Alan Liu @alanyliu.bsky.social I'm a professor in digital humanities & English at UC Santa Barbara. For public humanities, I founded http://4Humanities.org & co-founded https://center-humanities-communication.org/. My website: https://liu.english.ucsb.edu/
Zachary Quarles, MPSE @zqsfx.bsky.social Sound designer at Sweet Justice and general weirdo. #gameaudio #gamedev #sounddesign #3dprinting #food #dogs #dungeonsanddragons
https://www.zq-sfx.com
Greg Langmead @greg.langmead.info Nerd, , math, music, games.
Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social Into creative ML/AI, NLP, data science and digital humanities, narrative, infovis, games, sf & f. Consultant, ds in Residence at Google Arts & Culture. (Lyon, FR) Newsletter arnicas.substack.com.
Kent K. Chang @kentkchang.bsky.social PhD candidate, University of California, Berkeley. Natural language processing & cultural analytics.
Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social information science professor (tech ethics + internet stuff)
kind of a content creator (elsewhere also @professorcasey)
though not influencing anyone to do anything except maybe learn things
she/her
more: casey.prof
LYB @lillianyvonne.bsky.social Cat person. Computational & LLM poet. I attend faculty meetings for a living.
Nick Montfort @docmofo.bsky.social Computational & experimental poet, teacher, curator, editor, researcher. Faculty at MIT & UiB. Lab/studio: The Trope Tank. Micropress: Bad Quarto
Zach Whalen @zachwhalen.bsky.social Associate Professor teaching Digital Studies at the University of Mary Washington.
↪ zachwhalen.net
Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social All things K-12 education policy. Professor @PrincetonSPIA & Sociology; Director, Education Research Section.
Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social Founder of Cognitive Resonance, a new venture dedicated to helping people understand human cognition and generative AI. Advocate for humans.
Newsletter: https://buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/
Sojin Cho @sojincho.bsky.social PhD candidate in Rhetoric and Composition @ University of Pittsburgh
S. Scott Graham @sscottgraham.bsky.social Rhetorician of science & medicine at UT-Austin. I write about health, ethics, conflicts of interest, AI & the history of anatomy museums (not all at the same time, obvs). Now mapping the world's medical museums → thecollectors.sscottgraham.com
Justin Bortnick @lordhuffnpuff.allfatherproductions.com Working academic and video game maker. President, @iftechfoundation.org. Founder, @allfatherprod.bsky.social. Writer/Designer/Producer/Whatever, Frog Fractions 2; Static Sky; Reality Games; Hiveswap; other projects. Host, Red Pages Podcast.
Whitney Trettien @whitneytrettien.bsky.social Penn professor & faculty director of the Price Lab for Digital Humanities. Author, CUT/COPY/PASTE (2021). Weird old books & technologies, thinking about data, craftwork, feminist media histories. Creative/critical. Libraries are dope. Still a punk.
Rodney Brooks @rodneyabrooks.bsky.social Primarily Robotics and AI. Distinguishing hype-notism from plausibility one press release at a time. rodneybrooks.com/blog people.csail.mit.edu/brooks
Allison Shertzer @econhist-allday.bsky.social Economic historian of U.S. cities. Interested in infrastructure, land use regulation, and housing prices over the long run. Views expressed here are my own. Personal website at allisonshertzer.com.
Julia Evans @b0rk.jvns.ca programming and exclamation marks
blog: jvns.ca
zines: wizardzines.com
Avey @aveynelson.bsky.social refills are 50 cents
Nathaniel Rivers @handle.invalid Professor of English Saint Louis University | Rhetoric, Media, Environment | After the Post.Human | he/him | Banner image by Will Rivers
sophist.monster
Daniel Hutchinson @dhutchinson.bsky.social Historian and digital humanist. Researches WWII, exploring historical applications of AI. http://danielhutchinson.org
Joshua Barsczewski @joshuabarsczewski.bsky.social Muhlenberg College. Assistant Prof of English Literatures and Creative Writing. Writing Program Director. Writing Center Director
Anastasia Salter @anasalter.bsky.social Professor of English and Director of Texts & Technology at UCF. Author most recently of Playful Pedagogy in the Pandemic & Twining. More at: https://anastasiasalter.net/
Dustin Edwards @dustinedwards.bsky.social I study the unmet promises and lived harms of extractive technologies.
https://dustinwedwards.com/
Paul Fyfe @pfyfe.bsky.social Professor at NC State University. Wandering between worlds of C19th British lit, comparative media studies, critical data literacies. Book *Digital Victorians* https://www.sup.org/books/literary-studies-and-literature/digital-victorians
Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov Dad, husband, teacher, coach, veteran. Governor of Minnesota. Working to move our state forward as #OneMinnesota.
Amy J. Wan @planbreakeramy.bsky.social Writing studies, higher ed, literacy | Queens College and GC CUNY faculty researching access, policy and change | she/her | Tired but looking to be inspired
Megan Simmermeyer @megan-simmer.bsky.social writer, composition/rhetoric scholar, crafter, reader, PhD student
Rita Raley @ritaraley.bsky.social Professor of English, UC Santa Barbara
https://english.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/raley-rita/
// Like everyone, working on critical AI/machine learning; more unusually, focusing on GPT-2
Jessica Pressman @jessicapressman.bsky.social Professor of English and Comparative Literature @ San Diego State University. Co-founder of SDSU's Digital Humanities Initiative.
—Electronic literature, bookishness, and mermaids
#mermaidlit
jessicapressman.com
Jason Gulya @jasongulya.bsky.social Professor of English and Communications at Berkeley College
LinkedIn: https://tinyurl.com/3txt65da
Newsletter: https://open.substack.com/pub/higherai
Work with me: https://tinyurl.com/2n4wvhsp
Stephen Chrisomalis @schrisomalis.bsky.social Linguistic anthropologist, Wayne State University. Numbers, cognition, writing and literacy, mathematics. Left, 🇨🇦, he/him. https://glossographia.com/ https://phrontistery.info
Caddie Alford @caddiealford.bsky.social Associate Prof of Rhetoric at VCU // critical AI, platform and media studies + rhetorical theory + writing pedagogies // Co-Lead of AI Futures Hub // 📕 = Entitled Opinions: Doxa After Digitality // 1st Gen // #TeamRhetoric
https://caddiealford.com
constellations journal @constellationsjrnl.bsky.social constellations: a cultural rhetorics publishing space is an online double-blind peer-reviewed journal featuring cultural rhetorics scholarship and practice. https://constell8cr.com/- J @jmlaskas.bsky.social @jmlaskas.bsky.social
Michelle F. Eble @mfeble.bsky.social
Matt Vetter @darthvetter.bsky.social Mainly academic stuff - digital writing + Wikipedia studies
Drew M. Loewe @drewloewe.bsky.social Austinite.
Seahawks fan. #GoHawks
#GoDodgers, #GoFrogs, #GoZags, #GoGauchos, #GoRoadrunners
⛳️
NOT official university account.
The writing class section sizes are too large.
Kristin Arola @kristinarola.bsky.social Yooper (Keweenaw). Finndian (first-gen KBIC descendant, Finlander). Swimmer. Berry picker. Mama Bear.
Alexandra Hidalgo @the-alex-hidalgo.bsky.social I'm a writer, filmmaker, memoirist, editor, mom, and associate professor and Crow Chair of English at the University of Pittsburgh.
https://linktr.ee/alexandra_hidalgo
@benmiller314.bsky.social @benmiller314.bsky.social Assoc Prof of English/Composition at Pitt. Infrequent poster.
Kairos Journal @kairosrtp.bsky.social Kairos: Rhetoric, Technology, Pedagogy. OA before OA was a thing. Longest, continuously running scholarly multimedia journal. Open peer review. We love cats.
Doug Eyman @kairosdoug.bsky.social Writing and Rhetoric faculty at GMU. Digital Rhetoric, Games/Gaming, Tech Comm. Wine and Chinese tea. Tai chi student.
Jeff Grabill @grabill.bsky.social Dean of Arts and Sciences, University at Buffalo
Roxanne Prichard, PhD @roxanneprichard.bsky.social Professor, Sleep Researcher, Speaker. Passionate about Inclusive Excellence in Teaching, Sleep as Social Justice, and Pleasure Activism.
melissa t. yang @mtyrhetoric.bsky.social here for birds & words, poultry & poetry 🐣 multispecies rhetorician & writing center director @ emory 🪿
Meryl Alper @merylalper.bsky.social Associate Professor of Communication Studies @ Northeastern. Technology, kids, disability, mental health. BOOKS: Digital Youth with Disabilities (MIT 2014) Giving Voice (MIT 2017), Kids Across the Spectrums (MIT 2023) https://bit.ly/kidsacrossthespectrums
Ian Milligan @ianmilligan1.bsky.social Professor of History and founding Director of the School of Social, Historical and Political Research at the University of Waterloo. Posts in a completely personal capacity.
Toomas Hendrik Ilves @ilvestoomas.bsky.social Unsuccessfully retired ex-prez, ex-MEP, ex-foreign minister, ex-ambassador, ex-director of RFE-RL Estonian service, etc, ex cetera.
Except for @darthputinkgb.bsky.social, I take seriously only those who post here under his or her own name.
Lara Putnam @laraputnam.bsky.social Historian. Mom. Knocks on doors and talks politics. https://www.history.pitt.edu/people/lara-putnam
readywriting @readywriting.bsky.social I do digital pedagogy things professionally, coach swimming for my sanity, sew my own clothes amateurishly, parent the best I can.
Co-host of the All The Things ADHD podcast, editor of the National Teaching and Learning Forum.
Cara Marta Messina @caramartamessina.com 💖Assistant prof of English
💜fan studies & digital rhetoric
💙keeper of Team Rhetoric feed
💖Alliance for Refusing Generative AI Discord https://discord.gg/fPpdr2fkBp
💜writing a book on fanfiction
💙”your silence will not protect you “
Donnie Johnson Sackey @donniejsackey.bsky.social Love 🎾 and ⚽️. Watch a lot of 📼. 💚 Green. Drink 🍻. 🏳️🌈. Born in 🇻🇮, but linked to 🇻🇬.🍕 is my religion. Schreib mir auf 🇩🇪. Michigan til I die.
📍Austin, TX
Jennifer Sano-Franchini @jsanofranchini.bsky.social gaziano family legacy professor of rhetoric & writing studies | cultural & digital rhet / asian am rhet / UX | refusal.blog | http://www.etsy.com/shop/byebot
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
Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan @bernarddionysius.bsky.social teacher, writer, curator
media, cybernetics, HCI, environmental humanities, digital images, AI
Elizabeth Davis @drelizabethd.bsky.social Writing is my thing. Digital media, spaces/places, and experi-ential/-mental pedagogy are my game!
Cydney Alexis @materiallives.bsky.social Writer, writing studies prof, skater, roller coaster junkie, audiobook lover, and Houstonian who thinks a lot about material culture and AI
Beronda L. Montgomery @berondam.bsky.social Living my purpose
Writer:
Books #LessonsFromPlants (https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674241282) & #WhenTreesTestify (https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250335166/whentreestestify/)
Professor
#Leadership|#Mentoring|#EquityReadingList/#DEIReadingList
Dr Michael J. Maguire @clevercelt.bsky.social Irish writer and dissociate professor of that thing you don't know that much about.- P Patrick Lipo @patricklipo.bsky.social 30+ year game veteran: Heretic II, Jedi Outcast, Dead Space 2&3, Lamplighters League, Project Lead of X-Men Legends. Currently designing for Orion Drift (VR) and building Auto Fire.
Have had up to eight cats, only five(!) right now.
Hollis Robbins @anecdotal.bsky.social AI is disrupting higher ed: how can we be ahead? Writing at https://hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com. Former Dean of Humanities & now Special Advisor for Humanities & AI at UUtah. Former Dean @ Sonoma State University. PhD Princeton, MPP Harvard KSG
Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social Writer I Speaker I Professor I Historian I Ctr. Dir. I Director, CBI for Computing Info. & Culture; Prof. HST/STS, U of MN
Co-Edit JHUP Computing & Culture bk srs. Research-Social Study of AI, Privacy/Sec., Labor, Race, Gender & Inequality. JUST CODE
Nicole Hennig @nic221.bsky.social E-learning dev & AI educator at U of Arizona Libraries. Former head of UX at MIT Libraries. Winner of MIT Excellence Award. nicolehennig.com. Digital nomad from 2013-17, locationflexiblelife.com.
- vegetarian
- car-free
- universal basic income: yes
MikeSharples @sharplem.bsky.social Emeritus Professor, Educational Technology, The Open University. AI & education, open science, AI and creativity. #EduSky #AcademicSky. Sailing on seascamp.org.uk
Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social Writing in the age of AI stuff
Newsletter: writinghacks.substack.com
Also curate theimportantwork.substack.com
Megan McIntyre @rcmeg.bsky.social Director, Program in Rhet/Comp, U of Arkansas
English prof
Writing about #WPALife and writing pedagogy
Loves dogs
Before: Sonoma State English & Dartmouth Institute for Writing & Rhetoric
(views only ever mine, obv)
she/her
The Verge @theverge.com Covering life in the future
Subscribe here: https://www.theverge.com/subscribe
Anuj Gupta @mettalrose.bsky.social Asst. Professor @usouthflorida. GenAI in education. AR/VR. Algorithms. Computational Research. Digital Writing Technologies. UI/UX. Rhetoric, writing studies, technical communication.
Jason Tham @jasontham.bsky.social 👋 Associate professor at Texas Tech University
⭐️ UX + design thinking + shared leadership
📔 New book: https://linktr.ee/jason.tham
Jon Ippolito @jonippolito.net How does tech empower and frustrate creators—writers, programmers, media makers—and how do we keep their work alive in the long run? UMaine Professor of New Media, Director of Digital Curation; former Guggenheim Curator of Media Art https://jonippolito.net
Leon Furze @leonfurze.com PhD and consultant working with and sometimes against AI in education. Leonfurze.com / practicalaistrategies.com
Katie (Kathryn) Conrad @kconrad.bsky.social Prof. of English at University of Kansas. Tech and culture. AI ethics. Critical AI literacy. Pandora’s Bot on Substack. Library of Babel Group. Zine publisher. #aiethics #criticalailiteracy
Maha Bali, PhD @mahabali.bsky.social Equity/care. Open connected educator. @bali_maha 🐦. Mahabali@mastodon.social
Blog: https://blog.mahabali.me Dismantle injustice 🇵🇸 #EduSky #highered
Professor of Practice, American Univ in Cairo
Lance Eaton @leaton01.bsky.social Educator? Writer? PhD! Learner! Runner! Bi! #OpenAccess #EdTech #OpenPedagogy #AcademicPiracy #AIEducation posts=my own. Follow me at https://aiedusimplified.substack.com/
Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social Scholar, author, policy advisor
Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab
https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab
Books: The Future of Science is Civic, Auditing AI, The Social Life of DNA, Genetics & the Unsettled Past, Body & Soul, Technicolor
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that.
Kevin Roose @kevinroose.com NYT tech columnist, Hard Fork co-host, best at 0.8x speed
karpathy @karpathy.bsky.social AI @ OpenAI, Tesla, Stanford
Leonardo Flores @leoflores.bsky.social Professor and Chair, Department of English, Appalachian State University.
Cyborg writer and creative coder. Made in 🇵🇷. He/him.
Learn more about me at https://leonardoflores.net/
Antonio Byrd @writesantonio.bsky.social He/they and 🏳️🌈. K drama and anime and mostly reposting about whatever I think is interesting. I don’t get any attention here but happy to support others get engagement! 😃
Derek Bruff @derekbruff.bsky.social Educator, author, consultant. Associate director at the University of Virginia Center for Teaching Excellence. Co-author of The Norton Guide to AI-Aware Teaching. Host of the Intentional Teaching podcast. Birder.
Chronicle of Higher Education @chronicle.com Academe’s most trusted resource for independent journalism, career development, and forward-looking intelligence.
Website: www.chronicle.com
Critical AI https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/issue @criticalai-journal.bsky.social Critical AI's new issue is out! https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/issue
Email us at criticalai@sas.rutgers.edu
Our website and blog: https://criticalai.org/
Miles Brundage @milesbrundage.bsky.social AI policy researcher, wife guy, fan of cute animals and sci-fi, executive director of AVERI, Substacker
Sayash Kapoor @sayash.bsky.social CS PhD candidate at Princeton. I study the societal impact of AI.
Website: cs.princeton.edu/~sayashk
Book/Substack: aisnakeoil.com
Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social Professor at Wharton, studying AI and its implications for education, entrepreneurship, and work. Author of Co-Intelligence.
Book: https://a.co/d/bC2kSj1
Substack: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/
Web: https://mgmt.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/emollick
Irina Dumitrescu @irinadumitrescu.bsky.social Writer, medievalist, co-editor of @creativecritical.bsky.social. Writing a book about medieval imperfection.
irinadumitrescu.com
Lex Fridman @lexfridman.bsky.social Host of Lex Fridman Podcast.
Interested in robots and humans.
John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social Writer, speaker, consultant. Chicago Tribune columnist, blogging at Inside Higher Ed. Coming soon, More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI. Previously: Why They Can't Write and The Writer's Practice. biblioracle.substack.com
Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social Visiting prof @Stony Brook; fellow @Montclair State; emeritus prof @CUNY's Newmark School of Journalism. Co-host: Intelligent Machines, AI Inside. Author of Hot Type, The Gutenberg Parenthesis, Magazine, available at: https://jeffjarvis.com
Nathan Baschez @nbaschez.bsky.social Building, and writing
Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social ✍🏽 • RACE AFTER TECHNOLOGY: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code • VIRAL JUSTICE: How We Grow the World We Want • IMAGINATION: A Manifesto 📚www.ruhabenjamin.com
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Ian Bogost @ibogost.com Read my new book, The Small Stuff: How to Lead a More Gratifying Life: https://gratifying.life
Barbara and David Thomas Distinguished Professor at WashU; Staff writer at The Atlantic; author of 11 books. https://bogost.com