There is currently some space in the weekly science group I run for Autistic teenagers (usually in the UK) with @gr0ve.bsky.social. We basically chat for an hour about interesting science! I probably also have space for one or two more science tutees in my own time... www.gr0ve.org/online-inter...

Online Interest & Peer Groups for Autistic Children & Young People

GROVE offers online interest‑based peer groups for Autistic children and teens to connect over shared interests, build friendships and feel understood in a neuro‑affirming, Autistic-led space.

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@bonorcafante.bsky.social Hola! Esta cita te la debo a ti, que creo que hablaste del libro en Twitter hace un tiempo y mi nerdismo pajaril fue a comprar el libro y qué bien, porque me encantó. Así que muchas gracias.😊❤️

Carmen Rosas-Pérez@diffusefield.bsky.social · last wk.

There’s a lot we can do with the solutions we know to improve acoustic environments and the well-being of those most impacted by them, but, at the same time, there are pervasive barriers and resistance to change that go beyond financial arguments. This is the biggest challenge imo.

My doctoral thesis is now online! 📕 "Disabling Acoustics: Impact of daily life acoustic environments on neurodivergent, auraldivergent and noise sensitive people" www.researchgate.net/publication/... I've created a site for those who prefer an HTML version: disablingacoustics.wordpress.com

Disabling Acoustics

Impact of daily life acoustic environments on neurodivergent, auraldivergent and noise sensitive people. [Doctoral thesis by Carmen Rosas-Pérez]

disablingacoustics.wordpress.com

Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.

To convince any organisation to make an investment on anything really you need a +100 pages report with the evidence on how it's going to be cost-effective and also bring profits. Does anyone knows if this has been done for AI anywhere?

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 2w ago

Wild that this shit is still going on -- university administrators just plowing money into AI, with no particular vision or goal, against the wishes of most professors & students, even as money is desperately needed for other things.

> They seem either to have followed their worst reflexive instincts or to not have cared about what that evidence clearly shows. That is the opposite of scholarship and intellectual rigor, and it is shameful. But at least they are telling us who they are. buttondown.com/TPGA/archive... 12/n

The Tragedy of Mediocre Minds Weaponizing "Intellectual Freedom"

Scratch a bigot and what do you find? More layers of bigotry.

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So don’t build it. And yes we do have a choice

Two planned datacentres will have higher UK carbon emissions than ExxonMobil, analysis finds

Exclusive: Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire sites predicted to emit 4.5m tonnes a year when fully running

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A good moment to recommend Angela Saini‘s Superior, which traces back the history of “race science” and shows the institutions that sustain this pseudo-research until today. These pursuits have nothing in common with the principles of academic inquiry www.angelasaini.co.uk/superior

Angela Saini | Award-winning Science Journalist and Author

The website of British independent science journalist, author and broadcaster, Angela Saini. Her most recent book is Superior: The Return of Race Science.

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Academia and its millennia long history would not exist without autism and adhd send skeet

猫好きな人@valoisdubins.bsky.social · 3w ago

From her piece in UnHerd:

Ah yes, Steven Pinker, who once wrote "Together with robots and chimpanzees, people with autism remind us that cultural learning is possible only because neurologically normal people have innate equipment to accomplish it."

Snigdha@snig.bsky.social · 3w ago

With Alt Text.

White professor ‘ MattGPT ‘ whose most recent book contained fabricated quotations, non-existent source references, & left ChatGPT URLs accidentally embedded in footnotes is sad about Jason Arday’s death but still wants Arday & all black academia held to higher standards than his own writing .

Crickets when 4000 academic jobs a year are being lost in the UK and entire campuses are being shut down because of lack of funding and the secondary effects of Brexit but plenty of ink to hound a man to an early death. Despicable behaviour from the British press.

"Jason Arday's research explains exactly what happened to Jason Arday." "He already wrote what happened to him. It's peer reviewed" - @alltimeisaac.bsky.social

Watch this short clip to the end to understand what level (maximum) of white supremacy we're dealing with here. 1/n

Gregory Kohn@kohngregory.bsky.social · 3w ago

In the wake of Arday's death, Nathan Cofnas (who led the X mob against him) states his motivation. Beyond whistleblowing, he states that after a 'revolution' removes professors like Arday, it will open opportunities for him to become 'head of the department of eugenics and race science at Harvard'.

'La sobremesa' Antonio Barahona 👨🏻‍🎨

It's been two months since I passed my viva. The experiences that I have accumulated in my side of academia have been such that I have had no excitement about the event or about sharing it, just a wish that all is over as soon as possible. It's so absurd it has to be like this for so many of us :(

“It is OK to feel uncomfortable. In fact, quite a lot of your life is uncomfortable as an adult, so removing uncomfortable feelings in childhood is unhelpful." Don't know where to start. www.thetimes.com/article/e636...

Ditch the ear defenders: head equips autistic girls for real life

Sarah Wild, who leads Britain’s only autistic girls’ school, says mainstream teachers should make fewer adjustments and tell children it’s OK to feel uncomfortable

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Six-year-old Mary Walker, who flies into inexplicable rages when everything in her immediate environment goes bleepy bloopy bleep blorp, has reportedly been called “a spoiled brat” by helpful well-wishers.

“Spoiled” autistic child would rather not be in constant sensory hell

An “overly pampered” autistic child would prefer to not feel like everything is perpetually flashing, screeching and smacking her directly in the brain, sources have confirmed.  Six-year-old Mary…

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Horrific. And a reminder that access to decent housing is a public health issue www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

@jasonhickel.bsky.social Hola, Jason. :) Ayer escuché una entrevisa a un escritor que hace comentarios críticos hacia "los decrecentistas" en su último libro, a mi parecer usando falacias y una retórica cuestionable. Por si quieres escucharlo, a partir del min 45 y antes www.rtve.es/play/audios/...

Same for auraldiversity, for which some people may find it easier to see that actually not many people have what could be consider "typical hearing" or auditory perception. And yet, we keep mostly only considering that group in sound related products, environments, events, etc.

Fergus Murray@oolong.co.uk · 5mo ago

One of the stranger objections I see to the idea of neurodiversity (or neurodivergence) is that it implies most people are actually neurotypical. No! It started as a reaction against the idea that the majority are normal, while outliers are wrong and disordered. It's founded on rejecting that.

One of the stranger objections I see to the idea of neurodiversity (or neurodivergence) is that it implies most people are actually neurotypical. No! It started as a reaction against the idea that the majority are normal, while outliers are wrong and disordered. It's founded on rejecting that.

Question for AI haters who are also academics: How do you navigate co-authorship situations, where you don’t want to be involved in manuscripts where an author is using AI? Do you have explicit discussions with potential co-authors? How do these go?

3rd night without being able to sleep much at the "prestige" student accommodation I've paid in Edinburgh. If anyone knows of a place where to stay without constant loud noises all night and day, please let me know. 🙏

Edinburgh is looking gorgeous these days. Visiting for seminars and the viva! 🙂

Haven’t seen the Theroux documentary yet, but what’s described here of the approach sounds a lot like the clips of the Doge bros’ depositions that have been going around this week.

Kate Manne@katemanne.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Yes, believe women. But men need to start speaking up about other men's bad behavior in ways that are startlingly unusual katemanne.substack.com/p/one-weird-...

Yes, believe women. But men need to start speaking up about other men's bad behavior in ways that are startlingly unusual katemanne.substack.com/p/one-weird-...

One Weird Trick for Being a Better Man

When a man is with other men, why does he lose his moral compass so reliably?

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Mood for 2026, (the artist is Ainsley Drew, on Instagram)

'The many impacts of inadequate acoustic environments on neurodivergent and noise sensitive people.' Please to share this guest post summarising part of the results of the studies done for my PhD thesis, focused on lived experiences and real everyday spaces. www.acousticbulletin.com/the-many-imp...

Impacts of inadequate acoustic spaces on neurodivergent people

This post summarises the research done by Carmen Rosas-Pérez for her PhD Thesis ‘Disabling Acoustics: Impact of daily-life acoustic environments on neurodivergent, auraldivergent and noise sensitive p...

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Paris is refurbishing car parks to create new social housing This site was consumed by a 3-storey concrete car park. This has been partially demolished, and partially converted, creating a new green courtyard and 80 social housing apartments. By NZI Architects