New paper! By Blanca Piera Pi-Sunyer & collaborators Investigating the relationship between neighbourhood characteristics, perceived social support and psychological wellbeing in Spanish adolescents www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The association between academic pressure and adolescent mental health problems: A systematic review By Thomas Steare, Carolina Gutiérrez Muñoz, Alice Sullivan, Gemma Lewis www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The government’s curriculum and assessment review is a huge missed opportunity but it’s not too late for the PM to champion radical reform. My piece for @theobserveruk.bsky.social on why education should be Keir Starmer’s overriding mission observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

🌟Prof @lizcoulthard.bsky.social 🌟discussing blood tests for dementia www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

*Job alert* Exciting job at UCL: Lecturer in Child Mental Health www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Job alert! Check out this AMAZING job at the new Centre for Emerging Minds at University of Oxford www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPE418/d...

Fantastic TEDx talk on adolescence

Talk in Cambridge this Friday at 4.30pm Trust in “Moral” Machines Prof Jim A.C. Everett, University of Kent Details below talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/2...

Interesting blog by Baroness Beeban Kidron The UK Is Doing the Hard Work of Protecting Children Online www.afterbabel.com/p/the-uk-is-...

PhD ✔️ After five amazing years at Cambridge, I'm thrilled to have completed my PhD in Psychology! Huge thanks to my incredible supervisor @sjblakemore.bsky.social for being a brilliant scientist and compassionate mentor and to my Blakemore Lab colleagues and Cambridge friends who became family. 💙

Applications are now open for the SWC Systems Neuroscience PhD Programme. Join us in London! 🧠 World-class neuroscience training 💰 Fully-funded 4-year programme 🖥️ Close links to @gatsbyucl.bsky.social Apply by 3 Nov: www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/content/...

The brilliant @kasiamojescik.bsky.social and Martha McGill join @claudiahammond.bsky.social and @catherineloveday.bsky.social on BBC Radio 4 All in the Mind this morning to launch our new public survey of vivid memories. You can take part here: cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

⭐New Episode of MQ Open Mind⭐ in which I talk with @roryoc.bsky.social about the teenage brain, myths about adolescence, and how neuroscience can reshape how we support young people www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy7j...

Brilliant episode of All in the Mind with @claudiahammond.bsky.social, who discusses autism with @utafrith.bsky.social, brain development with @catherineloveday.bsky.social, as well as memory, music and other interesting topics www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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....

Blanca Piera Pi-Sunyer on how to make the world a better place for young people, the cumulative impact of adversity & how to mitigate it in the Gates Cambridge podcast, So, now what? - @cambridgeuni.bsky.social

Applications now open for an international PhD program investigating child and adolescent health and wellbeing. This provides funding for 4 students to do PhDs in Australia and Singapore, starting Jan 2026 comms.mcri.edu.au/v/110977/100...

Morning run in Delft

Congratulations to @TimDalgleish on his election as a Fellow at @Catz_Cambridge and the Dawson Professor of Young People’s Mental Health @Cambridge_Uni www.caths.cam.ac.uk/fellows-oct2...

But, of course, the fuckwits. Dame Sarah Mullally makes history as the first female Archbishop of Canterbury and the Sky news headline fails to name her but it’s ok, her husband is named.

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

Many congratulations to @MasudHusain for winning the @royalsociety 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

📣New study 📣 We examined the prevalence of food insecurity and its association with mental health and wellbeing, using the 2023 @oxwell.bsky.social survey of 38,430 children and young people aged 8–19 in England with @sjblakemore.bsky.social @minafazeloxford.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/jcv2...

New paper by @bignardi.bsky.social @minafazeloxford.bsky.social & @oxwell.bsky.social The prevalence of food insecurity and its relationship with wellbeing in a large, cross-sectional study of children and young people in England acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Since it was first described in the 1940s, autism has been blamed on mothers, in one way or another (based on no evidence). Plus ça change

Confessions of an Early Career Researcher. We've released a new 'warts and all' podcast, in collaboration with @leverhulme.ac.uk which might be of interest to anyone thinking of starting a career in research www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/confess...

Saw this in a bar recently

Morning run in beautiful Edinburgh

Funded PhD studentship at Exeter University! Unravelling Moral Injury in Eating Disorders in Young Adults. MRC GW4 BioMed DTP PhD studentship for 2026/27 Entry www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

Had an amazing experience presenting my research at #Flux2025, connecting with colleagues and listening to inspiring talks, especially from my supervisor @sjblakemore.bsky.social

Following social isolation, adolescents show increased sensitivity to rewards during effort-based decision making and reward learning. @livia-tomova.bsky.social @sjblakemore.bsky.social @emilyanntowner.bsky.social @stepalminteri.bsky.social @lei-zhang.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

It was an honour to be awarded the #flux2025 Huttenlocher Prize. Thank you Flux

The research linking alcohol to breast cancer is deadly solid: Alcohol, regardless of whether it’s in Everclear or a vintage Bordeaux, is carcinogenic.

New paper! By @livia-tomova.bsky.social, @emilyanntowner.bsky.social, Kirsten Thomas, @stepalminteri.bsky.social, @l32zhang.bsky.social Acute isolation is associated with increased reward seeking and reward learning in human adolescents. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Margaret Sheridan inspires us all with reflections and insights at her Linda Spear mid-career award talk 👏 Reminding us of the incredible growth and value of our field! #flux2025 @fluxsociety.bsky.social

Eveline Crone gives thoughtful opening remarks at @fluxsociety.bsky.social - thanking all the organizers and also acknowledging our challenging times. Very excited for the next 3 days of developmental cognitive neuroscience in Dublin! #flux2025

Brain postdoc fellowships now open guarantorsofbrain.org/grants/post-...

First September in a very long time that does not involve children going back to school. Mixed feelings

New paper! Excellent work by @bignardi.bsky.social and @minafazeloxford.bsky.social, who leads the Oxwell study The prevalence of food insecurity and its relationship with wellbeing in a large, cross-sectional study of children and young people in England Out soon. Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

A Behavioral Activation Digital Intervention Incorporating Gamification and Peer Support for Adolescent Depression in Rural South Africa: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial (the DoBAt Study) - JAACAP Open www.jaacapopen.org/article/S294...

Teen Brain Bootcamp A free email course on the science of adolescent brain development knowablemagazine.org/teen-brain-b...

Join us for a Public Panel discussion on Current & Future Treatments for Dementia, featuring experts in the field 🧠 No need to register - just come along and spread the word! 📍West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge 🗓️11th Sep 5-6:30pm BST web: neuroscience.cam.ac.uk Sponsored by Beckman Coulter

Exceptional research leaders awarded first Royal Society Faraday Discovery Fellowships royalsociety.org/news/2025/08...

Someone just sent me my academic family - how awesome neurotree.org/neurotree/tr...

This is heartbreaking and will happen again if nothing is done to restrict AI and social media

Looking forward to working in Auckland on a Hood Fellowship this autumn, giving this lecture and visiting The @nicholaraihani.bsky.social

Join us for a 2-day international conference "Interventions & Recovery"🧠 bit.ly/46QQ1WG We'll cover cell & gene therapies, pharmaceutical innovations, and cutting-edge neurotechnology Check out our Programme!👇https://neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/camneuro-events/8th-cambridge-neuroscience-symposium/?tab=2