Illustration by Laurenne Boglio Tweets in the autism research sphere during the first week of March have come in like a lion, roaring — over gaps in clinical care for autistic people, gaps in understanding and gaps in evidence. Mary Doherty, founder of Autistic Doctors International and a consultant anesthetist at Our Lady’s Hospital in […]
Illustration by Laurenne Boglio Social media in the autism space this week served up a helpful cheat sheet of standout research tweets to catch up on — plus an easier way to consume preprints. “Mixtures matter,” tweeted Giuseppe Testa, professor of molecular biology at Università Statale in Milan, Italy, about the effects of endocrine disruption […]
Illustration by Laurenne Boglio Twitter can feel like an echo chamber — but sometimes the reverberations amplify important calls to action. This week, Andrew Whitehouse, Angela Wright Bennett Professor of Autism Research at the Telethon Kids Institute and the University of Western Australia in Perth, tweeted a thread that turned up the volume on Helen […]
Illustration by Laurenne Boglio As regular readers know, this newsletter takes pains to highlight autism research tweets — but do tweets really help papers take flight? It’s tough to quantify the impact, beyond simple tallies of retweets and likes. A new paper this week attempts the calculation, linking social-media shares and news coverage with actual […]
Illustration by Laurenne Boglio Longer days in the Northern Hemisphere, longer threads about autism research on Twitter — welcome to the first Community Newsletter from Spectrum this February. Liz Pellicano, professor of education at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, threaded together 14 tweets full of COVID-19 lockdown lessons for autism education. The insights, published in […]
Illustration by Laurenne Boglio Here it is — your weekly update on important autism research tweets, freshly baked from the computer. Jessica Steinbrenner, advanced research scientist at the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and her colleagues tweeted a thread via Autism about their new finding: […]
Illustration by Laurenne Boglio Ready for your weekly roundup of autism research tweets? First in this issue of Spectrum’s Community Newsletter, the January 15 cover of The Lancet included a quote from the journal’s recent commission on the future of autism care and clinical research. On this week’s cover, a quote from The Lancet Commission […]
Illustration by Laurenne Boglio Hello and welcome to the Community Newsletter! I’m your host, Chelsey B. Coombs, Engagement Editor of Spectrum. Twitter this week served up some practical tips on how to make magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) more comfortable for autistic people. Strategies in the literature could lead to new training materials for clinicians and […]
Illustration by Laurène Boglio Hello and welcome to the community newsletter! I am your host, Chelsey B. Coombs, the engagement editor of Spectrum. The first study, which sparked an online exchange this week, looked at the association between autism characteristics and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in adults aged 50 and over who scored high on […]
Illustration by Laurène Boglio Hello and welcome to the community newsletter! I am your host, Chelsey B. Coombs, the engagement editor of Spectrum. What do psychotherapists treating adults know about autism? A thread on a study on autism this week offered some insight. A blind spot in psychiatry? A study by a participatory autism research […]
Illustration by Laurène Boglio Hello and welcome to the Spectrum community newsletter. Autism researchers pondered autism prevalence questions on Twitter this week after two new estimates came out. Jack Underwood, a clinical research fellow at the University of Cardiff in Wales, posted a thread on new work that found an eight-fold increase in autism diagnoses […]
Illustration by Laurène Boglio Hello and welcome to the community newsletter! I am your host, Chelsey B. Coombs, the engagement editor of Spectrum. The research community released a new paper this week looking at the relationship between autism and the gut microbiome, which some work suggests may be less diverse in autistic people. A thread […]
