Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com staff writer, @newrepublic.com // author, A WOMAN IS AGAINST THE LAW (2KTK, @littlebrown.bsky.social) + PLAYING THE WHORE (Verso)
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Heather Hendershot @profhendershot.bsky.social Author of When the News Broke: Chicago 1968 and the Polarizing of America. Media historian, film weirdo, 45rpm collector. Qapla’!
sam @samthielman.com Sam Thielman | Graphic novels at NYT Book Review, seen NYer, Flaming Hydra, foreverwars.ghost.io | he/him | DC COMICS: THE STORY OF A UNIVERSE w/Sean Howe forthcoming | I know I can come off a little proactive, and for that I’m sorry.
Ethan Bergmann @ethanbergmann.bsky.social UMich Econ + Ford School PhD and NSF GRF | Health, Labor & Public Finance | Formerly: Princeton RA, Swarthmore '22
Website: ethankbergmann.github.io
Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social Senior Director of Federal Budget Policy for the Center for American Progress doing budget, tax, and econ.
Formerly: Biden OMB, Biden Transition Team, Senate Budget Committee (Murray and Sanders).
CBO and OMB’s biggest fan! Personal account.
Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social Economics editor at The Bulwark. MS NOW (formerly MSNBC) anchor.
Previously WaPo op-ed columnist and NYT reporter.
Econ, politics, immigration, tax, etc. + occasional theater nerdery.
NEP-HRM: Human Capital and Human Resource Management @repec-nep-hrm.bsky.social The latest working papers from RePEc. NEP report HRM (Human Capital and Human Resource Management)
https://nep.repec.org/
Jason Radford, PhD @jsradford.bsky.social Sociologist. Entrepreneur. Managing Director of the National Internet Observatory at Northeastern University. Turning science into innovations that solve problems.
NEP-LAB: Labour Economics @repec-nep-lab.bsky.social The latest working papers from RePEc. NEP report LAB (Labour Economics)
https://nep.repec.org/
Forrest Cardamenis @fcardamenis.bsky.social Film critic who has written for MUBI, Reverse Shot, Filmmaker, Indiewire, and others. More movie thoughts on my Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/fcardamenis
Jennifer Hendricks @jenniferhendricks.bsky.social feminist law professor. regulation of pregnancy, gender and sports, relational feminist theory, ecofeminism.
Dig: A History Podcast @dig-history.bsky.social Four feminist historians. 200+ episodes, and a world of history to unearth. Can you dig it? digpodcast.org
SPIRITUALISM’S PLACE: REFORMERS, SEEKERS AND SEANCES IN LILY DALE now available from Cornell University Press
Kristina Gligoric @IC2S2 @gligoric.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Computer Science @JohnsHopkins,
CS Postdoc @Stanford,
PHD @EPFL,
Computational Social Science, NLP, AI & Society
https://kristinagligoric.com/
John Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social Associate Professor of English at UNSW | Modernism, novels, specialisation, media, bildungsroman &c | Chair Australasian Modernist Studies Network
Dani Sandler @dismalscientist86.bsky.social Economist at the Census Bureau studying women's employment, post-prison outcomes, and low-income housing. Living in Davis, CA.
Susanna Berkouwer @sberkouwer.bsky.social Economics professor at Wharton (Penn) studying environment and development. NBER Fellow & Affiliate at JPAL, BREAD, IGC. PhD from Berkeley (ARE). They/them pronouns. From Holland and into biking, cheese, and being tall.
https://www.susannaberkouwer.com
Caroline Krafft @ckrafftc.bsky.social Economist, Associate Prof. @ Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota Development/Labor/Education/Gender/ECD/Inequality in the Middle East and North Africa.
Chloe N East (she/her) @chloeneast.bsky.social Associate Professor in Economics at University of Colorado. I study immigration, the safety net, and inequality
Affiliated with Hamilton Project at Brookings, NBER, IRP, IZA, United Campus Workers Colorado
https://www.chloeneast.com
Opinions my own
Ryan Cummings @weakinstrument.bsky.social Chief of Staff @SIEPR. Economic Adviser @MITCEEPR. PhD'ing
@UW. 2021-2023 WH CEA.
I research energy markets during the transition and, as a treat to myself, consumer sentiment. Views my own. 
Cosmik Network @cosmik.network Transforming social networks into sensemaking networks https://cosmik.network/ | Building @semble.so a social knowledge network for research | Co-organizing @atproto.science @cairos.network
David Smith @dasmiq.bsky.social Associate professor of computer science at Northeastern University. Natural language processing, digital humanities, OCR, computational bibliography, and computational social sciences. Artificial intelligence is an archival science.
Dr. Ashok Karra @akarra.bsky.social Political philosophy and ethics. Currently working on Nietzsche, Heidegger, and problems of freedom & authenticity. I teach community college & you'll hear plenty about it.
Let me know how you are and how I can help.
https://www.ashokkarra.blog/
tom westland @tomwestland.bsky.social the haughty people of the earth do languish
economic history of africa + southeast asia, comparative development, markets and industrialisation
(he/him)
tomwestland.com
Stephanie Wang @sweiwang.bsky.social immigrant, behavioral/experimental economics
mostly films, occasionally brains, games, and CCSC (Chinese Culinary Superiority Complex)
Richard McElreath 🐈⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social Anthropologist - Bayesian modeling - science reform - cat and cooking content too - Director @ MPI for evolutionary anthropology https://www.eva.mpg.de/ecology/staff/richard-mcelreath/
Chris Summerfield @summerfieldlab.bsky.social Neuronerd, Prof, head of HIP lab in Experimental Psychology, Oxford. Researcher, UK AI Safety Institute. https://humaninformationprocessing.com/.
Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social "I used to be just like you before I started going to therapy"
The Wayward Anthropologist coming April 2027
Michael Clemens @mclem.org Economist and professor at School of Government & Policy, Johns Hopkins University. Fellow at Peterson Institute for International Economics, IZA, CReAM, CGD. Assoc. Editor JEP. Personal views only.
Web: http://mclem.org
ORCID: 0000-0003-1354-0965
Alan Liu @alanyliu.bsky.social I'm a professor in digital humanities & English at UC Santa Barbara. For public humanities, I founded http://4Humanities.org & co-founded https://center-humanities-communication.org/. My website: https://liu.english.ucsb.edu/
Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social Arkie. Anti-Dirtbagist. President & CEO, Pulaski Institution. Columnist & Contrib. Editor, @LiberalCurrents.com
Words: @thebulwark.com, @ms.now, @foreignpolicy.com, @theunpopulist.net
Writing a book (Broadleaf)
Go Knicks
He/Him
Gema Zamarro @gzamarro.bsky.social (hEH-muh za-MA-roh) Education and Labor Economist. Professor at the University of Arkansas. Working a lot on Teacher Labor Markets these days. Mom. Hufflepuff
Robert Suits @robertsuits.bsky.social Asst Prof/Lecturer in environmental history at University College London. Researching climate, energy, capitalism, and labo(u)r; author of The Hobo: A History of America's First Climate Migrants (Princeton University Press, 2026). Also novelist, musician.
ACH @ach.bsky.social Association for Computers and the Humanities, the US-based professional society for the digital humanities. #digitalhumanities
pam lach @plach.bsky.social Digital Humanities Librarian/DH Center Director living/working on unceded Kumeyaay land (San Diego). US historian (PhD) + info scientist (MSIS). Disappointed UNC-CH alumna. Podcast teacher. Still masking. Dogs are my jam. @ach.bsky.social Co-Prez. she/her
Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social Professor at Wharton, studying AI and its implications for education, entrepreneurship, and work. Author of Co-Intelligence.
Book: https://a.co/d/bC2kSj1
Substack: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/
Web: https://mgmt.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/emollick
Nathan Yau @flowingdata.com Playing with data, visualizing it for humans at flowingdata.com
Seamus Hughes @seamushughes.bsky.social I read a lot of court records because I like a good story. Won a Pulitzer a couple times. “A well-known PACER watcher” - Justice Department
Green Apple Books on the Park @booksonthepark.bsky.social A branch of the legendary Green Apple Books in San Francisco's Inner Sunset. Est. 2014. Events happen here!
https://greenapplebooks.com/
Green Apple Books @greenapplebooks.bsky.social Independent bookstore in San Francisco since 1967.
Our Sunset location is @booksonthepark.bsky.social
https://greenapplebooks.com/
Martha Bailey @marthajbailey.bsky.social Professor of Economics, UCLA
NEP-EDU: Education @repec-nep-edu.bsky.social The latest working papers from RePEc. NEP report EDU (Education)
https://nep.repec.org/
NEP-DEV: Development @repec-nep-dev.bsky.social The latest working papers from RePEc. NEP report DEV (Development)
https://nep.repec.org/
NEP-GEN: Gender @repec-nep-gen.bsky.social The latest working papers from RePEc. NEP report GEN (Gender)
https://nep.repec.org/
Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social Scholar, author, policy advisor
Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab
https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab
Books: The Future of Science is Civic, Auditing AI, The Social Life of DNA, Genetics & the Unsettled Past, Body & Soul, Technicolor
Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social Having to write these bios gives me a sense of existential dread. In other news, some people on other platforms think I occasionally have interesting things to say.
#medsky
twitter @arghavan_salles
IG @arghavansallesmd
Tik Tok @arghavansallesmdphd
Stefanie O'Connell @stefanieoconnell.bsky.social Author of The Ambition Penalty: How Corporate Culture Tells Women to Step Up - Then Pushes Them Down
Michela Tincani @michelatincani.bsky.social Associate Professor at UCL Economics. Research on college access, information frictions, peer effects. Affiliations: IFS, CEPR, LEAP, CESifo, HCEO.
From Lake Maggiore to London via Philly.
https://sites.google.com/site/mtincani
Kolina Koltai @koltai.bsky.social Senior investigator & Trainer @Bellingcat.com
Investigating explicit non-consensual deepfakes/AI and disinfo w/OSINT
"I am a doctor, but not that kind of doctor."
Literary Arts Fund @literaryartsfund.bsky.social Advancing support for the nonprofit literary arts field toward ensuring creative writers’ contributions to American literature for generations to come.
literaryartsfund.org
Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social Sports editor @thenation Edge of Sports TV at http://youtube.com/therealnews Host of the Edge of Sports Podcast. Co-host of WPFW's The Collision.
Ellen Pao @ekp.bsky.social CEO of Project Include
early investor, ex-reddit, ex-VC, ex-lawyer
ellenkpao.com
Mitra Sharafi @mitrasharafi.bsky.social Legal historian of South Asia at the University of Wisconsin Law School & president of the American Society for Legal History. Also love dogs & travel. Canadian & American. Views my own. On Instagram, I'm @mitrasharafi
Center for Educational Data Science & Innovation @edsi-umd.bsky.social Housed at the University of Maryland, EDSI shapes the future of education through data science, artificial intelligence (AI), and innovative research.
Nir Grinberg @nirg.bsky.social Assistant prof. at BGU in the field of Computational Social Science.
Klaus Pforr @klauspforr.eurosky.social Sociologist at @gesis.org working with EU-SILC in @fdzgml.bsky.social. Research interests: econometrics, survey methodology, sociology of wealth, family sociology, integration/migration, ethnic segregation.🚩🏴🌻Typos galore
Nathan Wilmers @natewilmers.bsky.social Working on wage inequality, economic sociology, unions, and work. associate professor @MITSloan.
Mario Luis Small @marioluissmall.bsky.social Social scientist | Author of #SomeoneToTalkTo, #PersonalNetworks, #QualitativeLiteracy | Networks. Inequality. Methods | PTY native | Posts occasionally.
Laia Balcells @laiabalcells.bsky.social Catalan American; Yale educated political scientist; Georgetown professor. Mother of two. Views here are personal. Reskeets are not endorsements.
Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social Interested in how the rich stay rich and the poor poor. Sociologist at @sriucl.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk. He/him/his. http://perengzell.com Photo bomber @simoneschneider.bsky.social
Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social Historian of the intelligentsia. Odi profanum vulgus et arceo. Deputy Editor @NoemaMag.com. Check out "Children of a Modest Star": https://www.sup.org/books/politics/children-modest-star. Posts my own
Dissent Magazine @dissentmag.bsky.social Democratic socialist since 1954.
dissentmagazine.org
Charles Kenny @charlesjkenny.bsky.social Fellow at the Center for Global Development, author of Getting Better and The Plague Cycle. (CGD doesn't have institutional positions, so don't blame it for mine).
Jessica Lussenhop @jlussenhop.bsky.social 🎙️Host of @ProPublica’s new podcast, “Paper Trail”
🗓️New episodes on Thursdays
🕵️Investigative reporter and proud Minnesotan
AKA 伍德贞
https://www.propublica.org/series/paper-trail
Rahel Freiburghaus @rfrbrghs.bsky.social Assistant Professor @unil.bsky.social, Switzerland│Swiss & Comparative Politics, Democracy, Political Institutions, Federalism, (Intergovernmental) Lobbying│Also @leewas.bsky.social @chplusplus.bsky.social │Views my own
ashutosh87.bsky.social @ashutosh87.bsky.social Incoming Assistant Prof at CSIE/Econ at Azim Premji University, Bengaluru. PhD in Ed Policy & Program Eval from Harvard GSE. Previously at Stanford GSE, Freeman Spogli Institute (FSI) at Stanford, Teach for India, SF State Creative Writing.
Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com A community of mere liberals. Discussing, defending, and applying the many varieties of liberalism. liberalcurrents.com
Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social Historian at Cornell University and author, most recently, of FREE ENTERPRISE: AN AMERICAN HISTORY. Working on a history of backlash politics in the United States, from Reconstruction to the present. 
Eric Smith @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social 🏠 Founder & Agent at Neighborhood Literary.
📚 Award-winning Author.
👴🏽 Perpetually Tired Dad.
Latest book: With or Without You.
Next: The Adopted Kids’ Guide to Surviving Seventh Grade (Crown, Spring 2027)
🚪 https://www.neighborhoodliterary.com
Immigrant Punk @porcupunk.eurosky.social Wandering (ex-Soviet) Jew
Content product manager, xennial, anti-fascist, neurodivergent, cPTSD, OCD, disabled, luddite.
Anti-tankie professional consultant.
#decolonizeRussia
#NoBorders
#AbolishICE
pfp by Eduardo Robledo
Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net Raising kids & bread & grant money. Cleaning data & diapers & fish. EA (bed nets, not light cone). Social scientist. typos. twitter.com/ryancbriggs
Brandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social Head of Student Programs, @scholarslab. DH, pedagogy, videogames. Co-VP @ach.bsky.social.
_Embedded Pedagogies: Digital Humanities Teaching and the Infrastructure of Change_ is out and OA! https://buff.ly/kQau5oV
More info at walshbr.com.
DH Awards @dhawards.bsky.social #DH Awards are a set of annual awards with no prizes where the general public is able to nominate and vote on #DigitalHumanities resources for awareness of resources in the digital humanities community.
See http://dhawards.org/ for more.
Matt Barnum @mattbarnum.bsky.social Ideas editor at Chalkbeat
https://www.chalkbeat.org/newsletters/ideas/
mbarnum@chalkbeat.org
Deportation Data Project @deportationdata.bsky.social The Deportation Data Project obtains and analyzes U.S. government immigration enforcement data via public records litigation.
Led by Berkeley Law & UCLA faculty, FOIA litigators
deportationdata.org
Support us: giving.ucla.edu/DeportationDataProject
Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com I study immigration enforcement. https://linktr.ee/austinkocher
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies @harvard-jchs.bsky.social We strive to improve equitable access to decent, affordable homes in thriving communities, and we conduct rigorous research to advance housing policy and practice. www.jchs.harvard.edu
The Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com Data, charts, analysis and games from The New York Times: nytimes.com/upshot
Daniela Morar @danielamorar.bsky.social Lecturer at Yale University. Research on education, labor. Romanian 🇷🇴
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
EconReporter @econreporter.bsky.social Independent journalist focusing on economics and global economy
Our website: en.econreporter.com
Rachel Bachman, WSJ sports reporter @realbachscore.bsky.social I write about college, Olympic and other sports for @wsj.com. Graduate, Minneapolis South High School. I sometimes post about old-timey sports. rachel dot bachman at wsj dot com.
Annie who lives here @stellarine.bsky.social writer in chicago / co-host of @eati.games / fiction in @thecoloredlens.bsky.social / @play.date enjoyer / more at https://linktr.ee/stellarine / views expressed here are my own and not that of my employers
Laura K. Nelson @lauraknelson.bsky.social Associate Professor @ UBC
computational sociology
machine learning is feminist
You only have to look at the Medusa straight on to see her. And she’s not deadly. She’s beautiful and she’s laughing.
www.lauraknelson.com
Reed Orchinik @rorchinik.bsky.social PhD student at MIT
I use computational and experimental methods to understand beliefs, particularly as they relate to issues like misinformation and climate change.
Tatyana Deryugina @tderyugina.bsky.social Ukrainian. American. Associate Professor at UofI. Co-editor at AER:I and EEPE. Co-founder of http://econ4ua.org. deryugina.com https://ukraineinsights.substack.com/
Cameron Blevins @cblevins.bsky.social Digital History | US History
Professor at CU Denver
📖 Paper Trails: The US Post and the Making of the American West 📖
cblevins.github.io- D David Lazer @davidlazer.bsky.social computational social scientist
Stefan Feuerriegel @sfeuerriegel.bsky.social Professor at LMU Munich | Institute of AI in Management ++ We develop artificial intelligence for impact ++
https://www.som.lmu.de/ai/en/index.html
Todd Pugatch @toddpugatch.bsky.social education and development economist at University at Buffalo @ubuffalo.bsky.social, dad, Red Sox fan
Annenberg Institute @annenberginstitute.bsky.social Connecting people, evidence, and practice.
🔗 https://annenberg.brown.edu
Explore the EdExchange:
🔗 https://EdWorkingPapers.com
🔗 https://EdInstruments.org
🔗 https://EdResearchForAction.org
AEFP @aefpweb.bsky.social Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP), a non-profit academic and professional organization.
SustainableED @edsustainable.bsky.social The Sustainable Education Research Initiative:
Research for climate-smart schools
SustainableED Conference info: https://annenberg.brown.edu/sustainableed-conference-2026
https://linktr.ee/edsustainable
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
Matt Lindauer @mattlindauer.bsky.social Philosophy prof at Brooklyn College and CUNY Graduate Center. Research on normative concepts, moral motivation, justice, and value pluralism.
*The Fruitfulness of Normative Concepts,* now out with Oxford University Press
https://matthewlindauer.com
Uri Hertz @urihertz.bsky.social PI at the cog-sci dept at the university of Haifa. Social-cognitive-computational psychology, and sometimes neuroscience.
www.socialdecisionlab.net 
Patrick J. Burns @diyclassics.bsky.social Associate Research Scholar, Digital Projects @ ISAW Library | prev. Quantitative Criticism Lab (UT-Austin) & Culture, Cognition, Coevolution Lab (Harvard) | Fordham PhD, #Classics | #DigiClass, #Latin, #Greek | LatinCy dev, CLTK contrib | #Python
Miguel Escobar Varela @miguelev.bsky.social Assoc Prof, National University of Singapore 🎓 Computational Methods ∩ Cultural Heritage ∩ Southeast Asia 🏛 Co-director, https://cssh.nus.edu.sg 🌐 https://miguelescobar.com
Association for Psychological Science @psychscience.bsky.social A nonprofit dedicated to advancing scientific psychology across disciplinary and geographic borders.
psychologicalscience.org
Jobs: jobs.psychologicalscience.org
Membership: psychologicalscience.org/members
#APSGlobal; #APS26BCN
simine vazire @simine.com Psychology prof at UniMelb, co-director of MetaMelb (interdisciplinary metascience lab).
Study credibility of science & how to improve it.