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Nahime G. Aguirre Mtanous, AM, LCSW @nahime.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Oh, this is for children and for folks using private insurance. California HCBS already pays for adults with I/DDs to receive many different types of evidence-based treatments paid through Medicaid. It seems like this bill expands that access to those with private insurance and children.

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Nahime G. Aguirre Mtanous, AM, LCSW @nahime.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

On a related note, anyone know of any dissemination and implementation scientists in social work? It's for, uh... A friend 😀😀

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Nahime G. Aguirre Mtanous, AM, LCSW @nahime.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I got revisions due in like 3 weeks. I just want to be done with this so I can propose my dissertation already.

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Nahime G. Aguirre Mtanous, AM, LCSW @nahime.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I never updated y'all on this. My LOI got approved and I was invited to apply for the grant.

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Nahime G. Aguirre Mtanous, AM, LCSW @nahime.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

On a completely unrelated note, I’m so thankful my home lab is so great at giving credit to EVERYONE that contributes. No one cares what level of the hierarchy you’re in. So long as you do the work, you can publish as an undergrad, MSW student, postdoc, etc.

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Nahime G. Aguirre Mtanous, AM, LCSW @nahime.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Apparently strictness re authorship has nothing to do with the prestige, total extramural funding, or any of that. Some folks just don’t care about ICMJE guidelines.

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Nahime G. Aguirre Mtanous, AM, LCSW @nahime.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

We are officially at this point in my PhD program. Happy grant season. Please send prayers, egg cleanses, well wishes, and happy thoughts my way.

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Nahime G. Aguirre Mtanous, AM, LCSW @nahime.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

My written comprehensive/prelim exam is due in 2 weeks. I'm happy to be done with the bulk of writing (at <50 pages!!), but now I'm having to just focus on editing, editing, and more editing. When is a draft no longer a draft? When it is due. 😵‍💫

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skáld @danglinghemmie.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

this is going to be my week I can feel it

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Bub 🏳️‍🌈 🐈 @bubotomy.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Evergreen:

don't make me tap the sign meme

if you don't want people to celebrate your death, don't be a shitty person while you're alive

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Nahime G. Aguirre Mtanous, AM, LCSW @nahime.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

This is exactly what I am complaining about: “The past several years of research have taught us that autistic people are more likely to die from suicide than non-autistic people.3–5” The statistics behind citations 3-5 are commonly misunderstood. Autistic people have more suicidality, not deaths.

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Nahime G. Aguirre Mtanous, AM, LCSW @nahime.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Okay, I'm not doing this anymore. I'm tired of having to explain to people that autistic people are not completing suicide at higher rates than allistic people. We have higher rates of suicidality, not suicide. We have worse mental health, but we are not dying en masse from suicide. PLEASE.

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Nahime G. Aguirre Mtanous, AM, LCSW @nahime.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I had to explain who Druski and Erika Kirk were to my husband recently. I’m sure a third person pov of that conversation would be hilarious to watch.

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Nahime G. Aguirre Mtanous, AM, LCSW @nahime.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Churned out 13 pages’ worth of writing for my PhD qualifying exam after working for the past four hours straight

Taylor Swift performing at the piano with her mouth open, the caption stating: “[screaming]”

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Steven Kapp @drstevenkapp.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

There, the I-ACC has many ABA proponents but they may be aware of harms of the practice. ABA receipt is related to hospitalization: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41206741/ and autistic people report trauma (www.emerald.com/aia/article/...) and abuse (journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...). 5/

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Mental health outcomes associated with applied behavior analysis in a US national sample of privately insured autistic youth - PubMed

Applied behavior analysis is a widely used intervention for autistic youth, though its mental health impacts remain under-researched. This study aims to investigate the association between applied beh...

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Stacy Kess: the revolution will be accessible. @stacykess.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

If today left you feeling kinda shitty because, ya know, the world is a crappy place and things are terrible, I am sending you a very gentle hug. (Because that’s what aunties do.)

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Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) @autisticadvocacy.org · 18/06/2026

Today, June 18th, is Autistic Pride Day. Happy Autistic Pride Day from all of us at the Autistic Self Advocacy Network! Nothing about us, without us!

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🔥The Phantom Pyromancer🔥| Artist, Voice Actor, & Geek @officialphanpyro.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Hapoy Autistic Pride day to my fellow Autistic folks~~~! ♾️🩷❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🧸👾🎮🕹️♟️🎴🧑‍💻🎳🀄️🧩⛳️🎾🎯🏀🏈⚽️⚾️🏐🎱♥️♠️♦️♣️🎬🎞️📺📸🎥💻📹🎨🧑‍🎨👩‍🎤🖌️🎶🎼🎵🎤🎧🎸🥁🎹🎺🎻🎷🪉🪗🪈🪇🪕🪘🎭👺👹🧛🏻‍♂️🐲✍️🎟️💫🫆🧙‍♂️

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Nahime G. Aguirre Mtanous, AM, LCSW @nahime.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

My gesticulation tendencies when I present in front of audiences are so funny; they make for the best conference photos. Thanks to the UW-Madison IDS for letting me discuss findings related to psychosocial interventions for autistic adults!

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Neurotypicality is stored in the foreskin

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Michelle Dawson @autismcrisis.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Social support & QoL in autistics aged 40 & older--"getting more initial practical support was linked to lower overall QoL 2 years later"? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... "baseline QoL is more strongly predictive of later subjective social support than baseline social support is of later QoL"?

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Nahime G. Aguirre Mtanous, AM, LCSW @nahime.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

To this day, I still say that your panel was the most fun one I’d been on at a conference. From those questions, our team realized just how explicit we had to be when describing the null and significant findings in our study.

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 05/05/2026

@ejwillingham.bsky.social shoots down recent claims of an "autism overdiagnosis," and explains why what we really need is a tent big enough to accommodate and support all autistic people. In this week's TPGA newsletter. Share and subscribe if you can! tinyurl.com/BiggerTentTPGA #neurodiversity

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Nahime G. Aguirre Mtanous, AM, LCSW @nahime.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

For other #actuallyautistic folks, do y’all do non-suicidal self harm by forcing sensory dysregulation? Like, other people might see me just listening to really, really loud music but I’m actually hearing sensitive so it’s just hurting me.

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Selecting an effect size for power analysis is hard. Many researchers fall back on Cohen's thresholds, but they have no empirical basis and vary wildly by field. Our new paper offers a better option: field-specific effect size distributions built from meta-analytic data doi.org/10.3758/s134...

Abstract
Effect sizes are useful for understanding the magnitude of study results and for planning new studies via power analysis.
However, despite their wide usage, effect sizes are often misinterpreted. This is mostly due to an over-reliance on general
effect size benchmarks that were not intended for broad application across diverse research fields. Inaccurate effect size
interpretations can lead to incorrect conclusions about the magnitude of study results and incorrect sample size estimates,
thereby increasing the likelihood of false-positive results. This article introduces the ESDist R package, which is designed
to calculate empirically derived effect-size benchmarks or a range of reliably detectable empirical effect sizes for a specific
research question or field of interest by computing effect size distributions (ESDs). This package can be used on data that
can be easily extracted from pre-existing meta-analyses to help researchers more accurately plan new studies or to better
understand how an individual study might relate to other studies in their field. ESDist includes a set of features that make it
easy to use in a priori power analysis. Moreover, the package includes a feature for estimating effect size benchmarks that
account for publication bias and are weighted by effect sizes' variances, which addresses existing limitations of using ESDs
for study planning or interpretation.

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Nahime G. Aguirre Mtanous, AM, LCSW @nahime.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

I just want their arguments to be air-tight so that in the real world no one can poke holes in them. I've seen so many truly amazing colleagues lose out on pay raises and achievements because of the same problem and I don't want that to happen again.

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Nahime G. Aguirre Mtanous, AM, LCSW @nahime.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugggggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

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Nahime G. Aguirre Mtanous, AM, LCSW @nahime.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

A classmate of mine just defended their dissertation and I'm so emotional for them. Like, they did that. They finished this.

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 23/04/2026

Mandell: Families with autistic children have an average 28% decrease in household income, mostly due to lack of services and supports that then force families to take on those responsibilities themselves. So what kind of services can help? What kinds of research can affect policy? #INSAR2026

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Nahime G. Aguirre Mtanous, AM, LCSW @nahime.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Since a few people have asked, I'm not at #INSAR2026 this year. I'm in the middle of writing my prelim/comprehensive/qualifying exam. ✌️🥺 Take pictures, please!

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 23/04/2026

Now: Dr. David Mandell, a very thoughtful man who has been attending INSAR since he was a "baby researcher" in 2002, the 2nd conference. He's talking about what we can learn from policy and services research and implementation research, and how these two branches inform each other. #INSAR2026

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Brian Irvine @brianirvine.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Keynote at #INSAR2026 with David Mendell. “How to prepare communities of care” Service research: Descriptive and implementative; a ‘mutt’ girl that borrows from economics and systems.

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Nahime G. Aguirre Mtanous, AM, LCSW @nahime.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

like, with a whole license and npi number to prove it. what a world.

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Nahime G. Aguirre Mtanous, AM, LCSW @nahime.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Crazy to think I'm an independently licensed therapist now.

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Nahime G. Aguirre Mtanous, AM, LCSW @nahime.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

"This relationship has not been explored in the literature," they say, despite replicating my exact paper that they reference in the methods section.

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Nahime G. Aguirre Mtanous, AM, LCSW @nahime.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

✨ I PASSED THE LCSW CLINICAL EXAM! ✨ I somehow thought studying for this at the same time as completing my PhD prelim was a good idea. Thank you to everyone who helped me learn all my clinical and case management skills. I'll be taking this as a memento of the past 10 years of work and study.

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Nahime G. Aguirre Mtanous, AM, LCSW @nahime.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

A researcher from La Trobe's Olga Tennison Centre cited me and I'm over the moon. I am part of the conversation! Science is happening!

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Nahime G. Aguirre Mtanous, AM, LCSW @nahime.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Nobody talk to me for the next 24 hours. I have to calculate effect sizes for 193 outcomes by Thursday morning.

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Annie Heffernan @annieheff.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

I'm so glad (/s) that the NYT didn't think to consult any disability studies scholars on this but instead sought out...Steven Pinker, a linguistic psychologist who doesn't have much experience with disability but does have more than a glancing familiarity with Epstein.

nytimes.com

What’s Driving the Spike in College Students with Disabilities

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 21/02/2026

A lesson about networks that I’m kind of proud of: at the beginning of the year, I gave my 200 students a dumb survey: fav books, foods, etc. I told them they could use pseudonyms and that I’d share their responses with the class. We’ve been using that data in various ways: to make points about +

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Nahime G. Aguirre Mtanous, AM, LCSW @nahime.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Diva, don't put your job interview invitations on your public work calendar. You're not supposed to do that.

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Nahime G. Aguirre Mtanous, AM, LCSW @nahime.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Sometimes you end the week worn down by the world. But sometimes, you end the week with an absolutely amazing research study visit that makes it all feel worth it. I love working with autistic adults.

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Nahime G. Aguirre Mtanous, AM, LCSW @nahime.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

They want to see a whole proposal. This would be fine if it were not the exact same project proposal from August.

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Nahime G. Aguirre Mtanous, AM, LCSW @nahime.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

I am not at all regulated for how busy tomorrow is going to be, but we ball.

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