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Dr Jane Park 🎻🏳️‍⚧️ @viola-jane.bsky.social · Jul 24

When struggling to find suitable words, or action, I'm grateful that others manage to.

Here's an action, & words, to send to David Lammy.

Sign, send & share:

palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/demandsancti...

Write to David Lammy: Gaza is starving to death

palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk

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Ellie Makri @elliemakri.bsky.social · Apr 9

Please support this research if you can. 🙏

Recruitment ad looking for parents/carers to participate in a study exploring aspects of menstruation in autistic girls with learning disabilities.

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Dr Dan O'Hare @edpsydan.bsky.social · Mar 30

I'll edit:

"Nearly 20 councils at risk of insolvency due to a decade of austerity, rising citizen poverty levels, a developmentally inappropriate curriculum, an exclusionary and within child cultural understanding of SEND, and a decimated teaching workforce"

@theguardian.com

#edpsychs

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🚀 Dr Fi Coley (The Ed Psych Coach) @fionacoley.bsky.social · Mar 21

I’m ending Neurodiversity Celebration Week 2025 with this brilliant quote 💫

Please repost if you agree ✅

#NeurodiversityCelebrationWeek #NeurodiversityWeek #NCW #ThisIsND #edpsychs

"We will all profit from a more diverse, inclusive society, understanding, accommodating, even celebrating our differences, while pulling together for the common good"
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Lawyer / Jurist
www.neurodiversityweek.com

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silvialauzzana.bsky.social @silvialauzzana.bsky.social · Mar 20

Hi! I am calling on Tavi-trained EPs for my doctoral thesis. I've attached information to the flyer. I look forward to hearing from you! Silvia 😊
#Edpsychs

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Ellie Makri @elliemakri.bsky.social · Mar 10

I’m researching autistic girls’ experiences at the moment and finding that their particular experiences tend to be under-researched. There is research on autistic YP but not specifically for girls…

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Dr Jane Park 🎻🏳️‍⚧️ @viola-jane.bsky.social · Jan 22

💡 Thought-provoking ideas on how to talk about neurodiversity without relying on medical/deficit language - a model for us from Sonny Jane Wise in the form of the Neurodiversity Smorgasbord 🤩

How do you speak of difference?

#EdPsychs #edusky

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The Psychologist @psychmag.bsky.social · Jan 13

‘When pupils feel like they belong, they want to stay…’

@sophietales.bsky.social and Dr Leanne Cort with a teacher and ed psych perspective on challenging decisions in school.

www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

Repost for your chance to win a copy of Sophie's book, 'Creating adversity-aware schools'.

www.bps.org.uk

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Ellie Makri @elliemakri.bsky.social · Jan 12

This inspirational story of an educational journey, that started at a PRU but ended with a DPhil from Oxford, is food for thought around closing doors, systemic injustice and second chances:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

#edpsychs

BBC Radio 4 - Life Changing, Excluded

Marginalised his whole life, aged 24, Tier demands a reckoning with the education system.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Ellie Makri @elliemakri.bsky.social · Jan 6

Psychiatrist Dr Gwen Adshead delivers 4 lectures as part of Radio 4 ‘s Reith Lectures, where she reconstructs violence and evil as a human response to - among other things - childhood trauma. Relevant implications for EP practice #edpsychs
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - The Reith Lectures, Gwen Adshead - Four Questions about Violence, Does Trauma Cause Violence?

Forensic psychiatrist Dr Gwen Adshead asks if trauma causes violence.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Ellie Makri @elliemakri.bsky.social · Dec 19

Sadly, history shows that many humans (in this case, children) must suffer before we, as a society, learn our lessons… Let’s hope we can learn quicker this time.

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Ellie Makri @elliemakri.bsky.social · Dec 16

Detentions do nothing good. They do plenty of harm, though.

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Ellie Makri @elliemakri.bsky.social · Dec 13

In my opinion, it infringes personal freedom by attempting to modify behaviour, so that it conforms to someone else’s norm. So, no, it is not ethical.

Ellie Makri @elliemakri.bsky.social · Dec 13

It did the job: she is now a TEP!

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Ellie Makri @elliemakri.bsky.social · Dec 12

My friend did it at Brunel University London, online course.

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Ellie Makri @elliemakri.bsky.social · Dec 10

Is this report disseminated to the DfE? Not that things would then necessarily change, but it would be a start…

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Elenya TEP @tep-emcg.bsky.social · Dec 7

Calling all families impacted by parental imprisonment!

I am recruiting children and young people to discuss their experiences of parental imprisonment as part of my doctoral thesis.

Please see the attached poster for more information and feel free to share.
#edpsych #parentalimprisonment #Edusky

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Ellie Makri @elliemakri.bsky.social · Dec 7

Psychiatrist Dr Gwen Adshead delivers 4 lectures as part of Radio 4 ‘s Reith Lectures. She reconstructs violence and evil as a human response to - amongst other things - childhood trauma. Extremely relevant implications for EP practice. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - The Reith Lectures, Gwen Adshead - Four Questions about Violence, Does Trauma Cause Violence?

Forensic psychiatrist Dr Gwen Adshead asks if trauma causes violence.

www.bbc.co.uk

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🌴✨🦋 Kathryn 🦋✨🌴 @kathrynkatiekwrites.substack.com · Dec 3

Every time I read about banning books, I think of this:

Reading a book with a gay character will not make you gay any more than reading a book about Einstein will make you a genius.
If you're afraid that books might change someone's thinking, you're not afraid of books — you're afraid of thinking.

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Joolone @joolone.bsky.social · Nov 16

“Why did the Hungry Caterpillar make a cocoon?”

#EYFS child: “So no one bothers him.”

“Sorry?” I ask.

EYFS child: “He needs time to THINK himself INTO a butterfly.”

“Wow!” I respond.

EYFS child: “Well, he didn’t do it by magic.”

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Ellie Makri @elliemakri.bsky.social · Sep 28

Thank you for the music Bristol NOYO Ensemble (noyo.org.uk/the-orchestra/). Your joy and wonderful energy were contagious!

A small example of the valuable and inspiring contributions young disabled people can make to our world.

Ellie Makri @elliemakri.bsky.social · Sep 13

Just finished Katriona O’Sullivan’s #POOR. It is excellent! Its main strength lies in its ability to convey so vividly the reality of growing up in poverty. If every professional working with children knew the problem in such detail, one would hope that outcomes for the children would improve.

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · Sep 1

I do find it interesting when 'evidence informed' meets evidence that doesn't fit with the narrative. There's loads of evidence that movement supports learning. Just because that doesn't match how some people think education should look doesn't make it untrue. 🤷‍♀️

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Ellie Makri @elliemakri.bsky.social · Aug 28

In Greece we say that, when that happens, “you are drenched with good luck”!

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Ellie Makri @elliemakri.bsky.social · Aug 25

It is so true… Thank you for sharing. I have a daughter with disabilities and yet I hadn’t thought of that aspect of life for people with disabilities (possibly because my daughter gets anxious around people she doesn’t know).

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