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Carmen Rosas-Pérez

@diffusefield.bsky.social
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Acoustics engineer. PhD researcher in inclusive acoustic environments, neurodiversity and auraldiversity. Differences aren't the problem. Me so' capita io. Autistic. She/her. diffusefield.com

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Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
La BBC diciendo que los desahucios muestran el "housing shortage" en España. Hay que joderse.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026
Reading proofs from book & remembering what I wrote in 2015: "I am very concerned about the future of AI. Not because of the risk of rogue machines taking over. But because of the homogeneous, one-dimensional group of men who are currently involved in advancing the technology.”
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Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Sharing some of the recordings of owls and crickets I made last week so other fans of nocturnal sounds can enjoy them. A scops owl ended up flying close over my head and I could record it (min 1:51) but also see it, so I was audibly in awe! ❤️ soundcloud.com/carmenrosas/...
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Owls in a summer night
Recording of three different species of owls during a summer night from a countryside house in south Spain. The first part with a couple of scops owls (Otus scops, o autillos) replying to each other i
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Fergus Murray @oolong.co.uk · 30/08/2026
There is currently some space in the weekly science group I run for Autistic teenagers (usually in the UK) with @gr0ve.bsky.social. We basically chat for an hour about interesting science! I probably also have space for one or two more science tutees in my own time... www.gr0ve.org/online-inter...
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Online Interest & Peer Groups for Autistic Children & Young People
GROVE offers online interest‑based peer groups for Autistic children and teens to connect over shared interests, build friendships and feel understood in a neuro‑affirming, Autistic-led space.
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Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
@bonorcafante.bsky.social Hola! Esta cita te la debo a ti, que creo que hablaste del libro en Twitter hace un tiempo y mi nerdismo pajaril fue a comprar el libro y qué bien, porque me encantó. Así que muchas gracias.😊❤️
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Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
My doctoral thesis is now online! 📕 "Disabling Acoustics: Impact of daily life acoustic environments on neurodivergent, auraldivergent and noise sensitive people" www.researchgate.net/publication/... I've created a site for those who prefer an HTML version: disablingacoustics.wordpress.com
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Disabling Acoustics
Impact of daily life acoustic environments on neurodivergent, auraldivergent and noise sensitive people. [Doctoral thesis by Carmen Rosas-Pérez]
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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.
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Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
To convince any organisation to make an investment on anything really you need a +100 pages report with the evidence on how it's going to be cost-effective and also bring profits. Does anyone knows if this has been done for AI anywhere?
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 25/08/2026
> They seem either to have followed their worst reflexive instincts or to not have cared about what that evidence clearly shows. That is the opposite of scholarship and intellectual rigor, and it is shameful. But at least they are telling us who they are. buttondown.com/TPGA/archive... 12/n
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The Tragedy of Mediocre Minds Weaponizing "Intellectual Freedom"
Scratch a bigot and what do you find? More layers of bigotry.
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Rachel Malik @rachelmalik.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
So don’t build it. And yes we do have a choice
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Two planned datacentres will have higher UK carbon emissions than ExxonMobil, analysis finds
Exclusive: Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire sites predicted to emit 4.5m tonnes a year when fully running
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
A good moment to recommend Angela Saini‘s Superior, which traces back the history of “race science” and shows the institutions that sustain this pseudo-research until today. These pursuits have nothing in common with the principles of academic inquiry www.angelasaini.co.uk/superior
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Angela Saini | Award-winning Science Journalist and Author
The website of British independent science journalist, author and broadcaster, Angela Saini. Her most recent book is Superior: The Return of Race Science.
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 17/08/2026
Academia and its millennia long history would not exist without autism and adhd send skeet
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Kristen Bottema-Beutel @kbottemabeutel.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Ah yes, Steven Pinker, who once wrote "Together with robots and chimpanzees, people with autism remind us that cultural learning is possible only because neurologically normal people have innate equipment to accomplish it."
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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
White professor ‘ MattGPT ‘ whose most recent book contained fabricated quotations, non-existent source references, & left ChatGPT URLs accidentally embedded in footnotes is sad about Jason Arday’s death but still wants Arday & all black academia held to higher standards than his own writing .
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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Crickets when 4000 academic jobs a year are being lost in the UK and entire campuses are being shut down because of lack of funding and the secondary effects of Brexit but plenty of ink to hound a man to an early death. Despicable behaviour from the British press.
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Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
"Jason Arday's research explains exactly what happened to Jason Arday." "He already wrote what happened to him. It's peer reviewed" - @alltimeisaac.bsky.social
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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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Pepa 🌚 @almanefelibata.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
'La sobremesa' Antonio Barahona 👨🏻‍🎨
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Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
It's been two months since I passed my viva. The experiences that I have accumulated in my side of academia have been such that I have had no excitement about the event or about sharing it, just a wish that all is over as soon as possible. It's so absurd it has to be like this for so many of us :(
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Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
“It is OK to feel uncomfortable. In fact, quite a lot of your life is uncomfortable as an adult, so removing uncomfortable feelings in childhood is unhelpful." Don't know where to start. www.thetimes.com/article/e636...
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Ditch the ear defenders: head equips autistic girls for real life
Sarah Wild, who leads Britain’s only autistic girls’ school, says mainstream teachers should make fewer adjustments and tell children it’s OK to feel uncomfortable
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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 23/04/2026
Six-year-old Mary Walker, who flies into inexplicable rages when everything in her immediate environment goes bleepy bloopy bleep blorp, has reportedly been called “a spoiled brat” by helpful well-wishers.
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“Spoiled” autistic child would rather not be in constant sensory hell
An “overly pampered” autistic child would prefer to not feel like everything is perpetually flashing, screeching and smacking her directly in the brain, sources have confirmed.  Six-year-old Mary…
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Philip Oldfield @sustainabletall.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Horrific. And a reminder that access to decent housing is a public health issue www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
@jasonhickel.bsky.social Hola, Jason. :) Ayer escuché una entrevisa a un escritor que hace comentarios críticos hacia "los decrecentistas" en su último libro, a mi parecer usando falacias y una retórica cuestionable. Por si quieres escucharlo, a partir del min 45 y antes www.rtve.es/play/audios/...
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Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Same for auraldiversity, for which some people may find it easier to see that actually not many people have what could be consider "typical hearing" or auditory perception. And yet, we keep mostly only considering that group in sound related products, environments, events, etc.
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Fergus Murray @oolong.co.uk · 12/04/2026
One of the stranger objections I see to the idea of neurodiversity (or neurodivergence) is that it implies most people are actually neurotypical. No! It started as a reaction against the idea that the majority are normal, while outliers are wrong and disordered. It's founded on rejecting that.
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Kristen Bottema-Beutel @kbottemabeutel.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Question for AI haters who are also academics: How do you navigate co-authorship situations, where you don’t want to be involved in manuscripts where an author is using AI? Do you have explicit discussions with potential co-authors? How do these go?
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Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
3rd night without being able to sleep much at the "prestige" student accommodation I've paid in Edinburgh. If anyone knows of a place where to stay without constant loud noises all night and day, please let me know. 🙏
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Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Edinburgh is looking gorgeous these days. Visiting for seminars and the viva! 🙂
The old city centre of Edinburgh behind Princess gardens, with nice clouds in the sky.Statue of James Watt at the entrance of Heriot-Watt University, and with more nice clouds.
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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.myatproto.social · 18/03/2026
Haven’t seen the Theroux documentary yet, but what’s described here of the approach sounds a lot like the clips of the Doge bros’ depositions that have been going around this week.
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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Yes, believe women. But men need to start speaking up about other men's bad behavior in ways that are startlingly unusual katemanne.substack.com/p/one-weird-...
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One Weird Trick for Being a Better Man
When a man is with other men, why does he lose his moral compass so reliably?
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Mood for 2026, (the artist is Ainsley Drew, on Instagram)
A very simply drawn cartoon of a very round and green smiling frog squatting down and holding a ouija board. The background is blue and the text reads ‘fuck ChatGPT. I’m asking ghosts’
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Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
'The many impacts of inadequate acoustic environments on neurodivergent and noise sensitive people.' Please to share this guest post summarising part of the results of the studies done for my PhD thesis, focused on lived experiences and real everyday spaces. www.acousticbulletin.com/the-many-imp...
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Impacts of inadequate acoustic spaces on neurodivergent people
This post summarises the research done by Carmen Rosas-Pérez for her PhD Thesis ‘Disabling Acoustics: Impact of daily-life acoustic environments on neurodivergent, auraldivergent and noise sensitive p...
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Philip Oldfield @sustainabletall.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Paris is refurbishing car parks to create new social housing This site was consumed by a 3-storey concrete car park. This has been partially demolished, and partially converted, creating a new green courtyard and 80 social housing apartments. By NZI Architects
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
"I got my PhD by writing prompts instead of doing research, I'm winning" got some bad news, there still no jobs and now you also know nothing
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Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Spring: when I finally have the energy to work, but the world gets too beautiful to work. :_)
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Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
He also says the future belongs to "the neurodivergent". Just not to neurodivergent women I guess. In fact, the future is looking quite hostile for us. :/
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
This feels like MORE WORK FOR MOTHER by Ruth Schwartz Cowan, which explored the irony that many of the technical advances in housework and the kitchen did nothing to ease the burden on women but instead increased it.
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Developmental Psychology in Education @dpie-uoe.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
⭐ Fully-Funded ESRC PhD Opportunity ⭐ @katiecebula.bsky.social is recruiting for a PhD studentship: quant analysis of admin data to explore the social inequality & child/family factors which might be associated over time with neurodivergent young people’s school attendance. Deadline: 24th March
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Neurodivergent students’ access to education: the role of social inequalities, child and family factors. - Scottish Graduate School of Social Science
About the project In Scotland 1 in 5 children are neurodivergent (e.g. autistic/with ADHD) and nearly 1 in 4 live in poverty. Many neurodivergent children and those living in poverty experience diffic...
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Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
“Telling all these perpetually-anxious Lola Young fans to kick rocks is going to help us refocus research funding on my favourite kind of autistics: the ones I can talk over.” 👀
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Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
In one study of my PhD, 311 noise sensitive participants (32% over 45 y/o, 59% neurodivergent) replied to questions on lived experiences. 69% of autistic and all ND participants, and 61% of neurotypicals, reported that their sensitivity increased with age. www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Bar chart titled “Change in sensitivity with age,” comparing responses from three groups: Autistic, Neurodivergent, and Neurotypical adults. For the statement “My sensitivity to sound has decreased with age,” very small percentages are shown: Autistic 3%, Neurodivergent 4%, Neurotypical 5%. For “My sensitivity to sound has not changed with age,” the values are Autistic 28%, Neurodivergent 26%, Neurotypical 33%. For “My sensitivity to sound has increased with age,” the majority in each group report an increase: Autistic 69%, Neurodivergent 69%, Neurotypical 61%.
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Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
On Uta Frith's comment re "little scientific grounding" for using ear protection/headphones: It's 2026 and the evidence missing is on them not helping with distress and performance, or increasing sound sensitivity, as many say too. I wrote about that here diffusefield.com/letter-habit...
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Open letter to schools: On habituation to noise and not allowing ear protection
NOTE: I’ve written this letter prompted by testimonials on social media about schools in the UK not allowing children, including autistic children, to wear ear defenders anymore if they request it,...
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 11/03/2026
None of them can talk coherently about strategy or goals but they are completely in sync in all their macho posturing because that is all they’re really focused on. Everything else is just whatever limply offered fiction is convenient to them at the time.
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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
My extra radical far loony left position is that no one should ever be allowed to make a profit from academic publishing. It is a public good. See also: education, healthcare (on a good day, public transport…)
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Nina Danon @ninadanon.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
New conference poster 🙂 Submit your abstracts for the Neurodivergent Music Studies Conference here: theneurodivergentmusicnetwork.weebly.com/2026-virtual... #AutRes #MusicResearch #CallForPapers #AcademicSky #Neurodivergent #Music
Text reads: "Neurodivergent Music Studies Conference. June 26th & July 1st, Virtual. Music and neurodivergence. Interdisciplinary welcome. Explore the interconnection between music and neurodivergence. Questions? Contact the Neurodivergent Music Network at neurodivergentmusicnetwork@gmail.com". A QR code welcoming participants to scan is available. The top depicts logos for The Neurodivergent Music Network, UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council, and CHASE Networks.
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Leo Murray @crisortunity.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Remembering my dear, radical mother Dinah on #internationalwomensday. She took @fergus.oolong.co.uk & I to Greenham Common when we were tiny to support the women there, where my first memory of the police was watching them drag a peacefully-resisting woman across the road by her hair
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Dinah Murray obituary
Champion of autistic people who explored the attention that they devote to a leading interest
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Fergus Murray @oolong.co.uk · 07/03/2026
A pioneer, in the sense of someone who did seminal (but questionable) work several decades ago, is asking us to ignore most of the work that's been done since she was last relevant. Autistic people are asking you to think critically about this.
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Jyrki Kuoppala @jyrki.atticus.network · 06/03/2026
Autismitietoisuusaika lähestyy, oletko valmis? "Awareness efforts present us as a problem to be solved, and yesterday. Awareness operates in stereotypes and soundbites, not real people. Awareness has no substance; it is but a tool to earn more money to fix us and to promote yet more awareness."
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Acceptance vs. Awareness - Autistic Self Advocacy Network
by Kassiane S.I often say awareness is the No Child Left Behind of advocacy. It's a start, but  no means a finishing point we should be satisfied with. It is not until people understand and acceot tha...
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Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
In case someone needs to see this right now (I know I do)
Picture of the fluffy, white paws of a cat standing on a wooden desk next to my keyboard and mouse.
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Young Six Enjoyer @youngsixenjoyer.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
I highly recommend giving this short article a read. By framing fascism as a psychological or cognitive aberration, not only do we uphold neuronormative structures, but we also fail to see how fascism is a response to challenges to ruling class power in a state of crisis and decay.
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 26/02/2026
perplexity doing this also manages to erase human women computers yet again LMAO what fucking clowns if you need to see what and why, see: olivia.science/ai/#pygmalion; full pdf here: doi.org/10.31235/osf...
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