Laura Rattray @drlaurarattray.bsky.social Reader in American Literature, University of Glasgow. All things Edith Wharton, US women's writing, modernism, 1930s, Transatlantic Literary Women
Dr Ruth Churchill Dower @ruthchurchilldower.bsky.social Postdoc researcher in Artful Sensing Practices @shu-sioe.bsky.social, Earlyarts founder, author of Creativity and the Arts in Early Childhood http://bit.ly/2V1I4cj
Being Human Festival @beinghumanfest.bsky.social The UK's national festival of the humanities. Led by the School of Advanced Study, University of London, in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the @britishacademy.bsky.social.
Brett Smith - Professor, Durham University @brettsmithprof.bsky.social - Moving Social Work http://bit.ly/4mexJU4. https://bit.ly/3ZAC635
- CMOs Physical Activity & Disability Lead bit.ly/34jX9xb
- Coproduction http://bit.ly/3L1NGdI
- ResearchGate: Qualitative & PA disability papers https://bit.ly/436DsF7
Sam Bennett @sj-bennett.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️ he/him
👀 AI Metascience Fellow @Durham Uni - AI Ethics & Society www.ai-ethics.org - AI and Medical Humanities - www.sj-bennett.com
HealthHumanities UoR @chhuor.bsky.social Centre for Health Humanities.
Exploring health from interdisciplinary perspectives.
Harriet Barratt @harrietbarratt.bsky.social Researcher of objects & spaces of healthcare (the psychosocial, material culture, co-production; PhD on Winnicott). Postdoc at the Visual and Material Lab at @durhamimh.bsky.social 2025-29, researching materialities of donor conception treatment in the UK.
Open Research and Public Engagement Roadmap @engagedroadmap.bsky.social Co-Creating Ireland's Public Involvement in Open Research Roadmap
ENGAGED is building a national roadmap to shape public involvement in open research in Ireland. We believe that research can and does play an important role in tackling societal challenges.
Aiswarya Jyothi @aiswarya-jyothi.bsky.social ICSSR Doctoral Fellow in Health Humanities. PhD candidate researching crisis narratives, disaster fiction & resilience studies. UGC-NET (98.6 percentile).
Dr Cora Beth Fraser @corabeth.bsky.social Autistic Geordie illustrator and classicist. Assoc Lecturer at The Open University. National Teaching Fellow. Working class/first gen/book addict.
Ash Paley @ashpaley.bsky.social PhD student at IMS - University of Leeds. Neuroqueering medieval mystics.
Mostly trans stuff.
Trans masc. Autistic 🏳️⚧️🇵🇸
He/they
Mary L. Shannon @drmarylshannon.bsky.social Writer, speaker, teacher
@RoehamptonUni
19thC cultural historian (Regency & Victorian eras).
author: Billy Waters Is Dancing @yalebooks.bsky.social.
https://linktr.ee/marylshannon
Views my own.
Xine Yao PhD (she/they) @xineyaophd.bsky.social DISAFFECTED: THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF UNFEELING @DukePress | @phdivaspodcast | Associate Professor | BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker | Co-Director @qUCL.bsky.social | rhymes w fine
from the colonies
https://www.dukeupress.edu/disaffected
Joanne Limburg @jlimburg.bsky.social Writer, poet, creative writing lecturer, autistic, Jewish, likes cats. Latest book Letters to my Weird Sisters: on Autism, Feminism and Motherhood.
Sarah Parker @profsarahparker.bsky.social Professor of Literature, Sexuality and Visual Culture, Loughborough University; 19th-20thC literature (esp. poetry), genders/sexualities (esp. queer femininities), portraiture, photography, fashion & celebrity. She/her.
Will Tattersdill @tattersdill.bsky.social Writer and teacher. Literature and science, dinosaurs, fantasy/sci-fi, alternate history, worldbuilding, periodicals, museums, etc. Fiction as W. J. Tattersdill. He/him.
Madeline Potter @madelinepotter.bsky.social Theological Monsters (University of Wales Press), The Roma (The Bodley Head/Harper Collins, 2025) | 19thC Gothic
Drs. Mark Beumer @markbeumer.bsky.social Historian of Medicine | PhD-Candidate Charles University, First Faculty of Medicine, Institute for History of Medicine and Foreign Languages | Voorzitter @medhistoddemoulin.bsky.social | Directeur @kleiohistoria.bsky.social
Claire Turner @claireturner.bsky.social Bridging Fellow in Medical Humanities
@durhamimh.bsky.social | ECR Visiting Fellow @thejohnrylands.bsky.social | Currently working on cancer and the senses in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Lisa Fernandes @lisafernandes.bsky.social 2e / mom / educator / science and math geek / neurodiversity and equity advocate / doctoral student
Autistic Realms (Helen Edgar) @autisticrealms.bsky.social 💜 ♾️ AuDHD | Monotropic | Neuro-affirming Autism advocate & consultant.
Interests: monotropism, flow, burnout & neuroqueer theory.
Writer • Trainer • Resource Creator | Former SEND EY/Primary teacher ♾️ 💜
https://www.autisticrealms.com/
Dr. Ben Mitchell @drlibraryben.bsky.social (he/they) Scholar. Geek. Nova Scotian. 🌍 Libraries (#GLAM), medical humanities, history/public history, neurodiversity and disability studies. 🌍 Geekier at: @willow0wisp.bsky.social
Katie Munday @kmunday.bsky.social PhD Candidate, Researcher, Consultant, Human
https://autisticltd.co.uk/
They / he
Gideon (he/him) writing as Gregory Lawrence @gideongregory.bsky.social #ActuallyAutistic German translator/writer/conlanger, student of Medical Humanities
https://linktr.ee/gregory.lawrence
Debut novelette "Malice in Chains" available here: http://shorturl.at/mrAO4
Mothy and the Squid @mothyandthesquid.bsky.social Autistic indie dyer who may or may not be neuroqueering their process. Proceeds from sales support my neuro-atypical family and my PhD project into neurodivergence.
Erin Beeston (she/her) @erinbeeston.bsky.social Historian, writer, comedian, lived-experience autism researcher
@protichichatterjee.bsky.social @protichichatterjee.bsky.social 
Dr. Alyssa (they/them) @yesthattoo.bsky.social Autistic researcher with too many interests and no real intention of narrowing it down. Mostly AAC research at the moment. Sometimes a math teacher.
Not speaking on behalf of any companies/organizations here.
Rachel Griffiths @rachelgexeter.bsky.social Neurodivergent senior educator developer and doctoral researcher using arts-based ways to research neurodivergent belonging in higher education. Also passionate about singing.
Chris Bailey @samuelsiddell.bsky.social ND Queer
Ruling Passions / Neurodivergent Literacies
https://rulingpassions.wordpress.com
Escaping the Post Affect Society
https://thisdamnpassivesoul.wordpress.com
Harriet Axbey @draxbey.bsky.social Author, researcher, neurospicy DnD player. She/her 🏳️🌈
Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social #Logician, #Onomast, #Medievalist, #AcademicMama, #Author, #Immigrant, founder of SFFReviews.com and @EllipsisImprint. Co-president of @ducu. Own views. Robot.
Dawn-joy Leong - Lucy Like-a-Charm @wistfulwhistles.bsky.social Dedicated to Lucy Like-a-Charm. Autistic. Neuroholographic. Dreamer. Transdisciplinary artist, storyteller.
Love Greyhounds. Interspecies study.
Quote: "Come, lay down beside me, Wake up in my dreams."
https://scheherazadessea.com
Dan Poole @danpoole.bsky.social Lecturer in Psychology at University of Sheffield. Research on autism & distraction
Katy Higgins Lee @tendingpaths.bsky.social Katy Higgins Lee, MFT (she/her)
Multiply Neurodivergent therapist and unschooling parent
Neuroqueering
Practicing anti-racism
https://linktr.ee/tendingpaths
John Greally @johngreally.bsky.social Lingering Neurodivergent, haunting spaces, acronym aficionado, co-founder ASAN (NZ), ASNZ (6k), AI (166k), AW (17k), TAC (5k), EN (2k), ANF (15k), AT, ATW (1k), Âû (8k), Coterie/Kotiri (200k), ASN - access, agency, autonomy, equity, acceptance.
Mary Hrovat @maryhrovat.bsky.social Essayist and poet. Autistic. Books, trees, clouds, sky.
https://slowquiet.substack.com
https://maryhrovat.com
Erin Manning @erinmanning1.bsky.social www.3ecologies.org
David Gray-Hammond (NeuroHub Community) @neurohubcommunity.org (He/They)
CEO of NeuroHub Community, a social enterprise focused on community building and support for Neurodivergent people designed and delivered by Neurodivergent people.
Find out more here https://neurohub-david.start.page
Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com The greatest autism info you will ever find, from autistic people, professionals, and parents. www.ThinkingAutism.com & buttondown.com/TPGA. Pro-neurodiversity. Even more TPGA community discussions on IG and FB.
Stimpunks Foundation @stimpunks.org Stimpunks is created by and for neurodivergent and disabled people. We provide mutual aid, learning opportunities, human-centered research, and living wages for our community.
Authenticity is our purest freedom.
Thriving Autistic @thrivingautistic.bsky.social Neuro-Affirmative, non-profit by & for the Autistic & Neurodivergent community dedicated to advancing the human rights of #ActuallyAutistic & otherwise #Neurodivergent people
Monotropism.org @monotropism.org Monotropism is a theory of Autism developed by Autistic people, initially by Dinah Murray and Wenn Lawson.
Read about explanations and applications of the theory, its history, and what’s happening now on our website.
https://monotropism.org/
Ann Memmott @annmemmott.bsky.social Autistic disabled researcher, carer & Mum.
#AutisticElder
Personal page, own views.
Like/repost = "I've read it"
See also LinkedIn
Encouraging moderation, a peaceful & fair society, & better research.
Autistic UK @autisticuk.bsky.social Autistic UK is a non-profit organisation advocating for the rights of Autistic people in research, policy and practice. We are an Autistic-led organisation, with a fully Autistic board of directors.
KarenAnnTimm (Flutters are my Âûn) @kt-neurorealme.bsky.social @NeurodiversityInPrincipal
Educational Consultant & Presenter, NeuroRealMe
#RipplesBecomeWaves
Founder, Neurodivegent Infinity Network of Educators
#NeurodivergentInfinity
#AssumeWeAreInTheRoom
https://linktr.ee/NeurodiversityInPrincipal
The Black Neurodivergent Collective @tbncollective.bsky.social BIPOC Autistic, ADHD, BPD2, OCD, Neurodivergent dedicating time after isolation to help others like me who need help.
X @TBNCollective_
https://gofund.me/eae0ceaf
Kate Fox @katefoxwriter75.bsky.social Stand-up poet. Radio 4’s The Verb regular. Northern, neurodivergent writer of Northernness and Neurodivergence. “On Sycamore Gap” & “Where There’s Muck There’s Bras” (Harper North). “Bigger on the Inside” (Smokestack).
Becky Choat @beckychoat.bsky.social Projects Lead at SWAN www.swanscotland.org
AuDHD Still figuring out life... fueled by caffeine and chaos #ActuallyAutistic
ICARS - International Coalition Against Restraint and Seclusion @againstrestraint.com Family, survivor and neurodivergent led advocacy to end restraint, seclusion and institutional abuses of children. #AgainstRestraint #SICAA SICAA Coalition.
🔗 againstrestraint.com
Human Restoration Project @humanrestorationproject.org Non-profit: restoring humanity to education. Promoting progressive ed. https://linktr.ee/humrespro
National Autism Implementation Team @naitscotland.bsky.social www.nait.scot
Researchers and practitioners focussed on the implementation of evidence informed and neuro-affirming practice in Scotland, across sectors. A small multi-disciplinary team funded by Scottish Government 🏴
Scottish Ethnic Minority Autistics @semascot.bsky.social We strive to improve understanding of being autistic from the various communities of the Global Majority.
www.sema.scot
Max Marnau @rabthecat.bsky.social Autistic counsellor, trainer, author, activist and founder of the international collective Autistic Counsellors and Psychotherapists. - E @empoweredscotland.bsky.social @empoweredscotland.bsky.social
Scott Neilson (Autistically Scott) @autisticallyscott.bsky.social Autistic Trainer, Mentor, Consultant and Co-author based in Lanarkshire, Scotland. PGCert Autism. https://linktr.ee/autisticallyscott
Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network (AWN) @awnnetwork.org AWN is a 501(c)(3) tax exempt non-profit. We are committed to disability justice, gender & racial equity, neurodiversity & trans liberation with a focus on transformative and restorative justice in disability spaces.
awnnetwork.org
Max Alexander @playradical.bsky.social Scotland based artist, playworker, consultant and writer 🌲👽✌🏿️ Neurodivergent play, culture and joy 🦆🌞🌱
🏳️⚧️❤️🔥🇵🇸
"The Joys and Shapes of Autistic Play" out now! https://playradical.com/the-joys-and-shapes-of-autistic-play/
linktr.ee/Playradical
Gerald Roche @geraldroche.bsky.social AuDHD & PhD. anthropology, language, power. he/him
New book: The Politics of Language Oppression in Tibet https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501777783/the-politics-of-language-oppression-in-tibet/
ORCiD: 0000-0002-2410-351X
mikael 🏳️⚧️ @criptimelord.bsky.social always out of place and time | tired transsexual | black, disabled and audhd queer PhDer | artist and geographer | antifascist | he/him
I'm dyslexic and dyspraxic so excuse typos
Tara O’Donnell-Killen @taraodk.bsky.social Leading Thriving Autistic & Luminosity Labs
Johnny Profane Âû @johnnyprofane1.bsky.social One Voice. Raw. Real. Fiercely Neurodivergent. Since 1953.
Podcast, YouTube, Newsletter.
Find Me on Social Media: https://linktr.ee/johnnyprofane1
Elly Chapple Founder #FlipTheNarrative©💜 @ellychapple.bsky.social The Human First Catalyst
TEDx Speaker | Author of Diagnosis: Human
Creating psychological safety & restoring human being #FlipTheNarrative ©
http://youtu.be/DXBdiGUQ8Lw
www.ellychapple.com
https://amzn.eu/d/dksiD2E - #DiagnosisHuman
Karen Barto @karenbarto.bsky.social Neurodivergent applied linguist in international education (academic writing, editing, TESOL and FL instruction, EMI professional development; neurodivergence and ethics of AI), unschooling my artist linguist kiddo, studying Turkish. Consistently curious.
Emma Sadler @emmathethinker.bsky.social Doctoral researcher (neurodiversity) teacher, musician | Interests in diversity, equality, disability | Views own (she/her) 🥄
Prof Emmy van Deurzen @emmyvandeurzen.bsky.social Philosopher, visiting professor of psychology with Middlesex University and existential therapist
Director of New School and Existential Academy
President of worldwide Existential Movement.
Author of twenty books, translated into 25 languages
Helen Kara @drhelenkara.bsky.social Independent researcher, author, teacher, speaker. For hire worldwide. https://linktr.ee/helenkara She/her. 🌈 #ActuallyAutistic
Elizabeth @elizabeththatcher.bsky.social Medical Humanities student at Durham interested in the philosophy of psychiatry and neurodiversity, disability, & Mad studies. I also write poetry and play D&D :)
@luis01.bsky.social @luis01.bsky.social QMU Psychology and sociology graduate 🎓 @StirlingUniCrim Msc graduate. Aspiring social researcher. Passionate about creative research methods. Substack -
Bogi Takács / WE'RE HERE ToC announced! @bogiperson.bsky.social Writer, editor, critic, scholar. Lambda + Hugo winner. Hungarian / Jewish / agender / neuroatypical. E/em/eir/emself or they. טומטום. Intersex. 100% migráncs in Lawrence, Kansas. Metroidbrainia enjoyer. Opinions my own & do not represent anyone else
Izy Utley @izyutley.bsky.social NHS SLT, clinical doctorate student and research fellow. Learning disability, autism and inclusive communication. Wild swimmer and travel lover based in Scotland
Lloyd Meadhbh Houston @lejhouston.bsky.social IRISH MODERNISM AND THE POLITICS OF SEXUAL HEALTH (OUP); Director and Qualitative Research Lead of Transnnual; BAIS and BSLS Executive; Co-host of 'Censored'; FRHistS and FHEA.
Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social Autistic, prob AuDHD. LGBTQ+ ally because obviously. Routine goblin. She/her. Sweary, sorry. Lecturer (UK), researcher in language development, psycholinguistics, autism. ♾️🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Dr Aimée Fletcher (@aimee_speaks) @aimeespeaks.bsky.social Autistic autism researcher, passionate about making museums (and all of society) accessible. Lover of photography, stained glass window making, and music.
Participation Coordinator at Scottish Autism. Working to ensure all autistic people are listened to.
Chunye Eunice Chai 春烨 @cceunice.bsky.social Critical ND Studies Fellow @IMH•Durham Uni
MSc Psychology of Ed. @BristolUni explored lived experience of 🇨🇳 autistic women
Interested in autism, disability, mental health & trauma-informed practice † ♾️
#neurodivergent 🌈 ❁* #loveneverfails
Päivi Butcher AuDHD @finnattentive.eurosky.social Late diagnosed #ADHD #Autistic #AuDHD • Raising ADHD & autism acceptance • Cardiac arrest survivor 2020, defib implant, Cardiac sarcoidosis • Ulcerative colitis • MCAS suspicion • Born in the 70s • Happy Finn 😉 • She/her • EN/FI
📍 Tampere, Finland
vi @levi710.bsky.social they/them. autistic translator (eng/vietnamese are okay).
my fandom account: @seapooh.bsky.social
#FreePalestine 🇵🇸
Mischollanious Thoughts @mischollaneous.bsky.social Raconteur, tea drinker.
Neuro-Spicy thinker of thoughts.
Better living through CQI.
Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social Dad. Iowan. Former HS social studies teacher. (PFP illustrated by Farimah Khavari)
Jennifer Macko @sagewell.bsky.social Neurodivergent PhD candidate researching the intersection of mental health, disability, and sex/gender in educational spaces. Former special education teacher. Current university instructor. She/her.
#InvisibleDisabilities 👻
#FeministDisabilityStudies 📚
Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social Educator, Writer, System Disruptor | No Place for Autism, Holistic Language Instruction, Decolonising Language Education, Liminal Echoes, In the Stillness of Chaos | AuDHD & Trans | Teaching & writing as resistance
Read more on AutSide.Substack.com
Nina Danon @ninadanon.bsky.social Composer & lecturer • AHRC CHASE PhD student researching neurodivergence in composition and musical neuroqueering • Co-founder of the Neurodivergent Music Network • Kinetic (ADHD) Autistic, Neurodivergent, Disabled • she/they
https://linktr.ee/ncdanon
Fergus Murray @oolong.co.uk Monotropic writer, science tutor, Autistic community organiser and independent researcher. Based in Edinburgh.
they/them.
https://linktr.ee/0olong
Jess O. @justjesso.bsky.social (they/them) 🦋
service (ref)user and storyteller from the Philippines, currently based in Scotland, doing a Mad Studies PhD through creative practice research
✨ linktr.ee/justjesso
Harriet Cooper @harrietcooper.bsky.social Lecturer, UEA Medical School, #DisabilityStudies, #MedHums
Associate Editor, @bmj.com Medical Humanities journal
Research/writing on:
the figure of the disabled child, shame and stigma in health and illness, lived experience and memoir culture.
She/her
Kirsty Liddiard @kirstyliddiard1.bsky.social Sociologist and Senior Research Fellow researching breath, ventilation, disability and health. All views my own.
Rachel Carney @createdtoread.bsky.social Cardiff based Poet, Writer, Academic 'Octopus Mind' (Seren Books) - a Guardian Best Poetry Book of 2023 https://linktr.ee/createdtoread Teach creative writing, writing on/around ekphrasis, neurodiversity, creativity, climate crisis, art
M. Remi Yergeau @remiyergeau.bsky.social I like donuts and ELO.
el @inforobin.bsky.social on the stem to humanities train with no idea of its final destination ~ marxism / disability / feminism / autism + neurodiversity paradigm ~ 🇵🇸🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
they/them
Shamira A. Meghani @drmeghani.bsky.social Assistant Prof in Dept of English Studies, Durham University
~ postcolonial, anti-colonial & diaspora, queer, trans & feminist, lit & film ~
Vegan (since 2001!); as low-carbon as I can; often angry, ever hopeful. non-binary (they/them)
Monique Botha @drmbothapsych.bsky.social Autistic and ADHD researcher focusing on minority stress, meta-science, and dehumanization of neurodivergent people in science and research. Big believer in #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs
Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social Cat sitter. Gothic lit and theology. Romance studies. Byron studies. Runs 'Romancing the Gothic'. Writes queer little stories.
Hayley G. Toth @tothhayley.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Newcastle University (2023-26)
READING POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURE: From Professional to Non-Professional Practices (LUP, 2025)
COLLECTIVE FORM: Cultural Collaboration in Black Liberation Struggles, 1976-82 (ongoing)
Dr Stephen E. Mawdsley @smawdsley.bsky.social Historian of modern American medicine and disability
Faculty of Arts, Law and Social Sciences, University of Bristol
https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/stephen-e-mawdsley
Dr David Jackson-Perry @davidjackson-perry.bsky.social Late-diagnosed as an academic | Honorary Lecturer Neurodiversity @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social | HIV @Lausanne University Hospital | Queerhood | Intensely interested in failure, but will it last...?