ECPR SG Extremism & Democracy @ecpr-ead.bsky.social The official @ECPR.bsky.social Standing Group on Extremism & Democracy. We also publish the e-Extreme newsletter.
Steering Comm: @leoniedejonge.bsky.social, @profannikawerner.bsky.social, and @dafnoukos.bsky.social
IPKW - Department of Communication @ipkw.bsky.social One of the largest departments for communication science, ranked as one of the top programs for communication research in Europe, Viennaโs geographic & cultural position and international orientation makes us a key-hub for top-notch research collaboration.
Carsten Schwemmer @cschwem2er.bsky.social Professor of Computational Social Science, University of Munich | Text & Images | Data Scraping | Data Visualization
https://www.carstenschwemmer.com/
Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social Dutchman ๐ณ๐ฑ in South ๐บ๐ธ | Politologist ๐งโ๐ | columnist โ๏ธ | public speaker ๐ฃ๏ธ | Far-right politics ๐ | Soccer & Politics โฝ | European politics ๐ช๐บ | Defending democracy ๐ | punkrock ๐ธ | #groundhopping โฝ๐๐ | movies ๐ฆ | watches โ | no manels โ | only MY opinions ๐
Curd Knรผpfer @curdknupfer.bsky.social Associate professor of political communication @ddc-sdu.bsky.social, University of Southern Denmark.
Focus on digital & right-wing media + parties.
Associate Editor @ International Journal of Press/Politics
Anna Maria Planitzer @amplanitzer.bsky.social she/her ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ | PhD candidate @polcomvienna.bsky.social
@yecrea.bsky.social PolComm section representative
Algorithmic Content Moderation | Inclusive Technologies | User-Agency & Effects ๐ญ
https://polcom.univie.ac.at/team/anna-maria-planitzer/
Rinat Meerson @rinatmeerson.bsky.social predoc @adme-uvienna.bsky.social ๐ก| editor @in-mindmagazine.bsky.socialโฌ ๐ญ | msc psychologist ๐ง | interested in media psychology, digital hate, user engagement, content moderation ๐ฃ๏ธ๐ฑ
APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions @polcomm.bsky.social Official account of the @APSAtweets & @icahdq #PolComm Divisions | posts by @igoncalves.com | https://www.facebook.com/groups/politicalcommunication.org | @polcomm@mastodon.social | https://politicalcommunication.org/
Centre for Statecraft & National Security @csns-uk.bsky.social Research centre based within @warstudieskcl.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.socialโฌ. Formerly International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) & Centre for Grand Strategy (CGS). RTs โ endorsements.
Eviane Leidig @evianeleidig.com Director of Research & Outreach, Center for the Study of Organized Hate @csohate.bsky.social
Expert on hate & extremism, online harms & tech regulation
๐ป evianeleidig.com
Miriam Schirmer @miriamschirmer.bsky.social CSS Postdoc @ Northwestern University
NLP for Violence Research & Mental Health / Misinformation in Science
๐ https://miriamschirmer.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
Axel Bruns @snurb.info Australian Laureate Fellow and Professor at @qutdmrc, researching news, politics, partisanship, polarisation in digital and social media.
He/his | Progressive Rock | Hannover 96 ๐ค๐ค๐ | ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฉ๐ช๐ช๐บ
๐ธ๏ธ snurb.info
๐ @snurb@aoir.social
โ @snurb_dot_info
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.
Ross Dahlke @rossdahlke.bsky.social asst. prof. @uwsjmc.bsky.social rossdahlke.com
Olga Eisele @olgaeisele.bsky.social Assistant professor at @ascor.bsky.social
Crisis communication | legitimacy | EU | text analysis
Christian Rauh @chrauh.bsky.social Amongst other things dad (P+J), political scientist (WZB Berlin & University of Potsdam), bike nerd (n+1), and music addict (Kick, Snare, Kick Kick, Snare).
http://www.christian-rauh.eu
Jana Lasser @janalasser.eurosky.social Professor for Data Analysis @UniGraz | Computational Social Science, Data Science, complex systems, computational modelling | #OpenScience, #coder | she/her
Mariken van der Velden @marikenvelden.bsky.social Associate prof. Political Communication @VUamsterdam @FSW_VU| VENI 2019 @NWO_SSH| Polarization & Political Compromises: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AX6A1TeSB, Text as Data
Daniel Thiele @thieled.bsky.social Political scientist | Research group lead 'Dynamics of digital mobilization' @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social | Political communication, social media, computational methods | ๐๐ด
Cornelius Puschmann @cbpuschmann.bsky.social Professor of Media & Communication at ZeMKI, U of Bremen & affiliate Leibniz Institute for Media Research. Computational communication science.
Stefanie Walter @stefaniewalter.bsky.social Emmy Noether Fellow | Techical University of Munich | #citizens #diversity #EU #climatechange #news #textanalysis #css
Marko Bachl @bachl.bsky.social communication research at @ifpuk-berlin.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
Johannes B. Gruber @jbgruber.bsky.social Senior Researcher @gesis.org // Data Editor @polcommjournal.bsky.social
๐ political communication (#polsky + #commsky) with text analysis and #rstats (#opendata + #openscience)
๐ JohannesBGruber.eu
๐จโ๐ป research software github.com/JBGruber
Fabio Votta๐๐ง @favstats.eu Computational Communication Scientist #rstats | Postdoc Researcher | University of Amsterdam | โช@ascor.bsky.socialโฌ | @algosoc.org | Blog: favstats.eu | Running on plant-based fuel ๐ฑ | he/him
Hajo Boomgaarden @hajoboo.bsky.social Communication scholar @ Uni Vienna. Political communication & computational methods.
Joana G Sa @joanagsa.bsky.social Computational Social Scientist @LIP_Lisbon
PI @spac.bsky.social @ERC.europa.eu funded
Learning about complexity and underestimating effort
Former Physicist (@IST)
Former Biologist (@IGC+@Harvard)
Future Farmer (@Alentejo)
Pablo Jost @pjost.bsky.social Communication scholar @ifpmainz.bsky.social, interested in (social) media, politics, extremism | co-speaker @dgpuk-meth.bsky.social
Mario Haim @marhai.bsky.social Professor of Communication Science, especially Computational Communication Research, at @ifkw.bsky.social at LMU Munich. Podcasts with @emesedomahidi.bsky.social at @ccspod.bsky.social.
Fabienne Lind @fabiennelind.bsky.social Researcher | University of Vienna | Computational Social Science | Comparative Research
Thorsten Quandt @thorstenquandt.bsky.social Professor of Online Communication. Researching the transformation of communication and society. Critical optimist.
Valerie Hase @valeriehase.bsky.social Professor of Digital Media & Communication, University of Klagenfurt.
๐ CSS | Cross-Platform Methods | Digital Journalism | Crisis Communication
๐ https://valerie-hase.com
Nicola Righetti @nicolarighetti.bsky.social Computational Social Scientist
https://www.nicolarighetti.net/
Find me on LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/nicolarighetti79
Marvin Stecker @marvins.bsky.social I do research somewhere between political communication, computational methods and culture and identity.
PhD student, Computational Communication Science Lab & Department of Government
University of Vienna
www.marvinstecker.com
aytalina @aytalina.bsky.social She/her, Postdoctoral Researcher
Computational Communication Science @compcommlab.bsky.social @univie.ac.at @what-if-horizon.bsky.social
Daniela Stoltenberg @dstoltenberg.bsky.social Emmy Noether junior research group leader on local digital public spheres at the @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social.
I like books, running, hiking, horses, and crafting. ๐๐๐๏ธ๐ด๐งถ
she/her. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Damian Trilling ๐ฅ @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
Jula Luehring @julaluehring.bsky.social Senior researcher (she/her) @gesis.org | occasionally still hanging around at @compcommlab.bsky.social & @csh.ac.at โจ
https://julaluehring.github.io/
ProfJSG @profjsg.bsky.social Professor. Constitution hugger. Worried for democracy.
Philipp Mendoza @philippmendoza.com PostDoc @LMU | @Chair for Digitalization & Political Behavior โข #DemocraticPersuasion โข #NegCampaign โข #AffectivePolarization โข #Populism โข #CCS โข ๐ฅ
Tobias Heidenreich @hdnrch.bsky.social Researcher WZB Berlin | Political Communication & Computational Methods
Lukas Birkenmaier @lukasbirkenmai1.bsky.social Research Associate and PhD Candidate @gesis_org | Interested in text as data, validity, political communication; ๐https://lukasbirkenmaier.de/
Patrick Parschan @patrickparschan.bsky.social PhD researcher at LMU Munich | natural language processing | computational methods | ideal point estimation | early career representative at ICA computational methods division | co-organizer of @hackingcommsci
๐https://patparsch.github.io
Luca Rossi @lrossi.bsky.social I work at IT University of Copenhagen trying to understand online participation and collective action while having fun with methods.
Also Head of the Data Science Section.
Apeksha Shetty @apeksha.bsky.social She/her | PhD Candidate at Complexity Science Hub & University of Vienna's @compcommlab.bsky.social | Currently studying misinformation & social identity on social media | Mundus Journalism alumna
Frederik Henriksen @frederikhenriksen.bsky.social Postdoc researcher, Roskilde University
Computational Social Science | Political Communication
Ahrabhi Kathirgamalingam @ahrabhikat.bsky.social she/ her | Postdoctoral researcher at @gesis.org | PhD from @compcommlab.bsky.social at U of Vienna | ๐social bias, racism and polarization in media and CSS methods.
ahrkat.github.io
Hossein is blue now kermani @hosseinkermani.bsky.social Postdoc researcher, social media activism, computational propaganda, CSS and NLP.
Kateryna Maikovska ๐บ๐ฆ @maikovska.bsky.social prae doc at U Vienna, @compcommlab.bsky.social | digital activism, mixed-methods, agent-based modeling, connective action. Ukrainian ๐บ๐ฆ Speculative fiction writer, published novellas collection "ะกะปัั
ะฐั". #RussiaIsATerroristState
Dominika Betakova @dbetakova.bsky.social She/her | First-gen ๐๐ณ๏ธโ๐ | Postdoc at the Centre for Journalism @sdu.dk | PhD from @ipkw.bsky.social | news consumption & avoidance โ๐ฐ constructive journalism ๐ฑ๐๏ธ media use ๐บ๐ฑ polcom & journalism studies
Daniel Wiesner @danielwiesner.bsky.social PhD candidate | University of Vienna | Political Communication | Science Communication | Computational Social Science
Sebastian Sherrah @c10r4n.bsky.social https://sebastiansherrah.github.io/
neither here nor there
Jana Bernhard-Harrer @janabernhard.bsky.social She/her | Post-doc at @compcommlab.bsky.social and @medem.bsky.social | Validation of CTAM & Austrian Political Communication.
https://sites.google.com/view/janabernhard-harrer/home 
Azade Kakavand (she/her) @azadekakavand.bsky.social Postdoc at Social Media Observatory & Media Research Methods Lab @bredowinstitut.bsky.social & @fgz-risc.bsky.social๐ฉ๐ฝโ๐ป
Previously at @compcommlab.bsky.social @univie.ac.at ๐
Interested in multi-platform research, computational methods societal cohesion ๐ป
Robert A. Huber @robert-a-huber.bsky.social Professor of Political Science Methods at @unisalzburg.bsky.socialโฌ โข Editor at @ejprjournal.bsky.social โข Studies Populism and Climate Politics โข Previously University of Reading and ETH Zurich โข More info: www.robertahuber.com
Sven-Oliver Proksch @sopro.bsky.social Professor of Political Science | University of Cologne | ERC MINORITYRULE | svenoliverproksch.com
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- H Hauke Licht @haukelicht.bsky.social Post-doctoral researcher at the
Center for Comparative Politics, University of Cologne
Lukas Otto @lukotto.bsky.social Communication Researcher @GESIS
political communication | mobile & computational methods | intensive longitudinal data | negativity & incivility | emotion | trust & cynicism
Hendrik Meyer @hendrikmeyer.bsky.social Research Associate | PhD Candidate | Hamburg University
Political & Climate (Protest) Communication
Website: https://www.hendrik-meyer.com
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=j3fDB9oAAAAJ&hl=en
Lucienne Engelhardt @luceng.bsky.social PhD candidate, University of Muenster, currently visiting WZB Berlin
Julian Hohner @julianhohner.bsky.social Computational Social Scientist | Online Radicalisation and Extremism Research | Doctoral Fellow LMU Munich
Michael Scharkow @mscharkow.bsky.social Computational Communication, Professor at https://ifp.uni-mainz.de | https://mscharkow.de
The COMPTEXT Association @comptext.bsky.social COMPTEXT is an international community and forum for text/image/video as data scholars
Anne Oeldorf-Hirsch @anneo.bsky.social Comm tech & social media research professor by day, symphony violinist by night, outside as much as possible otherwise. German/American Pacific Northwestern New Englander, #firstgen academic, she/her, ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
https://anne-oeldorf-hirsch.uconn.edu
Jo(sephine) Lukito @jolukito.bsky.social DDC Professor of Digital Communication and DIAS Chair at the University of Southern Denmark | Modern Kilogirl ๐ฉโ๐ป | Computational Linguistics & Global/US PolComm
Deen Freelon @dfreelon.bsky.social Allan Randall Freelon Sr. Prof. + Presidential Prof. + Director: Politics, Identities, & Communication Lab (PICL) @asc.upenn.edu. More fun than I look.
Brooke Foucault Welles @foucaultwelles.bsky.social Professor of Communication, trying not to be evil Ass. Dean, #HashtagActivism co-author, mom to teenagers and cats. Appreciates novelty socks and cat memes.
Veronika Ebner @veronikaebner.bsky.social PhD student, Computational Communication Science Lab, University of Vienna
Research on climate change communication, social media and constructive journalism, part of @cidape.bsky.social project
CCS Pod @ccspod.bsky.social Podcast on CCS hosted by @emesedomahidi.bsky.social, @marhai.bsky.social and @janabernhard.bsky.social. Discussions about the field in the #CCSpod, deep dive into individual studies in #aBitOfCCS. https://aboutccs.net/ccspod/
Emese Domahidi @emesedomahidi.bsky.social 
M. Saรฏd H. Unger @mshu.bsky.social Research Assistant at the Online Communication Lab in Mรผnster- D David Lazer @davidlazer.bsky.social computational social scientist
Kilian Buehling @buehling.bsky.social Information ecosystems & far-right political communication | IRex Tรผbingen |Weizenbaum Institute
Passionate poster ๐ฆญ
Sarah Shugars @shugars.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Communication @ Rutgers University. Computational social science, political communication, civic studies. First gen. They/them
Miklรณs Sebลk @miklossebok.bsky.social Research professor, HUN-REN CSS and AI National Lab, Budapest, Convenor of comptextconference.org, PI of http://poltextLAB.com AI laboratory & The Babel Machine (babel.poltextlab.com)
Stuart Soroka @snsoroka.bsky.social Professor, Departments of Communication and Political Science, UCLA. snsoroka.com
Yini Zhang @yinizhang.bsky.social assistant professor, university at buffalo, social media & computational social science
Richard Huskey @richardhuskey.bsky.social Associate Professor, UC Davis. PI, Cognitive Communication Science Lab. Associate Editor, Journal of Communication. Ski bum at heart. https://cogcommscience.com/
Saif Shahin @saifshahin.bsky.social ๐จ๐ผโ๐ Asst Prof of Digital Culture at Tilburg University
๐ Director of Digital South Research Lab shorturl.at/jb5fD
โ๏ธ Associate Editor at Journal of Information Technology & Politics
๐ชถ #StopAsianHate as Hashtag Activism shorturl.at/Yiiil
Sol Messing @solmg.bsky.social Social Scientist/Research Prof at NYU CSMaP, formerly Twitter. http://solomonmg.github.io
Sandra Gonzรกlez-Bailรณn @sgonzalezbailon.bsky.social Professor of Communication @AnnenbergSchool, UPenn | Director, Center for Information Networks and Democracy | cind.asc.upenn.edu | sandragonzalezbailon.net
Nate TeBlunthuis @groceryheist.cc https://tebluntuhis.cc
Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Austin in the School of Information. Computational social science, peer production, social computing, HCI.
Jeremy Foote @jeremydfoote.com Computational social scientist; assistant professor @ Purdue; I study how people self-organize in online communities and how we can make them work better.
Aaron Shaw @aaronshaw.bsky.social Usually professoring, parenting, running, etc. Social science and design of digital public goods in online communities. Northwestern University, Chicagoland. https://communitydata.science
Benjamin Mako Hill @mako.cc 
Hyunjin (Jin) Song @hyunjinsong.bsky.social Associate Professor at Yonsei Univ, S. Korea
Alumni of IPKW_UNIVIE & OhioState Comm
Computational social science and network analysis
Aleksandra Urman @aurman21.bsky.social Senior Research Associate, Social Computing Group, U of Zurich. Computational social/communication scientist
Eva Mayerhรถffer @evamayerhoeffer.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Journalism at Roskilde University, researching alternative news media and digital counterpublics
Dr. Jason Jeffrey Jones @jason-jones.bsky.social Ipseologist, computational social scientist. Academic doing things my own way. https://jasonjones.ninja/
Gus Cooney @guscooney.bsky.social Social Psychologist, Studies Conversation and Social Interaction, Teaches Negotiations at Wharton, Incoming Assistant Professor at Dartmouth Psych in 2026, Harvard Ph.D.
Dechun Zhang @dechunzhang.bsky.social Postdoc at the Department of Communication, University of Copenhagen. Managing Editor @jceajournal.bsky.social, Editor of Asia Pacific Viewpoint, @gpccomm.bsky.social, Sage Open & Social Media Editor @jvpcjournal.bsky.social. Web: http://dechunzhang.com
Mon Rodriguez-Amat @monrodriguez.bsky.social Videogames.
Researcher, Analyst.
Governance, Policy, and Industry.
European Audiovisual Observatory.
Council of Europe.
My posts, my opinion.
Academia. PhD.
Communication- Space-Time-Tech, Culture. Politics & Follies.
Resistance against Empires.
Rui Wang @wangrui.bsky.social Assistant Professor @LoyolaUniversityMaryland | Ph.D. @U Buffalo| RutgersCommInfo Alumni | AI, political communication, computational social science๐ฉโ๐ป
ruiwangcomm.com
Christian Baden @cbaden.bsky.social Political Communication Researcher & Methodologist at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ben Horne @benjamindhorne.bsky.social Associate Professor, School of Information Sciences @ UT-Knoxville. I study trust in media ecosystems, particularly when interventions are introduced.
Computational Social Science | Disinformation | Content Moderation
benjamindhorne.github.io
Jiyoun Suk @jiyoun-suk.bsky.social Assistant Professor of big data and diversity at University of Connecticut | PhD in Mass Comm at UW-Madison | Social activism | Digital media, politics & gender | GAI | Computational Social Science
Ulrike Klinger @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social Professor of Political Communication and Journalism at the University of Amsterdam, ASCoR, Associated Researcher at Weizenbaum Institute Berlin. Technology & Democracy. Foodie. Traveller. Views are my own.
Simon Kruschinski @meinungsfuehrer.bsky.social Senior Researcher for Platform data and Computational Social Science @gesis.org
โช๏ธEnabling research data access under the DSA
โช๏ธResearching how platforms, algorithms & AI shape political (campaign) communication
๐ฑ https://linktr.ee/simonkruschinski