Social media and adolescent mental health
Interested in cutting through the fear to find a more balanced take on adolescent mental health in the digital world? Well here is a good place to start. Suggestions for additions are welcome!
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@candiceodgers.bsky.social
@tommetherell.com
/ˈmɛðərəl/. He/him. PhD candidate in Mental Health Science @clscohorts.bsky.social, @sriucl.bsky.social. Social media + mental health 📱🧠🏳️🌈 tommetherell.com
@emilytowner.com
Scientist / PhD in Progress 👇🏻 📍 UK 🇬🇧 @CambridgeUniversity 🎓 Gates-Cambridge Scholar 🧠 Studying psychology and brains ✉️ hello@emilytowner.com #psychology #neuroscience #development #learning #brain #adolescence www.emilytowner.com
@karenlauram.bsky.social
ResearchScientist, @oii.ox.ac.uk UniversityOfOxford: Adolescent MentalHealth/Wellbeing/Learning, MetaScience, Digital/Social Media, SocialEquity, ResearchIntegrity, MixedMethods. People&Planet, ActiveTravel, Sustainability. FirstGen Imposter in Academia
@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.
@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
@mikey-jensen.bsky.social
Associate Professor UNCG- Psychologist researching parent-adolescent relationship, culture, and tech.
@mindimager.bsky.social
Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience @Temple U. Cognitive neuro, cognitive control, adolescent brain development, digital media/social media, working memory, risk taking, cognitive enhancement. Director of TUBRIC, PI of CABLAB (sites.temple.edu/CABLAB)
@mimbs.bsky.social
newsletters at The New Yorker • based in LA • former Atlantic staff writer • I write about wildfire, technology, and California • caroline_nyce@newyorker.com • Mimbs.22 on Signal
@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
@prof-nick-allen.bsky.social
Professor of Clinical Psychology at University of Oregon, Co-founder and CEO at Ksana Health. Youth mental health, digital mental health, using science and technology to make behavioral healthcare work better for everyone.
@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
@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.
@louiselasala.bsky.social
Research Fellow | Social Media, Online Safety & Youth Mental Health | Self-harm & Suicide Prevention | Orygen, Centre for Youth Mental Health at the University of Melbourne
@katyahancock.bsky.social
Founding Executive Director at Young Futures. On a mission to make it easier to grow up in the digital world.
@youngfutures.bsky.social
We're on a mission to make it easier to grow up in the digital world. Learn more at youngfutures.org.
@stineliv.bsky.social
Associate Professor at Aarhus University, Denmark. Studying children and young people in digital environments. Specific focus on intersections between children+youth, media, and disability.
@jesstpiotrowski.bsky.social
Professor of Communication in the Digital Society at University of Amsterdam | Youth & Media Scholar | ally 🏳️🌈 | ❤️ teaching, research, running, dark chocolate, & sunshine
@loespouwels.bsky.social
Assistant Professor developmental psychology @radboud university | Studies social media use and social connectedness among adolescents
@kathymodecki.bsky.social
FHRI Distinguished Professororiate Developmental Science of Mental Health Team Lead @ The Kids Institute School of Psychological Science @ University of Western Australia
@luciamawe.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @University of Washington | PI of the interACTlab | teens and tech in Latin America | she/ella
@ammccready.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of #HigherEducation & #StudentAffairs @ UConn. I research social media use & college student development.
@damonberes.com
Senior editor at The Atlantic, focused on tech // SIGNAL: Damon.63 📨 dberes at the atlantic dot com ✴️ damonberes.com
@amandalenhart.bsky.social
Youth and technology researcher. Senior Fellow, Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop. Senior Advisor, Common Sense Media. Affiliate, Data & Society. Parent and step-parent to 4, six if you count the cats.
@annecollier.bsky.social
Not the famous artist but a fan. Youth digital rights advocate since 1997. https://www.netfamilynews.org/about/anne-colliers-bio https://linkedin.com/in/annecollier https://www.netfamilynews.org/where-did-my-twitter-go-and-other-end-of-2022-notes
@mmasnick.bsky.social
Techdirt guy. Writes about social media, copyright, free speech, content moderation, civil liberties and stuff like that. Once wrote a paper that may have helped inspire this service & now I'm on its board: https://bit.ly/protocolnotplatform
@mattmotyl.bsky.social
Trust & safety expert, political psychologist, behavioral data scientist, recovering academic, pun and dog lover.
@jennifersilk.bsky.social
Professor of Clinical and Developmental Psychology, University of Pittsburgh | emotion regulation | intersection of social (parents, peers, social media) and neurobiological risk factors for affective disorders in adolescence | therapy dog mom
@sivav.bsky.social
Writer. Professor. Golden retriever papa. Bylines in Guardian, Slate, TNR, many other places. Supervises VQR. Wrote a pile of books you might like.
@colleenss.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @ UIC, @ijr-uic.bsky.social | Director of @the-matters-lab.bsky.social | Co-Chair: SPP/APA Div 54 Digital Health SIG | Pediatric Digital Mental Health Researcher | Mom | Order Muppet | Will happily soapbox about equity any day
@tobiasdienlin.com
Media Psychology & Communication | Privacy & Well-Being | Open Science & Slow Science | IKMZ & University of Zurich | https://tobiasdienlin.com
@anya1anya.bsky.social
Ex-NPR. Climate, polycrisis, edu, mental health, tech, care agenda, families, youth, sex, spirit. Words: New York, Grist, more. Books: Generation Debt, DIY U, The Art of Screen Time, The Test, The Stolen Year. thegoldenhour.substack.com
@alexpsihogios.bsky.social
Wife & mom (she/her) | Assistant Prof of Medical Social Sciences at Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine | Psychologist | Digital cancer tools that help teens & young adults
@matti.vuorre.com
I am an assistant professor at the department of Social Psychology at Tilburg University's School of Social and Behavioral Sciences. I have a website at https://vuorre.com. All posts are posts.
@dupatton.bsky.social
Schwartz University Professor at UPenn| SAFElab and PCIIT Founding Director| Studying Gun violence, AI Ethics, Youth and Mental Health, Grief, Social Media and Joy.
@jessicaringrose.bsky.social
Prof University College London, UK. Canadian Feminist Sociologist studying youth, social media, digital activism, tech facilitated gender based violence and educational interventions New book out 2025: Teens, Social Media, & Image Based Abuse
@alisongopnik.bsky.social
Cognitive scientist, philosopher, and psychologist at Berkeley, author of The Scientist in the Crib, The Philosophical Baby and The Gardener and the Carpenter and grandmother of six.
@matthewbjane.bsky.social
PhD student | Quantitative Psychology, UConn | Applied Statistics & Meta-Analysis | Methodological reviewer at Psychological Bulletin | Advisor: Blair T. Johnson | matthewbjane.com
@sjblakemore.bsky.social
Professor of Psychology & Cognitive Neuroscience at Cambridge, FBA FMedSci FRS. Adolescent brain development. Views my own. Book: http://amazon.co.uk/dp/1784161349
@amandaferg.bsky.social
Postdoc @mrccbu @cambridge_uni || JRF @DarwinCollege || prev clinical psych @UofT || studying emotions, mental health, and tech use in teens || she/her 🌈
@monikanlind.bsky.social
I'm a clinical psychologist, birder, artist, YIMBY, enby, and hooper 🏀 Here's all my best work: https://linktr.ee/MonikaNLind
@lucyfoulkes.bsky.social
Psychologist at University of Oxford | Adolescence + mental health | Advocating for a more nuanced, compassionate understanding of teenagers Linktr.ee/lucyfoulkes
@kathyhirshpasek.bsky.social
Developmental psychologist translating the science of how kids learn for parents, educators, & policymakers. Loves tennis and vegan ice cream. Find me at Brookings Institution and Temple University.
@taylorlorenz.bsky.social
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@tamaleaver.bsky.social
🎓 Professor of Internet Studies, Curtin Uni (Boorloo/Perth West Australia); 🌏 Past Prez @AoIR.bsky.social; 🔎 @digitalchildau.bsky.social (AI & Datafication); 🐘 @tama@aoir.social; he/him. [Views mine; RT/❤️/etc ≠ endorsement]
@dougaparry.bsky.social
Assistant Prof of Media Psychology in the Department of Communication Science at VU Amsterdam researching media effects, digital well-being, attention, mental health. Open Science, Computational Methods https://dougaparry.com #commsky From South Africa
@orbenamy.bsky.social
tech + teens + better science @ http://digitalmentalhealth.group // Group Leader, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge // Fellow + Director of Studies, St. John's College // 📸 marcus ginns
@jschleiderphd.bsky.social
Director, Lab for Scalable Mental Health: www.schleiderlab.org. Associate Professor, Northwestern University. Author, LITTLE TREATMENTS, BIG EFFECTS (2023). Friend to every dog.
@stephenschueller.bsky.social
Professor of Psychological Science and Informatics, University of California, Irvine. Clinical psychologist, mental health services researcher, implementation scientist, Lakers fan and Swiftie. Follow me for my views on digital mental health!
@jenndsn.bsky.social
dev soc neuro professor @uoregon • studying the changing bodies, brains, & social worlds of adolescents • National Scientific Council on Adolescence • she/her
@zephoria.bsky.social
STS researcher who likes to look at things sideways. Founded Data & Society. Topics: Census | Youth | Data | Society Microsoft Research -> Cornell (2025) https://made-not-found-by-danah-boyd.ghost.io
@peteetchells.bsky.social
Professor of Psychology and Science Communication | Award-winning science writer | Screen Time | Social Media | Smartphones | Video games | https://linktr.ee/unlockedbook
@drandreahoward.bsky.social
Associate professor of Psychology | Adolescence and the transition to adulthood | Mental health, alcohol, social media, ADHD | Open science and quantitative psychology | She/her.
@lieberoth.bsky.social
Researcher, dad, author. Associate professor in educational psychology and digital technology at Aarhus University, Denmark, studying how tech affects thinking, learning, work, play, wellbeing. At one point I studied brains.
@shuhbillskee.bsky.social
Professor of Human Behaviour and Technology at the University of Oxford ▦ Father ▦ Gamer ▦ Psychologist ▦
@candiceodgers.bsky.social
Scientist, runner, Canadian still trying to figure out how to live in the US. Psychology Prof and Associate Dean at UCI, who sometimes writes about why we should trust science and avoid panic to really help our kids.