Fully funded PhD studentship available! Join our lab investigating genetic and environmental influences on early child behaviour. Gain transferable skills in scientific enquiry, coding, writing, presenting & more, deadline June 15th tinyurl.com/4faejtsm RTs appreciated!

An incredible letter written by a non-Jewish Scottish professor to his students who voted to boycott Israel It's a response from Dr. Denis MacEoin to the motion put forward by The Edinburgh Student's Association to boycott all things Israeli, in which they claim Israel is under

We're launching the Neurodivergent Peer Support Toolkit (NEST) THIS WEEK! Free resources co-designed by neurodivergent young ppl & adults to help mainstream secondary schools establish a peer support group for neurodivergent students🌈 Thursday 13th June, 4 - 5.30 Join us ⬇️

Me and Prof Francesca Happé are looking forward to presenting our session on Monday, July 22 (9am EDT, 2pm UK) on ‘Mental Health and Well-Being on the Autism Spectrum in Older Age’. We wrapped up preparing our slides today - lots of exciting content! Info and sign up below ⬇️

Amazing news, Sue - so well deserved!

Please click the link below and nominate SuperTroop to receive £5,000 - it only takes a minute and would be greatly appreciated! youth.movementforgood.com/index.php?cn=S…

All welcome next Tuesday 1pm for what will be a fascinating talk from Nick Puts on the sensory features of ASD Will be great foil to our recent talk from Nick's longtime Johns Hopkins University collaborator Stewart Mostofsky on motor features Prof Francesca Happé Teams link👇 kcl.ac.uk/events/sensory…

Interested in autism and ageing? These sessions are free for all to attend (just need to register with INSAR, which is free). I’m looking forward to talking about our ageing-related work from the Re:Spect Lab and colleagues with Prof Francesca Happé!

Well done Jessie - so we’ll deserved!

📢 Call for participants for a study on demand avoidance You can take part if you: ✅ are aged 18+ ✅struggle to undertake everyday tasks and experience a stress response to demands Take the survey here (closes 13th Sept): bit.ly/3YYjpGN

We want to hear from adults who self-identify or have a diagnosis referencing extreme/pathological demand avoidance (EDA/PDA) or would likely meet the criteria, even if you don’t have a diagnosis or don’t agree with the terminology or framing.

I’m one of the researchers working on this project. We are a team of researchers based at the University of Hertfordshire and University of Birmingham and we’ve been asked by PDA Society to do this research.

We are saying goodbye to our fantastic 2023/24 placement students. Thank you Han & Maria Jose Rodriguez Pinzon for your amazing contributions to the #CatalogueMHM & landscaping project. You have been awesome additions to the team & will be missed! Good luck with your final year!

INSAR Early Career Committee (ECC) is looking for new members! If you are interested in supporting other autism researchers, working with a great team and running some fab initiatives then do consider applying. Happy to chat if people have questions docs.google.com/forms/d/1tqKR6…

I am *so* excited to announce that I received an ERC starting grant to set up my own lab on mental imagery and reality monitoring: imaginerealitylab.org UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology! Thanks to European Research Council (ERC) and Steve Fleming, Peter Kok @peterkok.bsky.social and Marcel van Gerven for their invaluable mentorship and support!

Stunned by this - Melting Point has been longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize

A great honor to be joining University of Oxford and very much looking forward to getting to know my new colleagues and building new collaborations on cognitive, clinical and developmental neuroscience using MEG and OPM

Thanks to everyone who came to our #Autism ResearCH (ARCH) showcase on Wednesday at the SGDP Centre KCL! We had early career presenters from King's College London, KU Leuven, University of Bath, University of Sussex, Goldsmiths, University of London, UCL, University of Oxford and more🧠

Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience SGDP Centre KCL King's College London KU Leuven University of Bath University of Sussex Goldsmiths, University of London UCL University of Oxford Prof Francesca Happé Dr Lucy Livingston Thank you for organising such a great event and for the opportunity to present our work and hear more about other wonderful projects!