The language we use to talk about ADHD matters - it has real consequences for people with ADHD/ADHDers. This paper has been a long time in the making, so very glad to see it out in the world and very grateful for having such an amazing team work on it ❤️

📣 New paper on relationships between disability identity and preferences for person-first versus identity-first language. #disability #DisabilityResearch #DisabilityStudies #disabilitypridemonth

Join us for the exciting unconferences during #SIPS2025 in Budapest on June 25-27! We will be discussing #OpenScience, AI, replication studies, critical thinking, integrity, transparency, trust, community, peer review, public engagement, preprints, the future of SIPS, and more! #PsychSciSky

Scientists have linked fossil fuel companies to specific climate harms for the first time, with five Australian oil, gas and coal companies potentially responsible for $900bn in loss and damage from extreme heat alone. Latest from me in The Guardian this morning.

If you want *genuine* positive progress for the environment & climate (why wouldn't you?), then you can vote for that, by voting Greens/Teals/sensible Independents. Preferential voting means *no vote is wasted*. The major parties are both ecocidal, to varying degrees www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

#auspol climate/enviro protection are no brainers for priorities imo

“It’s the same shit, different year,” ANU climate scientist Prof Sara Perkins-Kirkpatrick said. “I am sure everyone is now getting fatigued that these records keep falling. It’s now incredibly predictable.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Register for the Replication Research Symposium organized by FORRT and the Münster Center for Open Science (online & on-site)! Register for free (on-site or virtual*) before March 31st: 🔗 indico.uni-muenster.de/event/3176/r... 📅 3-day symposium on replications & reproductions (14–16 May 2025) 🧵

If you vote Peter Dutton, we'll get Gina Rinehart-Trump

One consequence of tolerating pseudoscience is that people die when its legitimatization becomes baked into our culture, health care systems, and institutions.

We just wanted to take a moment to thank all our new supporters! Tomorrow, there will be more of us!

Do you prefer ‘a person with ADHD’ or ‘an ADHDer’? If you have ADHD (and you are 18+ years), we would like to know what you think as part of our research on disability language preferences. To have your say, you can complete a 10 – 15 minute survey deakin.au/4iqPuOi #ADHD #ADHDAwareness

🎉 New paper: A scoping review on #ADHD and puberty, which is the first comprehensive overview of quant literature in this area. doi.org/10.1016/j.cp... Our #neurodiverse team ( #neurodivergent + neurotypical researchers) also worked hard to avoid stigmatising language. #ADHDResearch #OpenAccess

Is there anybody in my bubble that likes to write stories, and would be up for trying to write something for my project @scienceandfiction.net? It's a great way to practice your science communication and try something new! 💙 DM me for more info!

It’s Friday! Steve’s productivity is at an all time high.

Vaccines don’t cause autism. Vaccines aren’t even associated with autism. The biggest predictor of autism? GENETICS. We have decades of data and millions of data points that to show this. This lie insults people with autism too — as if it’s an “adverse effect” of medicine. 1/

Brad is telling Steve do shenanigans. Steve is probably going to do them.

Want to avoid the utter carnage unfolding under a Trump-Musk government being replicated in Australia? Don’t elect Temu Trump (aka Peter Dutton). That doesn’t mean you need to put Labor first though! Use *preferential voting* to best reflect your values and politics.

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

What’s the best way to influence politicians and government policy when it comes to nature conservation? Researchers from RMIT surveyed ex-politicians, public servants, community groups and non-government organisations and found 4 ways to create real change for nature 🌍🧪 @sbekessy.bsky.social

Taking my lazy dog and hyperactive brain for a morning walk #walking #sunrise #therapy #nature

I think the best thing about this - which was a tough call - is that the (magnificent) tesla ripoff looks like it's been deliberately parked there

We're shocked by Trump and Musk's antics because we judge them against the idea that governments should serve the people. But they have no such intention. Government for them is simply about seizing power and wealth. Let's stop being shocked, and build a global, democratic counter-movement.

We have a satin bowerbird living in our backyard (or, more accurately, we live in his). We call him David Bowie. #bowerbird #birds #birdlife #birdwatching #nature #Australia

Millions of Australians are being forced deeper into poverty as the ultra-rich get much, much richer. They use the same roads & bridges that we do, yet they pay a lower tax rate than the middle class does. Demand the rich pay their fair share of taxes! #auspol #ClassWar #TaxTheRich #Election2025

▶️ New episode of the ReproducibiliTea podcast Why is Indigenous health research so crucial, especially for adolescents? What are the systemic challenges researchers face, and how can we push for openness, transparency, and equity in health research? 🎧 Listen now: soundcloud.com/reproducibil...

Our #LoveData25 celebration continues… 🌎💘 Today, we explore how open data practices drive social impact. Dr. Ji-Ping Lin's Taiwan Indigenous Peoples Open Research Data brought greater visibility to Indigenous communities, leading to policy improvements. Read our Q&A: www.cos.io/blog/rese...

The environment is deteriorating, rapidly, we'll all be affected. theconversation.com/existential-.... The LNP AND Labor have failed to deliver environmental law reform theconversation.com/labors-dumpi.... There's a federal election soon. No vote is wasted with preferential voting. Vote wisely!

We might yearn for paradise, temporal or spiritual. But to our descendents our habitable planet will look like an almost unimaginable paradise. No tech fantasy, no space station or controlled environment will ever compare. Fight for what we have. This is our heaven, and there can be no other.

My happy place. Dog* for scale. * medium-sized, slightly overweight lab x kelpie #forest #hiking #trees #nature

I was on a podcast about my chapter, "Meaningful Engagement with Neurodivergent Public Work." www.patreon.com/posts/includ... Highlights include: * Consent matters * The de-identification that isn't * Yes you can cite a dang blog * Neurodivergent neurodiversity research matters #AutRes

Most of the world’s brightest minds are hard at work developing new ways for you to get depression from a computer

We’ve been looking for Christmas beetles for the beetle count every day since the start of summer. This is the first one we’ve seen 🪲🪲🪲 #christmasbeetle #beetle #insects #Australia #queenbeetle

I don't understand why such actions are being taken by science orgs. At @cos.io we cannot meet our mission to increase openness, integrity, and reproducibility of research WITHOUT improving Inclusion->offer respect and access Equity->adapt to people's needs Diversity->for everyone Fold on that? No

🚀 New on OSF: DOI Versioning for Preprints! This feature enables researchers to manage preprint updates, transparently track changes & show version history. This aligns with community-driven models like MetaROR’s Publish, Review, Curate for a more open peer review process: www.cos.io/blog/doi-ver...

The takeover of Twitter was a preview of what we're all living with now and a stark example of why you can't let any one person have too much money: they go insane and make themselves everybody's problem

📖 Open Social Psychology Textbook 📖 Call for Contributors 🙋🏻‍♀️ New FORRT initiative to develop an open-access textbook on social psychology. Goal: summarize 🏛️ classical findings 🏛️ and discuss them in light of replication attempts. 🧵 Find out how you can get involved below 👇

🎉 New for 2025! 🎉 The ACNS International Webinar Series kicks off with Dr. Chris Baker, expert in learning & plasticity 📅 Feb 20 | 🖥️ Zoom | 🎟️ ACNS members only Don’t miss out—register now! 🔗 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #Neuroscience #BrainPlasticity #ACNS

New study: autistic and non-autistic adults in North America were more likely to use and prefer identity-first terms than person-first terms. Many were critical of functioning labels. www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/...

To clarify, Boycott Spectrum 10K was the main driving force behind stopping Spectrum 10K: unpaid and grueling cognitive and emotional labour. Here is a example of the activists' history: aucademy.co.uk/2021/09/03/b... Autistic people have power as a community. autisticltd.co.uk/2025/01/30/c...

Reiterating "that RMET scores are unsubstantiated, and thus uninterpretable" & again recommending "that researchers stop using the RMET as a measure of social cognitive ability and re-evaluate existing research findings based on RMET scores" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... autism-relevant

Call for Proposals: Replication Showcase @ our Replication Research Symposium, May 14-16, 2025 📣 We're inviting proposals for talks & posters on replication research from any field, for the Replication Research Symposium’s Replication Showcase 🔄 Find out more below 👇 #OpenScience #OpenResearch

"many ToM tests disadvantage autistic individuals in a manner unrelated to any ToM impairments"--e.g. "the requirement... to attribute mental states to entities that do not have minds" pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39786849/ dismantling claims about & tests of ToM in autism, thorough, important, free

We are here! A diverse bunch of researchers, scholar activists, artists, service users, consultants who coproduce and codeliver research to improve the mental, emotional, and physical health of neurodivergent people of all ages. We are based at UCL's Brain Science Faculty. #autism #adhd #syndromes

32/ If you want to learn about #neurodiversity, getting started can be tricky thanks to a lack of well-curated and contextualised information. This annotated reading list has been put together as an introduction to the topic. 🔗 elifesciences.org/articles/102...

Open science has made major progress in recent decades, but challenges persist. In a new piece for @timeshighered.bsky.social, our Senior Director of Research Tim Errington explains why #openscience must push for greater inclusivity and accessibility. 🗞️ Read more here: www.timeshighereduca...

📚 A Beginner’s Guide to Open and Reproducible Systematic Reviews in Psychology online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...