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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 3h

How can the hormone oxytocin have such a wide range of effects on physiology and behavior, which is often context-dependent? In our new review, we discuss this context dependency at the level of the oxytocin receptor www.frontiersin.org/journals/neu...

Schematic of oxytocin receptor (OXTR) signaling in a cell, from receptor activation at the membrane through calcium and MAPK pathways to gene transcription, with side panels summarizing cellular outcomes, factors that bias signaling, and behavioral effects.

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 8h

I've had two recent instances where journals keep making vague requests to make changes to submitted manuscripts. I do my best to make the change, but they still tell me there's an issue. I ask for more specific info regarding the request, but the manuscript keeps getting returned to me with no info

Six-panel meme from The Simpsons ("Homer at the Bat"). Mr. Burns repeatedly orders baseball player Don Mattingly to get rid of his sideburns, though Mattingly has none. Mattingly shaves the sides of his head bare, and Burns then kicks him off the team for not trimming his sideburns.

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Michel Nivard @michelnivard.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I had an early view of this as part of Greta Gerdes external thesis proposal advisory (don’t believe she is on here…), but no other involvement, it’s one of the most exciting findings on psychiatric genetics, due to both the genetics ANd The phenotyping. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

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A founder population reveals genetic variation with major effect on serious mental illness

Genetic studies of serious mental illness (SMI, including schizophrenia and bipolar disorder) have implicated two classes of risk variant: common variants[1][1]–[3][2], each of small effect but collec...

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Without actually sending your scripts/data to other people, it can be hard to ensure others can easily use your materials. This looks like a great solution. Another cool feature is that users can also tweak scripts to see how conclusions can change when different parameters are used.

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Marie Eikemo @marieeikemo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Thrilled to see our new paper out in Cell Reports Medicine 🎉 @cp-cellrepmed.bsky.social We measured wellbeing and other subjective effects of three opioids administered to patients on the surgery table minutes before anesthesia 💉 ⬇️

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A big congrats to Dr. @aisartorius.bsky.social, who just successfully defended her doctoral thesis on deciphering the oxytocin signaling pathway 🍾

Six smiling people pose in a lecture hall, with Alina holding a bouquet of flowers at the center

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moin syed @syeducation.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

New paper! Despite qualitative researchers claiming that generalizability is not a goal, their published work does indeed contain generalizable claims. We document this and provide recommendations for how all researchers can better calibrate their generalizability claims. doi.org/10.1177/2515...

article header for, "Qualitative Researchers Can and Do Generalize: Generalizability Claims in Qualitative Psychological Research". Metascience!

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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Issue 63 of #rdmweekly is out! 📬 ➡️ @datadryad.bsky.social Gives Researchers due CRediT ➡️ Shared Research Materials in Psychology are Widely Downloaded but Often Difficult to Reuse @dsquintana.bsky.social ➡️ Intro to Vibe Coding in R & RStudio and more! rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...

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RDM Weekly - Issue 063

A weekly roundup of Research Data Management resources.

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Did a double-take when I read this in my inbox, but it turns out the preview cut off the word “anxiety”

Screenshot of email: McGraw Hill
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Let's get rid of research methods and stats...

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Nick DeVito @ndevito1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I make this point all the time. Open science isn't for vanity. We never know who will need/want what until it is needed/wanted! And when that time comes, we'll all be happy it's there.

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Is it worth putting in all the effort needed to make your materials open if there’s a chance that no one will download them? I still think so, for two reasons:

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Check how reusable your OSF materials are with my new app, which is part of my latest preprint. Plug in up to ten OSF repo links, and you’ll get a brief report + tips for fixing issues ⬇️

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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 Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I can't be the only one that keeps mixing up 'Zotero' and 'Zenodo', right?

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Matt Grainger @drmattg.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Meta-analysts ask researchers to share reusable data, but are we leading by example? Great work by @shreyadimri.bsky.social, @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social & more. Of 81 meta-analyses, 68% shared data, only 15% shared code, and none reported a risk-of-bias assessment. ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

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Meta-analysts must lead by example and embrace all FAIR principles

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Amanda Kay Montoya @akmontoya.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Curious about Zenodo as an OSF Project alternative? Here's a short video to get you started: File Uploads, Communities, and generating links for Anonymous Peer Review. youtu.be/jW84PxuJTMw

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Getting Started with Zenodo (transitioning from OSF Projects)

YouTube video by AMANDA MONTOYA

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

One thing I'm trying to get better at is being faster at saying 'no' to invitations (when I can't do the thing) because I know how much a fast 'no' helps me when I am the one inviting people

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I made a solar eclipse viewer for the kids, who considerably improved it

A solar eclipse viewer made out of cardboard. It’s full of stickers

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

One of the most important features of open materials is that they’re *persistent*. I’ve lost count how many times I haven’t been able to access stuff that was deposited in non-persistent venues. This would been a tough call but understandable to help ensure that materials live on

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Congrats to Joakim Ebeltoft, who successfully defended his PhD today. It was a pleasure to Chair the defence and to learn about all exceptional work he’s done over the past few years

Joakim is standing to the right and I’m standing to the left at the front of him a lecture hall

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I just rebuilt my website using Quarto 🎉 My publication list generates itself from my Zotero library, and papers include links to materials and OA versions. The website's first post is on how to build your own, featuring an app that does all the coding for you: dsquintana.com/posts/quarto...

Screenshot of the Publications page, introducing the Behavioral Neuroendocrinology Lab and noting that preprints and materials are linked where available. Under a "2026" heading, five publication entries are listed with full citations (authors, year, title, journal, DOI links), each tagged with badges like "Data & code," "Preprint," or "Open access article."

Screenshot of the Talks page, noting that slides are posted on OSF. Under "2026," two talks are listed: "Recalibrating human oxytocin research: from methods to function to theory" (Harvard Interdisciplinary Oxytocin Research Initiative, online) and "Social media for academics" (NMBU, in-person), each with a "Slides" link. Under "2025," three more talks are listed: "Open science intro for psychology master students," "Start-up scholar workshop," and "Synthetic data workshop," all at the University of Oslo, in-person, each with a "Slides" link.

Screenshot of a blog post titled "How to create a simple academic website," tagged "Website" and "Quarto," authored by Daniel S. Quintana and published July 25, 2026. The text explains that the site was built using the Quarto publishing system, describes advantages over his previous R-based approach (easier Zotero-based publication updates, links to open data/code, and open-access versions of paywalled papers), and introduces two methods for readers to build a similar site: cloning the GitHub repo or using a Shiny web app that generates the code with the user's own info.

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I'm redoing my academic website in Quatro. Other than publications and contact info, what's the most useful thing you've seen on someone else's? And what tends to be missing?

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

This summer we went camping around western Norway

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Our department just announced a new Associate Professor position in quantitative research methodology 🇳🇴 One of the favorable qualifications is experience with open science practices + R/Python experience www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

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Associate Professor in Quantitative Research Methodology (302697) | University of Oslo

Job title: Associate Professor in Quantitative Research Methodology (302697), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Tuesday, September 1, 2026

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Wolfgang Viechtbauer @wviechtb.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

In large meta-analyses, standard forest plot can become excessively large. One solution is to group the estimates together within studies. I just added an example to the metafor website illustrating this possibility: www.metafor-project.org/doku.php/plo... #MetaAnalysis #RStats

A forest plot where the effect size estimates within studies are grouped together.

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Just arrived at NMBU to deliver a workshop on social media for academics. These are always lots of fun to do

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

APA: “What if we made it even *harder* for people to read papers in our journals?”

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

WE ARE GOING TO WIN THE WHOLE THING

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Some journals require lay abstracts alongside conventional abstracts. I almost always prefer the lay version because they more clearly describe what was done and what the results mean, which says a lot about how we approach scientific writing

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Every AI-managed Frontiers invitation that is sent to someone to review a paper that’s comically outside their field of expertise is one less person that will consider submitting their work to Frontiers, as this reveals how poorly their paper will be handled

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I did a double-take on this paper title because I didn’t notice it was in mice when reading the first two sentences

Comparing the effects of voluntary and forced exercise along with caffeine supplementation on anxiety behaviors and oxytocin hormone levels in mice with chronic ...
J Ramezani, S Zamani - Sport Physiology, 2026
Objective: The present study aimed to compare the effects of voluntary and forced exercise with caffeine supplementation on anxiety behaviors and oxytocin hormone levels in the brains of chronically stressed mice. Materials and Methods: In this study ...

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Here's an interesting piece on the use of metrics to measure academic performance. We all know that when a measure becomes a target it ceases to be a good measure, but at least metrics distort behavior *visibly* & institutions can choose the ones to reward nicolaijfoss.substack.com/p/coara-and-...

Indeed, the strongest argument for metrics is not that they measure quality perfectly. Of course, they don’t. Their strongest argument is institutional. Metrics externalize judgment in the sense that they make evaluation less dependent on local networks, departmental factions, personal loyalties, intellectual tribes, and the subjective impressions of small committees. Publication records, citation records and even a journal ranking can travel. They provide imperfect but portable evidence visible to everyone involved in the evaluation process.

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

gonna post 100 likely permutations of the World Cup knockout bracket on bsky and then delete all the ones that were wrong after the final and then claim I predicted everything before the tournament to demonstrate p-hacking for my classes next semester

A screenshot of the World Cup knockout bracket bracket with Norway as the winner

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Sam Westwood @samwestwood.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

The programme for the King's Open Research Summer School 2026 is now here! Free, open to everyone, and available both in-person and online. Register: tinyurl.com/3wbx9tmr

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I was really happy to find a link to raw data in paper I was reading, but this is what I found when I clicked on the OSF link. At least it was better than a CSV file with one cell containing the text: "Data available upon reasonable request"

OSF screenshot with the text "No files are available at this time"

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Psychology is in the middle of several overlapping crises—replication, generalisability, theory—but this isn't new. Crisis discussions first appeared in the 1920s (!?). The specific topics have changed but the structure seems kind of similar, maybe we can learn something from this? doi.org/czvw7m

The second half of the 1920s may be called ‘‘the Golden Age’’ of crisis declarations in psychology. The diagnosis became so widespread that in 1926 the then influential Viennese psychologist and philosopher Karl Bühler wrote that ‘‘one can now even read in the newspapers that there is a crisis in psychology’’ (Bühler, 1926, p. 455). A great number of such declarations appeared in articles and even book-length studies coming from quite different schools and traditions in psychology (see contributions by Allesch, Hatfield, Hyman, and Sturm in this volume) and from several countries throughout Europe and from North America, having repercussions, too, for philosophy (Feest, this volume).

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Reminds me of the time I was at a conference in the US and I asked hotel reception the quickest route to walk to a restaurant about 1km away and they seemed stunned I would even suggest walking

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Funnel plots and Egger's regression test measure small-study bias, not publication bias, which is a distinction many meta-analyses get wrong. So I made a screencast on how measure publication bias correctly in JASP and R: youtu.be/XiUj4yP8Nsw

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Trust in science. Expert opinion, context, and open data all help, and in the era of AI, we should aspire to audit trails that confirm data provenance. Key to trust is accountability of researchers, however, and for that we need identity verification. New blog post. openrxiv.org/trust-signal...

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Trust Signals and Accountability - openRxiv

By Richard Sever (Chief Science & Strategy Officer) and Tracy K. Teal (Chief Executive Officer) Progress in science depends on the trustworthiness of research that is shared. Developing signals that i...

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

What do you think is your most under-recognised paper and why should people be paying more attention? Go on, take the chance to toot your own horn 🎺

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

As long as a paper's methods are described *somewhere* I don't think it matters where they are located in a manuscript

Meme using Norman Rockwell's painting "Freedom of Speech" (1943), showing a working-class man standing up to speak at a town meeting while suited men around him look on. Text reads: "IT IS OK TO HAVE METHODS AT THE END OF A MANUSCRIPT / THIS DOES NOT MEAN THAT METHODS ARE LESS IMPORTANT"

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Many people write grant applications assuming their reader is engaged, but the opposite is more likely. Your evaluators are time- and attention-poor, so you should design your application with this in mind. This slide is part of a talk I'm giving today on writing grant applications

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Most autistic students who need accommodations in higher education never get them. In our latest preprint, we describe where the gaps are and what students said about them doi.org/q8js

Infographic comparing higher education dropout rates: 45% of autistic students (n = 218) dropped out of one or more study programmes, compared to 18.6% of non-autistic students without accommodation needs (n = 129). More than 2× the rate. Norwegian survey, N = 457. Deilhaug et al. 2026 preprint.

Bar chart showing the autistic accommodation gap among 218 autistic students: 77.5% reported needing accommodations, 45.9% actually applied (many didn’t know they could), and 41.7% received any. Only 54% of those who needed accommodations received any. Deilhaug et al. 2026 preprint.

Horizontal bar chart of mean agreement scores on a 1–5 scale from 218 autistic students. Top agreement: “I want accommodations tailored to autistic students” (4.7) and “I used a lot of resources on masking” (4.3). Disagreement: “Lecturers understood my needs as an autistic student” (2.6), “I was comfortable disclosing my autism diagnosis” (2.3), “Lecturers and tutors were knowledgeable about autism” (2.1), “Fellow students were knowledgeable about autism” (1.9). Deilhaug et al. 2026 preprint.

Infographic of five strengths autistic students named themselves in open-ended survey responses: Hyperfocus, Analytic skills, Independent thinking, Good memory, Special interests. Based on 218 autistic respondents. Deilhaug et al. 2026 preprint.

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

In our new preprint, we describe the unique needs and experiences of autistic students in higher education osf.io/preprints/ps...

Abstract
Objective
The number of students in higher education with an autism diagnosis has increased steadily over the decades. Acquiring more knowledge about autistic students' experiences and needs is proposed to help educational institutions promoting and developing supports that may mitigate some of the challenges these students face.
Methods
A web-based survey was used to investigate the accommodation access, experiences and needs of autistic students in Norway, as well as their experiences with the social and academic
aspects of student life. To elucidate experiences and needs that are unique to autistic students, data from non-autistic students with and without accommodation needs were collected. Both
current students and former students who completed their studies at a Norwegian university or college after 2010 could participate.
Results
In total, the survey garnered 457 responses. Autistic students express a higher need for academic, social and environmental accommodations, face more obstacles socially, report higher rates of loneliness and experiences of stigma, have higher dropout rates and lower satisfaction scores with both accommodations and the student experience. Special interests
correlated to the field of study, memory, analytic skills and independent thinking and "hyper focus" was highlighted as strengths among many autistic students in their open-ended responses. Sub-group analyses revealed that autistic students faced more challenges if they had co-occurring diagnoses, late age of diagnosis or identified as not being male.
Conclusion
We found that autistic students report unique experiences and support needs. Higher educational institutions are urged to enhance their support frameworks to better address the
needs of autistic students via a more individualised approach, promoting social and academic inclusion and achievement. The accommodations may involve mitigating the challenges autistic students face

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