Oregon primate center scientists fight proposed sanctuary transition
21/05/2026 | 6 mins.
A group of employees has launched a series of campaigns to advocate for their work and argue against the center’s potential transition to an animal sanctuary.
Still no proof for facilitated spelling methods
21/05/2026 | 6 mins.
A systematic review into whether the “rapid prompting method” or “spelling to communicate” can help autistic people express themselves comes up empty yet again.
The 'secretly awesome' side of a teaching career
20/05/2026 | 6 mins.
The freedom to do “wacky” research projects that interest you is a major perk of the teaching stream, says Suzanne Wood, a teaching professor at the University of Toronto.
When autistic kids grow up
20/05/2026 | 2 mins.
An autistic researcher’s paper called attention to a huge disparity in autism funding research between children and adults. It nearly derailed her life.
What can AI teach us about 'emotions'?
18/05/2026 | 8 mins.
Exploring why Anthropic’s AI, Claude, displays something like emotion could ultimately help us better understand the function that emotions serve in humans.
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