Ada Ferrer @aditaferrer.bsky.social Writer of books, professor of History (once NYU, now Princeton), orphan & always daughter, winner of Pulitzer, descended from Encarnación Carabalí who crossed the Atlantic in chains, mother of daughters, here to resist urge to bury my head in the sand.
Nicholas A. Christakis @nachristakis.bsky.social Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale University. Sociologist. Network Scientist. Physician. Author of Apollo's Arrow; Blueprint; Connected; and Death Foretold. Director of the Human Nature Lab: https://humannaturelab.net
vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social music maker // free all political prisoners // fight all supremacies // Fifteen (2026), Defiant Life (2025), Thereupon (2025), Sanctuary (2025), Compassion (2024), Trouble (2024), Love in Exile (2023) // prof @ h*rv*rd // linktr.ee/vijayiyer
OBELIS - Observatoire des élites suisses @obelitessuisses.bsky.social History, Political Science, Sociology - www.unil.ch/obelis
Consult OBELIS database: https://shorturl.at/AWJ4d
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OBELIS Summer school: https://shorturl.at/5pvY8
Adam Hedgecoe @adamhedgecoe.bsky.social Director, Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data (WISERD). Ethnographer, historian(ish). STS, Genomics, research regulation (RECs/IRBs) 
Boulevard of Broken Memes @olizardo.bsky.social Professor of Sociology, UCLA. Human Dancer.
Nothing bad can happen, it can only good happen
Sébastien Chauvin @sebchauvin.bsky.social Sociologist
Editor @Textuel
Use email for direct contact @unil.ch
http://sebastienchauvin.org
Danielle Lindemann @djlindee.bsky.social Sociologist, mom, unapologetic lover of terrible reality TV
Lincoln Quillian @lquillian.bsky.social Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology
Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research
Northwestern University
Jenn Lena @jenniferlena.bsky.social Feminist, abolitionist, anti-racist collector of religious kitsch and novel experiences.
Skeets are mine and mine alone, & u should hold my employer accountable for their words and deeds.
Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social Director of Research, @dairinstitute.bsky.social
Roller derby athlete
https://alex-hanna.com
Book: thecon.ai
Pod+newsletter: https://dair-institute.org/maiht3k
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Joel Mittleman @joeljm.bsky.social Associate Professor of Sociology at Penn.
Studying gender, education, ML and LGBTQ+ populations. He/him.
https://sociology.sas.upenn.edu/people/joel-mittleman
Megan Tobias Neely @megantobiasneely.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology @Colorado.Edu. Author of #HedgedOut (http://tinyurl.com/Hedged-Out) & #Divested (http://tinyurl.com/Divested-Book)
Sociological Science @sociologicalsci.bsky.social Sociological Science is a general interest, open access sociology journal committed to the highest standards of rigor and relevance. We aim to be the flagship journal for social scientists committed to advancing a general understanding of social processes.
Andrea Voyer @andreavoyer.bsky.social Sociologist, culture, computation, theory, migration and incorporation, community and everyday inequality. Professor of sociology, Stockholm Uni. Not here to talk about politics.
Sam Friedman @samfriedman.bsky.social Professor and Head of Department at LSE Sociology, Co-Editor British Journal of Sociology. Research: class, culture, elites, social mobility. Books: Born to Rule, The Class Ceiling, Comedy and Distinction
Nina Bandelj @ninabandelj.bsky.social Professor of Sociology, University of California, Irvine — economic sociology, culture, emotions, work & organizations, comparative political economy — new book, "Overinvested: The Emotional Economy of Parening" (Princeton University Press, 2026)
Casey Stockstill @caseystockstill.bsky.social sociology prof at Dartmouth. I talk about kids, racism, and preschools a lot, with some other stream of consciousness TMI every 12 days or so.
Vinnie Roscigno @roscigno.bsky.social Sociologist of inequality, education, mobility, work, and first generation status at The Ohio State University. Bronx born and First-Gen proud.
https://u.osu.edu/roscigno.1/
Ezra Zuckerman Sivan @ezrazuckermansivan.bsky.social Proud to be associated with: MIT Sloan School, USA, Sociology, Judaism
Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/ezrazuckermansivan
Writing book on Invention & Spread of the 7-day week. See Twitter @thefirstweek
See also https://tinyurl.com/y53ruzde
Nathan Wilmers @natewilmers.bsky.social Working on wage inequality, economic sociology, unions, and work. associate professor @MITSloan.
Maren Toft @marentoft.bsky.social Professor of Sociology, uni Oslo. Relational sociology, class analysis, urban inequality, elite studies, 🍉
flavien ganter @flavienganter.com sociologist. international migration, ethnoracial boundaries, and quantitative methods. currently a max weber postdoctoral fellow at the european university institute
flavienganter.me
Shay O’Brien @shayobrien.bsky.social Sociologist and Stone Center Postdoc at MIT studying elite kinship networks. Incoming AP at Berkeley Sociology starting January 2027 (she/her)
Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social Sociologist at Swarthmore College, trans man. Wrote Producing Politics & The Class Ceiling & a bunch of articles on class & race & inequality &/or political participation.
DanielLaurison.com = me
WeAreHigherEd.org = standing up for education and democracy
Aaron Reeves @aaronreeves.bsky.social Professor of Sociology, LSE - http://aaronreeves.org/ - New Book: Born to Rule: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674257719
Jake Rosenfeld @jakerosenfeld.bsky.social Professor of Sociology at Washington University-St. Louis
Anton Grau Larsen @antongrau.bsky.social Sociologist working on elites, statistical programming and descriptive quantitative analysis. Roskilde University
Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social Professor of Sociology. Head of the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute (EUI). President of the International Network of Analytical Sociology (INAS). Editor-in-Chief of Sociological Science.
Olivier Godechot @oliviergodechot.bsky.social Social scientist
Baptiste Coulmont @coulmont.bsky.social Sociologue, École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay.
Sociologist
coulmont.com
Marion Fourcade @marionf.bsky.social 
Mike Savage @mikesavagelse.bsky.social Sociologist of inequality.
Chris Smith @cmsmithsoc.bsky.social Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto | researches gender, crime, cities, violence, and networks | she/her first gen 🏳️🌈
http://chrismsmithsociology.wordpress.com
Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social All things K-12 education policy. Professor @PrincetonSPIA & Sociology; Director, Education Research Section.
Christoph Ellersgaard @chellersgaard.bsky.social Elite researcher (pun unintended). Contact: +4551789040
Hanna Kuusela @hannakuu.bsky.social Sociology and Cultural Studies of elites, inequality, private wealth, dynasties, higher education, university democracy etc. Associate Professor of Sociology. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3845-8140
Data Bear 🏳️🌈 @dataandpolitics.net Data and Politics.
Engineer, then academic, now engineer again.
Daytime is AI/ML research.
I care a lot about the open Internet and security. Wikipedia administrator.
Very San Francisco with an ATLien heart.
A widow who misses their husband. 🏳️🌈
Tim Gill @timgill924.bsky.social Sociologist / New Book - Unraveling the American Mafia: Angelo Lonardo, Carmen Zagaria, and the Beginning of the End in Cleveland (Bloomsbury, 2027)
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
Paula England @paulaengland.bsky.social Dean of Social Science, NYU Abu Dhabi. Sociologist, researcher on gender, demography, sexualities, inequalities. Mindfulness meditator. Citizen of the US and the world.
Robb Willer @robbwiller.bsky.social Professor of Sociology, Psychology, & Org Behavior, Stanford University
Direct, the @pascl-stanford.bsky.social, the AI for Public Benefit Lab, & co-direct @Stanfordpacs Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society
Andrew Perrin @andrewjperrin.bsky.social Chair of sociology at JHU KSAS. Study democracy and try to rescue it at SNF Agora Institute. Previously at UNC Sociology and IAH. #GDTBATH. Swarthmore and UC Berkeley alum. Proud Baltimorean.
Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social Author of How the Word Is Passed, Above Ground, and Counting Descent. Writer, The Atlantic.
Chris Uggen @chrisuggen.bsky.social Professor, sociologist, criminologist, TheSocietyPages editor. Nerdy but sturdy. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=8c95RVAAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social Sociologist/demographer specializing in mortality, racial inequity, Covid-19. Avid theater-goer, inconsistent powerlifter, and erstwhile operator of an all-volunteer bookstore. Preschool parent. Living not-quite-car-free in Minneapolis. she/her
Florencia Torche @ftorche.bsky.social Professor of Sociology at Princeton
Stephen Vaisey 🇺🇦 @stephenvaisey.com Professor at Duke University. Cultural evolution, political attitudes, social change, nerdy stuff in R. YNWA. https://vaiseys.github.io/
Rene Almeling @ralmeling.bsky.social Yale Sociologist. https://www.renealmeling.com. Books:
-Seminal: On Sperm, Health, and Politics (now out!)
-GUYnecology: The Missing Science of Men's Reproductive Health
-Sex Cells: The Medical Market for Eggs and Sperm
Now studying climate change...
Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social Inequality, higher education, gender, work and organizations, open science, Alaska.
All posts are made in my personal, not professional, capacity. I do not speak for my employer.
Eric I Schwartz @eischwartz.bsky.social Director of NYU Press = From Downtown to the World
https://nyupress.org/
Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co Social science and other distractions. Old posts get deleted pretty quick.
https://kieranhealy.org /
https://theordinalsociety.com
Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social Professor @ a large Midwestern U
Author of Thinking like an Economist, Creating the Market University
Trying to understand how ideas about economic value have shaped capitalism + its regulation, from the first Gilded Age to the second
Have more hair now
Anna R. Haskins @annarhaskins.bsky.social Associate Professor of Sociology at Notre Dame
co-editor of Sociology of Education | co-I of the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study
mamax2 | Michigander | former PS teacher |
scholar of education, inequality, mass incarceration, and race
Lauren Rivera @larivera.bsky.social Sociologist at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management studying gatekeeping and inequalities in organizations. Author of Pedigree: How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs.
https://www.laurenarivera.com/
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
Benjamin H. Bradlow @bhbradlow.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology and International Affairs, @princeton.edu
Visiting Researcher, Wits Southern Center for Inequality Studies
CIFAR Fellow, "Humanity's Urban Future"
Member, IAS School of Social Science, 2026-27
bradlow.princeton.edu
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Rebecca Elliott @rfelliott.bsky.social Sociologist at the LSE. Research on climate, insurance, risk, loss, disaster, adaptation. Editor, British Journal of Sociology @bjsociology.bsky.social. Co-organizer, Social Life of Climate Change @slcc-lse.bsky.social.
Eyal Press @epress.bsky.social Contributing writer at The New Yorker, Puffin fellow at Type Media Center, author (Dirty Work, Beautiful Souls), long-suffering Bills fan.
Paige Sweet @paigesweet.bsky.social assistant professor michigan sociology. gender/sexuality, gender-based violence, politics of health, theory. author of The Politics of Surviving, UC Press
Roberto G. Gonzales @rggonzales1.bsky.social Sociologist at Penn| Founding Director Penn Migration Initiative| Previously at Harvard| Author Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America| Writing book on DACA| Fan of the Yankees, Broncos, Springsteen, & my son’s baseball teams
Fabien Accominotti @faccominotti.bsky.social Sociology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Inequality, status hierarchies, elites, culture, economic sociology, historical sociology.
www.fabienaccominotti.com
Joya Misra @joyamisra.bsky.social Reader, cook, wanderer, sociologist, committed to building democratic, hopeful, just societies
Bernard E. Harcourt @bernardharcourt.bsky.social Professor of law and political theory at Columbia University and the EHESS in Paris. Death penalty defense counsel and author of *Critique & Praxis* (2020), *Cooperation: A Political, Economic, and Social Theory* (2023), and *The Counterrevolution* (2018).
Edward Walker @edwardwalker.bsky.social Professor of Sociology, UCLA. Organizations, social movements, corporate lobbying, nonprofits, PR firms. Climate politics and sustainability. Philly native.
Musa al-Gharbi @musaalgharbi.bsky.social Asst. Professor of Communication, Journalism and (by courtesy) Sociology at Stony Brook University. Author of, "We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite" -- out now via Princeton University Press.
W. Carson Byrd @wcbyrdphd.bsky.social Sociologist of higher ed inequalities & racism @ Michigan
Probably staring at data instead of writing, but at least there’s a stack of books & articles beside me.
More info: https://wcarsonbyrd.com
Karen A. Cerulo @kcerulo.bsky.social I am a sociologist studying culture, cognition, and all forms of communication--mass and interpersonal. I also do consulting, lecturing and mentoring.
Amanda Cook @amandacookbooks.bsky.social Editorial Director at Crown (Penguin Random House)
Paul Starr @starrprospect.bsky.social Sociologist, Princeton University; co-founder, The American Prospect; author of books on history of American medicine; media; liberalism. Forthcoming: American Contradiction: Revolution and Revenge from the 1950s to Now.
Carly Knight @carlyrknight.bsky.social Assistant professor, nyu sociology. Economic & cultural sociologist studying corporations, law, and economic ideas.
Elizabeth Armstrong @elarmstr.bsky.social Sociologist of gender and sexuality, University of Michigan
Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social Bronx boy. Cubs fan. Dad, husband, writer, podcaster and cable news host.
The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource out now.
https://sirenscallbook.com/
Caity Collins @caitlyncollins.bsky.social Associate Professor of Sociology, Washington University in St. Louis. Gender inequality, work, families, social policy. Book: Making Motherhood Work.
Mario Luis Small @marioluissmall.bsky.social Social scientist | Author of #SomeoneToTalkTo, #PersonalNetworks, #QualitativeLiteracy | Networks. Inequality. Methods | PTY native | Posts occasionally.
Sarah Brayne @sarahbrayne.bsky.social Sociology Professor at Stanford
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
Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social Sociologist @Cornell. Currently interested in the history of inequality statistics, and the role of economic expertise in climate policy. “Venceréis, pero no convenceréis.”
Robert Wuthnow @rwuth.bsky.social Sociologist interested in the Religious Left
Joseph Harris @josephharrisbu.bsky.social Associate Professor of Sociology, Boston University / Director, Global Health Politics Workshop / Host, Global Health Politics Podcast / Comic Book Aficionado
Danya Lagos @danyalagos.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley. I work on gender and social change at the population level. danyalagos.com
Debi Cornwall @debicornwall.bsky.social Multimedia documentary artist using still and moving images to examine the fictions fueling America’s idea of itself. Former investigator & civil-rights lawyer. Model Citizens (Radius Books, 2024). This is (Not) a Drill.
www.debicornwall.
Patrick Sharkey @patricksharkey.bsky.social social scientist studying violence and urban inequality in the US
Eric Klinenberg @ericklinenberg.bsky.social Helen Gould Shepard Professor of Social Science and Director of the Institute for Public Knowlege at NYU. New book: *2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed.* 
Yarimar Bonilla @yarimarita.bsky.social Political Anthropologist, Princeton University Professor
Contributing Writer for NYT Opinions.
Aisha Beliso-De Jesus @beliso-dejesus.bsky.social Author of, Excited Delirium (Duke UP) and Electric Santeria (Columbia UP). Olden Street Professor of American Studies, Princeton. Chair, Effron Center for the Study of America.
C.J. Pascoe @cjpascoe.bsky.social Sociology. Running. Banjos. Bikes. Books. Knitting.
Would rather be on a trail.
📚Nice Is Not Enough: Inequality and the Limits of Kindness at American High
📚Dude You're a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School
www.cjpascoe.org
Bruno Cousin @brunocousin.bsky.social FNSP Associate professor of sociology at Sciences Po, affiliated with CEE and the Urban School. Holder of the Chair on Cities, Housing & Real Estate.
https://www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etudes-europeennes/en/researcher/bruno-cousin
Dr. Lorgia García Peña @laprofelgp.bsky.social Afro Latina. Professor at Princeton.
Author of Community as Rebellion.
Radically imagining a world where Haiti and Palestine are free, Black lives are centered, women and queer folx are safe and schools teach for freedom.
www.lorgiagarciapena.com