Graham Mead
@twillierod.bsky.social
Enactive Autistic Synaesthete
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Path Diversity
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Alice in Wonderland Syndrome
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Path Diversity
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This new edited volume on the colonial genealogies of EU Law looks interesting. Great to see a few familiar EUI names there, including the wonderful editor, and it's Open Access. www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
Colonialism and the EU Legal Order
Cambridge Core - European Law - Colonialism and the EU Legal Order
www.cambridge.org
November 26, 2025 at 10:59 AM
This new edited volume on the colonial genealogies of EU Law looks interesting. Great to see a few familiar EUI names there, including the wonderful editor, and it's Open Access. www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
“Some important areas, often seen in epilepsy, such as autism, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, learning difficulty, intellectual disability or movement disorders, were not covered.”
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Epilepsy and mental health disorders: current challenges and potential solutions | The British Journal of Psychiatry | Cambridge Core
Epilepsy and mental health disorders: current challenges and potential solutions
www.cambridge.org
November 26, 2025 at 10:03 AM
“Some important areas, often seen in epilepsy, such as autism, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, learning difficulty, intellectual disability or movement disorders, were not covered.”
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Shocking. SUDEP 4 times higher in prisons than outside.
“A damning review commissioned by the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) found inmates with epilepsy had been found dead after being locked in single cells despite having uncontrolled seizures.”
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
“A damning review commissioned by the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) found inmates with epilepsy had been found dead after being locked in single cells despite having uncontrolled seizures.”
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
Revealed: The inmates dying needlessly in Britain’s prisons
Exclusive: Epileptic prisoners are dying in their cells without receiving the care they are entitled to
www.independent.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Shocking. SUDEP 4 times higher in prisons than outside.
“A damning review commissioned by the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) found inmates with epilepsy had been found dead after being locked in single cells despite having uncontrolled seizures.”
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
“A damning review commissioned by the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) found inmates with epilepsy had been found dead after being locked in single cells despite having uncontrolled seizures.”
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
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We hope the learnings from this report will go some way in ensuring health conditions such as epilepsy are better understood and cared for in custody, and that further future deaths are prevented.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/epilepsy-prison-deaths-ombudsman-warning-b2869319.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/epilepsy-prison-deaths-ombudsman-warning-b2869319.html
Revealed: The inmates dying needlessly in Britain’s prisons
Exclusive: Epileptic prisoners are dying in their cells without receiving the care they are entitled to
www.independent.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 10:11 AM
We hope the learnings from this report will go some way in ensuring health conditions such as epilepsy are better understood and cared for in custody, and that further future deaths are prevented.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/epilepsy-prison-deaths-ombudsman-warning-b2869319.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/epilepsy-prison-deaths-ombudsman-warning-b2869319.html
“In my experience even the most severely disabled people retain an ineradicable conviction that they are still fully human in all that is ultimately necessary” Paul Hunt, A Critical Condition. Chapter in Stigma: The Experience of Disability, Editor, Paul Hunt, 1966
November 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
“In my experience even the most severely disabled people retain an ineradicable conviction that they are still fully human in all that is ultimately necessary” Paul Hunt, A Critical Condition. Chapter in Stigma: The Experience of Disability, Editor, Paul Hunt, 1966
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@deevybee.bsky.social @rosewind.bsky.social I finally finished writing a thing.
forbetterscience.com/2025/11/25/a...
forbetterscience.com/2025/11/25/a...
A bit of Frye and Rossignol
“Trapped inside every autist, a normal child with normal cognition is struggling to get out – only needing the right drug or therapy to be released”, – Smut Clyde
forbetterscience.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:37 AM
@deevybee.bsky.social @rosewind.bsky.social I finally finished writing a thing.
forbetterscience.com/2025/11/25/a...
forbetterscience.com/2025/11/25/a...
When I were a lad, some hyperactive ADHD folk were told they had ‘ants in their pants.’ Personally think our understanding has improved.
November 23, 2025 at 9:29 PM
When I were a lad, some hyperactive ADHD folk were told they had ‘ants in their pants.’ Personally think our understanding has improved.
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"Drawing on a corpus of over 15,000 scholarly articles published between 1800 and 2024, we map the linguistic landscape of eugenics in scholarly discourse to reveal its institutional, scientific, and sociopolitical entrenchment"
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
Echoes of Eugenics: Tracing the Ideological Persistence of Scientific Racism in Scholarly Discourse | Proceedings of the 5th ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimiza...
dl.acm.org
November 23, 2025 at 9:24 AM
"Drawing on a corpus of over 15,000 scholarly articles published between 1800 and 2024, we map the linguistic landscape of eugenics in scholarly discourse to reveal its institutional, scientific, and sociopolitical entrenchment"
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
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📆 ‼️ Workshop announcement ‼️ 14th Jan 2026
⭐ Metaphorical Framings of Emotions in Mental Health ⭐
Organised by myself with Prof. Jeannette Littlemore
Please see here for the full schedule and to sign up (in-person places are limited):
lnkd.in/dZ57MKwt
⭐ Metaphorical Framings of Emotions in Mental Health ⭐
Organised by myself with Prof. Jeannette Littlemore
Please see here for the full schedule and to sign up (in-person places are limited):
lnkd.in/dZ57MKwt
November 22, 2025 at 6:18 PM
📆 ‼️ Workshop announcement ‼️ 14th Jan 2026
⭐ Metaphorical Framings of Emotions in Mental Health ⭐
Organised by myself with Prof. Jeannette Littlemore
Please see here for the full schedule and to sign up (in-person places are limited):
lnkd.in/dZ57MKwt
⭐ Metaphorical Framings of Emotions in Mental Health ⭐
Organised by myself with Prof. Jeannette Littlemore
Please see here for the full schedule and to sign up (in-person places are limited):
lnkd.in/dZ57MKwt
The Roots of the Neoliberal Subject: Margaret Thatcher and the Creation of Homo Oeconomicus
Alexander Curtis
www.jhiblog.org/2025/11/10/t...
Alexander Curtis
www.jhiblog.org/2025/11/10/t...
The Roots of the Neoliberal Subject: Margaret Thatcher and the Creation of Homo Oeconomicus
by Alexander Curtis
This think piece is part of the forum “The Return of Political Economy in Intellectual History.”
www.jhiblog.org
November 22, 2025 at 6:16 PM
The Roots of the Neoliberal Subject: Margaret Thatcher and the Creation of Homo Oeconomicus
Alexander Curtis
www.jhiblog.org/2025/11/10/t...
Alexander Curtis
www.jhiblog.org/2025/11/10/t...
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Please tell us about disabled communists and anarchists we have not already covered.
See zine 1 here: files.libcom.org/files/2025-0...
See zine 2 here: files.libcom.org/files/2025-0...
See zine 1 here: files.libcom.org/files/2025-0...
See zine 2 here: files.libcom.org/files/2025-0...
November 22, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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6 Suggestions for DSM-6
Making the next DSM look less like a house of mirrors
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/6-suggesti...
Making the next DSM look less like a house of mirrors
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/6-suggesti...
6 Suggestions for DSM-6
Making the next DSM look less like a house of mirrors
www.psychiatrymargins.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:55 PM
6 Suggestions for DSM-6
Making the next DSM look less like a house of mirrors
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/6-suggesti...
Making the next DSM look less like a house of mirrors
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/6-suggesti...
One neurodivergence, Down syndrome, is rarely spoken of in the neurodivergent literature. “in 1981, the life expectancy of someone with Down syndrome in Ireland was only in the mid-20s, [..] Now, it’s 60 to 70.”
projects.research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/en/horizon-m...
projects.research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/en/horizon-m...
Living longer, living better: new advances in Down syndrome care
David Clarke has a busy life juggling two jobs. He works three days a week recycling waste at a supermarket in Drogheda, his home town in eastern Ireland. On other days, he takes the hour-long bus rid...
projects.research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu
November 20, 2025 at 10:28 PM
One neurodivergence, Down syndrome, is rarely spoken of in the neurodivergent literature. “in 1981, the life expectancy of someone with Down syndrome in Ireland was only in the mid-20s, [..] Now, it’s 60 to 70.”
projects.research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/en/horizon-m...
projects.research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/en/horizon-m...
Upcoming (Dec 3) free online event
Paloma and the Octopus, a novel in progress
An original reading with author Aoife Sadlier
The Antonio Gramsci Society UK
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/paloma-and...
Paloma and the Octopus, a novel in progress
An original reading with author Aoife Sadlier
The Antonio Gramsci Society UK
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/paloma-and...
Paloma and the Octopus, a novel in progress
An original reading with author Aoife Sadlier
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Upcoming (Dec 3) free online event
Paloma and the Octopus, a novel in progress
An original reading with author Aoife Sadlier
The Antonio Gramsci Society UK
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/paloma-and...
Paloma and the Octopus, a novel in progress
An original reading with author Aoife Sadlier
The Antonio Gramsci Society UK
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/paloma-and...
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Grateful to the Decoding the Gurus guys for having me on to discuss Autism, Microbiomes, & Mice Burying Marbles... @guruspod.bsky.social cc @statsepi.bsky.social @deevybee.bsky.social 😊 open.spotify.com/episode/01w8...
Autism, Microbiomes, & Mice Burying Marbles with Kevin Mitchell
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November 19, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Grateful to the Decoding the Gurus guys for having me on to discuss Autism, Microbiomes, & Mice Burying Marbles... @guruspod.bsky.social cc @statsepi.bsky.social @deevybee.bsky.social 😊 open.spotify.com/episode/01w8...
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The Brain, In Theory
Romain Brette
Why engineering and computational analogies are poorly suited to the study of biological cognition
press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
Introduction available here: romainbrette.fr/WordPress3/w...
Romain Brette
Why engineering and computational analogies are poorly suited to the study of biological cognition
press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
Introduction available here: romainbrette.fr/WordPress3/w...
The Brain, In Theory
Why engineering and computational analogies are poorly suited to the study of biological cognition
press.princeton.edu
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
The Brain, In Theory
Romain Brette
Why engineering and computational analogies are poorly suited to the study of biological cognition
press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
Introduction available here: romainbrette.fr/WordPress3/w...
Romain Brette
Why engineering and computational analogies are poorly suited to the study of biological cognition
press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
Introduction available here: romainbrette.fr/WordPress3/w...
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Conversational turn-taking feels effortless, but it's a complex dance. We find social context—who you're talking to and what you're talking about—fundamentally changes conversational dynamics in both autistic & TD children. 1/
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Social Context Matters for Turn‐Taking Dynamics: A Comparative Study of Autistic and Typically Developing Children
Engaging in fluent conversation is a surprisingly complex task that requires interlocutors to promptly respond to each other in a way that is appropriate to the social context. In this study, we dise...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 15, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Conversational turn-taking feels effortless, but it's a complex dance. We find social context—who you're talking to and what you're talking about—fundamentally changes conversational dynamics in both autistic & TD children. 1/
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... w @chrismmcox.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... w @chrismmcox.bsky.social
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Our sense of reality is intimately entwined with our interactions with other people. What happens when those interactions are instead with social AI? See my piece on (so-called) ‘AI-induced psychosis’ in The Conversation
theconversation.com/ai-induced-p...
theconversation.com/ai-induced-p...
AI-induced psychosis: the danger of humans and machines hallucinating together
We’ve always relied on friends and family to confirm our sense of reality. Now we’re increasingly expecting AIs to do it instead.
theconversation.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Our sense of reality is intimately entwined with our interactions with other people. What happens when those interactions are instead with social AI? See my piece on (so-called) ‘AI-induced psychosis’ in The Conversation
theconversation.com/ai-induced-p...
theconversation.com/ai-induced-p...
Couple with neurodivergent daughter.
Police admit WhatsApp arrest error with £20k payout
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Police admit WhatsApp arrest error with £20k payout
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Hertfordshire Police admit WhatsApp arrest error with £20k payout
A couple unlawfully arrested over complaints about their child's school say police have paid them damages.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Couple with neurodivergent daughter.
Police admit WhatsApp arrest error with £20k payout
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Police admit WhatsApp arrest error with £20k payout
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Autistic dogs? Neurodiversity (sic) in our pets and what it might mean for us
theconversation.com/autistic-dog...
theconversation.com/autistic-dog...
Autistic dogs? Neurodiversity in our pets and what it might mean for us
Have you ever wondered whether your pet has ADHD? Research is showing the answer is complicated.
theconversation.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Autistic dogs? Neurodiversity (sic) in our pets and what it might mean for us
theconversation.com/autistic-dog...
theconversation.com/autistic-dog...
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Probiotics Won’t Cure Autism. Here’s Why The Science Doesn’t Add Up studyfinds.org/probiotics-w...
Probiotics Won't Cure Autism. Here's Why The Science Doesn't Add Up
Popular gut microbiome treatments for autism lack scientific support. Studies show probiotics likely aren't an effective autism treatment.
studyfinds.org
November 17, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Probiotics Won’t Cure Autism. Here’s Why The Science Doesn’t Add Up studyfinds.org/probiotics-w...
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This is really great to see.
We are recruiting a fully-funded 3.5yr PhD student to examine the potential genetic relationships between autism and hypermobility. Full details of the project and how to apply here ⬇️
usher.ed.ac.uk/precision-me...
Deadline Jan 12th! Within the Precision Medicine DTC at Edinburgh.
usher.ed.ac.uk/precision-me...
Deadline Jan 12th! Within the Precision Medicine DTC at Edinburgh.
Understanding the relationship between autism and hypermobility | Precision Medicine Doctoral Training Programme | Usher Institute
Precision Medicine Project - Understanding the relationship between autism and hypermobility
usher.ed.ac.uk
November 14, 2025 at 12:46 PM
This is really great to see.