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Beck Todd

@beckety.bsky.social
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Cognitive neuroscience, affect and cognition, participatory sensemaking through food and dance

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Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health (DMCBH) @dmcbrainhealth.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Welcome to episode 2 of Neuroscience in Film! @danipalombo.bsky.social had the chance to binge the two Inside Out movies with her kids and decided to share her insights with us. First up: are memories actually emotionally coloured like they are in the films? Stay tuned for Part 2!
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Neuroscience in Film: Inside Out
YouTube video by Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health
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Beck Todd @beckety.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
At long last, I’ve just publisehd a new substack post on the sublime intersubjective art of clowning and the art of training attention attention to “the we-ness between us.” open.substack.com/pub/becketto...
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Clowns
Architects of interbeing space
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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
**How do we make long-lasting emotional memories** Looks very interesting. #neuroskyence www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Beck Todd @beckety.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Preserving a Lifetime of Visionary Work open.substack.com/pub/oceanark...
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Preserving a Lifetime of Visionary Work
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Beck Todd @beckety.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
In Stories for Healing Earth the odyssey, “An Open Pickup on the High Seas,” continues. In which my father, John Todd, escapes with his life by sail only to encounter a sea serpent. And over the years hunts down the scientific explanation behind the mythical beast. open.substack.com/pub/oceanark...
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An Ocean Pickup on the High Seas
Part 2: The Sea Serpent
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Beck Todd @beckety.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
New preprint of a theoretical paper with @evanthompson.bsky.social. We discuss using information theoretic approaches to test the role of emergent interaction dynamics hypothesized by #ParticipatorySensemaking on attention and agency — using dance improv as a laboratory: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Evan Thompson @evanthompson.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
The Third Entity: Participatory Sense-Making, Agency, and Attentional Dynamics osf.io/preprints/ps... New paper by @beckety.bsky.social and yours truly.
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Matthew Broberg-Moffitt (any/all) @mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
I’m an Autistic classically trained chef and I wrote a food aversion acceptance cookbook and guide titled COLOR TASTE TEXTURE, that’s all about finding out what works for specific sensory needs and how to customize food for them. It’s useful for all ages, no cooking experience necessary.
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Color Taste Texture by Matthew Broberg-Moffitt: 9780593538593 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
An accessible family cookbook that offers solutions rather than tricks to empower the food-averse, autistic, and picky eater, with 46 recipes. This much-needed cookbook combines tips and techniques.....
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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Depression may impair avoidance of aversive events, and aversive events may increase depression. Here is one of the possible depressive loops. "Depression levels are associated with reduced capacity to learn to actively avoid aversive events in young adults." www.eneuro.org/content/earl...
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Depression levels are associated with reduced capacity to learn to actively avoid aversive events in young adults
Depression and anxiety are often characterized by altered reward-seeking and avoidance, respectively. Yet less is known about the relationship between depressive symptoms and specific avoidance behavi...
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SfN Journals @sfnjournals.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
New in #eNeuro from Tomm et al: The more depressive symptoms a person has, the more they struggle with learning to actively avoid unpleasant stimuli. @ubcpsych.bsky.social‬ doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0034-25.2025
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Beck Todd @beckety.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
I should also be sure to say that wrt building on @dr-stan.bsky.social's lab’s rodent research I should acknowledge that the direct inspiration came from some of the PhD research carried out by @ppiantad.bsky.social!
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Beck Todd @beckety.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
1. Media coverage of a new paper by @ryantomm.bsky.social w @brandonforys.com, @dr-stan.bsky.social et al. Building on Stan’s rodent work, Ryan found that > depression levels were associated w reduced capacity to learn to actively button-press to avoid a nasty sound www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
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Depression Curbs Ability to Actively Avoid Unpleasant Events
Depression in young patients is linked to difficulty in taking action to avoid something unpleasant, while the ability to withdraw and not act remains intact.
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Beck Todd @beckety.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
I just published a new substack on death and loss and radical hope when meaning as we know it slips from under our feet: open.substack.com/pub/becketto...
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Death, Grief, and Radical Hope
Crepe myrtle’s confetti of flowers.
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Beck Todd @beckety.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
My mother, Nancy Jack Todd, died May 30. This substack note is my first of many articulations of a personal tribute to her. substack.com/@beckettodd/...
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Rebecca Todd on Substack
This note is a first tribute to my mother, Nancy Jack Todd, who died peacefully at home in the evening of May 30, in sunlight, with John and her grandson Max holding her hands. Other obituaries and t...
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Evan Thompson @evanthompson.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
My mother-in-law, the inestimable Nancy Jack Todd, has left us. Here's a piece about her by her daughter and my partner, @beckety.bsky.social substack.com/@beckettodd/...
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Rebecca Todd on Substack
This note is a first tribute to my mother, Nancy Jack Todd, who died peacefully at home in the evening of May 30, in sunlight, with John and her grandson Max holding her hands. Other obituaries and t...
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Evan Thompson @evanthompson.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
@beckety.bsky.social in dialogue with Yuri Celidwen and Gregoire Lamoureux: Participatory Sensemaking with the More than Human World open.substack.com/pub/becketto...
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Participatory Sensemaking with the More than Human World
Notice the texture of the lands where you are.
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Beck Todd @beckety.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Here I interview two of my heroes, Yuria Celidwen and Gregoire Lamoureux, who articulate and foster our enmeshed relationship with the more than human world. We need what they are offering so desperately, I'm excited to amplify their words and actions here: open.substack.com/pub/becketto...
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Participatory Sensemaking with the More than Human World
Notice the texture of the lands where you are.
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Beck Todd @beckety.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
New Love and Philosophy podcast from @lovephilosophy.substack.com with me, aerial dancer/philosopher Shay Welch & "frequency barista" penijean gracefire on complexity fatigue & the "third entity" - the interactive process that takes on a life of its own lovephilosophy.substack.com/p/complexity...
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Complexity Fatigue & the 3rd Entity
Listen now | are we making any sense together in this world?
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Blake Richards @tyrellturing.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
This is a letter calling on Canadian federal party leaders asking them to make a historic investment in Canadian research sovereignty. If you're a Canadian researcher please sign it! CC @mark-carney.bsky.social @jagmeetsingh.ca 🍁 🧪 www.linkedin.com/posts/dylanm...
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National Letter | Dylan MacKay
If you are a researcher in Canada (professor, postdoc, graduate student, librarian, technician, clinician scientist, research associate, director, manager, person with lived or living experience, etc)...
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Awais Aftab @awaisaftab.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
A review of Conversations in Critical Psychiatry in the journal Cognitive Neuropsychiatry www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... "an engaging and accessible account of the state of the art, through the words of some of the leading figures involved in mapping the psychiatric territory."
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Conversations in critical psychiatry
Published in Cognitive Neuropsychiatry (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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Manuela Piazza @manpiazza.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
🧠 Are you completing a PhD in neuroscience or psychology and seek a competitive postdoc abroad? Join my lab at CIMeC as a Marie Curie Fellow. We study abstract concept from newborns to adult using fMRI, EEG & more. Reach out for ideas! Call opens May 8, 2025. 🔗https://r.unitn.it/en/cimec/per2con
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WinstanleyLab @unidentifieditem.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Here's the link to the piece @liisagalea.bsky.social and I wrote for The Tyee on the threats to medical research funding buried in the Conservative party platform 😬
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 10/04/2025
If elected, Poilievre’s government will “put an end to the imposition of woke ideology in the federal civil service and federal funds for university research.” The phrase is almost identical to wording used by the Trump administration. Catharine Winstanley and @liisagalea.bsky.social write.
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By Attacking Science, Poilievre Takes a Page from Trump’s Playbook | The Tyee
Professors find this chilling and warn of the costs.
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Beck Todd @beckety.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Wonderful new piece by Steve Rose on my dad John Todd’s always-visionary work in ecological restoration and design, from the New alchemy Institute in the 1970s to today's vision of a fleet of sailing ships to clean up polluted coastal waters open.substack.com/pub/oceanark...
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'YODA' FOR SCIENTISTS: A NEW ARTICLE FROM THE GUARDIAN
‘Yoda’ for scientists: the outsider ecologist whose ideas from the 80s just might fix our future' by Steve Rose
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Mara Mather @maramather.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
My paper reviewing how different neurodegenerative diseases affect autonomic function was just published.
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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
𝗕𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀: 𝗧𝗼𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗔𝗱𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘅𝗶𝘁𝘆 How can network science tackle complex biological systems? Substantially reworked version Largely conceptual, would be happy to see others fill in details or collaborate if people find it of value osf.io/preprints/os... #complexity
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Neil Cohn @neilcohn.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
I'm now searching for new PhD students who are interested in studying how people's brains understand sequences of images like in comics. So, a mix of comics, cogneuro (EEG), and psycholinguistics (especially syntax/semantics). Please circulate to all who might be interested! tiu.nu/22739
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Job opening: Two PhD positions for the neurocognition of the grammar of visual narratives (22739)
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Beck Todd @beckety.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
New substack post on holding people in personhood when they are in danger of losing it in the eyes of the world — with artscientists Stefanie Blain-Moraes, Naomi Askenaizi Ariane Boulet.  open.substack.com/pub/becketto... in Personhood open.substack.com/pub/becketto...
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Holding in Personhood
Oh, the days, they waste away, like an unplayed game.
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Beck Todd @beckety.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
I just published a new substack post focusing on "holding in personhood." Stefanie Blain-Moraes, Naomi Askenazi, & Ariane Boulet describe their work using dance, music, and technology to hold people in relationship when communication channels are restricted: open.substack.com/pub/becketto...
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Holding in Personhood
Oh, the days, they waste away, like an unplayed game.
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Beck Todd @beckety.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
I just spent an 8 hour drive listening to Andrea Hiott's Love and Philosophy podcast. It's now officially my favorite podcast --fascinating conversations that get to the heart of what matters. Recommend! www.youtube.com/@waymaking23 @lovephilosophy.substack.com
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Love & Philosophy
Love is the answer. Philosophy is the practice. Paradox is the portal. Connecting head and ❤️ with Andrea Hiott. Research conversations beyond usual bounds, not always easy. Bringing together the pat...
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Kobe Desender @kobedesender.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
PhD position in cognitive computational neuroscience! Join us, & investigate how we can endow domain-specific models of vision (eg DNNs) with domain-general processes such as metacognition or working memory. All details => www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... #PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence
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PhD position in cognitive computational neuroscience
PhD position in cognitive computational neuroscience
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Beck Todd @beckety.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
A mix of both success stories and concrete suggestions for solutions to tackle as yet unresolved issues, Todd's narrative provides an important addition to the conversation about specific ways we can address the planetary crisis.
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Beck Todd @beckety.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
...using windmills and injections of bacteria to restore the health of a polluted New England pond, working with community members in a South African village to protect an important river.
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Beck Todd @beckety.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
The book chronicles ecological interventions he has created over the course of his career. Each chapter offers a workable engineering solution to an existing environmental problem: healing the aftermath of mountain-top removal and valley-fill coal mining in Appalachia...
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Beck Todd @beckety.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
A stand-out from the sea of despairing messages about climate change, well-known sustainability elder John Todd, who has taught, mentored, and inspired such well-known names in the field as Janine Benyus, Bill McKibben, and Paul Hawken.
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Beck Todd @beckety.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Just posted! My dad, ecological designer John Todd reading from his book, Healing Earth: Chap 3, Part 1 open.substack.com/pub/oceanark... Part 2 of Chap 3 can be found here: open.substack.com/pub/oceanark... Need to start with chap 1? Here it is! open.substack.com/pub/oceanark...
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Healing Earth Chap 3 Part 1
Part 1 of 2
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Beck Todd @beckety.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
@brandonforys.com !
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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
It's all motor cortex. Robust encoding of stimulus–response mapping by neurons in visual cortex doi.org/10.1073/pnas... #neuroscience
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Emily Prevost @emilyprevost.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
New preprint! We untangle glutamatergic and dopaminergic subpopulations in the ventral tegmental area. Long thread incoming, buckle up friends. 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Untangling dopamine and glutamate in the ventral tegmental area
Ventral tegmental area (VTA) dopamine neurons are of great interest for their central roles in motivation, learning, and psychiatric disorders. While hypotheses of VTA dopamine neuron function posit a...
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Evan Thompson @evanthompson.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
"One of the central themes in theories of participatory sensemaking is communicating across difference. And there is a lot of difference. From the level of the senses on up. More, even, than we tend to think there is." by @beckety.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/becketto...
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A Multiplicity of Worlds
and some ways to communicate across the divides
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Beck Todd @beckety.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
I just published a new substack piece with Naila Kuhlmann, @penijean.bsky.social, & @neuroyogacara.bsky.social on multiple levels of sensory/perceptual/attentional/cultural difference that separate all of us, &their thoughts about how to communicate across them: open.substack.com/pub/becketto...
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A Multiplicity of Worlds
How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table.
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Ola Demkowicz @olademk.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
NEW PAPER: How do we advance mixed methods in mental health research? doi.org/10.1136/bmjm... Mixed methods are widely recognised as valuable in mental health research, but aren’t as embedded as we’d hope and there are a lot of challenges that individual researchers and teams must navigate… 1/
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Advancing mixed methods in mental health research
In the mental health research field, there is a need for effective and robust methodological approaches that are able to address complexity. In this article, we reassert the importance of mixed method...
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Joao Barbosa @jbarbosa.org · 19/02/2025
please retweet this ad for a tenured-research position in fMRI at ultra-high. Join us!
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Beck Todd @beckety.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
@brandonforys.com @twoodward.bsky.social @ninetlab.bsky.social
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Daniel S. Kluger @danlikesbrains.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
If you're looking for a neuroscience postdoc position, please consider applying - fantastic city, very welcoming community, and a PI who is both highly knowledgeable and very fun to work with as a person. Strongly recommended!
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Evan Thompson @evanthompson.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
"Can a book be ahead of its time by 50 years?! The answer is a definitive ‘yes’ in the case of this phenomenal book by Francisco Varela. A real gem of a book about the philosophical foundations of biology and so much more." - Luiz Pessoa @pessoabrain.bsky.social mitpress.mit.edu/978026255140...
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Principles of Biological Autonomy
Francisco Varela’s Principles of Biological Autonomy was a groundbreaking text when it was first published in 1979, putting forth a novel theory of how...
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@ninetlab.bsky.social
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Beck Todd @beckety.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
2) ...As well as the social and political implications of their thinking.
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Beck Todd @beckety.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
New post in which @participha.bsky.social and Ezekiel Di Paolo talk about the experiences and thinkers that influenced their concept of participatory sensemaking and how their ideas are evolving. What is Participatory Sensemaking and Why Should We Care? open.substack.com/pub/becketto...
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What is Participatory Sensemaking and Why Should We Care?
Tracing its Roots in Systems Thinking, Neurodivergence, and Marxist Theory
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Autistic Science Person @autsciperson.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Here are some examples of why a lot of autistic people can't tell what is pain - it's because we're taught to ignore are sensory sensitivities *which are actually painful* It's as if we are experiencing a chronic pain condition. autisticscienceperson.com/2021/03/29/a...
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Autistic Sensory Pain and the Medical Consequences
I want to talk about the physical health of autistic people and how the gaslighting of our sensory sensitivities teaches us to ignore our pain – whether it be physical or sensory. There are m…
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