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Peer review is broken. But, as an early career researcher, it feels good when I find out that the other reviewer(s) made very similar remarks to a paper that I’ve reviewed. Makes me trust in myself and in science just a tiny bit more. #AcademicTwitter

Ooor you could stop promoting toxic workaholism and start focusing on equity and (mental) health in academia 🌱 you would end up creating more “progress” than with your sole tiny pieces of research.

We can’t, in all seriousness, “build bridges” with people mentioning “the two ends of the spectrum” when talking about autism in 2023. See Damian Milton’s thread for an overview of most other debatable points in this piece. spectrumnews.org/opinion/viewpo…

Jen Heemstra Stewart Martin-Haugh As my supervisor (Prof L. Umanand, IISc Bangalore) would say, "The product of a PhD is the researcher, the research is just a byproduct."

La scuola italiana ci ha convinti che "la matematica non è un'opinione" ma la realtà è che come qualsiasi linguaggio la matematica ha le sue convenzioni e quando non le si specificano si hanno domande ambigue come questa, dove le risposte accettabili sono più di una

🚨New evidence on an old question🚨 Peer reviewers are geographically concentrated in a few countries. 👉Is that really a problem for science? 👉Does it help explain why some authors publish better? James M. Zumel Dumlao and I show the answers are "yes": osf.io/preprints/soca… 1/5

Oh no, where are people going to find memes to make fun of autistic people while pretending they’re our allies and are totally just taking a shot at a poor depiction of autism and not mocking actual autistic traits in the process now?

The LingComm grants are running again in 2024! We have (at least) two $500USD grants for communicating linguistics to wider audiences. Please share with colleagues, friends and students if they have a pop linguistics project that needs some support! lingcomm.org/grants/

Our study found even strong supporters of social model of disability supported some interventions teaching adaptive skills & curing depression & epilepsy. Neurodiversity movement support was associated w/ desiring societal reform. environmental supports 👇researchgate.net/publication/37…

Frontiers missed a huge opportunity to say that the paper was #RATRACTED

Are you kidding now?

You know rights, services, research+ are in danger when historic adversaries release a joint statement by leading autism advocacy orgs. Eugenic rhetoric & policy need to be eradicated, not autism. Baseless conspiracy peddlers are toxifying the environment. autisticadvocacy.org/2025/04/leadin…

For day 5 of the Critical Neurodiversity Studies Conference takeover, Eleonora Marocchini, PhD reflects on the dominance of autism in cross-neurotype communication research and discourse and asks: does does "neurodivergent communication" actually exist? thepolyphony.org/2025/06/27/neu…

NEW PAPER (ish - I'm also just delayed) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/27… Using Q Methodology, a Group of Neurodivergent Neurodiversity Researchers Ask: What is the Neurodiversity Movement and what should it do?