Tim Aistrope @timaistrope.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Kent. Political culture and IR through cases on conspiracy and misinformation, international finance, social media, and populist movements, exploring narrative power and insider perspectives.
Michael Heseltine @michaelheseltine.bsky.social Post-Doc at University of Oxford. Congress, text-as-data, and political communications.
Stefano Angeli @sangeli.ficss.institute Modeling the structural conditions that make revolutions possible.
Computational Macrohistory. FICSS Institute, Lugano.
FICSS webpage: https://www.ficss.institute/
Substack: https://stangeli.substack.com/
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-6643-2307
Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science at University of Amsterdam
Studying the intersection of AI, social media, and politics.
Polarization, misinformation, radicalization, digital platforms, social complexity.
Aaron Rodericks @aaron.bsky.team Canadian wanderer in Ireland. Trying to make the internet a better place. Bluesky Head of Trust and Safety.
File a report in the app or via moderation@blueskyweb.xyz - not via mentions/replies.
https://aaronrodericks.com
Aurélien Goutsmedt @aurelien-goutsmedt.com Postdoc @UCLouvain | ICHEC Brussels | https://aurelien-goutsmedt.com
History economics, inflation, econ policy & energy
Political econ & central banks
#Rstats #nlp #data_viz
Managing editor journals.openedition.org/oeconomia
github.com/agoutsmedt/
Adam Scharpf @ascharpf.bsky.social Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen
Researching dictatorships and the dark side of politics | https://www.adamscharpf.net/
Author of "Making a Career in Dictatorship", OUP | https://tinyurl.com/ystwm3tf
Nicholas A. Christakis @nachristakis.bsky.social Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale University. Sociologist. Network Scientist. Physician. Author of Apollo's Arrow; Blueprint; Connected; and Death Foretold. Director of the Human Nature Lab: https://humannaturelab.net
Mina Lee @mnlee.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ UChicago CS/DSI (NLP & HCI) | Writing with AI ✍️
https://minalee-research.github.io/
Ulrike Klinger @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social Professor of Political Communication and Journalism at the University of Amsterdam, ASCoR, Associated Researcher at Weizenbaum Institute Berlin. Technology & Democracy. Foodie. Traveller. Views are my own.
Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk Researches Propaganda & IW; Visiting Prof @notredame.bsky.social; Fellow @ Bard; Associate @ Cambridge; Owner Maven of Persuasion; Snr Researcher Oscar-shortlisted The Great Hack on #CambridgeAnalytica. 🐕 https://emma-briant.co.uk signal: Emmalbriant.44
Sohan Dsouza @sohandsouza.info 🥼 @MPIB-Berlin.bsky.social;
📚 computational social science, disinformation/polarization, crowdsourcing, OSINT;
🎓 @MIT.edu @MediaLab.bsky.social, @DFRLab.bsky.social #DigitalSherlocks;
📍 London, England;
https://www.sohandsouza.info
Jeff Horwitz @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social Reporter covering Meta, social media and other topics (hopefully) for Reuters' investigative Team.
Sandra González-Bailón @sgonzalezbailon.bsky.social Professor of Communication @AnnenbergSchool, UPenn | Director, Center for Information Networks and Democracy | cind.asc.upenn.edu | sandragonzalezbailon.net
Jeff Colgan @jeffcolgan.bsky.social Professor of International Relations and Political Science. Interests: international order, energy, climate change, historical IR 
Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social Political scientist at University of Oxford • Leverhulme Trust awardee • cross-national policy, political economy, politics of climate and crises • mom of 2 • she/her
https://www.federica-genovese.com/
Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social Social scientist @yalesph.bsky.social exploring how we form beliefs and make sense of health information in the age of AI. Author of Misguided. https://amzn.to/48zTs59
https://matthewfacciani.substack.com
www.matthewfacciani.com
Joshua Schwartz @joshschwartz.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Int'l Relations at Carnegie Mellon University | PhD at UPenn | Former Fellow at Harvard & MIT | I study things that go boom
joshuaaschwartz.com
Barbara Plank @barbaraplank.bsky.social Prof, Chair for AI & Computational Linguistics,
Head of MaiNLP lab @mainlp.bsky.social, LMU Munich
Co-director CIS @cislmu.bsky.social
President ACL aclweb.org
Visiting Prof ITU Copenhagen @itu.dk
ELLIS Fellow @ellis.eu
PI MCML @munichcenterml.bsky.social
Sandra Wachter @swachter.bsky.social Professor of Technology and Regulation, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford https://tinyurl.com/3rkmbmsf
Humboldt Professor of Technology & Regulation, Hasso Plattner Institute https://tinyurl.com/47rkrt6c
Governance of Emerging Technologies
interactFU.bsky.social @interactfu.bsky.social INTERACT Center for Interdisciplinary Peace and Conflict Research
at Freie Universität Berlin • conflict & violence • justice & accountability • research ethics & safety
ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social I turn Art into Sports (and vice versa) | NO AI USED | “Everything I didn't know I needed" - follower testimonial
RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social • goth daria • muppet enthusiast • maker of threads • thehappiestsadgrlcollection on whatnot •
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• tips and things: https://linktr.ee/riotgrlerin •
Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com noun | a reference source containing words alphabetically arranged along with information about their forms, pronunciations, functions, and etymologies
WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com Your Only Source For Professional Dog Ratings
nonprofit: @15outof10.org ❤️🩹
links.weratedogs.com
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Elena Sánchez Nicolás @elenasanchez.bsky.social Editor-in-chief at @euobserver.com
Tips? esn@euobserver.com
Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social Demography nerd at Pew Research Center
Global religious change, sociology
Zeynep Somer-Topcu @zeynsom.bsky.social Professor of Government at UT-Austin. Research on European politics, parties, elections, and voters. Close follower of everything Turkish, European and American.
Emma Harper @emmaharper.bsky.social Editor and writer, currently at Project Syndicate.
Gideon Rachman @gideonrachman.bsky.social FT columnist. Also have podcast. Author of three and a half books. Four kids. Two cats. One wife. Numerous friends. Fulham fan.
Carnegie Democracy @carnegiedcg.bsky.social The Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program at the Carnegie Endowment conducts independent analysis on global policy, polarization, tech, equality & more.
RT ≠ endorsement
https://carnegieendowment.org/programs/democracy-conflict-and-governance
Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com 🙅🏻♀️ Author (2 books & The Wayfinder newsletter), disinformation expert, advocate for targets of online abuse.
☀️ CEO, @americansunlight.org
😆 Tucker Carlson once called me a “highly self confident young woman” and meant it as an insult
Cambridge Centre for Data-Driven Discovery (C2D3) @c2d3.cam.ac.uk Interdisciplinary Research Centre - Supporting AI, Machine Learning and Data Science across the University of Cambridge.
Semuhi Sinanoglu, PhD @semuhi.bsky.social @idos-research.bsky.social
Ph.D., University of Toronto.
German Marshall Fund MMF
I study propaganda, polarization, and state-business relations. Previously, forecasting work at Maidan Analytics.
https://semuhi.github.io
Politics_Oxford @politicsoxford.bsky.social The Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR) at the University of Oxford
Esra Cuhadar @esracg.bsky.social Associate Prof. Bilkent University, Ottawa Dialogue, former UN Standby Team of Mediation Advisors, conflict resolution, political psychology, rt not endorsement
Emrah Safa Gürkan @jeandpardaillan.bsky.social 
Dilek Günneç @dilekgunnec.bsky.social https://faculty.ozyegin.edu.tr/dilekg/
Selçuk Şirin @selcuksirin.com Prof. @NYUniversity
#BirMutlulukReçetesi
#BakışınızıDeğişterecek10Deney
#SelçukŞirinBebekKitaplığı
#YaAdaletYaSefalet
#YetişinGençler
#YetişinÇocuklar
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Rosaria Taddeo @rosariataddeo.bsky.social Professor of Digital Ethics and Defence Technologies, OII, University of Oxford | Dstl Ethics Fellow at the Turing Institute| EiC Minds & Machines
Cem Say @saycem.bsky.social Bilgisayar Mühendisliği hocası
Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social Political scientist & part-time farmer. Books: 'On Revolutions' (2022), 'Civil Resistance' (2021), & 'The Politics of Terror' (2019). Coming soon: 'Bread & Roses' & 'The End of People Power.' https://www.ericachenoweth.com. What a time to be alive.
Sercan Canbolat @drcanbolat.bsky.social Assistant Prof in Residence and Director of Abrahamic Programs at @UConn; Co-PI of “Critical Language Leader Assessment (CLLA)” Project at UAlbany; Associate Editor @uidergisi.bsky.social; Member @MENA_2050; PhD @UConn; Ex @FulbrightPrgrm @BilkentUniv
Antti Kouvo @anttikouvo.bsky.social Sociologist interested in well-being, housing, networks & methods. Senior Lecturer (Adj. Prof. Sociology) and Vice Head of Dept @ UEF, Senior Advisor @ INVEST. SHARE-FI SISU-SRC CoRoL.
DARPA @darpa.mil Creating breakthrough technologies for national security.
Merih Angin @merihangin.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. of Intl Economics. Research on international development, AI governance, and computational social sciences. AP of IR / CSS at Koç University; Director of MA_CSSL; Affl @weatherheadcenter.bsky.social's CII cluster; PhD from @gvagrad.bsky.social
Global Governance Programme @eui-ggp.bsky.social Addressing global governance in an interconnected and multipolar world. Research on interdisciplinary themes & cross-cutting issues on #globalisation. More at 🔗 globalgovernanceprogramme.eui.eu. Part of the @eui-schuman.bsky.social, @eui-eu.bsky.social.
VIGINUM @viginum.bsky.social VIGINUM est le service technique et opérationnel de l’État chargé de la vigilance et de la protection contre les ingérences numériques étrangères.
ICPSR Summer Program @icpsrsummer.bsky.social Training in stats, data analysis, and quantitative methods. Scholarships and TA positions available!
Philip Mai @philipmai.com Executive Director of SocialMediaLab.ca | M.S., J.D. | Media interviews PhilipMai.com/Press/ | Researcher & Developer of social media analysis tools for research in the public interest: SocialMediaLab.ca/apps/
Katrin Weller @kwelle.bsky.social Scientific director of the department "Data Services for the Social Sciences" at GESIS in Köln, Germany (@gesis.org).
Professor for Research Data Management for the Social Sciences at Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf (@hhu.de)
(she/her)
Javier Borràs Arumí @jborrasarumi.bsky.social Researcher at CIDOB
Europe - technology - geopolitics - China
https://javierborras.substack.com/
Daniel Romero @danielmromero.bsky.social Professor at UMSI, UMICHCS, and UMICHCSE working on Computational Social Science, Network Science, Science of Science, Complex Systems, and Social Media. 🇨🇴🇺🇸 dromero.org
Jeffrey Ding @jeffreyding.bsky.social Assistant Professor at George Washington University | technology and int'l politics | newsletter on China's AI landscape: http://chinai.substack.com
Altmetric @altmetric.com We measure the attention that research outputs receive from policy documents, mainstream news outlets, Wikipedia, social media and online reference managers. We detect sentiment of Bluesky/X posts.
Come for the attention to research. Stay for the memes.
@bilimakademisi.bsky.social @bilimakademisi.bsky.social bilimakademisi.org - Bilimsel Liyakat, Özgürlük, Dürüstlük #BAGEP / #BAkonferans / #BAkitap / https://dukkan.bilimakademisi.org &
BA Popüler Bilim Yayını #Sarkaç 
antibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов @antibot4navalny.bsky.social Exposing troll farms: 🇷🇺🇺🇦 and beyond
Cited by: @washingtonpost.com @nytimes.com @financialtimes.com @CNN.com @Wired.com @afpfactuel.bsky.social @LeMonde.fr @SZde.bsky.social @TheTimes.com @NBCnews.com @EFE.com
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Fil Menczer @fil.bsky.social Researcher on social media misinformation and manipulation, director of the Observatory on Social Media (OSoMe.iu.edu, pronounced “awesome”) at Indiana University
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MethodsNET @methodsnet.bsky.social We are a global not-for-profit membership-based association, bringing together methods experts and methods users across multiple disciplines. Our mission is to provide global accessibility to cutting-edge research methods training.
Benoît Rihoux @benoitrihoux.bsky.social Full Prof, political science, UCLouvain | Chair of MethodsNET @methodsnet.bsky.social, global hub for #researchmethods #innovation & accessible #training | Into #QCA, comparison, #mixedmethods, multidata & cool collaborative projects | #methods pluralist
DE-CONSPIRATOR @deconspirator.bsky.social DE-CONSPIRATOR is a Horizon Europe project at the forefront of the battle against Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI).
Learn more about us: https://deconspirator.eu/
Oxford Internet Institute @oii.ox.ac.uk Exploring how technology is transforming the way we live, work and govern.
Hendrik Heuer @hheuer.bsky.social CS Prof Center for Advanced Internet Studies and Bergische Universität Wuppertal. Design of Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence. He/him.
Carl Öhman @cohman.bsky.social Oxford PhD. Digital Ethics. AI. Socialism. 2020 winner of the UK Early Career Researcher Award. Assistant professor @UU_PoliSci, PI@wasp_hs
Albert Ali Salah @albertalisalah.bsky.social Prof. Social and Affective Computing, Utrecht University.
Former institutions: Boğaziçi University, Nagoya University, University of Amsterdam, CWI.
https://webspace.science.uu.nl/~salah006/
Tuba Bircan @bircantuba.bsky.social Computational social scientist interested in new tech, migration & society, trustworthy and ethical AI, vulnerable groups and equal opportunities.
www.tubabircan.com
Cameron Thies @cameronthies.bsky.social Dean and MSU Research Foundation Distinguished Professor at James Madison College, Michigan State University.
Vincenzo Bove @vincenzobove.bsky.social Professor of Economics IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca | Honorary Professor University of Warwick | Conflict, defense, migration & terrorism | Former Navy officer | Father of four | #ERCAdG
Allard Duursma @allardduursma.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Conflict Management and International Relations at ETH Zurich, working on mediation & peacekeeping. Editor-in-Chief of International Peacekeeping
Rex "garbage in" Douglass @rexdouglass.bsky.social Applied Scientist in Industry. Previously UCSD. Princeton PhD.
Follow me for recreational methods trash talk.
www.rexdouglass.com
Javier Osorio @javierosorio.bsky.social Associate Professor @UArizona.
I study political and organized criminal violence using Computational Social Science tools, experiments, and quasi-experiments.
Please say Hi to your dog :)
https://javierosorio.net/
Views are my own.
Andrea Ruggeri @andrearuggeri.bsky.social Social scientist and teacher, University of Milan
www.aruggeri.eu
Political Analysis @polanalysis.bsky.social Official Journal of the Society for Political Methodology
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/political-analysis 
GESIS Training @gesistraining.bsky.social GESIS Training offers state-of-the-art trainings for the national and international scientific community. Focus: Data Analysis, Survey Methodology, Computational Social Science, Research Data Management, and Qualitative Methods.
Johannes Blumenberg @jnblumenberg.bsky.social Political Scientist | Head of Dept. Knowledge Exchange and Outreach and gesistraining.bsky.social @ GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
Joe Pierre, MD @psychunseen.bsky.social Academic psychiatrist at UCSF and author of the Psych Unseen blog at Psychology Today and the book False: How Mistrust, Disinformation, and Motivated Reasoning Make Us Believe Things That Aren't True (Oxford University Press, 2025) drjoepierre.com
Sander van der Linden @profsanderlinden.bsky.social Professor of Social Psychology in Society at the University of Cambridge and Author of FOOLPROOF: Why We Fall for Misinformation and How to Build Immunity (2023) + The Psychology of Misinformation (2024). Bad News Game.
www.sandervanderlinden.com
Centre for Information Resilience @cen4infores.bsky.social Non-profit that exposes human rights & war crimes, counters disinformation, & combats online harms targeting women & minorities.
www.info-res.org
Evren Balta @evreki.bsky.social Professor of Political Science at Özyeğin University, Turkey; specializing in global order, citizenship, populism and conflict. Visiting Scholar at Harvard's Weatherhead Center.
CSS Lab, LMU Munich @css-lmu.bsky.social Computational Social Science Lab led by Prof. Mario Haim | Department of Media and Communication, LMU Munich
🔎 #CSS | #DigitalMethods | #AI | #CommSci
vera.ai @vera-ai.bsky.social VERification Assisted by Artificial Intelligence. Research project co-funded by HorizonEU. Makers of InVID-WeVerify-vera.ai verification plugin, plus much more! Focus: countering disinformation. Here: project owners’ views.
https://www.veraai.eu/home
Léa Ronzaud @learonzaud.bsky.social Senior Investigator @ Graphika
Hacktivism/OSINT/State-Sponsored IOs/Extremism
🇲🇫 in 🇪🇪
Jean le Roux @jeanleroux.bsky.social Senior Investigator, Graphika.
Cape Town, South Africa.
Hervé Letoqueux @herve.checkfirst.network CEO at CheckFirst @checkfirst.network
also at ObSINT @obsint.eu
When in doubt, refrain from doubting.
Signal:hlx75_CF.96
#fimi #disinfo #osint #CTI #music #art #photography
Ex #VIGINUM, ex #ANSSI
Paris, France
Maxime Audinet @maudinet.bsky.social Assistant Professor of International Relations & International Communication @inalco.fr
▪️Russian Politics & Media
▪️Influence, Foreign Policy & Authoritarianism
Co-founder @coruscant-eu.bsky.social
Previously Research Fellow @irsem.bsky.social
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Colin Gerard @colingerard.bsky.social Personal account
Head of Threat Analysis @viginum.bsky.social
PhD in Geopolitics @univ-paris8.fr
Researcher @ifgeopolitique.bsky.social
Russian FP, IOs, OSINT investigations
Charlie Rahal @crahal.com Agentic, but everything I was, was taught to me.
Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social Historian; Author, NYT Bestseller Strongmen; Publisher, Lucid, a Substack newsletter on authoritarianism and threats to democracy; Film & TV Consultant
White Research @whiteresearch.bsky.social White is an impact-focused research and consulting company that provides services to the public sector, private sector, academia and civil society organisations, across a wide variety of sectors.
Nikolaos Sotiriou @nsotiriou.bsky.social 
Taha Yasseri @tahayasseri.bsky.social Workday Full Prof & Chair of Technology & Society at Trinity College Dublin & Technological University Dublin. Director of the Centre for Sociology of Humans and Machines. https://tahayasseri.com
Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social Professor of European Politics at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. Elections, parties, social democracy & the radical right. he/him. 🏳️🌈
Virtual Routes @virtualroutes.bsky.social Virtual Routes tackles the impact of digital and emerging technologies on global affairs. Also check out @bindinghook.bsky.social, our media outlet.
Camille François @camillefrancois.bsky.social Professor, Columbia University School of Int'l & Public Affairs. Tech Exec, previously w/ Graphika, Niantic, Google. I work on online trust, safety and innovation. I’ve been called "most optimistic person looking at the darkest corners of the Internet" :)
Johannes Breuer @johannesbreuer.com Professor of Digital Social Science @unidue.bsky.social and head of the team Research Data & Methods @cais-research.bsky.social
Interested in digital traces | computational social science | reproducibility | open science | #rstats
www.johannesbreuer.com
Abhishek Roy @abhishekr0y.bsky.social Trust & Safety Research @ Google focused on Deception & Manipulation
Creator, bescamready.withgoogle.com/
Prev: Disinfo/Extremism Research
James Shires @jamesshires.bsky.social Co-Director, Virtual Routes (virtual-routes.org)
Managing Editor, Binding Hook (bindinghook.com)
Author of The Politics of Cybersecurity in the Middle East