Excited to attend Society for functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy 2024! Come find me to chat about fNIRS and autism 🧠 #fNIRS2024

Registration for the Healthy Relationships on the Autism Spectrum (HEARTS) class is now open! The 8 class sessions are: Oct 9, 2024 through Dec 4, 2024 7:15-8:45pm ET aane.org/events/online-… Please register now, as spots are limited.

I'm thrilled to announce Harvard's annual Prospective PhD and RA Event in Psychology (PPREP)! A two-day informational and mentoring event. See details: psychology.fas.harvard.edu/pprep

How many pubs do you need for tenure? What is the salary like in academia vs gov jobs? Will I be happy at a corporation vs a teaching college? All of your answers are here! For free! From American Psychological Association apa.org/science/progra…

Two fancy ways to look at the brain 😋

New paper out now in Autism Research! You can read it here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author/D…

This is SO COOL!!!

Reminder that science is political whether you like it or not. Politics define how we are funded and what we are funded for. Politics define what we are able to study. Politics define who will be allowed in our labs and workplaces. Politics define with whom we can collaborate.

New Research: “Unheard Voices," highlights the underrepresentation of Autistic adults with intellectual disability in research. Just 14 studies using self-report, few measures validated or co-produced. More work needed so that diverse voices are heard. liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/au…

First paper from my dissertation is finally out! Read it here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/de…

We find that language regions in autism don’t respond typically to generic lang stimuli, but they do respond highly to special interest stories! And activation patterns are more consistent across individuals listening to their interest stories (despite being idiosyncratic)!

I'm an autistic person who spends a lot of time providing medical care to other autistic people who are like your kids (i.e., profoundly autistic), so trust me when I say I know and appreciate the difference. I'd also like you to take a look at the ADDM data below (from

A new study finds preschoolers’ brains respond differently when hearing a story read aloud versus hearing it from a screen, highlighting how live reading engages social brain networks more strongly than solitary screen time. dlvr.it/TKP4NY

Honored to have some of my research covered by Discover Magazine! discovermagazine.com/mind/what-happ…

So excited to have this work finally published! molecularautism.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…