Dr. Alyssa (they/them)

GOOD NEWS! A large, international Phase III clinical trial has unveiled a promising new option for people living with HIGHLY treatment-resistant HIV. 96% of participants who switched to this simplified regimen of a daily oral tablet MAINTAINED viral suppression with NO new drug resistance reported.

This is 100% the correct approach. John Quincy Adams brought down Congress’ “gag rule” (which prevented members from discussing the abolition of slavery) by bringing abolitionist petitions to the floor *multiple times a day*, against House rules. Every day the House was in session. For years.

Autism and the Pseudoscience of Mind The theory-of-mind-deficit explanation of autism proposes that autistics lack a theory of mind, that autism comprises a theory-of-mind deficit (strong version); or, that autistics often have diffic...

Just published in Psychological Inquiry!

I offer a sustained philosophical and empirical critique of the theory-of-mind-deficit explanation of autism.

The ultimate conclusion is that the research programme has become degenerative—and therefore pseudoscientific.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

OUT NOW: The highly controversial issue of Psychological Inquiry (Vol. 36, Issue 4) is live!
Are we rethinking everything we know about autism? In our newest target article, @travislacroix.bsky.social argues that the "Theory of Mind" paradigm in #autism research is actually pseudoscience. 🧠 🧵👇

"He is bilingual but saw that the wait time for speaking to a customer service representative in English was long, so he hit “two” for Spanish."

from one bilingual person to another, I respect that hustle lol

You won! You got what you wanted! Nobody has to mask anywhere, even in medical facilities around the most vulnerable patients. Moreover, nobody even feels obligated to, because we don’t owe anything to each other. You got everything you wanted, so just leave us alone and let us mask in peace.

Where to Find Black-Owned Bookstores Across the U.S. From books to puzzles and stationery, these shopping destinations also serve as gathering places in communities across the country.

Where to find Black-owned book stores in the USA...

capitalbnews.org/black-owned-...

#Books #AmReading

🧵Storytime? Storytime!

It's no secret that I like #TTRPG s. What isn't as obvious is this is an interest my wife and I share

We both like tabletop games: boardgames, TCGs, and of course, TTRPGS. So when a friend of a friend invited us to a one-shot, we were absolutely thrilled and said yes (1/X)

Minneapolis isn't an especially sweary place but there are so many houses that have homemade "FUCK ICE" signs and I've had multiple conversations with parents about how we're okay with our kids using that word in this context because sometimes it IS okay to swear and this is one of those times.

i am so tired of screaming from the rooftops that we have a looming, avoidable crisis of evictions brewing.

everyone knows it, but yet government and philanthropy have no solutions. unpaid volunteers of rent funds are doing the work that the people who control the purse strings refuse to do

I'm following the lead of the most impacted by this when I say this: Black people should not have to endure having racial slurs screamed at them on an international stage.

With an intersectional lens toward disability justice, it is important to recognize the impact that outburst has on those men.

A3: I'd say it costs me help I need, but I don't get that help when I *show* how I function & ask for help either because then I usually get disbelieved instead.

Rare exceptions but usually there's just no path to that help

#AutChat

Q3: What are the costs of hiding how you function? The benefits? #AutChat

It's kind of like, I'll hear people say something like "help me understand" or "walk me through this" or something similar, and I'll do my best to do that...

And if they can't deeply empathize or relate to what I'm describing, they just flat out don't believe me.

#AutChat A2

A3 #AutChat The price is high, overstepping own boundaries, feeling a bit like having no distinct personality.

Right?!?!?

It's surreal... because places like the Job Accommodation Network all talk about the idea that deciding on potential reasonable accommodations should be based more on whether or not they're reasonable, not whether or not an authority person thinks they're strictly necessary!

#AutChat

AT THE SAME TIME, respect for Black women should not be conditioned on credentials, institutional affiliations, or other markers of 'prestige.'

A2: A lot of educational ones, mostly.

Outside being a student I usually had more ability to tell people to bug off about it.

#AutChat

A1 Not recently, but in school I had teachers not like it when I did stuff like:

1) Apply the law of the lever to mixture problems
2) Do non-visual ways of thinking about anything they visualized for
3) Find it harder to Do Paperwork or Organize Things than almost anything else...

#AutChat

Q1: Have you had to hide how you function? If so, what have you had to hide? #AutChat

@yesthattoo.bsky.social
@tuttleturtle.bsky.social
@autisticb4mmr.bsky.social
@endeverstar.bsky.social
@projectenigma.bsky.social
AutChat on BlueSky in 1 hr, Sun 1pm Pacific / 4pm Eastern / 21:00 UTC /9pm GMT. Topic: having to hide how we function. autchat.com/having-to-hi...

Cultural Autism Studies at Yale Welcome to CASY! Join us to explore, define, generate, record and preserve autistic culture. The CASY program (originally Community Autism Socials) was started in 2014 by Dr Roger Jou of the Yale…

Check out the Cultural Autism Studies at Yale website.

I have just updated it!

culturalautismstudiesatyale.space

@pefty.bsky.social , @julialeebarclay.bsky.social , @yesthattoo.bsky.social , @theautisticmuse.substack.com , @fikiledm.bsky.social
Gathering us together on here!
Anyone else from CASY?

Come on. Nowhere in that article is causation established. It shows test scores declined during COVID, and that laptops became widespread, but blames score declines on laptops and never mentions COVID. That isn’t science, it’s culture war nonsense laundered through scientism.

Yeah the Epstein files aren't proving a conspiracy right they're just exploring new depths of depravity from people we already knew were scum.

If you see this, post a monster!

Laughing at journalists who say if Bluesky was nicer to them there’d be more journalists here like…you don’t know your audience AT ALL.

Trying to shame Bluesky into behaving the way you personally want is like trying to keep a cat off a counter.

That cat is gonna be on the counter EVEN MORE now.

@yesthattoo.bsky.social
@tuttleturtle.bsky.social
@autisticb4mmr.bsky.social
@endeverstar.bsky.social
@projectenigma.bsky.social
AutChat on BlueSky in 1 hr, Sun 1pm Pacific / 4pm Eastern / 21:00 UTC /9pm GMT. Topic: small barriers to everyday accessibility. autchat.com/small-barrie...

I would encourage all the people who think making Jews feel unsafe and endangered in diaspora is based antizionism to look at where Mizraḥim lived in 1940, where they live now, and how they vote in the place they live now

So with the academic and data science jobs I apply for, there’s always an equal opportunities section where you can disclose being trans (and also neurodiverse, etc).

At first I was truthful with it. Got barely any responses.

But when stopped disclosing being trans? Loads of interviews.