Jon Atack @jonatack.bsky.social Author of "Let's Sell These People a Piece of Blue Sky", artist, musician, gardener, YouTuber. Check out Jon's channel for conversations about cults and healing from the damage they do. https://www.youtube.com/@jonatackfamilyfriends6176
Julian Walker @julianwalker.bsky.social Conspirituality Podcast and Book. De:Range on Substack: https://derange.substack.com/
"We aren't the resistance," said NPR. Well, then we will have to be.
Derek Beres @derekberes.bsky.social 🎙Co-host: Conspirituality
📕 Well Enough: Finding Health Despite the Wellness Industry
✍️ Emmy-nominated journalist (NY Times, The Guardian, Time, Mother Jones, Playboy, Rolling Stone)
Religious Observer @religiousobserver.bsky.social Covering and Curating Stories About Faith. Unfiltered & Unapologetic.
Camilla Bredal Pedersen @camillabp.bsky.social Beginner's mind in midlife. Intrigued by normalcy and knowledge after twenty years in a famous new-age community/cult. Politics student, partner, bonus parent, dog mama. Viscerally alert to groupthink and invisible power hierarchies. Scotland/Norway. 🏳️🌈
Hope Bastine @hopebastine.com Champion of the Outsider, Listener to the Survivor! Loving slave to 🐶
@marlabastine.bsky.social
🧠Sleep/Trauma Psychologist
📕Set Me Free (06/27)
🎬Children of the Cult docuseries
🎓 SGA personality development
Canuck Aussie @canuckaussie.bsky.social Canadian expat in Australia. Meningioma survivor.
Sir/Lord
Steven Hassan PhD @cultexpert.freedomofmind.com World-renowned cult expert, NYT Best Selling author of The Cult of Trump, and creator of the BITE Model and Influence Continuum. Other Books: Combating Cult Mind Control and Freedom of Mind
linktr.ee/FreedomOfMind
Madolyn Henderson @madolynhenderson.bsky.social Psych grad student (child abuse, punitiveness, social control, religion, homeschooling) | Research Coordinator @responsiblehs.bsky.social
Zinnia Jones 🐍🗡️ @zinniajones.com she/her 🏳️⚧️ · 36 · Florida · hrt 9/20/12 · married to @adubiouspronoun.bsky.social · genderideology.org · thezinniajones@protonmail.com · signal zinnia.99 · 🔆
Jill Aebi-Mytton @jilla-m.bsky.social Raised in the Exclusive Brethren, my family left when I was 16. I now research the psychology of cults & the well-being of those who leave. Other interests- space, auroras, travel, books, classical music mostly NO CHAT UP LINES - so creepy US men take note
Gina Catena, MS, NP, CNM @ginacatena.bsky.social Musings of a Nurse-Midwife raised in Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's cult. Clinical faculty OB-Gyn. Member & contributor International Cultic Studies Association. Opinions mine. retweets 🤔🧐
@cultnews.bsky.social @cultnews.bsky.social 
André Borges @aborges75.bsky.social Political Scientist, University of Brasília ##
Comparative Politics, Presidentialism, Political Parties and Electoral Behavior ##
Editor of The Recasting of the Latin American Right, forthcoming by CUP
Lisa Zanotti @lisazanottiphd.bsky.social Senior fellow CEU | Co-EiC @PRXJournal | I have a thing for polarized cleavages, sports and pasta | My views. 🇪🇺 Web: lisazanotti.eu
Rosana Pinheiro-Machado @pinheiromachado.bsky.social Professor of Global Studies, UCD 🇮🇪 | Director DeepLab labdeep.com | PI #WorkPoliticsBIP - ERC Consolidator Grantee | Far-right, digital economy, precarity | Global ethnographer 🇧🇷🇮🇳🇵🇭🇨🇳
Isabela Kalil @isabela-kalil.bsky.social 📍Política e Tecnologia
Observatório da Extrema Direita
📬 dra.isabelakalil@gmail.com
Vinícius Sturari @sturari.bsky.social PhD Candidate in Political Science at IFCH/Unicamp
Political Influencers, Far-right, Digital Activism
PT/EN
Carlos Senna/Boris @carlossennaboris.bsky.social Professor e jornalista. Pesquiso desinformação e extrema-direita e seus impactos na comunicação. Baixista e fanático por quadrinhos. Autor do livro As Cinzas e os Fatos, uma investigação sobre a Pós-verdade
Guilherme Casarões @casaroes.bsky.social 📝 Cientista político (prof @FGV_EAESP)
🗣️ Política externa/movimentos de extrema direita (coord @oedbrasil)
💿 Música anos 80
❤️ Pai de 2
🤫 Opiniões pessoais
@jorgechaloub.bsky.social @jorgechaloub.bsky.social 
Odilon Caldeira Neto @odiloncaldeira.com Historiador, canhoto e outras coisas piores.
Historian of the extreme-right & neofascism | Prof. Contemporary History @ufjfoficial.bsky.social @ppghufjf.bsky.social | Coord. Observatório da Extrema Direita oedbrasil.com.br
Lily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social Political scientist at Johns Hopkins, author of Uncivil Agreement and co-author of Radical American Partisanship
Marta Lorimer @mlorimer.bsky.social Lecturer in Politics, Cardiff University and Editor, PRX Journal. Visiting Fellow at LSE European Institute. Researches far right and European integration. Personal website: www.martalorimer.com
Stijn van Kessel @stijntvankessel.bsky.social Professor of Comparative Politics, Queen Mary University of London. Studies populism, radical right, politics of European integration. Staff page: https://www.qmul.ac.uk/politics/staff/profiles/vankesselstijn.html
Sarah de Lange @sldelange.bsky.social Professor of Dutch Politics at Leiden University | Extremism, populism, radicalism scholar | Board member IISG Amsterdam and Wiardi Beckman Foundation | Allotmenteer | Zeeuws meisje |
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.
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
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
Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social Political Communication Prof at GWU. Flaming Hydra.
I write about the history and future of tech and politics. My next book, Vaporware, Inc.: How Silicon Valley Sells the Future to Control the Present, arrives on January 12, 2027.
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
Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social Investigative Reporter @ TPM | Author | Words In: The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, New York Magazine, The Atlantic
Send me a secure message on Signal: hunter.07
https://linktr.ee/hunter_walker
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
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.
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.
hakeemjefferson.com
Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social Historian of technology, occasional dad jokes.
www.marhicks.com
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 Puts the 'fun' in 'executive dysfunction' | Educational developer, writer, historian, abolitionist | Higher ed, critical pedagogy, C18/19th, and baseball-esp. minor leagues | Wrote: https://wvupressonline.com/node/823 | 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
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), 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.
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
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 Political scientist 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.
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
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
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/
George Lakoff @george-lakoff.com Professor Emeritus at UCBerkeley. Best-selling author of The ALL NEW Don’t Think of an Elephant.
Erin A. Snider @erinsnider.bsky.social
IR, Middle East political economy, democracy aid, & development • Egypt she/her • Author, Marketing Democracy: http://bit.ly/3j8sN8k
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. 
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- 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!
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/
Paul Johnson @paulrjohnson.net Data Scientist interested in causal inference, machine learning, and statistics | He/Him
Website: https://paulrjohnson.net
Github: https://github.com/paulj1989
Clay Williams @clayw.bsky.social Ph.D. Student // UNC-Chapel Hill // researching LGBTQ+ media effects, entertainment, body image
🏳️🌈 he/him
Elliott Edsall @edsall.bsky.social PhD Candidate @ U. Minnesota • CITAP affiliate • Class, Partisan Media, Populism, US Conservatism
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.