Shir Weinbrand @shirweinbrand.bsky.social Computational Social Science PhD candidate @QUT
Investigating the complex interplay between search engines, GenAI, and politics/news
Entrepreneur's mind. Athlete's body. Artist's soul ~ J.Clear
https://www.shir-weinbrand.com/
Stephen Vaisey 🇺🇦 @stephenvaisey.com Professor at Duke University. Cultural evolution, political attitudes, social change, nerdy stuff in R. YNWA. https://vaiseys.github.io/
Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social Interested in how the rich stay rich and the poor poor. Sociologist at @sriucl.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk. He/him/his. http://perengzell.com Photo bomber @simoneschneider.bsky.social
Brenda Moon @brmoon.bsky.social Enthusiastic about open science, open source, open hardware. She/Her. Living on Dja Dja Wurrung country.
https://moon.au/
Giada Marino @giadam.bsky.social Disinformantion+Polarization+SocialMedia researcher | PhD | Postdoc @ uniurb.it | Researcher: ipolhys.it _ mine.uniurb.it _ veraai.eu
Milovan Savic @nav0lim.bsky.social Research Fellow at Social Innovation Research Institute & ADM+S
@Swinburne University. Interested in youth, digital media, social connections, digital inclusion, privacy, AI.
flamencalibrarian @ninathecat.bsky.social A proud single cat lady and Flamenco enthusiast living on Dharawal lands. Libraries, archives, mis/disinformation, politics.
Always was, always will be 🖤💛❤️
Views my own, not my employer
Oscar Toohey @oscartoohey.bsky.social HDR student interested in hospitality work practices, harm minimisation, and the governance of alcohol service 🍍🍸📚
Griffith University
Dr Caitlin McGrane @caitlinaithne.bsky.social she/her
Researcher at RMIT. Board member of Digital Rights Watch. Interested in gender and technology in everyday life, and how we can build a better digital world.
Ultra-marathoner in my spare time 🌿
Brad Taylor @bradrtaylor.bsky.social Political theorist at University of Southern Queensland. Excessive decoupler. liberal. New Zealander in Australia. PPE, public policy, social + political epistemology, tech politics and ethics, institutions.
Tianyi ZhangShao @tianyizhangshao.bsky.social PhD at USYD | Researching Chinese game monetisation | Nintendo fans and Whales in Arknights
Yiwen @yiwenw.bsky.social PhD candidate @USyd ||how Douyin destroy/reanimate films?
Add a bit of journalism, a bit of film and more of platform studies and creative industries...
Proud Shenzhener
Caroline Difficult Gardam @cazuarina.bsky.social Writes, studies, gets muddy on stolen Jagera and Turrbal land.
QUT DMRC PhD student researching multimodality and climate denial. Occasional ceramicist.
Pablo Velasco @xpablov.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. of Critical Data Studies and Digital Methods @ Aarhus university 🇩🇰🇲🇽 | Exploring digital culture and data literacy through technical infrastructures | All about data 👨💻 open software🐧 drawings ✏️ and dinosaurs 🦖 | https://pablov.me
Bree McEwan @mcewan.bsky.social Communicologist @uoft.bsky.social @uoftmississauga.bsky.social ICCIT/Sociology. Data Sciences Institue. McMC Lab. Studies Social Media, Virtual Reality. Author of Interpersonal Encounters https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/interpersonal-encounters/book23785
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
Dr. Kari Nixon @karinixon.bsky.social Former professor. Always author. Recent immigrant to Norway. Accidental influencer (@ karikarismatic)
Victorian lit | Medical Humanities | Death and Disease in Culture
Born in Texas but raised on Norwegian rap and pop music
Frederik Henriksen @frederikhenriksen.bsky.social Postdoc researcher, Roskilde University
Computational Social Science | Political Communication
Phoebe Matich @phoebesophist.bsky.social ADM+S research fellow, genAI and authenticity in media | journalism and misinformation | metalhead and pasta enthusiast | plant mum and cat aunt | Pākeha on Turrbal/Yugara country | she/her
Tariq Choucair @tariqchoucair.bsky.social Constantly living in many transitions; moving in and out borders despite their harshness.
🏳️⚧️⚧️
Politics, Language, Computation
Brasil 🇧🇷 / Australia 🇦🇺/ Currently visiting Germany 🇩🇪
Alisa Perren @aperren.bsky.social Media studies prof. Director of Industry Relations for the Radio-Television-Film Department at UT-Austin. Opinions are my own.
Dr James Kite @jdkite.bsky.social Academic with Prevention Research Collaboration at Uni of Sydney. Cyclist. Swans fan.
Christiana Varda @civi.bsky.social I spend most of my time thinking and writing about how people think about knowledge claims encountered on social media.
Expect to see posts about dogs, indie movies and books. And musings/occasional rants.
Based in Cyprus.
(She/Her)
Dr Melody Taba @melodytaba.bsky.social Research Fellow at the Sydney Health Literacy Lab, University of Sydney. Researching young people, social media health communication & digital health literacy📲
Dan @dannno0o.bsky.social 🥝 PhD candidate thinking critically about how AI systems simulate and imitate language in their architectures, interfaces and how all of this feeds the narrative of recreating human intelligence. he/him. 🇵🇸🌻
James Cridland @james.crid.land Passionate about audio. Lives in Brisbane. Podnews Editor - @podnews.net for headlines and more.
I’m also on the fediverse - @james@bne.social
I am currently in "follow back" mode.
https://podnews.net • https://james.cridland.net
Dagens ETC @etc.se Dagens ETC är Sveriges enda röda, gröna och oberoende dagstidning. Tipsa: tipsa@etc.se. Debattera: debatt@etc.se. Prenumerera: www.etc.se/prenumerera
Reg @reghunt.bsky.social tree-hugging web geek living and working on Yuin Country, the Sapphire Coast, Far South Coast NSW, Australia- K Kunal Chand @kunalkchand.bsky.social PhD Candidate, QUT DMRC | Member of ARC CoE ADM+S | Computational scholar in Digital Media Research
Interests: AI, XAI, ML, computer vision, platforms studies, NLP, Info Viz, unsupervised learning, photography, music
The Centre for Digital Cultures & Societies @dgtl-culturesuq.bsky.social https://hass.uq.edu.au/centre-digital-cultures-societies
@marysavigar.bsky.social @marysavigar.bsky.social 
Thet Zin Myint @tzmyint.bsky.social Burmese/Myanmar. AUS Award Scholar. Digital Media Master Student.
Monika DP @monikadjerfpierre.bsky.social Professor emerita of journalism, media and communication, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Interested in journalism, media, video games, politics, science, nature, history, public health. Plays computer games - a lot.
Oscar Fredriksson @oscarfredriksson.bsky.social Swedish lawyer and professional investigator of harassment and bullying. Presently living in Raglan 🇳🇿🏄♂️
Både höger och vänster men mest frihetlig humanitär anarkist - men på ett rimligt och balanserat sätt. 
Ian from downunder. 🇦🇺💙 @ianbooth151.bsky.social From the land down under. Kicked off X, found a new home here on Bsky. Leftie. Retired. Happily married caravaner. Love the Rabbitohs. Servant to a demanding Dachshund…make that 2 Dachshunds…oops now make that 3 Dachshunds.
🚫DMs
Yiyuan Zhang @yiyuanzhang.bsky.social Yiyuan Zhang (Mina) | Doctoral Researcher | 🔎 TikTok Algorithm Explorer | PhD in LboroCM
Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social Co-Director at Center for Digital Narrative, Univ of Bergen. Lead research project AI STORIES (ERC Advanced Grant). Australian and Norwegian. Blogging at jilltxt.net since 2000.
Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me Human intelligence for a synthetic age. Analyst exploring the friction between humans and AI. PhD candidate at UNSW / ADM+S researching generative authenticity. Regular on ABC radio. Living on Gundungurra land.
Bamboowade @bamboowade.bsky.social Conservationist on the edge - the North West edge. Living on Wudjuk Noongar Country
Florian Primig @floprim.bsky.social Dr. phil. | Digital Democracy | Platforms & Algorithms | Phenomena of Falsehood and
Counter-Knowledge
Kim Doyle @kim-doyle.bsky.social Research Data Specialist | Digital Media Researcher | Exploring the Intersection of AI, Humanities, and Politics | Sharing Personal Insights
Filleastuta @filleastuta.bsky.social Public policy and politics. Emergency management. Music, art and design. Oxford comma. Wannabe cat owner. Naarm.
Camilla Holm Soelseth @supercamilla.bsky.social Kulturingeniør, informasjonsflanør, jungeltelegrafist, medieøkolog og (digital) humaniora-entusiast. Gift med @sortulv.eurosky.social
Researcher and Destroyer in the (digital) humanities. PhD in Library and Information Science.
Academic hedge witch.
Dan Golding @dangolding.com Professor of Media at Monash University. Composer for games like Untitled Goose Game, Frog Detective, Mars First Logistics. Host of ABC Classic’s ‘Screen Sounds’ (Sat 6pm).
dangolding.com
Xiang Ren @xiangren.bsky.social Media scholar at University of Sydney, researching media industries, digital publishing, AI and platform regulation, and Chinese media.
Bondy @bondykaye.bsky.social postdoc at U of Leeds researching music, policy, and platforms
bondykaye.com
David B. Nieborg @nieborg.bsky.social Professor of Media Studies @UofT • Books: Platforms & Cultural Production (Polity) • Mainstreaming & Game Journalism (MIT Press) • Toronto/Amsterdam
Julian Fell @jtfell.com Journalist at ABC News Story Lab
https://jtfell.com
Nadia Jude @nadiajude.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh.
Thinking critically about data infrastructures, digital platform content moderation and global security governance. She/her.
Adam Sternbergh @sternbergh.bsky.social culture editor, NYTimes Opinion
novelist: THE EDEN TEST (out now); THE BLINDS; NEAR ENEMY; SHOVEL READY
I wear suits now
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Gustavo Ferreira @gustavoferreira.bsky.social He/him. Brazilian, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream at uoft.bsky.social . Audio Media, Culture, Music and (questions of) Recommender Systems and technology.
James MacLaren @maclaren.bsky.social PhD in Law - looked at recommender systems at the BBC. Currently working at UoB, operations lead on project at JTC-21. Interested (acad.) in (moral/pol), Media, AI; (non acad.) in music, tv and movies, writing a blog no-one reads. 
Alexander Hohlfeld @alhohlfeld.bsky.social Digitalisation & Society | Digital Policy | Recommender Systems | Freedom of Speech | 🗣️: 🇬🇧 / 🇩🇪 | https://linktr.ee/al.hohlfeld
LensKit RecSys Toolkit @lenskit.org Open-source toolkit for building, researching, and learning about recommender systems. https://lenskit.org
Heritiana Ranaivoson (he/him) @hranaivoson.bsky.social Professor@imec-SMIT-VUB. Media economics & policy, diversity, recommender systems, platforms, music. @hranaivoson@mastodon.social @hranaivoson
Sherry Sahebi @ssahebi.bsky.social Computer Scientist, Associate Prof. @SUNY-Albany,
PersAI Lab,
Personalized AI, Machine Learning, Recommender Systems, AI in Education
Views are my own.
renatsergazinov @mrsergazinov.bsky.social Research Scientist @ Meta, working on multimodal and recommender systems | PhD Stats @ TAMU
David Hollands @dshollands.bsky.social Christian. Husband to C. Father to G & L. South west Londoner. Working at the BBC on Recommender Systems #recsys building digital product experiences and discoverability platforms in order to add Value For All UK TV licence fee payers
Views my own
Steve Wood @privacyx.bsky.social Founder of PrivacyX Consulting. Former UK Deputy Information Commissioner. Now enjoying an independent portfolio advising on regulatory risk, new DP regulators on strategy, research into recommender systems. Blogging at privacyx.substack.com
Armin Moradi @moradiarmin.bsky.social MSc @ Mila, Université de Montréal | Recommender Systems | Responsible AI | Music
moradiarmin.github.io
Joshua Paup @joshuapaup.bsky.social PhD student @cuboulder
content moderation, recommender systems, AI and online governance, human-quantum computer interactions, and tech policy/politics/law
Слава Україні! 🇺🇦
"wait it's all his views?" 🌎👨🏻🚀🔫👨🏻🚀 "always has been"
Alex Lang @alexhunterlang.bsky.social Working on the AI behind Perplexity.AI.
Interested in LLMs, recommender systems, AI in industry, and your suggestions to improve Perplexity.
Marc Faddoul @marcfaddoul.com Director at @aiforensics.org - Algorithmic Audit and Platform Accountability non-profit
Also with @freeourfeeds.com to expand ATproto infra and ecosystem!
Norman Knyazev @normanknyazev.bsky.social PhD Candidate at @Radboud_Uni: Statistical Biases, Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, Recommender Systems | Previously: Research Intern @Snap, Applied Science Intern @AmazonScience.
Frank T. Hopfgartner @hopfgartner.bsky.social Researcher interested in information retrieval, recommender systems, data science. General chair of ACM #cikm2023 and ACM #chiir2024
Rupert Kiddle @rupertkiddle.com Postdoc in computational communication, VU Amsterdam (@whatif-horizon.eu, @newsflows.eu). Assistant Editor @CCR. Fall Lecturer @ GESIS. Research interests: agentic AI and future imaginaries of science and communication; NLP; simulation; complexity.
Alain Starke @alainstarke.bsky.social Top-3 best eyelashes in the room | Assistant Professor Persuasive Communication at University of Amsterdam | Adjunct Associate Professor Recommender Systems University of Bergen, Norway #RecSys #CommSci | Wint wel eens een pubquiz
Iadh Ounis @iadhounis.bsky.social Professor at University of Glasgow; Researcher in Information Retrieval and Recommender Systems
Aleksandr "Sasha" Petrov @apetrov.bsky.social PhD researcher (Recommender Systems) @TerrierTeam, University of Glasgow.
Ex. Senior Software Engineer @Amazon
The opinions are mine.
Robin Burke @robin-burke.bsky.social Professor, Information Science, CU Boulder.
Recommender systems, FAccT
Ashley Shin @hashleys.bsky.social NLP PhD student @ UCSD | NSF CS grad fellow
recommender systems, retrieval, ML 맛집
ashleyshin.org her/she
Camilla Montonen @spimescape.bsky.social machine learning engineer lost in the world of databases
Jan Van Balen @jvanbalen.bsky.social Audio ML & recommender systems researcher at Spotify. Previously: Apple, Academia
📌 europe-west-1
🏠 jvbalen.github.io
Javier Sanz-Cruzado @javiersanzcruza.bsky.social Post-doctoral researcher at the Information Retrieval group at the University of Glasgow. Interested on recommender systems, information retrieval and natural language processing.
Personal website: javiersanzcruza.github.io
ACM Conference on Recommender Systems @recsys.bsky.social https://recsys.acm.org/recsys26/
Victor Lapuente @lapuente.bsky.social Professor in political science, Head of the Quality of Government Institute, University of Gothenburg. Also in El País, Cadena SER, and Piedras de Papel. 
Jesper Stromback @jesperstromback.bsky.social Professor in journalism and political communication at the U of Gothenburg. Believer in liberal democracy, universal human rights, and evidence-based decision making. Other interests: fishing, music, craft beer and single malts.
www.jesperstromback.org
Nyheter - riktig journalistik gör skillnad - Göteborgs-Posten [… @gp.se.web.brid.gy Senaste nyheterna från Göteborg, Storgöteborg, Sverige och världen på gp.se | Göteborgs-Posten
🌉 bridged from 🌐 https://gp.se/: https://fed.brid.gy/web/gp.se
IFK Göteborg @ifkgoteborg.se Officiellt konto för IFK Göteborg – hela stadens lag. Biljetter: http://IFKbiljett.se #ifkgbg
Jörg Pareigis @joergelp.bsky.social Director of Library and Centre for Teaching and Learning at Karlstad University, Sweden. Service researcher at CTF. Co-organizer of www.opennetworkedlearning.se. Husband. Dad. Bonus dad. He/him/his.
Cornelia Brantner @corneliabrantner.bsky.social Austrian in Sweden. Professor in the Department of Geography, Media and Communication at Karlstad University. 
Jens Rydgren @jensrydgren.bsky.social Professor of Sociology at Stockholm University | Research on nationalism, populism, radical right-wing parties and voters; Class politics; Ethnic relations | Hammarby IF football supporter
Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social European economics editor @TheEconomist. London via Berlin, Stockholm and Cologne. Have no plans to write a book. 
Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social Chief Economist at @australiainstitute.org.au
Columnist on economics and politics for Guardian Australia.
Dollars & Sense podcast https://australiainstitute.org.au/news/category/podcasts/dollars-sense/
Lisa Cox @lisacox.bsky.social Climate and Environment Correspondent at Guardian Australia. Tips: lisa.cox@theguardian.com
Patrick Keneally @patrickkeneally.bsky.social Deputy editor, Guardian Australia
Lenore Taylor @lenoret.bsky.social 
Matt Dennien @mattdennien.bsky.social State political reporter at Brisbane Times・Qld media president of MEAA・Ex-4ZZZ・On Yuggera & Turrbal country・Secure msg: Signal (mattdennien.15) & mattdennien@protonmail.com・mattdennien.com
Grant Hamilton 🐨 @ecologygrant.bsky.social Professor of Ecology, QUT, Meanjin Brisbane. Director Conservation AI Network. https://conservationai.net/ Drones, cameras, satellites, acoustics & AI for biodiversity. Focusing on Nature Based Solutions. 
Stu Donovan @studonovan.bsky.social Economist researching cities, transport, housing, & energy. I focus on New Zealand & Australia, with European dalliances. And some chaff.
Göran Bolin @goranbolin.eurosky.social Media & Communications professor who teaches and writes on digital culture, information management, AI and data value at Södertörn University
sh.se/mkv
Alice Fleerackers (she/her) @fleerackers.bsky.social Writer, researcher, terrible social media user | Assistant Prof @uvahumanities.bsky.social & VP of @pcstnetwork.bsky.social | studying journalism, #scholcomm & #scicomm | she/her
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.
Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH) @aadh.bsky.social The Australasian Association for Digital Humanities Inc (aaDH): A community strengthening digital humanities research in Australia & Aotearoa (New Zealand) | https://aa-dh.org/ | Our 2025 conference: dha25.org
Dr Sadia Habib @sadiahabib.bsky.social Senior Lecturer - University of Manchester. Also based at Manchester Museum & Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity. Co-founder of The Riz Test.
#education #museums #cats
Own views
sam vilkins @vilkins.bsky.social peaked online circa 2018. politics/cultural research @qutdmrc.bsky.social
Kim Osman @kimosman.bsky.social Digital Media Research Centre, QUT