What I’ve Been Up to Recently

3 min readSep 20, 2023

In case you missed the announcement, the Mosaic of Minds blog has officially moved to Substack, which means new posts are published there.

So, if you’re not on Substack (yet), here’s what you may have missed:

Paywalls Begone! How to Get Almost Any Research Article Free: 4 ways to find free copies of any academic journal article.

Screenshot of webpage of Mosaic of Minds Substack showing the title, subtitle, date, and cover image for the post “Paywalls begone! How to get almost any research article free.” The cover image is a screenshot of the title page of a PDF, featuring a stylized face.

How ChatGPT and Generative AI Will Affect Research With Humans: Science and medical researchers face privacy and consent issues.

Stay tuned for researchers to become aware of how companies use people’s information without consent, and change the consent process, and perhaps the data management process, accordingly.

The Top 2 Ways Expertise Changes How You See: When you learn a lot about something, you look at it differently.

Screenshot of the Mosaic of Minds Substack showing the title, subtitle, and cover image for the post “How Expertise Changes How You See.” The image is a close-up of a woman’s eyes.

This one summarizes lessons learned, and questions raised, from my masters thesis research on perceptual expertise.

Five Reasons Why Real-Life Memory Difficulties Don’t Always Show Up on Memory Tests: Real life makes recall hard in ways psychological tests in controlled environments don’t.

Screenshot of the Mosaic of Minds Substack showing the title, subtitle, and cover image for the post “Why Real-Life Memory Difficulties Don’t Always Show up on Standard Tests.” The image shows a tree in the shape of a human head, with leaves floating off the top, representing memory loss.

Elsewhere on the Web

I also write for Kind Theory, a wonderful non-profit organization that works to make the world a kinder, more accepting place for neurodivergent people. Some highlights:

To Accept Neurodivergence, Cultivate Compassion for Yourself and Others

Why People With ADHD Write Such Long Posts (and Also Have Trouble Reading Them)

Law Enforcement is Failing the Autistic Community: Here’s How Kind Theory is Addressing this Huge Overlooked Equity Issue

A whole series on why neurodivergent people are constantly misunderstood, and what we can do about it, which starts here.

Last, but very much not least: How Neurodiverse Communities Changed My Life (And Might Improve Yours, Too!)

Screenshot of the cover image for a Kind Theory blog post. The image shows a black and white text cloud in the shape of hands coming together to form a heart at the center. The words in the hand are names of types of neurodivergence, such as dyslexia and BPD, and related words like neurodiversity, genes, attention, mood, etc. On top of the hands in big pink letters are the words “NEURODIVERSE COMMUNITY.”

Enjoy.