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.
Anubha Singh @anubhausha.bsky.social somewhere in between
Future of agriculture | Future of labor | Science and Technology Studies | Postcolonial Computing
The Centre for Science, Knowledge and Policy (SKAPE) @skape-ed.bsky.social Interdisciplinary research centre at the University of Edinburgh that explores the relationship / intersection between different types of science and knowledge on policy
Currently directed by Markus Ketola and Rob Ralston
https://www.skape.ed.ac.uk/
Scientific Instrument Society @sis-instrument-soc.bsky.social International society promoting the study and preservation of scientific instruments; publisher of the Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society
https://scientificinstrumentsociety.org/
Tuomas Väisänen 📼🧟 @waeiski.bsky.social 🧑🎓 Computational urban geographer & post-doc researcher interested in #GIScience #UrbanStudies #Multilingualism #Diversity #Mobility #Geography #BigData + #Linux.
💻 @digigeolab.bsky.social
🎓 @helsinki.fi
🌍 Helsinki, Finland
https://waeiski.github.io
Angela Marques Filipe @angelaofthenorth.bsky.social A/Prof #Sociology, durham.ac.uk/staff/angela-m-filipe. Global #ethnography + social #history of contested conditions, concepts & climates of mental #health, theorizing #ADHD, #vulnerability, #ecoanxiety.
My own views (reg del skeets)
🇵🇹🇬🇧🌈♾️🪐
Jarmo @jarmodv.bsky.social PhD Student in Science and Technology Studies. Working on the transformation of genomic testing in NHS England
Journal of Engaging Science, Technology, and Society (ESTS) @estsjournal.bsky.social The diamond open access journal for the Society for Social Studies of Science and Technology (4S).
Ben Chin-Yee @bc-y.bsky.social Philosophy of science & medicine.
Hematologist & Assistant Professor at Western University, Canada.
benchinyee.com
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
Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com Climate, energy, emerging tech, resilience, & policy professor. Carnegie Mellon Univ. Institute for Energy Innovation Director. Former Biden-Harris White House OSTP Chief Advisor for the Clean Energy Transition. Personal account. He/Him. costasamaras.com
Federation of American Scientists @scientistsorg.bsky.social Striving for a safer world since 1945
science policy | nuclear weapons | clean energy | STEM education | artificial intelligence | data privacy | much much more
Sam Biddle @sambiddle.com Senior Technology Reporter at The Intercept
Got a tip? Signal: sambiddle.99 (Make sure you don’t contact me via a work-provided device)
https://sambiddle.com
Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social energy/environment/media/climate; once made a glacier memorial; writer; occasional podcaster; improv philosopher; resisting the petrostate; 2025 Guggenheim Fellow
Cymene Howe @cymene.bsky.social podhost. anthropologist. loving the more-than-human.
SHE/HER
Srravya @srravya.bsky.social researching data work, AI production networks
interested in critical data/AI studies, tech + labour, feminist STS, HCI
currently research fellow, planetary AI project @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
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
Society for the History of the Philosophy of Technology (HPT) @hptsociety.bsky.social The Society for the History of the Philosophy of Technology (HPT) is dedicated to the study of how we think about technology in all its facets. #philtech #histtech
Anne Jonas 🌻 @annejonas.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ UM-Flint CIT. Studying digital technologies, schools, community, and power through qualitative and design-based research methods. Previously at MSU, UC Berkeley, Barnard, and Brown. she/her 🏳️🌈
Gaia Marcus @gaiamarcus.bsky.social - Director @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social:ensuring data & AI work for ppl & society
- Stint in government - led #NationalDataStrategy; roles in Cabinet Office, ONS & MHCLG
- Charity roles inc. Samaritans Trustee; staff @ The RSA, Centrepoint, ParkinsonsUK
Kin @cell-less.bsky.social Artist, essayist, mum. PhD candidate, 'Digital Fatalism'. Long-time critic of surveillance tech. Making video art/new media/net art. Latest article in AI & Society journal: https://rdcu.be/dJu7u
J. Makary @jmakary.bsky.social Filmmaker and PhD candidate @ Stanford. Avant-garde cinema, critical AI, and philosophy of perception.
Jacqueline Rowe @jacquelinerowe.bsky.social PhD student in Designing Responsible NLP @ University of Edinburgh
Formerly Policy Lead @ Global Partners Digital and Int'l Law @ Chatham House
https://jacquelinerowe.github.io/
imported Tweets from @jacquelinefrowe 16.02.2025
Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social Situationist Cybernetics. I make films with and against AI to see what isn’t there. Gates Scholar, Cambridge Digital Humanities. Affiliated Researcher, Machine Visual Culture Research Group (Max Planck Institute). Aim to be kind. cyberneticforests.com
Anna Schjøtt @annaschjoett.bsky.social Technological Anthropology PhD working at University of Amsterdam on knowledge production in AI development and use in the media sector with a focus on politics and ethics.
assia @assiaw.bsky.social phd candidate reading about automated face processing / identification 🤖 université paris-saclay • STS/sociology • they/them
Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social 🌈 Feminist Senior Lecturer in data politics and social justice at City st. George's, Uni of London, UK. She/her.
https://elinorcarmi.com/
Working on data&AI governance/data&AI literacies/data justice/digital rights/ad tech industry/surveillance.
Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social Author of RAINBOW TRAP and QUEER DATA 🌈 Researching LGBTQ data at the University of Edinburgh 📊 he/him/his ➡️ linktr.ee/kevinguyan
Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social Scholar, author, policy advisor
alondranelson.com
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
AI Ethics & Society @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social AI Ethics and Society is a network of researchers investigating the ethico-political implications of data-driven tech - more at www.ai-ethics.org
Susan Lechelt @susanlechelt.bsky.social HCI / Interaction Design lecturer at @DesignInf.bsky.social, Edinburgh. designing methods and artefacts to promote discussion and reflection about technology. She/her. 
STS-CH @sts-ch.bsky.social Swiss Association for the Studies of Science, Technology and Society; tweets in English, French and German by @bialski.bsky.social and @flojaton.bsky.social
https://sts-ch.org/
Jen Ross @jenr.bsky.social Digital Education, Education Futures, Digital Cultural Heritage & Research Cultures. Professor at the University of Edinburgh.
https://www.de.ed.ac.uk/people/professor-jen-ross
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.
Sameer Shah @sameershah.bsky.social Assistant Professor • University of Washington • Associate Deputy Editor @ Climatic Change • Political-ecology, critical adaptation studies, maladaptation and water insecurity.
Michael Barany @mbarany.com Historical and cultural theories about maths and science theories. Fields Medal killjoy. Scotland enjoyer. formerly @mbarany on birdsite and intermittently @mjb@mathstodon.xyz on fediverse
Engineering Life @engineeringlife.bsky.social We are the Engineering Life group of STS researchers at the University of Edinburgh -- Jane Calvert, Reuben Message, Rob Smith & Sophie Stone
Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social author of Blood in the Machine, tech writer, luddite
newsletter: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/
books: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/contributor/brian-merchant/
kofi link: https://ko-fi.com/brianmerchant
Rocco Bellanova @ikkibop.bsky.social Research Professor at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium). PI of the ERC DATAUNION project - www.dataunion-project.eu. Views my own. RT ≠ endorsement.
Noortje Marres @noortjem.bsky.social Sociologist of technology and science, empirical philosopher, creative methods
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
Camille Girard-Chanudet @cgirard-chanudet.bsky.social Sociologue
🤖 Intelligence Artificielle & Algorithmes
🏗️ Infrastructures matérielles du numérique
🔧 Travail invisible des données
🏛️ Transformation de l'action publique
📟 Quantification et standardisation
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
Lucas Osborne @lucastosborne.bsky.social Natural Resources Law, Public Utility Regulation, Monopolies, Private Law Theory, Law and Technology PhD @UCBerkeley, JD @VanderbiltLaw, MPP @TheHellerSchool
Søren Mau @sorenmau.bsky.social 
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.
Ian Pollock @ianfpollock.bsky.social New Melburnian, old New Yorker. ANU anthropology PhD, sometime-designer, always Mets fan. Posting on anthro, STS, economics, history, design, SE Asia (especially Indonesia), writing, birds, baseball.
Brandon @brandontakayuki.bsky.social Researching tech labour markets, education, work culture, bourdieu. content means-tested. Teaching at York University.
ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com anthropologist [no longer] yelling at engineers. feral.
signal -> @ali.01
Ludovico Rella @ludovico-rella.bsky.social @GeogDurham Postdoctoral Research Associate http://algorithmicsocieties.org on Machine Learning, Recognition, Attribution and Inference
Louis Ravn @louravn.bsky.social PhD Candidate in Critical AI Studies. @University of Amsterdam. deep-culture.org. He/him. All views are my own.
STS | critical AI | critical data studies | social theory
chiara carboni @chiarboni.bsky.social postdoc in AI, health and digital cultures at TU Dresden. interested in the datafication of more-than-human bodies, computational sensing and biopolitics.
she/her
Abby King @abbyrking.bsky.social Anthropologist working in STS and thinking about data, care, learning and knowing in health systems
Medical Uncertainty @med-uncertainty.bsky.social Research project on experiences of medical uncertainty in Fibromyalgia, ME/CFS, Long Covid and Chemobrain. Hosted at @manchstm.bsky.social / University of Manchester, funded by the Wellcome Trust
https://t.ly/CYJ7V
Timothy Y. Loh, PhD @timothyyloh.com anthropologist of science and tech in the Princeton Society of Fellows, PhD from MIT in HASTS (History, Anthropology, STS), research on assistive tech for deaf people in Jordan, MENA, and Singapore. he/他/هو
www.timothyyloh.com.
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.
Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social Professor in Science and Technology Studies, UCL @stsucl.bsky.social. Science policy, responsible innovation, emerging technologies. Book https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-32320-2. Responsible AI UK (www.rai.ac.uk)
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.
Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com Critical Media Theory + Science and Technology Studies + Literature + CS.
Associate Prof. of DH, AI, and Media somewhere.
VP, @litsciarts.org
📚: Computation, Political Economy, Infrastructures, History, Games, Design, SF.
☭.
Not a professional account.
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
Neil Pollock @neilpollock.bsky.social Professor at Edinburgh University researching sociology of digital technology and writing book ‘After Hype: The Business of Taming the Digital Economy’, published by Cambridge University Press next year.
Matjaz Vidmar @vidmarmatjaz.bsky.social #Innovation #Engineering #Futures
Lecturer, Entrepreneur and Strategist
Mainly in Edinburgh, Scotland, Europe
Working with #AI, #OuterSpace and #Algae
More info and contact at: www.blogs.ed.ac.uk/vidmar
Eugenia Rodrigues @eugeniarodrigues.bsky.social 
Dr Nicola Sugden @nicolasugden.bsky.social Edinburgh-based researcher looking at data and healthcare.
Formerly history of genetics; genomics; evolution; children; animals; race; minds; brains; psychology /iatry /oanalysis; madness; neurodiversity; disability; bioethics; reproductive technology.
James Mittra @jmittra.bsky.social Professor of Science, Technology and Innovation studies, University of Edinburgh: research interests in the health bioeconomy and innovation; posts reflect personal views not those of my employer. https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/persons/james-mittra
Max Novokreshchenov @newcrossss.bsky.social PhD student @ Uni of Edinburgh, STIS | Ethnography of infectious disease modelling | More-than-human health & Ecology
Sophie Stone @sarstone.bsky.social Edinburgh STS, part of @engineeringlife.bsky.social.
Social/political dimensions of engineering biology and advanced therapeutics. Also norms/conventions of places where science gets made. Bio-AI curious. Always here for the Oxford comma.
Jarita Holbrook @astroholbrook.bsky.social Indigenous/Cultural Astronomy, Science & Technology Studies, Documentary Filmmaker 
Cath Montgomery @cathm.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, University of Edinburgh
Science, Technology & Innovation Studies (STIS)
E. Carolina Mayes @ecarolina.bsky.social Sociologist studying the emergence, translation, and implementation of genetic epidemiology @ University of Edinburgh
Research Fellow @ Epidemy Lab (ERC): epidemy.org 
Rhodri Leng @rleng.bsky.social Lecturer in Science, Technology, and Innovation Studies at the University of Edinburgh. Author of The Matter of Facts https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262043885/the-matter-of-facts/
Milagros Miceli @milamiceli.bsky.social Sociologist & Computer Scientist
PI: @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social
Research Lead @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social
Research Lead @dairinstitute.bsky.social
🌐 milamiceli.com
Centre for Technomoral Futures @technomoralfutures.bsky.social Part of the University of Edinburgh’s Futures Institute, our work aims to unify technical and moral knowledge to serve the goals of sustainable, just & ethical innovation.
Find us here: https://www.technomoralfutures.uk/
Dr Lachlan Urquhart @mooseabyte.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Technology Law & HCI, U of Edinburgh. Director of Regulation + Design Lab; Co-Director CRISP + SCRIPT. Tech Law, HCI, IoT, AI, Design, Privacy, Cybersec, Surveillance, Sustainability, Metal, Guitars, Sci Fi, photography, campervans.
胡子哥 @notsaved.bsky.social technically, a sociologist | 哲♂学 | algorithms, vernaculars, creativity, synthesis | RTs ≠ RTs, Favs ≈ affect | unofficial account | "knows when to stop speculating"
paranom.asia
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.
Valentin Goujon @vgoujon.bsky.social ⦁ PhD Candidate at @medialab-scpo.bsky.social
⦁ Shaping AI project | Social studies of deep learning
⦁ FlashLab Seminar | "Digital Materialities" Workgroup at CIS/CNRS | Editor at @journal-reset.bsky.social
Florian Jaton @flojaton.bsky.social sociologist of science, technology & computing #sts; author of The Constitution of Algorithms @mitpress.bsky.social; mostly @EPFL; editorial board @bigdatasoc.bsky.social and Social Studies of Science
https://florian-jaton.com/
Jim Lowe @jwelowe.bsky.social History/philosophy/social studies of life sciences.
Research Fellow, Causality in Healthcare AI Hub, Egenis, University of Exeter - www.chai.ac.uk
Co-author, 'A History of Genomics across Species, Communities and Projects' - https://tinyurl.com/histgen
Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social Enriched macaroni product.
Broad interests in media, science, technology, social theory. Currently working on history of machine learning.
SAFC
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=nytCQGYAAAAJ&hl=en
fabio iapaolo @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social Urban geographer and digital media scholar @PoliMi | Associate editor AI & Society
John Nott @jdnott.bsky.social Economic & medical historian on https://www.epidemy.sps.ed.ac.uk/ at the University of Edinburgh.
Author of: https://uclpress.co.uk/book/between-feast-and-famine/
Editor of: https://intellectbooks.com/making-sense-of-medicine
STIS Edinburgh @stis-uoe.bsky.social Science, Technology, and Innovation Studies (STIS) at the University of Edinburgh.
https://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/science-technology-and-innovation-studies 
Alex Taylor @alex-taylor.bsky.social Partner & daddy living in wonderful Edinburgh.
Muddling through with ideas from #FeministTechnoscience #STS #MultiSpeciesRelations #HCI #ReparativeAI
Joyce Chaplin @joycechaplin.bsky.social Harvard professor, historian of science, technology, and medicine, plus food and environment 🜃
(https://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/joyce-chaplin)
New book: THE FRANKLIN STOVE (https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374613808/thefranklinstove/)
Dieuwertje Luitse @dluitse.bsky.social PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam on Data Bodies, Critical AI in Health Decision-making | Ethics & Politics of AI systems, Platforms, Political Economy | she/her | 🔗 https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/l/u/d.luitse/d.luitse.html
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/
Fabio Tollon @ftollon.bsky.social Philosopher at the University of Edinburgh.
Carbohydrate enthusiast.
fabiotollon.wixsite.com/fabiotollon
Bhargavi Ganesh @bhargaviganesh.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher at the Wharton Accountable AI Lab. Previously a PhD student at University of Edinburgh, focusing on AI governance
Tourist in the waking world
Joe Noteboom @joenote.bsky.social Lecturer researching and teaching about education, technology and society
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that. 
Rosamunde Van Brakel @rosamundevb.bsky.social assistant prof criminology VUB/replacement lecturer KULeuven - research: digital & green criminology, surveillance, AI, youth justice, human rights
https://researchportal.vub.be/en/persons/rosamunde-elise-van-brakel
Frances Bell @franrbell.bsky.social Historian of the Haitian revolutionary diaspora, mobility, and freedom-seeking in the United States. Assist. Prof at App State; W&M and Woodson Institute alum. Handy with a knitting needle, happy on a bicycle. She/her.
Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social Futures of work. Writing, researching, teaching, lefting. Ruthless everything, existing. http://dmgreene.net
Bartosz Slosarski @slosarski.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Digital Sociology, University of Warsaw • Critical Data Studies | Environmental & Climate Sociology | Contentious Politics • He/him/his
Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social Researcher trying to shape AI towards positive outcomes. ML & Ethics +birds. Generally trying to do the right thing. TIME 100 | TED speaker | Senate testimony provider | Navigating public life as a recluse.
Former: Google, Microsoft; Current: Hugging Face
Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social Studying, researching History of Science, Technology, and Computing. Video archivist. Earnest poster. Digital Humanities. Cis lesbian. Overly helpful
Warning: high volume of reposts and posts. If I follow you, I won't be offended if you don't follow back.
Labor Tech Research Network @labortechresearchnetwork.org We are an interdisciplinary group of over 700 experts in labor, technology, anti-racism, feminism, and transnationalism.
Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social Prof @ Penn studying media, race, tech, feminism, politics.
Author of A SECOND SIGHT (Mariner, 2026), co-author #HASHTAGACTIVISM (MIT Press, 2020) + more.
Typos and opinions both mine.
Co‑Director: @miccenter.bsky.social