Interesting survey, exploring how adolescents feel about politics, voting and trust in institutions, and lowering the voting age to 16.

Willing but Wary: Adolescents, Democracy & Vote at 16: the IP-PAD UK Adolescent Study. By @mtsakiris.bsky.social & co

www.royalholloway.ac.uk/media/zhbnbo...

Radical with Amol Rajan - The Reading Recession: Are We Making Ourselves Less Intelligent? (James Marriott) - BBC Sounds Tracing the historical relationship between reading, intelligence and democracy.

Very interesting

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Fabuleux

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Blanca’s PhD thesis title is: “Investigating how social and neighbourhood environments shape adolescent mental health”.

Papers from Blanca’s PhD can be found here: lnkd.in/eS4UxUvT

🌟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.

Uta Frith: why I no longer think autism is a spectrum The autism spectrum has widened to the point of collapse, affecting how teachers should support autistic pupils in the classroom, researcher Uta Frith tells Helen Amass

Fascinating interview with @utafrith.bsky.social

www.tes.com/magazine/tea...

Important paper, led by Prof Gemma Lewis

The association between academic pressure and adolescent depressive symptoms and self-harm: a longitudinal, prospective study in England

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

AI is damaging science. The number of grant applications and paper submissions has increased dramatically, partly driven by AI. Some interview candidates are using AI to transcribe online interviews and generate answers in real time. This is not sustainable, and it compromises integrity and fairness

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There’s an Oxford comma too. Unequivocal

The em dash is a giveaway

❤️ UCL 🎉

Tutorial - R for Data Wrangling YouTube video by Emily Towner

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=xigZ...

Tutorial - R for Beginners YouTube video by Emily Towner

Reminder about a couple of free online R tutorials for beginners by Dr @emilyanntowner.bsky.social

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=boJs...

‘They’re taught that showing feelings is shameful’: eight reasons men don’t go to therapy – and why they should A clinical psychologist on why men still don’t seek help for their mental health

Fascinating article about men’s mental health, by Dr Stephen Blumenthal

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Yes, there‘s lots of research showing that it’s easier to learn a second language the earlier a child is exposed to it

Foreign-language experience in infancy: effects of short-term exposure and social interaction on phonetic learning - PubMed Infants acquire language with remarkable speed, although little is known about the mechanisms that underlie the acquisition process. Studies of the phonetic units of language have shown that early in life, infants are capable of discerning differences among the phonetic units of all languages, inclu …

For sound categorisation yes, with some relearning possible with specific irl training - see paper below

My dad presented a BBC series called The Mind Machine in the 1980S

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12861072/

I know! He would love the symmetry

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

Government to drive action to improve children’s relationship with mobile phones and social media Government launches consultation on children's social media use and bans phones in schools to protect young people's wellbeing and ensure safer online experiences.

About time.

Government to drive action to improve children’s relationship with mobile phones and social media

www.gov.uk/government/n...

Wow, is that Bath?

If only this one-star review of my book started half way through line 5.
Shout out to my science buddies 🤩

Please follow me on Instagram, where I’ll be posting neuroscience-related content

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Congratulations the @campsydept.bsky.social prize winners!

The Brenda Milner Prize 2025 was awarded to Dr @rakoenmaertens.bsky.social

The Anne Treisman Prize 2025 was awarded ex aequo to Dr David Young and Dr Chloe Austerberry.

See below for details:

www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/news/congrat...

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Transcribing interview with a great Parkinson’s scientist - love his advice to young researchers:
“Pick your area, stick with it, and accept that at some point in your life it will be flavour of the month, and at some point in your career, it will be ’I can't believe you're still working on that’”

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