Eleonora Marocchini, PhD

The Double Empathy Workshop Series (4th Workshop Join us for the fourth in our series of online workshops showcasing presentations related to chapters from the Double Empathy Reader

Lately I’ve been so disheartened that I forgot to share here that my piece on “Reframing Social Communication through the Double Empathy lens” was published in The Double Empathy Reader, curated by Damian Milton - we’ll present it online today, here 👇🏼

#autism #DoubleEmpathy #pragmatics

As I leave @durhamimh.bsky.social, my contribution to the Critical ND Studies takeover comes out.

It’s a brief version of my talk: an attempt to speak about actually neurodivergent communication (and not just autistic communication).

Thank you again @ndhumanities.bsky.social for the support 🌱

It was super interesting to hear from Nic Cottone, @alfredfreeborn.bsky.social and Lisa Schmidt-Herzog about their ideas of alienation, masking, and the need for an open epistemology to avoid essentialism in the neurodiversity movement!

After a PhD in Cognitive Science, I find it particularly funny (and telling of how far I got from where I started) that the 1st panel I ever chaired was about “The Social Beyond Normativity” at the Critical Neurodiversity Studies Conference.

Thanks @ndhumanities.bsky.social for making this happen!

Peter Lang Verlag - Fostering Socially Just Care in Digital Communities: The Case of Two Alternative Academic Spaces The orientation of collective care is barely present within the current academic system, which perpetuates the idea of individualistic care, dismissing ...

Potentially more inclusive practices that academia could partially incorporate as co-created care reframing participation and social justice as priorities over traditional academic values of fast and objective scientific production.

New open access paper written with @marocchini.bsky.social

Thank you! Working on it! :)

Critical Neurodiversity Studies Conference 2025 Tuesday 24th - Thursday 26th June 2025 • 09:30 – 17:30 BST • Hosted by the Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities

I’m truly honored to speak among these incredible scholars.

Hope to see you there, but you can also join us online by registering on EventBrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/critical-n... [3/3]

I will be presenting a contribution titled “Decentering autism in cross-neurotypical communication research and discourse: welcoming neurodivergent pragmatics”, offering a neuroqueer reading of all the main communicative features and practices that are described as pragmatic deficits. [2/3]

Critical Neurodiversity Studies Conference 2025: Directions, Intersections, Contradictions. 24-26 June 2025, Durham University, UK and online

Honored to share that I have been awarded a Critical Neurodiversity Fellowship and that I will attend the Conference in @durhamuniversity.bsky.social! Thank you @louisecreechan.bsky.social, @drrobertchapman.bsky.social, @ndhumanities.bsky.social and all the people involved in the conference. [1/3]

When autism researchers from all sorts of disciplines, paradigms, methodologies, politics, and worldviews agree, you know the threats to science and to autistic people have gotten way outside the bounderies of typical scientific debate.
www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

Thank you. We tried to write it up in a way that wouldn’t make it too discomforting!

I’m Eleonora, and I clearly pretend I’ve read stuff that I haven’t read

(this one ironically became true while writing my theses 😂)

Thank you for the mention!

The last slide of the presentation I gave to Twitter in my proposal for how to build Bluesky.

2. Here's an image from a presentation I gave to Twitter, representing the Twitter bird freed from a closed platform to fly in Bluesky's open ecosystem.

Cover of a book by Eleonora Marocchini, “Neurodivergente. Capire e coltivare la diversità dei cervelli umani”, that is something along the lines of “Neurodivergent. Comprehending and cultivating human brains’ diversity”, edited by Tlon. A huge symbol for infinity in rainbow colors pops up at the center of the orange cover.

I’m also a psychologist in training and a member of a newborn #autism participatory research group in Sapienza.

Recently, I focused more on #SciComm in Italian, as I realized my following had close to nothing to read in Italian on ND matters.

I’ll try to engage with the awesome work I see here!

Screenshot of the paper “Cross-neurotype communication from an autistic point of view: Insights on autistic Theory of Mind from a focus group study” published on International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders by Eleonora Marocchini and Irene Baldin

So many new faces, hi! I’m a neurodivergent PhD in Psychology with a background in Linguistics, turned independent researcher and SciCommer.

Last published, a focus group study telling me how bad my early work on #ToM in #autism was.
You can find it here (and on the OSF): doi.org/10.1111/1460...

Screenshot of the paper “Cross-neurotype communication from an autistic point of view: Insights on autistic Theory of Mind from a focus group study” published on International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders by Eleonora Marocchini and Irene Baldin

I’m also a psychologist in training and I still do research when I manage. Last published, a focus group study telling me how bad my early work on #ToM in #autism was.

You can find it here (and on OSF as a preprint): doi.org/10.1111/1460...

I’ll try to engage with the awesome work I see here!

They do this at Frontiers, I believe.

Another great starter pack for anyone interested in #autism - from an #ActuallyAutistic point of view!

BlueSky for Scientists BlueSky for Scientists Authors: Steve Haroz and Mark RubinURL: http://blueskyscience.steveharoz.com Features you may miss from Twitter or Mastodon As BlueSky is in beta, some features are not impleme...

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Please share with scientists on BlueSky!

Written by me and @markrubin.bsky.social

🧪 #stats #PsychSciSky #neuroscience

I know, right?! We’ve got you covered!

I see more people are joining now that X got even worse.

For my #autism research mutuals, @lauramaycrane.bsky.social has created this wholesome starter pack to find people and posts you might miss from X. Enjoy!

go.bsky.app/B9XV8UA

I’m not sure that is the case - that is, an issue at the individual level. I feel like it’s more of a problem at the societal level, of perception of what science is and does, and how is it is to put its “evidence” into practice.

Precisely. Also in most cases they do not come off as particularly knowledgeable about how science actually works, in my opinion.

I find it interesting that some psychologists use the argument that #Psychology is a science when confronted on something they said (usually on social media), as if 1) a psychologist is the same entity as Psychology and 2) being a science means being infallible.

The more I read tweets from scientists angry at encouragements to center social justice in their work the more they read a bit like: “stop being racist when you do science!” - “but it wouldn’t be science anymore!”
Okay, no #racism detected here, definitely. Neutral #science for sure.

What I find most interesting in discourse around science and social justice is scientists working in #Psychology and #Psychiatry being distressed at the idea of an “ideology” breaking into science, as if science was ever free from ideological stances. It’s worrying they wouldn’t see it.
#PsySky

“Do you guys hear with your eyes? 😜”
I honestly had not foreseen the amount of neurotypical people who would get offended by this. Lots of people (including professionals) started arguing about the relevance of non verbal cues in communication as if I was deadly serious. Double empathy, much? 2/2

I have 18k followers on IG, where I am out as autistic and known as an autism scholar.
Today I got a question on autistic people’s “problem with looking in the eyes”. I answered and followed up with a joke: “I feel like NT people have a problem, why would you need to look in order to listen?” 1/2

Taking a quick look I found Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist et al. (2023), Franke’s (2023) editorial and Nordby et al. (2023) that might be useful. Weird that they all came out this year.