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Community newsletter: Camouflaging, phenotypes, autistic people in academia
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In this week’s community newsletter, we cover another camouflaging paper and discuss why phenotypes are important in genetics work.
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Science & Society
From funding decisions to scientific fraud, a wide range of societal factors shape autism research.
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Community newsletter: Theory of mind, using historical control data for animal research
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In this week's community newsletter, we discuss the pathways theory of mind activates and a statistical tool to use fewer control animals.
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Week of MarchMar1st
2021
Spotted around the web: Diagnosing autism in a pandemic, clinical trial recruitment, Ph.D. pay gap
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Here is a roundup of news and research for the week of 1 March.
News / Profiles
Black autism researchers weigh in on field’s past, future
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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.
February 2021
Week of FebruaryFeb
22nd
22nd
2021
News / Spotted
Spotted around the web: Masking traits, virtual diagnoses, new autism-linked genes
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Here is a roundup of news and research for the week of 22 February.
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Community newsletter: Anorexia services for autistic women, camouflaging and mental health, INSAR goes virtual again
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In this week’s community newsletter, we discuss a paper that looked at what autistic women with eating disorders say about services offered to them.
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Opinion / Q&A
How two researchers built the first genetics cohort of African children with autism
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In this recorded interview, Maria Chahrour and Leah Seyoum-Tesfa talk about how they work closely with immigrant communities to increase diversity in genetic studies of autism.
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Community newsletter: All about cognitive flexibility
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In this week’s community newsletter, we discuss a new paper on cognitive and behavioral flexibility and why it’s important during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Week of FebruaryFeb
8th
8th
2021
News / Spotted
Spotted around the web: Self-report accuracy, ‘The Black Spectrum,’ lab animal allergies
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Here is a roundup of news and research for the week of 8 February.
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Community newsletter: Research on camouflaging; a new epigenome
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In this week’s community newsletter, we talk about a new paper on camouflaging and a thorough human epigenome.
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Week of FebruaryFeb
1st
1st
2021
News / Spotted
Spotted around the web: Gender equity in grants, animal behavior pitfalls, Zoom fatigue
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Here is a roundup of news and research for the week of 1 February.
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January 2021
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Community newsletter: Spectrum sparks a literature review; using frogs as models
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In this week’s community newsletter, read about how Spectrum prompted a literature review, and using Xenopus tropicalis frogs to study autism genes.