The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social AI is not inevitable. We DAIR to imagine, build & use AI deliberately.
Website: http://dair-institute.org
Mastodon: @DAIR@dair-community.social
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dair-institute/
Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social Situationist Cybernetics. I make films with and against AI to see what isn’t there. Gates Scholar, Cambridge Digital Humanities. Affiliated Researcher, Machine Visual Culture Research Group (Max Planck Institute). Aim to be kind. cyberneticforests.com
Shalini @shalz15.bsky.social PhD candidate at UCL Mental Health Science
@wellcometrust
Jasmine Lee @jasminelee.bsky.social UCL-Wellcome PhD Candidate in Mental Health Science | MSc Developmental & Educational Psychology | Cambridge Psychology | she/her
🇭🇰🇬🇧
Lauren Leek @laurenleek.eu Social data scientist with too many questions | Assistant Professor at Leiden University | PhD from @EUI
https://laurenleek.eu/
https://laurenleek.substack.com
Ashley Watts @ashleylwatts.bsky.social
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
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account
Author: Deep Unlearning (you can now preorder at https://shorturl.at/sCdjl)
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://dair-institute.org)
Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of EMPIRE OF AI: empireofai.com. ai reporter. national magazine award & american humanist media award winner. words in The Atlantic. formerly WSJ, MIT Tech Review, KSJ@MIT. email: http://karendhao.com/contact.
Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social Professor of Psychology at NYU (jayvanbavel.com) | Author of The Power of Us Book (powerofus.online) | Director of NYU Center for Conflict & Cooperation | trying to write a new book about collective decisions
Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social Metascientist @ uidaho. Behavioral sciences, stats, modeling, phil of science. Cat slave, cook, sailor (see: https://bsky.app/profile/kumrusails.bsky.social), photographer, clarinet student, adventurer, nature lover. Allergic to unsolicited advice.
Tom Yates @tomayates.bsky.social Epidemiology, infection
https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/37299-tom-yates/about
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science 👁️ https://olivia.science
🍃 https://metatheory.space
associate professor of computational cognitive science · she/they · cypriot/kıbrıslı/κυπραία · σὺν Ἀθηνᾷ καὶ χεῖρα κίνει
Andrew Przybylski @shuhbillskee.bsky.social Father and Husband. Professor @oii.ox.ac.uk
Maribeth Rauh @mbrauh.bsky.social I like to poke AI systems (sociotechnical translation and AI safety/ethics evaluation)
Researcher @aial.ie @tcddublin.bsky.social | Formerly Research Engineer @ DeepMind
Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social Metascience, statistics, psychology, philosophy of science. Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands. Omnia probate. 🇪🇺
Talya Greene @talyagreene.bsky.social Associate Professor at UCL. Trauma and mental health. Disaster and war-related trauma; PTSD symptom dynamics; prevention and early intervention; public mental health; moral injury; EMA/ESM.
Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social 🇪🇺🦔🦡🌹🕊Emeritus prof of medical sociology UCL. Posting on social inequality in health , work & health, commercial & political determinants of health. Relationship between research & policy. Sometimes post about badgers, trams & trains. Oublagea
Kristen Bottema-Beutel @kbottemabeutel.bsky.social Professor of Special Education at Boston College. I research autistic interpersonal interaction and social development. She/her. COI log: https://t.co/YwzPvxEyVb
AI Accountability Lab @aial.ie Trinity College Dublin’s Artificial Intelligence Accountability Lab (https://aial.ie/) is founded & led by Dr Abeba Birhane. The lab studies AI technologies & their downstream societal impact with the aim of fostering a greater ecology of AI accountability
Dr Ellie Murray, ScD @epiellie.bsky.social Epidemiologist and science communicator | newsletter: epiellie.substack.com | cohost @casualinfer podcast | Causal inference for public health #epitwitter | Canadian in US 🇨🇦 | she/her/Dr
Margarita Panayiotou @margaritap.bsky.social I think psychometrics is cool and sometimes I draw about it osf.io/czxht. Looking into the measurement of adolescent social media www.so-me-study.org
Senior lecturer at Uni of Manchester
Louise Black @louisecblack.bsky.social Lecturer at Manchester Met trying to improve how we measure adolescent mental health
Sarah Garfinkel @sarahgarf.bsky.social Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at UCL, Clinical and Affective Neuroscience Lab. Interested in interoception, emotion, interactions between heart and brain, biological basis of empathy & Radio 4
Jack Andrews @jackandrews.bsky.social Psychologist | Wellcome Fellow | University of Oxford | Social influence, mental health & adolescence | https://www.psy.ox.ac.uk/research/social-mental-health
Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io Meta-scientist and psychologist. Senior lecturer @unibe.ch. Chief recommender @error.reviews. "Jumped up punk who hasn't earned his stripes." All views a product of my learning history. If behaviorism did not exist, it would be necessary to invent it.
Livia Tomova @livia-tomova.bsky.social loneliness + social isolation | adolescent development | reward + motivation - Assistant Professor at Cardiff University
Dr Abby Dunn @abbydunn.bsky.social Associate Professor at the University of Sussex and NIHR Advanced Fellow. Work focused on parental mental health and the intergenerational transmission of mental health challenges.
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
Becca Lacey @rebeccalacey.bsky.social Reader in Social and Lifecourse Epidemiology, City St George's, University of London
Deputy Director of Equalise: ESRC Centre for Lifecourse Health Equity
Childhood adversities, young carers, mental health
Lover of all things longitudinal and trains
Darío Moreno-Agostino @dmorenoagostino.bsky.social Social inequalities in population mental health and healthy ageing | UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies & ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health | he/him
https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/83395-dario-morenoagostino/
UK Research and Innovation @ukri.org The UK’s largest public funder of research. Our mission is to advance knowledge, improve lives and drive growth.
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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social We mobilise the humanities and social sciences to understand the world and shape a brighter future.
Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk An independent charity that seeks to fund blue skies research and scholarship. Follow this channel for details on upcoming grant deadlines, published research, scheme opening dates, grant announcements, events, and more. https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/
Wellcome Trust @wellcometrust.bsky.social Supporting research to transform life, health and wellbeing. We’re taking on three urgent health challenges: mental health, climate change & infectious disease.
Dr Alice R Phillips @alicerphillips.bsky.social Research Associate investigating experiences in care, child and adolescent mental health, childhood maltreatment and, social and interpersonal outcomes.
University of Cambridge | visiting researcher at University College London & University of Oxford
Dr Eva A Sprecher @easprecher.bsky.social Research Fellow at @uclpals.bsky.social / honorary at Anna Freud.
Researching the mental health of #care-experienced young people. #Coproduction. Relationships for care-experienced people. #mixed-methods
Ex-Physics teacher.
Puffin Enthusiast
#crohns
Robert Howard @profrobhoward.bsky.social UCL Old Age Psychiatrist. Evidence-based treatments for dementia, psychosis, depression and anxiety in older people. Running for RCPsych President, see details here https://profrobhoward.com Still enjoying Twitter but here we all are.
Dr Mary Birken @marybirken.bsky.social Mental health and occupational therapy researcher.
The Mental Elf @thementalelf.bsky.social 🌤️ Hello, I’m the Mental Elf!
🌳 Follow me to keep up to date with the latest reliable #MentalHealthResearch.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com Professor, UW Biology / Santa Fe Institute
I study how information flows in biology, science, and society.
Book: *Calling Bullshit*, http://tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b
LLM course: https://thebullshitmachines.com
Corvids: https://tinyurl.com/mr2n5ymk
he/him
Dr Patrizia Pezzoli @drpatriziapezzoli.bsky.social Lecturer @uclpals.bsky.social | Psychologist investigating risk & protective factors for victimisation and antisocial behaviour.
Carey Oppenheim @careyoppenheim.bsky.social Working at the Nuffield Foundation on Young People, Early Childhood, former CEO, Early Intervention Foundation. Views my own.
Alex Pike @alexandrapike.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Mental Health @YorkPsychology || eating disorders, anxiety disorders, cognition/computation || she/her
Group page: https://cognition-mental-health.github.io/
Amy Orben @orbenamy.bsky.social tech + teens + better science @ http://digitalmentalhealth.group // Group Leader, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge // Fellow + Director of Studies, St. John's College // 📸 marcus ginns
Kathryn Paige Harden @kph3k.bsky.social Psychology & behavior genetics. Author of THE GENETIC LOTTERY (2021) and ORIGINAL SIN (2026). Speaking as an individual.
Sonia Johnson @soniajohnson1.bsky.social Prof of Social and Community Psychiatry, Division of Psychiatry, UCL; Director of NIHR Policy Research Unit in Mental Health; interested in what works in mental health, loneliness, educating mental health researchers, singing, London (especially SE).
Varun Warrier @vw1234.bsky.social Interested in genetics, development, and brain. Associate prof of neurodev. research at Cambridge.
Jess Deighton @jess-deighton.bsky.social Professor of Child Mental Health and Wellbeing, UCL
Director, Applied Research and Evaluation, Anna Freud
Director of the Evidence Based Practice Unit
Luisa Fassi @fassiluisa.bsky.social PhD @mrccbu.bsky.social & http://orben.group
Youth mental health / Social media use / Open science
https://luisafassi.github.io/
Georgia Tomova @georgiatomova.bsky.social Research Fellow at @clscohorts.bsky.social
epidemiology, causal inference, methods, meta-science
Subscribe to the Causal Inference Interest Group: https://ciig-seminar.github.io
simine vazire @simine.com Psychology prof at UniMelb, co-director of MetaMelb (interdisciplinary metascience lab).
Study credibility of science & how to improve it.
Pim Cuijpers @pimcuijpers.bsky.social www.pimcuijpers.com
Tanay Katiyar @adigitaltanay.bsky.social phd @ cambridge
social media | psychiatry | anthropology
co-parenting the @cognitations.bsky.social podcast
website: https://tinyurl.com/t-katiyar
Alex Lloyd @dralexlloyd.bsky.social Lecturer in Child and Adolescent Mental Health @UCL | Developmental Science and Mental Health | Trustee at Dragon Hall Trust | (he/him)
Alice Roe @aliceroe.bsky.social PhD student @ MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge. Interested in memory, trauma and cognition
Eleanor Chatburn @eleanorchats.bsky.social Clinical psychologist | Global youth mental health researcher🌎 | University of Cambridge, ARU & UEA📚 | Cambridge 🇬🇧 | linkedin.com/in/eleanorchatburn/
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!
Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app Founder & PI @aial.ie. Assistant Professor of AI, School of Computer Science & Statistics, @tcddublin.bsky.social
AI accountability, AI audits & evaluation. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev Co-founder & editor, Works in Progress. Writer, Scientific Discovery. Podcaster, Hard Drugs. Advisor, Coefficient Giving.
Newsletter: https://scientificdiscovery.dev
Podcast: https://harddrugs.worksinprogress.co
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci Personality psych & causal inference @UniLeipzig. I like all things science, beer, & puns. Even better when combined! Part of http://the100.ci, http://openscience-leipzig.org
Wilson Lim @wilsonlimph.bsky.social Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience MPhil/PhD @ UCL • Interested in cognition, emotion, and mental health 🧠🇸🇬
ReSET Project @resetproject.bsky.social Developing a transdiagnostic, school-based intervention to prevent adolescent mental health challenges 🧠
Led by Prof Essi Viding & Prof Pasco Fearon
@UKRI.org funded
resetproject.co.uk
#MentalHealth #AdolescentWellbeing #ResetProject
Sarah Stock @folkysar.bsky.social Recent finisher of PhD, current EFDSS operations person. Let me be your freelance epidemiologist?
Giulia Piazza @giuliapiazza.bsky.social Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at the UCL Division of Psychiatry. She/her
Hannah R Snyder @hannahrsnyder.bsky.social Associate Prof. of Psychology @BrandeisU. Internalizing psychopathology, stress and cognition. Open science.
https://www.brandeis.edu/psychology/cope-lab/
Jacques Wels @jacqueswels.bsky.social PhD
Social epidemiology, Public health and Sociology.
UHealth PI
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Justin C Yang (楊溢) @justinyang.me he/him. Insatiably curious mental health researcher (@uclpsychiatry.bsky.social) studying complex mental health needs, addictions, and neurodevelopment using causal inference, epidemiology, and data science. Funders: ADR UK, UKRI MHP, and NIHR.
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
she/her💖💜💙views mine
Jessie Baldwin @jessiebaldwin.bsky.social Associate Professor & UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at UCL | Interested in early adversity, mental health, causal inference & open science
Alexandre Piot @alexpiot.bsky.social 🧠 Psychopharmacology and Harm Reduction 💉
PhD student at the Clinical Psychopharmacology Unit - UCL | Wellcome Trust
Director of Research - Centre for Evidence Based Drug Policy
Anabelle Paulino @anabellepauli.bsky.social PhD student researching the impact of social benefits on mental health @ucl.ac.uk + @wellcometrust.bsky.social. Latina y orgullosa 🇩🇴
Luna Huestegge @lunahuestegge.bsky.social
Laurel Joy Gabard-Durnam @laurelgd.bsky.social PINE Lab PI @ Northeastern, HAPPE EEG software creator, neuroscientist exploring how experiences shape brain & behavior development. Loves cheese. She/her
https://www.plasticityinneurodevelopmentlab.com/
https://github.com/PINE-Lab/HAPPE
Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social Epidemiologist. Causal inference researcher and trainer. Based at @lida-leeds.bsky.social
See my Intro to Causal Inference Course: https://www.causal.training/
See the Causal Inference Interest Group: https://ciig-seminar.github.io
Dr Jen Dykxhoorn @mentalhealthepi.bsky.social Psychiatric epidemiologist and public mental health researcher. Principle Research Fellow / Associate Professor @UCL Division of Psychiatry
www.mentalhealthepi.com
Jon Roiser @jonroiser.bsky.social Prof of Neuroscience and Mental Health UCL_ICN
| Israel&UK politics | Travel adventures | Good food | Trees,wood & fires | Black cat
Ella W Tuominen @ellatuominen.bsky.social UCL Wellcome Trust PhD Student in Mental Health Science @ UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
|| interested in avoidance, psychotherapy mechanisms, reinforcement learning, behaviour change, psychedelics, mindfulness ||
Sarah Bakirci @sarahbakirci.bsky.social PhD candidate in Mental Health Science at UCL funded by the Wellcome Trust | alum Yale & McGill University | Interested in timing effects in mental health |
Jenny Fielder @jfielder.bsky.social Postdoc @dmh-group.bsky.social @mrccbu.bsky.social
Prev POST Fellow @ukparliament.parliament.uk & UCL Wellcome PhD student in Mental Health Science @uclpals.bsky.social.
she/her linktr.ee/j.c.fielder
Quentin Dercon @qdercon.bsky.social mental health sciences phd @ MPC-UCL • interested in why treatments (don’t) work • 💻: qdercon.github.io
Prof Alexandra Pitman @alexandrapitman.bsky.social Professor of Psychiatry in the UCL Division of Psychiatry & Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at the North London NHS Foundation Trust; research on #suicide, #selfharm, #loneliness; Patron of the Support After Suicide Partnership.
Anna Remington @annaremington.bsky.social Prof of autism research & Director of UCL CRAE. Tweets = own opinions
Oliwia Stecko @oliwiastecko.bsky.social PhD Student @ UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience |
UCL-Wellcome PhD in Mental Health Science |
Brain-body interactions in hallucinations and schizophrenia 🫀🧠
Prof Praveetha Patalay @pravpatalay.bsky.social Scientist and artist. Professor of Population Health at UCL; mental health, inequalities, lifecourse.
Rochelle A. Burgess PhD @thewrittenro.bsky.social Professor of Global Mental Health and Social Justice, UCL
Scholar activist
Communities
Global Mental Health
Director UCL centre for Global NCDs and Mental Health
Miranda Wolpert @mirandawolpert.bsky.social Director of Mental Health Wellcome and Professor UCL
Humma Andleeb @hummaandleeb.bsky.social PhD student @ucl exploring psychosis risk and experience in ethnic minority groups and migrants.
Tom Metherell @tommetherell.com /ˈmɛðərəl/. He/him. PhD candidate in Mental Health Science @clscohorts.bsky.social, @sriucl.bsky.social. Social media + mental health 📱🧠🏳️🌈
tommetherell.com
Sacha Epskamp @sachaepskamp.bsky.social Associate professor at the National University of Singapore
Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social Professor of Mental Health & Data Science at Leiden University. Studying mental health problems as systems (http://eiko-fried.com). Building an early warning system for depression (http://WARN-D.com).
Dr Lucy Foulkes @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social Psychologist at University of Oxford | Adolescence + mental health
Linktr.ee/lucyfoulkes