I will be accepting a PhD student for Fall 2026 in our Curriculum and Instruction program. If you are interested in autistic sociality, caregiver influence on their autistic children's development, and neurodiversity in school contexts, please get in touch!

Autism is now on LinkedIn! 🌍 👋 We'll also be sharing videos, summaries, and round-ups of research published in the journal! Come and join our community - our profile is here ⬇️ www.linkedin.com/company/1085... (Don't worry, we'll still be posting on BlueSky!)

Hi! We are a part-time (can work alongside) online ("live" *options*; costs the same in/outside the UK, can study from everywhere) MSc course on learning/intellectual disability, autism, and neurodiversity. Students have own tutor. We are recruiting for this term: www.port.ac.uk/study/course...

Excited to be at #AEC2025! ShARL will be presenting 4 posters and a talk (NIHR projects on ICF Strengths and Needs Assessment; Community Partnerships using systems mapping for health @victorianewell.bsky.social ; ESRC projects on Student wellbeing and Attention Control; Views on Data Sharing)

Really enjoyed our #ShARL25 conference today. What a great set of talks and sharing of ideas!

New preprint: Open data in autism research: the views of autistic people and parents of autistic children osf.io/preprints/me... Led by @hannahhobson.bsky.social w/ @dramypearson.bsky.social Audrey Linden @cmanning.bsky.social @fsedgewick.bsky.social @lauramaycrane.bsky.social #AutRes #OpenSci

Extremely pleased to have a copy of The Autism Dialogue Approach Handbook. What a wonderfully informative and progressive text! 👏

Next week @beatrixbird.bsky.social and I will be presenting b2b for Cafe Autistique at the Contact Theatre in Manchester. Talking research on attention,distraction and monotropism

thinkingautismguide.com/2025/05/what... An important thread here in case you missed it #INSAR2025

Congratulations Vikki!!!

New ShARL article on Autism diagnostic disclosure in adulthood journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Led by the wonderful Dr Sheena Au-Yeung

poster on Employment including an employer focussed intervention #INSAR2025

Keynote Raymaker: Emphasises importance of centering neurodivergent epistemologies in neurodiversity research #INSAR2025

Keynote Raymaker: "It is impossible to control complex futures but we can dance with them" Quotes Meadows, 2002 #INSAR2025

Keynote Raymaker: "We need to have a better understanding of the kinds of futures we want to have." Provides an excellent example of how to do this #INSAR2025

Keynote Raymaker: Interesting discussion around knowledge and power - how to keep the good bits and move forward? ##INSAR2025

Keynote Raymaker: AASPIRE - has now been running for 19 years; inclusion guidelines and toolkit online - check it out! #INSAR2025

Keynote Raymaker: Now speaking about AASPIRE - check it out!! #INSAR2025

Keynote Raymaker: Now a helpful reflection on what is motivating change and how to get to plausible and desirable futures #INSAR2025

Keynote Raymaker: "Transdisciplinary research can really help to solve complex problems" #INSAR2025

Keynote Raymaker: Transdisciplinary and Co-Produced Futures in Autism Research #INSAR2025 Great choice of keynote speaker!

#INSAR2025 poster on diagnostic disclosure

#INSAR2025 poster on reasons for autistic student dropout from higher education

Keynote Lombardo: Looking at whether different subgroups respond differently to early intervention. Argues that yes they do. #INSAR2025

Keynote Lombardo: Looking at machine learning algorithms. Says this can find a type 1 vs type 2 distinction purely based on data ##INSAR2025

Keynote Lombardo: Now presenting twin studies, looking at genetic similarity. Patterning effects concur. Says this supports a poor language outcomes subtype ##INSAR2025

Lombardo Keynote: Genomic expression different in toddlers with poor language outcomes ##INSAR2025

Keynote Lombardo: "Data suggest subtype specific genomic mechanisms" #INSAR2025

Keynote Lombardo: Presenting data on prenatal neurogenesis showing relationship with high ADOS scores #INSAR2025

Keynote Lombardo: Looking at early language outcomes. Reduced neural response to speech in autistic toddlers with poor language outcomes #INSAR2025

Keynote Lombardo: "Important to be cognisant of the history of autism and we need all perspectives" #INSAR2025

Pleased to see positive vision statements at the start of #INSAR2025 stating values including "supporting equitable participation for all"

A few of us from ShARL are at #INSAR2025 We're excited to be presenting posters on - Diagnostic disclosure - Employment barriers and support - Reasons for Autistic student dropout from HE - Evaluation of ICF CoreSets for Autism strengths and needs assessment Will post them on here afterwards

So thrilled that—after a 6 year hiatus—we will be hosting the #AutINSAR chat at #INSAR2025!. This discussion on autistic priorities for autism research will be held both IRL & here on BlueSky on Sat May 3rd, 12:45–1:45 PM Pacific time. 2019 AutINSAR summary: thinkingautismguide.com/2019/05/auti...

Excited for another year of the Autism PROMnet Special Interest Group at #INSAR2025! Come chat with us about using valid, accessible, and inclusive measures for and by autistic people in autism research 🙌 Friday, May 2 at 10:30AM (#706) www.autismpromnet.org @quantpsychiatry.bsky.social

Following public false claims on autism causation and attacks on science, INSAR has released a statement that people are “born with autism” www.autism-insar.org/page/insarst.... Autism as innate and lifelong is the focus my new free paper (long thread incoming): www.frontiersin.org/journals/int...

We are recruiting for two Advisory Editors at Autism! Deadline for expressions of interest is April 25th. For full details, please see the link journals.sagepub.com...

Created as part of Dr Daniel Poole’s research, this comic may help us understand some Autistic experiences - how everyday spaces can either help or make things harder. Seems to highlight some nice points about monotropism - what do you think? player.sheffield.ac.uk/events/distr...

Really pleased to have the opportunity to share our latest findings at the Colt Foundation Impact Seminar today. Seems like there's no time to waste on this topic!

Are you a supervisor wondering how to better support your neurodivergent postgrads? Go read our latest article in @timeshighered.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/how-s...

Very excited to share this 2year postdoc job, working on a co-produced model for autistic adults' social care Project led by & draws on work of the National Autistic Taskforce (especially Yo Dunn) with supporting cast of David Orr, @kathyleadbitter.bsky.social + me www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLI718/r...

Parents of autistic children - do consider taking part in this online research, part of my amazing PhD student Phoebe's doctoral research looking at language development in autism. Fully co-developed with autistic autism researchers! ❤️ @childstudycentre.bsky.social

From 2011-2022, "only 2.23% of papers published in autism journals had been pre-registered"? & "there were no pre-registrations in manuscripts published in Autism in Adulthood"? (which is the highest impact autism journal) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... systematic review, free

GREAT news on my final working day of the year – the final paper I worked on at @craeioe.bsky.social is live in @journalautism.bsky.social 🥳 Free to read, here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

"Analysis of the factors associated w/ hiring behaviours demonstrated that people were motivated to hire and to make adjustments but had key barriers around knowledge (of autism and adjustments), organisational processes (making & monitoring adjustments) & strategies (hiring & working practices)."

Why don't employers hire more Autistic people? Really pleased to share the video abstract for our new ShARL article on The Barriers to Hiring Autistic People as Perceived by Employers youtu.be/V-VnuFnynT4?... #AutRes

UK employers’ “intentions to hire autistic people and make adjustments to hiring process were high” but barriers: knowledge of autism & of opportunities and how to do so. “concerns about workplace relationships, productivity and need for training and adjustments to hiring processes.” Free, see below

New ShARL article led by Dr Marianne Day: Understanding the barriers to hiring autistic people as perceived by UK employers doi.org/10.1177/1362... We used COM-B and TDF behaviour change models to gain insights @journalautism

Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪

New paper : Perceptual Experiences of Autistic People With an Intellectual Disability and People With Williams Syndrome: A Reflexive Thematic Analysis - Elise - 2025 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🧵