thealternative.social @creatinganewworld.bsky.social I created a social network in which 50% of the profits will be given to homeless charities. The social network is www.thealternative.social Please join and invite people to it.
Kath Bassett @kathrithm.bsky.social Lecturer in Sociology at York. I research tourism as a key site of digitisation, tracing how mobilities, hospitality work, and urban economies are governed by algorithms and platforms.
Chase Stewart @chasethewonk.bsky.social Junior sociology student at Morehead State University. Aspiring affordable housing developer. Interim board member of Eastern KY Community Land Trust. Married to a cute history buff 🏳️🌈👬
@fehltnix.bsky.social @fehltnix.bsky.social
Roco Foucault @rocofoucault.bsky.social Soc PhD, CJ prof, indolence activist;
Metro Detroit
Igal Katz @igalkatz.bsky.social https://swigal.blogspot.com/
Adrian H. Huerta, PhD @adrianhuertaphd.bsky.social Tenured faculty member @ USC - studying: boys/men of color; educational inequalities; gang-involved populations; college access. PhD from @UCLA. Aspen Fellow. 🇲🇽 🇺🇸 he/him
Kate Leifheit @leifscience.bsky.social Social Epidemiologist
Housing policies & health
@yigitsametunal.bsky.social @yigitsametunal.bsky.social
Alexandra Cooperstock @acooperstock.bsky.social Sociologist @TeachersCollege studying education, neighborhoods, social policy, and inequality & former K12 teacher
@kday22.bsky.social @kday22.bsky.social
Icons of Change News Network™ @iconsofchange.bsky.social Global Changemakers news and inspiring stories on SDGs & sustainable impact powered by the Icons of Change International
https://www.facebook.com/TheIconsOfChange
Katherine Thomas @kateathomas.bsky.social Sociology PhD candidate at NYU studying housing, climate, and racial and spatial inequality
Katherineathomas.github.io
Carolyn Swope @cbswope.bsky.social PhD candidate in urban planning | researching historical and contemporary production of housing & health injustice
It'sJesMe @jessicamj.bsky.social | Takin a look, seeing what's around here.
(Bi, Black, Hispanic, American, Left; Music-, Art-, Nerd-, Culture-Enthusiast) | Jessica M. J. | Phx, AZ |
Anton Elosegi @antonelosegi.bsky.social PhD Candidate | Interested in social policy, social innovation, welfare state & governance | Reposts ≠ endorsements
@beyondchaz.bsky.social @beyondchaz.bsky.social Blue-state girl, cares about social fairness, environmental protection, and the little joys in life.
@nathanboy16.bsky.social @nathanboy16.bsky.social A free-thinking soul, loves dogs and nature. Dislikes unfair policies, and enjoys life’s little joys.
ChillyDawgg ☑️ @chillydawgg.bsky.social Wisconsinite
Apprentice Shitposter
Canned beverage enthusiast
#TeamYuri 🇺🇦
Dan Baisden @midwestplanner.bsky.social Community Development Practitioner | Urban Sociologist and Embedded Urban Planner focused on building healthy, safe, and vibrant neighborhoods. Research focus on Sociology and Psychology of the American Rust Belt.
Penn State | Arizona State
Abigail Friendly @abigailfriendly.bsky.social Assistant Professor of planning at Utrecht University. Urban policy, cities, housing, politics, Brazil, Canada.
Erin Michaels @erin-michaels.bsky.social Associate Professor UNC-Wilmington
sociologist, race, education, immigration, neoliberalism, & the carceral state.
PhD CUNY GC
BOOK: https://nyupress.org/9781479823390/test-measure-punish/
Guillermopaez @gpaez.bsky.social Immigration and labor scholar
PhD Candidate @ UC Irvine Sociology
Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social Sociologist/demographer specializing in mortality, racial inequity, Covid-19. Avid theater-goer, inconsistent powerlifter, and erstwhile operator of an all-volunteer bookstore. Preschool parent. Living not-quite-car-free in Minneapolis. she/her
Not Andre Dickens. @andresdickins.bsky.social
Max Fineman @maxfineman.bsky.social PhD student in sociology at Princeton. Interested in wealth inequality, housing and financial markets, social policy, causal inference and machine learning
Paul Lewis @p-g-lewis.bsky.social Researcher of urban policy & local government/politics. 1st-gen college grad. Not to be confused with other Paul Lewises (the journalist, the architect, the humor guy, the financial advisor, etc.). Skeets don't represent my employer.
Miguel A. Martínez @miguel-martinez.bsky.social Sociologist. On cities, housing and struggles for social justice. From Spain, based in Sweden (Uppsala Univ.). Author of "Squatters in the Capitalist City" (Routledge) and editor of "Research Handbook on Urban Sociology" (EE). www.miguelangelmartinez.net
joey van der naald @jvandernaald.bsky.social PhD candidate in sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center, researcher at CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies
GSS 2027 @gendercongress.bsky.social Looking for researchers, speakers & experts in Gender & Sexuality Studies
🎓 Join GSS 2027 – 12th Global Congress
📍 Barcelona, Spain | 📅 May 13–14, 2027
📩 DM us for speaking & collaboration opportunities
Website: https://genderstudycongress.com/
Kanika Khanna @kanikak.bsky.social Postdoc @ Rutgers Newark CPRA. Studies race, inequality, and housing integration. Cornell PhD, CUNY and Brown alum. Learning to live with a connective tissue disorder. she/they
Kate Lowe (she/hers) @kateontransport.bsky.social Mobility justice/transportation equity/urban planning and policy. Chicago!!! Proud union member (UIC United Faculty). Day job @ @uiccuppa.bsky.social
Sarah Marie Hall @smhall.bsky.social Professor in Human Geography+UKRI FLF @austerityalters.bsky.social 🍞🌹 Into everyday feminist economic geography, pizza+tap dancing. My views. She/Her
🐕🍕📚🍓🌷
Kelly Doran, MD, MHS @kellymdoran.bsky.social Emergency physician & researcher. Health x Housing Lab Co-Director. Tweets my own / not my employer’s. RT ≠ endorse.
Ian Lundberg @ianlundberg.bsky.social Assistant Professor, UCLA Sociology and California Center for Population Research
https://www.ianlundberg.org/
Van C. Tran @vanctran.bsky.social Professor of Sociology
CUNY Graduate Center
Sebastian Kurtenbach @s-kurtenbach.bsky.social Social Scientist @FH Münster | Urban Sociology | Social Policy | Latest book: Soziologie der Nachbarschaft
https://www.campus.de/e-books/wissenschaft/soziologie/soziologie_der_nachbarschaft-18117.html
Kristin Miller @kristin-miller.bsky.social PhD in Urban Sociology and Film & Digital Media * Image-maker, writer, media nerd * Semi-feral * Los Angeles * she/they
kristinmiller.org
Joey Wallerstein @josephwallerstein.bsky.social College Fellow in Sociology @ Harvard. Researching and teaching on homelessness and housing, urban community, and nonprofits.
Jan Rath @janrath.bsky.social Professor Emeritus of Sociology, and Participant Observer of Urban and Non-Urban Life, www.janrath.com
Stijn Oosterlynck @stijnoosterlynck.bsky.social Full Professor in Urban Sociology at University of Antwerp. Interested in poverty and diversity in cities, social innovation, welfare state and civil society.
Eric Dunn @corpkiller.bsky.social (he/him/él)
Director of Litigation for National Housing Law Project (opinions my own)
Also into calisthenics, OSR role-playing games, language learning, some cooking. Go Blue.
Based in Richmond, Virginia
Language level:
🇬🇧 (🇺🇸): 🙂
🇪🇸: 😎
🇧🇷:🤔
🇫🇷: 😞
Laura Fürsich @laurafursich.bsky.social Post Doc at the Institute for Analytical Sociology.
Interested in mechanisms, cities, and networks.
https://laurafursich.com/
Jake Carias, PhD @jakecarias.bsky.social Urban Sociology, Urban Planning, & Health Inequalities | Statistician @CCCS | Urbanist | Member of the Buffalo diaspora in metro Denver | 🏳️🌈
Travis S. Lowe @tslowe.bsky.social Sociologist. Associate Professor @ the University of Tulsa. Studies inequality, urban sociology, and the sociology of work.
Nina Perkowski @ninaperkowski.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology @UniHH
Young Academy Fellow @AdwHH
Sociology of (In)Security | Migration | Borders | Urban (In)Security | Radical Imagination | Utopias in Dystopic Times
Jedidiah Knode @jedidiahknode.bsky.social Spouse, Dad, AP at Rutgers SCJ (inequalities, urban sociology, environmental criminology). Love gardening, music, and D&D. 🏳️🌈 Mostly reposts, occasionally my own work. https://jedidiahknode.github.io/
Hannah Pullen-Blasnik @hpullenblasnik.bsky.social political economy & the criminal legal system, urban development, algorithms & surveillance. sr data scientist at vera with a sociology phd from columbia. views=mine. hpullenblasnik.com
Jeanne M. Powers @jeannempowers.bsky.social Sociologist, professor of education policy, Lead Editor of Education Policy Analysis Archives (epaa.asu.edu), avid knitter, social media introvert.
Jago Dodson @urbanizationist.bsky.social Professor of Urban Policy, Melbourne, posting/following mostly academically on housing, transport, planning, infrastructure, energy, governance, geography, and climate.
If I followed you it is probably via a starter pack (not personal).
Also @ X, 🐘, 🪡
Adriana Soaita @adrianasoaita.bsky.social Researcher | Author | Writer | Honorary at the University of Glasgow and Bucharest | MSCA fellow | AFFECTIVE-PRS
Qiyao Pan @qpan71.bsky.social Ph.D. candidate @cunygcsociology
qiyaopan.com
Nancy Ammerman @ntammerman.bsky.social Sociologist of Religion; retired (sort of); gardener
Cam Marsinelli @cmarsinelli.bsky.social PhD Candidate in Sociology at UMass Boston, studying expertise & authority in the age of GenAI. Interested in culture and status inequality. Also, jigsaw puzzles lately and niche history generally - ask me about the Great Molasses Flood
Community, Work & Family @cwfjournal.bsky.social A forum for social scientists and practitioners to share experiences, ideas and debate current issues related to core themes of community, work and family.
Sung S Park @sungspark.bsky.social Sociologist & demographer @ UMass Boston Gerontology studying minority aging. Previously @ Princeton Office of Population Research + @ Harvard Center for Population & Development Studies. 2nd gen Korean American. Views are mine alone. www.sungspark.org
Caroline Lee @carolinewlee.bsky.social Sociologist.
Agustín Wilner @adwiln.bsky.social Political economy - economic/urban sociology - Housing // Economía politica - sociologia economica y urbana - Vivienda
Seungyeon Jung @seungyeonjung.bsky.social PhD student in Sociology at Brown University
Education | Urban Sociology | Health | Quantitative methods
Yuna Lee @yuna-angella.bsky.social Sociology PhD Candidate @ UAlbany |
Policing, Crime & Deviance, Urban Sociology
Anonymous Prisoner #1 @prisoner-anon.bsky.social Male, 30s, Q/he, prisoner since juvenile, artist, author, dissident, anti-capital, abolitionist. I don't care if you agree, but hope you're listening.
James Wood @thinkwoodist.bsky.social Associate Teaching Professor in Political Economy @campolis.bsky.social | Staff Fellow in Politics @trinityhallcamb.bsky.social | Associate Editor @cjres.bsky.social | Researching innovation policy, housing, & the construction of political crises |
CIJS @cijswinnipeg.bsky.social The Centre for Interdisciplinary Justice Studies (CIJS) in the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of Winnipeg explores justice issues.
Antoine Peris @aftp.bsky.social Quantitative human geographer working on cities, housing and landlords with spatial analysis methods.
📍Marseille & Avignon
Joel Mittleman @joeljm.bsky.social Associate Professor of Sociology at Penn.
Studying gender, education, ML and LGBTQ+ populations. He/him.
https://sociology.sas.upenn.edu/people/joel-mittleman
Jaime Jover @jaimejover.bsky.social Geógrafo. Postdoctoral Fellow at the Spanish Research Council (IESA-CSIC) @iesacsic.bsky.social. All things urban, y su mijita de organización social, que nunca falte.
Views my own.
https://us.academia.edu/JaimeJover
Martin Grander @martingrander.bsky.social Associate professor in Urban Studies. Housing, welfare, urbanism, segregation, inequalities and more.
Latest book: https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Housing-and-Welfare/Grander-Stephens/p/book/9781032074337#
RJ Sheperd @rjsheperd.com Sentient human interested in all things Cycling / Transit / Cities / Decentralized Web / Lisp / Clojure / Geospatial.
📍 Portland, OR
Check out: #RailSky #WalkNRoll #PDXBikes #BikeBus #Transit #YIMBY #DWeb #Clojure #GIS #maps
Constance Uyttebrouck @constanceu.bsky.social Researcher at LISER (Luxembourg) interested in (shared) housing provision (for young people), housing hyper-commodification, mixed-use development, live-work pathways, urban governance, institutional frameworks
Elly Field @ellyfield.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellow at Brown University Population Studies and Training Center | PhD UMich | Sociologist of population dynamics, inequality, schools and neighborhoods, segregation
ellymfield.com
Marissa Thompson @marissathompson.bsky.social assistant professor of sociology at Columbia • researching inequality, education, race/ethnicity, & social policy • 26.2 x2, 13.1 x14 • 1913 | Γ • she/her • views mine
marissaethompson.com
@mickbyrne.bsky.social @mickbyrne.bsky.social Housing, political economy, UCD Lecturer. Subscribe to my The Week in Housing newsletter: http://tinyurl.com/38ye4knn
Director of Equality Studies M.Sc. https://tinyurl.com/2jtw6cvu
Don't have social media on phone so not on here much!
Cloé St-Hilaire @closthilaire.bsky.social Vanier Scholar | Phd Candidate @ UWaterloo. Critical urban planning, Housing, Financialization, Digital tech | She/her/hers
Willem Boterman @willemboterman.bsky.social Associate professor @UvA
ERC-consolidator PROTEINSCAPES:
political geographies of meat & dairy
Human Geography
Political Science
Sarah Strochak @sarahstrochak.bsky.social Postdoc at the Eviction Lab at Princeton University; studying housing and poverty policy.
Incoming Assistant Professor of Poverty Policy at University of Wisconsin, Madison (Fall 2026)
PhD NYU Wagner/NYU Furman Center
Prof Katherine Brickell FBA @kbrickell.bsky.social Prof Urban Studies + Associate Dean (Impact & Innovation) KCL | Author Debt Trap Nation: Family Homelessness in a Failing State (2025) | Housing/Home/Law | UK & Cambodia | Editor TIBG | Views own | https://www.debt-trap-nation.org/book
Tony Damiano @tonydamiano.bsky.social B+ dad, NE MPLS resident, and PhD housing researcher at the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs - University of Minnesota. Sports: Bucks, Packers, Hawkeyes and Marquette- X @xamnim.bsky.social @xamnim.bsky.social
Christopher Cleveland @christocleve.bsky.social Big Problems Require Bold Solutions | Asst. Professor @BrownUniversity | @Harvard alum
Maël Lecoursonnais @lecoursonnais.bsky.social Sociology postdoctoral student at @iasliu, Linköping University, Sweden. I study neighborhood effects and spatial inequalities using register data.
Maxime Felder @maximefelder.bsky.social Sociologist @EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland). Urban sociology | Migration | Housing | Neighbourhoods | Networks
Nick Caverly @nickcav.bsky.social Professor person. Environments, technologies, and racial capitalism. I wrote a book: DEMOLISHING DETROIT: HOW STRUCTURAL RACISM ENDURES (Stanford UP, 2026). My words, not my employer’s. For more: nickcaverly.com
Gary Painter @garypainter.bsky.social BEARE Chair and Professor of Real Estate, Lindner College of Business
Michelle Jackson @mivich.bsky.social Associate Professor of Sociology, Stanford
https://www.mivich.com/
Loh Soon How @lohsoonhow.bsky.social PhD-ing at National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore • culture, citizenship, education, multiculturalism, nationalism, racialisation • lohsoonhow.com
Sarah Bruhn @sarahbruhn.bsky.social Studying immigration, families & education. Postdoc @ Penn. Writing two books. Raising three kiddos.
sarahbruhn.com
Joel Stillerman @jstillerman.bsky.social Sociologist, Assoc. Ed. for Soc. at Lat. Am. Res. Rev. Chile, labor, consumption, middle classes. Book: Identity Investments: https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=32853 2024 ASA Consumpt. Distinguished Scholarly publication Award.
Sarah Gelbard @gelbard.ca Punk planner and anarchitect | Housing justice, radical planning, and community care | Adjunct Prof, University of Ottawa | Contact instructor, Carleton U | firstgen scholar | tenant | bassist | she/her
Ottawa, Canada
previously @sbg_arch on 🐦
Benny Witkovsky @bwitkovsky.bsky.social Sociology Ph.D. Candidate at UW-Madison. Studying local politics, nonpartisanship, and polarization. bennywitkovsky.com
Jan Üblacker @januebl.bsky.social Sociologist interested in neighborhood change, housing, gentrification & digitalization | Professor for Human-Context Interaction @THWS | Cologne / Würzburg | www.janueblacker.com | Speaker of DGS Section Urban and Regional Sociology
Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social Professor Emeritus, Urban Studies & Planning, Writer
Just Cities, Political Economy, Affordable Housing, and Community Development.
Occasional film noir, music comments.
DET-> CHI->ATL->CHI and a few others in between
Opinions my own.
Sharon Cornelissen @sjccorn.bsky.social Loves all things housing. PhD and Director of Housing of Consumer Federation of America. Author of “Last House in the Block,” book on failed gentrification and homeownership in Detroit
Nate Frey @natefrey.bsky.social Alleged professional account, although I do not represent my employer here
Demographer, lapsed geographer, data and analytics guy, etc
Degrees from Penn State and Maryland - S @shaikarp.bsky.social @shaikarp.bsky.social
Andy Carr @andycarr.bsky.social he/him | 🏳️🌈 nerd | mid selfies
studying US law & politics: LPE, bureaucracy, reactionary movements | union stuff @ The New School, roaming adjunct elsewhere
opinions mine, mostly bad
site: andyjcarr.com
SSRN: https://ssrn.com/author=3069305
Nate Ela @nateela.bsky.social Law prof + sociologist thinking and writing about property, land, cities, democracy, sometimes Philly. Posts ≠ speaking for the institution where I work (obvs).
nateela.net | SSRN: bit.ly/ElaSSRN
Nathan Lauster @lausterna.bsky.social UBC sociologist, demographer, housing & urban regulation scholar, author, immigrant, blogs at https://homefreesociology.com/