Bue Rübner Hansen @buerubner.bsky.social Interest formation between ecology and class,
University of Copenhagen, CommonEcologies
uni-jena.academia.edu/BueRübnerHansen
Barbora Cernusakova @bcernusa.bsky.social Labour disciplining & racialised debt | Digital rights of workers | Written: 'Surplused Lives. Roma under Czech racial capitalism.' MUP | Hallsworth Fellow, University of Manchester. past: researcher @amnesty
https://vimeo.com/842892762/c58992
Manuela Latchoumaya @m-latchoumaya.bsky.social Incoming Hallsworth Fellow @uomsociology.bsky.social
Indian indenture, "labour" migration, race and diaspora.
Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com Professor @ BU Wheelock & Economics | Co-editor @ JHR | AER Board of Editors 2027-29 | White House CEA 2022-23 | www.joshua-goodman.com
Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com Transparency, regulation, business & interest group politics, and metascience. Manage @apsa.bsky.social DDRIG. The people know it's casino capitalism 🎰
Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social Geographer - Professor - Mum - Playing - #playstreets - Cycling - #kidicalmass - #WarOnCars - Walking - Noticing - Green - North Tyneside - North Shields - UK
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
Andy Aitchison @andyaitchison.bsky.social Freelance documentary #photographer, working since 1991. Covering most subjects, Climate solutions, Unions, Campaigns, Social & Criminal Justice, specialise in photographing in UK prisons. Visit my website: www.andyaitchison.uk for more.
Martin Ehlert @mehlert.bsky.social Sociologist at WZB Berlin Social Science Center and FU Berlin: inequality, labor markets, lifelong learning, technological change, and NEPS panel data
Alyssa Battistoni @alybatt.bsky.social political theory @BarnardCollege: climate, Marxism, feminism. A Planet to Win at Verso; Free Gifts out now at Princeton UP https://tinyurl.com/fa8868a5
www.alyssabattistoni.com
Peter Campbell @petersoc.bsky.social Reader @ Dept. of Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology, University of Liverpool.
Jorge Gillies (Profegeorgie) @profesorgeorgie.bsky.social Santiago, Chile. Profesor Titular UTEM, profesor Asociado IACC. Periodista, ex diplomático. Interesado en la ciencia y la tecnología y su incidencia en la transformación de la sociedad. Desilusionado, pero no desinteresado, de la política contingente.
Matthew Haji-Michael @theruleoflawguy.bsky.social Political theory PhD student working on all things Rule of Law. Based in Vienna at CEU (@weareceu.bsky.social)
Website: https://www.matthewhajimichael.com/home
Institutional Page: https://dsps.ceu.edu/people/matthew-haji-michael
Yago Viñuales @yagovp.bsky.social Estudiante de Sociología y Ciencias Políticas en la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
Helen_5Calls.org @cruellaisdevine.bsky.social READ 👉 DemocracyInChains | CStreet | ShadowNetwork | DarkMoney |KochLand| SonsOfWichita | TheFamily |AmericanRule | Jesus&JohnWayne |ThePowerWorshippers | TheMidnightKingdom
WATCH 👉 PeopleYouMayKnow | BadFaith | TheBrainwashingOfMyDad | TheFamily
Claire Ainsley @claire-ainsley.bsky.social Director PPI project on Centre-left Renewal; author ‘The New Working Class’; Exec Director of Policy for Labour and Keir Starmer 2020-22
Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com Sociologist and demographer, U. of Maryland; SocArXiv director.
Latest book: Citizen Scholar: Public Engagement for Social Scientists https://cup.columbia.edu/book/citizen-scholar/9780231555418
Website: philipncohen.com
Blog: familyinequality.com
Work and Equalities Institute @workequalities.bsky.social www.wei.manchester.ac.uk
Research institute at The University of Manchester. Research themes include: Work Futures, Fairness and Wellbeing in the Workplace, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, and Regulation and representation.
Vladimir Bortun @vladimirbortun.bsky.social Materialist political scientist and lecturer in politics, currently based at St. John's College, Oxford. Working on class politics, far right parties, fractions of capital, political elites, and the European left. From Bucharest.
Tim White @timwhite100.bsky.social Social scientist interested in questions of power at the intersection of housing, land, tech and finance.
King's College London / London School of Economics
www.timwhite.work
John Hacking @hacking4chorlton.bsky.social Governor Chorlton CofE Primary & @EndeavourFeder1. @unisonmcr. A director of the Edge Theatre in Chorlton
Simone Varriale @simov.bsky.social Sociologist at Loughborough University, linktr.ee/simovarr
Class, migration, race, culture, music. Migrant cook. He/him.
Caitríona Beaumont @caitbeaumont.bsky.social Prof Emerita | History female activism, gender equality & women's social movements Britain & Ireland | #HistoryofExperience | Fellow @royalhistsoc.org | PI #womensgrassrootsactivism | Visiting Full Prof @ucddublin.bsky.social & Visiting Researcher @utu.fi
Paul Joosse @pjoosse.bsky.social Sociologist, @HKUniversity | Editor, Sociological Theory @SociologicalTheory.bsky.social | Secretary Treasurer of @isa-sociology.org
Sociological Theory Research Cluster | #theory #sociology #charisma #populism and yes, #Trump
Robert MacDonald @rfmacdonald.bsky.social Social Scientist/ Professor (Honorary - Durham)
South Shields, UK.
The usual stuff: ‘left-wing flim-flam’/ sociology (youth, inequality, class etc)/ hills/ birds/ dogs/ politics/ punk/ MCFC/ archaeology/ the North East, & those sort of things.
💙&✌🏽
Marta Pagnini @pagninimarta.bsky.social I am a sociologist working on historical sociology, the sociology of elites, and computational social science based at LSE and King’s College London
University of Manchester Sociology Department @uomsociology.bsky.social Researching and teaching sociology at The University of Manchester since 1964.
Links: https://linktr.ee/UoMSociology
Web: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/sociology
David Spencer @davidaspencer.bsky.social Prof of Economics and Political Economy (Uni of Leeds, UK).
Work; Work Time; Work Reform. Authored: "Making Light Work" (2022) https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=making-light-work-an-end-to-toil-in-the-twenty-first-century--9781509548620
Thijs Bol @thijsbol.bsky.social Professor of sociology (social stratification and inequality) at the University of Amsterdam || Schrijft een boek bij Das Mag || Co-chair of the annual AISSR Popquiz
Matt Houlbrook @tricksterprince.bsky.social History, Britain, culture, cities, selfhood, sexuality, gender, #20s30s.
Now - The Institute: The untold story of Pelmanism and its followers
Just out - Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London (MUP)
He / him
Brendan Bartanen @brendanbartanen.bsky.social Associate professor of education and public policy at the University of Virginia. Stumbling my way through the AI revolution at https://brendanbartanen.substack.com/
Nastia Nedjaï @nastianedjai.bsky.social PhD Candidate at the Max Planck Institute for Political and Social Science
Hettie O’Brien @hettieobrien.bsky.social Writer at the Guardian: First Edition and Guardian Long Reads | Author of THE ASSET CLASS
Dirk Witteveen @dirkwitteveen.bsky.social Sociologist @ University of Oxford & Nuffield College | Senior Lecturer in Social Policy @ Department of Social Policy and Intervention | PhD CUNY Graduate Center
https://www.dirkwitteveen.com/
Ben Dammers @bendammers.bsky.social literary studies and didactics @UniversityofCologne | picturebooks | multimodality | spatiality | materiality | paratextuality | schriftbild | eye tracking
Monique de Jong McKenzie @mdemac.bsky.social Senior Researcher at Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies. Looking at subjectivities of capitalism, assets, wealth, investing and fintech.
Nina Hahne @ninahahne.bsky.social 💻 Science manager @cais-research.bsky.social
📙 Deputy editor @policyr.bsky.social
PhD from @unihalle.bsky.social
✒️ #writing #digitaltransformation #openaccess #ruhrgebiet📍
@andreazisa.bsky.social @andreazisa.bsky.social
Social Theory on Film @socialtheoryonfilm.bsky.social Short films about Sociology, intended to welcome newcomers to the discipline, help students and entertain Sociologists | Committed to Public Sociology | Sociology lecturer based in Leeds, UK.
https://youtube.com/@socialtheoryonfilm?si=I2drpF7ww45l9PKr
David H. Price @dhprice.bsky.social Anthropologist, FOIA scholar, & sometimes historian of anthropology. I mostly write about FBI, CIA, and DoD efforts to undermine democratic movements at home and abroad.
Every billionaire is a policy failure.
davidhprice.com
Joya Misra @joyamisra.bsky.social Reader, cook, wanderer, sociologist, committed to building democratic, hopeful, just societies
First-Generation/Working Class Sociologists @fgwc-sociology.bsky.social
Tim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social Political philosopher (they/them) working on critical theory, technology, and labour. Assistant Professor of economic ethics at Tilburg University. Genderfluid 🏳️⚧️
Christina de Bellaigue @cadebellaigue.bsky.social Historian of 19thC GB & France - social mobility, childhood, gender, women, education; She/Her. Daughter of an immigrant, married to grandson of immigrants. Recently joined Green Party.
Mark McCormack @markmccormack.bsky.social Sociologist. Professor. Focus on sexualities, transgressive leisure and society. Editor-in-Chief of Sexuality & Culture. Posts are in a personal capacity. I volunteer with The Loop, read and play badminton.
Dr Caitlin Vincent @caitlinvincent.bsky.social Librettist & lyricist. Author of OPERA WARS (Scribner). Senior Lecturer @UniMelb and ARC DECRA Fellow 2025-2027. Opinions own. She/her. ✍🏼👩🏻💻🎶
Ive Marx @ivemarx.bsky.social Professor of Socio-Economic Policy
Director of the Centre for Social Policy Herman Deleeck at the University of Antwerp
Columnist at De Standaard
Ingrid Robeyns @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social Political philosopher and inequality economist. Prof @ Utrecht University | Public values (social justice, democracy, sustainability, quality of life). Fair economies, caring societies. #limitarianism
Cora Molloy @coramolloy.bsky.social Librarian, Writer and Human being (she/her)
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Wendy Y. Li @wendyyli.bsky.social Sociologist studying the political workforce, lobbying, regulation, trade policy, and democracy. Postdoc at SNF Agora Institute, Johns Hopkins University. Based in DC. Philly at heart.
www.wendyyli.com
Hugo Drochon @hdrochon.bsky.social Political Theorist @uniofnottingham.bsky.social | Author of 'Nietzsche's Great Politics' (Princeton 2016) and 'Elites and Democracy' (Princeton 2026)
Dr. Sanne van Oosten @sbvanoosten.bsky.social Senior Researcher at Oxford University.
Interested in Islamophobia, voting, elections, discrimination, diversity, conjoint/field experiments, employer discrimination, immigration attitudes, politics, representation.
A.K.A. Sanne van 't Midden-Oosten
Oleg Sobchuk 🇺🇦 @sobchuk.bsky.social I use big data to research the cultural evolution of arts @ Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics
More: https://www.aesthetics.mpg.de/institut/mitarbeiterinnen/oleg-sobchuk.html
Tobias Wille @tobiaswille.bsky.social Political scientist at Goethe University Frankfurt | international security, diplomacy & trust research | https://www.goethe-university-frankfurt.de/128390545/
Gerry Mitchell @gerrymitchell.bsky.social Researcher. Co-author @brisunipress.bsky.social #UncomfortablyOff. Co-direct @canalsidefridge.bsky.social
Gina Glock @ginaglock.bsky.social PostDoc @TU Berlin | Sociology of Work | Research on work, digitalization, AI, social inequality
Irmak Karademir @irmakkarademir.bsky.social Sociologist. Interested in class inequalities, sociology of culture and arts, consumption dynamics, intersection of taste & politics. @University of Nottingham
Wendy Bottero @wbottero.bsky.social Sociologist at the University of Manchester. Researching ‘grudging acts’ (and quite often doing them too).
@faizashaheen.bsky.social @faizashaheen.bsky.social
Simon Kuper @simonkuper.bsky.social Financial Times columnist, and author of books including Chums, Good Chaps, Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century, Soccernomics and out in late 2025, World Cup Fever. British and now French too, lives in Paris with wife and kids.
Tyler Leeds @tylerleeds.bsky.social Sociology PhD student at UC Berkeley working on media, theory, and conservative politics. Retired journalist and incoming assistant professor at U Delaware
Danielle Pullan @dmpullan.bsky.social Assistant professor of political science researching abortion policy and gender representation | she/her 🏳️🌈🇺🇸🇮🇹 | Alum of MPIfG, U Cologne, American U
Luuk Schmitz @luukschmitz.bsky.social Senior researcher @mpifg.bsky.social (previously @eui-eu.bsky.social). Studying geoeconomics, multinational corporations, industrial policy, and EU strategic autonomy.
https://luukschmitz.com/
Palma Polyak @palmapolyak.bsky.social Senior Researcher @ Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne | IPE & Geoeconomics | Trade imbalances 🚢 & EV battery value chains 🔋
https://palmapolyak.weebly.com/research.html
Timur Ergen @trgn.bsky.social Social Scientist @iaw
https://tergen.org
Alessia Aspide @aspidea.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies | Political economy of public debt and fiscal policies | Southern European in the North
"Hate never made any nation great again"
Erik Neimanns @eneimanns.bsky.social Senior researcher | MPIfG, Cologne | Research on the politics of economic growth, housing and education
https://sites.google.com/view/erik-neimanns/home
Joshua Cova @joshcova.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne. Interested in European comparative political economy, with a focus on the politics of wage-setting and inflation.
https://joshcova.github.io/- R Robin Hetzel @robinhet.bsky.social PhD Student @mpifg.bsky.social | he/him | Research on fiscal policies and public investment
Max Willems @maxwillems.bsky.social PhD researcher @mpifg.bsky.social | Political economy of energy/climate policy
Pauline Kohlhase @pkohlhase.bsky.social Doctoral Researcher at Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Societies
Researching economic growth, political economy and gender inequalities
she/her
Stephan Gruber @stephangruber.bsky.social Post Doctoral Researcher @MPIfG_Cologne . Economic Sociology / Political Economy / Economic Thought / Social Change / Central Banks / Latin-America
Anna Hehenberger @annahehenberger.bsky.social Post-Doctoral researcher @Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz & @Johannes Kepler University Linz, researching and teaching decarbonisation in growth models, climate policy, industry transformation, she/her
Moritz Raykowski @moritzraykowski.bsky.social doctoral researcher in political science & political economy at mpifg and cccp in cologne
political representation
disability politics
electoral rights
Stephan Stuckmann @ststuckmann.bsky.social Political Economist, PhD candidate @MPIfG, industry decarbonisation and macro regimes
Margarethe Hummel @megkingleo.bsky.social Doctoral Researcher @mpifg.bsky.social, EPOG alumni - interested in the political economy of Europe
Clemens Kroneberg @clemenskroneberg.bsky.social Sociology | Diversity, Crime, Networks, Action Theory | University of Cologne | ECONtribute | Principal Investigator SOCIALBOND | Views: own
Martin Schröder @martinschroeder.bsky.social Sociology professor interested in quality of life and how to increase it. Believes in data. Goes running when confused.
https://www.martin-schroeder.de/
Mark Lutter @marklutter345.bsky.social Professor of Sociology, University of Wuppertal
Daniel Mertens @danmertens.bsky.social Professor of International Political Economy | Osnabrück University | Personal website: https://danielmertens.info
Andreas Eisl @andreaseisl.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow on European Economic Policy at institutdelors.eu
Associated researcher at sciencespo.fr
PhD from Sciences Po/MPIfG/Uni Cologne
Co-initiator doppelstaatsbuerger.at
Björn Bremer @bjoernbremer.bsky.social Political economist @CEU | the politics of macroeconomic policies, economic crises & party politics | cycling enthusiast and wannabe sports commentator | www.bjoern-bremer.com
Ronen Mandelkern @mandelkern.bsky.social Political economist
@TelAvivUni
Neoliberalism; Macroeconomic Policy; Welfare State; Privatization; Economists; Ideas & Institutions
https://sites.google.com/view/ronenmandelkern
https://sites.google.com/view/pen-workshop
Aidan Regan @aidanregan.bsky.social Professor of Political Economy @ucddublin | Public Policy | Capitalism | Democracy | Alumnus @EUI_EU @mpifg_cologne @UvA_amsterdam | Columnist @businessposthq
Kai Koddenbrock @kaikodden.bsky.social Political economist and attempts at internationalism. Prof of International Relations and Political Economy at Bielefeld University
Elifcan Celebi @elifcan.bsky.social Researching/teaching comparative social policy at DSPI, University of Oxford
https://elifcancelebi.com
Donato Di Carlo @donatodc.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Political Economy, European Institute, LSE
https://www.lse.ac.uk/european-institute/people/di-carlo-donato
Director: Luiss Hub for New Industrial Policy (LUHNIP) https://leap.luiss.it/luhnip/
https://dicarlo.world/
Alexandre Afonso @alexandreafonso.bsky.social Associate professor at Leiden University. Political economy, migration, welfare states 🇨🇭🇵🇹 🇳🇱 http://alexandreafonso.me
Max Kiecker @recher.bsky.social Doctoral student at MPIFG Cologne. Interested in European Integration and Political Economy in all its shapes and forms.
Fulya Apaydin @fulyaapaydin.bsky.social Associate Prof. | Political economy, industrial policy, finance and development | PI: Governing Private Debt | Writing a book on Space policy for Verso Books 🚀 🛰
Views: my own
Daniel Driscoll @danieldrisc.com Assistant Professor at UVA
Political Economist of Decarbonization
Book: Why Carbon Taxes Failed (OUP)
Nonresident Fellow @rooseveltinstitute.org
danieldrisc.com
Clara Baumann @clarabaumann.bsky.social Doctoral researcher at MPIfG Cologne and University of Duisburg-Essen
Economic Sociology | Global China | Latin America
Camilla Locatelli @cami34.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research at MPIfG | Fiscal Policy in Europe | Technocracy
Arianna Tassinari @aritassinari.bsky.social Assistant Prof, Dept of Social and Political Sciences, University of Bologna | Political economy, labour, crises, Southern Europe
Lea Elsässer @leaelsaesser.bsky.social Political scientist @uni_mainz
Mischa Stratenwerth @m-stratenwerth.bsky.social Political Economist | Research and IMPRS-SPCE Coordinator | Post-Doctoral Researcher | Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies | International Max Planck Research School on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy | Pic: MPIfG/AD
Tobias Arbogast @tobiasarbogast.bsky.social Postdoc @FU Berlin. Working on political economy, central banking, money, macroeconomics
Antonella Faggin @antonellafa.bsky.social University of Cologne | Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Societies