Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social Political Communication Prof at GWU. Flaming Hydra.
I write about the history and future of tech and politics. My next book, Vaporware, Inc.: How Silicon Valley Sells the Future to Control the Present, arrives on January 12, 2027.
Davekarpf.beehiiv.com
Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social Policy Professor, Ford School, University of Michigan.
Irish immigrant. Administrative burdens guy.
Free newsletter, Can We Still Govern?: https://donmoynihan.substack.com
Lindsey Barrett @lambarrett.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law | computer distruster | she/hers
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2556788
Tianqi Kou @koutianqi.bsky.social phd candidate at penn state ist, feminist science studies, ai ethics. 🌈he/him. perpetually busy reading things I don’t understand.
koutianqi.info
Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life @citap.bsky.social We research the intersection of technology platforms and democratic society.
Our work produces insights that inform a digital future rooted in equality and justice.
https://linktr.ee/unc_citap
Cella @cellllla.bsky.social She/her | Postdoc @ UVA DTD | Previously: CMU HCII, Data & Society, UCI Informatics, Big Cartel Workers Union. Views are my own. http://cella.io
shira @shira-a.bsky.social grad scad@mcgill, words@reboot, translator@limited connection, forecast.weather.gov stan
shiraab.github.io
Books:
https://asterismbooks.com/product/the-hand-of-the-hand-laura-vazquez
https://www.arche-editeur.com/livre/le-reve-dun-langage-commun-747
Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social Sociologist interested in STS, data, and the state. Assistant Professor of Communication and Sociology at Northeastern University. chunchengliu.com
Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social Ontario Research Chair in Science Policy
Obsessed with assets & assetization + into science & technology studies, political economy, economic sociology: https://keanbirch.net/
ASA SKAT @asaskat.bsky.social Official presence of Science, Knowledge and Technology (SKAT) Section, A Section of the American Sociological Association
Learn more: http://asaskat.com
Noor @infosciguy.bsky.social 
orgorgorgorgorg @orgorgorgorgorg.bsky.social ORG is a reading group at UNC Chapel Hill that meets Fridays at 10:00am via Zoom. Learn more at https://orgorgorgorgorg.org/
Mercedes 🤦♀️ Bunz @mrsbunz.bsky.social King’s College London. Interested in reading ML as a ‘calculation of meaning’ 🧮📝📚✍️🎨. Creative AI Lab with Serpentine’s Eva Jäger. Left AI ✊
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
Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social STS and Medical Anthropology, cyborgs, care, feminist theories of tech, she/her
CYBORG: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547550/cyborg/
Food Allergy Advocacy: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517910563/food-allergy-advoca
Maxim Raginsky @mraginsky.bsky.social web: http://maxim.ece.illinois.edu
substack: https://realizable.substack.com
maybe: leif weatherby @leifw.bsky.social Hegel, cybernetics, Buffalo Bills
Max Read @maxread.info http://maxread.email
Ben Recht @beenwrekt.bsky.social Blog: https://argmin.substack.com/
Webpage: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~brecht/
The Irrational Decision: How We Gave Computers the Power to Choose for Us. (Princeton) https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691272443/the-irrational-decision
Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social Professor of democracy and international affairs. http://www.henryfarrell.net and newsletter at http://www.programmablemutter.com. Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (Holt, Penguin). https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781250840554.
Samantha Dalal @samanthadalal.bsky.social **On the job market!**
InfoSci PhD Candidate @ CU Boulder
MSR SMC '23; MSR TAIX '24
Community-based methods for tech accountability
Hannah BW @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social public law, science, technology
hannahbw.com
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”- L Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social Researcher and teacher. Writing about race, gender and internet stuff since 1995. “The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet” out from U. Minn press. Lisanakamura.net for articles if you want.
M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social Professor of Psychology & Human Values at Princeton | Cognitive scientist curious about technology, narratives, & epistemic (in)justice | They/She 🏳️🌈
www.crockettlab.org
Anna Tsvetkov @annatsv.bsky.social Postdoc @ Princeton AI
Natural and Artificial Minds
Prev: Philosophy PhD @ Brown, MIT FutureTech
Website: https://annatsv.github.io/
Ember McCoy @embermcc.bsky.social STS-er • political ecologist • organizer
currently:
postdoc @ penn state
formerly:
phd, university of michigan | swammer, carthage college
EvalEval Coalition @eval-eval.bsky.social We are a researcher community developing scientifically grounded research outputs and robust deployment infrastructure for broader impact evaluations.
https://evalevalai.com/
Briana Vecchione @briana-v.bsky.social Researcher @datasociety.bsky.social • AI use/evaluation/accountability in mental health + companionship • Cornell IS PhD • brianavecchione.org • 🏳️🌈
@genakim.bsky.social @genakim.bsky.social 🇵🇸
gena.kim
Mohamed Moustafa Dawoud @mo-mo2025.bsky.social PhD student at University of California, Santa Cruz working on Security, Privacy, and Human Factors.
https://momodawoud.github.io/
Jake Goldenfein @jakegoldenfein.bsky.social Melbourne Law School, CI at ARC CoE for Automated Decision-Making and Society - Studying data governance, data commodification, and automated decision-making.
Stephen Yang! @stephenyang.bsky.social PhDing @USCAnnenberg // studying media, technology, environment // prev @Cornell @MSFTResearch @CDT // Angelino & 臺灣人
https://www.stephen-yang.com/
Alexis Shore Ingber @shoreingber.bsky.social Trying to help privacy happen. Media law prof @ Syracuse U
More on me here: www.alexisshoreingber.com
Jose A. Guridi @jaguridi.bsky.social PhD (c) at #Cornell Information Science | Interested in how policies for emerging technologies are created, and how can we use emerging technologies to improve policies through broader participation.
I am at the intersection of Policy and HCI :).
nathan kim @nathanckim.bsky.social phd candidate Umich School of Information | tech, race/empire, capital, logistics | socialist with GEO3550. Ann Arbor tenants union
For a ruthless criticism of all that exists, towards a Marxism without guarantees, etc.
https://nathan-kim.org
Madelyn Sanfilippo @profmrs.bsky.social Assistant Professor in the School of Information Sciences at UIUC / Sociotechnical Governance Scholar / Affiliate of the Ostrom Workshop / baking enthusiast
Brett Frischmann @brettfrischmann.bsky.social Interdisciplinary researcher & teacher (Villanova Univ.). Infrastructure. Knowledge Commons. Re-Engineering Humanity. Tech & Humanity/Society. IP Theory. Lately, Friction-in-design, Age Gating. TEDx: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgbC3hmhHAU
Peter Ormerod @ormerod.bsky.social Associate Professor, Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law
https://peterormerod.com
Zubair Shafiq @zubair-shafiq.bsky.social prof @ucdavis; privacy + measurement researcher; outdoor enthusiast; anda-shami lover
Rishab Nithyanand @rishabn.bsky.social Internet measurement, tech policy, and privacy researcher. Asst. Prof. at UIowa. 
Pegah Moradi @pegahmoradi.bsky.social PhD candidate in Information Science at Cornell studying automation, ai, labor, and self-checkout 🛒 https://pegahmoradi.github.io/ (mostly crossposting from @moradipegah on X)
Nicholson Price @nicholson.bsky.social Law professor, food lover, sci fi & fantasy reader
Alicia DeVrio @uhleeeeeeeshuh.bsky.social Incoming assistant professor of digital media @ Georgia Tech
HCI PhD @ CMU studying resistance to harmful AI systems
also enjoys weaving, musicals, grammar, ice cream, libraries
--> all the other whatever at uhleeeeeeeshuh.com
Emily Tseng @emtseng.bsky.social Postdoc at MSR, soon a prof at UW HCDE, got my PhD at Cornell IS. I think about power, privacy, and participation in HCI, security and AI.
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.
justine zhang @tisjune.bsky.social assistant professor in information, university of michigan. i have big intellectual feelings about language and technology.
https://tisjune.github.io/
she/her
logan koepke @jlkoepke.bsky.social senior project director @upturn.org. research and advocacy on the material harms of AI systems, with a specific focus on civil rights. personal views.
we have it in our power to begin the world over again.
www.jlkoepke.com
Janet Vertesi @cyberlyra.bsky.social Princeton Sociology Prof; NASA ethnography; tech policy; digitalSTS; critical technical practice; mobile Linux. Conscientious objector to surveillance capitalism.
https://janet.vertesi.com
https://www.optoutproject.net
@cyberlyra@hachyderm.io
dan bateyko @dbateyko.bsky.social maybe the hard stuff's inside, hidden — like bones, as opposed to an exoskeleton.
@CornellInfoSci
https://dbateyko.info
Shreya Chowdhary @shreyachowdhary.bsky.social phd student at university of michigan school of information - she/her - data, public interest technology, social justice
Marc Aidinoff @maidino.bsky.social Historian of technology, science, and the welfare state. Occasional maker of policy about those things.
Benjamin Laufer @laufer.bsky.social PhD student at Cornell Tech.
bendlaufer.github.io
Angelina Wang @angelinawang.bsky.social Asst Prof at Cornell Info Sci and Cornell Tech. Responsible AI
https://angelina-wang.github.io/
Ben Green @benzevgreen.bsky.social Author of ALGORITHMIC REALISM: DATA SCIENCE PRACTICES TO PROMOTE SOCIAL JUSTICE (Oct 6, MIT Press). Assistant Professor of Information and Public Policy at the University of Michigan. https://www.benzevgreen.com
Ken Holstein @kenholstein.bsky.social HCI Prof at CMU HCII: thecoalalab.com
Research on:
- technologies to augment human thinking and learning
- participatory & responsible AI
- human-AI interaction
Ryan Steed @rbsteed.com AI Policy Fellow @ Princeton | PhD Carnegie Mellon | privacy, accountability, & algorithmic systems
Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social Historian of technology, occasional dad jokes.
www.marhicks.com
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/ 
Hannah Zeavin @hzeavin.bsky.social historian of mind & media I book: The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy I Founding Editor of @parapraxismag.bsky.social
Burcu Baykurt @baykurt.bsky.social media studies, STS, cities, ethnography at UMass Amherst
bbaykurt@umass.edu | https://baykurt.org/ | https://itallhappenedbefore.substack.com/
Jenna Burrell @jburrell.bsky.social Currently: visiting researcher, University of Tokyo, based in Yokohama (GMT+9)
Formerly: Professor at UC-Berkeley, Director of Research, Data & Society.
Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social We are 4S, an international, nonprofit association focused on the social studies of science, technology and medicine (#STS). Next Annual meeting October 7-10, 2026.
Ari Ezra Waldman @ariezra.bsky.social Law professor at UC Irvine, studying law, technology, society, and queer civil rights. 🏳️🌈
Dad to Peabody.
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.
Anubha Singh @anubhausha.bsky.social somewhere in between
Future of agriculture | Future of labor | Science and Technology Studies | Postcolonial Computing
lavinia dunagan @laviniakd.bsky.social busy reading w computers at the university of michigan school of information
beck @beckmallwitz.bsky.social they/them | phd student @ umsi | info sci x archives x queer/trans studies
fuck ice and free palestine always
probably knitting in class
Nadia Karizat @nkarizat.bsky.social PhD student @umsi | she/her | Social Computing, Reproductive Justice, Feminist STS |💕💟🦋| lover of my cat(s) |🇱🇧🇮🇹| إنَهم أبناء وبنات الحياة المشتاقة إلى نفسها
www.nadiakarizat.com
James M. Zumel Dumlao @jamesmzd.bsky.social PhD Candidate at the University of Michigan School of Information :: Knowledge/Cultural Production, Science of Science :: he/him/his
https://jamesmzd.github.io/
Francesca Lameiro @lameiro.bsky.social phd student @ university of michigan school of information
francescalameiro.com
Megan Brown @m-dot-brown.bsky.social PhD Student University of Michigan School of Information & Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering | formerly engineering @csmapnyu.org | NYU ‘19 
Hong Chen @hongch.bsky.social PhD student at University of Michigan School of Information.
Computational Social Science | Science of Science
http://hongcchen.com
Sidney Xiang @sdxiang.bsky.social - J Joshua Ashkinaze @joshash.bsky.social PhD student at UM, interested in computational social science + building useful (multi-agent) AI systems.
https://joshash.space
Ben Litterer @blitt.bsky.social PhD student interested in computational approaches to language, politics, and media
Iowa | Michigan 
Laura Kurek @lkurek.bsky.social PhD @ UMich School of Information • researching information manipulation online - particularly on wikipedia, rumble, + tiktok • https://laurakurek.github.io/
Hibby @hibbythach.com PhD student at the University of Michigan's School of Information studying content moderation, trans technologies, and live-streaming. she/her pronouns
Oh also I'm like if a girl was a gamer was a streamer teehee
https://linktr.ee/hibbybobibby
Samuel Reiji Mayworm @mayworms.info 🏳️⚧️he/him | PhD student @ the University of Michigan School of Information | online communities + trans tech | librarian sometimes | mayworms.info
kevin zheng 🍯 @ze.vin phd student in information @umich.edu • political economy of social platforms • computational social science, sts, hci • @geo3550.bsky.social @idpiumass.bsky.social @mediacloud.bsky.social
ze.vin • he/they • prev umass amherst, cfpb
Solon Barocas @s010n.bsky.social Researcher, Microsoft Research
Shobita Parthasarathy @shobitap.org Science, tech, and innovation politics/policy incl patents. Author: next book on politics of inclusive innovation in India. #STS. Prof & Director, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, U of Michigan. Expert Voices columnist, Science. shobitap.org
Hanna Wallach @hannawallach.bsky.social VP and Distinguished Scientist at Microsoft Research NYC. AI evaluation and measurement, responsible AI, computational social science, machine learning. She/her.
One photo a day since January 2018: https://www.instagram.com/logisticaggression/
Robyn Caplan @robyncaplan.bsky.social Assistant professor at Duke University. Tech policy, platform governance, mom.
I make bad jokes sometimes.
Marissa Kumar Gerchick @mkgerchick.bsky.social She/her. Data Science Manager and Algorithmic Justice Specialist at ACLU. Writing a book about AI & women's sports. Personal account.
https://keepthescore.substack.com
Matt Bui @mnbui.bsky.social professor at the University of Michigan School of Information, focusing on racial justice as data justice. interests: critical data x urban comm
working on a book, Appetite for Data, about foodie platforms & race / class / solidarity.
radjusticelab.com
Emma Lurie @emmalurie.bsky.social postdoc @ UPenn CIS | public interest technology law and policy | she/her
Gina Neff @ginasue.bsky.social Flower fan and AI expert. Professor of Responsible AI, QMUL; Director Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, Cambridge and fellow Magdalene College. Deputy CEO Responsible AI UK. https://linktr.ee/mctdcambridge?utm_source=linktree_admin_share 
Luke Stark @lukestark.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 just a simple country AI ethicist | Assistant Professor, Western University 🇨🇦 | Co-Director, @starlingcentre.bsky.social | he/his/him | | no all-male panels |#BLM | 🏳️⚧️ ally | views my own
https://starkcontrast.co/
https://starlingcentre.ca/
Lauren Chambers @laurenmarietta.bsky.social still chasing the high that was space tw*tter circa 2018 💔
year 5 phd studying advocacy technology at @berkeleyischool.bsky.social
formerly @aclum.bsky.social🗽, @stsci.edu 🛰️
laurenmarietta.github.io
Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social Sociologist @Cornell. Currently interested in the history of inequality statistics, and the role of economic expertise in climate policy. “Venceréis, pero no convenceréis.”
Andrea @akthom.bsky.social associate professor, information science.
knowledge infrastructures! natural history collections! curated scientific databases!
Richmond Wong @richmondywong.bsky.social Assistant Prof at Georgia Tech in Digital Media. Research at the intersection of tech ethics, human-computer interaction, and science & technology studies. Lover of design, trains, Star Trek 🖖and curling 🥌. (he/him)
Meera Desai @madesai.bsky.social PhD student at University of Michigan School of Information. Data and evaluation practices for language models / language models as cultural technologies.
https://meera-desai.com
Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social Professor @ a large Midwestern U
Author of Thinking like an Economist, Creating the Market University
Trying to understand how ideas about economic value have shaped capitalism + its regulation, from the first Gilded Age to the second
Have more hair now
Alicia Solow-Niederman @aliciasn.bsky.social Associate Prof at GW Law. Privacy, algo accountability, AI governance. Distance runner fueled by ice cream.
Salomé Viljoen @salome.bsky.social Assistant Prof at Michigan Law || I think about how the law thinks about data || pro science and technology, anti scams
Reuben Binns @rdbinns.bsky.social Computery guy. HCI, ML, AI, privacy, security, fairness, political economy of tech. He/him. London/Oxford.
Woodrow Hartzog @hartzog.bsky.social Andrew R. Randall Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law. Author of "Privacy's Blueprint" (2018) and co-author of "Breached!" (2022). Posting mainly about privacy, tech and the law.