Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation @harvardash.bsky.social The Ash Center is @harvardkennedy.bsky.social's hub for research and teaching on democracy.
https://ash.harvard.edu/
Rachel Goodman @rachelegoodman.bsky.social In no particular order: Attorney, advocate, civil libertarian, anti-authoritarian, urbanite, parent, spouse, technoskeptic. Views mine. https://protectdemocracy.org/ 
Victor Pickard @victorpickard.bsky.social Professor who writes about the history and political economy of media, politics of media policy, and democratic theories of journalism. Author of "Democracy Without Journalism? Confronting the Misinformation Society." Co-director of the MIC Center at Penn.
Linda Skitka @lindaskitka.bsky.social Emerita Distinguished Professor, U of Illinois Chicago | Michigan & Cal-Berkeley Grad | Social, Political, and Moral Psychologist | Endlessly Curious | https://sites.google.com/view/lindaskitka 
J. Nathan Matias 𦣠@natematias.social.coop.ap.brid.gy Social & computer scientist who works alongside communities on science for a safer, fairer, more understanding Internet.
Founder, Citizens and Technology Lab Β· Prof [β¦]
π bridged from β https://social.coop/@natematias, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
p. sampson @psampson.net cs phd @ penn, nsf-grfp fellow, spelman alum.
π people, platforms, power.
they/she. π§ π π§πΎβπ»
https://psampson.net
Junghyuk Han @junghyukhan.bsky.social STS, HCI, New Media
Student @ Kyung Hee University
@labinthewild.bsky.social @labinthewild.bsky.social 
Brennan Center @brennancenter.org We work to build a United States that is democratic, just, and free β for all. Visit BrennanCenter.org.
Jan Lorenz @janlo.de Computational social scientist, agent-based models, opinion dynamics and collective decision. Sometimes english, manchmal deutsch
http://datasci.social/@janlo
WikiResearch @wikiresearch.bsky.social Mostly a placeholder until we can bring our feed of volunteer-curated Wikipedia/Wikidata/Wikimedia research news to this platform too. For full coverage subscribe to our newsletter: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter
Erica Shusas @shusas.bsky.social HCI Researcher studying Credibility + AI + Misinformation
Wikipedia @wikipedia.org A free, collaborative, multilingual internet encyclopedia.
donate.wikipedia25.org
Wikimedia Foundation @wikimediafoundation.org We are the nonprofit organization that hosts Wikipedia and other free knowledge projects. Working to create a world where every human can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.
donate.wikimedia.org
Annie @annielz.bsky.social postdoc @cip.uw.edu | i study science comm & social media | Go Blue γ½οΈ | Texas Ex π€πΌ | she/her
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
Oversight Dems @oversightdemocrats.bsky.social Fighting for Truth & Justice | Ranking Member: @robertgarcia.house.gov
@fpinatti.bsky.social @fpinatti.bsky.social 
Sarah Rajtmajer @srajtmajer.bsky.social Associate Prof @PennState Tech, Data, Ethics
Thoughts on tech/AI, privacy, of course.
NLP, computational social science, science of science, social media
But also maths, music, ballet, nature, mental health.
https://www.rajtmajerlab.net
Mahmoud Fawzi @mhmud-fwzi.bsky.social Computational Social Scientist
David Lee @davidtlee.bsky.social Faculty at UC Santa Cruz, directing the Tech4Good Lab. http://tech4good.soe.ucsc.edu
Jinghui Cheng @jinghui-cheng.bsky.social Associate Professor at Polytechnique Montreal. HCI researcher working on creativity and collaboration, AI-mediated or not. Canada Research Chair in UX Design for Data-driven Systems.
Botao Amber Hu @botao.hu PhD candidate at Oxford. As Social Computing Researcher: Decentralized AI and its implications and governance, involving Artificial Life and Protocol Studies. As Experiential Futures Designer: Social Mixed Reality, More-than-Human Design. https://botao.hu
Emelia Hughes @emeliamay.bsky.social PhD student at the University of Notre Dame studying online communities & social media β¨ previously at @uwischool.bsky.social, @socialfutureslab.bsky.social, & UW CIP and intern with Adobe Research
Kevin Crowston @crowston.bsky.social Professor studying AI and work at Syracuse University.
Zihao(Anderson) You @anderson-zh-you.bsky.social PhD Candidate @dundee.ac.ukβ¬ | MSci Computer Science π @kingsnmes.bsky.socialβ¬
#HCI β© #Accessibility β© #Aphasia β© #Subtitle
http://anderson-you.github.io/the-accelerator/
Kyle Thayer @kylethayer.com Assistant teaching professor at UW iSchool. Interested in Programming, Culture, and Education. PhD from UW CSE. Co-author of Social Media, Ethics, and Automation (bit.ly/smeabook). Opinions my own. He/him.
kylethayer.com
Mathilde Sanders @mathildes.bsky.social Researcher | Decentralized platform governance | Media ownership | Public social media
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
@rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social 
Jos Hoy @joeybean.bsky.social Light-Seeker. Conduit. Metal Mouth. Tender. Mama. [they/them]
PhD Candidate @hcde.uw.edu (into: radical care & epistemology, participatory infrastructuring). I donβt use GenAI.
Begin where you are. #LandBack
Steffen Hornemann @shornemann.bsky.social phd fellow at university of oslo researching public sector digitalization
contributing editor @culanth's anthropod
anthropology, data studies, work, technology, sts, informatics
Jeff Horwitz @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social Reporter covering Meta, social media and other topics (hopefully) for Reuters' investigative Team.
Jiaqi (Ella) Li (She/They) @ellali.bsky.social PhD student of @chiclab_nu and @nusealab.bsky.social at at Northeastern University. prev:
@UMSI | Social Justice, Health Equity, Queer, Feminismο½π³οΈβπ ππ
Mastodon: @ellali@hci.social
https://x.com/jiaqi_lll
Munmun De Choudhury, PhD @munmun10.bsky.social Researcher studying social media + AI + mental health. Faculty of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. she/her
Koustuv Saha @kous2v.bsky.social Computational Social Science & Social Computing Researcher | Assistant Prof @illinoisCDS @UofIllinois | Prev @MSFTResearch | Alum @ICatGT @GeorgiaTech @IITKgp
Jessica Pater @jesspater.bsky.social HCI+health and social computing researcher at Parkview Health. Knitter, dog lover, travel enthusiast.
Sanchari Das @drsancharidas.bsky.social Assistant Professor at George Mason University | Ph.D. from Indiana University Bloomington | specializing in security, privacy, HCI, AR/VR, and accessibility | Prev Institutions : University of Denver, ParityTech, XRSI, and American Express. π
Eran Toch @eranto.bsky.social I invent new technologies and user experiences for privacy & human-AI interaction. Prof of Engineering at TAU.
Bailey πΈοΈπ·οΈπ¦ @bkacsmar.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta. Amii Fellow. Human-centered privacy enhanced data science e.g., ML, MPC, PSI, etc.
My group is PUPS, Practical Usable Privacy and Security
https://bkacsmar.github.io//
wendy norris @wendynorris.bsky.social Assoc Prof | Information Science
Ex-investigative reporter and editor
Crisis informatics nerd
Makes good trouble
Tell your dog I said "hi"
Ross Weistroffer @libraryofbabble.bsky.social π³οΈ #DemocracyScience nerd for an incrementally better world, reporting from the intersection of info & action. Pro-π³οΈβπ,π³οΈββ§οΈ, πΊπΈ, and πΊπ³ πππ
π Researcher @ discourselabs.org
π Urbanist & governance reform advocate @ fairrepla.bsky.social
π San Francisco
Rumman Chowdhury @ruchowdh.bsky.social www.rummanchowdhury.com
www.humane-intelligence.org
CEO & co-founder, Humane Intelligence
US Science Envoy for AI (Biden Administration)
Shruti Phadke @shrutiphadke.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Drexel College of Computing and Informatics.
https://shrutiphadke.github.io/
Samantha Dalal @samanthadalal.bsky.social **On the job market!**
InfoSci PhD Candidate @ CU Boulder
MSR SMC '23; MSR TAIX '24
Community-based methods for tech accountability
Morgan Klaus Scheuerman @morganklauss.bsky.social HCI research scientist @ Sony AI in Barcelona. ethical AI, identity, technological harm. Previous: CU Boulder, UMBC, Microsoft Research Fellow. posts my own.
https://www.morgan-klaus.com/
Adriana S Vivacqua @avivacqua.bsky.social Professor, CSCW & HCI, UFRJ, Brazil
Matti Nelimarkka @matnel.bsky.social 
Nathaniel Poor @natpoor.bsky.social Internet sociologist, games scholar, in the non-profit sector.
Andrew Berry, PhD @andrewberry.bsky.social Design research, person-centered health care, digital health. Assistant Professor in Medical Social Sciences at Northwestern University.
Ankolika De @ankolika.bsky.social PhD candidate, Penn State, Information, HCI, Social Media, STS; On the Job Market.
Daniel Epstein @depstein.net Associate Professor, University of California Irvine
https://depstein.net/
Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social AI for storytelling, games, explainability, safety, ethics. Professor at Georgia Tech. Director of ML Center at GT. Time travel expert. Geek. Dad. he/him
Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social NLP, cultural analytics. Assistant Professor of CS at University of Colorado Boulder. Books, bikes, games, art. https://maria-antoniak.github.io
Jofish @jofish.bsky.social I do human-computer interaction, mainly, and play music for fun. Well, and a lot of other stuff. But HCI is useful as a way to find me.
Harmanpreet Kaur @harmankaur.bsky.social Assistant professor at University of Minnesota CS. Human-centered AI, interpretable ML, hybrid intelligence systems.
Diyi Yang @diyiyang.bsky.social Assistant Professor @Stanford CS @StanfordNLP @StanfordAILab
Computational Social Science & NLP
Anubrata Das @ NAACL 2025 @anubrata.bsky.social Just Finished PhD @ UT Austin; Human-Centered NLP. Language Models
https://anubrata.github.io
Michael Ann, sociotechnical femme @michaelann.bsky.social Online Communities, Social Tech, Folk Theories, Epistemic Justice, Queer/Trans HCI. Assistant Prof of Comp Sci & Comm Studies @ Northeastern University. @nusealab.bsky.social director. Neurodivergent, trans woman, wife girl, femme lesbian, dork. (she/her)
Michaelanne Thomas @michaelannephd.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan School of Information | anthropology of technology | precarity, activism, collaboration | Latin America + US | also parenting, animals, & tiny things | michaelannethomas.com
Nikhil Garg @nkgarg.bsky.social I study algorithms/learning/data applied to democracy/markets/society. Asst. professor at Cornell Tech. https://gargnikhil.com/. Helping building personalized Bluesky research feed: https://bsky.app/profile/paper-feed.bsky.social/feed/preprintdigest
πΆ David Gray Widder @davidthewid.bsky.social Assistant Prof at UT Austin's iSchool.
Big Tech, political economy, AI hype, AI in War
trying to help computer ppl think more critically about computer, including me
exCornell/CMU/NASA/MSR/IntelLabs.
davidwidder.me
Lionel P. Robert Jr. @lionelprobertjr.bsky.social Professor of Information and Robotics University of Michigan.
#HRI #HCI #Robotics #CSCW
Human-Robot Interaction, Human-Computer Interaction, Social Robotics, Robotics
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=62sb4psAAAAJ&hl=en
πΆ stuart reeves πΆ @5tuartreeves.bsky.social ACADEMIC PERSON
@UoNComputerSci, @UniOfNottingham, @TheOfficialMRL +
@HorizonDER
β RESEARCH COMBINES HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION (#HCI) + ETHNOMETHODOLOGY (#EMCA)
Alexandra T. @alexandrato.bsky.social Associate Prof @Northeastern | CMU HCII, Stanford SymSys alum | Racial Justice, Transformational Game Design, Identity, Critical Design, and Human-Computer Interaction | she/her | mixed | π©·ππ
Tzu-Sheng Kuo ιεη @tskuo.bsky.social PhD student @ CMU HCII
I build systems that empower people to shape AI through collaborative, deliberative, and democratic processes.
https://tskuo.github.io
Kashif Imteyaz @kashifimteyaz.bsky.social Comp Sci PhD @KhouryCollege. Studying Human-AI Interaction & FutureOfWork
https://www.kimteyaz.com/
Rashidujjaman Rifat @rifat-r2d2.bsky.social CS Ph.D. candidate at the University of Toronto; HCI, CSCW, Ethics in AI, Pluralism.
More: https://www.rashidujjaman.com/
Ridley LeDoux @ridleyal.bsky.social With great power comes great respronsitrilitrance
Cella @cellllla.bsky.social She/her | CMU HCII PhD Student | Research Assistant @ Data & Society | Previously: UCI Informatics, Big Cartel Workers Union. Views are my own. http://cella.io
Stine S. Johansen @stinejohansen.bsky.social Researcher in HCI, interaction design, prototyping, human-robot interaction, soundscape, sound interaction, design methods.
Postdoc at QUT, Australia - soon to be Assistant Prof (TT) at Aalborg University, Denmark.
Aneesha Singh @puddlelogic.bsky.social Hci researcher and faculty at University College London. 
Michael Zimmer @michaelzimmer.bsky.social Privacy & data ethics scholar. Director of @MUDataEthics.bsky.social at Marquette University. I also curate @ZuckerbergFiles.bsky.social
Anton @ntnon.bsky.social 
Matthew Zent @matthewzent.bsky.social PhD Candidate, CS, University of Minnesota. Online communities, Applied AI, Research Ethics. https://zentavious.github.io/
Shadi.N @shadinz.bsky.social PhD student in Computer Science | Interested in Human-Computer Interaction, Online Communities, Mental Health
Jesan @jesanovi.bsky.social Iβm a PhD student in the Computer Science Department at the Colorado School of Mines. My primary research focus is on online spiritual communities, particularly through the lens of computational social science.
Iman Mohammadi @imanm02.bsky.social 1st Year PhD student at UCI
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
Jake Thebault-Spieker @jacob.thebault-spieker.com Professional account, professor at the University of Wisconsin β Madison, in the Information School, as a part of the School of Computer, Data, and Information Sciences.
w: http://jacob.thebault-spieker.com
JaeWon Kim @jaewonk.bsky.social social media, online communities, youth, trust, usable privacy @ischool.uw.edu π https://jaewonkim.me // https://positech.github.io/
Sunyup Park @sypark9.bsky.social PhD Candidate in Information at the University of Maryland
Malik Khadar @malik-khadar.bsky.social 2nd year PhD student studying human-centered AI at the University of Minnesota.
Website: https://malikkhadar.github.io/
Ananya Gupta @ananyagupta-hcai.bsky.social About to graduate with PhD in Human-Centered Computing, Clemson University in May 2026.
Human-Centered AI | User-controlled Social media post translation | Safety and Trustworthy AI | UX researcher
Portia Wang @portiawang.bsky.social phding @Stanford β’ previously @Columbia β’ I design and build things in π₯½ sometimes
Farhana Shahid @farhana-shahid.bsky.social PhD candidate at Cornell University. HCI researcher examining trust & safety issues in the Majority World.
Kaixiang Sean Zhang @seanzhangkx.bsky.social Cornell MSCS;
Hauke Sandhaus @sandhaus.bsky.social http://hauke.haus
Information Science PhD candidate advised by Helen Nissenbaum, Wendy Ju and Qian Yang. Creator of http://brightpatterns.org
Tallal Ahmad @tallal527.bsky.social PhD candidate @ UWβMadison (iSchool) | HCI, Responsible AI & socio-technical systems | Researching how AI ethics & governance frameworks connect with real-world ML practice | Interested in Global North/South perspectives on AI | Ex-LUMS/ITU
Ashique Ali T @ashiquealit.bsky.social Ph.D. Candidate in the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto.
Affiliation: Socio-technical Resistance and Ethical Technologies (STREET) Lab.
Research: Tech-mediated resistance + {labour, caste, social movements}
Eunmi (Ellie) Jeong @elliejeong.bsky.social πPh.D. candidate in the Information School at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
π Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) | Human-AI Collaboration | Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
Pushpendra Singh @singhpushpendra.bsky.social I am a HCI researcher at IIIT Delhi. I work in the area of HCI4D - developing tech solutions to societal problems. I work in health primarily with CSCW and CHI community.
Sastha Srinivasan @sasthasrinivasan.bsky.social A computer science researcher from IIIT-Delhi interested in bridging technology with lived realities of Global South Societies.
Akshay Kolgar Nayak @akshayknayak.bsky.social With Gusto!
Zach Levonian @zwlevonian.bsky.social Humanβcomputer interaction researcher. PhD from University of Minnesota. Tacoma, WA. Mastodon: zwlevonian@hci.social
Nicole Ellison @nellison.bsky.social I study technology and relationships, most recently in the algorithmic/AI space. Iβm the Karl E Weick Collegiate Professor of Information at the University of Michigan School of Information.
Amelia DoΔan @ameliadogan.bsky.social currently PhD @ischool.uw.edu | thinking about climate justice, computing, data, hci, and co-liberation // research affiliate MIT Data + Feminism Lab
Krzysztof Gajos @kgajos.bsky.social Professor of computer science at Harvard. I focus on human-AI interaction, #HCI, and accessible computing.
Pragya Singh @pragyasingh.bsky.social "Sensing Emotions...coz Mental Health matters"
PhD Candidate | IIITD, India | HCAI | Ubiquitous Computing | Sensing | Data Centric AI
https://alchemy18.github.io/pragyasingh/
Michelle O'Keeffe @michelleokeeffe25.bsky.social Researcher @ the Munster Technological Univeristy Cork, Ireland.