Media and Communication @cogitatiomac.bsky.social Media and Communication is a peer-reviewed open access journal dedicated to a wide variety of research in communication.
2023 Impact Factor: 2.7 (Q1)
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication
Oxford Internet Institute @oii.ox.ac.uk Exploring how technology is transforming the way we live, work and govern.
Rita Tang @ritatang.bsky.social Phd student in the Hubbard School of Journalism at the University of Minnesota, passionate about research in AI, media literacy and misinformation.
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
Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social Professor of health law and science policy, author, speaker, and commentator. #ScienceUpFirst
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/caulfieldtim
Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social Founder & reigning monarch at TPM. Lapsed historian. Hand tool woodworker. Jew.
A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social Researching conservative news and right-wing media. PhD in American Studies from NYU. I teach at but don't speak for the University of Alabama.
News on the Right (http://bit.ly/2YgUcZX).
Making the Liberal Media (https://shorturl.at/e31nU)
Carole V. Bell @cvbell.bsky.social 🇯🇲Culture critic, media & politics prof and researcher. I 💙 Art & Democracy. Writing: NPR, Boston Globe, IndieWire, LATimes, NYTimes, Washington Post, Oprah Daily, The Emancipator, Kirkus and BookPage. UNC J-School PhD. Linktr.ee/Cvbell
Tobia Spampatti, PhD @tspampatti.bsky.social PhD in Neuroscience, Guest Researcher at the Center for Adaptive Rationality, Max Planck Institute for Human Development
I study why people care and discuss about societal, systemic issues like climate change, technology, and disinformation.
❤️=bookmarks
Gijs Schumacher @gijsschumacher.bsky.social Professor of Political Psychology @UvA_Amsterdam
Director @Hotpoliticslab
Blog @stukroodvlees
Website: gijsschumacher.nl
Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov Dad, husband, teacher, coach, veteran. Governor of Minnesota. Working to move our state forward as #OneMinnesota.
Jeff Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social On here way too much. Political scientist at Georgia State University. Congress & elections. My feed is mostly politics but you’ll get some sports takes and terrible dad jokes along the way.
Skeptical Science @skepticalscience.bsky.social Non-profit science education organization building public resilience against climate misinformation. More at http://sks.to/welcome
Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov Mom, wife, daughter, and loving but distracted friend. U.S. Senator for Minnesota. Prefers window seats, donuts and MN beer (all together when possible) ✈️ 🍩🍺
jen forestal @seejenspeak.bsky.social political theorist, assoc professor at Loyola Chicago. studying digital technologies, democratic practices, (software) architecture, & civic engagement. she/her
Tiziano Piccardi @tiziano.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ Johns Hopkins University | Prev: Stanford & EPFL | https://piccardi.me/
Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social #NewPI interested in #immune #evolution, host #pathogen interactions, and #ScientificPublishing @ University of Exeter, UK. He/him. 🇨🇦
ProPublica @propublica.org Investigative journalism in the public interest. Headlines and (sometimes literal) receipts.
propublica.org
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social My Book: Giving Up Is Unforgivable |UALawSchool |MSNOW Legal Analyst |Podcasts #SistersInLaw & Cafe Insider|Obama US Atty |25 year fed'l prosecutor|Wife & Mom of 4|Knits a lot|Civil Discourse newsletter: joycevance.substack.com
Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social Subscribe to my tech and online culture newsletter UserMag.co
Listen/watch Power User podcast on all platforms!!
Support my work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/taylorlorenz
Claire Zagorski, PhD, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social Postdoc at @opioidcobre.bsky.social. Translational transdisciplinary drug scientist, harm reductionist, artist, paramedic, chemistry enthusiast, Texan. she/her/ella
Shop: pinpenmerger.etsy.com
Venmo: claireifc
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Laura Seay @texasinafrica.bsky.social PhD, political scientist, tired. Development, governance, & conflict in Africa. T1D, Texas Longhorns 🤘🏻, & other stuff.
I don't share my location on social media. Thanks for not asking!
(she/her)
Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social Historian: White Flight; New Suburban History; Fog of War; One Nation Under God; Fault Lines; Voter Suppression; Myth America. CAMPAIGN TRAILS: campaign-trails.ghost.io
Mike Masnick @masnick.com Techdirt guy. Writes about social media, copyright, free speech, content moderation, civil liberties and stuff like that. Once wrote a paper that may have helped inspire this service & now I'm on its board: https://bit.ly/protocolnotplatform
Ky☁️ @kyinweb3.bsky.social Doctor of Science • Blockchain Engineer • Made half Boricua 🇵🇷• Global Blockchain Association Board Member • Building blockchain infrastructure for the DoD
You just might see me inside of Chanel or Louis Vuitton every weekend
Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team Rudolph (Rudy) Fraser ⁂
CEO & Founder, building virtual 3rd places
[ @blackskyweb.xyz ][ blacksky.community ]
@mozilla.org Fellow 🦊
prev. @harvard.edu Fellow
🏴☠️ [ wethepeople.nyc ]
Board @pactcollective.xyz
TSC @lexicon.community
Black crypto-anarchy Ⓐ
Deirra F. @deirradecoded.bsky.social Network Security Leader. Systems Thinker.
💌 hello@deirradecoded.com
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💻 https://beacons.ai/deirradecoded
Angie Jones @angiejones.tech Tech's Favorite Auntie
VP Eng, AI Tools & Enablement @ Block
#techgirl1908
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/
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)
Markus Brauer @markusbrauer.bsky.social UW-Madison Psychology professor and Executive Director of the Institute for Diversity Science. I study prejudice, racism, diversity, behavior change, interventions, norm transgressions, and sustainability.
Shree Vallabha @shreevallabha.bsky.social PhD @ Michigan State University | social, moral, political psychology
Website: https://shreevallabha.wixsite.com/shree-vallabha
Cydney Hurston Dupree @cydneydupree.bsky.social Social psychologist specializing in stereotypes and inequality. www.cydneydupree.com
Kurt Gray @kurtjgray.bsky.social Prof at UNC, studying morality, religion, AI.
Director: Deepest Beliefs Lab; Center for the Science of Moral Understanding.
Author: The Mind Club; Substack; forthcoming book
Amy Krosch @amykrosch.bsky.social Assistant Prof in Psychology at Cornell University
Studies social perception and intergroup inequality
Queer, first-generation college grad
KroschLab.com
Maureen Craig @mocraig.bsky.social Social psychologist investigating how people navigate diverse and inequitable contexts.
Scott Clifford @scottclifford.bsky.social Professor of Political Science.
http://scottaclifford.com/
Timothy Ryan @tjryan02.bsky.social Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
https://timryan.web.unc.edu/
Peter Luca Versteegen @versteegenluca.bsky.social Postdoc at the University of Hamburg. Empirical social scientist researching polarization & democracy from a political psych perspective.
I do research and I run.
https://lucaversteegen.com
Steven W. Webster @stevenwwebster.bsky.social Political scientist and Director of the Center on American Politics at IU Bloomington.
Jennifer Wolak @jwolak.bsky.social 
Xiaowen Xu, PhD @xiaowenxu.bsky.social Assistant Prof. @ William & Mary | Research: Political ideology, personality, meaning-making | Known as Professor X | I post about academia and baking | xiaowenxu.pages.wm.edu
Nick Valentino @nickvalentino.bsky.social Donald R. Kinder Collegiate Professor of Political Science, Research Professor at the Center for Political Studies, University of Michigan
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
American National Election Studies @electionstudies.bsky.social The ANES collects high-quality, non-partisan survey data on voting and public opinion. The gold standard of survey research for 75 years and a proud winner of the AAPOR policy award. Posting about new data, analyses by the public and more.
APSA REP @apsarep.bsky.social American Political Science Association organized section on Race, Ethnicity and Politics (Section 33)
https://connect.apsanet.org/s33/
Nature Reviews Psychology @natrevpsychol.nature.com An online-only journal publishing Reviews, Perspectives & Comments across psychology, its applications & societal implications. Posts from the editors. https://www.nature.com/nrpsychol/
Andrew Little @anthlittle.bsky.social Prof at UC Berkeley. Formal theory, political beliefs, democracy.
Associate Editor at @ajpseditor.bsky.social
https://anthlittle.github.io/
Joe Phillips @polpsychjoe.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Political Science, Trinity College Dublin. Political Psychology. Polarization. Political Communication.
Robert Böhm @robertboehm.bsky.social Behavioral scientist studying judgment and decision making in response to societal challenges; robertboehm.info; Professor @univie.ac.at & @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social; Director https://whocc-sabrar.univie.ac.at; Co-director https://health.univie.ac.at/en/
Sarah Shugars @shugars.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Communication @ Rutgers University. Computational social science, political communication, civic studies. First gen. They/them
Matt Motta @mattmotta.bsky.social Associate Professor of Health Law, Policy, & Management. Boston University School of Public Health.
Author of Anti-Scientific Americans: https://a.co/d/7oSVhwP
Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social Professor of AI, society, media and democracy + Political Communication, U Amsterdam || Director of Digital Democracy Centre, SDU || AlgoSoc || AIMD || Mix of work and private stuff ||
🇩🇰🇳🇱🇪🇺🏃🏼🧪☕️🍿🐶🟥🦋
Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social Co-founder of Project Implicit, Society for Improving Psychological Science, and the Center for Open Science; Professor at the University of Virginia
Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com I'm a political scientist in the @mccourtschool.bsky.social. I study trust in institutions & media effects on the public. Apologies for typos.
Web page: https://www.jonathanmladd.com/
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.
Dr. Sarah Gaither @sarahegaither.bsky.social Social and Developmental Psychology at Duke; foodie, twin mom, UC Berkeley and Tufts alumna; she/her 
Robb Willer @robbwiller.bsky.social Professor of Sociology, Psychology, & Org Behavior, Stanford University
Direct, the @pascl-stanford.bsky.social, the AI for Public Benefit Lab, & co-direct @Stanfordpacs Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society
Michael W. Kraus @mwkraus.bsky.social Not the German handball player or the historian. The other one. Berkeley Psych alum and social psychologist. | he/him
www.csinequality.org
Alex Coppock @aecoppock.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University
alexandercoppock.com
Persuasion in Parallel: https://alexandercoppock.com/coppock_2022.html
Research Design: Declaration, Diagnosis, and Redesign: book.declaredesign.org
Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social Behavioral Scientist & Science Communicator.
Nancy and Peter Meinig Family Investigator in the Life Sciences and Associate Professor of Communication, Medicine, and Public Policy at Cornell University.
More here: neillewisjr.com
Personal account
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
Shana Gadarian @sgadarian.bsky.social Professor, Political Science | Syracuse University, Maxwell School | American politics, political psychology | Co-author of Anxious Politics and Pandemic Politics
Melissa Baker @melissabaker.bsky.social Asst prof at UTEP. Political psychology and political communication. Studying mental health, cognition, emotions, info behavior, & social media.
Jennifer Richeson @jaricheson.bsky.social professor of social psychology with a focus on race, diversity, & societal inequality; political junkie; the beach is my happy place; views are my own
Drew Engelhardt @amengel.bsky.social Artisanal line drawing. Believer in imaginary things. Personal capacity.
YNWA. 🌭🐕🍺🚲
Tobias Rothmund @tobiasrothmund.bsky.social reading and writing about scientific methods, political psychology, digital media, democratic functioning and #VfB.
Almog Simchon @almogsi.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Ben-Gurion University. Computional social psychologist. Studying social media, misinformation, polarization and language
Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.eurosky.social Journalist. Activist. Working for a better tomorrow today.
Political perspectives. Sustainability. Resilience. Food security. Social justice.
Scottish. Irish. Algerian. Kabyl.
There is no Planet B.
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
Joe Hamm @istudytrust.bsky.social "truly enthusiastic trust nerd" (Möllering, 2023, p. 96)—assoc prof @ Mich State University—EIC @ Journal of Trust Research
Andrew Perfors @perfors.net Prof at UniMelb. I'm a computational cognitive scientist studying human inference, learning, information systems, culture, and (mis/dis)info. Nerd & opinionated loudmouth in Oz, originally from America, citizen of both. Parent of two. 🏳️⚧️ perfors.net
Joey Schafer @schafer.bsky.social UW-Seattle PhD candidate, studying online attention dynamics & creators/influencers @ HCDE/CIP, advised by @katestarbird.bsky.social . Former SETS Fellow @ Cornell Tech, working w/ @informor.bsky.social . UAW 4121 ASE Recording Secretary. He/Him
Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social Journalist at Mother Jones and elsewhere, author, writer of social media posts on micro-blogging sites. Tips to Amerlan@motherjones.com or on Signal, username annamerlan.30
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
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/
Tom Costello @tomcostello.bsky.social research psychologist. beliefs, AI, computational social science. assistant prof at Carnegie Mellon
Sean Bogart @seanbogart.bsky.social Social Psych Doctoral Candidate - Ohio University
Research focus: political partisanship and ideological perceptions, misinformation, intellectual humility.
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
Madalina Vlasceanu, PhD @madalina.bsky.social Assistant Prof of Environmental Behavioral Sciences at Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability. Director of the Stanford Climate Cognition Lab https://climatecognition.stanford.edu
Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social Social scientist @yalesph.bsky.social studying why we get fooled online, and what to do about it. Author of Misguided. https://amzn.to/48zTs59
https://matthewfacciani.substack.com
www.matthewfacciani.com
https://matthewfacciani.github.io/tools/
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/
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)
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
Eric Gilbert @eegilbert.org Professor at Michigan. On sabbatical at the Berkman Klein Center. http://eegilbert.org
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
Sander van der Linden @profsanderlinden.bsky.social Professor of Social Psychology in Society at the University of Cambridge and Author of FOOLPROOF: Why We Fall for Misinformation and How to Build Immunity (2023) + The Psychology of Misinformation (2024). Bad News Game.
www.sandervanderlinden.com
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
Adam Berinsky @adamberinsky.bsky.social Political Scientist and social media addict
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
David Broniatowski @broniatowski.bsky.social Professor at The George Washington University in Engineering Management and Systems Engineering.
Daniel Malmer @malmer.com PhD student researching media, political communication, and extremism. Software developer turned computational social scientist. This is a Frieren stan account.
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"
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
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
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