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Meg Fereday is recruiting participants @meg-fereday.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Research participants needed! I’m looking into young queer and neurodivergent people’s experiences using TikTok and Instagram. Interested, or know someone who might be? Contact me at nqresearch@soton.ac.uk, or find all info at linktr.ee/nqresearch.s... (ERGO: 103967)

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Meg Fereday is recruiting participants @meg-fereday.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Still seeking participants for my PhD research on neuroqueer youth digital resistance practices! (ERGO: 103967) Know someone who’d be interested? All info is at linktr.ee/nqresearch.s..., or email me with any questions at ✉️nqresearch@soton.ac.uk

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Neuroqueering Online - Study | Instagram, TikTok | Linktree

PhD research project (ERGO: 103967) - participants needed!

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Meg Fereday is recruiting participants @meg-fereday.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Recruiting research participants! 📣 I’m looking to interview 16-21 year-olds who are interested in queerness and neurodivergence, and regularly use TikTok/Instagram. Find all info at linktr.ee/nqresearch.s..., and pls share amongst your networks! (ERGO: 103967)

Flyer advertising an opportunity to take part in my PhD research project

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Meg Fereday is recruiting participants @meg-fereday.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Never felt such solidarity + belonging in conference space than at the first ever Critical Neurodiversity Studies conf this week @durhamimh.bsky.social, amongst the many incredible independent scholars, artists and activists building up this field. so tired! so inspired! longer reflections to come!!

A selfie of Meg, a white person in their late twenties, wearing a teal black and white stripy top, square glasses and a gold star sticker on each cheekbone. Meg is smiling happily at the camera as they’ve just left an amazing panel discussion on neuroqueer performance at the Critical Neurodiversity Conference.

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Meg Fereday is recruiting participants @meg-fereday.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

the Critical Neurodiversity Studies Conference @durhamimh.bsky.social starts tomorrow! Wishing I could attend literally every talk/panel/workshop. I’ll be speaking about why critical media studies is essential to a critical turn in neurodiversity studies - catch me on the Digital panel tomorrow 🤸!

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Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Do this! Couldn't be a way to make it easier!

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Meg Fereday is recruiting participants @meg-fereday.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

got a room full of people laughing about network graphs last week at the @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social Queer Data Showcase - who knew! Thanks to @kevinguyan.bsky.social @sj-bennett.bsky.social @mystikaglamoor.bsky.social and all my co-presenters for a fantastic evening ☺️ 📸Daniel McGowan Photography

Meg (they/them) is standing at a lectern looking down at their notes and laughing. They're wearing a short-sleeved black turtleneck and iridescent-pink blue jeans. Behind them is a PowerPoint slide showing a close-up of some network graph data. A person with mid-length turquoise hair sits in front of the camera to the left of Meg, watching their presentation.

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Meg Fereday is recruiting participants @meg-fereday.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

en route Edinburgh to share my work on ✨neuroqueer network analysis✨ at @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social Queer Data Showcase tomorrow night! Tickets here 👇 www.ai-ethics.org/queer-data-s...

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Meg Fereday is recruiting participants @meg-fereday.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

A vital look into the digital, collective origins of 'neuroqueer' - stretching all the way back to autistic Usenet forums in the early 00s. Internet history is so crucial to critical neurodiversity studies! Asks: what might a neuroqueer citation politics look like?

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Meg Fereday is recruiting participants @meg-fereday.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Papers, videos, visual art, zines! - this is gonna be something special CFP Neurodiversity special issue - Towards a Critical Turn in Neurodiversity Studies: Bridging the Arts, Humanities and the Social Sciences Abstracts deadline 3rd Aug 25 journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cm...

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Rachel Charlton-Dailey @rachelcdailey.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Governments own research on whats triggered the increase in PIP claims found its mainly from health deterioration and needing more support, with many told about it by health professionals or the dwp itself - not social media www.gov.uk/government/p...

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Triggers to claiming Personal Independence Payment

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Meg Fereday is recruiting participants @meg-fereday.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

I'm a member of the @disconetwork.bsky.social Affiliate Program 2025! So far loving being part of such a radical and fun group of researchers - meet us here 👇 www.disconetwork.org/affiliates

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Affiliates — DISCO Network

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Louise Ting @neuro-observant.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

We’ve literally JUST had Neurodiversity Celebration Week. To raise awareness, to celebrate difference, to help make neurodivergent lives better And then we get this from a national newspaper. Wow, just wow

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Meg Fereday is recruiting participants @meg-fereday.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

First chapter of @disconetwork.bsky.social’s Technoskepticism offers the clearest, most radically compassionate articulation of “TikTok diagnoses” I’ve read so far Dare to diagnose yourself, again and again; brazenly say what your bodymind tells you; afford yourself space to be believed + cared for

Page 28 of Technoskepticism by DISCO Network. Highlighted passages read “we must rethink digital self-diagnosis as a bodily necessity. Precarious people self-diagnose in the face of rampant misdiagnosis and non-diagnosis. We need self-diagnosis. What might it mean to rethink self-diagnosis as a nourishing refusal of the digital clinic?” and “Self-diagnosis provides a means for becoming: it can offer a transitory, just-for-now space that enables people to grapple with the complexities of their bodyminds.”

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Meg Fereday is recruiting participants @meg-fereday.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

labour’s benefit cuts look to be explicitly targeted at neurodivergent folk - despite the long-touted statistic that ~80% of diagnosed UK autistic adults are unemployed. neurodiversity is a class issue, now more than ever www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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kat @katbamkapow.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

kishonna gray and @haimson.bsky.social in conversation about trans technologies -- tech that is made by & for the trans community to serve their needs! oliver is talking abt how queer & trans & gnc folks are, often, AI haters and prioritize tech that foregrounds care, community, and liberation

event info for trans technologies book event that is currently happening as i am posting this. event was hosted by UMSI, featuring a photo of oliver haimson and the cover of this book, trans technologies

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Meg Fereday is recruiting participants @meg-fereday.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

More excited than ever to get my hands on a copy of Trans Technologies after @haimson.bsky.social’s talk today. Thanks for answering my question, and for letting those of us outside the US dial in! (brb thinking about how technological trans care might be entangled w/ neuroqueer digital practices…)

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Meg Fereday is recruiting participants @meg-fereday.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

I’ve had such a warm welcome to @unisouthampton.bsky.social this month! Highlight had to be this zine-making workshop for LGBT PGRs, surrounded by the brilliantly curated Glitchy Kinship exhibition from @lizziereed.bsky.social and @miloustella.bsky.social at WSA Gallery ⛓️‍💥✨

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Meg Fereday is recruiting participants @meg-fereday.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Currently searching for organisations/support groups/outreach initiatives/networks for young people in the UK who are both queer and neurodivergent - and I'm coming up empty! bluesky hivemind, any recommendations?

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Meg Fereday is recruiting participants @meg-fereday.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

task-switching from literally anything into writing mode, the boss level of my adhd experience

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makena kelly @makenakelly.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

With the looming TikTok ban and Meta axing fact-checking, the internet's future is looking bleaker by the day. Wrote about it and more in this week's #WIREDPoliticsLab newsletter www.wired.com/story/the-in...

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The Internet’s Future Is Looking Bleaker By the Day

While Meta enacts the X playbook, TikTok is on the verge of being declared illegal. Who wins? Probably not internet users.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 08/01/2025

Meta literally created a LGBTQ exception for calling someone mentally ill as an insult. You can't do it for any other group except LGBTQ people.

The image is from a "Transparency Center" document and lists guidelines regarding acceptable and prohibited content for insults. It mentions:

1. Insults about:

Character, such as cowardice, dishonesty, criminality, and sexual promiscuity or immorality.

Mental characteristics, including but not limited to accusations of stupidity, intellectual capacity, and mental illness, as well as unsupported comparisons among politically correct (PC) groups based on inherent intellectual traits.

2. Highlighted section:

The document allows allegations of mental illness or abnormality when tied to gender or sexual orientation, referencing political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality. It also acknowledges the non-serious use of terms like "weird."

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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

SCOOP: Instagram blocked teens from searching LGBTQ-related content for months. Posts with LGBTQ+ hashtags were hidden under Meta's “sensitive content” policy which restricts "sexually suggestive content", Meta said they are fixing this “error” after I reached out for comment.

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Instagram blocked teens from searching LGBTQ-related content for months

Posts with LGBTQ+ hashtags were hidden under Meta's “sensitive content” policy which restricts "sexually suggestive content"

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Meg Fereday is recruiting participants @meg-fereday.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

airport security is the ninth circle of autistic hell

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Louise Ting @neuro-observant.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

#BIPOC voices are often missing from autistic spaces, so here is a BIPOC starter pack! 😊 go.bsky.app/TtXfpAt #racialequality #antiracism The image of autism as “only white boys” leads to underdiagnosis, discrimination & isolation for many Our autistic community is much more diverse than that! ❤️

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Meg Fereday is recruiting participants @meg-fereday.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Yet another high-profile white man to publicly claim neurodivergence in attempt to excuse his horrendous behaviour Deficit narratives of autism are, in fact, extremely helpful if you want to cast yourself as a victim rather than the people you harm

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Meg Fereday is recruiting participants @meg-fereday.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Have not been able to stop thinking about this article ever since I found it, in my rabbit-hole journey this year into links between tech development and autism research Emotion AI - computing that recognises facial expressions- was developed from "emotional hearing aids" built for autistic kids. !

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Meg Fereday is recruiting participants @meg-fereday.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

every year i can't help remembering that one tweet circa 2021 that made us all realise Wrapped season is just cutesified algorithmic surveillance

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Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Data is never ‘collected’, it is only *generated*. This isn’t merely a pedantic semantic gripe; by misrepresenting ‘data’ as something that exists in nature & has only to be scooped up, evasion of accountability for data harms has already begun Data doesn’t exist until someone constructs it

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Meg Fereday is recruiting participants @meg-fereday.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

bye bye twitter, hello blue place 🦋 I'm a 2nd year PhD looking at how young people use digital platforms to challenge neuro-heteronormativity. I think a lot about neuroqueering, queer uses, autistic liberation and how we think about algorithms. Would love to find followers with similar interests!

Meg (they/them), a white nonbinary autistic person, stands in front of a blue board showing a poster about their research into #neuroqueer digital cultures. Meg has brown curly hair and wears a dark red shirt and square glasses.

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