Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk Head of Partnerships and Development @consortium.lgbt | Chair @proudchangemakers.bsky.social | LGBTQ+ Columnist Exposed Magazine
Proud queer 🏳️🌈 Trans ally 🏳️⚧️ Intersectional feminist ✊ Anti-fascist #LGBWithTheT
www.heatherpaterson.co.uk
Dr Karen Treisman, MBE- Clinical Psychologist @drkarentreisman.bsky.social Clinical psychologist. Author, trainer, TEDx speaker, WCMT2018, organisational consultant. Specialises in relational, betrayal & developmental trauma. Trauma, adversity & culturally infused, informed & responsive systems & organisations. Healing centered.
Institute of Recovery from Childhood Trauma @irctrauma.bsky.social UK organisation seeking to create and connect networks of professionals and facilitate collaboration to develop and improve best practice for all children who have been traumatised and need help to recover.
https://irct.org.uk/
Leeds Mencap @leedsmencap.bsky.social
North East CANN @necann.bsky.social Working together to support families and carers of children and young people with additional needs in the North East of the UK.
South Yorkshire CANN @sycann.bsky.social Working together to support families and carers of children and young people with additional needs in South Yorkshire.
West Yorkshire CANN @wycann.bsky.social Working together to support families and carers of children and young people with additional needs in West Yorkshire.
St Anne's Community Services @stannescs.bsky.social We are a social care charity that provides a wide range of housing, day care and community support to people with #learning disability #mentalhealth #substance support #homelessness. We are proud to support people to live "A life without limits".
Laura Hellfeld of Neurodivergent Nurse Consulting @laurahellfeld.bsky.social Nurse • Author • Speaker | Supporting neurodivergent and disabled people across everyday life, healthcare & education
Little Hiccups @littlehiccups1.bsky.social Little Hiccups is an award winning, Leeds based support group that has been set up by parents who have children with additional needs and disabilities.
Beacon House Team @beaconhouseteam.bsky.social A specialist therapeutic service for young people, families and adults. Passionate about healing the wounds of trauma, and sharing how.
The Labour Party @labouruk.bsky.social Labour is the party of working people.
labour.org.uk
Unofficial account until Labour make an official BlueSky account.
Rethinking Existentialism @rethinkexistent.bsky.social .
The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy: bit.ly/PBEPBwlPbk
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Rethinking Existentialism: https://bit.ly/RethExistBwlPbk
Jonathan Webber @jonathanwebber.bsky.social Half victim, half accomplice, like everyone
SKGirl @anorexiasurvivor.bsky.social (She/Her)
Christian
2SLGBTQI+ ally
Union Activist’s
#yqr
#Sask
Lauren Muhlheim, Psy.D. @drmuhlheim.bsky.social Eating disorder specialist psych at Eating Disorder Therapy LA in Los Angeles. #CBT, #FBT, #ARFID, #HAES. Author “When Your Teen Has an Eating Disorder”
Evelyna Kambanis, PhD @evelynakambanis.bsky.social Fellow at Mass General Hospital / Harvard Medical School | Eating Disorders Clinical & Research Program; mostly ARFID research | Clinical Psych PhD from U of Wyoming | Mom to an orange cat 🐈 and a wiener dog 🌭| She/her
@myarfidlife.bsky.social @myarfidlife.bsky.social
Dr. Amy, PsyD @dramypsyd.rmh-therapy.com Psychologist, author, speaker. ADHD, autism, trauma. #ActuallyADHD, #ActuallyAutistic. Also cats. I like to think I'm funny. Beautiful middle-aged freak.
She/her
Best friend of @cmiriam.bsky.social
www.resiliencymentalhealth.com
Mercedes Palermo @autismoutloud.bsky.social Autism · Anxiety · ARFID
ND♾ Registered Nurse⚕
Disability Advocacy
Education + Connection
Michelle @arfidlifeuk.bsky.social Raising much needed awareness for Avoidant Restrictive food intake disorder ARFID
Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social indie bookshop in Sydenham, SE London | open since 1966
| new books | second hand books | children's books | gifts |
Mon-Sat 9:30-5 Sun 12-4 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
John Rowan @jrowanbxl.bsky.social Artisanal bureaucrat. Faceless, unelected. Ex-Whitehall, now does apocalypse preparation for the European Commission.
Alice Hewson - Author @alicehewson.bsky.social 📚Author of "Neurodiversity in the Workplace."
👩💻Charity comms person
🌱 Youth Worker
✍️Writer
🧠 Neurodivergent
🌈 she/her
📖 Buy my book here: https://amzn.eu/d/09hx9ks8
#dyspraxia #ADHD #inclusion
alicehewson.com https://linktr.ee/alicehewson
The Autism Books by Autistic Authors Project @autisticbooks.bsky.social Books about autism, written by Autistic people. Community resource website cataloguing as many of these as possible (2300+ so far).
Autistic curator (@lillyjade.bsky.social she/her).
https://linktr.ee/autisticbooks
*Taking a social media break*
Bookshop.org UK @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social The online store supporting independent bookshops 📚 Certified B Corp | Carbon Neutral Delivery 📚 5 star Trustpilot rating.
uk.bookshop.org
Dump The Scales @dumpthescales.bsky.social We are a group of people with lived experience, carers, clinicians and academics who are passionate about ending the injustices of those affected by Eating Disorders.
The Royal College of Psychiatrists @rcpsych.bsky.social Royal College of Psychiatrists: Improving the lives of people affected by mental illness.
🖥➡️ rcpsych.ac.uk
Hollie Berrigan @hoppypelican.bsky.social MH Consultant Lived Experience Practitioner. Lived Experience Lead. Integrative Counsellor. Psychology Grad. Autistic. Sweary. Follow #BIGSPD25 for live reporting of BIGSPD conference
BIGSPD @bigspd.bsky.social A British and Irish network of academics/clinicians/lived experience/carers interested in the field of ‘personality disorder’.
Follow #BIGSPD26 for our live reporting throughout conference!
Keir Harding @keirwales.bsky.social Occupational Therapist, DBT therapist, MSc in Personality Disorder. Working privately to help people and NHS organisations avoid years in private hospitals that claim to be specialist.
No one should be told their personality is disordered.
Ellie Wildbore @elliewildbore.bsky.social Lived Experience Practitioner - Researcher and Educator 🌟 Roller skater 🌟 Triathlete 🌟 C-PTSD and Anorexia 🌟 Therapeutic Communities
Dr Gary Lamph PhD @garylamph.bsky.social Clinical Academic - Reader Keele Uni/R&I Honorary Consultant Nurse & NIHR Senior Research Leader @ MPFT, RNMH/Psychotherapist, NTAwardWinner2011
Co-President BIGSPD @bigspd.bsky.social
https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/person/718486/gary-lamph
Dr Dan Warrender @danwarrender.bsky.social PhD, Mental Health Nurse, MBT Practitioner, Lecturer, Researcher, Writer. Interests: philosophy, 'personality disorder' and mental health care. Own views. #MHDeservesBetter
Therapy, Training, Consultancy: https://danwarrender.wordpress.com
Oliver Dale @oliverdale10.bsky.social Psychiatrist, Jungian Analyst and Chief Medical Officer at Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Peter Fonagy @pfonagy.bsky.social Professor of Contemporary Psychoanalysis & Developmental Science, Head of the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences at UCL
Mick McKeown @mickmckeown24.bsky.social Mental health nurse academic & trade union activist. Interested in alliance building with health, disability and survivor movements.
Dr Sarah @sarahpsyc.bsky.social Consultant Clinical Psychologist. Tweets are not the views of my employers! Interested in attachment, trauma, staff wellbeing, compassionate leadership.
Upcoming:
🗼 BIGSPD in Blackpool - 16th to 18th June 2026
Chris Young @squarepegsuk.bsky.social There’s Nothing About us Without us
Every day massive, life changing, decisions are made by those in power without us
Together, people like us can use the power of collective action to bring about change
Join us
https://squarepegsuk.substack.com
Dr Arghya Sarkhel @drarghyasarkhel.bsky.social Consultant Psychiatrist | Special interest in complex trauma, ADHD, mood & personality disorders | Founder @LivingMindUK | Sharing insights from clinic to conference | 🌐 livingmind.co.uk
Insta @livingminduk
Kelly Watkins @kellythepsych.bsky.social Forensic Psychologist
CBT and EMDR Therapist
Passionate about ending the stigma around mental health!
https://linktr.ee/kellyvwatkins
Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social Living in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Contributing to Ukrainian voices online | support me : PayPal: kate.boguslavskaya@gmail.com | http://buymeacoffee.com/kateinkharkiv
Stephen Elder @stephen-e.bsky.social Dad, husband, CEO. Worried about the growth in populism, climate change and the consequences of brexit on the UK’s future, particularly for our young people.
NUFC fan. I’m a bit left leaning. Slava Ukraini!
Lynn @lyn32.bsky.social UK
No DMs, I block porn invites.
If woke means having empathy, then woke I am
I despise Trump
Loathe Elon
Think Farage is the village idiot
Tax the Billionaires.
Ern400 @ern400.bsky.social Pro: EU, ‘woke’, ECHR, NHS, Remain, FBPE,
Anti: Brexiteer, Tory, FPTP,
Current affairs, gardening, music, food, art, nature
Mel 🍿 📎 @melhistorygeek.bsky.social ex maths teacher now studying history. Left of centre, bollocks to Brexit. Occasionally pissed off with everything. Chief cat serf.
Irene Wise @irenejuliawise.bsky.social Artist, writer, educator, European. #FBPE #NHS
Be curious, be kind.
#art & info: irenejuliawise.com
#FRSA.
Imperial War Museum Fellow in #Holocaust Ed
#Theatre #Film #Art #books #cats #gardening #hedgehog #vegetarian
#StrongerTogether #RejoinEU
James55graham @james55graham.bsky.social 🇺🇦 #NAFO Slava Ukraini #FuckPutin #FuckTrump #FuckMusk #FuckNazis
Author & Researcher, l think outside of the box #BlueCrew #Resister #FBPPR, #NHS, #BLM Happiest on a Ducati. 🇺🇲🇬🇧🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🔶💙🌊🌈 Join nafo-ofan.org and help Ukraine.
Erin's Dad @microrocketman.bsky.social Dad of 3, forever grieving the loss of one of them. Engineer, systems thinker. I make mistakes!
Try to walk a mile in someone else's shoes before you judge them!
Finally, I don't follow those with zero posts and/or without a profile description.
northern monkey #fbpe #fbr @northernmnkey.bsky.social Connecting with anti-fascists globally. #fbpe #fbr
Larry Mogridge #Rejoin #FBPE @larry-mogridge.bsky.social Woke is not the insult you think it is.
Ex-Services Brat.
Ex-Goldsmiths.
Ex-Art Teacher.
Ex-istential Angst
Idiots blocked so, you know, if you can't read this....
steveflynn37 @steveflynn.bsky.social Fuck #reformuk, brexit oafs and fuck MAGA/Trump psychos. Expect unnecessary bad language. Not keen on the pronouns fad. Rejoin 🇪🇺 Biology understander.
666 is no longer alone. He’s getting out the marrow in your backbone.
“Nuisance over dinner money”
Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com Exploring the intersection of science, business, tech, and art.
Once a nuclear physicist. Founded and exited an AI company; now building meos labs.
Meos One - your phone made better.. @getmeos.com
Proudly non-binary, expect emojis in replies. 💖🇦🇺🦘
Mevrouw Vos @lillieg.bsky.social Writer, historian, owned by both a cat & a dog. Love creative hobbies & gaming.
Denizen of Wülferhampton & officially woke and awesome according to my niece & her wife.
Formerly @ladycorvia/Herder of Cats in the other place.
Tax Wealth Not Work
🟰🟰
Chris 🤍💛💙 @chrisb64.bsky.social Award winning designer, business owner, parent, European citizen.
London lover.
Leeds United and Depeche Mode fan. Trans.
Anti fascist. Anti tech bros. Anti billionaires.
#LUFC #DepecheMode
#Trans 🏳️⚧️ #LGBTQ+🏳️🌈
#FBPE 🇪🇺🇪🇸🇺🇦
PhD Peter M. Jansson, Assoc.Prof.Sociology @petermjansson.bsky.social Research on partner violence and batterer intervention programs with a critical realist perspective
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Peter-Jansson?ev=hdr_xprf
https://www.semanticscholar.org/shared/library/folder/14608752?utm_source=direct_link
an Emergent World @anemergentworld.bsky.social An Emergent World is the online tag for the Agaposophy Institute for Theological Philosophy. We are currently at work in developing a new philosophy applicable to everyone.
Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy @speporg.bsky.social Inaugurated October 26, 1962 at Northwestern University, SPEP is a professional organization devoted to supporting philosophy inspired by continental European traditions. With over 2500 members SPEP is among the largest American philosophical societies.
Nutmeg Hallett @drnutmeg.bsky.social Associate Professor of Mental Health Nursing, University of Birmingham | Researcher | Passionate about co-production and reducing coercion in mental healthcare | My vision is restorative and voluntary care
Marley Billman Miller, MS @mbillmanmiller.bsky.social Clinical Psych PhD Student @AuburnU. Passionate about #EatingDisorders and #BodyImage research. Mental health advocate. Cat, gecko, and golden mom. Views my own.
Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social Dad, husband, President, citizen. barackobamabooks.com
Cristiana Duarte @cristianaduarte.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Psychology at York St John University.
Research in body image, body shame and eating behaviour.
Restraint Reduction Network @restraintreductionnetwork.org The Restraint Reduction Network is a registered charity (1187984) working to reduce restrictive practices.
Contact us at rrn@bild.org.uk
restraintreductionnetwork.org
Prof Jeffrey S Morris @jsm2334.bsky.social George S Pepper Professor of Public Health & Preventative Medicine; Biostats, Stats & Data Science, Lifelong learner & truth seeker; Views my own & not employer’s
Dr Susan Oliver (PhD) @drsusanoliver.bsky.social Scientist who is passionate about correcting misinformation
https://www.youtube.com/backtothescience
QMUL Centre for Psychiatry & Mental Health @qmulpsychiatry.bsky.social Centre for Psychiatry & Mental Health, world leader in social, cultural & environmental aspects of mental health. Please read more at https://www.qmul.ac.uk/wiph/centres/centre-for-psychiatry-and-mental-health/
Youth Resilience Unit @qmulresilience.bsky.social Launched on March 1, 2021. Our team researches how young people use resources to prevent and overcome mental distress. Please see more at https://www.qmul.ac.uk/wiph/centres/centre-for-psychiatry-and-mental-health/youth-resilience-unit/
Hope Virgo @hopevirgo.bsky.social Christian, author, multi-award winning campaigner, founder of #DumpTheScales
Gerome Breen @psychgenomics.bsky.social Prof Psychiatric Genetics KCL. Lead King's Genomics facility, Genetic Links to Anxiety and Depression (GLAD) Study, and the UK Eating Disorders Genetics Initiative (EDGI-UK). Gratitude to my wonderful research group, staff, and collaborators.
Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social Linguistic diversity in social life
By Ingrid Piller, author of "Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice" "Intercultural Communication" and "Life in a New Language"
https://www.languageonthemove.org/
Prof. Michelle Lefevre @michellelefevre.bsky.social #socialwork academic researching #innovation, relationship-based practice, adolescent #safeguarding, #kindness, #socialcare. I lead @theinnovateproject.bsky.social -but gardening is my greatest love 🌈 https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p28733-michelle-lefevre
Diane Marie Amann @dianemarieamann.bsky.social ⚖️ juriste ❘ AJIL Bd ❘ Vis Prof LSE ❘ Honorary Prof UCL ❘ Regents' Prof Emer UGA ❘ international law ❘ law of war & peace ❘ constitutional law ❘ human & child rights ❘ legal history ❘ criminal justice ❘ she📍LDN https://dianemarieamann.com/
Prof. Olympia Bekou @olympiabekou.bsky.social Head of School; Professor of Public International Law, School of Law, University of Nottingham, UK.
Head ICJ Unit, @uon-hrlc.bsky.social; Deputy Director, CMN.
All views are my own; RTs are not endorsements.
Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC @caoilfhionn.bsky.social Human rights lawyer.
ECCHR - European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights @ecchr.bsky.social Together with those affected and partners worldwide, ECCHR uses legal means to hold state and non-state actors accountable for human rights violations.
🔗 https://www.ecchr.eu/
Shu Shin Luh @shushinluh.bsky.social Barrister at Doughty Street Chambers, specialising in public law, human rights, civil liberties. Ex-journo. Views are my own.
Profile at https://www.doughtystreet.co.uk/barristers
Gamze Erdem Türkelli @gamzeerdemturkelli.bsky.social Assoc Research Prof @UAntwerp ~ Intl Law/IEL/ governance/human&children’s rights ~ Boğaziçi-Sorbonne-Yale-Antwerp alum ~ Mom of 2 ~ bacı ~ she/her - PI of ERC StG GENESIS (www.genesis-erc.eu)
The Howard League @thehowardleague.bsky.social Building a more humane and effective response to crime.
Join: https://howardleague.org/membership/
Give: http://PayPal.Me/howardleague
Nick Hobbs @nickhobbs.bsky.social Head of Legal at the office of the Children & Young People’s Commissioner Scotland. @cypcs.bsky.social
Children’s human rights in law, policy and practice.
Bruce Adamson @bruceadamson.bsky.social Children’s rights and human rights
Article 39 children's rights charity @article39.bsky.social We fight for children's rights in institutional settings. Executive Director - Jodie Wickers.
Brought as much as we could when we left the other platform. More on our website: https://article39.org.uk
Dr Ally Dunhill @allyad.bsky.social
I support & advocate for children’s rights to be respected, protected & fulfilled. I work to influence public opinion, policy & decision-making by raising awareness, providing information & encouraging action. Eurochild #RightsNotWrongs #Unfeartie
Kirrily Pells @kirrilypells.bsky.social Associate Professor of Childhood, UCL.
Child Rights | Childhood | Memory | Violence Against Children | Rwanda www.nkwihoreze.org
Dr Naomi Lott @naomilott.bsky.social Lecturer in Law at University of Reading | John Fell Research Fellow at Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, University of Oxford | Visiting Scholar at UCL Politics | Visiting Fellow at Rights Lab University of Nottingham.
Children's Rights Scholar
Conor O'Mahony @conorom.bsky.social Dean of the School of Law, University College Cork. Teaching and researching constitutional law and children's rights. Father of two. Sports fan. Hillwalker and cyclist.
https://research.ucc.ie/en/persons/conor-omahony/
Jenna Gillett-Swan @jkgillettswan.bsky.social Professor | Education | Child Rights | Wellbeing | Participatory Research | Student Voice | Children and Young People | Inclusive Education |
🌟 Views my own 🌟
Simone van der Hof @joix.bsky.social Professor of Regulating Digital Technologies | Privacy, Data Protection, Commercial Exploitation, Digital Play, Digital Child Rights | Center for Law & Digital Technologies (eLaw), Leiden University
Claudia Wiesemann @cwiesemann.bsky.social Bioethicist, philosopher of medicine - former Vice-Chair of German Ethics Council - working on #reproduction, #family #ethics, and #childrights with a focus on time and the good life (she/her) #bioethics #philosophy
orcid.org/0000-0002-8260-0346
Freya Doughty-Wagner @freyadw.bsky.social Climate justice & int'l child rights (she/her)
COO ABILA, N. America Director GNHRE (@abilaofficial.bsky.social & @gnhre.bsky.social)
😷🌈🇪🇺🌻
freyadoughty.com
Save the Children UK @savechildrenuk.bsky.social In the UK and around the world, we make sure children keep safe, healthy and learning.
Find out more here: https://www.savethechildren.org.uk/
Prof Laura Lundy @lauralundy.bsky.social Queen’s University Belfast and University College Cork working on Children’s Rights, Child Participation (The Lundy Model) and Education.
Professor Ursula Kilkelly @ursulak.bsky.social Law Professor and VP Global at University College Cork. Passionate about #childrights
#justice #leadership #sport #music and all things #Mayo 💚❤️
https://research.ucc.ie/profiles/B012/ukilkelly
Noam Peleg @noampeleg.bsky.social Academic; children's rights, human rights and family law; Author: "The Child's Right to Development" (CUP 2019); Views are personal
Liam Thornton @liamthornton.bsky.social I cosplay as a legal academic of legal systems, welfare, asylum & rights https://people.ucd.ie/liam.thornton
Helen Duffy @duffs1.bsky.social Born in Stoke. Lives in Howth. #afgang #wildswimming
Mary-Louise Corr @mlcorr.bsky.social Senior Lecturer Criminology, Queen's University Belfast & Centre for Children's Rights. Youth Justice, Youth Homelessness, Domestic Violence, Youth, Narrative Research
Bronagh Byrne @profbronaghbyrne.bsky.social Disability Rights, Children's Rights, Deaf academic, Hearing Dog Partnership, Co-Director Centre for Children's Rights Queen's University Belfast