Nahime G. Aguirre Mtanous, AM, LSW

A lesson about networks that I’m kind of proud of: at the beginning of the year, I gave my 200 students a dumb survey: fav books, foods, etc. I told them they could use pseudonyms and that I’d share their responses with the class. We’ve been using that data in various ways: to make points about +

Diva, don't put your job interview invitations on your public work calendar. You're not supposed to do that.

Sometimes you end the week worn down by the world. But sometimes, you end the week with an absolutely amazing research study visit that makes it all feel worth it. I love working with autistic adults.

They want to see a whole proposal. This would be fine if it were not the exact same project proposal from August.

I am not at all regulated for how busy tomorrow is going to be, but we ball.

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Supporting a ‘good life’ for autistic children: Autistic adults’ and parents’ perspectives - Simpson et al - Autism - 2026 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

New #publication from @cdhauw.bsky.social affiliate Lauren Bishop in Autism

“Mental health outcomes associated with applied behavior analysis in a US national sample of privately insured autistic youth”

➡️ doi.org/10.1177/1362...

natalie portman meme guy: students use chatbots so i just have my students answer questions from my own chatbot natalie: so you figured out how to stop them from opening another window guy: ... natalie: you figured out how to stop the second chatbot, right

These Latinas Are Empowered By Their Late Neurodivergence Diagnosis Podcast Episode · 100 Latina Birthdays · 02/05/2026 · 36m

NEW NEWS! I appear on the newest installment of LWC Studios' "100 Latina Birthdays," talking about Latina neurodivergence and our lack of prioritization in research agendas.
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How do you have a school of social work with only one mental health research professor?

Many people are asking "why don't other politicians do this" and the answer is BECAUSE they don't want you to understand this shit and they want you to just trust they know what they're doing when they're secretly fuck you over. Look at the funding bill!

The thing about large group decisions is that you need to speak up en vivo, not privately afterwards in the hallway with hushed voices. What even is that?

I'm so sorry to burst your bubble but you won't succeed through spite. You will definitely *finish* through sheer spite, but succeed? With joy? With glee? With your heart in it? No. I don't think so.

Barnes & Noble to open four Chicago-area bookstores, part of a national expansion The bookseller will open stores on State Street and in Hyde Park. The company also plans to relocate its store within Skokie’s Westfield Old Orchard Mall, and build out by late spring a new l…

Barnes & Noble will open four new bookstores in the Chicago area by summertime, including a flagship location downtown on State Street, part of a national move to revive its brick-and-mortar retail presence.

I'm taking this as a learning opportunity.

Left a very polite voicemail for Senator Duckworth asking her to join Representative Ramirez in calling for Trump’s impeachment

The longer I'm in higher education, the more I find out about all the different and exhausting ways academics try to quantify prestige. Like, who cares? Are you doing good science? Are you helping people?

I FINISHED A MANUSCRIPT DURING WINTER BREAK!

I have to contend with the idea that my experience in the job market in a few years might place me in another PWI like this one, where I'm the only WOC doing autism research.

“it is illegal for you not to like me”

a young boy is laughing with his mouth open in a striped shirt . ALT: a young boy is laughing with his mouth open in a striped shirt .

I LOVE SPEAKING SPANISH! I LOVE BEING HISPANOHABLANTE!

I!!! MISS!!! SPANISH!!!

It is literally Christmas Day. I should be celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ, not the birth of a possible research project.

My husband exacerbated his back injury yesterday and in having to ambulate through multiple airports with wheelchair support. He is so mad at how he’s being treated and he’d already been on the side of disability justice before all this.

looks like i'm done with classes forever. onto prelims.

yes im being overdramatic but i propose my prelim next semester and i dont do good with big changes like that aaaa

And thus, fall semester is over. Grades are in. Classes have been completed. Transition befalls upon this house.

The data cost HOW much???

New datasets are out??

Why is your PI presenting your work?

almost done... almost... done...