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Eleonora Marocchini, PhD

@marocchini.bsky.social
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🔎 Psycholinguist in autism (empathy & pragmatics), with a thing for STS ♾️ Independent researcher at IGDORE | Critical ND Studies Fellow at IMH, Durham Uni 🎤 Freelancer in SciComm as @narraction | Author of “Neurodivergente” 🌈 neuroqueer | they/she

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Eleonora Marocchini, PhD @marocchini.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Tomorrow, I’ll present at #INSAR2026 a participatory study on autistic and ADHD adults’ quality of life, cognitive and emotional representation of their condition, and neurodiversity movement identification. This wouldn’t have been possibile if INSAR did not grant me an Award. Grateful and hopeful!
Thursday 23 April, 2 to 3 pm, Forum Hall at Level 2. Authors: Eleonora Marocchini, Sara Beomonte Zobel, Alessandro Germani
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Eleonora Marocchini, PhD @marocchini.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Lately I’ve been so disheartened that I forgot to share here that my piece on “Reframing Social Communication through the Double Empathy lens” was published in The Double Empathy Reader, curated by Damian Milton - we’ll present it online today, here 👇🏼 #autism #DoubleEmpathy #pragmatics
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The Double Empathy Workshop Series (4th Workshop
Join us for the fourth in our series of online workshops showcasing presentations related to chapters from the Double Empathy Reader
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Eleonora Marocchini, PhD @marocchini.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
As I leave @durhamimh.bsky.social, my contribution to the Critical ND Studies takeover comes out. It’s a brief version of my talk: an attempt to speak about actually neurodivergent communication (and not just autistic communication). Thank you again @ndhumanities.bsky.social for the support 🌱
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Eleonora Marocchini, PhD @marocchini.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
After a PhD in Cognitive Science, I find it particularly funny (and telling of how far I got from where I started) that the 1st panel I ever chaired was about “The Social Beyond Normativity” at the Critical Neurodiversity Studies Conference. Thanks @ndhumanities.bsky.social for making this happen!
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Giulia Ganugi @giuliaganugi.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Potentially more inclusive practices that academia could partially incorporate as co-created care reframing participation and social justice as priorities over traditional academic values of fast and objective scientific production. New open access paper written with @marocchini.bsky.social
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Peter Lang Verlag - Fostering Socially Just Care in Digital Communities: The Case of Two Alternative Academic Spaces
The orientation of collective care is barely present within the current academic system, which perpetuates the idea of individualistic care, dismissing ...
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Eleonora Marocchini, PhD @marocchini.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Honored to share that I have been awarded a Critical Neurodiversity Fellowship and that I will attend the Conference in @durhamuniversity.bsky.social! Thank you @louisecreechan.bsky.social, @drrobertchapman.bsky.social, @ndhumanities.bsky.social and all the people involved in the conference. [1/3]
Critical Neurodiversity Studies Conference 2025: Directions, Intersections, Contradictions. 24-26 June 2025, Durham University, UK and online
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Christina Nicolaidis, MD, MPH @cnicolaidis.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
When autism researchers from all sorts of disciplines, paradigms, methodologies, politics, and worldviews agree, you know the threats to science and to autistic people have gotten way outside the bounderies of typical scientific debate. www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
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Coalition of Autism Scientists critiques US Department of Health and Human Services Autism Research Initiative
The newly formed Coalition of Autism Scientists (160 members and counting) today issued a statement in response to remarks and actions taken by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Secretary of the U.S. Department...
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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 19/11/2024
2. Here's an image from a presentation I gave to Twitter, representing the Twitter bird freed from a closed platform to fly in Bluesky's open ecosystem.
The last slide of the presentation I gave to Twitter in my proposal for how to build Bluesky.
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Eleonora Marocchini, PhD @marocchini.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
So many new faces, hi! I’m a neurodivergent PhD in Psychology with a background in Linguistics, turned independent researcher and SciCommer. Last published, a focus group study telling me how bad my early work on #ToM in #autism was. You can find it here (and on the OSF): doi.org/10.1111/1460...
Screenshot of the paper “Cross-neurotype communication from an autistic point of view: Insights on autistic Theory of Mind from a focus group study” published on International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders by Eleonora Marocchini and Irene Baldin
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Eleonora Marocchini, PhD @marocchini.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Another great starter pack for anyone interested in #autism - from an #ActuallyAutistic point of view!
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Steve Haroz @steveharoz.com · 18/08/2023
A guide to BlueSky for Scientists * Common questions * Links to resources * An explanation of feeds * A directory of science feeds Please share with scientists on BlueSky! Written by me and @markrubin.bsky.social 🧪 #stats #PsychSciSky #neuroscience
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BlueSky for Scientists
BlueSky for Scientists Authors: Steve Haroz and Mark Rubin URL: http://blueskyscience.steveharoz.com Features you may miss from Twitter or Mastodon As BlueSky is in beta, some features are not impleme...
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Eleonora Marocchini, PhD @marocchini.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I see more people are joining now that X got even worse. For my #autism research mutuals, @lauramaycrane.bsky.social has created this wholesome starter pack to find people and posts you might miss from X. Enjoy! go.bsky.app/B9XV8UA
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Eleonora Marocchini, PhD @marocchini.bsky.social · 18/12/2023
I find it interesting that some psychologists use the argument that #Psychology is a science when confronted on something they said (usually on social media), as if 1) a psychologist is the same entity as Psychology and 2) being a science means being infallible.
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Eleonora Marocchini, PhD @marocchini.bsky.social · 27/11/2023
What I find most interesting in discourse around science and social justice is scientists working in #Psychology and #Psychiatry being distressed at the idea of an “ideology” breaking into science, as if science was ever free from ideological stances. It’s worrying they wouldn’t see it. #PsySky
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Eleonora Marocchini, PhD @marocchini.bsky.social · 12/11/2023
I have 18k followers on IG, where I am out as autistic and known as an autism scholar. Today I got a question on autistic people’s “problem with looking in the eyes”. I answered and followed up with a joke: “I feel like NT people have a problem, why would you need to look in order to listen?” 1/2
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Eleonora Marocchini, PhD @marocchini.bsky.social · 16/10/2023
Looking for #neurodiversity -inspired research on #ADHD and I keep seeing papers citing an editorial where neurodiversity wasn’t even used in its original meaning. Quite discomforting. #Psychology #PsySky #AutRes
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Eleonora Marocchini, PhD @marocchini.bsky.social · 30/09/2023
So apparently we’re doing it all over again here. As a neurodivergent person I have to admit that I find it challenging to have to understand how things works on yet another platform but let’s say we’re doing it for the greater good of science and advocacy I guess
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