Meg Young @megyoung0.bsky.social Director, AI Civics @datasociety
Vinay Koshy @vinaykoshy.bsky.social Post-doc at UW working on AI for collective decision-making and computational social science. Previously at UIUC and UC Berkeley
Tim Howles @timhowles.bsky.social Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Theology, philosophy, ethics, politics, environmental humanities
Associate Director @LSRIOxford
Anglican Priest
https://www.theology.ox.ac.uk/people/revd-dr-timothy-howles
Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app Founder & PI @aial.ie. Assistant Professor of AI, School of Computer Science & Statistics, @tcddublin.bsky.social
AI accountability, AI audits & evaluation. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
Julia Simon @juliaradio.bsky.social NPR's Energy and Climate Solutions Correspondent
SF by way of Nigeria, Indonesia, and Egypt • 🇳🇬🇮🇩🇪🇬
For tips my Signal juliaradio.33
Ben Welsh @palewi.re 🧮 Data journalist · 🟠 Reuters editor · 🤖 Computer programmer · 🗣️ Send tips to ben.welsh@thomsonreuters.com
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://mastodon.palewi.re/@palewire, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
dell cameron @dell.bsky.social Sr. writer @wired.com:
Surveillance & coptech
Signal: dell.3030
Mónica C. Camacho @mc2x.bsky.social Open Source Investigator. Jack of all trades. Wife guy. She/her.
Lighthouse Reports @lighthousereports.com Radically collaborative journalism. Working with the world’s leading media on deeply reported, public interest investigations. http://bit.ly/LHR-newsletter
Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social Borders, osint, & digital investigations / investigations @lighthousereports.com , sometimes more
Jon Keegan @jonkeegan.com Tech reporter / Data journalist.
I report on AI and Big Tech.
Work has appeared in Sherwood News, The Markup, WSJ, MIT Technology Review.
Aspiring 46er. ⛰️
Newsletter: https://beautifulpublicdata.com
https://jonkeegan.com
📝 Send tips: Signal: jonkeegan.73
ICAI OpenGov Lab @opengov.nl Artificial Intelligence for Open Government Lab @uva.nl
Advancing AI (IR & NLP) to make open government data more accessible, transparent, and impactful.
#AI #OpenGov
https://opengov.nl
Will Lager @iniwil.bsky.social journalist doing & editing storytelling through data, visuals, engagement & more with The Hechinger Report | formerly with @themarshallproject.org | @ReckoningMN @MPRnews etc | he/him
Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social Reporter and Computer Guy at WIRED. Previously: Bloomberg News, Center for Investigative Reporting, Gizmodo, eyebeamnyc.
Tips: dhruv_mehrotra@wired.com /@dmehro.89 on Signal
EMRE KIZILKAYA @emrekizilkaya.bsky.social Ph.D. in Media & Communication | '24-'25 Carr-Ryan Center Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School | Knight Visiting Nieman Fellow '19 | IVLP Alumnus | IBM Certified AI Developer https://www.linkedin.com/in/emre-kizilkaya #Media #Humanities #AI #Data #Ethics
Lucia Walinchus @walinchus.bsky.social Managing Data Editor, NBC owned stations. Public records attorney, journalist, ice hockey player/coach. Former bylines: NY Times , Washington Post, Eye on Ohio, etc.
Hearts= likes OR bookmarks
Francesca D'Annunzio @francescadnunz.bsky.social investigative reporter covering immigration enforcement for @propublica.org
cat mom, multilingual, outdoorsy, nosy, very into FOIAs + touching grass
📩 francesca.dannunzio@proton.me
Signal: FrancescaDnunz.08
https://linktr.ee/FrancescaDnunz
Ryan Little @ryanlittle.bsky.social Ryan Little is the data editor at The Baltimore Banner and an adjunct instructor at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland
Investigative Reporters & Editors @ire.org Providing training, resources and a community of support to journalists around the world. Join us at #IRE26 June 18-21 in National Harbor, MD! 🔍 ire.org
Emma Spiro @emmaspiro.bsky.social Associate Professor at the UW iSchool, Co-Founder UW Center for an Informed Public | PhD in Sociology from UC Irvine | Research: social networks, sociology, information integrity & computational social science.
Johnny Ryan @johnnyryan.bsky.social Director of ICCL Enforce https://iccl.ie/Enforce Previously Chief Policy Officer of Brave. FRHistS.
https://ie.linkedin.com/in/johnnyryan1
Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social detroit native. deputy editor at huffpost. WABJ president. check out my free newsletter! --> https://www.whatimreading.net/
The Emancipator @theemancipator.org The Emancipator is a digital magazine dedicated to examining and confronting racism and the inequities it creates. Visit our website: https://theemancipator.org
Julie @hoolier.bsky.social
onekade @onekade.bsky.social Civil rights and liberties advocate, appreciator of nice things like democracy and the Boston Celtics. Pro-immigrant. Anti-fascist. Opinions mine.
Lizzie K. @lizz-iek.bsky.social small batch artisanal language model ❤️🔥 tech critic when provoked
Marijke Roosen @marijkeroosen.bsky.social Feminist | STS scholar | welfare and penal surveillance | digital welfare state
Associate researcher @ université de Lausanne
Amir H. Payberah @payberah.bsky.social Associate Professor of Computer Science at KTH
https://payberah.github.io
Co-liberative Computing
https://co-liberative-computing.github.io/
Miranda Bogen @mbogen.bsky.social Director of the AI Governance Lab @cendemtech.bsky.social / responsible AI + policy
Yevgeniy Golovchenko @golovchenko.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the Dep. of Political Science/Copenhagen Center For Social Data Science, University of Copenhagen | Political Communication and International Security | RU and Ukraine | Disinfo, propaganda, censorship | 🇩🇰 🇺🇦
Michał Gulczyński @gulczynski.bsky.social Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute | PhD from Bocconi University | Studying mostly gender | @schmorpl.bsky.social | "Przemilczane nierówności. O problemach mężczyzn w Polsce"
Tomo Lazovich @tomolazovich.com Responsible AI researcher, writer, part-time law student at Northeastern, lapsed physicist, chess adult improver (they/them) 🏳️⚧️
@bmtgoncalves.bsky.social @bmtgoncalves.bsky.social
Shelia Cotten @sheliacotten.bsky.social Sociologist/media and technology use and impacts across the life course; AI; health, workforce, education
Associate Vice President for Research, Clemson University
Saltzshaker @saltzshaker.bsky.social internet researcher, sound artist/dj, bog enthusiast, inveterate lurker
emilysaltz.space
in nyc & mtl
Zoha Deldar, PhD @zohadeldar.bsky.social Neuroscientist | Clinical Psychologist | Postdoc Fellow @McGill | Exploring #Pain, #Cognition, #Passion, #Emotion, & #SocialNeuroscience | Advocate for #SciComm & #OpenScience
Berk Ustun @berkustun.bsky.social Assistant Prof at UCSD. I work on safety, interpretability, and fairness in machine learning. www.berkustun.com
Talayeh Aledavood @talayeh.bsky.social
André Panisson @panisson.bsky.social Principal Researcher @ CENTAI.eu | Leading the Responsible AI Team. Building Responsible AI through Explainable AI, Fairness, and Transparency. Researching Graph Machine Learning, Data Science, and Complex Systems to understand collective human behavior.
Marc Aidinoff @maidino.bsky.social Historian of technology, science, and the welfare state. Occasional maker of policy about those things.
casey @cjellis.bsky.social Ottawa, ON, CA
research data analyst
big fan of weird data projects
@wrubino.bsky.social @wrubino.bsky.social
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.
Stefan Gjelstrup Sørensen @stoejnu.bsky.social Underviser og rundviser i Mindelunden Ryvangen. Nørdet omkring historie, musik og fodbold.
Ethan Zuckerman @ethanz.bsky.social UMass Amherst, Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure, Global Voices, Berkman Klein Center. Formerly Center for Civic Media, MIT Media Lab.
Kristina Gligoric @IC2S2 @gligoric.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Computer Science @JohnsHopkins,
CS Postdoc @Stanford,
PHD @EPFL,
Computational Social Science, NLP, AI & Society
https://kristinagligoric.com/
Karrie Karahalios @kkarahal.bsky.social
Sharad Goel @5harad.com Professor of Public Policy at Harvard, co-director of @comppolicylab.bsky.social, applying a computational approach to public policy, including to issues in education, healthcare, and criminal justice. https://5harad.com
Juniper Lovato @juniperlov.bsky.social Research in complex systems, tech ethics, networks, NLP, and computational social science. Assistant professor of CS at the University of Vermont, Vermont Complex Systems Institute, Computational Ethics Lab.
Andreia Sofia Teixeira @asteixeira.bsky.social Associate Professor @NortheasternLDN , @NUnetsi | Researcher @LASIGE (Computer Scientist by training working on Network Science/Complex Systems)
https://andreiasofiateixeira.com
https://branmorrighan.com
Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social Researcher of online rumors & disinformation. Former basketball player. Prof at University of Washington, HCDE. Co-founder of the UW Center for an Informed Public. Personal account: Views may not reflect those of my employer.
Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com {Social, Data, Network, Information} Scientist, @cuboulder.info
Director, University of Colorado Public Interest Data Science Lab, @cupids-lab.org
High-tempo collaboration, information commons, public interest data science
https://www.brianckeegan.com/
Riccardo Gallotti @ricgallotti.bsky.social Interdisciplinary physicist
Head of the CHuB research unit at FBK
Human behaviour, mobility, transport, decision making, infodemics, data science
NERDS @nerdsitu.bsky.social Networks, Data, and Society research group @itu.dk. Data Science | Network Science | Computational Social Science
We are: https://nerds.itu.dk/people | https://bsky.app/starter-pack-short/4ej8RNM
On Mastodon: https://datasci.social/@nerdsitu
Tiziano Piccardi @tiziano.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ Johns Hopkins University | Prev: Stanford & EPFL | https://piccardi.me/
Markus Strohmaier @mstrohm.bsky.social
Yelena Mejova @yelenamejova.bsky.social Senior Research Scientist @ ISI Foundation, Turin, Italy | computational social science, digital epidemiology, data science
David Garcia @dgarcia.eu Professor for Social and Behavioral Data Science at the University of Konstanz. Also at CSH Vienna, ETH Zurich and TU Graz.
Onur Varol @ovarol.bsky.social Asst. Prof. at @SabanciU
🌐 varollab.com
#networkscience, #datascience, #css
Przemek Grabowicz 🇵🇱🇪🇸🇩🇪🇺🇸🇮🇪 @przemyslslaw.bsky.social CS faculty at University College Dublin and the University of Massachusetts Amherst: responsible AI, social media, news media, computational social science, applied NLP, open-world AI
RT≠endorsement, RT=interesting read
More: https://przemyslslaw.github.io
Manoel Horta Ribeiro @manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ Princeton
Previously: EPFL 🇨🇭, UFMG 🇧🇷
Interests: Computational Social Science, Platforms, GenAI, Moderation
Philipp Lorenz-Spreen @lorenzspreen.eurosky.social Heading the Computational Social Science group within SynoSys & ifK at TU Dresden, where we study how online information environments impact public discourse and develop alternatives that benefit democracy. Views are my own. https://synosys.github.io/
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
David Jurgens @davidjurgens.bsky.social Associate prof at @UMich in SI and CSE working in computational social science and natural language processing. PI of the Blablablab blablablab.si.umich.edu
Jevin D. West @jevinwest.bsky.social Professor @UW_iSchool, Co-founder of Center for an Informed Public @uwcip. I study misinformation in science & society. Book: tinyurl.com/y7ekfkhx
Sandra González-Bailón @sgonzalezbailon.bsky.social Professor of Communication @AnnenbergSchool, UPenn | Director, Center for Information Networks and Democracy | cind.asc.upenn.edu | sandragonzalezbailon.net
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
M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social Professor of Psychology & Human Values at Princeton | Cognitive scientist curious about technology, narratives, & epistemic (in)justice | They/She 🏳️🌈
www.crockettlab.org
Luca Maria Aiello @lajello.bsky.social Computational Social Science researcher interested in Human Coordination and emergence of new phenomena in human-AI societies. Professor of Data Science at the IT University of Copenhagen. Network Science | NLP | AI agents
http://www.lajello.com
Kirsten Fiedler @kiki.eurosky.social job: European Parliament | previously @edri
fighting for digital rights
born 337 PPM
other: swim bike run
🏳️🌈 🇪🇺 ヾ(-_- )ゞ
only dank memes on the weekend
Yotam Shmargad @yotam.bsky.social Computational social scientist and associate professor in the School of Government & Public Policy at the University of Arizona. I research online influence and social norms. Website: www.yotamshmargad.com
Vedran Sekara @vedransekara.bsky.social Assoc professor @ITUkbh. Previously @UNICEFinnovate & @sony
Working on AI bias, stupid algorithms, and computational social science
More silly things at 👉 https://vedransekara.github.io/
#TechWillNotSaveUs 🍉
Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.eurosky.social digital economy analyst, politykainsight.pl/en | PhD student in sociology, AMU Poznan (digital activism, practice theory) | he/him
Haluka Maier-Borst @halukamb.bsky.social Team Lead / Data Journalist / News Dev at Handelsblatt
😍 for stories, 🧶 code and 😵💫 sketches
Previously @ rbb, NZZ, FT, Zeit Online
Basti Kusch @bastikusch.bsky.social PhD candidate @goetheuni.bsky.social
Complex Systems/Network Science
@invcomplexity.skewed.de,
Center for Critical Computational Studies
Saumitra Kulkarni @saumitranetsci.bsky.social Urban Science | Human Behavior | Data Science
PhD @nunetsi.bsky.social
https://saumitranetsci.github.io/
Germans Savcisens (Savčišens) @savcisens.com Postdoc @nunetsi.bsky.social (Northeastern Uni) 🎓 Computational Social Science 👾 ✨ work on stability of belief in LLMs & Human-AI Collaboration 🌿 he/him 🇱🇻 🇺🇦 | www.savcisens.com
NetScience @netscience.bsky.social Reader in Applied Mathematics at Queen Mary University working on Network Science, Data Science, and digital Epidemiology. Website: www.nicolaperra.com
Iacopo Iacopini @iaciac.bsky.social #ComplexNetworks · #ComplexSystems · #Cities
Associate Professor @ Network Science Institute, Northeastern University London.
@martikagv.bsky.social @martikagv.bsky.social
Cameron Fen @cameronfen.bsky.social Economist interested in computational macro and ML.
Part-time blogger, webpage: https://donotinvestwithme.substack.com/
Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com Transparency, regulation, business & interest group politics, and metascience. Manage @apsa.bsky.social DDRIG. The people know it's casino capitalism 🎰
YY Ahn @yyahn.bsky.social Prof @ School of Data Science, University of Virginia. Formerly at IU. Networks, data science, and machine learning. https://yyahn.com
🚲🚲🚲
Hang-Hyun Jo @socph.bsky.social Associate Professor at The Catholic University of Korea; statistical physics and complex systems; co-author of "Bursty Human Dynamics" (Springer, 2018); http://h2jo.xyz; visiting the University of Michigan till February 2027
Katherine Ognyanova @ognyanova.bsky.social 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
Jari Saramäki @jsaramak.bsky.social Professor @Aalto University, Finland. I am a network scientist, bass guitar player, a fan of coherent writing, and a general enthusiast.
https://jarisaramaki.fi/ | https://books2read.com/howtowriteapaper
Petter Holme @pholme.bsky.social Scandinasian professor of network science & computational social science
Jana Lasser @janalasser.eurosky.social Professor for Data Analysis @UniGraz | Computational Social Science, Data Science, complex systems, computational modelling | #OpenScience, #coder | she/her
Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social Demography nerd at Pew Research Center
Global religious change, sociology
estebanmoro @estebanmoro.bsky.social Researcher, scientist. Professor at the Network Science Institute @Northeastern and director of the Social Urban Networks Lab. Formerly @uc3m & @mit
Aleksandra Urman @aurman21.bsky.social Senior Research Associate, Social Computing Group, U of Zurich. Computational social/communication scientist
Rachel Ross, MD, PhD @rossenator.bsky.social psychiatrist/neuroscientist/activist/karaoke-ist. Autonomic nervous system, feeding behavior, stress and metabolism. Assoc Prof @EinsteinMed neuroscience. Founder of Rosslab.einsteinmedneuroscience.org
Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com Professor, UW Biology / Santa Fe Institute
I study how information flows in biology, science, and society.
Book: *Calling Bullshit*, http://tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b
LLM course: https://thebullshitmachines.com
Corvids: https://tinyurl.com/mr2n5ymk
he/him
Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social Historian of technology, occasional dad jokes.
www.marhicks.com
Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social Scholar, author, policy advisor
Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab
https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab
Books: The Future of Science is Civic, Auditing AI, The Social Life of DNA, Genetics & the Unsettled Past, Body & Soul, Technicolor
Julie J Lee @jjlee.bsky.social grad student in investigative journalism, formerly nerd @ aclu ma 📍 New York, NY 🌐 julielee.net 📱signal: julielee.101
Joe Germuska @joe.germuska.com Chief Nerd @ Northwestern University Knight Lab • Project lead @ Census Reporter • Board Member @ City Bureau • Information Design • Digital Journalism • Civic Technology