Yini Zhang @yinizhang.bsky.social assistant professor, university at buffalo, social media & computational social science
Rayshizzle @rayshizzle75.bsky.social Mom to Mr. Sir, NC A&T alumna, member of ΔΣΘ, and mildly obsessed with 80s and 90s r&b
Center for Political Studies @umisrcps.bsky.social The University of Michigan's Center for Political Studies (CPS) posts about social science research, politics, policy, and free data resources.
Politics, Groups and Identities @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social Politics, Groups, and Identities is an official journal of the Western Political Science Association. Visit our homepage: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rpgi20
Megan Brown @m-dot-brown.bsky.social PhD Student University of Michigan School of Information & Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering | formerly engineering @csmapnyu.org | NYU ‘19 
Meredith L. Pruden @meredithpruden.bsky.social Assistant Professor in metro ATL. Researching harmful online content, far-right media & politics. Affiliate @UNC CITAP. Fellow @TheIRMS. Member @Coalition for Independent Tech Research & @Media, Data & Democracy Co-op. Words are mine. Duh. she/her
Jason Greenfield @jasong.bsky.social CS PhD student @princetoncitp.bsky.social, former Research Engineer @csmapnyu.org. I like rock climbing and birds.
Yunkang Yang @yunkangyang.bsky.social Prof. at Texas A&M | Order Weapons of Mass Deception (http://bit.ly/4kL30x1) | Right-Wing Media | Political Communication | Computational Social Science
Media & Democracy Coop @mddcoop.bsky.social The Media and Democracy Data Cooperative (MDDC) is a collaborative network of academic research centers and researchers to advance our understanding of political communication and digital data. https://mddatacoop.org/
Maggie Macdonald, PhD @mgmacdonald.bsky.social Asst Prof UKY Poli Sci | Previous: CSMaP, Emory Poli Sci, Elon University | Pol comm, campaigns, IGs, & social media | RYT-200 | maggiegmacdonald.com
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
Computational Methods Division of ICA @icacm.bsky.social Official account for the Computational Methods Division of @icahdq.bsky.social. Posts by @shugars.bsky.social.
Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social Professor | 2026-2027 Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholar | Books: Growing God's Family; Addicted to Lust; Taking America Back for God; The Flag & The Cross; Religion for Realists; SOON: Fill the Earth and Subdue It | CV: https://tinyurl.com/mtvxvdfa
Melina Much @melinamuch.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellow @csmapnyu.org. Identities, political behavior, social media 👩🏻💻
melinamuch.com
Tara Walker @taraew.bsky.social Native ATLien, Principal Software Engineer, Geek Girl, Music Lover, Runner, Sports Fan, ΔΣΦ🔺 #DST1913, Marvel fan, From #SWAtlanta #blacksky
Edda Humprecht @eddahumprecht.bsky.social @Prof of Communication Science @Uni of Jena, head of research group Digitalization & the Public Sphere
Magdalena Saldaña @magdalenasaldan.bsky.social Associate Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile School of Communications | Associate Director, www.mepop.cl | Associate Researcher, www.imfd.cl | Associate Editor, @digitaljournalism.bsky.social
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
hackingcommsci @hackingcommsci.bsky.social Opening communication science // pre-conference hackathon at the 2026 meeting of the ICA. June 3 & 4 2026 in Stellenbosch, South Africa.
Registration until May 4th at hackingcommsci.org/
Cristina Monzer, Ph.D @cristinamonzer.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher @asc.upenn.edu | identity and symbolic politics, computational methods, multimodal data analysis, social media | @ResearchLex
Taewoo Kang 강태우 康兌宇 @greennail.bsky.social Doctoral Candidate @ Michigan State U.
Platformized Political Communication / Democratic Backsliding
Husband:Daddy:Researcher:Writer:Reader
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=r0abOPMAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
@bholtz-phd.bsky.social @bholtz-phd.bsky.social 
Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social Asst Prof @ Illinois Dept of Communication studying media, politics, & identity, not necessarily in that order. UMich Comm & Media / SDSU Journalism & Media Studies / Drexel Digital Media alumnus / USMC veteran. Views = my own. http://www.stewartcoles.com
Curd Knüpfer @curdknupfer.bsky.social Associate professor of political communication @ddc-sdu.bsky.social, University of Southern Denmark.
Focus on digital & right-wing media + parties.
Associate Editor @ International Journal of Press/Politics
Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team Rudolph (Rudy) Fraser ⁂
CEO & Founder, building virtual 3rd places
[ @blackskyweb.xyz ][ blacksky.community ]
@mozilla.org Fellow 🦊
prev. @harvard.edu Fellow
🏴☠️ [ wethepeople.nyc ]
Board @pactcollective.xyz
TSC @lexicon.community
Black crypto-anarchy Ⓐ
Hannah Overbye-Thompson @overbye.bsky.social Assistant Professor at MSU ComArtSci AD + PR | I study how people detect, perceive & respond to AI/algorithmic bias
Dr. Trina J. Wright @drwright.bsky.social Organizational Communication Professor, Black Feminists Scholar, Trainer and Consultant, 1908
Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social Professor of Communication & Political Science. NH to PHL. Improv comedian. Author: “Irony and Outrage” (OUP 2020), “Wrong” (JHU 2023). My views and mine alone.
WEBSITE: https://sites.google.com/view/dgoldyoung/home
Dan Lane @danlane.bsky.social Associate Prof @CommUcsb | Dir. UCSB Digital Political Inequality Lab https://dpilab.comm.ucsb.edu/ | Political Comm, Intergroup Comm & Comm Tech | Ph.D. @UM_CommStudies
Jacob Long @jacob-long.com Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of South Carolina | PhD from Ohio State | political communication, public opinion, some other stuff
You might know me from my jtools, interactions, and panelr #rstats packages
https://jacob-long.com
Jiyoun Suk @jiyoun-suk.bsky.social Assistant Professor of big data and diversity at University of Connecticut | PhD in Mass Comm at UW-Madison | Social activism | Digital media, politics & gender | GAI | Computational Social Science
Isabella Gonçalves @igoncalves.com Research associate at @ifpmainz.bsky.social
Interested in political communication, othering, and migration framing.
igoncalves.com
dleonboys @dleonboys.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Media Studies | Book: "Elena, Princesa of the Periphery" (Rutgers, 2023) | Chilanga living in Madison
Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social ✍🏽 • RACE AFTER TECHNOLOGY: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code • VIRAL JUSTICE: How We Grow the World We Want • IMAGINATION: A Manifesto 📚www.ruhabenjamin.com
Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social Public policy professor at the Hobby School. Enthusiastic about food, dogs, travel, and research. I write books about many failures of local democracy. Bad opinions my own.
Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social Political scientist who thinks you should care more about local politics (especially sheriffs) and foster dogs.
Author of Power of the Badge: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo220537347.html
Harold McCray, Ed.D. @drhspeaks.bsky.social #GirlDad x 3 | Founding Principal of MacArthur High School in D.C. | Author | Nupe♦️| 🔵 DEM | Music Lover 🎼 | Philly ➡️ D.C. #EAGLES 🦅 #BlackEduSky #EduSky #Sagittarius ♐️
Meryl Alper @merylalper.bsky.social Associate Professor of Communication Studies @ Northeastern. Technology, kids, disability, mental health. BOOKS: Digital Youth with Disabilities (MIT 2014) Giving Voice (MIT 2017), Kids Across the Spectrums (MIT 2023) https://bit.ly/kidsacrossthespectrums
@bxteachgirl.bsky.social @bxteachgirl.bsky.social Black woman. Friend. Daughter. Sister. Educator. Democrat. 92%. Reader. Believer.
Kay @kaylenprince.com 🎹 Composer & Classical Pianist | Sociolinguist 🗺️📍🗣️ |✨Founder of B&W Classical Academy, Focusing on Diversity, Inclusion & Representation in classical music. 🎵
✨ https://linktr.ee/scoredbykay ✨
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
Jo(sephine) Lukito @jolukito.bsky.social DDC Professor of Digital Communication and DIAS Chair at the University of Southern Denmark | Modern Kilogirl 👩💻 | Computational Linguistics & Global/US PolComm
George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social Husband, Actor, Activist, Uncle George to the Internet 🖖
Angeline J. Dukes, PhD @heydrdukes.bsky.social ✊🏾🧠 Founding President of #BlackInNeuro 🌍 📚 Neuroscience Professor 👩🏾🏫 #HBCUgrad ✨ International Invited Speaker 🇹🇹🇭🇹 ΔΣΘ🔺 she/her
Imani E McElroy MD MPH @iemcelroymd.bsky.social Vascular Surgery Fellow, Boston trained, Delta made, Bay Area Raised
Kimberly D. Manning, MD, MACP, FAAP @gradydoctor.bsky.social Internist, teacher, thinker, doer | Professor of Medicine and Vice Chair of RYSE Initiatives, Emory Dept of Medicine | Co-host of The Human Doctor Podcast | #HBCUMade | she/her/ma’am🔺
D Marie 💎 @1913.bsky.social 🔺️, 🇯🇲, 💙Mom, RN, Doctor of Jurisprudence, lover of tech, tea drinker, entrepreneur, more to come, stay tuned....
Courtney @mochachic.bsky.social Small fire burning brightly in the A| School Counselor | Personal Development Strategist | 🔺🐘AOML| Wife | Sister| Daughter| Aunt| TU Alumna ❤️💛🐯
Chrissy @chrissymaayy.bsky.social 1913 🔺
UNCC Alumna
Cayla_Noelle @caylanoelle.bsky.social God is love ❤️. Food 😋. Travel is life ✈️. Music? Yes, please. 🎶🎧💃🏽. #BoyMom 👦🏽👦🏽. I OO~OOP 🐘🐥 KC ➡️📍Dallas, TX #ChiefsKingdom ❤️💛 ♏️
Buttercup, MPH @foreverteejayyy.bsky.social laugh n. love 💕 | 1 9 1 3 |
Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app I wrote #TheDarkFantastic. Aspiring YA fantasy author; newbie YouTuber. Professor and grad program chair; Auntie PhD. 🔺1913, OES⭐️, Rattler🧡🐍, Wolverine💛💙. Detroit vs Everybody. Linktree: Ebonyteach.
KevOnStage @kevonstage.bsky.social Making videos for you to watch when you should be doing something more productive.
Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones.bsky.social Associate Professor Northwestern University in Qatar | Studies Disinfo, Digital Repression & Gulf Politics | Author Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East (Hurst & OUP) Political Repression in Bahrain (Cambridge University Press) | Cat Fancier
Craig Silverman @craigsilverman.bsky.social Cofounder of https://indicator.media, your essential guide to understanding and investigating digital deception. Sign up for free! Investigative journalist and OSINT trainer.
https://craigsilverman.ca
Bellingcat @bellingcat.com Bellingcat is a global collective uncovering facts to hold power to account. Our work is independent. Our methods are public. Our community is global.
Want to support our charity? bellingcat.com/donate
John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social Chasing digital badness. Senior Researcher at Citizen Lab, but words here are mine.
Erin Gallagher @3r1ng.bsky.social Social media network analysis. Digital ethnography. Formerly: Technology & Social Change Project: https://shorensteincenter.org/programs/technology-social-change/ she/her
Medium blog: https://erin-gallagher.medium.com/
Jillian C. York @jillian.bsky.social Author of Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism (Verso 2021).
Work @eff.org, teach at College of Europe Natolin, sing and play 🎷 in a band, live in London, full bio at https://jilliancyork.com/about
Views are mine alone.
Andy Carvin @acarv.in Director of investigations, @weareoversight.bsky.social. Former managing editor and current nonresident senior fellow, DFRLab.org. NPR and Reported.ly alum. Woodturner, veteran of the prolactinoma wars. Calling BS is my calling. I used to tweet a lot.
David Carroll @davidcarroll.org admin of federate.social (circa 2022)
faculty of parsons.edu (circa 2000)
subject of The Great Hack (Netflix 2019)
headshot by Bryan Derballa (Wired 2019)
header from Cadillacs & Dinosaurs (Capcom 1993)
Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social Professor of Practice at the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University
Transaidency e.V. @transaidency.bsky.social 
Marwa Fatafta | مروة فطافطة @marwasf.bsky.social Palestinian feminist made in Saudi | MENA Policy and Advocacy Director @AccessNow
Emma Beals @ejbeals.bsky.social Constructive disrupter. Working on: the crisis in peace/conflict, disrupting aid, democracy/human rights, systems change and the mess we’re in. Former: Syria. Do: research, analysis, policy, piloting. Affiliations: EIP, MEI. Opinions my own. EmmaBeals.com
Katherine Denkinson @kdenkwrites.com UK-based Investigative Journalist & OSINT bod.
Author of Incel:The Weaponisation of Misogyny (out now with Aurora Metro Books)
Email: katherinedenkinson@protonmail.com
Website: www.KDenkWrites.com
Sohan Dsouza @sohandsouza.info 🥼 @MPIB-Berlin.bsky.social;
📚 computational social science, disinformation/polarization, crowdsourcing, OSINT;
🎓 @MIT.edu @MediaLab.bsky.social, @DFRLab.bsky.social #DigitalSherlocks;
📍 London, England;
https://www.sohandsouza.info
Noura Aljizawi @noura.bsky.social Senior Researcher @Citizenlab.ca , UofT
Exploring the dark dimensions of digital power: authoritarianism, transnational repression & disinformation.
Dina Sadek @dinamsadek.bsky.social Senior Analyst @Graphika.
I have opinions of my own.
Omer Arvili @omerarvili.bsky.social מעצבנת דעת קהל
Tessa Knight @awildknight.bsky.social Researching disinformation for DFRLab | She/her | DMs usually open | tessaknight132@protonmail.com
EU DisinfoLab @disinfo.eu Independent EU-focused NGO whose mission is to raise awareness on #disinformation & contribute to a better information landscape.
Iyad El-Baghdadi @iyadelbaghdadi.bsky.social Palestinian 🇵🇸🇳🇴
Research Lead Kawaakibi Foundation
KULNA coming soon @kulna.bsky.social
Author: "The Middle East Crisis Factory".
Interview requests: press@kawaakibi.org
Richard Ngamita @ngamita.bsky.social researcher studying digital threats; society and tech.
www.ngamita.xyz
Matt DeVerna @matthewdeverna.com Postdoc with Stanford's Tech Impact and Policy Center
(@techimpactpolicy.bsky.social). Past: Indiana University / Observatory on Social Media.
Societal impacts of AI within the information ecosystem.
🧨 matthewdeverna.com
Andrew Chadwick @andrewchadwick.com Prof, Media and Communication, Loughborough University. Ed. Oxford Studies in Digital Politics. Been dubbed “that hybrid media guy.” More active on LinkedIn these days.
andrewchadwick.com
Occasional posts on music.
Dr. Ashley Mattheis @draamattheis.bsky.social Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture at the University of Manchester. Researching gender, racism, and digital cultures of far-right, white supremacists, and male supremacist extremism. Views my own.
David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social Reporter @WIRED covering disinformation, online extremism, and election hucksters. https://www.wired.com/author/david-gilbert/
Got a tip? Get in touch
• Email: david.gilbert@wired.com
• Signal: @DavidGilbert.01
Mike Cowburn @mikecowburn.bsky.social Research Fellow, @demolaw.bsky.social, Zeppelin Universität
Intra-Party Politics | Candidate Selection | Legislative Politics | PolComm | Primaries
Author: Party Transformation in Congressional Primaries https://tinyurl.com/4w6tfvjx
www.mikecowburn.com
Brent Lee @brentlee.bsky.social Host / Producer of Some Dare Call It Conspiracy podcast. Former conspiracist turned debunker. Now that I debunk conspiracy theories, I have become an actual conspiracy theory. True story.
Jerome @jeromegill.com I build tech for charities and NGOs and the private sector, usually in the sustainability/environmental space
Interested in tech, modern propaganda, and cleaning up information spaces
Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social Professor of Financial Accounting, Vice Dean of Programmes, co-Director, Cambridge Centre for Financial Reporting & Accountability, Univ of Cambridge
Founder & Chair, Cambridge Disinformation Summit
Research: IFRS, GAAP, governance, information risks
Alex Winter @alexwinter.com Trans Rights are Human Rights.
alexwinter.com
Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social Let's see... 39 years teaching journalism at NYU. A critic who tries to be useful. PressThink: the name of my subject and my site. My book: "What Are Journalists For?" (1999, Yale University Press)
ProPublica @propublica.org Investigative journalism in the public interest. Headlines and (sometimes literal) receipts.
propublica.org
Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com 🙅🏻♀️ Author (2 books & The Wayfinder newsletter), disinformation expert, advocate for targets of online abuse.
☀️ CEO, @americansunlight.org
😆 Tucker Carlson once called me a “highly self confident young woman” and meant it as an insult
Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social Concerned with tech, media and democracy. CEO & Editor at Tech Policy Press. Research & Adjunct Professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Opinions mine.
Thierry Breton @thierrybreton.bsky.social Entrepreneur. Teacher. Policy Maker 🇫🇷🇪🇺
Marietje Schaake @marietjeschaake.bsky.social Proud European 🇪🇺 Fellow at Stanford 👩🏼💻 column in FT 🗞️Member of European Parliament 2009-2019 📕Author: The Tech Coup
Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.
Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social My Book: Giving Up Is Unforgivable |UALawSchool |MSNOW Legal Analyst |Podcasts #SistersInLaw & Cafe Insider|Obama US Atty |25 year fed'l prosecutor|Wife & Mom of 4|Knits a lot|Civil Discourse newsletter: joycevance.substack.com
Sander van der Linden @profsanderlinden.bsky.social Professor of Social Psychology in Society at the University of Cambridge and Author of FOOLPROOF: Why We Fall for Misinformation and How to Build Immunity (2023) + The Psychology of Misinformation (2024). Bad News Game.
www.sandervanderlinden.com
Maria Ressa @mariaressa.bsky.social 
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Giancarlo Fiorella @giancarlofiorella.bsky.social Director of Research and Training | Bellingcat
Assistant Professor | Utrecht University
PhD, Criminology & Sociolegal Studies | University of Toronto
www.giancarlofiorella.com
Opinions my own
Lauren Feldman @laurenfeldman.bsky.social Professor of Journalism & Media Studies @ Rutgers. I study climate change communication, partisan media and misinformation, and comedy and social change.
https://comminfo.rutgers.edu/feldman-lauren
Nora Benavidez @attorneynora.bsky.social Civil Rights & Free Speech Attorney. Disinformation & AI Expert. Nonfiction Author.
Now: Senior Counsel @freepress | 2026 Bellagio Residency Fellow @rockefeller (writing a book) | Board of Directors @benandjerrys
www.norabenavidez.com
Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social Social scientist @yalesph.bsky.social exploring how we form beliefs and make sense of health information in the age of AI. Author of Misguided. https://amzn.to/48zTs59
https://matthewfacciani.substack.com
www.matthewfacciani.com