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Dan Poole

@danpoole.bsky.social
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Lecturer in Psychology at University of Sheffield. Research on autism & distraction

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 30/09/2026
> In order to produce cheap soap and undercut competition, he controlled large [parts of] Congo. These were granted to him by King Leopold, with whom he was a close friend. Many Congolese were exploited for use in forced labour which was allowed to continue for many decades before coming to light.
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Autistic Realms (Helen Edgar) @autisticrealms.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Highlighting elements across themes that support the monotropism theory of attention within a lived and embodied subjectivity. Discussing the importance of challenging normative expectations of attention for creating neuroinclusive environments, particularly in the workplace. SUPER WORK!
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Clive is of course correct, and the key thing here is not that Watson has succumbed to temptation: he was a bullshit artist and a crook ten years ago too. This is just what the system looks like when there is no longer any need to pretend these people work for you, not their future employers.
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Tom Watson’s move to Palantir is the latest sign of how far the rot has spread in UK politics | Clive Lewis
When a former Labour deputy leader joins a firm built on surveillance and military targeting, it deepens public cynicism – and democracy depends on trust, says Labour MP Clive Lewis
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Beatrix Butnicu 🦆🪻 @beatrixbird.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Loved working on this paper! We mapped autistic adults’ monotropic attention as an interest-based sanctuary, and how neuronormative settings create barriers. Exploring The Phenomenology of Autistic Attention journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... free read: eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/24...
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Exploring the Phenomenology of Autistic Attention - Daniel Poole, Helen Molloy, Beatrix Butnicu, Elizabeth Milne, Karen Leneh Buckle, 2026
Background: Existing research has identified areas of strength and challenge in relation to autistic attention. However, this work has tended to rely on compari...
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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 22/09/2026
So… we just found out that GPT sol can complete a complex online behavioral/cognitive study producing nearly indistinguishable behavior and subjective reports… right as we are about to launch. Is this doomsday for online cognitive testing?
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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
New preprint! 🎉 I analysed 1660 papers from 4 psychology journals and found materials sharing went from 9% of papers in 2015 to 82% in 2025, and these materials *do* get downloaded — a median of 135 times each. BUT shared code is often hard to run. doi.org/10.31234/osf... Let's walk through it 🧵
Two-panel figure. Panel a is a flow diagram tracking 1,611 empirical psychology articles from publication year (545 in 2015, 552 in 2020, 514 in 2025) to repository-link type: 785 link an OSF project, 85 link another platform, and 741 link no repository. Of those with an OSF link, download counts were retrieved for 670 and not retrieved for 115. Panel b is a line chart of the share of empirical papers linking OSF across 2015, 2020 and 2025. The overall rate, shown as a dashed black line, rises from 9% to 57% to 82%. All four journals rise steeply and end close together: Psychological Science 92%, JESP 89%, JML 83%, Cognition 76%, with Psychological Science highest throughout.Three-panel figure. Panel a: ridgeline plot of downloads per file by material type on a log scale, with the percentage never downloaded labelled for each — archive 16% of 545 files, documents 20% of 2,970, code 12% of 3,471, other 17% of 1,646, data 21% of 10,051, media 35% of 2,120, images 35% of 4,102. Most files cluster between 1 and 10 downloads, with long right tails past 100. Panel b: ridgeline plot of downloads per paper by journal, log scale, with dashed median lines; Psychological Science is highest, then JESP, JML and Cognition. Panel c: stacked bars showing, for documents, data and code separately, the share of papers by download band (0, 1–10, 11–100, more than 100) in 2015, 2020 and 2025. The share exceeding 100 downloads falls sharply over time in all three types, from roughly two-thirds in 2015 to a quarter or less in 2025, as the 1–10 band grows.Four-panel figure. Panel a: statistical languages detected among 333 papers with retrievable code — R 88%, SPSS 12%, Stata 4%, SAS 1%. Panel b: code red flags among those 333 papers — 34% hard-code an absolute path, 40% reference a missing file — above documentation among 672 OSF-linked papers — 21% have a README, 30% are documented by README, description or wiki. Panel c: among 562 Elsevier papers with no repository link, 44% (245) host at least one journal supplementary file but only 14% (77) host data, code or an archive. Panel d: composition of those 448 hosted files — documents 52%, data 21%, media 9%, other 7%, archive 6%, code 3%, images 1%. The code panels are green, the journal-supplement panels blue.Coefficient plot (download predictors)

Dot-and-whisker plot of three standardised predictors of OSF download volume, each with a 95% confidence interval. Repository size (number of files) has the largest effect at about 0.76, citations about 0.38, and altmetric attention about 0.12. All three intervals sit entirely above zero, so each predicts more downloads, with repository size roughly twice the effect of citations and six times that of attention. X-axis: standardised effect, −0.2 to 1.0.
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Dan Poole @danpoole.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Our study of autism community perspectives about Open Data has now been published at @collabrapsychology.bsky.social (🔓) online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art... Participants were generally optimistic about open data to advance autism research and reduced participant burden. But,
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Open Data in Autism Research: The Views of Autistic People and Parents of Autistic Children
Open data has been promoted as a tool to improve the transparency, robustness, and efficiency of scientific research. However, the perspectives of participant communities, particularly those who are m...
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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
New blogpost deevybee.blogspot.com/2026/08/acce... inspired by recent depressing experience as a peer reviewer. AI-generated #fraud is getting very hard to detect. #peerreview
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Acceleration of the arms race between fraudsters and honest researchers
I was recently asked to review a paper that piqued my curiosity. From the abstract it sounded as if it was a secondary analysis of a datas...
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Autistic Realms (Helen Edgar) @autisticrealms.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
A public enquiry is desperately needed here. Please consider signing goodlawproject.org/s/533647
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Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 15/08/2026
Watch this short clip to the end to understand what level (maximum) of white supremacy we're dealing with here. 1/n
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Dan Poole @danpoole.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
RIP Jason Arday 🖤, a tragic victim of the national pastime of destroying those who get above their station
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Body Eyes and Movement (BEAM) Lab @beamlab.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
We are looking for autistic people (with and without a diagnosis) for an online study about how people experience and imagine different sounds. If you're interested please contact: stanley.jones@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
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Jenni Adams @jenniad.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I like this idea: mandatory arts and humanities classes for university leaders. No cutting / devastating / de-staffing disciplines without at least a basic understanding of what they do & and how they can enrich our approach to questions like what education is for…
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Dr Hannah Hobson @hannahhobson.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Guest editing a special issue on neurodiversity and primary and community care. Very lucky to be working with Dr Heidi Phillips on this one! Submissions accepted until Feb 2027. We'd love to hear from you if you are interested! journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec...
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Dan Poole @danpoole.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
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Sue Fletcher-Watson @suereviews.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Are you Trans? Autistic? Both? Please tell us about your experience of hiding aspects of your identity and the impact of that on your mental health Online survey study, takes about 15 minutes. edinburgh.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... (replaces previous post with wrong link) #AutRes
This image is a recruitment advertisement for a survey study about autism, gender identity, and masking. It contains images of the trans pride flag, rainbow infinity symbol and a QR code. The text on the advertisement states ‘participate in our survey and tell us about your experience of hiding your identity. To access the survey or learn more about the study please use the QR code below or follow this link. The main researcher for this project is Mark Somerville, a PhD student at the University of Edinburgh. The link provided on the image is in the main post.
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Ian Sudbery @iansudbery.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I am currently locked out of my job at the University of Sheffield, without pay as punishment for missing two teaching sessions while on strike. #ucu #union #strike #UKHE @ucu.org.uk @sheffielducu.bsky.social 🧵1/7
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Kay @gothwhoreofbabylon.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
We are at the mercy of Bridget Phillipson’s ability to notice things and form a credible plan in response. Unfortunately she seems literally uninterested, across her various ministerial roles, in doing anything other than prosecuting a series of vaguely related if basically incoherent culture wars.
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Elizaveta @nellalissy.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Call for participants! I am researching the views of autism community on early support practices. Seeking autistic adults (self-ID or professionally diagnosed) and/or parents of autistic children (<18), UK-based. Estimated completion time: 7-40 minutes. tinyurl.com/earlysupport... Thank you!
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Harriet Cannon @harrietcannon.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
The number of students who tell the OIA they are disabled is up again, to 42%. The themes are always the same: poor implementation of reasonable adjustments, poor communication, lack of accountability, but this time with the addition of poor support for placements share.google/z0FlmRUQ5pa9...
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Annual Report 2025
The Annual Report from the OIA for 2025.
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Autistic Realms (Helen Edgar) @autisticrealms.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
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...
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Dan Poole @danpoole.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
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
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.
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Body Eyes and Movement (BEAM) Lab @beamlab.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
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_...
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
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...
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The problem with Palantir's new neurodivergent fellowship
Critics have accused the company of being technofascist.
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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
“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
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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.
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Lisa Stampnitzky 🤷🏻‍♀️ @lisastampnitzky.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... You can donate to our strike fund here ucu.group.shef.ac.uk/hardship-fund/
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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.
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Ian Sudbery @iansudbery.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Check out this post about our current situation from a colleague at another university. @sheffielducu.bsky.social
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Björn E. Hommel @bjoernhommel.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
🚨 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
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Mark Haselgrove @markhaselgrove.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
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...
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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...
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Laura Crane @lauramaycrane.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
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]
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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 &lsquo;Time to deliver: The Autism Act 2009 and the new autism strategy&rsquo;.&...
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Autistic Realms (Helen Edgar) @autisticrealms.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
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...
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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 ...
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Dan Poole @danpoole.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
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.
Artwork at Burton Street Foundation saying "Everyone has a part to play"
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Autistic Realms (Helen Edgar) @autisticrealms.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
@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!
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14th Autism-Europe International Congress, Dublin, Ireland, 2025 – Autism Europe
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Georgia Harper @mindtheflap.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
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/...
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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...
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Open Research, University of Sheffield @openresshef.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
🔊 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...
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Open Research Manager
Open Research Manager
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Kathy Leadbitter @kathyleadbitter.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
👉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...
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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!
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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Kent and Greenwich merge without consulting unions! #UKHE
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Victoria Newell @victorianewell.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
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! 🙌🏻
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Dan Poole @danpoole.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
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
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"
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Dan Poole @danpoole.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
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!
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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 02/09/2025
“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
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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.
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 29/08/2025
🚨 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
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Jim Grange @jimgrange.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
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...
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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 15/08/2025
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
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Creating and validating standardized R project structures that are psych-DS compliant-ish
Making psychological code and data FAIR is hard, in part because different projects organize their code and data very differently. Sometimes this is for good reasons, such as due to the demands of a g...
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Dan Poole @danpoole.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Useful article on the pressures that disproportionately affect neurodivergent students (and staff) in HE: wonkhe.com/blogs/higher...
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Ben Potts @ben-potts.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
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
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#
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Monique Botha @drmbothapsych.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
PUBLIC LECTURE: My end of @leverhulme.ac.uk fellowship lecture is on the 24th of September! It will be in person at @durhampsych.bsky.social and also streamed online. Tickets are available on Eventbrite. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/centre-for...
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Centre for Neurodiversity and Development Public Lecture
Why autism isn't what you think it is (and why that matters) - end of fellowship Public Lecture by Dr Monique Botha
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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.
Experimentology cover: title and curves for distributions.
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Beatrix Butnicu 🦆🪻 @beatrixbird.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
If you've ever zoned in so hard the world disappeared, this is for you. Check out my accessible presentation on measuring Monotropism @ Cafe Autistique in Manchester, 11 June 2025. youtu.be/tz2XpO1tg0Y?...
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Monotropism @ Cafe Autistique 2025 | Beatrix Butnicu
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Dan Poole @danpoole.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
New preprint: Open data in autism research: the views of autistic people and parents of autistic children osf.io/preprints/me... Led by @hannahhobson.bsky.social w/ @dramypearson.bsky.social Audrey Linden @cmanning.bsky.social @fsedgewick.bsky.social @lauramaycrane.bsky.social #AutRes #OpenSci
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