Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Tbf, I've lived and witness how white male academics do this all the time after having "inspiring chats" with people with less senior positions and no one ever has been fired. But yes, all this can make it even worse. 020
Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 23/09/2026La BBC diciendo que los desahucios muestran el "housing shortage" en España. Hay que joderse. 011
Reposted by Carmen Rosas-PérezTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026Reading 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.” 6723199
Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Hola, a veces eso cuenta para posibles indemnizaciones, así que sí, sigue llamando. Quizás alguien de juristas-ruidos.org te pueda asesorar, porque la situación es de denuncia formal. El móvil puede reducir el volumen de los bajos al grabar y al reproducir. Que lo escuchen con auriculares al menos. 010
Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The spectrogram of a couple of audio cuts 000
Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Sharing 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/...soundcloud.comOwls in a summer nightRecording 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 120
Reposted by Carmen Rosas-PérezFergus Murray @oolong.co.uk · 30/08/2026There 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...gr0ve.orgOnline Interest & Peer Groups for Autistic Children & Young PeopleGROVE 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. 1125
Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 29/08/2026I mean that they've tried to get their institutions to make the improvements, with no much cost and with evidence of the need, but no luck even if the spaces were objectively bad under any acoustics guideline for education. It's still seen a nice thing to have rather than a basic even in classrooms! 010
Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Thank you! And I hope it helps somehow. I've been in contact with some people who have tried to improve lectures rooms and other spaces, and the responses they got were... interesting. If you want, let me know about any progress. :) 110
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.😊❤️ 110
Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Thanks so much to the participants, and to my supervisors Laurent Galbrun, Mary Stewart and Sarah Payne. And to the people at the University of Malaga who encouraged me to pursue a PhD (I didn't even know what that was) after returning to uni to complete my bachelor's and master's degrees in my 30s. 000
Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 28/08/2026There’s a lot we can do with the solutions we know to improve acoustic environments and the well-being of those most impacted by them, but, at the same time, there are pervasive barriers and resistance to change that go beyond financial arguments. This is the biggest challenge imo. 100
Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 28/08/2026It is unfortunate that there's still a need to “prove” the negative impacts. That, by default, people who need it most are not believed. That changes and accommodations are denied for all kinds of bizarre reasons. And that all this has big additional tolls on people in the short and long term. 100
Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I also wanted to focus on lives experiences in real environments with real situations, contexts, and stresses, difficult to replicate in labs. It's not easy to not “hide” these factors under analyses, but I've presented the data sometimes quite “raw” on purpose to also show the diversity existent. 100
Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 28/08/2026These were the starting point of the project after my experiences in industry and research (and life), as presented here www.researchgate.net/publication/...researchgate.net(PDF) Human diversity in acoustics. Towards a more inclusive sound environmentPDF | The study of human responses to sound generally recognises the great importance of taking into account the diversity existent in sounds and... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ... 100
Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 28/08/2026It also argues for some considerations for the design of auditory scenarios and interpretation of experimental and field data, and for the need of the inclusion of higher diversity in participants in acoustics and soundscape research (beyond young students with "normal hearing"). 100
Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 28/08/2026The discussion has a section relating some of the themes on repercussions of becoming a "sore point" when needing changes with quotes from Sara Ahmed's ‘Complaint!’, also prompted by the quite widespread view that people "just need to ask". disablingacoustics.wordpress.com/general-disc... 100
Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 28/08/2026This listener is expected to perceive and respond to sound in pre-determined ways, and, as a consequence, different perceptions and responses are considered “divergent”, "too sensitive", or not possible at all. The design of the acoustic environment is centered around this inexistent average person. 101
Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 28/08/2026The general discussion includes notes on common assumptions and normativity in acoustics research and practice. This is presented as the fabrication of the “Vitruvian listener”, referring to the historical construction of a single model of listener. disablingacoustics.wordpress.com/general-disc...disablingacoustics.wordpress.com8. General discussion and implications“Disability is a mismatched interaction between the features of a person’s body and the features of the environment in which they live.” World Health Organization, World Report on Disability … 100
Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 28/08/2026It also includes the development of an Acoustical Inclusivity Assessment tool (AcoustInA), and results of its use in 21 spaces by 13 experts. There's also a model of the noise sensitivity impact cycle, with a feedback effect due to exposure and more. disablingacoustics.wordpress.com/model-noise-...disablingacoustics.wordpress.com6. A proposed conceptual model: Noise sensitivity impact cycleThis chapter presents a conceptual model for the impact cycle of noise sensitivity, highlighting the main impacts on people’s lives and well-being, as well as a feedback effect of these impacts on … 101
Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 28/08/2026It has the results of interviews with 12 autistic people, and a survey with 311 noise sensitive participants (59% neurodivergent, 44% with hearing differences). Questions on habituation, coping strategies, preferred environments and measures, experiences requesting changes/adjustments (not great...) 100
Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 28/08/2026My 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.comdisablingacoustics.wordpress.comDisabling AcousticsImpact of daily life acoustic environments on neurodivergent, auraldivergent and noise sensitive people. [Doctoral thesis by Carmen Rosas-Pérez] 3167
Reposted by Carmen Rosas-PérezFT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are. 100268206331
Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 25/08/2026"There's not enough evidence yet but just trust me" doesn't seem to work when it's about workers' or citizens' health, well-being, reduction of pollution and emissions, building environment quality, etc. 020
Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 25/08/2026To 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? 100
Reposted by Carmen Rosas-PérezOlivia 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/nbuttondown.comThe Tragedy of Mediocre Minds Weaponizing "Intellectual Freedom"Scratch a bigot and what do you find? More layers of bigotry. 15015
Reposted by Carmen Rosas-PérezRachel Malik @rachelmalik.bsky.social · 25/08/2026So don’t build it. And yes we do have a choicetheguardian.comTwo planned datacentres will have higher UK carbon emissions than ExxonMobil, analysis findsExclusive: Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire sites predicted to emit 4.5m tonnes a year when fully running 09932
Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Y zonas de juego donde tampoco se pueda jugar al balón, para que así pueda ser de otros usos, mayormente para niñas y muchachas adolescentes. Hay ya muchos estudios en varios países señalando cómo el espacio público y de juego va excluyendo a mucha gente por priorizar el fútbol. 040
Reposted by Carmen Rosas-PérezTarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 23/08/2026A 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/superiorangelasaini.co.ukAngela Saini | Award-winning Science Journalist and AuthorThe website of British independent science journalist, author and broadcaster, Angela Saini. Her most recent book is Superior: The Return of Race Science. 424189
Reposted by Carmen Rosas-Pérez👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 17/08/2026Academia and its millennia long history would not exist without autism and adhd send skeet 26770127
Reposted by Carmen Rosas-PérezKristen Bottema-Beutel @kbottemabeutel.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Ah 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." 093
Reposted by Carmen Rosas-PérezTanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 15/08/2026White 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 . 11158521559
Reposted by Carmen Rosas-PérezNanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Crickets 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. 011545
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 03714
Reposted by Carmen Rosas-PérezOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 15/08/2026Watch this short clip to the end to understand what level (maximum) of white supremacy we're dealing with here. 1/n 24772251
Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 12/08/2026El colador ha triunfado con los niños, jaja. Es verdad que los cambios de luz y de sonidos de pájaros y hasta las chicharras es de las cosas más especiales y que no se pueden captar igual de ninguna forma, y eso también está guay. :) 010
Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Si quieres tienes invitación a la Sierra de Cádiz ☺️ Así ha sido el atardecer en el pueblo 120
Reposted by Carmen Rosas-PérezPepa 🌚 @almanefelibata.bsky.social · 21/07/2026'La sobremesa' Antonio Barahona 👨🏻🎨 317221
Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Tengo uno, te lo dejo pa tu estantería con mis cosas ✨ 000
Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Cucha, que las llaves de mi piso las tienes 💁🏻♀️ 110
Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 31/05/2026I will share the thesis as soon as it's available. I mostly finished it for the participants, but I don't know if I'll have the motivation to get any more publications out. I also feel something really needs to be done with the exploitative publication system. 010
Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 31/05/2026It'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 :( 110
Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Some of them are more purple than others, with a bit of blue, yes, but maybe not that much? And they are smol. There's one that ran out of ink and it's 🤩 140
Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Ohh I'm at a friend's place and there are the same or very similar, small and smelling so good! 182
Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Brave works quite well too, also on the phone. Chrome literally melted the graphic card of my laptop a few years ago and I stopped giving it more chances. 010
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...thetimes.comDitch the ear defenders: head equips autistic girls for real lifeSarah 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 020
Reposted by Carmen Rosas-PérezThe Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 23/04/2026Six-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.thedailytism.com“Spoiled” autistic child would rather not be in constant sensory hellAn “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… 522752
Reposted by Carmen Rosas-PérezPhilip Oldfield @sustainabletall.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Horrific. And a reminder that access to decent housing is a public health issue www.theguardian.com/society/2026... 12411