Orit Halpern @ohalpern.bsky.social Professor@TU Dresden, historian of science and STS scholar critically engaging AI, cybernetics,infrastructure, environment, and design.
https://againstcatastrophe.net
https://tu-dresden.de/gsw/slk/germanistik/digitalcultures
maybe: leif weatherby @leifw.bsky.social Hegel, cybernetics, Buffalo Bills
Lisa Argyle @lpargyle.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science at Purdue. Study: Political Conversation, Polarization, Computational Social Science, LLMs
sohyeon hwang @s0hw.bsky.social postdoc @princetoncitp.bsky.social
i study and support community-based models of governing technologies.
https://www.sohyeonhwang.com/
John Horton @johnjhorton.bsky.social Economist researching online marketplaces. Mind and Hand. 🎲🦜- appreciator
Angelina Wang @angelinawang.bsky.social Asst Prof at Cornell Info Sci and Cornell Tech. Responsible AI
https://angelina-wang.github.io/
Austin van Loon @austin-van-loon.bsky.social Assistant professor of work and organization studies at MIT Sloan School of Management. I’m a sociologists and computational social scientist studying culture, identity, intergroup conflict, and other things I find interesting or important.
Kristina Gligoric @IC2S2 @gligoric.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Computer Science @JohnsHopkins,
CS Postdoc @Stanford,
PHD @EPFL,
Computational Social Science, NLP, AI & Society
https://kristinagligoric.com/
Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science at University of Amsterdam
Studying the intersection of AI, social media, and politics.
Polarization, misinformation, radicalization, digital platforms, social complexity.
Luciano Floridi @floridi.bsky.social Philosopher (Yale/Bologna), digital ethics, AI ethics, philosophy of information, philosophy of technology,
http://tinyurl.com/ywku22yr
Yale Digital Ethics Center (DEC) @yaledec.bsky.social Designing a better information society. #EveryBitAsGood
The Information Society Project at Yale Law School @yaleisp.bsky.social The Information Society Project at Yale Law School is an intellectual center addressing issues at the intersection of law, tech & society. https://law.yale.edu/isp/community
Minderoo Centre for Technology & Democracy @mctd.bsky.social Radically rethinking power relationships between digital technologies, society, and the planet | 📍 University of Cambridge | Sign-up to our mailing list ➡️ http://tinyurl.com/minderoocambs | Latest: https://linktr.ee/mctdcambridge
Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website anthropology, algorithms, attention | he/him | The conversation is characterized by Nick's use of language, but the content of the discussion remains unknown.
Computational Social Science @com-soc-sci.bsky.social introducing computational social science paper or computer science paper until I get tired
Maarten Sap @maartensap.bsky.social Working on #NLProc for social good.
Currently at LTI at CMU. 🏳🌈
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.
Haewoon Kwak @haewoon.bsky.social Associate Professor at informatics, IU Bloomington / Lifetime Citations 20k+ / http://soda-labo.github.io / computational social science + game analytics. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=dcjrz5MAAAAJ&hl=ko
@chenhaotan.bsky.social @chenhaotan.bsky.social Associate professor at the University of Chicago. Working on human-centered AI, NLP, CSS. https://chenhaot.com, https://substack.com/@cichicago
Nick Couldry @couldrynick.bsky.social I teach media communications and social theory at London School of Economics. Main interests: data colonialism, AI, rebuilding social media. Links to my two new books: https://linktr.ee/SpaceOfTheWorldBook https://lnk.to/DataGrabBook
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
Serina Chang @serinachang5.bsky.social Incoming Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley in CS and Computational Precision Health. Postdoc at Microsoft Research, PhD in CS at Stanford. Research in AI, graphs, public health, and computational social science.
https://serinachang5.github.io/
Amir Goldberg @amirgo.bsky.social Sociologist, Prof. of Organizational Behavior at Stanford who studies culture | Co-director of the Computational Culture Lab | http://comp-culture.org
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.
David Jurgens @davidjurgens.bsky.social Associate prof at @UMich in SI and CSE working in computational social science and natural language processing. PI of the Blablablab blablablab.si.umich.edu
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/
Loizos Bitsikokos @lbitsiko.bsky.social Computational Social Scientist Among Other Things
https://lbitsiko.github.io/
Jessica Hullman @jessicahullman.bsky.social Ginni Rometty Prof @NorthwesternCS | Fellow @NU_IPR | AI, people, uncertainty, beliefs, decisions, metascience | Blog @statmodeling
Zarine Kharazian @zarine.net phd candidate @cip.uw.edu, @communitydata.science, & @hcde.uw.edu. I study how to govern public knowledge institutions under attack.
zarine.net- K Kaylea Champion, PhD @kayleachampion.bsky.social postdoc @UWComm in @comdatasci -- usually quant research into tech, infrastructure, cooperation, knowledge, privacy. Likes given with foolish abandon. she/her #BLM
Hanlin Li @hanlinliii.bsky.social iSchool@UT Austin. Computational Social Science, HCI, and dogs.
Manoel Horta Ribeiro @manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ Princeton
Previously: EPFL 🇨🇭, UFMG 🇧🇷
Interests: Computational Social Science, Platforms, GenAI, Moderation
Emily Tseng @emtseng.bsky.social Postdoc at MSR, soon a prof at UW HCDE, got my PhD at Cornell IS. I think about power, privacy, and participation in HCI, security and AI.
Blaise Agüera y Arcas @blaiseaguera.bsky.social CTO of Technology & Society at Google, working on fundamental AI research and exploring the nature and origins of intelligence.
Eric Fassbender @wellrestedmango.bsky.social
ACM Collective Intelligence Conference @acmci.bsky.social
International Conference on Computational Social Science @ic2s2.bsky.social The 12th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2) will be held in Burlington, Vermont July 28-31 2026
Website: https://ic2s2-2026.org/
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
International Communication Association @icahdq.bsky.social This account is for informational purposes. Please get in touch with the appropriate department for assistance. https://icahdq.org/page/ContactUs
Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social Professor at Wharton, studying AI and its implications for education, entrepreneurship, and work. Author of Co-Intelligence.
Book: https://a.co/d/bC2kSj1
Substack: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/
Web: https://mgmt.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/emollick
Ada Lovelace Institute @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social Making data & AI work for people & society.
Sign up for our fortnightly newsletter: https://adalovelaceinstitute.org//newsletter-subscribe
Joss Wright @josswright.bsky.social Oxford Internet Institute. Information controls and wildlife trade. Bayesian. Occasional paranormal data scientist.
https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/profiles/joss-wright/
https://www.weirddatascience.net/
https://youtube.com/@chasing_ghosts
Sandra Wachter @swachter.bsky.social Professor of Technology and Regulation, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford https://tinyurl.com/3rkmbmsf
Humboldt Professor of Technology & Regulation, Hasso Plattner Institute https://tinyurl.com/47rkrt6c
Governance of Emerging Technologies
Luc Rocher @rocher.lc associate professor at Oxford · UKRI future leaders fellow · i study how data and algorithms shape societies · AI fairness, accountability and transparency · algorithm auditing · photographer, keen 🚴🏻 · they/them · https://rocher.lc (views my own)
Brent Mittelstadt @bmittelstadt.bsky.social Professor of Data Ethics and Policy at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford and Principal Investigator at the Weizenbaum Institute. Founder of the Governance of Emerging Technologies research programme.
Bernie Hogan @blurky.bsky.social *Oxford Internet Institute Faculty*: network analysis, Gen AI (image and text), social theory, health, symbolic interactionism, discourse analysis, visualisation, data science.
*And me, personally*: Recursion, queer, techno, vinyl records, Newfoundlander
Ekaterina Hertog @katyahe.bsky.social Associate Professor of AI & Society
Oxford Internet Institute and Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford
Principal Investigator at DomesticAI (http://domesticai.oii.ox.ac.uk) project funded by ESRC
Mark Graham @geoplace.bsky.social Prof at the Oxford Internet Institute
Director of @towardsfairwork.bsky.social
Publications: www.markgraham.space
Studies: Digital Economies, Digital Geographies, Economic Geography, Gig Economy, Data Work, AI Production Networks, Cities
Eat the rich
Carl Benedikt Frey @carlbfrey.bsky.social Prof. Oxford University
Matthew Kay @mjskay.com Assoc Prof Computer Science and Communication Studies at Northwestern. Infovis, HCI. Author of tidybayes & ggdist R pkgs. he/him. 🏳️🌈 https://mjskay.com/
Co-director https://mucollective.northwestern.edu
Co-founder https://journalovi.org
AI Now Institute @ainowinstitute.bsky.social The AI Now Institute produces diagnosis and actionable policy research on artificial intelligence.
Find us at https://ainowinstitute.org/
Nick Diakopoulos @ndiakopoulos.bsky.social Northwestern University Professor. Computational Journalism; AI & Society. https://www.nickdiakopoulos.com. Writing https://www.ai-accountability-review.com/
Amy Zhang @axz.bsky.social Associate professor of social computing at UW CSE, leading @socialfutureslab.bsky.social
social.cs.washington.edu
Lana Swartz @lanalanalana.bsky.social New Money: How Payment Became Social Media (Yale 2020) / Paid: Tales of Dongles, Checks, and Other Money Stuff (MIT 2017) / Scams / Associate Professor UVA
https://llaannaa.com/
https://digitalculturesandeconomies.com
Andrea L. Guzman, PhD @teachguz.bsky.social Scholar. Author. Public Speaker. Educator. Artificial Intelligence + 🤖+ Media. Human-Machine Communication & Human-Computer Interaction. Former journalist.
https://andrealguzman.net
Latest book: "The SAGE Handbook of Human-Machine Communication"
Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social Communication and media professor researching the internet, platforms & automation in society via cultural studies & digital methods. Brisbane/Sunshine Coast hinterland.🏳️🌈🏞🌄✨️
Sarah Gilbert @sarahagilbert.bsky.social Research Director, Citizens and Technology Lab, Cornell University, r/AskHistorians moderator
I study how to make the internet freer and safer— and how to help the helpers on the ground making that possible. She/her
https://citizensandtech.org/
Elisa Kreiss @elisakreiss.bsky.social Assistant Professor at UCLA. Alum @StanfordNLP. NLP, Cognitive Science, Accessibility. https://www.coalas-lab.com/elisakreiss
Frank Pasquale @frankpasquale.bsky.social Law professor; author (The Black Box Society; New Laws of Robotics).
Interested in law & technology, AI, political economy, art, and social theory.
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun @whkchun.bsky.social new media theorist and professor. director of the SFU digital democracies institute. posts reflect my own views only.
banner from Mongrel Network's 2004 Bush-Blair project. Portrait by a wonderful scms audience member—let me know if you know them!
Angel Hsing-Chi Hwang @angelhwang.bsky.social Assistant Professor at USC Annenberg and affiliated faculty at USC Center for AI in Society | Previously Cornell IS & Cornell Comm. Research on #HCI, #AI, and #FutureOfWork | https://angelhwang.github.io/
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
professor tools for commensality (red scare edition) @inquiline.myatproto.social wrote OIL BEACH (Chicago)| LOW POWER TO THE PEOPLE (MIT) | HACKING DIVERSITY (PUP)
Minnesotan glooming in SoCal gloaming | envirotech media infrastructure dross | #AAUP ✊🏻 | pers acct. she/they/guy. typos. posts ≠ endorsements | pfp/banner: oil extraction
Ayse (Aisha) Lokman @aysed.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Emerging Media Studies at Boston University; Political Com & Computational Methods. Middle Easterner, she/her
Sandra González-Bailón @sgonzalezbailon.bsky.social Professor of Communication @AnnenbergSchool, UPenn | Director, Center for Information Networks and Democracy | cind.asc.upenn.edu | sandragonzalezbailon.net
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.
xiaochang @xiaochang.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Communication @ Stanford. Histories of AI/ML, NLP, speech recognition, and related data practices; general tomfoolery.
StanfordVR @stanfordvr.bsky.social For two decades we have built and studied VR/AR systems that explore the changes in the nature of social interaction. We research how virtual experiences impact people psychologically, and focus on education, nonverbal behavior, climate change & empathy.
justine zhang @tisjune.bsky.social assistant professor in information, university of michigan. i have big intellectual feelings about language and technology.
https://tisjune.github.io/
she/her
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.
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
Nate Tkacz @nateeeow.bsky.social Prof Digital Media and Culture
Goldsmiths, UoL
Jed Brubaker @whatknows.bsky.social Information Science professor at CU, @whatknows on most platforms.
Director of the Identity Lab and Digital Legacy Clinic.
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
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.
Eszter Hargittai @eszter.com Professor of Internet Use & Society, University of Zurich
William Allan Neilson Professor, Smith College (Fall 2024)
Formerly: Northwestern U, Princeton U
eszter.com- L Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social Researcher and teacher. Writing about race, gender and internet stuff since 1995. “The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet” out from U. Minn press. Lisanakamura.net for articles if you want.
Eric Gilbert @eegilbert.org Professor at Michigan. On sabbatical at the Berkman Klein Center. http://eegilbert.org
Diyi Yang @diyiyang.bsky.social Assistant Professor @Stanford CS @StanfordNLP @StanfordAILab
Computational Social Science & NLP
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
Vera Liao @qveraliao.bsky.social Researcher@MSR, incoming Associate Prof@UMich. Studying human-AI interaction
@ijoc-usc.bsky.social @ijoc-usc.bsky.social
Sue Lim @sueminnlim.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Purdue studying AI, extended reality (XR), social interaction, and influence. sueminnlim.com
Ted Striphas @striphas.bsky.social Prof. & Chair – Media Studies, University of Colorado Boulder | Author, Algorithmic Culture Before the Internet (https://tinyurl.com/p8ad6suw) | Opinions my own
Information, Communication & Society @icsjournal.bsky.social Social Media; Communication Studies; Cyberculture; Sociology; Political Communication; Internet Studies. Published by Routledge. https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rics20
Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) @aoir.bsky.social Researching the Internet is serious business. Mostly.
(We're mainly over on AoIR.social, our organisation Mastodon instance, which is open to all members.)
https://aoir.org/
https://aoir.social/@aoir
https://aoir.org/aoir2026/
Ellie Anderson @ellieanderphd.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Pomona College | Co-host of @Overthink_pod. Phenomenology/poststructuralism, hermeneutic labor, feminist philosophy of love
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.
Amy Bruckman @asbruckman.bsky.social I study online communities, content moderation, and social movements.
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
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
Jevin D. West @jevinwest.bsky.social Professor @UW_iSchool, Co-founder of Center for an Informed Public @uwcip. I study misinformation in science & society. Book: tinyurl.com/y7ekfkhx
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.
Jeremy Foote @jeremydfoote.com Computational social scientist; assistant professor @ Purdue; I study how people self-organize in online communities and how we can make them work better.
Duri Long @duri-long.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Communication Studies at Northwestern. HCI, Human-Centered AI, AI literacy, co-creativity. Director of Creative Interfaces Research + Design Studio. durilong.com
Mina Lee @mnlee.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ UChicago CS/DSI (NLP & HCI) | Writing with AI ✍️
https://minalee-research.github.io/
TJ Billard @billard.bsky.social Associate Professor of Communication & Sociology at Northwestern University. Executive Director of the Center for Applied Transgender Studies. Author of Voices for Transgender Equality: Making Change in the Networked Public Sphere (Oxford UP, 2024).
Sulafa Zidani @zidani.bsky.social What’s so social about social media anyway | personal account
Stuart Geiger @stu.lu just a digital trace | Asst Prof at UC San Diego, Comm & Data Science | opaque sociotechnical systems, power, and publics | ethnographer of computation & computational ethnographer | humanities of the digital & digital humanities | https://stu.lu | he/they