Eleonora Marocchini, PhD
🔎 Psycholinguist in autism (empathy & pragmatics), with a thing for STS
♾️ Independent researcher at IGDORE | Critical ND Studies Fellow at IMH, Durham Uni
🎤 Freelancer in SciComm as @narraction | Author of “Neurodivergente”
🌈 neuroqueer | they/she
- Lately I’ve been so disheartened that I forgot to share here that my piece on “Reframing Social Communication through the Double Empathy lens” was published in The Double Empathy Reader, curated by Damian Milton - we’ll present it online today, here 👇🏼 #autism #DoubleEmpathy #pragmatics
- As I leave @durhamimh.bsky.social, my contribution to the Critical ND Studies takeover comes out. It’s a brief version of my talk: an attempt to speak about actually neurodivergent communication (and not just autistic communication). Thank you again @ndhumanities.bsky.social for the support 🌱
- "A critical view of neurodivergent 'compensatory strategies' [in communication] makes it possible to frame them as chameleonic survival abilities to celebrate, rather than bad mimicking of neurotypical abilities." - @marocchini.bsky.social thepolyphony.org/2025/06/27/n...
- After a PhD in Cognitive Science, I find it particularly funny (and telling of how far I got from where I started) that the 1st panel I ever chaired was about “The Social Beyond Normativity” at the Critical Neurodiversity Studies Conference. Thanks @ndhumanities.bsky.social for making this happen!
- It was super interesting to hear from Nic Cottone, @alfredfreeborn.bsky.social and Lisa Schmidt-Herzog about their ideas of alienation, masking, and the need for an open epistemology to avoid essentialism in the neurodiversity movement!
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- Honored to share that I have been awarded a Critical Neurodiversity Fellowship and that I will attend the Conference in @durhamuniversity.bsky.social! Thank you @louisecreechan.bsky.social, @drrobertchapman.bsky.social, @ndhumanities.bsky.social and all the people involved in the conference. [1/3]
- Reposted by Eleonora Marocchini, PhDWhen autism researchers from all sorts of disciplines, paradigms, methodologies, politics, and worldviews agree, you know the threats to science and to autistic people have gotten way outside the bounderies of typical scientific debate. www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
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- So many new faces, hi! I’m a neurodivergent PhD in Psychology with a background in Linguistics, turned independent researcher and SciCommer. Last published, a focus group study telling me how bad my early work on #ToM in #autism was. You can find it here (and on the OSF): doi.org/10.1111/1460...
- Another great starter pack for anyone interested in #autism - from an #ActuallyAutistic point of view!
- Reposted by Eleonora Marocchini, PhDA guide to BlueSky for Scientists * Common questions * Links to resources * An explanation of feeds * A directory of science feeds Please share with scientists on BlueSky! Written by me and @markrubin.bsky.social 🧪 #stats #PsychSciSky #neuroscience
