Eleanor Palser
@eleanorpalser.bsky.social
Assistant Professor | We study mental health in neurodevelopmental conditions | Dyspraxic
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.
Reposted by Eleanor Palser
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...
link.springer.com
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/...
Reposted by Eleanor Palser
"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....
‘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
Reposted by Eleanor Palser
"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!
Reposted by Eleanor Palser
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.
buff.ly
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
Accommodations that I love at #INSAR2025 as a non-autistic dyspraxic with sensory sensitivity: flap applause, quiet poster viewing time, alternating poster presenting times to reduce crowding 👐🏼
May 1, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Accommodations that I love at #INSAR2025 as a non-autistic dyspraxic with sensory sensitivity: flap applause, quiet poster viewing time, alternating poster presenting times to reduce crowding 👐🏼
Happy to be back at #INSAR2025 after a few years’ hiatus! I’ll be presenting data in tomorrow’s lunchtime poster session on Autistic kids and teens’ heart rate and heart rate variability responses to auditory startle
May 1, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Happy to be back at #INSAR2025 after a few years’ hiatus! I’ll be presenting data in tomorrow’s lunchtime poster session on Autistic kids and teens’ heart rate and heart rate variability responses to auditory startle
Reposted by Eleanor Palser
"Adjusting for inflation, tenure-track faculty are now paid 10.2 % less than before Covid... While 'median pay increases for most higher education employees in 2024–25 remained strong, they have dropped...” www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t... #edsky #highered
Most Higher Ed Workers Still Paid Less Than Before Pandemic
Although raises for most higher education employees last academic year beat inflation, most are still effectively earning less than they were in 2019–20, according to new salary survey data released M...
www.insidehighered.com
April 8, 2025 at 11:48 AM
"Adjusting for inflation, tenure-track faculty are now paid 10.2 % less than before Covid... While 'median pay increases for most higher education employees in 2024–25 remained strong, they have dropped...” www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t... #edsky #highered
Reposted by Eleanor Palser
Stereotypically male professions are also perceived as being the most prestigious.
This has an impact on children's career plans.
#psychscisky #socialpsych
Based on Jaoul-Grammare, 2024.
This has an impact on children's career plans.
#psychscisky #socialpsych
Based on Jaoul-Grammare, 2024.
March 30, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Stereotypically male professions are also perceived as being the most prestigious.
This has an impact on children's career plans.
#psychscisky #socialpsych
Based on Jaoul-Grammare, 2024.
This has an impact on children's career plans.
#psychscisky #socialpsych
Based on Jaoul-Grammare, 2024.
Starting my Monday with the not unusual: “Oh I thought you were a student! You look so young.”
Why this is not the compliment you think it is:
Why this is not the compliment you think it is:
March 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Starting my Monday with the not unusual: “Oh I thought you were a student! You look so young.”
Why this is not the compliment you think it is:
Why this is not the compliment you think it is:
Reposted by Eleanor Palser
Today is International Women's Day.
The first of which was organised by the Socialist Party of America in 1909.
In today's USA, 'women' and 'female' are words to be avoided by gov officials. Man is not, except if it refers to homosexuals.
The fight for equal rights is more important than ever!
The first of which was organised by the Socialist Party of America in 1909.
In today's USA, 'women' and 'female' are words to be avoided by gov officials. Man is not, except if it refers to homosexuals.
The fight for equal rights is more important than ever!
March 8, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Today is International Women's Day.
The first of which was organised by the Socialist Party of America in 1909.
In today's USA, 'women' and 'female' are words to be avoided by gov officials. Man is not, except if it refers to homosexuals.
The fight for equal rights is more important than ever!
The first of which was organised by the Socialist Party of America in 1909.
In today's USA, 'women' and 'female' are words to be avoided by gov officials. Man is not, except if it refers to homosexuals.
The fight for equal rights is more important than ever!