Benjamin Moffitt @benmoffitt.bsky.social Political Scientist @ Monash University | Author of 3 books | Writing about populism, reactionary politics & visual politics | he/him
Articles/publications here: https://monash.academia.edu/BenjaminMoffitt- B Benjamin De Cleen @benjamindecleen.bsky.social Professor at Vrije Universiteit Brussel working on far right, populism, discourse.
Emmy Eklundh @emmyeklundh.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Politics at Cardiff Uni. Researching populist parties and movements. New book out now: “Europe’s Populist Condition” https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/europes-populist-condition
Simon Munzert @simonsaysnothin.bsky.social Professor of Data Science and Public Policy | Director @ Hertie School Data Science Lab | Elections, Public Opinion, Data
Theo Sanderson @theo.io researching viral pathogen genomics at @lshtm.bsky.social, building @pathoplexus.org | theo.io / sandersonlab.org
Reactionary Politics Research Network @reacpolrn.bsky.social The Reactionary Politics Research Network (RPRN) brings together researchers to study and tackle the rise of exclusionary, authoritarian and reactionary politics
Find us at: https://reacpol.net/
theresa gessler @gessler.bsky.social 👩🏫Professor of democratic political decision making @politikuhh.bsky.social
🔍democracy | parties | gender | CEE🇭🇺 🇵🇱
🛠️TextasData & digital methods
www.theresagessler.eu/ | former @th_ges
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The COMPTEXT Association @comptext.bsky.social COMPTEXT is an international community and forum for text/image/video as data scholars
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/
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 ||
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Weizenbaum-Institut @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social Forschung für die vernetzte Gesellschaft \\ Research for the networked society
https://www.weizenbaum-institut.de/
DSA40 Data Access Collaboratory @dsa40collaboratory.bsky.social dsa40collaboratory.eu | joint project by the @europeannewschool.bsky.social and the @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social- H Hauke Licht @haukelicht.bsky.social Post-doctoral researcher at the
Center for Comparative Politics, University of Cologne
LK Seiling @lkseiling.eurosky.social DE/EN. 📍 Potsdam / Berlin
coordination of @dsa40collaboratory.bsky.social, various research at @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social
among other things: http://zusammenfuergleichstellung.de
Lion Wedel @lionw.bsky.social Researching @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social | Computational Social Science | cu @ICA25 & IC2S2
Léonie de Jonge @leoniedejonge.bsky.social Prof. of Research on Far-Right Extremism @IRex/UniTübingen; researching far-right political actors & ideologies; PhD from @Cambridge_Uni; member of DeJongeAkademie @KNAW 📚
European University Institute @eui-eu.bsky.social The European University Institute (EUI) is an international organisation and a university dedicated to research and higher learning in social sciences and humanities.
Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social Assistant prof at IE University. Previously EUI and Oxford.
Researching what we think is ok to do in a democracy & how that changes.
Book on the normalization of the radical right: https://academic.oup.com/book/57946
More at www.vicentevalentim.com
Aaron Winter @aaronwinter.bsky.social Sociologist at Lancaster University working on Racism,Terrorism & the Far Right. Co-ed of @identitiesjournal.bsky.social. Co-author of Reactionary Democracy: How Racism & the Populist Far Right Became Mainstream (Verso) with Aurelien Mondon
Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com "Leftwing professor" - in other words, researching the mainstreaming of reactionary/far-right politics
Co-convenor of @reacpolrn.bsky.social
Publications etc 👇🏻
https://aurelmondon.com/
Tiago Ventura @tiagoventura.bsky.social Assistant Professor at @McCourtSchool @Georgetown Working on computational social science, social media, and politics. De Belém 🇧🇷- J Jonathan Nagler @jonathannagler.bsky.social Political Scientist - NYU
Swen Hutter @swenhutter.bsky.social Political sociology at Freie Universität Berlin and WZB Berlin Social Science Center
Fabrizio Gilardi @fgilardi.bsky.social Professor of political science at the University of Zurich • digital technology, AI & politics • resting bitch face • https://fabriziogilardi.org/
Étienne Ollion @eollion.bsky.social Is watching you.
Political sociology x Computational social sciences @CrestSociology | @Polytechnique | @CNRS
Alex Kindel @alextkindel.bsky.social easily distracted sociologist | assistant professor @ Sciences Po médialab
David Garcia @dgarcia.eu Professor for Social and Behavioral Data Science at the University of Konstanz. Also at CSH Vienna, ETH Zurich and TU Graz. 
SoMe4Dem @some4dem.bsky.social Social media for democracy - Horizon Europe project studying the impact of social media on the public sphere and liberal democracy
some4dem.eu
Steffen Mau @steffenmau.bsky.social Sociologist | MPI for Political and Social Science, Göttingen https://www.ips.mpg.de | HU Berlin https://www.sowi.hu-berlin.de/de/lehrbereiche/makro/mitarbeiter/Prof_Mau l social change, inequality, conflict, borders (pic Gesine Born), personal views
Eckehard Olbrich @eckolb.bsky.social Complex systems, politics and social media
Fabio Giglietto @fabiogiglietto.bsky.social Professor of Internet Studies at the University of Urbino - Principal investigator https://mine.uniurb.it
Sebastian Stier @sebstier.bsky.social Professor of Computational Social Science @University of Mannheim & Scientific Director Department Computational Social Science @GESIS
https://sebastianstier.com
Claudia Wagner @clauwa.bsky.social Professor for Applied Computational Social Sciences at RWTH Aachen University & Director of the Computational Social Science department at GESIS
@barabasi.bsky.social @barabasi.bsky.social 
Peter Van Aelst @pvanaelst.bsky.social Professor Political Communication, University of Antwerp (Belgium).
Co-founder of the amazing M²P (Media, Movements and Politics)
Armin Pournaki @pournaki.bsky.social Postdoc at @soziologie-unibe.bsky.social | Computational Social Science, Narratives, NLP, Complex Networks | https://pournaki.com
AUTHLIB @authlibeu.bsky.social AUTHLIB - Neo-authoritarianisms in Europe and the Liberal Democratic Response.
Research project led by CEU Democracy Institute, co-funded by the European Union.
Web: https://www.authlib.eu/
#AuthlibEU
C🅰️S Ⓜ️UDDE @casmudde.bsky.social Dutchman 🇳🇱 in South 🇺🇸 | Politologist 🧑🎓 | columnist ✍️ | public speaker 🗣️ | Far-right politics 👌 | Soccer & Politics ⚽ | European politics 🇪🇺 | Defending democracy 👊 | punkrock 🎸 | #groundhopping ⚽🏒🏉 | movies 🎦 | watches ⌚ | no manels ❌ | only MY opinions 👋
Andrea Pirro @andreapirro.it Associate Professor at the University of Bologna / Editor of East European Politics / Editor of Routledge Studies in Extremism & Democracy / andreapirro.it
📚 ‘Movement Parties of the Far Right’ (Oxford University Press) out now: https://t.ly/KPhkV
Populism and Political Parties Expert Survey (POPPA) @poppa-data.bsky.social This is the official account of the Populism and Political Parties Expert Survey (POPPA) || www.poppa-data.eu
Maurits Meijers @mauritsmeijers.bsky.social Research Professor of Political Science at the University of Antwerp 🇧🇪 || ERC Starting Grant holder DEMO-LIES: Deception in Democracy: Political Lying Accusations and Their Effects on Democratic Citizenship"
WZB Democracy @wzbdemocracy.bsky.social Transformations of Democracy unit at WZB Berlin - Director Daniel Ziblatt https://wzb.eu/en/research/dynamics-of-political-systems/transformations-of-democracy
WZB Berlin @wzb.bsky.social Das Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung untersucht den gesellschaftlichen Wandel. Es postet das Kommunikationsteam. http://wisskomm.social/@WZB_Berlin
GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften @gesis.org With more than 300 employees at two locations - Mannheim and Cologne - GESIS provides essential and internationally relevant research-based services for the social sciences.
https://www.gesis.org
Jana Lasser @janalasser.eurosky.social Professor for Data Analysis @UniGraz | Computational Social Science, Data Science, complex systems, computational modelling | #OpenScience, #coder | she/her
onData @ondatait.bsky.social Un'associazione che promuove l'apertura dei dati pubblici per renderli un bene comune accessibile a tuttə.
💌 Leggi la nostra newsletter a https://ondata.substack.com/
🌅 Cover: Tim Mossholder
#OpenData #DatiAperti
Sarah de Lange @sldelange.bsky.social Professor of Dutch Politics at Leiden University | Extremism, populism, radicalism scholar | Board member IISG Amsterdam and Wiardi Beckman Foundation | Allotmenteer | Zeeuws meisje |
Sciences Po Research @scpo-research.bsky.social La #recherche @sciencespo
300 chercheurs, 320 Ph D + post-doc + ingénieurs - F/H #droit #éco #histoire #sciencepo #socio
Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social We explore how contemporary transformations influence evolutions in politics, in policy and in the polity.
Located in @sciencespo.bsky.social, Paris, and also affiliated with the @cnrs.fr
https://www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etudes-europeennes/
Caterina Froio @caterinafr.bsky.social Associate Professor | SciencesPo_CEE| Editor @ejprjournal.bsky.social | Political parties | Political participation | Media | Far right
Pietro Castelli Gattinara @pietrocastellig.bsky.social Ass Prof @SciencePoULB
Deputy director #Cevipol
Migration politics
Far-right parties & movements
www.farpo.eu
AS Roma 🔴🟡
Stijn van Kessel @stijntvankessel.bsky.social Professor of Comparative Politics, Queen Mary University of London. Studies populism, radical right, politics of European integration. Staff page: https://www.qmul.ac.uk/politics/staff/profiles/vankesselstijn.html
Daniel Ziblatt @dziblatt.bsky.social Eaton Professor of Government & Director, Center for European Studies @Harvard/ leads research group at WZB Berlin/author of 'Tyranny of the Minority', 'How Democracies Die', & 'Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy.'
Teresa Völker @tevoelker.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Fellow @WZB Berlin Social Science Center | Democracy, Far Right, Political Communication
David Chavalarias @chavalarias.org CNRS Research Director in Paris. Head of the Complex Systems Institute of Paris IdF Complex systems, cognitive sciences, social dynamics, cultural evolution, text-mining, epistemology, computational social sciences. Posts are my own.
http://chavalarias.org
Sylvain Parasie @syparasie.bsky.social Professor of sociology, Sciences Po, Paris. Director of médialab. Author of Computing the News (2022), interested in digital media, computational methods, and the environment.
Jean-Philippe Cointet @jphcoi.bsky.social 
Pedro Ramaciotti @piotram.bsky.social Chair of AI in Social Sciences and Humanities at the French National Research Centre & Sciences Po. Head of the European Polarisation Observatory.
Computational social sciences.
Algorithms, Politics, Social Media & Regulation.
Paul Bouchaud @paulbouchaud.com (they/them) Researcher in Algorithmic Auditing, Social Simulation & Evidenced-Based Policymaking | paulbouchaud.com | working with aiforensics.org
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.
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