autism scientist; @BU; avid reader
Massachusetts, USA
Joined February 2021
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Helen Tager-Flusberg retweeted
New blogpost: my lab's AI policies and norms.
I'm trying to figure out how researchers should make use of AI to accelerate discovery without letting it replace human understanding or falling off the "slop cliff." Here are some ideas.
babieslearninglanguage.blogs…
Helen Tager-Flusberg retweeted
We don't know this man, Doug Whitley, but he's definitely an American hero for writing this excellent letter-to-the-editor.
#ResistTrump
Helen Tager-Flusberg retweeted
We're looking for a post-doc to join our lab @LAND_IIT, focusing on ways to meaningfully stratify the autisms at multiple levels. Please get in touch if you have questions and share with anyone that might be interested. app.ncoreplat.com/jobpositio…
Helen Tager-Flusberg retweeted
Our latest article on #xenocortication using neural organoids is in @Nature this week
Today in @Nature, we report a new approach to studying human brain development and modeling disease in vivo.
Human neural #assembloids and #organoids have opened new ways to study development in vitro, but they also have important limitations. Transplantation can provide a more physiological environment, yet human cortical cells then develop within a rodent brain that matures much faster, constraining their growth and integration.
To address some of these limitations and obtain more advanced functional readouts relevant to disease biology, we generated #apallial mice, in which ~98% of the cortex and hippocampus fail to form, creating space for transplanted human cortical organoids to grow and integrate extensively.
We call these #xenocortical mice (XCX).
Nearly 7 years in the making. Congratulations to an extraordinary team and wonderful collaborators!
Link to the article below 👇
Helen Tager-Flusberg retweeted
“While comments received over time can provide helpful context, this specific draft and the public comments submitted in relation to it were what the Committee was supposed to review.”
Read the full statement here: autismsociety.org/while-the-…
Helen Tager-Flusberg retweeted
‘The tyranny of posture’. So sharp as always. The great singer poet Leonard Cohen - the greatest Canadian in history - on the purity tests and witch hunts of the ideological activists of our time.
Helen Tager-Flusberg retweeted
There is a sickness worse than wokeness: the viciousness and mindlessness of the new right. (Just as on the left, "fascist" means "anyone to the right of me, "woke" on the right has come to mean "anyone to the left of me.) nytimes.com/2026/08/27/opini…
Helen Tager-Flusberg retweeted
This.
‘Jason Arday was failed by the system — and by me’ @matthewsyed
thetimes.com/article/aadd8f6…
Helen Tager-Flusberg retweeted
I wrote about the death of Jason Arday.
theatlantic.com/culture/2026…
Helen Tager-Flusberg retweeted
🚨BIG NEWS! 🚨 The Psychological Science department at @Vassar is hiring for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position!
Applications due 10/15
See job ad for details: vassar.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com…
Helen Tager-Flusberg retweeted
For the cover of the September issue, I wrote about why I left Bates College, the tenure track, and academia entirely. Come for the attempted lynching, stay for the union-busting, decolonial chemistry, and soft rabbits.
Much of @Tyler_A_Harper’s academic career had felt like a fairy tale. When he landed a tenure-track job, one adviser said that it was like “watching the last dinosaur being born.” But after few years at Bates College, his faith in academia had shattered: theatlantic.com/magazine/202…
Helen Tager-Flusberg retweeted
We put our 8 recommendations for the IACC's Draft Strategic Plan on one page. Comment deadline is August 20 at 5 PM ET.
Learn more: profoundautism.org/advocacy/…
Helen Tager-Flusberg retweeted
Today marks an important milestone for profound autism research with the publication of a peer-reviewed consensus research definition for profound autism.
Learn more about what this means for families, clinicians, researchers, and policymakers:
mailchi.mp/profoundautism.or…
Helen Tager-Flusberg retweeted
In this Debate paper, @HelenTager explores how to combat misinformation in child mental health with a focus on protecting the integrity of #autism research and practice in the United States. bit.ly/4bpa2G6
From @acamh's @TheCAMH
Helen Tager-Flusberg retweeted
We love when autism is in the headlines, but we hate when it's misinformation.
Join us in 3 weeks to tackle the misleading information about autism and stand confident in the facts.
🎟️: AdvancesInAutism30.eventbrit…
Helen Tager-Flusberg retweeted
There is nothing wrong with having an intellectual disability.
Too often, efforts to reduce stigma create distance from people with the highest support needs, as though intellectual disability is something lesser.
An inclusive disability community values every kind of mind.
Helen Tager-Flusberg retweeted
Want to improve your science literacy and critical thinking about controversies in autism? Join @NCSAutismOrg for our webinar, "What's the Proof?" this Thursday. Featuring Giacomo Vivanti and @AHalladay212 of @AutismScienceFd Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi…
Helen Tager-Flusberg retweeted
Are Chinese people in Britain chased down the street for what Beijing does to Uighurs? Are Russians here hunted for Ukraine? Are Afghans attacked over how women are treated back home? No. But Jews are singled out, blamed, and targeted for Israel. The hypocrisy isn’t even subtle.
Helen Tager-Flusberg retweeted
Excellent piece by @joshglancy
Golders Green was our blessed plot. These attacks have poisoned the ground
thetimes.com/article/3326c44…
I too grew up in Golders Green. I’m grateful for this eloquent piece that articulates what’s been on my mind over the last few days.
We left the Pale and escaped to Whitechapel. We left Whitechapel and found Golders Green, a peaceful slice of suburban England that we could call home.
Peaceful, that is, until now.
Wrote an essay on recent events for @thetimes
times-comment.com/newgolders…
