Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research @perkinsinstitute.bsky.social Western Australia's largest medical research institute investigating adult diseases that impact your families, including the hardest to treat cancers, heart disease, diabetes and rare genetic diseases. Find us at perkins.org.au.
Matt Motta @mattmotta.bsky.social Associate Professor of Health Law, Policy, & Management. Boston University School of Public Health.
Author of Anti-Scientific Americans: https://a.co/d/7oSVhwP
Laura Edelson @whiskeyocelot.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Northeastern University
Co-Director, C4D
Formerly: Chief Technologist, DoJ Antitrust Division, DOJ Civil Rights Division
Dan Pemstein @danpemstein.com Political economist working mostly on democratic institutions, tech, political careers and party org, and measurement. http://www.danpemstein.com
https://digitalsocietyproject.org
Michelle Wu 吳弭 @wutrain.bsky.social Mayor of Boston • Mom to Blaise, Cass & Mira • Personal account
michelleforboston.com
Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social If there's something you hope will happen, well, maybe it will happen today.
🚫No AI Ever🚫
Selected prints available here: https://www.inprnt.com/collections/phineas/maybe-it-will-happen-today/
Australian Academy of Science @science.org.au An independent organisation of distinguished Australian scientists, championing science for the benefit of all.
Read our landmark report: https://bit.ly/ASAF2035 #Science2035
School of Psychological Sciences @ MQ @mqpsy.bsky.social The official account of the School of Psychological Sciences at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia (Wallumattagal Campus). Posts by Staff.
Rob Nash @drrobnash.bsky.social Head of Psychological Research @ National Institute of Teaching. Research on memory/ cognition/ feedback/ higher education. National Teaching Fellow. he/him 🏳️🌈. Views my own.
Stephen Hill @srhastraea.bsky.social Cognitive psych interested in distributed cognition, memory, weird and non-weird beliefs, cognitive biases, conspiracy belief, misinformation, scientific vs lay cognition, climate change, open science, metascience, 4eCognition.
From Aotearoa/New Zealand
Mariam Aly @mariamaly.bsky.social I study brains and sometimes use one.
https://www.alylab.org/
Alejandro Fernández-Roldán @aleferna.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher in Political Science at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (@dec-gr.bsky.social) | Political behaviour, public opinion and philosophy of social sciences
Roman Abel @roman-abel.bsky.social Educational Psychologist
Desirable Difficulties in Learning
Postdoc at the Ruhr-University Bochum
Fascinated by Science📜 and Boardgames🎲
Chris Skurka @chrisskurka.bsky.social Associate Professor of Media Studies at Penn State 🐾🏳️🌈
I study things that start with E: media effects | exposure | emotion | efficacy | environmental & health communication
Opinions = mine
He/him
Dakota Murray @dakotamurray.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ University at Albany
Scientometrics, Metascience, Innovation, and Machine Learning
Tania Lombrozo @tanialombrozo.bsky.social Writes about cognitive science and philosophy. Professes psychology at Princeton University. Devours chocolate and fiction. www.tanialombrozo.com
Alexios Mantzarlis @mantzarlis.com Tech, facts, and carbonara.
mantzarlis.com
@davidnrapp.bsky.social @davidnrapp.bsky.social
APA Journals @apajournals.bsky.social The latest research, calls for papers, and news from journals published by the nonprofit American Psychological Association.
https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/
Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia @glciampaglia.com Asst Prof at U of Maryland (🇮🇹→🇨🇭→🇺🇸). Academic flâneur: complex systems, networks, peer production. Currently trying to figure out how to make people and algorithms work together.
Posts about #Tolkien, #Linux, #Bikes, and life along MD's Rte 1
Professor KPA 🗃️😷 @kpanyc.bsky.social Professor of Russian & Soviet History at Queens College, CUNY. Author of The Essential Guide to Writing History Essays and An Ordinary Marriage: The World of a Gentry Family in Provincial Russia. antoshki.com- I Michael Cohen @indecisionwins.bsky.social Political junkie and social-cognitive neuroscientist studying misinformation and political extremism
Ozan Kuru @ozankuru.bsky.social Asst Prof, National University of Singapore
Bio: https://discovery.nus.edu.sg/18898-ozan-kuru
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=T6KRMogAAAAJ&hl=en
Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ozan-Kuru
Johan Ugander @jugander.bsky.social Associate Professor, Yale Statistics & Data Science. Social networks, social and behavioral data, causal inference, mountains. https://jugander.github.io/
Sebastian Ramirez-Ruiz @seramirezruiz.bsky.social Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at @eui-eu.bsky.social
Interested in causal inference, evidence in policy- and decision-making, #rstats, and most importantly, bicycles | Ph.D. @hertiedatascience.bsky.social
🌐 https://seramirezruiz.github.io/
Marlene Altenmüller @marlephie.bsky.social Jun. Prof. for Science Reception @ Leibniz Institute for Psychology (ZPID). PI of #SciReLab. Social Psychologist & Art Historian. Formerly @ LMU Munich. Studying #TrustInScience, #SciComm, #MetaScience, #ArtReception & More.
Miguel Vadillo @mavadillo.bsky.social Experimental psychologist | Working on learning, memory, cognition, evidence synthesis, reproducible research and more | https://mvadillo.com/
John Mashey @johnmashey.bsky.social Semi-retired computer scientist, ancient UNIXer, "Big Data"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mashey
Last 20 yrs: chasing anti-science disinfo, esp. on climate or tobacco, helping defend scientists.
Supporter of UCSF, CSLDF, NCSE, CSI, member AAAS, AGU.
Sharon Aris @sharonaris.bsky.social Sociologist, social researcher studying who succeeds in education, how and why; policy, professions & AI; Nexus Fellow, University of NSW; passionate about education for all. Occasional medievalist formerly known as LadyBertilak
Milo Trujillo @backdrifting.net Systems scientist, engineer, activist. Researches how we organize and govern based on our social artifacts.
Postdoc at @vcsi.bsky.social, lecturer at @nunetsi.bsky.social, infrastructure and analysis at @ddosecrets.org
Pete Wilton @petewilton.bsky.social #Science & #PublicHealth PR @lshtm.bsky.social. #Writing, #Books #History. Author of Spectrum of #Misinformation newsletter with news, analysis & practical advice: https://the-spectrum-of-misinformation.ghost.io Views model's own.
Philipp Marten @plmarten.bsky.social Misinformation resilience researcher, digital future enthusiast, do-gooder
Dr. Laura M. König @lauramkoenig.bsky.social Professor of Health Psychology, @univie.ac.at #HPGVienna | eating behaviour, #digitalhealth, social inequality, research methods | #scicomm & #openscience
Web: https://gesundheit-psy.univie.ac.at
The Poynter Institute @poynterinstitute.bsky.social Journalism. Truth. Democracy.
We’ve been a school for journalists for 50 years. Home to the Poynter newsroom, PolitiFact, MediaWise and the International Fact-Checking Network.
Sophia Knight @sophiaaknight.bsky.social DPhil (/PhD) 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
Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social Social Scientist, Harvard University
https://www.ryandenos.com/
https://ryandenos.substack.com/
Network Science Institute @nunetsi.bsky.social
Andrew Perfors @perfors.net Prof at UniMelb. I'm a computational cognitive scientist studying human inference, learning, information systems, culture, and (mis/dis)info. Nerd & opinionated loudmouth in Oz, originally from America, citizen of both. Parent of two. 🏳️⚧️ perfors.net
Jason Yalim @yalim.bsky.social Sr. ML Eng. @ PayPal's GFP ML R&D.
Formerly Assistant Research Professor, Computational Research Accelerator, a supercomputing-adjacent unit @ Arizona State University. PhD Applied Math. on stratified fluid flows.
math.la.asu.edu/~yalim
Views my own
Ishaan Tharoor @ishaantharoor.bsky.social Global affairs columnist @NewYorker.com. Dad. Victoria concordia crescit.
Sophie in't Veld @sophieintveld.bsky.social Former Member of the European Parliament - Chair Advisory Council @cdteu.org - Keynote speaker at Speakers Academy - Blogging on Substack.com
Simone van der Hof @joix.bsky.social Professor of Regulating Digital Technologies | Privacy, Data Protection, Commercial Exploitation, Digital Play, Digital Child Rights | Center for Law & Digital Technologies (eLaw), Leiden University
Christoph Riedl @criedl.bsky.social https://www.christophriedl.net/
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
@barabasi.bsky.social @barabasi.bsky.social
Eli Pariser @eli.bsky.social @newpublic.org cofounder / Filter Bubble author / dad, husband, human
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
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/
Sara Constantino @smconstantino.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Stanford’s Doerr School of Sustainability, Visiting Scholar Princeton SPIA. Sustainable dev’t, climate, energy, collective action, crises, behavior, decision making. 🇵🇹🇧🇷🇨🇦
Yotam Ophir, Ph.D. @ophiryotam.bsky.social Associate Professor of Communication at the University at Buffalo. Head of the Media Effects, Misinformation, and Extremism (MEME) lab. - G Guillermo Solovey @guillermosolovey.bsky.social https://gsolovey.netlify.app/
Steve Fleming @smfleming.bsky.social Psychologist and neuroscientist at UCL https://metacoglab.org
Author, Know Thyself (2021) https://metacoglab.org/book
Dad and assistant to the Diplomat
Florian Stoeckel @florianstoeckel.bsky.social Associate Professor at the University of Exeter, UK
Public Opinion | Misinformation | AI & Politics | Psychology
http://www.florianstoeckel.eu
Robb Willer @robbwiller.bsky.social Professor of Sociology, Psychology, & Org Behavior, Stanford University
Direct, the @pascl-stanford.bsky.social, the AI for Public Benefit Lab, & co-direct @Stanfordpacs Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society
Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social science journalist. author. molecular biologist. curious.
interested in #microbes, #misinformation and all things #blue
contributing correspondent at @science.org
co-host of @pandemia.bsky.social
2024 KSJ fellow at MIT
Signal: kakape.93
Jennifer Oser @jenny-oser.bsky.social Social scientist | PI of European Research Council (ERC) grant project | Full Professor, Ben-Gurion University in Israel | https://www.jenniferoser.com/
Keith Markman @kmarkman.bsky.social Social psychologist at Ohio University studying counterfactuals, regret, free will, nostalgia, and conspiratorial thinking. Star Trek nerd. Anti-fascist. Trying to do something kind every day.
Jeff Lees @leesplez.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior @ University of Groningen | psychology of leadership, sustainability, ideology, and misperceptions | #rstats | #openscience | he/they | 🇺🇸→🇳🇱 | www.jeffreymlees.com
Michael Geers @michaelgeers.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Marketing at University College Dublin. Research: Consumer Psychology of Technology.
Emory Richardson @emoryrchrdsn.bsky.social cognitive scientist.
intuitive theories, collaboration, cumulative culture, networks, philosophy of science/mind/bio, language. Also kettlebells.
past: @UMich @Yale @UChicago @stjohnscollege.
https://rchrdsnemory.github.io/site/
Susie Wang 汪潇潇 @susiewang.bsky.social Co-Director of climatebarometer.org | Climate public and political insights
Lucy Butler @lucy-h-butler.bsky.social Postdoc @ the Network Science Institute, Northeastern University.
Linda Henkel @lhenkel.bsky.social Memory researcher, cognitive psychologist, professor at Fairfield University in Fairfield CT, USA
Janka Romero @jankaromero.bsky.social Psychology Publisher at Sage. Formerly Commissioning Editor for Psychology at Cambridge University Press. Interested in cognition, neuroscience, individual differences, applied psychology, and decolonising the curriculum.
(On mat leave until summer 2026)
Maddy Jalbert @maddyjalbert.bsky.social Research Scientist at the Center for an Informed Public at the University of Washington. Social Psych PhD at USC. I study misinformation correction and how people make judgments of truth. Otherwise probably in the mountains. She/her
Joey Schafer @schafer.bsky.social UW-Seattle PhD candidate, studying online attention dynamics & creators/influencers @ HCDE/CIP, advised by @katestarbird.bsky.social . Former SETS Fellow @ Cornell Tech, working w/ @informor.bsky.social . UAW 4121 ASE Recording Secretary. He/Him
Briana Kennedy @brileekennedy.bsky.social Emotion, cognition, and ageing researcher. NJ expat. Pun enthusiast. Lead the PECAN (Perception, Emotion, Cognition, Ageing, & Neuroscience) Lab in Perth, Australia 🇦🇺 - we're nuts for science. 🧠
Lena Frischlich @lenafrescamente.bsky.social Communication scholar and media psychologist. Exploring the abyss of digital communications and how to foster democratic resilience. || Associate Professor Digital Democracy Centre University of Southern Denmark / Complexity Science Hub, Vienna
Henri Olkoniemi @holkoniemi.bsky.social Academy Research Fellow @oulu.fi | PI of the @percola.bsky.social
eye movements | cognitive psychology | individual differences | language processing | figurative language
>> https://olkoniemi.com
Diana Tan @dianatan.bsky.social Autism researcher at Macquarie University (Australia). She/Her. Views are my own.
Myrna Over @myrnaover.bsky.social Social Psychologist, intrigued by Social Influence & Misinformation. Founder of Scholen Veilig, advocating for Safe Schools & Clean Air. Follow: bsky.app/profile/scholenveilig.bsky.social #SocialPsychology #Science #Misinformation #SafeSchools #CleanAir
Nir Grinberg @nirg.bsky.social Assistant prof. at BGU in the field of Computational Social Science.
Deen Freelon @dfreelon.bsky.social Allan Randall Freelon Sr. Prof. + Presidential Prof. + Director: Politics, Identities, & Communication Lab (PICL) @asc.upenn.edu. More fun than I look.
Shane Littrell, PhD @metacognishane.bsky.social "LIH-trəll" not "lih-TRELL" | Cornell University postdoc | PhD from UWaterloo | I study thinking, reasoning, why we mislead, & how we are misled. 🐻❄️🏀
https://bullshitology.substack.com/
Ian Shapiro @ianshapiro.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Tennessee State University. Political Psychology, Voting Rights, Surveys, and Experiments. Owns dog. Bikes fast. Previously, Brennan Center Post-Doc.
Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social Professor of health law and science policy, author, speaker, and commentator. #ScienceUpFirst
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/caulfieldtim
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
Francesca Tripodi @ftripodi.bsky.social Dr. Tripodi is a sociologist who studies the internet and how information flows online
www.spillab.com
Anastasia Kozyreva @anaskozyreva.bsky.social Research Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social 🌐Studies influence, propaganda, platform design@Georgetown
✍🏼Lawfare,The Atlantic, Substack/Ghost Newsletter (signup on my site if you want Ghost)
📕Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality (invisiblerulers.com)
🦹🏻♀️Twitter Files supervillain
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
Philipp Lorenz-Spreen @lorenzspreen.eurosky.social Heading the Computational Social Science group within SynoSys & ifK at TU Dresden, where we study how online information environments impact public discourse and develop alternatives that benefit democracy. Views are my own. https://synosys.github.io/
Hugo Mercier @hugoreasoning.bsky.social Evolutionary and cognitive psychologist. Author, Not Born Yesterday (http://tinyurl.com/yyh929ns), The Enigma of Reason (http://tinyurl.com/6hbpn84).
Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social Professor of Communication & Political Science. NH to PHL. Improv comedian. Author: “Irony and Outrage” (OUP 2020), “Wrong” (JHU 2023). My views and mine alone.
WEBSITE: https://sites.google.com/view/dgoldyoung/home
David Dunning @daviddunning6.bsky.social Studying the psychology underlying human misbelief.
Mary Ann and Charles R. Walgreen, Jr., Professor of the Study of Human Understanding, University of Michigan.
(PS. Neither Justin nor I named it that. Best career move we never made.)
he/him/his
Josh Compton @joshcompton.bsky.social I'm Prof of Speech @Dartmouth and a stutterer. How does that work? Very well, actually! I've also been researching inoculation theory for 25+ years in politics, health, sport, satire, education, science, and more. #OCD https://sites.dartmouth.edu/jcompton/
danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social STS researcher who likes to look at things sideways. Founded Data & Society.
Topics: Census | Youth | Data | Society
Professor of Communication, Cornell
https://made-not-found-by-danah-boyd.ghost.io
Ben Tappin @benmtappin.bsky.social • Assistant professor, London School of Economics and Political Science
• Persuasion, technology, experiments
• benmtappin.com
Leticia Bode @leticiabode.bsky.social Professor at Georgetown, research director at KGI. Studying information, politics, health, etc. Also cats, Badgers, Astros, food, gardening.
Simon Farrell @psy-farrell.bsky.social Professor, Psychological Science, University of Western Australia. Researching the things I am not good at (memory, decision making, goal pursuit)
Psychonomic Society @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social Advancing cognition
www.psychonomic.org
Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social Historian, Earth Scientist, Writer, Public Intellectual.
Books: Merchants of Doubt; Collapse of Western Civilization; Science on a Mission; Discerning Experts; Why Trust Science?; The Big Myth. Loves: Chocolate, Red Wine, Skiing, family. Hates: Beets.
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
ProfBrianCox @profbriancox.bsky.social Professor of Particle Physics at The University of Manchester and Royal Society Professor for Public Engagement in Science
Skeptical Science @skepticalscience.bsky.social Non-profit science education organization building public resilience against climate misinformation. More at http://sks.to/welcome
Ullrich Ecker @ulliecker.bsky.social I study effects of misinformation.
Professor at the School of Psychological Science and Fellow of the Public Policy Institute at the University of Western Australia
Views my own.
Marija Petrović @marijapetrovic.bsky.social phd student at University of Belgrade | social psychology | contradictory beliefs and conspiratorial thinking | LIRA lab