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Onorah @onorah.bsky.social · 15d

Are you autistic and living in Australia? If so, please consider completing my research survey. It takes 45-60min and will help us understand the experience and impacts of autism identification, to try improve access to autism identification. tinyurl.com/autism-uc14359 #autismresearch #psychresearch

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What changes after autism identification?
We are seeking both Autistic and non-Autistic adults living in Australia to complete a 45-60 minute online survey regarding your life, outlook, and experiences.
Eligibility criteria:
- Australian resident
- 18 years or older
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Participants who complete the survey will be eligible for entry to a prize draw to win one of eight gift vouchers (1x $100 + 2x $50 + 5x $20)
Take the survey: https://tinyurl.com/autism-uc14359
The project has been approved by the Human Research Ethics Committee of the University of Canberra (HREC = #14359).
Questions? Send them to nikki.watson@canberra.edu.au

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The Doctor of Spooktober Past @lucidillusions.in · 41m

You could also give this a read, as we count down to Halloween.

Onorah @onorah.bsky.social · 3d

Looking for existential dread this Spooktober?
@lucidillusions.in has you covered 🫣

www.patreon.com/posts/140797...

The Missing Shadow | Lucid Illusions

www.patreon.com

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 1h

WOW! Our survey of scientists who stopped using Twitter and started using Bluesky is now the #1 most-shared on social media article in the history of the journal Integrative and Comparative Biology! Thanks for reading it, everyone! @sicbjournals.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1093/icb/... 🧪

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky

Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

doi.org

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Onorah @onorah.bsky.social · 14h

interest and compassion I would need to care about their redemption enough to read another book. I read Satan’s Affair a while back, and that was super messed up but Sibby (?) was a more believable and well-developed character than these two. I just don’t get the hype around this book.

Onorah @onorah.bsky.social · 14h

his actions, so again, we have no way to understand his decision making or why she grants him redemption, except - spoilers - she just does, because the orgasms are great or something. Apparently there’s proper redemption in the next book, but neither of these characters inspire the kind of …

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Onorah @onorah.bsky.social · 14h

“Well I wouldn’t make those choices in that situation but I see why she is” then it develops compassion, but she’s written as a Mary Sue/self-insert so we don’t have that benefit. Same for Zade, just an arrogant vigilante with an irrelevant nondescript backstory, with nothing to explain or redeem …

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Onorah @onorah.bsky.social · 14h

I forgot to live-post while I read the rest, so here’s where I’ve landed:

I think the problematic part of this is the Mary Sue/self-insert of it all, because that’s what normalises and romanticises the red flags and outright abuse. If she were a more developed protagonist about whom you could say …

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Onorah @onorah.bsky.social · 3d

Looking for existential dread this Spooktober?
@lucidillusions.in has you covered 🫣

www.patreon.com/posts/140797...

The Missing Shadow | Lucid Illusions

www.patreon.com

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Onorah @onorah.bsky.social · 4d

I mean. You gotta do a quality control check 😉

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Onorah @onorah.bsky.social · 4d

Nearly? Are they bigger elsewhere? This is just the size we get here.

Screen shot from Dan Murphy’s (Australian alcohol retailer) showing four bottles of Hennessy Cognac, each 700mL

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Onorah @onorah.bsky.social · 5d

I had to stop at around 33% because there was a spicy (but very not my kink iykyk) scene and there was a very proper looking old dude in the seat next to me on the plane, so I felt weird reading it and switched to a cosy fantasy instead. At PAX for the next few days so live-posting will be erratic.

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Onorah @onorah.bsky.social · 6d

Okay admittedly the plot is pretty good. Like. wtf is up with this *spoilers*? I’m a lil invested.

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Onorah @onorah.bsky.social · 6d

Not because of the content - who am I to yuck other people’s problematic yum - but because of the writing. It tries so hard to be dark and moody but the adjectives tilt towards silly tbh. And the edition I’m reading desperately needs a line editor to go through it bc yikes. Sloppy feels harsh but 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Onorah @onorah.bsky.social · 6d

Next on my live-posting book rambles is Haunting Adeline. Not normally my jam (too much gratuitous violence and romanticising red flags) but it was in last year’s Goodreads top 60 and I set myself a reading challenge to read all 60, so here we are, 26% in. I would have DNFd if not for the challenge.

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 8d

Boxes also work on bobcats

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Onorah @onorah.bsky.social · 10d

We don’t call it grad school here, so maybe I’m confused, but my masters/PhD experience has been wonderfully collaborative and supportive, from my supervisors to my peers. Is this unique to Australia and/or psychology? Or did I just luck out with an awesome university and cohort?

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Onorah @onorah.bsky.social · 10d

I binge-read the whole thing and thankfully fake-dating is my favourite trope, because it helped suspend disbelief.
The wild thing to me was that, even in the author’s notes, Hazelwood describes grad school as competitive. Sure, getting in was competitive, but actual post-grad has been anything but.

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The Doctor of Spooktober Past @lucidillusions.in · 10d

If you're seeing this, you could follow my work on patreon, members get a story a week + more.

(I'm trying to get 30 followers this month)

You could pick a copy of my flash fiction
on itch: lucidillusions.itch.io/forgotten-al...
or kofi ko-fi.com/s/d33c50d04d

(at spooktober discount)

#TBBChat

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Neugin @lostcitymagic.bsky.social · 10d

Unclench your jaw.

Relax your brow.

Go get a drink of water.

See if you've taken your meds

Eat something.

Doesn't matter what you look like right now, i think you look amazing.

Because you do.

You're a wonderful person.

And have this. 🫂🖤 you did great today. You made it through

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 11d

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

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Onorah @onorah.bsky.social · 10d

What the actual F am I reading? This is hilarious but in no way at all reflects my experience of PhD life, beyond the reason for starting a PhD.

(For one, the academics in my faculty are lovely humans)

This is gonna take some serious suspension of disbelief to finish. The giggle factor will help.

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Onorah @onorah.bsky.social · 10d

Wait. Random guy she met tells her that’s the best reason for doing a PhD.

Which I guess I already knew. Why else would someone do this?

Wait. Why am I seeking validation from a fictional character?!?

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Onorah @onorah.bsky.social · 10d

I’m FINALLY reading The Love Hypothesis and am absolutely mortified that my reason for doing a PhD is almost verbatim what Olive’s is. Although I have enough faith in the psychology/autism research community that someone else would research this if I don’t, so at least I have that going for me 🤷🏻‍♀️

Photo of a Kindle showing a page from The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood.
Relevant text, some of which is highlighted:

“Academia's a lot of bucks for very little bang. What matters is whether your reason to be in academia is good enough. So, why the Ph.D., Olive?"
She thought about it, and thought, and thought even more. And then she spoke carefully. [highlight begins] "I have a question. A specific research question. Something that I want to find out.” [highlight ends] There. Done. This was the answer. "Something I'm afraid no one else will discover if I don't.”

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Onorah @onorah.bsky.social · 15d

Are you autistic and living in Australia? If so, please consider completing my research survey. It takes 45-60min and will help us understand the experience and impacts of autism identification, to try improve access to autism identification. tinyurl.com/autism-uc14359 #autismresearch #psychresearch

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Bossett @bossett.social · Sep 14

birdposting

these guys are SO tiny

A silvereye (a tiny, yellow-headed bird with a white circle around its eye) dangling from a small branch covered in young white flowers

A silvereye (a tiny, yellow-headed bird with a white circle around its eye) dangling from a small branch covered in young white flowers - the bird has its wing outstretched as it takes off

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