Olga Pasitselska, PhD @olpasi.bsky.social Assistant Prof social media & politics, U of Groningen (NL), PhD Hebrew U of Jerusalem. Ukrainian|Israeli, mom of Lea and Zoë
Sagar Kumar @diesagar.bsky.social sagarkumar.net
Ph.D. Student, Network Science Institute
Editor-in-Chief, Unclench Magazine (unclenchmag.com)
Playing in the space between information and interpretation 😋
Looking for Postdocs starting 2026 😇
Arnav Arora @rnv.bsky.social CS PhD student, University of Copenhagen | LLM cultural value alignment, safety, political communication, AI ethics |
he/him.
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=EQUUUUoAAAAJ&hl=en
IPKW - Department of Communication @ipkw.bsky.social One of the largest departments for communication science, ranked as one of the top programs for communication research in Europe, Vienna’s geographic & cultural position and international orientation makes us a key-hub for top-notch research collaboration.
Emilie Truelsen @emilietruelsen.bsky.social PhD Researcher at @hertieschool.bsky.social | War, social media, incivility, text-as-data | previously @institute-juanlinz.bksy.social & University of Amsterdam | 🇩🇰
Elena Glassman @elglassman.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ Harvard SEAS specializing in human-computer and human-AI interaction. Also interested in visualization, digital humanities, urban design.
Comm Sci Bio @icacsab.bsky.social Communication Science & Biology Interest Group of the International Communication Association. Supported by the Schools/Departments of Communication of OSU, MSU, & Annenberg Penn https://commscience.org/
Paula Montano @paulamontano.bsky.social PhD candidate @ucdpolitics • EU Politics, Elites Crisis Communication • Computational Social Science • Contributor @irishpollingind.bsky.social
https://paula-montano.github.io- M Max Pellert @maxpe.bsky.social @max@maxpe.todon.de
Principal Investigator at Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis @essexsummerschool.bsky.social Since 1967, the Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis has provided social science methods training for hundreds of participants each year. Offering over 40 Courses in 2025, online and in-person
Learn more at: https://essexsummerschool.com/
Dren Gerguri @drengerguri.bsky.social Lecturer - University of Prishtina
www.drengerguri.com
Moritz Gartiser @mosgardentool.bsky.social Political scientist, i.a. interested in media discourses on inequality and taxation. Opinions are my own.
Michelle Schimmel @michelleschimmel.bsky.social PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam.
Information environments, political identity & divides, computational social science
Zilin Lin @linzilinn.bsky.social Postdoc @ascor.bsky.social | AI, Media & Democracy Lab | Human(e) AI RPA | PhD - NEWSFLOWS
Ismaharif I. @ismaharif.bsky.social PhD Candidate @ UCSB || Media Effects, Intergroup Relations, Identity, Motivation
I study (meta)interventions and how to bridge social divides. I also dabble in psychometrics, latent variables and computational methods.
https://linktr.ee/ismaharif
Maximilian Reichert @mischewu.bsky.social PhD candidate looking at social policy from a life course perspective using sequence analysis. Currently at Erasmus Uni Rotterdam, previously MPPSC in Tübingen and Philosophy & Economics in Vienna
Ozan Kuru @ozankuru.bsky.social Asst Prof, National University of Singapore
Bio: https://discovery.nus.edu.sg/18898-ozan-kuru
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=T6KRMogAAAAJ&hl=en
Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ozan-Kuru
Shir Weinbrand @shirweinbrand.bsky.social Computational Social Science PhD candidate @QUT
Investigating the complex interplay between search engines, GenAI, and politics/news
Entrepreneur's mind. Athlete's body. Artist's soul ~ J.Clear
https://www.shir-weinbrand.com/
Ella MacLaughlin @ellamaclaughlin.bsky.social PhD studying uncertainty in political speech | Utrecht University
ParliView project @parliview.bsky.social ParliView forms a transparency initiative based on collaboration between @zdgreene.bsky.social at U of Strathclyde, Glasgow, @jamespcross.bsky.social and Derek Greene at UCD, Dublin and @transparency-eu.bsky.social. More coming soon!
Susan Vermeer @susanvermeer.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ Wageningen University & Research・Political communication, news use (among adolescents), computational methods・PhD @ ASCoR
Lennart Schürmann @lennartschuermann.bsky.social Max Weber Fellow at European University Institute
PRIME Fellow at FU Berlin/WZB Berlin Social Science Center
Protest | political participation | representation | European politics | computational social science
More:
schuermannl.github.io
Francisca Castro @fcastrog.bsky.social Visiting professor at @uc3m.es
Intrastate conflict, social movements, and political violence.
https://francisca-castro.com/
Mariana C. Duarte @mcduarte.bsky.social Postdoc at IPP-CSIC
PhD from the EUI
https://marianacarmoduarte.github.io
Daniel Saldivia Gonzatti @dasalgon.bsky.social Political scientist
WZB Berlin Social Science Center/FU Berlin
Web: http://saldiviagonzatti.com/
Jennifer Oser @jenny-oser.bsky.social Social scientist | PI of European Research Council (ERC) grant project | Full Professor, Ben-Gurion University in Israel | https://www.jenniferoser.com/
Daniel Kovarek @kovarek.bsky.social postdoc at EUI, PhD from CEU ■ representation, distributive politics, local ties, bureaucracy ■ usually on a bike, a night train, or al banco
Anna Fruhstorfer @annakfruhstorfer.bsky.social Political scientist @FU Berlin and @WZB.bsky.social |
PI ERC research group LOOPS | Studying autocracies through protest, legal norms, and elite conflict | fruhstorfer.me
Book on Constitutional Change under Autocracy: fruhstorfer.me/book
Nina Obermeier @ninaobermeier.com Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Politics at King's College London. International political economy, European politics, globalization, immigration, populism, and Eurovision (which combines all of the above). www.ninaobermeier.com
Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social 💼 Assistant Prof. for Participation Research @uniheidelberg.bsky.social
🧐 PI, The New Climate Divide (Emmy Noether)
🧳 Guest @wzb.bsky.social
🔬 Parties • Movements • Participation • Climate Politics
📈 Quant Methods
🇪🇺 Western, Central & Eastern EU
⛰️🚴♀️🏃
Felix Dietrich @felix-dietrich.de Communication Researcher @ifpmainz.bsky.social // Media Psychology, Media Entertainment, Computational Methods // https://felix-dietrich.de
Yu Ohki @yuohki.bsky.social Computational social science researcher. Assistant Prof at Rissho Univ, Japan. Ph.D. in Kyoto Univ.
London Social Media Observatory @ldnsocmedobs.bsky.social We are a multidisciplinary research centre based @royalholloway.bsky.social. We use computational methods and big data to investigate the role of social media platforms in politics, in partnership with key stakeholders and policymakers.
Wies Ruyters @wieswies.bsky.social PhD Candidate in Political Communication (WUR) | wieswies.github.io
Hazel Yajing Wang @hazelwy.bsky.social Research MSc in Communication Science 26' @UvA | HCI, RtD | Personal website: https://yajingwanghci.github.io/
Sophia Knight @sophiaaknight.bsky.social PhD Researcher @ldnsocmedobs.bsky.social - podcasts, political communication & computational social science
Research Lead in Civic & Democratic Participation Online at Responsible Innovation Centre, BBC R&D
Visiting Researcher @digitalgoodnet.bsky.social
Erin Wertz @erin-wertz.bsky.social Postdoc at University of Warsaw's Center for Excellence in Social Science studying political communication and media psych
Other interests: anonymity and identity online
Research: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=AOIKTqoAAAAJ
🏳️⚧️she/her
Dr. Julia Kling @jkling288.bsky.social Doctor of Social Science. Swedish Defence U; Private account.
political communication; social media; dis- and misinformation; russia’s propaganda
Media Neuroscience Lab @medianeuro.bsky.social The Media Neuroscience Lab promotes research and teaching at the intersection of media psychology, technology, and neuroscience | https://medianeuroscience.org
Jenni Räikkönen @jenniraikkonen.fi Postdoctoral researcher, University of Helsinki.
political discourse | crisis communication | corpus linguistics | CADS
Nuoren tutkijan elämää -blogi (jenniraikkonen.fi)
Pic: Jonne Renvall
Piotr Marczyński @piotrmarczynski.bsky.social PhDing at @sciencepoulb.bsky.social
Looking into what far-right activists do online and why it works or doesn't.
ConnectedMindsLab @connectedmindslab.bsky.social Social learning & decision-making in social (media) networks across human development.
https://connectedmindslab.net/
Christina Viehmann @christinaviehmann.bsky.social Team Lead Transparent Social Analytics @gesisorg.bsky.social | previously PhD/PostDoc @ifp JGU Mainz
Computational Social Science | Pol Comm | polarization, social cohesion & trust in digital media | media & crisis | text-as-data/nlp
Computational Methods Division of ICA @icacm.bsky.social Official account for the Computational Methods Division of @icahdq.bsky.social. Posts by @shugars.bsky.social.
Michael Vaughan @michaelvaughan.bsky.social Researcher currently working on the politics of (wealth) inequality and communication | Leverhulme Early Career fellow at LSE’s International Inequalities Institute
Hazel 경희 @hazelkwon.bsky.social a Simmel’s stranger, lifelong learner, and Professor @Arizona State University. http://www.hazelkwon.org
Guillermo Romero Moreno @juillermoromero.bsky.social Information diffusion, influence dynamics, computational social science, complex systems, network science, AI.
Before -> PhD at U of Southamptom, postdoc at U of Edinburgh
Now -> postdoc at CWI Amsterdam (AI, media, & democracy Lab)
Patrick Zerrer @pzerrer.bsky.social PostDoc @ZeMKI_Bremen @UniBremen | Political Communication | Political Action | News usage | CSS | mobile & desktop Tracking
Nicola Righetti @nicolarighetti.bsky.social Computational Social Scientist
https://www.nicolarighetti.net/
Find me on LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/nicolarighetti79
Philipp K. Masur @masurphil.bsky.social Associate Professor at VU Amsterdam | digital communication, privacy, social influence & media literacy | Director of the Digital Media and Behavior Lab - www.dmb-lab.nl | More on: www.philippmasur.de
Emelie Karlsson @emeliekarlsson.bsky.social PhD student at @uu-polisci.bsky.social
Political communication, (social) media, digital election interference, trust, polarisation, political behaviour and attitudes, AI
Lachlan Deer @lachlandeer.bsky.social Quant Marketing AP at @unimelb. Researching Digital Markets, Social Networks, and Mental Health
Back in 🇦🇺 via 🇳🇱, 🇺🇸, 🇨🇭 and 🇬🇧.
Web: lachlandeer.github.io
Twitter/X: lachlandeer
Societal Analytics Lab @societal-analytics.nl The Societal Analytics Lab aims to be the first point of contact for those interested in applying computational techniques in their research on societal issues. We are part of @vuamsterdam.bsky.social.
Webpage: https://societal-analytics.nl/
Simon Munzert @simonsaysnothin.bsky.social Professor of Data Science and Public Policy | Director @ Hertie School Data Science Lab | Elections, Public Opinion, Data
NEWSFLOWS_ERC @newsflows.bsky.social Feedback loops | news | social media | democracy | @erc.europa.eu | @journstudiesvu.bsky.social | newsflows.eu
Laura Hollink @laurahollink.bsky.social Research into responsible AI for culture and media
at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Amsterdam, NL
@linaauskalniene.bsky.social @linaauskalniene.bsky.social
Internews @internewshq.bsky.social Internews is an int'l nonprofit supporting independent media worldwide.
Newsletter 📥 http://bit.ly/3gSVvJj
Donate 🎁 http://bit.ly/3jkcNMM
EAVI - Media Literacy for Citizenship @eavi-medialiteracy.bsky.social EAVI is an independent, not-for-profit international civil society organisation with a mission to serve the general public's interest in the field of media and to advance full citizenship across Europe and beyond.
Visit our website! https://eavi.eu
Asta Zelenkauskaite @astaze.bsky.social I am a professor of communication who has been interested in emergent practices online since the times of IRC and currently working not only on empowering aspects of online but more increasingly on dark participation such as disinformation.
Andreu Casas @andreucasas.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Communication and Computational Social Sciences at Royal Holloway University of London. Director of the London Social Media Observatory. UKRI Future Leader Fellow.
WHAT-IF @what-if-horizon.bsky.social Horizon Europe research project testing the impact of evidence-based policies for healthier political information environments
https://what-if-horizon.eu/
Tilo Hartmann @thvu.bsky.social Professor (VU Amsterdam), Communication Science, Media Psychology (XR, Immersion, Virtual Worlds, Generative AI, User Experience, Effects)
@arodilla.bsky.social @arodilla.bsky.social Researcher at BSC-CNS. Courts & Parliaments | Computational Social Sciences.
Lanabi @lanabi.bsky.social Computational poli sci and IR
Fellow at LSE Methodology and teaching at LSE IR Dept
Political Communication, Dictators, Transitional Justice, Gender
Russia, Ukraine, the Balkans
lanabilalova.com
Constantine Boussalis @cboussalis.bsky.social Associate Professor in Political Science, Trinity College Dublin. Research on climate change contrarianism, political communication, political extremism.
Maximilian Eder @maxeder.bsky.social Researcher: @unistavanger.bsky.social on mediatized scandalization | Research Fellow: #UniBw Munich | PhD: University of #Passau
🦣 maxeder@sciences.social
🐦 _maxeder
🖥️ max-eder.de
#Journalism #AI #LocalJournalism #Scandalogy
Elisabeth Graf @elisabethgraf.bsky.social Psychology: education and politics - focusing on motivation, emotions and civic education // PhD @univienna // Postdoc @TU Dortmund // http://elisabeth.graf-at.eu/
// (c) Foto: Ines Blatterer
Lena Maria Huber @lenamariahuber.bsky.social Research Fellow @mzesunimannheim
Adrian Rauchfleisch @adrauc.bsky.social Associate Professor @ National Taiwan University
Jessica Taylor Piotrowski @jesstpiotrowski.bsky.social Professor of Communication in the Digital Society at University of Amsterdam | Youth & Media Scholar | ally 🏳️🌈 | ❤️ teaching, research, running, dark chocolate, & sunshine
Marcel Broersma @mjbroersma.bsky.social Prof of Media and Journalism Studies @unigroningen.bsky.social | director RMeS | coordinator UNL Digital Society | chair Digital Literacy Coalition | https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marcel-Broersma
Yariv Tsfati @yarivtsfati.bsky.social Department of Communication, University of Haifa; Studies trust and other audience perceptions of media.
https://yariv.com.haifa.ac.il/
Louisa Pröschel @louprsl.bsky.social PhD Candidate | Research associate | Hamburg University
Research Collective:
https://bsky.app/profile/transform-comm.bsky.social
https://transformativecommunication.net
Frederik Henriksen @frederikhenriksen.bsky.social Postdoc researcher, Roskilde University
Computational Social Science | Political Communication
Clint Claessen @clint0475.bsky.social Political Scientist // University of Salzburg // INCONEX // Party Leaders // part of the TaDa Reading Group - tada.cool // www.clintclaessen.com
Societal Cohesion in Digital Media Environments (SCIDE) @scide.bsky.social Societal Cohesion in Digital Media Environments | Research Group @ Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS), Germany
Check out our lab: https://bitly.cx/MN1PSU
🔎 #socialcohesion #polarization #digitalmedia #commsky #polsky
CSS Lab, LMU Munich @css-lmu.bsky.social Computational Social Science Lab led by Prof. Mario Haim | Department of Media and Communication, LMU Munich
🔎 #CSS | #DigitalMethods | #AI | #CommSci
Peter Stoett @ptoett.bsky.social #Biodiversity #climate #humanrights #Ecoviolence and connections between
Currently Dean of Social Science & Humanities @Ontario Tech University
Co-chair of #IPBES assessment on #IAS
Michaël Opgenhaffen @michaelopgenhaffen.bsky.social Professor at University of Leuven (KU Leuven) // Digital news and journalism // Affiliated U. of Leiden // supporter of SK Beveren.
Kenza Lamot @kenzalamot.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Journalism Studies @journstudiesvu.bsky.social @vuamsterdam.bsky.social | #NWO VENI laureate 2024 | Research "Beyond Clicks and Metrics in Journalism"
Tariq Choucair @tariqchoucair.bsky.social Constantly living in many transitions; moving in and out borders despite their harshness.
🏳️⚧️⚧️
Politics, Language, Computation
Brasil 🇧🇷 / Australia 🇦🇺/ Currently visiting Germany 🇩🇪
Anne Schulz @annisch.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Political Communication at IKMZ, University of Zurich and Research Associate at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford
Matouš Pilnáček @matouspilnacek.bsky.social Head of the Public Opinion Research Centre (IS CAS). We maintain the probability-based panel of the Czech population. I am interested in public opinion dynamics, political polarization, misinformation, belief networks and methodology. Mostly in Czech.
Christian Pipal @christianpipal.bsky.social senior researcher at UZH || interested in how politicians and influencers talk (and dance) about politics || PhD from @hotpoliticslab.bsky.social @aissr.bsky.social || prev Uni Wien & Uni Tartu || immer Rapid Wien 💚
Michele Scotto di Vettimo @michelesdv.bsky.social Research Fellow in Political Economy (@kcl-spe.bsky.social). Spending my time on EU stuff, text analysis, books, and food. (https://michelescottodivettimo.eu/). Live in Exeter.
Tobias Widmann @twidmann.bsky.social Associate Professor in PolSci @AarhusUni | PhD @EUI_EU | Political Communication | Political Behavior | Political Psych | Computational Political Science
Ole Kelm @olekelm.bsky.social PostDoc Communication Science @hhu.bsky.social
💡 Political Communication
💡 Political Participation
💡 Political Consumerism
Philipp Kessling @pekasen.eurosky.social Researcher, Media Research Methods Lab, Leibniz-Institute for Media Research | @bredowinstitut.bsky.social
PhD Candidate, ZeMKI, Bremen University.
May post traces of python and Julia.
Katharina Esau @kathaesa.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow @qutdmrc.bsky.social, Pol Comm, Digital Publics, Democratic Innovation, Automated & Relational Content & Sequence Analysis, interested in news media, polarisation & opinion formation online: https://shorturl.at/4WIcP
Max Grömping @maxgroemping.bsky.social Political Scientist at @griffith.edu.au, Brisbane / Assoc. Editor @democratization.bsky.social/. Interest groups, authoritarian politics, disinformation, electoral integrity, trust.
Laura Jacobs @lcjacobs89.bsky.social 🅰️ 🇧🇪| Politicoloog | PhD | @m2p_be @UAntwerpen | @SciencePoULB | Chair @ECPR_Polcom | Political Communication, Parties, Populism, Voting
Corinna Oschatz @corinnaoschatz.bsky.social PhD, Assistant Professor at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR), University of Amsterdam,
#Political Communication, Negative Campaigning (https://ltw-befragung.netlify.app/), Digital Journalism, Public Opinion, Narrative Persuasion
Journalism Studies VU Amsterdam @journstudiesvu.bsky.social Journalism Studies Group @vuamsterdam.bsky.social specializing in news use and media audiences. Posts in Dutch and English. RTs ≠ endorsement.
https://vu.nl/en/about-vu/faculties/faculty-of-humanities/more-about/journalism
Felicia Loecherbach @feloe.bsky.social Assistant Professor Polcom & Journalism UvA ASCoR | previously NYU CSMaP & VU Amsterdam | PolComm, news selection and effects, social media, digital data (donations)
Judith Moeller @judith-moeller.bsky.social This is my active account.
Professor for media use and media effects @BredowInstitut & @JKW_UHH
t.co/Wbpkr4vNfs
Expert in bursting bubbles of all sorts and forgetting passwords.
Jonathan Koop @jonathankoop.bsky.social PhD Student in Statistics @tilburg-university.bsky.social
Nonlinear Relational Event Modelling
🌐 jonathankoop.eu
Kristine Graneng @kgraneng.bsky.social Postdoc at Center for European integration, Freie Uni. Berlin | Political communication and public debates about European integration | Knitter and bookworm |
Jacco van Ossenbruggen 🟥 @jrvosse.bsky.social Professor of Human-centered Data Science at VU Amsterdam.
Occasionally #dutchbirding