Adam H. Smiley @asmiley.bsky.social Social psychologist and assistant professor at Belmont University.
affective polarization, religion, judgment & decision making, metascience.
Washington PhD 🟣🟡
✞
https://adamhsmiley.owlstown.net/
Alicyn Ager @alicynager.bsky.social Experimental Psychology PhD Candidate researching reasoning, metacognition, misinformation, beliefs, and morality.
anthony petro @apetro.bsky.social Historian of religion, visual culture, sexuality
Mostly nerdy academic stuff & whippet pics
Provoking Religion: Sex, Art, & the Culture Wars (OUP 2025)
After the Wrath of God: AIDS, Sexuality, & American Religion (OUP 2015)
https://linktr.ee/anthonypetro
ASA Sociology of Religion Section @asareligion.bsky.social The purpose of the American Sociology Association Section on Sociology of Religion is to encourage and enhance research, teaching, and other professional concerns in the study of religion and society.
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Abigail Gray @abigaildgray.bsky.social Post Bacc Psychology Research | Intergroup relations, existential psych, LGBTQIA+ research | she/they
TonyInAsheville (He/Him) @tonysarris.bsky.social Humanist, mensch, husband-to-my-husband, father & friend. Love nature, architecture, travel, world history, books, food, wine & craft beer. So fortunate to live in beautiful Blue Ridge Mtns in cool, quirky Asheville, NC (AVL). Follow mostly ppl in AVL/NC.
David M Silverman @davidmsilverman.bsky.social Assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at Yale studying identity and (in)equality.
Tuomas Salonen @tuomasolavi.bsky.social Teacher. PhD Researcher, University of Helsinki: Moral Education, Ethics, Worldview Education. Interests: Morality, Values, Ideology, Religion.
Johannes Richter @jgmrichter.bsky.social Wine industry journalist and generalist with interests in the critical study of religion, philosophy, complex systems and Oxford commas.
@jennkaplan.bsky.social @jennkaplan.bsky.social Ceramics Professor at Warren Wilson College. WNC
David Abernathy @dabernat.bsky.social Professor at Warren Wilson College in #HeleneGroundZero Swannanoa, NC (near Asheville). I teach GIS, political ecology, and global studies. Interested in open science, open source, open educational resources, and open pedagogy. And Panama.
Rita Banerjee @ritabanerjee.bsky.social Rita Banerjee is a writer and an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing and Director of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. She is author of #DisobedientFutures, CREDO, Echo in Four Beats, A Night with Kali, and Cracklers at Night.
@ariel-lindorff.bsky.social @ariel-lindorff.bsky.social 
Jimmy Rios @doggonepsych.bsky.social Honorary dogtorate degree and master pawddle-boarder. My mom is a social psych professor at UIUC.
@anneblankenship.bsky.social @anneblankenship.bsky.social 
EMoDiR @emodir.bsky.social International research group on Early Modern Religious Dissents & Radicalism. Find us at http://emodir.net! Posts by @gmhamelin.bsky.social, media manager.
Evolutionary Demography of Religion @evodemreligion.bsky.social Sharing news, publications, and other events associated with the Evolutionary Demography of Religion Project. Visit our website for more: https://evolutionarydemographyofreligion.org
Joseph Watts @josephwatts.bsky.social Social scientist interested in how human culture, cognition and evolution interact. Psychology Department, University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Personal website: https://josephwatts.org/
Joseph Bulbulia @epiclab.bsky.social Professor of Psychology
Victoria University of Wellington
New Zealand
Dan Major-Smith @djsmith90.bsky.social Recovering Evolutionary Anthropologist/Accidental Epidemiologist/Cat fosterer
PostDoc at Aarhus and Senior Research Associate at Bristol
Interests: cooperation; religion; causal inference; cohort studies
Site: https://danmajor-smith.netlify.app/about
Chris Kavanagh @ckava.bsky.social Cognitive Anthropologist/Social Psychologist. Norn Irish in Japan. Junior co-host of Decoding the Gurus. Interested in conspiracism, extremism, & religion/ritual psychology.
Martin Lang @martinlangcz.bsky.social Cognitive and evolutionary science of human cooperation with particular interest in signaling, ritual, and religion.
Assist Prof at LEVYNA, Masaryk Uni
www.martinlang.cz
#CogEvoSciRel
Chris Dabbs, Ph.D. @dabbspsych.bsky.social Counseling psychologist | assistant prof at University of Lethbridge researching identity, autism, religion | #actuallyautistic | Hoosier transplant 🇺🇸 → 🇨🇦 | opinions my own
Léo Fitouchi @lfitouchi.bsky.social Cognitive scientist. Studying moral cognition & culture
Research fellow at @iast.fr @tse-fr.eu. PhD ENS Paris.
Website: leofitouchi.github.io
Nicholas Gibson @njsgibson.bsky.social research funding and strategery | cognitive science | religion | mental health | open scholarship | metadata | jazz | pipe symbols
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/
Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com Very (un)serious person who, occasionally, makes friends along the way… (also an addiction researcher/psychologist)
(for professional inquiries: www.joshuagrubbsphd.com)
Liane Young @lianeleeyoung.bsky.social Prof of Psychology and Neuroscience at Boston College | Director of Morality Lab | Academic Mama | she/her | https://moralitylab.bc.edu/
Michael Inzlicht @minzlicht.bsky.social Professor (michaelinzlicht.com), Podcaster (www.fourbeers.com), Writer (www.speakandregret.michaelinzlicht.com)
Not that other guy, that's for sure @neogliberal.bsky.social 30% academic discourse; 15% games; 3% misc; 52% skeets I wrote but deleted immediately.
Jeremy Ginges @jeremyginges.bsky.social Social psychologist @LSE studying cooperation and conflict across cultural divides
Andrew Shtulman @andrewshtulman.bsky.social Professor, cognitive developmental psychologist, and author of SCIENCEBLIND (Basic) and LEARNING TO IMAGINE (Harvard). I love academic bureaucracy and sarcasm.
Adam K. Fetterman @akfetterman.bsky.social Associate Prof, University of Houston | Social Psychology | Personality | Cognition | Metaphor | Nostalgia | Metal | TV & Film
https://fettermanlab.weebly.com/
#SocialPsych
Katie McAuliffe @katiemcauliffe.bsky.social Cooperation, Morality, Justice, Norms, Evolution, Society, Culture, etc
bccooperationlab.com
bcvirtueproject.com
Associate Prof @ Psychology & Neuroscience, Boston College
Dimitris Xygalatas @xygalatas.bsky.social Experimental anthropologist, cognitive scientist, dad, author of Ritual: How seemingly senseless acts make life worth living
Tania Lombrozo @tanialombrozo.bsky.social Writes about cognitive science and philosophy. Professes psychology at Princeton University. Devours chocolate and fiction. www.tanialombrozo.com
Jordan Moon @jordanmoon.bsky.social Social psychologist @ University of Southampton. Formerly at Brunel University of London and Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse. PhD from Arizona State University.
Religion, morality, etc.
W: https://www.jordanwmoon.com
Aaron D. Cherniak @aaroncherniak.bsky.social Clinical Psychologist & Researcher. PhD Stockholm U., Reichman U. Researching mental health, spirituality and religion, and psychedelics. Rabbi.
https://linktr.ee/aaroncherniak
Robert Ross @robert-m-ross.bsky.social Cognitive scientist at Macquarie University in Sydney. Research on delusions, metascience, misinformation, reasoning, and religion. Google Scholar: https://tinyurl.com/5f2udu5p
@bgpurzycki.bsky.social @bgpurzycki.bsky.social 
Jon Lanman @lanmanjon.bsky.social Cognitive Anthropologist at Queen's University Belfast
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Cognition & Culture
Jonathan Lewis-Jong @msgjonhere.bsky.social social psychologist | Anglican priest
come for the psychology/theology/philosophy, stay for the…quips about parenting?
Sarah Charles PhD @drsarahcharles.bsky.social Part-academic interested in Psychobiology, Psychology of religion, and psychology of music. Host of the IAPR Podcast. I'm music mad 🎸, a boardgame fan 🎲, and love to watch football ⚽️ and F1 🏎. 🏳️🌈 (she/her)
Valerie van Mulukom @herebehumans.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Psychology @ Oxford Brookes University, UK // Research on cognitive & evolutionary science of religious, secular, political, conspiracy belief & imagination. #COVIDisNotOver
John H. Shaver @johnhshaver.bsky.social Anthropologist at Baylor University
Lois Lee @loielee.bsky.social Sociologist at the University of Kent. Existential cultures, ethics and identities; secularism and pluralism; social stratification and inequalities. 
Adam Baimel @abaimel.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Psychology - Oxford Brookes University
Religion; spirituality; cultural change; environmentalism
www.adambaimel.com
Stephanie Kramer @stephaniekramer.bsky.social Psychologist and demographer focusing on religion and migration at Pew Research Center
Paddy Rosenkranz @cupandsword.bsky.social Academic psychologist interested in all things learning and teaching. Researching modern spirituality and mythologies. Love of poetry, wine, and music. National Teaching Fellow.
Bob Emmons @drrobertemmons.bsky.social Gratitude scientist and keynote speaker. University of California, Davis.
@bpzahl.bsky.social @bpzahl.bsky.social 
Helen De Cruz @helendecruz.net Philosopher writing on science, religion, SFF, SFWA, Codex, lute music.
newsletter: http://helendecruz.substack.com
website: https://helendecruz.net/
My book Wonderstruck - https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691232126/wonderstruck
Gordon Pennycook @gordpennycook.bsky.social Associate Professor, Psychology @cornelluniversity.bsky.social. Researching thinking & reasoning, misinformation, social media, AI, belief, metacognition, B.S., and various other keywords. 🇨🇦
https://gordonpennycook.com/
Nathan Nunn 🇨🇦 🇰🇷 @nathannunn.bsky.social Professor of Economics. University of British Columbia. Political Economy, Economic Development, Economic History, Cultural Evolution. 🇰🇷🇨🇦
Jared Rubin @jaredcrubin.com Economics Professor at Chapman University. President of ASREC. Author of Rulers, Religion and Riches http://amzn.to/3luy5qe and How the World Became Rich http://amzn.to/2ZZJetD
https://www.jaredcrubin.com/
https://www.howtheworldbecamerich.com/
Ryan Burge @ryanburge.bsky.social Teach at EIU | Research Director: For Faith Counts | Books: The Nones & 20 Myths | Pastor: ABCUSA | Graphs about Religion
Jeanet Sinding Bentzen @jeanetbentzen.bsky.social Economist at Copenhagen University, Economics of religion, Assoc Editor @EJ_RES, Executive director @ ASREC
M. Willis Monroe @willismonroe.com Cuneiform Studies, History of Science/Religion, Quantitative Humanities, Associate Professor at the University of New Brunswick, Co-Director of the Database of Religious History.
Michael Muthukrishna @michael.muthukrishna.com Prof. #NYU & #LSE. Author: A Theory of Everyone. Researching & spreading the word on how humans evolved & what that means for us today. www.atheoryofeveryone.com
Greg Smith @gregsmithpolls.bsky.social Associate Director, Religion Research @pewresearch.org
Posting about issues at the intersection of religion and public life
Sam Stroope @sam-stroope.bsky.social Prof. @LSU | Medical Sociology | Sociology of Religion | sstroope.github.io
Blake Victor Kent @bvkent.bsky.social Sociologist (religion & health) at Westmont, Harvard; book - Strange: Evangelicalism, Race, Politics, Abuse & Other Shadows Between Us. Baker Academic.
Connair J. S. Russell @connairrussell.bsky.social Postdoc/Research Fellow at Queen's University Belfast.
Open Science • Religion • (Non)Belief • Rstats 
Richard Irvine @robotforaday.bsky.social Anthropologist and on-call firefighter. Rousay, Orkney / St Andrews, Fife.
Author of _An Anthropology of Deep Time_ (Cambridge UP, 2020) and _The Vow of Stability_ (Scottish UP, 2025).
Counter-revolutionary.
Robert Wuthnow @rwuth.bsky.social Sociologist interested in the Religious Left
David Yaden @existwell.bsky.social Science of psychedelics & other altered states of consciousness
Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research
@jhpsychedelics.bsky.social
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Oxford Uehiro Institute
Yaden Lab
www.YadenLab.com
Aarhus University's Religion, Cognition, and Culture Unit @rcc-au.bsky.social Aarhus University
The Database of Religious History @religionhistory.bsky.social 
Wade C. Rowatt @wadecrowatt.bsky.social Social-personality psychology
Baylor University
Stylianos Syropoulos @stysyropoulos.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the College of Global Futures, Arizona State University | morality, sustainability, and intergenerational decision-making
https://www.stylianossyropoulos.com/
Philosopher Jersey Flight @jerseyflight.bsky.social Director of Interdisciplinary Research at the Institute for Advanced Dialectical Research, dialecticinstitute.org - views expressed here my own. jerseyflight.com
Erin Cooley @erincoo-psych.bsky.social Associate Professor of Psychology at Colgate University; social psychologist studying hierarchy, health and policy/political beliefs 
Matthew I. Billet @matthewibillet.bsky.social Culture | Religion | Social Cognition | Environmental Decision Making
Postdoc UC Irvine | PhD S/P Psychology University of British Columbia
Will Pearson-Kelly @williamkelly95.bsky.social Husband, dog/cat dad. Fully potty trained 🚽👊 He/him
Gary Adler @garyadler.bsky.social Sociologist of culture, religion, civil society, and law. Love mixing the methods. @PSUsoccrim
Current project: religion-state relations and local government.
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=xHfWZUgAAAAJ
*Views expressed are my own*
Cihan Tugal @cihantugal.bsky.social Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley
Working on a book on right-wing populism
https://sociology.berkeley.edu/faculty/cihan-tugal
Gülay Türkmen @gulayturkmen.bsky.social Sociologist, researcher, writer, editor, teacher, academic nomad
https://www.gulayturkmen.com/
Damon Mayrl @mayrl.bsky.social Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology at Colby College. Religion, politics, history, culture, law, policy, vermú. http://mayrl.org, @mayrl@sciences.social, @yrlsoc@x
Jonathan Coley @jonathancoley.bsky.social Associate Professor of Sociology, Oklahoma State University | Editor-in-Chief, The Sociological Quarterly (@socquarterly.bsky.social) | social movements, politics, religion, education, work 🏳️🌈
http://jonathancoley.com
Gizem Arikan @gizemarikan.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science, Trinity College Dublin @tcdpoliticalsci.bsky.social. Political psychology, religion and politics, democratic attitudes, immigrants and integration. Web site: gizemarikan.com
Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social Assistant Prof at UChicago | Sociologist | Columnist @Inthesetimesmag.bsky.social | Co-author of revolutionary sci-fi novel: Everything for Everyone | Subject of documentary film "Coming Around"
Gerardo Martí @gerardomarti.bsky.social William R Kenan Jr Professor of Sociology @ Davidson College | Race, Religion, Power, Social Change | Past Roles: Journal Editor Sociology of Religion, President SSSR & ASR, Chair ASA Religion, AAR Religion & Social Science Unit | cv https://bit.ly/40mps8D
Abu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social Marc Lynch. GW Professor, POMEPS commander, Brewers fan. The one true Abu Aardvark. AMERICA’S MIDDLE EAST. Find me at https://abuaardvarkghost.ghost.io
Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (SSSR) @sssreligion.bsky.social The SSSR is an interdisciplinary academic association that promotes & communicates social scientific research about religious institutions and experiences. Founded in 1949. sssreligion.org Flagship publication: JSSR @jssreligion.bsky.social
Jacqui Frost @jacquifrost.bsky.social Assistant Professor @PurdueSociology. Researching how nonreligious people live, what science means to people, and why religious change happens.
Ruth Braunstein @ruthbraunstein.bsky.social Sociologist. Religion, culture, politics | Director Meanings of Democracy Lab | 📚 MY TAX DOLLARS, PROPHETS & PATRIOTS, RELIGION & PROGRESSIVE ACTIVISM | 🎧 WHEN THE WOLVES CAME
Jeff Guhin @jeffguhin.bsky.social Pronounced Gyoo-in, Assoc Prof
@SociologyUCLA. Religion/Schools/Theory, he/él/هو, Dad to 2, Book 2: Against Achievement: What Meritocracy (and Social Science) Misses About Schools
Valentina Cantori @valecantori.bsky.social Sociologist in the making @USC. Studying representations of Public Islam in U.S. civic life | proud first-gen | tagliatelle-maker 🍝🇮🇹
www.valentinacantori.com
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion @jssreligion.bsky.social The JSSR Journal is a multi-disciplinary journal that publishes research on the social scientific study of religion. Flagship publication of @sssreligion.bsky.social. Engage our journal: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14685906
Erin Johnston @erinfjohnston.bsky.social Sociologist studying religion, culture, identity, and qualitative methods.
Sr. Research Scientist and Lecturer @ Duke University
Department of Sociology | Religion and Social Change Lab
https://sites.google.com/site/ejohnsto/
Shai M. Dromi @dromishai.bsky.social Author of "Above the Fray:The RC & the Making of the Humanitarian NGO Sector"&"Moral Minefields:How Sociologists Debate Good Science" (U Chicago Press). Harvard sociologist.
Jack Delehanty @jackdelehanty.bsky.social Sociology professor, runner, husband, dad. Research on religion and political culture. Teaching on sociological theory and more. Making Moral Citizens, my book on faith-based community organizing, available from UNC Press.
Andrew Whitehead @andrew-whitehead.bsky.social Sociologist | religion, politics, disability | Kettering Foundation Research Fellow | Christian Nationalism books: http://linktr.ee/andrewwhitehead | https://andrewwhitehead.substack.com/ | https://tinyurl.com/42wspc8m | all views my own
Christopher Han-Fai Seto @criminovelist.bsky.social Assistant professor in the Purdue Department of Sociology. I study hate crime, violence, guns, health, and religion. I also write murder mystery novels. Learn more at chseto.com. All opinions shared here are my own. 
Paul Djupe @pauldjupe.bsky.social Prof at Denison University; Political Scientist studying US religion and politics. blogging at religioninpublic.blog. Riding all over (hilly) Ohio.
Evan Stewart @evanstewart.bsky.social Social Scientist @ UMass Boston
Editor @ Sociology of Religion
Studies (Non)Religion & Spirituality | Climate | Public Life
https://www.evan-stewart.com
@socimages.bsky.social
Landon Schnabel @landonschnabel.bsky.social Sociologist at Cornell studying inequality and writing a book on how religions are gender-typed. Google Scholar: http://goo.gl/u3FcHK
Nazita Lajevardi @nazita.bsky.social Political scientist. Scholar of race, religion, and American politics.
Jaime Lee Kucinskas @jlkucinskas.bsky.social Sociologist of morality, social & organizational change and spirituality. Author of The Loyalty Trap on civil servants' experiences under Trump, The Mindful Elite and Situating Spirituality. Learning about climate action. Mom juggling it all.