Social Computing folks
Academic and industry researchers in the area of Social Computing. Working to understand and improve platforms and services like the one you are on right now.
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@informor.bsky.social
@bsemaan.bsky.social
Associate Professor and Department Chair in the Department of Information Science at the University of Colorado Boulder.
@saritas.bsky.social
@barkhuus.bsky.social
New York City based, social science researcher, professor, teacher, mom.
@dbuschek.bsky.social
Prof at Uni Bayreuth, Germany. Human-computer interaction, intelligent user interfaces, interactive AI.
@whatknows.bsky.social
Information Science professor at CU, @whatknows on most platforms. Director of the Identity Lab and Digital Legacy Clinic.
@schirra.bsky.social
UX Research @YouTube / HCI / Games / Politics + Law / Books / Birds. Opinions my own. @MIT alum. Previously @twitch, @yahoo, @zynga. Same handle on Twitter.
@harmankaur.bsky.social
Assistant professor at University of Minnesota CS. Human-centered AI, interpretable ML, hybrid intelligence systems.
@smunson.com
Professor of Human Centered Design & Engineering at the University of Washington, co-Director of UW ALACRITY Center. Personal informatics & design of collaborative health interventions. Mountains, nature, & casual photography. Views my own. smunson.com
@haewoon.bsky.social
Associate Professor at informatics, IU Bloomington / Lifetime Citations 20k+ / http://soda-labo.github.io / computational social science + game analytics. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=dcjrz5MAAAAJ&hl=ko
@nkittur.bsky.social
Professor of HCI @ Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science. Accelerating knowledge and creativity with AI. https://kittur.org/
@diyiyang.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @Stanford CS @StanfordNLP @StanfordAILab Computational Social Science & NLP
@aramsinn.bsky.social
SFF/Nonfiction Author Media Prof at American U Bassist/Producer (jazz, reggae, worldbeat) 💙📚THE SECRET LIFE OF DATA 💿 OUT OF OUR CELLS: Songs by Incarcerated Musicians in DC sinnreich.com https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262048811/ linktree.com/wassako
@gruzd.ca
Canada Research Chair, Professor at Toronto Metropolitan University & co-director of @socialmedialab.ca | Social Media and Network Scholar | My opinions are my own
@kristinalerman.bsky.social
Senior Principal Scientist at USC Information Sciences Institute. Using data, networks and AI to better understand social groups.
@imadityav.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Cornell. Research in HCI4D, Social Computing, Responsible AI, and Accessibility. https://www.adityavashistha.com/
@rer.bsky.social
Research Scientist @ Stanford Internet Observatory. Studying online information seeking, influence, and ways to more accurately model how people interact with online systems.
@nellison.bsky.social
I study technology and relationships, most recently in the algorithmic/AI space. I’m the Karl E Weick Collegiate Professor of Information at the University of Michigan School of Information.
@clifflampe.bsky.social
@zsavvas90.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at TU Delft, Associated Researcher at Max Planck Institute for Informatics, and core member of iDRAMALab. https://zsavvas.github.io/
@manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @ Princeton Previously: EPFL 🇨🇭, UFMG 🇧🇷 Interests: Computational Social Science, Platforms, GenAI, Moderation
@bgoldberg.bsky.social
Fan of applied research for gnarly tech policy and product questions | Head of Research at Jigsaw (Google) | Lecturer at Yale Jackson School | Lurking for laughs and spicy discussion sections
@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
@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
@vitak.bsky.social
She/her. Professor at University of Maryland's iSchool. Director of the HCIL. General Chair for CSCW 2025. Research: privacy, surveillance, data ethics. https://jessicavitak.com Come for the academic expertise. Stay for the cookie content.
@andiiicat.bsky.social
researcher of online collaboration, privacy, misinformation. lover of cats, plants, new places and things. chronically auditioning new hobbies.
@airilampinen.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Human–Computer Interaction at Stockholm University. Docent in Social Psychology at University of Helsinki. Computer-Supported Cooperative Work. Shared Uses of Technology. Intimate Technology.
@ingmarweber.de
Alexander von Humboldt Professor for AI and Chair for Societal Computing at Saarland University. Co-Director at https://i2sc.net.
@ndiakopoulos.bsky.social
Northwestern University Professor. Computational Journalism; AI & Society. https://www.nickdiakopoulos.com
@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
@evelyndouek.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, Stanford Law School. Aussie struggling with °F & online speech stuff.
@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/
@alicetiara.bsky.social
Studies social media & society, far-right disinfo. Dir of Research, Data & Society. UNC CITAP. Loves pop cult. Mom, fashion victim, sci fi/fantasy enthusiast. Author of The Private is Political, Status Update. NYC forever. She/her/femme 💅🏻 tiara.org
@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
@haimson.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at UM School of Information researching social computing, HCI, designing trans tech, social media, identity transitions, content moderation. he/him
@aaronshaw.bsky.social
Usually professoring, parenting, running, etc. Social science and design of digital public goods in online communities. Northwestern University, Chicagoland. https://communitydata.science
@estellesmithphd.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, CS, Colorado School of Mines. Online spiritual care, social computing, online governance, Human-AI Interaction: http://bit.ly/sacredtech. CSCW, CHI, TOCHI, etc. 👩🏼💻 Community Chair for #CSCW2025🇳🇴 https://estellesmithphd.com
@michaelmuller.bsky.social
I do research at the hybrid intersection of HCI, AI, critical computing, and social justice. Co-chair of ACM SIGCHI CARES. Member of Fempower.tech, AccessSIGCHI. My posts do not reflect the views of my employer.
@difrad.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Lehigh University. I'm an HCI researcher that explores prosocial design in online communities, AI Mediated Communication, and Digital Literacy.
@mitchellgordon.bsky.social
Incoming assistant prof at MIT CSAIL, CS PhD from Stanford. HCI, human-AI interaction, social computing.
@skairam.bsky.social
Member of Technical Staff @OpenAI | Teaching the machines to learn from humans. Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=BH7jpGIAAAAJ&hl=en
@aaronclauset.bsky.social
NO KINGS. NO NAZIS. 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
@foucaultwelles.bsky.social
Professor of Communication, trying not to be evil Ass. Dean, #HashtagActivism co-author, mom to teenagers and cats. Appreciates novelty socks and cat memes.
@mako.cc
@andresmh.com
Director of Princeton HCI. Faculty at Princeton Computer Science. Board member at Crisis Text Line. https://andresmh.com Skeptical about Bluesky 🤔
@kkarahal.bsky.social
@snapdragoness.bsky.social
She/her. 📚 Associate Professor of Human-Centred Computing @ Monash University 🎮 Researching trans gaming and disaster response (unrelatedly) 🌟 STA Superstar of STEM 🐉 Ancient D&D nerd 🎶 Metalhead I like dragons and corvids. Opinions are my own.
@andyzhao.bsky.social
I study information manipulation in the age of social media, AI, and rising authoritarianism, and how we may survive it. PhDing @cornellbowers.bsky.social
@nickelback.bsky.social
I really just want my nickel back, ya know? https://seangoggins.net
@schancellor.bsky.social
Assistant prof at UMN CS. Human-centered AI, online communities, risky mental health behaviors. Mom, lifter, nerd, haver of opinions.
@naz-andalibi.bsky.social
Asst Prof, University of Michigan School of Information | she/her | emotion AI/privacy/ethics/health/social media| 🐕🦺mom | posts don’t represent employer
@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
@cbuntain.bsky.social
Asst Professor @iSchoolUMD | associate @CSMaP | DCer | 💻 🏍️ 👨🏻🍼 Studying online behavior around crises and political discourse, manipulation, and information quality
@travislloydphd.bsky.social
public interest technologist // luddite hacker. information science phd at cornell tech. inequality, ai, and the information ecosystem. 🤠 traeve.com 🤠
@mariannealq.bsky.social
Information Science PhD @ Cornell Tech. Looking at AI's impact on information ecosystems & news consumption. mariannealq.com
@brookeerinduffy.bsky.social
social media researcher and author associate professor at Cornell University platforms, power, and the creator economy www.brookeduffy.com
@emilioferrara.bsky.social
Prof of Computer Science at USC AI, social media, society, networks, data, and HUMANS LABS http://www.emilio.ferrara.name
@dholtz.bsky.social
current professor at uc berkeley and soon-to-be professor at columbia. things i’m likely to skeet about (in no particular order): research, the #NBA, music, and #Survivor
@mmosleh.bsky.social
Prof @Oxford, Affiliate @MIT #SocialMedia #Misinformation #Polarization www.MohsenMosleh.com
@pfcdgayo.bsky.social
Assoc. professor at the University of Oviedo. Web & social media mining + the intersection of politics & social media. 🐘 @PFCdgayo@mastodon.social Project #ActEU
@metaxa.net
Asst Prof in Computer Science + in Communication at UPenn // Stanford CS PhD // Research on AI auditing, sociotechnical systems, algorithmic justice
@anneo.bsky.social
Comm tech & social media research professor by day, symphony violinist by night, outside as much as possible otherwise. German/American Pacific Northwestern New Englander, #firstgen academic, she/her, 🏳️🌈 https://anne-oeldorf-hirsch.uconn.edu
@emmaspiro.bsky.social
Associate Professor at the UW iSchool, Co-Founder UW Center for an Informed Public | PhD in Sociology from UC Irvine | Research: social networks, sociology, information integrity & computational social science.
@alexleavitt.bsky.social
Principal researcher for Trust & Safety @Roblox & Visiting Fellow @CHAI_Berkeley. 🏳️🌈🐈⬛🏳️⚧️ Ex-@Meta, PhD @USCAnnenberg. 日本語でOK!
@brianckeegan.com
{Social, Data, Network, Information} Scientist at @cuboulder.info High-tempo collaboration, information commons, public interest data science. Born at 345ppm. https://www.brianckeegan.com/ Signal: brianckeegan.26
@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
@jengolbeck.bsky.social
Computer scientist, psychologist, journalist. Professor at UMD On the dystopia beat- AI, social media,extremism, privacy, information warfare, and bad stuff people do on the internet she/her
@nilou.bsky.social
hci+ai, social computing co-founder/cpo @Across AI prof @UC Berkeley gif whisperer | 🐱🐱 mom 👩🏻🏫 niloufar.org 👩🏻💻 across.ai | https://bsky.app/profile/across-ai.bsky.social
@chrisbail.bsky.social
Duke Professor directing https://scai.duke.edu, https://sicss.io & https://polarizationlab.com. Author of Breaking the Social Media Prism.
@asbruckman.bsky.social
I study online communities, content moderation, and social movements.
@msaveski.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @ UW iSchool. Interested in computational social science, social networks & causal inference. http://martinsaveski.com
@robyncaplan.bsky.social
Assistant professor at Duke University. Tech policy, platform governance, mom. I make bad jokes sometimes.
@natematias.bsky.social
I work with communities on citizen science for safer, fairer, more understanding Internet. Founder: Citizens & Technology Lab. Assistant Prof in Communication at Cornell · Guatemalan-American. @natematias@social.coop natematias.com citizensandtech.org
@eegilbert.org
Professor at Michigan. On sabbatical at the Berkman Klein Center. http://eegilbert.org
@jeffreybigham.com
Professor of HCII and LTI at Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science. jeffreybigham.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
@dfreelon.bsky.social
Allan Randall Freelon Sr. Prof. & Presidential Prof. of Communication @AnnenbergPenn. If you can't tell the difference between what's true and what you wish were true, take your business elsewhere.
@cfiesler.bsky.social
information science professor (tech ethics + internet stuff) kind of a content creator (elsewhere also @professorcasey) though not influencing anyone to do anything except maybe learn things she/her
@ethanz.bsky.social
UMass Amherst, Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure, Global Voices, Berkman Klein Center. Formerly Center for Civic Media, MIT Media Lab.
@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
@axz.bsky.social
Professor of social computing at UW CSE, leading @socialfutureslab.bsky.social social.cs.washington.edu
@informor.bsky.social
Cornell Tech professor (information science, AI-mediated Communication, trustworthiness of our information ecosystem). New York City. Taller in person. Opinions my own.