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Rachael Davis
@drrachaeldavis.bsky.social
Developmental psychologist & senior lecturer.
Mostly talking about neurodivergence, education, cognition, bilingualism.
Editor @journalautism.bsky.social
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Just discovered this neurodivergent bookshop - very cool!

And not just because it has our forthcoming book on neurodiversity-affirmative classrooms on their front page...

@drrachaeldavis.bsky.social @claruineill.bsky.social

makessensetome.co.uk
MAKES SENSE TO ME | The Neurodivergent Bookshop
Discover the world’s first neurodiversity-specialist bookshop! This disabled-led ND community offers books on ADHD, Autism, Dyslexia, Tourette’s & Mental Health. Resources for neurodiversity at work, ...
makessensetome.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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#CRAEwebinar #archive
Supporting Autistic University Students: Policy and Practice with Felicity Sedgewick (3-Oct-24)
Supporting Autistic University Students: Policy and Practice with Felicity Sedgewick (3-Oct-24)
#CRAEwebinar 3rd Oct 2024
www.youtube.com
October 21, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Great to see the findings from this much-needed project out today, and to be able to work with these wonderful folks! @agatataga.bsky.social, @mindtheflap.bsky.social @drhollyjoseph.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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📣 New #Phantasia research website ✨

Our Eye's Mind research team has a brand new website, after our move from Exeter to Edinburgh Uni

On the menu:
- Our past/current #aphantasia & #hyperphantasia research
- Our #Outreach / #SciCom work
& more!
> medicine-vet-medicine.ed.ac.uk/eyes-mind

#MindsEye
Eye's Mind | College of Medicine and Vet Medicine
This is the homepage of our Eye's Mind website at the University of Edinburgh. Our research group studies the extremes of visual imagination, how they shape people's life, and their role in our cultur...
medicine-vet-medicine.ed.ac.uk
October 8, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Join us 🗓️ DEADLINE THIS THU 2 Oct! Last call for applications for two exciting & fun positions in the Birmingham BabyLab to work on multisensory development in term-born and preterm infancy w Andy Bremner, Monica Gori, and Andy Surtees. Please repost:
👉 lnkd.in/gczD5EwX (postdoc)
👉 lnkd.in/ga92z3sM
LinkedIn
This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn
lnkd.in
September 29, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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‪Thank you to #AECongress2025 for the chance to present our (w @drrachaeldavis.bsky.social) work on the #Autism & #Bilingualism Hub autism-bilingualism.com
TY to all who came to chat after the talk,
& those who came by our #gender/ #masking/ #mentalhealth poster!

(spot the subtle 🍉🇵🇸 support)
September 16, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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NEW PAPER (ish - I'm also just delayed) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Using Q Methodology, a Group of Neurodivergent Neurodiversity Researchers Ask: What is the Neurodiversity Movement and what should it do?
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journals.sagepub.com
July 30, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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Time to re-share this piece I made a year ago today about neurodiversity and neurodivergence, and why the important distinctions between them is not about grammar/linguistics.
#Neurodiversity is a vital concept, and understanding the difference between neurodiverse and neurodivergent is much more important than just splitting hairs over linguistics. I made a comic explainer.

Higher quality images & questions for reflection here:
medium.com/@sonnyhallet...
July 14, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Chapter accepted in Neurodivergent Education and Lifelong Learning - being published this summer

Edited by @keatesresearch.bsky.social and @krysiawally.bsky.social

Info: linktr.ee/NeurodivergentBook2025
July 3, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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There is a growing push to make research data 'open' (i.e., not just stored by the original research team, for no one else to use). In our new study, we examined the views of autistic adults and parents of autistic children on this issue. Results suggest a cautious, nuanced approach is needed...
New preprint: Open data in autism research: the views of autistic people and parents of autistic children

osf.io/preprints/me...

Led by @hannahhobson.bsky.social w/ @dramypearson.bsky.social Audrey Linden @cmanning.bsky.social @fsedgewick.bsky.social @lauramaycrane.bsky.social

#AutRes #OpenSci
OSF
osf.io
July 3, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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V cool finding showing autistic people are not so dependent on synchrony to feel positive about an interaction (without showing less synchrony overall compared with non-autistic pairs)

Also the first ever registered report published in @journalautism.bsky.social !!
March 2, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Still (just) time to submit!
If anyone hasn't seen this, here is our critical neurodiversity studies conference call for abstracts.

"We will focus on scholarship that synthesises a concern for neurodivergent liberation with other critical traditions and liberation movements globally."

medhumsplatform.org/call-for-abs...
Call for Abstracts: Critical Neurodiversity Studies, 24–26 June 2025, Durham, UK
Submissions for Critical Neurodiversity Studies: Directions/Intersections/Contradictions close 28 February 2025.
medhumsplatform.org
February 28, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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New studies on how rapport differs between autistic & non-autistic ppl suggest having other autistic interactants is more important for autistics' ease, enjoyment: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/..., & social-motor synchrony is more important for non-autistics: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
journals.sagepub.com
February 25, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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I started Weird Pride Day in 2021, but the roots of pride as a political tool go back through decades of the LGBTQ liberation movement, to Black power in the 1960s.

Weird Pride in particular is a concept that many people, from a variety of backgrounds, have arrived at independently.
History - Weird Pride Day
by Fergus Murray Weird Pride Day started in 2021, but its roots go back a long way before that. The use of pride as a political tool originated in the movement for Black liberation in the 1960s. It wa...
weirdpride.day
February 24, 2025 at 10:08 AM