Professor of Psychology & Cognitive Neuroscience at Cambridge, FBA FMedSci FRS. Adolescent brain development. Views my own. Book: http://amazon.co.uk/dp/1784161349
Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
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Abstract submission now open for this excellent conference, which will be held in Brighton on 2-3 September
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Yesterday @royalsociety.org published its Science for Society report. It stresses the importance of science in our lives and encourages more engagement between scientists and wider society royalsociety.org/news-resourc...
“Social media is killing our children” - I investigated the criminality and violence being promoted to kids online. It was so shocking and every single police officer, parent, psychologist and doctor I spoke to supported a ban for under-16s observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
🚨 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS 🚨
1/ We invite proposals for posters and symposia for the New Directions in Social Media Research conference at St John’s College, University of Cambridge (7–8 Dec 2026).
We especially welcome future-facing research on how the social world is changing in the digital age.
University of Nottingham is in financial difficulty. The answer is not to cull its excellent courses and staff
nottinghamchemistry.github.io/Open_Letter/...
The @royalsociety.org Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship has been transformative to so many people's early careers. It enabled me to become an independent researcher in a new field, supported public engagement and policy work and helped me balance caring responsibilities.
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In case it's of interest to anyone, here's a regularly updated list of UK postdoctoral research fellowships - feel free to share/copy
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New paper by Gabriele Chierchia, Blanca Piera Pi-Sunyer Marwa El Zein, Benedetto de Martino
Collective Risk Taking in Adolescents and Young Adults: Adolescents Take More Risks When Deciding Collectively Than Alone
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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.
A couple of online spaces for men to talk about mental health and other things:
US-based
www.realmenshare.org
UK-based
andysmanclub.co.uk
A consensus is growing among parents, police and campaigners that government must act now to rein in tech companies and restrict access to harmful online content that is destroying young lives
Below is an overview of Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in the United Kingdom, which was originally curated by Professor Rogier Kievit. These have a special focus on psychology, neuroscience, develo...
The Royal Society has published the Science for society report exploring the multiple connections between science and the public, and proposes recommendations for how these connections might be streng...
Introduction Adolescents show a heightened propensity to take risks, relative to other age groups, especially in contexts involving peers. In the current study, we investigated whether peer contexts...
