It was super interesting to hear from Nic Cottone, @alfredfreeborn.bsky.social and Lisa Schmidt-Herzog about their ideas of alienation, masking, and the need for an open epistemology to avoid essentialism in the neurodiversity movement!

Thank you! Working on it! :)

I’m truly honored to speak among these incredible scholars.

Hope to see you there, but you can also join us online by registering on EventBrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/critical-n... [3/3]

I will be presenting a contribution titled “Decentering autism in cross-neurotypical communication research and discourse: welcoming neurodivergent pragmatics”, offering a neuroqueer reading of all the main communicative features and practices that are described as pragmatic deficits. [2/3]

Thank you. We tried to write it up in a way that wouldn’t make it too discomforting!

I’m Eleonora, and I clearly pretend I’ve read stuff that I haven’t read

(this one ironically became true while writing my theses 😂)

Thank you for the mention!

2. Here's an image from a presentation I gave to Twitter, representing the Twitter bird freed from a closed platform to fly in Bluesky's open ecosystem.

I’m also a psychologist in training and a member of a newborn #autism participatory research group in Sapienza.

Recently, I focused more on #SciComm in Italian, as I realized my following had close to nothing to read in Italian on ND matters.

I’ll try to engage with the awesome work I see here!

I’m also a psychologist in training and I still do research when I manage. Last published, a focus group study telling me how bad my early work on #ToM in #autism was.

You can find it here (and on OSF as a preprint): doi.org/10.1111/1460...

I’ll try to engage with the awesome work I see here!

They do this at Frontiers, I believe.

I know, right?! We’ve got you covered!

I’m not sure that is the case - that is, an issue at the individual level. I feel like it’s more of a problem at the societal level, of perception of what science is and does, and how is it is to put its “evidence” into practice.

Precisely. Also in most cases they do not come off as particularly knowledgeable about how science actually works, in my opinion.

The more I read tweets from scientists angry at encouragements to center social justice in their work the more they read a bit like: “stop being racist when you do science!” - “but it wouldn’t be science anymore!”
Okay, no #racism detected here, definitely. Neutral #science for sure.