The Coalition for Independent Technology Research @thecoalition.bsky.social Our mission is to advance, defend, and sustain the right to ethically study the impact of technology on society.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org Explore groundbreaking news and research from PNAS, one of the world's most-cited scientific journals. Discover its sibling journal, @pnasnexus.org, both official research journals of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. Visit www.pnas.org for more info.
Yamil Ricardo Velez @yamilrvelez.bsky.social political scientist at Columbia | MIA ✈️ NYC | tailored surveys and experiments- E Louis-Geoffrey Gousset @elge.bsky.social PhD student in Linguistics at QMUL (Sociophonetics & Social Networks)
Laurens @laurenshof.online I care about an ethical internet.
I write about Bluesky, the atmosphere and open social protocols at connectedplaces.online
🇳🇱
Tim Chambers @timothychambers.net Technologist, researcher, fascinated at how new technologies enable new politics, and vice versa. @tchambers@indieweb.social on Mastodon, which you can follow via: @tchambers.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy
Saskia @saskiakezia.com Head of Social & Community with the Newsmast Foundation - knowledge for all, across social platforms 🧡
Tim Chambers @tchambers.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy Technologist, writer, who is fascinated by how new politics impacts technology and vice versa. #fedi22 #indieweb #fediverse
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://indieweb.social/@tchambers, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Freddie Johnson @playawfulthings.bsky.social Advocate for the social web and tech policy.
Chat to me about the social web, dogs, comics, history & politics.
FediForum @fediforum.org The online unconference for the people who move the Open Social Web forward.
IFTAS - Independent Federated Trust & Safety @iftas.org We support moderators on federated social media. Learn more at https://about.iftas.org
Follow our bridged posts feed: @iftas.mastodon.iftas.org.ap.brid.gy
Thomas Ricouard @dimillian.app Developer Experience, Codex @OpenAI
Builder, Entrepreneur, iOS/macOS, Swift/SwiftUI & more
https://dimillian.app
Nick Gerakines @ngerakines.me he/him; Protocols, platforms, and machine learning; @lexicon.garden @lexicon.community @ohcraphey.app
Jacky?! @omg.jacky.wtf Captain of @olamaelcu.net (also web @ @divine.video) + other things. I write (and record) things.
I like reading. A lot.
ⓘ Mwen pa zanmi ou e li plis pase ou
wakest @wake.st I mostly complain about social networking software. I live in berlin.
on the fediverse at @liaizon@wake.st
Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd Assistant professor at Georgia State University, formerly at BYU. 6 kids. Study NGOs, human rights, #PublicPolicy, #Nonprofits, #Dataviz, #CausalInference.
#rstats forever.
andrewheiss.com
Signal: andrewheiss.01
Nathan Wilmers @natewilmers.bsky.social Working on wage inequality, economic sociology, unions, and work. associate professor @MITSloan.
William J. Brady @williambrady.bsky.social Assistant prof @ Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. Studying emotion, morality, social networks, psych of tech. #firstgen college graduate
Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social Making and mending networks and knowledge. Working and thinking at wrecka.ge, co-running a volunteer unbreak-the-news collective at @unbreaking.org.
Previously: Covid Tracking Project, OpenNews, old web nonsense.
Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social Political Scientist. Author of “Political Choice in a Polarized America” @OUP. Dad. Sauna enthusiast. Crossword solver. Powerlifter. Cyclist. ✡️ ∞
Views are mine alone. RT!=endorsement
Julia Partheymüller @schnizzl.bsky.social Senior Scientist at the Department of Government at the University of Vienna #AUTNES 🇦🇹
Political Behavior @polbehavior.bsky.social An interdisciplinary journal associated with the EPOVB section of @APSA.bsky.social. Edited by Chris Karpowitz & Jessica Preece, @BYU
https://www.springer.com/journal/11109
Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social Co-founder, Survey 160. Loves survey and voter participation. Researcher. Democrat. YIMBY. Husband and Dad. Opinion haver and measurer. Outdoors and cooking enthusiast. He/Him
Tuhin Chakrabarty @tuhinchakr.bsky.social Assistant Prof @sbucompsc @stonybrooku.
Researcher → @SFResearch
Ph.D. → @ColumbiaCompSci
Human Centered AI / Future of Work / AI & Creativity
Terry Godier @terrygodier.com Thinking about calm software, reading, and attention.
I like bogs, Casio watches, and They Live memes.
I build Current, an rss reader for apple platforms, and write visual essays about our relationship with technology.
Burak Sonmez @buraksonmez.bsky.social Associate Professor in Quantitative Social Science at University College London
brksnmz.github.io
jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com criminalization, abolition, labor, politics, journalism—social science theory & methods too. sociology phd candidate @ columbia. @swcolumbia.bsky.social
Adrien Sabathier @adriensabathier.bsky.social PhD researcher, teaching assistant | University of Geneva | Exploring local alternative social media and the (digital) public sphere.
Based in Geneva (CH), often in Burlington (VT). adriensabathier.com
Victoria Oldemburgo de Mello @hellovic.bsky.social Psychology Ph.D. candidate at the University of Toronto studying how technology shapes people and society
Raunak Pillai @rmpillai.bsky.social Social Psychology Postdoc, NYU
Incoming Assistant Professor, Cognitive Science, Stony Brook University ('26)
rmpillai.com
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
Angelica Quicksey @angelquicksey.bsky.social 👾 Urban planner for the internet
⚡️ Managing Director @newpublic.org
🌲 Seattle is always home
Council on Tech and Social Cohesion @socialcohesiontech.bsky.social We are catalyzing a robust, interconnected field of technology for social cohesion. 
Thomas Davidson @thomasdavidson.bsky.social Sociologist at UNC. I study topics including right-wing politics, populism, and hate speech on social media. I also write about computational methods and AI.
https://www.thomasrdavidson.com/
Elizabeth Crockett @elizabethgc.bsky.social SVC B.S. Psychology ‘24 | Social + Political Psychology Research
https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabeth-c-9a6067165?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=ios_app
Jonathan Coley @jonathancoley.bsky.social Associate Professor of Sociology, Oklahoma State University | Editor-in-Chief, The Sociological Quarterly (@socquarterly.bsky.social) | social movements, politics, religion, education, work 🏳️🌈
http://jonathancoley.com
David Karpa @dkarpa.bsky.social Postdoc at HfP, TUM
political behavior, political economy, and political psychology
www.davidkarpa.com
Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team Rudolph (Rudy) Fraser ⁂
CEO & Founder, building virtual 3rd places:
[ @blackskyweb.xyz ][ blacksky.community ]
prev. @harvard.edu Fellow
🏴☠️ [ wethepeople.nyc ]
Board @pact.blacksky.app
TSC @lexicon.community
move fast & break chains
Black crypto-anarchy Ⓐ
Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social jon
https://www.patreon.com/c/SecretBase
https://www.youtube.com/SecretBaseSBN
travis lloyd (træve) @travislloydphd.bsky.social public interest technologist // luddite hacker.
information science phd at cornell tech.
inequality, ai, and the information ecosystem.
🤠 traeve.com 🤠
Adam Visokay @avisokay.bsky.social interested in science of science, economic sociology, population health
phd candidate at uw seattle & max planck institute in rostock, germany
uva and syracuse alum
i also run. https://avisokay.github.io/ https://www.strava.com/athletes/9804160
spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social Interests in ML and social aspects of tech.
Building For You feed: https://foryou.club
https://bsky.app/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.social/feed/for-you
Hobby project: linklonk.com
nathanwpyle @nathanwpyle.bsky.social 
Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social Sociologist/demographer specializing in mortality, racial inequity, Covid-19. Avid theater-goer, inconsistent powerlifter, and erstwhile operator of an all-volunteer bookstore. Preschool parent. Living not-quite-car-free in Minneapolis. she/her
@lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social Aspiring philosopher; tolerable human; "amusing combination of sardonic detachment & literally all the feelings felt entirely unironically all at once" [he/his]
Kenny Peng @kennypeng.bsky.social CS PhD student at Cornell Tech. Interested in interactions between algorithms and society. Princeton math '22.
kennypeng.me
Marie Labussière 🟥 @labussieremarie.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Sciences Po, France
| sociology & quant methods | 🔍career outcomes of education | citizenship & migration | She/her | posts in EN, FR, NL
Center for Media Engagement - UT Austin @engagingnews.bsky.social The Center for Media Engagement leads efforts to understand and improve the information ecosystem for the benefit of democracy.
Pablo Bello @pablobellode.bsky.social Duke Sociology Grad Student | pablobellodelpon.github.io/
Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com Uses machine learning to study literary imagination, and vice-versa. Likely to share news about AI & computational social science / Sozialwissenschaft / 社会科学
Information Sciences and English, UIUC. Distant Horizons (Chicago, 2019). tedunderwood.com
Taskmaster Moments @taskmastermoments.bsky.social Moments, pictures, videos and fireside chats about all things related to taskmaster.
Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci Personality psych & causal inference @UniLeipzig. I like all things science, beer, & puns. Even better when combined! Part of http://the100.ci, http://openscience-leipzig.org
Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net Engineer at Posit (fka RStudio), technical lead at quarto.org
Learning Brazilian Choro, the 7-string guitar, and to deal with the Minneapolis winter after 10 years in Tucson
Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social Interested in how the rich stay rich and the poor poor. Sociologist at @sriucl.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk. He/him/his. http://perengzell.com Photo bomber @simoneschneider.bsky.social
John West @johnwest.bsky.social I report the news with code at the Wall Street Journal. In 2023, I wrote a book, LESSONS AND CAROLS. New book, THE INTERNET WILL DIE, AND SO WILL YOU, out this year. Next book, a novella called THE PSALMIST, out in 2027.
http://beebe-west.com/john
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net I post long threads. Writer (sf novels, etc); blogger (pluralistic.net); activist (eff.org). Latest book: "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" Buy my books (DRM-free!) at craphound.com/shop.
Maurice Jakesch @mjakesch.bsky.social Asst. Prof @BauhausUni | Prev. Cornell, MSR, Meta
Computational social science, AI & HCI, experiments
🏠 csslab.net | 🐦 x.com/m_jakesch
Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social I want to do everything all the time
https://bsky.app/profile/ygrene.bsky.social/feed/aaad75xnfxh32
Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social Professor in Science and Technology Studies, UCL @stsucl.bsky.social. Science policy, responsible innovation, emerging technologies. Book https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-32320-2. Responsible AI UK (www.rai.ac.uk)
Lluís Parcerisa @lluisparcerisa.bsky.social Assistant Professor at @UniBarcelona.bsky.social. | Researching abt #Platforms #AI #Datafication #SAWA #TeachersWork #Privatization & #ComparativeEducation.
https://linktr.ee/lluisparcerisa
Taylor M. Cruz @taylormcruz.bsky.social sociologist of science, technology, and medicine
data analytics and AI in context
taylormcruz.com (she/her) 🏳️🌈
#medsoc #STS #data #tech #justice #UCSF
Dan Kotliar @danmk.bsky.social 🎓 Senior Lecturer at the Department of Sociology, U of Haifa.
Previously: Stanford, Hebrew U.
Studying algorithms & culture, AI ethics, AI Hype, data infrastructures, microbiomic futures & more.
🏡 https://www.dankotliar.com/
Natalia Luka @nataliyan.bsky.social Future of Work Lead, Responsible AI Initiative at UC Berkeley | natalialuka.com | re-ai.berkeley.edu| #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦
fu, zheng @fuzheng.bsky.social PRODIG + Fellow in Critical AI @ Stony Brook University; phd @ columbia sociology. interested in power, STS, economic sociology, classification struggles.
Personal website: https://fuzheng10.github.io/
very importantly, also a foodie.
Simone Zhang @sxz.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology at NYU. Classification, prediction, and AI in decision-making, social policy, and law.
www.simonezhang.com
Dan Morrison (he/him) @danielrmorrison.bsky.social Sociologist of science, technology, and medicine. Currently writing on antiblackness in higher ed, TBI, ignorance. The views expressed on this platform are my own and do not reflect the views of The University of Alabama in Huntsville.
Alexandrea J. Ravenelle @ajravenelle.bsky.social Assoc. Professor, Sociology at UNC-Chapel Hill. Author of Side Hustle Safety Net (UCPress, 2023) and Hustle and Gig (UCPress, 2019) 23-24 Visiting Scholar at Russell Sage
ASA SKAT @asaskat.bsky.social Official presence of Science, Knowledge and Technology (SKAT) Section, A Section of the American Sociological Association
Learn more: http://asaskat.com
Tyler Horan @tylerhoran.bsky.social Writer and researcher on platform inequality and the future of work. Lecturer at @umassamherst.bsky.social → tylerhoran.org
Techdirt @techdirt.com A good old fashioned blog that has been covering tech, law, policy, and democracy for almost three decades now.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social god created him and demanded that he die
Shira Chess @shirachess.bsky.social Associate Prof. of Media Studies @ UGA
Books:
1. The Unseen Internet (MIT press, 2026)💫
2. Freaks in the Machine: Mondo 2000 in Late 20th century (Strange Attractor w RU Sirius)
https://open.substack.com/pub/unseeninternet
Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social Sociologist studying how our social structures make sexual violence more likely to occur. Author of ON THE WRONG SIDE. Co-founder of Beyond Compliance Consulting. PhD UMich.
Anna Hiltner Nouzeilles @annahiltner.bsky.social Duke Sociology PhD Student
Alejandro Sarria Morales @alejandrosarriam.bsky.social sociology phd student @ duke.
culture, politics and computacional social science
https://alejandro-sarria-morales.github.io/
Alexander Kim @kchs.bsky.social grad student
sociology | cultural change | cultural evolution
bryan newbold (⛱️ sabbatical mode) @bnewbold.net oscilloscopes, cycling, snow, big cities, wiki. I like speculating about found objects.
protocol engineer @bsky.app (on 2026 summer sabbatical). formerly archive.org
elsewhere: bnewbold.net / @bnewbold@social.coop
post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social mostly politics. some Seahawks.
Normal Man.
oh and one more thing
you aren’t going to like
what comes after America
LegalEagle @legaleagle.tv The Big Bird at LegalEagle. Believer in the rule of law. 
Richard Jean So @richardjeanso.bsky.social Duke English Prof, Rhodes Chair in DH
Cultural Analytics | Digital Humanities | AI Research
Book: FAST CULTURE, SLOW JUSTICE (Columbia UP, 11/26)
New Paper: "Narrative Forecasting for LLM Storytelling" (COLM 2026)
https://richardjeanso.github.io/
jetlagthegame @jetlagthegame.bsky.social your place for the finest jet lag news
[unofficial, glad to hand this over to the crew :)]
straight out of the greatest city in the wooorld babyy
AI Forensics @aiforensics.org European non-profit
Algorithmic investigations and platform accountability
Zhijing Jin @zhijingjin.bsky.social Assi. Prof @UofTCompSci. Postdoc @MPI_IS w/ @bschoelkopf. Research on (1) @CausalNLP and (2) NLP4SocialGood @NLP4SG. Mentor & mentee @ACLMentorship.
Friedolin Merhout @fmerhout.bsky.social Sociologist and Social Data Scientist at University of Copenhagen. Duke University PhD. Intergroup relations & computational social science. He/him/his. https://fmerhout.github.io Photo: Freja Wille
Cyberflaneurs @cyberflaneurs.bsky.social 
Lara Zwittlinger @larazwittlinger.bsky.social PhD Candidate at University of Salzburg
Interests: Cleavage politics, public opinion, Comparative politics, Multilevel and Structural Equation Modelling
@lauriebaker.bsky.social @lauriebaker.bsky.social 
Christians on the Left @chrleft.bsky.social 
Sophia Knight @sophiaaknight.bsky.social PhD Researcher @ldnsocmedobs.bsky.social - podcasts, political communication & computational social science
Research Lead in Civic & Democratic Participation Online at Responsible Innovation Centre, BBC R&D
Visiting Researcher @digitalgoodnet.bsky.social
Hbomberguy @hbomberguy.bsky.social 🖥️ Gaming Youtuber, Media Critic, Philosopher King 🤴
💙 Patreon.com/Hbomb
📩 Enquiries to contact@hbomb.zone
Paul Bouchaud @paulbouchaud.com (they/them) Researcher in Algorithmic Auditing, Social Simulation & Evidenced-Based Policymaking | paulbouchaud.com | working with aiforensics.org
Elyse Willems @elysewillems.bsky.social Writer and performer in LA doing comedy, horror, and gaming stuff
👁️🗨️ PBS SoCal Won't You Be My Gamer
🎙️ 30 Morbid Minutes, Answer for It!
✍🏼 Freelance Games Writer Illfonic
🪦 Funhaus & Gametrailers
📧 elysew.biz@gmail.com
Morgan Klaus Scheuerman @morganklauss.bsky.social HCI research scientist @ Sony AI in Barcelona. ethical AI, identity, technological harm. Previous: CU Boulder, UMBC, Microsoft Research Fellow. posts my own.
https://www.morgan-klaus.com/
Xinyi Zhou @xinyizhouxz.bsky.social PostDoc @uwcse.bsky.social; ✨ Trustworthy, multimodal, human-centered AI; 🌐 https://xinyizhou.xyz/
Mary Beth Hunzaker @mbhunzaker.bsky.social Researcher just doing her best to build toward kinder, healthier online spaces
American Sociological Association @asanews.bsky.social * Support a diverse and inclusive community of sociologists
* Increase public knowledge and understanding of society through sociology
* Promote the use of sociological insights to drive positive social change https://bit.ly/m/AmSocAssoc
Josh Nguyen @joshnguyen.bsky.social PhD Student in Computational Social Science @csspenn.bsky.social
joshnguyen.net
@duncanjwatts.bsky.social @duncanjwatts.bsky.social 
CSSLab at Penn @csspenn.bsky.social Computational Social Science Lab at the University of Pennsylvania
https://css.seas.upenn.edu/
https://mediabiasdetector.seas.upenn.edu/