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)
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social Public servant running for U.S. Senate because it shouldn't be THIS hard to get by. Michigan born and raised. Girl Dad. Doctor. Vote by November 3rd!
Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social Technology + democracy.
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Peter Stahel @peterstahel.bsky.social Existing in the context @ essentialmedia.com.au for public affairs, campaigns & politics: owner and MD.
Shir Weinbrand @shirweinbrand.bsky.social Computational Social Science PhD candidate @QUT
Investigating the complex interplay between search engines, GenAI, and politics/news
Entrepreneur's mind. Athlete's body. Artist's soul ~ J.Clear
https://www.shir-weinbrand.com/
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
Zea Szebeni @zeaszebeni.bsky.social Socpsy postdoc @helsinkiuni.bsky.social | disinformation, visual populism, hungary, social media, @decaproject.bsky.social
scrolling for science
Sol Messing @solmg.bsky.social Social Scientist/Research Prof at NYU CSMaP, formerly Twitter. http://solomonmg.github.io
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 •
Curd Knüpfer @curdknupfer.bsky.social Associate professor of political communication @ddc-sdu.bsky.social, University of Southern Denmark.
Focus on digital & right-wing media + parties.
Associate Editor @ International Journal of Press/Politics
Athenae Erulin @athenae-erulin.eurosky.social We are a citizen collective created to minimize the effects of information manipulation through education and foster Bluesky/Eurosky adoption.
Hosted in 🇪🇺 by @eurosky.social
Starter-packs: French MPs, Senators and MEPs.
👉🏼 https://linktr.ee/athenae.erulin
Jenn Wilson @thatjennwilson.bsky.social PhD Candidate. Using open LLMs to process complex information for regular people to use. Likes lemongrass + ginger tea and chocolate. Two cats.
Jane Suiter @janesuit.bsky.social Professor of Political Communication, Democracy at Dublin C Uni || Director FuJo Future Media Democracy Society || Deliberation || Citizens Assembly|| Disinformation
Van Badham @vanbadham.bsky.social Guardian columnist, co-hosts The Week on Wednesday podcast, makes theatre, yaps a lot. Contact me: https://linktr.ee/vanbadham You should totally buy my book, QANON & ON: A Short and Shocking History of Internet Conspiracy Cults. It’s bonkers.
Holly Barnett @hollybarnett.bsky.social PhD student at Lancaster University, researching mis/disinformation interventions
Kim Barbour @kjbarbour.bsky.social Persona studies + digital media researcher and lecturer at Uni Adelaide, Kaurna country. Current special interest = Hermitcraft. Views mine unless otherwise attributed.
Paige Macintosh @cornflakerabbit.bsky.social Trans media scholar from Aotearoa New Zealand. Radicalised by Animorphs. They/them/Dr.
Debating Authenticity now available for order, launch discount NEW30: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-debating-authenticity.html
Erik A. Anderson @ere68.bsky.social Professor of Philosophy at Furman University.
Elena Sánchez Nicolás @elenasanchez.bsky.social Editor-in-chief at @euobserver.com
Tips? esn@euobserver.com
bruna paroni @brupar.bsky.social phding @ uniurb.it | team @ mine.uniurb.it | visiting @qutdmrc.bsky.social + @zemki.bsky.social
[social media] platforms x politics
Robert Ross @robert-m-ross.bsky.social Cognitive scientist at Macquarie University in Sydney. Research on delusions, metascience, misinformation, reasoning, and religion. Google Scholar: https://tinyurl.com/5f2udu5p
Cornelius Puschmann @cbpuschmann.bsky.social Professor of Media & Communication at ZeMKI, U of Bremen & affiliate Leibniz Institute for Media Research. Computational communication science.
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
Pantéa Javidan, JD, PhD @pjavidan.bsky.social Faculty & Research Fellow @ Stanford University Center for Human Rights & International Justice + Human Rights in Trauma Mental Health Lab. Views mine.
Manic Pixel Dream Girl @srobyn.bsky.social Democrat, obsessive amateur politics junkie, former bird site refugee, no patience for equivocation in this day and age, student of history, dog lover, anti-MAGA, pro-democracy ✡️ 🇮🇱🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🇬🇱🇩🇰🇵🇦
You don’t fight anti-semitism with fascism. They’re bedfellows.
Fabio Giglietto @fabiogiglietto.bsky.social Professor of Internet Studies at the University of Urbino - Principal investigator https://mine.uniurb.it
Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) @ardc.edu.au Enabling the Australian research community and industry access to nationally significant digital research infrastructure, platforms, skills and data collections. Enabled by #NCRIS. Visit https://ardc.edu.au/
Ariel Bogle @arielbogle.bsky.social Investigations reporter @GuardianAus
// abogle@protonmail.com // Signal: @Ariel.872
Heard Island Government @heardislandgov.bsky.social Official Gov Description: Flight challenged colony of biracial nudists.
Status: Tariff & Human Free. Sovereign; yet protected by AU. “Flippers Up”
SIGN to protect our Island’s Marine Reserve https://wwf.org.au/get-involved/an-antarctic-safe-haven/
The AI Alliance @aialliance.bsky.social We are technology developers, researchers, industry leaders and advocates who collaborate to advance safe, responsible AI rooted in open innovation.
Catherine Knight Steele @steelecat717.bsky.social Author - Digital Black Feminism
Associate Professor @UMD
I wonder if I'll ever get to talk about my reality shows here 😔
BostonJoan 🏳️🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social I am the founder of The Critical Internet Studies Institute and an Assistant Professor of Journalism and Emerging Media Studies at Boston University
www.criticalinternet.org
@olgarithmic.bsky.social @olgarithmic.bsky.social 
Themme Fatale @bimbolaureate.bsky.social 🏳️🌈The original Themme Fatale🏳️⚧️
🤡Award-winning, Sideshow-slinging Drag Clown
🎪Co-creator of Le Freak⛓️
✏️Find me on Substack 📣
Mathieu O'Neil @mathieuon.bsky.social Professor of communication, News & Media Research Centre, University of Canberra, Ngunnawal country • Director, Digital Commons Policy Council • Civic information literacy for schools • Political economy of digital commons • https://dcpc.info/actions/
Evelyn Leary @neoneve.bsky.social She/her 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
ABC News producer 🇦🇺 Opinions own
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
Local & Independent News Association @lina.org.au A movement of Australian digital newsrooms producing public interest journalism | lina.org.au
The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com Independent news from the sharpest academic minds.
📰 Read: http://theconversation.com/au
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mat marques, ph.d. @mdmarques.com bicycles, coffee, and social psychology.
researches the causes and consequences of #conspiracytheories
he/him. woiworung land.
https://mdmarques.com
Dr. Marc-André Argentino @maargentino.com Counterterrorism | National Security | Child Safety | www.maargentino.com | 🇨🇦 Facta Non Verba
My Books:
QAnon: From Conspiracy Theory to New Religious Movement
Contemporary Far-Right Culture
Joshua Bowes @joshuabowes.bsky.social Threat Monitoring Intelligence Analyst, Sentinel
Scott Hamilton @sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social Author, researcher and policy advisor. Adjunct Associate Professor Monash Uni, Senior Advisor Smart Energy Council, ‘A Better Australia’ 📕 ‘Sold Down The River’ 📕 #RenewableEnergy #ClimateCrisis #EnergyTransition
Q Origins Project @qop.bsky.social 
Teddy Wilson @reportbywilson.bsky.social Journalist and Researcher | Reporting and Research on the U.S. Radical Right | Publisher of Radical Reports @radicalreports.bsky.social | Subscribe: https://www.radicalreports.org | Support My Work: https://linktr.ee/reportbywilson
Jacob Epstein @yaakovepst.bsky.social Anti-Zionist living in Palestine-Israel | M.A. Communication | Former analyst @ FakeReporter & Digital Sherlock @DFRLab | Interests: Transnational Jewish far-right, anti-gender politics, male supremacism, illiberalism. | Aspiring PhD student
HKS Misinformation Review @misinforeview.bsky.social Peer-reviewed academic journal of cutting-edge misinformation research. Follow for updates on articles & engagement with the #misinformationresearch community.
Denise Difficult-Shrivell @deniseshrivell.bsky.social Australian political campaigner, commentator & SpinProof podcaster. Frequently makes good & necessary trouble. TrueNorth weekday substack #auspol
Steph Hill @sahill.bsky.social PhD. Lecturer in media and communication at the University of Leicester. Researching businesses in the policy process, greenwashing, the UN Plastic Treaty, platforms, content moderation, and more.
When possible also about birds, books, and BJJ.
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account
Author: Deep Unlearning (you can now preorder at https://shorturl.at/sCdjl)
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://dair-institute.org)
The Associated Press @apnews.com Advancing the power of facts, globally 🌎
Clean Up The Internet @cleanuptheinternet.org.uk Independent, UK-based organisation concerned about the degradation in online discourse and its implications for democracy.
@internetclean on that other site...
www.cleanuptheinternet.org.uk
Jonathan Groves @grovesprof.bsky.social Prof/journalistic refugee in #sgf battling mis/disinformation. Believer in the power of music, photography and podcasting. Co-author with @Brizzyc of “Transforming Newsrooms.” Host of #FridayHappyHour.
Professor Amanda Sturgill @drsturg.bsky.social Truthmonger. I write books, teach students and make podcasts about you being smarter about misinformation. #WeAreAltGov #DetectingDeception https://bit.ly/UnSpunPod
Johanna Lehn @johannalehn.bsky.social German journalist. Digital investigation. PolSci&Soc.
Noura Aljizawi @noura.bsky.social Senior Researcher @Citizenlab.ca , UofT
Exploring the dark dimensions of digital power: authoritarianism, transnational repression & disinformation.
Dr. Michelle Lynn Kahn @michellelkahn.bsky.social Historian of far-right extremism, writing a book about German & American neo-Nazis | Also: migration, racism, & sexuality in Europe/global | Author of Foreign in Two Homelands (2024) | University of Richmond | Ask me about fascism & my 3 cats
Elise Thomas @elisethomas.bsky.social Senior OSINT Investigator at @cen4infores.bsky.social. Opinions, hot takes, mistakes all my own. https://www.clippings.me/elisethomas
Olga Tokariuk @olgatokariuk.bsky.social Academy Associate, Chatham House. Journalist, disinfo researcher, occasionally lecturer, speaker and moderator. Proud Ukrainian, currently in the UK
Marietje Schaake @marietjeschaake.bsky.social Proud European 🇪🇺 Fellow at Stanford 👩🏼💻 column in FT 🗞️Member of European Parliament 2009-2019 📕Author: The Tech Coup
Katherine Denkinson @kdenkwrites.com UK-based Investigative Journalist & OSINT bod.
Author of Incel:The Weaponisation of Misogyny (out now with Aurora Metro Books)
Email: katherinedenkinson@protonmail.com
Website: www.KDenkWrites.com
Julia Smirnova @jsmirnova.bsky.social Senior researcher for @cemas.io. Disinfo, extremism, technology. Previously, @isdglobal and journalist writing for @spiegel, @zeit, @welt. Alumna @warstudies
Eto Buziashvili @buziashvili.bsky.social Technology & emerging threats | Research Fellow, Atlantic Council. Views my own. 🇺🇦
Dr. Christine Sarteschi, LCSW @drsarteschi.bsky.social Full Professor of SW & Criminology | Extreme violence researcher. Books about #Sovereigncitizens | Support my work: https://ko-fi.com/drsarteschi | Opinions own & RPs not endorsements
Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com 🙅🏻♀️ Author (2 books & The Wayfinder newsletter), disinformation expert, advocate for targets of online abuse.
☀️ CEO, @americansunlight.org
😆 Tucker Carlson once called me a “highly self confident young woman” and meant it as an insult
The Guardian @theguardian.com The need for independent journalism has never been greater. Become a Guardian supporter https://support.theguardian.com
🇺🇸 Guardian US https://bsky.app/profile/us.theguardian.com
🇦🇺 Guardian Australia https://bsky.app/profile/australia.theguardian.com
Leo Haselhuhn @leohaselhuhn.bsky.social MA: IMSISS 2025 - interests: propaganda, populism, the far-right & Russia - originally filmproducer
wendy norris @wendynorris.bsky.social Assoc Prof | Information Science
Ex-investigative reporter and editor
Crisis informatics nerd
Makes good trouble
Tell your dog I said "hi"
Mary Kane @mk6325.bsky.social Senior Editor, The News Literacy Project
Guangnan (Rio) @guangnanrio.bsky.social PhD candidate at @QUT @DMRC @ADM+S. Multimodal Machine Learning, Bots and Trolls, Coordinated Inauthentic Behaviours, Online Mis/Disinformation, Computational Social Science
sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social journalist and lawyer based in Portland, OR.
Laura Fisch @laura-fisch.bsky.social PhD student at ETH Zurich
(Mis)Translating Deceit (AHRC-funded project) @m-deceit.bsky.social 3-year AHRC-funded project ‘(Mis)Translating Deceit: Disinformation as a Translingual, Discursive Dynamic’. PI: Stephen Hutchings / Lead Co-I: Vera Tolz
@OfficialUoM
Mike Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social Author: Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions about What to Believe Online (University of Chicago Press).
Researcher, infolit/misinfo/rhetoric/civic reasoning. Currently researching AI as tool for critical thinking.
Gabriele Pergola @pergolagb.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Natural Language Processing (NLP) at the University of Warwick, UK.
Personal Webpage: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/dcs/people/u1898418/
Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social Historian; Author, NYT Bestseller Strongmen; Publisher, Lucid, a Substack newsletter on authoritarianism and threats to democracy; Film & TV Consultant
Alex Danvers @drdanvers.bsky.social Social Psychologist, Data Scientist, Baseball Fan, Dog Dad, Improviser
Catriona Bonfiglioli @catbonfiglioli.bsky.social UTS senior lecturer in media studies, journalism educator, media studies researcher. Research focus: health & the news media. #publichealth; #healthcommunication #ethics. BA Hons UEA, PG Dip J.Stud. Cardiff, PhD Sydney. #JERAA/ANZCA Anne Dunn Scholar 2021
Simon Katterl @simonkkatterl.bsky.social He/him | CEO, Mental Health Lived Experience Peak Queensland | Mental Health Law, Regulation & Human Rights Advocate | Bylines in the Guardian & the Age | Research: https://shorturl.at/DpKkE
Ben Lyall 💾 @benlyall.bsky.social 👨💻 Digital sociologist
🔴 RMIT / Lecturer, Digital Communication
💬 Digital civic lives / data cultures / wearables
👣 On unceded Bunurong & Wurundjeri lands
➖ Em—dash enthusiast / Nintendo apologist
@stephenpiggott.bsky.social @stephenpiggott.bsky.social Researcher/organizer & expert on far-right and anti-democracy groups. Asst Collabs Director of Princeton's Bridging Divides Initiative. 
Taylor Agajanian @cyborglibrarian.bsky.social PhD student of Media, Technology, & Society at Northwestern University | Critical media scholar studying the ways digital platforms fuel problematic information, shape politics, and cause offline harm to marginalized communities.
🇦🇲🇲🇽 www.cyborglibrarian.com
ysabel @ysabel.bsky.social • qualitative social science academic researching tech + young identities
• new book out with @ucpress: THE KIDS ARE ONLINE https://tinyurl.com/jv33yjaf
• words in @guardian @WIRED @WSJ @glamour
• she/her
find me @ ysabelgerrard.net/home
Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social Investigative Reporter @ TPM | Author | Words In: The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, New York Magazine, The Atlantic
Send me a secure message on Signal: hunter.07
https://linktr.ee/hunter_walker
Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk Researches Propaganda & IW; Visiting Prof @notredame.bsky.social; Fellow @ Bard; Associate @ Cambridge; Owner Maven of Persuasion; Snr Researcher Oscar-shortlisted The Great Hack on #CambridgeAnalytica. 🐕 https://emma-briant.co.uk signal: Emmalbriant.44
Ines Engelmann @inesengelmann.bsky.social Communication scholar at @uni-jena.de | journalism research | alternative media | populism | democratic legitimacy | empirical methods
Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social Journalist entrepreneur. Talking media/tech/democracy. Founded Storyful. Co-founded Kinzen. Worked Spotify & Twitter. Ex-foreign correspondent 🇮🇪
Neil SandersSDCIC @neilsanderssdcic.bsky.social Host of Some Dare Call It Conspiracy Podcast
www.somedarecallitconspiracy.com
Likes punk rock, crust punk, black metal, golden era hip hop, The Cure, Skinny Puppy and the Beach Boys. Withnail and I, American Psycho, Glengarry Glen Ross. 
Some Dare Call It Conspiracy Podcast @somedarepodcast.bsky.social Two former conspiracists debunking conspiracy theories and disinformation.
"It's a great listen! I hope more people check it out." - Travis View (QAA Podcast)
🔥🦉🔥 @brentlee.bsky.social
🔥🦉🔥 @neilsanderssdcic.bsky.social
Laura Vodden @voddenlaura.bsky.social Data Scientist and PhD Candidate | Exploring the potential of LLMs to enhance social science research | QUT Digital Media Research Centre | ADM+S
Nicolas Suzor @nicsuzor.bsky.social Law prof, working to make tech more fair. Future Fellow @ QUT Digital Media Research Centre; Chief Investigator @admscentre.org.au; Member @ Oversight Board.
He/him. All views are my own.
https://nic.suzor.net
Yoel Roth @yoyoel.com Internet sanitation enthusiast and full-time corgi wrangler.
Olga Belogolova 🌻 @olgs7.bsky.social Director, Emerging Tech Initiative at SAIS; Professor at the Alperovitch Institute on disinformation/influence ops. SAIS & BU alum. Former IO Policy Lead at Meta, former journalist at Atlantic Media.
E. Diane 🏳️⚧🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵✊👠💌♀️🚩🏴🇦🇺💀 @e-dianephd.bsky.social Enby Demi Sapphic Trans Femme
This account is unattended. Find me on SC.
Trans Sisters Radio:
https://on.soundcloud.com/Ucq2w
Knight First Amendment Institute @knightcolumbia.org The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University defends the freedoms of speech & the press in the digital age through strategic litigation, research, policy advocacy, and public education.
https://knightcolumbia.org/
Philip Mai @philipmai.com Executive Director of SocialMediaLab.ca | M.S., J.D. | Media interviews PhilipMai.com/Press/ | Researcher & Developer of social media analysis tools for research in the public interest: SocialMediaLab.ca/apps/
Jessica Mahone @jessmahone.bsky.social Head of Research, DeWitt Wallace Center for Media & Democracy @ Duke | Single dog mom to Rocky and Mocha🌈 | Alum: King College, ETSU (x2), Florida | Views mine | She/her
Christy Somos @christysomos.bsky.social Award-winning 🇨🇦 Journalist, Analyst, Producer Creator+ Host @thestateofthings.bsky.social National security, extremism, global affairs, mis/dis-information | OSINT | DM for Signal |
christysomos.com
Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social Wife, Mom, UMich Law School Professor from Practice, MSNOW legal analyst, The Contrarian contributor, former U.S. Attorney, EDMI
Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones.bsky.social Associate Professor Northwestern University in Qatar | Studies Disinfo, Digital Repression & Gulf Politics | Author Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East (Hurst & OUP) Political Repression in Bahrain (Cambridge University Press) | Cat Fancier