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Lucy M

@lucyelm.bsky.social

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medievalist • MA • interested in: royal legitimation, historical narratives and legends in 13-14th cent. Wales, Scotland, and England • in a constant state of wanderlust • in Melbourne/Naarm • she/her

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Lucy M @lucyelm.bsky.social · Feb 24

As we head into the new academic year in Australia, I'd like to reshare this document of #neurodivergent study tips that I compiled.

It's based entirely on tips by neurodivergent people, and I have had learning advisors tell me it was very helpful and had good info.

#historysky #academicsky

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Neurodivergent Study Tips.pdf

drive.google.com

Lucy M @lucyelm.bsky.social · 23h

Truly. This is me ‘learning to live with it’, maybe they should try move of this rather than ‘pretend it’s not a thing to worry about’, that’s not learning to live with it being here!

Lucy M @lucyelm.bsky.social · 23h

I don’t really care for your justification of protecting your job when it comes at such the harm that ai causes. And again, maybe your field wouldn’t deem it ‘inevitable’ if you didn’t just go ‘🤷‍♀️ don’t have a choice here’

Lucy M @lucyelm.bsky.social · 23h

This particularly infuriates me around ai, ‘it’s inevitable so we have to use it’ idk maybe it wouldn’t be inevitable if more people decided to push back against that

Particularly the ‘I need to use it in my job or x,y,z’ -

Lucy M @lucyelm.bsky.social · 23h

And concurrently with it being portrayed at ‘here to stay so just deal with it’, responses to me continuing to mask is ‘it’s not a definite you’ll get covid + very sick, so you should protect yourself less’

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Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 1d

Are you in Australia, aged 20-70, with an increased risk of #BreastCancer via family history, prev ADH or LCIS on biopsy, or other reasons? Hurry to your GP for referral to this FREE, TELEHEALTH service recently started by Prof Kelly Anne Phillips to discuss medical prevention. #ASBD2025

Picture of slide with text:
Preventing Cancer with Medications
(PCMed) Service

Peter Mac

• Frec consultative, telehealth service for healthy women anywhere in Australia at
increased risk of 1" BC

• Primory focus is to initiate BC prevention medication and ensure well-tolerated

•Discharge women to primary care to complete the 5-year treatment course

Support women, referring clinicians and GPs throughout treatment trajectory
(hotline service)

Embedded implementation study to assess feasibility and effectiveness of the
Service (uptake 55%)

Picture of slide with text:
Who is suitable?
Female
Aged 20 to 70years.
No invasive BC or DCIS.
Increased BC risk
LCIS or atypical-hyperlasla
Remaining lifetime BC risk >20% or 10-year risk >5%

And a QR code for referral information

Prof Kelly Anne Phillips appealing at podium

Lucy M @lucyelm.bsky.social · 1d

My #tinyjoy of the day is these flowers I just passed walking to my car from class and the fact that it’s now light out when I leave class Friday evenings

Purple daisies(?) in some green leaf

Lucy M @lucyelm.bsky.social · 1d

Weather being nice means I’m back to my perennial grump about my neck meaning I have to do work with a desktop set up and can’t sit in the sun with my laptop 😩

Lucy M @lucyelm.bsky.social · 2d

Befriended a group of friends that were extremely impactful relationships in my teens, made a collection of other friends, met my partner.

Also! Social media spurned my love for bbc’s Merlin, which is what got me into Arthurian legends and led to my research interest so

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 3d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

Lucy M @lucyelm.bsky.social · 2d

Lieutenant could be depending on place and tourist

Lucy M @lucyelm.bsky.social · 2d

Ah! My library has it, awesome. It looks very good

Lucy M @lucyelm.bsky.social · 2d

Ooh! I will definitely check that out

Lucy M @lucyelm.bsky.social · 2d

my approach to things like lectures and readings in undergrad. But I still went through all the motions of traditional learning

Lucy M @lucyelm.bsky.social · 2d

That’s interesting and also makes sense. I wonder if there’s studies done on how home schooled vs traditionally schooled students approach university.

I was a very good student at high school but because I picked up things quickly, I never learnt to properly ‘study’, and I think that impacted

Lucy M @lucyelm.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe that’s where the being a mature age student vs a teenager fits in haha

Lucy M @lucyelm.bsky.social · 2d

It’s always so interesting to see how even within the same neurodivergence, there’s still lots of variety.

I never looked at uploaded slides first and rarely looked at them later (even if I hadn’t taken a lot in from the lecture). I do agree it would have helped me but 😅

Lucy M @lucyelm.bsky.social · 2d

Check slides later/before or rewatch as you said, if they need, but you missing stuff impacts the whole cohort.

Lucy M @lucyelm.bsky.social · 2d

Very good point there about conflicting accessibility needs! You being able to give all the content you need to give is the priority there - I was thinking more from a student perspective, but your ability to give everyone the whole content would take priority there, because the select students can-

Lucy M @lucyelm.bsky.social · 2d

it can’t marvel at that students making precarious links that aren’t there does show they took something on, and it can’t wander back to the table later for them to tell you they don’t have a clue what’s going on in this reading and know you won’t get annoyed and will help them figure it out

Lucy M @lucyelm.bsky.social · 2d

Sure, ai could probably give a more in depth answer to queries of the Mongol expansion, but it can’t laugh when the distracted table comes up with the most precarious link about how their conversation about going for their drivers tests relates to content about medieval expansionism

Lucy M @lucyelm.bsky.social · 2d

When you’re human and you recognise that students are too then they ask you for help when they’re struggling and they believe you’re after their best interests.

Lucy M @lucyelm.bsky.social · 2d

they only did half their reading because they ran out of time, they did the whole reading but didn’t understand any of it, they’re asking a question of something you literally just explained) is why I’m a good teacher.

Lucy M @lucyelm.bsky.social · 2d

*I’m human* and showing my students that I’m human (and I forget things, I misspell key terms of the weeks content, I acknowledge finding things confusing or hard)

and that I *recognise that they’re human* (it’s 3pm and they just want to stare at the wall a minute,-

Lucy M @lucyelm.bsky.social · 2d

I really love this

and also, I’ve been thinking about what makes me a good teacher, and it’s not that I know the content well (as a TA, I often just learnt it myself!), it’s a lot that I know the skills, but it’s largely that I come into my classrooms with a chaotic but empathetic energy.

Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · 3d

“I remember the human parts.

And the human error is the point.”

therumpus.net/2025/10/02/h...

Human Error Is the Point: On Teaching College During the Rise of AI - The Rumpus

My syllabus is a mess of half-remembered intentions. I re-use icebreakers that I know don’t work. I forget to grade the first assignment until Week Four. I write emails that begin with “So sorry for t...

Lucy M @lucyelm.bsky.social · 3d

Oh my god, how awful for those students

Lucy M @lucyelm.bsky.social · 3d

As a historian that focuses on uses of legends: yes