Vaila

Burrowing owl with his eyes closed. The eyelids are covered in tiny feathers.

I just love the fluffy eyelids. 🪶

Flyer titled “Call for Participants!” for a study called “Exploring Autistic Women’s Experience of Gender,” with a rainbow infinity symbol. It invites autistic women over 18 to take part in a neurodivergent-friendly, non-judgmental study about gender and womanhood. The study involves a confidential 25–30 minute online interview on gender identity and perception, conducted as part of a Higher Diploma in psychology. Contact: Alana at 20048476@mydbs.ie for more information.

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS
Exploring Autistic Women's Experience of Gender

If you are an Autistic woman over 18 & would like to discuss your experience of gender & womanhood in a neurodivergent- friendly, non-judgemental space then you are qualified to participate!

Contact Alana at 20048476@mydbs.ie

Autistic People - Where are we in 2025? The Positives and Realities Autism. Here we are, 100 years on from the work of Sukhareva, and 80 years on from the original misunderstandings in the 1940s.   So, what...

annsautism.blogspot.com/2025/06/auti... May be helpful for those that prefer modern research findings, grounded in curiosity, deep listening, and humility in knowing when we could have done better in the past.

“It’s on my list. The problem is I now can’t find my list. It’s probably in one of these 47 notebooks. I’ll have a look for it – right after I finish this level of Farm Heroes Saga.”

New study highlights the day-to-day importance of autistic flow | BPS Work by Daniella Wain and colleagues details a non-pathologising view of flow states in autistic individuals, and how they maintain wellbeing

New study highlights the day-to-day importance of autistic flow
Work by Daniella Wain and colleagues details a non-pathologising view of flow states in autistic individuals, and how they maintain wellbeing

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By Emily Reynolds
03 March 2026
www.bps.org.uk/research-dig...

Angry burrowing owl.

Good morning! 🪶

Lots of duckweed and a small bullfrog giving the world a side-eye

Bullfrog of the day (mood)!
Wednesday, 4 Mar 2026

I'm dyspraxic (a common co-occurrence for autistics), so can't drive a car. Not easy with 2 kids

I have a PhD, but not GCSE maths, despite 5 attempts to get it

Fuck ANYONE trying to divide autistic people into "high" and "low functioning" sheep and goats because we've never sat for their MRS

FEATURE Uta Frith: why I no longer think autism is a spectrum The autism spectrum has widened to the point of collapse, affecting how teachers should support autistic pupils in the classroom, researcher Uta Frith tells Helen Amass

"So true!" I tell myself, opening the article and beginning to read. "'Spectrum' is such a reductivist metaphor for the complex, multifaceted colourwheel that is the autistic self-in-the-world!"

Anyway. This was not that, and is in fact a bag of offensive (and indeed reductivist) old wank

Exciting times on Anchor Island as we check #kakapo nests for hatching. We’re letting eggs hatch in nests to reduce management intensity. Last night I found these two newly-hatched chicks in Konini’s nest, along with a fertile egg I carried back under a lunar eclipse. #kakapo2026 #conservation

Poster advertising Autistic Mothers & Children's Social Work Study - full text is in the post.

📣 RESEARCH OPPORTUNITY 📣

Autistic Mothers & Children's Social Work Study

We are looking for #Autistic mothers who can say "YES" to all:

✅ Are mothers, including birth mothers, stepmothers, same-sex partners, adoptive mothers, foster carers, or kinship carers, etc.
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Happy Weird Pride Day to all who celebrate!

I'm really happy with how it's coming together so far. I hope we'll see a good few people posting bits of writing and videos and things today, too, besides the things I've directly organised myself (with help from many others)...

Grey cloud hanging over a sunny coastline.

Not that you can tell but it was snowing when I took this. And unfortunately there was also a camera crew loitering in my normally deserted locale, probably looking for otters. So I went home.

#Winter #Scotland

Cover illustration for the board game Birdwatcher. A pair of Blue Birds-of-Paradise are here courting among tropical foliage. The male hangs upside down above the female, flaring out his breast and flank feathers and waving two long ribbon-like tail plumes while she assesses his display.

Looking for new and creative ways to impress your valentine? Try hanging upside down by your toenails and making yourself look extra-wide!

🎨🪶 #SciArt #BirdArt

Ice sitting on top of a voe. Yellowed grass and grey clouds.

Sea freezing again here.

#Winter #Scotland

AUTSCAPE (@autscape@c.im) Attached: 1 image Dear Autscape attendees and allies, We at Autscape are very happy to announce that registration for #OnlineAutscape2026 “Evolving Autistic Space Online” is now open! The event wil...

Please spread the word: registration for #OnlineAutscape2026 “Evolving Autistic Space Online” is now open! We've got an amazing line-up of presenters & more: c.im/@autscape/11...
#Autscape #ActuallyAutistic #neurodiversity #neurodivergent #neurodivergence #autism #AutisticSpace #autistic #conference

Colourful bubbles in the dark, with Happy New Year! and the Autscape logo.

Save the dates for our 2026 events:

⭐ #OnlineAutscape2026: Evolving Autistic Space Online
📅 6-8 February, Zoom & Discord

⭐ #Autscape2026: Autism and Neurodiversity in Society
📅 17-20 August, High Leigh conference centre in Hertfordshire

www.autscape.org

#Autscape #ActuallyAutistic #autisticspace

Remember applications close on 28th February 2026. Get your application in now! (Also still taking donations to the fund)

AUTSCAPE (@autscape@c.im) Attached: 1 image Registration for #OnlineAutscape2026 is nearly ready to open! The Autscape Programme Team received an abundance of high quality proposals. We have included as many as possible in ...

Registration for #OnlineAutscape2026 is nearly ready to open!

As we wait for final confirmations to publish the whole programme, we would like to introduce our guest from Australia, Dr Sharon Zivkovic. See: c.im/@autscape/11...

#autscape #autism #ActuallyAutistic #employment #SocialEnterprise

Woof! - Album by Hannah Gadsby Listen to Woof! by Hannah Gadsby on YouTube Music - a dedicated music app with official songs, music videos, remixes, covers, and more.

New Hannah Gadsby for us all. #woof

music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

A coloured pencil drawing of a mountain hare in snow. Drawn on warm grey paper. There are snowflakes falling, and the hare is in the bottom right of the image, hunkered down.

Day twenty-three of #ArtAdventCalendar

Here is a coloured pencil drawing of a mountain hare in the snow.

angled-down image of a toad, facing right and sitting on a substrate of dirt and dried grasses. The toad's overall color is a pale yellowish green, and there are random splotches of charcoal gray and greenish yellow. The sides and limbs of the toad are covered with warty tubercules, some greenish, some yellow. The iris of the eye is greenish yellow and flecked with black, and the pupil is dark and horizontally elliptical.

For #FrogFriday here's one from back in 2021, an Eastern Green Toad (Anaxyrus debilis debilis) from southern Texas. One of the smaller 'true toads' in the U.S. and toadally lovely. #herps #frogs #NaturePhotography 🌿

#TigerBeetles — the #Christmas lights of the #insect world! #biodiversity

(Fig. 1 from Duran et al. 2020)
doi.org/10.3390/genes1…

Photograph of a brown velvety butterfly with light yellow band and blue spots along the edges of its wings. It is perched on a bare twig with wings spread. The background is soft focus beige.

Spring survivor #ArtAdventCalendar #Photography

An overwintered Mourning Cloak butterfly warms up in the early spring sunshine

A closeup photo of a beautiful, sparkling turquoise weevil on a mossy stick against and orange background.

Here is your Wednesday Weevil, waving. It's a broad-nosed weevil, (unsure of the species), that I spotted on a dirt road in the mountains of Colombia in '23. I initially moved to pick it up because I thought it was a small piece of trash, like a bit of shiny candy wrapper. 🐙🌿📷 #BugSky

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New poll shows @scottishgreens.org on course to double MSPs

The IPSOS Mori poll shows a record Green result and puts us within touching distance of Labour in 2nd place.

People want bold solutions to the cost of living crisis and the climate emergency.

It is only Greens who are offering them.

Very true in my experience, the system that’s supposed to be there to help you inflicts the most horrible experiences by not believing you, manipulations, incompetence, gaslighting, and threats of lawyers. The power they hold makes everything worse. Good to know it’s recognised somewhere at least.

Would recommend signing up to mailing list for these seminars, this one was excellent.

A beautiful male mountain bluebird (two shades of blue light and dark) sits on a line of barb wire against a brown backdrop.

Bird on a wire (mountain bluebird) #Bird #Nature #Wildlife #ArtAdventCalendar

Brutal.

“Streeting, whose Wikipedia page falsely asserts he was born “in 1983” instead of “yesterday”, has recently decided to go after the ADHDers with the same punk-rock disregard for scientific rigour and empirical evidence he applies to attacking trans and disabled people.”