📣 Come join us for a DPhil at Oxford 📣 The Oxford Centre for Emerging Minds are advertising PhDs for an Oct 2027 start 😀 This includes a project supervised by Jiedi Lei, Shelley McKeown, and I on "Valuing Difference: Developing Inclusive Peer Ecologies in Neurodiverse Primary Classrooms." 🧵1/2

🚨We are recruiting for two exciting posts on the All About Me project, which will work with young people, families, and educators to develop a neurodiversity-affirming toolkit for exploring young people’s character strengths, abilities, and potential across different contexts. More details:

Very excited to announce our CRAE Annual Lecture. Time to deliver: Lessons from the House of Lords Autism Act 2009 Committee Laura Crane on how we can build a future where autistic people’s rights, needs, and voices truly shape policy. 22nd June at 6pm www.eventbrite.co.uk... 1/2

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 The relationship between speed and curvature differs in autistic and non-autistic tracing movements www.nature.com/articles/s41... And just as important, the open code and data: osf.io/j4ncd/overvi...

Really excited to share we’ve been awarded an ERC Proof of Concept grant ✨ This funding helps us take our co-developed autism screening tool from research into healthcare—improving access, equity & efficiency in diagnosis for children & adults. More soon! www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2026/un...

Fab news! Our paper "The conceptualisation, experience, and recognition of emotion in autism: Differences in the psychological mechanisms involved in autistic and non-autistic emotion recognition" has now been published in Autism Research⭐ Summary: 🧵1 doi.org/10.1002/aur....

The Conceptualization, Experience, and Recognition of Emotion in Autism: Differences in the Psychological Mechanisms Involved in Autistic and Non‐Autistic Emotion Recognition

Existing literature suggests that differences between autistic and non-autistic people in emotion recognition might be related to differences in how these groups experience emotions themselves. Speci...

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Great news🚨Our article "Mismatching expressions: spatiotemporal and kinematic differences in autistic and non-autistic facial expressions" is published in Autism Research⭐ Thanks to Jennifer Cook, Sophie Sowden & Holly O'Donoghue. Check out the thread below for a summary doi.org/10.1002/aur.... 🧵1

Mismatching Expressions: Spatiotemporal and Kinematic Differences in Autistic and Non‐Autistic Facial Expressions

Preliminary studies suggest there are differences in the facial expressions produced by autistic and non-autistic individuals. However, it is unclear what specifically is different, whether such diff...

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We are delighted that @connortkeating.bsky.social's Demystifying Emotion-Processing: Autism & Alexithymia #CRAEwebinar is now available to watch on our YouTube Channel. youtu.be/OqbcUW6qbLw

🚨 PhD Opportunity! 🚨 Come investigate the mechanistic role of dopamine in emotion processing with Prof Jennifer Cook - @thechbh.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social MIBTP-funded PhD, using behavioural, computational and pharmacological approaches. Get in touch and please share!

Very happy to see this published! Registered report led by the fantastic Sophie Sowden-Carvalho (and with @thepsychologist.bsky.social & @brainapps.bsky.social) looking at effort-based prosocial decision-making in autistic and non-autistic adults. tinyurl.com/3upvukt2 See thread below for more info⭐️

Autistic and non-autistic prosocial decision-making: The impact of recipient neurotype

A body of research suggests cross-neurotype interpersonal interactions may be more challenging, and non-autistic individuals show less interest in int…

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We are delighted that @connortkeating.bsky.social's Demystifying Emotion-Processing: Autism & Alexithymia #CRAEwebinar is now available to watch on our YouTube Channel. youtu.be/OqbcUW6qbLw

Coming very soon. 2nd Oct 4 pm BST Demystifying Emotion-Processing: Autism & Alexithymia with @connortkeating.bsky.social

Demystifying Emotion-Processing: Autism & Alexithymia

Connor Keating considers whether emotion-processing differs between autistic and non-autistic adults after controlling for alexithymia.

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Our October #CRAEwebinar: Demystifying Emotion-Processing: Autism, Alexithymia and Psychological Mechanisms. @connortkeating.bsky.social will ask, do autistic & non-autistic adults process emotions differently once alexithymia is in the mix? 2nd Oct 4 pm BST Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk...

Demystifying Emotion-Processing: Autism & Alexithymia

Connor Keating considers whether emotion-processing differs between autistic and non-autistic adults after controlling for alexithymia.

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Very happy to report that this study is now published in Molecular Autism: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Bianca Schuster@biancaaschuster.bsky.social · 2y ago

Social interactions cannot be assessed without (1) acknowledging the two-way process involved and (2) the cultural context the interactions are embedded in. We present new evidence for this, using stimuli like the one below, in our latest preprint: osf.io/xg7y4 🤝

New paper alert! Information transfer within and between autistic and non-autistic people is out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com nature.com/articles/s41... THREAD! 🧵⬇️

I am incredibly honoured (and shocked) to receive the Best PhD Dissertation Award from INSAR! This work wouldn’t exist without amazing mentors, colleagues, lived experience experts and participants! Special thanks to Jennifer Cook for her incredible mentorship - I am so grateful for all the support!

Department of Experimental Psychology@oxexppsy.bsky.social · last yr.

Congratulations to Connor Keating for winning the Dissertation Award from the International Society for Autism Research! A fantastic achievement👏 @connortkeating.bsky.social #INSAR2025 www.psy.ox.ac.uk/news/connor-...

I’m so grateful for the opportunity to present my Frith Prize talk at the EPS meeting yesterday — it was such an honour and a delight! I had some fascinating questions and conversations that will definitely help shape my next projects. Huge thanks to @exppsychsoc.bsky.social for the fab conference!

Thrilled that our article on knowledge, explicit stigma, and implicit biases towards autism across Hong Kong, the UK, and the US is now published #OpenAccess in @journalautism.bsky.social ⭐ Was so great working with Yulin Cheng & Patrick Dwyer on this! 🧵1/6 doi.org/10.1177/1362...

Social interactions cannot be assessed without (1) acknowledging the two-way process involved and (2) the cultural context the interactions are embedded in. We present new evidence for this, using stimuli like the one below, in our latest preprint: osf.io/xg7y4 🤝

Thrilled that our article on knowledge, explicit stigma, and implicit biases towards autism across Hong Kong, the UK, and the US is now published #OpenAccess in @journalautism.bsky.social ⭐ Was so great working with Yulin Cheng & Patrick Dwyer on this! 🧵1/6 doi.org/10.1177/1362...