Janna Gottwald, PhD

‘Am I gonna regret this?’: The experiences of diagnostic disclosure in autistic adults - Sheena K Au-Yeung, Megan Freeth, Andrew R Thompson, 2025 An increasing number of people receive autism diagnoses in adulthood, and there are few studies investigating autistic adults’ experiences of disclosing their d...

Autistic adults talk about disclosure: "assumptions and lack of understanding about autism meant that not only did disclosure not lead to the desired effect of having their needs met, but they were also either dismissed or discriminated against" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... free

"Neurodivergent children cannot continue to be neglected by the systems meant to nurture them and provide a safe space to learn."

Hyper‐focus, sticky attention, and springy attention in young autistic children: Associations with sensory behaviors and cognitive ability We tracked young autistic children's eye gaze in order to gain insights about how they attend to and experience things around them. Autistic children who were slower to “unstick” their attention from...

Finding "no evidence that autistic children exhibited greater 'sticky attention'" ("contrary to our hypotheses") & autistics "nonsignificantly trended toward exhibiting reduced novelty preference"? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... but autistics have "springy attention" which is bad? free

Moral foundations in autistic people and people with systemizing minds - Molecular Autism Background Do autistic people share the same moral foundations as typical people? Here we built on two prominent theories in psychology, moral foundations theory and the empathizing–systemizing (E–S) ...

Autistics (age 18-65) "tend to place a slightly higher endorsement on Fairness, compared to typical people. Importantly, autistic people did not differ in Care scores compared to typical people" molecularautism.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... study using the Moral Foundations Questionnaire, free

Yes.

And I like the comment about not imagining. Representations are not needed here anyway 🤷🏻‍♀️

Bei psychologischen Interventionen geht man immer davon aus, dass sie schon sicher sein werden, bis man vom Gegenteil überzeugt ist. Und bis man vom Gegenteil überzeugt ist, braucht es ganz schön laute Stimmen von Betroffenen, die Schaden genommen haben.

Sehr große Stichprobe ubd interessante Ergebnisse: Einstellung gegenüber traumafokussierter PT ist besser bei Approbierten, vA mit Zusatz-Qualifikation und hohem case load, negativer bei Fachkunde AP/TP.

Junge Menschen unter Stress zu setzen, um sie zu trainieren, mit Stress besser umzugehen, ist eine populäre Idee und Praxis, bewirkt aber das Gegenteil. Wer möchte, dass junge Menschen unter Stress besser re/agieren können, stärkt sie als Personen, z.B. durch viele Erfahrungen der Selbstwirksamkeit.

Bin ganz umgezogen und poste nur hier. X fehlt mir nicht, das Twitter von früher ein bisschen.

Guten Morgen.
Heute ist der Tag der seelischen Gesundheit.

Dass wir so einen Tag überhaupt brauchen liegt daran, dass psychische Erkrankungen weiterhin von vielen nicht ernst genommen und Betroffene stigmatisiert werden.
Der Zugang zu Behandlung wird künstlich verknappt.
Das muss sich ändern.

Hello! Assistant Prof @ Rutgers, clinical psychologist, trauma and substance use research, NIDA K23 award, very green to this blue app 😅 #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #WomeninSTEM

Completely agree 😊

There’s a difference between description and explanation, yes.

One of the big take aways from the Twitter exodus to eg Mastodon 🙋last year after the Musk 🐦 takeover was that it is not enough to set up camp / create an account somewhere else.

We need posts, interactions, engagement.

Curious to see what the 🔵☁️ community will be…

Polisky commsky academicsky

Hello Blue Skies! My first Official Post. I am an associate prof in #ClinPsych & Experimental Psychopathology, Groningen, NL. Hugely interested in memory & emotion/trauma. Also: #MetaSci, reproducibility, Open Science - Looking for a community to learn more about doing reponsible #Sci :)

Hi Bluesky! 👋 I'm an assistant professor at the University of Toledo. I study how to make effective psychological treatments accessible and relevant to the individual in context, using digital interventions and idiographic methods. I nerd out on processes of change. #PsychSciSky #ClinPsych

One of the biggest changes I have noticed since leaving academia is believing that my time and ideas are valuable and that I deserve to be paid for them. This is obvious, but after years of being paid pennies, while working nights and weekends to use the skills I learned in my PhD, it feels radical.

We will need a critical mass of academics here for this website to be a viable academic Twitter alternative. That will only happen if people with big accounts come over, commit to being here, bring their followers, and we keep distributing codes. If Twitter is a viable alternative, people will stay.

Does anyone know studies that compare rates of change in CBT vs. PDT, ie investigate whether symptoms change faster in one compared to the other (ok, let's be honest: decline faster in CBT than PDT)? @tkaiser.bsky.social @nilsftoepfer.bsky.social @ehrenthal-lab.bsky.social #psychscisky

Hi bluesky! I’m a Cognitive Neuroscience PhD student at the University of Hong Kong. Broadly interested in psychiatric nosology, digital phenotyping, and fear-related decision making. #Neuroskyence #PsychSciSky

Thank you also to @mgallen.bsky.social and @pkpd-babe.bsky.social for getting me here :)

Sadly yes. It's the same problem we see with replication markets and other similar initiatives. Starting out with a motto of "we need more replications" rather than "we need better science" tends to have such consequences. Proceduralization itself is turning into a massive & hard problem to tackle.

Hello world! I've finally broken down and decided to make an account here in addition to my Twitter! A quick introduction:

I'm Zack Williams, an autistic autism researcher and self-advocate currently pursuing my MD/PhD (Psychiatry + Neuroscience/Hearing&Speech) at Vanderbilt.

Autism, Human Connection and the ‘Double Empathy’ Problem Despite stereotypes, many autistic people yearn for meaningful relationships, but they are daunted by neurotypicals’ assumptions about them

My new @sciam.bsky.social column on the most persistent myth in autism research, and how autistic researchers and allies are pushing back. www.scientificamerican.com/article/auti...

Mein größtes Rätsel bin ich selbst - Bücher - Hanser Literaturverlagepinterest Bekannt vom erfolgreichen Podcast „Rätsel des Unbewussten“ – entlang lebensnaher Geschichten erklären die Autor:innen den Prozess der ...

Leseempfehlung: "Mein größtes Rätsel bin ich selbst" vom @podcastubw.bsky.social. Vier bewegende Fallbeispiele aus der #Psychoanalyse. Gibt sehr sensibel Einblick in die Arbeit und in die Leben der Patient:innen. Hat mich be- und gerührt. #traumafolgestörungen #notjustsad

Nailed it!

Yes. Felt tempted to say, like in the good old days. But maybe it’s the good new days :)

Really like the fact that there is no algorithm.