Opportunity at Uni of Oxford: Professorship of Global Primary Health Care. Working in our vibrant department with many international links. Clean slate to develop your own programme of research. Global South applicants especially welcome. #academicsky #healthpolicy www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRW338/d...

Amazing painting by Rembrandt at a time when refugees were settling Holland. ‘He’s painting this crowded scene of Christ welcoming children, welcoming families. This was very controversial at the time. There were people in Leiden who didn’t want to welcome them’ www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

On 2 July 5.30pm I am going to attempt to summarise the work I do without it being tediously boring. Please come and judge (kindly or harshly) whether I manage! Regardless of success, there will be drinks afterwards. Details and a link to register below. I would love to see you! #AutRes

Great reporting. I hope someone is doing an implementation science study on these data #impsci @implementsci.bsky.social

Interested in research integrity, reproducibility, open science, or research culture? Join the King's Open Research Summer School for five days of talks, workshops, and discussion with leading researchers trying to improve science. Register free; open to all: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-kings-...

African early career autism researchers, please consider applying for an INSAR Autism Speaks African Research Training Fellowship! Apply here: lnkd.in/gGGzsQ9H I look forward to seeing you present your work at INSAR 2027 in May 2027 in Cape Town.

What an interesting and thought provoking read doi.org/10.53053/IZN... #AutRes #AcademicSky

Really proud of this special collection - a handpicked selection of articles representing some of the seminal work published in our journal over the past 30 years!

The @journalautism.bsky.social is 30! To celebrate this milestone the editorial team put together an anniversary issue with classic papers published in the journal. My pick is the first autism prevalence study in Africa. #AutRes Please find the full issue here: journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec...

expert reaction to observational study on mothers’ jobs and autism diagnoses in children www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-react...

Hello Prague, you are looking gorgeous this morning! Ready for the first #INSAR2026 master class

"The scale of the recent UK aid cuts had been so severe that people giggle at conferences where the UK claims to be thought leaders on the subject" www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Hello autism researchers #AutRes, looking forward to seeing you in Prague later this week for #INSAR2026! I'm really looking forward to this anniversary edition and to what I hope is a varied and rich programme of talks, workshops and posters

Excited to be heading to Prague for #INSAR2026 later this month! I’ll be sharing my research, “Using Strengths to Engage in Compensation: A Qualitative Exploration of Autistic Adults’ Experiences”, on Friday 24th from 6–7pm. Looking forward to hearing about others' research!

Autism researchers & service providers "often neglect to consider the potential for interventions to cause harm... and they communicate more confidence regarding the possibility of benefits for autistic people than is warranted given the evidence" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... editorial, free

This is so, so dispiriting. It's difficult to be positive about the UK to international colleagues when we have such an incompetent and mean Home Office

May I interest you in £10k for humanities or social science research? Our small grants scheme is open. Apply by 3rd June. We allocate through partial randomisation - awarding randomly between all applications that meet our quality threshold www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

"The UK spent 75 years building something genuinely worth having: a track record of successful integration. And now a Labour government plans to blow it all up."

All three lines are correct and true representations of reality. Data literacy is a crucial skill to make sense of the world.

Exciting news! The @yorkpsychology.bsky.social are recruiting 3 new ART (research and teaching) lecturers! One role will be prioritised for cognitive, affective and/or social neuroscience. #neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs

And so we write to brilliant postgraduate students from Sudan, withdrawing the offers and scholarships they won in open competition with the best in the world. A sad day for the University of Oxford.

Thinking of a career in think tanks? This afternoon, we're hosting a webinar for undergraduates or those with similar experience interested in working in the sector. We'll have speakers from numerous organisations sharing their insight and experience. Register here 👉 buff.ly/a3cO0df

She did it! I am so proud of Dr Tsegereda Haile Kifle, who did a brilliant job defending her PhD thesis at @kingsioppn.bsky.social today and passed with minor corrections 🎉🎉🍾

meant to post it earlier, but this is so good and disturbing by @helenrumbelow.bsky.social on the collective mindset the Epstein files reveal www.thetimes.com/life-style/c...

The consequences of developmental aid cuts by countries like the USA, UK and the Netherlands: millions of unnecessary deaths, including the deaths of young children. This resonates for me especially today, while prepping for teaching on the social determinants of developmental disabilities

Are female economists treated differently than males in academic seminars? These authors wanted to know whether gender shapes how scholars are treated when presenting research. So they built a massive dataset of 2,000+ economics seminars, job talks, and conference presentations from 2019–2023...

Our new study, just published in Nature Mental Health: Symptom change in depression and anxiety during psychological therapy for autistic adults... [1/8] 🧵⤵️ #autres #mentalhealth www.nature.com/articles/s44...

The future we want: an incredibly powerful session with autism advocate Merry Barua about what needs to change to allow autistic people to thrive as adults. Some keys points: I) stop fixing the behaviour, instead focus on understanding autistic people's needs. #AutRes

Good morning Bangalore! Really looking forward to in depth discussions on Autism in the global South. Kicking off today with a keynote by Dr Valsamma Eapen. #AutRes

This is cool! National Autistic Taskforce offering small funding awards to autistic people based in the UK, for work supporting autistic people to live their best lives. Closing date is 28th Feb. nationalautistictaskforce.org.uk/nat-founders...

An Ethiopian colleague just received a UK visa rejection. He has worked on a UK government funded project for the past 4 years, has a permanent university post and a family in Eth. It is so offensive to then receive a letter the UK is 'not satisfied that you are genuinely seeking entry as a visitor'

Scoping review: Facilitators, barriers, and cultural adaptations in the caregiver skills training program for children with developmental concerns journals.sagepub.com...

Report from HEARD ("Healthy Engagement in Autism Research Dialogue") about autism genetics www.cell.com/trends/genet... HEARD's aims: "allowing productive disagreement, critical examination of one’s perspectives, and improving our collective capacity for holding conflicting perspectives in mind"?

Cuts have consequences. For the first time this century under 5 mortality rates are projected to rise. The full report is here: www.gatesfoundation.org/goalkeepers/... What a dereliction of duty by high income countries like the US, UK and the Netherlands, who all cut their aid budgets

What a productive week analysing data and writing papers with this wonderful group. I can't wait to come back to Addis!

My former King's College London MSc DEVPP student, Sophie Roper, has published her dissertation on autism, sucidality and ageing. Supervised by me, plus @proffrancescahappe.bsky.social & @goldage.bsky.social The paper is open access in Molecular Autism: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #AutRes

🚨 ♾ Our report out yesterday calls on HM Government to deliver an effective new autism strategy. Open this link committees.parliament.uk/committee/77... to view the following: - Full report - Easy Read report - Report summary with conclusions and recommendations - Shorthand

Amidst all the gloom, a genuine glorious reason to live in the UK: to attend a popular science gig and find a large theatre hall completely sold out www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...

Huh. If you say you’ll mess with indefinite leave to remain rules it turns out talented migrant workers start looking at their other options. This could never have been predicted! on.ft.com/3JiZxbM

This is bleak. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Yesterday we said goodbye to lab member @jialingli.bsky.social who is moving back to China to take up a postdoc role. Jialing, you were an awesome PhD student and will be greatly missed in the GLADlab! London's loss is China's gain, I look forward to following all the fab things you will do next.

Awww. A good profile by Sirin Kale who personalises what a first or second gen interviewer can bring to the table.

Are you interested in studying longitudinal developmental trajectories of children with developmental disabilities in Ethiopia and Kenya? Please consider applying for a PhD! More information about the project is here: kcl-mrcdtp.com/project/2026... #AutRes

Neurodiversity is looking for a new Editor! The deadline for expressions of interest is October 5th. Full details are here journals.sagepub.com...

Introducing slightly less cruel/damaging version of Farage's plans would not "outmanoeuvre Reform";would be an economic/ political own goal Far better to attack Reform/Tories for Powellite ethnonationalism & say migrants who come here, contribute & *choose* to stay are welcome -and become British.

Hello India and hello autism researchers, I will be in Delhi this week to speak at the #AOCCN2025 conference. I'll go straight from the airport to the autism pre conference workshop tomorrow afternoon, and will speak at the main conference on Saturday. Please come say hi! aoccn2025.in

“They want our ideas. They just don’t want us.” Kenyan 'shadow scholars' writing essays for UK university students www.theguardian.com/education/20...

One of my favourite things: koppie climbing

Simon Kuper suggests it's bikes and kids' independence (yes!), I think being allowed hagelslag or nutella as sandwich topping two meals a day also helps

The CRAE tech imp has been rewiring the Bluesky New Autism Research Feed. It trawls through posts and tries its best to find the latest papers for you. Do PM us if there seem to be any glaring omissions as we syncopate the algorithm. bsky.app/profile/did...