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Connor Keating @connortkeating.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

📣 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

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Connor Keating @connortkeating.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

🚨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:

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Centre for Research in Autism and Education @craeioe.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

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

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Time to deliver: Lessons from the House of Lords Autism Act 2009 Committee Tickets, Monday, Jun 22, 2026 from 5 pm to 6:30 pm UTC | Eventbrite

Eventbrite - UCL Centre for Research in Autism & Education CRAE presents Time to deliver: Lessons from the House of Lords Autism Act 2009 Committee - Monday, 22 June 2026 - Find event and ticket information.

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Connor Keating @connortkeating.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

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...

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Connor Keating @connortkeating.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

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

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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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Centre for Research in Autism and Education @craeioe.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

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

Webinar image for Connor Keating's Demystifying Emotion-Processing: Autism & Alexithymia. Photo of Connor. UCL header. Dated 2nd Oct 2025

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alicia-rybicki.bsky.social @alicia-rybicki.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

🚨 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!

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Connor Keating @connortkeating.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

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⭐️

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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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Centre for Research in Autism and Education @craeioe.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

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

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Centre for Research in Autism and Education @craeioe.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

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...

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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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Bianca Schuster @biancaaschuster.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

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

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Catherine Crompton @cjcrompton.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

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! 🧵⬇️

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Connor Keating @connortkeating.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

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!

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Connor Keating @connortkeating.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

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!

An image of me presenting my talk. On the slide is a thank you to various people that helped make the work possible

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Bianca Schuster @biancaaschuster.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

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 🤝

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