📢New ARCH talk coming soon! Join us on December 10th to hear Howard Childs discuss a service evaluation of adult autism assessment centres. Find tickets @ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/arch-semin... We hope to see you there!

New academic year = more wonderful ARCH talks! Really looking forward to hearing about this interesting and valuable work. Come along if you can, and also get in touch if you have some work you'd like to share with us too 👀

🧠 New study at KCL looking for volunteers with both #FND and #Autism to take part in an interview sharing your experiences! - 15 minute survey followed by a 1 hour interview Interested? ✉️ Please message me: [email protected] Thanks for sharing!

🚨 TODAY! 🚨 Eunhee Kim, a PhD student from Bournemouth University, is presenting her research on health and wellbeing in menopause in autistic and non-autistic people. This is our last talk of the academic year: we hope to see you there! Tickets can be found at: t.co/K5ZlvIs5YS

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 Larysa Zasiekina, @sjblakemore.bsky.social‬, Iryna Hlova, @bignardi.bsky.social‬ and I investigated the prevalence of PTSD in adolescents who have experienced war. Our systematic review and meta-analysis is linked below, but read on for highlights… 🧵 doi.org/10.1080/2000...

Funded PhD opportunity with @sjblakemore.bsky.social and I, at Cambridge. We are looking for someone interested in developmental science, to start in the coming academic year. Please share it with anyone you think might be interested (see details attached 😁). drive.google.com/file/d/1RIvg...

🚨May Talk Announcement!🚨 Join us on May 28th at 2PM to hear Kayleigh Doyle (@kayleighdoyle.bsky.social) discuss her PhD work looking at using the creative arts to teach autistic students. Tickets are available at eventbrite.co.uk/e/arch-semin... We hope to see you there!

📢April Talk Announcement 📢 Join us on April 16th to see @lomasresearch.bsky.social discuss his PhD research exploring the usefulness of Theory of Mind in pedagogy. Tickets can be found here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/arch-semin... We hope to see you there!

📣Recruiting autistic adults for a 20min survey📣 We're exploring how autistic people use their strengths to manage differences. Participants must: ✅Self-identify as #autistic OR have an #autism diagnosis ✅18 yrs+ ✅Speak English Take part in our #AutismResearch 👉 qualtrics.kcl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...

🎙️SPEAKER CHANGE!🎙️ Due to unforeseen circumstances, this month's talk will now be given by @sophphillips32.bsky.social, and will be on her research on autistic women's experiences of higher education. Tickets are still available through eventbrite.co.uk/e/arch-semin... We hope to see you there!

📣 My dissertation students Freya & Lauren are doing cool intersectional research on #aphantasia / #hyperphantasia & #autism, testing a task to make it easier for people to join research online. If you're one or several of the above (or none), please go to edin.ac/4h1ghPU or get in touch w them! TY

📣New talk announcement 📣 The next ARCH talk will be held at 2pm, March 26th, with Ashlea Cromby talking about her work on autistic communication via memes! Tickets can be found @ t.co/K5ZlvIsDOq

This video sheds light on how autism often goes unnoticed in girls due to masking & stereotypes. Such an important, informative video 📹 Watch, share, & join the conversation youtu.be/GVrq9EL0mzg?... #AutismAwareness #Neurodiversity #AutisticGirls #Edpsychs #Edusky

For the last 5 months, I’ve spoken to Rosy as she’s fought for care. MND means she needs a ventilator and feeding tube and yet she has been denied 24/7 carers. Rosy is now losing her voice but wants to speak out. We should all listen. In today’s @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

📣February 19th! Come join us to hear about the PhD work by @ninadanon.bsky.social on musical neuroqueering. The next ARCH talk will be held at 2pm, February 19th, and tickets can be found @ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/arch-semin...

Come join for this amazing talk! Starting very soon ✨

Are you a supervisor wondering how to better support your neurodivergent postgrads? Go read our latest article in @timeshighered.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/how-s...

📢 Job opportunity! 📢 Dr Gemma Knowles @kingsioppn.bsky.social is recruiting two 2-year full-time postdocs to join our soon-to-start project on the causes and potential solutions to gender inequalities in youth mental health! See www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/103685-... for more info on post and how to apply!

🚨 New funded PhD position at UCL 🚨 Funding is provided for a PhD student in our new centre to help work with Fiona Zisch & Sean Hanna to apply agent-based-modelling to analyse the crazy data set from 100+ people navigating a giant maze in PEARL. See details: www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/arc...

We are hiring! We're looking for a great project manager to help with a large-scale Wellcome funded study. If you know of anyone that this might appeal to, please share. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49880/

🚨 My team is hiring an undergraduate intern (UK universities only) - a great opportunity, if I can say so myself! Please share widely. Want more info? See here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

📣 Join us for the next Autism ResearCH (ARCH) talk, which will be held on the 22nd of January at 1pm! @heasutherland will talk about her ethnographic work on communication in high support needs autistic adults in support services. Register for free @ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/arch-semin...

❗️Final call to participate❗️ Mine and @bethanyjcliffe.bsky.social’s study on UK doctoral student experiences of self-relevant #mentalhealthresearch is closing at the end of this week! This means you have 4️⃣ more days to take part 👉 uniofbath.questionpro.eu/doctoral-sel... #PhDSky #PsychSciSky

Come along and see what exciting things are happening in the ReSpect Lab!✨

Thanks to all who've taken part in interviews - we're now recruiting for the next study phase, which involves sharing images & captions to a private social media account for 4 months. Eligibility: identify as autistic, aged 16-26, currently live in the UK, some experience with using social media

Looking for something fun to do this half term? We're still recruiting for the study below - let us know if you're interested!

really happy to share my new editorial in @journalautism.bsky.social I ask whether an autism diagnosis is always and entirely beneficial, and explore the costs as well as the benefits of being diagnosed autistic - as well as the alternatives journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #AutRes #PsychSky

I've shared this before on the *other sites* but I realise I haven't shared it here yet! Do you know any young people aged 12-16 years who would like to take part in research? We are running an online study at UCL looking at how young people think and behave, and would like them to take part. 1/2

New paper alert - first ever paper edition! What is the difference between song and speech when it comes to how the brain processes them? What might these differences mean? We discuss this here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience

NEW PAPER: Our paper examining gender bias on the Autism Quotient is now available #BJPOpen. With over 7,000 participants from the general population, we found all but two items were gender biased. #Autism #AutismSpectrum #AutisticsInAcademic #ActuallyAutistic #AutismAwareness bit.ly/3LKSmrb