Mary Lee 🦕💚🤍💜🦕

Adult human female. Sex matters. Feminist. Standing up for young people. #No2SelfID #WomenWontWheesht #ThisIsMyNo

[Edinburgh and Lothians Feminists @EdinFeminists]

Edinburgh, we bring sad tales of genocide & appeasement.
A motion was passed today by @Edinburgh_CC to condem @EHRC guidance on implementation of Equality Act. Our Council has voted not to comply with the law, our city hates women. 1/

[Caroline Struthers @Healthy_Control]

Yes. It is like deciding to do a trial of lobotomies on children before checking what had happened to children previously lobotomized because the child lobotomy clinics refuse to share the data. It. Is. Not. Ethical.

[Carrie Clark @cwestonclark]

I am begging critics of the puberty blocker trial to stop getting lost in the weeds arguing about research ethics, Gillick competence, informed consent, fertility preservation and the like. The NHS’s refusal to complete the Data Linkage Study (DLS) before proceeding with a new trial is the ONLY argument worth making on this issue. Everything else is a distraction.
The DLS would find out what has happened to all the children who have already taken puberty blockers. There is NO justification for proceeding with a puberty blocker trial before the DLS is complete. The entire programme of future research in this area should be informed by its results. The fact that the NHS is getting ready to run a live experiment on vulnerable children before it has even established the fate of those it has already experimented on is utterly damning.
The deeply disappointing Dr Cass should be widely derided for her ridiculous comments on ‘harm reduction’. The DLS IS harm reduction. Critics of the trial must stop fighting on their opponents turf by quibbling over technical details. We need to relentlessly force the DLS onto the agenda and expose the shameful hypocrisy of the NHS. DO THE DLS.
#DotheDLS
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[Katharine Birbalsingh @Miss_Snuffy]

Age 11 - feel free to block puberty.

But whatever you do, don’t go on social media until you are 16.

We have lost our bloody minds. 🤯😵‍💫

[Duncan Bannatyne @DuncanBannatyne]

Please please, somebody. Anybody, stop this abuse of children.

[Maya Forstater @MForstater]

Emergency injunction being sought against the plan to conduct medical experiment on children.

[Trina @hightreebud]

@LindyLoo2020 @Jebadoo2 Last reported figure for their own costs was £187,957. But now, of course, @scotgov are also liable for FWS's costs too.

Probably getting close to £1.8m that @scotgov has spent in court cases trying to dismantle women's rights.

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[Frau Blüchar @FrauBluchar]

I am grateful to @Baroness_Nichol and @marksandspencer for clarifying that they do not expect males to use the women's changing room. Perhaps Mr Chairman can go further by ensuring ALL staff are sufficiently trained and signage is in clear support of this.

[Emma Harriet Nicholson @Baroness_Nichol]

Ladies wishing to buy clothes for their children and themselves might wish to print a copy of this letter from M&S Chairman Archie Norman and take it with them.

[Mary Lee 🦕💚🤍💜🦕 @justonereality]

@WingsScotland Would love to see the audit trail approving this donation and understand which other charities/individual projects would be eligible for their £400,000

[Professor Alice Sullivan @ProfAliceS]

@UniofOxford Questions must be asked of the Oxford University Proctors.
Why did they allow protests inside a lecture theatre?
Why do they think it is acceptable to create a hostile and degrading environment for Michael Foran and his students?
What do they think education is for?

[Mary Lee 🦕💚🤍💜🦕 @justonereality]

@AshleyJ36460499 @ShakinthatChalk Surely everyone should be advised to do this - standard exam technique. There’s never a guarantee that you will be able to solve part a, even if just because of a silly mistake.

[For Women Scotland @ForWomenScot]

Thanks to @heraldscotland for giving us a reply to Marissa MacWhirter's column last week.
The reality is that when women’s rights bump up against the demands of trans-identified men, women’s issues are relegated.
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[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper.

Her name is Audrey van der Meer.

She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth.

The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time.

Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen.

Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task.

When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once.

The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected.

When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely.

Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG.

Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events.

The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem.

Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next.

Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve.

Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews.

Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad.

Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page.

A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched.

The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall.

The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down.

The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page.

That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it.

Two studies. Two countries. Same answer.

Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast.

Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth.

You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick.

The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew.

Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.

[Susan Dalgety @DalgetySusan]

First, the parliament needs to accurately count the number of women MSPs. There are 55 female MSPs and 74 male MSPs (including two who are trans-identified). This matters. Data matters. Sex matters.

[Lucy Hunter Blackburn @LucyHunterB]

It's hard to get elected as an independent to Holyrood. Whatever happens, I'm grateful to her for making it possible for me to put a cross beside someone who has shown she will make sacrifices for what she believes in, and stay standing and speaking up, in the resulting storm.

[Denise Findlay 💚🤍💜 @gracebrod1e]

4 days to go!
Vote Ash Regan Independent on the Edinburgh and Lothians East regional list (Peach ballot). The only minister to resign on a point of principle. Ash stands up for women. children and Scotland. As an independent, she works only for you.

Ash's song

[Mary Lee 🦕💚🤍💜🦕 @justonereality]

@0YqaXEbYlcgeLZG @joannaccherry @VoteAshRegan I didn’t either but it’s actually very simple. Each independent candidate is separate on the list vote. So you just put your X in the box for @VoteAshRegan - she’s right down the bottom

[Denise Findlay 💚🤍💜 @gracebrod1e]

Ash Regan stood up for women and girls. She is standing as an independent in Edinburgh and Lothian East. This song was written for Ash and suits her very well. If you are in Edinburgh or Lothian East, vote Ash Regan - Independent on May 7th

[Mary Lee 🦕💚🤍💜🦕 @justonereality]

@ForWomenScot @LetAlbaFlourish @90stomboy @HeatherMc1960 @VoteAshRegan Thank you. I’m just a bit confused about what list @VoteAshRegan would be on, and how a list vote for the independent group might work?