In this week’s Community Newsletter, we discuss the Twitter buzz about two preprints looking at how common genetic variants, rare variants and sex interact to affect autism odds, and a viral tweet from a scientist who says her paper was rejected because it uses ‘identity-first’ language.

In this week’s Community Newsletter, we dive into talk around the United Kingdom’s NICE AQ10 guidelines, CUL3 mutations and taking a holistic approach to academic applications.

In this week’s Community Newsletter, we highlight social chatter about the pandemic’s effect on early-career researchers, Black In Neuro, one year on and the controversy over ‘autism genes.’

Training community members to help families access care increases the likelihood that children from low-income and minority groups will obtain diagnostic evaluations.

In this week’s Community newsletter, we’re doubling up on articles that look into the double empathy problem.

In this week’s community newsletter, we delve into the pandemic’s impact on academia, the social implications of genetics research and how to improve studies for autistic participants.

Automated electronic notifications can help clinics screen more children for autism, according to a new study.

In this week’s community newsletter, we discuss the pathways theory of mind activates and a statistical tool to use fewer control animals.

Spectrum spoke with three Black scientists about why they got into autism research, what keeps them excited about their work and how the field could become more diverse.

In this week’s community newsletter, we cover another camouflaging paper and discuss why phenotypes are important in genetics work.