Andreas Haupt @andreashaupt.bsky.social Social scientist studying inequality, families, and demography. Prof. for sociology @kit.edu Web: www.andreas-haupt.com
Ed Yong is offline @edyong209.bsky.social Writer, journalist. Science, health. Pandemics, animals. Birder, photographer. Many words, some awards. AN IMMENSE WORLD, I CONTAIN MULTITUDES. Married to Liz Neeley, parent to Typo. he/him
📷 Canon R6mkii + RF 800mm
Edyong.me
Ross Dahlke @rossdahlke.bsky.social asst. prof. @uwsjmc.bsky.social rossdahlke.com
Brad Jones @bradjones.bsky.social Author of Colorado's Political Landscape (https://www.co-political-landscape.org).
Senior Research Director, YouGov; Formerly Meta; Even more formerly Pew Research Center
Matt Beane @mattbeane.bsky.social Studying work involving intelligent machines, especially robots. @MITSloan PhD, @Ucsb Asst Prof, @Stanford and @MIT Digital Fellow, @Tedtalks @Thinkers50
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/
Ethan Bueno de Mesquita @ethanbdm.bsky.social Studying accountability, national security, electoral accountability, political economy, tech & society, applied game theory @HarrisPolicy
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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social Researcher trying to shape AI towards positive outcomes. ML & Ethics +birds. Generally trying to do the right thing. TIME 100 | TED speaker | Senate testimony provider | Navigating public life as a recluse.
Former: Google, Microsoft; Current: Hugging Face
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
Hilary Mason @hilarymason.com Co-founder & CEO of Hidden Door. I <3 cheeseburgers and making beautiful things. I know a thing or two about AI, but it's people who matter. I am interested in many things.
NYC
Sol Messing @solmg.bsky.social Social Scientist/Research Prof at NYU CSMaP, formerly Twitter. http://solomonmg.github.io
Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social Long Time Internet Guy
Eric Gilbert @eegilbert.org Professor at Michigan. On sabbatical at the Berkman Klein Center. http://eegilbert.org
Juniper Lovato @juniperlov.bsky.social Research in complex systems, tech ethics, networks, NLP, and computational social science. Assistant professor of CS at the University of Vermont, Vermont Complex Systems Institute, Computational Ethics Lab.
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.
Fil Menczer @fil.bsky.social Researcher on social media misinformation and manipulation, director of the Observatory on Social Media (OSoMe.iu.edu, pronounced “awesome”) at Indiana University
Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com Professor of HCII and LTI at Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science.
jeffreybigham.com
Karl Rohe @karlrohe.bsky.social NO KINGS
“Overly optimistic” 🦮 in Statistics.
Listening in statistics.
Statistics Professor at UW Madison.
Dr. Kareem Carr, Ph.D. @kareemcarr.bsky.social Statistician. PhD @Harvard • Masters degree in pure math • Follow me for fun, nerdy content.
Sign up to my newsletter: kareemcarr.substack.com
George Lakoff @george-lakoff.com Professor Emeritus at UCBerkeley. Best-selling author of The ALL NEW Don’t Think of an Elephant.
Amy Zhang @axz.bsky.social Associate professor of social computing at UW CSE, leading @socialfutureslab.bsky.social
social.cs.washington.edu
Safiya Umoja Noble, PhD @safiyanoble.bsky.social Living in Los Angeles. Native Californian. #MacFellow
Writer, professor. Comedian.
Author, “Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism,” which is unfortunately still relevant to understanding today’s LLMs and AI.
safiyaunoble.com
Jonathan Zittrain @zittrain.bsky.social A small creature who likes to run around in universities.
Prof. Harvard Law School, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Harvard Kennedy School. EFF Board. Director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and the HLS Library.
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
Dan Goldstein @dggoldst.bsky.social Partner Research Manager at Microsoft Research NYC. AI, Economics, Decision Science.
Ben Golub @bengolub.bsky.social economics and computer science professor at Northwestern
bengolub.net
social and economic networks
originally from Ukraine
Arvind Narayanan @randomwalker.bsky.social Princeton computer science prof. I write about the societal impact of AI, tech ethics, & social media platforms. https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/
BOOK: AI Snake Oil. https://www.aisnakeoil.com/
zeynep tufekci @zey.bsky.social It is said that there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all
Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social Professor for #CulturalDataAnalytics at Tallinn University in #Estonia
#complexity #netsci #arthistory #aesthetics
#culturalanalytics #compsocsci #infovis
"My PhD is in Art History" – Dr. Zoidberg
(max/max)
Ben Waber @bwaber.bsky.social GM @reveliolabs.bsky.social, MIT Researcher, he/him, Senior Visiting Researcher @ Ritsumeikan, Co-Founder of Humanyze, former Senior Researcher @ HBS, author of People Analytics
Juho Kim @juhokim.bsky.social Professor in the School of Computing at KAIST. HCI and Human-AI Interaction researcher. Director of kixlab.org. juhokim.com
Sharad Goel @5harad.com Professor of Public Policy at Harvard, co-director of @comppolicylab.bsky.social, applying a computational approach to public policy, including to issues in education, healthcare, and criminal justice. https://5harad.com
Khoa @khoavuumn.bsky.social
Daniel Rock @danielrock.bsky.social Assistant Professor at UPenn/Wharton OID researching economics of AI and productivity. Fan of dogs.
Jari Saramäki @jsaramak.bsky.social Professor @Aalto University, Finland. I am a network scientist, bass guitar player, a fan of coherent writing, and a general enthusiast.
https://jarisaramaki.fi/ | https://books2read.com/howtowriteapaper
Min-Seok Pang @minspang.bsky.social Karen A. and William S. Monfre Professor in Business, Wisconsin School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Senior Editor, Journal of the AIS
Associate Editor, Information Systems Research (UTD 24, FT 50)
An AACSB-Designated Scholarly Comedian
Johan Ugander @jugander.bsky.social Associate Professor, Yale Statistics & Data Science. Social networks, social and behavioral data, causal inference, mountains. https://jugander.github.io/
Sinan Aral @professorsinan.bsky.social David Austin Professor, MIT; Director @MIT_IDE; Founder, Manifest Capital & Milemark Capital; Hype Machine Author Digital Insider Pod TED Talk
Polarization Research Lab @prl.bsky.social We produce research and public resources on democratic attitudes and political behavior. Founded and directed by Sean Westwood (Dartmouth) and Yphtach Lelkes (Penn). www.polarizationresearchlab.org and americaspoliticalpulse.com
Fernanda Viégas @viegas.bsky.social Human/AI Interaction and data visualization. Professor at Harvard. Co-founder of Google's People+AI Research initiative (PAIR)
YY Ahn @yyahn.bsky.social Prof @ School of Data Science, University of Virginia. Formerly at IU. Networks, data science, and machine learning. https://yyahn.com
🚲🚲🚲
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/
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.
Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social MIT-trained economist & Harvard prof | 1st-gen college grad | Education, inequality | Shitposts in a Boston accent | 1st career: union organizer
NYT Columns
https://www.nytimes.com/by/susan-dynarski
https://linktr.ee/susan.dynarski
www.susandynarski.com
Christopher Chabris @cfchabris.bsky.social Cognitive scientist, professor, author 'Nobody's Fool' (http://bit.ly/3Wm7rCa) & 'The Invisible Gorilla,' essayist, chess master, poker player, game lover
Rumman Chowdhury @ruchowdh.bsky.social www.rummanchowdhury.com
www.humane-intelligence.org
CEO & co-founder, Humane Intelligence
US Science Envoy for AI (Biden Administration)
Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social Public policy professor at the Hobby School. Enthusiastic about food, dogs, travel, and research. I write books about many failures of local democracy. Bad opinions my own.
Sean J Taylor @seanjtaylor.com Data Science, Causal Inference, Economics, Statistics and Machine Learning
Two joys in life:
[1] Learning something interesting about the world
[2] Telling people about it
Model Measurement @OpenAI
Giovanni Petri @lordgrilo.bsky.social Physicist. Topology, complex networks, neuroscience. Angoleiro and wine-drinker by passion. He. Professor NetSI @ Northeastern University London. PI @ Project CETI.
lordgrilo.github.io - nplresearch.github.io
Anil Doshi @anilrdoshi.com Researcher: firms and genAI/LLMs/innovation/fake news/social media. Teacher: data analytics and strategy. Recovering politics and news junkie.
Dean Eckles @eckles.bsky.social networks, contagion, causality
faculty at MIT
Bluesky Safety @safety.bsky.app Sharing updates about trust and safety on Bluesky.
This account’s mentions are not actively monitored. To report a post or account, use the in-app reporting feature.
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social Professor of Psychology at NYU (jayvanbavel.com) | Author of The Power of Us Book (powerofus.online) | Director of NYU Center for Conflict & Cooperation | trying to write a new book about collective decisions
Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social information science professor (tech ethics + internet stuff)
kind of a content creator (elsewhere also @professorcasey)
though not influencing anyone to do anything except maybe learn things
she/her
more: casey.prof
Dan Larremore @danlarremore.bsky.social Prof | CU Boulder BioFrontiers Institute + Computer Science | Santa Fe Institute | LarremoreLab.github.io
Founder | CevianLabs.io
Tiago Peixoto @tiago.skewed.de Statistical mechanic, secular Bayesian.
Prof. of Complex Systems and Network Science @ Goethe University Frankfurt
Head of the “Inverse Complexity Lab”.
@invcomplexity.skewed.de
https://skewed.de/lab
(Personal account)
Paul Poast @profpaulpoast.bsky.social International Relations and Foreign Policy. UChicago Prof. Chicago Council Fellow. WPReview Columnist. Primarily on LinkedIN.
https://www.paulpoast.com/
Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/roxanegay
Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
Nancy Baym @nancybaym.bsky.social 30+ years of digital media research. Wrote a few books. Dog, lake, and mountain lover, embroiderer, taker of nature snapshots, campervan enthusiast, sweet on music. She/her.
estebanmoro @estebanmoro.bsky.social Researcher, scientist. Professor at the Network Science Institute @Northeastern and director of the Social Urban Networks Lab. Formerly @uc3m & @mit
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
Mary Beth Hunzaker @mbhunzaker.bsky.social Researcher just doing her best to build toward kinder, healthier online spaces
Sam Scarpino @scarpino.bsky.social Scientist. Director of AI + Life Sciences and Professor of Public Health, Health Sciences, & Computer Sciences at Northeastern University. External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute and Vermont Complex Systems Institute. scarpino.github.io
Emma Spiro @emmaspiro.bsky.social Associate Professor at the UW iSchool, Co-Founder UW Center for an Informed Public | PhD in Sociology from UC Irvine | Research: social networks, sociology, information integrity & computational social science.
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/
Onur Varol @ovarol.bsky.social Asst. Prof. at @SabanciU
🌐 varollab.com
#networkscience, #datascience, #css
Mohsen Mosleh @mmosleh.bsky.social Prof @Oxford, Affiliate @MIT www.MohsenMosleh.com
Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com {Social, Data, Network, Information} Scientist, @cuboulder.info
Director, University of Colorado Public Interest Data Science Lab, @cupids-lab.org
High-tempo collaboration, information commons, public interest data science
https://www.brianckeegan.com/
Ryan J. Gallagher @ryanjgallag.com Applied scientist trying to make the internet a little better. PhD. Trust & safety, networks, fingerstyle guitar. I use my hair to express myself. They/he
Aaron Clauset @aaronclauset.bsky.social NO KINGS. NO FASCISTS. FUND SCIENCE.
Professor of Computer Science @ BioFrontiers Institute at University of Colorado, Boulder and External Faculty @ Santa Fe Institute
orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3529-8746
Misha Teplitskiy | Science of science | on LinkedIn mostly @innovation.bsky.social Mostly on LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/misha-teplitskiy
Stefan McCabe @sdmccabe.com counting things on the internet
Briony Swire-Thompson @brionyswire.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Northeastern University, Psychology of Misinformation Lab
Kenny Joseph @kennyjoseph.bsky.social computational social science, University at Buffalo.
https://cse.buffalo.edu/cubelab/
Amit Goldenberg @amit-goldenberg.bsky.social I study emotions, collectives, technology and their interaction. Harvard Business School | Harvard Psych (affiliated) | D3
Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social ✍🏽 • RACE AFTER TECHNOLOGY: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code • VIRAL JUSTICE: How We Grow the World We Want • IMAGINATION: A Manifesto 📚www.ruhabenjamin.com
Katherine Ognyanova @ognyanova.bsky.social Professor at the School of Communication & Information, Rutgers University | Research on politics, tech, trust, misinformation, network science, computational social science | PI at http://chip50.org, http://covidstates.org, http://naiom.net
Petter Holme @pholme.bsky.social Scandinasian professor of network science & computational social science
Jürgen Pfeffer @jurgenpfeffer.bsky.social Prof of Computational Social Science. SOT/TU Munich. Critical Data Studies, AI & Democracy, #CSS @ICWSM
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
Hiroki Sayama @hirokisayama.bsky.social What I do not understand, I can still create. -- unknown アメリカで大学教員やっています.いつもヘンなことばかり考えています.意識低い系.
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
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.
Sarah Shugars @shugars.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Communication @ Rutgers University. Computational social science, political communication, civic studies. First gen. They/them
Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com Sociologist and demographer, U. of Maryland; SocArXiv director.
Latest book: Citizen Scholar: Public Engagement for Social Scientists https://cup.columbia.edu/book/citizen-scholar/9780231555418
Website: philipncohen.com
Blog: familyinequality.com
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.
Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co Social science and other distractions. Old posts get deleted pretty quick.
https://kieranhealy.org /
https://theordinalsociety.com
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.
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
Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social Dartmouth political scientist and Bright Line Watch co-director. Previously Upshot NYT / CJR contributor, Spinsanity co-founder, All the President's Spin co-author.
https://sites.dartmouth.edu/nyhan/
http://brightlinewatch.org- D David Lazer @davidlazer.bsky.social computational social scientist
Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social Polling editor at CNN, keeping (cross)tabs on public opinion and the news. I like puns.
Randall Munroe @xkcd.com
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
Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social Defunct account of Ken White, criminal defense attorney and First Amendment litigator. Co-host of Serious Trouble podcast and writer at The Popehat Report. Opinions here are my own. Decent people fight evil.
Signal: KenWhite.1969
Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social Law professor & journalist looking at tech geopolitics, free expression, internet law, online governance, & AI.
Senior Editor at Lawfare.
https://klonick.substack.com/
www.kateklonick.com
W.W.D.D.
Yoel Roth @yoyoel.com Internet sanitation enthusiast and full-time corgi wrangler.