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

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.

Here is a roundup of news and research for the week of 22 August.

The two psychologists share tips to help autism researchers adopt established methods and make their work more transparent and reproducible.

Takeaways from two team-ups titillated Twitter this week — one on the effects of mutations in the PAX5 gene and one linking rare genetic mutations to a large number of diseases and traits. Plus a primer on dopamine with facts about dopamine fasting.