Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website anthropology, algorithms, attention | he/him | The conversation is characterized by Nick's use of language, but the content of the discussion remains unknown.
Society for Applied Anthropology @appliedanthro.bsky.social The Society for Applied Anthropology - A Worldwide Organization for the Applied Social Sciences
https://linktr.ee/appliedanthro
CASTAC @castac.bsky.social Committee for the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing, part of the GAD of the American Anthropological Association | castac.org |
Ana @anthrotechana.bsky.social anthropologist currently a postdoc at @datasociety.bsky.social & co-chair at @castac.bsky.social | views my own
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World Anthropological Union (WAU) 2025 Congress @waucongress.bsky.social Unearthing Humanity: Critical and Urgent Epistemic Redefinitions in World Anthropologies | WAU 2025 Congress | Antigua, Guatemala | November 3-8, 2025
EASA @easainfo.bsky.social European Association of Social Anthropologists. Membership body advancing anthropology, connecting practitioners and promoting cooperation. RTβ endorsement.
American Anthropologist @amanthro.bsky.social American Anthropologist is the flagship journal of the American Anthropological Association. The journal advances research on humankind in all its aspects.
Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com ARC Future Fellow β Monash University /// co-host β This Machine Kills /// critical insurance tech + climate risk governance /// political economy of technology and capitalism: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520398078/the-mechanic-and-the-luddite
the fab IHEID @gvagrad-thefab.bsky.social La Fabrique de la Paix (the fab) is the Geneva Graduate Instituteβs innovation lab. It aims to be a creative and safe space that promotes and showcases collaborative solutions.
π https://www.graduateinstitute.ch/fab
International Association for Safe & Ethical AI @iaseai.bsky.social 
Prof Cathryn Costello @profccostello.bsky.social Full Prof of Global Refugee and Migration Law, Sutherland School of Law, UCD; ex-Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford; ex-Centre for Fundamental Rights, Hertie School, Berlin. Recent return migrant after two decades.
Center for Advanced Internet Studies @cais-research.bsky.social Forschungsinstitut: Research for the Digital Age π | Gesellschaft und Digitalisierung π» | #TeamCAIS π₯| Bochum ποΈ| Willkommen beim #CAIS!
π Website: https://www.cais-research.de/
π Impressum: https://www.cais-research.de/impressum/
Platforms & Society @platformsnsociety.bsky.social Platforms & Society hosts critical social science and humanities research on platforms and platformization, examining their impacts on and embeddedness in economies, cultures, and institutions around the world.
Orlando @omassari.bsky.social Doing a PhD at the University of Edinburgh. Concocting a thesis, the main ingredients being Right-wing politics, hegemonic formation and some nostalgia. You can find me at your nearest bookshop. π΅π·
Bogdan Kulynych @bogdankulynych.bsky.social researcher studying privacy, security, reliability, and broader social implications of algorithmic systems Β· fake doctor working at a real hospital
website: https://kulyny.ch
R. Trebor Scholz @trebors2025.bsky.social Prof at The New School | Founder, Platform Cooperativism Consortium + Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy | Author, OWN THIS! (2023) + UBER-WORKED & UNDERPAID (2016) | Faculty Affiliate, Berkman Klein Center | Advocate for Digital Labor Rights |
Fabian Hofmann (he/him) @fhofmann.bsky.social Ph.D. Student, Technology and Governance (TaG) @ethz.chβ¬
"Securing Urban Peace" Project, SNSF Doc.CH Grant: https://bit.ly/SecuringUrbanPeace
Communications Officer @jird-jour.bsky.social
Junior Organiser @ipsswitzerland.bsky.socialβ¬
Low Society @metacapitalism.bsky.social Deeply committed to opposing MAGA. my pup, books, TV, old movies, jazz, rock, and classical music, beach walks, writing (fiction and non-fiction), abstract painting, stone sculpting, deep sleep, and non-violent villainy.
Jimil Ataman @jimilataman.bsky.social asst. professor of sustainable innovation in the global fashion industry @university of alberta | anthropologist of slow fashion | writing on capitalism, digital culture and feminist practice | she/her
freud intensifies @freudintensifies.bsky.social #memes to discuss with your therapist π₯
https://instagram.com/freud.intensifies
School for Advanced Research @sarsf.bsky.social The School for Advanced Research.
Create. Connect. Understand.
SAR: The only residential research institution supporting scholars & artists at the intersection of humanities, social sciences, & Native arts.
Anthropology I Archaeology I Humanities I Art
AAUP @aaup.org The American Association of University Professors champions academic freedom, advances shared governance, and organizes faculty to ensure higher education's contribution to the common good.
aaup.org
David H. Price @dhprice.bsky.social Anthropologist, FOIA scholar, & sometimes historian of anthropology. I mostly write about FBI, CIA, and DoD efforts to undermine democratic movements at home and abroad.
Every billionaire is a policy failure.
davidhprice.com
William Hamilton Byrne @whamiltonbyrne.bsky.social International law, international legal theory, human mobility.
Assistant Professor at MOBILE Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law, University of Copenhagen Faculty of Law.
Anthropology of Work Review @anthropologyofwork.bsky.social Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Work @saw-anthroofwork.bsky.social
Editors: @jasminefolz.bsky.social
@letha-b.bsky.social @valuequestion.bsky.social- V Rachel Smith @valuequestion.bsky.social Lecturer in Anthropology & Museum Studies. Vanuatu/Western Pacific; labour migration, kava, social change. Co-editor @anthropologyofwork.bsky.social
April M. Beisaw @aprilmbeisaw.bsky.social Anthropology professor @Vassar College. Fulbrighter @Natural History Museum Vienna. The Archaeology of American Protests (2025), Taking Our Water for the City: Archaeology of NYC Watershed Communities (2022), Identifying & Interpreting Animal Bones (2013).
Journal of International Relations and Development @jird-jour.bsky.social We are a generalist IR journal addressing contemporary world politics from a plurality of methodological and theoretical perspectives. JIRD is the official journal of the Central and East European International Studies Association (CEEISA).
Steffen Hornemann @shornemann.bsky.social phd fellow at university of oslo researching public sector digitalization
contributing editor @culanth's anthropod
anthropology, data studies, work, technology, sts, informatics
Advocacia Garcez @advocaciagarcez.bsky.social EscritΓ³rio de advocacia desde 1996 representando exclusivamente trabalhadores e trabalhadoras, entidades sindicais, movimentos populares e partidos de esquerda. Labour, employment, and human rights lawfirm.
www.advocaciagarcez.adv.br
SP, BSB, RJ, CWB, FLO
Postdigital Science and Education @pdse.bsky.social Official profile for Postdigital Science and Education journal, book series, and encyclopedia.
Curated by Petar JandriΔ. 
Martine Painchaud π¨π¦ππΊπ¦ @antifasciste.bsky.social Sovietologist, journalist in Quebec.
Will fight the rise of fascism every step of the way! π₯
But it sure feels like we are f**ked π΅
Of course Canada is next! Can we stop our own Russian asset, Poilievre?!
TASC Platform @tascplatform.bsky.social An open forum where diverse stakeholders come together to tackle some of the biggest universal challenges of the future - starting with the Future of Work.
ποΈ www.tascplatform.org
Research & Politics @respol.bsky.social Quality, Speed, Openness: Research & Politics is a peer-reviewed, open access journal, which focusses on research in political science and related fields.
https://journals.sagepub.com/home/RAP
The Policy Brief @thepolicybrief.bsky.social We cover tech policy and the global digital economy. Subscribe to our newsletter. https://theunbrief.substack.com
Ka Lok Wong (Steve) @stevekwong.bsky.social Economist at UNECA ; PhD @GVAGrad ; working on macroeconomic and finance issues (more specifically, sovereign debt) in the developing world. Views are my own.
Emerson Victoria Johnston @idenarch.bsky.social currently researching the social history of the early internet (think algorithms, architectures, and archives)
tech policy @ stanford / comms and membership @ AoIR
masters x2 @ stanford / bachelors @ northeastern
first gen π | π³οΈβπ
International Sociological Association (ISA) @isa-sociology.org Founded in 1949, International Sociological Association represents sociologists everywhere, regardless of their school of thought, scientific approaches or ideological opinion. Get to know us better at www.isa-sociology.org
Dario De Quarti @dariodequarti.bsky.social PhD Candidate in Economics @gvagrad.bsky.social
Geneva Graduate Institute @gvagrad.bsky.social A leading institution of research and higher education dedicated to the study of world affairs, located in the heart of International Geneva.
ποΈ www.graduateinstitute.ch
Mark Graham @geoplace.bsky.social Prof at the Oxford Internet Institute
Director of @towardsfairwork.bsky.social
Publications: www.markgraham.space
Studies: Digital Economies, Digital Geographies, Economic Geography, Gig Economy, Data Work, AI Production Networks, Cities
Eat the rich
SAW @saw-anthroofwork.bsky.social Founded in 1980, the Society for the Anthropology of Work seeks to advance the study of work in all its aspects by scholars from across the discipline.
Lilly Irani @gleemie.bsky.social Professor, Faculty Director UCSD Labor Center, author Chasing Innovation and Redacted, co-founder and supporter of Turkopticon, ex-Google worker. @local6741.bsky.social & @cucfa.org These are my personal opinions, not those of my employer.
Fekade Abebe @fekadeal.bsky.social PhD in International Law. Migration and Human Rights.
Geneva Graduate Institute Library @gvagradlibrary.bsky.social The Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Library - Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies https://bsky.app/profile/gvagrad.bsky.social - News and updates from our blog. https://linktr.ee/gvagrad_library
Milagros Miceli @milamiceli.bsky.social Sociologist & Computer Scientist
PI: @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social
Research Lead @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social
Research Lead @dairinstitute.bsky.social
π milamiceli.com
Nick Srnicek @nsrnicek.bsky.social Author of 'Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI': https://amzn.eu/d/aZKYWsA
Matthew Cole @mattcole.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Technology, Work and Employment at the University of Sussex.
Heterodox Marxist - Les dΓ©s sont pipΓ©s!
mattcole.work
Rafael Grohmann @grohmannrafael.bsky.social Assistant Professor Media Studies (Critical Platform Studies) University of Toronto, Canada. Leader DigiLabour. Platform labor, Worker-owned Platforms, AI & Labor, Worker Organizing
INDL @indl.bsky.social International Network on Digital Labor. Now in session for the INDL-6 annual conference in Berlin (9-11 Oct. 2023)
European Alternatives @euroalter.bsky.social β¨ Democracy, equality & culture beyond the nation state! Imagine, demand, enact ... ββ€οΈπ #euroalter
Casilli @casilli.bsky.social π«π· Professor Institut Polytechnique de Paris
I write books π Waiting for Robots, University of Chicago Press (2025)π and documentaries π₯In the Belly of AI (2025)π₯
AI Now Institute @ainowinstitute.bsky.social The AI Now Institute produces diagnosis and actionable policy research on artificial intelligence.
Find us at https://ainowinstitute.org/ 
Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social Professor of Law, University of CA, Irvine School of Law β’ Technology & Society β’ Work Law β’ Democracy & Inequality
General Counsel AAUP
Sam's sister β€οΈ
Personal Account, Views My Own
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute 
Jamie @jamiewoodcock.com Research on work and organising. Editor of Notes from Below and Historical Materialism.
Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) @aoir.bsky.social Researching the Internet is serious business. Mostly.
(We're mainly over on AoIR.social, our organisation Mastodon instance, which is open to all members.)
https://aoir.org/
https://aoir.social/@aoir
https://aoir.org/aoir2026/
Labor Tech Research Network @labortechresearchnetwork.org We are an interdisciplinary group of over 700 experts in labor, technology, anti-racism, feminism, and transnationalism.
Fabian Ferrari @fabianlferrari.bsky.social π Assistant Professor in Cultural AI, @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social
π Governance of AI Infrastructure
π www.fabianlferrari.com
Niels van Doorn @nielsvdoorn.bsky.social Associate Professor: University of Amsterdam. Editor: Platforms & Society. Book-in-the-making: The Platform Fix (MIT Press, forthcoming)
Big Data & Society @bigdatasoc.bsky.social Open access peer-reviewed journal connecting debates on emerging Big Data practices & how they reconfigure academic, social, industry, & government relations.
The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org Educational charity. Peer-reviewed sociology journal, public sociology magazine, podcasts, Connected Sociologies teaching resources, ECR opportunities.
https://www.thesociologicalreview.org
@barbaraorth.bsky.social @barbaraorth.bsky.social Postdoc @IRS. Borders, migration, gender, and digital platforms. And as of recently: labour and academia βπ»π©π»βπ (she/her) still sad about the demise of Twitter
Sneha Annavarapu @snehaannavarapu.bsky.social Iβm a sociologist and ethnographer interested in transport, urban infrastructure, and gender in South Asia. I host authors of cool new books on the New Books Network, and the co-founder of Ethnographic Marginalia.
Visit www.snehanna.com for more info.
CODE-CWA @codecwa.bsky.social We are the Campaign to Organize Digital Employees in the tech π©βπ», games πΉοΈ, and digital industries π±οΈ with CWA. https://code-cwa.org/organize
Building power as tech workers! βπΏβπΎβπ½βπ»
Prof. Ifeoma Ajunwa, J.D., LL.M., Ph.D. @iajunwa.bsky.social Writer. Professor of Law. Director, A.I. and the Future of Work Program, Author of The Quantified Worker. Order here: https://a.co/d/bfdTUj5 #AI #Ethics #Law
#Chocophile
#Filmophile
#Igbophile
#Francophile (mostly)
#Bibliophile
#musicophile
#Afrofuturist
Pew Research Center @pewresearch.org Nonpartisan, nonadvocacy data and analysis. Visit us at https://www.pewresearch.org/
Critical AI Lab @jwicriticalai.bsky.social Research on data, algorthmic systems and ethics @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social
Also on YouTube (http://youtube.com/channel/UCytCD), Twitter (@JWI_CriticalAI), and Mastodon (@jwicriticalai.bsky.social)
Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) @internetfreedom.bsky.social Born out of #SaveTheInternet. IFF advances democratic freedoms in a digital society.
Amber Sinha @ambersinha07.bsky.social Executive Director at EDRi | Author of βThe Networked Publicβ | Contributing Editor, Tech Policy Press | he/him/his
@deepigoyal.bsky.social @deepigoyal.bsky.social 
Third World Network @3rdworldnetwork.bsky.social Promoting just, equitable & ecological development.
Third World Network Berhad 198701004592 (163262-P)
π https://twn.my/
UC Berkeley Labor Center @ucblaborcenter.bsky.social The Labor Center conducts research and education on issues related to labor and employment. Our trainings serve to educate a diverse new generation of labor leaders. We also engage UC Berkeley students in learning about the labor movement.
ZoΓ« Glatt @zoeglatt.bsky.social π€ Feminist Media Scholar | Digital Ethnographer | Internet Culture Enthusiast
π Postdoc at Microsoft's Social Media Collective
π Co-Founder: The Digital Ethnography Collective & The Content Creator Scholars Network @weareccsn.bsky.social
π» www.zoeglatt.com
Worker Info Exchange @workerinfox.bsky.social Demanding transparency and accountability from platforms on algorithmic practices and worker rights violations
www.workerinfoexchange.org
Christina Behrendt @cbehrendt.bsky.social New to Blueskyβ¦ Passionate about #socialprotection, #socialsecurity, #rights, #socialjustice, #futureofwork, among others. Working @ILO π Views my own, RTs not an endorsement.
Ruwan Subasinghe @ruwansubasinghe.bsky.social @itfglobalunion.bsky.social Legal Director. Board member of @ilawnetwork.bsky.social, Ethical Trading Initiative and @cornellilr.bsky.social's Global Labor Institute.
Law - Sports- Hip Hop
Personal Account. All Views My Own. He/him
Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social An independent research and policy institute working toward a future where people, not technology, come first.
Rumman Chowdhury @ruchowdh.bsky.social www.rummanchowdhury.com
www.humane-intelligence.org
CEO & co-founder, Humane Intelligence
US Science Envoy for AI (Biden Administration)
Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social Climate/AI/labor/death researcher in Oakland. Luddite
I wrote a book about how techno-solutionism fails us in this life + beyond https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248272/death-glitch/
www.tamarakneese.com
Devika Narayan @devikanarayan.bsky.social Assistant Prof/Lecturer l University of Bristol Tech, markets, orgs + work. Some other stuff.
Sociologist.
https://www.devikanarayan.com/
Digital Humanities @ King's College London @kingsdh.bsky.social Critical inquiry with and about the digital. πΎ
Department of Digital Humanities at King's College London.
https://kingsdh.net/
https://kcl.ac.uk/ddh
Data Justice Lab @datajusticelab.bsky.social Researching the intersection of datafication and social justice. 
Technik, Macht und Herrschaft @digipolicy.bsky.social Research group βTechnology, Power, and Dominationβ @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social @wzb.bsky.social
https://www.weizenbaum-institut.de/en/research/digital-infrastructures-in-democracy/technology-power-and-domination/
Kate Crawford @katecrawford.bsky.social Professor, researcher, maker of things
Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social Prof, Maynooth Univ https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/people/rob-kitchin
PI Data Stories https://datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie/
Author: Researching Digital Life, Digital Timescapes, Data Lives, The Data Revolution
PDFs papers/chs https: www.kitchin.org
Institute for the Future of Work @ifow.org An independent research and development institute exploring how new technologies are transforming work and working lives. http://www.ifow.org
Subscribe to our newsletter: https://www.ifow.org/newsletter
Antipode @antipodeonline.bsky.social Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, publishing (and funding, through the non-profit Antipode Foundation) the very best radical research
Economic Sociology & Political Economy @econsociology.bsky.social The global community of academics, practitioners, and activists interested in Economic #Sociology and Political Economy -- led by Dr. Oleg Komlik https://economicsociology.org/about/
Tech Workers Coalition @techworkerscoalition.org We are a coalition of workers in and around the tech industry, labor organizers, community organizers, and friends. We work in solidarity with existing movements towards social justice, workers' rights, and economic inclusion.
Antonio Aloisi @aloisi.bsky.social law professor @ielawschool + fellow @nyulaw
platforms, AI, futures of work, social Europe
βYour Boss Is an Algorithmβ β Hart 2022
http://lawtomation.ie.edu
Valerio De Stefano @valeriodeste.bsky.social Canada Research Chair in Innovation, Law and Society, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto 
Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social Putting the movement back in the labor movement since 1979. linktr.ee/labornotes
Future for Work Institute @futureforwork.bsky.social Un observatorio independiente del futuro del trabajo y la gestiΓ³n de personas en las organizaciones www.futureforwork.com
jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social π public data cultures https://jonathangray.org/publicdatacultures
π± codirector @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social reader @kingsdh.bsky.social king's college london cofounder @publicdatalab.bsky.social
𫧠feminist STS, internet studies, poetic computation
Weizenbaum-Institut @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social Forschung fΓΌr die vernetzte Gesellschaft \\ Research for the networked society
https://www.weizenbaum-institut.de/
julie chen @julieychen.bsky.social Assistant Prof., ICCIT & iSchool, UofT
Editor, Platforms and Society
Study digital labor, platforms, and data work for AI
Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social Technology + democracy.
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