Here is a roundup of news and research for the week of 5 September.

My recommendations aim to foster a collaborative relationship between researchers and the Autistic community, resulting in an increase in the availability of genetic data.

Autistic researchers describe the challenges they’ve faced in academia and how their non-autistic colleagues can make the workplace more inclusive.

Many autistic researchers say that academia could be the perfect place for them — but a number of obstacles stand in the way.

Autism’s “fearless” researcher takes on the big questions.

This week, we’re bringing you some labors of love: a thread lamenting the autism field’s focus on gene lists, a study introducing genetic diversity in mouse models, and long-awaited results from a biomarker study.

Here is a roundup of news and research for the week of 29 August.

The field of ABA needs more compassion and individualization.

Showing an association is not enough to determine causation.

A short time ago on Twitter feeds not so far, far away, a new voltage sensor called JEDI-2P (no, it’s not a lightsaber) had users jawing like Jawas, while other threads featured talk of mental health interventions and sex biases in autism research.