Hajo Boomgaarden @hajoboo.bsky.social Communication scholar @ Uni Vienna. Political communication & computational methods.
André Rodarte @andre-k-rodarte.bsky.social Postdoc at the Digital Democracy Center (SDU) | PhD from Uni of Texas at Austin | My research explores political representation, propaganda, and populism in the digital age
He/him | Bot-ish
andrerodarte.com
Sophie Lecheler @solecheler.bsky.social Professor of Political Communication - University of Vienna
Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social Philosopher/AI Ethicist at Univ of Edinburgh, FRSE. Co-Director @technomoralfutures.bsky.social and BRAID @braiduk.bsky.social, author of Technology and the Virtues (2016) and The AI Mirror (2024). Views my own. Humble servant to Carol and Puffin. She/her.
Jaap Tielbeke @jaaptielbeke.bsky.social Adjunct-hoofdredacteur De Groene Amsterdammer
Schrijft over ecologische ellende en aantrekkelijke alternatieven
Maurits Martijn @mauritsmartijn.bsky.social Journalist. De Correspondent. Over de mythes, de macht en de mogelijkheden van technologie. Boek: Je hebt wél iets te verbergen.
Nieuwsbrief: corr.es/maurits
Signal: mauritsmartijn.17
Bert Hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @berthub.eu Voormalig voormalig toezichthouder, schrijver van stukjes, nerd, amateur wetenschapper. Spreekt namens niemand. https://berthub.eu/
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.
Josette Daemen @josettedaemen.bsky.social Very political philosopher (PhD) | Assistant Professor @ Institute of Public Administration, Leiden University | Columnist @ NRC
Pampa García Molina @pampa.bsky.social Periodista de ciencia, señora que se viste por los pies, gran amiga y mejor persona. A los mandos del @sciencemediacentre.es.
Dorien Vrieling @dorienvrieling.bsky.social i'm a picker, i'm a grinner, i'm a lover and i'm a sinner
chef redactie SVDJ.nl | journalist | eindredacteur
Eric Smit @esmit-thefirewall.eurosky.social Co-founder of Big Tech watchdog The Firewall (https://www.thefirewall.eu/) and the platform for investigative journalism Follow the Money (ftm.nl en ftm.eu)
Casper Wolfert @casperwolfert.bsky.social Journalistiek & tech | Product Owner bij @decorrespondent.nl
Laurens @laurenshof.online I care about an ethical internet.
I write about Bluesky, the atmosphere and open social protocols at connectedplaces.online
🇳🇱
Aliëtte Jonkers @aliettejonkers.nl Freelance wetenschapsjournalist | humane geneeskunde en diergeneeskunde | studeert cultuurwetenschappen | ADHD to the max | getrouwd met de allerleukste |
Yorick Dupon @yorickdupon.com journalist bij Trends
nick deMarchis @nickdemarchis.com engineer who works with prose and code
https://nickdemarchis.com
Coen van de Ven @coenvdven.bsky.social Politiek journalist bij De Groene Amsterdammer.
Schrijver van Een links verhaal (2025) en Wantrouwen in de wandelgangen (2023)
Daniel Mügge @dmugge.eurosky.social Professor of Political Arithmetic at Uni of Amsterdam | Political economy of AI governance | Leader of the RegulAite project (https://www.regulaite.eu)
David Graus @graus.nu Assistant Professor in AI (Information Retrieval and NLP) at ILLC, @uva.nl & ICAI @opengov.nl Lab Manager | PhD from @irlab-amsterdam.bsky.social | Treasurer @setuputrecht.bsky.social | Commissie Persoonsgegevens Amsterdam | @aiog.net | @zwaailicht.nl
Rubina Fillion @rubinafillion.nytimes.com Working on A.I. Initiatives @nytimes; formerly @WSJ, @theintercept, @columbiajournalism; avid consumer of coffee and novels
Stefanie C. da Silveira @ssilveira.bsky.social Professor at Journalism Department of UFSC/Brazil. PhD in Communication Science. Digital journalism researcher.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Stefanie-Silveira
Keep on rocking in a free world.
Lara Billie Rense @larabillierense.bsky.social Gender in de blender, birds and boulders 💜🐦⬛🏳️⚧️🦉🏳️🌈🦄🌻🧗🏼
https://substack.com/@larabillierense?r=57k4sp&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=profile
Schreef een boek: https://www.atlascontact.nl/boek/een-zee-van-ruimte/
Presentator (Die/diens): Human, NTR, VPRO.
Mitra Nazar @mitrala.bsky.social Journalist, Turkey correspondent (Dutch Public Broadcaster NOS), Feminist
Stan van Pelt @stanvanpelt.nl Freelance wetenschapsjournalist | Schrijft voor o.m. Volkskrant en universiteitsbladen | Boeken: Sloppy Science (2025), Hack je Hersenen (2023) | P/t schrijfdocent Radboud Uni | Bioloog | Neuroscience PhD
Stefanie Sirén-Heikel @mssiren.bsky.social Doctoral/Project Researcher 🕊️@helsinkiuni.bsky.social
Inter(dis)secting #journalism #AI #sociomateriality
Big picture, middle ground, grey area. Rev2. Views mine.
Matt Walsh @mattwalshjourno.bsky.social Head of the School of Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University. Trustee at The Conversation UK and BJTC. Chair of the judges, 2025 Orwell Prize for Journalism. Hacked about a bit.
Dimitri Tokmetzis @tokmetzis.bsky.social Datanerd @ Follow the Money by day, Geographical Information Scientist-wannabe by night. Knows some stuff about investigative journalism, spatial data, python, company research, OSINT, privacy and security. Signal: @dtokmetzis.97.
Susan Vermeer @susanvermeer.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ Wageningen University & Research・Political communication, news use (among adolescents), computational methods・PhD @ ASCoR
Jo(sephine) Lukito @jolukito.bsky.social DDC Professor of Digital Communication and DIAS Chair at the University of Southern Denmark | Modern Kilogirl 👩💻 | Computational Linguistics & Global/US PolComm
Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social Concerned with tech, media and democracy. CEO & Editor at Tech Policy Press. Research & Adjunct Professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Opinions mine.
Who Targets Me @whotargets.me On political ads, transparency and what's right for democracy. Go to https://whotargets.me/download to get involved, check out https://trends.whotargets.me for data on >100k digital political advertisers. Newsletter: fulldisclosure.whotargets.me
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
Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net Knight Chair in Journalism at Mizzou. Authored first textbook for News Product Management. Previously: Director of Product at McClatchy. Big @newsproduct.org fan.
Tobias Dienlin @tobiasdienlin.com Media Psychology & Communication | Privacy & Well-Being | Open Science & Slow Science | IKMZ & University of Zurich | https://tobiasdienlin.com
Veronika Ebner @veronikaebner.bsky.social PhD student, Computational Communication Science Lab, University of Vienna
Research on climate change communication, social media and constructive journalism, part of @cidape.bsky.social project
Joanne Kuai @joannekuai.bsky.social
Fabian Ferrari @fabianlferrari.bsky.social 🌍 Assistant Professor in Cultural AI, @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social
🔍 Governance of AI Infrastructure
🌐 www.fabianlferrari.com
Nanne van Noord @nanne.bsky.social Associate Professor of Visual Culture and Multimedia at University of Amsterdam. http://nanne.github.io
Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social Reporting on AI and journalism for @NiemanLab.org at Harvard. Previously covering tech @restofworld.org Bylines: @thenation.com @popularmechanics @japantimes.co.jp Signal: andrewdeck.01
Tim Verheyden @timverheyden.bsky.social Journalist VRT NWS - covering tech & society (not gear or sofware) & disinformation. Docu's bij Canvas.
(Ultra)Runner.
Co-founder bxlruncrew
Virtual Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/5XIU19AGsSsLZMU858GLi2
micha heilbron @mheilbron.bsky.social Group leader at Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics @mpi-nl.bsky.social // Assistant Professor of Cognitive AI @UvA_Amsterdam.
Cog-sci 🤝 AI 🤝 neurosci
Sarah Bracke @antigonesdream.bsky.social Professor of Sociology of Gender and Sexuality, University of Amsterdam | NWO VICI EnGendering Europe's 'Muslim Question' | Latest book: The Politics of Replacement https://tinyurl.com/5y6f6cbd
@sannevrijenhoek.bsky.social @sannevrijenhoek.bsky.social
Dylan Freedman @dylanfreedman.nytimes.com Machine-learning engineer and journalist, A.I. Initiatives @nytimes.com
My work: https://www.nytimes.com/by/dylan-freedman
Contact: dylan.freedman@nytimes.com, dylanfreedman.39 (Signal)
🏃🏻 🎹
Tobias Gårdhus @handle.invalid Research Assistant @cphsodas.bsky.social working on @ainterviewer.bsky.social
Main research interests:
- Public conversation & attention on SoMe
- Expanding the social science toolbox
- Applied NLP
#python #linux
www.gaardhus.dk
Pete Fussey @petefussey.bsky.social Prof @ University of Southampton ~ Surveillance, tech, rights, security, criminology. Musician & @SxSW performing artist
David Blanco-Herrero @blanco-herrero.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher.
Amsterdam School of Communication Research.
University of Amsterdam
Elif KILIK @elifkilik.bsky.social PhD candidate @UAntwerpen | Lecturer @UvA_Amsterdam | Computational Social Science, NLP, media, journalism & democracy | 🇹🇷&🇳🇱
Alyt Damstra @alytdamstra.bsky.social Onderzoeker bij de Wetenschappelijke Raad voor het Regeringsbeleid & Bijzonder hoogleraar Kennis en strategische beleidsadvisering UvA
João Pedro Quintais @jpquintais.bsky.social Associate Professor, Institute for Information Law (IViR), University of Amsterdam. Researching on Platform Regulation, intermediary liability, content moderation and intellectual property (mostly copyright).
w: https://www.ivir.nl/profile/quintais/
Cody Hochstenbach @codyhochstenbach.bsky.social Urban geographer (University of Amsterdam) | Housing | Author (Das Mag) | Co-director Amsterdam Centre for Inequality Studies (AMCIS) | Editor International Journal of Housing Policy, Beleid & Maatschappij | All links:
https://linktr.ee/codyhochstenbach
Luuc Brans @luuc.bsky.social Fulbright Scholar at Columbia / FWO Postdoc sociology KU Leuven
Researching politics of climate crisis in culture, esp in fashion
🏡NYC - Bruxelles - Amsterdam
🔗www.luucbrans.eu
Garance Burke @garanceburke.bsky.social Global investigative journalist @AP.
Pulitzer finalist, Emmy winner.
'20 @JSKStanford-@StanfordHAI Fellow
✉️: garanceburke@protonmail, Signal: GaranceBurke.33
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)
T.J. Thomson @tjthomson.bsky.social 🇦🇺🇺🇸🤓 Academic (RMIT University/ADM+S)
👀🖼️🤳 Researches visual communication & digital media
✍️📃🌏 Vice Chair of the ICA Visual Communication Studies Division
🔗 Online elsewhere at: https://linktr.ee/tjthomson
Kimon Kieslich @kimonkieslich.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam | Research areas: AI Impact Assessment; Algorithmic Fairness; Public Perceptions; News Coverage
Christel van Eck @christelvaneck.bsky.social Assistant Professor at ASCoR, University of Amsterdam | Climate change communication, science communication, and polarization | 🌄🏞🌌🌇
Rosamunde Van Brakel @rosamundevb.bsky.social assistant prof/senior postdoc criminology VUB/substitute lecturer KULeuven - research: digital & green criminology, surveillance, AI, youth justice, human rights
https://researchportal.vub.be/en/persons/rosamunde-elise-van-brakel
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
Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social Situationist Cybernetics. I make films with and against AI to see what isn’t there. Gates Scholar, Cambridge Digital Humanities. Affiliated Researcher, Machine Visual Culture Research Group (Max Planck Institute). Aim to be kind. cyberneticforests.com
Sander van der Linden @profsanderlinden.bsky.social Professor of Social Psychology in Society at the University of Cambridge and Author of FOOLPROOF: Why We Fall for Misinformation and How to Build Immunity (2023) + The Psychology of Misinformation (2024). Bad News Game.
www.sandervanderlinden.com
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
Tom De Leyn @tomdeleyn.bsky.social Assistant professor in digitalization & communication @ SSW - UHasselt | Affiliated researcher imec-mict-ugent | Researching social media, youth, digital well-being, privacy & digital inclusion
Sandra Banjac @sandrabanjac.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Journalism Studies, University of Groningen | Studying the journalist-audience relationship, power and inequalities within journalism.
Zeljko Poljak @zeljkopoljak.bsky.social Postdoc @ Aarhus University
Party Politics | Political Communication | Political Competition
www.zeljkopoljak.com
Steven Van Hecke @stevenvanhecke.bsky.social Europe | Politics | KU Leuven
→ https://soc.kuleuven.be/io/stevenvanhecke
→ https://shop.acco.be/nl-be/items/9789033402074/Het-kantelende-continent
Anaëlle Gonzalez @gonzalezanaelle.bsky.social French Political psychologist + Postdoctoral researcher at the @mediapsychologylab.bsky.social (KU Leuven) | Teens, (social) media use, influencers, politics and morality | Poetry lover & dog mom
www.anaellegonzalez.com
Laurens Vreekamp @laurensvreekamp.bsky.social Journalist Villamedia | Panel Radio1 Mediaforum | 📘 Niet onze AI | Trainer @ Future Journalism Today
Daphne Tolis @daphnetolis.bsky.social Came from Twitter. Producer/Journalist/Filmmaker. Based in Greece.
🏆 2024 European Press Prize & Impact Award
@paulnotelteirs.bsky.social @paulnotelteirs.bsky.social Schrijft voor @demorgen / hier vooral over cultuur
Sina Blassnig @sinajb.bsky.social Prof. of Digital Communication & Datafication
@unifr.bsky.social and FHGR. Director of the IDCMI (https://www.unifr.ch/idcmi/). Digital journalism, media innovation, political communication, AI & algorithms. Feminist. She/her
Jane B Singer @janebsinger.bsky.social Former journalist, retired journalism prof, now a Londoner
Charlie Beckett @charliebeckett.bsky.social LSE journalism professor
I run the LSE Polis Journalism and AI project
Hammer
Raffael Heiss @raffaelheiss.bsky.social Professor at MCI. Interested in Health Communication, Misinformation, Food Systems.
Former: Fulbright Visiting Professor at Georgetown University; PhD Candidate at University of Vienna.
raffaelheiss.com
Joy Jenkins @joyjenkins.bsky.social Assistant professor, Missouri School of Journalism | Studying local news + gender and media
Emil Bakkensen Johansen @emilbakke.bsky.social Postdoc @ Digital Democracy Centre (@ddc-sdu.bsky.social), Uni of Southern Denmark
Computational Social Science / AI / Platforms / Information Environments / News /
emilbakke.github.io
Christian Nicolai Bjørke @cbjoerke.bsky.social Investigative/data journalist at Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK). I was once the second northernmost journalist in the world. Now at 4829th place.
Agustin Ferrari Braun @ferraribraun.bsky.social PhD researcher at the University of Amsterdam | Studying digital infrastructures, power and media in Europe | No business as usual during genocide 🇵🇸 | he/him
Jolan Urkens @jolanurkens.bsky.social PhD candidate @ASCoR – misinformation, organizations, and trust – interested in popular perceptions / contestations of science, media, politics, and industry.
Antwerp / Amsterdam
Nathalie A. Smuha @nathaliesmuha.bsky.social Legal scholar & Philosopher. Assistant Professor of Law @UofT Law. Author of 'Algorithmic Rule By Law' (CUP, 2025). Previously at EU Commission's AI HLEG, Council of Europe's CAI, KU Leuven & NYU Law. UChicago alum.
Anna Schjøtt @annaschjoett.bsky.social Technological Anthropology PhD working at University of Amsterdam on knowledge production in AI development and use in the media sector with a focus on politics and ethics.
Brahim Zarouali @bzar.bsky.social Assistant Professor at KU Leuven // Communication, Digital Media & Society // Associate Editor BIT // Member of The Young Academy of Belgium
Rebecca Adler-Nissen @adler-nissen.bsky.social I’m a Professor of International Relations at the University of Copenhagen. Diplomacy, Digital Technologies, Global Tech Policy, Geopolitics, European Union, International Political Sociology and Social Practice
Oscar Westlund @oscarwestlund.bsky.social PhD, Professor @ Oslo Metropolitan University
Editor-in-Chief, Digital Journalism
Bart Boerboom @bartboeman.bsky.social Just giving it a try.
Teresa Weikmann @teresaelena.bsky.social Postdoc @ascor.bsky.social & BENEDMO
she/her | visual political communication
Charis Papaevangelou @bsky.charispapaevangelou.eu Postdoc | critical political economy of tech | AlgoSoc-IViR, U of Amsterdam
No business as usual during a genocide 🍉🇵🇸
Jur Peppels @jurpeppels.bsky.social 🙋🏼♂️ 32 | Amsterdam
🧑🏻💻 leest hier een beetje mee
Laurens Naudts @laurensnaudts.bsky.social NPC in the Immersive Simulation of Academia. Postdoc at IViR and AI, Media & Democracy Lab. Political Philosophy, Fundamental Rights, AI, Media & Democracy, (Critical) Social Justice.
Glen Joris @glenjoris.bsky.social Lab manager & postdoctoral researcher @UAntwerpen.bsky.social @antwerpsociallab.bsky.social
Marianne Aubin Le Quéré @mariannealq.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellow @ Princeton CITP. ex-Cornell PhD, future UIUC asst prof (fall 2026).
Looking at AI's impact on information ecosystems and news consumption. social computing, computational social science & journalism
mariannealq.com
Pieter Ballon @pieterballon.bsky.social Vice-rector research at VUB. Director of imec-smit. Contributions in own name
Sam Gregory @samgregory.bsky.social AI + emerging tech + epistemic resilience; 'Prepare, Don't Panic' initiative on media manipulation/generative AI. TED speaker on deepfakes, https://www.samgregory.info, @samgregory on Twitter/X. PhD Westminster. Former Executive Director WITNESS.
Cato Waeterloos @catowaeterloos.bsky.social Assistant Professor Digitalization and Communication Sciences at School of Social Sciences UHasselt | Researching digital and social media, political engagement, democracy, youth | she/her
Victor Pickard @victorpickard.bsky.social Professor who writes about the history and political economy of media, politics of media policy, and democratic theories of journalism. Author of "Democracy Without Journalism? Confronting the Misinformation Society." Co-director of the MIC Center at Penn.