🧪New paper out in EClinical Medicine on supporting autistic young people during the transition to adulthood: In the UK, the transition to adulthood often involves increasing expectations for independence, alongside reduced support from education and healthcare systems. (1/3)

Thank you INSAR for not only listening re: how much your autistic attendees loathe the jet engine shrieking of air-propelling hand driers, but actually doing something about it. #INSAR2026

Presenting about this today at #INSAR2026 !

🧪 Sarah Liu and I have a new paper out in Rehabilitation Psychology on disability self-identification among adults with chronic conditions 🧵 Not everyone with a medical or psychiatric diagnosis identifies as disabled, but many services and research studies are designed with that identity in mind.

My hot take: many of the problems we see in science would be solved if we got rid of journal word limits

🧪New paper out on employment and well-being among autistic job seekers in the US 🧵 We looked at 710 autistic job seekers interested in an employment support program. Of those, ~35% were employed and over half of that were underemployed. We didn't find differences in wellbeing by employment status.

The only thing holding together my qualitative analysis is these books holding down my different tiny slips of paper and a prayer that my cat won’t jump on this table over the weekend 🙏🙏

Also I got to make some zines myself about autism and character strengths! Here are my favorite pages from my zines about curiosity and about needing space to express strengths.

As a teen going through Mental Health Stuff, academic summer camp was my refuge and the highlight of my year. Learning about zines there changed my life. This weekend, I helped lead zine workshops for autistic youth, and it felt like such a significant moment where my life was coming full circle. <3

Work with our team at @topicgroup.bsky.social (Now called Oxford Centre for Emerging Minds Research)! We're hiring a postdoc and a research fellow on projects related to neurodiversity and strengths in children and adolescents. Links below:

🧪Our (me + UMD undergrad psychology alum Sarah Liu) new study is published in @autisminadulthood.bsky.social! Title: Endorsement of the neurodiversity framework and self-esteem among autistic and non-autistic adults. Read more here: www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1177/... + thread below

I like to think that I personally ruined the workplace.

I've never been one to post a uni sweatshirt photoshoot upon getting a new position, but luckily I already bought this sweatshirt at age 17 at a thrift store in NYC for the postdoc at Oxford I started this week! The caveat is that my photoshoot is from when I was 17 visiting colleges in NYC.

New publication on Autistic adults’ experiences of attending live music! I am really proud of this study! You can read it for free here: doi.org/10.31219/osf...

I'm never not tempted by a beginning-of-term poster sale on a university campus, despite the fact that I am not a college freshman. Today I considered this Eraserhead poster from the University of Bath.

If we can turn away from interminable social media arguments into practical examination of service provisions that actually benefit autistic people, we will be making a better world. #neurodiversity #SNS25

#AECongress25 attendees: here's some Autism Research Starter Packs, where I've tried to collate BlueSky accounts from those who do/support/facilitate autism research. Let me know if I've missed anyone! 1. go.bsky.app/B9XV8UA 2. go.bsky.app/Pfbbvot 3. go.bsky.app/DWvXhk6

There’s a free #AECongress2025 / #AEC2025 barbecue ticket that I put at a high table near the codex booth for anyone interested in going. I had a colleague who had to leave early for a family emergency and I don’t know who to give it to. Someone use it!

#AECongress2025 guys please 😭😭

Kate Cooper and Leon Allain presenting our lab’s work at Autism Europe #AECongress2025 ! (I spent a long time editing this photo to make it look normal but it looks like the northern lights now!)

When you read a paper from 2007

The Stanford Neurodiversity Summit will be Sept 13-15. Once again we are offering tickets for up to 50 online attendees! Info linked below. Contact us at ThinkingAutism at gmail if you'd like a ticket. It's going to be a fantastic event. stanfordneurodiversityproject.stanford.edu/stanford-neu...

unfortunately me whenever i go to a bookstore

everything is terrible except for this

Calling autism community members and justice professionals (with experience in Magistrates/Crown Court) to help co-design new, accessible resources for autistic people involved in criminal court systems in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 & 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Autism community: lnkd.in/ekxQ_wV5 Justice professionals: lnkd.in/ee8SXbmd #AutRes

The Stanford Neurodiversity Summit is coming, September 13-15, 2025! This incredible learning opportunity is hybrid, with neurodiverse (not just autistic!) employers, service agencies, educators, plus students, parents, and professionals. stanfordneurodiversityproject.stanford.edu/stanford-neu...

Alright everyone, one last push. If you or anyone you know is: - LGBTQ+ - 13-24 years old - In the US Trevor Project is recruiting responses for their survey on LGBTQ+ mental health. It has HUGE impacts on policy, please take it and share widely if you can :) trvr.org/survey2025

Amazing

For next month’s #CRAEwebinar we are looking foward to being joined by Sarah Hampton who will share their research on environmental influences on anxiety and depression and autistic young people. 10th July 4pm gmt www.eventbrite.co.uk...

happy pride to everyone from me, a person who was referred to by university counseling center colleagues as a "queer elder" at the ripe old age of 28 a few years ago

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Wait this article on neurodiversity and Overwatch by @rebecchikevin.bsky.social combines all of my interests !

🧪New paper published in @autisminadulthood.bsky.social: "Development and preliminary efficacy trial of DIVERSE: A curriculum for job coaches, employers, and family members supporting autistic individuals and people with IDD in the workplace" www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/...

"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants. Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."

🧪 New open access paper in Neurodiversity with my amazing UMD alums (Vallefuoco, Fernandez, Liu, Lemaire): "Public perceptions of the neurodiversity movement: A thematic analysis." Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Calling all Neurodiversity researchers to submit abstracts for the 2025 Stanford Neurodiversity Summit! DEADLINE FOR POSTER SUBMISSION: Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 11:59 PM Pacific Time. Details: stanfordmedicine.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #neurodiversity

My @uoppald.bsky.social student Edward is recruiting autistic adults who have been assessed by the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule to share your experiences of & views on ADOS, an interaction- & observation-based diagnostic measure. Participants can be anywhere globally. See more info below.

💥Co-Production Group for Disabled people 💥 At DR UK, we’re starting a major project to make sure that Disabled people are fully involved in everything we do and we want YOU to be involved! Learn more👉 www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/help-us... Sign-up👉 forms.office.com/e/4knFM9eE4E

Tellingly, this comes as women outnumber men in graduate degrees.

New paper with N Mallipeddi and @carlos-e-santos.bsky.social in Self and Identity: "Examining the associations between endorsement of disability models and system justification within disabled and non-disabled individuals" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Is your NSF grant on this list? Reach out if so! Ted Cruz released a list of grants flagged for DEI or "neo-Marxist class warfare propaganda" from his Oct. report. NSF is using keywords from that report for their review, though Cruz's list is likely larger. www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/2/cruz-...

I reviewed a manuscript for a journal in May 2022. Today, in the year of our Lord 2025, I received an email from that journal asking me to review that manuscript again, now that the authors have responded to the feedback 🙃

The number of people surprised by the long list of words NSF is targeting makes me think many of you all have not seen this: www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fil...

Djt: I’m going to incarcerate migrants at Guantanamo People online: this is bad bc it’s too expensive to do that

How can we make therapy better for autistic adults? Autistic adults’ ratings of helpfulness of adaptations to therapy journals.sagepub.com...

"Health disparities research" is a field of study where researchers look at how things like race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status can influence health outcomes. Now any gov't website about this says "page not found". This is a dystopia that I did not imagine that we'd be living through.

It is a terrible time to be an early career researcher in the us right now

Fellow scientists, please consider speaking w/ media about what this means for "regular Americans." The link below is to contact a reporter who's collecting stories about the unfolding NIH situation - pls share anonymously or on record. @anniewaldman.bsky.social www.propublica.org/people/annie...

Throwing out all of the American assertive/confident communication advice now that I’m in the uk and prefacing a text with “hi sorry to bother you—“

A wise prof from grad school advised us to have each concurrent project be at a different stage of the research process but I ignored him and now have 4 manuscripts with revisions due to journals this month (plus the flu)