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Alex Beattie

@drlxbt.bsky.social
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Media academic 📱 📚 | Dad👨‍👧| Gardener 🍀🌸🌴 | Victoria University of Wellington - Te Herenga Waka

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Alex Beattie @drlxbt.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Long weekend coming up!! Will you doomscroll or keep working? Get a screen time horoscope and look into your future... www.savingscreentime.com/tools/screen... @katemannell.bsky.social @binarythis.bsky.social @digitalchildau.bsky.social @maxsoar.bsky.social @courtneyaddison.bsky.social
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Alex Beattie @drlxbt.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Not all #neurodivergent kids are orchids waiting for perfect conditions. I propose a diff metaphor from Aotearoa NZ: ‘mingimingi’: wind-shaped, dense with life, making habitat in hard places. www.savingscreentime.com/blog/mingimi... @adhdneurodivergent.bsky.social @neurodivergentplus.bsky.social
mingimingi plant in New Zealand
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Alex Beattie @drlxbt.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
The Screen Time Tightrope: Too Much, Not Enough www.savingscreentime.com/blog/the-scr...
savingscreentime.com
The Screen Time Tightrope: Too Much, Not Enough
In debates about ‘normal’ screen time, we rarely ask who set the standard in the first place. This blog argues that our idea of healthy tech use is less a medical fact than a moving target set by our ...
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Alex Beattie @drlxbt.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
🚨 New article out in @theconversation.com: As age restrictions on social media spread globally, we may be witnessing the rise of a Victorian internet — one shaped by moral panic, not just child protection. 🔗 theconversation.com/as-social-me...
theconversation.com
As social media age restrictions spread, is the internet entering its Victorian era?
Social media bans suggest a resurgence of conservative values in our digital lives. But at what cost to young people’s autonomy, creativity and expression?
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Alex Beattie @drlxbt.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
🌀 Feeling nostalgic for the landline era? I had the pleasure of sharing my thoughts in this Capsule NZ piece on why Gen Z (and some of us millennials!) are craving media with boundaries. 📞 Read the full article here: capsulenz.com/be/parenting...
capsulenz.com
Bring Back Landlines: Are Gen Z Going Analog? | Capsule NZ
Some Gen Z are over constant connection — and parents are too. Could bringing back landlines be the answer? An expert weighs in.
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Alex Beattie @drlxbt.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
🚫📱 Banning social media for under-16s in NZ isn't the solution! In this article I suggest 10 reasons why it shouldn't happen theconversation.com/10-reasons-w...
theconversation.com
10 reasons why banning social media for New Zealanders under 16 is a bad idea – and will affect adults too
There is global interest in limiting social media access for young people. But the arguments for a ban for people under 16 don’t really stack up.
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Alex Beattie @drlxbt.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Done! Co-governance fear-mongering from the organized right is misguided. As a recipient of @internetnz.bsky.social funding, I can say firsthand: there's nothing to fear. In fact, #TeTiriti strengthened my research and made it better.
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Alex Beattie @drlxbt.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Pleased to share that my first article about ADHD and screen time has been published: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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ADHD and digital disconnection: Exploring inclusive and practical approaches - Alex Beattie, 2025
Digital disconnection is increasingly sparking widespread debate and action, with social media age restrictions and phone bans being enacted around the world. A...
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Alex Beattie @drlxbt.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
CFP! I'm co-editing this special issue in QRIP. Our aim is to generate critical discussion regarding the impact of AI on the ontology, epistemology, and methodology underpinning qualitative research in the social sciences think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
think.taylorandfrancis.com
Interrogating Artificial Intelligence in Qualitative Research
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Alex Beattie @drlxbt.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Back at work this week. Feeling annoyed I only just discovered this gem of an out of office service after the summer hols! www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbfD...
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OutHorse Your Email to Iceland’s Horses
YouTube video by Inspired by Iceland
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Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles @siouxsiew.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Seems like the current New Zealand government doesn’t even want overseas funders to fund the country’s humanities and social sciences researchers instead of them.
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Alex Beattie @drlxbt.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Vision Wellington's 'back to basics' approach isn't neutral—it's a pro-business, anti-climate action, right-wing agenda. Most concerning its exploiting its privileged access to the public sphere www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3605...
thepost.co.nz
The Post
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Alex Beattie @drlxbt.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
First time puarangi / hibiscus richardsonii is flowering in our garden 😊
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Alex Beattie @drlxbt.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
www.together.org.nz/love_humanit...
together.org.nz
Save Humanities and Social Sciences
Join us in building a better world
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Bronwyn Hayward @bmhayward.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
At a time when the NZ government making concerted attempts to defund social sciences and humanities in favour of a few physical sciences alone, I particularly appreciate this ‘airline safety video’ pitch from Bryony James of VUW
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Alex Beattie @drlxbt.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
thespinoff.co.nz/society/05-1...
thespinoff.co.nz
Juliet Gerrard: Funding the whole pie
It's a tiny portion of our overall funding, yet social sciences and humanities research makes a massive impact. Without it, the pie starts to crumble.
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Dr Gwyn Easterbrook-Smith @drgesmith.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Downstream effect of the Marsden cuts: a lot of the fixed term teaching contracts I've been able to pick up have been buy-outs funded via humanities or socsci Marsdens - as well as being devastating for ECR and mid-career academics, this also means a path for the most junior evaporates too
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Dr Tara McAllister @taramcallister.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
As a scientist who has a Marsden through the social sciences panel this is so so so fucked up. It will have massive implications for Māori research being funded.
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Alex Beattie @drlxbt.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Appalling news & a sad day for research funding in NZ. There were some amazing humanities and social sciences projects that were funded this year that will each change the world in their own unique way www.royalsociety.org.nz/what-we-do/f... This is so small minded
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Alex Beattie @drlxbt.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Such a good #AANZCA conference at RMIT!! Thank you to @dbossio.bsky.social @jammh.bsky.social @dhutchman.bsky.social for organising and @katemannell.bsky.social your #digitalchild research. Stoked to share my early research on ADHD and screen time
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Alex Beattie @drlxbt.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Pondering when Australia’s social media ban for under-16s will be coming to NZ. The ban will disproportionately affect marginalized groups and undermine essential digital literacies. I’m all about disconnecting but not forcing it on people, especially young people!
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Ben Gracewood @ben.gracewood.nz · 27/11/2024
In my short time working at The Spinoff, I met people who I’d argue are more important to NZ society than you can imagine. It’s a flipping hard job, especially in this environment, and there’s no similar media org in New Zealand. They need our support. thespinoff.co.nz/media/28-11-...
thespinoff.co.nz
An open letter about the future of The Spinoff
An important announcement from the CEO, the editor and the founder of The Spinoff.<br />
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