Politics at Southampton @sotonpolitics.bsky.social News and updates from Politics & International Relations at University of Southampton
A top 20 UK Politics Department.
Giles @policygiles.bsky.social Attempting to facilitate dialogue between researchers and policymakers. Sometimes succeeding. Views not employers (obvs).
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ggilespps?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=ios_app
Elizabeth Evans @elizabethjevans.bsky.social Professor of Politics Univ Southampton. Likes books, cats, running, piano, swimming, football, coffee, and The Archers. Clapham.
Silke Roth @silkeroth.bsky.social sociologist, interested in organizing for change, solidarity, intersectionality, inequality, she/her, editor at @sociologicalreview.bsky.social
Lala Muradova @lalamur.bsky.social Associate Prof & Author at Uni of Southampton; USSR-born; speaker of ENG/ESP/CAT/AZ/RUS/FR/TR/...
www.lalamuradova.com
Empathy in Politics • Democracy • Climate Change • Democratic Innovations • Emotions • Deliberation • Autocracies
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Jessica C. Smith @jess-smith.bsky.social 📚 Gender | Political Behaviour | Representation | Politics & Parenthood
📍Assistant Prof University of Southampton
Co-convenor @psawomenandpol, @genelectnet & @GAIN-Centre
🐾 Cat enthusiast
🍺 Book & pub lover
🎨 Appreciator of graffiti in women's loos
Shelley Boulianne @shelleyboulianne.bsky.social R. Klein Chair in Communication Studies at @mountroyalu.bsky.social 🇨🇦
North American Editor @icsjournal.bsky.social & Associate Editor @sscratsage.bsky.social
Research fellow at the @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social 🇩🇪 &
@ddc-sdu.bsky.social 🇩🇰
Daniel Devine @danjdevine.bsky.social public opinion, behaviour, attitudes, &c.
Associate Prof, @sotonpolitics.bsky.social
Co-Editor, @electoralstudies.bsky.social
ColU, Pompey, music, books, & pubs
https://djdevine.org
Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com [trying to spend less time on social media]
#ihadablackdog
https://youtu.be/XiCrniLQGYc?si=q-gQTNXfScmgtl4k
Conor Gaughan @conorgaughan.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Associate | University of Manchester | Digital Research and Quantitative Politics | PhD from University of Southampton | #PUSB
George Bolton @georgeboltonuk.bsky.social ESRC Politics PhD candidate at the University of Southampton based in London. I research focuses on public opinion towards economic fairness in the UK, using a range of quantitative methods and datasets.
Dr Fran Melhuish @fransplains.bsky.social Postdoc @sotonpolitics.bsky.social, interested in nostalgia, visual politics and the gothic.
"Needlessly polemical"
https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/65lr7v/doctor-francesca-melhuish 
Centre for the South @centreforthesouth.bsky.social We are a regional thinktank working within the University of Southampton, founded to help drive the University’s vision as a civic partner for our region.
www.centreforthesouth.co.uk
www.linkedin.com/company/centre-for-the-south/
Centre for Democratic Futures @cdfuos.bsky.social The Centre for Democratic Futures is an interdisciplinary research network collaborating internationally from the University of Southampton
email us: cdf@soton.ac.uk
https://www.southampton.ac.uk/research/institutes-centres/centre-for-democratic-futures
Rikki Dean @rikkidean.bsky.social Associate Professor in Politics and Co-Director of the Centre for Democratic Futures at Southampton University.
Visiting Professor at Democratic Innovations Research Unit, Frankfurt University.
https://rikkidean.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. Spurs #COYS.
Katerina Glyniadaki @katerinaglyniadaki.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Public Policy and Administration, @unisouthampton.bsky.social. Interested in migration policy and its implementation.
Pía Riggirozzi @piariggirozzi.bsky.social Professor of Global Politics, currently Head of Department in PAIR at University of Southampton |Latin American political economy, rights & development | Regional governance, gender & migration | http://www.politics.soton.ac.uk/profile/piariggirozzi
Vanessa Cheng-Matsuno @vchengm.bsky.social Lecturer in Public Policy at PAIR Southampton. PhD in PoliSci, LSE. MPA/ID, Harvard University. Bureaucracy Lab, World Bank. Economics, U del Pacífico. Limeña.
https://vcheng-m.github.io/
Natalia Cintra @cintranatalia.bsky.social A Latin American woman lost in the UK.
British Academy Research Fellow @ University of Southampton. #Racial Politics of #ForcedDisplacement in #LatinAmerica
Natalia Trujillo @nataliatrujillo.bsky.social PhD candidate at the University of Southampton, researching risks, crises, and migration.
Tereza Capelos @terezacapelos.bsky.social I am professor of Political Psychology at Uni Southampton. I study the emotionality of grievance politics, and resentful reactionism. I co-chair the ECPR Political Psychology Standing Group and co-edit the Palgrave Series in Political Psychology.
Paolo Spada @pspada.bsky.social Lecturer at Southampton University, Centre for Behavioral Experimental Action and Research (C-BEAR).
Sienna Everett @siennaeverett.bsky.social PhD candidate @sotonpolitics.bsky.social @scdtp.bsky.social. Studying the effects of parenthood on climate concern and attitudes🍃
Prof Emily Reid @emilysreid.bsky.social Academic Lawyer - trade and sustainable development - University of Southampton
SSPC at the University of Southampton @sspcatsoton.bsky.social News and updates from the Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology Department at University of Southampton
14th in the UK for Sociology and 4th for Criminology (Times University Rankings 2026)
#AcademicSky #Sociology #CrimSky #Criminology
Ros Edwards @rosedwards.bsky.social Academic. Families. Research methods.
Take a look: academicswives.co.uk
Creator for Meta AI (they stole my work)
Na’amodnik
You can’t DM me here
Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social Associate Prof of #Sociology at Uni of Southampton. Queer lives, visual methods, kinship & identity.
Ask me about my queer feminist trans agenda. She/they 🌈🏳️⚧️
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0885-2908
Craig Webber @craigwebber.bsky.social Criminologist at The University of Southampton, interested in policing, technology, and psychology. Currently working on a project using technology in police custody suites to make information delivery easier, possibly diversionary.
Robin Skyer @robinskyer.bsky.social PhD Candidate, University of Southampton. Political sociologist researching queer lives, care, mutual aid, young people.
(they/them/elle)
Ashton Kingdon @ashkingdon.bsky.social Associate Professor in Criminology at the University of Southampton Researching all Things #OnlineExtremism #Terrorism #ClimateChange #Gaming #Ethics #VisualMethods #FarRight
Pete Fussey @petefussey.bsky.social Prof @ University of Southampton ~ Surveillance, tech, rights, security, criminology. Musician & @SxSW performing artist
Mark Brown @m-j-bro.bsky.social Former Associate lecturer in Criminology at University of Soton. Also did a bit of policing in the past
Pam Ugwudike @pamsoton.bsky.social Professor of Criminology | Researching AI & implications for justice
Co-Editor-in-Chief Criminology & Criminal Justice Journal: https://journals.sagepub.com/home/crj
John Denham @jydenham.bsky.social Professor | Former Labour MP and Cabinet Minister | Director, Centre for English Identity and Politics | Writing about how ideas of nation and nationhood shape politics today at nationstateandpolitics.substack.com ✍️
Michael Vlassopoulos @mvlass.bsky.social Professor of Economics - University of Southampton
https://sites.google.com/view/michael-vlassopoulos/home
Corrado Giulietti @corradogiulietti.bsky.social Professor of Economics and Head of School | Economic, Social and Political Sciences. University of Southampton- A Andrea Maria Pelliconi @ampelliconi.bsky.social Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in Human Rights Law & Global Justice at the University of Southampton, researching on demographic engineering & int'L | ICON-S IG on Climate Change & Migration | 🌱plant-based, mostly pasta & coffee
Naomi Clements @naomiaclements.bsky.social Senior Teaching Fellow (Evaluation), Centre for Higher Education Practice, University of Southampton. All things evaluation in HE. Research interests Access and Participation, inclusive education, professional identities and academic development.
Dina Lupin @dinalupin.bsky.social Associate Professor in Environmental Law & Human Rights, University of Southampton, working on Indigenous human rights, epistemic injustice, extraction, climate change and the right to be heard. 
Harry Annison @harryannison.bsky.social Professor of Criminal Justice at Southampton Law School, UK. Penal politics, parole and probation.
Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me Researcher & entrepreneur | Co-founder @cosmik.network | Building @semble.so | collective sensemaking | https://ronentk.me/ | Ecosystem building @atproto.science @cairos.network | Prev- Open Science Fellow @asterainstitute.bsky.social
Amy Zhang @axz.bsky.social Associate professor of social computing at UW CSE, leading @socialfutureslab.bsky.social
social.cs.washington.edu
❤️🔥 xiq @exgenesis.ingroup.social epistemics
https://www.epistemic.garden/
https://www.community-archive.org/
https://claudeconnect.io/
Michael Nielsen @michaelnielsen.bsky.social Searching for the numinous
Australian Canadian, currently living in the US
https://michaelnotebook.com
Michael Eisen @mbeisen.bsky.social Nematode antagonist
Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social Chief Science and Strategy Officer, openRxiv. Co-Founder, bioRxiv and medRxiv.
Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social Co-founder of Project Implicit, Society for Improving Psychological Science, and the Center for Open Science; Professor at the University of Virginia
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..
Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social Professor of Mental Health & Data Science at Leiden University. Studying mental health problems as systems (http://eiko-fried.com). Building an early warning system for depression (http://WARN-D.com).
Konrad Kording @kordinglab.bsky.social @Penn Prof, deep learning, brains, #causality, rigor, http://neuromatch.io, Transdisciplinary optimist, Dad, Loves outdoors, 🦖 , c4r.io
Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social Metascientist @ uidaho. Behavioral sciences, stats, modeling, phil of science. Cat slave, cook, sailor (see: https://bsky.app/profile/kumrusails.bsky.social), photographer, clarinet student, adventurer, nature lover. Allergic to unsolicited advice.
Matt Clancy @mattsclancy.bsky.social Runs Open Philanthropy’s Innovation Policy program. Creator of newthingsunderthesun.com, a living literature review about innovation. Website: mattsclancy.com.
Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social Cornell Tech professor (information science, AI-mediated Communication, trustworthiness of our information ecosystem). New York City. Taller in person. Opinions my own.
Prachee Avasthi @pracheeac.bsky.social Co-founder & CSO @ArcadiaScience. Head of Open Science @AsteraInstitute. Immigrant. she/her
Still post frequently on X (@PracheeAC)
Adam Marblestone @adammarblestone.bsky.social Technologist, scientist. Co-founder of Convergent Research.
Peter Suber @petersuber.bsky.social Open research, metaresearch, higher ed, US politics.
True blue. Dad of daughters.
I post to Mastodon more than Bluesky. But see my bridge account for B versions of the M posts.
https://bsky.app/profile/petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social Researching {science of AI for science, AI governance, science of science & innovation #SciSci, #AI4Science, AI agents, alignment}
PhD Candidate @ UW.
Visiting Scholar @ NYU & MSR
Alum @ Carnegie Mellon
Academic webpage: https://samemon.github.io
Defender @defenderofbasic.bsky.social Scouting the internet for infohazards & infoblessings
Konrad Hinsen @khinsen.net Researcher at CNRS (France). Computational science, in particular computational biophysics. Metascience, in particular the evolution of science in the digital era.
More active in the Fediverse: https://scholar.social/@khinsen
Leshem (Legend) Choshen @EMNLP @lchoshen.bsky.social 🥇 LLMs together (co-created model merging, BabyLM, textArena.ai)
🥈 Spreading science over hype in #ML & #NLP
Proud shareLM💬 Donor
@IBMResearch & @MIT_CSAIL
Misha Teplitskiy | Science of science | on LinkedIn mostly @innovation.bsky.social Mostly on LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/misha-teplitskiy
Wesley Finck @wesleyfinck.org co-founding @cosmik.network
building @semble.so
writing notes.wesleyfinck.org
John Wilbanks @wilbanks.bsky.social Probably off thinking about scientific data or college sports. Boston-ish.
Karthik Ram @karthik.io Accelerating science https://bsky.app/profile/valency.io
Leave me anonymous feedback! → https://www.admonymous.co/karthik
Jessica Polka @jessicapolka.bsky.social Open Science Advocate | Senior Program Lead, MIT Open Learning
Somerville, MA
Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org Computational neuroscientist at Imperial College. I like spikes and making science better (Neuromatch, Brian spiking neural network simulator, SNUFA annual workshop on spiking neurons).
🧪 https://neural-reckoning.org/
📷 https://adobe.ly/3On5B29
Matt Spike @matspike.bsky.social > Language + CogSci + Evolution + NLP/ML/AI
COMPLEXITY, FUNCTION & FORM in
- language, culture, cognition
- evo dynamics
- info & computation
- explanation
homeostatic property cluster at large
LangEvo is Hard Reading List
https://t.ly/gfGj
Eli Sennesh @elisennesh.bsky.social Abolish the value function!
Iain Cheeseman @iaincheeseman.bsky.social Whitehead Institute and Department of Biology, MIT. Lover of cell biology and cell division. Aspiring to do good science and do good.
Joel Chan @joelchan86.bsky.social (Associately??) Professing #hci #creativity #toolsforthought #metascience at UMD INFO and HCIL
#immigrant (🇲🇾 ➡️ 🇺🇸 ) #firstgen academic
Building @discoursegraphs.bsky.social #atproto 🤝 #openscience
https://joelchan.me
Jay Patel @infotainment.bsky.social always read the comments
#HCI #PeerReview #SciPub
#toolsforthought #ResearchSynthesis
#OpenScience #MetaSci #FoSci
🔎 Research: peer review, evi synth
🧑🏫 Teaching: Stats, DataViz
🐢 UMD: College of Info
🌐 PhD Candidate: Info Studies / HCI + Data
🏝️ OASISlab
aj-boston.neocities.org @aj-boston.bsky.social 
The Viking (Gunnar Blohm) @gunnarblohm.bsky.social CoSMO, Neuromatch, Neuro4Pros co-founder.
Comp neuro at Queen's U 🇨🇦 studying sensorimotor control.
Vice-Director (Queen's) of Connected Minds.
Mentor, dad, brewing, gardener, artist, antifa.
Renaissance man. Believer in humanity!
http://compneurosci.com/
@brianrgordon.bsky.social @brianrgordon.bsky.social Strategist on the innovation frontier. Cognitive Scientist.
strategy, agency, creativity, innovation, (meta)science, organization, 4e cognition, philosophy and practice of science
Tom Hope @tomhope.bsky.social Assistant professor, research scientist | boosting scientific discovery with AI, NLP, IR, KG, HCI | @ai2.bsky.social
Yotam Sofer @yotamsofer.bsky.social PhD fellow @ Copenhagen Business School (SI Department).
Alum: visiting scholar @ Havard Business School (LISH); MSc (Econ history) @ LundU; BA (Econ & IR) @ HebrewU; Bank of Israel.
Management & Economics of science & Innovation.
🇮🇱🇸🇪🇩🇰🏳️🌈🇪🇺
Professor Dr Igor Calzada MBA @icalzada.bsky.social Prof Calzada's
NEW BOOK!
#DatafiedDemocracies & #AIEconomics Unplugged
(Springer Nature 2025)
https://link.springer.com/book/9783032118875
@UPVEHU @Ikerbasque @USUKFulbright @CardiffUni @UniofOxford @EU_ScienceHub @UN
www.igorcalzada.com/publications
@martynrittman.bsky.social @martynrittman.bsky.social Program Lead at Crossref. Interested in scholarly publishing and open research. Also sports that take a long time (cycling, snooker, cricket, etc.), sourdough, and eclectic music.
M. Gonzalez-Marquez @aerynthrace.bsky.social I engage in the subversive act of investigating & teaching how best to read & document science. Helio: https://zenodo.org/records/14242565
DMs about my work are welcome. If I don't know you, anything will else will get you blocked.
Brett Buttliere @brettbuttliere.bsky.social Creating the future of science and society. Digital Infrastructure. Wikimedia. meta.data(). art, latest https://soundcloud.com/nabukudurru/wake-up-hands-up
(aka)Matsu lab @matsulab.com We are a cell biology lab based at the University of Washington established in 2022. Computational modeling, human stem cell genome-editing, fluorescence microscopy to study forces by the actin cytoskeleton in endocytosis.
matsulab.com
Silta Studios @acorneconomy.bsky.social A creative studio for worker and community-owned companies.
https://silta.ca
Pepo @pepoospina.bsky.social https://pepo.is
still a try-and-fail expert
Claus Atzenbeck 🇪🇺 @clausatz.bsky.social Professor at #HofUniversity, computer scientist, #hypertext enthusiast ✻ European ✻ ACM SIGWEB Hypertext Liaison (PoC for the ACM Hypertext Conference) ✻ Coordinator “Historic Hypertext Project” ✻ Co-organizer HUMAN “Human Factors in Hypertext Workshop”.
Seemay Chou @seemaychou.bsky.social Scientist. Co-founder/CEO @ Arcadia Science. Board @ Astera and The Navigation Fund. Texan in CA.
Jevin D. West @jevinwest.bsky.social Professor @UW_iSchool, Co-founder of Center for an Informed Public @uwcip. I study misinformation in science & society. Book: tinyurl.com/y7ekfkhx
Charles J. Gomez (He/Him) @charlesgomez.bsky.social Computational & Mathematical Sociologist
University of Arizona | School of Sociology | Affiliated with College of InfoSci and Applied Math GIDP | Interested in Global Knowledge and Science, Complex Systems, CSS
TheGlobalLab.org
www.charlesgomez.com
Nonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social Editor in Chief of the #NonProfit, #OpenAccess journal @plosbiology.org Former Chief Editor of Nature Microbiology.
#Virologist. #Feminist. #Spaniard in the UK. #Galician. #European always.
Views my own.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3666-5683
Juan Diego Rodriguez @juand-r.bsky.social CS PhD student at UT Austin in #NLP
Interested in language, reasoning, semantics and cognitive science. One day we'll have more efficient, interpretable and robust models!
Other interests: math, philosophy, cinema
https://www.juandiego-rodriguez.com/
Dietram A. Scheufele @dietram.bsky.social #scicomm, #healthcomm, #socialmedia, #openscience, #ai, #misinfo, and #polarization. http://linktr.ee/scheufele
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com Climate, energy, emerging tech, resilience, & policy professor. Carnegie Mellon Univ. Institute for Energy Innovation Director. Former Biden-Harris White House OSTP Chief Advisor for the Clean Energy Transition. Personal account. He/Him. costasamaras.com
Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social civil engineer / environmental sociologist. energy, water, climate, buildings, justice. fossil phaseout / universal programs. she / her. bunnies.
Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos.bsky.social Political Scientist, Providence College
Strategic Co-Director, Climate and Community Institute
Author / Resource Radicals (Duke UP 2020)
Co-Author / A Planet to Win (Verso 2019)
Forthcoming / Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism (WW Norton)
isaac @sevier.io Posting about electricity and how we can care for one other. Building @publicgrids.org. SF. they.
Latest: “Why public power campaigns win"
https://www.isaacsevier.com/notes/public-power-san-francisco-new-york-shrestha-mamdani-organize/
James J. A. Blair @jjablair.bsky.social Associate Professor, Geography & Anthropology | Author of *Salvaging Empire* | Views my own, not my employer’s | he/him/él | jamesjablair.com
Moira Birss @moira.bsky.social Climate, economic justice & human rights. Deputy Director building public power @publicgrids.org. Senior Fellow studying insurance & climate @cplusc.bsky.social. Board co-Chair @lawgaction.bsky.social. Amo a 🇨🇴. Living on Ohlone land. she/ella/ela.
Climate and Community Institute @cplusc.bsky.social Climate and Community Institute is a progressive climate and economy think tank. We work with movements and progressive policy makers to pass new policy, improve implementation, shift narratives, and deepen coalitions. 🌱 http://www.climateandcommunity.org