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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 · 28/09/2026
Tbf, 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.
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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 · 13/09/2026
Hola, 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.
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Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The spectrogram of a couple of audio cuts
Spectrogram showing sound frequencies of Otus scops, Athene noctua, Strix aluco, and crickets, labeled and distinguished by unique frequency patterns.
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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 · 29/08/2026
I 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!
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Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Thank 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. :)
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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
Thanks 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.
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Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
There’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.
“Creating more habitable worlds would therefore mean seeking ways to honour ways of inhabiting, taking stock of what territories imply and create as ways of being, as ways of doing. This is what I ask of researchers.”

Vinciane Despret, in ‘Living as a bird: Ways of doing and thinking about territories’ (2021)
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Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
It 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.
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Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I 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.
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Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
These were the starting point of the project after my experiences in industry and research (and life), as presented here www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) Human diversity in acoustics. Towards a more inclusive sound environment
PDF | 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 ...
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Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
It 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").
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Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The 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...
“When you try to fit a norm that is not shaped to fit your body, you create an incongruity; you become an incongruity.” 
“Asking for accommodations is framed not only as causing inconvenience to others but as being what you cause: an inconvenience.” 
(Ahmed, 2021)
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Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This 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.
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Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The 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...
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8. 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 …
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Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
It 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-...
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6. A proposed conceptual model: Noise sensitivity impact cycle
This 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 …
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Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
It 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...)
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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
"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.
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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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Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Y 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.
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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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Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
El 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. :)
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Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Si quieres tienes invitación a la Sierra de Cádiz ☺️ Así ha sido el atardecer en el pueblo
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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 · 17/07/2026
Y con esa mantequilla más
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Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Tengo uno, te lo dejo pa tu estantería con mis cosas ✨
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Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Cucha, que las llaves de mi piso las tienes 💁🏻‍♀️
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Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
I 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.
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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 · 22/05/2026
Same, tráeme una
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Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Some 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 🤩
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Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Ohh I'm at a friend's place and there are the same or very similar, small and smelling so good!
Several purple roses surrounded by green leaves A purple rose surrounded by green leaves
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Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Brave 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.
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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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