The PhD Place - Academic Community @thephdplace.bsky.social Community, guidance & tips for academics ๐ Practical resources, including AI | Courses at @AcademicCourses | Led by The PhD Place Team โจ
Anna Sharman @annasharmanrd.bsky.social Researcher developer at a UK independent research organisation. Former director of Cofactor. Interested in #ResearcherDevelopment #ResearchCulture #AcademicCareers #Inclusion #Conferencing #Biology #OpenScience #Neurodiversity
Jennifer Luke @jenniferluke.bsky.social Career & workforce development. All ages & sectors. Everyone has a story. Global perspective. Connecting the dots. #employability #decentwork #agediversity #industrytrends #adaptability. research | ed | consult | media | coffee | Aussie ๐ป jenniferluke.com
Prof Erica Borgstrom @ericaborgstrom.bsky.social Prof of Medical Anthropology, The Open University (UK)
Researches death, palliative and end of life care. Co-editor of Death and Culture book series. Director of the Centre for Open Thanatology
Research Impact Academy @researchimpactacademy.com Creating research impact for researchers by building skills of influence, collaboration and communication.
#researchimpact #impactacademy #KT
https://researchimpactacademy.com
Holly Prescott @holby83.bsky.social Researcher careers and development devotee. Helping PhD and postdoc researchers make career transitions, especially beyond academia. Trainer and PhD careers blogger at: https://phd-careers.co.uk Living with #AZOOR ๐
Jacqui Marshall PhD CSci ๐งช๐งซ๐งฌ๐งโ๐ฌ๐งโ๐ป๐๐ณ๐๏ธ๐ง๐ฅ๐ช๐บ @jjmarshall.bsky.social Research Programme Manager for Cancer Research UK. Building diverse and impactful discovery science communities.
Biochemist of 20y. Big fan of trees and wild spaces. Serial hobbyist: Theatre Tech / Climber / Caver / Softballer. ProEU. Opinions mine.
NodeXL Academy @nodexlacademy.bsky.social 
Hana Ayoob @hanaayoob.co.uk 60% freelancer exploring & challenging science through art & events.
40% Patient & Public Involvement @britsocimm.bsky.social
100% nerd.
Views my own!
She/her
Spoonie / medical mystery
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Hanaayoob.co.uk
DisabledInSTEM @disabledinstem.bsky.social We are here to affirm that you DO belong in STEM! This is a safe space for people with disabilities in STEM to connect. Contact: disabledinstem@gmail.com
Kit Marie Rackley @geogramblings.com Award-winning educator ๐ฑ #SciComm | Geographer ๐ | ๐ณโ๐ฟ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐ | #ClimateAmbassadors Regional Hub Mngr at UEA Tyndall Centre | intersectional feminist ๐ฆธโโ๏ธ| Host of Coffee & Geography #CoffeeGeogPod | ๐ญ๐ฌ my own. Born at 337ppm. They/She ๐
Tyler Shores @tylershores.bsky.social University of Cambridge, ThinkLab Director @thinklab.bsky.social. Research: digital distractions, social media, digital wellbeing, digital productivity, reading habits, future of work. Formerly Google, Oxford, Stanford, UCBerkeley
Cambridge ThinkLab @thinklab.bsky.social 
Krishika @krishika.bsky.social PhD Candidate at Uni of Nottingham | Conversational AI, Responsible AI
Dr Jamie Gallagher @jamiebgall.co.uk Public Engagement trainer & consultant | #SciComm writer/presenter | @rspb.bsky.social & STFC advisor |๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ
Geek: Star Trek | Doctor Who
I make nerdy rainbow pin badges that have raised ยฃ35k for homeless LGBTQ+ people
https://linktr.ee/Jamiebgall
Jennifer Polk @fromphdtolife.com I live in Toronto and, since 2013, have helped professors, postdocs, & other PhDs who are ready to leave academia get meaningful, fulfilling jobs elsewhere. Ask me about my PhD Career Clarity Program!
Find me elsewhere online at https://fromphdtolife.com.
Kalwant Bhopal @kalwantbhopal.bsky.social Professor of Education and Social Justice, Director Centre for Research on Race and Education, University of Birmingham. Interests: race, gender, class, equity, social justice.
https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/education/bhopal-kalwant
Amy Birch @amybirch.bsky.social Senior Researcher Developer | University of Liverpool | Lapsed Neuroscientist | Rescue Diver | I like to take photos | YNWA
Katie Jones @katiejones.bsky.social 
Melissa Kline Struhl @mekline.bsky.social Executive Director of childrenhelpingscience.com, Psych-DS maintainer, strong feelings about data management & collaborative science. My last name is "Kline Struhl" (she/her)
Miguel Angel Chavez @miguelchavez.bsky.social Historian // Assistant Prof. at Cumberland University / PhD @Vanderbilt.edu / historian of exploration and travelers in Africa, #histSTM, geography, and the British Empire ๐๏ธ // Texan and Chicano // views here are my own.
- miguelchavez.net
Helen Turner @helenturnermi.bsky.social Championing the research and innovation strengths of the Midlands as Director of Midlands Innovation - a collaboration between eight universities (Aston, Birmingham, Cranfield, Keele, Leicester, Loughborough, Nottingham & Warwick).
Hannah Forde @hannahforde.bsky.social Senior Researcher & Wellcome Trust Early Career Awardee in the Sustainable Healthy Food Group @oxprimarycare.bsky.social | Visiting Research Fellow in the School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol | she/her https://www.phc.ox.ac.uk/team/hannah-forde
Oxford Martin School @oxmartinschool.bsky.social The Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford is a centre of pioneering research that aims to find solutions to the world's most urgent challenges.
https://linktr.ee/oxmartinschool
Dr. Echo Rivera @echorivera.com I help STEM academics & researchers create visually engaging, accessible talks & lectures
Training | Consultations | Design
PhD in Community Psych #AcademicSky #SciComm #HigherEd
ๆฅๆฌ่ชใๅๅผทใใฆใใ ~ she/her โจ echorivera.com
https://www.youtube.com/echorivera
Megan Taylor @mtaylorpublishing.bsky.social Academic publishing professional at Boydell & Brewer. Interested in publishing ethics and supporting the next generation of researchers. Also trees, cheese and sci fi. 
Nifty Fox Creative @niftyfoxcreative.bsky.social โ๏ธ Visual storytelling for social good ๐งก
Weโre award winning visual storytellers who help researchers & public sector leaders:
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niftyfoxcreative.com
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Horizons Institute @horizonsinstitute.bsky.social Global research platform building partnerships, enhancing interdisciplinary skills & elevating interdisciplinary research to address pressing global challenges.
Petra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social #Safety and #wellbeing advocate and creator of the #PEEPSS Model.
Social Psychologist. #Methodologist. Sometime #AgonyAunt. Advice giving as praxis. Critical #MentalHealth. Lives by the sea.
Come for a #ResearchTip, maybe ask a question, stay for cat pics
PACE Graduate School Open University @pacespaceou.bsky.social Professional Academic Communication in English (PACE)
Doctoral Academic Literacies @ougradsch.bsky.social
#PACEspace
https://www.open.edu/openlearncreate/mod/page/view.php?id=200086
Posts by https://profiles.open.ac.uk/julia-molinari {JM}
Prof Jeanette Fyffe @netstah.bsky.social Pro Vice-Chancellor of the Deakin Uni Researcher Development Academy.
Critical University Studies and the idea of the University.
Lisa M Given, FASSA, FASIS&T @lisagiven.bsky.social Prof, Information Sciences & Dir, Centre for Human-AI Information Environments (CHAI) & Dir, Social Change Enabling Impact Platform @RMIT | cats | metal | qualitative | Ed. Annual Review of Info Science & Technology https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1840-6175
Susan Ferrari @srferrar.bsky.social Sponsored programs, corporate and foundation relations, and research development at @GrinnellCollege. @UChicago alum, former scientist, liberal arts nerd. 
Skillfluence @skillfluence.bsky.social Trained 45,000+ researchers & academics at >100 universities & research centres. Training in commercial & people skills. Interested in HE, researcher development, knowledge exchange, enterprise, communication, collaboration & impact
www.skillfluence.co.uk
Tawfique Hasan @tawfiquehasan.bsky.social Prof of NanoEngineering @ Cambridge Uni Engineering Department. Fellow @ChurchillCol . OPTICA Fellow. ๐ง๐ฉ๐ฌ๐ง Personal account.
Ines Perpetuo, PhD @ines-perpetuo.bsky.social Researcher Developer and Concordat Lead @ Imperial. She/Her. #ResearcherDevelopment, #DiversityInSTEM, #anime, Sci-Fi, #StarWars, Heavy Metal๐ค
Views are my own!
Ellie Davison @drelliedavison.bsky.social ๐งฌ๐๐ฌ๐งช๐ฉ๐ฝโ๐ฌ๐ก๐ซถ
Dr Brigid Clancy @brigidclancy.bsky.social Post doctoral research associate | Researcher Development | GenAI use in Higher Degree Research | Nature lover 
ORCID @orcid.org Connecting research and researchers. https://linktr.ee/orcid_org
Rosey Chang @roseychang.bsky.social Researcher developer at #DeakinRDA | Empowering graduate researchers to thrive | Researching GR experience, writing as mindfulness | Shut Up & Write | kids' lit & all things Japan | My views
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Melbourne/Naarm Australia, Deakin University
Inรชs Serrenho @iserrenho.bsky.social Neuroscience ๐ง | Animal Research and Welfare ๐ | Sci Comm Enthusiast ๐ข
Research Adjacent / Sarah McLusky @researchadjacent.bsky.social Stories, strategies and support to help you thrive in a research-adjacent career. New podcast episodes fortnightly. https://researchadjacent.com/
#researchadjacent
Katharina Reinholdt @phdandpostdocs.bsky.social advising postdocs and tenure track professors on career development in and outside academia
Verity Buckley @veritybuckley.bsky.social Supporting others to make a positive impact. Research Impact Lead @ NMES, King's College London. Interested in project design, impact evaluation, community engagement, researcher development, art, creativity, and Airedale Terriers
Jade Garratt @jadegarratt.bsky.social Director of Education at PsychSafety.com
Education lover, leader and researcher. SFHEA.
Happiest when outside and/or writing
She/ her
https://medicalaidforpalestinians.enthuse.com/pf/jade-garratt
Alice Chadwick El-Ali @drchadwickel-ali.bsky.social Currently Research Lead and project manager @inasp.bsky.social. Interested in #researchfordevelopment #openresearch #researchequity
Dan King @dankingdk.bsky.social Director at Research Consulting Ltd. www.research-consulting.com and @researchconsulting.bsky.social
LSE Press @lsepress.bsky.social ๐ Social sciences publisher. Equitable open access. Based at @lselibrary.bsky.social | press.lse.ac.uk
Matthew B @matthewbroome.bsky.social Director, Institute for Mental Health, and Chair in Psychiatry and Youth Mental Health, University of Birmingham. Interested in psychosis, youth mental health, neuroscience, philosophy, phenomenology. NHS Psychiatrist in Early Intervention in Psychosis
Kudos: Science needs Stories @growkudos.bsky.social Everyone should benefit from scientific knowledge. We explain research in plain language, and showcase it โ to accelerate and broaden the impact of research in the wider world.
Charlie Rapple @charlierapple.bsky.social Co-founder of Kudos (growkudos.com - research communication showcase for broadening reach and impact of research - @growkudos.bsky.social). Scholarly Kitchen blogger. Follow me and other people in scholarly publishing: https://go.bsky.app/FanaExt
EDI Caucus @edicaucus.bsky.social The Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Caucus. Multidisciplinary project, funded by UKRI and British Academy, to create inclusive careers across the research and innovation systems in the UK. edicaucus.ac.uk
University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk UK trade union for academics, lecturers, trainers, researchers and professional services staff in further education, higher education, prison education, and adult and community education.
Athene Donald @athenedonald.bsky.social Retired professor of physics and former Master of Churchill College Cambridge. Interested in science policy, skills, education and EDI issues; author of Not Just for the Boys; blogging at https://occamstypewriter.org/athenedonald/
Shomari Lewis-Wilson @shomarilw.bsky.social Equitable Research Ecosystems Lead for the UK @wellcometrust| Co-Founder @newfablesco | ExNeuroNerd | Likes: ๐ฎ๐ง๐ฟ๐บ|๐ฏ๐ฒ๐บ๐ธ๐ฌ๐ง| Own views | He/Him |๐ค๐พ๐ฅ
Jelena Brankovic @jelena3121.bsky.social Sociologist | Robert K. Merton Center for Science Studies | HU Berlin
Current project: https://jelenabrankovic.net/datafying-universities/
Hugh Shanahan @hughshanahan.bsky.social Professor of Open Science at Royal Holloway, University of London. He/Him/Hugh. Co-chair of CODATA-RDA schools. Dad. Irish agus รณ Chiarraรญ. More details at orcid.org/0000-0003-1374-6015. Also at @HughShanahan@mastodon.ie
I am very much under renovation.
Library cactus (Sarah Humphreys) @sarahhlib.bsky.social Posting the prickly bits about Open (Scholarship/Access/Science/Research) & Libraries. Bodleian Open Scholarship Librarian. Social๐&๐ฆ =
@SarahHLib also! #MetalLibrarian and #Hiker Opp.own She/r
Mastodon bridge: @SarahHLib.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy
Jen Ross @jenr.bsky.social Digital Education, Education Futures, Digital Cultural Heritage & Research Cultures. Professor at the University of Edinburgh.
https://www.de.ed.ac.uk/people/professor-jen-ross
Tom Flint @tomflint.bsky.social Communications & Engagement Officer at Policy Leeds, University of Leeds.
https://www.leeds.ac.uk/policy-leeds
He/him.
DORA @dorassessment.bsky.social San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment. Advancing practical and robust approaches to research and researcher assessment globally and across all scholarly disciplines. Sign the Declaration at https://sfdora.org/sign and join the movement.
Prof Rachel Oliver @profrachelgan.bsky.social Materials scientist, mum, mountain-biker.
Jane Alfred @catalysteditorial.bsky.social Director, Catalyst Editorial. Professional editor, facilitator & trainer in research integrity, peer review, authorship, pub ethics, narrative CVs & responsible res & innovation. Supporting researchers & organisations to produce trustworthy research. 
Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social Science integrity consultant and crowdfunded volunteer, PhD.
Ex-Stanford University. Maddox Prize/Einstein F Award winner
NL/USA/SFO.
#ImageForensics
@MicrobiomDigest on X.
Blog: ScienceIntegrityDigest.com
Support me: https://www.patreon.com/elisabethbik
Dr Chandrika Nair @rikanair.bsky.social Research Culture & Interdisciplinary Research at University of Warwick, Research Culture Enablers Network Lead (warwick.ac.uk/RCEN)
Carers In STEMM @carersinstemm.bsky.social Co-founded by 3 Lauras | UKRI funded | #UKRIFLF | Supporting those with caring responsibilities in academia in STEMM | Take the #CarersInSTEMM Survey today!
Scottish Universities Press @scotunipress.bsky.social SUP is a fully open access and not-for-profit university press coordinated through SCURL and managed by 20 university libraries across Scotland and Northern Ireland.
https://sup.ac.uk
Sign up to our mailing list: http://eepurl.com/i0AoJA
Dr Orla Kelly @orlakellybell.bsky.social Knowledge Exchange & Innovation, working across Scotland's 19 universities. Here for chat about collaboration, strategy and policy, funding, and musings from trains or walks
Bron Eager @broneager.bsky.social Living life in beta mode.
๐ค๐๐ Forever curious about AI and entrepreneurship skills development in higher education.
Helen Bowes-Catton (she/her) @hbowescatton.bsky.social Northern, working class, queer, cis feminist academic. Lifts heavy things for fun. Personal account. Views mine.
๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ The only true feminism is intersectional ๐๐ค๐
Dr Sophie Michell @sophiemhistory.bsky.social Death and crime historian, family researcher, teller of tales.
Visiting fellow at the Open University.
Obsessed with inquests.
Dr Willow Neal ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ @willowneal.bsky.social Conservation ecologist (They/Them). Butterfly PhD.
https://sites.google.com/view/willow-neal-phd/
https://www5.open.ac.uk/scholarship-and-innovation/esteem/projects/themes/access-participation-and-success/evaluating-lgbtq-awarding-gap-and-supporting-our
Dr. Sakura Byrne @sakurabyrne.bsky.social PhD in Bi+ wellbeing. Interested in queer wellbeing, and nature connection. Associate lecturer at the OU. Queer. #ActuallyAutistic. Views my own. She/they
Olivia Kelly @oliviakellyou.bsky.social Open University Associate Lecturer, Doctoral thesis on Twitter communities for distance learners, Lead of OU Praxis Social Media Scholarship Hub, SFHEA
Mel Green @melalygreen.bsky.social Black matricentric intersectional feminist | Lecturer in Education Studies @OpenUniversity | Member of @radicalmothering | Co-author of Mothering at the Margins: Black Mothers Raising Autistic Children in the UK
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Tony Potter @tony-potter.bsky.social Open-Oxford-Cambridge DTP funded PhD student at the Open University | Researching Sensory Experience in Caeretan Funerary Assemblages | #NewMaterialism | #AssemblageTheory | #MaterialReligion | #Archaeology | #Etruscology | #Neurodivergent | #JACTDurham
Melanie Rimmer @melanierimmer.bsky.social Woman of a certain age. PhD researcher exploring discourse around learning disabilities. Open University Associate Lecturer passionate about inclusion and lifelong learning. Building knowledge & advocating for respectful representation
Dr Lori-Ann Foley @lafoley.bsky.social PhD from Open University School of Planetary Sciences researching Mars's climate, focusing on Lyot Crater, after my Physics BSc. Previously did 3 degrees in Roman archaeology, one in languages and a law degree. Multinational upbringing. ๐ฏ๐ช๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ช
TrixieLovesTrees @researchriot.bsky.social Curious neurodivergent PhD researcher & consultant exploring neurodivergent experiences of nature, wellbeing and interoception.
Passionate about punk, silliness, cats & nature.
Determined to be the change, but shy & shite at social media.
Melanie Philpott @pgrmelly.bsky.social Part-time PhD candidate with The Open University, exploring fibromyalgia in the workplace. Tea addict, allotmenteer, quail keeper, lover of cheese. She/Her
Jodie Bettis @jodiebettis.bsky.social ESRC Grand Union Scholar @ #OpenUniversity researching UK ecocide law | #RiverMoleRiverWatch volunteer | UKRoN & CLG network member | Born 329.77ppm ๐ฑ
๐ https://www.linkedin.com/in/jodiebettis
๐ฟ https://www.ukrightsofnature.org
โ๏ธ http://www.clg.place
Jurgi Giraud @jurgiraud.bsky.social ๐ฌ๐ง๐ซ๐ท
Doctoral Researcher
Computational Linguistics | Machine Translation | Corpus Linguistics
https://profiles.open.ac.uk/jurgi-giraud
Plant enthusiast๐ชด
Dr. Zoรซ Marriott @zdmarriott.bsky.social PhD, novelist, RLF Fellow at Uni of Lincoln & Lincoln Bishop Uni. Working class autistic spoonie. Aro/ace. She/they. Proud to be rep'ed by @agentkateshaw.bsky.social. THE MOONLIT MAZE 2025, from @headlinebooks.bsky.social. No dms pls.
Holly Hiscox @hollyhiscox.bsky.social PhD researcher | Schools of Empire - Rugby School | OOCDTP | 19th/20th century public schools, elite formation, the City of London and imperial finance | former history teacher
Stephanie Akinwoya @akinwoya.bsky.social 
Jillian Pawlyn (RNLD) @jillianpawlyn.bsky.social OU PGR - Doctorate in Health and Social Care
#ParentCarerExperienceOfTransition
Helen Usher @tyseren.bsky.social Amateur astronomer battling South Wales weather!
PhD student at the Open University studying Rosetta's comet and ProAm collaboration
www.cometchasers.org education and outreach programme lead
Director https://britastro.org/sections/education-outreach
auntyoof.bsky.social @auntyoof.bsky.social EdD student, Open Uni AL (.research with children & young people, young lives, children & parenting) cat mum, lover of yoga, pilates and wild swimming. Care about all things care experienced. 
Miranda van de Heijning @thisbe1000.bsky.social PhD Student Open University | Ethical Philosophy in Collective Contexts - also easily distracted by anything related to music, politics, space, nature, books and Star Trek.
Kayleigh S @biokayleigh.bsky.social PhD student in immunology at the Open University in Milton Keynes.
I like cats.
Open University Graduate School, UK @ougradsch.bsky.social Celebrates Open University PhD and Professional Doctorate students and those who support them.
Reposts not endorsements.
Jorge Gomez Magenti @jgmagenti.bsky.social Impact evaluation and scientific strategy independent consultant. Former Head of Strategy & Impact at ARUK. Passionate about research and driving change through data | magentimethodologies.com
Andrea Chiarelli @drachiarelli.bsky.social Associate Director at Research Consulting. Open research, scholarly communication & research policy. Based in Nottingham, UK.
ORCID: 0000-0001-7336-8330
Scouting and Guiding Initiative (SAGI) @sagi-uon.bsky.social Scouting and Guiding Initiative (SAGI) Research Group at the University of Nottingham, School of Psychology. Run by Dr Nikki Dean Marshall, Dr Lee Parkin, Dr Ellen Taylor, and Dr Aneeza Pervez.
Contact us via our Linktree: https://linktr.ee/SAGI_UoN
Euan Adie @mrstew.bsky.social Ex-bioinformatician, ex-@nature, founded @altmetric (until 2018) and now CEO @Overtonio (analyzing v large databases of public policy). Part nerd
Kip Heath @kipheath.bsky.social Clinical Scientist / Microbiologist / Educator / Science Communicator / Comedian / Chronically over-employed.
๐ธ @ianbowkett
Michael Eades @drmichaeleades.bsky.social Head of Civic Engagement at Goldsmiths, University of London. Cities, engagement, art, nature, surrealism. Research as practice. Writer and walker www.michaeleades.net
Dr Elizabeth Mills @marinemumbles.bsky.social Freelance Science Communicator #scicomm๐ค Marine Biologist ๐คฟ Engineer ๐จ ๐ Illustrator #sciart ๐ฆ๐จ Science YouTuber ๐ฌ (she/her) ๐ณ๏ธโ๐