Karen Jeffrey @karenojeffrey.bsky.social Data Science and AI Fellow
University of Glasgow
AI, labour markets, & policy responses
karenjeffrey.github.io
Daniel Buschek @dbuschek.bsky.social Prof at Uni Bayreuth, Germany. Human-computer interaction, interactive AI. Building future tools for creative people, while critically evaluating the impact of AI on users, workflows, and outcomes.
J. Doyne Farmer @doynefarmer.bsky.social Director of Complexity Economics at INET Oxford; Baillie Gifford Professor of Complex Systems Science at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford; external faculty at the Santa Fe Institute; Chief Scientist, Macrocosm
Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social AI and cognitive science, Founder and CEO (Geometric Intelligence, acquired by Uber). 8 books including Guitar Zero, Rebooting AI and Taming Silicon Valley.
Newsletter (100k subscribers): garymarcus.substack.com
Jason Reifler @jasonreifler.bsky.social Political Science Prof at University of Southampton. I study misperceptions, fact-checking, and foreign policy attitudes. American in the UK. he/his (y'all whenever possible). Spurs #COYS. 
ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig @scadsai.bsky.social The Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence Dresden/Leipzig is an institutionalized national center of excellence for Artificial Intelligence.
👩👩👧👧 scads.ai/about-us/people/
💥 scads.ai/blog/
🧪 scads.ai/research/
Brent Hecht @bhecht.bsky.social Director of Applied Science and Partner at Microsoft. Still kinda an associate professor at Northwestern too. brenthecht.com
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)
Emma Pierson @emmapierson.bsky.social Assistant professor of CS at UC Berkeley, core faculty in Computational Precision Health. Developing ML methods to study health and inequality. "On the whole, though, I take the side of amazement."
https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~emmapierson/
Jenn Wortman Vaughan @jennwv.bsky.social Sr. Principal Research Manager at Microsoft Research, NYC // Machine Learning, Responsible AI, Transparency, Intelligibility, Human-AI Interaction // WiML Co-founder // Former NeurIPS & current FAccT Program Co-chair // Brooklyn, NY // http://jennwv.com
Upol Ehsan | hiring PhDs for Fall'27 @upolehsan.bsky.social 🎯 Making AI less evil= human-centered + explainable + responsible AI
💼 Harvard Berkman Klein Fellow | CS Prof. @Northeastern | Data & Society
🏢 Prev-Georgia Tech, {Google, IBM, Microsoft} Research
🔬 AI, HCI, Philosophy
☕ F1, memes
🌐 upolehsan.com
Solon Barocas @s010n.bsky.social Researcher, Microsoft Research
Karen Levy @karenlevy.bsky.social Law/tech, surveillance, work, truckers. Faculty Cornell Information Science, Cornell Law / Fellow @NewAmerica / Data Driven: http://tinyurl.com/57v559mv / www.karen-levy.net
Andrew Selbst @aselbst.bsky.social UCLA Law Prof. Focused on law, tech, and justice. Posting is mostly rage at fascists, their journalist enablers, and feckless Dems who need to retire. Sometimes I even post about things people call me an expert in. He/him. http://ssrn.com/author=1328346
Lilly Irani @gleemie.bsky.social Professor, Faculty Director UCSD Labor Center, author Chasing Innovation and Redacted, co-founder and supporter of Turkopticon, ex-Google worker. @local6741.bsky.social & @cucfa.org These are my personal opinions, not those of my employer.
ACM FAccT @facct.bsky.social ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT). June 2026 in Montreal, Canada 🇨🇦 #FAccT2026
https://facctconference.org/
Aleksandra Urman @aurman21.bsky.social Senior Research Associate, Social Computing Group, U of Zurich. Computational social/communication scientist
Taha Yasseri @tahayasseri.bsky.social Workday Full Prof & Chair of Technology & Society at Trinity College Dublin & Technological University Dublin. Director of the Centre for Sociology of Humans and Machines. https://tahayasseri.com
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/
Paul Röttger @paul-rottger.bsky.social Departmental Lecturer @oii.ox.ac.uk. Evaluating safety & societal impacts of AI.
Morgan Klaus Scheuerman @morganklauss.bsky.social HCI research scientist @ Sony AI in Barcelona. ethical AI, identity, technological harm. Previous: CU Boulder, UMBC, Microsoft Research Fellow. posts my own.
https://www.morgan-klaus.com/
Dallas Card @dallascard.bsky.social Assistant professor at https://si.umich.edu/ working in computational social science, machine learning, and NLP | https://dallascard.github.io
Ingmar Weber @ingmarweber.de Alexander von Humboldt Professor for AI and Chair for Societal Computing at Saarland University. Co-Director at https://i2sc.net.
Manuel Tonneau @manueltonneau.bsky.social PhD candidate @oiioxford.bsky.social NLP, Computational Social Science @WorldBank
manueltonneau.com
Simon Walo @simonwalo.bsky.social SNSF Ambizione fellow at the Social Networks Lab, ETH Zurich
Currently interested in using Scientific Knowledge Graphs for the Science of Science
https://www.simonwalo.com/
Laura Edelson @whiskeyocelot.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Northeastern University
Co-Director, C4D
Formerly: Chief Technologist, DoJ Antitrust Division, DOJ Civil Rights Division
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
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.
Lucy Li @lucy3.bsky.social assistant prof at Wisconsin CS. #NLProc, computational social science, cultural analytics, responsible AI. she/her. Previously at UW, Berkeley, Ai2, MSR, Stanford. lucy3.github.io
Yoav Artzi @yoavartzi.com LM/NLP/ML researcher ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
yoavartzi.com / associate professor @ Cornell CS + Cornell Tech campus @ NYC / nlp.cornell.edu / visiting researcher @ Google DeepMind / building @colmweb.org / previously associate faculty director @ arXiv.org
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
Stefan Neumann @neumannstefan.com Assistant professor @ TU Wien, associate faculty @ Complexity Science Hub.
Previously: KTH, Brown, Uni Wien.
I study algorithms for data science and social-network analysis. Connecting theory 🤝 practice.
More info: https://neumannstefan.com.
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.
Martin Saveski @msaveski.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ UW iSchool. Interested in computational social science, social networks & causal inference.
http://martinsaveski.com
Indira Sen @indiiigo.bsky.social Junior Faculty at the University of Mannheim || Computational Social Science ∩ Natural Language Processing || Formerly at: RWTH, GESIS || she/her
indiiigo.github.io/ 
Johan Ugander @jugander.bsky.social Associate Professor, Yale Statistics & Data Science. Social networks, social and behavioral data, causal inference, mountains. https://jugander.github.io/
David Grüning @dgruning.bsky.social PhD at GESIS & Uni Heidelberg
Behavioral/personality science in the digital space @prosocialdesign.org & @one-sec.app.
Occasionally, research methods.
Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social Concerned with tech, media and democracy. CEO & Editor at Tech Policy Press. Research & Adjunct Professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Opinions mine.
Luca Maria Aiello @lajello.bsky.social Computational Social Science researcher interested in Human Coordination and emergence of new phenomena in human-AI societies. Professor of Data Science at the IT University of Copenhagen. Network Science | NLP | AI agents
http://www.lajello.com
Patrick Gildersleve @gildersleve.uk Lecturer (Asst Prof) in Communications and AI at the University of Exeter
Prev. LSE Methodology, PhD Oxford Internet Institute
Wikipedia, News, Attention
he/him
🔗🌳 linktr.ee/gildersleve
🌐 https://gildersleve.uk
David Garcia @dgarcia.eu Professor for Social and Behavioral Data Science at the University of Konstanz. Also at CSH Vienna, ETH Zurich and TU Graz. 
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
Diliara Valeeva @diliaravaleeva.bsky.social Asst Prof @Uni of Amsterdam. Researching how powerful actors—corporations, billionaires, and elites—shape technological futures, especially in outer space
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
Sandra González-Bailón @sgonzalezbailon.bsky.social Professor of Communication @AnnenbergSchool, UPenn | Director, Center for Information Networks and Democracy | cind.asc.upenn.edu | sandragonzalezbailon.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
andyguess @andyguess.com Bun dad who studies 🐰🕳️.
Jason W. Burton @jasonburton.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of Copenhagen // Associate Research Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Angelina Wang @angelinawang.bsky.social Asst Prof at Cornell Info Sci and Cornell Tech. Responsible AI
https://angelina-wang.github.io/
Matt Groh @mattgroh.bsky.social Assistant professor at Northwestern Kellogg | human AI collaboration | computational social science | cognitive science
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
Dean Eckles @eckles.bsky.social networks, contagion, causality
faculty at MIT
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.
Nicholas A. Christakis @nachristakis.bsky.social Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale University. Sociologist. Network Scientist. Physician. Author of Apollo's Arrow; Blueprint; Connected; and Death Foretold. Director of the Human Nature Lab: https://humannaturelab.net
Matthew Salganik @msalganik.bsky.social Professor of Sociology, Princeton, www.princeton.edu/~mjs3
Author of Bit by Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age, bitbybitbook.com
Sinan Aral @professorsinan.bsky.social David Austin Professor, MIT; Director @MIT_IDE; Founder, Manifest Capital & Milemark Capital; Hype Machine Author Digital Insider Pod TED Talk
Computational Social Science @com-soc-sci.bsky.social introducing computational social science paper or computer science paper until I get tired
Jürgen Pfeffer @jurgenpfeffer.bsky.social Prof of Computational Social Science. SOT/TU Munich. Critical Data Studies, AI & Democracy, #CSS @ICWSM
Kenny Joseph @kennyjoseph.bsky.social computational social science, University at Buffalo.
https://cse.buffalo.edu/cubelab/
Hal Daumé III @haldaume3.bsky.social Human-centered AI #HCAI, NLP & ML. Director TRAILS (Trustworthy AI in Law & Society) and AIM (AI Interdisciplinary Institute at Maryland). Formerly Microsoft Research NYC. Fun: 🧗🧑🍳🧘⛷️🏕️. he/him.
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
Yelena Mejova @yelenamejova.bsky.social Senior Research Scientist @ ISI Foundation, Turin, Italy | computational social science, digital epidemiology, data science
Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social NLP, cultural analytics. Assistant Professor of CS at University of Colorado Boulder. Formerly Ai2, Pioneer Centre for AI, Cornell, Microsoft, Twitter. Books, bikes, games, art. https://maria-antoniak.github.io
NERDS @nerdsitu.bsky.social Networks, Data, and Society research group @itu.dk. Data Science | Network Science | Computational Social Science
We are: https://nerds.itu.dk/people | https://bsky.app/starter-pack-short/4ej8RNM
On Mastodon: https://datasci.social/@nerdsitu
Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com {Social, Data, Network, Information} Scientist, @cuboulder.info
Director, University of Colorado Public Interest Data Science Lab, @cupids-lab.org
High-tempo collaboration, information commons, public interest data science
https://www.brianckeegan.com/
Joseph Seering @josephseering.bsky.social Assistant Prof at KAIST School of Computing. HCI, AI, T&S.
J. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social I work with communities on science for safer, fairer digital environments.
Founder: CAT Lab. Radcliffe Fellow, Harvard. Assoc Prof, Communication, Cornell · Guatemalan-American · Ultracyclist
🐘@natematias@social.coop
natematias.com
citizensandtech.org
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. 
Tiago Peixoto @tiago.skewed.de Statistical mechanic, secular Bayesian.
Prof. of Complex Systems and Network Science @ Goethe University Frankfurt
Head of the “Inverse Complexity Lab”.
@invcomplexity.skewed.de
https://skewed.de/lab
(Personal account)
Julia Mendelsohn @jmendelsohn2.bsky.social Asst Prof @UMD Info College. NLP, computational social science, political communication, linguistics. Past: Data Science Postdoc @UChicago, Info PhD @UMich, CS + Lx @Stanford. Interests: cats, Yiddish, talking to my cats in Yiddish.
Emma Lurie @emmalurie.bsky.social postdoc @ UPenn CIS | public interest technology law and policy | she/her
Tal August @talaugust.bsky.social Assistant professor @ UIUC, studying personalized language and communication
Luigina Ciolfi @luiciolfi.bsky.social Professor of Human Computer Interaction, School of Applied Psychology, University College Cork, @patlabucc.bsky.social. I study the role of digital technologies in human practices. #HCI #CSCW. Cat person. All opinions are my own. She/Her.
Mitchell Gordon @mitchellgordon.bsky.social Incoming assistant prof at MIT CSAIL, CS PhD from Stanford. HCI, human-AI interaction, social computing.
Marianne Aubin Le Quéré @mariannealq.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellow @ Princeton CITP. ex-Cornell PhD, future UIUC asst prof (fall 2026).
Looking at AI's impact on information ecosystems and news consumption. social computing, computational social science & journalism
mariannealq.com- K David Karger @karger.bsky.social Professor, MIT EECS/CSAIL
http://people.csail.mit.edu/karger
Stevie Chancellor @schancellor.bsky.social Assistant prof at UMN CS. Human-centered AI, online communities, risky mental health behaviors. Mom, lifter, nerd, haver of opinions. 
Emilio Ferrara @emilioferrara.bsky.social Prof of Computer Science at USC
AI, social media, society, networks, data, and
HUMANS LABS http://www.emilio.ferrara.name
REGULARITY AI www.emilioferrara.ai
Santa Fe Institute @sfiscience.bsky.social The premier research center for #ComplexSystems #science.
santafe.edu
linktr.ee/sfiscience
Przemek Grabowicz 🇵🇱🇪🇸🇩🇪🇺🇸🇮🇪 @przemyslslaw.bsky.social CS faculty at University College Dublin and the University of Massachusetts Amherst: responsible AI, social media, news media, computational social science, applied NLP, open-world AI
RT≠endorsement, RT=interesting read
More: https://przemyslslaw.github.io
martin johannes riedl @martinriedl.bsky.social researching & teaching communication and media | topics: political influencers, platform governance, content moderation, chat and messaging apps, journalism | he/him | 🇪🇺 alien | www.martinriedl.com | opinions: own
Alexandra Olteanu @aolteanu.bsky.social Ethical/Responsible AI. Rigor in AI. Grumpy eastern european in north america. Lovingly nitpicky. www.aolteanu.com
Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com My New York Times bestseller: ON COURAGE: HOW TO BE A DISSIDENT IN AN AGE OF FEAR (HarperCollins) tinyurl.com/yxpvn488
NYTimes Opinion Writer | Director, Independent Media program HKS
Sign up for my newsletter: https://buttondown.com/JuliaAngwin
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute 
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
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.
Richard Wike @richardwike.bsky.social Director of the Global Attitudes team at the Pew Research Center
Estelle Smith @estellesmithphd.bsky.social Assistant Professor, CS, Colorado School of Mines. Online spiritual care, social computing, online governance, Human-AI Interaction: http://bit.ly/sacredtech. CSCW, CHI, TOCHI, etc. 👩🏼💻
Community Chair for #CSCW2025🇳🇴
https://estellesmithphd.com
Ronald E. Robertson @rer.bsky.social Research scientist at the Stanford Tech Impact and Policy Center and co-editor of the Journal of Online Trust and Safety.
Claire Wardle @cward1e.bsky.social Associate Professor, Dept of Communication, Cornell University. Bit partial to information ecosystems.
Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com Professor of HCII and LTI at Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science.
jeffreybigham.com
Andrés Monroy-Hernández @andresmh.com Associate Professor of Computer Science at @princeton.edu. Co-director of Princeton HCI. Board member at Crisis Text Line.
https://andresmh.com
Nilou Salehi @nilou.bsky.social hci+ai
co-founder/co-ceo @Across AI
prof @UC Berkeley
gif whisperer | 🐱🐱 mom
👩🏻🏫 niloufar.org
👩🏻💻 across.ai | https://bsky.app/profile/across-ai.bsky.social
Amy Bruckman @asbruckman.bsky.social I study online communities, content moderation, and social movements. 
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
Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social information science professor (tech ethics + internet stuff)
kind of a content creator (elsewhere also @professorcasey)
though not influencing anyone to do anything except maybe learn things
she/her
more: casey.prof- D David Lazer @davidlazer.bsky.social computational social scientist
James Landay @jlanday.bsky.social Professor of Computer Science, Stanford - HCI & Design, Co-Founder & Co-Director Stanford HAI @stanfordhai.bsky.social
Dan Goldstein @dggoldst.bsky.social Partner Research Manager at Microsoft Research NYC. AI, Economics, Decision Science.