Women of Letters @womenofletters.org 📚 conversations on work, writing, & professional success with the women shaping our cultural landscape
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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social Co-founder of Project Implicit, Society for Improving Psychological Science, and the Center for Open Science; Professor at the University of Virginia
Joshua Conrad Jackson @joshcjackson.bsky.social Cultural evolution of the mind | Assistant Professor @ University of Chicago, Booth School of Business & Faculty Affiliate of UChicago Data Science Institute | He/his | https://joshuaconradjackson.com
Molasses @oddlymolvsses.bsky.social The other side of Time
Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app Founder & PI @aial.ie. Assistant Professor of AI, School of Computer Science & Statistics, @tcddublin.bsky.social
AI accountability, AI audits & evaluation. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
ana gantman @anagantman.bsky.social assc prof of psychology at brooklyn college & psych & phil at cuny grad center; interested in moral psych—how people judge what is right and wrong, and what they do with those judgments; anagantman.com; https://anagantman.substack.com/p/introducing-psyop
Grumpy dad energy @fdsignifier.bsky.social 
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.
Matt Jope @mattjope.bsky.social Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Glasgow. Interested in social epistemology, trust, risk, AI, scepticism.
mattjope.weebly.com
Prashant Garg @prashantgarg.bsky.social Econ Postdoc @Bocconi.
PhD @imperial.
AI and measurement in economics.
prashantgarg.org
Nikhil Garg @nkgarg.bsky.social I study algorithms/learning/data applied to democracy/markets/society. Asst. professor at Cornell Tech. https://gargnikhil.com/. Helping building personalized Bluesky research feed: https://bsky.app/profile/paper-feed.bsky.social/feed/preprintdigest
Kolina Koltai @koltai.bsky.social Senior investigator & Trainer @Bellingcat.com
Investigating explicit non-consensual deepfakes/AI and disinfo w/OSINT
"I am a doctor, but not that kind of doctor."
Talia Stroud @taliastroud.bsky.social Prof UT-Austin, Director Center for Media Engagement
Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social Director of Research, @dairinstitute.bsky.social
Roller derby athlete
https://alex-hanna.com
Book: thecon.ai
Pod+newsletter: https://dair-institute.org/maiht3k
🇪🇬Ⲛⲓⲣⲉⲙⲛ̀ⲭⲏⲙⲓ
🏳️⚧️ she/هي
📸 @willtoft.bsky.social
Rep📘 @ianbonaparte.bsky.social
Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social Nuclear historian. Prof@Stevens Institute of Technology. Visiting researcher@Nuclear Knowledges, Sciences Po, Paris. Senior Fellow@thebulletin.org. Author: THE MOST AWFUL RESPONSIBILITY (2025). Creator of NUKEMAP. Blogging @ https://doomsdaymachines.net.
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
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
Laura K. Nelson @lauraknelson.bsky.social Associate Professor @ UBC
computational sociology
machine learning is feminist
You only have to look at the Medusa straight on to see her. And she’s not deadly. She’s beautiful and she’s laughing.
www.lauraknelson.com
Dan Larremore @danlarremore.bsky.social Prof | CU Boulder BioFrontiers Institute + Computer Science | Santa Fe Institute | LarremoreLab.github.io
Founder | CevianLabs.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.
Kirsten Lum @machsci.bsky.social 🌲🌲 Applied ML/AI, data science, MLOps | Wife of 1, mom of 2 | Co-Founder and CTO of http://storytellers.ai
python 🐍 AI 🤖 cloud ☁️ data 📊
I also talk about Jesus here: @itskirstenlum.bsky.social
Jen Golbeck @jengolbeck.bsky.social Computer scientist, psychologist, journalist. Professor at UMD
On the dystopia beat- AI, social media, extremism, radicalization, privacy, information warfare, and bad stuff people do on the internet
she/her
Philipp Lorenz-Spreen @lorenzspreen.eurosky.social Heading the Computational Social Science group within SynoSys & ifK at TU Dresden, where we study how online information environments impact public discourse and develop alternatives that benefit democracy. Views are my own. https://synosys.github.io/
Martin Gross @martingross.bsky.social Political scientist, LMU Munich || Parties || Party competition in multi-level systems || Coalitions || Local politics || EU Cohesion Policy || Political representation || Sports & politics
christhomas.bsky.social @christhomas.bsky.social Rutgers prof. Research: punishment & inequality, race, computational social science. Deep Springs, Columbia, CUNY alum.
Jeremy Blackburn @mrjimmyblack.com Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Institute for AI and Society at Binghamton University. I work on building a quantitative understanding of assholes on the Web @idrama.science. 4 kids, 2 wolfhounds, 2 Löwchens.
angela zhou @angelamczhou.bsky.social assistant prof at USC Data Sciences and Operations and Computer Science; phd Cornell ORIE.
data-driven decision-making, operations research/management, causal inference, algorithmic fairness/equity
bureaucratic justice warrior
angelamzhou.github.io
Alexandros Efstratiou @alextheefstra.eurosky.social Postdoc at UW iSchool/Center for an Informed Public, previously Cybersecurity PhD @UCL. Computational social science // polarization and misinformation, online social networks, and meta-science. Opinions my own.
Petter Holme @pholme.bsky.social Scandinasian professor of network science & computational social science
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
Iyad Rahwan | إياد رهوان @iyadrahwan.bsky.social Director, Max Planck Center for Humans & Machines http://chm.mpib-berlin.mpg.de | Former prof. @MIT | Creator of http://moralmachine.net | Art: http://instagram.com/iyad.rahwan Web: rahwan.me
Laura Edelson @whiskeyocelot.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Northeastern University
Co-Director, C4D
Formerly: Chief Technologist, DoJ Antitrust Division, DOJ Civil Rights Division
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．
Jana Lasser @janalasser.eurosky.social Professor for Data Analysis @UniGraz | Computational Social Science, Data Science, complex systems, computational modelling | #OpenScience, #coder | she/her
Joana G Sa @joanagsa.bsky.social Computational Social Scientist @LIP_Lisbon
PI @spac.bsky.social @ERC.europa.eu funded
Learning about complexity and underestimating effort
Former Physicist (@IST)
Former Biologist (@IGC+@Harvard)
Future Farmer (@Alentejo)
Andreia Sofia Teixeira @asteixeira.bsky.social Associate Professor @NortheasternLDN , @NUnetsi | Researcher @LASIGE (Computer Scientist by training working on Network Science/Complex Systems)
https://andreiasofiateixeira.com
https://branmorrighan.com
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
Arianna Pera @ariannapera.bsky.social Postdoc @cphsodas.bsky.social working on climate action
Previously: PhD student in Computational Social Science at @itu.dk @nerdsitu.bsky.social | Visiting Scholar at @umich.edu and @ceu-dnds.bsky.social
Fred Morstatter @fred.science 
Leto Peel @piratepeel.bsky.social A mighty pirate and undisciplined scientist.
piratepeel.github.io
Riccardo Gallotti @ricgallotti.bsky.social Interdisciplinary physicist
Head of the CHuB research unit at FBK
Human behaviour, mobility, transport, decision making, infodemics, data science
Satrio @satrioyudhoatmojo.com Assistant Professor of computer science at Universitas Indonesia.
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.
Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social Researching {science of AI for science, AI governance, science of science #SciSci, #AI4Science, #GenAI, LLMs, agents, alignment}
PhD Candidate @ UW.
Visiting Scholar @ NYU & MSR
Alum @ Carnegie Mellon
Academic webpage: https://samemon.github.io
Anubrata Das @ NAACL 2025 @anubrata.bsky.social Just Finished PhD @ UT Austin; Human-Centered NLP. Language Models
https://anubrata.github.io
Renzhe Yu @renzheyu.bsky.social Researcher @columbiauniversity.bsky.social | Responsible AI and educational equity | He/him
renzheyu.com
Jana M. Perkins, PhD @janajm.com 🎙️ host, @womenofletters.org
✍️ conversations on work, writing, & professional success with the women shaping our cultural landscape
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Jeremiah Milbauer @jerelev.bsky.social NLP PhD student at Carnegie Mellon, resident at Mozilla AI, making things for thinking with // previously Google Research, Google X, cs+phil at UChicago // jeremiah.milbauer.info
Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social Journalist @404Media.co
Signal: jason.404 // email: jason@404media.co
Niklas Stoehr @niklasstoehr.bsky.social Gemini Post-Training ⚫️ Research Scientist at Google DeepMind ⚫️ PhD from ETH Zurich
Aaron Schein @aaronschein.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Statistics & Data Science at UChicago
Topics: data-intensive social science, Bayesian statistics, causal inference, probabilistic ML
Proud “golden retriever” 🦮
Angelika Romanou @agromanou.bsky.social PhD candidate at EPFL doing research in #NLProc
👩🏻💻 https://agromanou.github.io/
Alex Choi @aschoi.bsky.social student @georgemasoncs.bsky.social. NLP with GMNLP. optimistic and curious. 
Amey Hengle @ameyhengle.bsky.social DL / NLP researcher at lcs2.in, IIT Delhi. Ex-ML Engg at Skit.ai
Low-resource NLP | Social Computing | Interpretable and Trustworthy AI 
Anna Wegmann @annawegmann.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher at Utrecht University | Including different styles in NLP | she/her
https://annawegmann.github.io/
Hope Schroeder @hopeschroeder.bsky.social Studying NLP, CSS, and Human-AI interaction. PhD student @MIT. Previously at Microsoft FATE + CSS, Oxford Internet Institute, Stanford Symbolic Systems
hopeschroeder.com
Hans Hanley @hanshanley.bsky.social Computer Science Ph.D. Candidate @Stanford. Researching Disinformation, Computer Security, and NLP. Blog at http://themarginoferror.com.
Vera Liao @qveraliao.bsky.social Researcher@MSR, incoming Associate Prof@UMich. Studying human-AI interaction
Kevin Yang @yang3kc.bsky.social Kaicheng Yang, PhD | Assistant professor @Binghamton University CS | Computational social science, bots, + | views mine
kevin zheng 🍯 @ze.vin phd student in information @umich.edu • political economy of social platforms • computational social science, sts, hci • @geo3550.bsky.social @idpiumass.bsky.social @mediacloud.bsky.social
ze.vin • he/they • prev umass amherst, cfpb
Flor Plaza @florplaza.bsky.social Assistant Professor at LIACS, Leiden University
Working in Socially aware NLP • Human-centered NLP • Emotions • HateSpeech • Fairness • Ethics • 🏆Awards: SCIE, BBVA Foundation, SEPLN • ☀️🥾🏔🚂
📍 The Netherlands 🌷🧀🚲
🏠 🇪🇸☀️
👩🏻💻 https://fmplaza.github.io/
naitian @naitian.org NLP / CSS PhD at Berkeley I School. I develop computational methods to study culture as a social language.
Francesco Salvi @frasalvi.bsky.social PhD Student @ Princeton CITP | Computational Social Science, NLP, Persuasion, Politics | he/him | https://frasalvi.github.io/
Sam Way @samfway.bsky.social Member of Technical Staff @ Microsoft AI. Based in Boulder, CO
@smontariol.bsky.social @smontariol.bsky.social 
Rex "garbage in" Douglass @rexdouglass.bsky.social Applied Scientist in Industry. Previously UCSD. Princeton PhD.
Follow me for recreational methods trash talk.
www.rexdouglass.com
Chloe Eggleston @chloenlp.bsky.social PhD @bouldernlp.bsky.social
NLP, computational social science, sociolinguistics
Aseem Srivastava @as3eem.bsky.social PhD Student at IIIT Delhi | #NLProc #LLMs #mentalHealth #socialComputing
🚀 as3eem.github.io
Chhandak Bagchi @cbagchi.bsky.social CS PhD student at UMass Amherst.
ML and computational social science.
people.umass.edu/cbagchi
Carl Colglazier @carl.cx Learning more about the world using stats and texts.
Computational social scientist studying decentralized social networks.
PhD Candidate at Northwestern with @communitydata.science (ABD!)
I post about: land use, Chicago, and #Rstats
🤓🏳️🌈🦞
Manuel Tonneau @manueltonneau.bsky.social PhD candidate @oiioxford.bsky.social NLP, Computational Social Science @WorldBank
manueltonneau.com
Manoel Horta Ribeiro @manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ Princeton
Previously: EPFL 🇨🇭, UFMG 🇧🇷
Interests: Computational Social Science, Platforms, GenAI, Moderation
Ethan Landes @ethanlandes.bsky.social Philosopher, broadly construed, at Eindhoven | Video games | Expat malaise | Linguistic stuff
Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social 🔹️metascience - philosophy of science - social psychology - higher education
🔹️Professor at Durham University, UK. He/him.
🔹️Website: https://sites.google.com/site/markrubinsocialpsychresearch/
🔹️Substack: https://markrubin.substack.com/
Society for Affective Science @affectscience.bsky.social Dedicated to fostering basic & applied research on affect and emotion defined across a diversity of fields. See our website for #AffectScience2025 details!
society-for-affective-science.org 
Daryl Cameron @dcameron.bsky.social Assoc Prof of Psych, Sherwin Early Career Prof in Rock Ethics Institute @Penn State. Directs Empathy & Moral Psych Lab, Consortium on Moral Decision-Making. Assoc Editor @Emotion. Father of four (twin dad), husband, loves ☕, 🍺, 🎶, 📸. Views are my own.
A/Prof Lisa A. Williams @lisawilliams.bsky.social Associate Professor @UNSW Sydney | social psychologist and affective scientist | positive emotions, wellbeing, prosocial behavior | #womeninSTEM & #equity advocate | she/her | views my own
Roger Giner-Sorolla @rogerthegs.bsky.social Social psychology Professor at University of Kent in England. Moral emotions, collective apologies, scientific reporting reform, ironic enjoyment, and more. Opinions are my own and do not represent any employer.
Julia Ditzer @juliaditzer.bsky.social PhD Student of Psychology @ TUDresden
Visiting Graduate Researcher @ Yale, Stanford & UCLA. 🧠🎓
Interested in early adversity, interoception, and emotion.
Katie Greenaway @katiegreenaway.bsky.social Professor in social psychology at the University of Melbourne. Co-director of the FEEL Lab. Interested in identity, agency, and emotions. She/her.
Logic of Emotion Lab @logicemotionlab.bsky.social Lab at Princeton University studying why people feel what they feel and how they can best manage their emotions using dev, neuro, and translational tools. PI: @ErikNook
Paula Niedenthal @pniedent.bsky.social Affective Science prof at UW-Madison | US politics | triggered by regional & international clichés | Badgers and Packers | Mom of 4 | opinions my own | she/her
Kaitlyn M. Werner, PhD @kaitlynmwerner.bsky.social Affective scientist studying motivation, emotion, and behaviour change. Research Fellow in Affective Psychology at the University of Tartu. www.kaitlynmwerner.com
Lisa Starr @lisastarr.bsky.social Clinical psychological scientist at U of Rochester with interests in depression, life stress, interpersonal factors, daily processes, clinical affective science. Mom of 2. Probably tired right now.
Opinions my own
Christopher Oveis @chrisoveis.bsky.social Associate Professor, UC San Diego
Director, UCSD Empathy & Emotion Lab
Social/Personality Psychologist
https://oveislab.com
Greg Depow @gregdepow.bsky.social Postdoc at UCSD/Harvard, PhD from University of Toronto. Studying #empathy #effort #wellbeing #socialmedia and #prosocial behaviour. #rstats #PhDad #openscience website: gregdepow.com
Jolie Wormwood @jbwormwood.bsky.social Social Psychologist at UNH (opinions my own). Research on affect/emotion, person perception, decision making, psychophysiology. Mother, animal lover, puzzle and movie enthusiast. She/her. 
Seth Pollak @sethpollak.bsky.social Child Emotion Research Lab at Univ of Wisconsin - Madison. Science about emotions to improve children’s wellbeing.
Anthony D. Ong @anthonyong.bsky.social Professor of Psychology, Cornell University | Interested in how people construe and sustain their social affective experience | Human Health Labs: https://www.humanhealthlabs.org/
Ella Moeck @ellamoeck.bsky.social Emotions researcher at UniAdelaide/UniMelb | Using experience sampling and experimental methods | Musician | she/her
Tabea Springstein @tabeaspringstein.bsky.social Assistant Prof. at UC Riverside | Studying how emotions are experienced and managed in our daily lives & how our emotional lives change as we grow older | PI Emotional Lives Lab (https://emotionlab.ucr.edu/)
Jenna Wells @jennawells.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Psychology @ Cornell | relationships, emotion, aging, caregiving, health
https://t.ajrkmx1.com/331727/6224/0?po=6533&aff_sub5=SF_006OG000004lmDN
Dr. Nicole Giuliani @ngiuliani.bsky.social Affective scientist at UO. Parent. Humanist. Still no relation to Rudy. Thank goodness.
Cameron Pugach @cppugach.bsky.social NIMH T32 Postdoctoral Fellow @ VA Boston and Boston University.
Interested in trauma exposure & traumatic stress rxns, affective science, psychophysiology, ambulatory assessment, and measurement
Sa-kiera Hudson @sakierahudson.bsky.social Williams College BA, Harvard Psych PhD, Yale postdoc, and now a Berkeley Haas AP studying hierarchies/intersectionalities in the HIGHER LAB. Creator of TheLOTPlanner
Andero Uusberg @andero.bsky.social Occasionally effective researcher of all things affective, and the other way around
Ellie Morgenroth @elliemorgenroth.bsky.social Neuroscientist 👩🔬
Interested in fMRI to understand cognition and emotion in healthy and brain diseases. Currently researching neurodegenerative diseases. I love to show films in brain scanners. 
Seth Abrutyn @sethabrutyn.bsky.social Sociology, UBC. Theorist of Emotions, Suicide, Institutions, Evolution. Unrepentant DeadHead and Mets Fan.
www.sethabrutyn.com
Check out our new book on youth suicide: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/life-under-pressure-9780190847
Themis Efthimiou @themisefth.bsky.social Quantitative Researcher | Psychology PhD | R & Python
Nicole Nelson @nicolenelson.bsky.social Emotion and developmental psychology at the University of Adelaide. Studying emotions, kids, and all occasions where they intersect. Ex-pat 🇺🇲, living in 🇦🇺, arrived by way of 🇨🇦.