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Bérengère G. Digard

@berengeredigard.bsky.social

Postdoc 🧠 researcher at Edinburgh Uni Med School CCBS (with a cool side job 🎥🎬) | Aphantasia / Hyperphantasia / Autism / Bilingualism | Science Communication | faceblind girl w a confusing 1st name & unbelievable middle name 🧝‍♀️ 📍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 from 🇫🇷🇪🇸 | 🍉

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Bérengère G. Digard@berengeredigard.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Our #Aphantasia / #Hyperphantasia research in The New Yorker @newyorker.com! Thank you so much to Larissa for coming to Scotland to interview us, and for writing such a lovely piece about #Phantasia. > www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... You've read it and recognised yourself? Get it touch w us!

Some People Can’t See Mental Images. The Consequences Are Profound

Research has linked the ability to visualize to a bewildering variety of human traits—how we experience trauma, hold grudges, and, above all, remember our lives.

newyorker.com

The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 9mo ago

Aphantasics can't conjure mental images; hyperphantasics sometimes have fantasy worlds that they can enter at will. Larissa MacFarquhar writes about the extremes of the spectrum of mental imagery.

Bérengère G. Digard@berengeredigard.bsky.social · 10mo ago

📣 New #Phantasia research website ✨ Our Eye's Mind research team has a brand new website, after our move from Exeter to Edinburgh Uni On the menu: - Our past/current #aphantasia & #hyperphantasia research - Our #Outreach / #SciCom work & more! > medicine-vet-medicine.ed.ac.uk/eyes-mind #MindsEye

Eye's Mind | College of Medicine and Vet Medicine

This is the homepage of our Eye's Mind website at the University of Edinburgh. Our research group studies the extremes of visual imagination, how they shape people's life, and their role in our cultur...

medicine-vet-medicine.ed.ac.uk

Resist 🕎🍉@antizionistjew.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Two years into Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the world’s complicity is clear. Western governments, corporations, and media have shielded and sustained a colonial project built on occupation, racial capitalism, and dehumanization—profiting from and normalizing the erasure of the Palestinian people

A picture showing the amount of people (tens of thousands) who got deprived of education, disabled, lost parents and injured childrenStatistics of the Gaza Genocide showing majority of deaths are attributed to women, girls and children
Jules Blaster@julesblaster.bsky.social · 10mo ago

« Chers complices du génocide à Gaza » Boxing Day #50 N° spécial adressé à MM. et Mmes Aram, Bergé, Elkrief, Encel, Enthoven, Ferrari, Fourest, Gorce, Joffrin, Khan, Lefebvre, Lévy, Naulleau, Onfray, Quatremer, Sarkozy, Sfar, Val, Valls, Woessner, Yadan... Via @blast-info.fr tinyurl.com/4nza6ez4

Chers complices du génocide à Gaza - Boxing Day #50

Chers complices du génocide à Gaza,Les semaines se succèdent, mais nous ne vous oublions pas, bien au contraire. Vendredi 19 septembre, une vingtaine de personnalités publiaient, sur le site du Figaro...

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Bérengère G. Digard@berengeredigard.bsky.social · 11mo ago

‪Thank you to #AECongress2025 for the chance to present our (w @drrachaeldavis.bsky.social) work on the #Autism & #Bilingualism Hub autism-bilingualism.com TY to all who came to chat after the talk, & those who came by our #gender/ #masking/ #mentalhealth poster! (spot the subtle 🍉🇵🇸 support)

Picture taken at the Autism Europe Congress 2025 showing the presenter Dr Bérengère Digard standing at a lectern in the bottom left corner of the image. Dr Digard has long dark hair, a colourful shirt, and dark red trousers. She is looking to her left, towards the screen behind her, that takes most of the picture. On the screen there is the first slide of her talk, showing in dark red the title "Clinicians & Educators on Bilingualism & Autism: Factors influencing practice, & the efficacy of new information resources". Below the title are the authors' names and affiliations (Dr Bérengère Digard and Ella Verduyn at the University of Edinburgh, Dr Rachael Davis at Queen Margaret University). In the bottom right corner of the slide there is a cartoon of a watermelon slice to represent the authors' ongoing support for Palestine and their stance against the apartheid and genocide committed by Israel against the Palestinian and supported by Western nations. To the left of the title is a drawing of the face of a blond child on a green background with their head surrounded by letters. In the bottom left there are different logos aligned showing the organisations that supported the study presented (the University of Edinburgh, Queen Margaret University, the Patrick Wild Centre, FIRAH). Picture of Dr Bérengère Digard standing by a poster at the Autism Europe Congress 2025. Dr Digard has long dark hair, a colourful shirt, and dark red trousers. The portrait-oriented poster is entitled "A qualitative study on the intersectionality of autism and gender on mental health and camouflaging". Next to the title is attached a pin of the Palestinian flag to show Dr Digard's support for Palestine and her stance against the genocide and apartheid committed by Israel against the Palestinians with the support of Western states.
Bérengère G. Digard@berengeredigard.bsky.social · 11mo ago

I am having the best time at #AECongress2025 ! TY @autismeurope.bsky.social for organising such a fascinating programme! TY to all those who came to see my #autism / #aphantasia / #hyperphantasia / #MentalImagery poster today, see you tomo for a #bilingualism talk + a #gender / #masking poster!

Photo of me standing beside my research poster
Owen Jones@owenjones.bsky.social · 12mo ago

To be clear what happened here. Israel bombed a hospital. They waited for paramedics and first responders to arrive. Then they bombed it again. This is known as the 'double tap'. You are watching unfathomable evil, armed and facilitated by the West.

6 News Australia@6newsau.bsky.social · 12mo ago

#BREAKING 🚨 Four journalists, including Reuters cameraman Hussam al-Masri, are among 20 dead in an Israeli strike on Gaza's Nasser hospital The second strike was captured live on television as rescue crews were seen in the building attempting evacuate the injured

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Gaza Freedom Flotilla Coalition@freedomflotilla.bsky.social · last yr.

Israeli forces illegally boarded ‘Handala’ in international waters, abducting 21 unarmed civilians. Demand your government end its complicity in Israeli war crimes, ensure the unhindered delivery of humanitarian aid, and call for the immediate release of all crew members.

CNN@cnn.com · last yr.

JUST IN: French President Emmanuel Macron has said France will recognize a Palestinian state in an announcement to the United Nations General Assembly in September. cnn.it/4lLUmzm

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Bérengère G. Digard@berengeredigard.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨New #bilingualism study led by my wonderful (former) student Robina Rubin! The 1ST study w a large grp of neurotypical bilinguals sharing their #bilingual experience: ‘As many languages you know, as many times you are a human being’ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #LangSky #PsychSciSky #PsySky

‘As many languages you know, as many times you are a human being’: the interplay between early bilingualism and social experiences of bilingual neurotypical adults

Within our complex global socio-political context and interconnected society, around half of the world’s population knows more than one language, as a result of and leading to diverse lived experie...

tandfonline.com

Bérengère G. Digard@berengeredigard.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨New #bilingualism study led by my wonderful (former) student Robina Rubin! The 1ST study w a large grp of neurotypical bilinguals sharing their #bilingual experience: ‘As many languages you know, as many times you are a human being’ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #LangSky #PsychSciSky #PsySky

‘As many languages you know, as many times you are a human being’: the interplay between early bilingualism and social experiences of bilingual neurotypical adults

Within our complex global socio-political context and interconnected society, around half of the world’s population knows more than one language, as a result of and leading to diverse lived experie...

tandfonline.com

Gaza Freedom Flotilla Coalition@freedomflotilla.bsky.social · last yr.

SOS! the volunteers on 'Madleen' have been kidnapped by Israeli forces. Rima Hassan is a French citizen. Pressure the foreign ministries and help us keep them safe! E: alertes.cdc@diplomatie.gouv.fr & courrier.scec@diplomatie.gouv.fr X : @FranceDiplo_EN & @francediplo & @jnbarot ...2/

Bérengère G. Digard@berengeredigard.bsky.social · last yr.

Perfect illustration of Laverne Cox's "I think they're focused on the wrong 1%". [https://bsky.app/profile/feminists.bsky.social/post/3lihiw7vd5s2o]

R. D. Kent 🍉@rdk96.bsky.social · last yr.

This is a cartoonish representation of oligarchic domination: a chauvinist billionaire donned in gold jewellery and smoking a cigar, celebrating a supreme court ruling that (by her own side's account) wouldn't have gone through without her extensive financial and political investments

Screenshot of a tweet by transphobic ideologue JK Rowling depicting herself celebrating the recent UK supreme court ruling on the definition of "woman"