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.
Twitter/X archive
From 10 Oct 2009 to 12 Oct 2023.
Bluesky monitoring
From 13 Oct 2023 to today.
Structured scientific references (DOI) or study registration records
9092
Posts with a quotation-based citation
9579 (63.8%)
Posts with a question mark outside quotation marks
4710 (31.4%)
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.
Explore the study authors, journals and sources that appear most often among DOI-based scientific references cited in the posts.
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.
Learn more about technical aspects