May we steer any secondary school history teachers with experience of Holocaust education with autistic (and non-autistic) pupils towards this call for participants:

Call for research participants! Are you non-binary, aged 18+ and living in the UK? Would you be willing to spend 30 minutes on a survey on your experiences of family? qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_... Please share! I am a researcher on this project - A short thread to follow. 1/14

Intersections may magnify stigmas… but intersections are also where communities of mutual care can be built. My #Pride reading today.

Director Mel Romualdez and Comms & Engagement Officer Brian Irvine met with UCL Public Engagement (UCL Public Engagement) to talk about CRAE's participatory approach to autism research... and the impact that can have.

Policy fails when there is a disconnect between those drafting legislation and those it impacts. This years #CRAEanuualLecture is with Laura Crane - Specialist Adviser with House of Lords Autism Act 2009 Committee - who has been bridging this gap. www.eventbrite.co.uk...#CRAEanuualLecture1/3

“Lived-experience... no, living-experience - I’m not dead yet” Wenn Lawson

Autistic people are in every profession, and that includes the law. But research is thin. A new study is listening to UK autistic legal professionals. If you can help us with an online interview, get in touch at [email protected] Not you? A share would help us reach others 🙂

New paper 'Superior perceptual capacity is specific to autistic cognition' by Davies et al. Across autistic, ADHD, AuDHD & neurotypical adults: autistic participants kept picking up extra detail when the perceptual load task got complicated. doi.org/10.1016/j.ac...

See @thinkingautism.com's summary of #INSAR2026 below (more autistic presence, continued need for progress yet efforts to revert to subtypes), along w/ Damian Milton's keynote on double empathy problem: autism-insar.org/page/INSAR20... Was privilege to give Damian "rock star treatment" he deserves

Behaviorism is dead. Despite that, behaviorism won. And neurodivergent and disabled students lost. Our Education Access page traces how we got here — and what it costs. stimpunks.org/access/educa...

Apparently, ChatGPT developed an interest in goblins because it was told “You are an unapologetically nerdy, playful and wise AI mentor to a human.” As a mentor who studies mentoring, I can confirm; goblins are awesome. openai.com/index/where-...

Still not too late to grab a place at this weeks #CRAEwebinar Moving in Unpredictable Environments with Spencer Hayes Thur 7th May, 4pm

Annual CRAE lecture: Time to deliver. Mon 22 June • 6 PM • Online Professor Laura Crane will be sharing insights as Specialist Adviser to the House of Lords Committee on the Autism Act 2009.

Sincere thanks to @autisticenough.bsky.social, @jamiechase.bsky.social, @johnmarble.bsky.social, @kaydenstockwell.bsky.social, @aimeespeaks.bsky.social, @brianirvine.bsky.social, @melromualdez.bsky.social and all other participants who made this year's #AutINSAR chat particularly vibrant. #INSAR2026

If you are interested in the empowering concept of the Double Empathy Problem (DEP)—in which blaming autistic people for lacking empathy is reexamined and turned inside out—then you might enjoy our recap of DEP creator Damian Milton's #INSAR2026 keynote talk: thinkingautismguide.com/2026/04/doub...

Next week’s #CRAEwebinar is with Spencer Hayes who will be sharing some counter-orthodox research; autistic folk might learn some motor skills better in unpredictable environments. Signup:

Oooo…. This might be the one where I ask Spencer if we can get an obstacle course 😁

Welcome to #AutINSAR, a discussion about autistic priorities in autism research, taking place at #INSAR2026. AutINSAR started at #IMFAR2017 as a response to the lack of focus on autistic priorities at The International Meeting for Autism Research: thinkingautismguide.com/2017/05/auti...

Neurodiversity, neurodivergent, neurokin, neuromajority, neurominority & neurotypical. But I sometimes wonder about bodies. We are all more than brains in jars and sometimes the neuro our language of neuroprotest and neuroresistance misses that.

We had the #AutINSAR chat about autistic priorities in autism research IRL earlier today in Prague, but here on Bluesky please feel free to respond through April 30—after which we will publish a roundup on www.ThinkingAutism.com. #INSAR2026

#INSAR2026 @suereviews.bsky.social 1 It’s not just about translational tools, it’s also about an attitude shift 2 Researchers need to look at the pragmatic contexts of communication 3 Our samples need to be more diverse; there are many dispositions that can provoke the double empathy gulf.

Today is #AutINSAR, in which the #INSAR2026 community discusses autistic priorities in autism research! The chat will be IRL at 12:45-1:45 PM Prague time in the Club foyer on Level 1, but as we are also chatting on Bluesky you do not have to join in person. As for the questions we'll discuss… 1/

#autINSAR - Autistic priorities of research. So many autistic researchers present at this years #INSAR2026 @thinkingautism.com - reflected on the changes since 2017

Having a think about the language of being ‘given’ or ‘getting’ an autism diagnosis which places the loci in the institution, propagating institutional trauma. Maybe ‘seeking’ to ‘finding’ a diagnosis, language that allows for continued growing of frames for self-advocacy and understanding.

Thanks to everyone particularly @thinkingautism.com for writing threads on #INSAR2026 for those of us who can't be there. Finding it incredibly hopeful stuff and also a delight to see so many autistic researcher. Obvs our time has come 🙏♥️

"Sucking at something is the first step to being sorta good at something" - Jake the Dog

Am at the ECHO-live session at #INSAR2026 with discussion on autism & trauma. (ECHOs are live discussions on case studies in small groups - a fairly international way of medics to fan and share knowledge)

Last day of #INSAR2026! I'm flying the flag for @bristoluni.bsky.social autism/neurodiversity research with a final poster at 12:30-13:30 (work that includes two super undergraduate researchers!)

Since INSAR was not able to provide a room for the 2026 #AutINSAR chat (no foul; they tried), we will be meeting IRL in the Level 1 Club Foyer space tomorrow, Saturday April 25, at 12:45 - 1:45 Prague time. As we will be on BlueSky too It is fine to respond asynchronously!

It’s encouraging to see a packed room for the Autistic People’s Views panel (@drstevenkapp.bsky.social) at #INSAR2026. I’ll note the majority here are YOUNG autism researchers (not veterans). That’s such an apt commentary on the past/current state of autism research, but also its hopeful future.

Milton: To combat double empathy problem fallout for autistics, we need collaboration. Autistic people themselves need to be setting the agenda, and we need more cooperative efforts like the Participatory Autism Research Collective he helped found. #INSAR2026

Really loving @thinkingautism.com coverage of #INSAR2026

#INSAR20206 talks: Anna Cook; in schools everyone (and particularly autistic pupils) need “Someone in their corner who gets them”

“there is absolutely no reason to deny people the social and political advantages of collective identity based on a narrow interpretation of what constitutes scientific validity” From my recent blog - relevant to invited panel on “many autisms” at #INSAR2026 medium.com/@suefletcher...

Fortunate to have suggested Damian Milton to keynote at #INSAR2026 about the double empathy problem. For 1st time he considered application to animal models (critiquing it) & also included the relevance to autistic people w/ severe intellectual impairment like his son (critiquing “profound autism”).

Interesting that in the #INSAR2026 posters area topic-designated as #ProfoundAutism, I did not see one poster that actually featured that phrase (to be fair, I might have missed them, though I tried to be thorough). I asked one of the presenters, who said straight out that, "we don't use that term."

If you're at INSAR and wish to say hi, the CRAE SuPer team have a poster up at 12:30 today (Friday) #15C Does Superior Perceptual Capacity Extend Beyond Autism? (Quiet viewing from 11:30, we'll be there 12:30-1) 1/3

#INSAR2026 talks - Varun Warrier on The Complex Correlates of Age at Autism Dx. (With a shout to Yira Zhang) Mental health brings complexity. With the history of autism dx age of dx is also complex.

#INSAR2026 Sergers and team on Co-creating Co-creating. - It’s ok to have a nt in the group. - Respect, good disagreement and nd groups

#INSAR2026 is in the Top 30 trending hashtags. Well done, Prague posters! AinA friends, enjoy your dinner! @cnicolaidis.bsky.social

It's Friday at #INSAR2026 and @bristoluni.bsky.social autism researchers are back with more research to share! Find us here:

This morning at #INSAR2026 I (and the @craeioe.bsky.social team are sooooo excited for Damian Milton’s keynote. We just ran into him and are so sure his talk is going to 🤘 rock 🤘.

Though important to note that @drmbothapsych.bsky.social says a huge problem is that autistic people are never allowed to just be. And one of the most profound things we can do is provide autistic people space to just be, so they can follow their internal compass, and live well. #INSAR2026

So many posters from CRAE in Prague today for #INSAR2026… and many more tomorrow. Thank you to all the lovey people who dropped by to say hello.

A huge congrats to the amazing James Cusack on the Autism Advocacy Award at #INSAR2026 “Things have meaningfully changed” James Cusack

#INSAR2026 Puzzle piece count only at 1 so far. Going to graph this with results from #INSAR2025 and #INSAR2027 😁

#INSAR2026 and have gravitated to Session 312 - Neurodiversity in Autism: Insights and Distinctions from ADHD Will it be a two wolves narrative of a self in battle, or the AuADHD self as a single self sculpted by two hands?

With Merce taking mentoring!! “Mentors emphasized the importance of "knowing the individual." Effective support was linked to explicit dialogue about expectations and preferences, allowing for a flexible mentorship style tailored to the student's preferences.”

With Mengning talking about the Grand Challenges project at UCL www.ucl.ac.uk/grand-challe... @uclengage.bsky.social