NBER @nber.org The National Bureau of Economic Research is dedicated to conducting and disseminating nonpartisan economic research.
nber.org
Evan Roberts @evanrobertsnz.bsky.social Social, demographic, & economic history @UMNews HMED & Population Studies. Coffee, photos, Dylan, urban & transit fan, road & trail runner. Constructive, loving critic of where I live (Minneapolis) and where I'm from (Wellington) @evanrobertsnz most places
Dr. Mansa Keita @rasmansa.bsky.social Pseudonym. Rastafari. Computer Science PhD. Chess Master. Dad jokes. Arsenal FC. Science. Parenting. Anti-racism.
Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social Historian of the white power movement, gun violence, the apocalypse. Coloradan. kathleenbelew.com Book coming soon! Home, at the End of the World (Random House) Posts reflect my own views only.
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.
Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social Minnesota guy.
"This particular activist will not stop." Sen. Chris Murphy
Shannon McGregor, PhD @shannimcg.bsky.social Professor at UNC. PI at CITAP. Researching & writing on political comm: identity, social media, public opinion, news - all "depressing & timely" BOOK: Media & January 6th (Oxford) https://global.oup.com/academic/product/media-and-january-6th-9780197758533
Jenny Turner @jennytrumpet.bsky.social Human mom, giant schnauzer mom, public ed fan, Iowan, she/her
Sam Zhang @samzhang.bsky.social Assistant professor in statistics at the Vermont Complex Systems Institute || Formerly @ SFI, CU Boulder APPM || No longer on socials, send me an email instead || http://sam.zhang.fyi
Nick LaBerge @nicklaberge.bsky.social PhD Candidate at the University of Colorado Boulder
Computational Social Science
he/him
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
Dan Larremore @danlarremore.bsky.social Prof | CU Boulder BioFrontiers Institute + Computer Science | Santa Fe Institute | LarremoreLab.github.io
Founder | CevianLabs.io
Anna Stansbury @annastansbury.bsky.social Economist: Labo(u)r, Macro, Inequality || Ass't Prof @MITSloan @MIT_IWER || Nonres fellow @piie
Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social The Genetics Society of America is a professional scientific society representing genetics researchers and educators globally.
Linus Westheuser @lwestheuser.bsky.social Senior Researcher @ Max Planck Institute for Political and Social Science・Political sociology of class, morality, political divides・🔗 linuswestheuser.com
Just out: "Trigger Points. Inequality and Political Polarization" (BUP) 🔗 tinyurl.com/yn42x79t
Shani Adia Evans, Ph.D. @shaniadiaevans.bsky.social Sociologist. Author of We Belong Here: Gentrification, White Spacemaking, and a Black Sense of Place
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/W/bo238845176.html
www.shanievans.com
Melissa V. Abad, PhD @melissa-v-abad.bsky.social Strategist | work and orgs sociologist | WOC at work (immigration book project, 2025)
Chicago native, reluctant West Coast suburbanite 🇩🇴🇵🇷🧘🏽♀️💃🏽
www.melissabad.com
Yasmiyn Irizarry @dryasmiyn.bsky.social Professor | Race Scholar | Data Maven | Novelista | Polymath | Founder of Numbers4Justice.com
my work ~ FUBU (data:science) + education + justice + quantcrit
my jam ~ family🫶🏽friends + new challenges + sci-fi:travel:rest + 💙🤍💙🕊️
Christian Weller @profcew.bsky.social Economist at UMass Boston and Center for American Progress; focus on racial wealth inequality, retirement savings and economic policy. Center on data driven policy development. Skeets are all my own opinions. 
Demetrius Miles Murphy, Ph.D. @demetriusmurphy.bsky.social I’m an urban and economic sociologist of race & culture, studying how Black communities cultivate flourishing across the Americas.
https://bio.site/DemetriusMurphy
Rob Mickey @robmickey.bsky.social Political Science @umich. book: https://bit.ly/3YQWgEi. US Reconstruction & nation building w/ David Waldner; policing w/ @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social + @dziblatt.bsky.social; race & democratic attitudes w/ V. Hutchings & @jardina.bsky.social.
Mahesh Somashekhar @msoma.bsky.social Associate Prof of Sociology at the U of Illinois-Chicago studying economic development, entrepreneurship, urban inequality, alternative economies, and gentrification. Supporter of small businesses until the end. maheshsomashekhar.com.
Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social Director, Stratification Economics at The Roosevelt Institute/Roosevelt Forward
@rooseveltinstitute.org
Sociologist, Dad, Autistic person, Bathos-Enjoyer, elitist jerk
Taxes are what we pay for civilized society
Opinions are my own
Melissa Knox @mknox.bsky.social Economist at the University of Washington. Interested in health and nutrition policy, public health, demography, econ of gender, and gender in econ. More of a data nerd than a data geek. #EconSky 📉📈 #TeachEcon (Also 🚴🏻♀️☕️🧶)
More at: melissaknox.net
Dr. Christy L. Erving @christyerving.bsky.social 📙Associate Professor | UT-Austin | Health Equity
🍽️Foodie | DuoLingo (Spanish) Enthusiast | Music Lover
Devin Judge-Lord @judgelord.bsky.social Law, movements, & bureaucracy of the Anthropocene. Fan of Octavia Butler and Aldo Leopold. he/him
https://fordschool.umich.edu/faculty/devin-judge-lord
Collin Mueller @collinwmueller.bsky.social Sociologist at University of Maryland
https://socy.umd.edu/facultyprofile/mueller/collin
jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com criminalization, abolition, labor, politics, journalism—social science theory & methods too. sociologist.
https://jbenmenachem.com/
Dr. Robert D. Bullard @drrobertbullard.bsky.social Director of Bullard Center Texas Southern University, professor, author of 18 books, NBEJN #HBCU Climate Change Consortium, #ClimateReality Board, AAAS, National Academy of Medicine, TIME Earth Award, Father of Environmental Justice, US Marine Corps Vet.
Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social Political Economy of Media Theory; Director, RPTF, Library of Congress NRPB; Director, New Terrain at Sundance; Assoc Prof, University of Colorado
Professor KPA 🗃️😷 @kpanyc.bsky.social Professor of Russian & Soviet History at Queens College, CUNY. Author of The Essential Guide to Writing History Essays and An Ordinary Marriage: The World of a Gentry Family in Provincial Russia. antoshki.com
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)
Jenn Dowd @drjenndowd.bsky.social Prof of Demography & Population Health @oxforddemsci.bsky.social | Mortality, Epidemiology, Infections/Immunity, Biosocial science, COVID-19. | Science Communicator 🇺🇸 in 🇬🇧.
Substack: https://jenndowd.substack.com
Colter Mitchell @colterm.bsky.social Research Associate Professor
Institute for Social Research
University of Michigan
I investigate biological and health implications of early life context
New Mexican living in Michigan
Rachel Lopez @rlopez.bsky.social Law prof writing on intl law, human rights, crim law, & participatory law scholarship.
Things I've written:
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2211717
katherine mckittrick @demonicgrounds.bsky.social sound aficionado + heartbroken reader + lovesick bookmaker
most of my writing can be accessed free: www.katherinemckittrick.com
we established a working group at: www.revolutionarydemandforhappiness.com
Shoumita Dasgupta, PhD @profdasgupta.bsky.social Author of 📚 Where Biology Ends & Bias Begins: Lessons on Belonging from our DNA 🧬 @UCPress Genetics Ed, BUMedical, PastPres APHMG, FulbrightPrgr 🇪🇬 shoumitadasgupta.com
Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social Cell adhesion, cytoskeletal regulation, Wnt signaling & wherever science leads us + wildflowers & my own idiosyncratic views. First gen college grad
Diversity, equity & Inclusion are core American Values
https://peiferlab.web.unc.edu
Quantian @quantian.bsky.social Locked in and posting regularly on here now
Kimberlé Crenshaw @kimberlecrenshaw.bsky.social Co-Founder & ED @aapf.org
Host of @imkcpodcast.bsky.social
Professor at Columbia Law School &
UCLA Law School
sr_toliver @srtoliver.bsky.social Associate Professor @ University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | #Literacies, #EduSky, #AcademicSky, #BlackSky |she/her| Award-winning author (😆) | website: www.ReadingBlackFutures.com 💖💚
Jacqueline L. Hazelton @drjlhazelton.bsky.social Political scientist. IR. International security. RT=not endorsement. Author of award-winning book "Bullets Not Ballots: Success in Counterinsurgency Warfare" from Cornell. She/her.
Julia Raifman, ScD @juliaraifman.bsky.social Evidence-based posts about public health & equity. All views are my own and without AI.
Patrick Fessenbecker @pfessenbecker.bsky.social Teaching writing and ethics to engineers, writing a book on George Eliot. Deactivate frequently/whenever I'm annoyed by notifications.
Jiajun Han @jiajunhan.bsky.social Liberté, égalité, et fraternité.- R Roi Livne @rlivne.bsky.social Sociologist, University of Michigan
Brittney Cooper @profcrunk.bsky.social 
Derek Gottlieb @derekgottliebphd.com Senior Research Director at School Perceptions
Author of "A Democratic Theory of Educational Accountability,” “Education Reform and the Concept of Good Teaching,” and “Community and Skepticism in Shakespeare’s Comedy”
Ever a book indexer, too
andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social Author of Audiofuturism, Speculative Blackness, and editor, The Black Fantastic
https://fordhampress.com/audiofuturism-hb-9781531513320.html
insta: audio.futurism
Dr. Tati @drtati.bsky.social Views are my own.
Shani 🫧 (Bluesky hates Palestinians) @mom4medicare4all.blacksky.app Solo parent raising a brave autistic child, defends fare-evaders and beaters. defund the police. STFU about Chicago. Medicare 4 All is my single vote issue. WESTSIIIIIIDE!!! Go #B1GCats! She/her, M.A.
“Care work IS justice work.” - @whatashrinkthinks.com
Heather Ann Thompson @historianheather.bsky.social Pulitzer Prize winning author, book on Attica, next on Bernie Goetz/80s, then MOVE Bombing. In NYT, TIME, New Yorker, Atlantic, etc. + CJ policy work & script consulting. WritersHouse & CAA repped.
www.heatherannthompson.com
Brendan Harley @profharley.bsky.social #blacklivesmatter | #translivesmatter | 🍉
Harvard & MIT trained bioengineer
Professor @ U. Illinois & Cancer Center at Illinois
health | society | Imagination & discovery
Partner @kateclancy.bsky.social | runner | dad | nerd
Alliance For Higher Education @alliancehighered.bsky.social The Alliance unites higher education to protect: the freedom to teach, think, and learn; the ability to self-govern without partisan influence; and a sector where all students have a fair opportunity to learn and thrive.
wint @dril.bsky.social Never Bullshit
I challenge any and every one who wants to kick my ass to a debate .
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https://www.instagram.com/dril
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Dr. MHM @mollyhm.bsky.social Kul Wicasa Oyate Citizen; SoDak by birth, CO by choice; proud product of publics; degrees from Carolina, Oklahoma, & Iowa; Higher Ed Policy but not in the tower or DC; thoughts are mine
📍Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Ute lands
Cary Davis @carydavis.bsky.social Senior Fellow Carnegie Council
Carlos Tavares @tavares-carlos.bsky.social Sociologist. Associate Professor at Lafayette College. Studying racism and health. Posse Foundation NY 22 Mentor. From Praia, Cabo Verde. www.carlosdtavares.com
Amanda H. Carroll 😷 💕 📚 @amandahcarroll.bsky.social Gentle parenting mother of 3. Happily married. Sociology professor. Christian. Politically liberal Texan. Avid reader. COVID conscious. Feminist. Trying hard to love my neighbor. She/her
Karyn Lacy @karynlacy.bsky.social Sociologist. Op-eds: NYT, USA Today, Vox, NBC News, Public Seminar, The Chronicle. All in the Family stan. 
Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social CEO of @taso.org.uk, Chair of Trust for London, Executive Committee of Political Studies Association. The usual disclaimers.
Allyson Flaster @allyson-flaster.bsky.social Research Analyst at the University of Michigan. I study higher education, make stuff, and grow stuff.
Nathaniel Comfort @nccomfort.bsky.social Historian of science & medicine and writer @ Johns Hopkins & Berkeley. Biography of James Watson expected fall '27 from Basic Books. Also rock climbing, roots music, tattoos, dogs, humor. My opinions are his –>
Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social Husband, Father, Grandfather, Datahound, Dog lover, Fan of Celtic music, Former NIGMS director, Former EiC of Science, Stand Up for Science advisor, Shananigator, Pittsburgh, PA
NIH Dashboard: https://jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.github.io/index.html
God @thegodshow.com Creator of the Universe.
thegodshow.com
https://youtube.com/@thegodshowlive
tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social 
Kara Gavin @karagavin.bsky.social Science/medical writer & media relations for University of Michigan (Michigan Medicine/Institute for Healthcare Policy & Innovation) focusing on #primarycare, #mentalhealth, aging & #healthpolicy Mom, wife, baker, French horn player, AAAS Fellow, J! bronze
Bradford Vivian @bradvivian.bsky.social Prof/Author/Speaker (academic freedom, free speech, democracy)
*Author _Campus Misinformation: The Real Threat to Free Speech in American Higher Education_ (Oxford UP)
*Op-eds: TIME, Washington Post, The Chronicle, Inside Higher Ed, Philadelphia Inquirer
CoreyWelch_STEM @coreywelch.bsky.social Director, STEM Scholars Prog. Iowa State; Training STEM professionals; Former Zoologist; Facilitator, SACNAS Leadership Institutes;
Member of ◆Northern Cheyenne Nation◆ + 1st Gen/Pell; My views.
I’m waay more fun live than online.
Bryan Brayboy @bryanbrayboy.bsky.social Father of 2. Lumbee. All opinions are my own.
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 only for myself and in my own capacity here.
Rude people are blocked.
Megan Killian @megankillian.bsky.social I was a #firstgen college student in engineering, now tenured professor at UMich. Skeets are my own.
I lead a team studying musculoskeletal physiology, development, and healing. We study how the skeleton grows and how connective tissues guide this process.
Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social Historian of France and its overseas empire. Living on unceded Pequossette land. Researching the French Empire after the Haitian Revolution. Parent, partner, citizen, defender of democracy, avid gardener. RTs not necessarily endorsements. 
Heidi Nicholls (she/her) @heidinicholls.bsky.social settler scholar of race and U.S. empire| haole | Assistant Professor of Sociology at Binghamton University | all views are my own.
https://heidinicholls.weebly.com
David Mimno @dmimno.bsky.social He teaches information science at Cornell. http://mimno.infosci.cornell.edu
Liz Chiarello @lizchiarello.bsky.social 
Paper Skygest Team @paper-feed.bsky.social Building personalized Bluesky feeds for academics! Pin Paper Skygest, which serves posts about papers from accounts you're following: https://bsky.app/profile/paper-feed.bsky.social/feed/preprintdigest. By @sjgreenwood.bsky.social and @nkgarg.bsky.social
Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social Founder & CEO of @standupforscience.net
Standupforscience.net substack.com/@sciencefightclub
PhD in Clinical Psychology
"Colette is brass knuckles...w/ spikes tipped in poison"
“Delusional broad”
"Lady Switchblade"
“Ditsy socialist liberal”
Jonas Schöley @jschoeley.com jschoeley.com • demoscapes.org • Demographer @mpidr.bsky.social
Perinatal Demography • Mortality • Uncertainty • Dataviz
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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social Prof of Amer Lit & Studies. Dad to 2 amazing young men. Married. We the People: http://tinyurl.com/yyhxjktb; Of Thee I Sing: http://tinyurl.com/y6hsozjx. #ScholarSunday guru. https://blackwhiteandread.com he/him
David Nemer @davidnemer.com Assoc Prof of Media Studies & Anthropology at the University of Virginia. Faculty Associate at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center. Anthropology of Tech/STS Books: Technology of the Oppressed (MIT Press); Favela Digital (GSA)🇧🇷🇺🇸
https://linktr.ee/davidnemer
Maia Szalavitz @maiasz.bsky.social Contributing Opinion Writer, NY Times. Author: Undoing Drugs, Unbroken Brain, Help At Any Cost; Co-auth: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog & Born for Love (w/ Bruce D. Perry). Addiction, autism, neuroscience, troubled-teen industry, harm reduction, cats.
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account
Author: Deep Unlearning (you can now preorder at https://shorturl.at/sCdjl)
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://dair-institute.org)
Ellen Muehlberger @emuehlbe.bsky.social Michigander with ideas about ancient history, writing, cats, bikes
I'm probably gonna ask you what you're writing
New book! Things Unseen, available open access from University of California Press: https://luminosoa.org/books/m/10.1525/luminos.253
We Are Higher Ed @wearehighered.bsky.social We are a collective of academics who believe that higher education is vital to a functioning democracy--and we will fight for it. https://www.wearehighered.org
jenna newman phd @jennanewman.bsky.social public service. deep breaths, long horizons.
Ann Arbor Pitchbot @a2pitchbot.bsky.social Grumpy townie since 1983. Sometimes parody is indistinguishable from reality. DM your pitches to pitchbot AT theinternetemail DOT com. they/them
My Password is Louvre @bmceuen.bsky.social Historian of science, focusing on genetics and eugenics in progressive era United States. Teaches at Wayne State University. Dad to Buddy (6) and Boogie (4). Wife guy.
He/him
It is ok to want special and delicious things
💖💜💙
Less hateful than my name suggests @kzannarbor.bsky.social Higher Ed nerd, ne’er-do-well. Mostly dumb personal stuff posted here, but occasional bursts of higher ed noodling
Lake Michigan! Live! @lake-michigan.live cooler by the lake 🕶️🏖️
Current* view of a webcam located around Lake Michigan, every 30 minutes
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Current* view of a webcam located around Lake Superior every 30 min
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@the.mazz.zone
Brian Highsmith @bhighsmith.bsky.social institutions, inequality, geography, democracy | asst law prof at UCLA
Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social International Relations prof at U. Illinois. Editor of Arc Digital. Author “Drones and Terrorism.” Politics, national security, and occasional nerdery.
Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social Defunct account of Ken White, criminal defense attorney and First Amendment litigator. Co-host of Serious Trouble podcast and writer at The Popehat Report. Opinions here are my own. Decent people fight evil.
Signal: KenWhite.1969
Jennifer L. Hoffman ✨😷 @astroprofhoff.bsky.social Astronomer, professor, birder, singer, cat communer (she/her)
University of Denver, @chamberlin-obs.bsky.social
Past Grand Canyon Astronomer in Residence
Charlotte Cavaille @ccavaille.bsky.social Polisci, political econ. of redistribution, membership politics, measurement, insurance, free riding perceptions, in no special order. Looking for a book titled "Fair Enough?" ? Here it is 👇
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009366038
https://a.co/d/b6yL5d3
Tim Riffe @timriffe1.bsky.social danger, demography, and data
Jackie Schilling @jeschilling.bsky.social I am a nerd who loves sports. I also spend my free time reading, running, lifting weights, and petting my cats.
She/her