We are still recruiting #Autistic adults to participate in our interview study on #interoception. Take the eligibility screener here: paloaltou.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Please share with your networks! #ActuallyAutistic #AutismAcceptance

We’re excited to share that my wonderful student Jo (pictured) and I are recruiting autistic kids and teens for a summer yoga study. See the flyer for details and complete the eligibility screener here: paloaltou.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #autism #yoga

We are still recruiting #Autistic adults to participate in our interview study on #interoception. Take the eligibility screener here: paloaltou.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Please share with your networks! #ActuallyAutistic #AutismAcceptance

Help my student Ariana reach her sample size goals by spending ~15 answering some questions about your awareness of time, mental health, and interoception! paloaltou.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Female scientists have to wait longer for their articles to be reviewed than their male colleagues. An analysis of 36.5 million papers in the life sciences shows that for females it took 115 days to reach a decision, compared to 101 days for men journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... @plosbiology.org

Any postdocs outside the UK interested in applying for a Marie Curie fellowship with me (sensory processing, decision making, vision), get in touch! Our school of psychology @unibirmingham.bsky.social is offering costs towards a campus visit to give a talk, develop a proposal and attend training!

It took several late night/early morning meetings, but I’m very happy to see this perspective piece on #Autistic #interoception published. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Interoception in Autism, Pitfalls, and Promise: A Participatory Research Perspective - Eleanor R. Palser, Wenn B. Lawson, Emma Goodall, Elizabeth Pellicano, 2026

Bodily autonomy is essential to Autistic well-being. Interoception supports bodily autonomy through guiding behavior in support of homeostasis. Promoting adapti...

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A growing body of research indicates that Texas's restrictive abortion bans have negatively impacted the health and lives of Texas women and babies in multiple ways. Across the board, pregnancy outcomes and complications have worsened.

What researchers have discovered about maternal, infant health under Texas' abortion laws

In the more than four years since the state of Texas significantly restricted access to abortion, medical researchers have been studying the health effects of that policy change.

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Eliminating requirements for a doctorate, residency, licencing exams,thousands of hours of clinical training, and dropping to a two year unaccredited program. Would we be ok if this happened to physicians? #PsychSky #ClinicalPsychology #Psychology @cmadocs.bsky.social @canadianpsychology.bsky.social

CTV News Ottawa@ctvnewsottawa.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Psychologists rally on Parliament Hill against proposed cuts to training

We’ve had a great response to our study - thank you! There are just a few spots left. If you’re an Autistic woman or Autistic and gender diverse, we would especially like to hear from you!

Eleanor Palser@eleanorpalser.bsky.social · 9mo ago

📣Participate! 📣 We are recruiting #Autistic adults for our experiences of #interoception study. See the flyer for more info or click the link to complete the 5-min eligibility screener paloaltou.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

📣Participate! 📣 We are recruiting #Autistic adults for our experiences of #interoception study. See the flyer for more info or click the link to complete the 5-min eligibility screener paloaltou.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

I’m looking for #adjunct instructors for graduate clinical child psychology courses at PAU. For accreditation, you would need to teach in person in Palo Alto. It’s a great way to built teaching experience with a very engaged cohort. Reach out with questions!

Celebrating completing a (single spaced) 25 page response to reviewers by… reviewing a manuscript.

Can the human sciences exist w/out the human? Proposals for using AI as human research subjects suggest yes. But @mjcrockett.bsky.social and I respond with, ‘not so fast.’ In fact, silicon subjects say more about the problems of the research paradigm than the promises of AI. 🚨New article, thread 1/

AI Surrogates and illusions of generalizability in cognitive science

Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have generated enthusiasm for using AI simulations of human research participants to generate new know…

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If any of my students would rather learn from a LLM than me, they are welcome to. I suspect few would pick that option, though.

Immigrant Punk@porcupunk.eurosky.social · 10mo ago

Wow. Just wow. "Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."

I have long complained about the absence of ‘interoception’ from Microsoft Word’s internal dictionary, but today I would also -shockingly- like to highlight the absence of ‘orgasm’. New paper (with many unrecognized words) coming soon.

There is a long and misguiding history of blaming mothers for autism. Unfortunately these accounts still hold appeal for many despite the science.

ACOG@acog.org · 11mo ago

ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59

Didn’t realize this paper was out: we use dyslexia as a model to demonstrate that the left prefrontal cortex is involved in regulating positive emotion in children, too, as well as adults link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Role of left lateral prefrontal cortex in positive emotion regulation: Insights from dyslexia - Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience

Emotion regulation emerges during childhood and engages prefrontal brain systems. While most developmental studies focus on the neural underpinnings of negative emotion regulation, less is known about...

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Is the emotion #awe the vehicle through which high heart rate variability leads to #creativity? It certainly is in dyslexia! Sharing our latest. Got papers coming out like a British bus schedule at the minute. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Awe proneness links RSA and trait creativity in dyslexia

The parasympathetic nervous system promotes positive emotions, such as awe, that foster creativity. Resting respiratory sinus arrhythmia, a parasympat…

sciencedirect.com

Congratulations to @belindayzhang.bsky.social on her first first-author publication! Also my first senior-author and our first qualitative foray! #dyslexia #neurodiversity onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

A Sunny Disposition and a Big Heart: Thematic Analysis of Parent‐Reported Socio‐Emotional Strengths in Dyslexia

Children with dyslexia have persistent and well-characterised reading difficulties but may also have less well-known socio-emotional abilities. Socio-emotional abilities in dyslexia could be leverage...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

"People agreed strongly that research can play a powerful role in shaping good Autistic lives [but] big changes were needed [e.g.,] researchers should stop thinking about autism narrowly and in a negative way, where Autistic people are seen as the problem." journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

‘We have so much to offer’: Community members’ perspectives on autism research - Tori Haar, Charlotte Brownlow, Gabrielle Hall, Melanie Heyworth, Wenn Lawson, Rebecca Poulsen, Tamara Reinisch, Elizabe...

Autism research is on the cusp of significant change. There are mounting calls from Autistic self-advocates, researchers, and other scientists for a paradigm sh...

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Congratulations to @awallmanjones.bsky.social on her new paper, showing how dynamic changes in facial expression intensity are tied to real-world communication benefits, and are elevated in dyslexia #neurodiversity link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...

Relevant for AI-supported psychotherapy

Nature Human Behaviour@nathumbehav.nature.com · last yr.

In this study, @anatperry.bsky.social @desmond-ong.bsky.social et al show that human-attributed responses are rated as more empathic than AI-attributed ones, especially when conveying shared experience and care. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thrilled with our new lab logo, designed by members of the #autism community who are involved with our research 🧠 🌼 🌺

"This was an experiment by a kindergarten class. They dropped seeds in the cracks of the sidewalk to see what would happen. This would help our bees " via I Love Bees

“People with learning disabilities are the last forgotten minority, the ones who have been ignored, mocked and persecuted by the rest of us…the time has come to challenge this dark history of prejudice” - @stephenunwin.bsky.social Looking forward to reading!

Ramandeep Kaur@mumof3amigos.bsky.social · last yr.

The incredible ‘Beautiful Lives - how we got learning disabilities so wrong’ is published today. The author, @stephenunwin.bsky.social has written about what this day means to him. Do please read. #LearningDisabilities www.stephenunwin.uk/thoughts-and...

In a study of Gen Z's personal goals, "to be safe" ranked as the top priority, outweighing traditional teenage desires like popularity and fun. A developmental psychologist explains what this says about growing up in an era of constant crisis:

Gen Z seeks safety above all else as the generation grows up amid constant crisis and existential threat

Recent generations may have taken safety for granted, but today’s youth are growing up in an era of compounded crises – and being safe is their priority.

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Shocked to hear a keynote speaker asked to disclose their formal diagnoses on stage. Not an acceptable use of question time IMO #INSAR2025

Accommodations that I love at #INSAR2025 as a non-autistic dyspraxic with sensory sensitivity: flap applause, quiet poster viewing time, alternating poster presenting times to reduce crowding 👐🏼

Happy to be back at #INSAR2025 after a few years’ hiatus! I’ll be presenting data in tomorrow’s lunchtime poster session on Autistic kids and teens’ heart rate and heart rate variability responses to auditory startle