Cognitive neuroscientist tweeting about social learning, cultural evolution, and social cognition

Birmingham, UK
Joined August 2011
"High rates of Parkinson’s Disease diagnosis in the autistic population: true co-occurrence or a product of overlapping traits?" sciety.org/articles/activity… accepted for publication today. Well done @LydiaJHickman. @TheCHBH
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We'll be doing a sneak peek of our new science-art collaboration with Galway artist Catherine Fleming at the Come to Campus Community Festival birmingham.ac.uk/events/the-… via @unibirmingham
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PhD studentship available in developmental cognitive neuroscience, in Cambridge - please publicise
Funded PhD opportunity with @sjblakemore and I, at Cambridge. We are looking for someone interested in developmental science, to start in the coming academic year. Please share it with anyone you think might be interested (see details attached 😁). drive.google.com/file/d/1RIv…
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Jennifer Cook retweeted
Funded PhD opportunity with @sjblakemore and I, at Cambridge. We are looking for someone interested in developmental science, to start in the coming academic year. Please share it with anyone you think might be interested (see details attached 😁). drive.google.com/file/d/1RIv…
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New paper out today: A cross-cultural examination of bi-directionalmentalising in autistic and non-autistic adults rdcu.be/elVWE
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Congratulations Lydia on winning the BNA postgrad award
So honoured to receive this Prize - a huge thank you to everyone who supported me throughout my PhD (particularly my wonderful supervisors @Jennifer_L_Cook and Joe Galea) @TheCHBH @UoB_SoP @LES_UniBham @MIBTP_BBSRC
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Congratulations to Connor Keating for winning the International Society for Autism Research Dissertation Award
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EPS Award Nominations for approval at the AGM in January 2025. Fifty-Fourth Bartlett Lecturer Matthew Botvinick Twenty-Fourth EPS Mid-Career Award Lecturer Elizabeth Jefferies Thirty-Third EPS Prize Lecturer @melissacolloff Fourteenth Frith Prize Lecturer @ConnorTKeating
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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⭐Was so great working with @Yu_Lin_Cheng & Patrick Dwyer on this! 🧵1/6 doi.org/10.1177/136236132412…
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How do people with mental health conditions experience bodily signals? 🧠🫀🫁 Our (@gabriel_mackie) new paper in eClinicalMedicine explores lived experiences and patient priorities for interoception research. 🧵1/n sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Congratulations to our #INSAR2025 Awardees Dissertation: Dr. Grant Bruno (University of Alberta) Dr. Connor Keating (University of Oxford) Early Career Investigator: Dr. Charlotte Pretzsch (King’s College) Dr. Teddy Cheung (SickKids)
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I am incredibly honoured (& 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_L_Cook for her mentorship- I feel so grateful and lucky
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🎉 New paper alert! 🧠 The velocity-curvature power law is one of the 'kinematic laws of nature' (Flash 2021), a 'fundamental law of human control' (Zago et al. 2016), and one of the 'kinematic regularities' (Frith & Frith 2023) thought to underlie all biological motion. 1/9
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So honoured to receive this Prize - a huge thank you to everyone who supported me throughout my PhD (particularly my wonderful supervisors @Jennifer_L_Cook and Joe Galea) @TheCHBH @UoB_SoP @LES_UniBham @MIBTP_BBSRC
Congratulations to @LydiaJHickman , winner of the 2024 BNA Postgraduate Prize! Lydia’s pioneering research explores the complex intersections of Autism Spectrum Disorder and Parkinson’s disease. bna.org.uk/mediacentre/news/… #NeuroscienceAwards #BNAPrizeWinner #WomenInSTEM
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Congratulations to @LydiaJHickman , winner of the 2024 BNA Postgraduate Prize! Lydia’s pioneering research explores the complex intersections of Autism Spectrum Disorder and Parkinson’s disease. bna.org.uk/mediacentre/news/… #NeuroscienceAwards #BNAPrizeWinner #WomenInSTEM – at Seaford, England
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Eeek! Thrilled to share this news! It's an incredible honor, and I'm deeply grateful for all the support I've received - especially from @Jennifer_L_Cook who played a pivotal role in this work! Huge thanks to @ExpPsychSoc, and to @DrRebeccaBrewer for the nomination✨
EPS Award Nominations for approval at the AGM in January 2025. Fifty-Fourth Bartlett Lecturer Matthew Botvinick Twenty-Fourth EPS Mid-Career Award Lecturer Elizabeth Jefferies Thirty-Third EPS Prize Lecturer @melissacolloff Fourteenth Frith Prize Lecturer @ConnorTKeating
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