Michelle Dawson posts analysis on Twitter/X and Bluesky (@autismcrisis)

This project documents public posts by Michelle Dawson (@autismcrisis) on autism science, scientific publications, and related debates. Twitter/X is treated as a historical archive, covering the period from 10 October 2009 to 12 October 2023. Bluesky is used for ongoing monitoring from 13 October 2023 to the present.

AutiHub prioritizes current processing on Bluesky because its open API enables more robust, regular, and reproducible synchronization. Since moving to Bluesky, Michelle Dawson has generally posted the same content on both platforms. Bluesky data is therefore preferred for active monitoring, while Twitter/X is used primarily as a historical archive.

The project is included in AutiHub because of the exceptional continuity and scale of this activity. Over more than fifteen years, Michelle Dawson has consistently documented, discussed, and critically engaged with autism research, commenting on more than 10,000 scientific publications. This sustained body of public work constitutes a distinctive, non-institutional and independent form of engagement with autism science. AutiHub therefore considers it part of the living history of autism research and its scientific debates, and aims to preserve it as a searchable and accessible archive.

Coverage

Twitter/X archive

From 10 Oct 2009 to 12 Oct 2023.

Bluesky monitoring

From 13 Oct 2023 to today.

Overview

Total posts

14985

Twitter/X: 13922 (92.9%)
Bluesky: 1063 (7.1%)

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Posts with a link in the text

14238 (95.0%)

Twitter/X: 13188 (94.7%)
Bluesky: 1050 (98.8%)

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Structured scientific references (DOI) or study registration records

9067

Twitter/X: 8256 (59.3%)
Bluesky: 1029 (96.8%)

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Posts with a quotation-based citation

9555 (63.8%)

Twitter/X: 8535 (61.3%)
Bluesky: 1020 (96.0%)

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Posts with a question mark outside quotation marks

4698 (31.4%)

Twitter/X: 4131 (29.7%)
Bluesky: 567 (53.3%)

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Cross-search Michelle Dawson’s Twitter/X and Bluesky posts with the scientific references and study registration records identified from links integrated into those posts.

This makes it possible to combine post-level questions, quotation-based citations, dates and networks with reference-level filters such as title, abstract, author, journal/source, publication date and autism-related terms.

Frequent authors and journals

Explore the study authors, journals and sources that appear most often among DOI-based scientific references cited in the posts.

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The project combines current Bluesky monitoring with a historical Twitter/X archive.

Search uses stored metadata and post text, while public reading relies on official platform embeds and links whenever possible.

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Latest integrated posts

Post published on Bluesky on 16 Aug 2026 11:05

"The key questions, however, are not just about diagnostic prevalence but also the burden of mental ill health across the spectrum, functioning across different contexts and the risks and benefits of intervention"? acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... editorial perspective, autism-relevant
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DOI work

Anita Thapar, Daniel S. Pine (2026). Diagnosis in child and adolescent psychopathology: A useful tool when applied with care or a misunderstood, politicised concept?. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, jcpp.70213. Wiley.

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Post published on Bluesky on 15 Aug 2026 11:25

"autism-specific early intervention (EI) has positive impacts"? but "we still do not have a high degree of certainty about the effectiveness of autism-specific EI"?--more like no certainty re balance of benefits vs harms, long-term outcomes, etc journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... commentary, COIs
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DOI work

Ashley de Marchena, Andrea Trubanova Wieckowski, Brian Freedman, Lindsay Shea, Jill Locke, Peter F. Cronholm, Stephen S. Leff, Giacomo Vivanti, et al. (2026). From Waiting to Action: Why the Autism Field Must Embrace Efficient Service Delivery Models for Diagnostic Assessment. Autism, 13623613261474938. SAGE Publications.

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Post published on Bluesky on 14 Aug 2026 11:51

"Despite meaningful advances in reproducibility of biological factors associated with autism, clinically actionable biomarkers remain elusive"--review, COIs www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... note: "a biomarker is not a measure of how an individual feels, functions, or survives"
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DOI work

Jason W. Griffin, Brianna Cairney, William E. Carson, Lacey Chetcuti, Adrien E.E. Dubois, Guillaume Dumas, Sebastien Jacquemont, Shafali Jeste, et al. (2026). Recent progress of large-scale biomarker consortia and paths forward in biomarker development for autism. Biological Psychiatry. Elsevier BV.

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Post published on Bluesky on 13 Aug 2026 11:55

Behavior analysts use food reinforcers (dark chocolate, chocolate sandwich cookies, strawberry toaster pastries) to train an autistic adult, who has received "more than 10 years of ABA therapy," to stuff envelopes, fold washcloths, etc onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... ABA in 2026, COIs
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DOI work

Lindsey Cicalese, Katherine A. Cucinotta, Daniel R. Mitteer, Robert H. LaRue (2026). Increasing Task Completion in Autistic Adults While Concurrently Reinforcing Functional Communication and Challenging Behavior. Behavioral Interventions, 41(4), e70132. Wiley.

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Post published on Bluesky on 12 Aug 2026 11:18

"While some theories suggest differences in predictive processing underlie autism..., the current findings challenge the robustness of empirical evidence for differences in volatility estimates and learning rate updates between autistic and non-autistic adults" link.springer.com/article/10.1... free
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DOI work

Irene Sophia Plank, Alexandra Pior, Anna Yurova, Julia Nowak, Zhuanghua Shi, Christine M. Falter-Wagner (2026). Predicting emotional valence in autism: a preregistered study in the Bayesian Brain framework. Molecular Autism, 17(1), 32. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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Post published on Bluesky on 11 Aug 2026 11:13

"while the Clinical Global Impressions scale is widely used to evaluate change in autistic individuals following psychosocial interventions, inconsistent application limits its reliability, validity, and interpretability" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... systematic review, free
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DOI work

Magdalena Glod, Victoria Grahame, Jacqui Rodgers (2026). The Use of the Clinical Global Impressions Scale in Psychosocial Interventions for Autism Characteristics: A Systematic Review. Autism, 13623613261472939. SAGE Publications.

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Post published on Bluesky on 10 Aug 2026 10:37

Registered: "the first comprehensive systematic review of the literature on early developmental differences in infants with family history of ADHD and/or autism compared to infants without family history" www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/vie... note: included age range is 0-36 months
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Systematic review registry

Elizabeth Shephard, Thayna Mendes (2026). A systematic review and meta-analysis: developmental differences associated with family history of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism in the first three years of life. CRD/PROSPERO. University of Sao Paulo.

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Post published on Bluesky on 9 Aug 2026 11:18

Definitions of developmental regression in children "varied in the reporting of fundamental features such as the duration of loss, the child's age when regression was first reported and the types of skills lost" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... scoping review, autism-relevant, free
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DOI work

Kirsten Furley, Jenny Fairthorne, Vishnu Priya Mohanakumar Sindhu, Katrina Williams, Amanda Brignell (2026). Defining and Measuring Developmental Regression During Childhood: A Scoping Review. Autism Research, e70325. Wiley.

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Post published on Bluesky on 7 Aug 2026 12:16

"Some autistic children with relatively high verbal abilities may produce limited spontaneous speech" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... "neither an autistic child's speaking status nor the amount of generative language this child spontaneously produces necessarily matches their verbal skills"
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DOI work

Federica Beccaria, Liesl Leenen, Marie Kolenberg, Klaartje Vertongen, Ellen Demurie, Marielle Weyland, Petra Warreyn, Herbert Roeyers, et al. (2026). Defining Language Profiles in Young Autistic Children Across Verbal, Speaking, and Generative Dimensions. Autism Research, e70324. Wiley.

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Post published on Bluesky on 6 Aug 2026 11:47

ESDM vs non-ESDM early autism interventions across 9 studies (only 1 is an RCT), where autistics received 3-27 months of intervention? link.springer.com/article/10.1... "little evidence of quantitative differences between intervention types" "many null effects of cumulative intervention intensity"
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1 integrated reply by Michelle Dawson

6 Aug 2026 12:07

Note: no, the authors do not address harms to autistics from early interventions, or even mention this possibility, in any way, in 2026

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DOI work

Veronica Mandelli, Elena Maria Busuoli, Michel Godel, Nada Kojovic, Yana Sinai-Gavrilov, Tali Gev, Annarita Contaldo, Eric Courchesne, et al. (2026). Predicting early intervention outcomes in autism via individual participant data mega-analysis. Molecular Autism, 17(1), 33. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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