Today is the day! We're launching our #supermarketguide at Uni of Reading to make supermarkets more inclusive for autistic people. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Deadline for this PhD position is Wednesday. Please continue to email me any questions and circulate. Thanks all!

Come join us at UoR!

Wondering what to do after your undergraduate degree? Keen to continue your studies? Join our Master's Virtual Open Day & find out all of the key information you need to decide your next step❗️

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Remember! Alumni can receive a discount of £1500 🎉

Fixed-term TI lectureships in Psychology available, if anyone is looking for a lectureship opportunity:

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New paper! We investigated if threats are immune to the prevalence effect in visual search. Our findings surprisingly showed no threat effect at all questioning results from the past three decades. nature.com/articles/s4159… Michael C. Hout Hayward Godwin

If you have recently finished your PhD and are interested in working with me on early executive function development at BristolUniPsych, this is a great fellowship opportunity. We have a large and growing longitudinal data set to dive into! Please RT :-)
swdtp.ac.uk/prospective-st…

A second call is launched for our Repro-Psy & e-ReproNim Fellowships. Want €1,000 (or more!) to fund training & enhance your skills in software and open data management? Closing date 15th March 2024.

repro.school/2023/05/31/joi…

In our new viewpoint, Duncan Astle and I discuss the heterogeneity and developmental origin of difference in developmental prosopagnosia and face recognition abilities.

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This is why our SmartRivers project is so important. Monitoring and data is essential to improve our rivers. theguardian.com/environment/20…

🚨 New postdoc position in my lab 🚨
We are looking for a postdoc who is broadly interested in social cognition and social behaviour. Lots of flexibility to come up with new exciting projects:
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Three funded 3-year PhD studentships available at Nutrition & Cognition Lab, UoR starting in Sep 2024 ! Apply by 31 March. For more info:
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#nutritionalneuroscience #inflammation #cognition #gutbrainaxis #emotion #mentalhealth

*NEW PAPER* This one is a bit of a game changer for anyone working on identification of masked faces. We find that superimposed masks actually *underestimate* the problem posed by face masks. Super-recognisers, control observers and algortihms are poorer at face matching 1/2

First, first-author paper from my PhD is published with @akbobak and Peter Hancock 🎉 Tldr: Many more people who report severe face recognition problems meet the cut-off for developmental #prosopagnosia when RT is taken into account doi.org/10.1016/j.cort…

There are a small number of spaces remaining for talks and posters at #EPSNTU24 , so the portals will remain open until these are filled.

If you are interested in presenting, please submit as soon as possible!

eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/

Building on amazing development of simultaneous Ca2+ optical imaging and fMRI-BOLD by Evelyn Todd Constable (find me here @toddc.bsky.social) and Yale team, we investigated correspondence or lack thereof of large-scale cortical systems by considering overlapping networks.
Part of Hadi's tireless PhD work!

Police using facial recognition tech - our research shows very clearly that the public only support this sort of tech when looking for people suspected of crime / watchlists
Policy brief bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.lincoln.…
Paper journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…
University of Lincoln, UK Evidence-Based Policing National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC)

This will result in a huge volume of false positive leads. Our research shows that the tech will show a screen of similar faces to the police officers who will essentially be guessing as to which one is an actual match. journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

NEW: Big climb down just slipped out without any fanfare by the Home Office on its plans to reduce immigration

Minimum income threshold needed to bring foreign spouses to UK will only rise to £29,000 initially. No timeline for it to be raised to £38,700

gov.uk/government/pub…

If you are interested in a funded PhD in the social sciences, make sure to check out the ESRC SEDarc studentships that are now open for applications!