Steven Ruggles @stevenruggles.bsky.social Historical demographer and data impresario
Wired profile: https://www.wired.com/1995/03/ruggles/
Publications: https://users.pop.umn.edu/~ruggl001/
Data: https://www.ipums.org/
Max Planck Information & Technology @maxit.mpg.de Max Planck Information & Technology (MaxIT) in Munich is a central institution of the Max Planck Society.
maxit.mpg.de
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ʜᴀᴘᴘʏ ꜱᴄɪᴇɴᴛɪꜱᴛꜱ ➞ ɢᴏᴏᴅ ʀᴇꜱᴇᴀʀᴄʜ!🔬🧬
Human Fertility Database @hfdatabase.bsky.social Scientific resource on population-level #fertility data in developed countries
🟠detailed & high-quality data on period and cohort fertility
🟠committed to #opendata principles
🌐 humanfertility.org
Kazuyo Machiyama @kmachiyama.bsky.social Researcher in Reproductive health and rights | fertility & infertility & ivf | demography & public health | LSHTM | East London & 🇯🇵 | views on my own
Sarah Shugars @shugars.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Communication @ Rutgers University. Computational social science, political communication, civic studies. First gen. They/them
Faculty of Humanities @uomhums.bsky.social The Faculty of Humanities at The University of Manchester.
https://www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/
Laura Sochas @laurasochas.bsky.social Tenure-track Chancellor's Fellow at the University of Edinburgh
How social policies and institutions affect health and reproduction inequalities.
George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief and co-founder, @ArguablyMag.bsky.social
Subscribe on Substack: Arguably.uk
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Paul Johnson @pjtheeconomist.bsky.social From August, Provost, The Queen’s College, Oxford. Previously director, Institute for Fiscal Studies. Author “Follow the Money”
University of Manchester School of Social Sciences @uomsoss.bsky.social Home to Criminology, Social Statistics, Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Law, Social Anthropology and Sociology at
@official-uom.bsky.social
https://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/
Douglas Guilbeault @douglasguilbeault.bsky.social Assistant Prof. in Org. Behavior @StanfordGSB | Computational Culture Lab http://comp-culture.org | Social Networks, Cognition, Cultural Evolution, AI
Ariane Ophir @arianeophir.bsky.social Sociologist & Demographer | Family & Singlehood | Gender & Life course | US & EU | PI of SINGLE (ERC StG 2025-2030)
@ercsingle.bsky.social
https://arianeophir.wixsite.com/arianeophir
Vienna Institute of Demography (VID) @demographyvienna.bsky.social #VID | Ein Institut der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften #ÖAW | Vienna Institute of Demography of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
https://www.oeaw.ac.at/vid
https://www.oeaw.ac.at/oeaw/impressum
Social Statistics, University of Manchester @socialstats.bsky.social Researching social challenges by applying cutting-edge quantitative methods. Courses in statistics, data and research skills -
www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/social-statistics/
www.linkedin.com/company/the-university-of-manchester-social-statistics
Philip Leifeld @leifeld.bsky.social Professor of Social Statistics, Dept of Social Statistics, University of Manchester
Mitchell Centre for Social Network Analysis • Cathie Marsh Institute
https://www.philipleifeld.com • https://leifeld-lab.github.io
David Buil-Gil @davidbuil.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Criminology at @criminologyuom.bsky.social and Director @crimrxiv.com. All crime data are wrong, but some are useful
Parth Pandya @parthpandya.bsky.social Researcher @resolutionfoundation.org looking at intergenerational fairness, demography and pensions. PhD @migrantlife.bsky.social @phrg-standrews.bsky.social.
ChildLives @childlives.bsky.social The UKRI-funded ChildLives project investigates the trends, inequalities, and consequences of family complexity across children’s lives in Europe.
PI @jmikolai.bsky.social https://childlives.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/
Signe Svallfors @signesvallfors.bsky.social Sociologist & demographer at Stockholm University. Curious about the impact of conflict and crime on reproductive justice. PI of ERC-2025-StG SeRO. They/them/Dr.
Human Sciences Institute at the University of Oxford @oxfordhumsci.bsky.social 
Maksim Zubok @antndlcrx.bsky.social DPhil Candidate (Politics), Nuffield College, Oxford University | Researching AI in social-science research | Public opinion & international institutions | Russian politics
Bob Langereis @blangereis.bsky.social PhD candidate in Demography, flirting with Sociology 🧠 (he/him)
🔍 LGBTQ* | Social Inequalities | Life-course
📍Centre for Demographic Studies (CED), Barcelona
🔗 www.linkedin.com/in/bob-langereis
The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social We mobilise the humanities and social sciences to understand the world and shape a brighter future.
Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk An independent charity that seeks to fund blue skies research and scholarship. Follow this channel for details on upcoming grant deadlines, published research, scheme opening dates, grant announcements, events, and more. https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/
@popcouncil.bsky.social @popcouncil.bsky.social 
UK Research and Innovation @ukri.org The UK’s largest public funder of research. Our mission is to advance knowledge, improve lives and drive growth.
#FundedByYou
Also autoposting to @news.ukri.org, @funding.ukri.org, @blogs.ukri.org and @events.ukri.org. Topic specific feeds coming soon!
Ewa Batyra @ewabatyra.bsky.social Associate Prof. in Social Demography | Fertility, Family, Education & Inequality | PI of ERC StG DIVREP | University of Oxford
www.ewabatyra.com
Francesco Raffaelli @fraraffaelli.bsky.social From 🇮🇹
Postdoc, University of Zurich 🇨🇭
Previously PhD, Oxford 🇬🇧
Alberto Acerbi @acerbialberto.com I am an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Research at the University of Trento (Italy): cognitive anthropology / cultural evolution / digital media / cultural analytics
More info in the pinned post.
Valentina Di Iasio @valediiasio.bsky.social Applied economist working on migration. Research Fellow at the University of Southampton.
Personal page:
https://sites.google.com/view/valentina-di-iasio/home-page
The University of Manchester @manchester.ac.uk A proud Manchester institution with teaching, research and social responsibility at the heart of everything we do. 
Giorgia Aiello @giorgiaaiello.bsky.social Professor of Sociology of Culture and Communication at the University of Milan. Visual cultures, digital media, cities.
Tom Rees @tomreesjournalist.bsky.social Bloomberg UK economy reporter. Want to get in touch? trees20@bloomberg.net. Views my own.
Phillip Ayoub @payoub.bsky.social Professor @UCL • Author 'When States Come Out' @CambridgeUP • Co-Editor @EJPGjournal • PhD @Cornell • IR/CP, Europe, LGBTI Rights, Movements, Norms • 🏳️🌈 he/him
Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social Sociologist and demographer. Never repping coauthors or institutions or anything like that.
Julia Mikolai @jmikolai.bsky.social Lecturer in Demography/Quant Geography; interested in covid, children, families, fertility, migrants, housing, and longitudinal methods. PI of @childlives.bsky.social project.
PAA Alpaca @paaalpaca.bsky.social Demographer, alpaca, friend, lover.- P Patrick Gerland @pgerland.bsky.social Focus on demographic estimation problems/methods and projections, especially in Africa and Asia. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Patrick_Gerland/
Adrian Raftery @adrianraftery.bsky.social Statistician at UW developing methods for demography, climate change, cluster analysis, model selection & averaging.
Danya Lagos @danyalagos.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley. I work on gender and social change at the population level. danyalagos.com
Ingrid van Dijk @ingridvandijk.bsky.social Associate Professor Economic Demography. Health inequality in families and improvements 1800s-today with register and survey data. Sweden, Netherlands, the rest of Europe. ERC starting grant holder. www.ingridvandijk.com
Marco Tosi @marco16.bsky.social Associate Professor of social statistics, University of Padova. Interested in Ageing, Family dynamics, and Health. 
Valentina Rotondi @rotondivale.bsky.social Social scientist. www.valentinarotondi.eu
Dave Kirk @dave-kirk.bsky.social Professor of Criminology at UPenn
Rob Hyndman @robjhyndman.com Professor of Statistics, Monash University, Australia. FAA, FASSA. Interested in #forecasting, #rstats, #statistics. he/him http://robjhyndman.com
@stefanomazzuco.bsky.social @stefanomazzuco.bsky.social 
AISP @aisp-sis.bsky.social Associazione Italiana per gli Studi di Popolazione.
Italian Association for Population Studies.
@vicprieto.bsky.social @vicprieto.bsky.social 
International Conference on Computational Social Science @ic2s2.bsky.social The 12th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2) will be held in Burlington, Vermont July 28-31 2026
Website: https://ic2s2-2026.org/
Alyce Raybould @alyceraybould.bsky.social Research Fellow and Survey Manager @clscohorts.bsky.social developing the new Early Life Cohort.
Demographer interested in fertility intentions and outcomes.
The Atlantic @theatlantic.com Exploring the American idea through ambitious, essential reporting and storytelling. Of no party or clique since 1857. http://theatlantic.com
Shannon Philip @shannonphilip.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Sociology of Gender and Sexuality and Fellow, Girton College, University of Cambridge. Researching youth, masculinities, sexualities, race, gender, violence and urbanisation in India and South Africa 
Jane Falkingham @janefalkingham.bsky.social Professor of Demography and International Social Policy, and Vice-President (Engagement and International) at the University of Southampton. Director of @cpc-cg.bsky.social.
British Sociological Association @britsoci.bsky.social 
Marcus Mann @drmann.bsky.social Purdue University assistant professor of sociology. Science, knowledge, and politics.
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. 🏳️🌈
Francesca Luppi @francescaluppi.bsky.social demographer, fertility, family policies, youth
Rishita "Department of Error" Nandagiri @rishie.bsky.social feminist #abortion & repro (in)justice researcher, tennis fan, likes tea. co-runs @abortionbookclub.bsky.social. Senior Lecturer in Global Health & Social Medicine @kings-sga.bsky.social. [don't DM me, i can't see it]
she/her/dr/killjoy
🌐rnandagiri.com
Arnstein Aassve (Arnie for short) @arnsteinaassve.bsky.social Prof at Bocconi
Lindsay Richards @lindsayrichards.bsky.social Sociology Lecturer @SociologyOxford. Research interests: inequalities, social stratification, health and wellbeing, attitudes to immigration.
Sergi @sergitl.bsky.social Demography • Population Health • Epidemiology • Inequalities • DATA (S. Trias-Llimós)
Caterina Alacevich @catealacevich.bsky.social Assistant Research Professor & Director of Quantitative Research and Evaluation - Health Care Quality & #Medicaid @UF ICHP | Past work: Oxford @ox.ac.uk @OxHealthEcon, @EIEEorg, @UPF.edu | @Unicatt.bsky.social Economics PhD. Personal views only
Em Bello-Pardo, Ph.D. @bellopardo.bsky.social Current: Senior Director of Research & Data Science @ YouGov. Before: FIU, AU, among others. Always: 🇺🇸 + 🇻🇪. Finally migrating here from the bird app 😅
Grace Chang @gczching.bsky.social Quantitative researcher in Sociology, Survey Methods & Demography. Expertise on adolescence time use, wellbeing & life course transitions. Currently on the GenTime project at Oxford in comparing East Asian & Western gendered time use
Vegard Skirbekk @vegardskirbekk.bsky.social Global Demography, Fertility, Aging, Cognition, Productivity, Religion. Interdisciplinarity.
Professor Columbia & Oslo - PI @theCEFH
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=no&user=OZOgxGEAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate
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Livia Elisa Ortensi @leortensi.bsky.social Demographer @ University of Bologna
Head of the Stat Unit @ ISMU Foundation - Milan
PI CERV-2022-DAPHNE DORA
Migration and Refugees Studies, Gender-based Violence, Traditional Harmful Practices, FGM/C, Fertility
Matilda Davies @matildakdavies.bsky.social Data Journalist at The Times and The Sunday Times | Views my own | Send tips + data to matilda.davies@thetimes.co.uk | She/Her 🏳️🌈
https://github.com/MatildaDavies
Neil Fisher @neilfisher81.bsky.social Exec culture and books editor of The Times 
Tom Calver @tomcalver.bsky.social Data Editor, @thetimes.com
🇬🇧 How is Britain doing? 👉 thetimes.com/data
🔗 https://www.thetimes.com/profile/tom-calver
📧 thomas.calver@the-times.co.uk
Lee Badgett @lbadgett.bsky.social Chief economist of Koppa LGBTI+ Economic Power Lab; recovering academic and professor emeritx at UMass Amherst.
Michelle Eilers, PhD @meilers.bsky.social Sociologist | AP Texas Tech | PhD, Sociology @utaustin.bsky.social | Sexual and reproductive health, Family
www.michelleeilers.com
Mom to two cats, lover of jazz, podcasts, and audiobooks.
Christopher Julian @chrisajulian.bsky.social Demographer and Sociologist. Postdoc @ Vanderbilt University’s LGBTQ+ Policy Lab. Data enthusiast and consumer of too much coffee.
Steffen Pötzschke @stpoetzschke.bsky.social Senior Researcher @gesis-panel.bsky.social | Leibniz-Inst. for the Social Sciences @gesis.org | Corresponding member Instit. for Migr. Research & Intercult. Studies (IMIS) | Founding member & co-chair @methatmig.bsky.social | https://steffen-poetzschke.eu
Anna Caprinali @annacaprinali.bsky.social PhD student at University of Trento
Interested in LGB educational inequalities and outcomes 
Agnese Vitali @agnese-vitali.bsky.social Professor of Demography
University of Trento
Population Europe @populationeu.bsky.social The Network of Europe's Leading Demographic Research Centres: https://population-europe.eu
Bernice K @bernicerunsonboba.bsky.social 
IMPRS-PHDS @imprs-phds.bsky.social International Max Planck Research School for Population, Health and Data Science (IMPRS-PHDS). Doctoral school.
https://www.imprs-phds.mpg.de
Gabriele Magni @gabrielemagni.bsky.social Professor, chair of the political science department, director of the LGBTQ+ Politics Research Initiative at Loyola Marymount University 🏳️🌈 he/him #firstgen
Nico Pinchak @pinchak.bsky.social Researching urban neighborhoods, everyday mobility, schools, and youth | pinchak.org
Veronica Toffolutti @toffveronica.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Health Economics at @qmul.ac.uk. Passionate about how Policy can improve Health and reduce Inequalities. Proud guardian of magnificent feline companions. Lactose and fascism intolerant. She/Her. #firstgen
Oxford Policy Engagement Network (OPEN) @oxpolicyengaged.bsky.social Connecting researchers & staff @ox.ac.uk with those who share our vision of public policy powered by the best available evidence & expertise.
Thiago R. Oliveira @oliveiratr.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Criminology, University of Manchester
I do research on policing, legal cynicism, procedural justice, and social inequality. I like quantitative methods, causal inference, longitudinal data, and analytical sociology.
thiagoroliveira.com
Paula Sheppard @paulajasheppard.bsky.social Evolutionary Anthropologist and Behavioural Ecologist. Interested in people's decisions around having babies.
I am not Alice Sweet Alice.
David Pettinicchio @dnpetti.bsky.social Associate Professor/Associate Grad Chair Sociology/ Munk School @University of Toronto. Instagram @dn.petti
Luca Stella @lucastella.bsky.social Associate Professor of Economics at University of Milan | Faculty Member @bsoeberlin.bsky.social | Fellow @jfki-econ.bsky.social @fu-berlin-vwl.bsky.social | Fellow @iza.org
Vincent Straub @vincentjstraub.bsky.social Health researcher @UniofOxford
Writing about male malaise, fertility, ethics & more
https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/secure/rr-donate-1x-cro86-web
Evelina Akimova @evakimova.bsky.social 
Aasli Abdi Nur @aasli.bsky.social Social and Computational Demographer
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at
@OxfordSociology and @OxfordDemSci
Fertility | Gender | Health | Kinship | Life Course
Laura Fortunato @anthrolog.bsky.social Biologist turned anthropologist, I study the evolution of human social / cultural behaviour. Also open research, reproducibility, free and open-source software, and their intersections.
Professing at Oxford / Magdalen College and the Santa Fe Institute.
Nathan Hoffmann @nathanihoff.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology at Emory. Immigration, education, sexuality, and quantitative methods. He/him 🏳️🌈
nathanhoffmann.com
Morten Kjær Thomsen @mortenkthomsen.bsky.social Research Fellow, University of Oxford 🏳️🌈 Queer populations, gender and sexuality, mental health, social norms, and quant methods. He/him.
www.mortenthomsen.com
Donata Columbro @donata.bsky.social Journalist, data feminist and writer.
Teaching data visualization at Iulm university, data humanizer every week at tispiegoildato.it
Dr. Jess Parris Westbrook (they/them) 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @jesswestbrook.bsky.social 🦨~ postnormal social research > data-driven speculation > critical design > liberatory tech / Founder Queering Futures Research Studio + Identity Research Lab / prior Channel TWo [CH2] new media art&design / tenured prof / MFA+PHD / T1D cyborg / #Chicago
Human Mortality Database @hmdatabase.bsky.social Scientific data resource providing detailed #mortality and #population data.
We follow #opendata principles.
www.mortality.org
Nick Irons @nickirons.bsky.social Florence Nightingale Fellow
@oxfordstatistics.bsky.social @oxforddemsci.bsky.social
statistics, public health, urbanism, running, art.
njirons.github.io
header @odilonredon.bsky.social
Mariña Fernández Reino @mfreino.bsky.social Sociologist at IEGD-CSIC (Spain) | Affiliated researcher at @COMPAS_oxford @MigObs @UniofOxford | she/her 🍉🕊️