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Screenshot of journal article titled: “Autistic Adults’ Experiences Seeking and Receiving Support for Mental Health and Suicidal Thoughts and Behavior” by Wilson et al (2025).

Research by @xspcyau.bsky.social et al (2025) shows that miscommunication and misunderstandings between autistic adults and service providers are barriers to autistic adults seeking and receiving support for mental health and suicidality

FREE until 20th June

www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/...

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AASPIRE has a new paper on consensus on the most important outcomes to measure for services for autistic adults, and how to measure them. We blended a Delphi process to get expert input within the AASPIRE community-based participatory research process.
Link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 1/

Au-Yeung, @shefautismres.bsky.social & Thompson (2025) explore 12 late-diagnosed autistic adult's experiences of telling others about their autism diagnosis

A close-up of a person scratching their arm with their opposite hand.

“The Experience of Itch in Autistic Adults: An Online Survey” by Tackley et al (2025) finds that autistic adults report greater itch severity and itch-related impact on their daily life than non-autistic adults.

FREE until 20th June

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Examining Neurodiversity and Inclusion in Neuroscience Research Networks:… | Mary Doherty My involvement with the AIMS-2-Trials research consortium has been such a rollercoaster over the past 6 years. One of the most interesting aspects of the project has been the shift from autistic peopl...

Some reflections on being part of @aims2trials.bsky.social Autism Representatives over the past 6 years and an exciting new paper led by my friend & colleague @teresadelbianco.bsky.social
www.linkedin.com/posts/mary-d...

What Autistic People Want From Autism Research: AutINSAR 2025 AutINSAR is a much-needed discussion between autistic people and autism researchers about priorities in autism research.

In case you missed it: #AutINSAR is a much-needed discussion between autistic people, autism researchers, family members, and professionals about priorities in autism research. This year it happened during #INSAR2025. Recap at TPGA:

thinkingautismguide.com/2025/05/what... #autism #neurodiversity

Table from Blaskowitz et al summarising their three recommendations: Recommendation 1—Establish person-centered planning that includes individualized accommodations: a) Support students in person-centered planning and using goal-setting tools while at college. b) Shift toward individualized accommodations driven by student need. Recommendation 2—Engage faculty as partners in inclusive best practices: a) Provide faculty with autism awareness and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) training. b) Encourage faculty to incorporate UDL principles within the classroom. c) Establish faculty mentors for autistic students. Recommendation 3—Embed opportunities and support for social–emotional learning and relationship building: a) Increase accessibility of campus events. b) Establish self-advocacy groups. c) Utilize peer mentors who are matched to an autistic student’s interests and needs.

"Are Universities Ready to Support Autistic Students? A Call to Increase Coordinated Campus Efforts" by Blaskowitz et al offers three recommendations based on the literature to increase inclusion and support for autistic students

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www-liebertpub-com.ezp.lib.cam.ac.uk/doi/10.1089/...

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Ian Jones, a consultant in the business travel industry, is campaigning to make business travel better for the neurodivergent community. If you travel for work (the regularity or type of travel doesn't matter), please fill out his survey here: forms.office.com/r/jeKZyqZMYk

Image of one of the Eurasian beavers being released in Purbeck, Dorset. The beaver is being released by Lloyd Hatton MP and Mary Creagh, Minister for Nature, into a wooded, swampy area at the property. 📸 James Dobson

Image of one of the beavers released in Purbeck, Dorset swimming in a small body of water at the property. 📸 James Dobson

Take a look at the historic moment beavers were legally released into the wild in England yesterday for the first time 🧵

Etymology of the day: ‘book’ comes from an ancient root shared by ‘beech’, a wood that people used for engraving inscriptions. ‘Paper’ comes from ‘papyrus’, and ‘volume’ is from the Latin for a ‘roll’ of parchment.

Happy World Book Day.

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Autistic vs non-autistic adults did not differ "on general lie frequency, which medium they used or who they lied to"? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... but autistic adults reported "more guilt, feeling less confidence in their likelihood of being believed and increased difficulty when lying"

Delighted to share this new open access article which presents four amazing case studies showcasing coproduction methods in neurodevelopmental research

Lots of people have published theory and there are some useful toolkits too, but its still rare to actually read what people did...

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NHS Right to Choose Changes NHS England is looking to make a change that will fundamentally alter your right to Right to Choose. They're consulting now and we need you to protest to try to stop it. If they're allowed to make the...

NHS RIGHT TO CHOOSE IS CHANGING.

NHS England is about to make getting an ADHD Assessment and support even harder.

NHS England is in consultation about changes that will mean the end of Right to Choose as we know it.

Find out more from ADHD UK

adhduk.co.uk/nhs-right-to...

Autistic Burnout Network Conference A one day virtual conference on Sat May 17th on autistic burnout. With neurodivergent speakers from the Autistic Burnout Networkl

Tickets now available for the virtual Autistic Burnout Network Conference on Sat May 17th
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/autistic-b...

International Day of Women and Girls in Science | United Nations The purpose of the day is to achieve full and equal access to and participation in science for women and girls.

Happy #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience!

One obvious thing institutions can do to help reduce the attrition of women in science is to stop hiring men who were fired from their previous institutions for sexual harassment.

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#EdithAnneStoney, born in Dublin in 1869, is considered to be the world's 1st woman #medicalphysicist. #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience

• Appointed a physics lecturer at London School of Medicine for Women in 1899.
• Pioneering figure in the use of x-ray machines on the front lines of WWI.

We're looking for autistic parents to take part in a study on burnout: durhamuniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Please take part/share if you have capacity.

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#autism

#sleep

"The health burden of climate change is much larger than we have realized," says @climatedann.bsky.social

"Persistent exposure to heatwaves, droughts, wildfires and more will take a toll on people’s bodies. We must learn how this will manifest"

#climatecrisis
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

In this video, Marianne Day talks about our recently published paper on the barriers UK employers perceive to hiring autistic people. We used behavioural science frameworks to explore barriers - you can also read the paper here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #AutRes

To the crowds cheering Trump's withdrawal from the Paris Agreement:
Do you think you live on a different planet, which climate breakdown does not affect?
Do you imagine only greens and progressives will be harmed by Earth systems collapse?
Do you believe you can win an argument with physics?

“Earlier this year, research led by scientists in Spain and Portugal suggested that 117 million hectares, or a quarter of the European land surface, “holds potential for rewilding” and, in so doing, can make a substantial contribution towards meeting existing biodiversity targets.”

Are you an autistic adult who is or has been in psychotherapy? Or, are you a therapist who works with autistic adults?
Take part in this interview study and help us better adjust psychotherapy for the autistic population.

How to support neurodivergent postgraduate researchers How can universities ensure PhD students of all neurotypes can thrive? Here’s how to provide neurodiversity-affirmative supervision

Are you a supervisor wondering how to better support your neurodivergent postgrads? Go read our latest article in @timeshighered.bsky.social

www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/how-s...

Not that we really need more ways to show how unusually warm 2024 was...

Here's the joyplot updated with the past year.

Survivors of abuse deserve to be more than a political football — ben smoke After weeks of being used to score political points against rivals, it’s time we started putting survivors voices at the centre of the debate.

seeing the way abuse has been weaponised and used for political gain over the last couple of weeks has been horrifying. i wrote about the experience of watching it, why so many of those up in arms are opportunists and why survivors deserve so much more www.bensmoke.com/blog/2025/1/...

Autistic Burnout: What is it, and why does it happen? Autistic burnout is a heightened state of stress, affecting energy, emotions, and sensory management. It’s often triggered by social and work-related factors, leading to emotional dysregulati…

Autistic burnout: What is it, and why does it happen?

#FromTheArchives
#Burnout #Autistic

autisticltd.co.uk/2024/04/17/a...

JCPP Advances | ACAMH Child Development Journal | Wiley Online Library A participatory research approach was adopted and a co-production team of 15 neurodivergent women ranked camouflaging as their most important theme to research in the context of adolescence. Our find...

Great to see this paper on camouflaging in neurodivergence out from Ailbhe McKinney - one of the first cohort from our Medical Sciences with Engagement PhD with integrated studies programme

acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

‘It absolutely took off’: five UK biodiversity success stories From new butterfly habitats in the Cotswolds to arctic willow planting in the Scottish Highlands, there are increasing numbers of places where humans are giving nature a helping hand to re-establish i...

Lovely stuff. People making a difference for nature, all over the country.
‘It absolutely took off’: five UK biodiversity success stories www.theguardian.com/environment/...