Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social Author: Children of Time, Shadows of the Apt, Final Architecture, City of Last Chances and others. adriantchaikovsky.com
HKS Misinformation Review @misinforeview.bsky.social Peer-reviewed academic journal of cutting-edge misinformation research. Follow for updates on articles & engagement with the #misinformationresearch community.
ruggsea @ruggsea.eurosky.social AI/NLP research at @uni-graz.at, (Data) Journalism for scomodo.org.
Before: AI policy & Data science @_interface_eu, geopolitical analysis for @Geopoliticainfo
Lorenz @lorrenz.bsky.social Computational Social Systems @uni-graz.at & Research @IDeaLab
lorenzprattes.com
Saloni Dash @dashsaloni.bsky.social PhD Candidate, University of Washington
https://salonidash.com/
Jeff Horwitz @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social Reporter covering Meta, social media and other topics (hopefully) for Reuters' investigative Team.
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.
Sonal Sathe @omeresonaa.bsky.social it rhymes with tonal | learning solutions consultant | FL-TX-FL-VA-WA| iPhD from Virginia Tech | South Asian American | accessibility/UX/public health/trivia and learning enthusiast | views mine | reskeets not endorsement
Georgios Panayiotou @giorgospanay.bsky.social Computer science doctorand at Uppsala University, @uuinfolab.bsky.social.
Mining social networks, discovering new music, occasionally playing baseball and softball.
Probably not George Michael, but search engines believe otherwise.
Nic Weber @nmw.bsky.social Associate Professor @ UW
Computational Social Science
Eurosky Social @eurosky.social Building open social web infrastructure and apps in Europe. Public interest non-profit, part of Modal Foundation.
App: mu.social
Accounts: move.eurosky.tech
Discover: portal.eurosky.tech
Web: eurosky.tech
Help: eurosky.tech/help
Fund: fund.eurosky.tech
Trustworthy AI Talk Series @trust-ai-sem.bsky.social BlueSky account of the Trustworthy AI Talk Series, organized by @ebagdasa.bsky.social and @emilianodc.com
To some extent, it is a reboot of the PriSec-ML Interest Group series.
https://trust-ai-sem.github.io/
Orestis Papakyriakopoulos @sciorestis.bsky.social Ass. Professor of Societal Computing @TU_Munich
🌐🤖
PI of the Civic Machines Lab @TUMThinkTank
he/him
Annie @annielz.bsky.social postdoc @cip.uw.edu | i study science comm & social media | Go Blue 〽️ | Texas Ex 🤘🏼 | she/her
Yara Kyrychenko @yarakyrychenko.bsky.social PhD candidate @Cambridge | Responsible AI, intergroup conflict, misinfo, social media | yarakyrychenko.github.io
James Ball @jamesrball.com Political editor @ The New World
Opinion @ The i Paper
Fellow @ Tech Policy Press
Fellow @ Demos
PhD researcher @ UCL Laws
newsletter @ techtris
Latest book: The Other Pandemic – How QAnon Contaminated The World. 🏳️🌈
https://www.jamesrball.com/
@cullwhite.bsky.social @cullwhite.bsky.social 
Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social Associate Professor at Queensland University of Technology. Computational communication, social theory. Interests: Propaganda, dark political communication, the relationship between technology, truth, and knowledge
Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com Political technologist, bringing democracy to the internet. Brussels, 🇪🇺.
• tech, governance, science, politics, philosophy, infrastructure, cats, terrible puns
• DASL, Eurosky/Mu, Modal
• ex W3C, NYT
• Signal robin.77
Nate TeBlunthuis @groceryheist.cc https://tebluntuhis.cc
Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Austin in the School of Information. Computational social science, peer production, social computing, HCI.
Homa HM @homahm.bsky.social Assistant Professor, DataX/Computational Comm, University of California Los Angeles
Danica Dillion @danicajdillion.bsky.social Postdoc @csh.ac.at studying how social and technological change reshapes our beliefs. morality, AI, religion, politics, social networks. danicadillion.com
UC Berkeley School of Information @berkeleyischool.bsky.social Boldly leading the way with education and research in a world awash in information and data.
Steve Rathje @steverathje.bsky.social Incoming Assistant Professor of HCI at Carnegie Mellon studying the psychology of technology. NSF postdoc at NYU, PhD from Cambridge, BA from Stanford. stevenrathje.com
Jason Reifler @jasonreifler.bsky.social Political Science Prof at University of Southampton. I study misperceptions, fact-checking, and foreign policy attitudes. American in the UK. he/his (y'all whenever possible). Spurs #COYS. 
@icwsm.bsky.social @icwsm.bsky.social The 21th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
🏴 Edinburgh, Scotland
Vinay Koshy @vinaykoshy.bsky.social Post-doc at UW working on AI for collective decision-making and computational social science. Previously at UIUC and UC Berkeley
Nick Diakopoulos @ndiakopoulos.bsky.social Northwestern University Professor. Computational Journalism; AI & Society. https://www.nickdiakopoulos.com. Writing https://www.ai-accountability-review.com/
Diyi Yang @diyiyang.bsky.social Assistant Professor @Stanford CS @StanfordNLP @StanfordAILab
Computational Social Science & NLP
University of East Anglia (UEA) @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social This is the official UEA account, Norwich UK.
📢 Bringing you the latest campus news and updates from our world-leading research (REF 2021)
We're online Monday - Friday, 9am-5pm.
Thierry Breton @thierrybreton.bsky.social Entrepreneur. Teacher. Policy Maker 🇫🇷🇪🇺
John Scalzi @scalzi.com I enjoy pie.
Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
Matthew Mercer @matthewmercer.bsky.social Storyteller, VO Guy, Vincent Valentine, Minsc, Thirst Trap Ganondaddy, #TheLegendOfVoxMachina, CCO/DM of
Critical Role. I’m always tired. He/Him.
Jan Marc Morawe @janmarcmorawe.bsky.social Gender Scholar
Interests: (a)sexualities, health communication, masculinities, contraception/safer sex, repro health, climate crisis, IR, peace/conflict studies, utopias/dystopias, mental health, media, history, ...
https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7802-2721
Joe Abercrombie @joeabercrombie.com Lord Grimdark (self-appointed). Writer of the First Law and Shattered Sea books and the Devils. Part-time Witch King of Nihilism, deep in a jaded literary sewer etc. etc.
Brandon Sanderson @brandonsanderson.com #1 NYT Bestselling Author
The Stormlight Archive, Mistborn, Tress & more
Finished Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time
N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social Writer. She/her.
Lada Adamic @ladamic.bsky.social For now aiming to entertain people with my remodeling mistakes.
Galen Weld @ CSCW @galenweld.bsky.social PhD Candidate @uwcse.bsky.social studying online community governance and moderation, with a focus on Reddit.
Benjamin Mako Hill @mako.cc 
Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Investigative journalist. Ex-Guardian/Observer. Now co-founder brand new all-women journalist collective, www.thenerve.news. Tech justice stuff: www.the-citizens.com. Personal newsletter: www.broligarchy.substack.com
ACM SIGCHI @acm-sigchi.bsky.social Official account for ACM's Special Interest Group on Computer-Human-Interaction (HCI). Runs 28 conferences (including @chi.acm.org), 80+ chapters, and more.
bryan newbold @bnewbold.net oscilloscopes, cycling, snow, big cities, wiki. I like speculating about found objects.
protocol and standards @bsky.app. formerly archive.org
elsewhere: bnewbold.net / @bnewbold@social.coop
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
Reto Mitteregger @indubioproreto.bsky.social PostDoctoral Researcher in Political Science: Elections, Political Behavior, Political Parties, Generational Effects.
@Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin @humboldtuni.bsky.social | PhD @IPZ Zurich
(he/him)
Sophia Knight @sophiaaknight.bsky.social DPhil Researcher @ldnsocmedobs.bsky.social working on podcasts, political communication & computational social science
Former Research Lead for Responsible Innovation Centre, BBC R&D and Senior Tech Policy Researcher @demos-uk.bsky.social
Scott P. Johnson, MLIS @scottpjohnson.com Sociotechnical systems analyst, research and data engineering, critical information and data studies
Max Falkenberg @maxfalken.bsky.social Computational Social Scientist. Interested in the structures of polarization.
Associate Professor, King's College London.
maxfalkenberg.com
Fabiana Zollo @zollofab.bsky.social PhD | Associate Professor of Computer Science at Ca' Foscari University | Head of the Lab of Data Science for Society | (she/her)
Sol Messing @solmg.bsky.social Social Scientist/Research Prof at NYU CSMaP, formerly Twitter. http://solomonmg.github.io
Soham De @sohamde.in 🎓 PhD student @ischool.uw.edu (he/him)
🤝 Interested in pluralistic alignment & scalable oversight in the context of social media algorithms
Academic Website: https://sohamde.in/ | 📍Seattle, WA
Observatory on Social Media @osome.iu.edu Research center at Indiana University studying the spread of misinformation. Tweets by OSoMe Team.
Mary Anne Franks @maryannefranks.bsky.social Law Professor at George Washington Law. President of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative. Author of Fearless Speech (2024) and The Cult of the Constitution (2019). First Amendment, civil rights, technology, criminal law, family law, firearms law.
Dean Jackson @dwj.eurosky.social Unreal Bird. Subscribe to my newsletter here: https://deans-list.ghost.io/
Principal, Public Circle Research & Consulting
Contributing Editor, Tech Policy Press
Senior Fellow, UPitt CTRL
Views my own with apologies to the reader
Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com [trying to spend less time on social media]
#ihadablackdog
https://youtu.be/XiCrniLQGYc?si=q-gQTNXfScmgtl4k
Charlie Rahal @crahal.com Agentic, but everything I was, was taught to me.
Michael Bang Petersen @m-b-petersen.bsky.social Auditing the challenges of democracy in the 21st century for the Danish parliament with a particular focus on social media, mistrust and political alienation.
Political science professor at Aarhus University, Denmark.
Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team Founder & Chief Innovation Officer @ Bluesky
Working on @attie.ai
🌱 🪴 🌳
Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social Professor of AI, society, media and democracy + Political Communication, U Amsterdam || Director of Digital Democracy Centre, SDU || AlgoSoc || AIMD || Mix of work and private stuff ||
🇩🇰🇳🇱🇪🇺🏃🏼🧪☕️🍿🐶🟥🦋
Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social "End Times Fascism" book coming September 2026.
Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire.
UBC Professor of Climate Justice.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/naomiklein
Kelsey Campbell @kelseycampbell.bsky.social Data Scientist and founder of @gaytascience.bsky.social 🌈📈
Digital safety, mis/disinformation, information operations, public interest tech
they/she
SpaLab @ UCR/UCL @spalab.cs.ucr.edu The Security and Privacy Advanced research Laboratory (SPA Lab) is a distributed research group with members at the University of California, Riverside, and University College London, led by @emilianodc.com
https://spalab.cs.ucr.edu
Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social Professor of health law and science policy, author, speaker, and commentator. #ScienceUpFirst
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/caulfieldtim
Jacob Epstein @yaakovepst.bsky.social Anti-Zionist living in Palestine-Israel | M.A. Communication | Former analyst @ FakeReporter & Digital Sherlock @DFRLab | Interests: Transnational Jewish far-right, anti-gender politics, male supremacism, illiberalism. | Aspiring PhD student
Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social Long Time Internet Guy
Patrick Gerard @patrikgerard.bsky.social phd student @usc-isi | info diffusion, nlp
patrickgerard.co
Kyle Beadle @kylebeadle.bsky.social PhD Researcher @sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk Cybersecurity CDT // queer security and privacy // coercive behaviour in online communities // he/him 🏳️🌈
kylebeadle.com
@federicocinus.bsky.social @federicocinus.bsky.social Ph.D. Candidate in Data Science
(Graduating May 2025) | CSS |
Sapienza University, CENTAI (Italy)
Liz Crouse @lizcrouse.bsky.social MisinfoDay Program Manager @cip.uw.edu. Former teacher & school librarian. NY ➡️ WA ➡️ VT
Travis Brown @travisbrown.dev Software developer living in Berlin
https://travisbrown.dev for contact info
@msundarmsa.bsky.social @msundarmsa.bsky.social 
Oxford Internet Institute @oii.ox.ac.uk Exploring how technology is transforming the way we live, work and govern.
Mohsen Mosleh @mmosleh.bsky.social Prof @Oxford, Affiliate @MIT www.MohsenMosleh.com
Daniel Romero @danielmromero.bsky.social Associate Professor at UMSI, UMICHCS, and UMICHCSE working on Computational Social Science, Network Science, Science of Science, Complex Systems, and Social Media. 🇨🇴🇺🇸 dromero.org
Bluesky @bsky.app official Bluesky account (check username👆)
Bugs, feature requests, feedback: support@bsky.app
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.
UW Human Centered Design & Engineering @hcde.uw.edu UW HCDE: We build possibility.
We advance systems and technologies for people and communities to create accessible, sustainable, and prosperous futures. Offering undergraduate, master's, and PhD programs in Human Centered Design & Engineering.
hcde.uw.edu
M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social Professor of Psychology & Human Values at Princeton | Cognitive scientist curious about technology, narratives, & epistemic (in)justice | They/She 🏳️🌈
www.crockettlab.org
CDT Europe @cdteu.org Centre for Democracy and Technology Europe 🇪🇺 Advancing EU law and tech policy with a focus on democracy and human rights.
Part of @cdt.org's Global team.
https://cdt.org/eu/
Center for Democracy & Technology @cdt.org The Center for Democracy & Technology. Shaping technology policy and architecture, with a focus on equity and justice. @cdteu.org for our EU-based team.
https://cdt.org
Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social Reporter lady @ms.now
Signal username: brandyzadrozny.53
Email from a non-work account: brandy.zadrozny@ms.now
James Heywood @heyjames7.bsky.social Websites, climate change, charities, NFL, 49ers, UK news, Oxford.
Black Lives Matter.
Also, occasional activism in the Christian world. I try to serve justice, using facts: https://ethicalcustard.blogspot.com
Pronouns: he/him.
Howard Chizeck @neurorobot.bsky.social Robots, neural engineering, technology policy, science fiction. Professor Emeritus at University of Washington. Co-founder of ControlSoft Inc (Ohio) and of Olis Robotics.
Married 51 years. No crypto/no hookups/no porn. I’m too old for you. No DMs please.
Aditya Ponnada @adityaponnada.bsky.social Sr. Researcher, MongoDB. ex-Spotify Research.
🔬 in HCI + Personalization + Experience Sampling.
With great power comes great difficulty in polynomial factorization!
Website: https://adityaponnada.github.io//
Nguyễn @nguyen-info.bsky.social 
Sydney DeMets @sydneydemets.bsky.social https://sydneydemets.github.io
PhD Candidate at UW iSchool. Interested in social networks, diffusion, and rumors. I used to study aquatic ecosystems and do remote sensing work.
Ross Weistroffer @libraryofbabble.bsky.social 🗳️ #DemocracyScience nerd for an incrementally better world, reporting from the intersection of info & action. Pro-🏳️🌈,🏳️⚧️, 🇺🇸, and 🇺🇳 🌎🌏🌍
🔎 Researcher @ discourselabs.org
🌇 Urbanist & governance reform advocate @ fairrepla.bsky.social
📍 San Francisco- S @sprochas.bsky.social @sprochas.bsky.social Not through me.
Nina Lutz @ninalutz.bsky.social PhD-ing at UW @cip.uw.edu @hcde.uw.edu. Visual media in problematic info (mis/disinfo, hate, scams, propaganda) and digital safety in sociotechnical systems. ninalutz.github.io.
Melinda — Seattle Researcher & Startup Founder @melm.cc Misinfo & Journalism Researcher at UW HCDE, Center for an Informed Public (advised by @katestarbird.bsky.social)
Full Stack Dev & VC Backed Founder @ Proxi Maps
Ex-Texan, Mom, Swiftie. Always up for a project and a team sport.
melm.cc
Ryan Calo @rcalo.bsky.social I am a law professor and information scientist at the University of Washington. I have a new book about law and technology that I hope you read. 💙
Zarine Kharazian @zarine.net phd candidate @cip.uw.edu, @communitydata.science, & @hcde.uw.edu. I study how to govern public knowledge institutions under attack.
zarine.net- G Gary Hsieh @garyhsieh.bsky.social Associate professor at UW HCDE. Human centered design | Behavior Change | Conversational Interfaces | Translational Science.
Kayla Duskin @kayladuskin.bsky.social PhD Candidate at the University of Washington (@ischool.uw.edu)
Studying online information integrity and platform governance with the Center for an Informed Public (@cip.uw.edu).
Offline, catch me in the Cascades 🏔️. 
Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social Research Scientist at the University of Washington based in Queens. Also: SFI External Applied Fellow, Harvard BKC affiliate. Collective Behavior, Statistics, etc..
Morgan Wack @morganwack.bsky.social PostDoc at UZH. Formerly Clemson & UW. Technology & democracy, political misinformation, African politics, and LFC.
Center for an Informed Public @cip.uw.edu A multidisciplinary research center at the University of Washington in Seattle helping individuals, communities and institutions navigate our complex information environments.
Website: cip.uw.edu
Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social Researching {science of AI for science, AI governance, science of science #SciSci, #AI4Science, #GenAI, LLMs, agents, alignment}
PhD Candidate @ UW.
Visiting Scholar @ NYU & MSR
Alum @ Carnegie Mellon
Academic webpage: https://samemon.github.io
Irena @svirena.bsky.social Director of Research Development @Information School, University of Washington. Linguist. Yugoslav. Nature enthusiast.