Dan Poole

> In order to produce cheap soap and undercut competition, he controlled large [parts of] Congo. These were granted to him by King Leopold, with whom he was a close friend. Many Congolese were exploited for use in forced labour which was allowed to continue for many decades before coming to light.

Highlighting elements across themes that support the monotropism theory of attention within a lived and embodied subjectivity. Discussing the importance of challenging normative expectations of attention for creating neuroinclusive environments, particularly in the workplace. SUPER WORK!

Clive is of course correct, and the key thing here is not that Watson has succumbed to temptation: he was a bullshit artist and a crook ten years ago too. This is just what the system looks like when there is no longer any need to pretend these people work for you, not their future employers.

Loved working on this paper! We mapped autistic adults’ monotropic attention as an interest-based sanctuary, and how neuronormative settings create barriers. Exploring The Phenomenology of Autistic Attention journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... free read: eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/24...

So… we just found out that GPT sol can complete a complex online behavioral/cognitive study producing nearly indistinguishable behavior and subjective reports… right as we are about to launch. Is this doomsday for online cognitive testing?

New preprint! 🎉 I analysed 1660 papers from 4 psychology journals and found materials sharing went from 9% of papers in 2015 to 82% in 2025, and these materials *do* get downloaded — a median of 135 times each. BUT shared code is often hard to run. doi.org/10.31234/osf... Let's walk through it 🧵

New blogpost deevybee.blogspot.com/2026/08/acce... inspired by recent depressing experience as a peer reviewer. AI-generated #fraud is getting very hard to detect. #peerreview

A public enquiry is desperately needed here. Please consider signing goodlawproject.org/s/533647

Watch this short clip to the end to understand what level (maximum) of white supremacy we're dealing with here. 1/n

RIP Jason Arday 🖤, a tragic victim of the national pastime of destroying those who get above their station

We are looking for autistic people (with and without a diagnosis) for an online study about how people experience and imagine different sounds. If you're interested please contact: stanley.jones@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk

Guest editing a special issue on neurodiversity and primary and community care. Very lucky to be working with Dr Heidi Phillips on this one! Submissions accepted until Feb 2027. We'd love to hear from you if you are interested! journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec...

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Are you Trans? Autistic? Both? Please tell us about your experience of hiding aspects of your identity and the impact of that on your mental health Online survey study, takes about 15 minutes. edinburgh.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... (replaces previous post with wrong link) #AutRes

I am currently locked out of my job at the University of Sheffield, without pay as punishment for missing two teaching sessions while on strike. #ucu #union #strike #UKHE @ucu.org.uk @sheffielducu.bsky.social 🧵1/7

We are at the mercy of Bridget Phillipson’s ability to notice things and form a credible plan in response. Unfortunately she seems literally uninterested, across her various ministerial roles, in doing anything other than prosecuting a series of vaguely related if basically incoherent culture wars.

Call for participants! I am researching the views of autism community on early support practices. Seeking autistic adults (self-ID or professionally diagnosed) and/or parents of autistic children (<18), UK-based. Estimated completion time: 7-40 minutes. tinyurl.com/earlysupport... Thank you!

The number of students who tell the OIA they are disabled is up again, to 42%. The themes are always the same: poor implementation of reasonable adjustments, poor communication, lack of accountability, but this time with the addition of poor support for placements share.google/z0FlmRUQ5pa9...

New pre-print: Exploring The Phenomenology Of Autistic Attention from @danpoole.bsky.social @beatrixbird.bsky.social & team. Relevant to the theory of monotropism - about improving accessibility for Autistic people in the workplace. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Sheffielders, please join us for a showcase event to mark the end of our project on autistic adults access to primary healthcare. 📍St Mary's Church, Bramhall Lane 🗓️Monday 26th Jan (13 - 15, with quiet hour 15 - 16) Drop-in, free entry, no sign-up necessary #AutRes #Sheffield #Healthcare

We are looking for clinicians who work with autistic people without Learning Disabilities to support their sensory motor needs to complete a survey asking experiences asssing and supporting autistic adults. www.qualtrics.manchester.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...

Palantir's new neurodivergent fellowship is in fact bad because neurodivergent people participating in technofascism will not save us. Latest for @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

“Union-Busting Tactic” The University of Sheffield argues staff who do not replace missed teaching due to strike action are in breach of contract, and so should forfeit an *additional* two weeks of pay. #UKHE #AcademicSky

Check out this post about our current situation from a colleague at another university. @sheffielducu.bsky.social

🚨 SynthNet is out 🚨 Researchers propose new constructs and measures faster than anyone can track. We (@anniria.bsky.social @ruben.the100.ci) built a search engine to check what already exists and help identify redundancies; indexing 74,000 scales from ~31,500 instruments in APA PsycTests. 🧵1/3

Nothing to see here, just students being required to undergo a security bag check before meeting with our university Vice Chancellor. An eloquent and scathing report of the meeting by a PhD student www.linkedin.com/pulse/uon-st...

Today, @hlautismactcom.parliament.uk published their report, 'Time to deliver: The Autism Act 2009 and the new autism strategy'. Access the full report and recommendations (including easy read report, video from the Chair, and shorthand story) here: committees.parliament.uk/committee/77... [1/4]

The Neuronormative Paradigm, conceptualised by @dr-nicky.bsky.social names the systems that define & enforce what society considers normal and acceptable. This exploration piece contrasts the neuronormative paradigm with the neurodiversity paradigm. autisticrealms.com/the-neuronor...

This week we've kicked off our series of community based, participatory workshops exploring underserved autistic adults experiences of primary healthcare. First event at the amazing Burton Street Foundation in Hillsborough.

@autismeurope.bsky.social 2025 Congress is now freely available on this website: www.autismeurope.org/what-we-do/i... Also: www.youtube.com/@AutismEurope Lots of very exciting presentations including @drmbothapsych.bsky.social @autisticdoctor.bsky.social and many more!

Embracing Complexity's priority-setting exercise for research on neurodivergence is now published in Neurodiversity! Huge project led by @agatataga.bsky.social, paper co-written by @drrachaeldavis.bsky.social, @drhollyjoseph.bsky.social, and yours truly: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🔊 Vacancy: Open Research Manager, University of Sheffield Library (full-time, open-ended). The role will involve supporting projects across Sheffield and nationally with the @ukrepro.bsky.social to accelerate open research practices. Closing date 22 October: jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Open-Res...

👉Are you a post-doc? 👉 Passionate about improving care for people with learning disabilities? 👉Interested in communication? The ICALD study has 2 jobs: one based in London and one in Manchester. See links👇 Come and work with us! jobs.ac.uk/job/DOQ464/r... jobs.ac.uk/job/DOQ213/p...

Kent and Greenwich merge without consulting unions! #UKHE

Excited to be in Dublin (despite the rain! 🌧️) for the Autism Europe Congress #AEC2025. I’ll be presenting my poster tomorrow at 2pm (P1.01.17), please drop by and say hey if you’re also attending ☺️ Looking forward to hearing about all the brilliant research! 🙌🏻

Heading into Sheffield for #ESCOP25 I'm taking part in a symposium on using drift diffusion models for between group comparisons,organised by @ambercopeland.bsky.social W/ @cmanning.bsky.social Craig Hedge and Alekhya Mandali also speaking. Lot to discuss,should be a great session!

“Newton’s … law of inertia, tells us that an object at rest stays at rest, & an object in motion stays in motion, unless something intervenes. In daily life, autistic inertia echoes this: Starts, stops, & shifts can require disproportionate effort.” www.psychologicalscience.org/publications... -SR

🚨 This week on BBC Look North: Sheffield staff balloting for strike action over £5m in cuts. We have defeated cuts in other institutions and we will defeat these ✊ Show your support to @sheffielducu.bsky.social

I've spent the past weeks publishing my flankr package on CRAN for R. Users who've only installed the first version will notice SIGNIFICANT improvements in model fit speed. Plus, I made a hex sticker for it. CRAN: cran.r-project.org/web/packages... Github (dev version): github.com/JimGrange/fl...

I wrote an R package that creates standardized R project structures that are compliant with @mekline.bsky.social's psych-DS...ish. It also creates additional features for reproducibility and teaching like a readme, license, .gitignore and Quarto templates + can validate existing projects