Kevin Banda @kevinkbanda.bsky.social Senior Researcher at @statesunited.org. Quantitative researcher and political scientist. Spiritual weapon is pizza. Opinions are my own.
https://sites.google.com/view/kevinkbanda
Kayla Duskin @kayladuskin.bsky.social PhD Candidate at the University of Washington (@ischool.uw.edu)
Studying online information integrity and platform governance with the Center for an Informed Public (@cip.uw.edu).
Offline, catch me in the Cascades 🏔️. 
Matthew Sussex @matthewsussex.bsky.social Adjunct Associate Professor, Griffith Asia Institute; and Fellow, SDSC @ANU. Russia / info ops / hybrid / Aus security policy / Indo-Pac. Usual disclaimers.
Ben O'Loughlin @benoloughlin.bsky.social Prof. of IR. Director, New Political Communication Unit, Royal Holloway | Co-Editor: Media, War and Conflict journal | Co-author: Strategic Narratives | Book series editor: AI Politics
Luca Trenta @lucatrenta.bsky.social Associate Professor in IR at @swanseauni_ppir
Work on assassination, covert action, US foreign policy, secrecy. Host on the New Books Network. Author of The Brush Contact Substack.
Carlos Diaz Ruiz @carlosdiazruiz.com Associate Professor at Hanken in Finland. I write about the consumer culture and advertising markets that allow disinformation to thrive on social media.
Author of the book "Market-Oriented Disinformation Research."
https://www.carlosdiazruiz.com
John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social Chasing digital badness. Senior Researcher at Citizen Lab, but words here are mine.
International Conference on Social Media & Society @socialmediaandsociety.org The International Conference on Social Media & Society (#SMSociety) is a biennial gathering of leading social media researchers from around the world. https://socialmediaandsociety.org/about/. 2026 in Glasgow, UK, July 13-15
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.
@rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social 
Tobias Heidenreich @hdnrch.bsky.social Researcher WZB Berlin | Political Communication & Computational Methods
Thomas Hanitzsch @thanitzsch.bsky.social Journalism studies, comparative research, academic mental health...
LMU Munich, Worlds of Journalism Study
Wouter van Atteveldt @vanatteveldt.com Professor of Computational Communication Science @VU University, tidyverse evangelist, good weather sailor
Michael Chesnut @michaelchesnut.bsky.social Interested in Linguistic Landscape, Ethnography, Foriegn Language Teacher Identity, Academic Publishing, Walking as a Methodology, and lots more!
Daniel Angus @antmandan.bsky.social Professor of Digital Communication and Director of the QUT Digital Media Research Centre. Cyclist, beer brewer, nerd, community advocate.
Lenandlar Singh @lenandlar.bsky.social Lecturer in Computing at the University of Guyana. PhD Candidate Lancaster University. Interested in Computing Ed, Social Networks, Ethics, Philosophy of Technology.
Antti Gronow @anttigronow.bsky.social Senior researcher, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki. Interests: climate policy, social networks, polarization, advocacy coalitions, and the war in Ukraine.
Publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=sBTkYX8AAAAJ&hl=fi&oi=ao
Rosalynd Southern @rosalynd.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Pol Comm at UoLiverpool. Online Pol Comm / Elections / Gender. UCU Rep. Socialist. Feminist. She/her. Views mine
Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social Asst Prof @ Illinois Dept of Communication studying media, politics, & identity, not necessarily in that order. UMich Comm & Media / SDSU Journalism & Media Studies / Drexel Digital Media alumnus / USMC veteran. Views = my own. http://www.stewartcoles.com
Sachita Nishal @sachnishal.bsky.social HCI PhD @ Northwestern. I design AI tools to support science communication + study how AI tools might reshape people’s values, practices, relationships. she/her.
nishalsach.github.io
Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social We are the Center for Social Data Science at the University of Copenhagen, an interdisciplinary research center combining methods from econometrics to ethnography with new data science techniques including machine learning and NLP.
Bingbing Zhang @bingbingzhang.bsky.social 
Lena Frischlich @lenafrescamente.bsky.social Communication scholar and media psychologist. Exploring the abyss of digital communications and how to foster democratic resilience. || Associate Professor Digital Democracy Centre University of Southern Denmark / Complexity Science Hub, Vienna
Domingos @domingosmcc.bsky.social I know not what tomorrow will bring…(Pessoa)
💙💛 Україна українцям! 💙💛
🚫 Nazifascists&Maga🚫 Bitcoin 🚫 Get-rich schemes
I reject fanaticism and outdated orthodoxies!
Daniel Lüke @danlue.bsky.social PhD Candidate in Economics. 📍 University of Giessen | Industrial Economics & Applied Micro
Media & Democracy Coop @mddcoop.bsky.social The Media and Democracy Data Cooperative (MDDC) is a collaborative network of academic research centers and researchers to advance our understanding of political communication and digital data. https://mddatacoop.org/
Philipp Mendoza @philippmendoza.com PostDoc @LMU | @Chair for Digitalization & Political Behavior • #DemocraticPersuasion • #NegCampaign • #AffectivePolarization • #Populism • #CCS • 🟥- I Ilene Frank @ifrank.bsky.social I'm a reference librarian at a community college and UoPeople.edu and an instructor at UMGC.edu and I'm an excellent lurker
Tony Craig @tonycraig.bsky.social Associate Professor Modern History, Intelligence and Security, Diplomacy, Northern Ireland and Britain's End of Empire.
Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social NLP, cultural analytics. Assistant Professor of CS at University of Colorado Boulder. Formerly Ai2, Pioneer Centre for AI, Cornell, Microsoft, Twitter. Books, bikes, games, art. https://maria-antoniak.github.io
Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social Facebook Beef
Eva-Maria Vogel @evavogel.bsky.social Doctoral Candidate @ Department of Communication and Media Research (IKMZ) | University of Zurich
Political Social Media Influencers | Youth Political Engagement | Comparative Media Research | Computational & Interdisciplinary Methods
Sérgio Nunes @snunes.bsky.social Professor at FEUP, University of Porto.
Researcher at INESC TEC.
Web, Media and Information.
Marcelo Santos @cel00.bsky.social PhD Ciencias Comunicación, Investigador en el cruce entre tecnología y democracia. Profesor asociado UDP ptBR|ES|EN
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2658-3764
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=e7_9UIgAAAAJ&hl=es&authuser=1
Talita Pessoa @tpessoa.bsky.social Tech Policy, Privacy & Human Rights. @de_usp and @georgetown MSFS alum. 🇧🇷🇺🇸 and most importantly 🏳️🌈
Kevin Yang @yang3kc.bsky.social Kaicheng Yang, PhD | Assistant professor @Binghamton University CS | Computational social science, bots, + | views mine
Doug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social Assistant Prof of Media Psychology in the Department of Communication Science at VU Amsterdam (🇳🇱) researching media effects, digital well-being, attention, mental health. Open Science, Computational Methods
🖥️ https://dougaparry.com
🇿🇦 From South Africa
Julia Mendelsohn @jmendelsohn2.bsky.social Asst Prof @UMD Info College. NLP, computational social science, political communication, linguistics. Past: Data Science Postdoc @UChicago, Info PhD @UMich, CS + Lx @Stanford. Interests: cats, Yiddish, talking to my cats in Yiddish.
Patrick Gildersleve @gildersleve.uk Lecturer (Asst Prof) in Communications and AI at the University of Exeter
Prev. LSE Methodology, PhD Oxford Internet Institute
Wikipedia, News, Attention
he/him
🔗🌳 linktr.ee/gildersleve
🌐 https://gildersleve.uk
Caitlin Cieslik-Miskimen @caitlincm.bsky.social Assistant professor at the University of Idaho. Media historian interested in small(er) publications and regional print culture.
Celebrity gossip/pop culture enthusiast. Wisconsin alum x3. 
Nick Diakopoulos @ndiakopoulos.bsky.social Northwestern University Professor. Computational Journalism; AI & Society. https://www.nickdiakopoulos.com. Writing https://www.ai-accountability-review.com/
Jesse Hicks @jessehixxx.bsky.social Roving writer and editor in The New Republic, The Verge, Vice, Atlas Obscura, Men's Health, Politico, Harper's, etc.
brother, I have seen some things
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/
Alistair Kidd @alistairkidd.com Doctoral Researcher @ Loughborough University. Investigating disinformation surrounding the Russia-Ukraine war.
Kai Li @nalsi.bsky.social Assistant Professor at School of Information Sciences of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. #scientometrics and #metadata researcher. Former #librarian. #Cat person.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7264-365X
Angie Chuang @angiechuang.bsky.social Academic @colorado.edu, journalist, author of AMERICAN OTHERNESS IN JOURNALISM (Routledge, 2025). Pre-order: https://shorturl.at/nBCdr
Sam Jackson @sjacks26.myatproto.social Researching right-wing extremism in the U.S, conspiracy theories, extremist language, etc.
Professing in Albany, NY
Black Lives Matter
he/him
My book about Oath Keepers: bit.ly/2DOUuh7
CV: https://tinyurl.com/meyy6xpd
Jordan Stalker @jordanstalker.bsky.social Reading, teaching and writing about (1) representation in the communication professions and (2) intercultural communication (3) South Asian Americans
Digital Democracy Centre @ddc-sdu.bsky.social The Digital Democracy Centre SDU is an interdisciplinary hub at the University of Southern Denmark
https://www.sdu.dk/en/ddc
• #dkmedier #dkpol #dkforsk #democracy #digital #AI •
Stéphane Prud’homme Msc, MBA, PhDc, C.Adm @stepru.com Adjunct Professor in YUL, YOW 🇨🇦 & HKG 🇭🇰 • PhD Candidate 🇲🇴 Influential narrative, Propaganda & Slopaganda, Reputation, Credibility, Legitimacy, Trustworthiness; MBA Marketing, Economics 🇨🇳🇺🇸; MA Credibility, Crisis Mgmt 🇨🇦 • Founder @CredibilityInstitute.com
Michael V. Reiss @mvreiss.bsky.social PostDoc Leibniz Institute for Media Research | HBI, Hamburg.
Previously: University of Zurich & LSE.
🔎 Generative AI | Political Communication & News Consumption | CSS
Andreas Birkbak @birkbak.bsky.social Associate Prof at Roskilde University 🇩🇰. Director of the Digital Media Lab here. Research on Publics, Media, and Technology, inspired by STS and ANT.
Dhanaraj Thakur @thakurdhanaraj.bsky.social Director, Fair Technology Initiative, George Washington University Law School.
Board Member: Baltimore Digital Equity Coalition; Friends of Global Voices.
Sandra González-Bailón @sgonzalezbailon.bsky.social Professor of Communication @AnnenbergSchool, UPenn | Director, Center for Information Networks and Democracy | cind.asc.upenn.edu | sandragonzalezbailon.net
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/
Elena Glassman @elglassman.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ Harvard SEAS specializing in human-computer and human-AI interaction. Also interested in visualization, digital humanities, urban design.
Comm Sci Bio @icacsab.bsky.social Communication Science & Biology Interest Group of the International Communication Association. Supported by the Schools/Departments of Communication of OSU, MSU, & Annenberg Penn https://commscience.org/
Juan Diego Rodriguez @juand-r.bsky.social CS PhD student at UT Austin in #NLP
Interested in language, reasoning, semantics and cognitive science. One day we'll have more efficient, interpretable and robust models!
Other interests: math, philosophy, cinema
https://www.juandiego-rodriguez.com/
Ashwin Rajadesingan @ashwin-r.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Communication Studies @ UT-Austin| I study how people talk politics on social media
Daniel Leising @leising.bsky.social Psychology Professor at TU Dresden [views my own].
Xuzheny @xuzheny.bsky.social Ph.D. Student in MSU comm dep.
Computational social science
Opinions are my own. Way to go!
Dani Madrid-Morales @dmadridm.bsky.social Lecturer at the University of Sheffield. Probably posting about the media, global politics and journalism.
jen forestal @seejenspeak.bsky.social political theorist, assoc professor at Loyola Chicago. studying digital technologies, democratic practices, (software) architecture, & civic engagement. she/her
Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu Senior Fellow at European Council on Foreign Relations. #Drone politics PhD @ox.ac.uk. Teaches at @SciencesPo.bsky.social. Writes about all things #Germany #Defence #miltech. Podcast host at @SicherheitsPod.de & LeCollimateur
Emily Rosamond @erosamon.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths. Editor at Finance and Society. Writing about reputation, personality and financialized culture.
Friedolin Merhout @fmerhout.bsky.social Sociologist and Social Data Scientist at University of Copenhagen. Duke University PhD. Intergroup relations & computational social science. He/him/his. https://fmerhout.github.io Photo: Freja Wille
Wayne Batchis @waybat.bsky.social Professor of Constitutional Law in the Political Science Department @udelaware.bsky.social. I study the First Amendment and Election Law. Urbanist, Philly Enthusiast.
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.
ParliView project @parliview.bsky.social ParliView is transparency research project led by @zdgreene.bsky.social at @StrathPolir, @jamespcross.bsky.social & Derek Greene at UCD & @transparency-eu.bsky.social.
Follow us at https://www.instagram.com/parliview/ or try it yourself at parliview.org
Juan S. Gómez-Cruces @juansgomezcruces.bsky.social Postdoc in Digital Technologies, Governance and Policy @Hasso-Plattner Institute. Ph.D. in Political Science. I study the effects of emerging technologies on political behavior
https://juangomezcruces.github.io
Nicolai Berk @nicolaiberk.bsky.social Postdoc at ETH Public Policy Group & Immigration Policy Lab. Political Communication, Public Opinion, NLP.
Philipp Lutscher @plutscher.bsky.social Senior Researcher at the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation (bidt) | Political scientist studying the perils and risks of digital technology | https://philipplutscher.net | occasional promotion of (what I believe is) good music
Tobias Denskus @aidnography.de Associate Professor in Development Studies at Malmö University, Sweden. Global development. Humanitarianism. Communication & Social Change. Chief Blogger at www.aidnography.de since 2010.
More: https://linktr.ee/tobiasdenskus
Maria De-Arteaga @mariadearteaga.bsky.social Associate Professor, ESADE | PhD, Machine Learning & Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon | Previously FAccT EC | Algorithmic fairness, human-AI collab | 🇨🇴 💚 she/her/ella.
Isabella Rebasso @isabellareb.bsky.social Studying political psychology, emotions and identities.
Postdoc at PARTISAN, University of Vienna.
Formerly Hotpolitics Lab, University of Amsterdam.
宛瑾 Wan Jin @wanjin.bsky.social PhD candidate at UvA researching algorithmic gatekeeping | recommender systems | Algosoc
Elena Leuschner @elenaleuschner.bsky.social Working on political participation, protest, responsiveness, and public opinion
PostDoc @ University of Münster w Daniel Bischof
Previously PhD @ University of Gothenburg
https://elenaleuschner.github.io
Friederike Quint @friederikeq.bsky.social Incoming Postdoctoral Researcher at the Oxford Social Media Observatory (OSMO) at the University of Oxford.
Political Science & Social Media | Speech Legislation & Content Moderation in Democracies
🔗 friederikequint.github.io
Sohan Dsouza @sohandsouza.info 🥼 @MPIB-Berlin.bsky.social;
📚 computational social science, disinformation/polarization, crowdsourcing, OSINT;
🎓 @MIT.edu @MediaLab.bsky.social, @DFRLab.bsky.social #DigitalSherlocks;
📍 London, England;
https://www.sohandsouza.info
Thomas Enemark Lundtofte @lundtofte.bsky.social Associate Professor in Media Studies at University of Southern Denmark. Researching the intersection of children/youth, play and digital thingamajigs.
Hannes Cools @hannescools.bsky.social Assistant Professor, University of Amsterdam 🇳🇱 || Journalism, AI, Tech & innovation 👨💻 || Fellow Digital Democracy Centre 🇩🇰 & Marie Curie Scholar 🇪🇺 || Occasional Photographer || #FirstGen
🌐 https://hannescools.com/
Azade Kakavand (she/her) @azadekakavand.bsky.social Postdoc at Social Media Observatory & Media Research Methods Lab @bredowinstitut.bsky.social & @fgz-risc.bsky.social👩🏽💻
Previously at @compcommlab.bsky.social @univie.ac.at 🎓
Interested in multi-platform research, computational methods societal cohesion 💻
A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social Researching conservative news and right-wing media. PhD in American Studies from NYU. I teach at but don't speak for the University of Alabama.
News on the Right (http://bit.ly/2YgUcZX).
Making the Liberal Media (https://shorturl.at/e31nU)
Sam Shorey @samshorey.bsky.social Asst. Professor of Communication at the University of Pittsburgh • Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute • Researching technology design & innovation labor: robots, hype, AI, trash, DIY, repair • 🤖+🚮
Kaiping Chen @kaipingchen.bsky.social Associate Professor of Science and Technology Communication, Computational Social Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison | Stanford/
Columbia / Fudan University alumni | Pianist
www.kaipingchen.com
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
Gyo Hyun Koo @gyohyunkoo.bsky.social Assistant Professor @howard.edu📚 Communication technology, politics, public health Ph.D in Journalism & Media at UT Austin https://sites.google.com/view/ghkoo
@magdalenawojciesza.bsky.social @magdalenawojciesza.bsky.social 
Ethan Plaut @ethanplaut.bsky.social Research: Disconnection, tech refusal & beautiful, broken media. Sometime coder & dusty journo. Now Aotearoa NZ, always Chicago, formerly Stanford, SF, Phnom Penh, Fukui. Silence when I can. Music when I can't. Tangata Tiriti, Jew, he/him.
ethanplaut.com
Jason Greenfield @jasong.bsky.social CS PhD student @princetoncitp.bsky.social, former Research Engineer @csmapnyu.org. I like rock climbing and birds.
Maggie Macdonald, PhD @mgmacdonald.bsky.social Asst Prof UKY Poli Sci | Previous: CSMaP, Emory Poli Sci, Elon University | Pol comm, campaigns, IGs, & social media | RYT-200 | maggiegmacdonald.com
Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social Studying terrorism and extremism. Opinions are my own and RT ≠ endorsement.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/god-guns-and-sedition-far-right-terrorism-in-america/20097522?ean=9780231211222&next=t
Niels G. Mede @nielsmede.bsky.social 🔎 Assistant Professor of Science Communication
📍 Wageningen University & Research @w-u-r.bsky.social
🏠 www.nielsmede.com
The Innovation in Politics Institute @innovationinpolitics.eu We apply innovation in politics to strengthen #democracy in Europe and beyond #PoliticsAwards
📌 @capitalofdemocracy.eu
🔗 innovationinpolitics.eu
The Information Environment Project @ieproject.bsky.social Carnegie’s Information Environment Project is a multi-stakeholder effort to help policymakers understand the information environment.
DGPS: Media Psychology @mepsy.bsky.social Official bluesky account of the Media Psychology Division of the German Psychological Society (@dgps.bsky.social).
Danish Institute for Advanced Study @d-ias.bsky.social A hub for creative thinking and groundbreaking ideas.
At DIAS, top minds of the world explore interdisciplinarity through curiosity-driven research.
Bart Thijssen @bartthijssen.bsky.social Master of (Keeping/Stealing) your Secrets | Security Advisor & Intel Analyst | Civil Servant @ BE | Klopjacht-speurder | IT Eng. + Pol. Sci. | Posts my own
Alex Engler @alexengler.bsky.social Towards a healthier information ecosystem and a stronger democracy.
Executive Director @penn-mediated.bsky.social @upenn.edu
Alum: DemTech at NSC; AI Policy at OSTP; Brookings; Urban Institute; Taught at UChicago & Georgetown