Jack Besser @jackbesser.bsky.social Clinical Psychology PhD student at UNC Chapel Hill, researching how social media impacts child and adolescent development — especially for boys. Past lives include: congressional press secretary, college baseball coach, third grade teacher.
Leah Banellis @leahbanellis.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 Lundbeck Postdoc Fellow at Yale (USA), KU & AU (Denmark). Interested in brain-body interactions, interoception, consciousness, & mental health
Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social I had a marvellous time ruining everything.
Professor of Genetics @UCL, Public Humanities Fellow @SAS. Ex-President of @Humanists_UK Genetics, race, eugenics, books, cricket, +–=÷×
@kbjmanagement
adamrutherford.com
Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net mediocre transsexual and middle-aged sydneysider. tired, anxious, and fearful. occasionally writes sensible things about code, art, and statistics
Stephen Sandelich @sandelichmd.bsky.social Pediatric emergency medicine physician + researcher | Focus on adolescent substance use, ED-based interventions, and health equity | Research, clinical takes, and the occasional honest word about being a dad in this work.
SandelichLab.org
Sakshi Ghai @sakshighai.bsky.social Assistant Professor at London School of Economics @lsepbs.bsky.social
Hoping to diversify behavioral science. Interested in sample diversity, young populations & digital technology
Dr Madeleine Pownall @maddipow.bsky.social Associate Professor. Keen bean. Writer. Pedagogy, psychology, reflexivity, open science, iced lattes. Author of ABSENT MINDS out now 📘. She/her 🌻
Lukas Gunschera @lukasgunschera.com PhD Student at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge | Research on mental health, social media, and addiction.
lukasgunschera.com
UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences @uclbrainscience.bsky.social We are a global leader in research and education into the mind and brain.
www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-sciences
Jessica Kingston @drjk.bsky.social
Kloe Fico @kloefico.bsky.social Final-year PhD student in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience at @dondersinst.bsky.social. Passionate about making STEM fun, inclusive, and accessible.
Vero Jimeno @verojimeno.bsky.social Professor of Victimology at University of Castilla-La Mancha /
Research Group on Victimology and Psychopathology of Childhood and Adolescence (G-PIVIA)
Member of the Criminology Research Center (UCLM)
Romana @romasaleh.bsky.social Cog Neuro MSc @ UCL | Research Assistant | 🌻
Paul Sharp @paulbsharp.bsky.social Assistant professor of psychology, Bar-Ilan University | computational cognitive science & psychiatry
Website: sharplabbiu.github.io
Taekwan Kim @taekwankim.bsky.social Associate Research Scientist @Yale
Computational Psychiatry
| maladaptative decision-making, longitudinal × transdiagnostic modeling
Rochelle Kaper @rochellekaper.bsky.social phd student @ UCL experimental psych w/ Megan Peters (prev uc-irvine)
🧠 structure learning, metacognition, temporal dynamics, comp cog neuro.
https://www.rochellekaper.com/
she/her
Cecile Ladouceur, PhD @cdladouceur.bsky.social Professor of Psychiatry & Psychology, University of Pittsburgh. Child Psychologist. Director, Cognitive-Affective Neuroscience & Development Lab. Mom of 4
Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social Art historian, dealer/art consultant 19thC and 20thC British/European art. Writing book on lesser known great artists. Seen in/on: CNN, NBC, The Spectator, The Times etc.
website: richardmorris.org
richard@richardmorris.org
School-Matters @nicholasptr.bsky.social Reflections on school life, childhood and parenting-
www.school-matters.org
Nicholas Prockter
Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social The Institute for Replication (I4R) works to improve the credibility of science by promoting and conducting reproductions and replications.
i4replication.org
Pim Cuijpers @pimcuijpers.bsky.social www.pimcuijpers.com
Dolores Fernández Pérez @doloresfernandez.bsky.social Psychologist | Assistant Professor (PhD) in Criminology at UCLM (Spain)| Criminology Research Center 🎓🔍 | Research Group on Victimology and Psychopathology of Childhood and Adolescence | Passionate about human behavior, plot twists & dark minds 🎬🕵️♀️
Natasha Duell, PhD @natashaduell.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Child Development at Cal Poly. I study teen risk taking and decision making as director of the ADAPT lab: natashaduell.com/research
Gemma Rides @gemmarides.bsky.social PhD Researcher & GTA
@rhulpsychology.bsky.social
Researching the links between adolescents' use of #socialmedia and #mentalhealth 💻📚
Co-host
@tokod.bsky.social
Steve Waters @teachwellall.bsky.social Joint Director: Teach Well Toolkit. Supporting schools to build a culture of staff mental health, reduce workload, and increase retention: www.teachwelltoolkit.com Author: ‘Cultures of Staff Wellbeing and Mental Health in Schools’. Open University Press.
Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social Director of the Centre for Culture and Evolution, Brunel University London @brunelcce.bsky.social
https://www.rebeccasear.org/
Peter Fonagy @pfonagy.bsky.social Professor of Contemporary Psychoanalysis & Developmental Science, Head of the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences at UCL
Eira Aksnes @eiraaksnes.bsky.social 🧑🧒🧒 Clinical Psychologist specializing in child and adolescent psychology
🧠 PhD student working on emotional problem development, brain and risk factors
@Neurocognitive Development Group PROMENTA, University of Oslo 🇳🇴
Ritika C @ritikac.bsky.social phd student @ucl @wellcometrust in mental health science. trauma researcher, ex-clinician. promote marginalised voices. been told I've got no chill. cat person. 💻: https://ritika-chokhani.github.io
Alice Gregory @alice-gregory.bsky.social Psychologist. Sleep Researcher. Royal Holloway, Uni London. Thoughts my own. RTs≠endorsement. Books: http://amzn.to/2B9ej17 https://tinyurl.com/sleepypebble
Kathryn Paige Harden @kph3k.bsky.social Psychology & behavior genetics. Author of THE GENETIC LOTTERY (2021) and ORIGINAL SIN (2026). Speaking as an individual.
Becky Appleton @beckyappleton.bsky.social Mental health researcher in the Division of Psychiatry at UCL, netball player, and cricket fan.
JAMA Psychiatry @jamapsychiatry.com JAMA Psychiatry is a member of the JAMA Network, a consortium of peer-reviewed, general medical and specialty publications.
🌐 JAMAPsychiatry.com
Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social 🔹️metascience - philosophy of science - social psychology - higher education
🔹️Professor at Durham University, UK. He/him.
🔹️Website: https://sites.google.com/site/markrubinsocialpsychresearch/
🔹️Substack: https://markrubin.substack.com/
megan peters 🧠 @meganakpeters.bsky.social UCL experimental psych
uc irvine cogsci & LPS
perception+metacog+subjective experience, fMRI+models+AI
phil sci; meta-sci; education for all
prez+co-founder, neuromatch.io
fellow, CIFAR brain mind consciousness
meganakpeters.org
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ECNP @ecnp.eu Scientific association dedicated to ensuring that advances in the understanding of brain function translate into better treatments and enhanced public health.
The Red Cross Red Crescent Movement MHPSS Hub @mhpsshub.bsky.social The Red Cross Red Crescent Movement MHPSS Hub supports the RCRC Movement by providing mental health, psychosocial support, and capacity-building initiatives.
Website: https://mhpsshub.org/
Max Herzberg, Ph.D. @herzberg-mp.bsky.social Assistant Professor - University of Georgia | Early life stress | Pediatric neuroimaging | Developmental psychopathology | prev. UMN_ICD and WashU Med
Opinions my own.
Mental Health Platform @mhplatform.bsky.social A network of researchers funded by UKRI, with the shared aim of accelerating research into severe mental illness (SMI) & improving the diagnosis and treatment of those affected.
Find out more on our website: mentalhealthplatform.ac.uk/
Jocelyn Halim @jocelynhalim.bsky.social PhD candidate at Monash University
Interested in curiosity and value-based decision-making 🧠
Paul Smaldino @psmaldino.bsky.social Paradigmatically promiscuous scientist. Ankylosaur enthusiast. Modeler of cultural evolution and related topics. Anti-fascist. Professor at UC Merced, external prof at the Santa Fe Institute and CSH-Vienna.
Web: https://smaldino.com/wp/
Andrea Reiter @anrei.bsky.social prof&psychotherapist at University of Würzburg, interested in Learning | Decision-Making | Social Context, in Development | Mental Health | Psychotherapy
Ze Freeman @zefreeman.bsky.social (he/they) psychology metascience postdoc @unibe.ch looking at measurement, mental health, credibility of research
zefreeman.com
Toby Wise @tobywise.bsky.social Welcome Trust research fellow at KCL IoPPN, working on computational psychiatry of mood and anxiety
https://thewiselab.org
Camilla Nord @camillanord.bsky.social Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge, PI of Mental Health Neuroscience Lab, science writer ✍️📕 https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/446402/the-balanced-brain-by-nord-camilla/9780241545799
Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social Prof Operational Research , @UCL_CORU, passionate about health care, women in STEMs, defending liberal democracy (!). Member of @independentsage, posts personal. https://www.trumpactiontracker.info/
Paul Ramchandani @paulramchandani.bsky.social LEGO Professor of Play, PEDAL Research Centre, University of Cambridge.
Doctor and Researcher; play, mental health and education.
Trustee at Foundations
Dylan Gee, PhD @dylanggee.bsky.social Professor of Psychology @Yale studying brain development, stress, and mental health in childhood and adolescence 🧠
http://candlab.yale.edu/
Alexis Brieant @abrieant.bsky.social Assistant professor @UVMvermont | Developmental psychologist studying adversity, 🧠 development, & mental health | she/her | fernlab-uvm.com | views are my own
Nora Maria Raschle @noramraschle.bsky.social Developmental neuroscientist, Assoc. Prof., hobby illustrator, mom. Studying developing brains through space & time @JacobscenterUZH #development #brains #cartoons
jacobscenter.uzh.ch/en/research/developmental_neuroscience.html
growingbrains.ch/en/home
Dr. Jennifer Pfeifer @jenndsn.bsky.social dev soc neuro professor @uoregon • studying the changing bodies, brains, & social worlds of adolescents • National Scientific Council on Adolescence • she/her
Danny Blanchflower @dannyblanchy.bsky.social Prof of econ dartmouth and ex MPC Bank of England working a lot now on the declining wellbeing of the young around the world I am here https://sites.dartmouth.edu/blanchflower/
And now grandad of eleven
Blanchflower@dartmouth.edu
Silvia Seghezzi @silviaseghezzi.bsky.social Lecturer at Birkbeck School of Psychological Sciences
Wolfson Institute of Population Health (QMUL) @qmul-wiph.bsky.social QMUL institute researching primary care, public health and policy, research methods, preventive neurology, cancer screening/prevention/early diagnosis & mental health
Science HR @sciencehr.bsky.social A career network featuring science jobs in academia and industry.
Visit our platform at www.science.hr
Jon Franklin @jonfranklin.bsky.social Chief Economist at Pro Bono Economics
The Consensus Project @consensusproject.bsky.social The Consensus Project bridges research and practice to help teams, organizations, and networks—across sectors—navigate the complexity of collaboration.
Olivia Kirtley @oliviajkirtley.bsky.social Assistant Research Professor & Co-Director, Center for Contextual Psychiatry, KU Leuven. #Suicide & #SelfHarm researcher, experience sampling, #OpenScience. Chair of Moderation at PsyArXiv. IASP national representative for Belgium. All views my own.
Marco K Wittmann @mkwittmann.bsky.social Associate Professor @ UCL. Experimental Psychologist. Interested in neural computations underlying social cognition.
https://www.wittmann-lab.com
João Guassi Moreira @jfguassimoreira.bsky.social assistant professor UW Madison psych | studies neurodevelopment, emotion regulation, and decision-making | dumpster diving for psychic retrieval | views expressed my own
Lauren S. Hallion, Ph.D. @laurenshallion.bsky.social associate professor of psychology studying worry, rumination, and getting unstuck | #metoo | she/her | not medical advice | views my own | 🏳️🌈💪🌊
Irena Arslanova @neuroirena.bsky.social Cognitive neuroscientist | 💗 - 🧠 interactions | ⏳ perception
@leverhulme.ac.uk Early-Career Fellow @rhulpsychology.bsky.social
irenaarslanova.com
European Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry @escaponline.bsky.social Not-for-profit association; promoting mental health & wellbeing of children, adolescents and their families
https://www.escap.eu/
2027 Congress website: https://escap2027.eu/
Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social MP for Islington North
Inti Brazil, PhD @intibrazil.bsky.social Cognitive neuroscientist studying brain and cognitive factors related to poor decision-making and antisocial behaviours in forensic populations.
Matteo Lisi @mlisi.bsky.social lecturer • research on human perception and decision-making • principled statistics • computational models • he/him • https://mlisi.xyz/
THESIS_RHUL @thesisrhul.bsky.social We are a psychology education and pedagogy focused group, based in the Department of Psychology at Royal Holloway (RHUL). The aim of the team is to encourage innovation in teaching practice, and support students and educational practice.
Nikki Singh @nikkisingh.bsky.social Research Assistant in Computational Psychiatry @UCL Division of Psychiatry & Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research
📝 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nikita-Singh-67
Charley Wu @thecharleywu.bsky.social Prof. of Computational Cognitive Science at TU Darmstadt & PI of the Human and Machine Cognition lab | hmc-lab.com
Georgina Török @georginatorok.bsky.social Postdoc at TU Darmstadt in cognitive science. I'm interested in joint action and collaboration more broadly, exploration, social learning and rational decision-making.
🐶 owner and perpetual hostage to the Duolingo owl. she/her
Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social Professor of Psychology @ University of Southern California. Studies brain, body, & behavior changes in new parents. My book Dad Brain: The New Science of Fatherhood and How it Shapes Men's Lives, comes out June 9 on Flatiron Books/Macmillan.
Björn Lindström @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social Researching (social) learning and cultural evolution at Karolinska Institute, Sweden
Pantéa Javidan, JD, PhD @pjavidan.bsky.social Faculty & Research Fellow @ Stanford University Center for Human Rights & International Justice + Human Rights in Trauma Mental Health Lab. Views mine.
Suzi Gage @soozaphone.bsky.social Mental health and substance use researcher. Author, podcaster and blogger #SayWhyToDrugs
Dr Hannah Slack @hannahslack.bsky.social Research and Involvement Manager @ The McPin Foundation | FHEA | Interests: students' and young people's mental wellbeing, social connection & belonging | #firstgen | she/her
Dr Jenny Allen @drjennyallen.bsky.social Reader in Developmental Psychopathology at the University of Bath.
Family-based Intervention for Child and Adolescent Mental Health textbook out now: http://cambridge.org/9781108706063
London Youth @londonyouth.bsky.social We're a charity on a mission to champion and strengthen London’s youth organisations so young people have the opportunities and skills they need to succeed.
Find out more at: https://londonyouth.org/
Dr Catriona Connell @drcconnell.bsky.social I research improving outcomes for people in the criminal justice system & lead the RELEASE research programme with amazing colleagues @stir.ac.uk -> https://release.stir.ac.uk
I am a registered occupational therapist @theRCOT.bsky.social
Flux Society @fluxsociety.bsky.social Connecting scientists worldwide to advance research in developmental cognitive neuroscience.
Dr Cris Castro @drcriscastro.bsky.social Juan C. Castro-Alonso. Rewarded hubby & daddy. Educational psychology, multimedia, STEM, biochemistry, spatial working memory. Asst. Professor at University of Birmingham (UK), Author, Speaker, Editor, Consultant
LAMP Research UK @lampresearchuk.bsky.social spotLight on Adolescent Mood Problems (LAMP) is a research group led by @marialoades.bsky.social from @uniofbath.bsky.social, improving access to early support for young people experiencing low mood
linktr.ee/LAMPresearchUK
Andrew Przybylski @shuhbillskee.bsky.social Father and Husband. Professor @oii.ox.ac.uk
Luisa Fassi @fassiluisa.bsky.social PhD @mrccbu.bsky.social & http://orben.group
Youth mental health / Social media use / Open science
https://luisafassi.github.io/
Cathy Manning @cmanning.bsky.social Research in autism, dyslexia, sensory processing and visual perception
HiTOP @hitop-system.bsky.social The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) is an effort to advance a data-driven, dimensional framework for understanding mental health.
Learn more: lnk.bio/hitop
Resilience Research Group @resresearch.bsky.social We are a group of social scientists dedicated to harnessing trauma-informed research to address the biopsychosocial consequences of social exclusion in communities disproportionately affected by health disparities @ UMN.
TCD School of Psychology @tcdpsychology.bsky.social This is the official Bluesky account for the School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin. For more see https://www.tcd.ie/psychology/
Barry Wright @barrywright.bsky.social Retired Professor Child Mental Health: Uni of York & HYMS Med School, NHS Deaf Child service, NHS CAMHS, COMIC child oriented innovative research. Interested in developing child friendly interventions. Husband, dad, grandad. Enthusiast for kindness & fun.
Dr Mérari Ferreira @merariferreira.bsky.social Teaching Fellow MSc Developmental Psychology and Psychopathology at SGDP KCL | Baby brains and neurodevelopmental disorders
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@mhscincubator.bsky.social @mhscincubator.bsky.social
Georgia Turner @georgiaturner.bsky.social She/her | email: gt342@cam.ac.uk | Postdoc http://orben.group | computational & cognitive approaches to study technology use | Views my own | Happy to chat about Masters or PhD applications/experiences, send me an email!
batyr Australia @batyraus.bsky.social Australian youth mental health charity
🐘 For-purpose preventative mental health charity
💬 Pronounced 'buh-tier'
🌟 By young people for young people
💙 Peer-to-peer programs, training + workshops
linktr.ee/batyraus
Rachel Nesbit @drrachelnesbit.bsky.social Psychology Lecturer @University of Exeter.
DrTerryLynch @drterrylynch.bsky.social Medical doctor; Accredited psychotherapist; Best-selling MH author ("Beyond Prozac"); MH course creator. 2025 therapist course: "Working with People with a Psychiatric Diagnosis" - https://youtu.be/nDiULntEmsw
Kathy Rastle @kathyrastle.bsky.social Professor of Psychology, researching language and reading, using science to improve children's reading
British Psychological Society @bpsofficial.bsky.social For over 120 years we’ve championed our members & psychology as a discipline. For customer support contact: info@bps.org.uk. Shares & ❤ not (always) endorsements.
Developmental Psychology ECRs @devpsychecr.bsky.social Community for ECRs, PGRs and Psychology students interested in developmental psychology to get news, updates and support
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Amina Memon @aminamemon.bsky.social Prof Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London, Memory, Credibility, Eyewitnesses, Emotion & Law are some of my topics.
Outside work, I seek the sea, a mountain top, a sampling of wine, a good book!