I am looking forward to giving a presentation on Autistic music at the next Goldsmiths/Lewisham Research Café for Autism Acceptance Month! On Wed. 29th of April at 12pm, at Goldsmiths Library @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social More info and booking (free): www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/goldsmiths...

Only 5 days left to submit an abstract for the first Neurodivergent Music Studies Conference! #AutRes #MusicResearch #PhD #AcademicSky

One of the best parts of my PhD has been realising I'm not the only one tired of neuronormativity in neurodivergent music research. Historically this area has rarely been explored in neurodiversity-affirming ways, especially when it comes to stigmatised neurominorities.

Delighted to share this new article, led by doctoral researcher Lucie Eadon, on whether active learning approaches in higher education are enabling or disabling for autistic learners #autres journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Every now and then we post a round-up of research that's been published mentioning monotropism in recent months. As more and more is published, this becomes a harder and harder task! This one only takes us to last December. monotropism.org/2026/winter-...

Amazing collection of some of Alice Wong’s writings. If you’re not familiar, please peruse. RIP Alice, we miss you tremendously 🖤

We encourage researchers from all disciplines to submit, including but not limited to: • #MusicPsychology & #Psychoacoustics • #MusicComposition & #Performance • #PracticeResearch • #Music #Computing • #MusicEducation • #Musicology To submit: www.neurodivergentmusicnetwork.com/2026-virtual...

When the Ecology Fractures: Monotropism and Autistic Burnout (Part 2) morerealms.com/when-the-eco...

The Neurodivergent Music Network now has its own domain name: www.neurodivergentmusicnetwork.com The deadline to submit a paper for our inaugural conference is April 13th! #MusicSky #AcademicSky #AutRes

I keep thinking about the increasing push to narrow the criteria for autism diagnosis. There is a profound social impact to this: the fragmentation of Autistic communities. While this doesn't seem like the most problematic of consequences, it actually can have profound repercussions. 1/

Uta Frith's claims that autistic masking doesn't exist because of a lack of research ignores a significant body of peer-reviewed research directly linking long-term masking to burnout, depression, and suicidality. It silences the voices of autistic people who have been sharing their experiences. 1/

A most excellent response to Uta Frith's statements!

New conference poster 🙂 Submit your abstracts for the Neurodivergent Music Studies Conference here: theneurodivergentmusicnetwork.weebly.com/2026-virtual... #AutRes #MusicResearch #CallForPapers #AcademicSky #Neurodivergent #Music

Uta Frith said masking isn’t real, late diagnoses were probably wrong, and non-speaking autistic people who write may be lying. She admitted she had no proof. None of it was challenged. I wrote the response she didn’t get: www.canarysend.co.uk/canarysendbl...

@petewharmby.com isn't active on here these days, but he, along with others, has written a response to that Uta Frith TES article www.twinkl.co.uk/news/experts...

A conversation earlier today about graphic design made me wonder how I visualise things. If I try to conjure an image in my mind's eye, there is a picture. But it's often poorly defined. If it's a face, for instance, I don't see the details.

It's my favorite holiday, WEIRD PRIDE DAY! I'll be spending the day being weird (same thing I do every day, Pinky). Here's a nice thread of Weird Pride events. Or, you can celebrate Weird Pride Day by catching up on the Weird Luck webcomic! #weird #weirdpride weirdluck.net/weird-luck-c...

Happy Weird Pride Day to all who celebrate! I'm really happy with how it's coming together so far. I hope we'll see a good few people posting bits of writing and videos and things today, too, besides the things I've directly organised myself (with help from many others)...

I've published a new substack post on the ideological function of dismissing political opponents as 'mad' or 'insane'. open.substack.com/pub/neurodiv...

We highly encourage submissions about Mad Music and less researched types of neurodivergence for the Neurodivergent Music Studies Conference! For more info and to submit an abstract, visit: theneurodivergentmusicnetwork.weebly.com/2026-virtual... #MadStudies #Research

New study highlights the day-to-day importance of autistic flow Work by Daniella Wain and colleagues details a non-pathologising view of flow states in autistic individuals, and how they maintain wellbeing by By Emily Reynolds 03 March 2026 www.bps.org.uk/research-dig...

Happy @weirdpride.day 2026! 'Weird Pride is a celebration, but it is also, always, a protest: an act of resistance and solidarity, in a world where nonconformity is too often punished'. Even in hostile ground, wildflowers can find a way to bloom. Join our community events weirdpride.day/2026-context

Thought provoking article by @autisticrealms.bsky.social ! Some aspects of it resonated deeply with my own research and creative practice. Because of all the harmful stereotypes around autistic people, there's a common belief that autistic musicians like to work in isolation. 1/

#AutRes Being Autistic made me a better floor nurse and makes me a better prescriber & diagnostician 💯 Autistic healthcare professionals could fill the staffing shortage (read: labor crisis) if we paid fair wages, had universal healthcare, and accepted more PT positions w/in healthcare settings.

I’m doing this tomorrow after some sleep, finishing my slides, maybe washing my hair, it’s going to be fun, come along I will not promise a complete overview of the lit on epistemic injustice because lol no fucking way but I can promise a useful introduction to epistemic oppression/ignorance

📢 CALL FOR PAPERS For the Neurodivergent Music Studies Conference: a two day, fully virtual conference on June 26th (synchronous) and July 1st (asynchronous). theneurodivergentmusicnetwork.weebly.com/2026-virtual... #MusicSky #AcademicSky #AutRes #Music #Research

Grateful for my 1st paper being published ‘HOSPITAL NOISES: Sonic Autobiography and the Embodied Experience of Autistic Auditory Perception – A Transdisciplinary Arts-Practice Inquiry’ - Journal of Creative Research Methods 2:1, early view April @brisunipress.bsky.social #autism #abr #PaR #academia

Yes! I’m still struggling with self-acceptance but noticing moments of sensory bliss and working to make them a regular occurrence has been a really important step for me. A3 #AutChat

Self-acceptance is for when I feel good about myself. Self-acceptance is for when I feel bad about myself. And self-acceptance is not locked behind the approval or disapproval of others. #AutChat A1

Ah, good question! I think what is helping me the most with that is my creative practice. The more I understand how my approaches to music composition are intrinsically linked to my bodymind and incorporate that into my work, the more accepting I become of it. #AutChat A3

To me self-acceptance means being comfortable with who I am. It isn't about making value judgements (good or bad), it just means accepting my bodymind as it is, in this moment. A1 #AutChat

Today is March 1st, the disability day of mourning to honor victims of filicide don’t really want to say a lot about it w/ everything but this is a bigger problem than one might expect & ASAN has tools ok that’s enough on that today for me, thank you, I love you, please be safe & kind if you can 🫶🏻

Dozens more journals added to this list today. Ideas and suggestions always welcome. #AcademicSky #Academics #PhDLife #HigherEd #Research

Our new paper on autism and hypermobility is out! Results indicate autistic people may experience more pronounced symptoms of hypermobility and more co-occurring health conditions. Full paper, open access, at the link 🔽 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#News French composer Éliane Radigue has died aged 94. A onetime collaborator of musique concrète pioneer Pierre Schaeffer, she became a major voice in electronic music, later embracing Tibetan Buddhism and, from 2004, writing only for acoustic instruments. #ClassicalMusic #ExperimentalMusic

#Neurodivergent composers: what are your preferred notation systems? Do you find graphic scores more efficient in representing your sensory experiences? #Synaesthesia #Composer #NeurodivergentMusic #ClassicalMusic #MusicSky #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD

Autistic identity: A systematic review of quantitative research #CRAEresearchSummaries

The autistic joy of listening to one song over and over #autistic #autism #actuallyautistic #neurodivergent #autisticjoy

In respects to auditory processing: pretty much everywhere! Education, work, social occasions... I still struggle with it sometimes, but I am much more confident with taking the time I need to process information, and not being as afraid of making mistakes. Sort of 😅 #AutChat A2

Auditory processing differences. Until I realised I was autistic a few years ago, I had no idea why I was struggling with processing speech. My first memories of masking: being laughed at in school for this, and trying my best to hide it ever since (spoiler alert: not a good idea!) #AutChat A1

Highlighting the LGBT+ community's past, present, and future. Our editors have curated a collection of books on LGBTQ+ history, culture, identity, and the ongoing equality movement. spr.ly/63328h5YJn @thisiskryss.bsky.social

What is a sound or musical texture that gives you sensory joy? #FeelGoodFriday #SensoryJoy #MusicSky #NeurodivergentMusic #AuDHD #ActuallyAutistic

Women working in the music industry will not be the least bit surprised to discover that a bunch of rich men talked about buying a record label because of the access it would give them to women Epstein also talked about buying model agencies and fashion houses www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A year ago I gave this talk on Musical Neuroqueering 👇🏻 I really enjoyed discussing my research, diving into the connection between #music & #neurodivergence and how we can dismantle neuronormative standards through creative practice. #NeurodivergentMusic #AcademicSky #MusicResearch

Patients were forced to go private at great personal cost because NHS assessments for ADHD have waitlists up to 8 years long. And now, despite having those diagnoses, GPs are just refusing to give people meds they need for a diagnosis they have because... fuck you, that's why. Cool!

Participants wanted! 👥 Take part in an online survey on minority stress & neurodiversity (20–40 mins), inc. focus on burden from administrative systems! Open to neurotypical & neurodivergent adults (18+), English proficient, no location limits 🌍 🔗 durhamuniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Research Reshare! Wain, D. et. al., (2026) Transitioning in and out of autistic flow: A qualitative study presenting a non-pathologising approach to neurodivergent wellbeing and conceptualising autistic ways of being in clinical and therapeutic settings. kar.kent.ac.uk/112495/ #flow #monotropism

If us atypical, divergent, mutants, People of Los, &c. had our own Renaissance, what would our music be like?

In Nazi Germany women used to receive different medals depending on how many Aryan children they had birthed.