Traces of Texas @tracesoftexas.bsky.social Purveyor of Texas history and culture. Cowboy boots junkie and chronicler of all things Lone Star. 100% organic, free-range Texas content. A politics-free feed. DON'T get political! Buy me a coffee? Click here: https://buymeacoffee.com/tracesoftexas
Catturds of TrootSochul @jorge-s.bsky.social Narcissists call me autistic when I don't give them enough attention.
If you disable replies to your posts, you are practicing antisocial media and deserve to be ignored.
pronouns I/me, pronombres yo/mi
Coral City Camera @coralcitycamera.bsky.social 2nd longest-running livestream on YouTube. Live from an urban coral reef in Miami. A public art & scientific research project by Coral Morphologic (https://bsky.app/profile/coralmorphologic.bsky.social) ◦ coralcitycamera.com
Offshore Oddities @offshoreoddity.bsky.social Beachcomber/Artist/Writer/Collector
https://www.etsy.com/shop/OffshoreOddities
Fishing the world @sportfishing123.bsky.social Live the dream we offer all inclusive fishing stay with villa or condo accommodation
Birds of the World | The Cornell Lab @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social Explore the remarkable diversity of birds with Birds of the World, the world's leading collection of avian life histories published by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in collaboration with a global editorial team of avian experts. birdsoftheworld.org.
Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com Daily comic by Aaron Reynolds that keeps on winning awards despite being nothing more than birds and curse words. Books, calendars and merch at effinbirds.com
Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com Made the CommSky Starter Pack https://go.bsky.app/QkcgePD
Assistant Professor at Syracuse. I study public relations, military policy, video games, and queer theory. Happily 🏳️🌈.
Dr Samuel Animates @samuelanimates.bsky.social Lecturer: University of Western Australia
Research: scicomm, health literacy, media technology
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Public Health feed: https://bsky.app/profile/samuelanimates.bsky.social/feed/aaaarylo7rb2e
Public Health starter pack: https://go.bsky.app/EgMQxe9
Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social Public policy professor at the Hobby School. Enthusiastic about food, dogs, travel, and research. I write books about many failures of local democracy. Bad opinions my own.
Josh Braun @joshbraun.bsky.social Associate Professor at UMass Amherst studying the civic impacts of media distribution. I work in our Journalism Department and also co-edit the Distribution Matters series for The MIT Press.
Mastodon: @josh@sciences.social
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Michael Mirer @michaelmirer.bsky.social Associate Professor studying sports-related media and journalistic professionalism at UW-Milwaukee. Aspiring boat guy.
Mark Histed @markhisted.org Lincoln liberal, 2nd inaugural enthusiast.
Information processing in networks. Brains, models, lasers.
Prev: media policy for democracypolicy.network. All views are my own.
linktr.ee/markhisted
neuro: 🧠 /🧪
Cara Hawkins-Jedlicka @carabyrd.bsky.social Assistant professor of practice at the Edward R. Murrow College of Comm. Research in the intersection of women’s sport, social media & branding.Cofounder of Starting Line 1928. #commsky
Fahad Humayun @fahadhumayun.com Assistant Professor at Ball State University.
I study disruption & professionalism in journalism.
Mariëlle Wijermars @mariellew.bsky.social Associate Professor in Internet Governance at Maastricht University | Digital interdependence and autonomy | Platform governance | Internet censorship
Member of The Young Academy (KNAW)
Academic editor @policyr.bsky.social
Katy Pearce @katypearce.bsky.social Associate Prof @uwcomm. I study tech & inequality in 🇦🇲 & 🇦🇿. Posts research & pop culture & parenting. She/her.
Bradford Vivian @bradvivian.bsky.social Prof/Author/Speaker (academic freedom, free speech, democracy)
*Author _Campus Misinformation: The Real Threat to Free Speech in American Higher Education_ (Oxford UP)
*Op-eds: TIME, Washington Post, The Chronicle, Inside Higher Ed, Philadelphia Inquirer
Carla Swank Fox @carlaswankfox.bsky.social Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator in Interactive Media and Ed.D. student at MTSU. Co-founder of Craft Content Nashville and Content Economy Nashville. Host of Artisanal Insights pod and co-host of #CnCShow. Ex-pat yinzer. Pre-K mom. She/her.
Aleksandra Urman @aurman21.bsky.social Senior Research Associate, Social Computing Group, U of Zurich. Computational social/communication scientist
Patrick Zerrer @pzerrer.bsky.social PostDoc @ZeMKI_Bremen @UniBremen | Political Communication | Political Action | News usage | CSS | mobile & desktop Tracking
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 ||
🇩🇰🇳🇱🇪🇺🏃🏼🧪☕️🍿🐶🟥🦋
Allison Eden @aeden.bsky.social Comm Prof|Michigan State|Entertainment media|Well-being|Morality|CommNeuro
Lindsay Hahn @lindsayhahn.bsky.social assoc prof, u at buffalo • media psychology, morality • mediamoralitylab.org
Jaime Banks @amperjay.bsky.social Prof at Syracuse U's iSchool. Robots, social AI, videogames, dogs, wine, travel ...
Nick Bowman (包尼克) he/him/his @bowmanspartan.bsky.social STL native, UM-St. Louis x Michigan State alum. (Full) Prof at Newhouse School (Syracuse U, USA) studying gaming + emerging media. Launch Editor, Global Perspectives of Communication (Oxford x ICA).
Viorela Dan @vioreladan.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Communication at U of Innsbruck. LMU Munich, Free U of Berlin & UT Austin alumn. Research: misinformation, fact checking, deepfakes. Engagement Editor for JMCQ. Dilettante yet overly confident mushroom picker.
Sarah Shugars @shugars.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Communication @ Rutgers University. Computational social science, political communication, civic studies. First gen. They/them
Rebekah Tromble @rebekahtromble.bsky.social Dir. of Global Partnerships, Inst. for Information, the Internet & Democracy, NEU | Union of Concerned Scientists 2024 Defender of Science |
Co-founder: https://researchersupport.org/
https://expertvoicestogether.org/
https://independenttechresearch.org/
Anne Oeldorf-Hirsch @anneo.bsky.social Comm tech & social media research professor by day, symphony violinist by night, outside as much as possible otherwise. German/American Pacific Northwestern New Englander, #firstgen academic, she/her, 🏳️🌈
https://anne-oeldorf-hirsch.uconn.edu
Chris Carpenter @chriscarpenter.bsky.social Communication Professor studying opinion leaders, motivated reasoning, watching others online, meta-analysis, etc.
Co-author of “Critical Questions in Persuasion Research” as well as “The Science of Gaining Compliance” both from Cognella
he/him
David Rand @dgrand.bsky.social Prof at Cornell studying how human-AI dialogues can correct inaccurate beliefs, why people share falsehoods, and ways to reduce political polarization and promote cooperation. Computational social science + cognitive psychology.
https://www.DaveRand.org/
Joerg Hassler @joerghassler.bsky.social Associate Professor at University of Oslo | Political Communication | Digital Communication | https://digidemo.ifkw.lmu.de | https://klimamemes.ifkw.lmu.de
Mariken van der Velden @marikenvelden.bsky.social Associate prof. Political Communication @VUamsterdam @FSW_VU| VENI 2019 @NWO_SSH| Polarization & Political Compromises: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AX6A1TeSB, Text as Data
Erika Franklin Fowler @efranklinfowler.bsky.social Prof @ Wesleyan U; Co-Director of Wesleyan Media Project (@wesmediaproject.bsky.social & mediaproject.wesleyan.edu); policomm, polisci, public opinion & health policy scholar; Collaborative on Media & Messaging for Health & Social Policy (commhsp.org)
Aaron S. Veenstra @asveenstra.bsky.social FAU Journalism Prof and UFF-FAU Steward, political communication & digital media // The Press and Democratic Backsliding from Lexington Books // he/him
manytoomany.com
linktr.ee/music_by_decapitol
scholar.google.com/citations?user=-KlefNYAAAAJ
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Dave Keating @daveykeats.bsky.social -assoc prof of strategic comm at Arizona State University
-current editor of Comm Research Reports
-👨🔬🏀☕
Ethan Plaut @ethanplaut.bsky.social Research: Disconnection, tech refusal & beautiful, broken media. Sometime coder & dusty journo. Now Aotearoa NZ, always Chicago, formerly Stanford, SF, Phnom Penh, Fukui. Silence when I can. Music when I can't. Tangata Tiriti, Jew, he/him.
ethanplaut.com
TJ Billard @billard.bsky.social Associate Professor of Communication & Sociology at Northwestern University. Executive Director of the Center for Applied Transgender Studies. Author of Voices for Transgender Equality: Making Change in the Networked Public Sphere (Oxford UP, 2024).
Paul Goode @jpaulgoode.bsky.social Russia, Eurasia, nationalism, propaganda, autocracy
Lucía Cores-Sarría @luciacores.bsky.social YUFE Postdoc & MSCA fellow at Carlos III University of Madrid | Research fellow at SDU's Digital Democracy Center. Media psychologist, currently working on news, emotion, & social media. I love all things methods.
Brita Ytre-Arne @britaytrearne.bsky.social Media studies professor, University of Bergen. News avoidance, technology in everyday life, media and climate change, qualitative methods. New OA book October 2026: https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/too-much-news
JMCQ @jmcquarterly.bsky.social Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly (JMCQ) is the flagship journal of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC)
emily mendelson 💌 @emmendelson.bsky.social interpersonal & critical health comm phd candidate @ illinois & co-managing editor @ sex & psych
studying mediated intimate relationships & more
https://www.emilymendelson.com
Christian von Sikorski @cvsikorski.bsky.social Professor of Communication, Free University of Berlin
Digital Media Effects, Media Psychology, Political Communication
Dr. Daniela Dimitrova @profdimitrova.bsky.social University Professor & Editor-in-Chief of @JMCQuarterly.bsky.social. ✍️ Global journalism. 🌎 Political news reporting. 🧐 Refugee communications. ☕️ and 🍫. *NB: Views my own.
Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social Political Communication Prof at GWU. Flaming Hydra.
I write about the history and future of tech and politics. My next book, Vaporware, Inc.: How Silicon Valley Sells the Future to Control the Present, arrives on January 12, 2027.
Davekarpf.beehiiv.com
Daniel Trielli @danieltrielli.bsky.social Brasileiro. Inconstant poster in English and Portuguese. Assistant Professor of Media and Democracy at the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism.
https://danieltrielli.com
Steve Granelli @stevegranelli.bsky.social Teaching Professor of Communication Studies at Northeastern University. Wrestling, Pop Culture, #BillsMafia #commsky
Rebecca M. Townsend @rmtownsend.bsky.social Deliberation, democracy & public engagement scholar #TeamRhetoric politics in US & #CEE #transportation, public memory, Town Meeting. Lifter. Aromanian. Views here are personal & do not represent my employer #WMASS @TownModerator.bsky.social
Serhat Tutkal @serhattutkal.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher (political violence, dehumanization, racism, digital platforms) - Secihti, Mexico
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ShpYfisAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Main social media account: https://fediscience.org/@SerhatTutkal
Josh Pasek @joshpasek.com Prof of Comm and Polisci @UMich studying how people get & use political information and social measurement.
Competencies: data sci, DIY solar, election analytics, carpooling, #polcom, #polpsych, survey methods, AI literacy (views=own, overuses speech2text)
Rachel Vanderbilt, PhD @rachelvanderbilt.bsky.social Ph.D. in Interpersonal Communication, researching conflict in romantic relationships
Lead UX Researcher, Labs at Hinge
#commsky #altac #ux #product
www.rachelvanderbilt.com
Andy Elrick @andyelrick.bsky.social Dir. of Center for Sports Comm at Marist University. Got a Ph.D. Former cog at ESPN, CBS Sports and FIBA. Fandoms: QPR, Cubs, UConn, Aberdeen, Hammarby. I'm a Vermonter. Host some pods. Views mine. Newsletter: https://andyelrick.substack.com
William "Chip" Eveland @drchip97.bsky.social Professor of Communication and Political Science at Ohio State University and Fellow of the International Communication Association.
Manuel Menke @manuelmenke.bsky.social Associate Professor in Media Studies at the University of Copenhagen📱💻Researching digital publics, media change, memory/nostalgia & journalism.
Stacey Hust @staceyhust.bsky.social Health Comm researcher focused on sexual assault reduction and substance misuse prevention. Mom, Wife, Avid Reader. Assoc. Dean of Faculty Affairs & College Operations, Murrow College, Wash. State Univ. Opinions are my own.
Rebecca Frazer @beccafraz.bsky.social Assistant Professor of PR in the College of Journalism and Communication at the University of Florida. I study media effects and media psychology.
M Green @narrprof.bsky.social Communication researcher and social psychologist studying how stories change minds (narrative persuasion).
Personal account.
Kendall Phillips @krp.bsky.social Author of NO ONE CAN SAVE US. Horror, films, rhetoric. Views expressed are my own.
https://www.kendallrphillips.com
A. Susana Ramírez, PhD, MPH @susanaramirez.bsky.social Infodemiologist | Associate Professor | 🇲🇽🇺🇸 | Wife | Momx3 | 🐈⬛ Lover. I study media, inequality, & health especially re: food & nutrition. #healthcommunication #foodstudies #foodpolicy #AcademicSky #CommSky #CDoH
Rebecca Hains, author @rchains.bsky.social Media studies, feminism, children’s culture, and more. Books:
Growing Up With Girl Power
The Princess Problem
Princess Cultures
Cultural Studies of LEGO
The Marketing of Children’s Toys
Communication in Our Lives
Supernatural Youth in Media—just released!
Michelle Amazeen @commscholar.bsky.social Associate Dean of Research, College of Communication
Associate Professor of Mass Communication,
Director, Communication Research Center,
Boston University
New book – Content Confusion: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262553605/content-confusion/
jess rauchberg @jessrauchberg.bsky.social creator culture expert @LeedsUniMedia.bsky.social
Assoc. editor, CREATOR & INFLUENCER STUDIES
Writing PLATFORM HYGIENE (Duke UP)
Repped by Aevitas Creative Management
Hot takes are my own!
www.jessrauchberg.com
Tobias Dienlin @tobiasdienlin.com Media Psychology & Communication | Privacy & Well-Being | Open Science & Slow Science | IKMZ & University of Zurich | https://tobiasdienlin.com
Rui Wang @wangrui.bsky.social Assistant Professor @LoyolaUniversityMaryland | Ph.D. @U Buffalo| RutgersCommInfo Alumni | AI, political communication, computational social science👩💻
ruiwangcomm.com
University of Oregon SOJC @uosojc.bsky.social Official profile of the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication.
100+ years of ethics, innovation & action. 
EVPOC Research group @evpoc.bsky.social The EVPOC (Elections, Values, and Political Communication) Research Group at the Department of Sociology and Political Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology. 
Stéphane Prud’homme Msc, MBA, PhDc, C.Adm @stepru.com Adjunct Professor in YUL, YOW 🇨🇦 & HKG 🇭🇰 • PhD Candidate 🇲🇴 Influential narrative, Propaganda & Slopaganda, Reputation, Credibility, Legitimacy, Trustworthiness; MBA Marketing, Economics 🇨🇳🇺🇸; MA Credibility, Crisis Mgmt 🇨🇦 • Founder @CredibilityInstitute.com
Hannah Overbye-Thompson @overbye.bsky.social Assistant Professor at MSU ComArtSci AD + PR | I study how people detect, perceive & respond to AI/algorithmic bias
Kanu @kanupandey.bsky.social Assistant Professor @CommUCSB; alum @AnnenbergPenn @IIITDelhi; democratic citizenship & political humor; improv comedian
http://mastodon.social/@kanupandey
Musa Malik @musamalik.bsky.social I specialize in the empirical study of morality and identity in narratives, focusing on how these influence audience cognition and behavior.
Preferred platform is LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/musa-malik-a7a87aba/
Dan Lane @danlane.bsky.social Associate Prof @CommUcsb | Dir. UCSB Digital Political Inequality Lab https://dpilab.comm.ucsb.edu/ | Political Comm, Intergroup Comm & Comm Tech | Ph.D. @UM_CommStudies
Guadalupe "Lupita" Madrigal @lupitamiamour.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Communication @ UCSB
Political Communication | Immigration & Media
Moving on from X, follow me here!
Kylie Falcione @kyliefalcione.bsky.social Media mental health researcher at the intersection of Neuroscience 🧠, Developmental Psychology 👧, & Media Communication 📱🎮
Cynthia McLeod, 👁️👁️ @cynhonestly.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Communication and Media at UCM... Studying Black Twitter x place/space x collective memory, politics and pop culture✨.
Howard Alum ♥️, UCL 🇬🇧, and UCSB🔆🏖 (she/they)
Qing Huang @qing-ucsb.bsky.social PhD candidate at UCSB
Researcher of time, tech and love 🤓
UT Austin alumni 🤘Hook 'Em
Ismaharif I. @ismaharif.bsky.social PhD Candidate @ UCSB || Media Effects, Intergroup Relations, Identity, Motivation
I study (meta)interventions and how to bridge social divides. I also dabble in psychometrics, latent variables and computational methods.
https://linktr.ee/ismaharif
Laurent Wang @laurentwang.bsky.social On the job market | Ph.D. Candidate @CommUcsb researching online privacy & digital inequality
https://scholar.google.nl/citations?user=Eumt3-kAAAAJ&hl=en
Yidi Zhang @jennyidizhaang.bsky.social On the Job Market | Doctoral candidate @CommUcsb | CMC | vicarious interactions | online hate | alum @CommDeptMsu @ComCityuhk
@nancyrogers.bsky.social @nancyrogers.bsky.social 
Nancy Molina-Rogers @nmolinarogers.bsky.social Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles. I study the intersection of media and political participation among marginalized groups.
Erick Garcia @garciaerick.bsky.social Ph.D. Student in Communication @ UC Santa Barbara
Researcher at the intersection of media effects, social psych, mass comm & cmc. I study how digital media affects social/group dynamics (influence, identity, inter/intra-group relations) & online hate. 🤬🌐🤝🏾
Margot Plunkett @margotplunkett.bsky.social MA/PhD Student @ UCSB || Organizational Communication
Studying control, wellbeing and emotions in the workplace!
Minghui Wang @minghuiw.bsky.social PhD student @UCSB comm | Media use and well-being | Emotions | Health communication 👩💻👀✨
@nitzannavick.bsky.social @nitzannavick.bsky.social 
Sovannie Len @len-s.bsky.social PhD Candidate @ UCSB
Media Effects | Audience Perceptions | Intergroup Relations | Discrimination and Prejudice
Yidi Wang @yidi-wang.bsky.social PhD Candidate @ UCSB
KKMyers @kksantabarbara.bsky.social I’m a professor of Communication at University of California, Santa Barbara. I study workplace interaction including inter generational communication, the communicative constitution of organizations, organizational socialization and more.
Media Neuroscience Lab @medianeuro.bsky.social The Media Neuroscience Lab promotes research and teaching at the intersection of media psychology, technology, and neuroscience | https://medianeuroscience.org
Brittany Wheeler @b-wheeler.bsky.social 
Media MOSAIC Lab @mediamosaiclab.bsky.social The Media MOSAIC Lab at UCSB investigates media effects on marginalization, online hate, social identity, audiences, intergroup relations, and collective action.
📍: University of California, Santa Barbara
🔗: mosaiclab.comm.ucsb.edu
Muniba Saleem @nibasaleem.bsky.social Assoc Prof @ UC Santa Barbara Comm, faculty affiliate @rcgd-isr.bsky.social, PI of @mediamosaiclab.bsky.social | studying how media influences intergroup relations using social psych theories and social science methods.
Jenn Gibbs @gibni.bsky.social I am a professor of Communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara who researches organizational communication and digital media, especially collaboration in global, virtual, and remote work.
UCSB Media Skill Lab @mediaskill.bsky.social The media skill lab, led by Dr. Kristy Hamilton, uses empirical research to understand how aspects of our digital environment enable & alter strategic decision-making surrounding our media use
https://www.kristyahamilton.comm.ucsb.edu/media-skill-lab/ 
@devegvar.bsky.social @devegvar.bsky.social 
Nan Wilkenfeld @jnanw.bsky.social PhD, Human-Machine Communication
Researcher, Mama, Jewish, Tech nerd, Gamer, generally trying to be a decent human to my fellow humans
Norah Dunbar @ndunbar.bsky.social I’m a Professor of Communication at UC Santa Barbara. I study deception, trust, credibility, and nonverbal behavior.
Yifei Wang @yifeiw1.bsky.social PhD student at UCSB | political communication, computational communication, social identity, public opinion