When I was a doctoral student, I attended my first annual meeting of the International Society for Autism Research (INSAR) in 2005. It was also among the earliest of the INSAR meetings, which had begun in 2001. And at this gathering of several hundred scientists in Boston, I recall being awestruck, attending sessions alongside people—superheroes […]
On 19 November 2025, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention changed language on a “vaccine safety” page on its website to assert that the statement “vaccines do not cause autism” is not evidence based. The updated CDC page now incorrectly suggests that a link between infant vaccination and autism exists, and it casts […]
Homogeneous crowd: The average percentage of black speakers at neuroscience conferences remains zero, even as institutions commit to increasing diversity. Cimmerier / Getty Images Since the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, the percentage of black moderators at neuroscience conferences has increased by just 3 percentage points, according to a new analysis. The study, published […]
When Maxwell Elliott’s latest research paper circulated on Twitter last June, he wasn’t sure how he was feeling. Elliott, a PhD student in clinical psychology in Ahmad Hariri’s laboratory at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, is studying functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and how it can be used to better understand neurological conditions such […]
