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Dr. Holly E.A. Sutherland @heasutherland.com · 2d

Today's new academic achievement is my first fellowship rejection 🥲

Dr. Holly E.A. Sutherland @heasutherland.com · 9d

I'm coming to realise that the primary purpose of a doctoral thesis is that it's essentially a nicely-organised citation repository for my specific interests.

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Josephine Flockton @jflockton.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks to @cfaa.bsky.social for having me speak at their AI symposium, & @heasutherland.com for joining me in our panel session on the science and considerations around AI use across different human-computer interactions. Glad to have met some lovely experts across a range of sectors using AI! ✈️ 👩‍💻 ⚓

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Dr. Holly E.A. Sutherland @heasutherland.com · 27d

Hello! Im at #AECongress25 - do come say hi if you see me. I also have a talk this afternoon about the double empathy problem in care and support services!

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Themis Efthimiou @themisefth.bsky.social · Aug 29

Does neurotype affect social connection? Our new @PLOSONE paper finds autistic people report lower rapport in conversations, but it's not that simple. We found that awareness of who you're talking to is key!

Paper link (OA):
doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Diagnostic status influences rapport and communicative behaviours in dyadic interactions between autistic and non-autistic people

A growing body of research suggests that the behaviours and experiences of autistic and non-autistic people are influenced by whether they are interacting with someone of the same or different diagnos...

doi.org

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Dr. Holly E.A. Sutherland @heasutherland.com · Aug 18

I'm going to be speaking at this, as part of the "Human-AI teaming: Whose voices are missing?" session - talking about how neurodivergent voices and minds need to be included when designing AI to work collaboratively with humans.

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Dr. Holly E.A. Sutherland @heasutherland.com · Jul 29

Belated because I've been super busy, but I graduated a few weeks ago! I'm *officially* Dr. Sutherland now.

Not sure I can really explain what that means to me - I've wanted a doctorate for as long as I can remember. Huge thanks to the wonderful supervisors who helped get me there. 💜

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Dr. Holly E.A. Sutherland @heasutherland.com · Jul 23

Update: I have fixed the problem via Writing A Longer And Slightly More Mediocre Version of the code. Many such cases with R, unfortunately.

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Dr. Holly E.A. Sutherland @heasutherland.com · Jul 23

Would really love it if I could verbally reason with R Studio, actually.

(Brought to you by: an error message telling me I can only use Function A with Function B, which is... the exact function I'm using it with... via identical syntax to that in the documentation...)

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Dr. Holly E.A. Sutherland @heasutherland.com · Jul 21

Hello! I do cognitive science-ish things, neurodiversity (mostly autism), mixed methods research, and sometimes weird interdisciplinary stuff. I love giving talks. Currently doing a postdoc at @ Cambridge.

You can find my papers, datasets, talks archive etc. on my website: www.heasutherland.com

Dr. Holly E.A. Sutherland

Holly E. A. Sutherland, PhD - AuDHD neurodiversity researcher

www.heasutherland.com

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Dr. Holly E.A. Sutherland @heasutherland.com · Jul 21

In honour of the fact I have hair now: new profile photo!

This way I will hopefully stop alarming people by being unexpectedly not-bald when I see them at conferences.

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Dr. Holly E.A. Sutherland @heasutherland.com · Jul 1

Massive congrats on both the degree and the VERY cool photos!!! 💜

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Dr. Holly E.A. Sutherland @heasutherland.com · Jun 24

Very excited to be attending the Critical Neurodiversity Studies conference today, from the @ndhumanities.bsky.social network. Sad I can't be there in person, but their online provision is wonderful, and lots of very cool speakers in the lineup...

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Dr. Holly E.A. Sutherland @heasutherland.com · Jun 12

If you're interested in autism, religious experience, and people who are minimally-speaking / have higher support needs, do check out this job at U of Aberdeen:

www.abdnjobs.co.uk/vacancy/rese...

You'd get to work on a very interesting project with a really great team.

Research Assistant/Fellow (DHP143R) | University of Aberdeen

The Centre for Autism and Theology is an international hub for research, working to resource faith communities. Our goal is to ensure that autistic and other neurodivergent people are actively support...

www.abdnjobs.co.uk

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Dr. Holly E.A. Sutherland @heasutherland.com · Jun 11

This is now published in the Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research!

▶️ sjdr.se/articles/10....

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Dr. Holly E.A. Sutherland @heasutherland.com · Jun 10

Ailbhe McKinney has done a bunch of work on adolescent transitions, I think specifically with girls and nonbinary people - not sure what she's published on it yet though...

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Dr. Holly E.A. Sutherland @heasutherland.com · Jun 3

Just got an invite to review a paper, from a journal which I had, no more than *two hours before*, submitted a paper review to. Please... a week between reviews, I beg... one week is all I ask for...

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Dr Daniel P Jones @danielpjones.bsky.social · May 20

I’m so excited to share that our call for papers for a special issue of ‘ #Neurodiversity’ is now live!

We’re looking for papers, podcasts, videos (and more) that align with the critical turn in #ND studies! 🤩

@ainokash.bsky.social @louisecreechan.bsky.social

journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cm...

journals.sagepub.com

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Steven Kapp @drstevenkapp.bsky.social · May 18

UK Channel 5 show Are You Autistic? channel5.com/show/are-you... through interviews w/ autistic people & autism researchers a GP shows sensory issues & camouflaging, hence females, are better recognized. Consistent w/ autism as innate, lifelong, sensory-based. 1/
www.frontiersin.org/journals/int...

Frontiers | Sensory–movement underpinnings of lifelong neurodivergence: getting a grip on autism

www.frontiersin.org

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Catherine Crompton @cjcrompton.bsky.social · May 14

New paper alert!

Information transfer within and between autistic and non-autistic people is out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com

nature.com/articles/s41...

THREAD! 🧵⬇️

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Dr. Holly E.A. Sutherland @heasutherland.com · May 12

The podcast I did about my PhD research with the wonderful Middletown Autism Centre is now out:

www.buzzsprout.com/1184276/epis... (+ Apple & Spotify )

It's a pretty casual chat, not a super technical academic thing - so if you're a carer, practitioner, etc. do give it a listen!

Holly Sutherland - Understanding Autistic Communication - The Middletown Centre for Autism Podcast

In the latest Middletown Podcast,  we chat with researcher Holly Sutherland about her ground-breaking work focusing on autistic communication. We discuss differences in communication between auti...

www.buzzsprout.com

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Dr. Holly E.A. Sutherland @heasutherland.com · May 12

Thesis corrections were submitted Saturday! Three added sections on the ethics of and participation recruitment for my studies, and also a bit on my epistemology and how that interacted with my methods. It was hard work to write them, but I'm glad I did it - the thesis is better with them in.

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Brian Irvine @brianirvine.bsky.social · May 3

Phone recharged!

Time for the brilliant
@heasutherland.com

Communicatively Resourceful, Interpretatively Curious: (mis)Communications in Social Care Settings for Autistic People with High Support Needs.

An ethnography 🤩 in interactional relationships.

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Dr. Holly E.A. Sutherland @heasutherland.com · May 4

Another excellent and very thorough live-skeet of our panel today, for those who couldn't be there in person!

Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · May 3

Now: Neurodivergence-Affirming and Inclusive Research Practices for Autistic People with High Support Needs. Chaired by @drstevenkapp.bsky.social & @dianatan.bsky.social, featuring Drs. Teresa Girolamo, Aimee Grant, Jackie Ryan, Holly Sutherland. Discussants: Grant Blasko & Vikram Jaswal. #INSAR2025

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Dr. Holly E.A. Sutherland @heasutherland.com · May 3

Thank you so much for the liveblog of this (and the rest of the panel) Aimee!

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