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Eleonora Marocchini, PhD

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🔎 Psycholinguist in autism (empathy & pragmatics), with a thing for STS ♾️ Independent researcher at IGDORE | Critical ND Studies Fellow at IMH, Durham Uni 🎤 Freelancer in SciComm as @narraction | Author of “Neurodivergente” 🌈 neuroqueer | they/she

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Eleonora Marocchini, PhD @marocchini.bsky.social · Jun 27

As I leave @durhamimh.bsky.social, my contribution to the Critical ND Studies takeover comes out.

It’s a brief version of my talk: an attempt to speak about actually neurodivergent communication (and not just autistic communication).

Thank you again @ndhumanities.bsky.social for the support 🌱

The Polyphony @the-polyphony.bsky.social · Jun 27

"A critical view of neurodivergent 'compensatory strategies' [in communication] makes it possible to frame them as chameleonic survival abilities to celebrate, rather than bad mimicking of neurotypical abilities." - @marocchini.bsky.social

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Neurodivergent Pragmatics: Does Neurodivergent Communication Exist?

Critical Neurodiversity Studies Conference Takeover: Eleonora Marocchini reflects on neurodivergent pragmatics: a new critical view of clinical pragmatics in cross-neurotype communication research …

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Eleonora Marocchini, PhD @marocchini.bsky.social · Jun 27

The Polyphony @the-polyphony.bsky.social · Jun 27

Neurodivergent Pragmatics: Does Neurodivergent Communication Exist?

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Eleonora Marocchini, PhD @marocchini.bsky.social · Jun 25

It was super interesting to hear from Nic Cottone, @alfredfreeborn.bsky.social and Lisa Schmidt-Herzog about their ideas of alienation, masking, and the need for an open epistemology to avoid essentialism in the neurodiversity movement!

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Eleonora Marocchini, PhD @marocchini.bsky.social · Jun 25

After a PhD in Cognitive Science, I find it particularly funny (and telling of how far I got from where I started) that the 1st panel I ever chaired was about “The Social Beyond Normativity” at the Critical Neurodiversity Studies Conference.

Thanks @ndhumanities.bsky.social for making this happen!

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Giulia Ganugi @giuliaganugi.bsky.social · Jun 4

Potentially more inclusive practices that academia could partially incorporate as co-created care reframing participation and social justice as priorities over traditional academic values of fast and objective scientific production.

New open access paper written with @marocchini.bsky.social

Peter Lang Verlag - Fostering Socially Just Care in Digital Communities: The Case of Two Alternative Academic Spaces

The orientation of collective care is barely present within the current academic system, which perpetuates the idea of individualistic care, dismissing ...

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Eleonora Marocchini, PhD @marocchini.bsky.social · May 30

Thank you! Working on it! :)

Eleonora Marocchini, PhD @marocchini.bsky.social · May 30

I’m truly honored to speak among these incredible scholars.

Hope to see you there, but you can also join us online by registering on EventBrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/critical-n... [3/3]

Critical Neurodiversity Studies Conference 2025

Tuesday 24th - Thursday 26th June 2025 • 09:30 – 17:30 BST • Hosted by the Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities

www.eventbrite.co.uk

Eleonora Marocchini, PhD @marocchini.bsky.social · May 30

I will be presenting a contribution titled “Decentering autism in cross-neurotypical communication research and discourse: welcoming neurodivergent pragmatics”, offering a neuroqueer reading of all the main communicative features and practices that are described as pragmatic deficits. [2/3]

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Eleonora Marocchini, PhD @marocchini.bsky.social · May 30

Honored to share that I have been awarded a Critical Neurodiversity Fellowship and that I will attend the Conference in @durhamuniversity.bsky.social! Thank you @louisecreechan.bsky.social, @drrobertchapman.bsky.social, @ndhumanities.bsky.social and all the people involved in the conference. [1/3]

Critical Neurodiversity Studies Conference 2025: Directions, Intersections, Contradictions. 24-26 June 2025, Durham University, UK and online

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Christina Nicolaidis, MD, MPH @cnicolaidis.bsky.social · Apr 26

When autism researchers from all sorts of disciplines, paradigms, methodologies, politics, and worldviews agree, you know the threats to science and to autistic people have gotten way outside the bounderies of typical scientific debate.
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Coalition of Autism Scientists critiques US Department of Health and Human Services Autism Research Initiative

The newly formed Coalition of Autism Scientists (160 members and counting) today issued a statement in response to remarks and actions taken by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Secretary of the U.S. Department...

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Eleonora Marocchini, PhD @marocchini.bsky.social · Nov 22

Thank you. We tried to write it up in a way that wouldn’t make it too discomforting!

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Eleonora Marocchini, PhD @marocchini.bsky.social · Nov 21

I’m Eleonora, and I clearly pretend I’ve read stuff that I haven’t read

(this one ironically became true while writing my theses 😂)

Eleonora Marocchini, PhD @marocchini.bsky.social · Nov 20

Thank you for the mention!

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · Nov 19

2. Here's an image from a presentation I gave to Twitter, representing the Twitter bird freed from a closed platform to fly in Bluesky's open ecosystem.

The last slide of the presentation I gave to Twitter in my proposal for how to build Bluesky.

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Eleonora Marocchini, PhD @marocchini.bsky.social · Nov 19

I’m also a psychologist in training and a member of a newborn #autism participatory research group in Sapienza.

Recently, I focused more on #SciComm in Italian, as I realized my following had close to nothing to read in Italian on ND matters.

I’ll try to engage with the awesome work I see here!

Cover of a book by Eleonora Marocchini, “Neurodivergente. Capire e coltivare la diversità dei cervelli umani”, that is something along the lines of “Neurodivergent. Comprehending and cultivating human brains’ diversity”, edited by Tlon. A huge symbol for infinity in rainbow colors pops up at the center of the orange cover.

Eleonora Marocchini, PhD @marocchini.bsky.social · Nov 19

So many new faces, hi! I’m a neurodivergent PhD in Psychology with a background in Linguistics, turned independent researcher and SciCommer.

Last published, a focus group study telling me how bad my early work on #ToM in #autism was.
You can find it here (and on the OSF): doi.org/10.1111/1460...

Screenshot of the paper “Cross-neurotype communication from an autistic point of view: Insights on autistic Theory of Mind from a focus group study” published on International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders by Eleonora Marocchini and Irene Baldin

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Eleonora Marocchini, PhD @marocchini.bsky.social · Nov 19

I’m also a psychologist in training and I still do research when I manage. Last published, a focus group study telling me how bad my early work on #ToM in #autism was.

You can find it here (and on OSF as a preprint): doi.org/10.1111/1460...

I’ll try to engage with the awesome work I see here!

Eleonora Marocchini, PhD @marocchini.bsky.social · Nov 18

They do this at Frontiers, I believe.

Eleonora Marocchini, PhD @marocchini.bsky.social · Nov 18

Another great starter pack for anyone interested in #autism - from an #ActuallyAutistic point of view!

Aut2Ask 🦦 @aut2ask.bsky.social · Nov 15

I put this together because autistics need to be heard from, not about. That is our ethos at Aut2Ask.

I can add you or, please let me know who I should add!

Also: find us on IG- @aut2ask.

And to learn more: bit.ly/Aut2ask

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Steve Haroz @steveharoz.com · Aug 18

A guide to BlueSky for Scientists
* Common questions
* Links to resources
* An explanation of feeds
* A directory of science feeds

Please share with scientists on BlueSky!

Written by me and @markrubin.bsky.social

🧪 #stats #PsychSciSky #neuroscience

BlueSky for Scientists

BlueSky for Scientists Authors: Steve Haroz and Mark RubinURL: http://blueskyscience.steveharoz.com Features you may miss from Twitter or Mastodon As BlueSky is in beta, some features are not impleme...

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Eleonora Marocchini, PhD @marocchini.bsky.social · Nov 15

I know, right?! We’ve got you covered!

Eleonora Marocchini, PhD @marocchini.bsky.social · Nov 15

I see more people are joining now that X got even worse.

For my #autism research mutuals, @lauramaycrane.bsky.social has created this wholesome starter pack to find people and posts you might miss from X. Enjoy!

go.bsky.app/B9XV8UA

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Eleonora Marocchini, PhD @marocchini.bsky.social · Dec 18

I’m not sure that is the case - that is, an issue at the individual level. I feel like it’s more of a problem at the societal level, of perception of what science is and does, and how is it is to put its “evidence” into practice.

Eleonora Marocchini, PhD @marocchini.bsky.social · Dec 18

Precisely. Also in most cases they do not come off as particularly knowledgeable about how science actually works, in my opinion.

Eleonora Marocchini, PhD @marocchini.bsky.social · Dec 18

I find it interesting that some psychologists use the argument that #Psychology is a science when confronted on something they said (usually on social media), as if 1) a psychologist is the same entity as Psychology and 2) being a science means being infallible.

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Eleonora Marocchini, PhD @marocchini.bsky.social · Nov 27

The more I read tweets from scientists angry at encouragements to center social justice in their work the more they read a bit like: “stop being racist when you do science!” - “but it wouldn’t be science anymore!”
Okay, no #racism detected here, definitely. Neutral #science for sure.