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Key autism committee is being reshaped to support Kennedy's vaccine agenda, researchers and advocates fear Researchers and advocates fear a key autism committee is being reshaped to support Kennedy's vaccine agenda.

Important and alarming autism news from @rosebroderick.bsky.social at @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/01/23/k...

I would appreciate if the members of the committee could elaborate and clarify if their goal is truly to “fight against autism”

The idea that America needs to occupy Greenland because we actually care enough about native people and want to build oncology centers is enough to make your head fully explode

Science Is Drowning in AI Slop Peer review has met its match.

www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...

The group will produce guidance to support researchers navigating ethical, legal, social, and practical considerations in human genetics and genomics. The work will be published in the American Journal of Human Genetics. I'm looking forward to meeting the group and collaborating in 2026! 2/2

I'm happy to share that I will be serving in an ASHG @geneticssociety.bsky.social professional guidance writing group on the participation of people with disabilities in genomics and precision medicine research. 1/2

Join our January #ELSIFridayForum: how genetic embryo selection is being shaped by commercial incentives, regulatory gaps, and shifting cultural expectations of parenthood.

January 9th, 2026; 12pm ET/9am PT

Register: www.addevent.com/event/kct18q...

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‘Elite cohort’ of biz school scholars and editors scratch each others’ backs, study finds Image: Mohamed Hassan/Pixabay Academics who publish frequently in two top business journals often have prior working relationships with the editors who handle their papers, according to a new analy…

One journal editor in chief called the results “concerning,” while another thought the analysis was looking for problems on purpose.

New pathway discovered!

What Other Diagnoses Could Learn From Autism’s Diagnostic Appeal The role of cognitive-perceptual mechanistic explanations

What Other Diagnoses Could Learn From Autism’s Diagnostic Appeal

The role of cognitive-perceptual mechanistic explanations

A response by Riva Stoudt to my autism differential diagnosis post

www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/what-other...

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Mapping the genetic landscape across 14 psychiatric disorders - Nature Genomic analyses applied to 14 childhood- and adult-onset psychiatric disorders identifies five underlying genomic factors that explain the majority of the genetic variance of the individual disorders...

1/4 Thrilled to be sharing new work published today in Nature describing the third wave of results from the PGC Cross-Disorder Group. This reflects a massive group effort to examine shared and unique genetic signal across >1 million cases for 14 psychiatric disorders. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thank you, I meant to use the url.

@drstevenkapp.bsky.social

@kgillyn.bsky.social

I hope you find this interesting and helpful! Most of my co-authors are not on Bluesky, but. I'll tag those who do here. 8/8

@docautie.bsky.social

This manuscript is a result of the unwavering commitment of many amazing scholars. Special thanks to my co-first author Sinéad O’Brien and senior author Kristen Gillespie-Lynch, and congratulations to the whole team for bringing this often very difficult project to a conclusion. 7/

We provide recommendations for each stage of research, from grant writing to dissemination. We recognize that continuing to share our challenges and strategies to address them is critical for improving representation, capacity, and accountability, and to promote authentically participatory work. 6/

…we identified shared differences across three broad categories: Representation (e.g., lack of meaningful power sharing), Capacity (e.g., insufficient time and knowledge), and Accountability (e.g., limited follow-through). 5/

Despite the differences between the two initiatives (a small-scale study utilizing participatory approaches to develop a Game Design and Employment Workshop for Autistic youth, and b) a national research network seeking to drive autism research informed by Autistic “insider-researchers”)... 4/

We created collaborative documents to facilitate discussions on difficult topics and to identify shared values, define respectful communication, interrogate power dynamics, and implement accountability processes. Our materials, including blank templates, are included as Supplementary Files. 3/

This work was done by a neurodiverse team of scholars with diverse backgrounds and areas of expertise, with the shared goal of promoting accountability to advance authentic participatory research. We applied and developed participatory methods when writing this manuscript. 2/

New preprint alert! Drawing from our experiences and observations on two initiatives with participatory aspirations, we have identified challenges, strategies, and recommendations for better and neurodiversity-affirming autism research. 10.13140/RG.2.2.27146.12481 1/

Someone get me (genetic epidemiologist) & my husband (school psychologist) on a podcast bc our rants on these people are...fiery. We spent 5y in the bay around these folks and oh boy.

I'm also so sick of these puff pieces that avoid saying plainly what this actually is. Shoddy science for eugenics.

I'm excited to share that I will be participating in the @sitcancer.bsky.social Sparkathon program, class of 2026. I'm looking forward to connecting with the class and the organizers at the Spring Scientific in Tucson! @tgenresearch.bsky.social

CSF1R-CAR T cells induce CSF1R signaling and can promote target cell proliferation Chimeric antigen receptor–stimulated responses in target cells may affect target cell clearance by CAR T cells.

A #ScienceSignaling study examines the activities of ligand-based #CARTcells and shows they induce proliferative signaling events within target cells, a finding that has implications for the design and application of future CAR T cells in the clinic. https://scim.ag/47CxSMB

Research linking gut microbes to autism is deeply flawed, critics say Amid growing investment in the field, a new paper argues it rests on shaky foundations

I was interviewed for an article about autism and the gut microbiome published yesterday in @science.org. Check it out! www.science.org/content/arti...

What a great webinar featuring @drmbothapsych.bsky.social. An important reminder: dehumanization of autistic people and moral disengagement motivate remediation. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...