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Sara McHaffie

@saramch.bsky.social
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Researcher - autistic women, public sociology, creative methods

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Ann Memmott @annmemmott.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
www.nature.com/articles/s41... A big, well funded team tries to sort autistic people into four invented categories, based on 7 other invented categories. Based e.g. on past research that doesn't say what they allege it says. No inclusion of autistic people, discussion of ethics, human rights, etc.
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Decomposition of phenotypic heterogeneity in autism reveals underlying genetic programs - Nature Genetics
Classes of autism are uncovered with a generative mixture modeling approach leveraging matched phenotypic and genetic data from a large cohort, revealing different genetic programs underlying their ph...
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Sara Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Help our show get traction so we can keep making it! You can do that by liking the video, commenting on it, sharing it with other autistic people / in your fave autism groups &, obv, watching it on a loop for the next fortnight! Every little helps us get it in front of our audience 😻
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Samantha Friedman @safriedman.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
I'm thrilled that this paper is finally out - besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/.... I think it's my favourite piece of work so far, and I'm so thankful to my co-authors @saramch.bsky.social and @annastenning.bsky.social for the brilliant insights they contributed.
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