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Dr Tacey "dumb blonde" O'Neil

@densitypoint.bsky.social

A non-binary trans femme (she/they) who's a ukulele-playing, analysis-crazed mathematician. ADHD. Engaged 💍 21/7/24 https://www.tiktok.com/@densitypoint https://www.instagram.com/density_point

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Dr Tacey "dumb blonde" O'Neil@densitypoint.bsky.social · 14h ago

For those who want to know just what a difference diagnosis and treatment of ADHD makes when you're an adult, should read this thread (his description of the effects of lisdexamfetamine closely match my own experiences)

Andrew MacKellar@hansoliton.bsky.social · yesterday

I have ADHD. I'm also a physicist. I got the ADHD diagnosis about a year and a half ago, after really struggling with work for a few years. I didn't know about it when I was in school, or when I started a physics undergrad as a mature student, or through my PhD. I have thoughts:

Philippa East (Author)@philippaeast.bsky.social · last wk.

There seems to be a concerted effort right now to undermine the diagnosis/concept of ADHD and/or autism. It’s probably been going on for awhile, but I’ve really seen it take hold lately, and it’s really concerning. A lot of parallel to the undermining of gender identity and trans healthcare, too.

Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor@chadtopaz.bsky.social · 2d ago

Whoa my book just got a glowing review in a math journal, and the best part is the reviewer’s main complaint: she kept wanting more math, then remembered it isn’t written for mathematicians. Correct! It’s for EVERYONE—no formulas, just stories of data fighting injustice. I hope you will read it.

Screenshot of a book review from The American Mathematical Monthly. Header: "Unlocking Justice: The Power of Data to Confront Inequity and Create Change. By Chad M. Topaz, Princeton University Press, 2026. 232 pp., ISBN 978-0691276151, $27.95. Reviewed by Kimberly Spayd." Section 1 is titled "YOUR INVITATION TO BE A MATH ACTIVIST." Spayd writes that the writing and publishing of Unlocking Justice is a political act in today's world: a proud invitation to work towards justice and equity in the criminal justice system using math and statistics, made accessible for a wide audience. She says it would be irresponsible and disingenuous to ignore the advocacy and resistance the book boldly encourages; instead she wants to amplify Topaz's activism and echo his invitation to readers to join the fight. To the question "why do they have to make math political?" she responds that math has been political far longer than Topaz or she have been around: the discipline's politics have promoted certain ideas and people while demoting and minoritizing others. Examples: infinite series, discovered by Madhava and Nilakantha three centuries before Newton and Leibniz but widely attributed to the western greats, and regression, developed by Galton for his still-reverberating eugenics agenda. On the other end of the spectrum, Topaz highlights data analysis and visualizations by Ida B. Wells and W.E.B. Du Bois that raised awareness of racial violence and countered racial stereotypes. Humans do math and bring their identities to their work; nearly everything is political now, including books, data, and knowledge. She argues that becoming a math activist is not accepting the slanderous accusation that higher education is liberal indoctrination; rather, it is academics' professional responsibility to enter political spheres and pursue answers with a critical lens, guiding students to draw their own conclusions—which, she concludes, is what Topaz does for readers of Unlocking Justice.
Research Professional News@resprofnews.bsky.social · 2d ago

‘Wheels rapidly falling off university funding system’. “No sign of awareness” at Treasury as international recruitment decline worsens financial outlook, experts warn. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...

‘Wheels rapidly falling off university funding system’ - Research Professional News

“No sign of awareness” at Treasury as international recruitment decline worsens financial outlook, experts warn

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Trans Pride Brighton@transpridebrighton.bsky.social · 2d ago

We have secured the future of the Trans Pride Centre! Thanks to the National Lottery Reaching Communities Fund, we have been awarded a grant of £121,278! This money is ringfenced to keep the rent paid, the lights on, and training for new volunteers covered for the next five years.

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Sara Gibbs@sararoseg.bsky.social · 3d ago

It’s so weird to feel kinda erased from much the coverage of a show that’s so much mine & semi-autobiographical. Like long reviews comparing the writing to Douglas Adams where I’m not named once. And I feel discomfort that it even makes me uncomfortable at all. 1/

Nate O@nateo.bsky.social · 3d ago

After Stock professed extremist ideology twice this past week (e.g. disabled women are faking; autistic people and people with ADHD are 'unsuited' for academia) and being billed as an expert during the Arday plagiarism scandal, I forgot until now that Stock was involved in her own plagiarism scandal

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 9mo ago

We can't really say this enough... > Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate. www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...

AI tools are 'deskilling' workers, philosophy professor says

A philosophy professor warns that AI reliance is weakening workers' judgment, creativity, and problem-solving.

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Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 5d ago

Do you know what it's like to be a minority in the UK that knows any misstep could mean you're next with the UK press? You don't even have to actually do anything, just come across the wrong person.

TACC@tacc.org.uk · 6d ago

The EHRC meets with organisations hostile to trans people and our rights. But would it meet with people opposed to homosexuality, race-realists, or organisations wanting to remove women’s bodily autonomy? If not, why are trans people the exception? These are the questions we have asked the EHRC!

(sent via email) Dear Chair and Board Members, We have recently become aware that the EHRC has met with the Darlington Nurses so that they can raise their concerns. This is, of course, entirely reasonable. People should be able to raise concerns with their national equality body. What is much harder to understand is why the EHRC has, over the last few years, repeatedly made time to meet with organisations and individuals whose campaigning is explicitly hostile to transgender people and our rights. So we have some very simple questions. Would the EHRC meet with organisations or individuals who were opposed to homosexuality and believed gay people should have fewer rights? Would the EHRC meet with organisations or individuals who were race-realists and believed that white people were racially superior? Would the EHRC meet with organisations that wanted to roll back women's rights and remove women's bodily autonomy? We would like to think the answer to all three is an emphatic no. And if it is no, then we want to know why transgender people are apparently the exception. Why is it considered acceptable for the EHRC to engage with organisations and individuals who discriminate against us, deny that we exist, describe trans women as men, use slurs against transgender people, and even compare being transgender to a "masturbatory fantasy"? We are tired of the double standard. We are tired of watching the organisation that is supposed to protect people from discrimination repeatedly provide access, legitimacy and a listening ear to people whose politics are fundamentally hostile to our existence and equality. There is an important distinction between allowing people to express views the EHRC disagrees with and repeatedly choosing to engage with organisations whose campaigning is directed at stripping rights and dignity from a protected group. The former is freedom of expression. The latter raises serious questions about institutional judgement... And frankly, if the EHRC genuinely believes that this is an appropriate and reasonable way for an equality body to operate, then we have to ask a very uncomfortable question: If you believe this treatment of transgender people is reasonable, what exactly does that say about the EHRC? Because if discrimination is only taken seriously when it is directed at everyone except us, then the problem is no longer simply the people campaigning against transgender people. The problem is the equality body that has decided they are worth listening to. We expect a substantive answer to these questions, rather than another carefully worded statement about the EHRC's commitment to equality and human rights. Regards, Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective