Pete Etchells
Professor of Psychology and Science Communication | Award-winning science writer | Screen Time | Social Media | Smartphones | Video games | https://linktr.ee/unlockedbook
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@aoir.bsky.social
Researching the Internet is serious business. Mostly. (We're mainly over on AoIR.social, our organisation Mastodon instance, which is open to all members.) https://aoir.org/ https://aoir.social/@aoir
@serenatarling.bsky.social
Journo. Mum of two. Series producer on BBC’s From Our Own Correspondent podcast. Ex FT
@alicetiara.bsky.social
Studies social media & society, far-right disinfo. Dir of Research, Data & Society. UNC CITAP. Loves pop cult. Mom, fashion victim, sci fi/fantasy enthusiast. Author of The Private is Political, Status Update. NYC forever. She/her/femme 💅🏻 tiara.org
@taylorlorenz.bsky.social
Subscribe to my tech and online culture newsletter UserMag.co Listen/watch Power User podcast on all platforms!!
@oh-henry.bsky.social
Ex-X, ex-CRUK/ARUK, now independent freelance comms consultant, writer and editor. Guitars in @thisisdogunit.bsky.social.
@jayneb.bsky.social
MEd Psychology of Education at #MIE #UoM. Parent. Interested in the intersections of poverty, wellbeing, educational outcomes and compassion.
@matthewfjohnson.bsky.social
Director of Education for MediaSmarts, Canada's centre for digital media literacy. He/him. Open to correction.
@karlaholmboe.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Developmental Science at the University of Bristol. Investigating executive functions in infancy and early childhood. Obsessed with longitudinal research.
@webwiseireland.bsky.social
@inbitspodcast.com
The podcast that deconstructs our digital lives. Hosted by @nicolafh.bsky.social and @drliam.bsky.social
@uwesoas.bsky.social
School of Applied Sciences at UWE Bristol. Bringing you news and stories on our UG & PG courses, research, knowledge exchange, CPD & events. #TeamUWE https://www.uwe.ac.uk/about/colleges-and-schools/health-science-and-society/applied-sciences
@rossexton.bsky.social
Founder & Director of Watch & Learn Productions Video Producer | Science Communicator | Educational Storyteller | Deaf 🦻🤟 (he/him)
@revealingreality.bsky.social
Research-driven insights on online behaviours, tech innovation, youth media engagement and digital safety.
@andyburrows.bsky.social
CEO, Molly Rose Foundation. Tech accountability / online safety / good trouble
@christianjarrett.bsky.social
Editor of Psyche Magazine https://psyche.co/ | SPSP award-winning author of BE WHO YOU WANT | Contributor to BBC Science Focus | http://www.christianjarrett.com
@trunkmanuk.bsky.social
Producer, Director and Writer. Founder and Co-Director of Trunkman Productions. Co-Founder of The Cosmic Shambles Network. Makes films and shows. Likes science and comedy and jazz and basketball and motorcycles. Has a dog.
@bpscyberpsychology.bsky.social
Est. 2018. Dedicated to sharing and developing insights into cyberpsychology. Account managed by BPS Cyberpsychology Section Committee. RTs ≠ endorsement.
@amyfleming.bsky.social
Pond dipper. (Plus writer and editor, mostly at the Guardian, but also the Independent, FT, Economist, Newsweek, BBC Science Focus, Vogue etc and some memoir bits in books. Currently editing on the Guardian's culture desk.)
@amandaruggeri.bsky.social
Multi-award-winning journalist. Health, psychology, child development, anthropology, media literacy, critical thinking and more. BBC, New Scientist, Scientific American, Atlantic.
@astronomer-mark.bsky.social
Broadcaster & Author exploring STEM through TV, radio, theatre & books | BBC Stargazing Live | Hon Doc from @UEA | Fascinated by sleep | office@josarsby.com
@themattaddis.bsky.social
Actor & Voice 🏴🇪🇺 🌱 Dysgwr Cymraeg | Glut #BG3 | www.mattaddis.com | he/him
@mattburgess1.bsky.social
Security writer @wired.com Cybercrime, privacy, surveillance, and more. Signal: mattburgess.20 | Email: matt_burgess@wired.com
@lisagolds.bsky.social
Innovation Fellow at University of Edinburgh. Perinatal mental health / Intergenerational mental health Exploring the relationships between caregiver social determinants of mental health, technology use, and parent-infant early relational health she/her
@orygen.org.au
Australia's Centre of Excellence for Youth Mental Health. 💡 Pioneering research 🧡 Policy & advocacy 🎓 Education & training 🌱 Innovations in care
@hollynielsen.bsky.social
Historian of play | AHRC funded PhD on board games & play c.1860-1939 | Game developer | Writer & narrative designer Repped by Will Francis at Janklow & Nesbit she/her
@drjanegilmour.bsky.social
➡️ #NHS Clinical #Psychologist (#neurodiversity) ➡️ Programme Director @UCL #child-development ➡️ #author #broadcaster ➡️ Co-host of @acamh.bsky.social podcast https://www.drjanegilmour.com/
@sarah-mills.bsky.social
Professor of Human Geography at Loughborough University | www.profsarahmills.com
@lindakkaye.bsky.social
Cyberpsychology |TEDx Speaker| Founding member & a former Chair of BPS Cyberpsychology Section | Owner The CyberDoctor | Associate Head at Edge Hill Psychology | She/her |Using cyberpsychology to inspire user-centred digital innovation.
@michael-w-robert.bsky.social
PT - learning about how each brain makes a mind - interests: Pain/Consciousness/Neuroscience/Evolution/Genetics/Biology 📚 Bibliophile - Author🖋
@katepullinger.bsky.social
Writer of fiction - books and digital. Inanimate Alice, Breathe, Forest Green. Academic - Bath Spa University. Books. Food. Sleep. Canadian living in UK. www.katepullinger.com and https://buttondown.email/katepullinger
@lucysweetman.bsky.social
Writer, lecturer, something else. Meet me here for writing, HE, politics, culture and sport. Life, then. Now writing @ https://lucy-sweetman-writing.ghost.io/
@iangadd.bsky.social
Bibliographer; book historian. Opinions are my own. (Header image is cartoon by Stephen Collins: http://www.stephencollinsillustration.com/)
@samillingworth.com
Professor of Creative Pedagogies | Poet | Game Designer | Bridging creativity and communities through poetry, games, and GenAI. #SciComm #HigherEd #Poetry https://linktr.ee/sam.illingworth
@aldersonday.bsky.social
Psychology prof at Durham + interdisciplinary stuff (usually psychosis, inner speech, a bit of neurodiversity). Author of "Presence: The Strange Science of the Unseen Other" (MUP). Chair of @theichr.bsky.social
@hshawberry.bsky.social
Lecturer in Psychology & Behavioural Analytics at Lancaster Uni 📊Researching behaviour biometrics, digital ethics, mobile sensing & the science of situations. Yarn crafts, cute animals & film photography might also make an appearance.
@cjferguson1111.bsky.social
PhD Psychologist, Author of Suicide Kings; Moral Combat: Why the War on Violent Video Games is Wrong & How Madness Shaped History. Member of an awesome family. Substack: grimoiremanor.substack.com Website: www.ChristopherJFerguson.com
@sonialivingstone.bsky.social
LSE prof @MediaLSE | Director of #DigitalFutures4Children | Researches children's digital experiences and rights | Interested in evidence to inform policy | s.livingstone@lse.ac.uk | Stay in touch at http://eepurl.com/cEUi05
@cjsewall9.bsky.social
Former academic, current clinical data scientist in industry. Occasionally has things to say about the whole social media panic. You can read those things here: https://open.substack.com/pub/craigsewall
@ckronenberg.bsky.social
(Mental) health economics Bio: PostDoc @cinchessen.bsky.social , UDE, previously CHE York. Associated with HEDG, York and RWI Leibniz. He/him/his. https://sites.google.com/view/christoph-kronenberg/home
@uwebristolofficial.bsky.social
The official account of the University of the West of England, Bristol • Transforming Futures • We are #TeamUWE • TEF Gold rated for Student Experience • www.uwe.ac.uk
@jimalkhalili.bsky.social
Jim Al-Khalili CBE FRS HonFREng Emeritus Professor of Physics @UniofSurrey, theoretical physicist, author, broadcaster, humanist. "Affable Egghead" (Sunday Times). https://jimal-khalili.com https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/jim-al-khalili
@funsizesuze.bsky.social
Nanochemist. Research Community Engagement wrangler. Science TV presenter. Science writer. Science communicator. Trustee of the Royal Institution. Cat mamma. Musical theatre fan. Disney nerd. She/her. 📸 @huwmjames @ Science StoryLab
@markmiodownik.bsky.social
Materials scientist & engineer; Director of the UCL Institute of Making; Author of New York Times best selling book Stuff Matters and others; Occasional BBC TV/radio presenter.