V-Dem Institute @vdeminstitute.bsky.social The V-Dem Institute is an independent research institute and the Headquarters of the V-Dem project, based at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. The V-Dem project (Varieties of Democracy) is a unique approach to conceptualizing and measuring democracy. 
Piotr Marczyński @piotrmarczynski.bsky.social PhDing at @sciencepoulb.bsky.social
Looking into what far-right activists do online and why it works or doesn't. 
Chiara Vargiu @cvargiu.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Political Communication @vuamsterdam.bsky.social | Elite hostility & Incivility, Marginalization, Violence
website: chiaravargiu.com
Nina Zeelen @ninazeelen.bsky.social Journalist
https://nl.linkedin.com/in/nina-zeelen-b65651106
@crackingtheframe.bsky.social
hackingcommsci @hackingcommsci.bsky.social Opening communication science // pre-conference hackathon at the 2026 meeting of the ICA. June 3 & 4 2026 in Stellenbosch, South Africa.
Registration until May 4th at hackingcommsci.org/
Political Psychology @ispp-pops.bsky.social Political Psychology is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by ISPP (@polpsyispp.bsky.social)
co-EiC: @lizsuhay.bsky.social & @mjbsp.bsky.social
Follow us everywhere & current issue: linktr.ee/POPSjournal
EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social The European Political Science Society: the not-for-profit professional association for political science in Europe and beyond
https://epssnet.org/
Communication, Organizations and Society (COS) @cos-ascor.bsky.social We are the Program Group COS within the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR) at the University of Amsterdam.
ECPR SG Extremism & Democracy @ecpr-ead.bsky.social The official @ECPR.bsky.social Standing Group on Extremism & Democracy. We also publish the e-Extreme newsletter.
Steering Comm: @leoniedejonge.bsky.social, @profannikawerner.bsky.social, and @dafnoukos.bsky.social
DSA40 Data Access Collaboratory @dsa40collaboratory.bsky.social dsa40collaboratory.eu | joint project by the @europeannewschool.bsky.social and the @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social
Morgan Wack @morganwack.bsky.social PostDoc at UZH. Formerly Clemson & UW. Technology & democracy, political misinformation, African politics, and LFC.
Center for Democracy & Technology @cdt.org The Center for Democracy & Technology. Shaping technology policy and architecture, with a focus on equity and justice. @cdteu.org for our EU-based team.
https://cdt.org
Kaiping Chen @kaipingchen.bsky.social Associate Professor of Science and Technology Communication, Computational Social Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison | Stanford/
Columbia / Fudan University alumni | Pianist
www.kaipingchen.com
Adrian Rauchfleisch @adrauc.bsky.social Distinguished Professor @ National Taiwan University
fög / Universität Zürich @foeg.bsky.social fög – Forschungszentrum Öffentlichkeit und Gesellschaft
Universität Zürich
Digitaler Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit, Qualität der Medien und Konsequenzen für die Gesellschaft
www.foeg.uzh.ch
Quirin Ryffel @qryffel.bsky.social Research assistant & PhD candidate
Department of Communication and Media Research, University of Zurich
🔎 Interested in citizens’ political information behavior and its relation to individual perceptions, knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors in democracies
Raffael Heiss @raffaelheiss.bsky.social Professor at MCI. Interested in Health Communication, Misinformation, Food Systems.
Former: Fulbright Visiting Professor at Georgetown University; PhD Candidate at University of Vienna.
raffaelheiss.com
@florian-toepfl.bsky.social @florian-toepfl.bsky.social Professor of Political Communication with a Focus on Eastern Europe and the Post-Soviet Region, PI of ERC consolidator project RUSINFORM on Russia's informational influence abroad. All opinions private.
Sophia Knight @sophiaaknight.bsky.social DPhil Researcher @ldnsocmedobs.bsky.social working on podcasts, political communication & computational social science
Former Research Lead for Responsible Innovation Centre, BBC R&D and Senior Tech Policy Researcher @demos-uk.bsky.social
Benjamin Moffitt @benmoffitt.bsky.social Political Scientist @ Monash University | Author of 3 books | Writing about populism, reactionary politics & visual politics | he/him
Articles/publications here: https://monash.academia.edu/BenjaminMoffitt
Constantin Wurthmann @wurthmann.bsky.social Professor of Political Behaviour and Representation @ University of Mainz |
Elections, Parties, Attitudes & LGBTQ* |🇪🇺| he/him
Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social Assistant prof at IE University. Previously EUI and Oxford.
Researching what we think is ok to do in a democracy & how that changes.
Book on the normalization of the radical right: https://academic.oup.com/book/57946
More at www.vicentevalentim.com
Danbischof @danbischof.bsky.social danbischof.com
Political Scientist: studying democracy with experiments & data
Professor | University of Münster
Associate Professor | Aarhus University
(he/him | "Sie" als Anrede brauche ich nicht)
Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social Professor of European Politics at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. Elections, parties, social democracy & the radical right. he/him. 🏳️🌈
Tobias Heidenreich @hdnrch.bsky.social Researcher WZB Berlin | Political Communication & Computational Methods
Dr. Jan Philipp Thomeczek @drphilphil.bsky.social Post-Doctoral Researcher at @unipotsdam.bsky.social, Chair of Comparative Politics @ganghof.bsky.social. Interested in parties, populism, elections and social media.
Julia Partheymüller @schnizzl.bsky.social Senior Scientist at the Department of Government at the University of Vienna #AUTNES 🇦🇹
Lukas Birkenmaier @lukasbirkenmai1.bsky.social Research Associate and PhD Candidate @gesis_org | Interested in text as data, validity, political communication; 🔗https://lukasbirkenmaier.de/
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/
Ulrike Klinger @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social Professor of Political Communication and Journalism at the University of Amsterdam, ASCoR, Associated Researcher at Weizenbaum Institute Berlin. Technology & Democracy. Foodie. Traveller. Views are my own.
Marcel Lewandowsky @mlewandowsky.bsky.social Professor für Regierungslehre und Policyforschung, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Autor bei Kiepenheuer & Witsch und C.H. Beck
Alle Meinungen hier privat.
Bruno Castanho Silva @bcastanho.bsky.social Ass. Prof. of Methods in Empirical Social Research at FU Berlin and EB member @methodsnet.bsky.social
Politics, methods, and occasionally memes
https://bcastanho.github.io/
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/
Patrick Zerrer @pzerrer.bsky.social PostDoc @ZeMKI_Bremen @UniBremen | Political Communication | Political Action | News usage | CSS | mobile & desktop Tracking
Fabian Kalleitner @kalf.bsky.social Sociologist working @LMU Munich. Former FU Berlin & University of Vienna. I'm interested in social and economic inequality working on topics like taxation, (un)employment, and redistribution
https://fabiankal.github.io/ 
Axel Bruns @snurb.info Australian Laureate Fellow and Professor at @qutdmrc, researching news, politics, partisanship, polarisation in digital and social media.
He/his | Progressive Rock | Hannover 96 🖤🤍💚 | 🇦🇺🇩🇪🇪🇺
🕸️ snurb.info
🐘 @snurb@aoir.social
⛔ @snurb_dot_info
Daniel Angus @antmandan.bsky.social Professor of Digital Communication and Director of the QUT Digital Media Research Centre. Cyclist, beer brewer, nerd, community advocate.
Svenja Krauss @svenjakrauss.bsky.social Political scientist | Postdoc @ Uni Wien | Coalition governments | Political representation | Political behaviour | Star Wars | Football | She/her | 🇪🇺🏳️🌈
Jennifer Oser @jenny-oser.bsky.social Social scientist | PI of European Research Council (ERC) grant project | Full Professor, Ben-Gurion University in Israel | https://www.jenniferoser.com/
Christina Gahn @christinagahn.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Vienna.
Dr in Political Science from Humboldt University of Berlin
Political science, political communication, electoral campaigns, targeting, party competition, public opinion polls
https://christina.gahn.at
Simon Kruschinski @meinungsfuehrer.bsky.social Senior Researcher for Platform data and Computational Social Science @gesis.org
▪️Enabling research data access under the DSA
▪️Researching how platforms, algorithms & AI shape political (campaign) communication
📱 https://linktr.ee/simonkruschinski
Sarah Engler @saengler.bsky.social Professor in Comparative Politics @leuphana, party competition, European politics, CEE, democracy, corruption, radical right, former @IPZ_ch | PhD @IPWunibern #FirstGen
Felix Lehmann @felixlehmann.bsky.social PhD candidate in political science @ University of Gothenburg | party competition | representation | intra-party politics | European integration | immigration
Gema García-Albacete @ggalbacete.bsky.social Associate Professor Political Science @uc3m
Research on inequalities in political involvement:
http://genpol.es
https://www.g-epic.eu
Co-director http://uc3m.es/master/analisi….
#fistgen
"Vicedecana"
@ggalbacete
Joerg Hassler @joerghassler.bsky.social Associate Professor at University of Oslo | Political Communication | Digital Communication | https://digidemo.ifkw.lmu.de | https://klimamemes.ifkw.lmu.de
Katharina Esau @kathaesa.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow @qutdmrc.bsky.social, Pol Comm, Digital Publics, Democratic Innovation, Automated & Relational Content & Sequence Analysis, interested in news media, polarisation & opinion formation online: https://shorturl.at/4WIcP
Paolo Gerbaudo @paologerbaudo.bsky.social Senior researcher in Political Science Department, Universidad Complutense, Madrid. Technopolitics, Geopolitics, Political Parties and Public Opinion.
Puck Guldemond @puckguldemond.bsky.social PhD candidate at WUR | Political Microtargeting | Likes cats 🐈 
QUT Digital Media Research Centre @qutdmrc.bsky.social World-leading communication, media, and law research for a flourishing digital society. research.qut.edu.au/dmrc/
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
Sten Hansson @stenhansson.bsky.social Associate Professor @UniTartu interested in #government #communication #blameavoidance #disasters #disinformation #discoursestudies
https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?hl=en&user=AmIeTJYAAAAJ
Fabio Giglietto @fabiogiglietto.bsky.social Professor of Internet Studies at the University of Urbino - Principal investigator https://mine.uniurb.it
Noshir Contractor @noshir.bsky.social Noshir Contractor is the Jane S. & William J. White Professor of Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University. He investigates how networks form and perform. - S @shelleyb.bsky.social @shelleyb.bsky.social
Martin Gross @martingross.bsky.social Political scientist, LMU Munich || Parties || Party competition in multi-level systems || Coalitions || Local politics || EU Cohesion Policy || Political representation || Sports & politics
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
Mirko Wegemann @mwegemann.bsky.social polsci | Postdoc at University of Münster, previously PhD candidate at European University Institute | radical right, justifications, gender | computational text analyses | he/him
Dr Caroline Leicht @carolineleicht.bsky.social Researches gender, media and politics, comedy, US politics & elections
Lecturer in Digital Media, University of Manchester • Visiting Fellow, University of Southampton
Co-convenor @psawomenpol.bsky.social
she/her
https://carolinevleicht.weebly.com
Ellis Aizenberg @eaizenberg.bsky.social Assistant professor @unileiden.bsky.social | Interest representation | Public policy | Political behaviour | Comparative politics and EU | Methods | Mom of 2
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)
Andreas Küpfer @ankuepfer.bsky.social Postdoc @ TU Darmstadt, currently visiting University of Birmingham | Studying multimodal data (text, video, audio), political behaviour and party competition | PhD Political Science & MSc Data Science (Uni Mannheim) | #firstgen
andreaskuepfer.github.io
Johannes Breuer @johannesbreuer.com Professor of Digital Social Science @unidue.bsky.social and head of the team Research Data & Methods @cais-research.bsky.social
Interested in digital traces | computational social science | reproducibility | open science | #rstats
www.johannesbreuer.com
Eylem Kanol @kanol.bsky.social Lecturer and research fellow at Free University of Berlin | Guest researcher at WZB | Researching religious & political violence, social movements and prejudice | PhD at HU Berlin | Publications: https://ekanol.github.io/publications/ 
Nicola Righetti @nicolarighetti.bsky.social Computational Social Scientist
https://www.nicolarighetti.net/
Find me on LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/nicolarighetti79
Florian Wintterlin @wintterlin.bsky.social Communication Researcher @University of Muenster
APSA @apsa.bsky.social The American Political Science Association (APSA) is the leading professional organization for the study of political science.
www.apsanet.org
Susanne Reinhardt @srein.bsky.social (Post-)Doctoral Researcher @WealthTalks: everyday talk about economic inequality | #FirstGen | PhDing about antigenderism & the populist radical right @FU Berlin & Weizenbaum Institute 
Thorsten Thiel @thothiel.bsky.social Prof for Democracy Promotion and Digital Politics, Erfurt University
https://thorsten-thiel.net/
Jürgen Pfeffer @jurgenpfeffer.bsky.social Prof of Computational Social Science. SOT/TU Munich. Critical Data Studies, AI & Democracy, #CSS @ICWSM
Lore Hayek @lorehayek.at Associate professor @polsciuibk.bsky.social | Austrian politics, political communication & civic education | Royals, tennis, television | Ich laufe lang und fahre Rad.
Weizenbaum-Institut @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social Forschung für die vernetzte Gesellschaft \\ Research for the networked society
https://www.weizenbaum-institut.de/
Niels G. Mede @nielsmede.bsky.social 🔎 Assistant Professor of Science Communication
📍 Wageningen University & Research @w-u-r.bsky.social
🏠 www.nielsmede.com
Phoebe Maares @phoebemaares.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher at IRex, @unituebingen.bsky.social
Journalism and its boundaries. @univie.ac.at Alumn. she/her
Anne Schulz @annisch.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Political Communication at IKMZ, University of Zurich and Research Associate at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford
Dr. Dominika Tronina @dom-of-tronina.bsky.social PostDoc Uni Oldenburg | Far right & anti-gender politics, digital mobilization, Central & Eastern Europe, pigeons. | she/her
Amadeu Antonio Stiftung @amadeuantonio.bsky.social Wir ermutigen, beraten und fördern Initiativen gegen Rechtsextremismus, Rassismus und Antisemitismus!
Spenden: https://www.amadeu-antonio-stiftung.de/spenden-und-stiften/
Datenschutz: https://www.amadeu-antonio-stiftung.de/datenschutz/
Philipp K. Masur @masurphil.bsky.social Associate Professor at VU Amsterdam | digital communication, privacy, social influence & media literacy | Director of the Digital Media and Behavior Lab - www.dmb-lab.nl | More on: www.philippmasur.de
Mike S. Schäfer @mss7676.bsky.social Prof of Science Communication @ UZH | Director @ CHESS | PI @ Wissenschaftsbarometer Schweiz & @ TechnikRadar | Member @ Acatech & @ BBAW
Svenja Boberg @zwizwasvens.bsky.social Communication scientist at University of Muenster
Computational methods, social issue emergence, desinformation
MZES Social Science Data Lab @mzes-ssdl.bsky.social MZES Social Science Data Lab. An event series for data and methods in the social sciences. Check out our tutorials on our blog Methods Bites: https://socialsciencedatalab.mzes.uni-mannheim.de
M. Saïd H. Unger @mshu.bsky.social Research Assistant at the Online Communication Lab in Münster
Ahrabhi Kathirgamalingam @ahrabhikat.bsky.social she/ her | Postdoctoral researcher at @gesis.org | PhD from @compcommlab.bsky.social at U of Vienna | 🔎social bias, racism and polarization in media and CSS methods.
ahrkat.github.io
Anna-Sophie Heinze @asheinze.bsky.social Political scientist. Interim Professor @leuphana.bsky.social. Researching #parties, #democracy & the #farright in #Germany & #Europe.
Publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=tYW_mxYAAAAJ
Anna Maria Planitzer @amplanitzer.bsky.social she/her 🏳️🌈 | PhD candidate @polcomvienna.bsky.social
@yecrea.bsky.social PolComm section representative
Algorithmic Content Moderation | Inclusive Technologies | User-Agency & Effects 💭
https://polcom.univie.ac.at/team/anna-maria-planitzer/
Christopher Klamm 🏔️ @cklamm.bsky.social 👨🔬 NLProc & CSS (UMannheim, UCologne & OxCPS group)
🚀 http://tada.cool co-organizer
🎓 MSc CS & MA PolSci
✨ rhetoric, framing & open science
👣 prev. MZES, BigScience, UKPlab & COSS_eth
🌲 https://linktr.ee/chkla
Kateryna Maikovska 🇺🇦 @maikovska.bsky.social prae doc at U Vienna, @compcommlab.bsky.social | digital activism, mixed-methods, agent-based modeling, connective action. Ukrainian 🇺🇦 Speculative fiction writer, published novellas collection "Слухач". #RussiaIsATerroristState
Ole Kelm @olekelm.bsky.social PostDoc Communication Science @hhu.bsky.social
💡 Political Communication
💡 Political Participation
💡 Political Consumerism
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)
Márton Bene @martonbene.bsky.social HUN-REN CSS & ELTE - Budapest
political communication | political behavior | social media | punk music
Leader of the PRiSMa research group
https://bsky.app/profile/prisma-hungary.bsky.social
https://prisma-rg.hu/
Institut für Demokratie und Zivilgesellschaft @idz-jena.bsky.social Seit 2016 erforschen wir in Jena als außeruniversitäres Institut demokratiegefährende Phänomene in Thüringen und beyond.
In Partnerschaft mit @fgz-risc.bsky.social und in Trägerschaft von @amadeuantonio.bsky.social
Anna-Theresa Mayer @atmayer.bsky.social PhD candidate in the 'Digital News Dynamics' RG @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social | Interested in journalism, news & public value on social media
Sven-Oliver Proksch @sopro.bsky.social Professor of Political Science | University of Cologne | ERC MINORITYRULE | svenoliverproksch.com
Emese Domahidi @emesedomahidi.bsky.social 
ASCoR @ascor.bsky.social The Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR) is a leading research institute in Communication Science 📍 @FMG_UvA @UvA_Amsterdam
Hannah Greber @hannahgreber.bsky.social Post-Doc @polcomvienna.bsky.social // Emerging Media and Political Communication // Immersive Journalism // Construcitve Journalism // Visual Communication// she/her/hers
Tom Theuns @tomtheuns.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. Political Theory & European Politics, Leiden Uni | Democracy | EU
private handle: views mine
Out now: PROTECTING DEMOCRACY IN EUROPE Hurst/OUP https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/9781911723745
Prev. UWC; Maastricht; Oxford; Sciences Po
Andreas Hepp @ahepp.bsky.social Professor of media and communications at ZeMKI and Commfigurations, Uni Bremen, on #mediatization, #datafication, #pioneercommunities, #pioneerjournalism, #ComAI, #AI, #digitalfutures.
Edda Humprecht @eddahumprecht.bsky.social @Prof of Communication Science @Uni of Jena, head of research group Digitalization & the Public Sphere
Natalia Umansky @nataliaumansky.bsky.social Postdoc @IPZ_ch @DigDemLab | PhD @ucddublin @Connected_Pol | IR, political communication, computational social science, social media | @utditella & @IBEI alum
website: https://nataliaumansky.github.io/