Sander van der Linden @profsanderlinden.bsky.social Professor of Social Psychology in Society at the University of Cambridge and Author of FOOLPROOF: Why We Fall for Misinformation and How to Build Immunity (2023) + The Psychology of Misinformation (2024). Bad News Game.
www.sandervanderlinden.com
Dr. Ashley Mattheis @draamattheis.bsky.social Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture at the University of Manchester. Researching gender, racism, and digital cultures of far-right, white supremacists, and male supremacist extremism. Views my own.
David Rand @dgrand.bsky.social Prof at Cornell studying how human-AI dialogues can correct inaccurate beliefs, why people share falsehoods, and ways to reduce political polarization and promote cooperation. Computational social science + cognitive psychology.
https://www.DaveRand.org/
Stacy Thayer @stacythayer.bsky.social Professor of Cyberpsychology, Ph.D. & MBA., Tech Event Planner, former founder of SOURCE Conf, partner, mom of twins, LOTR fan, lover of video games, and lifelong learner
Prof Emma Short @emmpath.bsky.social Professor of Cyberpsychology, researches stalking and online harms. Loves being with friends and feeling useful. And dogs, dogs are great.
Owen, DSc, PhD Student @theravenswood.bsky.social Cyber-Science and Cyberpsychology researcher specializing in security and human behavior in digital space. Also, a gaming and whisky enthusiast.
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/
Mohsen Mosleh @mmosleh.bsky.social Prof @Oxford, Affiliate @MIT www.MohsenMosleh.com
Ekaterina Hertog @katyahe.bsky.social Associate Professor of AI & Society
Oxford Internet Institute and Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford
Principal Investigator at DomesticAI (http://domesticai.oii.ox.ac.uk) project funded by ESRC
Leigh-Chantelle @leigh-chantelle.bsky.social 👩🏻💻 Technology + Human Behaviour
💡Startup: #DailyPhD https://www.dailyphd.com
🏛 PhD research on Autonomous Vehicles & Electric Vehicles in Australia
📝 Substack: Things Friends Forward
🔗 http://digital-equilibrium.com
Dr Catherine Talbot @catherinetalbot.bsky.social Cyberpsychology 💻 Senior Lecturer in Psychology 🧠 Qualitative methods 🗣 Social media, Identity & digital inclusion 👥 📱 Feminist 💪🏻 Dementia, older adults, & digital technology
Jessica Taylor Piotrowski @jesstpiotrowski.bsky.social Professor of Communication in the Digital Society at University of Amsterdam | Youth & Media Scholar | ally 🏳️🌈 | ❤️ teaching, research, running, dark chocolate, & sunshine
Joe Bayer @joebayer.bsky.social Associate Prof at Ohio State | tracking and thinking about how our tech habits are changing -- and (maybe) changing our minds
habits | social connection | social apps | mobile methods | JosephBayer.com
Yotam Ophir, Ph.D. @ophiryotam.bsky.social Associate Professor of Communication at the University at Buffalo. Head of the Media Effects, Misinformation, and Extremism (MEME) lab. 
Anna Freytag @annafreytag.bsky.social communication researcher @IJK in Hanover with interest in media psychology, health and environmental communication
Giovanna Mascheroni @giovannamas.bsky.social Media sociologist researching digital media, data & AI in children's lives. Dog lover (Eng. Springer Spaniel) TwitterRefugee. Projects: http://www.eukidsonline.net/, https://yskills.eu/, https://datachildfutures.it/
Also on @giovannamas@aoir.social
German Neubaum @germanneubaum.bsky.social Media Psychologist @UDE - Technology-Mediated Communication - Human-Technology-Interaction - Politics - Morality - Identity Formation - Algorithms - Online Networks
Laura Joyner @laurajoyner.bsky.social Research Fellow in Suicide Prevention Research at Middlesex | Cyberpsychology, Morality, Identity & Disinformation
Adrian Meier @adrianmeier.bsky.social Professor @fau.de @fauwiso.bsky.social Social media effects | (Self-)regulation of tech | Mental health & well-being | AI & the workplace | Former Secretary of the ICA Communication & Technology division @icacat.bsky.social https://www.commsci.rw.fau.eu/
Sonja Utz @sonja-utz.de
media psychologist | prof at @IWMTue
| interests: knowledge-related (effects of) social media use, ambient awareness, human-machine communication, algorithm acceptance
Julius Klingelhoefer @klingelhoefer.bsky.social PhD candidate researching digital disconnection and how well-being is shaped by communication technology at home, at work, and in-between.
(He/him)
Website: https://klingelhoefer.github.io
George Farmer @cybergamepsych1.bsky.social Doctoral Researcher & VL @ University of Westminster
Psychology of video games - motivations & mental health effects.
LinkedIn - https://tinyurl.com/3bkcuud7
Emma Barrett @crimepsychblog.bsky.social Prof of Psychology, Security and Trust in @criminologyuom.bsky.social University of Manchester UK. Research on tech and crime, also human performance in extreme environments. Posting occasionally about either or both. 
Charlotte Griffin @griffince.bsky.social Lecturer in Psychology at University of Gloucestershire | Research in Digital Inclusion, Loneliness and Wellbeing | FHEA |
Dr Nikki Dean Marshall @ndeanmarshall.bsky.social Psychology Teaching Associate at the University of Nottingham. SFHEA. Interests: #bilingualism, #Cyberpsychology, #HigherEd, #reusableproducts. Mixed-methods researcher
Research gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nikki-Dean-Marshall
Dr. Rachel Kowert @drkowert.bsky.social Founder of Psychgeist and DLC Leadership Program. Visiting Researcher at University of Cambridge. Chocobo wrangler. All opinions mine.
Doug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social Assistant Prof of Media Psychology in the Department of Communication Science at VU Amsterdam (🇳🇱) researching media effects, digital well-being, attention, mental health. Open Science, Computational Methods
🖥️ https://dougaparry.com
🇿🇦 From South Africa
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
Emily Godwin @emilygodwin.bsky.social Senior Research Associate @ University of Bristol Business School | PhD student @ University of Bath | Social scientist | Researching all things digital culture, specifically conspiracy theories
https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/persons/emily-godwin
David A. Ellis @davidaellis.bsky.social Professor of Behavioural Science at the University of Bath, UK. Interests = people + technology. Part of the 65% who don’t own an air fryer. http://www.davidaellis.co.uk
Nicola Fox Hamilton, PhD 🍉 @nicolafh.bsky.social She/her. Cyberpsychology at IADT. Researches online communication & dating
Hosts a cyberpsychology podcast - “In Bits” with @drliam.bsky.social
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6R1n04owVEAH4k8OaajcyZ?si=evh1YzIJSX6XhNubur-A8A
Www.nicolafoxhamilton.com
Nicole Grajewski @nicolegrajewski.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Sciences Po CERI | Associate with Harvard’s Managing the Atom | working on nuclear issues involving Russia and Iran | author of Russia and Iran: Partners in Defiance from Syria to Ukraine (OUP/Hurst)
AliVaez.bsky.social @alivaez.bsky.social Director of #Iran Project & Senior Advisor @CrisisGroup; Adjunct Prof @Georgetown; Fellow @FPI_SAIS; Ex @UNDPPA @FAScientists @Harvard
Rasmus Elling @rasmuselling.bsky.social Associate Prof, Head of Middle East Studies, Uni of Copenhagen // Iran, History, Sociology // Views my own // English, Danish, Persian 
Dalia Dassa Kaye @dassakaye.bsky.social Middle East/geopolitics/diplomacy analyst. Current: Senior Fellow, UCLA Burkle Center. Former: Director, RAND Center for Middle East Public Policy. More info here: https://www.daliadassakaye.net/.
Shervin Malekzadeh @swarthy-bastard.bsky.social Pitzer prof. Former kindergarten teacher, & sometime swarthy bastard. I work on democratic movements and the politics of postrevolutionary schooling in Iran. www.shervinmalekzadeh.org
Jonathan Lord @jonathanlorddc.bsky.social Formerly: CNAS, HASC, DoD. Views mine.
Suzanne Maloney @suzannemaloney.bsky.social VP & Director of Foreign Policy, The Brookings Institution
Hossein Derakhshan (حسین درخشان) @h0d3r.bsky.social PhDing on listening and mass personalization @MediaLSE @MediaLab @Shorensteinctr+ Iran Evin prison (6yrs). co-wrote ‘Information Disorder’, wrote 'Web We Have to Save'.
Holly Dagres @hdagres.bsky.social Iranian-American • Atlantic Council editor + senior fellow, Iran focus • 15 years in MENA • Newsletter: http://theiranist.com (Shares ≠ endorsement)
Vali Nasr @valinasr.bsky.social Professor Johns Hopkins-SAIS, Fr Sr Advisor, State Dept, author of Iran's Grand Strategy https://a.co/d/egLBCgz
Esfandyar Batmanghelidj @yarbatman.bsky.social I invest in developing economies and study how sanctions are reshaping West Asia and the world. CEO of the Bourse & Bazaar Foundation. Adjunct Prof at Johns Hopkins SAIS.
Trita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social 2010 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order Recipient. Executive VP @quincyinst. Author of Losing an Enemy, Single Roll of the Dice & Treacherous Alliance. Views are my own.
Reza H. Akbari @rezahakbari.bsky.social PhD Candidate AU History - Program Manager IWPR MENA - Iranian-American - inforezaakbari@gmail.com - I write The Guarded Domains, a Substack newsletter focused on Iran and the broader Middle East region. https://guardeddomains.substack.com
Ali Ahmadi @aliahmadi.bsky.social Geoeconomics and Sanctions Policy. Consultant. Executive Fellow Geneva Centre for Security Policy
Jonathan Fulton @jonathanfulton.bsky.social Associate professor of political science at Zayed University in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Nonresident senior fellow at Atlantic Council. Research focuses on China-Middle East relations. Host of The China-MENA Podcast, author of China-MENA Newsletter on Substack. 
Sina Azodi @azodiac83.bsky.social Iran ☢️ program. Assistant professor at @GWU. PhD - I read on war and nuclear strategy.
Posts are my views
Sina Toossi @sinatoossi.bsky.social senior fellow at the @CIPolicy.bsky.social | write a lot about Iran, US foreign policy, Middle East | bylines Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the Guardian & elsewhere | check out my substack: dissidentforeignpolicy.com
Gregory Brew @gbrew24.bsky.social Analyst EurasiaGroup. Iran, energy. Wrote some books.
Laura Rozen @lkrozen.bsky.social Reporting on foreign policy. Current: https://diplomatic.substack.com Just Security ed board. Al Monitor, Politico, Foreign Policy alum.
Arash Azizi آرش عزیزی @arashtehran.bsky.social Author WHAT IRANIANS WANT http://bit.ly/3IBwY9k SHADOW CMDER https://bit.ly/3KxlTqU | Historian at @yale | Writer @theatlantic | Repped by Aevitas
Sam Lair @slair.bsky.social Fellow at FPRI | MIIS NPTS '24 | RTs/views my own etc. Also @sam_lair on Twitter
John Hudson @johnphudson.bsky.social I cover diplomacy and national security for The Washington Post
Zeyyat Bandeoğlu @zeyyatbandeoglu.bsky.social Academic in Security Studies | PhD in National and International Security Strategies (Turkish War Colleges) | MA in European Studies (UBC) | BA in Public Administration (Istanbul University, Turkey) | Diyarbakır native & Galatasaray Fan.
Amy Chang @notjustanychang.bsky.social I work on AI security at Cisco. AI/cyber/tech, China/Asia, security/policy. USN vet and policy wonk who's broken out of the revolving door. Views my own.
Center for Countering Digital Hate @counterhate.com International nonprofit protecting human rights online by tackling the spread of online harms. US 501(c)(3) non-profit. Media: media@counterhate.com
Brooke from Let’s Not Date @letsnotdate.bsky.social Hi I’m Brooke and I tell feminist, working class and lgbtq history to conservative men. (They hate it!)
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social Law professor & journalist looking at tech geopolitics, free expression, internet law, online governance, & AI.
Senior Editor at Lawfare.
https://klonick.substack.com/
www.kateklonick.com
W.W.D.D.
Bluesky USGS Quakebot @usgs-quakebot.bsky.social This bot pulls data from the USGS's real-time earthquake feed and posts a summary of any event in the lower 48 states having a preliminary magnitude 3.5+
made with 🫶🏼 by @DataDrivenMD.social
**NOT AFFILIATED WITH USGS**
🐉 Fancy4n6 🦄 @shannadaly.bsky.social Digital forensics & incident response #DFIR + #CTI | Horse and Dog mum | RB/SCP for @BlackHatEvents & @bsidesmelbourne.
Will Dormann @wdormann.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy I play with vulnerabilities and exploits.
I used to be https://twitter.com/wdormann but Twitter has become unbearable, so here I am.
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://infosec.exchange/@wdormann, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
CTIwithJay @ctiwithjay.bsky.social Cybersecurity pro with 8+ years in CTI and IR. Military veteran and former HUMINT specialist with an intel-driven approach. Skilled in threat detection and attack mitigation across complex environments.
aridjourney @aridjourney.bsky.social Threat research at HarfangLab. Opinions are my own.
Alon Gal (underthebreach) @infostealers.bsky.social www.hudsonrock.com
Brendan Chamberlain @infosecb.bsky.social Threat Detection Engineer @ Klaviyo | Detection & Response | Security Automation | macOS Security | Maintainer of awesome-detection-engineering, LOOBins
infosecb.com
https://github.com/infosecB
jamesejr @jamesejr.com Security Engineer @ Discord. Detection & Response Engineering. Previously @ Cloudflare.
Technology, food, travel, and photography. https://jamesejr.com
Volatility @volatilityfoundation.org Official account of the Volatility Memory Analysis Project and Windows Malware and Memory Forensics Training. http://volatilityfoundation.org
Stephen Fewer @stephenfewer.bsky.social Senior Principal Security Researcher at @rapid7.com. Specializing in software vulnerabilities and exploitation. stephenfewer.github.io
Adam Swanda @deadbits.bsky.social threat intel, large language models, python, malware
https://deadbits.org
Jack Gillum @jackgillum.bsky.social Relentless ferret for The Wall Street Journal. Signal: @jgillum.01. More contact info at https://gillum.org
Maggie Miller @maggiemiller.bsky.social Cybersecurity reporter for Politico based in DC. Also history, dog, and good TexMex taco nerd.
mmiller@politico.com, DM for Signal
Robert McMillan @bobmcmillan.bsky.social Cybersecurity reporter for the Wall Street Journal
Julian E. Barnes @julianbarnes.bsky.social New York Times intelligence reporter. 
Zachary Keck @zacharykeck.bsky.social Nuclear Weapons and Indo-Pacific. Former: DoD, Congress, Belfer Center, The Diplomat, others. Views mine and subject to change.
Tonya Riley @tonyariley.bsky.social Writing weird girl lit. Rep: @starlingliterary.bsky.social
Ray Canzanese @canzanese.com Director of Netskope Threat Labs
Resident of Philadelphia
Graduate of Drexel University
#cybersecurity #infosec
Post mostly about cybersecurity stuff.
Jeff Moss @thedarktangent.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy Founder of DEF CON & Black Hat. Maintainer of infocon.org.
Member of the UK Gov Cybersecurity Advisory Board & The Council on Foreign Relations.
Working to […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://defcon.social/@thedarktangent, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
B1gt1dd13s @bentleyaudrey.bsky.social Tech & Humor 🪬
Andrew Thompson @imposecost.bsky.social Head of Research and Discovery @Google Threat Intelligence. Leading multidisciplinary teams to defeat adversaries. Posts are attributable to me—not my employer.
Accidental CISO @accidentalciso.net I accidentally became the CISO. I didn't want this job, but the job chose me. I'm scared, and I want to go home.
https://www.accidentalciso.net
Ryan McBeth @ryanmcbeth.bsky.social Author, Army Vet, OSINT Intelligence Analyst, Programmer, Cyber guy. http://Ryanmcbeth.substack.com https://www.youtube.com/@RyanMcBethProgramming
Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social I'm an editor/correspondent for NPR. Mostly smart on the radio. Mostly stupid on everywhere else.
ChatGPT describes me as: "Aerospace sleuth, nuclear nerd and NPR Superfan — with a side of surreal humor."
Signal: gbrumfiel.13
https://geoffbrumfiel.net/
Dr. Dan Lomas @sandbaggerone.bsky.social Assistant Professor, University of Nottingham. Writes on 🇬🇧 intelligence.
Remains an opinionated Northerner & Mancunian. ✍ Vetting, 'Friends' & UK intelligence 📚 🇺🇦 Views my own.
🔗 https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/politics/people/daniel.lomas
Shashank Joshi @shashj.bsky.social Incoming Washington bureau chief at The Economist. Previously defence editor for eight years.
Visiting Fellow at Department of War Studies, KCL. For speaking engagements: https://chartwellspeakers.com/speaker/shashank-joshi
Mark Mazzetti @markmazzetti.bsky.social Washington Correspondent, The New York Times. Author, "The Way of the Knife: the CIA, a Secret Army and a War at the Ends of the Earth," and currently writing a book about the Middle East. Adjunct professor, Duke University.
x0rz @x0rz.bsky.social Cybersecurity & Threat Intelligence. Knowledge is power, France is bacon 🥓
Matt Kapko @mattkapko.com Digital threats reporter @ CyberScoop • Grateful lifelong Californian • matt.49 on Signal • matt.kapko@cyberscoop.com • mattkapko.com
Sarah Powazek @powa-sec.bsky.social Director of Public Interest Cybersecurity @CLTCBerkeley. Views my own.
Deputy Director @DistrictCon
Microsoft Threat Intelligence @threatintel.microsoft.com We are Microsoft's global network of security experts. Follow for security research and threat intelligence. https://aka.ms/threatintelblog
Sophos @sophossecurity.bsky.social Defeat Cyberattacks
Chi En (Ashley) Shen @ashl3y-shen.bsky.social Security researcher @ Cisco Talos. / Ex-Google TAG / Black Hat & HITCON review board / Organiser of Rhacklette. 
Ryan Naraine @ryanaraine.bsky.social Three Buddy Problem
https://securityconversations.com
Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social Dad, husband, President, citizen. barackobamabooks.com
crowdstrike.com @crowdstrike.com official CrowdStrike account (check domain👆)
The first cloud-native platform that protects endpoints and cloud workloads, identity & data. #WeStopBreaches. Free trial: http://crwdstr.ke/tryfalcon
Jennifer Jacobs @jenniferjjacobs.bsky.social CBS News senior White House reporter. Reporting what I know, not what I think. @Bloomberg and @DMRegister alum. Email me: jennifer.jacobs@cbsnews.com 💕Iowa
Caitlin Condon @catc0n.bsky.social Adventurer. Takes a lot of photos, calls many places home. VP of research @VulnCheck. Previously vulnerability research director @Rapid7 / @metasploit.
FedScoop @fedscoop.bsky.social https://linkin.bio/fedscoop/
DefenseScoop @defensescoop.bsky.social DefenseScoop is the leading publication dedicated to delivering breaking news, trends and insights on the DOD’s use of technology. https://linkin.bio/defensescoop/
Signal @signal.org Signal is a nonprofit end-to-end encrypted communications app. Privacy isn’t an optional mode, it’s the way Signal works. Every message, every call, every time. https://signal.org/donate/