Koen Pauwels @profpauwels.bsky.social best marketing academic on the planet, ex-Amazon, IJRM editor-in-chief, runner, volunteer at Dreamfar High School Marathon, vice dean of research at DMSB. Helping people avoid bad choices and make best choices in AI, retail media and marketing.
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.
Lana Swartz @lanalanalana.bsky.social New Money: How Payment Became Social Media (Yale 2020) / Paid: Tales of Dongles, Checks, and Other Money Stuff (MIT 2017) / Scams / Associate Professor UVA
https://llaannaa.com/
https://digitalculturesandeconomies.com
Professor Amanda Sturgill @drsturg.bsky.social Truthmonger. I write books, teach students and make podcasts about you being smarter about misinformation. #WeAreAltGov #DetectingDeception https://bit.ly/UnSpunPod
Dr William Allchorn @willallchorn.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow @ipppriataru.bsky.social, Assoc Prof @richmondunildn.bsky.social, & Gbl Far Right Co-Editor @manchesterup.bsky.social, researching Far-Right Movements and CVE Responses. https://www.aru.ac.uk/people/william-allchorn
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com Independent journalist, SnapStream brand ambassador, and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter https://www.publicnotice.co/subscribe
EU Science, Research & Innovation @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu The EU channel for scientists & researchers: opportunities to fund your ideas, updates from EU-funded science, and scientific resources you can use in your work.
ACLU @aclu.org A nonprofit, nonpartisan, legal and advocacy 501(c)(4) organization. Visit our site for more about us and our affiliated organization, the ACLU Foundation.
Pew Research Center @pewresearch.org Nonpartisan, nonadvocacy data and analysis. Visit us at https://www.pewresearch.org/
Dr Michelle Walker (/Moffat) @moffski.bsky.social Historian of war & society in WWII UK, veteran disability.
Proud NZer 🇳🇿
Researcher @Manchester Met Uni
FRHistS
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02684527.2025.2573607
Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social Editor and CEO, Zeteo
Author, ‘Win Every Argument’
British-American
Christopher R. Matthews @drcrmatthews.bsky.social ▪︎ Reading, writing & thinking about the moral foundation of scholarship
▪︎ Author of Doing Good Social Science: http://bit.ly/3EgFA2z
▪︎ More about my work: immersiveresearch.co.uk
▪︎ DM for speaking/workshop requests
Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social Demography nerd at Pew Research Center
Global religious change, sociology
Sohan Dsouza @sohandsouza.info 🥼 @MPIB-Berlin.bsky.social;
📚 computational social science, disinformation/polarization, crowdsourcing, OSINT;
🎓 @MIT.edu @MediaLab.bsky.social, @DFRLab.bsky.social #DigitalSherlocks;
📍 London, England;
https://www.sohandsouza.info
Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social Bronx boy. Cubs fan. Dad, husband, writer, podcaster and cable news host.
The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource out now.
https://sirenscallbook.com/
Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social Award winning science fiction author. Cat furniture. Horse patsy. Almost certainly two ornimegalonyxes in a trenchcoat.
🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️🌈
https://buttondown.email/matociquala
THE FOLDED SKY https://books2read.com/u/mBB0QZ
ANGEL MAKER https://books2read.com/u/3kzy2W
Amanda Guinzburg @guinz.bsky.social Writer/Photographer/Editor/New Yorker
https://amandaguinzburg.substack.com/
David Arditi @davidarditi.bsky.social Sociology Professor. Author Digital Feudalism, Getting Signed, Streaming Culture and more. Editor Fast Capitalism 
Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org Art, Activism and Accountability
https://linktr.ee/ledbydonkeys?utm_source=linktree_admin_share
Adam Conover @adamconover.net "Unlikable woke comedian" - the Daily Mail
Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) @aoir.bsky.social Researching the Internet is serious business. Mostly.
(We're mainly over on AoIR.social, our organisation Mastodon instance, which is open to all members.)
https://aoir.org/
https://aoir.social/@aoir
https://aoir.org/aoir2026/
Rumman Chowdhury @ruchowdh.bsky.social www.rummanchowdhury.com
www.humane-intelligence.org
CEO & co-founder, Humane Intelligence
US Science Envoy for AI (Biden Administration)
Oxford Internet Institute @oii.ox.ac.uk Exploring how technology is transforming the way we live, work and govern.
Mohsen Mosleh @mmosleh.bsky.social Prof @Oxford, Affiliate @MIT www.MohsenMosleh.com
Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social Polling editor at CNN, keeping (cross)tabs on public opinion and the news. I like puns.
Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca SocialMediaLab.ca
- News, analysis & views by @philipmai.com re: the politics of tech, social media, AI, immigration, democracy, mis/disinfo, war & propaganda. Explore our suite of social media tools for public interest research: socialmedialab.ca/apps/
The Spark Society @sparksociety.bsky.social The goal of the SPARK Society is to create networks and promote the professional development of historically excluded scholars of African American/Black, Latina/o/e American, and Native American heritage in Cognitive Psychology/Sciences. sparksociety.org
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
Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com Executive Editor at Morning Brew
Priors: NBC News, WaPo, Adweek, Digiday
Bylines: The Awl, The Atlantic, Pacific Standard, Entrepreneur, etc etc etc
Failed musician
Tips? Signal: joshsternberg.08
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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social Skeet about markets and political corruption
Discord: http://bit.ly/3Bf2pNJ
Links: http://bit.ly/3V8D6Gb
Get $50-$5000 to trade: http://bit.ly/4ayctTD
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
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
Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social Dartmouth political scientist and Bright Line Watch co-director. Previously Upshot NYT / CJR contributor, Spinsanity co-founder, All the President's Spin co-author.
https://sites.dartmouth.edu/nyhan/
http://brightlinewatch.org
Heidi Ledford @heidiledford.bsky.social Reporter for Nature, mostly covering biology and medicine.
Probably has more Nature publications than you😁.
hledford.01 (Signal) and heidiledford (@proton.me)
Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social Dad, husband, President, citizen. barackobamabooks.com
Tanya O'Carroll @tanya.eurosky.social Accountable & equitable tech. Senior Fellow, Foxglove Legal suing Meta. Co-founder Amnesty Tech and @peoplevsbigtech.bsky.social
Dr Suzanne Kelly @drsuzannekelly.bsky.social Lecturer in Marketing at Ulster University 👩🏼🏫 PhD in Agri-food Business Innovation 👩🏼🌾
Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com [trying to spend less time on social media]
#ihadablackdog
https://youtu.be/XiCrniLQGYc?si=q-gQTNXfScmgtl4k
This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social Sociologist at UC San Diego. Author of Automating Finance (2019) & The Quantified Scholar (2022) http://tinyurl.com/2p82v69n Director Latin American Studies (2023-?) and the International Institute (2024-26) at UC San Diego.
The Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) @sofi.su.se The Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) at Stockholm University is a leading institute in research on social policy, welfare, inequality, and the labor market.
Learn more at https://sofi.su.se
Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social Prof Operational Research , @UCL_CORU, passionate about health care, women in STEMs, defending liberal democracy (!). Member of @independentsage, posts personal. https://www.trumpactiontracker.info/
A. Brad Schwartz @abradschwartz.bsky.social Historian of Media, Fake News, and Propaganda. Author/Co-Author of BROADCAST HYSTERIA; SCARFACE AND THE UNTOUCHABLE; ELIOT NESS AND THE MAD BUTCHER. Michigan Wolverine with a Princeton PhD.
Mike Ananny 🇨🇦 @mikeananny.bsky.social ananny.org
- Media technologies & production cultures
- How sociotechnical systems enact theories of press freedom & “the public”
- GenAI as a public problem
Associate Professor of Communication & Journalism, USC Annenberg
Always 🇨🇦
Paddy Leerssen @pjleerssen.bsky.social Postdoc @ivir_uva | DSA Observatory | social media law 
Theresa Josephine Seipp @theresajseipp.bsky.social Postdoc @ AI, Media & Democracy Lab & Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam | Big Tech & Media | Law & Policy | Journalism & Counterpower
Deb @deblavoy.bsky.social Founder @RealityTeam11 field work in inoculation and counter disinfo. Be clear, be excellent, be kind. TEDx Talk http://bit.ly/3AXkdft Most other socials: @deb_lavoy
She/her
Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social Journalists (Ed Krassenstein & Brian Krassenstein) - Fighting hate, lies and tackling conspiracy theories.
IMPORTANT Substack Updates: http://krassencast.com
Dean Jackson @dwj.eurosky.social Unreal Bird. Subscribe to my newsletter here: https://deans-list.ghost.io/
Principal, Public Circle Research & Consulting
Contributing Editor, Tech Policy Press
Senior Fellow, UPitt CTRL
Views my own with apologies to the reader
Laura Olkkonen @lauraonen.bsky.social Associate Professor of Sustainable Business at LUT University, Finland. CSR communication & corporate activism.
vastuullisuus, viestintä, yritysaktivismi
Laura Lambert, PhD 🍋 @laudepluie.bsky.social Posdoc in Neurosciences & Psychology
Universities: Bordeaux - Paris Cité - Lausanne
Behavioural addictions 🎰 🎮🔞
Podcast de vulgarisation 🎧 "Thèse et vous !"
Coordinatrice Pint of Science Bordeaux #pint26
Jeux vidéo & Escalade 💛
Genavee Brown @genaveebrown.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Social Psychology at Northumbria University, UK, online sexism researcher, board game afficianado, and dog mom
Evident @evidentmedia.org Evident is an Emmy-winning nonprofit news organization for investigative visual journalism. We combine evidence-based research with on-the-ground reporting to shed light on conflict, technology, corruption, and other global issues. | evidentmedia.org
ENGAGE.EU @engageeu.bsky.social The European university engaged in societal change
David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social Staff writer for the Atlantic. Host of the David Frum Show webcast. Formerly ... quite a lot of things.
Washington DC and Wellington, Ontario.
Reach me via Producer@TheDavidFrumShow.com
DMs open to followers
Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social journalist, author, reads too much. haggard and unblest. trans guy, he/him. feygeleh & proud 🦩
newsletter:
buttondown.email/theswordandthesandwich
contact: talialavinwrites@gmail.com
🌶 David Gray Widder @davidthewid.bsky.social Assistant Prof at UT Austin's iSchool.
Big Tech, political economy, AI hype, AI in War
trying to help computer ppl think more critically about computer, including me
exCornell/CMU/NASA/MSR/IntelLabs.
davidwidder.me
Maia Woluchem @mwoluchem.bsky.social Program Director of Trustworthy Infrastructures @datasociety.bsky.social & talking about racial capitalism @ NYU Wagner. Formerly Ford Foundation, MIT DUSP. She/her.
Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also jokes. 
Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones.bsky.social Associate Professor Northwestern University in Qatar | Studies Disinfo, Digital Repression & Gulf Politics | Author Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East (Hurst & OUP) Political Repression in Bahrain (Cambridge University Press) | Cat Fancier
Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social Reporter lady @ms.now
Signal username: brandyzadrozny.53
Email from a non-work account: brandy.zadrozny@ms.now
Paul Armstrong @paularmstrongtbd.bsky.social Emerging Technologies Advisor (TBD Group). Also: tech/startup writer, speaker, author of ‘Disruptive Technologies’. Optimistic sceptic.
More info: thetbd.group | paul-armstrong.com | members.tbdpl.us
Richard Hardack @richardhardack.bsky.social Berkeley PhD & JD, needs to buy a vowel. Possibly a Hardack to follow. Author of Your Call Is Very Important to Us: Advertising and the Corporate Theft of Personhood & Not Altogether Human: Pantheism and the Dark Nature of the American Renaissance.
Samanth Subramanian @samanthsubramanian.bsky.social Words in the Guardian, the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, and others. Books on fish, Sri Lanka, and JBS Haldane. Newsletter: http://samanth.substack.com
Thomas Germain @thomasgermain.bsky.social Tech columnist for the BBC and host of The Interface podcast. I cover how we use technology, and how technology uses us
Craig Silverman @craigsilverman.bsky.social Cofounder of https://indicator.media, your essential guide to understanding and investigating digital deception. Sign up for free! Investigative journalist and OSINT trainer.
https://craigsilverman.ca
Alexios Mantzarlis @mantzarlis.com Tech, facts, and carbonara.
mantzarlis.com
Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social Explaining anti-democratic rhetorical tricks. Award winning #teamrhetoric professor & author. Very earnest. Democracy cheerleader. Views represent my academic research, not my university. I post things on substack: https://jennifermercieca.substack.com/
Lucie Cejkova @luccej.bsky.social she/her ~ PhD candidate & junior researcher @medjournmu.bsky.social ~ SYRI, PRINS ~ 🛸📰 #ConspiracyThinking #Misinformation #NewsAudiences
Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social Menominee | Organizer | Co-author of Let This Radicalize You | Hosts Movement Memos podcast | Newsletter: organizingmythoughts.org | More: http://linktr.ee/KellyHayes
Les Surligneurs @lessurligneurs.bsky.social #legalchecking du discours politique, pour la qualité du débat public.
🟡 Soutenez la lutte contre la désinformation politique en participant à notre campagne de financement : https://lessurligneurs.eu/soutenez-les-surligneurs/
➡️ lessurligneurs.eu
Nelly @nellyp.checkfirst.network Co-founder, COO @checkfirst.network - Information integrity, FIMI, platforms accountability and so on.
also Team ObSINT @obsint.eu 🔍
Media and Communication @cogitatiomac.bsky.social Media and Communication is a peer-reviewed open access journal dedicated to a wide variety of research in communication.
2023 Impact Factor: 2.7 (Q1)
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication
CAAD_Coalition @caadcoalition.bsky.social Climate Action Against Disinformation
A global coalition of 120+ climate and anti-disinformation organisations.
https://caad.info/
Imran Ahmed @imranahmed.bsky.social CEO & Founder of Center for Countering Digital Hate
Mariana Mazzucato @mazzucatom.bsky.social Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value, University College London. Author: Entrepreneurial State, Value of Everything, Mission Economy, Big Con. Founding Director UCL Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose
www.marianamazzucato.com
Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social He/Him. Dad. Journo tracking dark money and attacks on public health. JD, ADHD, occasional cartoonist.
Co-founder of Accountability Journalism Institute. Accountabilityjournalism.org
Signal: walkerbragman.44
Reporting: https://www.importantcontext.news
Katie Mack @astrokatie.com Cosmologist, pilot, author, connoisseur of cosmic catastrophes. TEDFellow, CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar. Domain verified through my personal astrokatie.com website. She/her. Dr.
Personal account; not speaking for employer or anyone else.
Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
Vice-President of the European Commission
Karen L Mansfield @karenlauram.bsky.social ResearchScientist:
EmergingTechnologies, MentalHealth/Wellbeing/Learning,
MetaScience, ResearchIntegrity, MixedMethods.
SocialEquity, People&Planet, ActiveTravel, Sustainability.
FirstGen ImposterInAcademia
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that. 
Sabra Boyd @sabraboyd.bsky.social journalist | screenwriter | comms strategist | child trafficking survivor | ex hospital admin | born on a Coen brothers movie | SabraBoyd.com
Marta Cambronero @martacambro.bsky.social Postdoc researcher at CNSC-UOC.
Also in fuina@mastodon.social
Nuppu Pelevina @nuppu.bsky.social Doctoral researcher @ University of Helsinki, project researcher @ University of Vaasa. Board member of @rajapinta.co Intersted in #polcomm #AI #GenAI #war #influencers #Brazil #Russia #Ukraine #propaganda 
Teresa Weikmann @teresaelena.bsky.social Postdoc @ascor.bsky.social & BENEDMO
she/her | visual political communication
Marina Tulin @marinatulin.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Political Communication at University of Amsterdam (ASCoR) | misinformation | public trust | digital citizenship
Stefan Brenner @stefanbrenner.net PhD research fellow at Oslo Metropolitan University. Media & journalism studies. Research on journalism and verification methods in war & conflict. Also safety of journalists, mis-/disinformation, deepfakes, and conspiracy theories.
Christian Ströbele @cstroebele.bsky.social Religion, Philosophy, Theology, Interfaith Relations. Head of Department of Interreligious Dialogue @akademiers.bsky.social. Lecturer. @c_stroebele@mastodon.social
Emily Watson @emilywatson.bsky.social Producer/director/editor. Formerly at Quartz & HuffPost. Currently in politics & labor unions. Always riding a bike.
Work: evwatson.com
Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social Writer, podcaster and former diplomat.
Buy my book👇
https://tr.ee/ElementalBookshopOrg
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If you don't want to buy my book, you could buy me a coffee👇
https://ko-fi.com/snellarthur
Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social Ecosocialist bluestocking. Immigrant & settler 🇪🇺🇨🇭🇺🇸🇬🇧. Social ecology & ecological economics at Uni Lausanne in 🇨🇭. Bad at email. She/her
Emma Spiro @emmaspiro.bsky.social Associate Professor at the UW iSchool, Co-Founder UW Center for an Informed Public | PhD in Sociology from UC Irvine | Research: social networks, sociology, information integrity & computational social science.
Kristy Roschke @roschkekj.bsky.social Executive Director, McGee Applied Research Center for Narrative Studies, Vanderbilt University
Ali Versluis @aliversluis.bsky.social The Kyle Lowry of libraries. Last name sounds like a volcano. I do open stuff. Libraries, labour, politics, feminism, basketball, and feelings found here.
Katherine Long @klong.bsky.social Investigations reporter at the Wall Street Journal, via Business Insider and The Seattle Times. katherine.long@wsj.com. Send tips on Signal: longka.38
Juha Lipponen @juhalipponen.fi Innovation professional, 30yrs R&D and project experience. In a quest of saving the Earth with the awesome properties of biomaterials.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/juhalipponen/
Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social The official "Resistance" team of U.S. National Park Service. Our website: www.ourparks.org
University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk Welcome to our official account 👋 Follow for the latest news, research and updates about life at Oxford.
Tanja Schneider @taschn.bsky.social Head of Science and Technology Studies #STS Section @DTU 🇩🇰
Research Affiliate at InSIS @ox.ac.uk | @sydney.edu.au PhD | still writing a book about #Food #Finance #Futures | also sharing thoughts and photos on 📚🌷