Prof Maz Hardey @thatprofmaz.substack.com Professor @ Durham University. Unravelling the mess of Tech, Education & AI. 🧶
Author of books on Disinformation | Women in Tech | GenAI | Health Tracking; reading everything else.
I see we’re all Stacking now https://open.substack.com/pub/thatprofmaz
Paulina Ruiz-Cabello @pauliruiz.bsky.social Lecturer in Education and Digital Technologies, University of Bristol.
Digital education, youth and digital cultures, everyday learning, positional identities
Jessica Faecks @jessicafaecks.bsky.social Book Editor @ Palgrave Macmillan | Commissioning Scholarly Books in #Sociology in APAC, #Migration (global) and #ChildhoodStudies, #YouthStudies and #FamilyStudies (global). Views expressed are my own and do not represent the view of SN.
Dr Ruth Churchill Dower @ruthchurchilldower.bsky.social Postdoc researcher in Artful Sensing Practices @shu-sioe.bsky.social, Earlyarts founder, author of Creativity and the Arts in Early Childhood http://bit.ly/2V1I4cj
OCE Lab @ocelab.bsky.social Our research seeks to uncover how people interact within civil society organizations and how those interactions can strengthen organizations, promote civic engagement, and improve the quality of life in communities.
University of East Anglia (UEA) @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social This is the official UEA account, Norwich UK.
📢 Bringing you the latest campus news and updates from our world-leading research (REF 2021)
We're online Monday - Friday, 9am-5pm.
The University of Sheffield @sheffielduni.bsky.social We're a QS World Ranking Top 100 University changing lives through education and research since 1905.
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melissa de la cruz @delazurcm.bsky.social phd-ing @ deakin university, au
platform work, value, and its derivatives..
https://mdelacruz.net
@suzesrdarov.bsky.social @suzesrdarov.bsky.social
Chris Zomer @chriszomer.bsky.social Critical EdTech Studies
Tiff Apps @tiffapps.bsky.social Children, young people and tech
Senior Lecturer Digital Technologies for Learning | UOW
Anna Smith @anna-phd.bsky.social writing | tech & new media | learning theory | lead co-editor @lrtmp.bsky.social | 25-26 Provost Fellow | initiating member @EduNowLab.bsky.social | Past Exec B NCRLL | Past Chair AERA @writinglit.bsky.social
Sarah A Gerson, PhD @sarahagerson.bsky.social Developmental Scientist interested in how children learn from and about others
Reader at Cardiff University
Director of Cardiff University Centre for Human Developmental Science
Dr David Ben Shannon @davidbenshannon.bsky.social Lecturer in Education at University of Sheffield.
Critical autism studies, queer/trans studies, music and (disability) arts, and early childhood (& Dr Who). Former primary/special ed. teacher/SENCO. he/him
www.DavidBenShannon.co.uk
James Charlesworth @jamescharlesworth.com Engineering Director at Pendo, Sheffield
Jess Hardley (she/they) @jesshardley.bsky.social Digital technologies, ethnographic methods, feminist geography & theories of embodiment
Research Fellow at Edith Cowan University
Dr Shabana Roscoe @shabanaroscoe.bsky.social Research Associate. Children's lived experiences, play and well-being, #traumainformedcare, #dementiasupport, ethnography, qualitative techniques.
Nicola Sarah Hawkins @nic-s-h.bsky.social Educator
Jessica Taylor Piotrowski @jesstpiotrowski.bsky.social Professor of Communication in the Digital Society at University of Amsterdam | Youth & Media Scholar | ally 🏳️🌈 | ❤️ teaching, research, running, dark chocolate, & sunshine
Koji Yoshimura @kojiyoshimura.bsky.social Lecturer, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR). My teaching and research examines the psychology of media entertainment with a focus on ambiguous narratives, meaningful experiences, and interactivity.
Polly Conway @mspollyannacowgirl.bsky.social Senior TV Editor at Common Sense Media. Writer, editor, critic, kid advocate, open water swimmer, Sweet & Low lover. Opinions my own. www.pollyconway.com
Sarah Connolly @sarahconnolly-1.bsky.social WDC Education Support Officer: Curriculum Development #StrathEdD Researcher: Postdigital Outdoor Learning & Play | Nature Connection | NatureTech | HCI | #TechForGood
White Rose University Consortium @whiteroseuc.bsky.social We work collaboratively across the universities of Leeds, Sheffield, and York, to enable individuals from all backgrounds to thrive within our institutions.
https://whiterose.ac.uk
Sheffield UCU @sheffielducu.bsky.social Updates from the University of Sheffield branch of the University and College Union.
Join us today: join.ucu.org.uk
Website: ucu.group.shef.ac.uk
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uosucu/
LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/sheffield-ucu-399b5240a
Richard Wallis @richardwallis.bsky.social Teach and research at The Media School, Bournemouth University in the UK.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-wallis-8161976/
Academic profile: https://staffprofiles.bournemouth.ac.uk/display/rwallis
Bridget Stirling @bridgetstirling.bsky.social UAlberta PhD candidate exploring the politics of childhood and education and the temporality of childhood.
Lover of travel, books, cats, music, coffee, and plants. Keeper of too many shoes.
Not here to cheerlead for your political party.
She/her.
@ekinen.bsky.social @ekinen.bsky.social
Kris Gutierrez @krisgu.bsky.social Distinguished Prof, UC Berkeley Learning Scientist/qualitative methodologist/Critical Studies/Literacy
Alex Bacalja @alexbacalja.bsky.social Digital Game Literacies - Critical Pedagogies - English Language Arts - Youth Literacies - Critical EdTech - Postdigital research. The University of Melbourne.
정현선 @hs-jeong.bsky.social 미디어 교육, 미디어 리터러시, 디지털 양육, 디지털 환경의 아동 권리, 어린이 청소년의 디지털 미디어 경험, 비판적 디지털 리터러시에 대해 연구하고 교육합니다. 경인교육대학교 디지털미디어교육 전공 주임교수, 미디어리터러시연구소 소장을 맡고 있습니다.
Alex Beattie @drlxbt.bsky.social Media academic 📱 📚 | Dad👨👧| Gardener 🍀🌸🌴 | Victoria University of Wellington - Te Herenga Waka
Hanne Stegeman @hannems.bsky.social confused and concerned about everything
Lecturer @University of Exeter
studies online sex work and online intimacy
she/her
Paula Matthewson @drag0nista.bsky.social
Debbie Northway 🇦🇺🦘🐨 @debbienorthway.bsky.social Retired bookseller, librarian, teacher. Writes sometimes. Owner of an Australian Shepherd. Living proof we don’t become more conservative as we age. Rural living, Queensland, Australia. Yuggera-Ugarapul country
On the Breast Cancer Journey
Pip Amery @pipamery.bsky.social Early childhood teacher, social interaction researcher, PhD candidate using #EMCA methods @digitalchildau.bsky.social and @QUT.
RunningRedLights @runningredlights.bsky.social Music twice, Tech once. Priorities sorted.
P. @inthemixer.bsky.social It’s like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder how I keep from going under.
Messywanderer @messywanderer.bsky.social Everything fun and messy 😊
@katlangton.bsky.social @katlangton.bsky.social
Dave Holloway @davemedlo.bsky.social Co-director of Spirit of Independence Film Festival. Filmmaker, editor, producer. I used to make all kinds of weird stuff. VHS changed my life. Twice.
www.soifilmfestival.com
www.davemedlo.com
Josh Trigg @joshltrigg.bsky.social #Health | #Risk | #BehaviouralScience | #Horror Enthusiast | #PublicHealth Researcher/Educator | FlindersHMRI | Assoc Editor Health Prom J | #FirstGen | on Kaurna Land | Views own | flinders.edu.au/people/joshua.trigg
Thomas Enemark Lundtofte @lundtofte.bsky.social Associate Professor in Media Studies at University of Southern Denmark. Researching the intersection of children/youth, play and digital thingamajigs.
Jakob Hagemann @jhagemann.bsky.social Sports performance tech @spiideo
Steve Threadgold @stevethreadgold.bsky.social Sociologist at University of Newcastle
Research on youth and class: alternative work trajectories; underground and independent creative scenes; cultural formations of taste, fintech and financial practices.
https://linktr.ee/stevethreadgold?utm_source=link
Kylie J Stevenson, PhD @kyliecreative.bsky.social Researching children's digital lives with https://digitalchild.org.au/
Academic Chair of Graduate Research Education https://www.murdoch.edu.au/
Associate editor of https://journals.sagepub.com/home/mia
Leah Williams Veazey @leahmouse.bsky.social ARC DECRA Research Fellow (sociology, health, migration, care) at The Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies (@healthy-societies.bsky.social) at The University of Sydney. Lover of books, Londoner at ❤️
Elizabeth Heck @elizabhk.bsky.social Digital | Data | Arts | Media | Culture | Learning | Research Fellow at ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child | PhD | MIS student | Mum of 2
aleesha rodriguez @aleeshajoy.bsky.social Research Fellow @digitalchildau l STS & digital media | a tech-sociologist generating better (digital) futures📱🌱| PhD @qutdmrc | they/them | https://linktr.ee/aleeshajoy
Sonia Livingstone @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
Kate Mannell @katemannell.bsky.social Postdoc Research Fellow
Deakin University // ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child digitalchild.org.au
Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social I research social media, platform studies, and digital intimacies.
My book, OnlyFans, comes out in October 2026 https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=onlyfans--9781509567188
Sarah Knight @sarahknight.bsky.social Rethinking Peak Performance in life, leadership and business. Especially in midlife.
Peak Performance and Resilience Coach and Workplace Consultant. Emergenetics Associate. Host: Empower Women
#midlife
@onlinereader24.bsky.social @onlinereader24.bsky.social Former Prof of English and New Media. Now mainly tbf reading, playing pickleball and eating out
Kip Austin Hinton @kipaustinhinton.bsky.social Associate Professor of Bilingual Education @UTRGV. Músico punk in the group Las Hijas de la Madre. Grew up in Kentucky, educated @UCLA, @UTSA, @TheOhioStateUniversity.
Hablo sólo por mí mismo.
Gemma Ware @waresgemma.bsky.social Journalist making podcasts @theconversation.com and host of The Conversation Weekly podcast. Cricket lover.
Brian Hurst @hurstb.bsky.social digital producer - interested in things
Anna Berry @annaberrybateman.bsky.social Geo-politics junkie, content maker & proud mum. Opinions my own.
@ispy7.bsky.social @ispy7.bsky.social
Jono Read @jonoread.co.uk 📺 Social media manager | Technology reviewer
👶 Millennial dad | Engaged | Norfolk guy in Yorkshire
📧: jono.read@bbc.co.uk
Joe Dale @joedale.bsky.social Independent modern foreign languages & technology consultant. UK and Irish dual citizen, pro EU and free movement. AI Project Lead for National Consortium for Languages Education and former host of TES MFL forum
Tom Spencer @tombspencer.bsky.social Freelance ⚔️ generalist that helps public sector and community organisations deliver great outcomes for the people they serve.
Also chair of governors at Ferry Lane Primary, litter picker, Gooner, Green Party member, parent. #FGSD
Digital Child @digitalchildau.bsky.social Supporting children growing up in a digital world. Find out more at digitalchild.org.au
Ashwin Nagappa @ashwinnag.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Fellow
ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S)
Queensland University of Technology
ashwinnag.com
Veronika Karnowski @vkarnowski.bsky.social Professor of Media and Communication at Chemnitz U of Technology
@teamkarnowski.bsky.social
@imf-tuc.bsky.social
@science-bites.bsky.social @science-bites.bsky.social Science for all.
"A blend of curiosity and the chaotic energy of a science lab gone wild."
Kate Bower @katebower.bsky.social Consumer and digital rights advocate | Privacy | Data Rights | Fair and safe AI
Melbourne, 🇦🇺
Bieke Zaman @biekezaman.bsky.social Professor of Digital Media + Human-Computer Interaction | Director of the KU Leuven Digital Society Institute
Researching how we shape digital media & how digital media shape us. | Interests: video gaming, gambling, children, participatory design, art
Michael Dezuanni @dezuanni.bsky.social Program Leader: Creating Better Digital Futures, Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. Chief Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child.
Lyndsay Grant @lyndsayg.bsky.social Lecturer in Education and Digital Technologies, School of Education, University of Bristol https://t.co/QnySq9lAPt
Amanda Levido @amandalevido.bsky.social Media literacy researcher
Lecturer at Southern Cross University
AI at Digital Child
she/her
Stine Liv Johansen @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.
Giovanna Mascheroni @giovannamas.bsky.social Media sociologist researching digital media, data & AI in children's lives. Dog lover (Eng. Springer Spaniel) TwitterRefugee. Projects: http://www.eukidsonline.net/, https://yskills.eu/, https://datachildfutures.it/
Also on @giovannamas@aoir.social
Dr. Laura Shapiro @lashaps.bsky.social Developmental Psychologist at Aston University researching how children learn to read, and the long term benefits of reading. Music lover (wannabe trombonist). https://t.co/CVxBncGGLR
Felipe G. Santos @feligsantos.bsky.social Multiemployed PostDoc at City, University of London and Babeş-Bolyai University, researching social movements and political parties of the left and the far-right. Free time Climber 🧗♂️
www.felipegsantos.com
Camilla Priede @camillapriede.bsky.social Senior University Teacher. Lifelong Learning Sheffield. e-bike convert, tuba playing. views-own etc.
DaiSheff @daisheff.bsky.social
Michaël Bourgatte @michaelbourgatt.bsky.social Professeur des universités en SIC au CREM - université de Lorraine | #empowerment #media #digital #video #Celluloid #Canevas #Oasis
Dr Heather Ellis @heatherlwellis.bsky.social SFHEA, FRHistS | Historian of education & knowledge Uni of Sheffield https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/education/people/academic/heather-ellis | Co-Investigator @esrcschoolmeals.bsky.social https://www.theschoolmealsproject.co.uk
| Co-Editor History of Education
The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org Educational charity. Peer-reviewed sociology journal, public sociology magazine, podcasts, Connected Sociologies teaching resources, ECR opportunities.
https://www.thesociologicalreview.org
Milovan Savic @nav0lim.bsky.social Research Fellow at Social Innovation Research Institute & ADM+S
@Swinburne University. Interested in youth, digital media, social connections, digital inclusion, privacy, AI.
Bob Gann @bobgann.bsky.social Labour city councillor for Salisbury St Edmund’s. Honorary museum librarian & social history researcher. Community farmer. Southampton FC supporter.
Scott Jarvie @scottjarvie.bsky.social Assistant professor at San Jose State studying the ambiguities: English ed, curriculum, affect, teacher experience.
Read my work here: https://sjsu.academia.edu/ScottJarvie & here: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Scott-Jarvie
Bridgette Rickett @bridgetterickett.bsky.social Head of Sheffield Institute of Social Sciences, Sheffield Hallam University
Feminist organisational health psychologist theorising social class and gender relations
Vice chair ISCHP https://ischp.net
GA Tarbox @gatarbox.bsky.social English Prof, educational developer by day; pop culture obsessed 🏏 🐧 🎦 Disney person by night.
CEMP - Centre for Excellence in Media Practice @cemp.bsky.social Now in its 20th year, the Centre for Excellence in Media Practice (CEMP) is a research centre based in the Faculty of Media and Communication at Bournemouth University.
https://www.cemp.ac.uk
Bill Browne @browne90.bsky.social Director at The Australia Institute's Democracy & Accountability Program. Views posted are my own.
John O’Shea @johnoshea.bsky.social Creative Director & Co-CEO National Videogame Museum, Sheffield, UK
Own views.
Dr Keighley Perkins @perkinskeighley.bsky.social Research Associate in the School of Journalism, Media & Culture at Cardiff University / Researcher for DRAGON at Swansea University.
Research interests: #radicalright, #politicaldiscourse & #onlineharms.
https://allmylinks.com/keighleyperkins
The National Videogame Museum @nvmuk.bsky.social The NVM's mission is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret videogames for everyone. Forever. 🎮🕹▶️ #PlayTheMuseum
https://thenvm.org/
The BGI (National Videogame Museum) @thebgi.bsky.social Games charity with mission to transform lives with games, governs The National Videogame Museum (@nvmuk.bsky.social), GamesEd Summit, award-winning learning and vocational courses.
Alain Bengochea @bengochea.bsky.social Associate Professor @UNLV
researching emergent bilingualism in early & middle childhood. Proud son of immigrant parents. 🇨🇺🇻🇪 Miami native. he/él/il 🏳️🌈
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alain-Bengochea-2
Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson @jendn.bsky.social Journalist, author, Hard Quiz winner, and Bluesky n00b from Brisbane, Australia.
Mark Taylor @markrt.co.uk not a professional account
Cassie Brownell (she/her) @brownellcassie.bsky.social 2024 NAEd/Spencer Postdoc Fellow | Associate Prof @ U. of Toronto | Playing the role of researcher across 🇺🇸 + 🇨🇦 through June 2025
www.cassiebrownell.com
Ali Struthers @dralistruthers.bsky.social Professor of Law at Warwick Law School | SFHEA | Child Rights | Public Legal Education | Widening Participation | Creator of @schooltasking.bsky.social | Munro-bagging Scot (167) 🏴
“Surprisingly socially functional for an academic"
Matthew Johnson @matthewfjohnson.bsky.social Director of Education for MediaSmarts, Canada's centre for digital media literacy. He/him. Open to correction.
Angie @ameliapeabody23.bsky.social Children's Lit Librarian, Instruction Librarian, and Zumba Enthusiast