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Dan Poole
@danpoole.bsky.social
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Lecturer in Psychology at University of Sheffield. Research on autism & distraction
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Open Research, University of Sheffield @openresshef.bsky.social · 14d
🔊 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...
Open Research Manager
Open Research Manager
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Kathy Leadbitter @kathyleadbitter.bsky.social · 24d
👉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...
Research Associate on the ‘ICALD’ study at The University of Manchester
Discover an exciting academic career path as a Research Associate on the ‘ICALD’ study at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!
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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 29d
Kent and Greenwich merge without consulting unions!
#UKHE
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UCU University of Kent branch @ucukent.bsky.social · 29d
For everyone else reading the news this morning about the Kent and Greenwich merger - it's been as big a shock for us too.
Rumours always abound with constant cuts and redundancies, but they remained rumours until 7.45am this morning.
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Dan Poole @danpoole.bsky.social · 28d
That would be great Monique!
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Dan Poole @danpoole.bsky.social · 29d
Thank you! Look forward to meeting you in Dublin 😀
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Victoria Newell @victorianewell.bsky.social · 29d
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! 🙌🏻
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Dan Poole @danpoole.bsky.social · 29d
Looking forward to the conference and conversations - please say hi or hmu if you would like to meet!
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Dan Poole @danpoole.bsky.social · 29d
ShARL is well repped at the conference:

Vikki @victorianewell.bsky.social - participatory research on underserved adults experiences of primary healthcare

Marianne - feasibility study using the ICF core sets for adult post-diagnostic support

Georgia - SR on autistic students drop-outs from HE
Thursday, the 11th, at 14:00, is titled "Participatory systems mapping with underserved autistic adults: co-designing health and social care solutions through creative arts." The presenter is Victoria Newell from the United Kingdom. The event, on Friday, the 12th, at 14:00, is titled "Evaluating a Standardised Post-diagnostic Strengths and Needs Assessment for Autistic Adults: an Acceptability and Feasibility Study." The presenter is Megan Freeth from the United Kingdom. The event, on Thursday, the 11th, at 14:00, is titled "Factors Influencing Dropout and Retention Among Autistic Students in Universities: A Meta-Synthesis of Qualitative Studies Involving Autistic Individuals." The presenter is Georgia Smith from the United Kingdom.
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Dan Poole @danpoole.bsky.social · 29d
Heading Dublin tonight for Autism Europe Congress #AEC2025.

Talk on meta-autism research tomorrow - autism community views about open data

Poster Friday - talking about distraction, monotropism and normativity

@autismeurope.bsky.social
The first event, on Thursday, the 11th, at 17:30, is titled "Data sharing in autism research: the views of autistic people and parents of autistic children." The second event, on Friday, the 12th, at 14:00, is titled "Exploring the phenomenology of attention control in autistic adults"
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Dan Poole @danpoole.bsky.social · Sep 4
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!
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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · Sep 2
“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
Student Notebook: The Physics of Autistic Inertia
Hari Srinivasan describes the difficulty autistic people face in starting, stopping, or switching tasks, as well as how to manage this feeling of “inertia” as a graduate student.
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · Aug 29
🚨 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
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Jim Grange @jimgrange.bsky.social · Aug 27
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...
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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · Aug 15
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
Creating and validating standardized R project structures that are psych-DS compliant-ish
Making psychological code and data FAIR is hard, in part because different projects organize their code and data very differently. Sometimes this is for good reasons, such as due to the demands of a g...
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Dan Poole @danpoole.bsky.social · Aug 14
Useful article on the pressures that disproportionately affect neurodivergent students (and staff) in HE:
wonkhe.com/blogs/higher...
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Ben Potts @ben-potts.co.uk · Aug 12
We made it into the Independent!
“NHS ‘needs to do more to support autistic people”

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

#AutRes #AutismResearch #ADHDResearch #ADHD #Autism
A screenshot of the “Independent” website. If you would like the article in text form let me know and I’ll copy and paste it. I don’t know if advert-laden website are very screen reader friendly. Anyway, the URL is https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/nhs-adhd-hospitals-government-research-b2805190.html#
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Monique Botha @drmbothapsych.bsky.social · Jul 17
PUBLIC LECTURE:

My end of @leverhulme.ac.uk fellowship lecture is on the 24th of September! It will be in person at @durhampsych.bsky.social and also streamed online. Tickets are available on Eventbrite.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/centre-for...
Centre for Neurodiversity and Development Public Lecture
Why autism isn't what you think it is (and why that matters) - end of fellowship Public Lecture by Dr Monique Botha
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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · Jul 1
Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.
Experimentology cover: title and curves for distributions.
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Beatrix Butnicu 🦆🪻 @beatrixbird.bsky.social · Jun 16
If you've ever zoned in so hard the world disappeared, this is for you. Check out my accessible presentation on measuring Monotropism @ Cafe Autistique in Manchester, 11 June 2025.

youtu.be/tz2XpO1tg0Y?...
Monotropism @ Cafe Autistique 2025 | Beatrix Butnicu
YouTube video by Tunnel Visionary
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Dan Poole @danpoole.bsky.social · Jul 2
This could be a starting off point for co-producing ethical processes for open autism research.

(nb this is a preprint - the work hasn't been peer reviewed yet)
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Dan Poole @danpoole.bsky.social · Jul 2
2. there were concerns about risks to the individual (via reidentification). Participants did not feel well informed about the implications of agreeing to make data open. We presented different models of access restrictions for open data, participants tended to prefer restricted access.
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Dan Poole @danpoole.bsky.social · Jul 2
1. there were concerns about the possible impact on the autism community. That data can be re-narrativised in a way which is detached from the context of the study the participant had consented to take part in
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Dan Poole @danpoole.bsky.social · Jul 2
Participants were positive about research and the potential for open data to improve autism research. However:
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Dan Poole @danpoole.bsky.social · Jul 2
There has been a lot of debate and discussion about open research over the past ~15 years but the perspective of participants is often missing.

Here, we interviewed autistic adults and the parents of autistic children on their views about open data.
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Dan Poole @danpoole.bsky.social · Jul 2
Open research has introduced interventions to make the work of researchers more transparent and reliable. This has included making anonymised data from research studies open.
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