Computational Sociology
A non-exhaustive list of sociologists who use computational methods
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@cbarrie.bsky.social
@letitbk.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Sociology at NYU. I study social cohesion, health, and political polarization using LLMs, causal inference, and social network analysis. https://www.byungkyulee.com/
@sxz.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Sociology at NYU. Classification, prediction, and AI in decision-making, social policy, and law. www.simonezhang.com
@evavriens.bsky.social
Sociologist • Research on collective risk, climate change, social norms, and behavioral change • Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Italian National Research Council
@taylorbeauvais.bsky.social
PhD candidate at Boston University studying the sociology of AI. Grad fellow at Rafik Hariri institute for computation and computer engineering. Teaching fellow for AI Ethics Machine learning analyst at Open Justice Lab.
@maxfalken.bsky.social
Physicist. Computational Social Scientist. Interested in the structures of polarization. Central European University & Institute for Sustainable Resources, UCL. maxfalkenberg.com
@emilbakke.bsky.social
PhD Student @ Strategic Organization Design (SOD) + Digital Democracy Centre (@ddc-sdu.bsky.social), Uni of Southern Denmark Computational Social Science / AI / Platforms / Information Ecosystems / News / Social Movements emilbakke.github.io
@ddc-sdu.bsky.social
The Digital Democracy Centre SDU is an interdisciplinary hub at the University of Southern Denmark https://www.sdu.dk/en/ddc • #dkmedier #dkpol #dkforsk #democracy #digital #AI •
@sunnyx9.bsky.social
phd candidate @ stockholm uni sociology // computational social scientist // sociology // demography // life course // machine learning // AI // population register data // she/her
@przemyslslaw.bsky.social
CS faculty at University College Dublin and the University of Massachusetts Amherst: responsible AI, social media, news media, computational social science, applied NLP, open-world AI RT≠endorsement, RT=interesting read More: https://przemyslslaw.github.io
@ienesatac.bsky.social
PhD student in Sociology and Social Data Analytics at Penn State | Prev. University of Mannheim & Bogazici University ienesatac.com
@christhomas.bsky.social
Research: punishment & inequality, race, computational social science
@hendrik-erz.de
PhD Student, Institute for Analytical Sociology (IAS) Political Sociologist studying policymaking processes in U.S. Congress. Website: https://hendrik-erz.de In my free time I develop @zettlr.com, a free academic writing app.
@pengzell.bsky.social
I research nepo babies. Sociology Prof at UCL, ERC Starting Grantee 2025-2030, Programme Lead MSc Sociology, Associate Editor RSSM & ESR. Also at Swedish Institute for Social Research & Nuffield College. http://perengzell.com
@favstats.eu
Computational Communication Scientist #rstats | Postdoc Researcher @UvA_ASCoR | Blog: favstats.eu | Running on plant-based fuel 🌱 | he/him
@fmerhout.bsky.social
Sociologist and Social Data Scientist at University of Copenhagen. Duke University PhD. Intergroup relations & computational social science. He/him/his. https://fmerhout.github.io
@ppraeg.bsky.social
I'm a sociologist working at the Center for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST) I also have a website: patrickpraeg.com
@kbkarlson.bsky.social
Professor of Sociology | Social Science DGS | Education and Social Mobility | ERC Grantee | The K in KHB | Winner of Boudon + Goodman Awards | I Like Quantitative Methods and Great Sociology
@pettertornberg.com
Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science at University of Amsterdam Studying the intersection of AI, social media, and politics. Polarization, misinformation, radicalization, digital platforms, social complexity.
@jennyallen.bsky.social
Postdoc at Penn, Incoming Assistant Professor @NYU Stern Interested in Computational Social Science, Digital Persuasion, and Wisdom of Crowds
@mariaa.bsky.social
Postdoc at the Pioneer Centre for AI in Copenhagen, soon-to-be Assistant Professor of Computer Science at CU Boulder 👩💻 NLP, cultural analytics, online communities, narratives, healthcare 🌐 https://maria-antoniak.github.io
@lauraknelson.bsky.social
Associate Professor @ UBC computational sociology machine learning is feminist You only have to look at the Medusa straight on to see her. And she’s not deadly. She’s beautiful and she’s laughing. www.lauraknelson.com
@bstewart.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Sociology, Princeton http://brandonstewart.org/
@bartbonikowski.bsky.social
Assoc Prof of Sociology and Politics at NYU studying nationalism, populism, and radical-right politics using surveys, experiments, and computational text analysis. Affiliate Faculty at NYU's Center for Data Science.
@anamacanovic.bsky.social
Max Weber Fellow @EUI | PhD in Sociology @UniUtrecht /ICS | exploring inequalities, representation, cooperation, social norms using computational methods
@ikashnitsky.phd
Demographer / Senior Researcher @dst.dk / Board member @demografi.dk / PhD'20 U Groningen / EDSD 2017-18 ✨ @datavizartskill.ikashnitsky.phd 🔗 https://ikashnitsky.phd 😍 #demography #dataviz #rstats 🙌 #openscience #bibliometrics
@haphazardsoc.bsky.social
AOL Keyword: Carolina Sociology [Coding Snippets](https://nealcaren.github.io/notes/) [Website](http://nealcaren.org)
@jaeyeonkim.bsky.social
incoming asst prof of public policy @UNC Chapel Hill | ex-data science @codeforamerica | Data for Good Roundtables co-founder | runner https://jaeyk.github.io
@eszter.com
Professor of Internet Use & Society, University of Zurich William Allan Neilson Professor, Smith College (Fall 2024) Formerly: Northwestern U, Princeton U eszter.com
@drtomemery.bsky.social
Exec Director of @odissei.bsky.social and Associate Professor of Sociology, @erc.europa.eu StG. Co-Director of @ipdln.bsky.social & Social Science Lead at the PDPC (https://edu.nl/hr9eh). See https://tomemery.eu/ for more detail
@pablogerbas.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow in Sociology at Nuffield College, University of Oxford 🇨🇱 —> 🇺🇸 —> 🇬🇧 Social Science | Causal Inference | Education | Inequality | CompSoc | Complexity | Everything else
@britdavidson.bsky.social
Assoc Prof of Analytics; Uni of Bath, UK My research focuses on digital trace analytics, measurement, behavioural analytics, and security. Fascinated by and passionate about tech/ML ethics and regulation
@orioljbosch.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Researcher at Oxford, Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science | PhD LSE, Methodology Departament | Fellow RECSM, UPF | Surveys, digital trace data, and computational methods.
@ajungherr.bsky.social
Making sense of digital technology - the changes it brings, the opportunities it provides, and the challenges it presents. Professor, University of Bamberg.
@acerbialberto.com
I am an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Research at the University of Trento (Italy): cognitive anthropology / cultural evolution / digital media / cultural analytics More info in the pinned post.
@marcoalbertini.bsky.social
formerly @madmakko, Professor in Sociology @ University of Bologna here the boring stuff => https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/marco.albertini2/en
@thomasdavidson.bsky.social
Sociologist at Rutgers. Studies far-right politics, populism, and hate speech. Computational social science. https://www.thomasrdavidson.com/
@crestsociology.bsky.social
The sociology group at the Center for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST) in Paris. crest.science/sociology
@hjalmarcarlsen.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Center for Social Data Science(SODAS), University of Copenhagen. Background in sociology, substantive research in civic participation, methods research in mixed methods approaches to digital data.
@sanderwagner.bsky.social
@lorenzspreen.bsky.social
Heading the Computational Social Science group within SynoSys & ScaDS.AI at TU Dresden, where we study how online information environments impact public discourse and develop alternatives that benefit democracy. Group: https://css-synosys.github.io/
@cschwem2er.bsky.social
Professor of Computational Social Science, University of Munich | Text & Images | Data Scraping | Data Visualization https://www.carstenschwemmer.com/
@amirgo.bsky.social
Sociologist, Prof. of Organizational Behavior at Stanford who studies culture | Co-director of the Computational Culture Lab | http://comp-culture.org
@diliaravaleeva.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science at the University of Amsterdam. Posts about elites, finance, and business.
@sgonzalezbailon.bsky.social
Professor of Communication @AnnenbergSchool, UPenn | Director, Center for Information Networks and Democracy, cind.asc.upenn.edu | sandragonzalezbailon.net
@janineschroeder.bsky.social
PhD Candidate Computational Social Science @SOT/TU Munich. Social Networks | Social Movements | Spatial Dynamics. Editorial Board @protestinstitut.bsky.social @FJSBew. https://janineschroeder.de
@hwaight.bsky.social
Assistant Professor University of Oregon Sociology | Former Postdoc NYU CSMaP | Ph.D. Princeton Sociology | Research on media, information, China, computational social science | https://hwaight.github.io/
@robbwiller.bsky.social
Professor of Sociology, Psychology, & Org Behavior @ Stanford. Director of Polarization and Social Change Lab (@pascl-stanford.bsky.social), Co-Direct Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society. Obsessive basketball fan
@arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social
Professor of Sociology at EUI, Editor-in-Chief of Sociological Science, President of INAS. Embracing freedom, openmindedness, compassion, forgiveness, fairness, justice, and humanity, as fascism is knocking on the door.
@marioluissmall.bsky.social
Social scientist | Author of #SomeoneToTalkTo, #PersonalNetworks, #QualitativeLiteracy | Networks. Inequality. Methods | PTY native | Posts occasionally.
@zalmquist.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Sociology, Adjunct Associate Professor of Statistics | Senior Data Science Fellow, eScience @ University of Washington | Housing and Homelessness | Computational Demography | Migration | Social Networks https://zalmquist.github.io
@oms279.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University Culture, political sociology, NLP, social networks, computational social science oscarstuhler.org
@ianlundberg.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, UCLA Sociology and California Center for Population Research https://www.ianlundberg.org/
@msalganik.bsky.social
Professor of Sociology, Princeton, www.princeton.edu/~mjs3 Author of Bit by Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age, bitbybitbook.com
@rensec.bsky.social
Sociologist at Utrecht University, NL, studying cooperation, trust, social networks, social media, platform economy, using computational social science and experimental methods. I mostly follow academics. Also: @RenseC@mastodon.online
@nachristakis.bsky.social
Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale University. Sociologist. Network Scientist. Physician. Author of Apollo's Arrow; Blueprint; Connected; and Death Foretold. Director of the Human Nature Lab: https://humannaturelab.net
@iasliu.bsky.social
The Institute for Analytical Sociology (IAS) at Linköping University conducts big-data influenced research on important social, political, and cultural matters.
@odissei.bsky.social
Open Data Infrastructure for Social Science and Economic Innovations, NL | NWO Roadmap Recipient
@federicobianchi.bsky.social
Sociologist | solidarity, inter-group relationships, (some) sociology of science | social network analysis & agent-based modelling | BehaveLab @ University of Milan | assoc managing editor @sociologica.bsky.social | https://federico-bianchi.github.io
@skychwang.bsky.social
CS PhD candidate at Columbia. NLP & Computational Social Science. NSF GRFP fellow. he/him. https://skywang.me
@chrisbail.bsky.social
Duke Professor directing https://scai.duke.edu, https://sicss.io & https://polarizationlab.com. Author of Breaking the Social Media Prism.
@cbarrie.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Sociology, NYU. Core Faculty, CSMaP. Research Fellow Oxford Sociology. Webpage: cjbarrie.com.