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Brian Cox

Currently working on a book and lecture course at the University of Manchester. About to start filming Wonders of Life for BBC / Discovery Science Channel
700,649 followers |

Cornel West

1 of America's most provocative public intellectuals; a champion for racial justice through the traditions of the black Church, progressive politics, & jazz.
361,761 followers |

Clay Shirky

Bald. Unreliable. Easily distracte
207,897 followers |

Lessig

law professor, reformer.
192,062 followers |

umair haque

author, economist, slayer of zombies.
180,975 followers |

Nouriel Roubini

Professor at Stern School, NYU, Chairman of Roubini Global Economics (www.roubini.com), blog at www.economonitor.com/nouriel/ , co-author of Crisis Economics
167,544 followers |

Richard Florida

Urbanist, Author, Professor, Researcher, Talker, Bike Rider, Guitar Player
144,932 followers |

Jeff Jarvis

blogger and j-school prof
95,362 followers |

Jay Rosen

I teach journalism at NYU, direct the Studio 20 program there, critique the press and study new media. I don't do lifecasting but mindcasting on Twitter.
86,490 followers |

Michio Kaku

Theoretical Physicist, Professor, Futurist, Bestselling Author & Popularizer of Science
85,207 followers |

Marion Nestle

Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health
84,555 followers |

Melissa Harris-Perry

Tulane Professor, MSNBC Host of @MHPShow, Columnist for @TheNation.
83,862 followers |

Hans Rosling

Professor Global Health, Karolinska Institutet. Edutainer & co-founder of Gapminder Foundation
80,406 followers |

Robert Reich

Berkeley professor, former US Secretary of Labor. BEYOND OUTRAGE, an e-original, will be available for download on April 17, 2012.
74,429 followers |

Jeffrey D. Sachs

Economist, Professor, Director of the @EarthInstitute, Columbia University and Special Advisor to UN Secretary-General. Author of The Price of Civilization.
69,125 followers |

Marc Lamont Hill

Professor. Author. Activist. Anthropologist. Host of HuffPost Live and Our World With Black Enterprise, which airs on TV One on Sundays at 10AM. Φ Ν Π
42,296 followers |

Rem Koolhaas

36,826 followers |

Joseph E. Stiglitz

Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz. Please note: This is an unofficial account! Run by @janzemanek. Facebook: http://on.fb.me/su5BrY.
36,456 followers |

Sree Sreenivasan

@ColumbiaJourn prof/dean; socmedia blogger, @CNETNews: http://cnet.co/sreetips * tech evangelist & skeptic * sree@sree.net
32,413 followers |

Niall Ferguson

Historian, writer, broadcaster, and Harvard professor. Latest book is Civilization: The West and the Rest (Penguin)
29,886 followers |

William Easterly

NYU Econ Prof; author White Man's Burden, critic of nonsense in fighting global poverty, advocate of individual rights for all; keep your irony alert on.
29,173 followers |

Nathan Yau

Data, visualization, and statistics. Author of Visualize This. Background in eating.
27,947 followers |

Clayton Christensen

Professor at Harvard Business School. Author of @MeasureYourLife. Tweets with occasional assistance from the Fellows at the Forum for Growth & Innovation.
24,375 followers |

Henry Jenkins

Provost's Professor of Communication, Journalism and Cinematic Arts, USC
23,331 followers |

Peter Singer

Author of Animal Liberation and The Life You Can Save, professor of bioethics at Princeton University and laureate professor at the University of Melbourne.
21,245 followers |

Jonathan Zittrain

Professor @Harvard_Law, @Kennedy_School, @HSEAS Comp Sci Dept. + @BerkmanCenter; @EFF and @InternetSociety board member
20,666 followers |

tylercowen

Professor of Economics, George Mason University, blogger at www.marginalrevolution.com.
19,925 followers |

Marcus du Sautoy

Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science and Professor of Mathematics
19,158 followers |

David Weinberger

I mainly write about the effect of tech on our ideas
18,205 followers |

Juan Cole

Middle East specialist
17,149 followers |

BJ Fogg

Stanford innovator & psychologist. Focus on behavior change, persuasion via technology. I work at least 50% in industry. Fun mix.
15,779 followers |

Marc Lynch

14,786 followers |

Gary King

Harvard Professor (social scientist, statistician)
14,646 followers |

Andrew McAfee

Curious about the business impact of technology
14,079 followers |

Vali Nasr

Prof, Fletcher School, Sr Fellow, Brookings; Columnist, BloombergView, Fr Sr Advisor, State Dept, books: Shia Revival and Forces of Fortune. RT not endorsement
13,527 followers |

Mike Wesch

media parkour
13,350 followers |

Chris Blattman

I write, read, teach and blog on development, economics, politics, Africa, and foreign policy (plus many other frivolous things). I'm faculty at Yale.
13,222 followers |

Calestous Juma

Professor @Harvard @Kennedy_School interested in science, technology and innovation for development. To follow is a privilege; to be followed is an honor.
12,659 followers |

Holly Tucker

College Professor, History of Medicine, Bibliophile, Writer, Parent, Geek
12,467 followers |

Sean Carroll

Scientist, writer, truth vigilante.
12,390 followers |

Dani Rodrik

12,092 followers |

Joseph Nye

Harvard University Professor and author, most recently, of The Future of Power.
11,924 followers |

Bill George

Harvard Business School Professor, former Medtronic CEO, and bestselling leadership author. BGTeam = Research assistants
11,736 followers |

Bob Metcalfe

Bob Metcalfe is UTAustin Prof of Innovation, Murchison Fellow of Free Enterprise; Polaris Partner; MIT Trustee. Past: Harvard, PARC, Stanford, 3Com, InfoWorld.
10,400 followers |

Daniel Drezner

International relations professor, politics junkie, blogger, zombie expert seeking intellectual company on the web. No freaks.
10,253 followers |

Jonathan Eisen

Biologist & blogger w/ #evolution #microbes & #genomes focus; #openaccess & @PLoSBiology advocate; @Harvard @Stanford alum; prankster; cyclist & Prof. @UCDavis
10,131 followers |

Mike Brown

Astronomer, planet hunter, Pluto killer. Finger-wrapped dad.
8,476 followers |

Laura Seay

Morehouse College political scientist. Proud Texan. I study community & NGO responses to state failure & conflict in central Africa. And pirates.
8,441 followers |

Dan Cohen

Director, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History & New Media, resources & platforms for scholarship; Zotero, PressForward; Mason prof of history & digital humanities
7,816 followers |

Tom Eisenmann

Harvard Business School professor who studies lean startups, entrepreneurship, platforms, and network effects
7,523 followers |

Daniel Kraft, MD

Stanford & Harvard trained MD, Scientist, Entrepreneur. Executive Director of FutureMed http://FutureMed2020.com & Medicine Track Chair @ Singularity University
6,996 followers |

Paul Saffo

6,632 followers |

Kevin Werbach

Wharton professor, tech policy maven, conference organizer, and legal scholar. Now working on gamification, broadband futures, and education transformation.
5,957 followers |

Siva Vaidhyanathan

Author of The Googlization of Everything (2011), The Anarchist in the Library (2004), and Copyrights and Copywrongs (2001).
5,211 followers |

Garth Saloner

Dean, Stanford Graduate School of Business
4,692 followers |

Philip Auerswald

Author, The Coming Prosperity: How Entrepreneurs Are Transforming the Global Economy. Senior Fellow, @KauffmanFDN. Co-founder @innovationsjrnl,@makersonthemall
4,610 followers |

Eszter Hargittai

prof at Northwestern, fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center; focus: people's Web-use skills, making sure everyone benefits from digital media Also: gplus.to/eszter
4,502 followers |

Josh Ruxin

Columbia University expert on development living in Rwanda, founder and director of Rwanda Works, the Access Project, @Forbes blogger
3,706 followers |

Karen Grepin

Assistant Professor of Global Health Policy at NYU-Wagner, Blogger, Ph.D. in Health Policy (Economics), I tweet about #globalhealth policy issues and jobs.
3,415 followers |

Noam Wasserman

Professor at Harvard Business School. Book (Amazon bestseller): The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup.
3,114 followers |

Karim R. Lakhani

Living in the People's Republic of Cambridge. Student and teacher at the West Point of Capitalism. Trying to grok the hive mind.
3,092 followers |

Yong Zhao

Presidential Chair, Associate Dean Global and Online Education, College of Education, University of Oregon
3,027 followers |

Ricardo Hausmann

2,809 followers |

jahendler

SemWeb guru, Web Science evangelist, (Govt) open data geek
2,804 followers |

Deb Roy

Father of two, husband, co-founder & CEO of @BluefinLabs, professor at MIT Media Lab.
2,627 followers |

Louis Klarevas

Senior Fulbright Scholar, International Relations professor, screenwriter of forthcoming LOOSE NUKE, unorthodox educator, failed comedian & hopeless romantic
2,607 followers |

jjsviokla

Business Leader Strategy & Innovation PwC, former Harvard Business School Professor, Interested in Strategy, Design, Economics, Technology, Innovation
2,423 followers |

Bill Chameides

Dr. Bill Chameides, dean of Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment, blogs about science, sustainability, and the environment. (Tweeted by Erica Rowell)
2,365 followers |

Anthony Clark Arend

Professor of Government and Foreign Service, Director Master of Science in Foreign Service at Georgetown University
2,282 followers |

Sebastian Seung

Computational neuroscientist at MIT. Author of Connectome: How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are.
2,276 followers |

Rob Reich

Professor of Political Science, Stanford University
2,115 followers |

Rita Gunther McGrath

Expert on strategy & innovation. Speaker, facilitator,author. Columbia Business School Professor. Top 20 business thinkers.
2,056 followers |

Zach Tumin

Lead the Information and Communication Technology project at Belfer Center/Harvard Kennedy School; direct the Harvard component of cyber collab w/MIT.
1,782 followers |

YochaiBenkler

1,707 followers |

Jeff Trexler

1,624 followers |

Steven Lubar

Director of public humanities program at Brown and the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology. Interested in museums, digital humanities, cultural heritage.
1,589 followers |

jo guldi

Historian at the Harvard Society of Fellows, author of @roadstopower, a history of the infrastructure state
1,506 followers |

williamjturkel

Computational history, big history, STS, Mathematica, Max 6, fabrication, physical computing and electronics
1,204 followers |

Tim Hitchcock

Digital Humanist and Historian - I used to write books, now I write history
1,174 followers |

Jon Isham

Economics Professor at Middlebury, Director of Environmental Studies, and Faculty Director of the Middlebury Center for Social Entrepreneurship
835 followers |

Dara O'Rourke

Professor at UC Berkeley and co-founder of GoodGuide.com
776 followers |

Bilal Siddiqi

Oxford Econ PhD student with penchant for law, institutions, conflict. I like to randomize things.
773 followers |

Jeffrey Robinson PhD

Professor/Entrepreneur/Advocate of Social Entrepreneurship. Co-Author of #BFWP. Husband/Father/Yankee Fan
772 followers |

Rob MacDougall

Ignatius Donnelly Assistant Professor of Old Weird American, Secret Canadian, Gilded Age, Digital, Geek, Gaming, Alternate, and Two-Fisted History.
769 followers |

Michael Hawley

Scientist & Musician.
706 followers |

N. Gregory Mankiw

692 followers |

Irwin Redlener, MD

Child health & disaster response expert, author, Pres.Children’s Health Fund, direct Nat Cntr Disast Preparedness, Columbia U. Mailman Sch Pub Health
676 followers |

Frédéric Clavert

History: Central banking and European integration. Digital history. Contributeur du blog zotero francophone. Chercheur au Luxembourg. FR / DE / EN.
671 followers |

Bhagwan Chowdhry

Professor of Finance at UCLA Anderson School, Co-founder, Financial Access at Birth (FAB)
664 followers |

Archon Fung

655 followers |

Tom Elliott

Associate Director for Digital Programs and Senior Research Scholar, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU
625 followers |

Caleb McDaniel

19c American historian at Rice University
565 followers |

Sean Takats

Director of Zotero; Director of Research Projects at the Center for History and New Media; Assistant Professor of History at George Mason University
551 followers |

Prof. Jeff Karp

Co-Director of the Center for Regenerative Therapeutics, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard-MIT-Prof, Inventor, Stem Cell Scientist, Family Man, Pet Friendly
546 followers |

Rachael Barlow

data queen and sociologist at Trinity College in Hartford (thoughts expressed here represent my opinion and mine alone)
417 followers |

Jeffrey F Rayport

Private equity investor, digital media adviser, and reformed HBS professor
412 followers |

Nilda Mesa

Environmental steward at Columbia U.
399 followers |

Scot French

associate professor of digital and public history
398 followers |

Paul Alivisatos

398 followers |

Ryan Sheely

Harvard Kennedy School Professor. Overthinker. Researcher. Creator. Improviser.
331 followers |

Joshua Sternfeld

Cultural/digital historian with scholarly interests in archives, preservation, libraries, museums, social media, music, and digital historiography.
321 followers |

Anjali Sastry

MIT faculty
203 followers |

Daria Novak

Congressional candidate (CT-2). Fiscally conservative, sanctity of life, & pro-constitution.
136 followers |

Kelly Schrum

111 followers |

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