Brian Irvine

DON'T MISS this qualitative analysis which found that autistic adults face a conflict between balancing their desire for social connection with their limited energy for engaging in social experiences.

FREE until 25th November

www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1177/...

“Trapped in a No-Win Situation”: A Qualitative Exploration of Autistic Adults’ Experiences of Loneliness | Autism in Adulthood Background: Loneliness is a major public health concern, affecting individuals’ mental and physical health. Autistic adults self-report higher levels of loneliness compared with non-autistic adults, y...

A qualitative analysis by @kanabaletti.bsky.social et al found that autistic adults face a conflict between balancing their desire for social connection with their limited energy for engaging in social experiences.

FREE until 25th November

www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Jada Brown shares her work on 'Understanding the embodied experiences of Black, autistic university students in the UK.' Understanding the experiences of Black, autistic university students with Jada Brown (6-Nov-25)

New #CRAEwebinar
Last week Jada Brown shared her work on 'Understanding the embodied experiences of Black, autistic university students in the UK.' It was a brilliant webinar.
And it's now up on YouTube.

Understanding the embodiment of UK Black, autistic university students Jada Brown will consider what it might be like to navigate university as an autistic person who is also marginalised by their Blackness.

Today's #CRAEwebinar
Experiences of navigating university as an autistic people who are also marginalised by their Blackness

'Understanding the embodied experiences of Black, autistic university students in the UK' with Jada Brown.

Thur 6th Nov 4pm gmt

Mel is fab 😁

New CRAE Director Dr Anna Melissa (Mel) Romualdez appointed as new Director of the UCL Centre for Research in Autism and Education (CRAE) We are delighted to announce that Dr Anna Melissa (Mel) Romualdez will take o…

Big CRAE news!
From January 2026, @melromualdez.bsky.social will be taking over as CRAE Director, when @annaremington.bsky.social steps down after almost 9 years at the helm!

Read about the news here
crae.ioe.ac.uk/dr-me...
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YouTube video by Neurodivergent Education Books Book Launch: Neurodivergent Education and Lifelong Learning

🗞️ NEWS 🗞️
We are also sharing the book launch events! Dr Krysia Waldock @krysiawally.bsky.social and I are so excited about co-edited collections that we are sharing the launches of them too - in video format!

Mobilising Specialist Autism Mentoring in UK Universities When entering higher education in the UK, students get offered a needs assessment through the Disabled Students Allowance. For autistic students, disclosure often results in the option for a Specia…

New #CRAEresearchSummary
@brianirvine.bsky.social considers the role of framing and reframing in Specialist Autism Mentoring at UK Universities

“Trapped in a No-Win Situation”: A Qualitative Exploration of Autistic Adults’ Experiences of Loneliness | Autism in Adulthood Background: Loneliness is a major public health concern, affecting individuals’ mental and physical health. Autistic adults self-report higher levels of loneliness compared with non-autistic adults, y...

Our paper has recently been published in @Autism in Adulthood:
“Trapped in a No-Win Situation”: A Qualitative Exploration of Autistic Adults’ Experiences of Loneliness
tinyurl.com/2yeuch6j @craeioe.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk @lauramaycrane.bsky.social @annaremington.bsky.social

Are Universities Ready to Support Autistic Students? A Call to Increase Coordinated Campus Efforts | Autism in Adulthood Over the past decade, universities have seen an increase in autistic student enrollment; however, many of these universities are not supporting autistic students to have a quality college experience. ...

"Are Universities Ready to Support Autistic Students? A Call to Increase Coordinated Campus Efforts" by Blaskowitz et al advocates for university departments to enhance #inclusion and support for #autistic students.

READ shorturl.at/EgzlU

Understanding the embodiment of UK Black, autistic university students Jada Brown will consider what it might be like to navigate university as an autistic person who is also marginalised by their Blackness.

We are so pleased to announce next month's #CRAEwebinar.
Jada Brown will be speaking on 'Understanding the embodied experiences of Black, autistic university students in the UK'

Do join us: Thur 6th Nov 4pm

Brian & Mel in front of the CityLit Slide

Today, CRAE’s Mel & Brian were delighted to join the City Lit #MentalWealth Festival with the great MH TedXer Shaun Flores and NHS ND Network founder Hannah Jones. We bounced around neurodiversity paradigm & movement, mentoring & employability. Full house. Great crowd… 🤩

YouTube video by Neurodivergent Education Books Neurodiversity in Higher Education: Reflections from Lived Experience

🗞️ NEWS 🗞️

Today's first premiere of the 'talking heads' videos is from Neurodivergent Education and Lifelong Learning (co-edited by Dr Krysia Waldock (@krysiawally.bsky.social) and I). We have two co-edited collections that focus on neurodivergence and education, in all its renditions, i.e., in life

Webinar image for Connor Keating's Demystifying Emotion-Processing: Autism & Alexithymia. Photo of Connor. UCL header. Dated 2nd Oct 2025

We are delighted that @connortkeating.bsky.social's Demystifying Emotion-Processing: Autism & Alexithymia #CRAEwebinar is now available to watch on our YouTube Channel.

youtu.be/OqbcUW6qbLw

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

I will never not repost this

(Sound on for maximum effect)

Brian and slide. Applications for Practices

Excited to be at the book launch of Waldock & Keates 2025

Am pleasantly surprised with the CofE with its new ABC.

Identifying and supporting the needs of autistic children and young people CRAE’s Mel Romualdez was part of a team of UCL academics who wrote the rapid evidence report on ‘Identifying and supporting the needs of children and young people with SEND’. They have put together…

CRAE’s @melromualdez.bsky.social and the @ucl-ioe-phd.bsky.social team wrote the rapid evidence report on ‘Identifying and supporting the needs of children and young people with SEND’ for the DfE

Our summary of the autistic children & yp section here
crae.ioe.ac.uk/rapid...
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I Am Autistic - Reframing Autism

"Just remember, your organic Autistic ways of socialising, communicating, thinking and processing are not disordered or defective or broken; they are just different. You are not broken, you are a wonderful, whole, Autistic person." At Reframing Autism:

reframingautism.org.au/service/i-am... #autism

Chatting with @krysiawally.bsky.social is always amazing. 🤩

This was a joy to do with @krysiawally.bsky.social
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Age is a tricky one. It could be simply that - as a minority and on average - autistic folk take a while longer to find someone who gets them to settle down with and have kids.

5) So I am grumbly, these studies looking for a link make no mention of whether the families are autistic families. Having autistic folk in charge of this research would have avoided this obvious oversight.
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It may be that a choice of pain relief accounts for the American study that found a little more acetaminophen in the cord plasma of mothers of autistic children (Ji et al., 2020).

Not taking the sensory and pain needs of the mums into account seems like a glaring mistake.
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3) Smaller studies in Europe (Avella-Garcia, 2016; Leppert, 2019; Liew, 2016) have a slim link between paracetamol and autism, but none say in which direction.

So 4) It might be that autistic mums have a greater pain burden when autistic hypermobility meets pregnancy hypermobility. (4/6)

2) The big study (Ahlqvist et al, 2024) and the one that looked at sibling (Ahlquist, 2024b) found no link. This sibling study without a link to paracetamol is particularly important because autism is genetic. (3/6)

So
1) There are not many solid studies on autism & paracetamol (Prada et al., 2025). Making any pronouncement ferments worry and fear.. and makes my cynical side wonder who is benefiting from this grift.
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Acetaminophen & autism. Some thoughts as I read the research.
I’m a just ed researcher, I worry about how autism is talked about.
Going through the stats to work out what Trump was on about is particularly disheartening; it’s all about risk, as if autism were a disease.
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OpenAI Has a Fix For Hallucinations, But You Really Won't Like It OpenAI's latest research paper diagnoses exactly why ChatGPT and other large language models can make things up – known in the world of artificial intelligence as "hallucination".

Seems like AI - like many of us - has been bullied into being unable to say “I don’t know”

www.sciencealert.com/openai-has-a...