A growing body of research indicates that Texas's restrictive abortion bans have negatively impacted the health and lives of Texas women and babies in multiple ways. Across the board, pregnancy outcomes and complications have worsened.

Eliminating requirements for a doctorate, residency, licencing exams,thousands of hours of clinical training, and dropping to a two year unaccredited program. Would we be ok if this happened to physicians? #PsychSky #ClinicalPsychology #Psychology @cmadocs.bsky.social @canadianpsychology.bsky.social

We’ve had a great response to our study - thank you! There are just a few spots left. If you’re an Autistic woman or Autistic and gender diverse, we would especially like to hear from you!

📣Participate! 📣 We are recruiting #Autistic adults for our experiences of #interoception study. See the flyer for more info or click the link to complete the 5-min eligibility screener paloaltou.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

I’m looking for #adjunct instructors for graduate clinical child psychology courses at PAU. For accreditation, you would need to teach in person in Palo Alto. It’s a great way to built teaching experience with a very engaged cohort. Reach out with questions!

Celebrating completing a (single spaced) 25 page response to reviewers by… reviewing a manuscript.

Can the human sciences exist w/out the human? Proposals for using AI as human research subjects suggest yes. But @mjcrockett.bsky.social and I respond with, ‘not so fast.’ In fact, silicon subjects say more about the problems of the research paradigm than the promises of AI. 🚨New article, thread 1/

If any of my students would rather learn from a LLM than me, they are welcome to. I suspect few would pick that option, though.

I have long complained about the absence of ‘interoception’ from Microsoft Word’s internal dictionary, but today I would also -shockingly- like to highlight the absence of ‘orgasm’. New paper (with many unrecognized words) coming soon.

There is a long and misguiding history of blaming mothers for autism. Unfortunately these accounts still hold appeal for many despite the science.

Didn’t realize this paper was out: we use dyslexia as a model to demonstrate that the left prefrontal cortex is involved in regulating positive emotion in children, too, as well as adults link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Is the emotion #awe the vehicle through which high heart rate variability leads to #creativity? It certainly is in dyslexia! Sharing our latest. Got papers coming out like a British bus schedule at the minute. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Congratulations to @belindayzhang.bsky.social on her first first-author publication! Also my first senior-author and our first qualitative foray! #dyslexia #neurodiversity onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

"People agreed strongly that research can play a powerful role in shaping good Autistic lives [but] big changes were needed [e.g.,] researchers should stop thinking about autism narrowly and in a negative way, where Autistic people are seen as the problem." journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Congratulations to @awallmanjones.bsky.social on her new paper, showing how dynamic changes in facial expression intensity are tied to real-world communication benefits, and are elevated in dyslexia #neurodiversity link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...

Relevant for AI-supported psychotherapy

Thrilled with our new lab logo, designed by members of the #autism community who are involved with our research 🧠 🌼 🌺

"This was an experiment by a kindergarten class. They dropped seeds in the cracks of the sidewalk to see what would happen. This would help our bees " via I Love Bees

“People with learning disabilities are the last forgotten minority, the ones who have been ignored, mocked and persecuted by the rest of us…the time has come to challenge this dark history of prejudice” - @stephenunwin.bsky.social Looking forward to reading!

In a study of Gen Z's personal goals, "to be safe" ranked as the top priority, outweighing traditional teenage desires like popularity and fun. A developmental psychologist explains what this says about growing up in an era of constant crisis:

Shocked to hear a keynote speaker asked to disclose their formal diagnoses on stage. Not an acceptable use of question time IMO #INSAR2025

Accommodations that I love at #INSAR2025 as a non-autistic dyspraxic with sensory sensitivity: flap applause, quiet poster viewing time, alternating poster presenting times to reduce crowding 👐🏼

Happy to be back at #INSAR2025 after a few years’ hiatus! I’ll be presenting data in tomorrow’s lunchtime poster session on Autistic kids and teens’ heart rate and heart rate variability responses to auditory startle

"Adjusting for inflation, tenure-track faculty are now paid 10.2 % less than before Covid... While 'median pay increases for most higher education employees in 2024–25 remained strong, they have dropped...” www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t... #edsky #highered

Stereotypically male professions are also perceived as being the most prestigious. This has an impact on children's career plans. #psychscisky #socialpsych Based on Jaoul-Grammare, 2024.

Starting my Monday with the not unusual: “Oh I thought you were a student! You look so young.” Why this is not the compliment you think it is:

Today is International Women's Day. The first of which was organised by the Socialist Party of America in 1909. In today's USA, 'women' and 'female' are words to be avoided by gov officials. Man is not, except if it refers to homosexuals. The fight for equal rights is more important than ever!

If you have a 6-12 year old at home, please ask them what toys they would want in a waiting room (and let me know the answer!). Neurodiverse childrens’ perspectives particularly welcome. #labstartup

Announcing a new version of the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Toolkit for Journal Editors! Among many other updates, the second edition includes an integrated checklist of 45 actions editors can take to advance #EDI in their journals. bit.ly/42l9wVr #psychology

Hi, Vox reporter here: If you've had a study section, NIH travel, or other NIH-related meeting cancelled (or not), raise your hand! Reply or DM me, and repost for visibility if you're able. #academicsky @drugmonkey.bsky.social

Was teaching all day. Did I miss anything?

Anyone (esp. grad students or postdocs) interested in reviewing a structural MRI study on emotion regulation in kids with dyslexia? 🙏🏼 15 declines and counting…

I have hit that point in the first term as an assistant professor of feeling utterly overwhelmed. How do you all do this?!

How do fellow academics who also write in the popular media list this on their academic CV?

Anyone on the academic job market has to speak at length about their contributions to equity, diversity, and inclusion, but what are unis doing to make the job market inclusive? Thanks to everyone who shared their stories for this piece.

Being Neurodivergent in Academia: Why Sparks of Change is publishing stories from neurodivergent researchers elifesciences.org/inside-elife...

If you’ve been impacted by the high upfront costs associated with the academic job market I’d like to hear from you. I’m investigating the issue in an upcoming Times Higher Ed piece. Anon, if preferred: [email protected]

Yes, but neural activity ≠ behavior or experience. Multi-modal investigations of emotion in autistic people are needed, and I will keep saying this until the work is funded 😅

Just had to google the plural of ‘corpus’. Living the academic dream.

Attending campus visits for faculty positions can leave postdocs 1000s of $s out of pocket, which can take months to be reimbursed. This is an undiscussed barrier in academia which must impact diversity. I’d be interested in hearing people’s experiences and thoughts.

My job is now 90% saying variations on “rubbish in, rubbish out” to graduate students.

This week it’s a 1am interview

The amount of times I tell my partner who works in finance an anecdote about academia and he says “ah yes, they used to do that in investment banking”…

Unanticipated startle sits at the border of reflex & emotion, and is difficult to modify via experience. These results hint that emotional differences in dyslexia may not be mere sequelae of academic struggles.

New paper: of 5000 PhDs awarded at large Dutch uni, men were about twice as likely to receive a cum laude degree even if they had same supervisor. Difference most severe with all male PhD committees & reduces with more female members. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New preprint from us showing links between elevated unanticipated startle reactivity (facial behavior & electrodermal activity) and anxiety in dyslexia. Suggests the involvement of very early emotion systems in this population. #neuroskyence #devpsy

Would personally add ‘contend to connect’, too

The postdoc problem in a nutshell: “…postdoc recruitment often prioritizes short-term gains for the laboratory, while neglecting long-term success for individual scholars” www.nature.com/articles/d41...