Matt DeVerna @matthewdeverna.com Postdoc with Stanford's Tech Impact and Policy Center
(@techimpactpolicy.bsky.social). Past: Indiana University / Observatory on Social Media.
Societal impacts of AI within the information ecosystem.
🧨 matthewdeverna.com
Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology, NYU. Core Faculty, CSMaP. Research Fellow Oxford Sociology. Computational social science, Methods, Conflict, Communication. Webpage: https://www.cjbarrie.com/
Jeffrey Gleason @jlgleason.bsky.social CS PhD Candidate at Northeastern | Computational Social Scientist | https://jlgleason.github.io/
Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy @princetoncitp.bsky.social The Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) is a nexus of expertise in technology, engineering, public policy, & the social sciences. Our researchers work to better understand and improve the relationship between technology & society. Princeton U.
Alexander Hohlfeld @alhohlfeld.bsky.social Digitalisation & Society | Digital Policy | Recommender Systems | Freedom of Speech | 🗣️: 🇬🇧 / 🇩🇪 | https://linktr.ee/al.hohlfeld
Tim Heidecker @timheidecker.bsky.social Tour, On Cinema at the Cinema, Office Hours, find it all and more at linktr.ee/tim.heidecker
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver @lastweektonight.com The official Bluesky account of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. youtube.com/lastweektonight
Ziv Epstein @ziv-e.bsky.social Postdoc at MIT College of Computing • PhD from MIT Media Lab • Creativity, values and (more-than-)human-centered design
Romina Mahinpei @rmahinpei.bsky.social PhD Student @ Princeton CS | HCI + CSS
Kara Schechtman @utopianturtle.top she/her 🌈 PhD student in cs at Princeton researching ethics of algorithmic decision-making
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetry-news/63112/the-ford-faberge-by-marianne-moore
@erichliang.bsky.social @erichliang.bsky.social
Melina Much @melinamuch.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellow @csmapnyu.org. Identities, political behavior, social media 👩🏻💻
melinamuch.com
Alejandro Cuevas @aedcv.bsky.social postdoc @ princeton citp
Gordon Pennycook @gordpennycook.bsky.social Associate Professor, Psychology @cornelluniversity.bsky.social. Researching thinking & reasoning, misinformation, social media, AI, belief, metacognition, B.S., and various other keywords. 🇨🇦
https://gordonpennycook.com/
Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social Research Scientist at the University of Washington based in Queens. Also: SFI External Applied Fellow, Harvard BKC affiliate. Collective Behavior, Statistics, etc..
Liv d'Aliberti @liv-daliberti.bsky.social AI Researcher
Tiziano Piccardi @tiziano.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ Johns Hopkins University | Prev: Stanford & EPFL | https://piccardi.me/
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
Diyi Yang @diyiyang.bsky.social Assistant Professor @Stanford CS @StanfordNLP @StanfordAILab
Computational Social Science & NLP
Samantha Dalal @samanthadalal.bsky.social **On the job market!**
InfoSci PhD Candidate @ CU Boulder
MSR SMC '23; MSR TAIX '24
Community-based methods for tech accountability
Nina Lutz @ninalutz.bsky.social PhD-ing at UW @cip.uw.edu @hcde.uw.edu. Visual media in problematic info (mis/disinfo, hate, scams, propaganda) and digital safety in sociotechnical systems. ninalutz.github.io.
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
Hayoung Jung @hayoungjung.bsky.social PhD student at @princetoncitp.bsky.social. Previously @uwcse.bsky.social
website: hayoungjung.me- S Stephanie Wang @stephanietwang.bsky.social SI fellow @ Stanford RegLab, CS PhD @ Penn. AI audits & computational social science. she/her
https://steph-w.github.io
Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social Your Jeopardy! pal. Author of THE COMPLETE KENNECTIONS (http://bit.ly/4qUcbhK) and a bunch of other stuff.
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/
Francesco Salvi @frasalvi.bsky.social PhD Student @ Princeton CITP | Computational Social Science, NLP, Persuasion, Politics | he/him | https://frasalvi.github.io/
Sam Biddle @sambiddle.com Senior Technology Reporter at The Intercept
Got a tip? Signal: sambiddle.99 (Make sure you don’t contact me via a work-provided device)
https://sambiddle.com
Samidh @samidh.bsky.social Co-Founder at Zentropi (Trustworthy AI). Formerly Meta Civic Integrity Founder, Google X and Google Civic Innovation Lead, and Groq CPO.
Dave Willner @dwillner.bsky.social Co-Founder at Zentropi. Formerly Head of Trust & Safety at OpenAI, of Community Policy at Airbnb, and of Content Policy Facebook. Strictly cold takes.
Manoel Horta Ribeiro @manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ Princeton
Previously: EPFL 🇨🇭, UFMG 🇧🇷
Interests: Computational Social Science, Platforms, GenAI, Moderation
Mike Masnick @masnick.com Techdirt guy. Writes about social media, copyright, free speech, content moderation, civil liberties and stuff like that. Once wrote a paper that may have helped inspire this service & now I'm on its board: https://bit.ly/protocolnotplatform
Parker Bach @parkerbach.bsky.social PhD student at UNC. CITAP affiliate.
Studying online political culture - prediction markets, humor, influencers, and more.
Arguably too much hair.
www.parkerbach.com
The Daily Beans Podcast @dailybeanspod.com Daily News. With swearing. https://www.dailybeanspod.com/
Hosts: @muellershewrote.com & @dgcomedy.bsky.social
Support independent media: http://patreon.com/thedailybeans
Subscribe to our YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/@MSWMediaPods
MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com The fastest growing independent news network in the world. We cover breaking news, politics, law and more. We are unapologetically pro-democracy.
Moon lover @moon1over.bsky.social This page contains moon pics.DM for credit removal. Some Photoshop image posted .
weird medieval guys @weirdmedieval.bsky.social fibre arts enthusiast
https://linktr.ee/weirdmedievalguys
Bluesky @bsky.app official Bluesky account (check username👆)
Bugs, feature requests, feedback: support@bsky.app
Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social Political Communication Prof at GWU. Flaming Hydra.
I write about the history and future of tech and politics. My next book, Vaporware, Inc.: How Silicon Valley Sells the Future to Control the Present, arrives on January 12, 2027.
Davekarpf.beehiiv.com
Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social Prof @ Penn studying media, race, tech, feminism, politics.
Author of A SECOND SIGHT (Mariner, 2026), co-author #HASHTAGACTIVISM (MIT Press, 2020) + more.
Typos and opinions both mine.
Co‑Director: @miccenter.bsky.social
Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social Reporter lady @ms.now
Signal username: brandyzadrozny.53
Email from a non-work account: brandy.zadrozny@ms.now
The Onion @theonion.com America’s Finest News Source. A @globaltetrahedron.bsky.social subsidiary.
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danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social STS researcher who likes to look at things sideways. Founded Data & Society.
Topics: Census | Youth | Data | Society
Professor of Communication, Cornell
https://made-not-found-by-danah-boyd.ghost.io
Evelyn Douek @evelyndouek.bsky.social Associate Professor, Stanford Law School. Aussie struggling with °F & online speech stuff.
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/
alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social Dir of Research, Data & Society. Academic. Studies tech & society, far-right disinfo. UNC CITAP. Loves pop cult. Mom, fashion victim, sci fi/fantasy enthusiast. Author of The Private is Political, Status Update. NYC forever. She/her/femme 💅🏻 tiara.org
Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social 🌐Studies influence, propaganda, platform design@Georgetown
✍🏼Lawfare,The Atlantic, Substack/Ghost Newsletter (signup on my site if you want Ghost)
📕Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality (invisiblerulers.com)
🦹🏻♀️Twitter Files supervillain
Talia Stroud @taliastroud.bsky.social Prof UT-Austin, Director Center for Media Engagement
Brooke Foucault Welles @foucaultwelles.bsky.social Professor of Communication, trying not to be evil Ass. Dean, #HashtagActivism co-author, mom to teenagers and cats. Appreciates novelty socks and cat memes.
Andrés Monroy-Hernández @andresmh.com Associate Professor of Computer Science at @princeton.edu. Co-director of Princeton HCI. Board member at Crisis Text Line.
https://andresmh.com
Andy Zhao @andyzhao.bsky.social I study information manipulation in the age of social media, AI, and rising authoritarianism, and how we may survive it. PhD @cornellbowers.bsky.social
Cody Buntain @cbuntain.bsky.social Asst Professor @iSchoolUMD | associate @CSMaP | DCer | 💻 🏍️ 👨🏻🍼
Studying online behavior around crises and political discourse, manipulation, and information quality
Brooke Erin Duffy @brookeerinduffy.bsky.social social media researcher and author
associate professor at Cornell University
platforms, power, and the creator economy
www.brookeduffy.com
Emilio Ferrara @emilioferrara.bsky.social Prof of Computer Science at USC
AI, social media, society, networks, data, and
HUMANS LABS http://www.emilio.ferrara.name
REGULARITY AI www.emilioferrara.ai
david holtz @dholtz.bsky.social professor at columbia.
things i’m likely to skeet about (in no particular order): research, the #NBA, music, and #Survivor
Mohsen Mosleh @mmosleh.bsky.social Prof @Oxford, Affiliate @MIT www.MohsenMosleh.com
Alex Leavitt, PhD (they/them) @alexleavitt.bsky.social Principal researcher for Trust & Safety @Roblox & Visiting Fellow @CHAI_Berkeley. 🏳️🌈🐈⬛🏳️⚧️ Ex-@Meta, PhD @USCAnnenberg. 日本語でOK!
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.
Martin Saveski @msaveski.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ UW iSchool. Interested in computational social science, social networks & causal inference.
http://martinsaveski.com
Robyn Caplan @robyncaplan.bsky.social Assistant professor at Duke University. Tech policy, platform governance, mom.
I make bad jokes sometimes.
J. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social I work with communities on science for safer, fairer digital environments.
Founder: CAT Lab. Radcliffe Fellow, Harvard. Assoc Prof, Communication, Cornell · Guatemalan-American · Ultracyclist
🐘@natematias@social.coop
natematias.com
citizensandtech.org
Shannon McGregor, PhD @shannimcg.bsky.social Professor at UNC. PI at CITAP. Researching & writing on political comm: identity, social media, public opinion, news - all "depressing & timely" BOOK: Media & January 6th (Oxford) https://global.oup.com/academic/product/media-and-january-6th-9780197758533
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.
Ethan Zuckerman @ethanz.bsky.social UMass Amherst, Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure, Global Voices, Berkman Klein Center. Formerly Center for Civic Media, MIT Media Lab.
Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social Cornell Tech professor (information science, AI-mediated Communication, trustworthiness of our information ecosystem). New York City. Taller in person. Opinions my own.
Natalia Umansky @nataliaumansky.bsky.social Postdoc @IPZ_ch @DigDemLab | PhD @ucddublin @Connected_Pol | IR, political communication, computational social science, social media | @utditella & @IBEI alum
website: https://nataliaumansky.github.io/
Aleksandra Urman @aurman21.bsky.social Senior Research Associate, Social Computing Group, U of Zurich. Computational social/communication scientist
Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social Professor of Communication & Political Science. NH to PHL. Improv comedian. Author: “Irony and Outrage” (OUP 2020), “Wrong” (JHU 2023). My views and mine alone.
WEBSITE: https://sites.google.com/view/dgoldyoung/home
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.
Bree McEwan @mcewan.bsky.social Communicologist @uoft.bsky.social @uoftmississauga.bsky.social ICCIT/Sociology. Data Sciences Institue. McMC Lab. Studies Social Media, Virtual Reality. Author of Interpersonal Encounters https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/interpersonal-encounters/book23785
Jake Tapper, long-suffering Philly sports fan @jaketapper.bsky.social Dad, husband, CNN anchor, author, doorman to three dogs and a cat.
Ross Dahlke @rossdahlke.bsky.social asst. prof. @uwsjmc.bsky.social rossdahlke.com
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/
Johannes B. Gruber @jbgruber.bsky.social Senior Researcher @gesis.org // Data Editor @polcommjournal.bsky.social
🔎 political communication (#polsky + #commsky) with text analysis and #rstats (#opendata + #openscience)
🌏 JohannesBGruber.eu
👨💻 research software github.com/JBGruber
Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com My New York Times bestseller: ON COURAGE: HOW TO BE A DISSIDENT IN AN AGE OF FEAR (HarperCollins) tinyurl.com/yxpvn488
NYTimes Opinion Writer | Director, Independent Media program HKS
Sign up for my newsletter: https://buttondown.com/JuliaAngwin
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.
Davey Alba @davey.bsky.social Bloomberg tech reporter / Google, Big Tech, misinfo / https://daveyalba.com / ask for my Signal
Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social Director of Platform Regulation, Stanford Law School LST Program. Former Google (2004-2015) Legal Director for Web Search, Speech and Intermediary Liability Issues.
May be cranky.
https://law.stanford.edu/daphne-keller/
NYU's Center for Social Media, AI, and Politics @csmapnyu.org We work to strengthen democracy by conducting rigorous research, advancing evidence-based public policy, and training the next generation of scholars.
https://csmapnyu.org/links
Sanjay Kairam @skairam.bsky.social Member of Technical Staff @OpenAI | Teaching the machines to learn from humans.
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=BH7jpGIAAAAJ&hl=en
Internet Archive @archive.org Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
NPR @npr.org This is NPR 🎙️
The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com Democracy Skies in Blueness
Craig Newmark @craignewmark.bsky.social #nerdpatient0
craigslist founder
https://craignewmarkphilanthropies.org/
Chris Albon @chrisalbon.com
Yoel Roth @yoyoel.com Internet sanitation enthusiast and full-time corgi wrangler.
Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social Facebook Beef
Patrick Wu @patrickwu.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Computer Science at American University | Computational Politics, NLP, ML/AI | patrickywu.com
Megan Brown @m-dot-brown.bsky.social PhD Student University of Michigan School of Information & Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering | formerly engineering @csmapnyu.org | NYU ‘19
Tiago Ventura @tiagoventura.bsky.social Assistant Professor at @McCourtSchool @Georgetown Working on computational social science, social media, and politics. De Belém 🇧🇷
Joshua Tucker @jatucker.bsky.social Politics Prof, NYU; Director @NYUJordanCenter for Adv Study of #Russia; Co-Director NYU Center for Social Media and Politics @CSMaP_NYU (http://csmapnyu.org); long suffering NY Mets fan; @j_a_tucker on other platforms; he/him
Sol Messing @solmg.bsky.social Social Scientist/Research Prof at NYU CSMaP, formerly Twitter. http://solomonmg.github.io