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Melanie Rimmer @melanierimmer.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

We're still recruiting for this study: Are you neurodivergent & have done, or considered, a PhD? We’re researching how doctoral study works (or doesn’t) for neurodivergent people. Take our 30min survey: forms.office.com/e/ft9jyWsPUW Questions? Email lindsay.odell@open.ac.uk #PhD #Neurodivergent

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Melanie Rimmer @melanierimmer.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Are you neurodivergent & have done, or considered, a PhD? We’re researching how doctoral study works (or doesn’t) for neurodivergent people. Take our 30min survey & help make academia more inclusive forms.office.com/e/ft9jyWsPUW Questions? Email lindsay.odell@open.ac.uk #PhD #Neurodivergent

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Welfare cuts are a political choice. 685,500 Britons (1%) have wealth of £2.8trn. 48m (70%) have £2.4trn. Richest four have more wealth than 20m people combined. Govt could have taxed the rich, chose to cut benefits of the disabled/poor. Not acceptable. Tell your MP to oppose the cuts.

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Why austerity is a political choice not an economic necessity

Prem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. Ch...

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Melanie Rimmer @melanierimmer.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Improve a first line by substituting Mrs Dalloway: “Last night I dreamed Mrs Dalloway went to Manderley again”

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Maddy Rose @maddyirose.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I keep seeing the press describe benefits cuts as a 'crackdown'. Other crackdowns we hear about usually reference crime or anti-social behaviour. What does that imply about benefit claimants? Claiming the benefits you're entitled to isn't a crime - these are cuts, not a crackdown

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Dr Amy Kavanagh @blondehistorian.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

What we wear can be a projection of how we want to be percieved. In my series for Wellcome Collection Stories Sinéad Burke shares why she is so passionate about the fashion and why the industry can be a transformative space for disability justice. wellcomecollection.org/stories/fash...

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Fashion, identity, and the need for community

Sinéad Burke’s love of fashion has driven her to campaign for change and, ultimately, establish a consultancy that aims to transform the way the industry includes and represents Disabled people.

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Flora Renz @florarenz.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

“If you are reliant on Pip, it is truly terrifying to witness, but it should terrify all of us, because a government that can front out this kind of denial is one that is not listening, not curious, not realistic and not humane.” @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Labour is gaslighting disabled people – and that should terrify us all | Zoe Williams

The messaging that suggests poverty is caused by low aspiration and that disability is a choice could have come straight from the Conservatives’ playbook, writes Zoe Williams

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Dr Gillian Jack @drgillhistory.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Meanwhile, staff stress is skyrocketing and all the OU has done is to offer senior managers a training course and ask the rest of us if we feel better yet?

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 12/03/2025

Hey folks a lot of you are sharing big blocks of text on coloured backgrounds with all sorts of big claims/news and yet providing no link to any actual source. This is how propaganda & disinformation spreads. Provide sources. It's absolutely critical And alt text because almost none of you are.

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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

“Every time you see a headline on “the cost of the benefits bill”, what you are really reading is “the cost of disabled people”. My col. on Labour’s reported benefit cuts and the toxic narrative of the “moral” virtue of work. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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There is a shameful tradition of demonising disabled people. Why is Labour reigniting it? | Frances Ryan

Ministers run away from a wealth tax and then concoct a punitive benefits system. They have made that choice and it’s immoral, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Government wants more people to return to work, but at the same time, is consciously eliminating the jobs that offer the best paths back into work:

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Government’s employment reforms clash with its welfare plans

Jobs market policies could threaten the part-time vacancies that ease people back into work

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Ann Memmott @annmemmott.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Relevant to the 'disabled people need to work' discussions: A contact of mine applied for a job. They asked for one small cost-free 'reasonable adjustment'. The employer promptly told them they couldn't have this. No discussion. It's Not The Disabled People Who Are The 'Problem', #Labour Party.

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Melanie Rimmer @melanierimmer.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I was supposed to write from 7am - 9am this morning, but was on a roll so didn't stop until 9:40. Wrote 750 words. It's part of my literature review for my PhD - writing about different models of disability (I've identified 14) and how they shape discourse

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Melanie Rimmer @melanierimmer.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

I recognise I'll never finish reading. By the time I've read everything relevant written to date, other people will have written more. People in my field are writing RIGHT NOW. Bastards. I hate them. STOP! I need to catch up!

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Melanie Rimmer @melanierimmer.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Is this just impostor syndrome? Do I think I need to earn the right to write by reading "enough"? Is this just self-sabotage, endlessly deferring the painful task of writing by convincing myself to read as displacement activity?

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Melanie Rimmer @melanierimmer.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

thesis. So this can't be how everyone else does it, all the other academics who write things. Are they just far more well-read than I am? Or are they misrepresenting themselves, citing things they haven't read? Or am I just inventing overly stringent rules for myself that nobody follows or expects?

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Melanie Rimmer @melanierimmer.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

or misrepresent myself as having read things I haven't. But while I'm reading I feel anxiety because I'm supposed to be writing, not reading, this isn't getting any writing done. & if I have to read a whole article or book or chapter for every sentence I write, it will take me 100 years to write a

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Melanie Rimmer @melanierimmer.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

cited it. & then I think "I can't cite that if I haven't read it" & I get the feeling that I haven't read enough to authoritatively write anything. So I stop writing and start reading the article/chapter/book so that I feel I understand it properly & won't be mispresenting it in my writing, or

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Melanie Rimmer @melanierimmer.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Writing is so anxiety-inducing. I start to write something & then I think "Where did I find that idea from?" & search for an article/book to cite. Then I realise I never read the whole article or book, I read about it in a "...for beginners" title, or I read a review of it, or something I read

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Melanie Rimmer @melanierimmer.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

I persuaded my partner, who gets up by 7 on weekdays, to bring me a coffee every morning so I can get a couple of hours writing done in bed before I start "work" work. 364 words this morning. I love this plan.

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Melanie Rimmer @melanierimmer.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Followed you because I want to read this. It's very relevant to my own work

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Melanie Rimmer @melanierimmer.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Got up early to do some writing on my Lit Review. Endnote had a massive tantrum and needs to be reinstalled. Thinking about just going back to bed

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Melanie Rimmer @melanierimmer.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

There hasn't yet been a day that made me regret not voting Labour in the last GE. I could see that the Tories had become worse than they had ever been. But Labour also had become worse, and now occupied the space that the old Tories used to occupy. This latest move doesn't surprise me.

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Max Nichols @maxnichols.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

I'm not sure which of you need to hear this, but: If you push yourself to your limits and burn out for a company, you are trading years of your future productivity for minor gains in the present. Burning out will _fuck you up_, it's like brain fog or depression, and it takes years to recover

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Melanie Rimmer @melanierimmer.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Kasibba spent 45 wrongly locked up in a mental health hospital. Hundreds of other autistic people and people with learning disabilities are still wrongly detained. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Autistic woman wrongly locked up in mental health hospital for 45 years

“Kasibba”, who is non-verbal and had no family to speak for her, was one of hundreds wrongly detained.

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Melanie Rimmer @melanierimmer.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Maybe we should coin some terms that carry the opposite connotation eg neurocommon, neurobanal, neuromundane, neurobland.

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Glitter Grrl @glittergrrl.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

If you are a fellow ADHDer, I highly recommend Dusty’s offerings. I’m going to do her Bootcamp this time- join me!

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Melanie Rimmer @melanierimmer.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Like lecture notes. You can't just get the notes from someone else because the notes aren't the point. The process of making them is the point. If you made notes & then someone stole your notes, you'd still have the benefit of the process you went through. The thief would have nothing worth having.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 18/02/2025

Knowledge is never knowing the answer. It’s knowing the territory.

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Melanie Rimmer @melanierimmer.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I've pre-ordered this. Looks like essential reading

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Francesca @frankiesoton.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Shocking statistics #LearningDisabilities

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Melanie Rimmer @melanierimmer.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

An easy way for social science undergraduates to write much better essays by changing how they think about paragraphs at the planning stage: Make Points, not Topics. new study skills video at youtu.be/C42cX_uO428

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Melanie Rimmer @melanierimmer.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Seeking asylum is legal. As a child I learned about Jewish refugees in Britain in WW2 and the Kindertransport. I was taught to be proud of how Britain helped people fleeing dangerous places and gave them somewhere safer to live. I was taught it was a good thing to do.

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Think Local Act Personal @tlap.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

If you work directly with people who draw on care and support, or have lived experience yourself, we'd love to hear from you. Your insights will help develop a new well-led theme for Making It Real, and influence how leadership is assessed by the Care Quality Commission. Sign up now bit.ly/4aStMzK

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Melanie Rimmer @melanierimmer.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Today’s PhD reading location - a quiet area in the University of Manchester while my son is in his lectures. Later we’ll get lunch together

Cafe table with a psychology textbook, notepad, and a cup of boba tea

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Melanie Rimmer @melanierimmer.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

What, if anything, is the relationship between what you're describing, and the concept of "democracy"?

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Melanie Rimmer @melanierimmer.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Helen @hbowescatton.bsky.social you should read this paper. You'll like it and it may be useful too.

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