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Pete Etchells

@peteetchells.bsky.social

Professor of Psychology and Science Communication | Award-winning science writer | Screen Time | Social Media | Smartphones | Video games | https://linktr.ee/unlockedbook

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Andrea Howard@drandreahoward.bsky.social · 3w ago

The real tragedy of this whole debacle is that we’re allowing people with bestseller cachet to peddle one-cause narratives when an excellent nuanced book that understands individual differences matter is *right there* (go read @peteetchells.bsky.social book)

Quoted text: Pete Etchells, a professor of psychology and science communication at Bath Spa University, also pushed back on the idea that Common Core is the primary cause of mental-health problems among American kids. “This is a common trap that we fall into when trying to figure out what’s going on with those declines,” he told me. “We try to answer the question of ‘What one big thing can explain this?’ The answer, in my view, is that there isn’t one big thing.” This was generally the thesis of Etchells’s own book Unlocked: The Real Science of Screen Time (And How to Spend It Better), which came out the week before The Anxious Generation did, sold only a few thousand copies, and received hardly any attention at all.
Social Media Lab@socialmedialab.ca · 4w ago

"What if It’s Not the Phones? An evolutionary psychologist is challenging the popular understanding of kids and technology." www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Candice Odgers@candiceodgers.bsky.social · last mo.

Scary stories about teens sell. The data tells a different story. After decades studying adolescent mental health, here's what I found: This isn't an anxious generation. It's a resilient one. Let's start treating them that way. go.ted.com/candiceodgers

What we're getting wrong about teens and tech

For years, the warning has been: smartphones are destroying a generation. But developmental psychologist Candice Odgers says that decades of data on teens tells a different story — violence, alcohol u...

go.ted.com

Amy Orben@orbenamy.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Hiring! 🙌 Communications and Operations Coordinator to help share mu team's research and support a fast-moving, high-impact group. Major rebrand ahead + real chance to build things from scratch in an area where there is high media interest ⬇️. Closes 14 April. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/communi...

UK teenagers to trial social media bans and digital curfews

The government will interview the young people and their parents before and after they try the limits to assess their impact.

bbc.co.uk

Doug Parry@dougaparry.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Two exciting ERC-funded PhD positions on attention and technology use with @matti.vuorre.com I’ll be an (external) part of the supervision team and can highly recommend this department @tilburg-university.bsky.social tiu.nu/22989

Job opening: PhD candidate on attention and technology use (full-time, 4 years) (22989)

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Matti Vuorre@matti.vuorre.com · 10mo ago

I am hiring PhD candidates to study the psychology of attention & technology use at @tilburg-university.bsky.social. We're looking for motivated & curious scholars with expertise in cognitive psychology and statistics, and offer a friendly work environment with great terms & benefits. tiu.nu/22989

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The Psychologist@psychmag.bsky.social · 11mo ago

“It’s really difficult to craft a story that explains the complexity of the research literature, but still gives people something to take away with them to do. And that’s what parents are craving' @peteetchells.bsky.social @jonsevers.bsky.social @tesmagazine.bsky.social www.tes.com/magazine/tea...

Is Jonathan Haidt right about smartphones?

In ‘The Anxious Generation’, Haidt makes the case that social media and smartphones have ‘rewired’ today’s teenagers, but his critics say the evidence tells us something very different - and that bann...

tes.com

Pete Etchells@peteetchells.bsky.social · 12mo ago

So it turns out I'm on the editorial board for a scam journal (news to me!). "Istoriya" is a SCOPUS-indexed journal apparently, but it's not this one: istoriya.ac. Two journals with the same name and ISSN, but different editorial boards - one entirely fabricated but using real academics.

Pete Etchells@peteetchells.bsky.social · last yr.

Episode 8 of Screen Sense is now available wherever you get your podcasts. We’re taking a break for a while, & we thought it would be fun to finish off with a listener Q&A. In this last episode (for now), we cover Qs around VR, online safety & more: screensensepodcast.substack.com/p/episode-8-...

Episode 8: Ask Pete and Andy

Listen now | Keeping kids safe online, the movement against ed tech, the biggest challenges to research, and more

screensensepodcast.substack.com

Evan@evansmithhist.bsky.social · last yr.

Have seen a few mentions on here lately about the 1980s ninja panic in the UK, so am reposting my piece about how this led to the BBC broadcasting the Teenage Mutant HERO Turtles in 1990 tribunemag.co.uk/2021/04/when...

When the Right Tried to Cancel the Turtles

In the 1980s and '90s, successive moral panics about hooliganism and violence on TV culminated in a right-wing campaign against a dangerous social phenomenon: the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

tribunemag.co.uk

Pete Etchells@peteetchells.bsky.social · last yr.

How do we ask better research questions about tech & mental health? In Ep 5 of Screen Sense, @shuhbillskee.bsky.social & I dig into why the research is messy, what better studies look like & how the public debate makes it harder to get clear answers. screensensepodcast.substack.com/p/episode-5-...

Episode 5: How do we ask better research questions about tech and mental health?

Listen now | It’s one of the biggest questions in digital parenting: Do digital technologies cause mental health problems in children and teenagers? The answer is complicated, and the desire to find a...

screensensepodcast.substack.com

cliffmanning.bsky.social@cliffmanning.bsky.social · last yr.

More Than Robots July edition is available now A stroll around the youth/digital/equity Venn Ft @ofcom.bsky.social @shuhbillskee.bsky.social @peteetchells.bsky.social @renatesamson.bsky.social @pshe-association.bsky.social @cfyounglives.bsky.social and more www.morethanrobots.org.uk/more-than-ro...

⏰ More Than Robots #91 July 2025

fugit inreparabile tempus Time flies like an arrow and yet also seems to go in circles. Here are some things to make the most of the time available.

morethanrobots.org.uk

Pete Etchells@peteetchells.bsky.social · last yr.

Episode 4 of Screen Sense is out now! This week, we explore why our public conversations about tech often get stuck in fear, and how we might move toward more helpful ways of thinking and talking about screens, wellbeing and family life: screensensepodcast.substack.com/p/episode-4-...

Episode 4: Why do we find it so difficult to talk about tech effects?

We often have a very real sense that digital technology can do damage to our wellbeing, and sometimes in ways that feel seriously worrying.

screensensepodcast.substack.com

Jerica Webber@jericawebber.com · last yr.

As expected, this is great. I think what will stick with me most from the first ep is: having the resources (time, academic training to read the scientific literature, money to access it!) to make an informed decision about these things is a privilege. Thank goodness for people like Andy and Pete!

Pete Etchells@peteetchells.bsky.social · last yr.

Screen Sense: Parenting in a Digital World, the new podcast from @shuhbillskee.bsky.social and I - first episode is now live. We hope you enjoy it. open.substack.com/pub/screense...