🔊 Vacancy: Open Research Manager, University of Sheffield Library (full-time, open-ended). The role will involve supporting projects across Sheffield and nationally with the @ukrepro.bsky.social to accelerate open research practices. Closing date 22 October: jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Open-Res...

👉Are you a post-doc? 👉 Passionate about improving care for people with learning disabilities? 👉Interested in communication? The ICALD study has 2 jobs: one based in London and one in Manchester. See links👇 Come and work with us! jobs.ac.uk/job/DOQ464/r... jobs.ac.uk/job/DOQ213/p...

Kent and Greenwich merge without consulting unions! #UKHE

Excited to be in Dublin (despite the rain! 🌧️) for the Autism Europe Congress #AEC2025. I’ll be presenting my poster tomorrow at 2pm (P1.01.17), please drop by and say hey if you’re also attending ☺️ Looking forward to hearing about all the brilliant research! 🙌🏻

Heading Dublin tonight for Autism Europe Congress #AEC2025. Talk on meta-autism research tomorrow - autism community views about open data Poster Friday - talking about distraction, monotropism and normativity @autismeurope.bsky.social

Heading into Sheffield for #ESCOP25 I'm taking part in a symposium on using drift diffusion models for between group comparisons,organised by @ambercopeland.bsky.social W/ @cmanning.bsky.social Craig Hedge and Alekhya Mandali also speaking. Lot to discuss,should be a great session!

“Newton’s … law of inertia, tells us that an object at rest stays at rest, & an object in motion stays in motion, unless something intervenes. In daily life, autistic inertia echoes this: Starts, stops, & shifts can require disproportionate effort.” www.psychologicalscience.org/publications... -SR

🚨 This week on BBC Look North: Sheffield staff balloting for strike action over £5m in cuts. We have defeated cuts in other institutions and we will defeat these ✊ Show your support to @sheffielducu.bsky.social

I've spent the past weeks publishing my flankr package on CRAN for R. Users who've only installed the first version will notice SIGNIFICANT improvements in model fit speed. Plus, I made a hex sticker for it. CRAN: cran.r-project.org/web/packages... Github (dev version): github.com/JimGrange/fl...

I wrote an R package that creates standardized R project structures that are compliant with @mekline.bsky.social's psych-DS...ish. It also creates additional features for reproducibility and teaching like a readme, license, .gitignore and Quarto templates + can validate existing projects

Useful article on the pressures that disproportionately affect neurodivergent students (and staff) in HE: wonkhe.com/blogs/higher...

We made it into the Independent! “NHS ‘needs to do more to support autistic people” www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home... #AutRes #AutismResearch #ADHDResearch #ADHD #Autism

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...

Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.

If you've ever zoned in so hard the world disappeared, this is for you. Check out my accessible presentation on measuring Monotropism @ Cafe Autistique in Manchester, 11 June 2025. youtu.be/tz2XpO1tg0Y?...

New preprint: Open data in autism research: the views of autistic people and parents of autistic children osf.io/preprints/me... Led by @hannahhobson.bsky.social w/ @dramypearson.bsky.social Audrey Linden @cmanning.bsky.social @fsedgewick.bsky.social @lauramaycrane.bsky.social #AutRes #OpenSci

108 Labour MPs sign amendment to defeat the Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payments Bill The benefit cuts can be defeated.

PCI Psychology is here!! 🎉🥳 After over a year of hard work by so many people, we are thrilled to announce that we are open for submissions! Join us in making publishing more efficient, equitable, and open: psych.peercommunityin.org #PsychSciSky #scipub

PLUS two fantastic - & in many ways complementary - papers on the ethics of sharing sensitive data relating to marginalised groups, from @parooo.bsky.social & @danpoole.bsky.social . Who decides what’s ‘closed as necessary’, & how can we ensure consent is actually fully ‘informed’?

Introducing PECANS, "a comprehensive checklist designed to ensure that all relevant information is included in research reports within the broad fields of cognitive psychology and neuropsychology" link.springer.com/article/10.3... autism-relevant, free

Next week @beatrixbird.bsky.social and I will be presenting b2b for Cafe Autistique at the Contact Theatre in Manchester. Talking research on attention,distraction and monotropism

In case you missed it: #AutINSAR is a much-needed discussion between autistic people, autism researchers, family members, and professionals about priorities in autism research. This year it happened during #INSAR2025. Recap at TPGA: thinkingautismguide.com/2025/05/what... #autism #neurodiversity

I am pleased to announce that I passed my PhD viva yesterday with minor corrections!!! Huge thanks to my supervisors @sarahcassisy.bsky.social & Caroline Richards for their support over the years, and to my examiners Will Mandy & Brian O’Shea for a great experience. #PhDone 🥳🎓

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! 🧵⬇️

The Labour government is really planning on cutting Access to Work, the invaluable but badly designed scheme that provides disabled people with the support they need to access employment. They were never interested in helping disabled people to work. www.disabilitynewsservice.com/second-wave-...

I'm on strike today. @sheffielducu.bsky.social has voted for industrial action to oppose compulsory redundancies. Hoping management reconsiders and works toward a resolution that supports the entire university community—so we can get back to research and teaching. su.sheffield.ac.uk/ucu-briefing

Our members out in force today! 👊

Autism as an international journal: Equity, inclusion and cultural humility for a global authorship and readership journals.sagepub.com...

Epistemic injustice... being autistic means one’s credibility and capacity to relate an accurate account of one’s own experience is often questioned. How can I be a doctor if I am autistic? Conversely, how can I be autistic if I am a doctor? www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

CONSORT update, autism-relevant journals.plos.org/plosmedicine... with "added item on financial and other COIs of manuscript authors" "added item on how harms and other unintended effects were assessed" "revised item to include reporting of important changes to the trial after it commenced..." etc

questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-ques... Wait. Isn't the reason that disabled people are being pushed into poverty because welfare spending was allegedly out of control? But, these Government figures seem to show it's stable. I'm puzzled. Are you?

Finished teaching. In teams of 8-10, students learn question frameworks, reusing existing search elements, SRAccelerator / Rayyan, summarisation and data extraction using LRM+RAG, MMAT2018, SWIM and PRISMA. Between 2weekSR tools and priority screening, you CAN teach students to do systematic reviews

Created as part of Dr Daniel Poole’s research, this comic may help us understand some Autistic experiences - how everyday spaces can either help or make things harder. Seems to highlight some nice points about monotropism - what do you think? player.sheffield.ac.uk/events/distr...

Labour seems set on imposing what I've called neoliberalism's privatisation of eugenic responsibility: instead of enforcing mass authoritarian eugenics, the world is made increasingly unlivable; welfare necessary for life is cut; ensuing deaths are then framed as caused by the individual's choices.

During #NeurodiversityCelebrationWeek we’re highlighting a comic based on research into how distraction affects autistic people. Created with autistic adults, it explores the ways everyday life can both challenge and support focus. 📖 bit.ly/3FqH9vt @danpoole.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social

Please consider supporting Disability Sheffield with their urgent fundraising appeal - www.justgiving.com/campaign/ds2... They do vital work supporting and advocating for disabled people in the community, including Autistic adults through the Sheffield Voices project

"Millions pretend to be sick to get pitiful government benefits. If we could only make them slightly poorer and more miserable, they will surely be willing to go and find a job and employers will be happy to have them." Apparently a thing almost every politician in Britain believes, 1980-Present

New free paper, Guidelines for the Creation of Accessible Consent Materials & Procedures: Lessons from Research w/ Autistic People & People w/ Intellectual Disability, from teams incl. AASPIRE - more coming from our Outcomes Project led by @cnicolaidis.bsky.social! www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/...

Useful insights for conducting and reporting participatory neurodevelopmental research here!

For #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek we’ve made a video for mental health practitioners about Developmental Language Disorder! #DevLangDis affects 7% of ppl, and is over represented in MH settings. We introduce DLD and have tips for making MH support more accessible. Please share! youtu.be/Ko6sFea3v0w?...

Congrats to @kmunday.bsky.social and all of us in autism community who helped to #StopSpectrum10K. Today the S10K team announced study's cancellation. See the report from Hopkins Van Mil and Karen Leneh Buckle, and a reflective blog by Simon Baron-Cohen: www.autismresearchcentre.com/projects/spe...

calmspaces.org/about is a very useful newer enterprise, asking older autistic people (50+) in the UK about which spaces and places are autistic-friendlier. Also asking for older autistic people to review more places and add them. Info on the website. Please feel free to share.

From Dr. Wood: We are looking at 3 areas that might impact communication agency change & intense interests/monotropism The project currently consists of running focus groups for speech & language therapists & parents of autistic young people who are minimally/non-speaking up to age 21

A systematic review of pre-registration in autism research journals journals.sagepub.com...

Exciting new postdoc job opportunity working with the National Autistic Taskforce, Yo Dunn, @suereviews.bsky.social, David Orr and myself. Two-year NIHR-funded project to improve residential and supported living services for autistic adults. Pls share. DM for info. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLI718/r...

Calling all #psych researchers!📢 We’re conducting a quick survey on #preregistration & would love your input on what features an ideal prereg platform should have. We will use your feedback to improve @zpid.bsky.social's service PreReg! Thanks!✨ Link: www.soscisurvey.de/zpid-prereg/ #OpenScience

Today Greater Manchester has taken back public control of the bus network after decades of disastrous deregulation. Next up we demand public ownership and control of essential networks of water, energy, broadband, railways and more

“For someone with increased perceptual capacity, tranquillity could lead to unpleasant rumination, and solitude could become imposed isolation. Instead of creating bland and featureless places, we must create places in which ongoing cycles of engagement and rest can be done well.” #AutRes 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

New #AutRes paper: our review of the use of pre-registration in autism research journals was published over the holiday journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... w/ @fsedgewick.bsky.social, Audrey Linden, Hannah Hobson, Oliver Allchin

We are looking for a strong student for this funded PhD opportunity on attention allocation in autism www.findaphd.com/phds/project... deadline 11th Jan. Please share with anyone who might be interested! #Neuroscience #VisionScience #AttentionResearchSky #EEG