Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
@sjblakemore
Professor of Psychology & Cognitive Neuroscience at Cambridge, FBA FMedSci FRS. Adolescent brain development. Views my own. Book:
💻 Oxwell survey of 38,430 children and adolescents aged 8–19 in England. 📈 5%–8% of participants reported experiencing food insecurity sometimes or often. 📈 Food insecurity, particularly going to bed hungry, was associated with worsened mental health and wellbeing.
Summary: Adolescents take more risks in groups than when alone. The effect decreases with age. Teenagers are more likely to choose to make risky decisions in groups. Group decision-making may increase risk due to shared responsibility. Shows how peer dynamics influence behaviour in adolescence.
🌟Congratulations🌟 to Dr Blanca Piera Pi-Sunyer, who passed her PhD viva @campsydept.bsky.social So proud 🤩 We are grateful to the examiners, Prof @paulramchandani.bsky.social and Dr Gemma Knowles, for their time and expertise, and their insights and feedback.
In Cambridge in the 1970s, my dad, Colin Blakemore, worked and lectured on sensitive periods of sensory development. In my Cambridge undergrad lectures on this topic, I show a clip from one of his TV shows, which describes sensitive periods for sound categorisation, and features Prof Janet Werker:
Lovely winter Cambridge walk with @stepalminteri.bsky.social
If only this one-star review of my book started half way through line 5. Shout out to my science buddies 🤩
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🌟 Congratulations to @rakoenmaertens.bsky.social, who was awarded The Brenda Milner Best Paper Prize by a PhD or MPhil Student in the Cambridge Department of Psychology
🌟 Congratulations to Dr Chloe Austerberry and Dr @davidyoung-psych.bsky.social, who were jointly awarded The Anne Treisman Annual Best Paper Prize by a postdoctoral researcher in the Cambridge Department of Psychology.
New paper by brilliant final yer PhD student Blanca Piera Pi-Sunyer and colleagues, including 3 undergraduate students (Evans, Ratcliffe, Janaarthanan) 🤩 The Relationship between Perceived Friendship Quality and Self-Judgements in Adolescent Girls from London journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
Many congratulations to @masudhusain.bsky.social for winning the @royalsociety.org book prize for his brilliant book ‘Our brains, our selves’. Loved the brain-themed dessert
Huge congratulations to Dr @emilyanntowner.bsky.social on passing her PhD viva @campsydept.bsky.social
38,430 children and adolescents in England were suerveyed in the Oxwell Study. 5%–8% reported experiencing food insecurity (not having enough to eat at home and/or school) sometimes or often Food insecurity, particularly going to bed hungry, was associated with worsened mental health and wellbeing
It was an honour to be awarded the #flux2025 Huttenlocher Prize. Thank you Flux
Should sixteen-year-olds be given the vote? It’s a cautious yes from me
Cannot wait to go to this Hockney exhibition! www.fondationlouisvuitton.fr/en/events/da...
Very pleased to welcome new postdoc Dr Lucia Hernandez Pena @luciahp96.bsky.social to our lab. Lucia will be working on our new longitudinal study on microstructure brain development and its relation to cognition and mental health in adolescence, with a large team of collabs at Cardiff and Donders
Changing a driving test date is like getting tickets to Glastonbury, and you get randomly kicked off every so often too
Lab lunch, the first of several goodbyes to two lab members who are leaving later this summer for exciting new jobs. We will miss them A LOT
Every time I cycle to work I pass this board outside the construction site at Addenbrookes hospital. The statistics are shocking
A couple of years ago, a friend and I were walking in the Chilterns and we passed some nice young folk from London who told us there were sheep in the next field (because my friend had a dog). This was one of the ‘sheep’. First time out of London maybe?
There's a lot of evidence of the harms of smacking children. There's also evidence that children and young people learn more from rewards than from punishment, including this computational study by @stepalminteri.bsky.social journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...