Dan Poole

New pre-print: Exploring The Phenomenology Of Autistic Attention from @danpoole.bsky.social @beatrixbird.bsky.social & team.

Relevant to the theory of monotropism - about improving accessibility for Autistic people in the workplace.
osf.io/preprints/ps...

An event flyer for a healthcare research showcase titled "Our Health, Our Story: A Showcase," presented by the NIHR, the University of Sheffield, and ScHARR. The background is light blue with white and blue medical-themed line illustrations, Key Details: The Event: A showcase of artwork created by autistic adults during workshops to map out their healthcare experiences. Location: St Mary's Church, Bramall Lane, S2 4QZ. Date: Monday, 26th January 2026. Times: General Viewing from 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM; Quiet Hour from 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM. Cost: Free entry and refreshments; everyone is welcome. Accessibility: The flyer notes it is not a ticketed event and people can drop in anytime. An optional sign-up for event reminders is available via a QR code or a Google Forms link.

Sheffielders, please join us for a showcase event to mark the end of our project on autistic adults access to primary healthcare.

📍St Mary's Church, Bramhall Lane
🗓️Monday 26th Jan (13 - 15, with quiet hour 15 - 16)

Drop-in, free entry, no sign-up necessary

#AutRes #Sheffield #Healthcare

We are looking for clinicians who work with autistic people without Learning Disabilities to support their sensory motor needs to complete a survey asking experiences asssing and supporting autistic adults.

www.qualtrics.manchester.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...

The problem with Palantir's new neurodivergent fellowship Critics have accused the company of being technofascist.

Palantir's new neurodivergent fellowship is in fact bad because neurodivergent people participating in technofascism will not save us. Latest for @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

University of Sheffield staff 'intimidated' by pay forfeit warning University of Sheffield to withhold pay if staff do not make up for teaching missed while striking.

“Union-Busting Tactic”

The University of Sheffield argues staff who do not replace missed teaching due to strike action are in breach of contract, and so should forfeit an *additional* two weeks of pay.

#UKHE #AcademicSky

University of Sheffield staff 'intimidated' by pay forfeit warning University of Sheffield to withhold pay if staff do not make up for teaching missed while striking.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

You can donate to our strike fund here ucu.group.shef.ac.uk/hardship-fund/

Check out this post about our current situation from a colleague at another university. @sheffielducu.bsky.social

🚨 SynthNet is out 🚨
Researchers propose new constructs and measures faster than anyone can track. We (@anniria.bsky.social @ruben.the100.ci) built a search engine to check what already exists and help identify redundancies; indexing 74,000 scales from ~31,500 instruments in APA PsycTests. 🧵1/3

UoN student Q&A with the Vice Chancellor about course closures: from bad to worse Yesterday, 24 November, along with many other University of Nottingham students, I attended the student Q&A with the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Jane Norman, and her team about the proposed course closures...

Nothing to see here, just students being required to undergo a security bag check before meeting with our university Vice Chancellor.

An eloquent and scathing report of the meeting by a PhD student

www.linkedin.com/pulse/uon-st...

New autism strategy must deliver change for autistic people - Committees - UK Parliament This is the key conclusion reached by the House of Lords special inquiry committee on the Autism Act 2009 in its report ‘Time to deliver: The Autism Act 2009 and the new autism strategy’.&...

Today, @hlautismactcom.parliament.uk published their report, 'Time to deliver: The Autism Act 2009 and the new autism strategy'.

Access the full report and recommendations (including easy read report, video from the Chair, and shorthand story) here: committees.parliament.uk/committee/77... [1/4]

The Neuronormative Paradigm: Naming The Systems That Harm | Autistic Realms The Neuronormative Paradigm, conceptualised by Nick Walker, names the systems that define and enforce what society considers normal. This exploration piece ...

The Neuronormative Paradigm, conceptualised by @dr-nicky.bsky.social names the systems that define & enforce what society considers normal and acceptable.
This exploration piece contrasts the neuronormative paradigm with the neurodiversity paradigm.
autisticrealms.com/the-neuronor...

Artwork at Burton Street Foundation saying "Everyone has a part to play"

This week we've kicked off our series of community based, participatory workshops exploring underserved autistic adults experiences of primary healthcare. First event at the amazing Burton Street Foundation in Hillsborough.

@autismeurope.bsky.social 2025 Congress is now freely available on this website:

www.autismeurope.org/what-we-do/i...

Also:
www.youtube.com/@AutismEurope

Lots of very exciting presentations including @drmbothapsych.bsky.social @autisticdoctor.bsky.social and many more!

Beyond Diagnosis: Setting Research Priorities with the Neurodivergent Community - Agata Ostaszewska, Georgia Harper, Rachael Davis, Holly Joseph, 2025 Neurodiversity research remains heavily shaped by diagnostic categories, which increasingly appear inadequate for capturing the complex, lived realities of neur...

Embracing Complexity's priority-setting exercise for research on neurodivergence is now published in Neurodiversity! Huge project led by @agatataga.bsky.social, paper co-written by @drrachaeldavis.bsky.social, @drhollyjoseph.bsky.social, and yours truly: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🔊 Vacancy: Open Research Manager, University of Sheffield Library (full-time, open-ended). The role will involve supporting projects across Sheffield and nationally with the @ukrepro.bsky.social to accelerate open research practices. Closing date 22 October: jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Open-Res...

Research Associate on the ‘ICALD’ study at The University of Manchester Discover an exciting academic career path as a Research Associate on the ‘ICALD’ study at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!

👉Are you a post-doc?
👉 Passionate about improving care for people with learning disabilities?
👉Interested in communication?

The ICALD study has 2 jobs: one based in London and one in Manchester. See links👇

Come and work with us!

jobs.ac.uk/job/DOQ464/r...

jobs.ac.uk/job/DOQ213/p...

Kent and Greenwich merge without consulting unions!
#UKHE

That would be great Monique!

Thank you! Look forward to meeting you in Dublin 😀

Excited to be in Dublin (despite the rain! 🌧️) for the Autism Europe Congress #AEC2025. I’ll be presenting my poster tomorrow at 2pm (P1.01.17), please drop by and say hey if you’re also attending ☺️ Looking forward to hearing about all the brilliant research! 🙌🏻

Looking forward to the conference and conversations - please say hi or hmu if you would like to meet!

Thursday, the 11th, at 14:00, is titled "Participatory systems mapping with underserved autistic adults: co-designing health and social care solutions through creative arts." The presenter is Victoria Newell from the United Kingdom.

The event, on Friday, the 12th, at 14:00, is titled "Evaluating a Standardised Post-diagnostic Strengths and Needs Assessment for Autistic Adults: an Acceptability and Feasibility Study." The presenter is Megan Freeth from the United Kingdom.

The event, on Thursday, the 11th, at 14:00, is titled "Factors Influencing Dropout and Retention Among Autistic Students in Universities: A Meta-Synthesis of Qualitative Studies Involving Autistic Individuals." The presenter is Georgia Smith from the United Kingdom.

ShARL is well repped at the conference:

Vikki @victorianewell.bsky.social - participatory research on underserved adults experiences of primary healthcare

Marianne - feasibility study using the ICF core sets for adult post-diagnostic support

Georgia - SR on autistic students drop-outs from HE

The first event, on Thursday, the 11th, at 17:30, is titled "Data sharing in autism research: the views of autistic people and parents of autistic children." The second event, on Friday, the 12th, at 14:00, is titled "Exploring the phenomenology of attention control in autistic adults"

Heading Dublin tonight for Autism Europe Congress #AEC2025.

Talk on meta-autism research tomorrow - autism community views about open data

Poster Friday - talking about distraction, monotropism and normativity

@autismeurope.bsky.social

Heading into Sheffield for #ESCOP25

I'm taking part in a symposium on using drift diffusion models for between group comparisons,organised by @ambercopeland.bsky.social

W/ @cmanning.bsky.social
Craig Hedge and Alekhya Mandali also speaking.

Lot to discuss,should be a great session!

Student Notebook: The Physics of Autistic Inertia Hari Srinivasan describes the difficulty autistic people face in starting, stopping, or switching tasks, as well as how to manage this feeling of “inertia” as a graduate student.

“Newton’s … law of inertia, tells us that an object at rest stays at rest, & an object in motion stays in motion, unless something intervenes. In daily life, autistic inertia echoes this: Starts, stops, & shifts can require disproportionate effort.”

www.psychologicalscience.org/publications... -SR

🚨 This week on BBC Look North: Sheffield staff balloting for strike action over £5m in cuts.

We have defeated cuts in other institutions and we will defeat these ✊

Show your support to @sheffielducu.bsky.social

I've spent the past weeks publishing my flankr package on CRAN for R. Users who've only installed the first version will notice SIGNIFICANT improvements in model fit speed.

Plus, I made a hex sticker for it.

CRAN: cran.r-project.org/web/packages...
Github (dev version): github.com/JimGrange/fl...

I wrote an R package that creates standardized R project structures that are compliant with @mekline.bsky.social's psych-DS...ish.

It also creates additional features for reproducibility and teaching like a readme, license, .gitignore and Quarto templates

+ can validate existing projects

Useful article on the pressures that disproportionately affect neurodivergent students (and staff) in HE:
wonkhe.com/blogs/higher...

A screenshot of the “Independent” website. If you would like the article in text form let me know and I’ll copy and paste it. I don’t know if advert-laden website are very screen reader friendly. Anyway, the URL is https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/nhs-adhd-hospitals-government-research-b2805190.html#

We made it into the Independent!
“NHS ‘needs to do more to support autistic people”

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

#AutRes #AutismResearch #ADHDResearch #ADHD #Autism