Want to reduce the incidence of mental health problems in neurodivergent young people? Focus on sleep. Sleep problems are the leading mediating factor (12-43% variance, by age) of mental health outcomes - Chiara Caserini at #NDAS2025. Preprint in repost. #AutRes

Calling autism community members and justice professionals (with experience in Magistrates/Crown Court) to help co-design new, accessible resources for autistic people involved in criminal court systems in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 & 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Autism community: lnkd.in/ekxQ_wV5 Justice professionals: lnkd.in/ee8SXbmd #AutRes

@giorgiamichelini.bsky.social argues for integrating “neurodevelopmental spectrum” into the transdiagnostic model, which currently does not capture conditions such as autism and ADHD. Related paper: scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=e...

Evidence suggests depression has a greater negative effect than anxiety on the quality of life of (speaking) autistic adults: Dr Melanie Ring of Dresden University at #NDAS2025. Study here: scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=e...

Brilliant use of videos to give voice to non-speaking children’s experiences, presented by Prof Nicola Yuill of @acornsussex.bsky.social at #NDAS2025.

Great to see the link between language and mental health considered on the BBC - and amazing of Siouxsie to share her experiences www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... We have video guides for mental health practitioners about language problems and mental health - see below!

Exactly. And using AI for knowledge production will lead to scientific monocultures, as @mjcrockett.bsky.social and I argued (more than a year ago) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Today at #NDAS2025: the editor’s view through the review process with @profnikkibotting.bsky.social … do’s and don’ts for submission cover letters, contacting editors, reviewing and becoming a reviewer

Today at #NDAS2025: using #AI for systematic literature review quality assessments with Dr Nick Behn, and checking methodology and designing animated online tasks for kids with Professor @steer-rhinos.bsky.social

Many firms are misusing the ‘open source’ label. The scientific community, which relies on transparency and replicability, must resist this trend, says Stefano Maffulli https://go.nature.com/4l5D7ch