We are looking for clinicians who work with autistic people without Learning Disabilities to support their sensory motor needs to complete a survey asking experiences asssing and supporting autistic adults. www.qualtrics.manchester.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...

Palantir's new neurodivergent fellowship is in fact bad because neurodivergent people participating in technofascism will not save us. Latest for @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

“Union-Busting Tactic” The University of Sheffield argues staff who do not replace missed teaching due to strike action are in breach of contract, and so should forfeit an *additional* two weeks of pay. #UKHE #AcademicSky

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... You can donate to our strike fund here ucu.group.shef.ac.uk/hardship-fund/

Check out this post about our current situation from a colleague at another university. @sheffielducu.bsky.social

🚨 SynthNet is out 🚨 Researchers propose new constructs and measures faster than anyone can track. We (@anniria.bsky.social @ruben.the100.ci) built a search engine to check what already exists and help identify redundancies; indexing 74,000 scales from ~31,500 instruments in APA PsycTests. 🧵1/3

Nothing to see here, just students being required to undergo a security bag check before meeting with our university Vice Chancellor. An eloquent and scathing report of the meeting by a PhD student www.linkedin.com/pulse/uon-st...

Today, @hlautismactcom.parliament.uk published their report, 'Time to deliver: The Autism Act 2009 and the new autism strategy'. Access the full report and recommendations (including easy read report, video from the Chair, and shorthand story) here: committees.parliament.uk/committee/77... [1/4]

The Neuronormative Paradigm, conceptualised by @dr-nicky.bsky.social names the systems that define & enforce what society considers normal and acceptable. This exploration piece contrasts the neuronormative paradigm with the neurodiversity paradigm. autisticrealms.com/the-neuronor...

This week we've kicked off our series of community based, participatory workshops exploring underserved autistic adults experiences of primary healthcare. First event at the amazing Burton Street Foundation in Hillsborough.

@autismeurope.bsky.social 2025 Congress is now freely available on this website: www.autismeurope.org/what-we-do/i... Also: www.youtube.com/@AutismEurope Lots of very exciting presentations including @drmbothapsych.bsky.social @autisticdoctor.bsky.social and many more!

Embracing Complexity's priority-setting exercise for research on neurodivergence is now published in Neurodiversity! Huge project led by @agatataga.bsky.social, paper co-written by @drrachaeldavis.bsky.social, @drhollyjoseph.bsky.social, and yours truly: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🔊 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/...