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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

5 years

Exciting package just arrived! The paperback is out in March 2019: Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain

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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

@sjblakemore

2 years

Today we lost our dad, Sir Colin Blakemore, after 18 months of suffering from motor neuron disease. He died peacefully in Sobell House Hospice in Oxford, surrounded by love. My sisters and I were with him every day in the hospice, and it was a privilege. We really miss him

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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

@sjblakemore

4 years

We need to talk about university students, many of whom are 18-year-olds - adolescents - living away from home for the first time. I’m hearing distressing stories about isolation, loneliness and being stuck in rooms. Are we getting it right? Are other countries doing it better?

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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

@sjblakemore

4 years

This politician on the Today programme is ‘sick of the science changing’. This is why more scientists need to go into politics, and politicians need to have a better understanding of how science works.

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@sjblakemore

4 years

How is it acceptable that children's right to education is a lower priority than adults' right to drink in a pub? Schools are still closed for most secondary years and many primary-aged kids are not back. How is this acceptable when pubs, restaurants etc will reopen next week?

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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

@sjblakemore

3 years

Where are teachers and school staff in this? They are vital frontline workers providing education for the next generation. Their absence on this list does not support the government’s claim that education and schools are a priority.

Department of Health and Social Care

@DHSCgovuk

3 years

The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation has shared advice on the groups that should be prioritised for the #COVID19 vaccination. See the full report: ▶️

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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

@sjblakemore

5 years

I have some news! In Oct 2019 I will move to @Cambridge_Uni to take up the role of Chair of Psychology. After 17 years at @UCL_ICN , I will be very sad to leave my wonderful UCL colleagues, but I’m excited about joining everyone at @CambPsych and honoured to accept this role.

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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

@sjblakemore

3 years

Not sure a longer school day and less summer holiday is what children (or teachers) need. Children of all ages need to play, exercise, hang out with peers and have fun. Play and social interaction are crucial to development and wellbeing, but have been in short supply for a year

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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

@sjblakemore

3 years

Something that shouldn't need saying and yet sometimes does: It is possible to care deeply about BOTH Covid and the horrendous infection and mortality rates AND the educational and mental health consequences of children & young people not being in school or seeing their friends

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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

@sjblakemore

2 years

THE TEENAGE BRAIN ISN'T BROKEN, IT ISN'T DYSFUNCTIONAL, AND IT ISN'T A DEFECTIVE ADULT BRAIN. ADOLESCENCE IS A FORMATIVE PERIOD OF LIFE, WHEN THE BRAIN IS CHANGING IN IMPORTANT WAYS, WHEN NEURAL PATHWAYS ARE MALLEABLE, AND PASSION AND CREATIVITY RUN HIGH. WE SHOULDN'T DEMONISE IT

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@sjblakemore

4 years

I think children should be exempt from the ‘rule of six’ in England, as is the case in Scotland and Wales. Playing with other children is a developmentally crucial activity, and shouldn’t be made illegal.

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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

@sjblakemore

2 years

Don’t believe everything you read on wiki. My children discovered my wiki page and worked out how to edit it… it now says I have 20 children

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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

@sjblakemore

5 years

Congratulations @jesswade BEM on yours British Empire Medal - such a well deserved honour. You make a *real* difference to underrepresented groups in science. Academic writes 270 Wikipedia pages in a year to get female scientists noticed

Academic writes 270 Wikipedia pages in a year to get female scientists noticed

Researcher Jess Wade says efforts to attract girls into science are not evidence-based – and are not working

www.theguardian.com

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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

@sjblakemore

2 years

Academia needs to be kinder. A recent review included: “I am very interested in the topic, but I am sorry to state my excitement died quickly”. Let’s think about how statements like this affect student authors. Constructive criticism is useful, but this is unnecessarily vitriolic

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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

@sjblakemore

6 years

My actual book in my actual hand!

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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

@sjblakemore

3 years

My PhD student @EmilyAnnTowner ran a fantastic workshop on R for members of the lab, and has kindly made it publicly available. If you want to learn about the basics of programming in R, the one-hour video is below - it is super helpful:

Tutorial - R for Beginners

You can find the code used in this tutorial here: https://github.com/blakemorelab/tutorial_r

www.youtube.com

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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

@sjblakemore

4 years

I am reading tweets from academics saying they are overwhelmed with increasing workload and all day zoom calls. I feel the same. It's not sustainable and there's going to be a lot of burnout if we don't manage it. Any suggestions of how? Reduce zooms? One zoom-free day per week?

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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

@sjblakemore

2 years

Anyone else mildly obsessed with the Finnish PM? 💃🏻

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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

@sjblakemore

2 years

A lovely obituary of my dad, Colin Blakemore, in the @bmj_latest

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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

@sjblakemore

5 years

Very excited/slightly nervous about being on Women's Hour tomorrow, talking about the adolescent brain. A life goal!

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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

@sjblakemore

4 years

The most frequent phrase heard today: “you need to unmute yourself”

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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

@sjblakemore

3 years

How impressive and brave is @bbclysedoucet

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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

@sjblakemore

3 years

I need to make space on the blue shelf so I’m giving away 10 signed copies of my book, Inventing Ourselves. I’ll pick 10 names randomly from everyone who retweets this, and send them a book in the post.

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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

@sjblakemore

6 years

Oh my GOD! Was it all a dream? I ended up in Salford at 2am and am now in a BBC studio waiting to be interviewed. Maybe I’m still dreaming.

Riot Communications

@RiotComms

6 years

Congratulations to @sjblakemore - this year's winner of @royalsociety #scibooks prize, with her book Inventing Ourselves, which uncovers the mysteries of the teenage brain! 🥂🧠 Pictured here with Royal Society fellow, @briancoxlive #science

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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

@sjblakemore

6 years

Trauma in childhood can lead to PTSD, and can affect brain and social-emotional development. There is a large body of research on childhood trauma that is relevant to understanding why the enforced and traumatic separation of children from their families is abhorrent.

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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

@sjblakemore

4 years

It’s reassuring to see how many adults are on the side of young people and have their backs. I think we should tell the teenagers we know (especially those in years 11 and 13) that lots of adults are fighting for them, even though it might seem like the system is against them.

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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

@sjblakemore

2 years

We often read in papers 'this is the first study to show x', but isn't it just as important and possibly more impactful to be the 10th study to demonstrate an effect? Maybe it's time to reduce the importance of novelty in science

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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

@sjblakemore

4 years

This news made my year! It is a huge honour and I’m absolutely delighted.

British Psychological Society

@BPSOfficial

4 years

1/2 We're delighted to announce the winners of this year’s BPS Book Awards! Huge congratulations to Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore @sjblakemore , winner of the popular science category for 'Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain'. 👏🙌🙌

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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

@sjblakemore

5 years

This is my anecdotal experience of talking to young people about what makes them stressed and unhappy: YP: Exams, homework and academic pressure. Friendship problems. Relationship problems. Arguments with parents. Me: What about social media, phones? YP: Not really.

Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

@sjblakemore

5 years

We should listen more to young people about what makes them stressed and unhappy

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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

@sjblakemore

2 years

It's been a tough week/year. But I'm looking forward to seeing old friends at our lab alumni retreat in Cambridge tomorrow. My dad would have heartily approved and we will raise a glass to him. Photo of my mum and dad ca 1972, when my dad was a lecturer at Cambridge

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@sjblakemore

1 year

@campbellclaret The content of your argument makes sense but it’s not acceptable to call a woman in a professional setting ‘my dear’

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@sjblakemore

2 years

Sir Colin Blakemore obituary

Neuroscientist, persuasive science communicator and advocate for rationality and openness

www.theguardian.com

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@sjblakemore

3 years

And yet my son is not allowed to go to an A level induction day at his new sixth form because of Covid restrictions. Priorities? More than 60,000 fans to be allowed at Wembley for Euro 2020 semis and final

More than 60,000 fans to be allowed at Wembley for Euro 2020 semis and final

More than 60,000 fans will be allowed into Wembley for the semi-finals and final of Euro 2020 after a deal was struck between the UK government and Uefa

www.theguardian.com

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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

@sjblakemore

4 years

2020 is like one long executive function rule switching task

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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

@sjblakemore

4 years

Here's a short summary of my position on school closures, the deprivation of social interaction and play, and the urgent need to prioritise children and young people's development and mental health. (I wrote this on 29th June 2020 as I was being asked by people to provide quotes)

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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

@sjblakemore

6 years

The brilliant journalist Decca Aitkenhead interviewed me about our work on the teenage brain. And somehow the photographer persuaded me to hold a plastic brain and stare at it. ‘Teens get a bad rap’: the neuroscientist championing moody adolescents

‘Teens get a bad rap’: the neuroscientist championing moody adolescents

Sarah-Jayne Blakemore’s studies of the adolescent brain have won her awards. So when she says GCSEs are damaging to teens’ health, perhaps we should listen

www.theguardian.com

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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

@sjblakemore

6 years

I’m incredibly honoured to have been elected a Fellow of the British Academy (or the Ritish Ademy, according to this photo) and had a wonderful evening at the New Fellows’ Admission Ceremony.

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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

@sjblakemore

6 years

I am absolutely delighted to have been elected a Fellow of the British Academy. It is a wonderful honour.

The British Academy

@BritishAcademy_

6 years

Today we elected a record number of new Fellows of the British Academy! We'll be introducing some of them to you throughout the day, but you can read the full list of 76 world-class academics on our website:

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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

@sjblakemore

3 years

In our lab meeting today we were discussing how to write a reference letter. My American PhD student @EmilyAnnTowner showed us this, which is, in my experience, spot on

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@sjblakemore

6 years

Why do we even have GCSEs now that young people have to be in full time education (of some kind) until 18? We’re the only country that has national exams at both 16 and 18 and I have yet to hear a convincing argument for keeping GCSEs. (And don’t get me started on SATS).

The Psychologist

@psychmag

6 years

SATS and GCSE's are starting this week. In December 2008 Dave Putwain looked at the relationship that can have a serious impact on the lives of young people in his article titled Examination stress and test anxiety.

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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

@sjblakemore

4 years

We have a letter in @thetimes today asking for the age of criminal responsibility in England and Wales to be raised from 10 years, the lowest in Europe

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@sjblakemore

3 years

Pointed out yesterday by non-British colleagues Illogical British communication etiquette exhibit 187: To indicate that you want and will imminently eat the last remaining cookie, you offer it to everyone else.

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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

@sjblakemore

2 years

One month ago, my mum, Andrée, died, and the world lost one of its brightest and most beautiful stars

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@sjblakemore

2 years

Results from our large trial of mindfulness in schools are published today, with 7 papers in BMJ @EBMentalHealth This study was led by the brilliant @WillemKuyken @TimDalgleish , Mark Williams and many co-investigators, and funded by @wellcometrust

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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

@sjblakemore

8 months

Remembering the time my son changed the number of children I have on wiki

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@sjblakemore

2 years

Sir Colin Blakemore (1944-2022)

It is with deep sadness that we learned of the death of our patron, the eminent neurobiologist and humanist campaigner Sir Colin Blakemore. Born in Stratford-upon-Avon in June 1944, Sir Colin’s love...

humanists.uk

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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

@sjblakemore

4 years

Important paper by @utafrith Scientists: What do you do to promote slow science? I keep my research group small-ish (10 core people max) and we aim to publish three high quality papers each year. Sometimes we publish more but we don’t aim for quantity.

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

@TrendsCognSci

4 years

"Fast Science is bad for scientists and bad for science." --Uta Frith, Fast Lane to Slow Science #slowscience

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@sjblakemore

2 years

It has been a complicated week and has made me deeply miss my parents, both of whom died this year. I would love to talk to them about all the things that have happened in a single week: the sad, the complicated, the mind-blowingly bonkers. Talk to those you love, all the time!

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@sjblakemore

6 years

Just discovered that my son thought all his male teachers have been knighted.

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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

@sjblakemore

5 years

This is my last month at UCL after 23 years. Bittersweet! I’m very much looking forward to starting my new job at Cambridge, but will deeply miss UCL

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@sjblakemore

5 years

My new department @CambPsych is impressively proactive with wellbeing & inclusion initiatives, thanks largely to Prof Claire Hughes. Recent initiatives include yoga classes, a breast feeding/menopause room, buddy/mentor scheme, free Botanical garden passes, fruit at reception...

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@sjblakemore

3 years

It’s one week (or two) until schools are supposed to go back. It would be quite useful for teachers, parents and students to know what the new plan is, if there is one. The uncertainty about what’s happening *next week* is hard for everyone to deal with.

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@sjblakemore

6 years

Talking of women in science... Today, with 2 esteemed (male) colleagues, this is how we were greeted by the (v. nice) receptionist: ‘Hi Mr Lewis, Sarah-Jayne, Mr Roiser.’ Happens quite often. Doesn’t particularly bother me but probably indicative of pervasive subconscious bias.

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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

@sjblakemore

6 years

What an evening! It has still not sunk in. I’m completely amazed and honoured and of course beyond happy!

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@sjblakemore

4 years

Wrote this a month ago... wish it wasn't all so predictable

Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

@sjblakemore

4 years

There is a real possibility that opening pubs, restaurants etc will increase the spread of the virus and, if that happens, schools might not be able to reopen in Sept. This would be a travesty for children and teenagers, many of whom will have already missed 6 months of school.

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@sjblakemore

6 years

'Friendship is the single most important factor influencing our health, well-being, and happiness.' New Robin Dunbar paper:

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@sjblakemore

3 years

Contrary to stereotypes about teenagers, we found that young adolescents are other-centred and generous - significantly more so than adults

Jay Van Bavel, PhD

@jayvanbavel

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Kids are more generous in their donations to charity than adults and also more likely to be influenced by the generosity of others in their social environment

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@sjblakemore

3 years

This is a thread about the lorries - and the men in them - stuck in Kent. It's really a thread about men's mental health. Imagine how awful it must be to be stuck alone in a lorry, with no facilities, especially just before Christmas, with no idea when you'll be able to go home

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@sjblakemore

5 years

Love this gender stereotype reversal: Man: waaaah a cute kitten and I just saved his little life Woman: just put it in the box

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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

@sjblakemore

6 years

It's still sinking in that my book won @royalsociety Book Prize. It's an honour I never dared to dream of - and a dream come true! Thanks for the kind tweets, sorry I can't respond individually. UCL has supported me for >20 yrs and I'm proud to work there.

UCL professor wins Royal Society science book prize

Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore has won the prestigious Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize 2018, which celebrates the best of science writing for a non-specialist audience.

www.ucl.ac.uk

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@sjblakemore

5 years

One of my favourite short poems. What’s yours? Mrs Darwin By Carol Ann Duffy 7 April 1852 Went to the Zoo. I said to Him— Something about that Chimpanzee over there reminds me of you.

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@sjblakemore

3 years

This could be retitled ’School is good for children’s speech and language skills’. Who knew

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@sjblakemore

4 years

Hearing Matt Hancock on Today made me wonder if he understands what an antibody is. This crisis is demonstrating the dire need for more scientists in government. It's painful to listen to politicians talking about complex biology when they might not even have a science A level

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@sjblakemore

2 years

I’ll soon be advertising a 2+ year postdoc position to work on projects related to social cognitive development in adolescence. Specific studies flexible. Based in beautiful Cambridge, UK. You need PhD in neuroscience, psychology or or related area. Please email me if interested

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@sjblakemore

2 years

It is an honour to be elected to the fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences @acmedsci . I feel privileged to join the Academy and look forward to becoming involved in its important work. I’m grateful to kind colleagues who nominated me, in particular @Tamsin_J_Ford

Academy of Medical Sciences

@acmedsci

2 years

Congratulations to our 60 new Fellows announced today Find out more about these outstanding biomedical and health scientists and see the full list on our website: #AMSFellows2022

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@sjblakemore

4 years

Thread. Every day I hear about children and young people who are desperate to hang out with friends and play, but who aren't used to organising meet-ups that involve socially distanced walks - this isn't what kids do and they are suffering as a consequence 1/5

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@sjblakemore

7 years

My new book isn't actually finished yet but you can already order it! Apparently it will contain 304 pages.

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@sjblakemore

1 year

Why do we still have journals when we can publish our work on the internet, open access, with post publication review and discussion?

Imaging Neuroscience EiC

@ImagingNeurosci

1 year

All NeuroImage and NeuroImage:Reports editors have resigned over the high publication fee, and are starting a new non-profit journal This comes with great regret, and a huge amount of thought and discussion- please read announcement to get more details.

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Getting enough sleep and seeing friends may have a bigger effect on teenage girls' mental wellbeing than social media use Social media has 'little effect on girls' wellbeing'

Social media has 'little effect on girls' wellbeing'

A new report suggests sleep and friendships are more important to wellbeing than staying off social media.

www.bbc.com

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@sjblakemore

5 years

Suicide is the leading cause of death in men under 50 in the UK (and the US and many other countries). There is an urgent need to do more for boys and men who are suffering mentally.

Suicidal thoughts: statistics

www.mentalhealth.org.uk

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@sjblakemore

5 years

My new office in @CambPsych @Cambridge_Uni is starting to look very nice (and rather like my old office at @UCL_ICN ). And yes, I colour-coordinated my books. Don’t @ me

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@sjblakemore

6 years

There are ways of being critical without being cruel. My recommendation is to write a review that you’d be prepared to discuss in a face-to-face conversation with the author. Or sign it. Even if you don’t sign your reviews, they are not anonymous to the editor.

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@sjblakemore

2 years

@JennyRohn Poor you. Empathy. Take care and get a lot of rest. There must be a lot of people walking around with cold symptoms but negative LFTs - worrying

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@sjblakemore

5 years

This is ludicrous and appalling. Two decades of scientific research has shown that the human adolescent brain and mind are still in development. This is not a theory, it’s a robust and replicated unequivocal finding, from many hundreds of scientific studies.

The Appeal

@theappeal

5 years

BREAKING: The Appeal has obtained a report commissioned by prosecutors in Maricopa County, Arizona, to seeks to discredit longstanding research on the differences between teenage and adult brains.

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Shops are open now, hairdressers and cinemas are opening soon. But most children and young people will have missed 6 months of academic, social and metacognitive learning they get from going to school, *if* they go back in September. The priorities are all wrong.

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2 years

Job alert! I will soon be advertising a research assistant post to help support our research on adolescent social cognitive and brain development. Based in Cambridge, starts Sept. Requires degree in psychology, neuroscience or similar. If you’re interested, get in touch by email

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4 years

Today I wrote to a funding agency asking them to delay grant application deadlines by more than a few days. Parents of young children (and other carers) are massively disadvantaged compared with people who have no caring responsibilities. Deadlines need to take this into account

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I missed this - what an odd thing to say. Doing an experimental psychology degree was the best thing I've done. It gave me a love of learning (for pretty much the first time), it developed my analytical and critical thinking, and I learned so much about the mind and the brain.

British Psychological Society

@BPSOfficial

5 years

We reject recent comments made by the Education Secretary which described psychology as a 'low value' degree. Read our full response

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5 years

How is it possible that, in this high income country, schools cannot afford to stay open 5 days a week?

Jess Phillips MP

@jessphillips

5 years

Please help us organise a huge campaign day to take children whose schools can no longer afford to stay open for 5 days per week to Westminster. Send the Government a message by helping us. Click to Donate: via @gofundme

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5 years

Looks like the UK has been awarded more ERC consolidator grants than any other EU country (again). This is a huge achievement, a very large amount of funding for UK-based research and a clear example of how the UK benefits from being in the EU. #StopBrexitSaveBritain

European Research Council (ERC)

@ERC_Research

5 years

📣 Consolidator grant results! 291 mid-career researchers received #ERCCoG worth in total €573 million - to address frontier research problems, build up their teams & have far-reaching impact. 🇪🇺 #EUfunded @EUScienceInnov @EU_Commission @EU_H2020 @Moedas

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I’m very pleased that @OrbenAmy @livia_tomova @rogierK and I have received funding to carry out a large scale study on mental health and social distancing in young people around the globe. There are already a number of studies but ours will be a little different. 1/2

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It is devastating for the GCSE and A Level students who have been working for two years for their exams, and also for their teachers. Unprecedented and unimaginable, with unknown consequences. There needs to be more attention paid to the psychology of this crisis.

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My last couple of hours at @UCL_ICN . The van is full of my office stuff and on its way to @CambPsych And I match my plate!

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I am thrilled and honoured to have been awarded the @IUPsyS Major Advancement in Psychological Science Prize 2020 and will be giving a talk at ICP on Tuesday 20th July at 11am:

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As a scientist, I really don’t know what this means

Conservatives

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NEW: Conservatives are safeguarding scientific research from the denial of biology and the steady creep of political correctness. @michelledonelan announces plans to depoliticise science at #CPC23

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@Baddiel @caitlinmoran milky milky ?

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Some ramblings from me on my favourite subject BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour - The teenage brain: Seven things parents should know about adolescent behaviour

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour - The teenage brain: Seven things parents should know about adolescent...

Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore outlines what parents need to know about the teenage brain

www.bbc.co.uk

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5 years

I’ve seen hundreds of photos of the climate marches today and this one brought a tear to my eye

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4 years

Sophie Scott Commander of the Order of the British Empire! For services to Neuroscience. Fantastic - congratulations @sophiescott CBE

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This is interesting. Although some children & young people are finding social distancing hard, others are not. There are large individual differences and studies looking at the effects of social distancing & Covid-19 should account for them, and not assume it's all negative

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4 years

One of the most poignant points I heard today in a @Barnardos_IRL staff meeting was there has been a noticeable drop in anxiety in a proportion of the children we work with - the kids that get mercilessly bullied day after day in school feel safer and happier at home.

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So I’m due to talk about teenage brain development and mental health on the Radio 4 Today Programme tomorrow at 8.15am. I may mention GCSEs... #gcseresultsday2018

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4 years

Someone needs a lesson in how to make ppt slides. And the graphs. What’s the y axis? Jeez @nicholaraihani

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4 years

We need to start having a big conversation about GCSEs. How can they go ahead next year (2021) when many students have already missed a significant fraction of their courses? The inequalities are vast. And this is an opportunity to reconsider GCSEs completely - are they needed?

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3 years

My astrophysics-loving son's 16th birthday cake made by uber-talented @neviepiecakes

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Honoured to be giving the first Sir Colin Blakemore Annual Lecture at Edinburgh Neuroscience on 9th March. My dad was amazed and delighted when he was told weeks before he died that the annual lecture was going to be named after him.

Neuroscience Day 2023

After a few years' hiatus and restricted capacity, we are delighted to be hosting a full-capacity Neuroscience Day at the iconic Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh.

www.edinburghneuroscience.ed.ac.uk

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4 years

@manwhohasitall Wow your wife must be so amazingly supportive to enable you to have a full time job in academia. How does that work exactly?

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Getting emails from journals telling me crossly that I'm late with reviews. Hello. There's a pandemic out there. Everything is delayed, *everything*.

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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

@sjblakemore

2 years

As reviewers, yes, we need to be critical, but we never need to be cruel. As an editor, I have once or twice removed statements like this from reviews because they add nothing constructive to the review. We should make an effort to improve others' self-esteem, not harm it

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6 years

"Author and neuroscientist" I like it!

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6 years

🎥Action shots of Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore @sjblakemore from @UCLPALS @UCL_ICN this morning on the @BBCOne Breakfast show talking about her book (Inventing Ourselves) that has just won the @royalsociety #scibooks prize! 🧠📺 @UCLBrainScience @ucl @uclnews

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Prof Sarah Gilbert was characteristically impressive on #Marr . Marr asked about social distancing and she said, ‘that is not my field of expertise...’ We should all say that more. Sometimes it’s tempting to state our views but it’s not a good idea when it’s outside our area

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