Alfred Nyaga @alfred-nyaga.bsky.social Lawyer | Founder, Digital Ethics Hub | Host, Digital Ethics Podcast | Joint LLM in IT and Data Law, LLM, LLB, Diploma in Law | Digital Rights & AI Regulation
Nils Köbis @nckobis.bsky.social Professor for Human Understanding of Algorithms and Machines
@Research Center Trustworthy Data Science and Security
in Duisburg
Pooja Prajod @poojaprajod.bsky.social HCI | Affective Computing | HRI | Human- entered AI | Responsible AI.
Postdoc at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) Amsterdam and AI, Media and Democracy (AIMD) lab. PhD from University of Augsburg, Germany.
Simone van der Hof @joix.bsky.social Professor of Regulating Digital Technologies | Privacy, Data Protection, Commercial Exploitation, Digital Play, Digital Child Rights | Center for Law & Digital Technologies (eLaw), Leiden University
David Karpa @dkarpa.bsky.social Postdoc at HfP, TUM
political behavior, political economy, and political psychology
www.davidkarpa.com
Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social Digital Cultures and Arts | UZH & ZHdK | operative images, synthetic media and visual culture
@digitalculturesandarts.ch
https://digitalculturesandarts.ch/
https://linktr.ee/bildoperationen
Norman @noaasm.bsky.social 💼 Privacy Lawyer | 🎓 Corporate & Commercial Law LL.M alumni @ Maastricht University | 🎓 Public Int'l Law LL.M alumni @ University of Oslo | interested in tech, cybersecurity, data protection, international law & geopolitics | 📍🇪🇪 | views my own
Zilin Lin @linzilinn.bsky.social Postdoc @ascor.bsky.social | AI, Media & Democracy Lab | Human(e) AI RPA | PhD - NEWSFLOWS
Nina Hahne @ninahahne.bsky.social 💻 Science manager @cais-research.bsky.social
📙 Deputy editor @policyr.bsky.social
PhD from @unihalle.bsky.social
✒️ #writing #digitaltransformation #openaccess #ruhrgebiet📍
Céline Odermatt @ce-matt.bsky.social PhD student in Communication and Media Research | University of Zurich | @ikmzmediachange.bsky.social
Research: dataveillance, digital society, user-centered research, mixed methods
Tom Barbereau @tom-barbereau.bsky.social I work on technology governance as a scientist at TNO and research fellow at the Institute for Information Law (UvA)
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
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📸 @willtoft.bsky.social
Rep📘 @ianbonaparte.bsky.social
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
Ada Lovelace Institute @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social Making data & AI work for people & society.
Sign up for our fortnightly newsletter: https://adalovelaceinstitute.org//newsletter-subscribe
Amba Kak @ambakak.bsky.social I co-direct @AINowInstitute; @Signalapp board. Cover art by my mother https://shoumabanerjeekak.com/about-the-artist/
ACM FAccT @facct.bsky.social ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT). June 2026 in Montreal, Canada 🇨🇦 #FAccT2026
https://facctconference.org/
Trust in the Digital Society @trust-rpa.bsky.social University Research Priority area on trust in the digital society. @University of Amsterdam
digitaltrust.uva.nl
Angelina Wang @angelinawang.bsky.social Asst Prof at Cornell Info Sci and Cornell Tech. Responsible AI
https://angelina-wang.github.io/
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
Corinna Oschatz @corinnaoschatz.bsky.social PhD, Assistant Professor at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR), University of Amsterdam,
#Political Communication, Negative Campaigning (https://ltw-befragung.netlify.app/), Digital Journalism, Public Opinion, Narrative Persuasion
Florian Wintterlin @wintterlin.bsky.social Communication Researcher @University of Muenster
Linda Bos 🟥 @lindabos.bsky.social Associate Prof Political Communication & Journalism | @UvA_Amsterdam |
@ascor.bsky.social | Populist Comm
Alessandro Nai @alessandronai.bsky.social Associate Professor at the University of Amsterdam, ASCoR @ascor.bsky.social
Dark politics, Political communication & psychology, Negative campaigns, Leader personality
Editor-in-Chief at EJPR @ejprjournal.bsky.social
http://www.alessandro-nai.com
Annie Waldherr @anniewald.bsky.social Professor of Computational Communication Science @univie.ac.at @compcommlab
Public sphere, complexity, networks, data science.
Katrin Weller @kwelle.bsky.social Scientific director of the department "Data Services for the Social Sciences" at GESIS in Köln, Germany (@gesis.org).
Professor for Research Data Management for the Social Sciences at Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf (@hhu.de)
(she/her)
Johannes Breuer @johannesbreuer.com Professor of Digital Social Science @unidue.bsky.social and head of the team Research Data & Methods @cais-research.bsky.social
Interested in digital traces | computational social science | reproducibility | open science | #rstats
www.johannesbreuer.com
Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats.eu Computational Communication Scientist #rstats | Postdoc Researcher | University of Amsterdam | @ascor.bsky.social | @algosoc.org | Blog: favstats.eu | Running on plant-based fuel 🌱 | he/him
Jens Vogelgesang @spiderjens.bsky.social Professor of Communication | Computational Science Hub at U Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany 🖥🌱🧪🔬🧬🛰🌎 
Niels G. Mede @nielsmede.bsky.social 🔎 Assistant Professor of Science Communication
📍 Wageningen University & Research @w-u-r.bsky.social
🏠 www.nielsmede.com
Esther Laukötter @fraulau.bsky.social Science Communication & Media Relations @cais-research.bsky.social (CAIS) | PhD in communication science @uni-muenster.de | SciComm consulting | Bochum | www.cais-research.de
Maximilian Eder @maxeder.bsky.social Researcher: @unistavanger.bsky.social on mediatized scandalization | Research Fellow: #UniBw Munich | PhD: University of #Passau
🦣 maxeder@sciences.social
🐦 _maxeder
🖥️ max-eder.de
#Journalism #AI #LocalJournalism #Scandalogy
Dr. Tim Schatto-Eckrodt @kudusch.de @Kudusch@social.tchncs.de
Svenja Boberg @zwizwasvens.bsky.social Communication scientist at University of Muenster
Computational methods, social issue emergence, desinformation
Thomas Birkner @thomasbirkner.bsky.social Professor for Journalism & Communication, father of 2
Julia Metag @juliametag.bsky.social Professor of Communication Science, Research on science communication and political communication
@ University of Muenster 
Katharina Esau @kathaesa.bsky.social DECRA Fellow / Senior Lecturer @qutdmrc.bsky.social, Pol Comm, Digital Publics, Democratic Innovation, Automated & Relational Content & Sequence Analysis, interested in news media, polarisation & opinion formation online: https://l1nq.com/sdk9o7n
Thorsten Quandt @thorstenquandt.bsky.social Professor of Online Communication. Researching the transformation of communication and society. Critical optimist.
Emese Domahidi @emesedomahidi.bsky.social 
Ole Kelm @olekelm.bsky.social PostDoc Communication Science @hhu.bsky.social
💡 Political Communication
💡 Political Participation
💡 Political Consumerism
Michael Scharkow @mscharkow.bsky.social Computational Communication, Professor at https://ifp.uni-mainz.de | https://mscharkow.de
Philipp Mendoza @philippmendoza.com PostDoc @LMU | @Chair for Digitalization & Political Behavior • #DemocraticPersuasion • #NegCampaign • #AffectivePolarization • #Populism • #CCS • 🟥
Felix Reer @ree-flx.bsky.social Researcher at University of Muenster
Chair of the ECREA Digital Games Research Section
Communication Science, Media Psychology, Online Communication, Virtual Reality, Digital Games
Christopher Starke @chrisstarke.bsky.social Assistant Prof. at University of Amsterdam
AI for democracy, algorithmic fairness, algorithmic resistance
Co-founder of Kickback - The Global Anticorruption Podcast
Anna Staender @annastaender.bsky.social Scientific Collaboration Officer @ IPIE.info | PhD from IKMZ, Uni of Zurich | political communication, international comparative research, vulnerable informatiom environments
Dennis Frieß @dennisfriess.bsky.social PhD, Senior Researcher, Coordinator @diid_hhu
#PoliticalCommunication #eParticipation #OnlineDeliberation #OnlinePublics @hhu.bsky.social
Kiran Kappeler @kirankappeler.bsky.social PhD in media & comms
Currently a postdoctoral researcher @ University of Copenhagen
🔍research:📱digital society ⚙️algorithms 👁dataveillance ⚡️digital inequality
Ruben Bach @rubac.bsky.social Computational Social Scientist, MZES, University of Mannheim. Assistant Research Prof, University of Maryland. Co-organizer of the MZES Social Science Data Lab (@mzes-ssdl@bsky.social).
Sarah-Michelle Nienhaus @saminienhaus.bsky.social PhD candidate @hhu.bsky.social & CAIS @scide.bsky.social | Communication Sciences | Political Communication | Polarization & Party Politics
Sanne Kruikemeier @skruikemeier.bsky.social Professor Digital Media & Society • Wageningen University & Research • Strategic Communication (COM) group • ERCStG • NWO VIDI
Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social Technology + democracy.
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Opinions do not reflect the views of Tech Policy Press. Reposts do not equal endorsements.
Felipe G. Santos @feligsantos.bsky.social Multiemployed PostDoc at City, University of London and Babeş-Bolyai University, researching social movements and political parties of the left and the far-right. Free time Climber 🧗♂️
www.felipegsantos.com
Lara Kobilke @larakobilke.bsky.social PolCom researcher, @ifkw_lmu, in @css-lmu.bsky.social lab | Prev. PhD student @uzh_ikmz | Cross-cutting exposure, reactance & political participation | css | panel data | adv. quant. methods | co-devel tidycomm R package
Andreas M. Scheu @a-m-scheu.bsky.social Professor & Leader of the Research Group Science Communication and Science Journalism at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) and the University of Klagenfurt.
Center for Advanced Internet Studies @cais-research.bsky.social Forschungsinstitut: Research for the Digital Age 🔎 | Gesellschaft und Digitalisierung 💻 | #TeamCAIS 👥| Bochum 🏙️| Willkommen beim #CAIS!
🌐 Website: https://www.cais-research.de/
📌 Impressum: https://www.cais-research.de/impressum/
Digital Journalism @digitaljournalism.bsky.social Digital Journalism is an international, peer-reviewed, top-ranked journal that publishes cutting-edge research and concepts. Editor-in-Chief: Oscar Westlund.
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rdij20
Valerie Hase @valeriehase.bsky.social Professor of Digital Media & Communication, University of Klagenfurt.
🔎 CSS | Cross-Platform Methods | Digital Journalism | Crisis Communication
🌐 https://valerie-hase.com
Aske Kammer @handle.invalid Associate Professor @ Roskilde University. I research the structural conditions around journalism: tech, biz models, management, innovation, data. (DK/ENG)
🌐 https://www.askekammer.dk/
🔬 https://www.datafiednewsindustry.org/
📖 https://tinyurl.com/45zxn4v7
John Albert @jaalbrt.bsky.social Researcher at DSA Observatory | University of Amsterdam | Institute for Information Law
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/
Alain Starke @alainstarke.bsky.social Top-3 best eyelashes in the room | Assistant Professor Persuasive Communication at University of Amsterdam | Adjunct Associate Professor Recommender Systems University of Bergen
michael veale @michae.lv prof @laws.ucl.ac.uk, technology, law, policy, society, whimsical latvian top level domain names. michae.lv and fediverse https://someone.elses.computer/@mikarv 🏳️🌈
Ernesto de León 🟥 @ernesto-deleon.com Political communication researcher at @ascor.bsky.social | @algosoc.org affiliated | PhD @unibern | Media effects, social media, and computational stuff
https://ernesto-deleon.com/
Seth Lazar @sethlazar.org Philosopher working on AI alignment, governance and adaptation
Lab: https://mintresearch.org
Self: https://sethlazar.org
Newsletter: https://philosophyofcomputing.substack.com
Nathalie A. Smuha @nathaliesmuha.bsky.social Legal scholar & Philosopher. Assistant Professor of Law @UofT Law. Author of 'Algorithmic Rule By Law' (CUP, 2025). Previously at EU Commission's AI HLEG, Council of Europe's CAI, KU Leuven & NYU Law. UChicago alum.
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 Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social AI is not inevitable. We DAIR to imagine, build & use AI deliberately.
Website: http://dair-institute.org
Mastodon: @DAIR@dair-community.social
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dair-institute/
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/ 
Joanne Kuai @joannekuai.bsky.social 
Institute for Advanced Study - University of Amsterdam @iasamsterdam.bsky.social Where outstanding researchers bridge disciplines, scales and paradigms to unravel wicked problems. Join us as a fellow, artist-in-residence, journalist-in-residence or get involved by attending our events: https://ias.uva.nl/
Elske van den Hoogen @elskevdhoogen.bsky.social Import Amsterdammer || Postdoc and lecturer Political Communication
@ascor.bsky.social || PhD from Erasmus University R'dam || Public opinion, European Union, elections, disinformation & AI
Anna Schjøtt @annaschjoett.bsky.social Technological Anthropology PhD working at University of Amsterdam on knowledge production in AI development and use in the media sector with a focus on politics and ethics.
AI, Media & Democracy Lab @aimediademlab.bsky.social Ethical Legal Societal laboratory focused on the implications of AI for Media and Democracy 🤝 CWI, HvA & UvA #ELSAlab
Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social Professor of AI, society, media and democracy + Political Communication, U Amsterdam || Director of Digital Democracy Centre, SDU || AlgoSoc || AIMD || Mix of work and private stuff ||
🇩🇰🇳🇱🇪🇺🏃🏼🧪☕️🍿🐶🟥🦋
@natalihelberger.bsky.social @natalihelberger.bsky.social 
ASCoR @ascor.bsky.social The Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR) is a leading research institute in Communication Science 📍 @FMG_UvA @UvA_Amsterdam
AlgoSoc @algosoc.org 'Public Values in the Algorithmic Society' (AlgoSoc) is an interdisciplinary research program dedicated to a societal perspective on automated decision making
AlgoSoc.org 
Teresa Weikmann @teresaelena.bsky.social Postdoc @ascor.bsky.social & BENEDMO
she/her | visual political communication
Nick Diakopoulos @ndiakopoulos.bsky.social Northwestern University Professor. Computational Journalism; AI & Society. https://www.nickdiakopoulos.com. Writing https://www.ai-accountability-review.com/
Damian Trilling 🟥 @damiantrilling.net Professor of Journalism Studies, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands. About me: https://damiantrilling.net . Our group is here: @journstudiesvu.bsky.social and here: https://vu.nl/en/about-vu/faculties/faculty-of-humanities/more-about/journalism
Tomás Dodds @tomasdodds.bsky.social Assistant Professor @uwmadison.bsky.social
Joris van Hoboken @jvh.bsky.social (he/him) antifascist, law prof in Amsterdam (IViR); platform regulation, law and digital infrastructure, quantum technology, fundamental rights.
@ivir-uva.bsky.social
Christian Katzenbach @ckatzenbach.bsky.social Prof in Media and Communication // Editor-In-Chief New Media &Society // Director MA Digital Media and Society // Wonderful team @pgmt.bsky.social // platform governance, AI hype, discourse
https://zemki.uni-bremen.de/en/person/christian-katzenbach/
Manuel Puppis @manuelpuppis.ch Professor of Media Structures & Governance at DCM, University of Fribourg. Vice-President Swiss Federal Media Commission.
Doing comparative research on media policy, platform governance, digitalization of the public sphere, Swiss media system.
Linda Weigl @lindaweigl.bsky.social postdoc @ivir-uva.bsky.social / @trust-rpa.bsky.social, tech policy scholar interested in the political economy of digital trust and risk. 👩🏼💻 lindaweigl.eu
@jausloos.bsky.social @jausloos.bsky.social 
Nicolas Mattis @nickmattis.bsky.social Communication Scientist | PostDoc at ASCoR / AI Media Democracy Lab | Interested in the interplay of digital choice architectures and human decision making | Lover of good music, food and travelling
Naomi Appelman @naomiappelman.bsky.social Research | Public speaking | Advocacy | Activism
Specialized in law and theory of tech; social movements & resistance to AI and platform power
Postdoc UCD Centre for Digital Policy
https://naomiappelman.net/
https://racismandtechnology.center
Charis Papaevangelou @bsky.charispapaevangelou.eu Postdoc | critical political economy of tech | AlgoSoc-IViR, U of Amsterdam
No business as usual during a genocide 🍉🇵🇸
@bodobalazs.bsky.social @bodobalazs.bsky.social 
Hannah Ruschemeier @hannahruschemeier.bsky.social Prof. @ Uni Osnabrueck
Public Law | DataProtection | Law&Digital Transformation
Member @jungeakademie.bsky.social
assoc. @CAISnrw & @digitale_kultur FSP
BM @RAILSeV
📖Der additive GrEingriff https://shorturl.at/gjowQ
pic: Max Zehrran
Matthias Spielkamp @spielkamp.bsky.social Founder & ED AlgorithmWatch. Board member RSF Germany.
DSA Observatory @dsaobservatory.bsky.social The Digital Services Act (DSA) Observatory is a project run by the Institute for Information Law (IViR) at the University of Amsterdam. See more of our work and information about our expert workshops and seminars at dsa-observatory.eu
Plixavra Vogiatzoglou @plixavra.bsky.social Postdoc at Amsterdam Law School (ACIL and IViR) | law and technology; human rights; feminism
Laurens Naudts @laurensnaudts.bsky.social NPC in the Immersive Simulation of Academia. Postdoc at IViR and AI, Media & Democracy Lab. Political Philosophy, Fundamental Rights, AI, Media & Democracy, (Critical) Social Justice. 
Agustin Ferrari Braun @ferraribraun.bsky.social PhD researcher at the University of Amsterdam | Studying digital infrastructures, power and media in Europe | No business as usual during genocide 🇵🇸 | he/him
Petros Terzis @petroster.bsky.social Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Digital Law @King’s College London
Sina Blassnig @sinajb.bsky.social Prof. of Digital Communication & Datafication
@unifr.bsky.social and FHGR. Director of the IDCMI (https://www.unifr.ch/idcmi/). Digital journalism, media innovation, political communication, AI & algorithms. Feminist. She/her
AlgorithmWatch CH @algorithmwatchch.bsky.social We ensure that the use of algorithms & AI benefits the many, not just the few! Join us 🤍
🇨🇭 We’re the Swiss part.
🇪🇺 For EU/Germany: @algorithmwatch.org
DE: https://algorithmwatch.ch | FR: https://algorithmwatch.ch/fr
Institute for Information Law (IViR) @ivir-uva.bsky.social Academic research institute | Faculty of Law | University of Amsterdam
www.ivir.nl