Steven Shorrock

@stevenshorrock

Psychologist & transdisciplinary humanistic, systems & design practitioner | Work, organisations, complexity, risk, justice | Autism, long covid, ME/CFS FBPsS CPsychol CErgHF PhD 🐝🇫🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 humanisticsystems.com

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Steven Shorrock@stevenshorrock· 14d

The Reality of Invisible Burden: Cailleach and Brân the Blessed This is the third of seven realities in this series on living with chronic conditions and dynamic disability, explored through language, concepts and images from Celtic folklore. humanisticsystems.com/2026/08/12/t...

The Cailleach, the ancient hag or old woman of Gaelic tradition, associated especially in Scottish folklore with winter, wild landscapes, deer, and the shaping of mountains and lochs.
Image: “Beira, Queen of Winter”, John Duncan, from Wonder Tales from Scottish Myth and Legend, Donald Alexander Mackenzie, 1917.

Steven Shorrock@stevenshorrock· 15d

Free Long Covid / ME/CFS Trackers Simple daily Excel diaries to help identify long term patterns (activity, exertion, functional capacity, recovery, PEM) on phone/PC. ⌚Garmin - wp.me/a3KgVs-3WS ⌚Apple Watch - wp.me/a3KgVs-3WR 📱Generic - wp.me/a3KgVs-3WQ

Steven Shorrock@stevenshorrock· May 21

Many people are much more severely affected: housebound, bedbound, dependent on care, and unable to write or advocate for themselves. I am writing partly because I currently can, and partly because many people with severe ME/CFS cannot.

Steven Shorrock@stevenshorrock· May 21

My own illness has been at the mild to moderate end of ME/CFS, but even this has changed work, identity, relationships, and ordinary life.

Steven Shorrock@stevenshorrock· May 21

It also describes the strange unreliability of remission: how feeling better can make the illness harder to remember, and can tempt a return to previous levels of activity, often followed by post-exertional malaise and relapse.

Steven Shorrock@stevenshorrock· May 21

The post describes how ME/CFS affects far more than energy. Its many symptoms affect cognition, sleep, pain, movement, digestion, sensitivity, social life, work, and identity.

Steven Shorrock@stevenshorrock· Apr 27

My brother is taking on one of Britain’s most demanding endurance challenges for @meresearchuk.bsky.social ME/CFS can leave people unable to work, study, socialise, or manage ordinary daily activities. ME Research UK commissions and funds high-quality biomedical research into ME/CFS. Thank you🙏🏻

Photo of a runner in the top right and a woman in bed in the dark in bottom left. With fundraising text.

My brother Gary Shorrock is taking on one of Britain’s most demanding endurance challenges for @MEResearchUK : the Bob Graham Round in the Lake District

To complete it, he must cover around 66 miles, summit 42 fells, and climb more than 8,200 metres (approximately 26,900 feet of ascent) all within 24 hours.

Gary has previously undertaken major endurance events and fundraising challenges, raising over £20,000 for an Alder Hey children’s hospital. This time, he is taking on the Bob Graham Round to raise money for a devastating yet underfunded condition.

ME/CFS (myalgic encephalomyelitis/ chronic fatigue syndrome) is a serious, disabling, life-altering illness. It can leave people unable to work, study, socialise, or manage ordinary daily activities. In severe and very severe cases, it confines people to their beds.

Research has shown that quality of life for people with ME/CFS can be among the worst reported for any medical condition.

Scientific research is increasingly identifying objective biological abnormalities in ME/CFS, including in blood, immune and metabolic function. Yet despite its severity, the illness has remained profoundly underfunded for decades.

The funds raised through this challenge will go to ME Research UK, a charity that commissions and funds high-quality biomedical research into the causes, consequences, and treatment of ME/CFS.

The work of @MEResearchUK reflects the urgent need for better scientific understanding of a disease that affects hundreds of thousands of people in the UK and leaves many housebound or bedbound, with their lives on hold.

Support for this fundraiser will help contribute to urgently needed research into a devastating and neglected illness.

Any donation would be greatly appreciated, and sharing the page would also make a big difference.

https://www.justgiving.com/page/gary-shorrock

Steven Shorrock@stevenshorrock· Apr 27

It could be me

Photo of closed curtain with light coming from the top. Poem about myalgic encephalomyelitis transposed over the photo.

When I found out
That I had M.E.
I found out more about it
And all the people
That 'live' with it
That 'live' within four walls
It's not ‘life living'
As people understand it
It's barely surviving
In a body that doesn't work
It's fighting to be seen
In a healthcare system
That doesn't care
In a society that forgot
And seeing these people
Confined to their beds
Having lost their jobs
And their friends
And their former lives
Well, it completely broke my heart
The injustice
The carelessness
And I realised
That it could be me
That this is M.E.

Steven Shorrock@stevenshorrock· Mar 14

The video is a bit expansive…more drawn to the expansive blue sky outside :D

Steven Shorrock@stevenshorrock· Mar 14

Inevitably… (Also annoying that the Venn diagram - im in 3-5 sets that seem to overlap but not here…)

Steven Shorrock@stevenshorrock· Apr 5

Seems this reflects a general finding that significant advantages remain (in muscle mass, bone structure and density, VO2 max, as well as any height and reach advantage obviously), hence the suggested open/third category. There’s usually a middle way, or I like to think so…

Steven Shorrock@stevenshorrock· Feb 14

My solution to public transport lighting problems - huge dark overglasses and peak caps

Steven Shorrock@stevenshorrock· Feb 6

James Reason (1938-2025) I learned yesterday that Prof. James Reason died. Thanks for the inspiration, Jim. But most importantly, at this time, we hold him, his family and those who loved him, to the light. www.linkedin.com/posts/steven...

Steven Shorrock@stevenshorrock· Feb 5

🟡 Dealing with gaps in the loop Despite advances in technology, human intervention often prevents accidents and more generally ensures that things work, filling in the gaps. Human involvement remains essential, argues Anders Ellerstrand skybrary.aero/sites/defaul...

First page of article ‘Dealing with gaps in the loop’, by Anders Ellerstrand, in HindSight magazine issue 36

Steven Shorrock@stevenshorrock· Jan 31

Fin du ski. Max was >9700 ft. Breathing is still possible if you sigh regularly at snowboarders.

Steven Shorrock@stevenshorrock· Jan 31

🔵 SEEING THE PEOPLE IN CONTROL My Editorial in the latest EUROCONTROL HindSight magazine (issue 36) on 'People in Control: Staying in the Loop'. skybrary.aero/sites/defaul... I reflect on the nature of control and propose nine principles to help ‘see’ the people in control, as:

Article SEEING THE PEOPLE IN CONTROL by Steven Shorrock in HindSight magazine issue 36

Steven Shorrock@stevenshorrock· Jan 31

Alex Bristol - skyguide CEO - on People in Control: Staying in the Loop Read the Invited Foreword for #HindsightMagazine Issue 36. skybrary.aero/sites/defaul... #ATC #Aviation #Management #Safety

Steven Shorrock@stevenshorrock· Jan 29

Out now Download free at skybrary.aero/articles/hin...

Steven Shorrock@stevenshorrock· Jan 25

I’m at 7,350 feet and it’s a hell of lot of people and noise and fluorescent light on the way. Destimulation mode ▶️

Steven Shorrock@stevenshorrock· Jan 17

This is a reasonable accommodation for autistic people at work and at home.

Steven Shorrock@stevenshorrock· Jan 12

All The Time

Steven Shorrock@stevenshorrock· Jan 10

This one…?

Tweet from Keith Wasserman, who later requested private fire fighters: “Real estate bailers don’t pay any taxes!”

Steven Shorrock@stevenshorrock· Jan 9

Lucy’s book When The Dust Settles is the only one that I own in three formats (audio, paper and kindle) and have ‘audioread’ in two simultaneously (recommended - Lucy is the narrator of her own life and work). Her forthcoming book Come What May is released in May 2025.

Steven Shorrock@stevenshorrock· Jan 9

Available at last. Settings_Accessibility_Sound Recognition

Screenshot of Apple iOS sound recognition for boiling kettle with alert tone “Choo Choo”

Steven Shorrock@stevenshorrock· Dec 29

Edinburgh in December. The gorse flowers are after coming out thinking it’s April!

Steven Shorrock@stevenshorrock· Dec 27

If, like me, you are not a fan of Memoji’s and keep tapping the icon by accident when trying to tap an emoji, you can remove the Memoji icon via settings_keyboard_emoji stickers <off> You’re welcome.

iOS settings menu for keyboard with “emoji - stickers” radio button off

Steven Shorrock@stevenshorrock· Dec 25

Steven Shorrock@stevenshorrock· Dec 17

I just received an article proposal…70% ChatGPT on checking. Then I had to waste time writing a response tell them that we do not accept ChatGPT articles (I’m not ignoring it or making another excuse). On reflection, I should have written in the style of ChatGPT.

Effin birds illustration: a chick and the text “fuck you for wasting my time”

Effin birds illustration: large bird with text “fancy-ass bullshit is still bullshit”

Steven Shorrock@stevenshorrock· Dec 17

Are you an airline pilot or air traffic controller diagnosed as autistic* or ADHD? If so, and if you’d be willing to have a chat as a basis for an article and talk on neurodivergence and diagnosis, please DM me or contact[at]humanisticsystems.com

Steven Shorrock@stevenshorrock· Dec 17

This is an example of casual ignorance of, or lack of care about, wheelchair users, those with pushchairs for children, and people with walking frames. Consistant issue in Edinburgh. An excess of poles and street furniture doesn’t help.