IOB - Institute of Development Policy @iobua.bsky.social Institute of Development Policy, @UAntwerpen.be, Belgium | Multidisciplinary academic research, education, partnerships, political engagement
👉 https://uantwerpen.be/iob
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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
Bellingcat @bellingcat.com Bellingcat is a global collective uncovering facts to hold power to account. Our work is independent. Our methods are public. Our community is global.
Want to support our charity? bellingcat.com/donate
Daniel Malmer @malmer.com PhD student researching media, political communication, and extremism. Software developer turned computational social scientist. This is a Frieren stan account.
Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social journalist, author, reads too much. haggard and unblest. trans guy, he/him.
newsletter:
buttondown.email/theswordandthesandwich
contact: talialavinwrites@gmail.com
Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social Political Communication Professor at GWU. I write a lot about the history and future of tech and politics. Best known for that one time I made fun of Bret Stephens.
Davekarpf.beehiiv.com
Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social NYT opinion writer, Slate Money co-host, Dem messaging consultant, former EIC The New York Observer, Dealbreaker founder and Gawker founding editor. Brooklyn via Bama. Rednexican. Striver with no chill.
https://linktr.ee/elizabethspiers
Karl Bode @karlbode.com Seattle-based writer focused on tech, media, politics, and consumer rights.
Subscribe to my newsletter The Fine Print*: karlbode.com
Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social Teaches US History at Willamette Univ. Working on a book about the long history of the US Right. https://rightlandia.ghost.io/
Donie O’Sullivan @donie.bsky.social CNN Senior Correspondent
www.instagram.com/doniecnn/
Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social Prof @ Penn studying media, race, tech, feminism, politics.
Author of A SECOND SIGHT (Mariner, 2026), co-author #HASHTAGACTIVISM (MIT Press, 2020) + more.
Typos and opinions both mine.
Co‑Director: @miccenter.bsky.social
Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social Assistant professor of political science at Stanford. Forthcoming book, Respectability Politics, with University of Chicago Press.
Not Hakeem Jeffries, the Minority Leader.
Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski Bluesky literary crisis actor. Opinions mine.
📍Charlottesville
en / de / es
Posts autodelete after 2 days or if viral. Some posts automated.
Web:
- emilygorcenski.com
- Bookwyrm.social/EmilyG
- registry.blue
- @brandblock.online
Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social Historian of technology, occasional dad jokes.
www.marhicks.com
Nick Martin @nick-martin.bsky.social I run The Informant, a publication covering hate and extremism in the US. Returning soon. Living with Long Covid. Profile photo by Victor G Jeffreys II.
The Informant: https://www.informant.news
Other places to find me: https://linktr.ee/nick_martin
J.M. Berger @jmberger.com Author. Extremism, dystopia, fiction.
https://www.jmberger.com/
► EXTREMISM @mitpress: https://amzn.to/3RWYimO
► THE POPE'S HITMAN, 10/27/26: https://amzn.to/4ojzmC6
► OPTIMAL: https://amzn.to/4ewhhx8
Affiliate links support my work
Ethan Zuckerman @ethanz.bsky.social UMass Amherst, Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure, Global Voices, Berkman Klein Center. Formerly Center for Civic Media, MIT Media Lab. 
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that. 
Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social Educational developer, writer, historian, abolitionist | Higher ed, critical pedagogy, C18/19th, and baseball-esp. minor leagues |Wrote: https://wvupressonline.com/node/823 | Writing: human/e teaching and learning in the "AI" age | Hope, always.| he/him.
Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social Retired nuclear scientist. Worked in Estonia, Kazakhstan, and Los Alamos on environmental cleanup, nuclear nonproliferation, and the nuclear fuel cycle.
She/her.
Blogs at Nuclear Diner and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Photo: Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site
Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social Historian of the white power movement, gun violence, the apocalypse. Coloradan. kathleenbelew.com Book coming soon! Home, at the End of the World (Random House) Posts reflect my own views only.
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.
Bethany Albertson @albertsonb2.bsky.social Associate Prof at UT Austin. I study political psych & public opinion. I also post about soccer and my cats.
Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz Professor, researcher, author.
Prez, Assoc of Internet Researchers (AOIR), synth lover, fan of many things, gay lady.
Wrote a book called Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media (YUP 19), and Meta stole it to train its LLM.
Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social ✍🏽 • RACE AFTER TECHNOLOGY: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code • VIRAL JUSTICE: How We Grow the World We Want • IMAGINATION: A Manifesto 📚www.ruhabenjamin.com
Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social Organizer, writer, mom. Philly partisan. IIWFJU member.
She/they.
David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social californian. human rights, free expression, tech, international law. uc irvine. fulbright. article 19. prior: UN special rapporteur, GNI chair.
edu coalition (dm for details)
go bears!
Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus Dad. Wiseguy. Deep South expat. 🏠 Los Angeles, Ca. Prior 📇: Malcontent strategist @ Planned Parenthood Action Fund, DNC, Nat’l Dem. Inst., BlueState. Views my own. Also @ggreeneva @ 🐦 & 🐘.
Conspirador Norteño @conspirator0.bsky.social Data Scientist/Musician/Participant in the General Confusion.
Oppose autocracy and research/counter disinformation. I serve the realm.
Caution: frequent cat photos.
https://conspirator0.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1ItrZiqTLw
Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social Professor of Political Science who thinks you should care more about local politics (especially sheriffs) and foster dogs.
Author of Power of the Badge: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo220537347.html
BostonJoan 🏳️🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social I am the founder of The Critical Internet Studies Institute and an Assistant Professor of Journalism and Emerging Media Studies at Boston University
www.criticalinternet.org
Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social Associate prof of psychology Vanderbilt Univ, studies how adults and children learn true and false information, she/her, lkfazio.com
Safiya Umoja Noble, PhD @safiyanoble.bsky.social Living in Los Angeles. Native Californian. #MacFellow
Writer, professor. Comedian.
Author, “Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism,” which is unfortunately still relevant to understanding today’s LLMs and AI.
safiyaunoble.com
Maaike @maaikeverbruggen.bsky.social non-practicing intellectual on war & tech
NL/EN
Shannon McGregor, PhD @shannimcg.bsky.social Professor at UNC. PI at CITAP. Researching & writing on political comm: identity, social media, public opinion, news - all "depressing & timely" BOOK: Media & January 6th (Oxford) https://global.oup.com/academic/product/media-and-january-6th-9780197758533
J. Mijin Cha @jmijin.bsky.social Assist prof, env studies; Fellow, Climate Jobs Institute and @cplusc.bsky.social; Board, Greenpeace Fund; just transition; labor/climate. 🍉 #COYS 🇰🇷🇺🇸
📚: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262550796/a-just-transition-for-all/
https://mijincha.com
Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social I try to be helpful. Bike-riding dog butler and mold connoisseur.
Use your employer's money to buy Just Enough Research: www.mulebooks.com/just-enough-research.
Enjoy clickens.chicken.pics when you need a break.
San Francisco. She/They/Friend/Sir
Danielle Citron @daniellecitron.bsky.social Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law; Vice President of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative; #MacFellow; Author of The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age (2022) and Hate Crimes in Cyberspace (2014) 🍋
Edward Perez @eddieperez.bsky.social Ex-Twitter director for civic integrity. Media commentary & analysis; social media, election admin & voting tech. Lapsed poli-sci academic. Likes: democracy, facts.
http://linkedin.com/in/eddie1perez
Board of Directors @osetinstitute.org
🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social Anthro PhD Candidate.
nukes, cats, semiotics, FOIA, existential threats, heritage, nationalism, secrecy, etc.
Presumptive #AuDHD
QUEER
RT/Fave/etc ≠agree
he/him
http://patreon.com/nuclearanthro
http://paypal.me/nuclearanthro
https://osf.io/46sfd/
David Carroll @davidcarroll.org admin of federate.social (circa 2022)
faculty of parsons.edu (circa 2000)
subject of The Great Hack (Netflix 2019)
headshot by Bryan Derballa (Wired 2019)
header from Cadillacs & Dinosaurs (Capcom 1993)
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 🎰
Joshua Tucker @jatucker.bsky.social Politics Prof, NYU; Director @NYUJordanCenter for Adv Study of #Russia; Co-Director NYU Center for Social Media and Politics @CSMaP_NYU (http://csmapnyu.org); long suffering NY Mets fan; @j_a_tucker on other platforms; he/him
alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social Dir of Research, Data & Society. Academic. Studies tech & society, far-right disinfo. UNC CITAP. Loves pop cult. Mom, fashion victim, sci fi/fantasy enthusiast. Author of The Private is Political, Status Update. NYC forever. She/her/femme 💅🏻 tiara.org
Boston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social Science writer. New book: A Pox on Fools arrives in May 2026. Preorders https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/808113/a-pox-on-fools-by-thomas-levenson/ Professing science writing at MIT. Spouse & dad. Servant to 2 feline overlords...All opinions mine.
Bob Lord @boblord.bsky.social Cautiously pessimistic, esp. about cyber things.
The owls are not what they seem. 🗻🗻🦉🌲🪵 🍒🥧☕️🍩 🕵🏼♀️ 👍🏻
Also: 🔐🔑🔒
And of course: hacklore.org
Other account: @hacklore.bsky.social
Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology, NYU. Core Faculty, CSMaP. Research Fellow Oxford Sociology. Computational social science, Methods, Conflict, Communication. Webpage: https://www.cjbarrie.com/
Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social AI and cognitive science, Founder and CEO (Geometric Intelligence, acquired by Uber). 8 books including Guitar Zero, Rebooting AI and Taming Silicon Valley.
Newsletter (100k subscribers): garymarcus.substack.com
Daniel Kreiss @dkreiss.bsky.social Prof, researcher UNC CITAP, Tech + Politics.
NYU's Center for Social Media, AI, and Politics @csmapnyu.org We work to strengthen democracy by conducting rigorous research, advancing evidence-based public policy, and training the next generation of scholars.
https://csmapnyu.org/links
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.
Karla Monterroso @karlaliliana.bsky.social Part chaplain, part cross-pollinator, part coach, part builder. Multiracial multicultural institution dreamer. Brava pero vulnerable.
www.bravaleaders.com
Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social Soc of Work + Platform Labor | Head of Sociology, University of Edinburgh | https://workersobservatory.org | @jcultecon + Platforms & Society
Ryan J. Gallagher @ryanjgallag.com Applied scientist trying to make the internet a little better. PhD. Trust & safety, networks, fingerstyle guitar. I use my hair to express myself. They/he
A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social Researching conservative news and right-wing media. PhD in American Studies from NYU. I teach at but don't speak for the University of Alabama.
News on the Right (http://bit.ly/2YgUcZX).
Making the Liberal Media (https://shorturl.at/e31nU)
C🅰️S Ⓜ️UDDE @casmudde.bsky.social Dutchman 🇳🇱 in South 🇺🇸 | Politologist 🧑🎓 | columnist ✍️ | public speaker 🗣️ | Far-right politics 👌 | Soccer & Politics ⚽ | European politics 🇪🇺 | Defending democracy 👊 | punkrock 🎸 | #groundhopping ⚽🏒🏉 | movies 🎦 | watches ⌚ | no manels ❌ | only MY opinions 👋
Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk Researches Propaganda & IW; Visiting Prof @notredame.bsky.social; Fellow @ Bard; Associate @ Cambridge; Owner Maven of Persuasion; Snr Researcher Oscar-shortlisted The Great Hack on #CambridgeAnalytica. 🐕 https://emma-briant.co.uk signal: Emmalbriant.44
Becca Lewis @beccalew.bsky.social Assistant prof of comparative media studies @MIT. Cultural and political histories of Silicon Valley and the internet.
Sam Jackson @sjacks26.myatproto.social Researching right-wing extremism in the U.S, conspiracy theories, extremist language, etc.
Professing in Albany, NY
Black Lives Matter
he/him
My Oath Keepers book: bit.ly/2DOUuh7
CV: https://tinyurl.com/meyy6xpd
University of Washington Information School @ischool.uw.edu One of the world's top schools in information science. Offering degrees in Informatics, Library and Information Science (MLIS), Information Management (MSIM), and Museology, and doctorates in information science. Seattle, WA.
https://ischool.uw.edu/
Erin A. Snider @erinsnider.bsky.social
IR, Middle East political economy, democracy aid, & development • Egypt she/her • Author, Marketing Democracy: http://bit.ly/3j8sN8k
JJ MacNab @jjmacnab.bsky.social Fellow, George Washington University's Program on Extremism. UC Berkeley alumna. Cats are badass.
DrJessieNYC @jessienyc.bsky.social Writer. Professor. Queer. Latest book: #NiceWhiteLadies.
paul johnson @rhetoricpj.bsky.social I live in pittsburgh and like it. wrote a book about conservative populism. have spent the last 15 years studying the right.
go arsenal! I like gin.
Book: https://www.uapress.ua.edu/9780817321093/i-the-people/
Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social Asst Prof @ Illinois Dept of Communication studying media, politics, & identity, not necessarily in that order. UMich Comm & Media / SDSU Journalism & Media Studies / Drexel Digital Media alumnus / USMC veteran. Views = my own. http://www.stewartcoles.com
Dani Brown @daniellekbrown.bsky.social Researcher of news x power systems. Complains about institutions & bad peloton rides. No longer engaging regularly in social media. 
Dr. Allison Betus (she/her) 🌈 @allisonbetus.bsky.social Social scientist/bug farmer. quant | media | bias | WS/FR extremism
Pubs: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=l-41bdcAAAAJ&hl=en
Rgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Allison-Betus
Bugs: https://youtube.com/@morphsaplenty?si=zzQ2bcBZUMSX8uOT
Scott Kelley Ernest - CEPI x HEIR | #mtpol 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @mxscottkernest.bsky.social BSPH｜MSW Student｜Extremism+Infection Prevention @handsofeir.bsky.social
｜Agender｜Heathen｜Libertarian Socialist｜Metal｜TTRPGs｜Sex Positivity｜Kink｜🫶 @vanillasprinkles.bsky.social｜Preparedness｜#2A Firearms｜Columbia Falls, Montana
https://linktr.ee/waeshael
Francesca Tripodi @ftripodi.bsky.social Dr. Tripodi is a sociologist who studies the internet and how information flows online
www.spillab.com
Emily Van Duyn @emilyvanduyn.bsky.social Associate Professor at The U of I / alum of UT Austin & Stanford / studying political communication & digital media
Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life @citap.bsky.social We research the intersection of technology platforms and democratic society.
Our work produces insights that inform a digital future rooted in equality and justice.
https://linktr.ee/unc_citap
Tracy Quan @tracyquannyc.bsky.social Author, broadcaster, emerging poet. Novels https://tinyurl.com/DMCG-ebook Essays https://tinyurl.com/47huhbn5 Verses https://tinyurl.com/mst8umpv, https://tinyurl.com/3emu88we & https://tinyurl.com/2e2n94ky
Lorcan Neill @lorcancneill.bsky.social PhD Candidate at UNC Hussman & CITAP | Studying polcomm, sports, & democracy | GW SMPA & NC State alum
Jo(sephine) Lukito @jolukito.bsky.social DDC Professor of Digital Communication and DIAS Chair at the University of Southern Denmark | Modern Kilogirl 👩💻 | Computational Linguistics & Global/US PolComm
Brent Lee @brentlee.bsky.social Host / Producer of Some Dare Call It Conspiracy podcast. Former conspiracist turned debunker. Now that I debunk conspiracy theories, I have become an actual conspiracy theory. True story.- L Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social Researcher and teacher. Writing about race, gender and internet stuff since 1995. “The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet” out from U. Minn press. Lisanakamura.net for articles if you want.
Carolyn Schmitt @carolynschmitt.bsky.social UNC Grad Student | Knight-CITAP Fellow | Go Hoos!
Meredith L. Pruden @meredithpruden.bsky.social Assistant Professor in metro ATL. Researching harmful online content, far-right media & politics. Affiliate @UNC CITAP. Fellow @TheIRMS. Member @Coalition for Independent Tech Research & @Media, Data & Democracy Co-op. Words are mine. Duh. she/her
Nolan Zugernat @zugernat.bsky.social “I’m a wiseass and a smartass, and I always have been.”
— David Letterman
Rod Graham (The Neighborhood Sociologist) @roderickgraham.bsky.social Gadfly | I post about social science, culture, and progressive politics | Views are my own
https://rodgraham.substack.com/
Clay Williams @clayw.bsky.social Ph.D. Student // UNC-Chapel Hill // researching LGBTQ+ media effects, entertainment, body image
🏳️🌈 he/him
Yvonne Eadon, PhD @yvonnemelisande.bsky.social Lecturer in Info Studies @ Glasgow Uni | info seeking, conspiracy theories, gender & sexuality | they/she 🌈
views my own
yvonneeadon.com
Daniel Johnson @danappunc.bsky.social Park Doctoral fellow
@UNChussman. Graduate affiliate @unc_citap
Former Army journalist and author of #InherentResolve.
Katie Furl @katherinefurl.bsky.social Assistant professor of sociology, University of North Dakota | digital platforms & inequality | she/her | views my own
katherinefurl.com
william partin @partin.bsky.social phd | policy @youtube | esports grouch. all opinions my own!
Travis View @travisview.bsky.social Father. Husband. Tap water goblin. QAnon Anonymous podcast host.
QAnon, conspiracy theories, disinfo, and other signs of the dystopia.
Email: travis @ Qanonanonymous.com
Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social Tlönista. Shitposting merrily downward. Weird plant, cat, books lady. Sci-fi, fantasy, art, jazz, etc. Profile photo is a selfie with the bottom half of my face hilariously covered by my cat's. Banner pic is of crows in a tree.
Dr. Marc-André Argentino @maargentino.com Counterterrorism | National Security | Child Safety | www.maargentino.com | 🇨🇦 Facta Non Verba
My Books:
QAnon: From Conspiracy Theory to New Religious Movement
Contemporary Far-Right Culture
Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social Senior researcher at @openmeasures.io
Co-host of "Posting Through It": https://www.patreon.com/PostingThroughIt
Anil Dash @anildash.com the internet's uncle • waging a victorious 2-front war against cars and christmas • big fan of being a big fan of things • go read https://anildash.com
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social Reporter lady @ms.now
Signal username: brandyzadrozny.53
Email from a non-work account: brandy.zadrozny@ms.now
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social Writer. Never bet against the dumbest outcome. @cwarzel.92 on signal if you have a tip. I have a podcast so please like and subscribe.
Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social antirape activist turned theorist and educator. I make and analyze media. proud bunny mama. she/hers
🇰🇪🇧🇸
twitter.com/wagatwe
wagatwe.com
estarianne @estarianne.bsky.social Just your average middle aged mom but disabled and socialist. Anti-fascism, progressive politics, inclusive feminism, birds, psychology and neuroscience. Orange County, CA. pfp: @halaylah
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
Jennifer Van Goethem @jennvg.bsky.social I edit things.
Zarina Zabrisky @zarinazabrisky.bsky.social US journalist in Ukraine.
War correspondent: BylineTimes, EuromaidanPress
Also BBC World, TVP World, Sunday Post.
Literary Essays: Longreads, Paris Review, LARB.
🎥 https://khersonhumansafari.com/
Author. Novel: We, Monsters (2012)
Ashley Jardina @jardina.bsky.social Political scientist @UVA Batten.