We are looking for autistic people (with and without a diagnosis) for an online study about how people experience and imagine different sounds. If you're interested please contact: stanley.jones@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk

I like this idea: mandatory arts and humanities classes for university leaders. No cutting / devastating / de-staffing disciplines without at least a basic understanding of what they do & and how they can enrich our approach to questions like what education is for…

Sarah Pyke@sarahpyke.bsky.social · last mo.

Thinking about these demands to ramp up teaching at the expense of research time. What do these people imagine arts and humanities teaching is, working through a textbook? Even if it were, written by?? Petition not only for VCs & senior managers to have to teach one class a year but also to take one

Guest editing a special issue on neurodiversity and primary and community care. Very lucky to be working with Dr Heidi Phillips on this one! Submissions accepted until Feb 2027. We'd love to hear from you if you are interested! journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec...

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Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 2mo ago

NEW from me in @pnas.org on the risks of data sharing with qualitative research: "Today, confidentiality risks are amplified by social media, surveillance, and AI tools, which make ample data about people publicly available, thus making deidentification less effective" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Are you Trans? Autistic? Both? Please tell us about your experience of hiding aspects of your identity and the impact of that on your mental health Online survey study, takes about 15 minutes. edinburgh.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... (replaces previous post with wrong link) #AutRes

I am currently locked out of my job at the University of Sheffield, without pay as punishment for missing two teaching sessions while on strike. #ucu #union #strike #UKHE @ucu.org.uk @sheffielducu.bsky.social 🧵1/7

Call for participants! I am researching the views of autism community on early support practices. Seeking autistic adults (self-ID or professionally diagnosed) and/or parents of autistic children (<18), UK-based. Estimated completion time: 7-40 minutes. tinyurl.com/earlysupport... Thank you!

The number of students who tell the OIA they are disabled is up again, to 42%. The themes are always the same: poor implementation of reasonable adjustments, poor communication, lack of accountability, but this time with the addition of poor support for placements share.google/z0FlmRUQ5pa9...

Annual Report 2025

The Annual Report from the OIA for 2025.

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New pre-print: Exploring The Phenomenology Of Autistic Attention from @danpoole.bsky.social @beatrixbird.bsky.social & team. Relevant to the theory of monotropism - about improving accessibility for Autistic people in the workplace. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Sheffielders, please join us for a showcase event to mark the end of our project on autistic adults access to primary healthcare. 📍St Mary's Church, Bramhall Lane 🗓️Monday 26th Jan (13 - 15, with quiet hour 15 - 16) Drop-in, free entry, no sign-up necessary #AutRes #Sheffield #Healthcare

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...

The problem with Palantir's new neurodivergent fellowship

Critics have accused the company of being technofascist.

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“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

University of Sheffield staff 'intimidated' by pay forfeit warning

University of Sheffield to withhold pay if staff do not make up for teaching missed while striking.

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

University of Sheffield staff 'intimidated' by pay forfeit warning

University of Sheffield to withhold pay if staff do not make up for teaching missed while striking.

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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...

UoN student Q&A with the Vice Chancellor about course closures: from bad to worse

Yesterday, 24 November, along with many other University of Nottingham students, I attended the student Q&A with the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Jane Norman, and her team about the proposed course closures...

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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]

New autism strategy must deliver change for autistic people - Committees - UK Parliament

This is the key conclusion reached by the House of Lords special inquiry committee on the Autism Act 2009 in its report &lsquo;Time to deliver: The Autism Act 2009 and the new autism strategy&rsquo;.&...

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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...

The Neuronormative Paradigm: Naming The Systems That Harm | Autistic Realms

The Neuronormative Paradigm, conceptualised by Nick Walker, names the systems that define and enforce what society considers normal. This exploration piece ...

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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/...

Beyond Diagnosis: Setting Research Priorities with the Neurodivergent Community - Agata Ostaszewska, Georgia Harper, Rachael Davis, Holly Joseph, 2025

Neurodiversity research remains heavily shaped by diagnostic categories, which increasingly appear inadequate for capturing the complex, lived realities of neur...

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🔊 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...

Research Associate on the ‘ICALD’ study at The University of Manchester

Discover an exciting academic career path as a Research Associate on the ‘ICALD’ study at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!

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Kent and Greenwich merge without consulting unions! #UKHE

UCU University of Kent branch@ucukent.bsky.social · 11mo ago

For everyone else reading the news this morning about the Kent and Greenwich merger - it's been as big a shock for us too. Rumours always abound with constant cuts and redundancies, but they remained rumours until 7.45am this morning.

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

Student Notebook: The Physics of Autistic Inertia

Hari Srinivasan describes the difficulty autistic people face in starting, stopping, or switching tasks, as well as how to manage this feeling of “inertia” as a graduate student.

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