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Olga Tennison Autism Research Centre @olgatennisonautism.bsky.social · 15d

From our new Olga Tennison Endowed Chair in Autism Research, Professor Dawn Adams.

"...blaming the use of painkillers in pregnancy and promoting an unproven therapy, marks a deeply concerning moment for science and public health."

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Autistic people aren't looking for treatments or cures. They want a world that accepts and values them for who they are.

The Trump administration’s claim to have found both the cause and a treatment for autism, blaming the use of painkillers in pregnancy and promoting an unproven therapy, marks a deeply concerning momen...

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ProfSDodds @sdoddsphilosopher.bsky.social · 19d

Piper enjoyed a cold wet windy dog park this morning! 🐾

A black dog with a blue harness on a muddy path, with her eyes on an orange ball that is about to be thrown

A black dog with an orange ball on a muddy path

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ProfSDodds @sdoddsphilosopher.bsky.social · 20d

Hello nano!! 🐾 🥰
You’re in good company there

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ProfSDodds @sdoddsphilosopher.bsky.social · Sep 4

*to? It has been a long week so far!!

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ProfSDodds @sdoddsphilosopher.bsky.social · Sep 4

Bienvenue! And welcome home from our weird and wonderful microclimate!

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ProfSDodds @sdoddsphilosopher.bsky.social · Sep 4

Happy Birthday @2fbs.bsky.social! May you have a lovely day and hospital free year! 🎂 🍾

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · Sep 4

Not just the US

Amanda Lanzillo @amandazillo.bsky.social · Sep 3

In @insidehighered.com I explore how area studies have positively reshaped the humanities & social sciences in the US since the 1950s. Their loss would impoverish knowledge production across our universities, and our universities must step up to defend them.

www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

Why Area Studies Matters (opinion)

If we are to save area studies programs, it will fall to universities to recognize their value, Amanda Lanzillo writes.

www.insidehighered.com

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ProfSDodds @sdoddsphilosopher.bsky.social · Sep 3

Everyone needs a dragon at their gate!

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ProfSDodds @sdoddsphilosopher.bsky.social · Aug 27

I would if 3 dogs were hanging out the window!

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ProfSDodds @sdoddsphilosopher.bsky.social · Aug 27

Very platy!

ProfSDodds @sdoddsphilosopher.bsky.social · Aug 22

Friday night dinner with comfort food requires the perfect tableware, care of @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social x @brontelee.bsky.social

Two dinner plates with black glazing next to a cooktop and pan of passata -one plate shows an image of Brenda the civil disobedience penguin saying “not everyone can fly Marjorie”, the other has an image of the peccary of love and many hearts

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ProfSDodds @sdoddsphilosopher.bsky.social · Aug 21

theconversation.com/studying-phi...
Heartening evidence to support the value of education and ways of understanding, as well as skills

Studying philosophy does make people better thinkers, according to new research on more than 600,000 college grads

Philosophers are fond of saying that their field boosts critical thinking. Two of them decided to put that claim to the test.

theconversation.com

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ProfSDodds @sdoddsphilosopher.bsky.social · Aug 14

Otanjōbiomedetō
Crowbar!
Thank you for the many (imagined, dreamed even) delicious delights!

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ProfSDodds @sdoddsphilosopher.bsky.social · Aug 14

❤️ tous les chiens! 🐾 🥰

ProfSDodds @sdoddsphilosopher.bsky.social · Aug 14

Bonjour!

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ProfSDodds @sdoddsphilosopher.bsky.social · Aug 13

Where does the online queue form? 🧑‍🍳

…I don’t know what Proust or Freud would say about it but I dreamt about those blood orange madeleines last night!!

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ProfSDodds @sdoddsphilosopher.bsky.social · Aug 8

Furthest I’ve been
N: Uppsala Sweden
S: Invercargill NZ
E: Suva Fiji
W: Honolulu USA
(Or E and W Greenwich UK - I’ve approached it from both directions)

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ProfSDodds @sdoddsphilosopher.bsky.social · Aug 7

jock has views about this development and wants you to come and restore order! 🐓 🐾

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ProfSDodds @sdoddsphilosopher.bsky.social · Aug 3

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Attacks on the humanities at Australian universities are not new – but they are now more lethal | Julianne Schultz

Punishing fees for arts degrees must be ended if the country seriously wants to participate in the information age and give students the opportunities we need them to have

www.theguardian.com

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ProfSDodds @sdoddsphilosopher.bsky.social · Jul 31

Very good news!

I bet it will take the Dubbo hospital team a couple of days to restore order after your latest visit

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ProfSDodds @sdoddsphilosopher.bsky.social · Jul 30

Ouch! Together with whatever is going on with your legs, that could impede your weekly game of Twister for a while!

I hope they let you out of Dubbo soon. 🏥

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ProfSDodds @sdoddsphilosopher.bsky.social · Jul 28

* Then - sigh!😞

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ProfSDodds @sdoddsphilosopher.bsky.social · Jul 28

Theme we’d have lovely dog noses in every pic as well as lovely plates!

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ProfSDodds @sdoddsphilosopher.bsky.social · Jul 28

best cartoon plates you can have in your home, baked here in Tasmania!

bronte lee @brontelee.bsky.social · Jul 27

yes i’m taking a video of my big computer with my little computer (shut up) but the first batch of @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social plates is on the website!!!! LIVE NOW!! FINALLY!! excuse me while i go sleep for eleventy days (i wish)

firstdogonthemoon.com.au/shop/

#firstdogonthemoon #heysaurus

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ProfSDodds @sdoddsphilosopher.bsky.social · Jul 28

ooh goody! excuse me while I rush over to the interwebs and take a look before I share this news!!

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