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)
Anders Olof Larsson @andersoloflarsson.bsky.social Professor of communication studies, Kristiania University CoIlege. I mostly post silly things, sometimes work related things. Sometimes both at the same time. andersoloflarsson.se.
Francesco Poldi @noneprivacy.bsky.social 🔍👀 Senior Open Source Intelligence Developer and Researcher.
🔑👤 Privacy is a Human Right.
The Coalition for Independent Technology Research @thecoalition.bsky.social Our mission is to advance, defend, and sustain the right to ethically study the impact of technology on society.
João Vinagre @jvinagre.eurosky.social Recommender systems and AI researcher at JRC/ECAT. Reads books, rides waves and plays in a band.
Rebekah Tromble @rebekahtromble.bsky.social Dir. of Global Partnerships, Inst. for Information, the Internet & Democracy, NEU | Union of Concerned Scientists 2024 Defender of Science |
Co-founder: https://researchersupport.org/
https://expertvoicestogether.org/
https://independenttechresearch.org/
@varvara-rb.bsky.social @varvara-rb.bsky.social 
James P Cross @jamespcross.bsky.social Cofounder of The @Connected_Pol Lab. Interested in EU decision-making, text analysis and transparency in govt.
Morgan Wack @morganwack.bsky.social PostDoc at UZH. Formerly Clemson & UW. Technology & democracy, political misinformation, African politics, and LFC.
Fabienne Lind @fabiennelind.bsky.social Researcher | University of Vienna | Computational Social Science | Comparative Research
Daniel Thiele @thieled.bsky.social Political scientist | Research group lead 'Dynamics of digital mobilization' @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social | Political communication, social media, computational methods | 👟🚴
Zoë Glatt @zoeglatt.bsky.social 🤓 Feminist Media Scholar | Digital Ethnographer | Internet Culture Enthusiast
🌟 Postdoc at Microsoft's Social Media Collective
💖 Co-Founder: The Digital Ethnography Collective & The Content Creator Scholars Network @weareccsn.bsky.social
💻 www.zoeglatt.com
bruna paroni @brupar.bsky.social phding @ uniurb.it | team @ mine.uniurb.it | visiting @qutdmrc.bsky.social + @zemki.bsky.social
[social media] platforms x politics
Guillermo Romero Moreno @juillermoromero.bsky.social Information diffusion, influence dynamics, computational social science, complex systems, network science, AI.
Before -> PhD at U of Southamptom, postdoc at U of Edinburgh
Now -> postdoc at CWI Amsterdam (AI, media, & democracy Lab)
zurobets @zurobets.bsky.social Elisabetta Zurovac, researcher and lecturer @ University of Urbino.
Based in The Internet, born in Le Marche, made by two yugoslavs.
Centre for Deliberative Democracy @deldemucan.bsky.social Leading research centre specialising in deliberative governance & democratic innovations at the University of Canberra.
Digital Journalism @digitaljournalism.bsky.social Digital Journalism is an international, peer-reviewed, top-ranked journal that publishes cutting-edge research and concepts. Editor-in-Chief: Oscar Westlund.
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rdij20
WHAT-IF @what-if-horizon.bsky.social Horizon Europe research project testing the impact of evidence-based policies for healthier political information environments
https://what-if-horizon.eu/
Becca Lewis @beccalew.bsky.social Assistant professor of media studies @MIT. Cultural and political histories of Silicon Valley and the internet.
Nadia Jude @nadiajude.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh.
Thinking critically about data infrastructures, digital platform content moderation and global security governance. She/her.
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.
Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social An independent research and policy institute working toward a future where people, not technology, come first.
IT-Universitetet i København @itu.dk IT-Universitetet i København er Danmarks førende universitet med fokus på den digitale verden.
@icasecac.bsky.social @icasecac.bsky.social 
Mara Weber @marathwe.bsky.social PhD Candidate at LSE | Predoc at University College London | Political Sociology & NLP
ADM+S Centre @admscentre.org.au ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society
Societal Cohesion in Digital Media Environments (SCIDE) @scide.bsky.social Societal Cohesion in Digital Media Environments | Research Group @ Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS), Germany
Check out our lab: https://bitly.cx/MN1PSU
🔎 #socialcohesion #polarization #digitalmedia #commsky #polsky
Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social social media researcher (esp visuality, sex, small p-politics, wellbeing) professor at Tallinn University, BFM in 🇪🇪, currently working on TRAVIS project on trust and visuality.
https://katrin-tiidenberg.com/
Reuters Institute @reutersinstitute.bsky.social Exploring the future of journalism
📬Join our newsletter: https://politics.us4.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=60081b78294f9bbf995e9bcf8&id=0a8e38824f
🕵🏾♀️ Send a confidencial tip https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/do-you-have-confidential-tip-share-it-us
Denis Teyssou @dteyssou.bsky.social @afpnews.bsky.social Medialab, journalist, fake news debunker (verification plug-in founder & maker) @vera-ai.bsky.social innovation manager, PhD candidate in Information sciences on #disinformation @ParisNanterreUniversity
Elisa Hofmann @elisahofmann.bsky.social Postdoc @uni-jena.de | Communication Research | Constructive Journalism | CSS | Behavioral Economics | she/her
🇲🇫 Arnaud Mercier 🇺🇦 ✌️ @arnaudmercier.bsky.social Full Professor #SIC, journalism, political communication, propaganda, disinfo, #EMI
Institut Français de Presse, univ. Paris Pantheon Assas 🗼
Co-Head Master environment & communication
Research coordinator prog. DeFacto French part of Edmo
Brenda Moon @brmoon.bsky.social Enthusiastic about open science, open source, open hardware. She/Her. Living on Dja Dja Wurrung country.
https://moon.au/
The COMPTEXT Association @comptext.bsky.social COMPTEXT is an international community and forum for text/image/video as data scholars
Camila Mont'Alverne @camilambpp.bsky.social Lecturer in Journalism, Media, and Communication, University of Strathclyde | Previously postdoc at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford
Doing research on news consumption, trust in news, and political attitudes
Marco Bastos @toledobastos.bsky.social I still would rather be emailed. 
Frank Esser @esserfrank.bsky.social Communication scholar at U of Zurich, Chair of ICA’s PolComm Division, Comparative Research, loses in chess against his 10 year old 
Richard Fletcher @richardfletcher.bsky.social Director of Research + Deputy Director of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford. Fellow of Green Templeton College. Lead researcher of the Digital News Report. www.richardfletcher.me
Sol Messing @solmg.bsky.social Social Scientist/Research Prof at NYU CSMaP, formerly Twitter. http://solomonmg.github.io
Annette Markham @annettemarkham.bsky.social Social researcher focused on AI futures literacies, data/digital disruptions, algorithmic identity, human machine communication. Chair Professor at Utrecht University
A bit obsessed about methodology
More at https://annettemarkham.com
Lena Frischlich @lenafrescamente.bsky.social Communication scholar and media psychologist. Exploring the abyss of digital communications and how to foster democratic resilience. || Associate Professor Digital Democracy Centre University of Southern Denmark / Complexity Science Hub, Vienna
Mike S. Schäfer @mss7676.bsky.social Prof of Science Communication @ UZH | Director @ CHESS | PI @ Wissenschaftsbarometer Schweiz & @ TechnikRadar | Member @ Acatech & @ BBAW
Christoph Lutz @lutzid.bsky.social Professor at BI Norwegian Business School & Co-Director of the Nordic Centre for Internet & Society. Research on privacy, digital inequality, AI & emerging tech. Check out my Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KI9IybAAAAAJ&hl=en
Johan Farkas @jfarkas.bsky.social Assistant Professor. Author of 'Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy' (https://t.ly/1JHye), University of Copenhagen, Firstgen 🎓. he/him. Free access to my work: http://www.johanfarkas.com/research
Tobias Keller @tobiaskeller.bsky.social Kommunikation, Politik und Data Science bei gfs.bern
Andreas Hepp @ahepp.bsky.social Professor of media and communications at ZeMKI and Commfigurations, Uni Bremen, on #mediatization, #datafication, #pioneercommunities, #pioneerjournalism, #ComAI, #AI, #digitalfutures.
Niels G. Mede @nielsmede.bsky.social 🔎 Assistant Professor of Science Communication
📍 Wageningen University & Research @w-u-r.bsky.social
🏠 www.nielsmede.com
Raquel Recuero @raquelrecuero.bsky.social Professor/Researcher at UFPEL/UFRGS. MIDIARS Lab director.
Also @raquelrecuero@aoir.social
https://wp.ufpel.edu.br/midiars/
https://wp.ufpel.edu.br/raquelrecuero/about-me/
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"
aytalina @aytalina.bsky.social She/her, Postdoctoral Researcher
Computational Communication Science @compcommlab.bsky.social @univie.ac.at @what-if-horizon.bsky.social
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
Elisabetta Ferrari @bettyferrari.bsky.social AIAS-AUFF Fellow @ Aarhus University (DK). Vice-chair @acsj-ica.bsky.social.
Research: social movements & digital media | mutual aid | politics of tech.
Book: https://elisabettaferrariphd.com/ancbook/
Hobbies: getting angry at the Philadelphia 76ers
Jochen Spangenberg @jospang.bsky.social Human(e)
Media, politics and stuff
Dep Head DW Deutsche Welle R&D
Boards: EDMO, CEDMO, GADMO
Lecturer: Free University Berlin
Media Literacy Trainer: Lie Detectors
More: https://about.me/jospang
Ludmila Lupinacci @ludludlud.bsky.social Lecturer in Digital Media, University of Leeds @leedsunimedia.bsky.social ✨digital tech & everyday life, experiences of liveness (whatever that means), scrolling nonsense, moods & vibes ✨ ludmilalupinacci.com
Luca Barra @lucabarra.bsky.social Mi occupo di tv e media. Professore ordinario @ UniBo, più @ Link. Ultimi libri: La televisione italiana, La programmazione televisiva, La sitcom.
Leticia Bode @leticiabode.bsky.social Professor at Georgetown, research director at KGI. Studying information, politics, health, etc. Also cats, Badgers, Astros, food, gardening. 
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
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/
Claire Wardle @cward1e.bsky.social Associate Professor, Dept of Communication, Cornell University. Bit partial to information ecosystems.
Samantha Bradshaw @sbradshaw.bsky.social Assistant Professor, American University | Studying disinfo, cybersecurity, and emerging technology 👩💻
EU DisinfoLab @disinfo.eu Independent EU-focused NGO whose mission is to raise awareness on #disinformation & contribute to a better information landscape.
Kate Kahle @katekahle.bsky.social Science communicator @CERN.bsky.social, mum of trilingual terrors, loves wordplay & hashtags #CERN #Physics #Particlephysics #SciComm
Follow @CERNCourier.bsky.social
Opinions = my own
Florian Wintterlin @wintterlin.bsky.social Communication Researcher @University of Muenster
Tiziano Bonini @tbonini.bsky.social Associate professor of Sociology of culture and Communication at @unisi. Co-author of Algorithms of Resistance (MIT Press 2024), available in OA, MIT press website
Andrew Chadwick @andrewchadwick.com Prof, Media and Communication, Loughborough University. Ed. Oxford Studies in Digital Politics. Been dubbed “that hybrid media guy.” More active on LinkedIn these days.
andrewchadwick.com
Occasional posts on music.
Eva Wackenreuther @evapunkt.bsky.social Journalistin | berichtet über Desinformation | Verifikation für ORF defacto | davor Ressortleiterin AFP Faktencheck
Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social I research social media, platform studies, and digital intimacies.
My book, OnlyFans, comes out in October 2026 https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=onlyfans--9781509567188
Felipe Soares @felipebsoares.bsky.social Reader in Disinformation Studies - London College of Communication, University of the Arts London
@sympap.bsky.social @sympap.bsky.social 
Evangelia Kartsounidou @evankart.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher at CERTH-ITI, MeVer Group
Phd, Political Science, AUTH
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.
Luigi Arminio @luigiarminio.bsky.social Postdoc @ Roskilde University | Computational Social Science | Social media dynamics | AI & democracy in digital spaces | ADD + SCAI Projects
Jordan Ricker @jordanricker.bsky.social COO ▸ opsci.bsky.social / partner ▸ 𝗴𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰.
Building tools to decode algorithms & crafting stories to code influence.
Former City of Paris' CDO.
PROMPT @euprompt.bsky.social Pilot project advancing the work of the European Narrative Observatory by using cutting-edge LLMs to detect and analyze disinformation.
https://disinfo-prompt.eu
Mikey Biddlestone @mikeybiddlestone.bsky.social Research Associate @COSPIRACY_FX @KentPsychology @UniKent. Studying Misinformation | Conspiracy Beliefs | Political Psychology (he/him).
Annie Waldherr @anniewald.bsky.social Professor of Computational Communication Science @univie.ac.at @compcommlab
Public sphere, complexity, networks, data science.
Maria Giovanna Sessa @netosessa.bsky.social Research Manager @disinfo.eu • GBD, FIMI & DSA are some of my favorite acronyms • Based in Milan, but traveling often 🛸✨
linktr.ee/netosessa
Alexandre Alaphilippe @aa.disinfo.eu Executive Director EU DisinfoLab www.disinfo.eu / Hummingbird / Searching for James Dubious Crickton /Growing my ethical mussels / Asking PourqOui / Prism in Jeans / 😀🤓🤯🤝
Julia Smirnova @jsmirnova.bsky.social Senior researcher for @cemas.io. Disinfo, extremism, technology. Previously, @isdglobal and journalist writing for @spiegel, @zeit, @welt. Alumna @warstudies
Pagella Politica @pagellapolitica.it 🔎 Fact-checking e analisi dell’attualità politica. Raccontiamo la politica con numeri e fatti, per un’informazione trasparente e affidabile.
Facta @facta.news 🔍 Verifichiamo le notizie
❇️ Membri dell'International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN)
🟣 Scopri Dora, la nostra piattaforma di video corsi sul mondo dell’informazione: https://dora.facta.news/landing - K @kbontcheva.bsky.social @kbontcheva.bsky.social
SheffieldNLP @sheffieldnlp.bsky.social Established 1993, the University of Sheffield's #NLProc Group is one of the UK's largest natural language processing research centres.
https://t.co/D8c2TQcavj
ProfJSG @profjsg.bsky.social Professor. Constitution hugger. Worried for democracy.
Devina Sarwatay @devinasarwatay.bsky.social I study young people and digital cultures
Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca SocialMediaLab.ca
- News, analysis & views by @philipmai.com re: the politics of tech, social media, AI, immigration, democracy, mis/disinfo, war & propaganda. Explore our suite of social media tools for public interest research: socialmedialab.ca/apps/
Eszter Hargittai @eszter.com Professor of Internet Use & Society, University of Zurich
William Allan Neilson Professor, Smith College (Fall 2024)
Formerly: Northwestern U, Princeton U
eszter.com
Ehsan Dehghan @essideh.com Academic @QUT; Researching various things, all related to antagonism/agonism/discourse online
🌐: https://www.essideh.com
Carly Lubicz @carlylubicz.bsky.social PhD-er at QUT's Digital Media Research Centre: polarisation, partisanship, media, politics, climate policy, renewable energy transition, social network analysis. Ex journo/comms. 
Sebastian F. K. Svegaard 🏳️🌈 @svegaard.bsky.social Post-doc in polarisation, populism, fandom, identity and all the feels with @snurb at QUT DMRC.
🇩🇰 in 🇦🇺, residing on Turrbal and Yugara country.
QaF.
Plant🪴dad. Once and future cat person.
he/him
Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández @ariadnamf.bsky.social Associate Professor at University College Dublin
Social media cultures, platform governance, online harms, and algorithmic systems.
Opinions are my own. She/her.
sam vilkins @vilkins.bsky.social peaked online circa 2018. politics/cultural research @qutdmrc.bsky.social
Katharina Esau @kathaesa.bsky.social DECRA Fellow / Senior Lecturer @qutdmrc.bsky.social, Pol Comm, Digital Publics, Democratic Innovation, Automated & Relational Content & Sequence Analysis, interested in news media, polarisation & opinion formation online: https://l1nq.com/sdk9o7n
Tariq Choucair @tariqchoucair.bsky.social Constantly living in many transitions; moving in and out borders despite their harshness.
🏳️⚧️⚧️
Politics, Language, Computation
Brasil 🇧🇷 / Australia 🇦🇺/ Currently visiting Germany 🇩🇪
Patrik Wikstrom @pwik.bsky.social Professor of Computational Communication at @qutdmrc.bsky.social, QUT, Brisbane, Australia. I research how technology shape digital culture. #recommendersystems #responsibleAI #music #tiktok
Kateryna Kasianenko @kkasianenko.bsky.social Україна, Херсон →日本→ Meeanjin; Postdoc at ADM+S/DMRC studying search practices and search engines. Views mine. She/her.
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
Ned Watt @nedwatt.bsky.social PhD candidate at the DMRC and ADM+S researching independent fact checking and genAI.
Lover of dad rock, folk, and skramz in all multitudes
🍉
Kate FitzGerald @katemfitzgerald.bsky.social PhD Candidate & Research Analyst @ Digital Media Research Centre, QUT.
Research information disorder, conspiracy theories, and knowledge production practices.
Read Them Sideways podcast co-host and producer.
(she/her)