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Dr Bethany Thomas (she/her)

@brthomas.bsky.social

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✨ Executive Function: currently offline, probably on a side quest ✨ Assistant Lecturer, PhD (Psychology) Women in Games (WIGJ) Ambassador | BPS Cyberpsychology Section Social/Comms Team | Women in AI (WAI) Volunteer linktr.ee/brthomas

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Dr Bethany Thomas (she/her) @brthomas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Finally #PhDone ⭐ After submitting my thesis in March I passed my Viva with minor corrections on the 4th of June and, after receiving confirmation of award approval from the board of studies yesterday, I can finally re-introduce myself (officially) as Dr Thomas!

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Dr Bethany Thomas (she/her) @brthomas.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Quick notice just incase - that I can’t see any messages right now on here since I haven’t added age verification to my account yet - not that I was paticularily good at checking them anyway because ADHD 😊

A person sits on a desk beside a projection screen that displays a humorous slide reading, “i’m not ignoring your text/dm” followed by smaller text: “i was gonna answer it but got distracted and forgot about it and now it’s been 3 days and i feel like answering it at this point would make it even more awkward than just pretending i didn’t see it in the first place i’m so sorry.” The image mimics a classroom presentation meme.

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Dr Bethany Thomas (she/her) @brthomas.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

+ some more!!

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Dr Bethany Thomas (she/her) @brthomas.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Second gaming stream of day 1 for #cyber25 as always the slides are on point!

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Dr Bethany Thomas (she/her) @brthomas.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Some powerful and significant research being presented in the technology and social discourse stream at #cyber25 - bridging the gap between real-world ongoing conflict and the role of technology.

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Dr Bethany Thomas (she/her) @brthomas.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Our first gaming stream of #cyber25 was full of incredible and interesting research from trolls to LLMs - gaming representation at @bpscyberpsychology.bsky.social is strong 🎮

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Dr Bethany Thomas (she/her) @brthomas.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Embarking on my first ever DnD campaign soon so I had to get a miniature of my character to mark the occasion… of course I had to do a homebrew for my mini mushroom barbarian 🍄⚔️🐉

3cm tall grey dnd miniature figure of a grump mushroom next to some purple dice.

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Dr Bethany Thomas (she/her) @brthomas.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

The BPS #Cyberpsychology section annual conference 2025 registration now open - if you’re a PhD-er or ECR this is the perfect conference to present at with a supportive and welcoming bunch of good-eggs who want to know about your cool research 🎮📖📱 www.bps.org.uk/event/cyberp...

Screenshot of the cyberpsychology confefence - dates 9/7/25-10/7/25 hosted in Birmingham

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Dr Bethany Thomas (she/her) @brthomas.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Psychgeist of Pop Culture:Taylor Swift is finally out 🫶🎤🦋 Thank you @drkowert.bsky.social & my co-authors @kellidunlap.bsky.social and Irma Melunovic! Our chapter is all about the Swifties, with a sprinkle of Psycho-Ludo-logical science on the side 🪩 You can download it for FREE at playstorypress!

Screenshot of chapter from the psychgiest of popculture: Taylor swift, titled “the science of the Swifties: fandom, friendship bracelets, and Easter eggs” by Bethany Thomas, Irma Melunovic, and Kelli Dunlap.

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Dr Bethany Thomas (she/her) @brthomas.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Mini introduction for any new pals following me here 🦋🌟 I’m Beth (she/her) - I’m a PhD-er exploring video games and gender identity and love all things qualitative RM 🎮 when I’m not doing academic stuff I enjoy going to gigs, playing video games, reading, spending time with my pup Freddie 🐶🎵🪩📚

Presenting at the BPS Cyberpsychology conference 20204. Image shows a large presentation title slide titled “levelling up: investigating the construction of gamer identity for female gamers” with a pixel pink mountain background from the video game Celeste.

Image from Noah Kahan concert in Manchester 2024, image shows the stage with Noah and the band with lights, at the bottom are attendees hands and some phones, with confetti in the sky.

Cavalier King Charles spaniel “freddie” lay down with his tongue out.

Presentation slide titled “the quest for qualitative research” the background is a video game map with a curving path, along which are four points/levels which show the different “levels” of doing qualitative research including the important foundations, justification, data generation methods and findings.

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