Data Colada @datacolada.bsky.social Announcing posts for our blog.
This account is seldom monitored.
Mitali Mukherjee @mitalilive.bsky.social Director @reutersinstitute.bsky.social I Political Economy Journalist I Chevening Fellow I TEDx Speaker I Raisina Fellow I AIYD I Everything stops for friendly doggos and cups of chai
Chris Moran @chrismoranuk.bsky.social Guardian's head of editorial innovation. Focusing on AI in the newsroom
Marielza @marielza.bsky.social Retired UNESCO Dir for Digital Inclusion, Policies & Transformation. Chair, UN University, eGov Institute.
UNESCO Women in STEM Committee
Some pottery and cyanotyping
Profile picture is of my face and torso
Banner is a picture I took of a light garden
Sasha Killewald @sashakillewald.bsky.social Sociologist. Director, Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics. Michigan forever.
Deb Raji @rajiinio.bsky.social AI accountability, audits & eval. Keen on participation & practical outcomes. CS PhDing @UCBerkeley.
Tamas Andrei Foldes @sinandrei.bsky.social Postdoc at University of Surrey. Interested in Sleep / Memory / Well-being
Sabrina Norwood @sabrinanorwood.bsky.social Postdoc at University of Bern. Researching digital technologies and digital behaviour.
Women's Online Wellbeing (WOW) @womensonlinewellbeing.co.uk Women’s Online Wellbeing (WOW) is a three-year European research project exploring digitalised violence against women. We examine online harassment, image-based abuse and deepfakes to understand their scale, impact and the support women need.
@womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social The original & only WomensArt created/ curated by art historian/author PL Henderson to celebrate/promote women in the arts.
Real art...real artists...No AI
Images © to respective owners
Tehila Sasson @tsasson.bsky.social historian at Oxford co-editor of Modern British History (OUP). author of The Solidarity Economy (PUP 2024) https://shorturl.at/qxFJ8
@icwsm.bsky.social @icwsm.bsky.social The 21th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
🏴 Edinburgh, Scotland
Diyi Liu @deeliu97.bsky.social "D-E", Postdoc@UCPH, PhD @oiioxford.bsky.social, researching platform governance, content moderation, human-computer interaction
Philipp Riederle @phipz.com Researching the Political Economy of Internet (De-)Centralisation | Platforms, Infrastructures, and Interoperability | Doctoral Researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute @oii.ox.ac.uk
🌍 https://www.platforce.net // 📬 philipp.riederle(at)oii.ox.ac.uk
UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social Changing the world for the better through world-class social science research and education. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/departments-and-centres/ucl-social-research-institute
Ryota Mugiyama @ryotamugiyama.bsky.social Teaching sociology at Gakushuin University, Tokyo, Japan. Researching inequality and stratification in Japan, in relation to labor market, family formation, and social mobility. https://ryotamugiyama.com
Melissa Milkie @melissamilkie.bsky.social Sociologist at University of Toronto & University of Maryland | Past President @WFRN.bsky.social | Studying Time Use 🕒 & Wellbeing; Gender, Work & Family; Culture; Social Psychology | Author-Changing Rhythms of American Life
Junko Yamashita 山下順子 @junkoyamashita.bsky.social Researches and Teaches at School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies (SPAIS), University of Bristol. sociology, social policy, care, gender, work, inequalities
Thomas Hakman @thomashakman.bsky.social PhD Digital Technology and Mental Health | University of Oxford | Oxford Internet Institute
Jen Semler @jensemler.bsky.social Philosopher of AI and ethics | Lecturer at Birkbeck
jensemler.com
Dr Lucy Foulkes @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social Psychologist at University of Oxford | Adolescence + mental health
Linktr.ee/lucyfoulkes
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/
Allison Dunatchik @adunatchik.bsky.social Assistant professor of sociology at the University of South Carolina studying gender, families, work, inequality, and social policy. Views are my own.
Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social Canadian critical media studies scholar and podcaster interested in the meanings we make of perpetual tech promises. Bilingue. Focused on the environment. I typo a lot.
😷🏳️🌈
🎙️ thedatafix.net
📝 heliotropejournal.net
ProPublica @propublica.org Investigative journalism in the public interest. Headlines and (sometimes literal) receipts.
propublica.org
Valentina Rotondi @rotondivale.bsky.social Social scientist. www.valentinarotondi.eu
Helen Margetts @helenmargetts.bsky.social Professor at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford and the Alan Turing Institute, trying to make sense of governance and democracy in a digital world #public policy #digital government #data science #AI #democracy #behavioural science
Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social #NewPI interested in #immune #evolution, host #pathogen interactions, and #ScientificPublishing @ University of Exeter, UK. He/him. 🇨🇦
Marie-Pier Bergeron Boucher @mpbergeron.bsky.social Associate professor at the Interdisciplinary Centre on Population Dynamics, University of Southern Denmark.
Alyson van Raalte @alysonvanraalte.bsky.social At the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, interested in mortality and inequalities
Cosmo Strozza @cosmostrozza.bsky.social Assistant Professor (Tenure track) @CPop_SDU | PhD² 2021 in Demography & Public Health | EDSD 2017/18 | Focusing on Aging & Inequalities in Health and Mortality
Ada Lovelace Institute @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social Making data & AI work for people & society.
Sign up for our fortnightly newsletter: https://adalovelaceinstitute.org//newsletter-subscribe
Linda Li @linda-li.bsky.social Fellow in Advanced Quantitative Methods @LSE; DPhil @oxfordinternetinstitute
Luisa Fassi @fassiluisa.bsky.social PhD @mrccbu.bsky.social & http://orben.group
Youth mental health / Social media use / Open science
https://luisafassi.github.io/
Wadham College @wadhamcollege.bsky.social Academic excellence within a welcoming, inclusive and progressive community.
King's Global Institute for Women's Leadership @giwlkings.bsky.social Working towards a world in which women of all backgrounds have fair and equal access to leadership. Based at Kings College London. Chaired by Julia Gillard.
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.
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.🏳️🌈🏞🌄✨️
Digital Child @digitalchildau.bsky.social Supporting children growing up in a digital world. Find out more at digitalchild.org.au
Alice Evans @draliceevans.bsky.social Visiting Associate Professor at Stanford University
Writing "The Great Gender Divergence"
Substack: www.ggd.world
trudelappegard.bsky.social @trudelappegard.bsky.social Professor in sociology at the University of Oslo
Editor in chief for European Journal of Population
Sonia Livingstone @sonialivingstone.bsky.social LSE prof @MediaLSE | Director of #DigitalFutures4Children | Researches children's digital experiences and rights | Interested in evidence to inform policy | s.livingstone@lse.ac.uk | Stay in touch at http://eepurl.com/cEUi05
Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com I am an assistant professor at Tilburg University's Department of Social Psychology.
I have a website at https://vuorre.com.
All posts are posts.
Nick Wise @nhwise.bsky.social Interested in research integrity, fluid dynamics, and much other nonsense.
Joanna Pepin @joannapepin.bsky.social My sociology is powered by lattes & baseball. Assistant Professor at University of Toronto. Studying families, gender, and health.
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/
Hannah Ritchie @hannahritchie.bsky.social Deputy Editor, Our World in Data
Senior Researcher, University of Oxford
Climate, energy, environment, all things data.
Oxford Population Health @oxpop.bsky.social Nuffield Department of Population Health | @ox.ac.uk | Leading human health forward.
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
Sayash Kapoor @sayash.bsky.social CS PhD candidate at Princeton. I study the societal impact of AI.
Website: cs.princeton.edu/~sayashk
Book/Substack: aisnakeoil.com
Tom Calver @tomcalver.bsky.social Data Editor, @thetimes.com
🇬🇧 How is Britain doing? 👉 thetimes.com/data
🔗 https://www.thetimes.com/profile/tom-calver
📧 thomas.calver@the-times.co.uk
Oxford Internet Institute @oii.ox.ac.uk Exploring how technology is transforming the way we live, work and govern.
Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social Hacker Mama/Artist/Designer/Coder/Writer/She/Ella Assoc Prof of Urban Science @MITdusp, Director, Data + Feminism Lab, Co-author #DataFeminism, hablo castellano
Alison Powell @abpowell.bsky.social Assoc Prof at LSE | Teaches MSc in Data & Society | Feminist research praxis | AI policy making | Undoing Optimization: https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300223804/
Current work on health, care and environment from NHS tech to Rewilding the Night
Jess Morley @jessrmorley.bsky.social 100% health data nerd & OG swiftie. PhD Oxford Internet Institute. Previously Director of Policy Oxford Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science. Currently Associate Research Scientist, Yale Digital Ethics Center.
Gaia Marcus @gaiamarcus.bsky.social - Director @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social:ensuring data & AI work for ppl & society
- Stint in government - led #NationalDataStrategy; roles in Cabinet Office, ONS & MHCLG
- Charity roles inc. Samaritans Trustee; staff @ The RSA, Centrepoint, ParkinsonsUK
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
Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social Data journalist, AI scholar, NYU professor. Author, MORE THAN A GLITCH: CONFRONTING RACE, GENDER, AND ABILITY BIAS IN TECH and ARTIFICIAL UNINTELLIGENCE: HOW COMPUTERS MISUNDERSTAND THE WORLD. meredithbroussard.com
Tom Chivers @tomchivers.bsky.social "Far too nice to be a journalist," per Terry Pratchett. Lead writer on Semafor's Flagship newsletter. DMs open; chiversthomas(a)gmail.
Latest book, Everything is Predictable: geni.us/EIPBook
Podcast, The Studies Show: https://www.thestudiesshowpod.com
Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of EMPIRE OF AI: empireofai.com. ai reporter. national magazine award & american humanist media award winner. words in The Atlantic. formerly WSJ, MIT Tech Review, KSJ@MIT. email: http://karendhao.com/contact.
Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social Scholar, author, policy advisor
Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab
https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab
Books: The Future of Science is Civic, Auditing AI, The Social Life of DNA, Genetics & the Unsettled Past, Body & Soul, Technicolor
Those Nerdy Girls @thosenerdygirls.bsky.social A team of women & non-binary scientists & clinicians here to empower people to better navigate science & health info. Creators of Dear Pandemic.
#publichealth #scicomm #WomenInStem
https://thosenerdygirls.org/
https://thosenerdygirls.substack.com/
Pilar Gonalons-Pons @pgonalon.bsky.social Sociology Prof @ Upenn. Feminist studying gender, families, inequality, and social policy. She/her. The nuclear family is radioactive ⚠️⚠️
Stuart Ritchie @stuartjritchie.bsky.social
Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore @sjblakemore.bsky.social Professor of Psychology & Cognitive Neuroscience at Cambridge, FBA FMedSci FRS. Adolescent brain development. Views my own. Book: http://amazon.co.uk/dp/1784161349
Alison Gopnik @alisongopnik.bsky.social Cognitive scientist, philosopher, and psychologist at Berkeley, author of The Scientist in the Crib, The Philosophical Baby and The Gardener and the Carpenter and grandmother of six.
Pete Etchells @peteetchells.bsky.social Professor of Psychology and Science Communication | Award-winning science writer | Screen Time | Social Media | Smartphones | Video games | https://linktr.ee/unlockedbook
Candice Odgers @candiceodgers.bsky.social Scientist, runner, Canadian still trying to figure out how to live in the US.
Psychology Prof at UCI, who sometimes writes about why we should trust science and avoid panic to really help our kids.
Scott A. Hale @computermacgyver.bsky.social Professor @oiioxford.bsky.social & Director of Research
@meedan.・widening access to quality info・multilingualism・mobilization・NLP・agenda setting
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
Chris Russell @cruss.bsky.social Algorithmic governance and computer vision. Assoc Prof Oxford, Ellis fellow
@jonasvalente.bsky.social @jonasvalente.bsky.social
Professor Leah Ruppanner @leahruppanner.bsky.social Professor of Sociology and Founding Director of The Future of Work Lab and the Gender Equity Initiative at the University of Melbourne. #Gender #FutureofWork #Care #AI #Robots. My new book on the mental load - DRAINED is out in 2025.
Katie Bolzendahl @cbolzendahl.bsky.social Political sociologist with a focus on gender inequality in Western industrialized democracies. Say hi to your pet for me (and share their pics!).
WFRN.bsky.social @wfrn.bsky.social The Work and Family Researchers Network is the premier 501(c)(3) nonprofit professional association for work-family scholars and leaders.
Katrin Auspurg @kauspurg.bsky.social Sociologist
Lena Hipp @llhipp.bsky.social sociologist studying social inequalities, work-family, labor markets
professor at the WZB Berlin & University of Potsdam
Sarah Patterson @spattersearch.bsky.social Demographer & Sociologist: families, caregiving, dementia, gender, work. ❤s 🍩 & gardening 🌻. She/her. Let us build each other up.
Sarah Damaske @sarahdamaske.bsky.social Sociology Professor. Studying gender, work, family, and inequality. Currently: precarity, job quality, and the stalled gender revolution. Author of #TollsofUncertainty, #FortheFamily #Science&Art of Interviewing. ✍️ @time @cnnopinion @harvardbiz
Zoe Ryan @ladyzoia.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford setting up a mental health research network for schools in England. PhD Research Exploring the construct of Intolerance of Uncertainty, and developmental associations with anxiety.
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
Mohsen Mosleh @mmosleh.bsky.social Prof @Oxford, Affiliate @MIT www.MohsenMosleh.com
Licinia Güttel @liciniaguttel.bsky.social PhD researcher at University of Oxford working on digitalisation, party competition, public opinion, and elections. She/her. (@politicsoxford.bsky.social, previously @oii.ox.ac.uk)
Nick Ballou @nballou.bsky.social Early career research fellow at Imperial College London - video games, trace data, adolescents, mental health, open research.
Nathan Davies @nathandavies.bsky.social Thinking about the past and future of digital government @ oxford internet institute
Based at Harvard as an STS fellow 2025-26
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.
Kathryn Eccles @kathryneccles.bsky.social Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow at Oxford Internet Institute and Pembroke College, University of Oxford.
Interested in Digital Culture, Heritage, and Museums.
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
Boxi A. Wu @aboxiwu.bsky.social PhD @oii.ox.ac.uk
Maria Sobolewska @profsob.bsky.social Professor of Political Science at Manchester University. British politics, race and ethnicity, representation.
Aaron Reeves @aaronreeves.bsky.social Professor of Sociology, LSE - http://aaronreeves.org/ - New Book: Born to Rule: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674257719
Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org Our World in Data is a free, nonprofit website with a mission to increase understanding of the world’s largest problems and drive informed action to solve them. Based out of Oxford University (@ox.ac.uk), founded by @maxroser.bsky.social.
Casey Breen @caseybreen.bsky.social Demographer. Assistant Professor @ UT-Austin.
caseybreen.com
Gina Neff @ginasue.bsky.social Flower fan and AI expert. Professor of Responsible AI, QMUL; Director Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, Cambridge and fellow Magdalene College. Deputy CEO Responsible AI UK. https://linktr.ee/mctdcambridge?utm_source=linktree_admin_share
Daron Acemoglu @dacemoglumit.bsky.social Institute Professor, MIT Economics. Co-Director of @mitshapingwork.bsky.social. Author of Why Nations Fail, The Narrow Corridor, and Power & Progress.
Andrea Tilstra @andreatilstra.bsky.social Demographer & Sociologist | Social Inequalities in Population Health | Senior Researcher at Oxford 🇬🇧, PhD from Boulder ⛰️ | she/her
Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social Politics Professor, University of Manchester. Sky News Elections Analyst
Author of "The British General Election of 2024" & "Brexitland". All takes are mine only.
"The Swingometer", is here: https://swingometer.substack.com/
https://www.robertford.net/
Rumman Chowdhury @ruchowdh.bsky.social www.rummanchowdhury.com
www.humane-intelligence.org
CEO & co-founder, Humane Intelligence
US Science Envoy for AI (Biden Administration)
Connected by Data @connectedbydata.org The campaign for communities to have a powerful say on data and AI, to help create an equitable and sustainable world.
connectedbydata.org
Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci Personality psych & causal inference @UniLeipzig. I like all things science, beer, & puns. Even better when combined! Part of http://the100.ci, http://openscience-leipzig.org