Sara McHaffie
@saramch.bsky.social
Researcher - autistic women, public sociology, creative methods
Reposted by Sara McHaffie
www.nature.com/articles/s41... A big, well funded team tries to sort autistic people into four invented categories, based on 7 other invented categories. Based e.g. on past research that doesn't say what they allege it says. No inclusion of autistic people, discussion of ethics, human rights, etc.
Decomposition of phenotypic heterogeneity in autism reveals underlying genetic programs - Nature Genetics
Classes of autism are uncovered with a generative mixture modeling approach leveraging matched phenotypic and genetic data from a large cohort, revealing different genetic programs underlying their ph...
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July 16, 2025 at 10:51 AM
www.nature.com/articles/s41... A big, well funded team tries to sort autistic people into four invented categories, based on 7 other invented categories. Based e.g. on past research that doesn't say what they allege it says. No inclusion of autistic people, discussion of ethics, human rights, etc.
Reposted by Sara McHaffie
Help our show get traction so we can keep making it! You can do that by liking the video, commenting on it, sharing it with other autistic people / in your fave autism groups &, obv, watching it on a loop for the next fortnight!
Every little helps us get it in front of our audience 😻
Every little helps us get it in front of our audience 😻
An astronaut, a vampire and a Jane Austen hero walk into a sketch show!
Catch the full second episode of The Daily Tism News, in collaboration with Turtle Canyon Comedy here! (Now contains even more autism)
Catch the full second episode of The Daily Tism News, in collaboration with Turtle Canyon Comedy here! (Now contains even more autism)
The Daily Tism - news by and for autistic people - EPISODE 2 - EASTER
YouTube video by Turtle Canyon Comedy
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April 22, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Help our show get traction so we can keep making it! You can do that by liking the video, commenting on it, sharing it with other autistic people / in your fave autism groups &, obv, watching it on a loop for the next fortnight!
Every little helps us get it in front of our audience 😻
Every little helps us get it in front of our audience 😻
Reposted by Sara McHaffie
I'm thrilled that this paper is finally out - besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/.... I think it's my favourite piece of work so far, and I'm so thankful to my co-authors @saramch.bsky.social and @annastenning.bsky.social for the brilliant insights they contributed.
January 14, 2025 at 9:41 AM
I'm thrilled that this paper is finally out - besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/.... I think it's my favourite piece of work so far, and I'm so thankful to my co-authors @saramch.bsky.social and @annastenning.bsky.social for the brilliant insights they contributed.