarity always 🏳️‍⚧️

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Peter J Woods @awasteofredmeat.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

🚨NEW BOOK ALERT🚨 My first book*, "Learning Through Noise," is available NOW from Palgrave Macmillan! It's a deep dive into the relationship between learning and noise and the last publication to come out of my dissertation. Available now from the publisher- link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

The cover for the book "Learning Through Noise"

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Dr David Ben Shannon @davidbenshannon.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Madame Vastra has a thing or two to say to trans-exclusionary non-feminists who haven't studied science in 40 years. #DoctorWho

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Dr David Ben Shannon @davidbenshannon.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

If they don’t keep the deliciously camp sword fight in #DoctorWho’s the Sea Devils in colour I’m going to turn into a rhino.

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Dr David Ben Shannon @davidbenshannon.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

I worked with a former special education teaching colleague, Yvonne Williams, to write about how curriculum and pedagogical expectations “narrow” what it means to be neurotypical in schools in England. It’s in our new edited-collection (linked below). www.routledge.com/Language-Pla...

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Language, Place, and the Body in Childhood Literacies: Theory, Practice, and Social Justice

Challenging dominant views of early childhood language development and knowledge, this thought-provoking volume illuminates the importance of place, the body, and movement in opening space for young c...

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Dr David Ben Shannon @davidbenshannon.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

There is no amount of money in the world that can fix the SEND system. We need curriculum reform and to give teachers the time to adequately and strategically differentiate learning. @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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Warning of £20bn timebomb as Reeves switches Send funding in England to education department

Councils welcome move but OBR says it is a significant fiscal risk and could lead to 4.9% real fall in spending per pupil

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Warning of £20bn timebomb as Reeves switches Send funding in England to education department

Councils welcome move but OBR says it is a significant fiscal risk and could lead to 4.9% real fall in spending per pupil

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Dr David Ben Shannon @davidbenshannon.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

I had a realisation about the idea that #DoctorWho has "gone" woke. It's never made much sense because #DoctorWho has always been left-leaning. I wonder if the problem is that fans watch old episodes without context. The second ever story, "The Daleks," is a good example of this: a thread...

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Speech Bubbles CIO @speechbubblescio.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

So proud to have contributed!

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Dr David Ben Shannon @davidbenshannon.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

@abihackett.bsky.social, Christina MacRae, Maggie MacLure and I have a new article out open access in Journal of Early Childhood Literacies, sharing data from a collaboration with the Humber Museums Partnership.

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Dr David Ben Shannon @davidbenshannon.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

This was such a wonderful project to be a part of, thinking and writing with colleagues in the university and in practice.

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

What the study shows is that white, well-off, gays and lesbians in mid-to-senior roles in workplaces that self-select for a hate group's mailing list do not like being included under the LGBT+ banner. Shocking! I don't have to run a survey to know everybody else doesn't like them, either!

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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

“No denial or omission in law can erase the concrete reality that trans and intersex people have always and will always exist. Attempts to erase them as a class constitutes an intent to commit genocide.”

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Red Flag Alert on Anti-trans and intersex Rights in the UK
Released on 30th of June 2025

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Tig Slater @tigslater.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Toilet Access & Inclusion: Research Evidence to Guide Decision-Making After the Supreme Court Ruling A downloadable PDF which uses our research evidence from the last decade to help guide organisations in their approach to toilet provision since the Supreme Court Ruling tinyurl.com/toiletresearch

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Dr David Ben Shannon @davidbenshannon.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Yeah this is going to thoroughly doink staff on fixed-term contracts. Why give anyone a permanent job when you can just employ them for a day a week six years ago and still submit their papers?

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Dr. Jey McCreight 🏳️‍⚧️🧬 @jeymccreight.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Not all cis men have XY chromosomes Not all cis women have XX chromosomes 🧬✨

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Dr David Ben Shannon @davidbenshannon.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

“No doubt the clarity of its conclusion will be welcomed by some, but reducing a complex subject to an overly simple one is not what is needed. Their Lordships would have benefited from a refresher course on sex and gender differentiation.”

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Arthur Webber 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @bernietranders.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

"The government does not support self-identification. We want to support the robustness of the process of gender recognition certificate applications" - we like making trans people jump through hoops and fill out endless forms for no reason

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Dr David Ben Shannon @davidbenshannon.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

I taught in a system where funding for inclusion was separate from the EHCP and it was an absolute shit show. Please consider signing.

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Dr David Ben Shannon @davidbenshannon.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Grumpy Doctor Who fans calling him riding a confetti cannon across interstellar space "camp trash" as if that's not literally my favourite type of Doctor Who story.

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Dr David Ben Shannon @davidbenshannon.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Using a confetti cannon to fly through space is only the third most ridiculous method the Doctor's used so far. Doctor 5 used a cricket ball, and Doctor 3 used his own oxygen supply.

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Dr David Ben Shannon @davidbenshannon.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

I taught in a system where funding for inclusion was separate from the EHCP and it was an absolute shit show. Please consider signing.

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Autistic Realms (Helen Edgar) @autisticrealms.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

The government is considering removing EHCPs for pupils with SEND in mainstream schools. This is potentially really harmful for every child with SEND in UK. Please consider signing and sharing. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71... Shared via: @spcialndsjungle.bsky.social

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Petition: Retain legal right to assessment and support in education for children with SEND

Support in education is a vital legal right of children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). We ask the government to commit to maintaining the existing law, so that vulnerable chil...

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Margaret F. Gibson @mfgibson.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

I was thrilled to share survey and interview findings from the Eloping Project at the University of Sheffield yesterday. Thanks to @davidbenshannon.bsky.social and the School of Education for hosting! Slides available through the link. uwaterloo.ca/scholar/m23g...

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Autistic "eloping" and other fugitive practices: Reflections on neuroqueer resistance

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Dr David Ben Shannon @davidbenshannon.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

In spite of everything, I had the most wonderful first day at #AERA.

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Dr David Ben Shannon @davidbenshannon.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

We've known since Remembrance of the Daleks in the late 1980s that there is a show called DOCTOR WHO in the universe of #DoctorWho.

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Dr David Ben Shannon @davidbenshannon.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Watching Angels in America on National Theatre at Home and it is awesome. I forgot how much I love this play. (Also, I’ve always wanted to write for it, so someone please produce it.)

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riikkahohti.bsky.social @riikkahohti.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Look at this PhD opportunity with the best of people!

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Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

If anyone hasn't seen this, here is our critical neurodiversity studies conference call for abstracts. "We will focus on scholarship that synthesises a concern for neurodivergent liberation with other critical traditions and liberation movements globally." medhumsplatform.org/call-for-abs...

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Call for Abstracts: Critical Neurodiversity Studies, 24–26 June 2025, Durham, UK

Submissions for Critical Neurodiversity Studies: Directions/Intersections/Contradictions close 28 February 2025.

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Laura Trafí-Prats @lala-trapra.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Looking for applications for this funded PhD. ‘Re-imagining Design for Critical Access in Museums and Cultural Spaces with Neurodivergent Youth’ It is co-supervised with the wonderful @davidbenshannon.bsky.social and consists of a collaboration with Pinc College. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLW348/p...

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PhD Studentship - Re-imagining Design for Critical Access in Museums and Cultural Spaces with Neurodivergent Youth at Manchester Metropolitan University

Explore a PhD Studentship - Re-imagining Design for Critical Access in Museums and Cultural Spaces with Neurodivergent Youth. Apply today and discover more PhD opportunities at jobs.ac.uk.

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Dr David Ben Shannon @davidbenshannon.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Come and do a funded PhD with me, Dr Laura Trafí-Prats @lala-trapra.bsky.social and Pinc College! Re-imagining Design for Critical Access in Museums and Cultural Spaces with Neurodivergent Youth www.mmu.ac.uk/study/postgr...

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UK Disability History and Heritage Hub @ukdishisthub.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

We have decided to create an account over here for those who are using this platform instead of (or as well as) X! Posts will continue to be made on both sites for now!

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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990. One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS. #LGBTplusHistoryMonth

A square canvas. Only the top corner is filled with Harings distinctive figures, rendered in Lavender, the rest is blank.

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Dr David Ben Shannon @davidbenshannon.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I'm really stunned at how many scholars I know who use queer theory (or the word "queer") in their work, but don't know what PrEP is.

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Laura Trafí-Prats @lala-trapra.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

I am pretty happy with my new chapter, written more than one year ago, ‘Teen’s Creative Experiences in TikTok as an Infra-Structure of Feeling’. It is part of this book that maybe you can order through your library www.bloomsbury.com/uk/postdevel...

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Postdevelopmental Approaches to Digital Arts in Childhood

This book deconstructs traditional developmentalist logic around children's engagement with digital media where the focus is on what the digital 'does to' child…

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(Neuro)Queering Education @neuroqueeredu.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Dr Lea Rackley discussed her research reframing 'attention deficit' as 'attention abundance.' We discussed some of its implications and practicalities for education in England.

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(Neuro)Queering Education @neuroqueeredu.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Liverpool artist @lotierneyart.bsky.social shared some of her work and talked about her artist-activist practice. We thought about how Disability Arts might be celebrated in inclusive and specialist education.

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(Neuro)Queering Education @neuroqueeredu.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

At last year's event, @wardasworld.bsky.social shared insights from her anti-racist SaLT practice in a presentation entitled “Possibilities of Ethical Resistance and Liberatory Praxis in Speech and Language Therapy.”

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dr alicja pawluczuk / HYSTERA ART @alicjapawluczuk.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Is #neurodiversity a Global Northern White paradigm?. another eye-opening article I've come across while writing my #neuroqueering digital youth work chapter. Nair, V. K., Farah, W., & Boveda, M. (2024) #Autism, LINK:https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/13623613241280835

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Laura Trafí-Prats @lala-trapra.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

@davidbenshannon.bsky.social and I have received some good news today that we will soon share with everyone. At this moment, just smiling and kicking 🥰🥳🤩

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