Ruby Burns @crustprincess.bsky.social Pls do not ask me what I have or haven’t done
Naomi Smith @deadtheorist.bsky.social Digital sociologist, bodies, affect, misinformation and conspiracy. Materiality of immaterial things.
University of Melbourne @unimelb.edu.au We're a public-spirited institution making distinctive contributions to society in research, learning, teaching and engagement.
CRICOS code: 00116K
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/
Jan Marc Morawe @janmarcmorawe.bsky.social Gender Scholar
Interests: (a)sexualities, health communication, masculinities, contraception/safer sex, repro health, climate crisis, IR, peace/conflict studies, utopias/dystopias, mental health, media, history, ...
https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7802-2721
HADES @wearehades.bsky.social HADES at University of Melbourne (Humanities and Diverse eResearch Scholars) unite around inclusive, diverse and ethical approaches to digital research in HASS fields, and the crucial link between teaching & research https://go.unimelb.edu.au/x4ip
Siân Slade @sianslade.bsky.social Chair & non-exec director in disability & health 🇦🇺, Co-chair International #SocialPrescribing Collaborative 🌏, Enterprise fellow & PhD Candidate #NavigatingHealth @nossalinstitute.bsky.social
@ijoc-usc.bsky.social @ijoc-usc.bsky.social
@marysavigar.bsky.social @marysavigar.bsky.social
Postdigital Science and Education @pdse.bsky.social Official profile for Postdigital Science and Education journal, book series, and encyclopedia.
Curated by Petar Jandrić.
Hugh Davies @hughdavies.bsky.social Artist, Curator, Media and Games Researcher
President of Chinese Digital Games Research Association
https://www.hughdavies.au/
ReDICo @redico.eu ReDICo: Researching Digital Interculturality Co-operatively. redico.eu
An interdisciplinary project exploring intercultural practices and discourses within digital spaces and beyond.
Join our research hub: hub.redico.eu
@kristendisegna.bsky.social @kristendisegna.bsky.social Artist & ceramicist researching creative folk online ✨
PhDing at RMIT | RA at IERLab & TCRN
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
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.
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
Prof Rhonda Wilson RN CMHN PhD @rhondawilsonmhn.bsky.social Professor Mental Health Nursing #RMIT University | President #ACMHN | #MentalHealthNurse | #MHNurse | #DigitalHealth | #FirstNations | #Menopause | Wiradjuri yinaa on Darkinjung Land, Central Coast, Australia | Spain, Europe | https://drrhondawilson.com/
Emma Whatman @emmawhatman.bsky.social She/Her. Academic @ UniMelb 🫠 I am a feminist media studies researcher who examines postfeminism, young people, & pop culture.
Hao Zheng @hao-zheng.bsky.social Research Fellow in the Influencer in the Influencer Ethnography Research Lab https://ierlab.com/ | Chinese Queer Female Researcher https://haozheng.website/
🔍 Gender & Sexuality 🏳️🌈 | Digital Cultures📱 | Transnational Mobility 🛬.
Dr Kathryn Daley @katdaley.bsky.social Assistant Associate Dean - Social Science Research and Policy Studies
RMIT University
https://academics.rmit.edu.au/kathryn-daley/about
I also might have also been your pilates teacher.
Teltales @teltales.bsky.social Here to find and tell tales relating to all aspects of technology enhanced learning; educational technology; #edtech; #highered; learning design; digital education; future, current and past. Working at the University of Galway. Mo thuairimí féin.
earvsc.bsky.social @earvsc.bsky.social ARC DECRA Fellow & Senior Lecturer at Monash University. Book: (Im)mobile Homes: Family Life at a Distance in the Age of Mobile Media (OUP). Into digital migration, im/mobilities, ageing, migration brokerage, ethnography. More here: https://t.co/nz3pFN4Ppj
Indigo Holcombe-James @indigohj.bsky.social Strategic Research Lead @ACMI, previously Research Fellow @ARC CoE For Automated Decision-Making and Society.
Anthony McCosker @amccosker.bsky.social Professor in Aus, on the verge of working it all out. Leading a research institute called SIRI. Researching digital, data and AI capabilities.
Kellie O’Callaghan @kellieocallaghan.bsky.social Lived Experience, Patient & Community Engagement 🧩 Governance & Regional Development 🔗 Wayfinding 💭
Chair, Regional Development Australia - Gippsland 🦘 Chair, Mental Health & Wellbeing IRB 💬 Mayor, Emeritus 👩⚖️
Gunaikurnai Land, Gippsland Australia 🏡
Greta Jasser @gretajasser.bsky.social Researcher | Political Science | Researching the far-right and misogyny online | Co-founder of @theIRMS
Natasha Zeng @tashzeng.bsky.social Feminist media and cultural studies researcher interested in how race, gender and digital culture shape our everyday, embodied encounters.
Naarm, AUS ➜ Brighton UK
natashazeng.com
Melbourne Social Equity Institute @msei-unimelb.bsky.social An interdisciplinary research institute at the University of Melbourne. Achieving fairer societies through research that makes a difference.
https://socialequity.unimelb.edu.au
Michele Paule @michelepaule.bsky.social Academic. Author. Activist. PI: Girls, Leadership, & Women in the Public Eye project. RHJYC trustee. Latest book: https://tinyurl.com/3swdbdew
Simon Katterl @simonkkatterl.bsky.social He/him | CEO, Mental Health Lived Experience Peak Queensland | Mental Health Law, Regulation & Human Rights Advocate | Bylines in the Guardian & the Age | Research: https://shorturl.at/DpKkE
Alice Elwell @aliceelwell.bsky.social I’m a proud secondary teacher and Head of English, teaching IBDP Language & Literature, Global Politics and TOK. I’m also a PhD candidate at Deakin University researching the affective intensities of critical literacy in the secondary English classroom✨
Amelia Johns @ameliajohns.bsky.social I am an Associate Professor at UTS (she/her). I research youth, social media and messaging| digital activism| digital citizenship| misinformation and platform regulation. I live on the unceded lands of the Gadigal people.
A/Prof Melissa Joy Wolfe @lissywolfe.bsky.social Associate Prof Curriculum & Pedagogy at University of Wollongong. My research focuses on gender equity in education, working with young people in schools. 🦄🏳️🌈📚🎓✏️
ysabel @ysabel.bsky.social • qualitative social science academic researching tech + young identities
• new book out with @ucpress: THE KIDS ARE ONLINE https://tinyurl.com/jv33yjaf
• words in @guardian @WIRED @WSJ @glamour
• she/her
find me @ ysabelgerrard.net/home
Jessica Ringrose @jessicaringrose.bsky.social Prof University College London, UK. Canadian Feminist Sociologist studying youth, social media, digital activism, tech facilitated harms and educational interventions
New books: Teens, Social Media, & Image Based Abuse; and Postdigital Intimacies
David Wlazlo @dwlaz.bsky.social Linux, art history, art, books, woodworking, music, gardening, creativity, abstract thought... stuff like that. Geelong, Australia
Kally @kallynteu.bsky.social Neurodiverse. Workplace Rep. Sewist. Gamer (non-derogatory).
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
✨ Rachel (she/her) ✨ @researchbrb.bsky.social Aspiring adult and media scholar. Ph.D. in Internet Studies. 🇳🇿 Pākehā, currently based in Boorloo Perth. 🐨 Living in the frenzy of feeling. 🌟
🏡 Website rachelberryman.com
🦇 Co-founder darcmode.org
📱 Member ierlab.com
Suneel Jethani @skjethani.bsky.social Dr Suneel Jethani, Writer, Vinyl DJ + Academic
STS, Media Theory, Experimental Humanities.
Senior Lecturer at University of Technology Sydney
Digital & Social Media UTS @utsdsm.bsky.social Digital & Social Media /
School of Communication /
University of Technology Sydney
Quentin Maire @qmaire.bsky.social Sociology, history and education at the University of Melbourne
Joni Meenagh @jonimeenagh.bsky.social Cat lady extraordinaire, AuDHD, queer, goofy af, ex-academic, knows how to intubate, never met a pot I couldn't stick something to.
Jess Hardley (she/they) @jesshardley.bsky.social Digital technologies, ethnographic methods, feminist geography & theories of embodiment
Research Fellow at Edith Cowan University
Megan Prictor @meganprictor.bsky.social Lawyer, PhD. Snr Lecturer, law & emerging health tech at Melbourne Law School, Uni of Melbourne. Digital health, data governance, health law, regulation, clinical tech, consultation recording. + Cataract Kids Australia. Views are my own. RT≠endorsement.
Jenny Shaw, PhD @jennyshaw011.bsky.social Cultural anthropologist and assistant professor at Thompson Rivers University. Researching and teaching childhood and youth, gender, migration and transnationalism, labour, precarity, and ethnography. Dr/she/her. Dog mom.
ACAMH - Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health @acamh.bsky.social We are delighted to announce the launch of #ACAMHLearn - our innovative #OpenAccess resource, bringing together specially commissioned videos from world-leading experts in the field of #CYPMentalHealth. Visit https://bit.ly/3AV958F to learn more!
Maddison @maddisonsideris.bsky.social PhD candidate, sociologist, researching everyday digital practices @ unimelb
She/her
Melbourne Centre for Cities @centre4cities.bsky.social A University of Melbourne Research Centre, designed to foster responsible and cosmopolitan city leadership, and the information it needs, in an interconnected and increasingly urbanised planet.
More info: https://unimelb.edu.au/cities
Monica Barratt @monicabarratt.bsky.social Drugs, harm reduction, humane drug policies, drug checking, drug markets, social equity. Academic + advocate. Curtin, Loop, Bluelight.
Catherine Smith @educ84equity.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Education-wellbeing, technology equity
Nataliia Laba @nataliialaba.com Co-edited book: Six Critical Lenses on AI-Generated Images https://www.routledge.com/Six-Critical-Lenses-on-AI-Generated-Images/Bouko-Laba/p/book/9781041232698
w: https://www.nataliialaba.com/research/publications
Anne Kavanagh @annekavanagh.bsky.social Professor Disability Health, Uni of Melb. Feminist. Disability advocate. Mum.
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1573-3464
Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/anne-kavanagh-a41b9873/
Bio https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/4025-anne-kavanagh
Paul Byron @paulibyron.bsky.social Social media researcher, Gadigal country (aka Sydney)
Researching friendship, care, LGBTQ+ peer support, young people, mental health, porn literacies, hook-up apps.
https://profiles.uts.edu.au/paul.byron
Melbourne Data Analytics Platform (MDAP) @mdap-unimelb.bsky.social We're an academic team of Research Data Specialists enabling data-intensive and data-informed research across disciplines
@unimelb www.unimelb.edu.au/mdap
Department of General Practice and Primary Care UniMelb @dgppc.bsky.social Promoting excellence in general practice and primary care through research, education and innovation.
Alex Bacalja @alexbacalja.bsky.social Digital Game Literacies - Critical Pedagogies - English Language Arts - Youth Literacies - Critical EdTech - Postdigital research. The University of Melbourne.
Dr Shelley Turner @turner-research.bsky.social ED #ForensicMentalHealth Adjunct Senior Lecturer & Senior Research Fellow #ForensicSocialWork #Criminology #YouthJustice #Children #YoungPeople #LivedExperience #SocialWork #OpenWaterSwimming
Own views. She/her
Dr Melody Taba @melodytaba.bsky.social Research Fellow at the Sydney Health Literacy Lab, University of Sydney. Researching young people, social media health communication & digital health literacy📲
Sarah PICKARD 🍃 @sarahpickard2.bsky.social Prof Brit pol: Uni Sorbonne Nouvelle
Research: Young people's political participation, #youthpolitics, vote, protest, environment #climateactivism🌳
Author: Politics Protest & Young People + Civilisation britannique📕
Convenor: PSA Young People's Politics
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
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
Stefanie Duguay @dugstef.bsky.social Assoc. Prof in Communication Studies at Concordia University. Director of the Digital Intimacy, Gender and Sexuality (DIGS) Lab (digslab.net). Posts and opinions are my own.
Nic Moe (he/him) @nicmoe.bsky.social I build tools for scientific discovery. I geek data viz, maps, and stats. YIMBY. Empiricist. Driftless. Reluctant cat person. 🇺🇸 🏳️🌈
The Research Whisperer @therealrw.bsky.social The Research Whisperer is dedicated to the topic of doing research in academia. We’re here to support, encourage, and work towards better academic lives. Created and managed by @tseenster and @jod999
Blog: https://researchwhisperer.org/
Carl Joseph @carljoseph.bsky.social Luddite, Astronomer, & PhD candidate researching history of astronomy and technology at UniMelb
https://www.carljoseph.com.au
Cis male, on Wurundjeri & Boonerwrung land
Khalspi @khalspi.bsky.social Finance/Accounting/Tech. Interested in cognitive and social psychology, neuroscience, and policy.
Jamaican 🇯🇲 | White Room Student | True Neutral
Kyle Moore @kylejmoore.bsky.social Lecturer in Digital Media at Swinburne University
Researching mobile media and technology (games, AR, maps)
Overwhelmed and under caffeinated
A/Prof Jen Martin #scicomm @scidocmartin.bsky.social Mum • Scientist • Ecologist • Science Communicator • Leader, UniMelb Science Communication Teaching • Co-host, Let's Talk SciComm podcast @letstalkscicomm.bsky.social • Dr Jen on 3RRR 📻 • Author of 'Why Am I Like This?' • MC • Writer • Runner 🏃♀️ • she/her
Victoria Baranov @vicbar.bsky.social Economist, associate prof at University of Melbourne, studying development, health, mental health, norms, culture, gender
https://sites.google.com/site/victoriabaranov/home
Shlee fucked around and @shl.ee Teacher, Mother, Lover, Enabler
📧 hey@shl.ee / ashley@generozity.charity
Mastodon: @shlee@aus.social
He/They
Jay Daniel Thompson @jaydanielthompson.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Professional Communication at RMIT University in Australia. Researches ethical online communication in an era of fake news and digital hostility.
Natasha Tusikov @ntusikov.bsky.social She/her. Assoc. prof at York University in Toronto. All things tech governance, especially internet of things, smart cities, femtech & platform governance. Book (open access): The New Knowledge: Information, Data & Remaking of Global Power
Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH) @aadh.bsky.social The Australasian Association for Digital Humanities Inc (aaDH): A community strengthening digital humanities research in Australia & Aotearoa (New Zealand) | https://aa-dh.org/ | Our 2025 conference: dha25.org
Erin Turner @erinlturner.bsky.social CEO @ Consumer Policy Research Centre - think tank working to make markets fairer. cprc.org.au
Research on fairer tech, sustainable choices, housing rights and access to justice. Also, cat photos.
Michael Everitt @michaeleveritt.bsky.social Naarm/Melbourne • Researcher / Educator / Audio-maker
https://mikseveritt.super.site
Kane Race @kanerace.bsky.social Professor of Gender & Cultural Studies
University of Sydney
Gadigal Land
ἀφροδισία φάρμακον
Andrew Perfors @perfors.net Prof at UniMelb. I'm a computational cognitive scientist studying human inference, learning, information systems, culture, and (mis/dis)info. Nerd & opinionated loudmouth in Oz, originally from America, citizen of both. Parent of two. 🏳️⚧️ perfors.net
Diana Bossio @dbossio.bsky.social Associate Professor, Digital Communication at RMIT University.
Research about journalism, social media and older people’s digital participation.
She/her
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
New Art Teachers @kerrypower.bsky.social art and media education multidisciplinary learning sustainability new materialism animal rights #ArtTeachers #MediaTeachers views my own
Tim Newport (they/them) @teanewport.com I work in books (not the fun kind), play ice hockey and make things.
Naarm's keenest bean. 🇨🇦🏳️🌈
Yes, I know my site is down.
S.E.MacRae @semacrae.bsky.social Digital sociology ECR researching the interplay between education, politics and the digital. Own views, she/her.
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute
CT6000 @mxcreant.bsky.social http://jerkofalltrades.net
Ben Lyall 💾 @benlyall.bsky.social 👨💻 Digital sociologist
🔴 RMIT / Lecturer, Digital Communication
💬 Digital civic lives / data cultures / wearables
👣 On unceded Bunurong & Wurundjeri lands
➖ Em—dash enthusiast / Nintendo apologist
Daniel Binns @clockworkpenguin1.bsky.social creative tech maker + thinker, genAI, screencultures, altcomputing. senior lecturer, media @ RMIT; assoc investigator @ADM+S
Kelli McGraw @kellimcg.bsky.social English educator, lecturing at university and teaching part time in high school in Queensland Australia. Editor: Australian Journal of English Education. X: @kmcg2375
nicholas carah @nnniccc.bsky.social avid reader
Rosie Welch @rosiewelch.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Education at Monash University, Naarm/ Melbourne | (She/Her) • education • food studies • plants • land • health education • digital cultures • sociology • design • policy and practice •
Dan Golding @dangolding.com Professor of Media at Monash University. Composer for games like Untitled Goose Game, Frog Detective, Mars First Logistics. Host of ABC Classic’s ‘Screen Sounds’ (Sat 6pm).
dangolding.com
Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social Economic historian w broad interests including population health, First Nations, mobility, inequality & lives of the incarcerated. Directing https://thecanadianpeoples.com & editing Asia-Pacific EcHR https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/2832157x
🇨🇦🇦🇺🇳🇿🏴
Kate Mannell @katemannell.bsky.social Postdoc Research Fellow
Deakin University // ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child digitalchild.org.au
Catherine Hartung @cjhart.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Education. Researching children and young people's participation, citizenship, ‘diversity’, rights and wellbeing.
Dr Kathleen Neal @kbneal.bsky.social Medievalist | Cricket tragic | Dog lover | Ex-scientist | Luddite | Occasional tractor driver | Living on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung land | Long COVID sucks | She/her
Verity Trott @vezziet.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Digital Media Research @ Monash. Book FEMINIST ACTIVISM & PLATFORM POLITICS (Routledge) http://tinyurl.com/mr473tx8
robbie @coolrobbie.bsky.social Pākehā on Wurundjeri-Woiwurung lands [-o-]
https://robbiefordyce.com
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.