Eleanor Palser
@eleanorpalser.bsky.social
Assistant Professor | We study mental health in neurodevelopmental conditions | Dyspraxic
Help my student Ariana reach her sample size goals by spending ~15 answering some questions about your awareness of time, mental health, and interoception! paloaltou.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
January 22, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Help my student Ariana reach her sample size goals by spending ~15 answering some questions about your awareness of time, mental health, and interoception! paloaltou.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Female scientists have to wait longer for their articles to be reviewed than their male colleagues. An analysis of 36.5 million papers in the life sciences shows that for females it took 115 days to reach a decision, compared to 101 days for men journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... @plosbiology.org
January 22, 2026 at 8:43 AM
Female scientists have to wait longer for their articles to be reviewed than their male colleagues. An analysis of 36.5 million papers in the life sciences shows that for females it took 115 days to reach a decision, compared to 101 days for men journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... @plosbiology.org
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Any postdocs outside the UK interested in applying for a Marie Curie fellowship with me (sensory processing, decision making, vision), get in touch! Our school of psychology @unibirmingham.bsky.social is offering costs towards a campus visit to give a talk, develop a proposal and attend training!
January 16, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Any postdocs outside the UK interested in applying for a Marie Curie fellowship with me (sensory processing, decision making, vision), get in touch! Our school of psychology @unibirmingham.bsky.social is offering costs towards a campus visit to give a talk, develop a proposal and attend training!
It took several late night/early morning meetings, but I’m very happy to see this perspective piece on #Autistic #interoception published. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Interoception in Autism, Pitfalls, and Promise: A Participatory Research Perspective - Eleanor R. Palser, Wenn B. Lawson, Emma Goodall, Elizabeth Pellicano, 2026
Bodily autonomy is essential to Autistic well-being. Interoception supports bodily autonomy through guiding behavior in support of homeostasis. Promoting adapti...
journals.sagepub.com
January 15, 2026 at 5:06 PM
It took several late night/early morning meetings, but I’m very happy to see this perspective piece on #Autistic #interoception published. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Reposted by Eleanor Palser
A growing body of research indicates that Texas's restrictive abortion bans have negatively impacted the health and lives of Texas women and babies in multiple ways. Across the board, pregnancy outcomes and complications have worsened.
What researchers have discovered about maternal, infant health under Texas' abortion laws
In the more than four years since the state of Texas significantly restricted access to abortion, medical researchers have been studying the health effects of that policy change.
medicalxpress.com
December 29, 2025 at 5:12 PM
A growing body of research indicates that Texas's restrictive abortion bans have negatively impacted the health and lives of Texas women and babies in multiple ways. Across the board, pregnancy outcomes and complications have worsened.
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Eliminating requirements for a doctorate, residency, licencing exams,thousands of hours of clinical training, and dropping to a two year unaccredited program. Would we be ok if this happened to physicians? #PsychSky #ClinicalPsychology #Psychology @cmadocs.bsky.social @canadianpsychology.bsky.social
Psychologists rally on Parliament Hill against proposed cuts to training
Psychologists rally on Parliament Hill against proposed cuts to training
Psychologists held a rally on Parliament Hill Saturday to oppose proposed changes to training standards by the Ontario government and the College of Psychologists and Behavior Analysts of Ontario (CPBAO).
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December 9, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Eliminating requirements for a doctorate, residency, licencing exams,thousands of hours of clinical training, and dropping to a two year unaccredited program. Would we be ok if this happened to physicians? #PsychSky #ClinicalPsychology #Psychology @cmadocs.bsky.social @canadianpsychology.bsky.social
We’ve had a great response to our study - thank you! There are just a few spots left. If you’re an Autistic woman or Autistic and gender diverse, we would especially like to hear from you!
📣Participate! 📣 We are recruiting #Autistic adults for our experiences of #interoception study. See the flyer for more info or click the link to complete the 5-min eligibility screener paloaltou.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
November 13, 2025 at 3:34 PM
We’ve had a great response to our study - thank you! There are just a few spots left. If you’re an Autistic woman or Autistic and gender diverse, we would especially like to hear from you!
📣Participate! 📣 We are recruiting #Autistic adults for our experiences of #interoception study. See the flyer for more info or click the link to complete the 5-min eligibility screener paloaltou.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
November 11, 2025 at 6:13 PM
📣Participate! 📣 We are recruiting #Autistic adults for our experiences of #interoception study. See the flyer for more info or click the link to complete the 5-min eligibility screener paloaltou.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
I’m looking for #adjunct instructors for graduate clinical child psychology courses at PAU. For accreditation, you would need to teach in person in Palo Alto. It’s a great way to built teaching experience with a very engaged cohort. Reach out with questions!
October 27, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I’m looking for #adjunct instructors for graduate clinical child psychology courses at PAU. For accreditation, you would need to teach in person in Palo Alto. It’s a great way to built teaching experience with a very engaged cohort. Reach out with questions!
Celebrating completing a (single spaced) 25 page response to reviewers by… reviewing a manuscript.
October 24, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Celebrating completing a (single spaced) 25 page response to reviewers by… reviewing a manuscript.
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Can the human sciences exist w/out the human? Proposals for using AI as human research subjects suggest yes. But @mjcrockett.bsky.social and I respond with, ‘not so fast.’ In fact, silicon subjects say more about the problems of the research paradigm than the promises of AI. 🚨New article, thread 1/
AI Surrogates and illusions of generalizability in cognitive science
Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have generated enthusiasm for using AI simulations of human research participants to generate new know…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 21, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Can the human sciences exist w/out the human? Proposals for using AI as human research subjects suggest yes. But @mjcrockett.bsky.social and I respond with, ‘not so fast.’ In fact, silicon subjects say more about the problems of the research paradigm than the promises of AI. 🚨New article, thread 1/
If any of my students would rather learn from a LLM than me, they are welcome to. I suspect few would pick that option, though.
Wow. Just wow.
"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."
"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."
When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For?
Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do
www.forbes.com
October 17, 2025 at 2:42 AM
If any of my students would rather learn from a LLM than me, they are welcome to. I suspect few would pick that option, though.
I have long complained about the absence of ‘interoception’ from Microsoft Word’s internal dictionary, but today I would also -shockingly- like to highlight the absence of ‘orgasm’. New paper (with many unrecognized words) coming soon.
October 16, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I have long complained about the absence of ‘interoception’ from Microsoft Word’s internal dictionary, but today I would also -shockingly- like to highlight the absence of ‘orgasm’. New paper (with many unrecognized words) coming soon.
There is a long and misguiding history of blaming mothers for autism. Unfortunately these accounts still hold appeal for many despite the science.
ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59
September 22, 2025 at 11:34 PM
There is a long and misguiding history of blaming mothers for autism. Unfortunately these accounts still hold appeal for many despite the science.
Didn’t realize this paper was out: we use dyslexia as a model to demonstrate that the left prefrontal cortex is involved in regulating positive emotion in children, too, as well as adults link.springer.com/article/10.3...
Role of left lateral prefrontal cortex in positive emotion regulation: Insights from dyslexia - Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience
Emotion regulation emerges during childhood and engages prefrontal brain systems. While most developmental studies focus on the neural underpinnings of negative emotion regulation, less is known about...
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September 18, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Didn’t realize this paper was out: we use dyslexia as a model to demonstrate that the left prefrontal cortex is involved in regulating positive emotion in children, too, as well as adults link.springer.com/article/10.3...
Is the emotion #awe the vehicle through which high heart rate variability leads to #creativity? It certainly is in dyslexia! Sharing our latest. Got papers coming out like a British bus schedule at the minute. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Awe proneness links RSA and trait creativity in dyslexia
The parasympathetic nervous system promotes positive emotions, such as awe, that foster creativity. Resting respiratory sinus arrhythmia, a parasympat…
www.sciencedirect.com
August 27, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Is the emotion #awe the vehicle through which high heart rate variability leads to #creativity? It certainly is in dyslexia! Sharing our latest. Got papers coming out like a British bus schedule at the minute. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Congratulations to @belindayzhang.bsky.social on her first first-author publication! Also my first senior-author and our first qualitative foray! #dyslexia #neurodiversity onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
A Sunny Disposition and a Big Heart: Thematic Analysis of Parent‐Reported Socio‐Emotional Strengths in Dyslexia
Children with dyslexia have persistent and well-characterised reading difficulties but may also have less well-known socio-emotional abilities. Socio-emotional abilities in dyslexia could be leverage...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 26, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Congratulations to @belindayzhang.bsky.social on her first first-author publication! Also my first senior-author and our first qualitative foray! #dyslexia #neurodiversity onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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"People agreed strongly that research can play a powerful role in shaping good Autistic lives [but] big changes were needed [e.g.,] researchers should stop thinking about autism narrowly and in a negative way, where Autistic people are seen as the problem."
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‘We have so much to offer’: Community members’ perspectives on autism research - Tori Haar, Charlotte Brownlow, Gabrielle Hall, Melanie Heyworth, Wenn Lawson, Rebecca Poulsen, Tamara Reinisch, Elizabe...
Autism research is on the cusp of significant change. There are mounting calls from Autistic self-advocates, researchers, and other scientists for a paradigm sh...
journals.sagepub.com
August 23, 2025 at 11:15 PM
"People agreed strongly that research can play a powerful role in shaping good Autistic lives [but] big changes were needed [e.g.,] researchers should stop thinking about autism narrowly and in a negative way, where Autistic people are seen as the problem."
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Congratulations to @awallmanjones.bsky.social on her new paper, showing how dynamic changes in facial expression intensity are tied to real-world communication benefits, and are elevated in dyslexia #neurodiversity link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...
Elevated Facial Behavior Variability During Emotions Contributes to Better Functional Communication in Dyslexia
link.springer.com
July 31, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Congratulations to @awallmanjones.bsky.social on her new paper, showing how dynamic changes in facial expression intensity are tied to real-world communication benefits, and are elevated in dyslexia #neurodiversity link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...
Relevant for AI-supported psychotherapy
In this study, @anatperry.bsky.social @desmond-ong.bsky.social et al show that human-attributed responses are rated as more empathic than AI-attributed ones, especially when conveying shared experience and care.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Comparing the value of perceived human versus AI-generated empathy - Nature Human Behaviour
AI mimics empathy well, but does its empathy feel different? The authors show human empathy has unique value: human-attributed responses are rated as more empathic than AI-attributed ones, especially ...
www.nature.com
July 2, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Relevant for AI-supported psychotherapy
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"This was an experiment by a kindergarten class. They dropped seeds in the cracks of the sidewalk to see what would happen.
This would help our bees "
via I Love Bees
This would help our bees "
via I Love Bees
June 7, 2025 at 8:42 AM
"This was an experiment by a kindergarten class. They dropped seeds in the cracks of the sidewalk to see what would happen.
This would help our bees "
via I Love Bees
This would help our bees "
via I Love Bees
“People with learning disabilities are the last forgotten minority, the ones who have been ignored, mocked and persecuted by the rest of us…the time has come to challenge this dark history of prejudice” - @stephenunwin.bsky.social Looking forward to reading!
The incredible ‘Beautiful Lives - how we got learning disabilities so wrong’ is published today.
The author, @stephenunwin.bsky.social has written about what this day means to him. Do please read.
#LearningDisabilities
www.stephenunwin.uk/thoughts-and...
The author, @stephenunwin.bsky.social has written about what this day means to him. Do please read.
#LearningDisabilities
www.stephenunwin.uk/thoughts-and...
Publication Day — Stephen Unwin
The day that a book goes out into the world is a strange one. In many ways, nothing happens: the book has been printed, advance copies have been circulated, and the only thing that changes is that it ...
www.stephenunwin.uk
June 6, 2025 at 5:35 PM
“People with learning disabilities are the last forgotten minority, the ones who have been ignored, mocked and persecuted by the rest of us…the time has come to challenge this dark history of prejudice” - @stephenunwin.bsky.social Looking forward to reading!
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In a study of Gen Z's personal goals, "to be safe" ranked as the top priority, outweighing traditional teenage desires like popularity and fun. A developmental psychologist explains what this says about growing up in an era of constant crisis:
Gen Z seeks safety above all else as the generation grows up amid constant crisis and existential threat
Recent generations may have taken safety for granted, but today’s youth are growing up in an era of compounded crises – and being safe is their priority.
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May 21, 2025 at 1:48 PM
In a study of Gen Z's personal goals, "to be safe" ranked as the top priority, outweighing traditional teenage desires like popularity and fun. A developmental psychologist explains what this says about growing up in an era of constant crisis:
Shocked to hear a keynote speaker asked to disclose their formal diagnoses on stage. Not an acceptable use of question time IMO #INSAR2025
May 2, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Shocked to hear a keynote speaker asked to disclose their formal diagnoses on stage. Not an acceptable use of question time IMO #INSAR2025