Catherine Lawton

Sign the Petition Justice For Disabled Victims of Hate Crime

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Want to reduce the incidence of mental health problems in neurodivergent young people? Focus on sleep. Sleep problems are the leading mediating factor (12-43% variance, by age) of mental health outcomes - Chiara Caserini at #NDAS2025. Preprint in repost. #AutRes

Calling autism community members and justice professionals (with experience in Magistrates/Crown Court) to help co-design new, accessible resources for autistic people involved in criminal court systems in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 & 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Autism community: lnkd.in/ekxQ_wV5
Justice professionals: lnkd.in/ee8SXbmd

#AutRes

@giorgiamichelini.bsky.social argues for integrating “neurodevelopmental spectrum” into the transdiagnostic model, which currently does not capture conditions such as autism and ADHD. Related paper: scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=e...

Evidence suggests depression has a greater negative effect than anxiety on the quality of life of (speaking) autistic adults: Dr Melanie Ring of Dresden University at #NDAS2025. Study here:
scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=e...

Brilliant use of videos to give voice to non-speaking children’s experiences, presented by Prof Nicola Yuill of
@acornsussex.bsky.social at #NDAS2025.

Children with speech issues risk poor mental health, charity says Speech and Language UK says some children can struggle to categorise and communicate how they feel.

Great to see the link between language and mental health considered on the BBC - and amazing of Siouxsie to share her experiences www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We have video guides for mental health practitioners about language problems and mental health - see below!

Exactly. And using AI for knowledge production will lead to scientific monocultures, as @mjcrockett.bsky.social and I argued (more than a year ago) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Today at #NDAS2025: the editor’s view through the review process with @profnikkibotting.bsky.social … do’s and don’ts for submission cover letters, contacting editors, reviewing and becoming a reviewer

Today at #NDAS2025: using #AI for systematic literature review quality assessments with Dr Nick Behn, and checking methodology and designing animated online tasks for kids with Professor @steer-rhinos.bsky.social

‘Open source’ AI isn’t truly open — here’s how researchers can reclaim the term Many firms are misusing the ‘open source’ label. The scientific community, which relies on transparency and replicability, must resist this trend.

Many firms are misusing the ‘open source’ label. The scientific community, which relies on transparency and replicability, must resist this trend, says Stefano Maffulli

https://go.nature.com/4l5D7ch

Noted. My Samonsite’s wheels died in less than a year with zilch support from the company.