Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co Social science and other distractions. Old posts get deleted pretty quick.
https://kieranhealy.org /
https://theordinalsociety.com
Kesley Townsend @kesleytownsend.bsky.social Stanford Political Science PhD Candidate | Identity and political behavior
Matt Cagle @mattcagle.bsky.social AI policy & civil liberties. Policy Counsel, Anthropic. ACLU NorCal alum. Opinions are my own.
Drew Engelhardt @amengel.bsky.social Artisanal line drawing. Believer in imaginary things. Personal capacity.
YNWA. 🌭🐕🍺🚲
Book out January 12: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691258997/the-right-way
Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social Sociologist at Swarthmore College, trans man. Wrote Producing Politics & The Class Ceiling & a bunch of articles on class & race & inequality &/or political participation.
DanielLaurison.com = me
WeAreHigherEd.org = standing up for education and democracy
Maranda Joyce @marandajoyce.bsky.social PhD Candidate at Rice University 🦉| I study extremism in local politics, the politics of education & social identity | Former Texas policy wonk/early education researcher | I’m on the market! | marandaljoyce.github.io
Sarah Shugars @shugars.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Communication @ Rutgers University. Computational social science, political communication, civic studies. First gen. They/them
Colter Uscola @colteruscola.bsky.social PhD Student at UBC Sociology. Social Psych. Mental Health. Identity. Emotions. Culture. Organizations. Qualitative, Quantitative, and Computational Social Science.
Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org 👊 Battling techno-fascism with our Internet-savvy blend of attention-grabbing activism and mass mobilization.
https://www.fightforthefuture.org/2026
The Association of Religion Data Archives (The ARDA) @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.
David Brady @davebrady72.bsky.social Public policy professor, Price School USC @priceschool.usc.edu, father, poverty/social policy/racial inequality/immigration/policymakers, posts do not speak for employer, https://bradydave.wordpress.com
Eyal Hanfling @eyalhanfling.com democracy / technology research
eyalhanfling.com | 📍brooklyn, ny
Angie Jo @angiehjo.bsky.social PhD candidate in political economy @ MIT. I study how crisis response is shaped by the everyday welfare state and when/if short‑term relief becomes long‑term reform. angiehjo.com/
APSA Preprints @apsa-preprints.bsky.social APSA Preprints is an open research platform that provides a home for early research outputs in political science and related fields. Free to submit, access, and download at preprints.apsanet.org.
Matt Gannon @mattygannon.bsky.social JD/PhD student at Harvard University and Yale Law School • I research housing insecurity and social mobility.
matthewtgannon.com
Colin M. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com political scientist @ University of Zürich
platforms, political violence, social media, computing
research & writing:
henryhenryhenry.com
sometimes land of enchantment, sometimes land of Helvetia
Autonomy News @autonomynews.co A worker-owned reproductive rights and justice publication cofounded by @garnethenderson.com and @susanrinkunas.com.
autonomynews.co
Shay O’Brien @shayobrien.bsky.social Sociologist and Stone Center Postdoc at MIT studying elite kinship networks. Incoming AP at Berkeley Sociology starting January 2027 (she/her)
Dr. Christine M. Slaughter @cmslaughter.bsky.social Writing a book about Black resilience in American politics
🔗 linktr.ee/cmslaughter
📍Boston
Public Opinion Quarterly - POQ @poqjournal.bsky.social Public Opinion Quarterly is an international, high-impact journal sponsored by the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR)
academic.oup.com/poq
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
Daniel Molitor @dmolitor.bsky.social PhD candidate in Information Science at Cornell University.
Alicia Andrzejewski (she/her) @aliciaandrz.bsky.social associate prof. of Shakespeare | book: “queer pregnancy in Shakespeare’s plays” | proud CUNY alum | bylines: Chronicle, Boston Globe, LA Review of Books, Electric Lit, Catapult, American Theatre, LitHub, Huffington Post, etc
aliciaandrzejewskiphd.com
Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social Ass. Prof. Public Policy @ UC Riverside | Better Cities Through Better Government | 1st Gen 🇺🇸: 🇷🇸/ Việt Nam Cộng Hòa | 躺平 | Ham chơi
stanokl.github.io | https://everyoneiswelcome.substack.com/
📍: The Inland Empire, California.
Isabel McMullen @isabelmcmullen.bsky.social Polisci PhD student🦡 UW-Madison IES Pre-doc fellow
Politics and Higher Ed
Proud 〽️ichigander and Kalamazoo Promise Alum
Jennifer Jiyoung Hwang @jenniferhwang1.bsky.social Hey there! I’m a first-year PhD student at UCLA studying how people engage with political news on social media, specifically what happens when people consume legacy media on social media. I am advised by Dr. Stuart Soroka.
Johanna Amaya-Panche @amayoap.bsky.social Senior Lecturer IR & Politics @ljmuirp.bsky.social | Research Fellow @britishacademy.bsky.social | PhD Government @universityofessex.bsky.social Before: Research Fellow @uclamericas.bsky.social |Postdoctoral Research Fellow @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
Reda Tamtam (he/him) @redatamtam.bsky.social PhD Student in Politics @Princeton
redatamtam.com
ProPublica @propublica.org Investigative journalism in the public interest. Headlines and (sometimes literal) receipts.
propublica.org
Political Science Research and Methods @psrm.bsky.social Political Science Research and Methods: The journal of the European Political Science Association, edited by John Griffin, published by Cambridge University Press
Perspectives on Politics @poppublicsphere.bsky.social Peer-reviewed journal of the American Political Science Association, cultivating a political science public sphere.
https://apsanet.org/publications/journals/perspectives-on-politics/
Urban Affairs Review @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social Urban Affairs Review is a peer-reviewed journal of urban politics and policy. https://www.urbanaffairsreview.com/
Check out our podcast, UAR Remixed, for interdisciplinary conversations about all things urban. https://www.urbanaffairsreview.com/uar-remixe
Politics, Groups and Identities @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social Politics, Groups, and Identities is an official journal of the Western Political Science Association. Visit our homepage: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rpgi20
Tabitha Bonilla @tabithabonilla.bsky.social Political Scientist st NU's SESP, IPR, and CSDD. Research: communication around politics and policy, examining identity and representation.
MT native finding my way in the Midwest.
Robert Vargas @robvargas.bsky.social Professor of Sociology
Director of the Justice Project
justiceproject.uchicago.edu
Wendy Y. Li @wendyyli.bsky.social Sociologist studying the political workforce, lobbying, regulation, trade policy, and democracy. Postdoc at SNF Agora Institute, Johns Hopkins University. Based in DC. Philly at heart.
www.wendyyli.com
Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World @sociusjournal.bsky.social Official Bluesky account of Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World, the open-access journal of the American Sociological Association (ASA) srd.sagepub.com
American Journal of Sociology @amjsoc.bsky.social The American Journal of Sociology, founded in 1895 as the first journal in its discipline, is a peer-reviewed, bimonthly academic journal that publishes original research and book reviews.
Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com Professor @ BU Wheelock & Economics | Co-editor @ JHR | AER Board of Editors 2027-29 | White House CEA 2022-23 | www.joshua-goodman.com
Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org We're the Electronic Frontier Foundation. We're a nonprofit that fights for your privacy and free speech online. Find all of EFF's social media accounts at eff.org/social.
Secure Justice @securejustice.bsky.social Secure Justice advocates against state abuse of power, and government/corporate practices that are inconsistent with human rights - primarily in the privacy/surveillance tech space.
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
http://secure-justice.org
Becca Lewis @beccalew.bsky.social Assistant professor of media studies @MIT. Cultural and political histories of Silicon Valley and the internet.
Rahim Kurwa @rahimk.bsky.social assoc prof at uic
Indefensible Spaces: Policing and the Struggle for Housing is available at https://www.ucpress.edu/books/indefensible-spaces/paper
www.rahimkurwa.com
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Dr. Zawadi Rucks-Ahidiana @zraresearch.bsky.social Former tweeter. Sociologist of racial inequality, urban studies, and culture. Baltimorean always, no matter where I actually live. Knitter. Creator of practicalphd.net. I skipped sad and got angry.
Always speaking for me.
Hansi Munasinghe @hansimunasinghe.bsky.social Sociologist working in transportation 🚎 also here to chit chat about TV and movies, books, fiber arts, gardening and native plants, hiking and exploring | 🇩🇪 🇱🇰 🇺🇸 she/her 📍MSP
Hannah Riley Fernandez @hannahcrileyy.bsky.social abolition, prisons, journalism, and also sometimes my dog
hannahrileyfernandez.com
thejumpline.substack.com
Isiah Holmes @isiahholmes.bsky.social Wisconsin Examiner journalist, covering all things Wisconsin like environment/climate, housing, drug policy, and criminal justice, surveillance, etc. A refugee from the corrupted husk once known as Twitter. https://wisconsinexaminer.com/
Hannah Waight @hwaight.bsky.social Assistant Professor University of Oregon Sociology | Former Postdoc NYU CSMaP | Ph.D. Princeton Sociology | Research on media, information, politics, China, computational social science | Opinions are my own | https://hwaight.github.io/
Albert S. Fu @novumsimulacrum.com #Sociology prof that plays video games & studies the #BuiltEnvironment. Taiwanese American in PA. Irvine + Binghamton alum. Author of Risky Cities: The Physical and Fiscal Nature of Disaster Capitalism https://tinyurl.com/jkvbxcn4 Views are my own
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social Cross-disciplinary social & behavioral science research & fellowship in service of generating knowledge, illuminating understandings, building fields, informing policy discourse, & creating an enduring scholarly community like no other | casbs.stanford.edu
Martin Naunov @naunovmartin.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University | UNC-CH, Middlebury & UWC alum | Studies political psychology, stereotyping & discrimination 🏳️🌈
Josh Page @joshpage.bsky.social Sociology prof. at Univ. of Minnesota. Law, Criminal Punishment, Politics, and Labor. New book: Legal Plunder: The Predatory Dimensions of Criminal Justice.
TechEquity @techequity.bsky.social Tech's growth should benefit everyone. We're addressing how tech intersects with the most consequential areas of the economy: housing and labor.
samantha floreani @floreani.bsky.social digital rights advocate / writer / PhD candidate researching tech + housing justice 🏠 surveillance isn't safety xoxo
samanthafloreani.com
ACLU @aclu.org A nonprofit, nonpartisan, legal and advocacy 501(c)(4) organization. Visit our site for more about us and our affiliated organization, the ACLU Foundation.
Collaborative on Media & Messaging for Health and Social Policy @commhsp.bsky.social We design, conduct, and disseminate research to inform how communication can help to advance #healthequity through health and social #policy. Find us at commhsp.org.
Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com Transparency, regulation, business & interest group politics, and metascience. Manage @apsa.bsky.social DDRIG. The people know it's casino capitalism 🎰
Representation @repjournal.bsky.social A quarterly peer-reviewed journal on political representation, in theory and practice, around the globe.
Edited by @drspguerra.bsky.social and @sajuria.com
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rrep20
Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social debt, development, infrastructure, the economics of racial inequality, and the myth of racial progress. I express my own views
⭕⭕⭕ Zoë Greene ⭕⭕⭕ @zdgreene.bsky.social She/Her. Uni Strathclyde, Glasgow. Computational Social and Political Science. Party Politics, Machine Learning & AI, Hiking, Cycling, Snowboarding, Yoga, Cats, LGBTQ+ rights.
https://zoegreene.com
https://www.strath.ac.uk/humanities/theplacelab/
Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social Sociologist @Cornell. Currently interested in the history of inequality statistics, and the role of economic expertise in climate policy. “Venceréis, pero no convenceréis.”
The COMPTEXT Association @comptext.bsky.social COMPTEXT is an international community and forum for text/image/video as data scholars
Surveillance in the Majority World Network @surveillancemw.bsky.social Surveillance in the Majority World Research Network aims to expand the scope of surveillance studies to include non-Northern / Western discourses and practices.
https://surveillance-majority-world.net
Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci Personality psych & causal inference @UniLeipzig. I like all things science, beer, & puns. Even better when combined! Part of http://the100.ci, http://openscience-leipzig.org
S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project @stopspyingny.bsky.social Fighting to abolish local & state surveillance.
Critical Internet Studies Institute @criticalinternet.bsky.social Resilience, independent of industry. www.criticalinternet.org
Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social Went to some colleges, now studying them for a living
Talk equally about ed policy and reality tv
She/Her
Personal account
https://www.dominiquebaker.com/
(I generally don't follow students as they deserve space to blow off steam about people like me)
Law and Society Association @lawandsociety.bsky.social The Law and Society Association consists of scholars from many fields and countries, researching law in social, political, economic and cultural life.
Surveillance Studies Network @survstudiesnet.bsky.social The global network for surveillance studies research. Surveillance & Society journal https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance-and-society, conferences, workshops, mentoring, prizes & more. Join us here: https://surveillance-studies.net
Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social Opinion columnist covering gender and politics at The Guardian. Writer in residence at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Host of the podcast In Bed with the Right. Real piece of work.
Robby Murphy @robbymurphy.bsky.social I study power, politics, and inequality. Currently focusing on class inequality as a function of business & finance power.
CUNY Graduate Center Sociology PhD student, teaching @ Brooklyn College. 🌹, 🏳️🌈, etc.
StoneCenter.gc.cuny.edu/people/murphy-robert/
The Loop @ecprtheloop.bsky.social 👩🏾💻 A political science blog site from ECPR, the European Consortium for Political Research.
🔲 Showcasing political science at its best. Get your research noticed beyond the academy http://theloop.ecpr.eu
⬛ ...and follow ECPR @ecpr.bsky.social
Amelia Malpas @malpas.bsky.social government PhD student @ Harvard. alumna @ Mount Holyoke.
parties, core-periphery, always inequality.
https://www.ameliamalpas.com/
Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org The latest research in Political Science and International Relations from @universitypress.cambridge.org.
cambridge.org/politics
Justin Zimmerman @jztidecat.bsky.social UAlbany, SUNY Assistant Professor of American Politics. Researching Black Politics, Distrust, and Neighborhood Institutions.
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
Marcel Roman @mfroman.bsky.social Assistant professor of Government @ Harvard. Studies identity, race, and immigration. https://www.marcelroman.com/
Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social Data science + math for social justice. Violist, yogi, husband, dad to human & dogs. 🏳️🌈 Views do not represent my employers.
Author of Unlocking Justice: The Power of Data to Confront Inequity and Create Change.
Order at: https://bit.ly/4nT7qUh
Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social Sociology prof at CUNY (Hunter & Grad Center) sharing her own thoughts. Maker of resistance humus. Author of REFUGE. Now writing on the violence & COST OF BORDERS. she/هي
https://linktr.ee/hebagowayed
لسه عايزين عيش حريه و عداله اجتماعية
Semra Sevi @semrasevi.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto
www.semrasevi.com
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
Jen Gaudette @jengaudette.bsky.social Asst Prof @UCR School of Public Policy. Local political economy, interest groups, and polarization. Former corporate lawyer. California enthusiast. https://www.jennifercgaudette.com
Alex S. Vitale @alexvitale.bsky.social Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College and CUNY Graduate Center. Coordinator Policing and Social Justice Project. Author The End of Policing.
Krissy Lunz Trujillo @klunztrujillo.bsky.social Political Science Prof at Boston College. Studies rural politics, identity, trust, health politics, and political behavior. Proud mom + daughter + wife to my best friend https://kristinlunztrujillo.weebly.com/
Ross Dahlke @rossdahlke.bsky.social asst. prof. @uwsjmc.bsky.social rossdahlke.com
Nick Ottone @nottone.bsky.social Postdoc research fellow @Hoover
Former: PhD @Yale
Local political economy, criminal justice, political behavior
Tyler Simko @simko.bsky.social State & local politics + computational social science.
tylersimko.com
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
TechTonic Justice @techtonicjustice.bsky.social For the people AI leaves behind. A multidimensional, community-based effort to strengthen local justice movements + build long-term power. Launched 11/19/24. Founder: @kevindeliban.bsky.social
Link Tree: https://linktr.ee/techtonicjustice
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
Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social Hacking/crime/privacy journalist. Author of DARK WIRE, buy here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/joseph-cox/dark-wire/9781541702691/#preorder Co-founder of 404 Media. Signal: joseph.404 Email: joseph@404media.co
Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social author of Blood in the Machine, tech writer, luddite
newsletter: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/
books: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/contributor/brian-merchant/
kofi link: https://ko-fi.com/brianmerchant
NBER @nber.org The National Bureau of Economic Research is dedicated to conducting and disseminating nonpartisan economic research.
nber.org
Walter @walterkatz.bsky.social Policy and politics at the intersection of race, tech, and justice.
MuckRack: https://muckrack.com/walter-katz/articles
stephanieternullo.bsky.social @stephanieternullo.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Government at Harvard, studying place and political identity in the U.S. Check out my book! How the Heartland Went Red https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691249704/how-the-heartland-went-red
Mallory SoRelle @profsorelle.bsky.social Assistant Prof @ Duke Sanford | Author of Democracy Declined: The Failed Politics of Consumer Financial Protection | Aspiring Renaissance woman
Political Behavior @polbehavior.bsky.social An interdisciplinary journal associated with the EPOVB section of @APSA.bsky.social. Edited by Chris Karpowitz & Jessica Preece, @BYU
https://www.springer.com/journal/11109
Leah U. Stein @lustein.bsky.social PhD Student @ Harvard Government; formerly NYU Politics + UChicago Econ