Glad to hear you got out - have been worried! Hope you're doing ok.

[alt text: an article from the Guardian about the use of fire by humans 350k years ago is illustrated by a photo of ambiguously racialized actors with dirt on their faces and bodies seated around a fire grilling an animal on a spit]

And yes, there is a joy in knowing obscure references. But to me, the bigger issue is the work that it takes to find those references and put them together in ways that create new insight. Too many colleagues do not seem to recognize this as academic work

Yep, multiple times personally, and I've seen it done by colleagues to other colleagues many times as well. It's very easy to tell because usually the author in question has put things together in a way that is very unlikely to have emerged from their own research process

Longer thoughts on this www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Sorry that happened to you.

He's wonderful! Thank you for sharing this vid

Also, guys, I feel like we had this discussion back in 2013 (and the decades preceding it). A wee bit of homework may be in order

[alt text: a white child with blond hair in a pink singlet is wearing an identifying bracelet bearing a symbol promoted by a well-known anti-Autistic organization and holding the hand of an adult against a green background]

All human traits have genetic sources. I'm saying that the traits associated with Autism do not need to be ferreted out for the purpose of eradicating them.