Annelie Wendeberg
@anneliewrites.bsky.social
Scientist turned fiction writer & mentor of neurodivergent science writers
AuDHD & NB
Fled academia when politicking got soul-crushing
Wildlife rehabber who cusses a lot
👉🏽 anneliewendeberg.com/pages/science
AuDHD & NB
Fled academia when politicking got soul-crushing
Wildlife rehabber who cusses a lot
👉🏽 anneliewendeberg.com/pages/science
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What science writing workshops should ACTUALLY teach neurodivergent peeps:
1.) How your brain works
2.) Why Academia ignores that
3.) How to weaponise the difference
#Neurodivergent, #ScienceWriting, #NeurodivergentInSTEM, #autism, #adhd, #audhd, #sciwriting, #scicomm, #science, #neurodiverse
1.) How your brain works
2.) Why Academia ignores that
3.) How to weaponise the difference
#Neurodivergent, #ScienceWriting, #NeurodivergentInSTEM, #autism, #adhd, #audhd, #sciwriting, #scicomm, #science, #neurodiverse
"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."
— Steven Jay Gould
— Steven Jay Gould
August 30, 2025 at 4:26 PM
"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."
— Steven Jay Gould
— Steven Jay Gould
Time blindness means every deadline is Schrödinger's cat:
Simultaneously overdue and mythical until observed (usually while checking email at 2am). #ADHD #QuantumDeadlines #TimeBlindness #Neurodivergent, #ScienceWriting
Simultaneously overdue and mythical until observed (usually while checking email at 2am). #ADHD #QuantumDeadlines #TimeBlindness #Neurodivergent, #ScienceWriting
August 28, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Time blindness means every deadline is Schrödinger's cat:
Simultaneously overdue and mythical until observed (usually while checking email at 2am). #ADHD #QuantumDeadlines #TimeBlindness #Neurodivergent, #ScienceWriting
Simultaneously overdue and mythical until observed (usually while checking email at 2am). #ADHD #QuantumDeadlines #TimeBlindness #Neurodivergent, #ScienceWriting
Academic networking event:
Where autistics are forced to have our souls extracted through small talk. Free wine though! #SelfMedication #SendHelp #NeurodivergentInSTEM
Where autistics are forced to have our souls extracted through small talk. Free wine though! #SelfMedication #SendHelp #NeurodivergentInSTEM
August 23, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Academic networking event:
Where autistics are forced to have our souls extracted through small talk. Free wine though! #SelfMedication #SendHelp #NeurodivergentInSTEM
Where autistics are forced to have our souls extracted through small talk. Free wine though! #SelfMedication #SendHelp #NeurodivergentInSTEM
Writing heals the same way surgery does. Through controlled violence and hoping you don't bleed out (with the added benefit of actually producing a paper).
#PublishOrPerish #WritingProcess #ScienceWriting #NeurodivergentInSTEM
#PublishOrPerish #WritingProcess #ScienceWriting #NeurodivergentInSTEM
August 21, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Writing heals the same way surgery does. Through controlled violence and hoping you don't bleed out (with the added benefit of actually producing a paper).
#PublishOrPerish #WritingProcess #ScienceWriting #NeurodivergentInSTEM
#PublishOrPerish #WritingProcess #ScienceWriting #NeurodivergentInSTEM
Reposted by Annelie Wendeberg
Autistic students know what works—research proves it—but universities refuse, hiding behind cost and standardisation. Access is treated as liability. We must build the joyful, human colleges the system won’t.
open.substack.com/pub/autside/...
open.substack.com/pub/autside/...
When Evidence Isn’t Enough: Why Universities Refuse Autistic Access
Revolutionary Optimism in the Age of Refusal
open.substack.com
August 21, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Autistic students know what works—research proves it—but universities refuse, hiding behind cost and standardisation. Access is treated as liability. We must build the joyful, human colleges the system won’t.
open.substack.com/pub/autside/...
open.substack.com/pub/autside/...
Reposted by Annelie Wendeberg
August 21, 2025 at 10:20 AM
What science writing workshops should ACTUALLY teach neurodivergent peeps:
1.) How your brain works
2.) Why Academia ignores that
3.) How to weaponise the difference
#Neurodivergent, #ScienceWriting, #NeurodivergentInSTEM, #autism, #adhd, #audhd, #sciwriting, #scicomm, #science, #neurodiverse
1.) How your brain works
2.) Why Academia ignores that
3.) How to weaponise the difference
#Neurodivergent, #ScienceWriting, #NeurodivergentInSTEM, #autism, #adhd, #audhd, #sciwriting, #scicomm, #science, #neurodiverse
August 16, 2025 at 4:26 PM
What science writing workshops should ACTUALLY teach neurodivergent peeps:
1.) How your brain works
2.) Why Academia ignores that
3.) How to weaponise the difference
#Neurodivergent, #ScienceWriting, #NeurodivergentInSTEM, #autism, #adhd, #audhd, #sciwriting, #scicomm, #science, #neurodiverse
1.) How your brain works
2.) Why Academia ignores that
3.) How to weaponise the difference
#Neurodivergent, #ScienceWriting, #NeurodivergentInSTEM, #autism, #adhd, #audhd, #sciwriting, #scicomm, #science, #neurodiverse
Me: I need quiet to focus
Them: Here's an open office! And fluorescent bulbs that scream 24/7!
Me: I need predictable schedules
Them: Surprise meeting for 3 hours where we do small talk and don't make any useful decisions!
Me: Fuck this shit, I quit.
#Neurodivergent #WorkplaceHell
Them: Here's an open office! And fluorescent bulbs that scream 24/7!
Me: I need predictable schedules
Them: Surprise meeting for 3 hours where we do small talk and don't make any useful decisions!
Me: Fuck this shit, I quit.
#Neurodivergent #WorkplaceHell
August 14, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Me: I need quiet to focus
Them: Here's an open office! And fluorescent bulbs that scream 24/7!
Me: I need predictable schedules
Them: Surprise meeting for 3 hours where we do small talk and don't make any useful decisions!
Me: Fuck this shit, I quit.
#Neurodivergent #WorkplaceHell
Them: Here's an open office! And fluorescent bulbs that scream 24/7!
Me: I need predictable schedules
Them: Surprise meeting for 3 hours where we do small talk and don't make any useful decisions!
Me: Fuck this shit, I quit.
#Neurodivergent #WorkplaceHell
Reposted by Annelie Wendeberg
#beverlylandersonbooks #beverlylanderson #writing #amwriting #queerauthor #autisticauthor #writingmeme #writingmemes #writingmemesofinstagram #writingmemeoftheday #funnymemes
August 14, 2025 at 12:05 PM
#beverlylandersonbooks #beverlylanderson #writing #amwriting #queerauthor #autisticauthor #writingmeme #writingmemes #writingmemesofinstagram #writingmemeoftheday #funnymemes
Reposted by Annelie Wendeberg
What does it really take to get accommodations as an autistic GLP student in today’s higher ed system? A follow-up to “Still Not Enough,” this piece offers hard truths, a mentor letter, and a glimpse of what lies ahead.
open.substack.com/pub/autside/...
open.substack.com/pub/autside/...
Still Not Enough, Part Two: Surveillance, Standardisation, and What It Really Takes to Get Accommodations in College
When Diagnosis Isn’t Enough: Surviving College Systems Built to Say No
open.substack.com
August 14, 2025 at 10:35 AM
What does it really take to get accommodations as an autistic GLP student in today’s higher ed system? A follow-up to “Still Not Enough,” this piece offers hard truths, a mentor letter, and a glimpse of what lies ahead.
open.substack.com/pub/autside/...
open.substack.com/pub/autside/...
Reposted by Annelie Wendeberg
Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.
August 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.
Reposted by Annelie Wendeberg
We choose our friends based on ‘neural similarity’ 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Neural similarity predicts whether strangers become friends - Nature Human Behaviour
Shen et al. show that pre-existing neural similarity in strangers predicts future friendship and changes in social distance over time in an emerging social network of MBA students.
www.nature.com
August 10, 2025 at 3:09 PM
We choose our friends based on ‘neural similarity’ 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Annelie Wendeberg
Reposted by Annelie Wendeberg
Autism Distinct Anxiety #autismawareness
August 8, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Autism Distinct Anxiety #autismawareness
Masking so hard you personality split? Like, Dr. Jekyll who publishes and Ms. Hyde who cries snot bubbles in parking lots? Yeah. Same. #ActuallyAutistic #AwesomeMaskingKills #TenureOrDie
August 9, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Masking so hard you personality split? Like, Dr. Jekyll who publishes and Ms. Hyde who cries snot bubbles in parking lots? Yeah. Same. #ActuallyAutistic #AwesomeMaskingKills #TenureOrDie
"It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here."
James Baldwin
James Baldwin
August 9, 2025 at 8:43 AM
"It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here."
James Baldwin
James Baldwin
The passive approach of general DEI guidelines places the entire burden of education and advocacy on the marginalised individual.
This is colonialism.
DO NOT leave the most vulnerable members of your community to fend for themselves!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
This is colonialism.
DO NOT leave the most vulnerable members of your community to fend for themselves!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Decolonize scientific institutions, don’t just diversify them
Indigenous scholars set out eight steps to stop marginalization in academia and to enable a shared Indigenous agenda in science.
www.nature.com
August 9, 2025 at 5:39 AM
The passive approach of general DEI guidelines places the entire burden of education and advocacy on the marginalised individual.
This is colonialism.
DO NOT leave the most vulnerable members of your community to fend for themselves!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
This is colonialism.
DO NOT leave the most vulnerable members of your community to fend for themselves!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The passive approach of general DEI guidelines places the entire burden of education and advocacy on the neurodivergent individual. #neurodivergentInSTEM #actuallyautistic #adhd #autism #science #sciencesky
August 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM
The passive approach of general DEI guidelines places the entire burden of education and advocacy on the neurodivergent individual. #neurodivergentInSTEM #actuallyautistic #adhd #autism #science #sciencesky
True inclusion requires moving beyond passive non-discrimination to a proactive strategy that explicitly educates the entire community and builds tailored support mechanisms. Relying on generic DEI statements leaves the most vulnerable members of the community to fend for themselves. #neurodiversity
August 8, 2025 at 3:32 PM
True inclusion requires moving beyond passive non-discrimination to a proactive strategy that explicitly educates the entire community and builds tailored support mechanisms. Relying on generic DEI statements leaves the most vulnerable members of the community to fend for themselves. #neurodiversity
General DEI statements fail to create a truly inclusive culture. They signal that discrimination is not allowed, but they do not actively build the understanding and provide the tools necessary to prevent it from happening. #neurodivergent #neurodivergenceInSTEM #actuallyautistic #dei
August 8, 2025 at 3:29 PM
General DEI statements fail to create a truly inclusive culture. They signal that discrimination is not allowed, but they do not actively build the understanding and provide the tools necessary to prevent it from happening. #neurodivergent #neurodivergenceInSTEM #actuallyautistic #dei
Reposted by Annelie Wendeberg
Reposted by Annelie Wendeberg
Got Butterflies in your Stomach? I am super excited to share the first major study of my postdoc @the-ecg.bsky.social - Now out in @natmentalhealth.nature.com! We report a multidimensional mental health signature of stomach-brain coupling in the largest sample to date www.nature.com/articles/s44...
July 30, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Got Butterflies in your Stomach? I am super excited to share the first major study of my postdoc @the-ecg.bsky.social - Now out in @natmentalhealth.nature.com! We report a multidimensional mental health signature of stomach-brain coupling in the largest sample to date www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Reposted by Annelie Wendeberg
We’re pleased to announce a new #SparksOfChange series of personal stories from #neurodivergent researchers navigating academia. Our first two stories are from authors who both received their diagnoses as adults. 1/4 elifesciences.org/inside-elife...
October 13, 2023 at 11:37 AM
We’re pleased to announce a new #SparksOfChange series of personal stories from #neurodivergent researchers navigating academia. Our first two stories are from authors who both received their diagnoses as adults. 1/4 elifesciences.org/inside-elife...
Reposted by Annelie Wendeberg
If I had a nickel for every time someone replied to me to try and explain how some cognitive or developmental disability is too prohibitive to allow (activity)...
I am a whole ass retired learning scientist who spent their early childhood as a nonverbal autistic with multiple disabilities.
I am a whole ass retired learning scientist who spent their early childhood as a nonverbal autistic with multiple disabilities.
August 3, 2025 at 7:13 PM
If I had a nickel for every time someone replied to me to try and explain how some cognitive or developmental disability is too prohibitive to allow (activity)...
I am a whole ass retired learning scientist who spent their early childhood as a nonverbal autistic with multiple disabilities.
I am a whole ass retired learning scientist who spent their early childhood as a nonverbal autistic with multiple disabilities.
Reposted by Annelie Wendeberg
A day in the life of an autistic person…
TOO MUCH GOING ON by @worry__lines
TOO MUCH GOING ON by @worry__lines
August 7, 2025 at 2:55 PM
A day in the life of an autistic person…
TOO MUCH GOING ON by @worry__lines
TOO MUCH GOING ON by @worry__lines