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Marta Głowacka

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Outdoor health, nature connectedness, neurodiversity, science and health communication. Researcher and teacher of things useful in academia and beyond. Open to remote research and teaching jobs contrea.eu

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It is organised on your behalf, shouldn't you put the requirement for the conference to be truely inclusive?

23.02.2026 07:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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08.01.2026 16:39 👍 70 🔁 17 💬 1 📌 1

Unfortunately, despite numerous mention of accessibility and inclusivity etc. on the conference website, the conference is exclusively face-to-face. Huge disappointment.

08.01.2026 16:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Did u know? If you accidentally dig up or uncover a pupa in your outside space (the appearance of this one suggests that it'll emerge as a moth or butterfly) just pop them back where you found them - in the same place, at the same depth....and wish them luck on their journey... 🌿🌱🇬🇧🌱🌍🦋

06.12.2025 06:07 👍 65 🔁 24 💬 0 📌 0
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The Map of Monotropic Experiences: A Summary | Autistic Realms The Map of Monotropic Experiences, created by Helen Edgar of Autistic Realms in collaboration with the Stimpunks Foundation, visually represents 20 common a ...

Here is the original Map of Monotropic Experiences I created and expanded with @stimpunks.org team.
We now have free open-source training and a reflective workbook to accompany this neuro-affirming resource.
Check it out:

autisticrealms.com/the-map-of-m...

13.11.2025 08:56 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

jeśli jest powszechne w innych krajach, wśród innych nacji ( a takie jest moje doświadczenie) to nie jest polskie, jest ludzkie

11.11.2025 09:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Saline nasal sprays offer so much potential as a public health intervention to reduce viral illnesses. Easy to use, relatively cheap and widely available.

11.11.2025 07:03 👍 109 🔁 52 💬 5 📌 1
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Why our GLAS gardens are exactly what research says the world needs - Global Action Plan Healing our broken relationship with nature is the foundation for solving environmental crises

Research shows that a #communitygarden can make you more democratic, and happier.

globalactionplan.ie/blogs/why-ou...

11.11.2025 08:07 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

To nie jest unikalnie polskie.

11.11.2025 08:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Book cover of Autistic Community and the Neurodiversity Movement: Stories from the Frontline, edited by Steven K. Kapp. The artwork shows a bright, glowing sun above a vivid landscape of rolling green hills. A large rainbow arcs across the sky, filled with colorful stars. Below, a long procession of diverse people moves forward along a winding path through the hills, symbolizing community and collective movement. The cover features an open access label and the Palgrave Macmillan logo.

Book cover of Autistic Community and the Neurodiversity Movement: Stories from the Frontline, edited by Steven K. Kapp. The artwork shows a bright, glowing sun above a vivid landscape of rolling green hills. A large rainbow arcs across the sky, filled with colorful stars. Below, a long procession of diverse people moves forward along a winding path through the hills, symbolizing community and collective movement. The cover features an open access label and the Palgrave Macmillan logo.

This open-access book marks the first historical overview of the autism rights branch of the neurodiversity movement, describing the activities & rationales of key leaders in their own words.
Edited by @drstevenkapp.bsky.social
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

03.11.2025 10:44 👍 53 🔁 24 💬 2 📌 1
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Psychology's Renaissance In 2010–2012, a few largely coincidental events led experimental psychologists to realize that their approach to collecting, analyzing, and reporting data made it too easy to publish false-positive fi...

"Preregistering allows readers to discriminate between confirmatory analyses, which provide valid p-values and trustworthy results, and exploratory analyses, which provide invalid p-values and tentative results." 2/2

www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

30.10.2025 10:33 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

"...preregistrations do not tie researchers’ hands, but merely uncover readers’ eyes. Preregistering does not preclude exploration, but it does communicate to readers that it occurred. ..." 1/2

30.10.2025 10:33 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

I wrote a similar exploration piece a few months ago about this reframing around monotropism:

Autistic Young People: Skills Regression, Burnout or a shift in Monotropic Attentional Resources?

autisticrealms.com/autistic-you...

30.10.2025 10:32 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Busting the Biggest Myths in Neuroscience | Dr Dean Burnett | Instant Genius podcast
Busting the Biggest Myths in Neuroscience | Dr Dean Burnett | Instant Genius podcast Relatively speaking, neuroscience and psychology are young fields of scientific research that only really got going over the last hundred years or so. However, during this time, several stubborn myths have arisen that, zombie-like, just don’t seem to go away. In this episode, we speak to neuroscien

Busting the Biggest Myths in Neuroscience | Dr Dean Burnett | Instant Genius podcast

www.youtube.com/watc...

Dean Burnett tackles as many brain-based myths as possible in under 40 minutes, in this quickfire Q&A podcast, for BBC Focus's 'Instant Genius' podcast

podcasts.apple.com/u...

30.10.2025 10:52 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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Those physically realistic models predict subpolar gyre tipping around 2040-2050. This would lead to a local cooling of 1-2 degrees in 10 to 20 years. The Nordic seas would warm, the jet stream shift northward and in summer high pressure over Scandinavia could lead to more (intense) heat waves.

28.10.2025 12:26 👍 55 🔁 22 💬 1 📌 7
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6 months in. 6 episodes out. #InsideBiodiversity is gaining traction and is in the top 15% of podcasts based on listens per episode!

Thanks for listening, sharing, and subscribing! And do get in touch and let us know: what topics do you want us to dive into? insidebiodiversity.podigee.io

22.10.2025 08:42 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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ME/CFS Call 2026 - Fel... | WWTF This is a call for early career ME/CFS researchers to conduct a six month research stay at a researc...

Interested in studying #ME/CFS #LongCovid with a health psychology/ public health lense? @wwtf.at will sponsor six month fellowships, and I would be delighted to act as your host. Please reach out if you are interested!
More info: wiki.wwtf.at/books/mecfs-...

20.10.2025 07:03 👍 19 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0
A photo of a small, black-furred shrew climbing on a branch with text overlay that says "Australia’s only shrew declared extinct. Australia continues to lead the world in mammal extinctions."

A photo of a small, black-furred shrew climbing on a branch with text overlay that says "Australia’s only shrew declared extinct. Australia continues to lead the world in mammal extinctions."

Australia’s only shrew has been declared extinct. Australia leads the world in mammal extinctions and ranks second for loss of biodiversity. We need better funding for conservation action and stronger environmental laws to uphold our international commitments to prevent further extinctions 🧪

13.10.2025 04:25 👍 65 🔁 32 💬 3 📌 3
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A new start after 60: I realised I had autism – and suddenly my life made sense. I have never been so happy After decades of loneliness and depression, Cathleen Caffrey had come to think of herself as a bad person. Then she learned about others who had struggled to fit in …

Nice article about someone realising they are autistic in later life.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

13.10.2025 06:40 👍 64 🔁 22 💬 2 📌 1
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Three good things in nature is a simple intervention that boosts wellbeing, deepens connection to nature, people and life.

First of three new research papers out this month: findingnature.org.uk/2025/10/06/i...

07.10.2025 06:27 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Moment of joy for the self employed: I am absolutely indispensable to my employer! Actually, since some of the services I provide are also unique, my untimely death would leave a tiny vacuum for them, as well!

I'd better try to take good care of myself and try to avoid working myself to death.😊

06.10.2025 08:25 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Did u know? Moths are significant pollinators in our gardens. As they're often nocturnal, they've evolved clever ways of evading predators during the day. The Plume moth hides by folding its wings up like a concertina, so that it looks like a teeny twig, rather than a tasty bird meal. 🌿🌱🇬🇧🌱🌍🪲🦋

06.10.2025 04:35 👍 62 🔁 13 💬 5 📌 1
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Od 4 października 2025 r. w Bremie, a od 2020 roku w Hamburgu możliwy jest wspólny pochówek zmarłego człowieka i jego zwierzęcia. Ciało pupila musi być skremowane. Prawo odzwierciedla zmiany społeczne jakie zachodzą - zwierzę jest traktowane jako członek rodziny, a pochówek wyrazem więzi.

06.10.2025 04:55 👍 12 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0

Covid is not over.

People are still dying and becoming disabled every day.

We rushed “back to normal” for the economy, not because the threat had passed.

When you wear a mask, you’re not only protecting your health, you’re saying you don’t believe anyone is expendable.

06.10.2025 05:04 👍 1022 🔁 331 💬 20 📌 7
A two-part infographic showing relationships between five nexus elements: biodiversity, water, food, health, and climate.

Part A shows projected future impacts across six different nexus archetypes, ranging from "Nature-oriented nexus" to "Nature overexploitation." Impacts are indicated using blue upward arrows (positive), red downward arrows (negative), and wavy lines (variable).

Part B displays six network diagrams showing interactions among the nexus elements. Each diagram represents a different archetype, using circles with icons for each element. Arrows between elements show relationships:

Blue arrows indicate positive influences
Red arrows indicate negative influences
Different arrow thicknesses show magnitude (high, moderate, low)
The diagrams progressively show how relationships between elements change from balanced and positive interactions in the "Nature-oriented nexus" to predominantly negative interactions in the "Nature overexploitation" scenario.

The visualization demonstrates how different management approaches affect the relationships between environmental, health, and climate factors.

A two-part infographic showing relationships between five nexus elements: biodiversity, water, food, health, and climate. Part A shows projected future impacts across six different nexus archetypes, ranging from "Nature-oriented nexus" to "Nature overexploitation." Impacts are indicated using blue upward arrows (positive), red downward arrows (negative), and wavy lines (variable). Part B displays six network diagrams showing interactions among the nexus elements. Each diagram represents a different archetype, using circles with icons for each element. Arrows between elements show relationships: Blue arrows indicate positive influences Red arrows indicate negative influences Different arrow thicknesses show magnitude (high, moderate, low) The diagrams progressively show how relationships between elements change from balanced and positive interactions in the "Nature-oriented nexus" to predominantly negative interactions in the "Nature overexploitation" scenario. The visualization demonstrates how different management approaches affect the relationships between environmental, health, and climate factors.

🔍#Biodiversity. Water. Food. Health. #ClimateChange. All of them interact and intersect but how?

Check this new graphic from the @ipbes.net #Nexus Assessment and explore the interactions among the nexus elements.

Access the Report: www.ipbes.net/nexus/media-...

06.10.2025 05:42 👍 37 🔁 17 💬 0 📌 1

Many of us with chronic illness are stuck in survival mode.

It’s a vicious cycle that can make you sicker, but then the sicker you get the harder it is to get out of survival mode.

It’s one of the reasons we must learn to pace, to rest and to unplug.

It’s ok to take breaks. Rest is resistance!

06.10.2025 05:30 👍 138 🔁 43 💬 3 📌 0

We should not follow guidance that causes harm to others. We have an ethical duty to protect those around us from disability. That’s the way I have seen this and nothing will change my mind.

06.10.2025 06:40 👍 59 🔁 12 💬 2 📌 0

*This* has not been acknowledged by any institution or government. Ultimate betrayal is to label CEV families “anxious”.

06.10.2025 06:55 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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RIP Jane Goodall. 💔

02.10.2025 03:58 👍 207 🔁 66 💬 3 📌 2

It’s the responsibility and the duty of anyone with a public platform to keep reminding everybody that civilisations flourish by collaboration not hostility and prejudice. This includes intellectuals who keep to their lanes in generating knowledge. Make no mistake, this is absolutely your lane.

01.10.2025 08:08 👍 149 🔁 44 💬 5 📌 1