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Dr David Ben Shannon @davidbenshannon.bsky.social · 6h

They would be beyond perfect in every possible way.

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Speech Bubbles CIO @speechbubblescio.bsky.social · 29d

So proud to have contributed!

abihackett.bsky.social @abihackett.bsky.social · Sep 5

Our new book is published! You can read the first chapter for free here
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...

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Dr David Ben Shannon @davidbenshannon.bsky.social · 27d

We use sound methods to explore how young children make sense in museum spaces. We draw from Deleuze and Guattari's concept of the refrain to explore how rhythmic, fragile, and emplaced "little tunes" unfold during young children’s explorations of museum spaces.

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Dr David Ben Shannon @davidbenshannon.bsky.social · 27d

@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 · 27d

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

abihackett.bsky.social @abihackett.bsky.social · Sep 5

Our new book is published! You can read the first chapter for free here
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · Aug 8

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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Dr David Ben Shannon @davidbenshannon.bsky.social · Aug 11

Meanwhile, Jon Pertwee had terrible back pain because of his time on the show (he writes about it in his autobiography "I am the Doctor").

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Dr David Ben Shannon @davidbenshannon.bsky.social · Aug 11

Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi both had to have the same knee surgery because of the constant running and pivoting towards the camera.

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Dr David Ben Shannon @davidbenshannon.bsky.social · Jul 4

Absolutely!

Ash Parrish @adashtra.bsky.social · Jun 30

Post your favorire Doctor Who. Wrong Answers only.

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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · Jul 1

“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.”

Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention
Red Flag Alert on Anti-trans and intersex Rights in the UK
Released on 30th of June 2025

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Dr David Ben Shannon @davidbenshannon.bsky.social · Jun 25

Always.

Dr David Ben Shannon @davidbenshannon.bsky.social · Jun 25

The next thing they always say is "imagine him meeting the Daleks again for the first time" as if the problem with the Dalek stories is the Doctor's overfamiliarity with them (rather than ours).

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Tig Slater @tigslater.bsky.social · Jun 17

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

aroundthetoilet.wordpress.com

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Dr David Ben Shannon @davidbenshannon.bsky.social · Jun 19

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?

Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · Apr 9

A good guide to the next great university scandal: they will be able to submit big groups of researchers to the 2029 Research Excellence Framework, get millions of your money, then sack all the staff and pocket their nice yearly income from you the taxpayer until c2036/37. wonkhe.com/blogs/portab...

Portability within REF remains key to fairness

Maria Delgado, Nandini Das, and Miles Padgett warn that separating research outputs from the researchers who created them in REF 2029 would undermine the integrity of the whole research environment

wonkhe.com

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Dr. Jey McCreight 🧬🏳️‍⚧️ @jeymccreight.bsky.social · Jun 17

Not all cis men have XY chromosomes

Not all cis women have XX chromosomes

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Dr. Joanna and her Evil Hellhounds @jlphistory.bsky.social · Jun 17

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?

Unless you seek it out, most professors don't learn how to teach. It's not part of the job requirements. The idea is that you're an expert in your field and that's Enough.

Dr. Briana Jackson 🏴‍☠️ @baladria.bsky.social · Jun 17

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?

Egyptologists don’t know every tiny detail of the ca. 5000 yrs of ancient Egypt. That’s why we have specializations! Language, art, archaeology, bioarchaeology, etc.

I mostly study New Kingdom period art, specifically the Amarna period

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Dr David Ben Shannon @davidbenshannon.bsky.social · May 23

And Gloucester calls Regan a "naughty lady" while she plucks out his beard and eyes.

Dr David Ben Shannon @davidbenshannon.bsky.social · May 23

Dr Who is INFECTIOUS. It is in on the joke of how utterly silly it is. It gets you with big feels, even while being utterly, knowingly silly. It's for children but scares adults. It costs a fortune but looks cheap. The Doctor always wins or loses by being clever, kind or sorry, or because love.

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Dr David Ben Shannon @davidbenshannon.bsky.social · May 22

“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.”

Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · May 21

The key question in this short but damning (of the Supreme Court) letter by Emeritus Professor of neuroscience at Cambridge Uni is this;

“Why should genitals supersede brains?”

The “Supreme” Court has decided our bodies matter more than our souls, our minds.

It is an extreme dehumanization.

The UK Supreme Court's ruling and the rights of transgender people

On April 16, 2025, the UK Supreme Court ruled that only those who are what it terms as biologically female can be defined as women.1 This has wide implications for medicine as well as for people who a...

www.thelancet.com

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Arthur Webber 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @bernietranders.bsky.social · May 19

"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 · May 19

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

Autistic Realms (Helen Edgar) @autisticrealms.bsky.social · May 18

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:
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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...

petition.parliament.uk

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Dr David Ben Shannon @davidbenshannon.bsky.social · May 19

Such a BRILLIANT episode. I love it when you have no idea what you're going to get each week. Camp Star Wars, Alien, evil Roger Robert, Die Hard in space,... great season

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Dr David Ben Shannon @davidbenshannon.bsky.social · May 19

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 · May 19

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.

Dr David Ben Shannon @davidbenshannon.bsky.social · May 19

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

Autistic Realms (Helen Edgar) @autisticrealms.bsky.social · May 18

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

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...

petition.parliament.uk

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Autistic Realms (Helen Edgar) @autisticrealms.bsky.social · May 18

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

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...

petition.parliament.uk

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