Upstream Blog - FORCE11 @upstreamblog.bsky.social upstream.force11.org - a blogging platform for the @force11.bsky.social community
FORCE11 @force11.bsky.social FORCE11 is a community of scholars, librarians, archivists, publishers and research funders that has arisen organically to help facilitate the change toward improved knowledge creation and sharing - force11.org
Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com Uses machine learning to study literary imagination, and vice-versa. Likely to share news about AI & computational social science / Sozialwissenschaft / 社会科学
Information Sciences and English, UIUC. Distant Horizons (Chicago, 2019). tedunderwood.com
Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com Political technologist, bringing democracy to the internet. Brussels, 🇪🇺.
• tech, governance, science, politics, philosophy, infrastructure, cats, terrible puns
• DASL, Eurosky/Mu, Modal
• ex W3C, NYT
• Signal robin.77
Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social Critical tech and literary/cultural AI. Also cats, letterpress printing, and tabletop gaming.
Commonwealth Professor of AI and English at the University of Virginia—
—but speaking only for myself and in my own capacity here.
Rude people are blocked.
Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan @knkeegan.bsky.social Public and academic history & geography in action. She/her. Sometimes cake, sometimes politics. In the distance, sirens. https://kristen-noble-keegan.com & https://bywaterhistorical.com/
Archival Workers' Collective @archivworkcoll.bsky.social Formerly Archival Workers Emergency Fund that began as a mutual aid fund created in response to the #covid19 #coronavirus pandemic. We study archives labor issues & support archival workers via programming, advocacy, & solidarity.
Niels Stern @nielsstern.bsky.social Managing Director of OAPEN Foundation - @oapenbooks.bsky.social - providing open infrastructure services for scholarly books. Not-for-profit. Not-for-sale. POSI adopter. Co-director of DOAB @doabooks.bsky.social
Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social Once censored by Elon Musk bc I did a journalism
Signal: JSweetLI.61
Words in Rolling Stone, The Guardian, The Intercept, The Handbasket, POLITICO, The Nation, Mother Jones
https://jacquelinesweet.substack.com/
CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group @cilipmdg.bsky.social A @cilip.bsky.social Special Interest Group.
The UK information profession's voice in #metadata #cataloguing and #discovery. Create, Share, Enrich, Maintain. #MetadataMatters
https://www.cilip.org.uk/mdg
Emerald Publishing @emeraldpublishing.bsky.social Now more than ever we need research to help solve societal challenges. Let's work together to make real change happen. Are you in?
@cindyhohl.bsky.social @cindyhohl.bsky.social 
Olly Rickard @orickard.bsky.social Product manager at Atypon exploring innovative ways to leverage technology in advancing research
Tom Hallett @thomashallett.bsky.social Content manager in academic publishing comms. Keen pedestrian, cyclist, and runner. Less keen driver. Dorset-based. 
ebooknoir 🥃 ❄️ @ebooknoir.bsky.social Publishing | Whiskey | Rum | Print | ebooks | web Design | Books | PubMN | Libraries
Gerrit De Vynck @gerritd.bsky.social Washington Post tech reporter
San Francisco
Defense tech and AI
https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/gerrit-de-vynck/
Signal: GerritD.27
Alicia Wise @wisealic.bsky.social Keen on accessibility, archaeology, digital preservation, goats, libraries, open access, open science, publishing, and running
Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social I make Dad jokes on NPR and also write books and other things. 
Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social My library was dukedom enough. Novels: Red Pill, White Tears, Blue Ruin, Gods Without Men, My Revolutions, Transmission, The Impressionist. Essays in NYRB, Harper’s etc. Abolish ICE, demolish the arch.
Laura Dietz @loradeets.bsky.social Lecturer in Publishing UCL Dept of Information Studies | Publishing Studies, Book History, DH | SHARP | E-books and ‘Real Books’: Digital Reading and the Experience of Bookness (CUP 2025). Is it digital and arguably a book? You had me at ‘arguably’.
Chris Reid @chrisreid100.bsky.social Senior Director, Product Management, Wiley. Ex-rower; current runner. All views here are my own.
Athena Hoeppner @athenahoeppener.bsky.social Academic librarian, foodie, geek. Sometimes I dance. Often I coffee. INFP.
European Association of Science Editors @easeeditors.bsky.social EASE is a global community of professionals with diverse skills and experiences across the many editorial roles involved in academic publishing.
https://www.linktr.ee/easeeditors/
#JournalEditorial #ScienceEditing #PeerReview #AcademicPublishing
Chris Bourg @mchris4duke.bsky.social Director of Libraries, MIT.
All things open science, plus hiking, birds, Jiffy and Sunny. Maybe other stuff - who knows?
Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org I research scholarly communication at Cambridge University Library / Cambridge Digital Humanities
PI: @morphss.bsky.social
New book: PUBLISHING BEYOND THE MARKET https://press.umich.edu/Books/P/Publishing-Beyond-the-Market
https://www.samuelmoore.org
carolyn @papersquared.bsky.social academic library director
summer scares social media goblin
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🏳️🌈
📍az > chicago
she/her
absolutely not a professional account
De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social A leading academic publisher in the humanities and beyond. Browse our pinned starter pack and visit our website: www.degruyterbrill.com
Alejandro Montenegro @aemonten.bsky.social Molecular Biologist (aemonten.github.io) 丨Chief Editor @ CSH Protocols (cshprotocols.cshlp.org) 丨Head of the Integrity in Publishing Group at CSHL Press 丨Chair "Molecular Biosystems Conference" (molbiosystems.com) 丨(Oxford) Comma King 丨Central Dogma Police
Research Consulting @researchconsulting.bsky.social Research Consulting is a specialist consultancy firm focused on research
Bernie Folan @berniefolan.bsky.social Hebden Bridge & Connemara person
Status Quo sceptic (not just the band).
💜OA/Scholcomms oaspa.bsky.social / c4disc.bsky.social / scholarlysocial.bsky.social
💜 Death. @galway-death-cafe.bsky.social
💜Autism @thinkingautism.com
@tomreller.bsky.social @tomreller.bsky.social 
Financial Times @financialtimes.com The best of FT journalism, including breaking news and analysis.
https://www.ft.com
The users this account follows are verified FT staff or contributors.
David Manheim @davidmanheim.alter.org.il Humanity's future can be amazing - let's make sure it is.
Visiting lecturer at the Technion, founder https://alter.org.il, Superforecaster, Pardee RAND graduate.
Helen King - Innovation Ideas @innovationideas.bsky.social Innovation Ideas helps organisations and individuals make informed decisions about AI and new technology. Strategy, commissioned research, training and independent testing are grounded in evidence rather than marketing claims.
Julian Harris @julianharris.bsky.social - Ex-Googler cutting through the BS about AI agents https://makingaiagents.substack.com
- Passionate about the climate crisis.
- Also 2 sons & a muso
Kim Steinle @ksteinle.bsky.social - V Violaine Iglesias @violaineig.bsky.social
Kevin Stranack @stranack.bsky.social Instructional Designer, Librarian, Open Education, Open Source, AI Literacy, Library Publishing, Information Literacy.
Ian Mulvany @ianmulvany.bsky.social CTO BMJ. Based in Hackney. Irish. Climber. Parent. Make myself laugh.
Atypon @atypon.bsky.social Empowering publishers, amplifying impact, and connecting communities with an intuitive content platform, resilient infrastructure, and professional services.
Atypon.com
Hadrien Gardeur @hadriengardeur.bsky.social Working on accessibility, standards and open-source for digital publishing at EDRLab (European Digital Reading Lab).
Co-founded Feedbooks and EDRLab. Co-created OPDS and Readium LCP.
Thoughts and opinions are my own.
Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social Prof @ Penn studying media, race, tech, feminism, politics.
Author of A SECOND SIGHT (Mariner, 2026), co-author #HASHTAGACTIVISM (MIT Press, 2020) + more.
Typos and opinions both mine.
Co‑Director: @miccenter.bsky.social
Kelis Saunders @keleesii.bsky.social MSLIS Graduate from UIUC
Excited to join the conversation!
@sandy-hirsh.bsky.social @sandy-hirsh.bsky.social 
Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social - Executive Director, Project Drawdown drawdown.org
- Climate scientist, working on solutions
- Passionate about science, communication, and hope
- Minnesota based, Maine born
- Personal account / My views
OAPEN Foundation @oapenbooks.bsky.social OAPEN connects libraries, publishers, researchers, and funders with a global infrastructure for peer-reviewed open access books to advance research and the public good.
Explore our collection of 40,000+ OA books: https://library.oapen.org
Joe Deville @joedeville.bsky.social #OpenAccess & #OpenInfrastructure advocate. Professor in #STS at Lancaster University. Managing Director at Open Book Collective. Trustee/Editor at Mattering Press. Heading up the @copim.bluesky.social Open Book Futures project
Megan McCarty @meganmariemccarty.bsky.social Scholarly publishing, research integrity, peer review best practices. Metalhead, cellist, former musicologist. She/her.
Silverchair @silverchairnews.bsky.social Silverchair is the leading independent platform partner for scholarly and professional publishers, serving our growing community through flexible technology and unparalleled services. Our teams build, maintain, and innovate platforms across the publishing 
Sara Rouhi @rouhiroo.bsky.social Portfolio growth/ #openscience @AIP Publishing; PhD dropout; co-author of DefendResearch.org declaration 👊#censorship;#openscience advocate #PostsAreMyOwn #DefendResearch
Basta YA!
ORCiD: 0000-0003-1803-6186
CNRS Inist @cnrs-inist.bsky.social Unité du CNRS. Facilite l’accès, l’analyse, la fouille de l’information scientifique, valorise la production scientifique (publications, données de recherche)
Sayeed Choudhury @sayeedc.bsky.social "Find out what makes you kinder...what opens you up and brings out the most generous, and unafraid version of you." -- George Saunders
Miriam Blake @meblake.bsky.social Information geek at a research lab. RDM. Scholarly publishing. Cats. Art of all forms. World peace.
Helen Toner @hlntnr.bsky.social AI, national security, China. Part of the founding team at @csetgeorgetown.bsky.social (opinions my own). Author of Rising Tide on substack: helentoner.substack.com
University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk Welcome to our official account 👋 Follow for the latest news, research and updates about life at Oxford.
Peter Suber @petersuber.bsky.social Open research, metaresearch, higher ed, US politics.
True blue. Dad of daughters.
I post to Mastodon more than Bluesky. But see my bridge account for B versions of the M posts.
https://bsky.app/profile/petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
John O’Connor @jocv.bsky.social Archives and Special Collections Manager at Charlotte Mecklenburg Library. Formerly #ScholComm at Boston College, consulting at Oracle, and program support @librarycongress.bsky.social. Tar Heel x4. Beer geek. Wine snob. Tell me about NC foodways.
Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social Proud Girl Dad, TV Producer, Filmmaker, Vedic Meditation Practitioner, Kitesurfer, Human Rights & Racial Justice Advocate and an Abolitionist!
And I don't act! 😆😆😆👻👻👻
Howie Joress @hojo90.bsky.social Materials Scientist. Making robots do science. I have hobbies too.
Personal account
Peter Brantley @naypinya.bsky.social Increasingly in between things.
Laura Davulis @davulis.bsky.social Order muppet, with regret. History editor, JHU Press. Got a book idea? Get in touch: davulis@jhu.edu. (I do not speak for my employer here, etc etc.)
John Bull @garius.bsky.social He/Him. Writer. Historian. Host of "The Untitled History Podcast." Strategy streamer. Tech Strategist. Founding Editor of @lonrec. Orient fan. Business/Writing: business@longformist.co.uk. Agent: @pastpreservers.bsky.social
Chris Warren @christian-s-warren.bsky.social Studying the history of health & environment. Walking the dogs. Teaching the classes. Writing the books.* Traveling the world, little by little.
*Brush With Death [Lead Poisoning]
*Starved for Light [Rickets and Vitamin D Deficiency]
Wendy Queen @wendyqueen.bsky.social Chief Transformation Officer, Hopkins Press / Project MUSE
@hopkinspress.bsky.social
@projectmuse.bsky.social
joseph abiola @josephabiola.substack.com Fiction/poetry published in the Muse Journal, Live From Work Town, and Tablefeast Magazine. Engineer who moonlights as a writer and cinephile.
ICYMI: linktr.ee/josephabiola
Jane Makoff @jmakoff.bsky.social VP of Marketing at Sage Publishing
Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd Assoc. Project Director @ Knowledge Commons, MSU | Lit and Publishing Research Prof @ Uni of London, Birkbeck | Music on tici taci records | My books: https://books.eve.gd
Society of Indexers @indexers.bsky.social The professional body for indexers in the United Kingdom and Ireland. We can help you find an indexer, learn about indexing and train as an indexer. Learn more at https://www.indexers.org.uk/
eun song @aestheticspolitics.bsky.social 🕸️🍥 writer / educator 🍥🕸️
🕸️🍥 www.eun-song.org 🍥🕸️
🕸️🍥 www.dukeupress.edu/the-politics-of-collecting 🕸️🍥
Ashley Farley @openaccessmaven.bsky.social Open Access Advocate & Librarian - Senior Officer of Knowledge & Research Services at the Gates Foundation- Opinions & endorsements are my own
Lauren Donovan Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social she/her | Roman lit, culture, & history (& all things Nero) at Duke | Mellon Leadership Fellow | humanities advocate | catch me on WiredTechSupport: https://tinyurl.com/RomeWired | Read about Myths of Useless Humanists: https://tinyurl.com/HumMyths
George Cooper @georgecoops.bsky.social Lecturer (Publishing Practice) @ UCL’s Department of Information Studies
Katherine Single @katherinesingle.bsky.social Head of Marketing & Digital at CTSI. Writing about #Marketing, #Feminism, #Horror and life’s messy joys.
Miguel Garcia @miguelgarcia.bsky.social Product guy, keen on bibliometrics, working with Altmetric and Dimensions
Cadmore Media @cadmoremedia.bsky.social One platform to deliver your video strategy.
Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social Historian of technology, occasional dad jokes.
www.marhicks.com
George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social Recovering lawyer | Owned by a Pembroke Corgi | Host of Psycho Politics pod and contributor, @TheBulwark.com | Crappy pol | Trying to figure out Substack
substack.com/@gtconway
Vanesa LV @vanesa144.bsky.social Bibliotecaria en la UDC. Research support & Open science. Todo es mejor con música.
📍 Ferrolterra, Spain
Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social Open Science @ Biohub, I like bioinformatics/plant genomics/evolutionary biology.
Fiber artist/sci-fi/queer. Perceived pronouns (any acceptable).
I’m the one on the left in my profile pic. Views my own.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/katehertweck
Shawna Sadler @shawnasadler.bsky.social ORCID Engagement Manager. Likes to laugh, strong supporter of women in sports and missing Carrie Fisher. Posts are my own. 
Erin McKiernan @emckiernan.bsky.social Researcher in biophysics, neurophysiology. Profesora Titular en el Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM. Open science advocate. Dir. Programs & Strategies, Open Research Community Accelerator (ORCA) @orca-open.bsky.social. 
Library Copyright Institute @librarycopyright.bsky.social A project to develop a program of systematic, deep instruction in copyright law for librarians.
http://library.copyright.institute/
Matt Cannon @mattcannontf.bsky.social Head of Open Research for Taylor & Francis. Oxford, UK
Ludo Waltman @ludowaltman.bsky.social Scientific Director Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University; Open Science Ambassador Leiden University; Co-chair Research on Research Institute (RoRI); President ASAPbio; Editor-in-Chief MetaROR (MetaResearch Open Review)
Daniel Ebneter @danielebneter.bsky.social CEO at Karger Publishers | Sailor | Epicurian | Bass Guitar Dilettante | Modernist Architecture Aficionado
nate s jacobs @natesjacobs.bsky.social surfer, dad, (former) neuroscientist, research technologist, entrepreneur, open science advocate, sometimes writer.
Theo @earthowned.bsky.social Scholarly Communications Manager in the award winning Library Research Support team at the University of Edinburgh. Will talk about Open Research/Science, running and whimsical fluff.
Scholastica @scholasticahq.bsky.social Easy-to-integrate journal peer review, production, and hosting solutions to help scholarly publishers work smarter (used by 1,300+ journals).
Law review updates: @scholasticalr.bsky.social
For product details, visit our website: scholasticahq.com
Jonathan Zittrain @zittrain.bsky.social A small creature who likes to run around in universities.
Prof. Harvard Law School, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Harvard Kennedy School. EFF Board. Director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and the HLS Library.
Matt Giampoala @mattgiampoala.bsky.social Interested in scholarly publishing among other things
Anna Jester @annajester.bsky.social Frequently chats about scholarly publishing, gastronomic pursuits, Salukis, and travel. Volunteers for Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) & Council of Science Editors (CSE). Has a favorite standard (ANSI/NISO Z39.106-2023).
Rowan Cockett @row1.ca I talk about computational #openscience communication and science publishing. On the jupyterbook.org & @mystmd.org teams, co-founder of @curvenote.com & @continuous.foundation.
NASIG @nasig-org.bsky.social NASIG is an independent non-profit dedicated to advancing the information community through collaboration, events, and innovation in scholarly communications, serials, & e-resources.
For more info, visit: nasig.org
@anapatycardoso.bsky.social @anapatycardoso.bsky.social 
Birgit Schmidt @bschmid1.bsky.social Open Science enthusiast & head of Knowledge Commons at University of Göttingen (UGOE) / State and University Library | Also at @bschmid1@mastodon.social
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8036-5859
Martin Marlow @martinmarlow.bsky.social 
Association of University Presses @aupresses.bsky.social A global community of publishers whose mission is to ensure academic excellence and cultivate knowledge. Read UP! https://aupresses.org/ Got a question about university press publishing? Ask UP! https://ask.up.hcommons.org/
Dr. Christene Smith @christenesmith.bsky.social Editor at #CHEManagerInternational / @wiley.com, chemist, cat lover, sewist, Canadian in Berlin (she/her)
https://www.chemanager-online.com/en
Rory Williams @roryrwilliams.bsky.social Director of Communications and Marketing at Rockefeller University Press - @rupress.org That’s my dog, Derby 🐾