Monique Botha is actually they/them 🤷🏻‍♀️

✨NEW PAPER ALERT✨ “Autism research is in crisis”: A mixed method study of researcher’s constructions of autistic people and autism research - by me and Eiliidh Cage Buckle up for a long(ish) thread about how autistic people disrupt research agendas! 1/ frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

we're gonna get "autism detransition" grifters soon saying it's a degenerate subhuman social contagion

And now they come for Parkrun. PARKRUN. Threatening community run events with legal action cannot possibly be part of protecting women’s sport. For these campaigners, the only thing that seems to matter is the erasure of the trans community from public life.

@diffusefield I ended up deleting it because I'm going to put LH thoughts together more fully. They literally talked about prejudice towards biologists. I am fucking furious.

@DrMBotha No section on quality of life?? 😳 Re the rest, follow the money I guess... 😔 Thanks for telling us and speaking up. 🫂

Labour gov has mandated that ALL GP referrals (not cancer 2WW) must go via a “triage process” with an aim to REJECT 1 in 4 🚩 There is NO guarantee the person triaging is even a doctor All to give the ILLUSION of reduced waiting lists… in reality it’s detrimental for patients

Just an example how a Reform council treat disabled people where I used to live, now making blue badge holders pay for parking but no accessible meters,when questioned told to use a smart phone to pay when asked if you don't have one told well they don't need to go to town

Turns out there was no “order” and no fear of “offending” anyone. It was simply a guidance that said “hey if you are treating a foreigner don’t assume they’d understand idioms even if they are fluent”. But I expect John Cleese to make this about Muslims in 3, 2, 1…

Photo ID and recording of your face to register on the UK's NHS app. All this data goes to Palantir

UNICEF is outraged by the killing of two drivers of trucks contracted by UNICEF to provide clean water to families in the Gaza Strip. The victims were killed by Israeli fire in an incident that took place early this morning at the Mansoura water filling point in northern Gaza. UNICEF extends our condolences to the families of the men killed. Full statement: unicef.link/4cVCyP9

Second person I've seen today being removed from Motability because of the faulty drive smart app

Lol this is your evidence? Wait till you hear what private psychiatrists or psychologists charge? What about top end therapists? Are they all scammers too?

@AndrewJSauer Wow, a white male doctor with an injury that’s easily scanned & diagnosed had a great experience with doctors? What a cool story! I bet all these complex chronic illness patients that are gaslit for 8-10 years before even getting a diagnosis really learned a lesson reading this!

1 in 5 British people are in poverty, 1 in 3 children. Never see these types bringing that up, do you? Always punching down, never want to address the problems that put people there.

From November 2026, new PIP rules will mean 800,000 disabled people lose an average of £4,500 a year. A further 150,000 carers will lose their carer's allowance. New Universal Credit health claimants will see their payment cut from £97 to £50 a week. The government says the welfare bill is "spiralling." Nine leading disability charities say the cuts will be "catastrophic." Over 100 Labour MPs have signed letters urging ministers to scale back. Whose side are you on?

not sure ‘let’s starve british kids so we can blow foreign ones up!’ is the winning campaign slogan he thinks it is

Absolutely horrendous. Universities rinse international students and to then treat them like this. It's disgusting.

I'm not gonna lie. It's frustrating when you ask a doctor for help, but because their ego is slightly more fragile than an ice cream cone, you have to pretend you're incapable of pattern recognition and only got uploaded into your body the day before.

.@DrAmyPearson and @DrMBotha from our @DurhamPsych highlight that there’s no one-size-fits-all language when it comes to neurodivergence 🧠 🔗Read more: brnw.ch/21x1Apb #DUresearch #neurodivergent

Disabled people with walking aids can be harassed on public transport, the drip feed by the media has made this possible

Familiar story. Government is banging on about getting disabled people into work. But in the real world this is what happens. And it has nothing to say about it

NHS staff have been told they might lose their jobs if they criticise NHS England’s controversial £330m contract with IDF-contractor Palantir. According to the FT, an analytics officer who had raised concerns about Palantir’s Federal Data Platform (FDP) was told by a senior NHS official: “If you criticise the FDP one more time, you are going to lose your job.” “I know I am not the only one inside the NHS who has been warned off criticising the tool publicly,” the analytics officer added. In January 2024, Palantir announced a strategic partnership with the Israeli government to support “war-related missions”, meaning its tools are being used in a genocide. It also provides technology to immigration enforcement in the US, and founder Peter Thiel has provided financial backing to Donald Trump. Citing ethical concerns, the British Medical Association (BMA) has instructed union members not to adopt Palantir’s Federal Data Platform. In February, BMA chair Tom Dolphin told the British Medical Journal: “Given Palantir’s track record, including controversies in the US involving immigration enforcement and the risks to patient trust, data security, and NHS independence, we believe there must be a complete break from Palantir technologies in the NHS and no further contracts awarded.” But staff told the FT that NHS organisations are under pressure to sign up voluntarily to the Palantir data system. Technicians working on alternative systems have been told to stop in their tracks. “When letters go out saying, ‘Sign this or we’ll call your chief executive’, that doesn’t build goodwill,” said an analytics official. “It creates compliance, not commitment.” Palantir boasts contracts across British public services, with its technology already embedded in the police and the military. Last month, two anonymous Ministry of Defence officials told journalists at the Nerve that Palantir’s deepening knowledge of the British state poses “a national security threat to the UK”. 123 out of 205 NHS hospital trusts have already adopted Palantir’s data system.