Ali Hackalife @hackalife.net Artist, Developer (iOS), Neuro-Science, Gardening and Politics
Podcast: Auch-interessant!
Oxford Internet Institute @oii.ox.ac.uk Exploring how technology is transforming the way we live, work and govern.
Standard Ebooks @standardebooks.org Free and liberated ebooks for the true book lover. https://standardebooks.org
Annika Brockschmidt @ardenthistorian.bsky.social Author @Rowohlt, freelance journalist, senior correspondent Religion Dispatches, writes about Christian Nationalism & Right-Wing Extremism in the Europe & the US 1/2 of @femshelfcontrol.bsky.social
Agent: Landwehr & Cie
Events: Paula Döring, Kulturagentur
Florence Gaub @florencegaub.bsky.social Director Research Division NATO Defence College, member WEF Global Future Council on Geopolitics, author of Zukunft: eine Bedienungsanleitung
Jon Worth @jonworth.eu European, originally a Brit, became German, moved to France. Runs #CrossBorderRail project, writes a newsletter about railways. Green, lives happily without a car.
Normally stuck on a train, stuck in a village, or escaping either on a folding bicycle.
The Brussels Times @brusselstimes.com Local and global news from the capital of Europe
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
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
Amit Goldenberg @amit-goldenberg.bsky.social I study emotions, collectives, technology and their interaction. Harvard Business School | Harvard Psych (affiliated) | D3
Aaron Clauset @aaronclauset.bsky.social NO KINGS. NO FASCISTS. FUND SCIENCE.
Professor of Computer Science @ BioFrontiers Institute at University of Colorado, Boulder and External Faculty @ Santa Fe Institute
orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3529-8746
Talia Stroud @taliastroud.bsky.social Prof UT-Austin, Director Center for Media Engagement
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.
Steven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz.com Mathematician, writer, Cornell professor. All cards on the table, face up, all the time. www.stevenstrogatz.com
Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com {Social, Data, Network, Information} Scientist, @cuboulder.info
Director, University of Colorado Public Interest Data Science Lab, @cupids-lab.org
High-tempo collaboration, information commons, public interest data science
https://www.brianckeegan.com/
Fil Menczer @fil.bsky.social Researcher on social media misinformation and manipulation, director of the Observatory on Social Media (OSoMe.iu.edu, pronounced “awesome”) at Indiana University
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
Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social Duke Professor directing https://scai.duke.edu, https://sicss.io & https://polarizationlab.com. Author of Breaking the Social Media Prism.
Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com Professor of HCII and LTI at Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science.
jeffreybigham.com
Estelle Smith @estellesmithphd.bsky.social Assistant Professor, CS, Colorado School of Mines. Online spiritual care, social computing, online governance, Human-AI Interaction: http://bit.ly/sacredtech. CSCW, CHI, TOCHI, etc. 👩🏼💻
Community Chair for #CSCW2025🇳🇴
https://estellesmithphd.com- D David Lazer @davidlazer.bsky.social computational social scientist
J. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social I work with communities on science for safer, fairer digital environments.
Founder: CAT Lab. Radcliffe Fellow, Harvard. Assoc Prof, Communication, Cornell · Guatemalan-American · Ultracyclist
🐘@natematias@social.coop
natematias.com
citizensandtech.org
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."
Yoel Roth @yoyoel.com Internet sanitation enthusiast and full-time corgi wrangler.
Gordon Pennycook @gordpennycook.bsky.social Associate Professor, Psychology @cornelluniversity.bsky.social. Researching thinking & reasoning, misinformation, social media, AI, belief, metacognition, B.S., and various other keywords. 🇨🇦
https://gordonpennycook.com/
Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social Political Scientist at George Mason U. studying US politics, congressional networks, parties, campaign finance, and other broken systems. Cat person, dog owner. Take my class: https://tinyurl.com/bderak89 Read me: https://substack.com/@misofact
Robyn Caplan @robyncaplan.bsky.social Assistant professor at Duke University. Tech policy, platform governance, mom.
I make bad jokes sometimes.
YY Ahn @yyahn.bsky.social Prof @ School of Data Science, University of Virginia. Formerly at IU. Networks, data science, and machine learning. https://yyahn.com
🚲🚲🚲
Eric Gilbert @eegilbert.org Professor at Michigan. On sabbatical at the Berkman Klein Center. http://eegilbert.org
DFRLab @dfrlab.bsky.social The Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab. Cultivating a global network of digital forensic analysts (#DigitalSherlocks) to combat disinformation.
Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social information science professor (tech ethics + internet stuff)
kind of a content creator (elsewhere also @professorcasey)
though not influencing anyone to do anything except maybe learn things
she/her
more: casey.prof
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
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
David Rand @dgrand.bsky.social Prof at Cornell studying how human-AI dialogues can correct inaccurate beliefs, why people share falsehoods, and ways to reduce political polarization and promote cooperation. Computational social science + cognitive psychology.
https://www.DaveRand.org/
Rumman Chowdhury @ruchowdh.bsky.social www.rummanchowdhury.com
www.humane-intelligence.org
CEO & co-founder, Humane Intelligence
US Science Envoy for AI (Biden Administration)
zeynep tufekci @zey.bsky.social It is said that there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all
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. 
danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social STS researcher who likes to look at things sideways. Founded Data & Society.
Topics: Census | Youth | Data | Society
Professor of Communication, Cornell
https://made-not-found-by-danah-boyd.ghost.io
Amy Zhang @axz.bsky.social Associate professor of social computing at UW CSE, leading @socialfutureslab.bsky.social
social.cs.washington.edu
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
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
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute 
Craig Newmark @craignewmark.bsky.social #nerdpatient0
craigslist founder
https://craignewmarkphilanthropies.org/
Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com Professor, UW Biology / Santa Fe Institute
I study how information flows in biology, science, and society.
Book: *Calling Bullshit*, http://tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b
LLM course: https://thebullshitmachines.com
Corvids: https://tinyurl.com/mr2n5ymk
he/him
Emma Spiro @emmaspiro.bsky.social Associate Professor at the UW iSchool, Co-Founder UW Center for an Informed Public | PhD in Sociology from UC Irvine | Research: social networks, sociology, information integrity & computational social science.
Jevin D. West @jevinwest.bsky.social Professor @UW_iSchool, Co-founder of Center for an Informed Public @uwcip. I study misinformation in science & society. Book: tinyurl.com/y7ekfkhx
Michael Bernstein @mbernst.bsky.social CS Professor at Stanford
Anne Oeldorf-Hirsch @anneo.bsky.social Comm tech & social media research professor by day, symphony violinist by night, outside as much as possible otherwise. German/American Pacific Northwestern New Englander, #firstgen academic, she/her, 🏳️🌈
https://anne-oeldorf-hirsch.uconn.edu
Briony Swire-Thompson @brionyswire.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Northeastern University, Psychology of Misinformation Lab
Andrés Monroy-Hernández @andresmh.com Associate Professor of Computer Science at @princeton.edu. Co-director of Princeton HCI. Board member at Crisis Text Line.
https://andresmh.com
Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social Cornell Tech professor (information science, AI-mediated Communication, trustworthiness of our information ecosystem). New York City. Taller in person. Opinions my own.
estebanmoro @estebanmoro.bsky.social Researcher, scientist. Professor at the Network Science Institute @Northeastern and director of the Social Urban Networks Lab. Formerly @uc3m & @mit
Gianluca Stringhini @gianlucastringhini.com Associate Professor at BU. Cybersecurity and Cybersafety. Come for the memes, stay for the science. Skeets are my own
Nilou Salehi @nilou.bsky.social hci+ai
co-founder/co-ceo @Across AI
prof @UC Berkeley
gif whisperer | 🐱🐱 mom
👩🏻🏫 niloufar.org
👩🏻💻 across.ai | https://bsky.app/profile/across-ai.bsky.social
Amy Bruckman @asbruckman.bsky.social I study online communities, content moderation, and social movements. 
Jen Golbeck @jengolbeck.bsky.social Computer scientist, psychologist, journalist. Professor at UMD
On the dystopia beat- AI, social media, extremism, radicalization, privacy, information warfare, and bad stuff people do on the internet
she/her
Brooke Foucault Welles @foucaultwelles.bsky.social Professor of Communication, trying not to be evil Ass. Dean, #HashtagActivism co-author, mom to teenagers and cats. Appreciates novelty socks and cat memes.
Alex Leavitt, PhD (they/them) @alexleavitt.bsky.social Principal researcher for Trust & Safety @Roblox & Visiting Fellow @CHAI_Berkeley. 🏳️🌈🐈⬛🏳️⚧️ Ex-@Meta, PhD @USCAnnenberg. 日本語でOK!
Jürgen Pfeffer @jurgenpfeffer.bsky.social Prof of Computational Social Science. SOT/TU Munich. Critical Data Studies, AI & Democracy, #CSS @ICWSM
Karrie Karahalios @kkarahal.bsky.social 
Morteza Dehghani @mdehghani.bsky.social Professor of Psychology and Computer Science at USC
Petter Holme @pholme.bsky.social Scandinasian professor of network science & computational social science
Iyad Rahwan | إياد رهوان @iyadrahwan.bsky.social Director, Max Planck Center for Humans & Machines http://chm.mpib-berlin.mpg.de | Former prof. @MIT | Creator of http://moralmachine.net | Art: http://instagram.com/iyad.rahwan Web: rahwan.me
Tiago Peixoto @tiago.skewed.de Statistical mechanic, secular Bayesian.
Prof. of Complex Systems and Network Science @ Goethe University Frankfurt
Head of the “Inverse Complexity Lab”.
@invcomplexity.skewed.de
https://skewed.de/lab
(Personal account)
Katy Pearce @katypearce.bsky.social Associate Prof @uwcomm. I study tech & inequality in 🇦🇲 & 🇦🇿. Posts research & pop culture & parenting. She/her.
Onur Varol @ovarol.bsky.social Asst. Prof. at @SabanciU
🌐 varollab.com
#networkscience, #datascience, #css
Cody Buntain @cbuntain.bsky.social Asst Professor @iSchoolUMD | associate @CSMaP | DCer | 💻 🏍️ 👨🏻🍼
Studying online behavior around crises and political discourse, manipulation, and information quality
Andreia Sofia Teixeira @asteixeira.bsky.social Associate Professor @NortheasternLDN , @NUnetsi | Researcher @LASIGE (Computer Scientist by training working on Network Science/Complex Systems)
https://andreiasofiateixeira.com
https://branmorrighan.com
Kristina Lerman @kristinalerman.bsky.social As an American Jew, born and raised in Soviet Ukraine, I have a personal connection to today’s hot button issues. I am using this platform to share my perspective.
NERDS @nerdsitu.bsky.social Networks, Data, and Society research group @itu.dk. Data Science | Network Science | Computational Social Science
We are: https://nerds.itu.dk/people | https://bsky.app/starter-pack-short/4ej8RNM
On Mastodon: https://datasci.social/@nerdsitu
@martikagv.bsky.social @martikagv.bsky.social 
Fred Morstatter @fred.science 
Sol Messing @solmg.bsky.social Social Scientist/Research Prof at NYU CSMaP, formerly Twitter. http://solomonmg.github.io
Dan Larremore @danlarremore.bsky.social Prof | CU Boulder BioFrontiers Institute + Computer Science | Santa Fe Institute | LarremoreLab.github.io
Founder | CevianLabs.io
Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social Professor for #CulturalDataAnalytics at Tallinn University in #Estonia
#complexity #netsci #arthistory #aesthetics
#culturalanalytics #compsocsci #infovis
"My PhD is in Art History" – Dr. Zoidberg
(max/max)
Chiara Poletto @chpoletto.bsky.social Assoc Prof University of Padova - network epidemiology, network physics, disease ecology, outbreak analysis
https://chiara-poletto.github.io/
Katrin Weller @kwelle.bsky.social Scientific director of the department "Data Services for the Social Sciences" at GESIS in Köln, Germany (@gesis.org).
Professor for Research Data Management for the Social Sciences at Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf (@hhu.de)
(she/her)
Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social Emergence, Networks & Complexity | Collective Behavior(s) from Cells to Societies 🧬🦠🧠🌇
Prof. @UniPadova, Galileo's University | Lab: @comunelab.bsky.social | Web: https://linktr.ee/manlius
Thoughts at manlius.substack.com
Daniel Gayo-Avello @pfcdgayo.bsky.social Assoc. professor at the University of Oviedo.
Web & social media mining + the intersection of politics & social media.
"Sin esperanza, con convencimiento"
Stevie Chancellor @schancellor.bsky.social Assistant prof at UMN CS. Human-centered AI, online communities, risky mental health behaviors. Mom, lifter, nerd, haver of opinions. 
Kenny Joseph @kennyjoseph.bsky.social computational social science, University at Buffalo.
https://cse.buffalo.edu/cubelab/
Lisette Espín-Noboa @lespin.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher
Check my bibliometrics: https://bit.ly/lespin-dashboard
Previously: Visiting Professor at TU Graz, Postdoc at Complexity Science Hub Vienna & CEU-DNDS, UKoblenz, GESIS, MPI-SWS, UdS, ESPOL, neoBOX
#AlgorithmAuditing
Przemek Grabowicz 🇵🇱🇪🇸🇩🇪🇺🇸🇮🇪 @przemyslslaw.bsky.social CS faculty at University College Dublin and the University of Massachusetts Amherst: responsible AI, social media, news media, computational social science, applied NLP, open-world AI
RT≠endorsement, RT=interesting read
More: https://przemyslslaw.github.io
Sandra González-Bailón @sgonzalezbailon.bsky.social Professor of Communication @AnnenbergSchool, UPenn | Director, Center for Information Networks and Democracy | cind.asc.upenn.edu | sandragonzalezbailon.net
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. 
Ronaldo Menezes 🦋 @ronaldomenezes.bsky.social Professor of Data and Network Science. University of Exeter. Cycling enthusiast. Proud father. Concerned human being. Progressive! Atheist! Humanist! Brazilian-American-British. Supporter of Fortaleza Esporte Clube! https://rpmenezes.github.io/index.html
Nick Diakopoulos @ndiakopoulos.bsky.social Northwestern University Professor. Computational Journalism; AI & Society. https://www.nickdiakopoulos.com. Writing https://www.ai-accountability-review.com/
alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social Dir of Research, Data & Society. Academic. Studies tech & society, scams & fraud, far-right disinfo. UNC CITAP. Mom, fashion victim, sci fi/fantasy enthusiast. Author of The Private is Political, Status Update. NYC forever. She/her/femme 💅🏻 tiara.org
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
Jeremy Blackburn @mrjimmyblack.com Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Institute for AI and Society at Binghamton University. I work on building a quantitative understanding of assholes on the Web @idrama.science. 4 kids, 2 wolfhounds, 2 Löwchens.
Sanjay Kairam @skairam.bsky.social Member of Technical Staff @OpenAI | Teaching the machines to learn from humans.
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=BH7jpGIAAAAJ&hl=en
Nicholas A. Christakis @nachristakis.bsky.social Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale University. Sociologist. Network Scientist. Physician. Author of Apollo's Arrow; Blueprint; Connected; and Death Foretold. Director of the Human Nature Lab: https://humannaturelab.net
Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof Michigan faculty, http://www.cond.org
Ingmar Weber @ingmarweber.de Alexander von Humboldt Professor for AI and Chair for Societal Computing at Saarland University. Co-Director at https://i2sc.net.
David Jurgens @davidjurgens.bsky.social Associate prof at @UMich in SI and CSE working in computational social science and natural language processing. PI of the Blablablab blablablab.si.umich.edu- K David Karger @karger.bsky.social Professor, MIT EECS/CSAIL
http://people.csail.mit.edu/karger
Hiroki Sayama @hirokisayama.bsky.social What I do not understand, I can still create. -- unknown アメリカで大学教員やっています．いつもヘンなことばかり考えています．意識低い系．
Jana Lasser @janalasser.eurosky.social Professor for Data Analysis @UniGraz | Computational Social Science, Data Science, complex systems, computational modelling | #OpenScience, #coder | she/her