Michelle Dodd
@michelleldodd.bsky.social
autistic autism researcher, PhD candidate @ NTU, new account as can't access old one!
One of the nicest people you could hope to meet.
November 21, 2025 at 2:53 PM
One of the nicest people you could hope to meet.
Friday is now full but many more slots to come next week!
Call for participants!
I’m running a PhD study on social connection.
New slots available as early as this Friday.
If you’re interested, please sign up using the QR code on the poster or with this link ntupsychology.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_....
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I’m running a PhD study on social connection.
New slots available as early as this Friday.
If you’re interested, please sign up using the QR code on the poster or with this link ntupsychology.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_....
Please repost to help spread the word!
November 20, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Friday is now full but many more slots to come next week!
Call for participants!
I’m running a PhD study on social connection.
New slots available as early as this Friday.
If you’re interested, please sign up using the QR code on the poster or with this link ntupsychology.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_....
Please repost to help spread the word!
I’m running a PhD study on social connection.
New slots available as early as this Friday.
If you’re interested, please sign up using the QR code on the poster or with this link ntupsychology.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_....
Please repost to help spread the word!
November 19, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Call for participants!
I’m running a PhD study on social connection.
New slots available as early as this Friday.
If you’re interested, please sign up using the QR code on the poster or with this link ntupsychology.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_....
Please repost to help spread the word!
I’m running a PhD study on social connection.
New slots available as early as this Friday.
If you’re interested, please sign up using the QR code on the poster or with this link ntupsychology.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_....
Please repost to help spread the word!
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I enjoyed Gemma Williams's introduction to our research/theory paper on Autistic flow states with @brettheasman.bsky.social, @drlornaham.bsky.social and others, and the podcast we recorded talking about it:
open.substack.com/pub/neurodiv...
open.substack.com/pub/neurodiv...
Toward Autistic Flow Theory
Listen now | Introducing you to a podcast conversation with researchers about autistic flow states
open.substack.com
October 20, 2025 at 11:57 AM
I enjoyed Gemma Williams's introduction to our research/theory paper on Autistic flow states with @brettheasman.bsky.social, @drlornaham.bsky.social and others, and the podcast we recorded talking about it:
open.substack.com/pub/neurodiv...
open.substack.com/pub/neurodiv...
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We are delighted that @connortkeating.bsky.social's Demystifying Emotion-Processing: Autism & Alexithymia #CRAEwebinar is now available to watch on our YouTube Channel.
youtu.be/OqbcUW6qbLw
youtu.be/OqbcUW6qbLw
October 7, 2025 at 9:21 AM
We are delighted that @connortkeating.bsky.social's Demystifying Emotion-Processing: Autism & Alexithymia #CRAEwebinar is now available to watch on our YouTube Channel.
youtu.be/OqbcUW6qbLw
youtu.be/OqbcUW6qbLw
Interesting talk from @drmbothapsych.bsky.social, will make me think twice about what I'm putting into the world as an autistic autism researcher. Esp. interested in the media analyses, as a former media studies student I have more questions than my brain can process right now!
September 24, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Interesting talk from @drmbothapsych.bsky.social, will make me think twice about what I'm putting into the world as an autistic autism researcher. Esp. interested in the media analyses, as a former media studies student I have more questions than my brain can process right now!
I always remember my MSc supervisor making me put something in my thesis about how much autism costs society. He said it was to make the project seem important, as if my reasons for doing the research, as an autistic person, weren't important.
The dehumanisation of autistic people in research plays out in the media as a dehumanisation of autistic children and their parents in narratives that relate autistic children to cost to society @drmbothapsych.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 6:07 PM
I always remember my MSc supervisor making me put something in my thesis about how much autism costs society. He said it was to make the project seem important, as if my reasons for doing the research, as an autistic person, weren't important.
Sad to have missed the closing ceremony but too tired. A great time was had though, thanks #AECongress2025 and everyone who attended.
The announcement of where the 15th Congress in 2028 is going to be . . . . Huge round of flappause to the words "Bilbao, Spain"!!!
Wooohooo, love a trip to Spain!!
😁☀️😎🇪🇸
#AECongress2025
💜♾️
Wooohooo, love a trip to Spain!!
😁☀️😎🇪🇸
#AECongress2025
💜♾️
September 13, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Sad to have missed the closing ceremony but too tired. A great time was had though, thanks #AECongress2025 and everyone who attended.
Remembering Joe, Greg, Mel and all the others today on WSPD & reaching out to old friends because you never know who needs it.
September 10, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Remembering Joe, Greg, Mel and all the others today on WSPD & reaching out to old friends because you never know who needs it.
Hi, for those attending @autismeurope.bsky.social,
I'll be presenting my first PhD study "Smiling synchrony & social bonds: the role of autistic traits & camouflaging-like behaviours".
Sat 13th Sept, 12:30 in Clyde - Hall 6 as part of the Autistic communication & interaction 3 session.
I'll be presenting my first PhD study "Smiling synchrony & social bonds: the role of autistic traits & camouflaging-like behaviours".
Sat 13th Sept, 12:30 in Clyde - Hall 6 as part of the Autistic communication & interaction 3 session.
September 8, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Hi, for those attending @autismeurope.bsky.social,
I'll be presenting my first PhD study "Smiling synchrony & social bonds: the role of autistic traits & camouflaging-like behaviours".
Sat 13th Sept, 12:30 in Clyde - Hall 6 as part of the Autistic communication & interaction 3 session.
I'll be presenting my first PhD study "Smiling synchrony & social bonds: the role of autistic traits & camouflaging-like behaviours".
Sat 13th Sept, 12:30 in Clyde - Hall 6 as part of the Autistic communication & interaction 3 session.
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This is important because I hear a lot of people say “correlation doesn’t equal causation” in regard to vaccines and autism, but there *isn’t even a correlation*.
Vaccines are an exception, because there was NEVER any epidemiological association – just speculation. But other factors, like maternal infection or something vague to do with the gut microbiome, or exposure to various chemicals have all seen positive associations that have not held up (3/n)
September 7, 2025 at 12:19 PM
This is important because I hear a lot of people say “correlation doesn’t equal causation” in regard to vaccines and autism, but there *isn’t even a correlation*.
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Thursday week!
Watch our 2 new educational animation films about Autistic experiences created by our animator Iara Abigalil,
creative team:
@autisticrealms.bsky.social
@fergus.oolong.co.uk @scrappapertiger.bsky.social @jessicakdoyle.bsky.social & Laura Buckland Mason
Music by: @somebodysomeone.bsky.social
creative team:
@autisticrealms.bsky.social
@fergus.oolong.co.uk @scrappapertiger.bsky.social @jessicakdoyle.bsky.social & Laura Buckland Mason
Music by: @somebodysomeone.bsky.social
September 7, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Thursday week!
This person should be running the country!
A man on the streets of the UK is asked about the “problem of immigration” and dismantles talking points with ease.
September 3, 2025 at 12:14 PM
This person should be running the country!
I feel like this is a weird metaphor for Audhd... the husky is in its own world, not noticing it's free then just wanders off looking at the shiny thing or whatever and the collie knows it needs structure and is keen to make everyone follow the rules!
September 1, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I feel like this is a weird metaphor for Audhd... the husky is in its own world, not noticing it's free then just wanders off looking at the shiny thing or whatever and the collie knows it needs structure and is keen to make everyone follow the rules!
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Does neurotype affect social connection? Our new @PLOSONE paper finds autistic people report lower rapport in conversations, but it's not that simple. We found that awareness of who you're talking to is key!
Paper link (OA):
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
Paper link (OA):
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
Diagnostic status influences rapport and communicative behaviours in dyadic interactions between autistic and non-autistic people
A growing body of research suggests that the behaviours and experiences of autistic and non-autistic people are influenced by whether they are interacting with someone of the same or different diagnos...
doi.org
August 29, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Does neurotype affect social connection? Our new @PLOSONE paper finds autistic people report lower rapport in conversations, but it's not that simple. We found that awareness of who you're talking to is key!
Paper link (OA):
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
Paper link (OA):
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
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DON'T MISS! Verbal Collaboration in Same- & Mixed-Neurotype Groups of Autistic & Non-Autistic Adults by
@sarah-foster.bsky.social et al examined verbal collaboration during a group tower-building task among autistic and non-autistic adults
NEW FREE to Aug 28
www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/...
@sarah-foster.bsky.social et al examined verbal collaboration during a group tower-building task among autistic and non-autistic adults
NEW FREE to Aug 28
www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/...
August 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
DON'T MISS! Verbal Collaboration in Same- & Mixed-Neurotype Groups of Autistic & Non-Autistic Adults by
@sarah-foster.bsky.social et al examined verbal collaboration during a group tower-building task among autistic and non-autistic adults
NEW FREE to Aug 28
www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/...
@sarah-foster.bsky.social et al examined verbal collaboration during a group tower-building task among autistic and non-autistic adults
NEW FREE to Aug 28
www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/...
I had a similar conversation recently with a clearly autistic adult who was too scared to seek diagnosis in the UK due to her immigration status.
If you want to know where we are on autism, I was just interviewing a child psychiatrist for a piece who told me that parents are afraid of getting their kids an autism diagnosis because they are afraid of the stigma and RFK Jr.'s talk about an autism registry.
August 28, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I had a similar conversation recently with a clearly autistic adult who was too scared to seek diagnosis in the UK due to her immigration status.
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Any psychologists out there who work with trauma willing to review the new Darren McGarvey series for our 'Culture' section?
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Trauma Industrial Complex by Darren McGarvey - Available now
Available episodes of Trauma Industrial Complex by Darren McGarvey
www.bbc.co.uk
August 28, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Any psychologists out there who work with trauma willing to review the new Darren McGarvey series for our 'Culture' section?
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Really proud that @journalautism.bsky.social published this...
...but also flabbergasted that we are still having to refute this.
www.sagepub.com/explore-our-...
...but also flabbergasted that we are still having to refute this.
www.sagepub.com/explore-our-...
The vaccine–autism connection: No link, still debate, and we are failing to learn the lessons
A recent editorial questions why the vaccine–autism debate persists — read a section of the article below.
www.sagepub.com
August 10, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Really proud that @journalautism.bsky.social published this...
...but also flabbergasted that we are still having to refute this.
www.sagepub.com/explore-our-...
...but also flabbergasted that we are still having to refute this.
www.sagepub.com/explore-our-...
Just seen an article from 2015 referring to "healthy adults". When trying to find if they mean healthy autistic adults or healthy non-autistic adults, I was surprisingly shocked to find out "healthy adults" just referred to non-autistic people.
August 14, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Just seen an article from 2015 referring to "healthy adults". When trying to find if they mean healthy autistic adults or healthy non-autistic adults, I was surprisingly shocked to find out "healthy adults" just referred to non-autistic people.
Whatever your views on Autistica, you can't deny she was a force www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Dame Stephanie Shirley obituary
Pioneering computer scientist, founder of her own software company, philanthropist and determined autism campaigner
www.theguardian.com
August 13, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Whatever your views on Autistica, you can't deny she was a force www.theguardian.com/education/20...
A good example of why JKR is a misogynist! Telling women to take photos of people in public toilets and post them online, thereby removing any sense of privacy and dignity for us all.
JK Rowling explicitly calls on her followers to engage in vigilante actions against people they suspect are trans in bathrooms.
This is incredibly dangerous and far more likely to result in violence against gender nonconforming cis women.
This is incredibly dangerous and far more likely to result in violence against gender nonconforming cis women.
June 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
A good example of why JKR is a misogynist! Telling women to take photos of people in public toilets and post them online, thereby removing any sense of privacy and dignity for us all.
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Earlier today ICE agents hit someone with a car and tear gassed a neighborhood, sparking several fires and disrupting businesses.
Immigrants, by contrast, did not.
Immigrants, by contrast, did not.
ICE is a much greater threat to this country than illegal immigrants. The current administration ia by far the greatest threat this country faces. The problem is not st our borders. It is in the White House.
June 8, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Earlier today ICE agents hit someone with a car and tear gassed a neighborhood, sparking several fires and disrupting businesses.
Immigrants, by contrast, did not.
Immigrants, by contrast, did not.