Adam Baimel @abaimel.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Psychology - Oxford Brookes University
Religion; spirituality; cultural change; environmentalism
www.adambaimel.com
Adam Russell Taylor @revadamtaylor.bsky.social President, Sojourners. New book “A More Perfect Union” available now. Passionate social justice advocate & bridge builder. Ordained Baptist minister.
Bethany Albertson @albertsonb2.bsky.social Associate Prof at UT Austin. I study political psych & public opinion. I also post about soccer and my cats.
Paul DiPerna @pauldiperna.bsky.social VP of research and innovation @edchoice / surveys on K-12 education, schooling, ideas / alum @BrookingsInst, @IllinoisPolSci, @univofdayton / views are my own
Brooklyn Walker @brooklynwalker.bsky.social Assistant Professor, UTK Political Science
PhD, University of Kansas
MA, University of Michigan
BA, Kansas State University
Religion and politics, American political behavior, political psychology, public opinion
Johannah Palomo @johannahpalomo.bsky.social doctoral candidate at UNC Sociology • Rice University graduate • interested in religion, family, and well-being • posts about basketball and sociology
Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life @boisicenter.bsky.social Since 1999, the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life at Boston College have been hosting lively events at the intersection of religion and American culture.
Frederick Clarkson @fredclarkson.bsky.social Senior Research Analyst at Political Research Associates. Writer about religion & politics for four decades. Author. Editor. Public speaker. Occasional commentator.
Rachel Rinaldo @rarinald.bsky.social Sociologist at the University of Colorado Boulder. I do ethnographic and interview research on gender, religion, and social change, with a focus on Indonesia. Faculty Director of the Center for Asian Studies.
Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social Professor of Political Science at Stanford | Exploring money in politics, campaigns and elections, ideology, the courts, and inequality | Author of The Judicial Tug of War cup.org/2LEoMrs | https://data4democracy.substack.com
Dan McClellan @maklelan.bsky.social Public scholar of the Bible and religion
For speaking requests: live@thewatermarkagency.com
Anders Ackfeldt @ackfeldt.bsky.social PhD in History of Religions, Deputy Director Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul (SRII). Malmö/Istanbul.
“If I could only have one food to eat for the rest of my life? That’s easy. Pez. Cherry flavor Pez. No question about it.”
Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social Washington Bureau chief at The Independent, MSNOW Columnist. Author: We’re Not Broken. Tar Heel. He/Him Eric.garcia@the-independent.com
Joshua Howard @joshburginhoward.bsky.social 
Miray Philips - ميراي فيلبس @mirayphilips.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto
I study transnational religion, memory, rights & violence in the Middle East and its diasporas
📸 "our demise doesn't have to be like this"
www.mirayphilips.com
Jenn Dowd @drjenndowd.bsky.social Prof of Demography & Population Health @oxforddemsci.bsky.social | Mortality, Epidemiology, Infections/Immunity, Biosocial science, COVID-19. | Science Communicator 🇺🇸 in 🇬🇧.
Substack: https://jenndowd.substack.com
Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social Director of the Centre for Culture and Evolution, Brunel University London @brunelcce.bsky.social
https://www.rebeccasear.org/
Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev Co-founder & editor, Works in Progress. Writer, Scientific Discovery. Podcaster, Hard Drugs. Advisor, Coefficient Giving.
Newsletter: https://scientificdiscovery.dev
Podcast: https://harddrugs.worksinprogress.co
🏳️🌈
Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social Writer. Tired Dad. Minivan Driver.
Editor of The Left Hook Substack (https://thelefthook.substack.com); Co-host of Democracy-Ish; Author of a Memoir and a Play; @YouTubeWajahatAli
wajali.com
wajahatmali@protonmail.com
Emily Thorson @emilythorson.bsky.social Political science, Syracuse University
Information effects, misperceptions, egg sandwiches
My book is "The Invented State: Policy Misperceptions in the American Public"
Clifford Ross @cliffordross.bsky.social Medical sociologist. Postdoctoral scholar at Vanderbilt. Studying end-of-life health disparities, health policy, labor unions, and aging. Views my own.
cliffordjross.com
https://healprojectvu.org
Secularism & Nonreligion @s-n-journal.bsky.social Secularism and Nonreligion is the world's first journal dedicated to the investigation of secularism and nonreligion in all forms.
Farrah Bostic @farrahbostic.bsky.social Founder of The Difference Engine. Researcher, strategist, truth-teller. Host of Cross Tabs. Asking better questions since forever. Also: https://mastodon.social/@Bosticf
Emily Burke @emilyeburke.bsky.social Thinking too hard about climate, culture, and Catholicism. UW-Madison Sociology PhD student, occasional optimist. Fueled by iced coffee, quiet rage, and active hope.
Yunping Tong @yunpingtong.bsky.social Quantitative Researcher at Pew Research Center | PhD in Sociology of religion
Joanne Haner @joannenh.bsky.social she/her | 🇵🇦 | News & Information researcher at Pew Research Center
UM SRC @um-src.bsky.social Survey Research Center is an international leader in research involving the collection and analysis of sample surveys, administrative and other non-survey data. https://src.isr.umich.edu/
David Gibson @gibsonwrites.bsky.social Director of Fordham University's Center on Religion & Culture. "Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto." Recovering Vaticanista. Occasionally commit journalism. https://linktr.ee/gibsonwrites
Anna R. Haskins @annarhaskins.bsky.social Associate Professor of Sociology at Notre Dame
co-editor of Sociology of Education | co-I of the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study
mamax2 | Michigander | former PS teacher |
scholar of education, inequality, mass incarceration, and race
Lisa Wade @lisawade.bsky.social #firstgen #professor and #writer in #nola ❤️. Relentless advocate for #sociology. Author of non-fiction and textbooks with a new book -- Exposed: A College in Crisis Puts Science to the Test -- out in 2026. I adore what I do. And #cats!
lisa-wade.com
Teemu Taira @teemutaira.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in the Study of Religion. Researching public discourses on religion; atheism and nonreligion; religion and news media; methodology. Author of Taking "Religion" Seriously (2022) and other books.
https://teemutaira.wordpress.com
The Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com Data, charts, analysis and games from The New York Times: nytimes.com/upshot
Nancy Ammerman @ntammerman.bsky.social Sociologist of Religion; retired (sort of); gardener
Jonathan Schulman @jonathanschulman.bsky.social Research Associate @pewresearch.org | PhD @polisciatnu.bsky.social
Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social Government and policy writer. Views are my own. pbacon@tnr.com
Blythe Thomas @blythethomas.bsky.social Kansas native. Boy mom. Sun lover. Aspiring golfer. DC sports fan. Miss my hedgehog. Obsessed with animal videos. Work @PewResearch.org
Kirsten Eddy, Ph.D. @kirstenaeddy.bsky.social Senior researcher in news & information at Pew Research Center • Research associate at Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford • Affiliate/PhD-ed at UNC CITAP • Lover of ☕🐶📖
Junaid Merchant @dingobuck.bsky.social An epidemiology trench coat wearer who is definitely NOT a psych, cogneuro, and data scientist in disguise trying to get a job 🥸
🥼 ⚙️ 🧠 💻 🇵🇰 🎨 📈 👨🏽💻 🕺🏽 🎶
https://junaidmerchant.github.io/
Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social Inequality, higher education, gender, work and organizations, open science, Alaska.
All posts are made in my personal, not professional, capacity. I do not speak for my employer.
Claire Dannenbaum @clairedbaumdotcom.bsky.social social media girl @ the pew research center
Prof. Josef Meri @josefmeri.bsky.social Historian of Religions & Interfaith Relations in the Middle East in past & present. I teach the history of inter-religious relations, identity, belonging, memory, and concepts of "the other." Senior Fellow, ACMCU, Georgetown University. Berkeley & Oxford
Matthew Blanton @matthewblanton.bsky.social Sociologist and demographer. Migration and religion. English and Spanish. @utaustinsoc & @UTPopCenter
https://www.matthewblanton.com/
Nicholas Gibson @njsgibson.bsky.social research funding and strategery | cognitive science | religion | mental health | open scholarship | metadata | jazz | pipe symbols
The Association of Religion Data Archives @religiondata.bsky.social https://www.thearda.com/
The ARDA includes a variety of tools designed to foster better research, teaching, and understanding of religion data. Always free to access. Nonpartisan/nonsectarian.
Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social Professor | 2026-2027 Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholar | Books: Growing God's Family; Addicted to Lust; Taking America Back for God; The Flag & The Cross; Religion for Realists; SOON: Fill the Earth and Subdue It | CV: https://tinyurl.com/mtvxvdfa
APDU @apduorg.bsky.social Association of Public Data Users (APDU) is a national network that links users, producers, and disseminators of government statistical data. Members share a vital concern about the collection, dissemination, preservation, and interpretation of public data.
Matthew D. Taylor @matthewdtaylor.bsky.social visiting scholar at @faithandjustice.bsky.social | creator: "Charismatic Revival Fury" podcast | author: "The Violent Take It by Force" | www.drmatthewdtaylor.com
Ruth Braunstein @ruthbraunstein.bsky.social Sociologist. Religion, culture, politics | Director Meanings of Democracy Lab | 📚 MY TAX DOLLARS, PROPHETS & PATRIOTS, RELIGION & PROGRESSIVE ACTIVISM | 🎧 WHEN THE WOLVES CAME
Christopher R. Matthews @drcrmatthews.bsky.social ▪︎ Reading, writing & thinking about the moral foundation of scholarship
▪︎ Author of Doing Good Social Science: http://bit.ly/3EgFA2z
▪︎ More about my work: immersiveresearch.co.uk
▪︎ DM for speaking/workshop requests
Patrick van Kessel @pvankessel.bsky.social Lead data scientist at WorkMoney, lover of research, politics, data science, Python and surveys. Career non-profit technologist. Formerly Pew Research Center Data Labs and NORC at the University of Chicago
Ryan Struyk @ryanstruyk.bsky.social I work for @CNN.com. Michigan native. @Calvin_Uni grad. Recovering math major. Christian. ENTJ. #1 fan of @ABC, @AP and @WOODTV. #nooxfordcomma
Shannon Schumacher, PhD @shannonschumacher.bsky.social Senior Survey Analyst @KFF.org polling the public about experiences in health care
Faith Angle Forum @faithangleforum.bsky.social We convene leading journalists and scholars for conversations on religion, politics, and public life. An @AspenReligion program. https://youtu.be/yNOvjyss-7Y?si=wFwYuCX-3EGq4Pg9
John Fea @johnfea1.bsky.social Historian at Lumen Center (Madison, WI) and Messiah University. Author of 6 books. Blogger and podcaster at The Way of Improvement Leads Home. #LGM #Bruuuuuce!
Juliana Horowitz @jmhorowitz.bsky.social Senior Associate Director @pewresearch focused on social and demographic trends.
Carol Ann MacGregor @camacgregor.bsky.social Sociologist. Higher Ed Administrator. 
James V. Grimaldi @jamesvgrimaldi.bsky.social Executive editor of the National Catholic Reporter. Winner of Pulitzer Prizes. KCMO. DC. Dad. Husband. Roman Catholic.
Michael Piccorossi @michaelooch.bsky.social Digital at @kff.org. Formerly @pewresearch.org - Dad, Philly fan. I like cats ...- T @tedvangreen.bsky.social @tedvangreen.bsky.social
Carroll Doherty @doherty13.bsky.social Polling, political data, former journalist. Former director of political research, Pew Research Center.
Penny Edgell @pennye.bsky.social Sociologist, feminist, would rather be outdoors. More info at pennyedgell.com
Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (SSSR) @sssreligion.bsky.social The SSSR is an interdisciplinary academic association that promotes & communicates social scientific research about religious institutions and experiences. Founded in 1949. sssreligion.org Flagship publication: JSSR @jssreligion.bsky.social
Jacqui Frost @jacquifrost.bsky.social Assistant Professor @PurdueSociology. Researching how nonreligious people live, what science means to people, and why religious change happens.
Sol Messing @solmg.bsky.social Social Scientist/Research Prof at NYU CSMaP, formerly Twitter. http://solomonmg.github.io
Paul Djupe @pauldjupe.bsky.social Prof at Denison University; Political Scientist studying US religion and politics. blogging at religioninpublic.blog. Riding all over (hilly) Ohio.
Stephanie Kramer @stephaniekramer.bsky.social Psychologist and demographer focusing on religion and migration at Pew Research Center
Nonreligion in a Complex Future @nonreligioncf.bsky.social International social science research project exploring the rise of nonreligion. Based at the University of Ottawa. Directed by Lori G. Beaman. Funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
https://nonreligionproject.ca/
Francis X. Rocca @fxrocca.bsky.social Journalist specializing in the Vatican and global religion, senior analyst for EWTN News, ex @wsj.com, director: “Voices of Vatican Il” https://bit.ly/3V0ddKV. Email: fxrocca@gmail.com.
Becka Alper @balper.bsky.social Senior researcher @pewresearch.org sharing info about Americans’ religious beliefs and practices
John Hawthorne @jwhawthorne.bsky.social Retired Christian University Sociology Professor/Administrator living in the Denver area. Check out my new book, The Fearless Christian University https://tinyurl.com/3n6ea349. Follow my substack at https://johnhawthorne.substack.com/
Michael Bitzer @bowtiepolitics.bsky.social Professor of Politics & History; Director, @ncpolitics.bsky.social. Manager, Old North State Politics blog (@oldnorthstpolitics.bsky.social). Interested in NC politics, Southern US politics, & US Politics.
Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social Explaining anti-democratic rhetorical tricks. Award winning #teamrhetoric professor & author. Very earnest. Democracy cheerleader. Views represent my academic research, not my university. I post things on substack: https://jennifermercieca.substack.com/
Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social Historian of the white power movement, gun violence, the apocalypse. Coloradan. kathleenbelew.com Book coming soon! Home, at the End of the World (Random House) Posts reflect my own views only.
Andrew Whitehead @andrew-whitehead.bsky.social Sociologist | religion, politics, disability | Kettering Foundation Research Fellow | Christian Nationalism books: http://linktr.ee/andrewwhitehead | https://andrewwhitehead.substack.com/ | https://tinyurl.com/42wspc8m | all views my own
Dr. Matt Boxer @mboxer.bsky.social Assistant Research Prof, Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies @ Brandeis University. Jewish studies and sociology. Writes broadly about contemporary Jewish life using both quantitative and qualitative methods. Might have a space laser.
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
Julia Azari @juliaazari.bsky.social Political science professor. Has thoughts about that thing someone said.
Book: Backlash Presidents: From Transformative to Reactionary Leaders in American History
https://tinyurl.com/te8cmzmr
https://goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/
Mike Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social Author: Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions about What to Believe Online (University of Chicago Press).
Researcher, infolit/misinfo/rhetoric/civic reasoning. Currently researching AI as tool for critical thinking.
Meltem Yucel @drmeltemyucel.bsky.social Assistant Professor @msupsychology.bsky.social • studying norms, morality, & gossip • Previously @ Duke, UVA, IMPRS LIFE • she/her • Founder: @psychresearchlist.bsky.social • Lab: @moralmindslab.bsky.social • www.meltemyucel.com
Charles Mathewes @ctmathewes.bsky.social I teach religion & ethics @ UVa
I'm mostly here to find books & articles I don't yet know about
Sometimes also interested in opinions, but not as often as many of you seem to believe
Sam Stroope @sam-stroope.bsky.social Prof. @LSU | Medical Sociology | Sociology of Religion | sstroope.github.io
Baxter Oliphant @baxteroliphant.bsky.social Researcher at Pew Research Center; Ph.D. in politics from Princeton. Husband, father, bike commuter, gamer, inline skater, car camper and hiker. Spends way too much time reading the news and nonfiction books. RTs & likes do not equal endorsements.
Jens Manuel Krogstad @jensmanuel.bsky.social Telling stories with data.
Gabe Borelli @gabrielborelli.bsky.social Research Associate at the Pew Research Center on the Politics and Policy Team; Princeton Politics PhD (voting behavior, elections, and representation in Congress)
Anna Brown @aebrown.bsky.social Research Methodologist at Pew Research Center
Anna Strhan @annastrhan.bsky.social Sociologist at the University of York | religion, ethics, values, culture, cities, childhood | neurodivergent | she/her | new book 'Growing Up Godless' https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691247250/growing-up-godless
Josh Pasek @joshpasek.com Prof of Comm and Polisci @UMich studying how people get & use political information and social measurement.
Competencies: data sci, DIY solar, election analytics, carpooling, #polcom, #polpsych, survey methods, AI literacy (views=own, overuses speech2text)
Jennifer Hamilton @jenniferhamilton.bsky.social (formerly @limeygrl on Twitter)
SVP of #Education at NORC at the University of Chicago | Transforming education one evaluation at a time! #bluecollarscholar #firstgen | chaotic good- S @steschwarzer.bsky.social @steschwarzer.bsky.social
Ted Olsen @tedolsen.bsky.social Amateur Christian. Formerly: Associate Publisher and Editorial Director for Media and Trade Books, @ivpress.bsky.social; Executive Editor (etc) at @christianitytoday.com
Tiffany Stanley @tiffanystanley.bsky.social Associated Press editor & reporter on the global religion team
Samuel Avery-Quinn @samaveryquinn.bsky.social Assistant Prof at Appalachian State University. Historical geography, American religious history, a smidgeon of video game development.
Jaime Lee Kucinskas @jlkucinskas.bsky.social Sociologist of morality, social & organizational change and spirituality. Author of The Loyalty Trap on civil servants' experiences under Trump, The Mindful Elite and Situating Spirituality. Learning about climate action. Mom juggling it all.
Rachel Cohen Booth @rcobooth.bsky.social Vox reporter - covering housing, homelessness, family policy
trying to prod productively
Melissa Cidade @melissacidade.bsky.social Survey methodologist and professor, all views my own 😎
Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social Co-founder, Survey 160. Loves survey and voter participation. Researcher. Democrat. YIMBY. Husband and Dad. Opinion haver and measurer. Outdoors and cooking enthusiast. He/Him
Jessica Ko @ipolldata.bsky.social Data Team & iPoll, Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at Cornell University.
@ropercenter.bsky.social
She/They
ropercenter.cornell.edu