Tyler Horan @tylerhoran.bsky.social Writer and researcher on platform inequality and the future of work. Lecturer at @umassamherst.bsky.social → tylerhoran.org
@lsuresearch.bsky.social @lsuresearch.bsky.social
Macau Mak @macaukfmak.bsky.social Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Communication, CUHK
Political Communication / Media Effects / Multiplatform Use / Platform Affordances
Yiqing Xu @yiqingxu.bsky.social Stanford researcher. Work on applied stats, AI (?), China.
Digital Methods Initiative @digitalmethods.net Hyperlink enthusiast.
(DMI tool updates to be found here - find us at digitalmethods.net !)
@kaylakahn.bsky.social @kaylakahn.bsky.social
Bruce Desmarais @brucedesmarais.bsky.social Professor of Political Science and Social Data Analytics at Penn State
Computational Humanities Research @comphumresearch.bsky.social #CHR2027 will take place in Manchester, from 5-8 January 2027. Stay tuned!
https://2027.computational-humanities-research.org
Global Perspectives in Communication (GPC) @gpccomm.bsky.social Global Perspectives in Communication (GPC) publishes rigorous, iterative, and impactful scholarship covering all conceivable dimensions of communication studies. As an open-access journal, we elevate the availability and impact of top-tier scholarship.
Sydney L Forde @sydneyforde.bsky.social Postdoc @asc.upenn.edu @miccenter.bsky.social
PhD from @bellisariograded.bsky.social | SSHRC doctoral fellow | @ifsfrankfurt.bsky.social fellow | Political Economy of Comm | Critical Theory | Media Policy | 🇨🇦
https://www.sydneyforde.com/
Sewell Chan @sewell.bsky.social Journalist
Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social Recent candidate for New Jersey's 12th Congressional District. SamForNJ.org.
Neurosciencer, democracy reform studier, plotter of data by hand as first step. At Princeton too. Long-form essays at samwang.substack.com.
Kylie (Woodman) Falcione @kyliefalcione.bsky.social Media mental health researcher at the intersection of Neuroscience 🧠, Developmental Psychology 👧, & Media Communication 📱🎮
Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net We mobilize the fight for science and democracy - because science is for everyone! 🧬🧪🌎
Donate here: https://bit.ly/SUFS_GIVING
Learn more ⬇️
https://linktr.ee/standupforscience_bluesky
Jae Yeon Kim @jaeyeonkim.bsky.social assistant professor of public policy @UNC Chapel Hill | ex-data scientist @codeforamerica | Data for Good Roundtables co-founder
https://jaeyk.github.io
Jen Hoewe @jenniferhoewe.bsky.social Associate Prof., Lamb School of Communication, Purdue University, studying media psychology & political communication.
New book: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262055918/enjoyment-is-breaking-news/
Website: https://jenniferhoewe.wixsite.com/teachingportfolio
International Conference on Computational Social Science @ic2s2.bsky.social The 12th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2) will be held in Burlington, Vermont July 28-31 2026
Website: https://ic2s2-2026.org/
Ryan J. Gallagher @ryanjgallag.com Applied scientist trying to make the internet a little better. PhD. Trust & safety, networks, fingerstyle guitar. I use my hair to express myself. They/he
Manship School of Mass Communication Graduate Programs @masscommgrad.bsky.social LSU Manship School. All things graduate education. All things research.
Sean Westwood @seanjwestwood.bsky.social Political Scientist at Dartmouth. Director Polarization Research Lab. According to Nate Silver: "Boring. Can't model for shit."
Marc Bernstein @marcbernstein261.bsky.social MSc Politics & BA (Hons) Politics, Philosophy & History Birkbeck University of London, Civil Servant From & live in London Uk. politics History & intl affairs, Culture, Jewish life, Soccer. Also on here to make friends. Straight Single & Jewish
Emerson Victoria Johnston @idenarch.bsky.social currently researching the social history of the early internet (think algorithms, architectures, and archives)
tech policy @ stanford / comms and membership @ AoIR
masters x2 @ stanford / bachelors @ northeastern
first gen 🎓 | 🏳️🌈
Daniel Thiele @thieled.bsky.social Political scientist | Research group lead 'Dynamics of digital mobilization' @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social | Political communication, social media, computational methods | 👟🚴
Maranda Goke @marandagoke.bsky.social Assistant Professor Murray State University | Penn State Alumni | Studying media effects, body image, mental health and social media
Bellisario Grad Ed @bellisariograded.bsky.social The MA and PhD programs in the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications at Penn State.
Sam Jeffers @worklesshard.bsky.social Run @whotargets.me and am a Partner @jointogether.online. Used to play drums in Fridge. Live in Cork, from London.
Nicolas Payette @payette.io I build models and tools for building models.
https://payette.io/
Zack Almquist @zalmquist.bsky.social Professor of Sociology, Adjunct Professor of Statistics | Senior Data Science Fellow, eScience @ University of Washington | Housing and Homelessness | Computational Demography | Migration | Social Networks
https://zalmquist.github.io
Julia Mendelsohn @jmendelsohn2.bsky.social Asst Prof @UMD Info College. NLP, computational social science, political communication, linguistics. Past: Data Science Postdoc @UChicago, Info PhD @UMich, CS + Lx @Stanford. Interests: cats, Yiddish, talking to my cats in Yiddish.
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
David Mimno @dmimno.bsky.social He teaches information science at Cornell. http://mimno.infosci.cornell.edu
Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social NLP, cultural analytics. Assistant Professor of CS at University of Colorado Boulder. Books, bikes, games, art. https://maria-antoniak.github.io
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/
Kevin Yang @yang3kc.bsky.social Kaicheng Yang, PhD | Assistant professor @Binghamton University CS | Computational social science, bots, + | views mine
Who Targets Me @whotargets.me On political ads, transparency and what's right for democracy. Go to https://whotargets.me/download to get involved, check out https://trends.whotargets.me for data on >100k digital political advertisers. Newsletter: fulldisclosure.whotargets.me
Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology, NYU. Core Faculty, CSMaP. Research Fellow Oxford Sociology. Computational social science, Methods, Conflict, Communication. Webpage: https://www.cjbarrie.com/
Emilio Ferrara @emilioferrara.bsky.social Prof of Computer Science at USC
AI, social media, society, networks, data, and
HUMANS LABS http://www.emilio.ferrara.name
REGULARITY AI www.emilioferrara.ai
Rebecca @rscheffauer.bsky.social Postdoc at DIW and Freie Universität Berlin
Researcher
Anything Survey Quality, Media, Politics, Social Media, AI or Algorithms!
Check out my publications over here: https://scholar.google.at/citations?user=1JYV6oIAAAAJ&hl=de&oi=ao
Yiping Xia 夏逸平 @xiayp.bsky.social Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism, Texas A&M University
Past: UNC CITAP, UW-Madison SJMC
Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social Pro-democracy conservatives Republicans fighting Trump & Trumpism.
Join our growing community on Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/republicansagainsttrumpism/p/im-his-lawyer?r=9qjst&utm_medium=ios
INSNA (International Network for Social Network Analysis) @insna.bsky.social
Information, Communication & Society @icsjournal.bsky.social Social Media; Communication Studies; Cyberculture; Sociology; Political Communication; Internet Studies. Published by Routledge. https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rics20
American Association for Public Opinion Research @aapor.bsky.social #AAPOR is the leading professional organization of public opinion & survey research in the U.S.
Email us at info@aapor.org
Public Opinion Quarterly - POQ @poqjournal.bsky.social Public Opinion Quarterly is an international, high-impact journal sponsored by the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR)
academic.oup.com/poq
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/
The Communication & Technology Division of ICA @icacat.bsky.social Official account for the Communication & Technology Division of the International Communication Association, @katypearce
& @commfox & @anneohirsch at the wheel
American Political Science Review @apsrjournal.bsky.social The premier scholarly research journal in political science. Read here: http://bit.ly/3fJQsoQ
PS: Political Science & Politics @pspolisci.bsky.social PS: Political Science & Politics is the journal of record for the discipline. Email: ps@apsanet.org. Co-editors: Lina Benabdallah, Justin Esarey, Peter Siavelis, Betina Wilkinson. apsanet.org/ps
Journal of Experimental Political Science @jepsjournal.bsky.social The Journal of Experimental Political Science (JEPS) features cutting-edge research that utilizes experimental methods or experimental reasoning based on naturally occurring data.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-experimental-political-sc
Journal of Media Psychology @jmp-hogrefe.bsky.social Journal of Media Psychology is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering media psychology. Edited by @bowmanspartan.bsky.social (S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications)
https://www.hogrefe.com/eu/journal/journal-of-media-psychology
British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social British Journal of Political Science from @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org.
cambridge.org/bjpols
BJPolS is now an open access journal and from 2025 has published continuously with no issues, just one volume per year.
Journal of Politics @thejop.bsky.social The JOP is the flagship journal of the SPSA, published by the University of Chicago Press. Editors-in-Chief: Timothy Hellwig & Timothy Nokken. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/jop/current
Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media @journalqd.bsky.social diamond-access (no-fee, open-access) journal
journalqd.org
American Journal of Political Science (AJPS) @ajpseditor.bsky.social The AJPS is the official journal of the MPSA, committed to significant advances in knowledge and understanding of citizenship, governance, and politics, and to the public value of political science research. Co-Editors: Adam Berinsky and Dan Reiter.
Stephen Horowitz @gtlegalenglish.bsky.social Legal English prof for GeorgetownLaw LLMs & USLawEssentials.com. Ukraine supporter. Editor of the GeorgetownLegalEnglishBlog (georgetown.legalenglish.domains) & JETwit.com. Legal English community leader, ultimate frisbee player & JET Alum;
Dr. Kim Bissell @drkimbissell.bsky.social Dean, Manship School of Mass Communication, LSU
Health/sports Comm researcher
Josh Jackson @jacksonsquarephd.bsky.social Asst. Prof of Sports Comm | Bama PhD | LSU alum 2x | Studying sports, social media and identity | Journalist | Pop culture nerd | ΑΦΑ
David T. Z. Mindich @davidtzmindich.bsky.social A professor of journalism at Temple University, I am the author of books and articles that can be found here: https://www.davidtzmindich.com/ . My areas are "objectivity" (in quotes), democracy, journalism history, and minority representation.
Samuel C. Spitale @samuelcspitale.bsky.social Author of How to Win the War on Truth
Victor Pickard @victorpickard.bsky.social Professor who writes about the history and political economy of media, politics of media policy, and democratic theories of journalism. Author of "Democracy Without Journalism? Confronting the Misinformation Society." Co-director of the MIC Center at Penn.
Mary Beth Oliver @olivermb.bsky.social Bellisario Professor of Media Studies, Penn State University. Former President, International Communication Association. Co-Director, Media Effects Research Laboratory, Penn State.
Media Psychology, Media & Emotion, Media & Social Cognition
Kyle Stanley @kylestanley.bsky.social writer. researcher. cultural critic. phd. hot. (rs ≠ endorsements)
Jonathan Earle @jonearle.bsky.social Academic administrator, U.S. Historian. Dogs, New Orleans, politics. Views are my own. Enjoy every sandwich!
Anonymous @youranonnews.bsky.social We are Anonymous, we are legion, we do not forgive, we do not forget. Expect us. #Antifa without apology! Come at us, bro! +1-760-706-7425
Web: https://youranon.news
twitter: @YourAnonNews
mastodon: nerdculture.de/@youranonnews
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.
Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social PoliSci/Comm @ UW-Madison via UMich. US politics, votes, violence, history, psych. 3📚+1 on the way: How WE Make American Democracy. Wide Awake. Views mine, ~90% right. Dad w/ jokes. 🧗🏼*🧙🏻*🥏⛳🏆 nathankalmoe.com
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.
Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca SocialMediaLab.ca
- News, analysis & views by @philipmai.com re: the politics of tech, social media, AI, immigration, democracy, mis/disinfo, war & propaganda. Explore our suite of social media tools for public interest research: socialmedialab.ca/apps/
Katherine Ognyanova @ognyanova.bsky.social Associate Professor at the School of Communication & Information, Rutgers University | Research on politics, tech, trust, misinformation network science, computational social science | PI at http://chip50.org, http://covidstates.org, http://naiom.net
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/
danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social STS researcher who likes to look at things sideways. Founded Data & Society.
Topics: Census | Youth | Data | Society
Professor of Communication, Cornell
https://made-not-found-by-danah-boyd.ghost.io
Jack Tang @jacktang.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Digital Communication, Department of Ad & PR, U of Alabama | PhD in Comm @USC Annenberg , I research advocacy communication, social networks, and computational social science.