Gina Barton @writerbarton.bsky.social Reporter at USA TODAY, producer and host of the true crime podcast Unsolved
Tim K 📎 🇺🇸🏳️🌈🇺🇦 @timzers.bsky.social Secular Humanist & social progressive who is completely aghast at how so many conservative friends, family and acquaintances have openly embraced the fascist policies of Trumpism. WTF is happening to our Republic?
Jeanine Finn @jftitone.bsky.social Librarian and data stuff.
Scholar of online credibility and sci comm and GIS.
Visiting faculty @ a SLAC
UTexas iSchool PhD, now novice Californian
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️supporter and will be loud about it
#unionyes
she/her
Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu staff writer @theatlantic.com and senior fellow @snfagora.bsky.social. author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY and AUTOCRACY INC
https://linktr.ee/anneapplebaum
Faith Kearns, Ph.D. @fkearns.bsky.social Scientist and science communicator writing about mostly humans, water, wildfire, climate, and disasters | views=mine
UW–Madison Graduate School @uwmadgsed.bsky.social Graduate and postdoctoral training and research at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
Chris Kamrath @chriskamrath.bsky.social Teaching writing/rhetoric at PWR. I study political discourse, self-fashioning, distraction, public culture, and media history.
Sebastian Dieguez @sebastiandieguez.eurosky.social Cognition, neuroscience, belief, fiction.
Author: Total bullshit (2018), Le Complotisme: cognition, culture, société (2021), Croiver (2022), L’Expertise sans peine (2023), La Force de nos bugs (2023)
https://sites.google.com/view/sebastian-dieguez/home
bh @bhanson.bsky.social 3x Daytime Tony winner/longtime intermittent Nebraskan/teacher/researcher/husker/jayhawk
Jess Esplin @jessesplin.bsky.social Ph.D. candidate in American Politics @ UW-Madison. From SLC, UT. RQs in election law/policy & admin, state pol, & representation. Cat mom, podcast junkie, & volleyballer.
Sean Aday @adaystew.bsky.social Sean Aday is Assoc Professor of political communication and international affairs at GW. My work focuses on media coverage of war and foreign policy, and public diplomacy. Tweets are my views, not GWU's
David Attewell @davidattewell6.bsky.social SNSF Postdoc Mobility Fellow in political science at Aarhus University, by way of the University of Zurich. Research on deservingness, solidarity, and social cleavages in politics.
Website: https://www.davidattewell.net/
Mark Clear @markclear.com Current: Development Dir. @Isthmusmadison.bsky.social. Voting superfan. Prev: President of Madison (WI) City Council, entrepreneur, radio nerd, paper boy
Shonna McBride @shonmcbride.bsky.social Molecular Microbiologist studying C diff and friends. Opinions are my own.
Karen Russell @karenrussell.bsky.social Books, travel, arts & culture, higher ed, and PR/media
Madison, Wisconsin
Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, Columbia. New Book: The Insiders' Game: How Elites Make War and Peace https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691215808/the-insiders-game
Good Authority @goodauth.bsky.social Good Authority's mission is to bring insights from political science to a broader audience. https://goodauthority.org
John Sides @johnsides.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, Vanderbilt University - https://johnsides.org/
Publisher of Good Authority - https://goodauthority.org/
Pembina Institute @pembina.org Canada’s leading clean energy think tank. 🍁 Donor-supported charity. It’s time to electrify Canada.⚡
Join us ➡️ pembina.org/donate
Pablo Arias-Sarah @pablo-arias-sarah.bsky.social Social interactions | Social signal processing | Social cognition
CNRS Researcher @LPNC in Grenoble, France; previously : Glasgow University; Lund University; IRCAM
Website : https://pablo-arias.github.io/
Juliet King @sepia26.bsky.social Armchair philosopher. MSTie. Got your towel??? Proud Antifa family est. 1941. Here for nature, news, some laughs. Get money the hell out of politics #gottahavegoals #twitverserefugee #itsaregimenotanadministration #itsalligatorauschwitz 🏳️🌈💙is💙🌏✌️🧙🐦⬛🫖 No DMs
Investigative Simulations Lab @investigativesimulations.org The Investigative Simulations Lab designs and delivers realistic simulation games that show journalists and researchers how to follow the money and uncover wrongdoing.
Follow us here and at https://investigativesimulations.org/
Andrew Gruen @orangechair.org 
Will Allen @williamlallen.bsky.social political scientist • how people engage with info, and why this matters for attitudes and policy around the world • Deputy Editor @migrationjrnl.bsky.social • UK Young Academy • all the baking • www.wlallen.com
David Karpa @dkarpa.bsky.social Postdoc at HfP, TUM
political behavior, political economy, and political psychology
www.davidkarpa.com
Blue Dot in Red State @bluedotin.bsky.social Retired; the blue dot in red state; midwest, volunteering & mentoring undergrads, grads, alums; Indiana Fever Fan. BS, PhD in engineering, MBA in strategy, fifty years employed in automotive electronics; Love Baroque music. Love travel, 2 kids, 7 grands.
Eric Nelson @commodorenelson.bsky.social Neuroscience international research program management 🔬🇨🇭🇩🇪🇪🇸 🇮🇳
Responsible AI pragmatist. 🤖📚
Katy Huff @katyhuff.bsky.social Into bikes, nuclear energy, vegetables, coffee, scientific computing, & public radio. Currently a professor at UW-Madison NEEP. Former NE-1. (she/her)- B Brian Steensland @bsteens.bsky.social Sociology professor. Religion, culture, politics.
History As We Know It @hawkiapp.bsky.social HAWKI is an interactive 3D globe allowing you to visually explore facts, history, and maybe plant a tree while you do!
🌎📌🌲👉 hawki.app 👈🌳📍🧪
venmo.com/u/hawkiapp if ya like what I'm doin! No pressure, still gonna share history and facts!
Bob Cullen @robertgcullen1.bsky.social An information professional who also happens to be a historian, writer, and reader. I wish all of you who have likewise landed here a wealth of peace and goodness!
Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social An independent research and policy institute working toward a future where people, not technology, come first.
Pamela Metz @pamelametz.bsky.social Founding Associate Director, Harvard Inequality & Social Policy (1998-2021). Director of Chapter Development @scholars.org (2022-2025).
Carole Joffe @carolejoffe.bsky.social Sociologist at UCSF. Studies abortion provision. Author with David S. Cohen of forthcoming book, After Dobbs: How the Supreme Court Ended Roe but not Abortion. Tennis enthusiast 🎾love playing, love watching the women pros.
David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social feminist "law" professor, reproductive rights scholar/activist, avid cyclist, husband, dad, indie rock enthusiast, Vermont lover, Phillies fan, he/him
CRobertBuchanan @crobertbuchanan.bsky.social Performative utterances & political commentary. I value rational discourse; I sing the body electric; I post about music I love and music I produce. Also, too, Denver Nuggets obsessive.
Links to my musical endeavors: https://linktr.ee/longplaya
Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com @nbcnews.com Senior Justice reporter, ebike guy.
Read my stuff: http://ryanjreilly.com/
Order my book: https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/ryan-j-reilly/sedition-hunters/9781541701809/
Message me on Signal: @ryanjreilly.62
🚲⚖️🕵️🦅🛎️🇺🇸
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.
Nick Davis @ntd.bsky.social political scientist at football-u, outdoorsperson, gardener of two small humans
Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social Historian. Writer.
Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social Political Economy of Media Theory; Director, RPTF, Library of Congress NRPB; Director, New Terrain at Sundance; Assoc Prof, University of Colorado
Deborah Blum @deborahb.bsky.social Book author, toxicology journalist, fascinated by poison and murder (current book project), and, oh yeah, I'm the former director of the Knight Science Journalism program at MIT.
Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social New York Times Opinion Columnist. The world, especially the global south, migration, inequality, the human future, queer stuff. Reachable via email or on Signal @lpolgreen.39
Caroline Ball @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social Open Book Collective, #ebookSOS, WikimediaUK, NLISN. Easily swayed by rainbows, cupcakes, cats, Cheetos, unicorns, and all things sparkly and fabulous.
Jan Marc Morawe @janmarcmorawe.bsky.social Gender Scholar
Interests: (a)sexualities, health communication, masculinities, contraception/safer sex, repro health, climate crisis, IR, peace/conflict studies, utopias/dystopias, mental health, media, history, ...
https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7802-2721
Carlos Brody @carlosbrody.bsky.social Neuroscientist, both computational and experimental. Also, parent of a teenager :) . All posts and opinions are in my personal capacity.
professional website: https://brodylab.org
MadeInDex 📰 🌎 @madeindex.bsky.social 🌍 The #Sustainability Index
🌲 Environmental News & Guides about sustainable Products, Companies & their impact
💻 Privacy, Journalism, Politics, Humor, AI, Pacifism, Animal Rights, Cleaning nature
💚 Vegan & vegetarian topics
🔗 madeindex.org
Elections Research Center @electionscenter.bsky.social Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social Director, Center for Environment Community, & Equity and Professor, AU | NonRes Sr Fellow, Brookings | IPCCWG3 AR6 | www.danarfisher.com | TED Talk on being an Apocalyptic Optimist : go.ted.com/danarfisher
@cullwhite.bsky.social @cullwhite.bsky.social 
Joshua Benton @joshuabenton.com 21st-century media and the 19th-c American South. Founded and ran @niemanlab.org at @harvard.edu for 12 yrs; now the senior writer there. Cajun, dad of two, husband of one. Journalist with a history problem. Also: @theatlantic.com, @washingtonpost.com, etc
Geneva @genevavalerie.bsky.social Assistant professor at the University of Arizona SGPP | studying whiteness and racial justice, probably running🏃🏼♀️
Zening (“Ze”) DUAN @zeningduan.bsky.social Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore | proud
@uwsjmc.bsky.social alum
Lawyers and Democratic Decline @ladd-uwlaw.bsky.social LADD project is a global research initiative uniting scholars to study how lawyers shape, resist, or enable democratic backsliding and authoritarianism, focusing on diverse roles across regimes and legal systems. More on https://ladd.law.wisc.edu/.
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/
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Public Knowledge Project @pkp.sfu.ca PKP, a Core Facility of SFU, is a community-governed organization dedicated to increasing the quality, access, and reach of non-commercial #ScholarlyPublishing — the trusted and original home of #OpenJournalSystems (#OJS), OMP, and OPS: https://pkp.sfu.ca
Nordregio @nordregio.bsky.social International research centre for regional development and planning located in the heart of Stockholm. We are bridging policy and research for a thriving, sustainable Nordic region and beyond.
Tobia Spampatti, PhD @tspampatti.bsky.social PhD in Neuroscience, Guest Researcher at the Center for Adaptive Rationality, Max Planck Institute for Human Development
I study why people care and discuss about societal, systemic issues like climate change, technology, and disinformation.
❤️=bookmarks
Macau Mak @macaukfmak.bsky.social Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Communication, CUHK
Political Communication / Media Effects / Multiplatform Use / Platform Affordances
Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social Host of the Fast politics podcast, contributing Writer at The New York Times opinion and MSNBC. Subscribe to fast politics YouTube channel
Michael Tofias @tofias.bsky.social Pittsburgh.
Tomás Dodds @tomasdodds.bsky.social Assistant Professor @uwmadison.bsky.social
Sara Rodriguez @saraforwi.com Wisconsin Lieutenant Governor. Wife. Proud mom. Nurse. Running for governor to lower costs and fight for the future Wisconsin deserves.
Institute for Diversity Science @idswisc.bsky.social IDS is a research center at UW–Madison focused on questions related to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Launched in 2023 and led by Angela Byars-Winston and @MarkusBrauer.bsky.social
Yuhangliu @yuhangliu.bsky.social M.A. student at UT Austin @ UTjschool🖊️|political communication & CSS
Digiguard Inc. @digiguardsecurity.com Specialized Cybersecurity Services for Small and Midsized Businesses, Firms and Medical Practices.
David Newheiser @dnewheiser.bsky.social Associate Prof. of Religious Studies / writes on religion & ethics, politics, culture / dreams of democracy, art, & other miracles / 📙 Varieties of Atheism: http://bit.ly/3CaNe4
https://dnewheiser.net/
@horhpodcast.bsky.social @horhpodcast.bsky.social Hollywood or History? Unpack fact vs. fiction in film. Great for teachers, trivia buffs, and history fans. New episodes every other week.
Available on Spotify, Apple, and YouTube
https://youtube.com/@hollywoodorhistorypodcast?si=gNOPQUnVXde2_NZz
UW–Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication @uwsjmc.bsky.social One SJMC. Endless Possibilities.
Jennifer Jiyoung Hwang @jenniferhwang1.bsky.social Hey there! I’m a first-year PhD student at UCLA studying how people engage with political news on social media, specifically what happens when people consume legacy media on social media. I am advised by Dr. Stuart Soroka.
Christoph Mergerson @mergerson.bsky.social 📍 Journalism professor, University of Maryland
📕 PhD in media studies from Rutgers
📕 B.A. in poli sci, master's in policy
🌪️ I study weather media
🌪️ Former NWS intern
🏛️ Also study media history & trust in news
🏛️ Formerly at Brookings
Katie Harbath @katieharbath.bsky.social Work at intersection of tech and democracy. Fmr Facebook. Newsletter writer: anchorchange.substack.com
Salil @salilb.bsky.social used a monkey's paw to wish that the Knicks would be good again. i regret nothing.
occasionally talking climate politics/policy when not screaming about the Knicks/Yankees.
Mark Boukes @markboukes.bsky.social Associate Professor in Communication Science at the University of Amsterdam. Research interests: Journalism, Media effects, and Public opinion.
Qin Li @qinli0.bsky.social Postdoc in Dept of Communication at U of Missouri || Ohio State Alum || Polcomm, information integrity, computational methods, social media, emerging media
100% human. Views my own. ❤️ ☮️
https://qinlicomm.github.io
F.A.F.O. @actdontreact.bsky.social Never give your power away. Defeat is not an option.- T Tom Zinnen @tmzinnen.bsky.social Retired outreacher, formerly at UW-Madison Biotech Center
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com Independent journalist, SnapStream brand ambassador, and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter https://www.publicnotice.co/subscribe
Chuck Finocchiaro @cjfinocchiaro.bsky.social Associate Director, Carl Albert Center, University of Oklahoma // Political Scientist // Student of Congress
Prof. Jennie Roe-mick 🏳️🌈 @romich.bsky.social Social welfare scholar, recovering neoliberalist, mom, enthusiastic punctuator!!!!
👎🏻: poverty, late-stage racial capitalism
👍🏻: admin data, social workers in policy, work-life balance
UW SSW but sky-eets R mine
Pic1: ww on zoom
Pic2: the mess offscreen
Kathleen Bahian Fallon @kathleenbfallon.bsky.social PhD Candidate || Department of Government, Cornell University
Visiting Research Fellow at UP Diliman’s Third World Studies Center.
Studying the International Politics of History, Southeast Asian-Japanese Relations, Regional Orders, and IOs. 🇵🇭
@janprobst.bsky.social @janprobst.bsky.social Jan Probst
~ 40 years health services research, mostly into rural issues
Guardian of Sam the rural health advoCATe.
Bibliography:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/1HMPkKfOyD5kE/bibliography/public/
The Immanent Frame (SSRC) @immanentframe.bsky.social The Immanent Frame publishes interdisciplinary perspectives on religion, secularism, and the public sphere. It was founded in October 2007 in conjunction with the Social Science Research Council’s program @religionssrc.bsky.social.
Reid Hoffman @reidhoffman.bsky.social Co-Founder of LinkedIn. Focused on using AI to find the cure for cancer, faster. Proud American.
Writing, Pod, ETC: Beacons.ai/reidhoffman
Dave Vanness @djvanness.bsky.social Economist. Health policy and decision-making methods. Advocate for high quality, affordable #HigherEd. Georgetown & UW-Madison alum. These are my personal views and not those of my employer.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9790-2988
Yifei Wang @yifeiw1.bsky.social PhD student at UCSB | political communication, computational communication, social identity, public opinion
Max Ritter @maxritter.bsky.social Mechanical designer & technical draftsman by profession/education 🎓 Specializing in stainless steel hygienic processing systems for food🧀, beverage🍺, and pharma💊 applications (tanks, vessels, skidded equipment). Wisconsin. He/Him. #STEM
Karen Benjamin @kallienebenjamin.bsky.social Historian at Elmhurst U, UW Madison + UT Austin alum
Good Parents, Better Homes, and Great Schools: Selling Segregation before the New Deal available July 2025 from UNC Press 
Ashwin Rajadesingan @ashwin-r.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Communication Studies @ UT-Austin| I study how people talk politics on social media
Alexios Mantzarlis @mantzarlis.com Tech, facts, and carbonara.
mantzarlis.com
LSE US Politics and Policy blog - USAPP @lseusablog.bsky.social Multi-disciplinary blog covering all aspects of USA governance, economics, politics, culture and society. Also covers Canada and Mexico. Part of the LSE Phelan United States Centre.
Read all our articles at https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/
Center For Journalism Media and Democracy (CJMD) @uwcjmd.bsky.social The University of Washington's (UW) hub for research, teaching and public discussion about the forces shaping information practices, media cultures and core democratic values.
Maribel Perez Wadsworth @maribel-wadsworth.bsky.social CEO @ Knight Foundation. Boy mama. Long-tortured Miami Dolphins fan. She/Her/Ella
Kristen Olson @olsonkm.bsky.social Survey Methodologist. University of Nebraska-Lincoln Sociology Professor. Proud director of an academic survey research organization (Bureau of Sociological Research). Former Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology Editor (2020-2024). AAPOR Devotee.
Caitlin Cieslik-Miskimen @caitlincm.bsky.social Assistant professor at the University of Idaho. Media historian interested in small(er) publications and regional print culture.
Celebrity gossip/pop culture enthusiast. Wisconsin alum x3. 
Tabitha Bonilla @tabithabonilla.bsky.social Political Scientist st NU's SESP, IPR, and CSDD. Research: communication around politics and policy, examining identity and representation.
MT native finding my way in the Midwest.
Mary Feeney @mkfeeney.bsky.social Professor, traveller, cyclist, skater, science policy junkie. Reluctant Phoenician. Interested in all things public sector
Jeremy Koster @jeremykoster.bsky.social Aligning incentives for better science - quality over status
Signer of DORA: https://sfdora.org/
Co-director of ENDOW project: https://endowproject.github.io/
Interdisciplinary socio-ecological scientist advocating for congruence of theory, data, and stats
Rodney Benson @rodneybenson.bsky.social professor NYU Media, Culture, & Comm, & Sociology; new book How Media Ownership Matters (Oxford, April '25), https://global.oup.com/academic/product/how-media-ownership-matters-9780199931316?lang=en&cc=us