UNC Chapel Hill Dept of Sociology @uncchsociology.bsky.social Since 1920, UNC-Chapel Hill Sociology has been an intellectual leader in the discipline. Our diverse faculty drive world-class research and training — shaping critical thinkers and changemakers ready to tackle the most pressing challenges of our time.
Christopher Powers @powersglobal.bsky.social International Educator, Assistant Vice President for International Initiatives, Towson University, Baseball Fan, He/him, All views my own
Taha Yasseri @tahayasseri.bsky.social Workday Full Prof & Chair of Technology & Society at Trinity College Dublin & Technological University Dublin. Director of the Centre for Sociology of Humans and Machines. https://tahayasseri.com
Diliara Valeeva @diliaravaleeva.bsky.social Asst Prof @Uni of Amsterdam. Researching how powerful actors—corporations, billionaires, and elites—shape technological futures, especially in outer space
Carolina Population Center @uncpopcenter.bsky.social Our faculty, staff, and students conduct research on population, health, aging, and the environment, and share data and findings that push the field forward.
https://cpc.unc.edu
Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social Demographer and Sociologist. Director of the Carolina Population Center. LEGO Karen
Jan Marc Morawe @janmarcmorawe.bsky.social Gender Scholar
Interests: (a)sexualities, health communication, masculinities, contraception/safer sex, repro health, climate crisis, IR, peace/conflict studies, utopias/dystopias, mental health, media, history, ...
https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7802-2721
Debora Nozza @deboranozza.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Bocconi University in MilaNLP group • Working in #NLP, #CSS and #Ethics • She/her • #ERCStG PERSONAE
Georg Ahnert @ahnert.eurosky.social PhD Student in Social Data Science at University of Mannheim | LLMs and Surveys | georgahnert.de
Tom Einhorn @tomeinhorn.bsky.social PhD candidate in Sociology, University of British Columbia | Social movements, political sociology, computational social science | I remember. My color's green.
https://tomeinhorn.github.io/
Sacha Altay @sachaltay.bsky.social 🔎 Misinformation, social media & the news 🗞️
🇨🇭 Postdoc at the University of Zurich, previously Reuters Institute & ENS 🇫🇷
https://sachaaltay.github.io/
turgut keskintürk @tkeskinturk.bsky.social sociology phd candidate at duke | https://tkeskinturk.github.io/
Ann Jiang @annjiang.bsky.social PhD Student @UCSanDiego
Politics, Culture, Immigration Attitudes, Relational Sociology, and Global Sociology
Computational & Qualitative Methods
www.annjiang.org
𝙲𝚛𝚊𝚒𝚐 𝚅𝚊𝚗 𝙿𝚎𝚕𝚝 @drcraigvanpelt.bsky.social Political Economy of AI | Dead Cognitive Labor | Critical AI Studies | Data Temporalities | #Cyberzombies | Sociologist | No DM | Follow does not = endorsement | Views are mine, not my employer |
https://craigvanpelt.org
Jessica Hullman @jessicahullman.bsky.social Ginni Rometty Prof @NorthwesternCS | Fellow @NU_IPR | AI, people, uncertainty, beliefs, decisions, metascience | Blog @statmodeling
Harald Klinke @harald-klinke.de
🙋 https://www.harald-klinke.de/
📔 https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-88130-5
#DigitalTransformation #DataScience #AI #Munich
Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social Critical tech and literary/cultural AI. Also cats, letterpress printing, and tabletop gaming.
Commonwealth Professor of AI and English at the University of Virginia—
—but speaking for myself and in my own capacity here.
Be rude and you’ll be blocked.
Arkadiy Saakyan @asaakyan.bsky.social PhD student at Columbia University working on human-AI collaboration, AI creativity and explainability. prev. intern @GoogleDeepMind, @AmazonScience
asaakyan.github.io
Stefano Angeli @sangeli.ficss.institute Modeling the structural conditions that make revolutions possible.
Computational Macrohistory. FICSS Institute, Lugano.
FICSS webpage: https://www.ficss.institute/
Substack: https://stangeli.substack.com/
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-6643-2307
Wissensnetzwerk Rechtsextremismusforschung @wi-rex.bsky.social Wi-REX bringt Wissen über Rechtsextremismus aus Forschung, Praxis und Zivilgesellschaft in Austausch. Gefördert vom BMFTR.
wi-rex.de
Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social Too economist to be a historian. Too historian to be an economist.
More coffee, please.
William J. Brady @williambrady.bsky.social Assistant prof @ Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. Studying emotion, morality, social networks, psych of tech. #firstgen college graduate
American Sociological Association @asanews.bsky.social * Support a diverse and inclusive community of sociologists
* Increase public knowledge and understanding of society through sociology
* Promote the use of sociological insights to drive positive social change https://bit.ly/m/AmSocAssoc
Partnership on AI @partnershipai.bsky.social A non-profit bringing together academic, civil society, industry, & media organizations to address the most important and difficult questions concerning AI.
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
andrés castro araújo @acastroaraujo.bsky.social sociologist | #rstats | computation | law | organizations | 🇨🇴
https://acastroaraujo.github.io/blog/
Nic Weber @nmw.bsky.social Associate Professor @ UW
Computational Social Science
Ai2 @ai2.bsky.social Breakthrough AI to solve the world's biggest problems.
› Join us: http://allenai.org/careers
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Ben Rochford @benrochford.com Duke Sociology PhD candidate (advised by Chris Bail), studying online communities, social identity, and artificial intelligence. Flute player, early career Computational Social Scientist
Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci Personality psych & causal inference @UniLeipzig. I like all things science, beer, & puns. Even better when combined! Part of http://the100.ci, http://openscience-leipzig.org
Andreas Kaltenbrunner @kaltenbrunner.bsky.social Associate Professor (Serra Húnter Fellow) at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.
Main research interests: user behaviour, AI/ML, LLMs, social network analysis, computational sociology.
Anjali Adukia @aadukia.bsky.social Faculty @UChicago @HarrisPolicy | Director @MiiELab | Education, children, joy | she/they | #checkyourself | Grateful | on threads: @anjaliadukia
http://anjaliadukia.com
Dan Larremore @danlarremore.bsky.social Prof | CU Boulder BioFrontiers Institute + Computer Science | Santa Fe Institute | LarremoreLab.github.io
Founder | CevianLabs.io
Aaron Clauset @aaronclauset.bsky.social NO KINGS. NO FASCISTS. FUND SCIENCE.
Professor of Computer Science @ BioFrontiers Institute at University of Colorado, Boulder and External Faculty @ Santa Fe Institute
orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3529-8746
Daniel Tadmon @danieltadmon.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology @NotreDame. Studying culture, inequality, and mental health care.
www.danieltadmon.com
Maarten Grootendorst @maartengr.bsky.social 🧑💻 Data Scientist | Psychologist
📖 Author of "Hands-On LLMs" (http://LLM-book.com)
🧙♂️ Open Sourcerer (BERTopic, PolyFuzz, KeyBERT; github.com/MaartenGr)
💡 Demystifying LLMs (newsletter.maartengrootendorst.com)
Gus @gusthema.bsky.social Gemma Product Manager @google DeepMind
- Gemma 💎
- Google AI ⚙️🧠
CITAMS @citams26.bsky.social We aim to support research and community building on the sociology of communication, including interpersonal and mediated communication, and to serve as a central bridge linking sociological and communication scholarship.
Alex Wermer-Colan @alexwermercolan.bsky.social writer, editor, dramaturg, translator | academic director of @tudigitalscholars.bsky.social, executive director @phillywireless.bsky.social, managing editor @proghist.bsky.social
Anna Skarpelis @akms.bsky.social Asst. Professor of Sociology & Inaugural Richard Lachmann Chair, CUNY Queens College. Formerly NYU (PhD), Harvard (postdoc). Sociologist of race, citizenship, fascism, AI.
www.skarpelis.com, she / her
Leafia Ye @leafiaye.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto 🍁 | PhD from UW-Madison 🦡 | Immigration, aging, and health
www.leafiaye.com
Sociology at Oxford @sociologyoxford.bsky.social Focusing on developing theories that solve real-world challenges 🌍 Part of the University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk 👋
Ranked 1⃣ in Europe and 2⃣ in the world in the QS Rankings by Subject 2026 🏆
Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social Demography nerd at Pew Research Center
Global religious change, sociology
maybe: leif weatherby @leifw.bsky.social Hegel, cybernetics, Buffalo Bills
Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions, Nuffield & University of Oxford, FBA. http://benansell.substack.com. BBC Reith Lecturer 2023. Host BBC Radio 4 Rethink. Columnist for Prospect. Director, Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM).
Yamil Ricardo Velez @yamilrvelez.bsky.social political scientist at Columbia | MIA ✈️ NYC | tailored surveys and experiments
Gaurav Kamath @grvkamath.bsky.social PhD-ing at McGill Linguistics + Mila, working under Prof. Siva Reddy. Mostly computational linguistics, with some NLP; habitually disappointed Arsenal fan
Emma Zang @dremmazang.bsky.social Associate Professor @YaleSoc @ysphbiostat @JacksonYale | Advocate for evidence-based family and health policies | Data science enthusiast
Andrey Chetverikov @achetverikov.bsky.social Associate Professor in Cognitive Psychology at the University of Bergen, Norway. I study decision-making and biases in perception and visual working memory, with occasional forays into higher level decisions. https://andreychetverikov.org
Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social UC Berkeley & InterpretAI
Editor of the Artificial Humanities series
www.ninabegus.com
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/
Hoyt Long @hoytlong.bsky.social Scholar of Japanese literature, media, cultural analytics. Now working on platforms, television, cultural AI. "The Values in Numbers" (2021). Offline: cooking, ceramics, watercolor. Professor at University of Chicago.
https://hoytlong.github.io
Alexander Kustov @akoustov.bsky.social Prof at Notre Dame (alexanderkustov.org). Author of "In Our Interest" (amazon.com/dp/0231218117). Writing at "Popular by Design" (www.popularbydesign.org). Come join me on Substack or LinkedIn!
Keitaro Okura @keitarookura.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs at Brown. https://www.keitarookura.com
Tomás Gold @tomasgold.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology @ USC
Brendan Bartanen @brendanbartanen.bsky.social Associate professor of education and public policy at the University of Virginia. Stumbling my way through the AI revolution at https://brendanbartanen.substack.com/
Sebastian Haas 🇪🇺 @seb.haas.partners data, policy | impact entrepreneur | covering soil and landscape‑scale agrobiodiversity
1st 🇪🇺 EU's data altruism organisation dedicated to land use policy and climate journalism.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebastianoskarhaas/
Abdul Basit Adeel @abadeel.bsky.social PDF candidate @ Penn State's Sociology & Social Data Analytics | (Culture + Politics) x Computational Social Science | abadeel.com
Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social Director of Language & Genetics at Max Planck Institute, Nijmegen.
Tracing the complex connections between genes, brains, speech & language.
Website: https://www.mpi.nl/people/fisher-simon-e
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3132-1996
Philine Widmer @phinifa.bsky.social Researching topics related to the media, artificial intelligence, and politics. Interested in structuring unstructured data for social science.
https://philinew.github.io/
Lisa Messeri @lmesseri.bsky.social anthropologist of sci & tech. Prof @Yale. author of "Placing Outer Space" and VR book "In the Land of the Unreal". tech criticism with good vibes.
Drew Halfmann @drewhalfmann.bsky.social UC Davis political sociologist
Sociology Lens (formerly Journal of Historical Sociology) @sociologylens.bsky.social Sociology Lens is indexed in SSCI (Web of Science) and ranked Q1 in Scopus.
#Sociology #History
Published by WILEY.
Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Bekir Düzcan (e.duzcan@uu.nl)
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/2832580x
Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net Raising kids & bread & grant money. Cleaning data & diapers & fish. EA (bed nets, not light cone). Social scientist. typos. twitter.com/ryancbriggs
phelimb @phe-lim.bsky.social CEO & Founder @ Prolific.com
Tom Costello @tomcostello.bsky.social research psychologist. beliefs, AI, computational social science. assistant prof at Carnegie Mellon
Damian Trilling 🟥 @damiantrilling.net Professor of Journalism Studies, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands. About me: https://damiantrilling.net . Our group is here: @journstudiesvu.bsky.social and here: https://vu.nl/en/about-vu/faculties/faculty-of-humanities/more-about/journalism
Manoel Horta Ribeiro @manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ Princeton
Previously: EPFL 🇨🇭, UFMG 🇧🇷
Interests: Computational Social Science, Platforms, GenAI, Moderation
Jacy Reese Anthis @jacyanthis.bsky.social Researching machine learning and human-AI interaction, particularly the rise of digital minds. Student researcher at Google DeepMind, visiting scholar at Stanford, co-founder of Sentience Institute, and PhD candidate at U of Chicago. jacyanthis.com
Elis @eliscl.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher at @iasliu.bsky.social interested in religion, naming practices, social influence dynamics and computational social science
www.eliscarlberglarsson.com
Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social Cornell Tech professor (information science, AI-mediated Communication, trustworthiness of our information ecosystem). New York City. Taller in person. Opinions my own.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org Explore groundbreaking news and research from PNAS, one of the world's most-cited scientific journals. Discover its sibling journal, @pnasnexus.org, both official research journals of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. Visit www.pnas.org for more info.
PNAS Nexus @pnasnexus.org Discover groundbreaking news and research from PNAS Nexus, the sibling journal to @pnas.org - both official research journals of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. Visit www.pnasnexus.org for more information.
Noah Greifer @noahgreifer.bsky.social Statistical consultant and programmer at Harvard IQSS. Author/maintainer of the #Rstats packages 'MatchIt', 'WeightIt', and 'cobalt' for causal inference, among many others | He/him
ngreifer.github.io
Christian Czymara @christian.czymara.com Migration scholar at the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI), @knaw-nl.bsky.social and @rug.nl
https://czymara.com/
Tyler Horan @tylerhoran.bsky.social Writer and researcher on platform inequality and the future of work. Lecturer at @umassamherst.bsky.social → tylerhoran.org
George B. Radics @georgeradics.bsky.social Sociologist/Law&Society Scholar. Interested in criminalization at the margins, focusing on race and sexuality. georgebradics.com
Johan Ugander @jugander.bsky.social Associate Professor, Yale Statistics & Data Science. Social networks, social and behavioral data, causal inference, mountains. https://jugander.github.io/
National Weather Service @nws.noaa.gov Official Bluesky account for NOAA's National Weather Service.
Patrick Gildersleve @gildersleve.uk Lecturer (Asst Prof) in Communications and AI at the University of Exeter
Prev. LSE Methodology, PhD Oxford Internet Institute
Wikipedia, News, Attention
he/him
🔗🌳 linktr.ee/gildersleve
🌐 https://gildersleve.uk
Sophie Schmalenberger @soschma.bsky.social Researching the far-right in (Eastern) Germany, memory politics, affect and antisemitism.
👩💻Aarhus University & Uni Duisburg-Essen
New Jersey State Policy Lab @policylab.rutgers.edu New Jersey Policy Lab conducts rigorous evidence-based research to raise the quality of data used by state policymakers to address the needs of NJ communities.
https://policylab.rutgers.edu/
Dave Willner @dwillner.bsky.social Co-Founder at Zentropi. Formerly Head of Trust & Safety at OpenAI, of Community Policy at Airbnb, and of Content Policy Facebook. Strictly cold takes.
Epoch AI @epochai.bsky.social We are a research institute investigating the trajectory of AI for the benefit of society.
epoch.ai
Christian Wolf @chriswolfvision.bsky.social Principal Scientist at Naver Labs Europe, Lead of Spatial AI team. AI for Robotics, Computer Vision, Machine Learning. Hobby Cyclist. Austrian in France. https://chriswolfvision.github.io/www/
Joris Frese @fresejoris.bsky.social Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow in Politics at Oxford.
Interested in: Political Behavior, Quantitative Methods, Metascience.
https://www.jorisfrese.com/
David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social californian. human rights, free expression, tech, international law. uc irvine. fulbright. article 19. prior: UN special rapporteur, GNI chair.
edu coalition (dm for details)
go bears!
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social Tracking autocratic legalism around the world from Princeton University.
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social Cross-disciplinary social & behavioral science research & fellowship in service of generating knowledge, illuminating understandings, building fields, informing policy discourse, & creating an enduring scholarly community like no other | casbs.stanford.edu
Lars Leszczensky @leszczensky.bsky.social Sociologist @goetheuni Frankfurt. Member of @infer-frankfurt. Interested in social networks, intergroup relations, ethnic/religious identity & more.
AJ Alvero @ajalvero.bsky.social Assistant Research Professor at Cornell University
Center for Data Science for Enterprise and Society
Affiliations with Departments of Information Science, Sociology, and Computer Science
Nicole Schwitter @nschwitter.bsky.social Computational social science & too many side interests | Reseach Fellow at the @mzesunimannheim.bsky.social and @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social
Lukas Neville @lukasneville.com Assoc prof, organizational behaviour, Asper School, UManitoba. Personal butler to Kiwi and Waffles 🇨🇦
Miriam Hurtado Bodell @mhbodell.bsky.social Postdoc in Analytical Sociology @Linköping University, reality TV enthusiast & ganska ”skoj”. https://mhbodell.github.io
Segun Aroyehun @aroyehuns.bsky.social Postdoc at Uni Konstanz working on computational social science, ML, and NLP| saroyehun.github.io
Chiara Chiavenna @chiarenna.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher @Unibocconi. Statistician, hiker. Formerly @PHE_uk. @MRC_BSU and @EmmaCambridge alumna. Avid #rstats user. she/her
Nature Human Behaviour @nathumbehav.nature.com A Nature Portfolio journal bringing you research and commentary on all aspects of human behaviour.
https://www.nature.com/nathumbehav/