Patrick Gage Kelley @pgk.bsky.social Researcher in privacy and safety online.
Lead Trust & Safety Research at Google
Actually an artist, writer, scholar.
Say hi.
@lujobauer.bsky.social @lujobauer.bsky.social
Critical AI https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/issue @criticalai-journal.bsky.social Critical AI's new issue is out! https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/issue
Email us at criticalai@sas.rutgers.edu
Our website and blog: https://criticalai.org/
dr roger cremades @rogercre.bsky.social Climate Change, Complexity Economics, Systemic Risks, Cities, Cascades and Ecology @ Uni. of Leeds.
Complex systems insights for sustainable futures.
Assoc Prof FRSA https://is.gd/1alYNP + https://is.gd/PfiCiI
Into regional systemic risks. #Dolçainer.
ShitMyReviewersSay @shitmyreviewerssay.bsky.social Shit My Reviewers Say is a celebration of the harsh, the weird, the passive aggressive, the active aggressive and the downright mean comments practicing scientists receive on a regular basis. Submit yours to shitmyreviewerssay@gmail.com
Do Won Kim @dowonkim.bsky.social PhD student @iSchool UMD
https://do-won.github.io
Robb Willer @robbwiller.bsky.social Professor of Sociology, Psychology, & Org Behavior, Stanford University
Direct, the @pascl-stanford.bsky.social, the AI for Public Benefit Lab, & co-direct @Stanfordpacs Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society
Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social Director of Platform Regulation, Stanford Law School LST Program. Former Google (2004-2015) Legal Director for Web Search, Speech and Intermediary Liability Issues.
May be cranky.
https://law.stanford.edu/daphne-keller/
Ryan J. Gallagher @ryanjgallag.com Applied scientist trying to make the internet a little better. PhD. Trust & safety, networks, fingerstyle guitar. I use my hair to express myself. They/he
Knight-Georgetown Institute (KGI) @knightgtown.bsky.social Knight-Georgetown Institute connects independent research with technology policy and design.
Alissa Cooper @alissacooper.bsky.social Executive Director of the Knight-Georgetown Institute at Georgetown University
University of Washington Information School @ischool.uw.edu One of the world's top schools in information science. Offering degrees in Informatics, Library and Information Science (MLIS), Information Management (MSIM), and Museology, and doctorates in information science. Seattle, WA.
https://ischool.uw.edu/
@kahleen-m-carley.bsky.social @kahleen-m-carley.bsky.social
Daniel Weitzel @danweitzel.net Does research on democracy at CEU
Probably e̶d̶i̶t̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶.̶i̶n̶i̶t̶.̶e̶l̶ changing diapers at the moment.
Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social NYT tech reporter
Co-author of Character Limit
Signal: rmac.18
ryan.mac@nytimes.com
rmac18@protonmail.com
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737290/character-limit-by-kate-conger-and-ryan-mac/
https://linktr.ee/ryan_mac_
Ars Technica @arstechnica.com Original news, reviews, analysis of tech trends, and expert advice on the most fundamental aspects of tech.
404 Media @404media.co it's a website (and a podcast, and a newsletter) about humans and technology, made by four journalists you might already know. like and subscribe: 404media.co
TechCrunch @techcrunch.com Technology news and analysis with a focus on founders and startup teams.
Got a tip? http://techcrunch.com/tips
WIRED @wired.com For Future Reference.
Sign up for our newsletters: https://wrd.cm/newsletters
Find our WIRED journalists here: https://go.bsky.app/Boj9b5E
Jonathan Stray @jonathanstray.com Knowing things is a solved problem. Getting along is not. Working on AI, media, and inter-group conflict @CHAI_Berkeley. Got here from computational journalism.
Juliet Shen @julietshen.online product @roost.tools. just another extremely earnest and Very Online idealist. long time Trust & Safety person full of personal opinions like the skeets below
https://julietshen.online/
Giovanni Ramos @gramos.bsky.social Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley | Researching mental health inequities in minoritized groups, risk and resilience, culturally robust mental health services, and digital mental health treatments
Ben Lyons @benlyons.bsky.social Associate prof at University of Utah Dept of Comm. Associate ed @misinforeview.bsky.social. Book coming this fall: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/misinformation-and-the-aging-american-9780197817681?cc=us&lang=en&
site: https://ben-lyons.github.io
Naomi Shiffman @naomishiffman.bsky.social data & implementation at the Oversight Board | formerly academics + researchers at CrowdTangle / Meta | fellow at the Integrity Institute and Atlantic Council’s DFRLab | advisor at Connect Humanity, a fund for digital equity
Laura Edelson @whiskeyocelot.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Northeastern University
Co-Director, C4D
Formerly: Chief Technologist, DoJ Antitrust Division, DOJ Civil Rights Division
Michelle Mazurek @mmazurek.bsky.social security, privacy, people
pointy-headed academic, phillies enjoyer
still tomorrow's gonna be another working day / just trying to get some rest
Serge Egelman @v0max.bsky.social Scientist. Dir. of Usable Security & Privacy at the International Computer Science Institute (icsi.berkeley.edu). Founder, AppCensus (appcensus.io). All opinions are those of his employer(s), and not his own.
https://www.guanotronic.com/~serge/
Sauvik Das @sauvik.me I work on human-centered {security|privacy|computing}. Associate Professor (w/o tenure) at @hcii.cmu.edu. Director of the SPUD (Security, Privacy, Usability, and Design) Lab. Non-Resident Fellow @cendemtech.bsky.social
Joaquín Salvachúa @jsalvachua.bsky.social Professor at DIT-UPM
Making Data Spaces paradigm a reality. (Collaboration with GaiaX )
Enabling Data Economy via distributed Trust and Distributed data Governance .
@rosieith.bsky.social @rosieith.bsky.social
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
Alex Abdo @alexabdo.bsky.social Litigation Director, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University (he/him)
Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social Science integrity consultant and crowdfunded volunteer, PhD.
Ex-Stanford University. Maddox Prize/Einstein F Award winner
NL/USA/SFO.
#ImageForensics
@MicrobiomDigest on X.
Blog: ScienceIntegrityDigest.com
Support me: https://www.patreon.com/elisabethbik
Raphaël Guintoli @raphaelguintoli.fr Digital - Media - Adtech
Interested in digital / ad tech
Alumni of LinkedIn (MSFT), Accenture
Newsletter Raphaelguintoli.fr
X.com/raphaelguintoli
LinkedIn.com/in/raphaelguintoli
https://github.com/RaphaelGuintoli
contact@raphaelguintoli.fr
Reed Orchinik @rorchinik.bsky.social PhD student at MIT
I use computational and experimental methods to understand beliefs, particularly as they relate to issues like misinformation and climate change.
Dylan Freedman @dylanfreedman.nytimes.com Machine-learning engineer and journalist, A.I. Initiatives @nytimes.com
My work: https://www.nytimes.com/by/dylan-freedman
Contact: dylan.freedman@nytimes.com, dylanfreedman.39 (Signal)
🏃🏻 🎹
Sacha Altay @sachaltay.bsky.social 🔎 Misinformation, social media & the news 🗞️
🇨🇭 Postdoc at the University of Zurich, previously Reuters Institute & ENS 🇫🇷
https://sachaaltay.github.io/
Felix M. Simon @felixsimon.bsky.social Research Fellow in AI, Information & News, Reuters Institute, Oxford University | Research Associate, Oxford Internet Institute | Junior Research Fellow, Corpus Christi College | AI, (mis)info, news, democracy | My views etc…
https://www.felixsimon.net/
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com Independent journalist, SnapStream brand ambassador, and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter https://www.publicnotice.co/subscribe
Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social Senior Director of Federal Budget Policy for the Center for American Progress doing budget, tax, and econ.
Formerly: Biden OMB, Biden Transition Team, Senate Budget Committee (Murray and Sanders).
CBO and OMB’s biggest fan! Personal account.
Catarina Gamboa @catarinavgamboa.bsky.social PhD student
💻 SE, PL at CMU and U.Lisbon
✈️ Currently in Lisbon
Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social Dartmouth political scientist and Bright Line Watch co-director. Previously Upshot NYT / CJR contributor, Spinsanity co-founder, All the President's Spin co-author.
https://sites.dartmouth.edu/nyhan/
http://brightlinewatch.org
NYU's Center for Social Media, AI, and Politics @csmapnyu.org We work to strengthen democracy by conducting rigorous research, advancing evidence-based public policy, and training the next generation of scholars.
https://csmapnyu.org/links
Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social Professor of Psychology at NYU (jayvanbavel.com) | Author of The Power of Us Book (powerofus.online) | Director of NYU Center for Conflict & Cooperation | trying to write a new book about collective decisions
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.
alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social Dir of Research, Data & Society. Academic. Studies tech & society, scams & fraud, far-right disinfo. UNC CITAP. Mom, fashion victim, sci fi/fantasy enthusiast. Author of The Private is Political, Status Update. NYC forever. She/her/femme 💅🏻 tiara.org
Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia @glciampaglia.com Asst Prof at U of Maryland (🇮🇹→🇨🇭→🇺🇸). Academic flâneur: complex systems, networks, peer production. Currently trying to figure out how to make people and algorithms work together.
Posts about #Tolkien, #Linux, #Bikes, and life along MD's Rte 1
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
Briony Swire-Thompson @brionyswire.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Northeastern University, Psychology of Misinformation Lab
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.
Serena Booth @reniebird.bsky.social CS Prof at Brown University, PI of the GIRAFFE lab, former AI Policy Advisor in the US Senate, co-chair of the ACM Tech Policy Subcommittee on AI and Algorithms.
PhD at MIT CSAIL '23, Harvard '16, former Google APM. Dog mom to Ducki.
Madeleine Daepp @mdaepp.bsky.social Civic technologist studying AI + democracy. Research Director @cdt.org, currently on civic leave from Microsoft Research. PhD MIT. Concerned about generative propaganda but have handed my entire life over to Claude. Views my own. madeleinedaepp.com
Laura Bronner @laurabronner.bsky.social Scientific director, Public Discourse Foundation || Senior applied scientist, IPL/ETH Zürich || Data, media, experiments || Formerly FiveThirtyEight quant editor.
www.laurabronner.com
Jason Radford, PhD @jsradford.bsky.social Sociologist. Entrepreneur. Managing Director of the National Internet Observatory at Northeastern University. Turning science into innovations that solve problems.
Alexander Hoyle @alexanderhoyle.bsky.social Currently a postdoctoral fellow at ETH AI Center, working on Computational Social Science + NLP.
Following the postdoc, will join TU Wien and Complexity Science Hub Vienna as an Assistant Professor.
PhD in CS from UMD.
alexanderhoyle.com
Manoel Horta Ribeiro @manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ Princeton
Previously: EPFL 🇨🇭, UFMG 🇧🇷
Interests: Computational Social Science, Platforms, GenAI, Moderation
Scientific Today @scitoday.bsky.social Scientific content aggregator with custom content feeds. Science news, jobs, events and more. Sign up at https://www.scientific.today.
UE @ueunion.org The Union for Everyone
Members Run This Union
ueunion.org
Jann N. Bitzer @jannnbitzer.bsky.social Ph.D. Student/Research Assistant studying digital tech abuse to create safer online spaces @dsrc.bsky.social
Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com Philosopher & Historian of Biology 🇲🇽 • Postdoctoral Fellow @theramseylab.bsky.social (@clpskuleuven.bsky.social) • https://www.alejandrofabregastejeda.com • https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262052825/the-organism-environment-pairing/ • #philsci #HPS #philsky
Stanford Tech Impact and Policy Center @techimpactpolicy.bsky.social Transforming research into real-world impact to advance human agency and well-being in the era of social media and AI.
🔗 TIP Center: tip.fsi.stanford.edu
🔗 Trust & Safety Research Conference: bit.ly/TSRConf
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
Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social 🌐Studies influence, propaganda, platform design@Georgetown
✍🏼Lawfare,The Atlantic, Substack/Ghost Newsletter (signup on my site if you want Ghost)
📕Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality (invisiblerulers.com)
🦹🏻♀️Twitter Files supervillain
John Cook @johnfocook.bsky.social Researches climate & vaccine misinformation at the University of Melbourne. Founded SkepticalScience.com. Published Cranky Uncle vs. Climate Change. Developed the games Cranky Uncle (crankyuncle.com) and Cranky Uncle Vaccine (crankyunclevaccine.org)
Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social Prof Operational Research , @UCL_CORU, passionate about health care, women in STEMs, defending liberal democracy (!). Member of @independentsage, posts personal. https://www.trumpactiontracker.info/
cal newport @author-calnewport.bsky.social Professor at Georgetown · Author of Deep Work, Digital Minimalism, Slow Productivity · Writing about focus, technology & meaningful work.
Ethan Zuckerman @ethanz.bsky.social UMass Amherst, Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure, Global Voices, Berkman Klein Center. Formerly Center for Civic Media, MIT Media Lab.
Protect Democracy @protectdemocracy.org We are a nonpartisan, nonprofit group working to prevent authoritarianism. This account is owned and operated by Protect Democracy United.
Follow us on other platforms ➡️ https://protdem.org/m/stay-connected
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/
The Coalition for Independent Technology Research @thecoalition.bsky.social Our mission is to advance, defend, and sustain the right to ethically study the impact of technology on society.
Dave Wasserman @redistrict.bsky.social Fiddle player who calls elections on the side.
Dave Wasserman (unofficial bot) @redistrict.bluesky.bot Senior Editor & Elections Analyst of the nonpartisan @CookPolitical Report w/ @AmyEWalter. Nerd for 🗺️ maps, ⛷️ ski slopes & 🎻 trad tunes. Has seen enough.
http://cookpolitical.com/about/staff/david-wasserman
(Unofficial bot maintained by @manos.lol)
Manu Raju @mkraju.bsky.social Anchor and Chief Congressional Correspondent, CNN. “Inside Politics Sunday with Manu Raju.” 8aET and 11aET Sunday. Rabid Chicago sports fan. Wisconsin Badger for life
Ben Fineman @benfineman.bsky.social Dad/husband. Public servant. Broadband and digital inclusion leader. Advocate for ethics in AI. Basement rockstar. Opinions are my own.
@saturatedtulip.bsky.social @saturatedtulip.bsky.social
Psychology Today @psychologytoday.com Insight about everybody's favorite subject: Ourselves.
Susan Nolan @susan-nolan.bsky.social Professor of Psychology | Textbook author in statistics & intro psychology | Co-founder of the International Collaboration on Undergraduate Psychology Outcomes (icupo.org) | Cat enthusiast & bookworm. [shu.edu/profiles/susannolan.html]
Michael Kimball @michaelkimball.bsky.social 👨👩👧👧🐶🐶. #OKC. Reporter turned happy PR guy. Feed the trolls to me. Always cite your sources. My opinions are facts. (Was @mkimball011 on the old good website.) #sooners 🔴⚪️ #thunderup 🔵🟠 #SLB 🔴⚪️
Leticia Bode @leticiabode.bsky.social Professor at Georgetown, research director at KGI. Studying information, politics, health, etc. Also cats, Badgers, Astros, food, gardening.
Aylin Kamelia Caliskan @aylincaliskan.bsky.social https://faculty.washington.edu/aylin
Computer scientist • Prof @UWischool & @UWcse
Co-Director @TechPolicyLab • Nonresident Senior Fellow @BrookingsInst
AI & Societal Impacts: Ethics in NLP • Multimodal ML • CV • Human-AI Collaboration
Erik Brynjolfsson @erikbryn.bsky.social Director, @stanforddel.bsky.social
Professor Stanford Institute for Human-centered AI, SIEPR, Stanford department of Economics and GSB
Author https://amazon.com/Second-Machine-Age-Prosperity-Technologies/dp/0393350649
Alex Stamos @stamos.org CPO/CSO of Corridor.dev, teaching at Stanford.
Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social The Center for American Progress is dedicated to improving the lives of Americans through ideas and action. https://secure.actblue.com/donate/center-for-american-progress-1
Santo Fortunato @santof.bsky.social James H. Rudy Professor of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University Bloomington.
Interested in networks, computational social science, science of science, artificial intelligence. Website: https://www.santofortunato.net
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
Francesco Pierri @frapierri.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Politecnico di Milano. Capoeira at Sul Da Bahia Milano.
Observatory on Social Media @osome.iu.edu Research center at Indiana University studying the spread of misinformation. Tweets by OSoMe Team.
Bao Truong @baottruong.bsky.social Informatics Ph.D candidate at Indiana University Bloomington
https://btrantruong.github.io/
Hannah Waight @hwaight.bsky.social Assistant Professor University of Oregon Sociology | Former Postdoc NYU CSMaP | Ph.D. Princeton Sociology | Research on media, information, politics, China, computational social science | Opinions are my own | https://hwaight.github.io/
BK Lee @letitbk.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology at NYU. I study social cohesion, health, and political polarization using LLMs, causal inference, and social network analysis. https://www.byungkyulee.com/
Samantha Bradshaw @sbradshaw.bsky.social Assistant Professor, American University | Studying disinfo, cybersecurity, and emerging technology 👩💻
Tina Law @tinalaw.bsky.social assistant professor of sociology @ ucdavis | northwestern phd | race, inequality, democracy, cities, AI, computational methodology
https://tina-law.github.io/
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.
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.
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
Nature Computational Science @natcomputsci.nature.com A @natureportfolio.nature.com journal on mathematical models and computational methods/tools that help advance science in multiple disciplines. https://www.nature.com/natcomputsci
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.
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
@biasednets.bsky.social @biasednets.bsky.social
Hong Shen @hongshen.bsky.social CMU - HCII