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Federico Parra
@federicoparra.bsky.social
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I research neurodiversity at University of Zaragoza, Spain.
Latest research: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-025-04995-8
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Federico Parra @federicoparra.bsky.social · Apr 10
📝🧠 I'm thrilled to announce that my paper, "Intersubjective, systemic, and sensory roots of autistic social difficulties: a critical evaluation of enactivist and phenomenological approaches" is now published and open access!!
Check it out: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #autism #enactivism
Intersubjective, systemic, and sensory roots of autistic social difficulties: a critical evaluation of enactivist and phenomenological approaches - Synthese
Despite some remarkable accomplishments, enactivist and phenomenological approaches to autistic social difficulties remain highly problematic. Their conceptualization of social disablement as a distur...
link.springer.com
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autisticrealms.bsky.social
This open-access book marks the first historical overview of the autism rights branch of the neurodiversity movement, describing the activities & rationales of key leaders in their own words.
Edited by @drstevenkapp.bsky.social
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Book cover of Autistic Community and the Neurodiversity Movement: Stories from the Frontline, edited by Steven K. Kapp. The artwork shows a bright, glowing sun above a vivid landscape of rolling green hills. A large rainbow arcs across the sky, filled with colorful stars. Below, a long procession of diverse people moves forward along a winding path through the hills, symbolizing community and collective movement. The cover features an open access label and the Palgrave Macmillan logo.
November 3, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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biap.bsky.social
🚨 AEI Call Alert!
Juan de la Cierva Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025
(PhD 2024–2025 | 3-year duration)

Our research group in Analytic Philosophy, LOGOS @logos-group.bsky.social welcomes expressions of interest from motivated researchers! ✨

👉 LOGOS website: www.ub.edu/grc_logos/
November 4, 2025 at 10:40 AM
federicoparra.bsky.social
Looks great! Can't wait to get my hands on this!
princetonupress.bsky.social Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 18d
In We See Things They’ll Never See, Chantelle Jessica Lewis and Jason Arday show how neurotypical hegemony reproduces a culture of exclusion—and how to overcome this with love, hope, and solidarity.

Out now. Check out a free preview of this pathbreaking book: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
We See Things They’ll Never See: Love, Hope, and Neurodiversity by Chantelle Jessica Lewis and Jason Arday
November 1, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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dr-nicky.bsky.social
The Trump/RFK autism claim makes perfect sense once you remember that MAGA is always about turning the clock back. The claim isn't "Tylenol causes autism," it's "pregnant women taking Tylenol causes autism"... Because the real goal here is to revive the 1950s tradition of blaming autism on women.
September 25, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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histoftech.bsky.social
This may seem cute but if you do this too much the cyclists may become reliant on cars feeding them, disrupting the delicate roadway ecosystem
September 19, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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ipazia76.bsky.social
"Exploring lived experience in mental health", first workshop of the Birmingham Network for Phenomenology and Mental Health.
Happening now, at the Studio (Central Birmingham)
@matthewbroome.bsky.social and @jelliedsours.bsky.social delivering the opening remarks
September 3, 2025 at 10:44 AM
federicoparra.bsky.social
Loving the talks this morning at @uobphenomenal.bsky.social's event. We are learning about really interesting topics with some lovely speakers and great moderation by @jelliedsours.bsky.social
September 3, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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vlc-lab.bsky.social
📖🎉Excited to share that the book chapter “It Doesn't Feel Like Myself: A Mindshaping View on Self-Illness Ambiguity” (Virginia Ballesteros, Fernández-Castro & Núñez de Prado-Gordillo) has been accepted for publication with Routledge!

🔗Pre-print: roderic.uv.es/rest/api/cor...
September 2, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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amybrown.xyz
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.
August 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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oliviawhen.com
Doggust Day 15: Havanese. Unqualified and too small for this job.
#doggust #doggust2025
A small tan and white dog sitting in a big office chair, framed by big office chairs in the foreground, on the other side of a conference table. They're in a corporate meeting room. On the desk are papers, a laptop, some blue post its and a pen. The dog has a blank look, as though they have no idea how they got here or what to do. The overall colors are teal and and ochre.
August 16, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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davesayers.bsky.social
Academia runs on contacting other academics out of the blue and saying HEY do you wanna do this COOL THING for essentially NO REWARD and equally certainly NO RECOGNITION from your employer and those people going OH MAN that sounds AWESOME sign me up for the COOL NO REWARD NO RECOGNITION EXPERIENCE.
November 15, 2024 at 12:17 PM
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twillierod.bsky.social
Making Sense of the 4E Cognition Turn in Mental Health Research

Miguel Núñez de Prado-Gordillo, Pablo López-Silva

muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Project MUSE - Making Sense of the 4E Cognition Turn in Mental Health Research
muse.jhu.edu
July 23, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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jelliedsours.bsky.social
New on the #projectEPIC blog today is a post from Virginia Ballesteros, summarising her recent paper "Objectivity, Standardization, and Epistemic Injustice in Psychiatry". It's an excellent read - you should check it out!

epistemicinjusticeinhealthcareproject.blogspot.com/2025/07/obje...
Objectivity, Standardization, and Epistemic Injustice in Psychiatry
epistemicinjusticeinhealthcareproject.blogspot.com
July 23, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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drmbothapsych.bsky.social
PUBLIC LECTURE:

My end of @leverhulme.ac.uk fellowship lecture is on the 24th of September! It will be in person at @durhampsych.bsky.social and also streamed online. Tickets are available on Eventbrite.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/centre-for...
Centre for Neurodiversity and Development Public Lecture
Why autism isn't what you think it is (and why that matters) - end of fellowship Public Lecture by Dr Monique Botha
www.eventbrite.co.uk
July 17, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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scrappapertiger.bsky.social
#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, 2024 at 7:20 PM
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thinkingautism.com
Want to do better by autistic people? OK:

1) Check how someone prefers to communicate
2) Allow more time to process responses
3) Avoid assumptions based on body language
4) Be open to written or direct communication when that works best

@drstevenkapp.bsky.social et al:

drexel.edu/dornsife/new...
* - Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health
drexel.edu
July 14, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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kierongillen.bsky.social
I’m petrified about today’s science news. Genetically modifying crabs to have cheetah genes? This could go sideways fast.
July 8, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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autismcrisis.bsky.social
"Research on autism has suggested that autistic people use neologisms more than nonautistic people, but no previous work has carefully examined these words to understand what they mean and why autistic people might be creating them in the first place" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... free
An Autistic “Linguatype”? Neologisms, New Words, and New Insights
In this commentary, we present new ideas about autistic neologisms. This essay has two primary goals. First, we argue that an autistic predilection to form neologisms generates intriguing new hypothe...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 1, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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filolab.bsky.social
🧠 3rd Workshop on Mental Health and Normativity
📍 University of Granada | 🗓️ May 29–30, 2025

How do norms shape our understanding of mental health?
Join us to explore philosophical insights on psychiatric harm, self-perception, autism, and identity.

🔗 sites.google.com/view/philoso...
3rd Workshop Mental Health and Normativity
3rd Workshop Mental health and normativity: Philosophical Reflections
sites.google.com
May 26, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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cjcrompton.bsky.social
New paper alert!

Information transfer within and between autistic and non-autistic people is out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com

nature.com/articles/s41...

THREAD! 🧵⬇️
May 14, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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annmemmott.bsky.social
Deeply concerning:
The British Journal of Occupational Therapy have published this:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... in which 16 autistic children are 'normalised' using a robot to teach them how not to ever appear or sound autistic.
What on earth is going on, in Occupational Therapy?/
Qualitative outcomes and impact of a robotic intervention on children with autism spectrum disorder: A multiple embedded case study - Eva Yin-Han Chung, Kenneth Kuen-Fung Sin, Daniel Hung-Kay Chow, 20...
Most studies of social robot interventions for children with autism spectrum disorder have been laboratory experiments focusing on component skills. There is in...
journals.sagepub.com
May 10, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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thrivingautistic.bsky.social
Our favourite monthly round-up is out from @annmemmott.bsky.social and #neurodiverseconnection

ndconnection.co.uk/blog/autism-...
Autism, ADHD, Dyspraxia and Learning Disability Research—What’s New in April — Neurodiverse Connection
In this month’s research roundup, Ann Memmott explores a wider array of research, showcasing and reflecting upon some of the latest papers on Autism, ADHD, Dyspraxia and Learning Disability.
ndconnection.co.uk
May 2, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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sensorystories.bsky.social
Self-diagnosis is valid.

Also, telling someone who landed on self-diagnosis after months, if not years of researching and learning about autism, that they're not autistic because they don't have a piece of paper saying so, is classist and ableist. Please don't do this.
April 15, 2025 at 12:44 PM
federicoparra.bsky.social
Plus, it's easy! Just ask and listen to autistics. If you offer a neurodiversity-affirmative perspective on autism, the rest of us researchers want to know about you and your work, we want to support you, specifically if you are an autistic researcher yourself!
annmemmott.bsky.social Ann Memmott @annmemmott.bsky.social · Apr 11
Meantime, my huge thanks to the increasing number of researchers who are being allies. Learning about autistic communication. Understanding why we are anxious about the stuff above. Wanting to truly learn from us & respect us, collaborating fully throughout the projects.
That's how progress happens.
April 14, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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twillierod.bsky.social
Intersubjective, systemic, and sensory roots of autistic social difficulties: a critical evaluation of enactivist and phenomenological approaches

Federico Parra Rubio

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Intersubjective, systemic, and sensory roots of autistic social difficulties: a critical evaluation of enactivist and phenomenological approaches - Synthese
Despite some remarkable accomplishments, enactivist and phenomenological approaches to autistic social difficulties remain highly problematic. Their conceptualization of social disablement as a distur...
link.springer.com
April 4, 2025 at 5:22 PM