Erin Beeston (she/her)
@erinbeeston
Historian, writer, comedian, lived-experience autism researcher
Research was absolutely a laugh with this brilliant crew of clever comedians on Thursday for the Festival of Ideas in Chester 💡 (still on this wknd!)
Next week! 2 July join a host of funny researchers bringing you stand-up comedy at 'Research is a Laugh' FREE at the Storyhouse as past of @uochesterpress.bsky.social festival of ideas 💡 🎟️🔗 festivalofideas.chester.ac.uk/event/resear...
Had a heart warming time talking to lots of interesting people and chaotic kids today at the @manchester.ac.uk community festival - of course it had to be🌻at the face painting stand!
@autismmanchester.bsky.social are here at the University of Manchester Community Festival 'Universally Manchester' we're in Alliance Business School - come chat research and make a sensory bag 🛍️🎨🧶
Great to see LITMUS by Natalie Linney & the Cottonopolis Collective re-displayed at Manchester Museum for 'Human Natures' - you can read about artwork & wider project here www.sci.manchester.ac.uk/research/pro...
Me & both my #autistic kids (5 year old was a bonus!) plus Mr Neuron just completed our 5km fundraiser for National Autistic Society 🎊 pls donate if you can!
A while back I did a facebk thread on how you could teach #European #imperial #history through #British biscuits, today I present you #Celebrations
New book day! Looking forward to reading Contemporary #philosophy of #autism collected volume, Anderson & Cushing eds. Discovering my children's & own autism has completely changed the way I approach everything imaginable... 🤯🧠💡
Got a bit bored reading #MrMen at bedtime last night, so I decided to diagnose them 😜
Incredibly inspiring morning #AutismArtOfThePossible @at-autism.bsky.social from schools to hospitals & social care - working with compassion, empathy, rights based approaches and team work across professions enriching the lives of autistic people 💕
Hooray 🎉 I've made it to London for @at-autism.bsky.social the Art of the Possible conference tomorrow #neuroaffirmative #participatory #action #research followed by over sharing my own laughable experiences of autism w a stand-up set for @scienceshowoff.bsky.social
After a brilliant evening at the Science Comedy Spectacular last night - with lots of clever & funny people (and the comics weren't bad either 😜) It's back to #Liverpool #BSF25 for 'Mind games: Puzzles, the brain and you!' at 8.30pm. Be there and... you know the shape @britsciassoc.bsky.social
Followed by a lovely workshop making sensory springy-things. My yellow punk-rock alien went down well with this guy 👾
HUGE thanks to the conf team behind @bshsnews.bsky.social Cambridge 2025 - my cup is full, as is my belly
Off to London for my penultimate @bshsnews.bsky.social council meeting I recently got this from second hand stall... Slightly concerned it could be for a conservative club of yesterday, but I'm reclaiming it for the history of science #committee #HSTM 🛡️
Are you in the #Liverpool area? Like #Comedy? Like braaaiiiiins 🧟♀️ come along to #neuronights this evening for the Brain Charity - 7pm @ Leaf 🧠
I think I am running out of steam now... A contemporary and rich historical production congrats to the #Rail200 team
Celebrations of women's suffrage, commemoration of the first woman railway driver (a fierce Karen 🙌) brought audiences a more holistic social history
The narrative was linear, progressive and culminating in the singular genius of George Stephenson
We even launched into Space 🚀 & here you can see how drones were used to enhance the spectacle in the closing scenes...
My favourite in this regard introduced computing via Ada Lovelace
These nuggets of social history informed the storytelling and ensured that it didn't repeat the oft-told great men story of railways (sorry George)
It also provided opportunities to bring far more social history into the narrative. Especially poignant pieces on the movement of people during the world wars