This open-access book marks the first historical overview of the autism rights branch of the neurodiversity movement, describing the activities & rationales of key leaders in their own words. Edited by @drstevenkapp.bsky.social link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

🚨 AEI Call Alert! Juan de la Cierva Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 (PhD 2024–2025 | 3-year duration) Our research group in Analytic Philosophy, LOGOS @logos-group.bsky.social welcomes expressions of interest from motivated researchers! ✨ 👉 LOGOS website: www.ub.edu/grc_logos/

Looks great! Can't wait to get my hands on this!

The Trump/RFK autism claim makes perfect sense once you remember that MAGA is always about turning the clock back. The claim isn't "Tylenol causes autism," it's "pregnant women taking Tylenol causes autism"... Because the real goal here is to revive the 1950s tradition of blaming autism on women.

This may seem cute but if you do this too much the cyclists may become reliant on cars feeding them, disrupting the delicate roadway ecosystem

"Exploring lived experience in mental health", first workshop of the Birmingham Network for Phenomenology and Mental Health. Happening now, at the Studio (Central Birmingham) @matthewbroome.bsky.social and @jelliedsours.bsky.social delivering the opening remarks

Loving the talks this morning at @uobphenomenal.bsky.social's event. We are learning about really interesting topics with some lovely speakers and great moderation by @jelliedsours.bsky.social

📖🎉Excited to share that the book chapter “It Doesn't Feel Like Myself: A Mindshaping View on Self-Illness Ambiguity” (Virginia Ballesteros, Fernández-Castro & Núñez de Prado-Gordillo) has been accepted for publication with Routledge! 🔗Pre-print: roderic.uv.es/rest/api/cor...

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Doggust Day 15: Havanese. Unqualified and too small for this job. #doggust #doggust2025

Academia runs on contacting other academics out of the blue and saying HEY do you wanna do this COOL THING for essentially NO REWARD and equally certainly NO RECOGNITION from your employer and those people going OH MAN that sounds AWESOME sign me up for the COOL NO REWARD NO RECOGNITION EXPERIENCE.

Making Sense of the 4E Cognition Turn in Mental Health Research Miguel Núñez de Prado-Gordillo, Pablo López-Silva muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

New on the #projectEPIC blog today is a post from Virginia Ballesteros, summarising her recent paper "Objectivity, Standardization, and Epistemic Injustice in Psychiatry". It's an excellent read - you should check it out! epistemicinjusticeinhealthcareproject.blogspot.com/2025/07/obje...

PUBLIC LECTURE: My end of @leverhulme.ac.uk fellowship lecture is on the 24th of September! It will be in person at @durhampsych.bsky.social and also streamed online. Tickets are available on Eventbrite. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/centre-for...

#Neurodiversity is a vital concept, and understanding the difference between neurodiverse and neurodivergent is much more important than just splitting hairs over linguistics. I made a comic explainer. Higher quality images & questions for reflection here: medium.com/@sonnyhallet...

Want to do better by autistic people? OK: 1) Check how someone prefers to communicate 2) Allow more time to process responses 3) Avoid assumptions based on body language 4) Be open to written or direct communication when that works best @drstevenkapp.bsky.social et al: drexel.edu/dornsife/new...

I’m petrified about today’s science news. Genetically modifying crabs to have cheetah genes? This could go sideways fast.

"Research on autism has suggested that autistic people use neologisms more than nonautistic people, but no previous work has carefully examined these words to understand what they mean and why autistic people might be creating them in the first place" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... free

🧠 3rd Workshop on Mental Health and Normativity 📍 University of Granada | 🗓️ May 29–30, 2025 How do norms shape our understanding of mental health? Join us to explore philosophical insights on psychiatric harm, self-perception, autism, and identity. 🔗 sites.google.com/view/philoso...

New paper alert! Information transfer within and between autistic and non-autistic people is out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com nature.com/articles/s41... THREAD! 🧵⬇️

Deeply concerning: The British Journal of Occupational Therapy have published this: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... in which 16 autistic children are 'normalised' using a robot to teach them how not to ever appear or sound autistic. What on earth is going on, in Occupational Therapy?/

Our favourite monthly round-up is out from @annmemmott.bsky.social and #neurodiverseconnection ndconnection.co.uk/blog/autism-...

Self-diagnosis is valid. Also, telling someone who landed on self-diagnosis after months, if not years of researching and learning about autism, that they're not autistic because they don't have a piece of paper saying so, is classist and ableist. Please don't do this.

Plus, it's easy! Just ask and listen to autistics. If you offer a neurodiversity-affirmative perspective on autism, the rest of us researchers want to know about you and your work, we want to support you, specifically if you are an autistic researcher yourself!

Intersubjective, systemic, and sensory roots of autistic social difficulties: a critical evaluation of enactivist and phenomenological approaches Federico Parra Rubio link.springer.com/article/10.1...

📝🧠 I'm thrilled to announce that my paper, "Intersubjective, systemic, and sensory roots of autistic social difficulties: a critical evaluation of enactivist and phenomenological approaches" is now published and open access!! Check it out: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #autism #enactivism