Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com tech & society @washingtonpost.com
stories: https://drewharwell.com/
videos: tiktok.com/@drewharwell
+ instagram.com/drewharwell
Eva-Maria Vogel @evavogel.bsky.social Doctoral Candidate @ Department of Communication and Media Research (IKMZ) | University of Zurich
Political Social Media Influencers | Youth Political Engagement | Comparative Media Research | Computational & Interdisciplinary Methods
Isa Vos @isavos.bsky.social PhD candidate @MUSE IKMZ UZH | Editorial Assistant @EJHC
UZH Department of Communication and Media Research (IKMZ) @ikmz.bsky.social Excellent research on communication and media and high-level education at the University of Zurich – Established 1903 🌐 www.ikmz.uzh.ch
Morgan Wack @morganwack.bsky.social PostDoc at UZH. Formerly Clemson & UW. Technology & democracy, political misinformation, African politics, and LFC.
Jason Reifler @jasonreifler.bsky.social Political Science Prof at University of Southampton. I study misperceptions, fact-checking, and foreign policy attitudes. American in the UK. he/his (y'all whenever possible). Spurs #COYS.
Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com [trying to spend less time on social media]
#ihadablackdog
https://youtu.be/XiCrniLQGYc?si=q-gQTNXfScmgtl4k
Rieke Havertz @havpost.bsky.social International correspondent DIE ZEIT @zeit.de | co-host podcast „OK, America?“ | book „Goodbye, Amerika?“ | based in Berlin | 📷: Jacobia Dahm
Klaus Brinkbäumer @brinkbaeumer.bsky.social Journalist. Buchautor, Moderator, Podcaster: https://www.zeit.de/serie/ok-america
Céline Odermatt @ce-matt.bsky.social PhD student in Communication and Media Research | University of Zurich | @ikmzmediachange.bsky.social
Research: dataveillance, digital society, user-centered research, mixed methods
Jonas Baur @jbaur.bsky.social PhD Candidate @Uni Fribourg | interested in political behavior, communication, parties, and climate politics
Ernesto de León 🟥 @ernesto-deleon.com Political communication researcher at @ascor.bsky.social | @algosoc.org affiliated | PhD @unibern | Media effects, social media, and computational stuff
https://ernesto-deleon.com/
Sarah Daoust-Braun @sarahdaoustbraun.bsky.social Research assistant and PhD student / U of Zurich / Communication and Media Research
@ikmz.bsky.social
@ikmzmediachange.bsky.social
🔍💻📱dataveillance, chilling effects, digital media and communication, datafication, social influence, user-centered research
Patrick Seemann @nohillside.ch Digital killjoy • https://threema.id/4E7Y7PN6 • nohillside.38 @ Signal • https://smnn.ch/@nohillside • @nohillside.ch @ Bluesky • Writes about tech stuff at https://dnip.ch/ #dnip • Posts may include irony
Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social Thief of Joy: A Comedy Special NOW ON YOUTUBE
Host of The Downside Podcast
If I have to post on another one of these things I’m gonna kms
Markus Häfliger @markushaefliger.bsky.social #SwissPolitics • Public Affairs @SalvationArmy • former Journo • old-fashioned defender of basic liberties, rule of law & separation of powers
Prof Friederike Otto @frediotto.bsky.social 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 physicist, philosopher, lead https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/, author of Climate InJustice https://greystonebooks.com/collections/current-affairs-politics/products/climate-injustice, she/her
Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social Into creative ML/AI, NLP, data science and digital humanities, narrative, infovis, games, sf & f. Consultant, ds in Residence at Google Arts & Culture. (Lyon, FR) Newsletter arnicas.substack.com.
News Eye @newseye.bsky.social A career spent in government affairs & media. Now an interested eye on the news. Not always balanced; there aren’t two sides to fascism.
Now on TikTok 👉 https://www.tiktok.com/@news_eye?_t=ZN-8zwNc7WZeII&_r=1
Please use ALT text :-)
Franziska Tschinderle @tschinderle.bsky.social journalist based in Tirana, covering the Balkans, foreign affairs www.profil.at
Buch 📕 Der Westbalkan. Im Wartezimmer der EU. Hier bestellen: https://www.bpb.de/shop/buecher/schriftenreihe/571370/der-westbalkan/
Mail: tschinderle.franziska@profil.at
Pew Research Center @pewresearch.org Nonpartisan, nonadvocacy data and analysis. Visit us at https://www.pewresearch.org/
Priscilla Imboden @imboden.bsky.social Bundeshausredaktorin Republik
Co-Präsidentin Lobbywatch
Threema-ID: W565P3ZD
Signal: Gwunderwunder.64
Sean Müller @seanstmllr.bsky.social political scientist at uni lausanne, wrote a book on Shared Rule in Federal Theory and Practice: https://academic.oup.com/book/57551
Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social Historian - Democracy and Its Discontents - Newsletter: Democracy Americana https://democracyamericana.com - Website: https://www.thomaszimmer.online/
Katharina Lobinger @klobinger.bsky.social Associate professor at the Institute of Digital Technologies for Communication, USI Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland. Passionate Visual Communication researcher. President of SGKM - SSCM - SACM
Floris de Klerk Wolters @florisdkw.bsky.social
Gabriele Balbi @gabrielebalbi.bsky.social Media History Researcher, Rector ad interim and Prorector for Education at @Usi.ch, Committee Member @acad-euro.bsky.social. More info: http://usi.to/cyi
Elena Engel @elenaengel.bsky.social Health Communication Researcher 🔊
FWF-Projekt: “Health Influencers on Social Media” at MCI Innsbruck 💻
PhD thesis at the University of Vienna on „Dietary supplement promotion by social media influencers and the impact on adolescents’ health” 🔎
Emilio Ferrara @emilioferrara.bsky.social Prof of Computer Science at USC
AI, social media, society, networks, data, and
HUMANS LABS http://www.emilio.ferrara.name
REGULARITY AI www.emilioferrara.ai
lynnette @quarbby.bsky.social PhD Student at CMU Societal Computing
quarbby.github.io
Arianna Pera @ariannapera.bsky.social Postdoc @cphsodas.bsky.social working on climate action
Previously: PhD student in Computational Social Science at @itu.dk @nerdsitu.bsky.social | Visiting Scholar at @umich.edu and @ceu-dnds.bsky.social
christhomas.bsky.social @christhomas.bsky.social Rutgers prof. Research: punishment & inequality, race, computational social science. Deep Springs, Columbia, CUNY alum.
Tiancheng Hu @tiancheng.bsky.social PhD student @CambridgeLTL; Previously @DLAB @EPFL; Interested in NLP and CSS. Apple Scholar, Gates Scholar.
Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social Researching {science of AI for science, AI governance, metascience #SciSci, #AI4Science, #GenAI, LLMs, agents, alignment}
PhD Candidate @ UW.
Visiting Scholar @ NYU & MSR
Alum @ Carnegie Mellon
Academic webpage: https://samemon.github.io
Lucy Li @lucy3.bsky.social assistant prof at Wisconsin CS. #NLProc, computational social science, cultural analytics, responsible AI. she/her. Previously at UW, Berkeley, Ai2, MSR, Stanford. lucy3.github.io
Luca Luceri @luceriluc.bsky.social Research Assistant Professor @USC-ISI
🤖 I investigate malicious activity on social media networks 🕵🏼
Luc Rocher @rocher.lc associate professor at Oxford · UKRI future leaders fellow · i study how data and algorithms shape societies · AI fairness, accountability and transparency · algorithm auditing · photographer, keen 🚴🏻 · they/them · https://rocher.lc (views my own)
Lucio La Cava @luciolcw.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ University of Calabria 🇮🇹
👨🏻💻 Ph.D. in Information and Communication Technologies
Prev. Visiting @ IT University of Copenhagen 🇩🇰
🤖 Multimodal Representation Learning & Networks
https://luciolacava.me/
Max Falkenberg @maxfalken.bsky.social Physicist. Computational Social Scientist. Interested in the structures of polarization.
Central European University & Institute for Sustainable Resources, UCL.
maxfalkenberg.com
Zack Almquist @zalmquist.bsky.social Professor of Sociology, Adjunct Professor of Statistics | Senior Data Science Fellow, eScience @ University of Washington | Housing and Homelessness | Computational Demography | Migration | Social Networks
https://zalmquist.github.io
Julia Mendelsohn @jmendelsohn2.bsky.social Asst Prof @UMD Info College. NLP, computational social science, political communication, linguistics. Past: Data Science Postdoc @UChicago, Info PhD @UMich, CS + Lx @Stanford. Interests: cats, Yiddish, talking to my cats in Yiddish.
Jeremiah Milbauer @jerelev.bsky.social NLP PhD student at Carnegie Mellon, resident at Mozilla AI, making things for thinking with // previously Google Research, Google X, cs+phil at UChicago // jeremiah.milbauer.info
Jeremy Foote @jeremydfoote.com Computational social scientist; assistant professor @ Purdue; I study how people self-organize in online communities and how we can make them work better.
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/
Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social Cat person. Sometimes sociologist of science, sex, & other stuff.
Joana G Sa @joanagsa.bsky.social Computational Social Scientist @LIP_Lisbon
PI @spac.bsky.social @ERC.europa.eu funded
Learning about complexity and underestimating effort
Former Physicist (@IST)
Former Biologist (@IGC+@Harvard)
Future Farmer (@Alentejo)
Anders Giovanni Møller @handle.invalid PhD student in @nerdsitu.bsky.social @itu.dk. 🔮
Latest work on the impact of generative AI on social media, an experimental study: https://ai-research.andersgiovanni.com/
Emil Bakkensen Johansen @emilbakke.bsky.social Postdoc @ Digital Democracy Centre (@ddc-sdu.bsky.social), Uni of Southern Denmark
Computational Social Science / AI / Platforms / Information Environments / News /
emilbakke.github.io
Caleb Ziems @calebziems.com PhD student at Stanford NLP. Working on Social NLP and CSS. Previously at GaTech, Meta AI, Emory.
📍Palo Alto, CA
🔗 calebziems.com
Jesper N. Wulff @jnwulff.bsky.social Professor @AarhusUni doing research on organizational research methods and teaching deep neural networks in our Msc. BI program. https://jespernwulff.github.io/
Marisa Smith @smithmarisaa.bsky.social Assistant Professor @MSUAdPR @MSUjschool | news, race and identity, politics, disinformation | ΔΣΘ
André Calero Valdez @sumidu.bsky.social Professor of Human-Computer Interaction and Usable Safety Engineering. University of Lübeck. Interested in HCAI, Vis, RecSys, eHealth, sustainability, acceptance research ABM, complex systems, SEM, R, Julia, and open science.
Vasundhara Kaul @vasundharakaul.bsky.social Law, Data Privacy, Social Psychology, Inequality | Sociology PhD Candidate at Purdue University | Methods nerd
Anand Bhardwaj @anandwashere.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Copenhagen Business School, Dept. of Digitalization
Emerging Technologies in Healthcare | Data Science | Qualitative Methods
PhD Management, McGill
PhD Ecology, Emory
digi.anandb.net
Sandro Sousa @sandrofsousa.bsky.social Scientist | Socioeconomic inequality, it's emergence & anything in between | Algorithms & Society | Complexity, Networks & Computational Social Science | @cphsodas.bsky.social
Louis Boucherie @louisboucherie.com https://louisboucherie.com/
Dan Pemstein @danpemstein.com Political economist working mostly on democratic institutions, tech, political careers and party org, and measurement. http://www.danpemstein.com
https://digitalsocietyproject.org
Who Targets Me @whotargets.me On political ads, transparency and what's right for democracy. Go to https://whotargets.me/download to get involved, check out https://trends.whotargets.me for data on >100k digital political advertisers. Newsletter: fulldisclosure.whotargets.me
Andrew Sinclair @jandrewsinclair.bsky.social Ast. Prof. of Gov't, Claremont McKenna College. Interested in political reform, public policy process, public administration, electoral institutions, and political behavior. Polling at the Rose Institute of State and Local Government.
Colin M. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com political scientist @ University of Zürich
platforms, political violence, social media, computing
research & writing:
henryhenryhenry.com
sometimes land of enchantment, sometimes land of Helvetia
Taylor Beauvais @taylorbeauvais.bsky.social PhD candidate at Boston University studying the sociology of AI.
Grad fellow at Rafik Hariri institute for computation and computer engineering.
Teaching fellow for AI Ethics
Machine learning analyst at Open Justice Lab.
Matthew Finlayson @mattf.nl NLP PhD @ USC
Previously at AI2, Harvard
mattf1n.github.io
Matteo Chinazzi @mattk7.bsky.social Research Associate Professor at The Roux Institute and the Network Science Institute, Northeastern University. He/him.
Michele Tizzoni @mtizzoni.bsky.social Associate professor at Uni Trento. Infectious disease modeling | computational social science.
Leto Peel @piratepeel.bsky.social A mighty pirate and undisciplined scientist.
piratepeel.github.io
Lisette Espín-Noboa @lespin.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher
https://open.spotify.com/show/6tlDTnZ00diZQM9xVYi8zq
Previously: Visiting Professor at TU Graz, Postdoc at Complexity Science Hub Vienna & CEU-DNDS
#NetworkFairness #NetworkInequalities
#ScienceOfScience #Poverty #SDGs
Tiziano Piccardi @tiziano.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ Johns Hopkins University | Prev: Stanford & EPFL | https://piccardi.me/
Eun Cheol Choi @euncheolchoi.bsky.social PhD student at USC Annenberg; LLMs / CSS / SNA; @ HUMANS Lab (http://www.emilio.ferrara.name/)
Mozhdeh Gheini @mgheini.bsky.social USC Graduate Student | USC ISI NLP Researcher | 3x Apple Intern | Self-proclaimed Michelin 3-star Foodie | she/her
Brihi Joshi @brihi.bsky.social NLP PhD @ USC
Everything language, humans, felines and music
(and an infrequent shit-poster)
brihijoshi.github.io
Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com Research Assistant Professor | Politics & Computational Social Science | Northwestern University, Center for Science of Science and Innovation | Dad & Wife Guy | Not Ok | Sorry for the Swears | #goblue
AHC @amyh.bsky.social
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
Elisa Xi Chen @elisaxchen.bsky.social Artist cursed to be a female economist in this life. PhD student @Harvard.
My Roman Empire: Labor, Education, Development, Gender
https://elisaxchen.github.io/
naitian @naitian.org NLP / CSS PhD at Berkeley I School. I develop computational methods to study culture as a social language.
Andrea Failla @andreajpg.bsky.social PhD student at the University of Pisa. Interested in higher-order/temporal/attributed networks and ducks.
Please don't ask me what a higher-order duck is
Arnav Arora @rnv.bsky.social CS PhD student, University of Copenhagen | LLM cultural value alignment, safety, political communication, AI ethics |
he/him.
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=EQUUUUoAAAAJ&hl=en
Ben Rochford @benrochford.com Duke Sociology PhD candidate (advised by Chris Bail), studying online communities, social identity, and artificial intelligence. Flute player, early career Computational Social Scientist
Kristen @kristenengel.bsky.social Social computing PhD candidate @ UW. I study user engagement with interventions, prosocial behavior, and antisocial content across online platforms.
www.kristenengel.com
Kevin Yang @yang3kc.bsky.social Kaicheng Yang, PhD | Assistant professor @Binghamton University CS | Computational social science, bots, + | views mine
Josh Pasek @joshpasek.com Prof of Comm and Polisci @UMich studying how people get & use political information and social measurement.
Competencies: data sci, DIY solar, election analytics, carpooling, #polcom, #polpsych, survey methods, AI literacy (views=own, overuses speech2text)
Sky CH-Wang @skychwang.bsky.social RS @ Abridge.
https://skywang.me
Vsevolod Suschevskiy @vvseva.bsky.social Visualization and Interaction Design. Understanding and improving (maybe) research practices of analytical sociologists
https://vvseva.quarto.pub/
Suzy Brandon Ph.D. @suzywbrandon.bsky.social #PhD interested in #PoliticalEpistemology, #PoliticalEcology, #Sociology, #Socialmedia, & #Cats
Richard Huskey @richardhuskey.bsky.social Associate Professor, UC Davis. PI, Cognitive Communication Science Lab. Associate Editor, Journal of Communication. Ski bum at heart. https://cogcommscience.com/
Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social NLP, cultural analytics. Assistant Professor of CS at University of Colorado Boulder. Books, bikes, games, art. https://maria-antoniak.github.io
David Mimno @dmimno.bsky.social He teaches information science at Cornell. http://mimno.infosci.cornell.edu
Swabha @swabhs.bsky.social Assistant Professor of CS, University of Southern California. NLP / ML.
Aaron Shaw @aaronshaw.bsky.social Usually professoring, parenting, running, etc. Social science and design of digital public goods in online communities. Northwestern University, Chicagoland. https://communitydata.science
Jesse Thomason @thomason.bsky.social Associate Prof @ GaTech
Prev: Assistant Prof @ USC
http://glamor.rocks/
https://jessethomason.com/
Angelina Wang @angelinawang.bsky.social Asst Prof at Cornell Info Sci and Cornell Tech. Responsible AI
https://angelina-wang.github.io/
Massimo Stella @massimost.bsky.social Associate Professor in AI and CogSci, Uni of Trento, Italy. PI of CogNosco Lab. Working on cognitive networks and NLP for understanding AI and the human mind.
Elena Zheleva @elenadata.bsky.social CS Prof @ University of Illinois Chicago. Research in causal inference, machine learning, graph mining, privacy.
www.cs.uic.edu/~elena
Thorsten Quandt @thorstenquandt.bsky.social Professor of Online Communication. Researching the transformation of communication and society. Critical optimist.
Shadi Rezapour @rezapour.bsky.social Assistant prof. of information science at Drexel CCI.
computational social science, NLP for social good, narratives, stigma, #NLProc #NLP #NLP4SG
Previously at UIUC, Spotify.
she/her. shadirezapour.com
Dr. Jason Jeffrey Jones @jason-jones.bsky.social Ipseologist, computational social scientist. Academic doing things my own way. https://jasonjones.ninja/
Renzhe Yu @renzheyu.bsky.social Researcher @columbiauniversity.bsky.social | Responsible AI and educational equity | He/him
renzheyu.com
Dechun Zhang @dechunzhang.bsky.social Postdoc at the Department of Communication, University of Copenhagen. Managing Editor @jceajournal.bsky.social, Editor of Asia Pacific Viewpoint, @gpccomm.bsky.social, Sage Open & Social Media Editor @jvpcjournal.bsky.social. Web: http://dechunzhang.com