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Veel topsporters gaven deze zomer het beste van zichzelf in Parijs. Het waren, zegt men, 'de meest gendergelijke Spelen ooit'- en toch is er nergens meer genderongelijkheid dan in de sport. Waarom die contradictie? Sofie Smismans legt het uit in haar blog: nl.in-mind.org/blog/post/de-c…

Zin om een jaar UGent praktijkassistent (30%) te worden voor de vakken Kwalitatieve Data-Analyse en Inleiding Modellen Klinische Psychologie? Hier vind je de vacature: shorturl.at/J0bmc

The preprint of our questionnaire study is out now! The title already gives away our main finding: “Adults with autism prefer to communicate with others who also have autism: a mixed-method study”. You can find it here: doi.org/10.31234/osf.i… w/ Dr Annabel Nijhof and JRW

Eos Wetenschap vzw Spektrum Lastly, an English translation of the blog can be found here: ugent.be/pp/en/research… Explora Gent FWO

In this mixed-method study (open-ended questions + ratings) we asked > 400 adults with autism about their experiences communicating with others with/without autism. We found their responses to be rich, nuanced and insightful. Give it a read!

New paper out! The title says what we found 🙃: "Intact Neural Responding to Hearing One’s Own Name in Children with Autism" (ages 7-13, ERP analysis). Read it here: link.springer.com/article/10.100… (by Rachida El Kaddouri, myself, Roeljan Wiersema and Marcel Brass)

"many ToM tests disadvantage autistic individuals in a manner unrelated to any ToM impairments"--e.g. "the requirement...to attribute mental states to entities that do not have minds" pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39786849/ Geoff Bird et al dismantle claims about & tests of ToM in autism, free

13/2 Allemaal anders: wat we (niet) weten over autisme en het brein Departement EWI UGent Dr. Annabel Nijhof (UGent) #autisme Zebrastraat breinwijzer.be/evenementen/al…

Op 13 februari presenteer ik voor Breinwijzer in de Zebrastraat te Gent: 'Allemaal Anders: Wat we (niet) weten over autisme en het brein'! breinwijzer.be/evenementen/al…

#opencall NeuroNarratives, an art-science residency bringing neuroscientists and artists together to create meaningful art based on science! CALL until 15th Feb. Sign up via neuro-narratives.com/open-call/ #artandscience #art #science #artscienceresidency #neuroscience

More (Dutch) #scicomm fun coming up🥳 On March 13, I will present on Autism & The Brain for school children: breinwijzer.be/evenementen/me… On March 19, I will be back in Nijmegen (yay!) for the Science Cafe, also on Autism & The Brain (& Predictive Processing): sciencecafenijmegen.nl

Mareike Westfal recently developed and validated an online version of the imitation-inhibition task. This allows even researcher with few programming experiences to assess imitative behavior online. Together with Jan Crusius Emiel Cracco link.springer.com/epdf/10.3758/s…

Was happy to present on Autism and the Brain (and Neurodiversity!) for a full house at Breinwijzer vzw yesterday! Thanks to the organisers and enthusiastic audience :)

Last week I was invited to present on 'Autism and the Predictive Brain', alongside Prof Floris De Lange, at the Science Cafe Nijmegen. Thanks to Floris, the organizers, the amazing audience that made for a lively discussion afterwards, the live musicians... I had a great time!

During the Inclusive Autism Research Day, people with autism shared with researchers what needs to change in research! The day started with presentations and continued with engaging round table discussions. Immensely proud of what we organized! Maura Nevejans Explora Gent

Are you passionate about #scicomm & psychology in the context of #Sustainability? We are looking for a PhD-candidate (75%; 4 yrs) for the Hub Science project "Psychology of Transformation" Leuphana University Lüneburg! leuphana.de/universitaet/j…

CRAE’s Geoff Bird in PsyPost; on the interplay of sensory profiles, interoception and alexithymia psypost.org/sensory-issues…

We posten al even niet meer actief op X - we zijn inmiddels te vinden op LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/104484… en op BlueSky: bsky.app/profile/inmind… Tot daar!