Enable dignity. Everywhere should be accessible. The accommodations for natural human variation should be mutual. Accessibility is a collective process.

Every April, the world turns its attention to autism. The posts go up, the slogans circulate, and suddenly everyone is talking about “awareness” again. But if I’m being honest, awareness has never bee...

We are all paying attention to the glory of spring flowers like the pawpaw we looked at yesterday, or the amazing redbuds from last week.

Researchers' false, incomplete, or missing disclosures of conflicts of interest (COIs) can introduce bias into research, can erode public trust in research findings, and represent ethical violations of most academic journal policies. A 2020 study discovered that publications in applied behavior anal …

Developing a high-integrity nature-based carbon sequestration strategy for Oxfordshire

The Map of Monotropic Experiences, created by Helen Edgar of Autistic Realms in collaboration with the Stimpunks Foundation, visually represents 20 common a ...

Healing our broken relationship with nature is the foundation for solving environmental crises

In 2010–2012, a few largely coincidental events led experimental psychologists to realize that their approach to collecting, analyzing, and reporting data made it too easy to publish false-positive fi...

Autistic individuals may not lose skills but instead redirect their monotropic attention toward new interests or areas of development.

Relatively speaking, neuroscience and psychology are young fields of scientific research that only really got going over the last hundred years or so. However, during this time, several stubborn myths have arisen that, zombie-like, just don’t seem to go away. In this episode, we speak to neuroscien

This is a call for early career ME/CFS researchers to conduct a six month research stay at a researc...

After decades of loneliness and depression, Cathleen Caffrey had come to think of herself as a bad person. Then she learned about others who had struggled to fit in …

In this episode of the BEAM podcast, Sean Gammon and Dorota Marsh interview David Jarratt about his research on blue spaces. The positive wellbeing impacts of spending leisure time in and around blue ...