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Riccardo Fusaroli @fusaroli.bsky.social · 1d

Conversational turn-taking feels effortless, but it's a complex dance. We find social context—who you're talking to and what you're talking about—fundamentally changes conversational dynamics in both autistic & TD children. 1/

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Social Context Matters for Turn‐Taking Dynamics: A Comparative Study of Autistic and Typically Developing Children

Engaging in fluent conversation is a surprisingly complex task that requires interlocutors to promptly respond to each other in a way that is appropriate to the social context. In this study, we dise...

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Marlijn ter Bekke @marlijnterbekke.bsky.social · 1d

Happy with this popular science article about our work (with @lindadrijvers.bsky.social and @judithholler.bsky.social), showing that listeners use co-speech hand gestures to predict upcoming meaning ✋ www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

What Using Our Hands While Speaking Reveals About Our Brains

Researchers now have fascinating insights into how our brains function while we communicate — and our hand gestures hold the key.

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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 6d

New paper alert! Rare DNA changes in the SETBP1 gene are linked to speech problems & diverse syndromes affecting brain development. Work led by ace postdoc @maggiemkwong.bsky.social uncovered impact of different gene variants, coupling clinical/speech evaluation to molecular & cellular readouts.🧬🗣️🔬🧪

SETBP1 variants outside the degron disrupt DNA-binding, transcription and neuronal differentiation capacity to cause a heterogeneous neurodevelopmental disorder - Nature Communications

Different types of SETBP1 variants cause variable developmental syndromes with only partial clinical and functional overlaps. Here, the authors report that SETBP1 variants outside the degron region impair DNA-binding, transcription, and neuronal differentiation capacity and morphologies.

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Helen Tager-Flusberg @htagerf.bsky.social · 18d

A rewarding start to my day!

RobertNDouglass🇺🇳🇵🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺🇰🇷🇯🇵 @realantipartisan.bsky.social · 19d

Washington Journal
#CSPAN #CSPANWJ
Skeet at @c-span.bsky.social and cspanwj.bsky.social

Joining Center for Autism Research Excellence (CARE) Director Helen Tager-Flusberg @htagerf.bsky.social to discuss #autism, efforts to increase understanding of autism disorders.

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RobertNDouglass🇺🇳🇵🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺🇰🇷🇯🇵 @realantipartisan.bsky.social · 19d

Washington Journal
#CSPAN #CSPANWJ
Skeet at @c-span.bsky.social and cspanwj.bsky.social

Joining Center for Autism Research Excellence (CARE) Director Helen Tager-Flusberg @htagerf.bsky.social to discuss #autism, efforts to increase understanding of autism disorders.

WATCH: tinyurl.com/m8h3uzv7

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Forbes @forbes.com · 20d

Tylenol maker Kenvue is reeling after unsupported claims that its popular drug causes autism. Kennedy is unlikely to stop there.

RFK Jr. Is Targeting Vaccines And Tylenol. Are Prozac And Ozempic Next?

Tylenol maker Kenvue is reeling after unsupported claims that its popular drug causes autism. Kennedy is unlikely to stop there.

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Sam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social · 21d

Baccarelli was paid $700/hour for his work on a case against Tylenol. I will charge $0/hour to tell courts, FDA, and everyone else that correlations can arise from latent variables in the absence of a direct causal relationship.

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Harvard’s Public Health Dean Was Paid $150,000 to Testify Tylenol Causes Autism | News | The Harvard Crimson

Harvard School of Public Health Dean Andrea A. Baccarelli received at least $150,000 to testify against Tylenol’s manufacturer in 2023 — two years before he published research used by the Trump admini...

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by Eric J. Topol — Reposted by Helen Tager‐Flusberg

by Barack Obama — Reposted by Helen Tager‐Flusberg, Femi Oyebode, Marcus Noland , and 1 more Helen Tager‐Flusberg, Femi Oyebode, Marcus Noland, Patrik Lindenfors

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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · 23d

Gift article for any uniformed friends or family: experts overwhelmingly agree that the apparent increase in autism in USA is due to broader inclusion criteria and diagnoses. It is NOT caused by tylenol or vaccines
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/o...

Opinion | ‘This May Be the Most Difficult Day in My Career’: Experts React to Trump’s Autism Remarks

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by Richard M. Carpiano — Reposted by Helen Tager‐Flusberg

Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH @rmcarpiano.medsky.social · Sep 5

Nice to see organizations like the @autismsciencefd.bsky.social and @defendpublichealth.bsky.social getting ahead of these potential forthcoming claims in RFK Jr.'s eventual autism report. More of this needed and in other forums too. 🛟😷🧪 sociology

Here's Autism Science Foundation's statement...

Statement from Autism Science Foundation Regarding Wall Street Journal Report “RFK Jr., HHS to Link Autism to Tylenol Use in Pregnancy and Folate Deficiencies” - Autism Science Foundation

(September 5, 2025, 4:00 pm ET) This afternoon, The Wall Street Journal reported that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. will announce later this month that Tylenol has been identified as a cause of...

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