🚨Job Alert: Two fully-funded #PhD positions with me and fantastic co-supervisors @DrSWijeakumar @UniofNottingham, @LGNotts @FreedomFdn_UK, @DrAnnikaPaukner @PsychologyNTU and @Lizzy_Simpson @UMiami. @NTUDoctoral @UfNCollab.See deets 👇👇.Any prelim queries, email me!

In my recent research visit to Porto, I had a most welcome reminder that beyond the hard work we achieve together (more on it soon!) connecting via values of sharing and exploring new knowledge is what drives me in #academia. Thank you for making this trip possible @PsychologyNTU

This is a #social #identity study in disguise 🙂 New identities and connections can be forged and be extremely beneficial at times of uncertainty. Grateful to @LiselHintz for lifting up some of my citizens after the horrific #Turkey #earthquake.

RT @rootsnshootsTR: Bugün Dünya Şempanze Günü! 💚🐒. Dünya Şempanze Günü; şempanzelerin varlığını kutlamak ve onların bakımı ve korunması içi….

Had a great time presenting my work and meeting faces old & new at #INSAR2024! There’s much need for research on social #connections in #autism. Reassured to see our neurodiversity embracing, robust quant methods are well received. Thanks for being a wonderful host #Melbourne🦘💚

I don’t normally post about travels. Then again, I haven’t travelled to a conference since 2019! Buzzing to be @AutismINSAR in #MELBOURNE next week! 🐨 🦎 🦘 . Open to any and all sightseeing/food recs and to meet up with faces old and new 😃.

I am really concerned about the state of free speech in universities. The Gaza protest news from Emory, Columbia and others show how wafer thin liberal values are in Western societies 😔 Someone tell me I’m wrong!.

… nasıl da tuttuğunu koparan biriymişsin, çok etkilendim filan dedi. Onlar evrakları gönderir göndermez vizeye başvurup 3 aya başlamam kararlaştırıldı. Ben Türkiye’ye döndüm, sene 2005. Hala email gelmedi adamdan 🤣🤣 O zamanlar adı da konmamıştı, resmen ghosting yapmış bana!.

Yanında doktora yapmak istediğim hocanın eski öğrencisi olan bir hocayı, kongre için gittiğim ABD’de labında ziyaret edip yanında staj yapmak istediğimi söylemiştim. 1 saati aşkın bilimsel konulardan sohbet ettik, bana labı gezdirdi, labındakilerle tanıştırdı. Helal olsun dedi++.

10% college students in US experience homelessness?! That’d be 1 person in my tutorial group or 52 of my Year 1s 😞 I wonder what the real figures are. @pschofie79 explains why #universities should use their influence in towns & estates to eradicate #homelessness!.

Had a great day meeting with our #community partners and #PhD student to map out our goals and values. Looking forward to uncovering how #music and #dance impacts #social bonding and #Wellbeing with an amazing team @UfNCollab @FreedomFdn_UK!.

Had fantastic couple of days at m.@ExpPsychSoc Conference @PsychologyNTU! Such wide range of topics and thought-provoking presentations, not to mention the casual chats 😃 About 13 years after I’ve done w my first psychology experiment, I think it’s time to be a member of EPS!.

RT @WallerBridget: Come and take part in our research on campus at NTU (Nottingham)!.

Yes yes, we all heard Einstein wasn’t a great student at school. But Beethoven didn’t have the ‘music gene’? 🎶 🧬 😯 What‘s going on?!? It’s as if people are infinitely complex & with the right conditions and support, everyone can shine!.

Speaks to interaction difficulties being related to #social norms rather than inherent synchronisation difficulties in #autism. Wish the AUT-AUT sample was large enough for any further interpretation. 3/3.

… the paper shows that in natural conversations, AUT-NT and NT-NT pairs synchronise their smiles similarly & how much they do so doesn’t predict desire to interact again. But in a structured video watching task, #synchrony differences emerge. 2/3.

My hot(!) take on this @journalautism paper by @kathryn_mcnaugh @eredcay et al: Synchrony differences btw AUT-NT and NT-NT pairs emerge (and matter for future #social #interactions when social normative demands are higher, not so much in daily conversations. This is bc… 1/3.

📣Psychologists (artists) wanting to understand human #social #connections and #Wellbeing through art (psychology) — Only 2 weeks left to apply for this fully-funded #PhD @PsychologyNTU @DrSWijeakumar @FreedomFdn_UK @UfNCollab .

👇Wonderful opportunity for aspiring #postdocs just after #PhD. Happy to mentor topics falling in the supported subjects “Experimental #Psychology “, “Behavioral Neuroscience” and “Computer vision”. Email if wanting to apply!.

RT @ArtsHealthECRN: Exciting fully-funded PhD opportunity on music and dance for children's mental health, wellbeing, and school achievement.

👇Highly recommend joining these applicant support sessions 👇 if thinking of applying for a #PhD with me, @DrSWijeakumar and @LGNotts. Our #PhDposition is about using #music and #dance to improve children’s #Wellbeing and #School performance.