Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social Amnesty Media Award 2014. Cryptoparty. Anti-Robodebt campaigner. Digital rights. Mutant network node herder. Completing a Master of Social Work. Devouring entropy https://www.patreon.com/asherwolf
Ricki Coughlan @rickicoughlan.bsky.social Herbivore 🦕 Bird Observer 🦜 Rainforest Flaneur 🐍 Author 📗 Rational Humanist 👩🏻🔬 Green Eco Socialist Future! 🌏 She/Her on Dharawal country
Crikey @crikey.com.au Holding power to account.
Independent, Australian-owned news, investigation, analysis and opinion.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
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
Casual Birder Podcast @casualbirderpod.bsky.social Sharing the joy of watching wild birds. Official podcast account. Host: Suzy (She/Her). IG: CasualBirderPodcast. Hampshire, UK
https://linktr.ee/casualbirderpodcast
Informed Citizens @johnrwilder.bsky.social Political commentator. Cat dad. Professional meme handler. All about protecting democracy, fighting disinformation, and exposing corruption. 100% independent. Neurodivergent / moderately bipolar. Follow at your own risk.
The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com Independent news from the sharpest academic minds.
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Julie @goodgreengirl.bsky.social She/her Social justice, climate, science, Covid wise, cats, dogs, psych, knitting, crochet, garden. Gotta keep fighting for change - have kids, grandkids. Living on Ballardong Noongar land. No DMs
Naomi Peters @npeters92.bsky.social Kindness, diversity & inclusion, social justice, #Auspol. On Dhudhuroa country, NE Victoria
Valentenya the climate policy strategy cat 🍉 🐈⬛ @valentenya.bsky.social Working towards ecological socialism with my Chin Strap 🐧 and Dusky Sea 🐍 comrades. I'm old and still a bit too direct sometimes. My analysis is always AI free. Simplifying weaponised complexity consistent with science.
FrameWorks Institute @frameworks.bsky.social Using the science of framing to change conversations and build a more just world.
https://www.frameworksinstitute.org/
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
Axios @axios.com Smart Brevity worthy of people's time, attention and trust.
Subscribe to our newsletters: https://trib.al/8haeaPt
Ed Coper @edcoper.bsky.social Author: 'Angertainment': 'Facts & Other Lies'.
Politics; social impact; disinformation; digital narratives.
Founder, http://impactcomms.org & http://Populares.co
New Economics for Sustainability & Humans #MMT☘️ @maconnolly888.bsky.social Husband-father-grandfather-brother-uncle
74yo time traveller
Guitar-bodhran-song-photography-art
MMT in profile>followback
Socialism for the people
Citizen democracy
Karate
part MML Master Economics of Sustainability
Darkinjung land
Antifa: a concept
Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social Professor at ICTA-UAB and Visiting Senior Fellow at LSE • Author of THE DIVIDE and LESS IS MORE • Global inequality, political economy and ecological economics
(Dr) Gretchen Miller @gretchenmiller.bsky.social Independent enviro podcaster | Pottery | sculpture | bush gardens | bantams | floating in the blue blue ocean | the oh-so-strange workings of the human heart | ex-ABC RN | https://muddyochreceramics.bigcartel.com/
Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social Investigative Reporter: 4 Corners, ABC. Personal account.
Author: Shellybanks, Pheasants Nest, Witness, Cardinal.
Walkley winner, Press Freedom medallist.
Dublin-born.
I salute sources’ courage.
Linktr.ee/milliganreports
Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social Doctoral student at UTS. Researching transnational Right’s infiltration of Australian politics and society, esp religio-ethnonationalism. Writer of explanatory journalism. Living on Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung land. She/her
https://linktr.ee/Lucyham
Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social The official "Resistance" team of U.S. National Park Service. Our website: www.ourparks.org
The Rest Is Entertainment @trientertainment.bsky.social The Rest Is Entertainment pulls back the curtain on television, film, journalism and more with Richard Osman and Marina Hyde.
Kate @kateadc.bsky.social Dogs before cats, birds above all, eco-socialist, gardener, reader, archaeologist, current gambling reformer, proudly woke
Dougie Herd @dougieherd.bsky.social
David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social Independent Senator for the ACT.
Insta: davidpocock
Authorised by David Pocock for David Pocock, Canberra
Emma Shortis @emmashortis.bsky.social Director, International and Security Affairs at @australiainstitute.org.au. All things Australian foreign policy and US history & politics.
Emily Mayo @emilymayo.bsky.social Organiser - Campaigner - Communicator - Troublemaker for good. Lead - campaigns and organising at the Justice and Equity Centre. She/her. On Gadigal Land. Views mine.
Gil Durán @gilduran.com California writer. Ida Tarbell stan.
Author: NYT Bestselling “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy.” https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Nerd-Reich/Gil-Duran/9781668221402
Newsletter: http://www.thenerdreich.com
Narrative Initiative @narrativepower.bsky.social We collaborate with social movements to transform deeply held beliefs and values to make equity and justice the foundations of multiracial democracy.
Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com ✍️ Contact and complaints: https://www.theguardian.com/info/2013/may/26/contact-guardian-australia?CMP=aus_bsky
📨 Newsletters: http://theguardian.com/emails?CMP=aus_bsky
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social Researcher of online rumors & disinformation. Former basketball player. Prof at University of Washington, HCDE. Co-founder of the UW Center for an Informed Public. Personal account: Views may not reflect those of my employer.
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
Ira Hyman @irahyman.bsky.social Professor of Psychology; Rider of Bicycles; Seeker of Justice. Applied cognitive psychologist, studying attention & memory, some disinfo too. (He/him; 1st gen college student). With maybe some pictures of Cookie the bernedoodle.
David Scales @tnfalpha.bsky.social Hospitalist, sociologist @WeillCornell studying information environments, contested illness, medical communication
Co-founder, Health for Palestine
he/il/el/هو
Nadia Brashier @nadiabrashier.bsky.social assistant professor at UC San Diego. studying how people judge truth and fall for fake news across the lifespan
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
Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com 🙅🏻♀️ Author (2 books & The Wayfinder newsletter), disinformation expert, advocate for targets of online abuse.
☀️ CEO, @americansunlight.org
😆 Tucker Carlson once called me a “highly self confident young woman” and meant it as an insult
Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social Research Scientist at the University of Washington based in Queens. Also: SFI External Applied Fellow, Harvard BKC affiliate. Collective Behavior, Statistics, etc..
Jevin D. West @jevinwest.bsky.social Professor @UW_iSchool, Co-founder of Center for an Informed Public @uwcip. I study misinformation in science & society. Book: tinyurl.com/y7ekfkhx
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
Matt DeVerna @matthewdeverna.com Postdoc with Stanford's Tech Impact and Policy Center
(@techimpactpolicy.bsky.social). Past: Indiana University / Observatory on Social Media.
Societal impacts of AI within the information ecosystem.
🧨 matthewdeverna.com
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
Francesca Tripodi @ftripodi.bsky.social Dr. Tripodi is a sociologist who studies the internet and how information flows online
www.spillab.com
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
Daniel Kreiss @dkreiss.bsky.social Prof, researcher UNC CITAP, Tech + Politics.
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
Yoel Roth @yoyoel.com Internet sanitation enthusiast and full-time corgi wrangler.
Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social Let's see... 39 years teaching journalism at NYU. A critic who tries to be useful. PressThink: the name of my subject and my site. My book: "What Are Journalists For?" (1999, Yale University Press)
Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social NYT tech reporter
Co-author of Character Limit
Signal: rmac.18
ryan.mac@nytimes.com
rmac18@protonmail.com
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737290/character-limit-by-kate-conger-and-ryan-mac/
https://linktr.ee/ryan_mac_
Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social Reporter lady @ms.now
Signal username: brandyzadrozny.53
Email from a non-work account: brandy.zadrozny@ms.now
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
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
Mike Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social Author: Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions about What to Believe Online (University of Chicago Press).
Researcher, infolit/misinfo/rhetoric/civic reasoning. Currently researching AI as tool for critical thinking.
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
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.
Eli Pariser @eli.bsky.social @newpublic.org cofounder / Filter Bubble author / dad, husband, human
Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social Editor of Press Watch (https://presswatchers.org) and Heads Up News (http://headsupnews.org). Ex-Washington Post, HuffPost, Intercept. Freelancer. I afflict comfortable journalists.
Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz Professor, researcher, author. Prez, Assoc of Internet Researchers (AOIR), gay lady into synths, computers, music, film.
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.
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
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
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
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
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/
Emily Thorson @emilythorson.bsky.social Political science, Syracuse University
Information effects, misperceptions, egg sandwiches
My book is "The Invented State: Policy Misperceptions in the American Public"
Daniel Malmer @malmer.com PhD student researching media, political communication, and extremism. Software developer turned computational social scientist. This is a Frieren stan account.
David Broniatowski @broniatowski.bsky.social Professor at The George Washington University in Engineering Management and Systems Engineering.
Lauren Feldman @laurenfeldman.bsky.social Professor of Journalism & Media Studies @ Rutgers. I study climate change communication, partisan media and misinformation, and comedy and social change.
https://comminfo.rutgers.edu/feldman-lauren
Asheley Landrum @asheley.bsky.social Assoc Professor of Media Psychology & Science Communication @ Walter Cronkite School @ Arizona State University #scicomm #mediaLiteracy #mediapsych #trust
www.asheleylandrum.com- D David Lazer @davidlazer.bsky.social computational social scientist
Emily Vraga @ekvraga.bsky.social Professor in the J-school at the University of Minnesota, studying health and political misinformation
Leticia Bode @leticiabode.bsky.social Professor at Georgetown, research director at KGI. Studying information, politics, health, etc. Also cats, Badgers, Astros, food, gardening.
Adam Berinsky @adamberinsky.bsky.social Political Scientist and social media addict
Panayiota (Pani) Kendeou @kendeou.bsky.social Professor, Researcher, Author, Speaker, Editor
Ben Lyons @benlyons.bsky.social Associate prof at University of Utah Dept of Comm. Associate ed @misinforeview.bsky.social. Book coming this fall: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/misinformation-and-the-aging-american-9780197817681?cc=us&lang=en&
site: https://ben-lyons.github.io
Nora Benavidez @attorneynora.bsky.social Civil Rights & Free Speech Attorney. Disinformation & AI Expert. Nonfiction Author.
Now: Senior Counsel @freepress | 2026 Bellagio Residency Fellow @rockefeller (writing a book) | Board of Directors @benandjerrys
www.norabenavidez.com
Dean Eckles @eckles.bsky.social networks, contagion, causality
faculty at MIT
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
Eric Gilbert @eegilbert.org Professor at Michigan. On sabbatical at the Berkman Klein Center. http://eegilbert.org
Maria Ressa @mariaressa.bsky.social
mark brandt @mjbsp.bsky.social Social/Political Psychology @ Tilburg University | ♥ Burritos+Vinyl+ | if there aren’t typos, I didn’t write it
https://tbslaboratory.com
Talia Stroud @taliastroud.bsky.social Prof UT-Austin, Director Center for Media Engagement
Erika Franklin Fowler @efranklinfowler.bsky.social Prof @ Wesleyan U; Co-Director of Wesleyan Media Project (@wesmediaproject.bsky.social & mediaproject.wesleyan.edu); policomm, polisci, public opinion & health policy scholar; Collaborative on Media & Messaging for Health & Social Policy (commhsp.org)
Mike Wagner @prowag.bsky.social William T. Evjue Distinguished Chair for the Wisconsin Idea, Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, U of Wisconsin-Madison. Director, Center for Communication and Civic Renewal. Inflated sense of karaoke ability. 10/10 Room Rater.
William J. Brady @williambrady.bsky.social Assistant prof @ Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. Studying emotion, morality, social networks, psych of tech. #firstgen college graduate
YY Ahn @yyahn.bsky.social Prof @ School of Data Science, University of Virginia. Formerly at IU. Networks, data science, and machine learning. https://yyahn.com
🚲🚲🚲
andyguess @andyguess.com Bun dad who studies 🐰🕳️.
Sacha Altay @sachaltay.bsky.social 🔎 Misinformation, social media & the news 🗞️
🇨🇭 Postdoc at the University of Zurich, previously Reuters Institute & ENS 🇫🇷
https://sachaaltay.github.io/
Simon Chauchard @simonchauchard.bsky.social Social scientist @uc3m @ic3jm.bsky.social & http://pimlab.org | political behavior, misinfo., identity (PI ERC POLARCHATS) | Before: Dartmouth, SIPA, Leiden | Works on 🇮🇳🇧🇷
www.pimlab.org
www.simonchauchard.com
Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social Social scientist @yalesph.bsky.social exploring how we form beliefs and make sense of health information in the age of AI. Author of Misguided. https://amzn.to/48zTs59
https://matthewfacciani.substack.com
www.matthewfacciani.com
Sumitra Badrinathan @sumitra.bsky.social assistant professor @AmericanU. working on countering misinformation in developing countries. @upenn.edu PhD in polisci & philly sports fan. outdoors most of the time
📍washington, dc
https://sumitrabadrinathan.github.io/
Steve Rathje @steverathje.bsky.social Incoming Assistant Professor of HCI at Carnegie Mellon studying the psychology of technology. NSF postdoc at NYU, PhD from Cambridge, BA from Stanford. stevenrathje.com
Antonio A. Aréchar @arechar.bsky.social Behavioural Economist | Research methods, misinformation, and cooperation
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.
CSS-Group: https://css-synosys.github.io/
Brian Guay @brianguay.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Political Science @ UNC Chapel Hill | Public opinion, behavior, polarization, misinformation | Last name pronounced without the u | brianguay.com
Sean Bogart @seanbogart.bsky.social Social Psych Doctoral Candidate - Ohio University
Research focus: political partisanship and ideological perceptions, misinformation, intellectual humility.
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/
Gale Sinatra @galesinatra.bsky.social Climate Refugee, Distinguished Professor Emerita and Professor of Psychology and Education @USC, Member of National Academy of Education. Co-author of www.sciencedenialbook.com
Marcus Mann @drmann.bsky.social Purdue University assistant professor of sociology. Science, knowledge, and politics.
Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social Writer/lecturer on Russian influence & information warfare | lead writer of greatpower.us | Be excellent to each other