Blaise Agüera y Arcas @blaiseaguera.bsky.social CTO of Technology & Society at Google, working on fundamental AI research and exploring the nature and origins of intelligence.
Gabe @pedalsandpages.com I own a small 3D Print Farm
Prints: loonprints.com
Developer @mybibliotheca.org
Blog: pedalsandpages.com
Former US Army Infantry
Science | History Nerd | Biking + Running
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/
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
steven t. piantadosi @spiantado.bsky.social computational cognitive science he/him
UC Berkeley
ScienceHomecoming
http://colala.berkeley.edu/people/piantadosi/
Bethany Wasik @bethanywasik.bsky.social Editor in Chief at Cornell University Press acquiring in ancient, medieval, military, *and* European history. In a past life, completed a biology Ph.D. In this life, likes books, Criterion, rye, history, science, all the things in between, *and* donuts.
Kate Henne @k8henne.bsky.social Prof at Australian National University studying how science, tech, + inequality affect the governance of health + wellbeing. Recent book: Violent Impacts https://www.ucpress.edu/books/violent-impacts/paper
katehenne.com
Joe Cirincione @joecirin.bsky.social I don’t post often, so I try to make every one count. I’ve worked for 45 years in government, think tanks, Georgetown U. and philanthropy. I write, lecture and do media interviews. On Substack at: joecirincione.substack.com
Cornell University Press @cornellupress.bsky.social First University Press in the US
Established 1869
http://cornellpress.cornell.edu
Harold Trinkunas @htrinkunas.bsky.social Deputy Director at Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation. Usual disclaimers apply.
https://cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/people/harold-trinkunas
Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social Editor/Co-author, “Atomic Audit: The Costs and Consequences of US Nuclear Weapons Since 1940” • Nonresident Senior Fellow, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists • Nuclear weapons expert (history, policy, costs, accidents) and tracker of the nuclear “Football.”
Ankit Panda @nktpnd.bsky.social Stanton Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Author of ‘THE NEW NUCLEAR AGE’ (Polity) & ‘KIM JONG UN AND THE BOMB’ (Hurst/Oxford)
Subscribe to my newsletter (Nukesletter): https://panda.substack.com/
Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social Retired nuclear scientist. Worked in Estonia, Kazakhstan, and Los Alamos on environmental cleanup, nuclear nonproliferation, and the nuclear fuel cycle.
She/her.
Blogs at Nuclear Diner and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Photo: Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site
The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com A nonprofit news organization dedicated to sharing the knowledge of experts with the public, in accessible, trustworthy articles drawing on their research.
Free to read, without paywalls or ads.
Linda Ostermann @lindaostermann.bsky.social PhD candidate at RWTH Aachen University and HumTec | @vespotec.bsky.social | One of four spokespersons @JungeAFK | Nuclear Verification | Knowledge Production | Disarmament | she/her |
Mariana Budjeryn @mbudjeryn.bsky.social Researcher of nuclear, Ukraine, and nuclear Ukraine. Author of Inheriting the Bomb. MIT Center for Nuclear Security Policy, Brookings and RUSI nonresident, NAS CISAC, ACONA.
🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social Anthro PhD Candidate
nukes, cats, semiotics, FOIA, existential threat, heritage, nationalism, secrecy, etc
QUEER
multiply neurodivergent
RP/Fave/etc ≠agree
he/him
patreon.com/nuclearanthro
paypal.me/nuclearanthro
https://OSF.io/46sfd/
Paul N. Edwards @avastmachine.bsky.social History and politics of climate science, climate change, knowledge infrastructures. Prof. Emeritus of Information and History, University of Michigan and Director Emeritus, Stanford University STS Program. Now expat based in Marseille, fleeing US fascism.
Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social Historian, Earth Scientist, Writer, Public Intellectual.
Books: Merchants of Doubt; Collapse of Western Civilization; Science on a Mission; Discerning Experts; Why Trust Science?; The Big Myth. Loves: Chocolate, Red Wine, Skiing, family. Hates: Beets.
Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social Professor, Santa Fe Institute. Research on AI, cognitive science, and complex systems.
Website: https://melaniemitchell.me
Substack: https://aiguide.substack.com/
xiaochang @xiaochang.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Communication @ Stanford. Histories of AI/ML, NLP, speech recognition, and related data practices; general tomfoolery.
Ann Brody @annbrody.bsky.social PhD - Governance, McGill University. Research in Decentralized Governance, Digital Sovereignty, SSI, Privacy
MichiS @kinderschwester.bsky.social 
WIRK.ZONE @wirkzone.bsky.social CBRN Preparedness & Response.
Luísa Reis Castro @anthrobite.bsky.social Anthropologist of science, health & the environment in an unequal 🌍 | thinks a lot about Brasil & bugs 🦟 🦠
Assistant Prof @usc.edu; before MIT, Maastricht Univ, UFMG
Spending 2025–2026 in Deutschland @hanse-ias.bsky.social
ela/she/sie
Bernhard Zdársky @bernhardzdarsky.bsky.social 
Sven Opitz @svop.bsky.social Sociologist, focus on Biopolitics, Ecology, Health, Atmospheric Politics, and More-Than-Human Social Theory, Professor at Philipps-Universität Marburg
Law & Society Review @lawsocietyreview.bsky.social Official journal of the Law and Society Association, publishing innovative scholarship on relationships between law and society, including legal institutions and processes.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/law-and-society-review
Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos.bsky.social Political Scientist, Providence College
Strategic Co-Director, Climate and Community Institute
Author / Resource Radicals (Duke UP 2020)
Co-Author / A Planet to Win (Verso 2019)
Forthcoming / Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism (WW Norton)
Dr Laura Smith-Khan @lawandlanguage.org Senior Lecturer (UNE) lawandlanguage.org
Incoming CoEiC Aus J Human Rights (UNSW)
External CESSMIR (UGent) @languageonthemove.bsky.social member.
Asylum, migration, disability, human rights, legal ed/prac, access to justice
ENG, FR, ES, IT, اردو, پښتو
Casey Johnston @caseyjohnston.bsky.social Buy my book, A PHYSICAL EDUCATION
a Marketplace and Scientific American pick for 2025!
science writer/author
Newsletter shesabeast.co
couchtobarbell.com
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
maybe: leif weatherby @leifw.bsky.social Hegel, cybernetics, Buffalo Bills
Tyler Shoemaker @t-shoemaker.bsky.social tylershoemaker.info
Mark Dingemanse @markdingemanse.net Language, interaction, tech • papers https://markdingemanse.net • blog https://ideophone.org • more colourful on fedi https://scholar.social/@dingemansemark/ • POSSE: Publish on Own Site, Syndicate Everywhere
Sarah Shulist (she/her) @sarahling.bsky.social Linguist, anthropologist, all around mouthy person. Queen’s U, Kingston, ON. Opinions represent me and only me.
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology @journaloflinganth.bsky.social Flagship journal of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology.
Vincent Ialenti @vincentialenti.bsky.social nuclear waste anthropologist | former DOE program manager | senior fellow at Tampere University | longstormer
https://www.vincentialenti.com
Qi Hong @horngchyi.bsky.social abd @UofT | history of linguistics and speech sciences | book history and print culture | late imperial and modern China (19th-20th centuries) | from the river to the sea
Noya Nohavi @xnoyax.bsky.social PhD fellow at Copenhagen Business School
Language in Society @languageinsociety.bsky.social Language in Society is an international journal of #sociolinguistics concerned with #language and #discourse as aspects of social life.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/language-in-society
Michael Erard @michaelerard.bsky.social Writer, linguist. Slips of the tongue, uh & um (amzn.to/40GCOM3); hyperpolyglots (bit.ly/3AXLtAe); first & last words (bit.ly/4kN0PKa). NEW: An anthology, THE LANGUAGE BEAT (Apple: https://apple.co/4fK71SA; Google: https://bit.ly/4wARdY2)- M Mick Smith @mck.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at the Dept. of Culture & Society, Linköping University/EMCA/(he/him)
Tati @szafonova.bsky.social social anthropologist. Interested in populism, right-wing, countryside and Eastern Europe. Beyond that I love astrophotography, gardening and lace-making.
Felicia Steele @feliciajsteele.bsky.social Professor, linguist, knitter, curmudgeon: teach and study the History of the English language, British Literature before 1700, and many adjacent things. All opinions my own.
Kilu von Prince @kilinguistics.bsky.social linguist
a less cruel world is possible
neurosomething (autistic)
all posts reflect private opinions
marc o))) @defmarco.bsky.social Come visit me at https://defmarco.com 👾
Law and Society Association @lawandsociety.bsky.social The Law and Society Association consists of scholars from many fields and countries, researching law in social, political, economic and cultural life.
Shirley Siluk @ebishirl.bsky.social Writer/editor and former journalist. Author of "News Speak: How Language Can Manipulate Meaning in What We Read, Watch and Listen to" and "Prove It!: Fact-Finding Secrets of a Fanatical Online Researcher."
Peter Steinberger @steipete.me vibe coding is the way. I bootstrapped a remote company before it was cool. Founder @PSPDFKit (exit to Insight). 🏳️🌈
Xin Qu @xinqu.bsky.social DPhil-ing, internet literature, literary and linguistic anthropology, introvert and pessimist
A̴̙̅Ǩ̸̫A̵̭̍ ̵̖̃F̴̛͈ȧ̸͙b̶̦́ï̵͙a̵̜̾n̸̰͠ ̸̘̾M̷̟͠u̴͉̇n̷̥͝i̷̻͆e̸̮̾ŝ̵̲a̴̹͌ @provokedeconomy.bsky.social Sparse reactions to things, augmented with academic propaganda -- from the verified author of 'The Provoked Economy' (Routledge, 2014), AKA Fabian Muniesa
https://provokedeconomy.net/
Julien Porquet @julienporquet.bsky.social https://julienporquet.org/
PhD Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge
I study how people (and sometimes machines) look together and against each other.
📍 Montréal
Denia Djokić @bdenia.bsky.social 🇦🇹🇷🇸🇺🇸🇪🇨🏳️🌈🦙
Tim Elfenbein @timelfen.bsky.social Principal of Forthcoming LLC, a publishing consultancy; Member of @limnpress.bsky.social editorial collective; Researcher & practitioner of scholarly publishing; Digital explorer–analog sailor; Victim of meaning.
Dr Yuchen Yang @dr-yang.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Sociology at University of Birmingham | UChicago PhD '24 | UC Berkeley BA '17 | interactionist scholar of gender, sexualities, culture, semiotics, and childhood | friend of EMCA who stumbled into linguistic anthropology
Ana @anthrotechana.bsky.social anthropologist currently a postdoc at @datasociety.bsky.social & co-chair at @castac.bsky.social | professing @ nyu | views my own
[contain typos]
🏳️🌈 she/her
Rebecca Journey @beccajourney.bsky.social Anthropologist, cat lady, folk devil
https://chicago.academia.edu/RebeccaJourney
Centre for Digital Cultures @cdcleuphana.bsky.social The Centre for Digital Cultures (CDC) at #Leuphana University of #Lüneburg is dedicated to central questions of digital culture and the effects of the current polycrisis on social life. We rethink #technology, #media, and #culturalstudies.
Marion Näser-Lather @mnaeser-lather.bsky.social 
Mikael Brunila @mikaelbrunila.bsky.social Postdoc @medialab-scpo.bsky.social, author, and programmer. Most of my work is in #NLProc, #GIS, computational social science, and philosophy of technology.
https://mikaelbrunila.com/information-theory/
DHdKonferenz @dhdkonferenz.bsky.social 12. Jahrestagung des Verbands »Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum« 23.–27. Februar 2026 in Wien @univie.ac.at
https://dhd2026.digitalhumanities.de
#DHd2026
Laura K. Nelson @lauraknelson.bsky.social Associate Professor @ UBC
computational sociology
machine learning is feminist
You only have to look at the Medusa straight on to see her. And she’s not deadly. She’s beautiful and she’s laughing.
www.lauraknelson.com
naitian @naitian.org NLP / CSS PhD at Berkeley I School. I develop computational methods to study culture as a social language.
Tariq Adely @tadely.bsky.social Anthro PhD Candidate @ GWU | AI language models, Arabic, labor | Ontario-based | he/him
Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social https://danmcquillan.org/
Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social Digital Cultures and Arts | UZH & ZHdK | operative images, synthetic media and visual culture
@digitalculturesandarts.ch
https://digitalculturesandarts.ch/
https://linktr.ee/bildoperationen
Aïssatou Mbodj-Pouye @satoumbodj.bsky.social Anthropologist, Mali, Sénégal, France. Popular culture, languages, media esp. radio.- H Haley L. @haleyhaala.bsky.social phd candidate at stanford
Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social Director of Research, @dairinstitute.bsky.social
Book: thecon.ai
Pod+newsletter: https://dair-institute.org/maiht3k
https://alex-hanna.com
🇪🇬Ⲛⲓⲣⲉⲙⲛ̀ⲭⲏⲙⲓ
🏳️⚧️ she/هي
📸 @willtoft.bsky.social
Rep📘 @ianbonaparte.bsky.social
Ilana Gershon @structureless.bsky.social anthropologist at Rice University
Cat-Tebaldi @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social Postdoc @ culture & computation lab | language & gender & far right |
Signs and Society @signsandsociety.bsky.social An open access, multidisciplinary journal in the humanities and social sciences focusing on the role of sign processes (or semiosis) in social interaction, cognition, and cultural formations.
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
beth semel @bethmsemel.bsky.social AI killjoy, prednisone hater, writing about voice analysis AI and the labor of technosolutionist listening in American mental healthcare | bethmsemel.com
@knowledgedrops.bsky.social @knowledgedrops.bsky.social 
Verena Halsmayer @vhalsmayer.bsky.social historian of economic knowledge/ modeling/ planning @univie.ac.at
website: https://tinyurl.com/55ayxyxm
Patrick Eisenlohr @patrickeisenlohr.bsky.social Professor of Anthropology, Chair in Society and Culture in Modern India, University of Göttingen. Religious Media | Sound Studies | Atmospheres | Environmental Knowledge | Indian Ocean | Phenomenology | Semiotic and Linguistic Anthropology
AWS - Austin Wade Smith @austinwadesmith.bsky.social 🎐🐸🦋 - feral kite flying accretion - Executive Director
@regenFdn - (they/them)
The Vocal Fries @vocalfriespod.bsky.social a podcast about linguistic discrimination.
“compelling and never preachy” - NYT
Charles L. Briggs @charleslbriggs.bsky.social Linguistic and medical anthropologist in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley; I love teaching, research, and writing. My most recent book is Incommunicable: Toward Communicative Justice in Health and Medicine.
Laura Ahearn @ahearnlaura.bsky.social Linguistic anthropologist, Living Language, Nepal wallah, learning, adaptive management, CLA, tea drinker
Elise Kramer @elisekramer.bsky.social Linguistic anthropologist @ UIUC. 
Society for Linguistic Anthropology @soclinganth.bsky.social A community for linguistic anthropologists and explorers of language in culture.
www.linguisticanthropology.org
Jascha Sohl-Dickstein @jascha.sohldickstein.com Recently a principal scientist at Google DeepMind. Joining Anthropic. Most (in)famous for inventing diffusion models. AI + physics + neuroscience + dynamical systems.
WIRED @wired.com For Future Reference.
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Corey Pein @coreypein.bsky.social author, Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley
writer, @thebaffler.com, @majorityreport.bsky.social's daily amquickie.com newsletter
Oliver Nachtwey @onachtwey.bsky.social Sociologist. Interested in (digital) capitalism, work, authoritarianism and social conflicts. Book: „Zerstörungslust. Elemente des demokratischen Faschismus“, Berlin: Suhrkamp.
https://linktr.ee/zerstoerungslust
@sheilaheti.bsky.social @sheilaheti.bsky.social chicago
Joseph Wilson @josephwilsonca.bsky.social writer - educator - anthropologist
"Humans of AI: Understanding the People Behind the Machines"
out now from Aevo U of T Press
https://josephwilson.ca
Keith Murphy @kmtam.bsky.social anthropologist of small things | writing about design, language, machines, Sweden
Paula Bialski @bialski.bsky.social digital sociologist, ethnographer, STS scholar, musician. New book out now http://tinyurl.com/4f29px33
Suzana Jovicic @suzanajovicic.bsky.social Anthropologist (Digital/Design & Psychological Anthropology), University of Vienna. Worryingly easy to bribe with chocolate. 
Geht-Doch @gehtdochwien.bsky.social FußgängerInnen:Initiative. Für mehr Platz fürs Zu Fuß Gehen im Öffentlichen Raum.
Paul Schuierer-Aigner @pablodiabolo.bsky.social Iiving in innsbruck
working at www.muellers-buero.at
wir schreiben dir das.
wiederdonnerstag @wiederdonnerstag.bsky.social Fix zam gegen Rechts!
wiederdonnerstag.at
Jan Böhmermann 🤨 @janboehm.bsky.social 🇪🇺 // JOIN ME ON MASTODON: https://edi.social/@janboehm // @ZDF Magazin Royale 🦠/ fest & flauschig @Spotify / hotline +49 30 959997666 / ❤️✊️😉 / boehmermann.de
Monika Wulz @monikawulz.bsky.social history & philosophy of science | political histories & economic shapes of knowledge | pluralist economies of intellectual work | non-aligned science | @Leuphana