John Kerr
Science Lead at the Public Health Communication Centre Aotearoa & Otago Uni. Researching comms and comms-ing research. Psychology, risk, and media.
@darktimesacademy.bsky.social
Making learning joyful again https://darktimesacademy.co.nz
@hendysh.bsky.social
Physicist, complex systems, ex-COVID modeller, he/him Author of "The Covid Response" https://www.bwb.co.nz/books/the-covid-response
@bryceedwards.bsky.social
@rjme.bsky.social
Father, husband, scientist, Kiwi diaspora returnee, prof @ U of Auckland - opinions mine. "Astrophysics - it's like a barfight with God" @reasther on the other place. Blog: excursionset.com He/him.
@rakoenmaertens.bsky.social
Juliana Cuyler Matthews Junior Research Fellow @ New College, University of Oxford | Behavioural Science & Counter-Mis/Disinformation | Co-Chair SPSP @ United Nations | PhD (University of Cambridge) | www.rakoenmaertens.com
@matthewmatix.bsky.social
Associate prof at Massey University. Interested in statistics, open science, meta-psychology, and conspiracy theories. https://mattwilliams.netlify.app/
@ginagrimshaw.bsky.social
Cognitive/Affective neuroscientist interested in brains, emotions, research methods, meta-science, and strategies to save/improve higher ed.
@veronikameduna.bsky.social
Sci/env/health editor The Conversation | writer Science, Guardian, Eos, NZ Geographic, NZ Listener | Books Science on Ice http://bit.ly/2YsvVxv Towards A Warmer World http://bit.ly/3ObP2Er
@eddieclarke.bsky.social
Postdoctoral researcher - Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany. Social/political psychology. Interested in climate change responsibilisation, structural attributions, and status quo challenge.
@narwhallibrarian.bsky.social
Co-founder of Dark Times Academy @darktimesacademy.bsky.social Counter disinfo 🗣 Critical tech 📵 Climate 🌀 Community education 📚 Words 🖋 Art 🎨 The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images. —Dubord
@predwards.bsky.social
Head of Public Health, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University. Research focuses mainly on policy to achieve tobacco 'endgame' goals. Have lots of CDs (punk, reggae, blues ...)
@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. #RageAgainstTheBullshitMachine
@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
@irahyman.bsky.social
Professor of Psychology; Rider of Bicycles; Seeker of Justice. Applied cognitive psychologist, studying attention & memory, some disinfo too. (He/him; 1st gen college student). With maybe some pictures of Cookie the bernedoodle.
@dgrand.bsky.social
Prof at MIT working on misinformation/fake news, social media, polarization, intuition vs deliberation, cooperation, politics, and religion. (he/him) https://davidrand-cooperation.com/
@tnfalpha.bsky.social
Hospitalist, sociologist @WeillCornell studying information environments, contested illness, medical communication Co-founder, Health for Palestine he/il/el/هو
@lewan.bsky.social
Professor of Cognitive Science, University of Bristol. Homepage: https://www.lewan.uk
@nadiabrashier.bsky.social
assistant professor at UC San Diego. studying how people judge truth and fall for fake news across the lifespan
@noupside.bsky.social
✍🏼Studies influence, propaganda, adversarial abuse @Georgetown. Writes @Lawfare, The Atlantic. 📖 Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality — on influencers, online crowds, &bespoke realities (invisiblerulers.com) 🦹🏻♀️ Twitter Files supervillain
@ninajankowicz.com
☀️ CEO, @americansunlight.org 🙅🏻♀️ Author, disinformation expert, advocate for targets of online abuse. 😆 Tucker Carlson once called me a “highly self confident young woman” and meant it as an insult
@jbakcoleman.bsky.social
Research Scientist at the University of Washington based in Brooklyn. Also: SFI External Applied Fellow, Harvard BKC affiliate. Collective Behavior, Statistics, etc..
@jevinwest.bsky.social
Professor @UW_iSchool, Co-founder of Center for an Informed Public @uwcip. I study misinformation in science & society. Book: tinyurl.com/y7ekfkhx
@maddyjalbert.bsky.social
Postdoc at the Center for an Informed Public at the University of Washington. Social Psych PhD at USC. I study misinformation correction and how people make judgments of truth. Otherwise probably in the mountains. She/her
@matthewdeverna.com
PhD candidate at Indiana University working with the Observatory on Social Media. Incoming postdoc (Sep. 2025) at the Stanford Social Media Lab. Computational social science, human-AI interaction, social media, trust and safety, etc. 🛜 matthewdeverna.com
@fil.bsky.social
Researcher on social media misinformation and manipulation, director of the Observatory on Social Media (OSoMe.iu.edu, pronounced “awesome”) at Indiana University
@ftripodi.bsky.social
Dr. Tripodi is a sociologist who studies the internet and how information flows online https://ftripodi.com/
@shannimcg.bsky.social
Professor at UNC. Principal investigator at CITAP. Researching & writing on political comm: identity, social media, public opinion, data, news. BOOK: Media & January 6th (Oxford) https://global.oup.com/academic/product/media-and-january-6th-9780197758533
@carlbergstrom.com
UW biology prof. I study how information flows in biology, science, and society. Book: *Calling Bullshit*, http://tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b LLM course: https://thebullshitmachines.com Corvids: https://tinyurl.com/mr2n5ymk I don't like fascists. he/him
@jayrosen.bsky.social
I teach journalism at NYU, critique the press, try to suggest reforms. PressThink is the name of my subject and my site.
@rmac.bsky.social
NYT tech reporter Co-author of Character Limit Signal: rmac.18 ryan.mac@nytimes.com rmac18@protonmail.com https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737290/character-limit-by-kate-conger-and-ryan-mac/ https://linktr.ee/ryan_mac_
@brendannyhan.bsky.social
Dartmouth political scientist and Bright Line Watch co-director. Previously Upshot NYT / CJR contributor, Spinsanity co-founder, All the President's Spin co-author. https://sites.dartmouth.edu/nyhan/ http://brightlinewatch.org
@zephoria.bsky.social
STS researcher who likes to look at things sideways. Founded Data & Society. Topics: Census | Youth | Data | Society Microsoft Research -> Cornell (2025) https://made-not-found-by-danah-boyd.ghost.io
@mikecaulfield.bsky.social
Author: Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions about What to Believe Online (University of Chicago Press). Researcher, infolit/misinfo/rhetoric/civic reasoning. Currently researching AI as tool for critical thinking.
@kakape.bsky.social
science journalist. author. molecular biologist. curious. interested in #microbes, #misinformation and all things #blue contributing correspondent at @science.org co-host of @pandemia.bsky.social 2024 KSJ fellow at MIT Signal: kakape.93
@ethanz.bsky.social
UMass Amherst, Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure, Global Voices, Berkman Klein Center. Formerly Center for Civic Media, MIT Media Lab.
@froomkin.bsky.social
Editor of Press Watch (https://presswatchers.org) and Heads Up News (http://headsupnews.org). Ex-Washington Post, HuffPost, Intercept. Freelancer. I afflict comfortable journalists.
@ubiquity75.xyz
Wrote a book called Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media (Yale 2019), and Meta used it to train its LLM. Professor, researcher, author, VP AoIR, synth lover, fan of many things, gay lady. “This heaven gives me migraine.”
@craigsilverman.bsky.social
Investigative journalist and OSINT trainer. I write the free Digital Investigations newsletter and edited the Verification Handbook series. Previously: ProPublica, BuzzFeed News. https://digitalinvestigations.substack.com/ https://craigsilverman.ca
@bostonjoan.bsky.social
I am the founder of The Critical Internet Studies Institute and an Assistant Professor of Journalism and Emerging Media Studies at Boston University www.criticalinternet.org
@safiyanoble.bsky.social
Living in Los Angeles. Native Californian. Writer, researcher, professor. Author, “Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism,” which is unfortunately still relevant to understanding today’s LLMs and AI. safiyaunoble.com
@jatucker.bsky.social
Politics Prof, NYU; Director @NYUJordanCenter for Adv Study of #Russia; Co-Director NYU Center for Social Media and Politics @CSMaP_NYU (http://csmapnyu.org); long suffering NY Mets fan; @j_a_tucker on other platforms; he/him
@rebekahtromble.bsky.social
Director, Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics, GWU Union of Concerned Scientists’ 2024 Defender of Science Co-founder: https://researchersupport.org/ https://expertvoicestogether.org/ https://independenttechresearch.org/
@emilythorson.bsky.social
Political science, Syracuse University Information effects, misperceptions, egg sandwiches My book is "The Invented State: Policy Misperceptions in the American Public"
@malmer.com
PhD student at UNC-Chapel Hill, studying online extremism, radicalization, and conspiracy beliefs, aka the US government. Software developer turned computational social scientist.