John-Paul Smiley @johnpaulsmiley.bsky.social BA (University of York, UK), MSc (University of Leicester), PhD (Loughborough University)
Futurism, social and political thought, sociology
pro² network+ @prosquared.org Making the manufacture of digital devices more accessible. Learn more at www.prosquared.org
Dr Leslie Wong @wongznleslie.bsky.social Recent PhD graduate in Comparative Literature from King’s College London. Adaptation. Reception. Comics. Spec Fic. Video Games. Contemporary East and Southeast Asia.
Naomi Warne @nmwarne.bsky.social Prudence Trust/EBI Fellow | Uni of Bristol
Create for Confidence Project Lead 🎨🏫
Young people’s mental health | co-production | epidemiology | arts and culture | schools
@isoxyz.bsky.social @isoxyz.bsky.social
Gabriel Stones @gabrielstones.bsky.social Artist and developer
https://gabestones.itch.io/
www.gabrielstones.com
Michael Franklin @mcbfranklin.bsky.social academic research & industrial application - film, risk, philosophy, economics, market devices | personal acct | https://ciciexeter.org/ | https://britishscreenforum.co.uk/film-data-initiative-pilot/ | https://mcbfranklin.com/
Anne Preger @apreger.eurosky.social Science Journalist |📕"Globale Überdosis“ #Stickstoff #Eutrophierung = Wissensbuch des Jahres 2023 | 🎧 Team #Podcast 🌍 “Quarks Mal angenommen” | 🖼️Team „Tatort Kunst“ Dlf |🪶RiffReporter |☘️Geoökologin #Nitrogen #Birds #Storytelling
Mark McLaren @markmclaren.bsky.social Computer programmer by day. Couch potato by night.
TiCL 🍃💚🍃 @ticl.me ticl ~vb. 1. to point out something interesting nearby ~ n. 2. a little piece of current local knowledge and how to get there [abbrev. for article]
Ferocious Composure @ferociouscomposure.bsky.social Beyond the signal. Between the lines.
Roger @allknowingroger.bsky.social ⏩ accelerate science and technology
@casparls.bsky.social @casparls.bsky.social
Xingzhi [GiGi] ZHENG 🏳️🌈 @zheng-xingzhi.bsky.social A “Jack of all trades, master of none”
academic, working in the field of Computing and Creative Technologies in the U.K. My views are my own opinions.
https://zhengxingzhi.com
sandroid @herbivorewolf.bsky.social sandroid.dev
Bitterne Park Teacher Training Alliance @bitterneparkitt.bsky.social An alliance of secondary schools across Hampshire working in partnership with the University of Winchester to offer a postgraduate school-led route into teaching. www.bitterneparkschool.org.uk/train-to-teach/welcome #pgce #qts #traintoteach #UKTeaching
Norma Schemschat @drnorma.bsky.social Researcher curious about all things urban and migration | Research Lead for >FuturMig< (Futures of Migration) @ IMIS (Uni Osnabrück) | Interested in future-making in peripheralized places, autonomy-building, and place-making
Joshua Hurtado @joshuahh.bsky.social PhD, University of Helsinki. Studying environmental politics, specifically degrowth and the Pluriverse. As a Futures researcher, I also study futures of death and immortality. Views my own.
@sarahjreed.bsky.social @sarahjreed.bsky.social
Dr Lindsey A. Davidson @hebraicaveritas.bsky.social Lecturer in Jewish Studies, University of Bristol, UK. Historian of ancient Judaism. BDFI affiliate. BIAJS Secretary (@biajs.bsky.social). STECA Co-Director (@stecacareers.bsky.social). #skystorians
Dr Emily Elizabeth Hoyle @emilyehoyle.substack.com Researcher and writer
Specialised in Gender Studies and Tech Bros
Interests: cultural imaginaries, transhumanism, feminist technoscience, longevity, sociology of futures 🌌
@farmergeddon.bsky.social @farmergeddon.bsky.social
Inga Luchs @lynxlynxly.bsky.social PhD Candidate at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Editor at meson press | Digital Culture, Machine Learning, Big Tech Critique
GW4 Alliance @gw4alliance.bsky.social An alliance of four of the most research-intensive and innovative universities in the UK: Bath, Bristol, Cardiff and Exeter. Collaboration is at the heart of everything we do: gw4.ac.uk
Sign up to our newsletter: https://tinyurl.com/4tbuar5f
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.
Transcultural Digital Intimacy Research Network @transdi.bsky.social Transcultural Digital Intimacy Research Network (TransDI), Chair: Dr Liang Ge (Univ of Manchester) @liangge11.bsky.social
Migration Mobilities Bristol @mmbuob.bsky.social Faculty Research Centre @universityofbristol 📚 New thinking on people, movement and social justice 🚀 Blogs, podcasts, conversations. Visit us at https://migration.bristol.ac.uk/
Julia Gumy @julemy.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Policy Studies, University of Bristol. Oncology mum. Views my own.
Sam Mohun Himmelweit @sam-mh.bsky.social Lecturer in Social Policy, Uni of Bristol.
PhD from LSE
Research on: comparative family policy; labour market inequalities; ideas, welfare state continuity and change.
Dan Lockton @danlockton.com Utrecht, NL + Norwich, UK
Prof of Design & Imagination, Norwich University of the Arts ⦿ Director, Institute for Sustainable Worlds https://sustainableworlds.org.uk ⦿ Design⸻imagination⸻climate⸻futures ⦿ http://imaginari.es ⦿ he/him ⦿ Not employer's views
Olu Niyi-Awosusi @olu.online web developer, writer, video maker, mad/disabled + audhd, queer, luddite, black innit | they/them | elsewhere: https://olu.online/contact
@gwbraikenridge24.bsky.social @gwbraikenridge24.bsky.social Amateur Bristol historian 🏰 Rewilding Britain🌳🐝, Lynx, Beaver, Wild Boar reintroductions, 😺🦫🐗 Wildflowers🌼🌸🌺 Heritage Railway enthusiast 🚂 3-D modeller 💻 Green Party💚Degrowth, born when CO2 was 330PPM 🌍
ann w @annwang2.bsky.social MRes Security, Conflict and Human Rights at UoB
gender studies, nationalism and post-colonial research
Tori Holmes @toririo.bsky.social Researching digital culture, data activism, documentary - in Brazil. Fan of places where the mountains meet the sea.
http://go.qub.ac.uk/toriholmes
Also at https://bsky.app/profile/rebracweb.bsky.social
gillian rose @profgillian.bsky.social digital things, visual culture, cities, visual research methods. And sometimes academic life. Prof of Human Geography at the University of Oxford. I still blog, occasionally, here:
https://visualmethodculture.wordpress.com/
Bristol Institute for Teaching and Learning @biltonline.bsky.social Driving innovation in teaching, learning and assessment at the University of Bristol. Posting about funding, staff and student opportunities, our latest research and upcoming T+L events.
Dr Anya Skatova @anyaskatova.bsky.social Behavioural and data scientist, University of Bristol.
Dr Romana Burgess @romanaburgess.bsky.social
Polly Rose BFE @theflyingeditor.bsky.social Film editor ✂️ 🎞️ PhD research: Buster Keaton’s film editing & creative process
📽️🍿Presenter and/or programmer of film screenings📍Bristol, UK
HQ: https://bit.ly/m/theflyingeditor
Ollie @olliedean.bsky.social Illustrator & Designer 🌱
10+ years working with adventurous scientists & researchers 💚
Bristol University Library @bristolunilib.bsky.social Official account for @universityofbristol library services 👋 We're here to support your research, teaching and studies and connect with the academic community. Also expect beautiful library photos and the occasional cat.
www.bristol.ac.uk/library
Johnny Hoang @daytoy1005.bsky.social Digital Media, Algorithms and Gen AI
Liang Ge (they/them) @liangge11.bsky.social Lecturer in Sociology @morgancentre.bsky.social University of Manchester Sociology Department | Digital Media & Tech, Digital Methods, Gender & Sexuality, ESEA Creative Industries and Popular Cultures | they/them
Dr Amy Edwards @somsproject.bsky.social Historian at Uni of Bristol interested in cultures of capitalism, business, and finance.
PI on AHRC project: ‘The Secret of My Success’: Women and Self-Employment 1970-2000.
Book: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/are-we-rich-yet/hardcover
Suzie Leighton @suziel8ton.bsky.social Co-director of National Centre for Academic and Cultural Exchange, trustee of Jasmin Vardimon Company & Duckie, Governor RCSSD, love exploring possibilities, shared values and interests and lifting heavy weights!
IMC 🍉 @sociologist83.bsky.social Historian of science & sociologist
Nienke Alberts @nienke-alberts.bsky.social Researcher | Higher Education | Social Mobility | The Personal Tutoring Project
bit.ly/m/personal-tutoring-project
orcid.org/0000-0002-3712-2816
@talia-k.bsky.social @talia-k.bsky.social
Marcus Gilroy-Ware @mjgw.bsky.social Writer about politics/media/culture/tech; Author of "After the Fact?" (2020 - http://mjgw.net/atf) & "Filling the Void" (2017); Lecturer @ SOAS;
Dr Tim Dixon @dr-tim.bsky.social
Bristol Vision Institute @bristolvisioninst.bsky.social Created by the University of Bristol, the BVI brings together engineers and scientists from a range of academic disciplines and external partners.
Hàìghlèàgh Winslade BA BA MRes @hiegleah.bsky.social Landscape Archaeologist & Anthropologist of Medicine & Religion Border Terrier Fancier views my own.
Alexander Vandewalle @alexvandewalle.bsky.social Postdoc at Ghent University // Video games and mythology // DiGRA Belgium Co-Chair
Greta Hawes @gretahawes.bsky.social Mythologist, MANTOneer, MEep, Macquarier, needlewoman, gardener. Secretly just wants to be a cowgirl.
James Hanover @jameshanover.bsky.social Words. History. Coffee.
Acknowledging Dja Dja Wurrung Country.
ACH @achintegrates.bsky.social ACH is dedicated to building a better future for refugees and migrants in the UK.
http://linktr.ee/achintegrates
Katharina Burger @katharinaburger.bsky.social Associate Prof in Major Infrastructure Delivery at UCL Bartlett
Sonic the Transhog @uhmactualeah.bsky.social
Rebecca Bramall @rfbramall.bsky.social Tax, redistribution, welfare states, digitalisation, cultural studies. Prof of Culture & Economy, UAL. PI Redistributive Imaginaries https://redigim.arts.ac.uk/
Dep ed @newformations.bsky.social
https://researchers.arts.ac.uk/114-rebecca-bramall
Elmer Zinkhann @zinkous.bsky.social Design strategist in York.
Shaping services that work for people and planet.
Head of Design at Digital Catapult / Design Council expert / LEGO® Serious Play® facilitator
@shwetak12.bsky.social @shwetak12.bsky.social
Max Edward Perry @0404am.bsky.social Social science researcher in Edinburgh.
I look at (and try to write about): medical records, databases, bureaucracy, and clinical knowledge.
Mechdyne Corporation @mechdyne.bsky.social We are one of the world's leading providers of innovative visual information technologies & managed services.
Huw Day @huwwday.bsky.social Research Associate in Digital Health at the VIVO Hub for Enhanced Independent Living (https://www.thevivohub.com/) at the University of Bristol
Co-organiser of the Data Ethics Club (https://dataethicsclub.com/)
Recovering mathematician
he/him
Joanna Batstone @jbatstone.bsky.social Technology Innovator, ex-IBM Executive, Monash University Professor, FTSE, DEng, PhD, BSc
Jo Haynes @johaynes.bsky.social Cultural sociologist and Professor working at the University of Bristol. Studies music, festivals, cultural work and race in the music industry.
@vedrangaletic.bsky.social @vedrangaletic.bsky.social
@godoyla.bsky.social @godoyla.bsky.social
Ian Nabney @iannabney.bsky.social Academic at University of Bristol and Treasurer of Bristol Early Music Festival
ValB @valedu.bsky.social
Benjamin Marent @benjaminmarent.bsky.social Associate Professor in Digital Technology, University of Sussex
@pipbayley.bsky.social @pipbayley.bsky.social
Suzi Wells @suziw.bsky.social Digital education among other things || was @suzicatherine on Twitter
Giles Turnbull @gilestur.bsky.social \o/
https://gilest.org • https://usethehumanvoice.com
Katie Tiplady-Startin @tippers83.bsky.social Head of Operations @Centre For Thriving Places | Believer in human kindness | Lover of growing food | Aspiring author
https://bsky.app/profile/thrivingplaces.bsky.social
Tom O'Shea @complextom.bsky.social Ph.D. | Senior Analyst @ WECA |
Place & Perspective | Aspiring iconoclast |
www.linkedin.com/in/teo1988 |
Yuan Pan (she/her) @yuanpan90.bsky.social Lecturer in Digital Infrastructures & Sustainability (Digital Humanities; KCL) @kingsdh.bsky.social
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/yuan-pan
Human-Nature Relationships | Biodiversity | Environmental Video Games. She/her 🏳️🌈
ESRC Centre for Sociodigital Futures @sociodigfutures.bsky.social We live in a sociodigital world – a world where society and digital technology are increasingly bound together. Founded in 2022, we bring together leading interdisciplinary expertise to explore sociodigital futures in the making. www.bristol.ac.uk/censof
SWWDTP @swwdtp.bsky.social South, West & Wales (Arts & Humanities) Doctoral Training Partnership. We are a partnership of 9 universities and other orgs, providing AHRC funding for PhDs.
Knowle West Media Centre @knowlewestmedia.bsky.social A community hub, digital manufacturing space + neighbourhood living lab in Knowle West, Bristol. Since 1996, we’ve been collaboratively shaping fairer futures using arts, tech, and care. 💚
Bristol Anthro & Archaeo @bristolantharch.bsky.social Department of Anthropology & Archaeology at the University of Bristol
MJ @mikejohnson.bsky.social Christian, made in Cymru #networkedlearning https://hanfod.NL
Sebastian Randerath @sebastianranderath.bsky.social PhD Research Associate and Lecturer, Digital Media Culture, University of Bonn | Researching Media and Labour, Focus on Resistance, Surveillance and Planning | he/him
jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social 📗 public data cultures https://jonathangray.org/publicdatacultures
🌱 codirector @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social reader @kingsdh.bsky.social king's college london cofounder @publicdatalab.bsky.social
🫧 feminist STS, internet studies, poetic computation
Laura Hille @simongoeshill.bsky.social Wants to have a rocket as well. Is going to call it "Shuttlecock"
Wurde fälschlicherweise als Ökonomin in einem Podcast bezeichnet.
Bath Institute of Sustainability and Climate Change (ISCC) @bath-iscc.bsky.social A community of researchers delivering world-class #research in Sustainable Chemical Technologies, Sustainable Systems, and Social Transformations at the University of Bath: http://bath.ac.uk/iscc
#climatechange #sustainability #SDGs #circulareconomy
Debbie Watson @profdebw.bsky.social Interdisciplinary Professor and Director of Brigstow Institute, Bristol: https://www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/ championing co-produced, arts-based research. Sociodigital futures of care: https://www.bristol.ac.uk/research/centres/sociodigital-futures/
Cabot Institute for the Environment @cabot-institute.bsky.social Interdisciplinary environmental research community at the University of Bristol. Food security, water, low carbon energy, city futures, environmental change, natural hazards & disaster risk, climate change & health. www.bristol.ac.uk/cabot
Rebecca Coleman @rcecoleman.bsky.social Professor @bdfi.bsky.social @sociodigfutures.bsky.social and Sociology. Bristol, UK. Researcher in Residence (2023-2025) @knowlewestmedia.bsky.social
Digital media and culture, futures and presents, affect, interdisciplinary methods.
University of Bristol Public Engagement Team @engagebristol.bsky.social https://www.bristol.ac.uk/public-engagement/
Eric Herring @ericherring.bsky.social Professor of World Politics, University of Bristol. Research and practice on locally led sustainable development. Honoured by my Somali nickname 'Warsame'
Doug West @dougwest.bsky.social Thoracic Surgeon in Bristol, England. Work for National Lung Cancer Audit @nlca-natcan, and National Consultant Information Project @GIRFT, also RCSEd. Hon Sec, Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery GB&I. Dad, runner, occasional sailor.
Michael J Sullivan @michaeljsullivan.bsky.social Literary critic at University of Oxford, St Catherine's College | Poetics | Transnational drift of verse forms | Digital Humanities & Digital Editing | General Editor, OUP Complete Works of Tennyson.
Views are my own. www.michaeljsullivan.net
Liz McFall @allartmarkets.bsky.social Professor in Sociology of Markets, Edinburgh| sentimental pragmatist following insurance, markets, data centres and BIG SHEDS|
EiC @jcultecon.bsky.social
https://efi.ed.ac.uk/ecosystem/data-civics
🎥 @ https://youtube.com/@areweawed8955?si=VuE3d8hM5DJOadhE
@susanruinaard.bsky.social @susanruinaard.bsky.social
Leanne Hammacott @leannehammacott.bsky.social Head of Programming, Culture kcl.ac.uk/cultural King’s College London 🌱
Part of bodydataspace.net collective 🙇♀️
Project board member 'The Jewel in the Strand' https://stmarylestrand.com/ 💫
Karishma Banga @karishmabanga.bsky.social Lecturer in Digital Economy at King's College London
Digital development | BigTech regulation | Digital Value Chains