Did the lockdowns age girls' brains more than boys, as per the Guardian?
@kristiedegaris.bsky.social goes through the underlying research (itself quite limited) and reviews what the research did and didn't do / say:
threadreaderapp.com/thread/18334...
@kristiedegaris.bsky.social goes through the underlying research (itself quite limited) and reviews what the research did and didn't do / say:
threadreaderapp.com/thread/18334...
Thread by @KristieDeGaris on Thread Reader App
@KristieDeGaris: A bit on this study and why it's important to actually read studies and not just read Guardian articles about said studies. It seems pretty clear cut and concerning doesn't it? Study ...
threadreaderapp.com
September 10, 2024 at 12:02 PM
Did the lockdowns age girls' brains more than boys, as per the Guardian?
@kristiedegaris.bsky.social goes through the underlying research (itself quite limited) and reviews what the research did and didn't do / say:
threadreaderapp.com/thread/18334...
@kristiedegaris.bsky.social goes through the underlying research (itself quite limited) and reviews what the research did and didn't do / say:
threadreaderapp.com/thread/18334...
August 13, 2025 at 9:18 PM
@kristiedegaris it has arrived in South Yorkshire 🤩
July 26, 2025 at 11:20 AM
@kristiedegaris it has arrived in South Yorkshire 🤩
What are we reading?
What are *you* reading?
#nairnbooks #nairnbookshop #supportlocalbusinesses #booksbooksbooks📚 #booksellerrecommends
#booksareforeveryone #bookrecs #booksaremagic #BookSky
What are *you* reading?
#nairnbooks #nairnbookshop #supportlocalbusinesses #booksbooksbooks📚 #booksellerrecommends
#booksareforeveryone #bookrecs #booksaremagic #BookSky
October 2, 2025 at 12:06 PM
What are we reading?
What are *you* reading?
#nairnbooks #nairnbookshop #supportlocalbusinesses #booksbooksbooks📚 #booksellerrecommends
#booksareforeveryone #bookrecs #booksaremagic #BookSky
What are *you* reading?
#nairnbooks #nairnbookshop #supportlocalbusinesses #booksbooksbooks📚 #booksellerrecommends
#booksareforeveryone #bookrecs #booksaremagic #BookSky
Good reminder about the #COVID times we're trying to live through...
threadreaderapp.com/thread/17986...
🧵 by @kristiedegaris.bsky.social (on Twitter)
threadreaderapp.com/thread/17986...
🧵 by @kristiedegaris.bsky.social (on Twitter)
Thread by @KristieDeGaris on Thread Reader App
@KristieDeGaris: Thread 🧵 Looks like we're in another Covid wave, which means the 'flu' you have is statistically likely to be Covid. Covid is studied to have many negative outcomes including Long Cov...
threadreaderapp.com
June 6, 2024 at 6:15 PM
Good reminder about the #COVID times we're trying to live through...
threadreaderapp.com/thread/17986...
🧵 by @kristiedegaris.bsky.social (on Twitter)
threadreaderapp.com/thread/17986...
🧵 by @kristiedegaris.bsky.social (on Twitter)
RE: https://mastodon.scot/@kristiedegaris/116707505742310218
Every now and, I come across someone doing something wonderful with an ancient craft. More rarely, find someone who both does the wonderful thing and writes like an angel about it, with a broad historical overview.
On top of all that […]
Every now and, I come across someone doing something wonderful with an ancient craft. More rarely, find someone who both does the wonderful thing and writes like an angel about it, with a broad historical overview.
On top of all that […]
Original post on mastodon.ie
mastodon.ie
June 7, 2026 at 9:19 PM
RE: https://mastodon.scot/@kristiedegaris/116707505742310218
Every now and, I come across someone doing something wonderful with an ancient craft. More rarely, find someone who both does the wonderful thing and writes like an angel about it, with a broad historical overview.
On top of all that […]
Every now and, I come across someone doing something wonderful with an ancient craft. More rarely, find someone who both does the wonderful thing and writes like an angel about it, with a broad historical overview.
On top of all that […]
Look at my lil wall, @kristiedegaris ! It's from Stones found in the pre-owned allotment only. Will be filled with soil from the backside and planted with roses like a frisian wall. The gaps in the top layer are intentional, I will stuff plants inbetween once the soil is placed.
March 9, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Look at my lil wall, @kristiedegaris ! It's from Stones found in the pre-owned allotment only. Will be filled with soil from the backside and planted with roses like a frisian wall. The gaps in the top layer are intentional, I will stuff plants inbetween once the soil is placed.
@scotdowser Makes me realize that I miss seeing @kristiedegaris in these parts.
September 6, 2026 at 2:50 PM
@scotdowser Makes me realize that I miss seeing @kristiedegaris in these parts.
This weather has been sorely testing the guttering, but this new #guttermagazine has been making a splash here!
Feat. new work from #nairnfest authors #KarenCampbell and #KristieDeGaris
Get yours here!
Feat. new work from #nairnfest authors #KarenCampbell and #KristieDeGaris
Get yours here!
August 20, 2026 at 3:46 PM
This weather has been sorely testing the guttering, but this new #guttermagazine has been making a splash here!
Feat. new work from #nairnfest authors #KarenCampbell and #KristieDeGaris
Get yours here!
Feat. new work from #nairnfest authors #KarenCampbell and #KristieDeGaris
Get yours here!
Countdown to @Nairnfest is ON! 🗓️ We're proud to support Perthshire-based author Kristie de Garis at the festival next month!
August 20, 2026 at 11:44 AM
Countdown to @Nairnfest is ON! 🗓️ We're proud to support Perthshire-based author Kristie de Garis at the festival next month!
I just finished «Drystone – A Life Rebuilt» by @kristiedegaris. It was tough to read about the hard truths of racism, sexism, abuse, trauma, motherhood, ADHD, Long COVID, and addiction. And the unbearable weight of just hanging in there. But also […]
[Original post on mastodon.gassner.io]
[Original post on mastodon.gassner.io]
August 2, 2026 at 8:42 AM
I just finished «Drystone – A Life Rebuilt» by @kristiedegaris. It was tough to read about the hard truths of racism, sexism, abuse, trauma, motherhood, ADHD, Long COVID, and addiction. And the unbearable weight of just hanging in there. But also […]
[Original post on mastodon.gassner.io]
[Original post on mastodon.gassner.io]
@kristiedegaris Hi Kristie, I gave you a little bit of press today:
https://lucire.com/insider/20260723/keeping-it-real-ish/ 🏴
https://lucire.com/insider/20260723/keeping-it-real-ish/ 🏴
July 23, 2026 at 9:34 PM
@kristiedegaris Hi Kristie, I gave you a little bit of press today:
https://lucire.com/insider/20260723/keeping-it-real-ish/ 🏴
https://lucire.com/insider/20260723/keeping-it-real-ish/ 🏴
Tha tìm, am fiadh, an coille Hallaig
– Time, the deer, is in the wood of Hallaig
https://mastodon.scot/@kristiedegaris/114023914341537080
– Time, the deer, is in the wood of Hallaig
https://mastodon.scot/@kristiedegaris/114023914341537080
Kristie (@kristiedegaris@mastodon.scot)
Scottish place names are full of ghosts. They describe fields that are no longer there, forests long felled. Gaelic carries the memory of people, land, and place. When languages disappear, so does a part of our history and the ways of thinking they represent.
I wrote about it here:
https://kristie-de-garis.ghost.io/scottish-gaelic-the-language-of-the-land/
If you like what I write consider signing up for my newsletter. No spam just good stuff.
#Scotland #Gaelic #Writing #Gàidhlig #Place #Language
mastodon.scot
February 18, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Tha tìm, am fiadh, an coille Hallaig
– Time, the deer, is in the wood of Hallaig
https://mastodon.scot/@kristiedegaris/114023914341537080
– Time, the deer, is in the wood of Hallaig
https://mastodon.scot/@kristiedegaris/114023914341537080
The worst fucking news.
https://mastodon.scot/@kristiedegaris/114352191978213517
https://mastodon.scot/@kristiedegaris/114352191978213517
Kristie (@kristiedegaris@mastodon.scot)
I have bad news. I've been stretching every morning and I feel better in every way. Just like drinking more water, cleaning my room, lowering my sugar intake...it works. FFS. 😂
mastodon.scot
April 17, 2025 at 8:40 AM
The worst fucking news.
https://mastodon.scot/@kristiedegaris/114352191978213517
https://mastodon.scot/@kristiedegaris/114352191978213517
Canadian here, definitely a good read. There’s been a copy floating around the Montreal West Island tiny free libraries for several months now.
#montreal https://mastodon.scot/@kristiedegaris/116316864004887837
#montreal https://mastodon.scot/@kristiedegaris/116316864004887837
Kristie (@kristiedegaris@mastodon.scot)
Attached: 1 image My book 'Drystone - A Life Rebuilt' will be out in the US and Canada now. That's very exciting, but the downside is that the energy it takes to promote a book overseas is sadly not available to me right now, maybe ever. So, if you've been waiting to buy it, you can. If you've been waiting to order it into your library, you can. If you've been waiting to tell your friends who are reviewers at the NYT, you can ;) #Books #Writing #WritingCommunity #Reading #ReadingCommunity #USA #Canada
mastodon.scot
March 30, 2026 at 1:26 PM
Canadian here, definitely a good read. There’s been a copy floating around the Montreal West Island tiny free libraries for several months now.
#montreal https://mastodon.scot/@kristiedegaris/116316864004887837
#montreal https://mastodon.scot/@kristiedegaris/116316864004887837
Just got a book delivered in Canada from Glasgow Scotland … wonder what book that could be? 🧐
@kristiedegaris
@kristiedegaris
July 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Just got a book delivered in Canada from Glasgow Scotland … wonder what book that could be? 🧐
@kristiedegaris
@kristiedegaris
@kristiedegaris I don’t think it’s
#fascism- it’s rather the tyranny of a madman, a kakistocracy in a kyriarchy. And all of this has its roots in the mentality of the Wild West in the #usa .
No one wanted to see that the la...
#democracyhashtag/democracy" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#democracy #gopref="/hashtag/gop" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#gop #fascists/hashtag/fascists" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#fascists
👉 Vote 'em Out!
#fascism- it’s rather the tyranny of a madman, a kakistocracy in a kyriarchy. And all of this has its roots in the mentality of the Wild West in the #usa .
No one wanted to see that the la...
#democracyhashtag/democracy" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#democracy #gopref="/hashtag/gop" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#gop #fascists/hashtag/fascists" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#fascists
👉 Vote 'em Out!
January 24, 2026 at 11:38 PM
@kristiedegaris I don’t think it’s
#fascism- it’s rather the tyranny of a madman, a kakistocracy in a kyriarchy. And all of this has its roots in the mentality of the Wild West in the #usa .
No one wanted to see that the la...
#democracyhashtag/democracy" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#democracy #gopref="/hashtag/gop" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#gop #fascists/hashtag/fascists" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#fascists
👉 Vote 'em Out!
#fascism- it’s rather the tyranny of a madman, a kakistocracy in a kyriarchy. And all of this has its roots in the mentality of the Wild West in the #usa .
No one wanted to see that the la...
#democracyhashtag/democracy" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#democracy #gopref="/hashtag/gop" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#gop #fascists/hashtag/fascists" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#fascists
👉 Vote 'em Out!
@dalias @aanee @kristiedegaris +9001%
All #fascism is bad - espechally #cyberfascism which is ALWAYS AND INHERENTLY under #FalsePretense|s!
#democracyhashtag/democracy" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#democracy #usaref="/hashtag/usa" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#usa #gopref="/hashtag/gop" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#gop #fascists/hashtag/fascists" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#fascists
👉 Vote 'em Out!
All #fascism is bad - espechally #cyberfascism which is ALWAYS AND INHERENTLY under #FalsePretense|s!
#democracyhashtag/democracy" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#democracy #usaref="/hashtag/usa" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#usa #gopref="/hashtag/gop" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#gop #fascists/hashtag/fascists" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#fascists
👉 Vote 'em Out!
December 25, 2025 at 8:37 AM
@dalias @aanee @kristiedegaris +9001%
All #fascism is bad - espechally #cyberfascism which is ALWAYS AND INHERENTLY under #FalsePretense|s!
#democracyhashtag/democracy" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#democracy #usaref="/hashtag/usa" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#usa #gopref="/hashtag/gop" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#gop #fascists/hashtag/fascists" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#fascists
👉 Vote 'em Out!
All #fascism is bad - espechally #cyberfascism which is ALWAYS AND INHERENTLY under #FalsePretense|s!
#democracyhashtag/democracy" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#democracy #usaref="/hashtag/usa" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#usa #gopref="/hashtag/gop" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#gop #fascists/hashtag/fascists" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#fascists
👉 Vote 'em Out!
RE: https://mastodon.scot/@kristiedegaris/115933667233263785
This thread is on fire. Really insightful, no-nonsense take. I remember when I first read "Wuthering Heights" and it did not feel that ambigious to me, either - despite our teacher's attempt to make it more complex.
#books […]
This thread is on fire. Really insightful, no-nonsense take. I remember when I first read "Wuthering Heights" and it did not feel that ambigious to me, either - despite our teacher's attempt to make it more complex.
#books […]
Original post on mas.to
mas.to
January 21, 2026 at 5:48 PM
RE: https://mastodon.scot/@kristiedegaris/115933667233263785
This thread is on fire. Really insightful, no-nonsense take. I remember when I first read "Wuthering Heights" and it did not feel that ambigious to me, either - despite our teacher's attempt to make it more complex.
#books […]
This thread is on fire. Really insightful, no-nonsense take. I remember when I first read "Wuthering Heights" and it did not feel that ambigious to me, either - despite our teacher's attempt to make it more complex.
#books […]
RE: https://mastodon.scot/@kristiedegaris/116062169405452742
This is outstanding, insightful, and sheds light on authorly goals (or a rethinking thereof).
Kristie says, "What is lost in the pursuit of speed is not some romantic attachment to snail’s pace work, but accuracy, meaning, connection […]
This is outstanding, insightful, and sheds light on authorly goals (or a rethinking thereof).
Kristie says, "What is lost in the pursuit of speed is not some romantic attachment to snail’s pace work, but accuracy, meaning, connection […]
Original post on indieauthors.social
indieauthors.social
February 13, 2026 at 12:09 PM
RE: https://mastodon.scot/@kristiedegaris/116062169405452742
This is outstanding, insightful, and sheds light on authorly goals (or a rethinking thereof).
Kristie says, "What is lost in the pursuit of speed is not some romantic attachment to snail’s pace work, but accuracy, meaning, connection […]
This is outstanding, insightful, and sheds light on authorly goals (or a rethinking thereof).
Kristie says, "What is lost in the pursuit of speed is not some romantic attachment to snail’s pace work, but accuracy, meaning, connection […]
Drystone Diary - What Is Drystone?
https://open.substack.com/pub/kristiedegaris/p/drystone-diary-what-is-drystone?r=8bmz7&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
https://open.substack.com/pub/kristiedegaris/p/drystone-diary-what-is-drystone?r=8bmz7&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
Drystone Diary - What Is Drystone?
Welcome to Drystone Diary.
kristiedegaris.substack.com
June 7, 2026 at 9:27 AM
Drystone Diary - What Is Drystone?
https://open.substack.com/pub/kristiedegaris/p/drystone-diary-what-is-drystone?r=8bmz7&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
https://open.substack.com/pub/kristiedegaris/p/drystone-diary-what-is-drystone?r=8bmz7&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
