If you are interested in doing a #PhD on #autism check out this opportunity, including a great project with me and the wonderful Dr Julia Cook on compassion-focused mental well-being approaches for autistic young people

Need a power/sample size calculation for a study or upcoming grant? Led by Emil Hodzic-Santor, we built a simple, free, and pain-free (!) shiny app. feedback welcome plz share with interested parties. check it out: powercalc.ca 🦾🤓 Michelle Sholzberg Kieran Campbell Lianne Jeffs

At Birkbeck School of Psychological Sciences we’re recruiting a new permanent Lecturer (Assistant Professor)! We’re particularly interested in researchers with an emerging record in cognitive neuroscience and/or computational approaches to cognition 🧠 💭 Deadline: 2nd Dec Link: cis7.bbk.ac.uk/internal/vacan…

Please consider taking part in Andrew's Project!

Paper out now in Autism Journal: "Autistic people differ from non-autistic people subjectively, but not objectively in their reasoning" with Prof Sarah Beck & Andrew Surtees journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…

🔔Please consider taking part in our research on #compensation in #autism led by the fantastic @alannajshand.bsky.social Full details👇

📣🧠📣 I’m hiring !! 📣🧠📣 We’re looking for a postdoc to join The Uncertainty Lab Birkbeck School of Psychological Sciences. You’ll lead fMRI work on a new project funded by The Leverhulme Trust - studying how communication with others alters private metacognition of our own minds. cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/postdo…

Interested in doing a #PhD about #autism? Dr Julia Cook and I have a project on self-compassion and autistic young people in the KCL MRC DTP catalogue - apply, just a week to go, deadline 1pm 29/10/2024!

post-doc position + possible PhD positions to work on neural mechanisms for reading development - DM me for details! UCL Psych & Lang Sci tinyurl.com/c6jjkbvu

Our new paper on collaborative learning in aging is out! Collaborative learning outcomes are unaffected by age or partner familiarity, so older adults can learn with a stranger too tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Dr Catherine Crompton Paul Hoffman Maria Wolters Kelly Wolfe

The April Experimental Psychology Society meeting opens for submissions on Monday. I'm giving a prize lecture & Dr Jo Taylor has organised an amazing symposium: Recent perspectives on the mental lexicon. eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/

One of our biggest undertakings from the last years is finally out! 🥳 In this work with Victoria Southgate and with Dimitris Askitis (tales from the end of times) 's careful analyses we provide EEG evidence that the other's perspective not merely modulates, but biases and dominates over, infants'

📢Apply now 🌍Global Doctoral Scholarship with Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn in @st_psy 💸Joint PhD opportunity with tuition fee and stipend funding ⏲️Applications welcome by 21 March 2025 👉tinyurl.com/BOPNPhD

I'm excited to share my first registered report on social interactions in Autism Journal! Our study explores how social motor synchrony – the natural mirroring of movements – impacts rapport between autistic, neurotypical, and mixed dyads. Thread 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…

Fantastic to be at University of St Andrews for Scottish Cognitive Ageing Network (SCAN)’s Spring 2025 meeting, organised by Lizzie Bradford. Full afternoon of talks and posters on the latest research in cognitive ageing, brain health and dementia

Our biannual meeting has started! Today, we've got many interesting talks and posters about cognitive ageing, and excellent attendance. Keep an eye out for some information on the talks and posters. Many thanks to Lizzie Bradford for having us today!