Computational Social Science
A starter pack of researchers who use computational methods such as large-scale data, digital traces, registry data, machine learning, natural language processing, and agent-based modeling to answer social science questions.
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@rensec.bsky.social
@tahayasseri.bsky.social
Workday Full Prof & Chair of Technology & Society at Trinity College Dublin & Technological University Dublin. Advancing the new Sociology of Humans and Machines. https://tahayasseri.com
@jrvosse.bsky.social
Professor of Human-centered Data Science at VU Amsterdam. Occasionally #dutchbirding
@robinryder.bsky.social
Mathematician at Imperial College London. Bayesian statistics, Data science, Languages, Phylogenies.
@gligoric.bsky.social
CS @Stanford, Computational Social Science, NLP, AI & Society https://kristinagligoric.com/
@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
@furtadobb.bsky.social
Researcher @ipeaonline #ABM #Python, PhD #Public #Policy. I read and write. Run and cycle. Code. Also, a #pantser amzn.to/3hdWXjO.
@smconstantino.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Stanford’s Doerr School of Sustainability, Visiting Scholar Princeton SPIA. Sustainable dev’t, climate, energy, collective action, crises, behavior, decision making. 🇵🇹🇧🇷🇨🇦
@terrytangyuan.xyz
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat AI | Open Source Leader at Argo, Kubeflow, @kubernetes.io Serving | Maintainer of KServe, XGBoost, TensorFlow | Keynote Speaker | Author | Technical Advisor More info: http://terrytangyuan.xyz We are hiring!
@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.
@christianoswald.bsky.social
Research Associate @ Center for Crisis Early Warning, University of the Bundeswehr Munich | PRIO Research School Member | pol. violence & instability | analog player in a digital world | aggressively mediocre https://christianoswald.net
@rnv.bsky.social
PhD student, University of Copenhagen NLP, misinformation, media framing, hatespeech, cultural values, CSS, Pol Comm, AI ethics | he/him. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=EQUUUUoAAAAJ&hl=en
@jmendelsohn2.bsky.social
Incoming Asst Prof @UMD Info College, currently postdoc @UChicago. NLP, computational social science, political communication, linguistics. Past: Info PhD @UMich, CS + Lx @Stanford. Interests: cats, Yiddish, talking to my cats in Yiddish.
@steveread.bsky.social
Professor of Social Psychology, University of Southern California. Interested in Computational modeling of personality, decision-making, social reasoning, and social behavior. Also interested in relating this to Neuroscience
@katakeith.bsky.social
NLP and computational social science (CSS) researcher. Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Williams College. AI2 and UMass Amherst alum. she/her. https://kakeith.github.io/
@janlo.de
Computational social scientist, agent-based models, opinion dynamics and collective decision. Sometimes english, manchmal deutsch http://datasci.social/@janlo
@sunnyx9.bsky.social
phd candidate @ stockholm uni sociology // computational social scientist // sociology // demography // life course // machine learning // AI // population register data // she/her
@cjvanlissa.bsky.social
Associate professor of social data science at Tilburg University, chair of the Open Science Community Tilburg, board member of Tilburg Young Academy
@klararaiber.bsky.social
Sociologist and demographer | Assistant professor at Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Gender | work-family | caregiving | life course she/her klararaiber.com
@pholme.bsky.social
Scandinasian professor of network science & computational social science
@joachim.cidlab.com
Professor of #CogSci and #Stats @UCIrvine; Pursuer of Lofty Undertakings; Purveyor of Articles Odd and Quaint; and Protector of the Realm. #blm #trahr he/him
@drew-johnston.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Research Scientist @Meta. I like computers, cities, and social networks. https://drew-johnston.com
@drmann.bsky.social
Purdue University assistant professor of sociology. Duke University sociology PhD. Science, knowledge, and politics.
@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/
@cbarrie.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Sociology, NYU. Core Faculty, CSMaP. Research Fellow Oxford Sociology. Webpage: cjbarrie.com.
@sophiahunger.bsky.social
Assistant Prof of Computational Social Science Uni Bremen guest fellow WZB Berlin | PhD EUI | interested in protest, party competition, populism #FirstGen
@stefanmueller.bsky.social
Associate Professor @ucddublin.bsky.social • party competition, public opinion, political communication, computational social science • Maintainer @irishpollingind.bsky.social • Member of the Young Academy Ireland muellerstefan.net
@dallascard.bsky.social
Assistant professor at https://si.umich.edu/ working in computational social science, machine learning, and NLP | https://dallascard.github.io
@msaeltzer.bsky.social
Assistant Prof Digital Social Science Uni Oldenburg - Political scientist interested in parties, models and money (in politics)
@twidmann.bsky.social
Associate Professor in PolSci @AarhusUni | PhD @EUI_EU | Political Communication | Political Behavior | Political Psych | Computational Political Science
@johannesbreuer.com
Senior researcher & team leader at GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Department Computational Social Science Interested in digital traces | computational social science | reproducibility | open science | #rstats www.johannesbreuer.com
@tiagoventura.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at @McCourtSchool @Georgetown Working on computational social science, social media, and politics. De Belém 🇧🇷
@dbamman.bsky.social
Associate Professor, School of Information, UC Berkeley. NLP, computational social science, digital humanities.
@mluczak.bsky.social
Chair in Complexity Science & Professor of Informatics, Victoria University of Wellington; co-director @tepunahamatatini.bsky.social; complex systems, emergence, information dynamics, computational social science; https://complexity.wgtn.ac.nz
@fusaroli.bsky.social
Cognitive Science at Aarhus Uni. Curious about social interactions, symbolic behaviors, and meta-science. Focus on stats, computational modeling, machine learning, complex systems, language, exp semiotics and neuropsychiatric conditions. He/They.
@dasmiq.bsky.social
Associate professor of computer science at Northeastern University. Natural language processing, digital humanities, OCR, computational bibliography, and computational social sciences. Artificial intelligence is an archival science.
@jurgenpfeffer.bsky.social
Prof of Computational Social Science. SOT/TU Munich. Critical Data Studies, AI & Democracy, #CSS @ICWSM
@diliaravaleeva.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science at the University of Amsterdam. Posts about elites, finance, and business.
@thomasdavidson.bsky.social
Sociologist at Rutgers. Studies far-right politics, populism, and hate speech. Computational social science. https://www.thomasrdavidson.com/
@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
@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.
@sgonzalezbailon.bsky.social
Professor of Communication @AnnenbergSchool, UPenn | Director, Center for Information Networks and Democracy, cind.asc.upenn.edu | sandragonzalezbailon.net
@klauspforr.bsky.social
Sociologist at @gesis.org working with EU-SILC in @fdzgml.bsky.social. Research interests: econometrics, survey methodology, sociology of wealth, family sociology, integration/migration, ethnic segregation. Typos galore
@dacomsoc.bsky.social
@css-cnrs.bsky.social
The "CSS" team gathers an interdisciplinary group of researchers at the interface between social sciences and computational sciences at Centre Marc Bloch, a @cnrs.bsky.social lab based in Berlin
@com-soc-sci.bsky.social
introducing computational social science paper until I get tired
@netsci.bsky.social
@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
@datasciencelab.bsky.social
The Data Science Lab is based in Behavioural Science at Warwick Business School. It is directed by Suzy Moat and Tobias Preis.
@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
@mstrohm.bsky.social
@stijnruiter.bsky.social
Criminologist/Sociologist, NSCR/Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; board member energy coop DE Ramplaan 🇪🇺
@jvanslageren.bsky.social
Assistant Professor Human Geography & Spatial Planning Utrecht University. Tries to be a political sociologist/geographer. Populism | Democratic values | Voting | Educ cleavage | Urban-rural divide
@odissei.bsky.social
Open Data Infrastructure for Social Science and Economic Innovations, NL | NWO Roadmap Recipient
@jaspertjaden.bsky.social
Professor of Social Research and Public Policy at Uni Potsdam, migration, integration, elections, social media, causal inference, Computational Social Science.
@aksoyundan.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Sociologist at University College London. PhD Uni Utrecht, BA Bogazici Uni | (Natural) Experimental Methods, Stats, Politics and Religion https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/59248-ozan-aksoy
@anamacanovic.bsky.social
Max Weber Fellow @EUI | PhD in Sociology @UniUtrecht /ICS | exploring inequalities, representation, cooperation, social norms using computational methods
@iasliu.bsky.social
The Institute for Analytical Sociology (IAS) at Linköping University conducts big-data influenced research on important social, political, and cultural matters.
@professorsinan.bsky.social
David Austin Professor, MIT; Director @MIT_IDE; Founder, Manifest Capital & Milemark Capital; Hype Machine Author Digital Insider Pod TED Talk
@marckeuschnigg.bsky.social
Professor of Sociology, Leipzig U The Institute of Analytical Sociology, Linköping U Studying cultural dynamics, inequality, norms www.keuschnigg.org
@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.
@daob.nl
Data science prof @ Utrecht. Incoming scientific director, Dutch national infrastructure for social sciences ODISSEI Latent variables, Structural Equation Models, Measurement error https://daob.nl | https://hds.sites.uu.nl | https://odissei-data.nl
@msalganik.bsky.social
Professor of Sociology, Princeton, www.princeton.edu/~mjs3 Author of Bit by Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age, bitbybitbook.com
@thijsbol.bsky.social
Professor of sociology (social stratification and inequality) at the University of Amsterdam || Schrijft een boek bij Das Mag || Co-chair of the annual AISSR Popquiz
@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
@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
@jugander.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Stanford MS&E. Visiting Yale FDS '24-'25. Social networks, social and behavioral data, causal inference, mountains. www.stanford.edu/~jugander/
@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.
@chrisbail.bsky.social
Duke Professor directing https://scai.duke.edu, https://sicss.io & https://polarizationlab.com. Author of Breaking the Social Media Prism.
@psmaldino.bsky.social
Paradigmatically promiscuous scientist. Modeler of cultural evolution and related topics. Professor at UC Merced and the Santa Fe Institute. Web: https://smaldino.com/wp/
@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
@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
@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