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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social Hopeful technologist. Community tech, careful innovation, socially progressive tech policy. https://www.careful.industries https://hopeful.technology https://buttondown.email/justenoughinternet DMs don't work but hello@careful.industries will find me
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app Theoretical Astro/Physicist: https://chanda.science First book: https://tinyurl.com/DisorderedCosmos BUY MY NEW BOOK: https://tinyurl.com/EdgeOfSpaceTime Blog: news.chanda.science all Black/all Jewish. 🏳️‍🌈/agender/woman. Posts by/for me🖖🏽
Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com Political technologist, bringing democracy to the internet. Brussels, 🇪🇺. • tech, governance, science, politics, philosophy, infrastructure, cats, terrible puns • DASL, Eurosky/Mu, Modal • ex W3C, NYT • Signal robin.77
Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app Assistant Prof Philosophy & Data Sci. PhD Sci., Technology, & Society MA Philosophy & Religious Studies "AI" Criticality; Centering Marginalized Exp. in Tech; Magic; Knowledge, Values, Beliefs He/Him Unless explicitly stated, not speaking for my employer
🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social Here to hold my name . She/her / yourgorgoness - Far Rock’s finest - expert of miscellany - writer - Senior Fellow - Oracle at Dead ass @unbreaking.org
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that.
Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social Historian of technology, occasional dad jokes. www.marhicks.com
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.
Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app Founder & PI @aial.ie. Assistant Professor of AI, School of Computer Science & Statistics, @tcddublin.bsky.social AI accountability, AI audits & evaluation. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social Data journalist, AI scholar, NYU professor. Author, MORE THAN A GLITCH: CONFRONTING RACE, GENDER, AND ABILITY BIAS IN TECH and ARTIFICIAL UNINTELLIGENCE: HOW COMPUTERS MISUNDERSTAND THE WORLD. meredithbroussard.com
Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social I write novels (eg The Power, new novel is The Future), I make games (eg Zombies, Run!), unorthodox Jew. not-getting-into-pointless-arguments-on-the-internet is an act of revolution. However complex you think things are, they're more complex than that
Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com Author. Also husband, dad, clothing-repairer, dog-walker. Decreasingly rigorous on social media. Happy to receive simple work queries here; anything more involved contact Patrick Walsh @ PEW Literary in London or email me. www.linktr.ee/harkaway He/him
Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social Technology + democracy. Visit https://techpolicy.press Join our newsletter: https://techpolicy.press/newsletter Opinions do not reflect the views of Tech Policy Press. Reposts do not equal endorsements.
Safiya Umoja Noble, PhD @safiyanoble.bsky.social Living in Los Angeles. Native Californian. #MacFellow Writer, professor. Comedian. Author, “Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism,” which is unfortunately still relevant to understanding today’s LLMs and AI. safiyaunoble.com
Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social Chief Executive, The British Academy Chair, Our World in Data Board, National Audit Office Visiting Professor in Practice, LSE Visiting Professor, Kings College London Fellow, Birkbeck College Views my own
Caroline Sinders @carolinesinders.bsky.social Human rights centered design, art, and policy https://www.convocation.design/ Executive Director @cordlabs
Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com writer, artist, (credentialed as a) geographer. editing at large at urbanomnibus.net. research fellow at SFE. buttondown.email/perfectsentences is a little hobby newsletter. past work: lifewinning.com. all me buddy, never spoken for an employer
v buckenham @v21.bsky.social hello again made (and continuing to make) downpour.games, a game-making app that anyone can use also i have a website: v21.io
Crystal Lee @handle.invalid Writing about tech, power, data visualization, social media, disability. Assistant prof of computational media @ MIT. 🇹🇼 crystaljjlee.com
Yassmin Abdel-Magied @yassmin.bsky.social screenwriter + novelist newsletter yassmin.substack.com. @yassmin_a on most other socials
Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social Futures of work. Writing, researching, teaching, lefting. Ruthless everything, existing. http://dmgreene.net
joanne mcneil @jomc.bsky.social wrote a couple books including the novel WRONG WAY joannemcneil.com
Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social Irish writer and speaker: let's rewild the internet! Dog lady. Forest bather. She/her http://www.mariafarrell.com Rep: https://greeneheaton.co.uk/agents/antony-topping/ No DMs
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
Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social Engineering professor. Author of HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS (on Riverhead in the US+, on Torva in the UK+). Interested in embodiment, materiality, metacognition, and systems. All enthusiasm is 100% genuine. debcha.org
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
Jeni Tennison @jenitennison.com Data nerd/wonk. Founder of Connected by Data, campaigning for communities to have a powerful say over data and AI. Into trans rights, neurodiversity, board games, lego, dogs, spreadsheets. www.jenitennison.com
Jonty Wareing @jonty.bsky.social Accidentally responsible Also http://chaos.social/@jonty Previously http://twitter.com/jonty Always http://jonty.co.uk
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
Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc Head of Research at OneProject.org. Author, Design Justice (https://design-justice.pubpub.org) + Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets. #FreePalestine. Trans agenda. She/they/ella/elle. More: https://www.schock.cc
Charlton McIlwain @cmcilwain.bsky.social Higher Ed Leader. BBQ junkie. Author. NYU Professor. CR+DS. Board Pres.@ Data & Society. Race+Tech.
Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social Archives, DH, Museums, African American studies, C19 and early C20. all opinions my own, not my employer's https://www.dorothy-berry.com
Amy Orben @orbenamy.bsky.social tech + teens + better science @ http://digitalmentalhealth.group // Group Leader, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge // Fellow + Director of Studies, St. John's College // 📸 marcus ginns
Pete Etchells @peteetchells.bsky.social Professor of Psychology and Science Communication | Award-winning science writer | Screen Time | Social Media | Smartphones | Video games | https://linktr.ee/unlockedbook
bianca wylie @biancawylie.com https://time-and-space-studios.ghost.io/
Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social Writing, game design, etc. Adelaide, London. Wrote a novel called “The Husbands”. book: https://lnk.to/thehusbands newsletter: https://buttondown.email/holly info: http://hollygramazio.net ig: https://www.instagram.com/holly_gramazio/ pic: Diana Patient
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
Marie Foulston @tigershungry.co.uk Creative director and playful curator. Studio lead at Good Afternoon https://linktr.ee/tigershungry (a brummie, not an aussie)
Ana Brandusescu @anabrandusescu.bsky.social Researcher, policy analyst, social scientist. PhD-ing on political power and privatization in the scale of AI governance. she/her | Montreal | anabrandusescu.com
Richard Pope @richardpope.org I wrote a book on public services: https://londonpublishingpartnership.co.uk/books/platformland-an-anatomy-of-next-generation-public-services/ It’s time to share the benefits of digital with the public properly.
Natalie D Kane @ndkane.bsky.social Curator of Digital Design at V&A. Trustee - The National Videogame Museum. Curator - Design and Disability (opening V&A Dundee June 2026). Councillor, Brixton Acre Lane @lambethgreenparty
kelly pendergrast @kellypendergrast.bsky.social technology // aesthetics // labor // shapes writing: kellypendergrast.com working: antistaticpartners.com
Minx Marple @minxmarple.bsky.social astrophel • a pearl scavenged from the toxic sludge • « botanical, celestial, erotic » • hedgehog chronicler • the thing is to dazzle https://linktr.ee/isabellastreffen
badaude @badaude.bsky.social does things with words writer/artist, books @ Verso, Semiotext(e), Bloomsbury, Tramp, Transit, Joan+++, writing @ Art Review, Spike Art, more @ joannawalsh.ie
xiaowei @xrw.bsky.social aspirational service top. scorpio sun, taurus rising, virgo moon.
Jay Owens @jayowens.bsky.social I’m Head of Audience at @lrb.co.uk and I wrote a book, ‘Dust: The Modern World in a Trillion Particles’ (2023). I post about media and environment in approximately equal parts. 🔗 https://JayOwens.me
Sam Jeffers @worklesshard.bsky.social Run @whotargets.me and am a Partner @jointogether.online. Used to play drums in Fridge. Live in Cork, from London.
Georgina Voss @gsvoss.bsky.social Big machines // Writer, artist, educator // Author: SYSTEMS ULTRA: MAKING SENSE OF TECHNOLOGY IN A COMPLEX WORLD (Verso) // Visiting Prof - UCL // Before: Co-founder & director: Supra Systems Studio & Strange Telemetry www.gsvoss.com // linktr.ee/gsvoss
Jess Morley @jessrmorley.bsky.social 100% health data nerd & OG swiftie. PhD Oxford Internet Institute. Previously Director of Policy Oxford Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science. Currently Associate Research Scientist, Yale Digital Ethics Center.
Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social Feminist SocSci-Humanities scholar-practitioner in tech & AI. Associate Director & Senior Researcher: www.lcfi.ac.uk VLR-MAA-DEL-BOM-BLR-BER-CBG Outside cat; but more of a dog person really. bodyofwork.in
Anna Pendergrast @annapendergrast.bsky.social Writing about tech, data and infrastructure + their impacts on people and planet. Occasional posts about buildings and food. I live in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Sarah Gold 🇵🇸 ✊🏼 🕊️ @sarahtgold.bsky.social CEO @projectsbyif.bsky.social founder, designer, advisor, Mum, “rebel with the right cause”, expecting more from computers… https://projectsbyif.com https://sarah.gold
Sarah Drummond @rufflemuffin.bsky.social Filmmaker / Directing #section28film Founder: anthrobricolage.com Director: good.services @theschoolofgood DR of Design, once ran @wearesnook Made cycling easier with @cycle_hack GOOD Magazine #100 Board member at @lomondtrossachs She/they
Louise Hickman @louhicky.bsky.social Wellcome's Early Career Award. CRASSH at the University of Cambridge.
James Bridle @jamesbridle.bsky.social Artist, author of New Dark Age (2018) and Ways of Being (2022). Free Palestine, Protect Trans Kids, for ever and ever. https://mastodon.social/@jamesbridle / jamesbridle.com
William Cullerne Bown @williamcb.bsky.social Research, technology and politics. Newsletter https://bit.ly/3AELZDu Foundations of AI https://bit.ly/3WiYJab Law https://bit.ly/40YL1fU
Yasmin Ibison @yasminibison.bsky.social Senior Policy Advisor at JRF (@jrf-uk.bsky.social) focusing on communities and place she/her Views my own.
Helen Hester @helenhester.bsky.social Post-work politics and technofeminism
Will Stronge @wstronge.bsky.social Director of @autonomy-institute.bsky.social Website: autonomy.work Co-author, with Helen Hester, of Post-work (2025) and, with Kyle Lewis, of Overtime (2021) https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/postwork-9781350089976/
Dr Matt Mahmoudi @docmattmoudi.bsky.social 📝 ‘Migrants in the Digital Periphery’ for Uni. Of California Press, ‘Resisting Borders+Tech’ @haymarketbooks. Assistant Professor @Cambridge Digital Humanities. Research/advice @Amnesty Tech. Views=own
Sam @smithsam.bsky.social Believes in better data with informed privacy for all. Day job @medconfidential amongst other things. he/him http://is.gd/samblog 🧘‍♂️ #FILDI Cambridge
Wesley Goatley @wesleygoatley.bsky.social Critical artist + researcher. Analysing AI's impact on climate, art, and technopolitics. PhD in critical tech & art. Programme Director of Interaction Design and Visual Communication at University of the Arts London. http://lnk.bio/wesleygoatley
Kim Plowright @mildlydiverting.bsky.social Artist, drawing tutor, digital producer. Not entirely sure who she is any more.
Seb Chan @sebchan.bsky.social Museums|music|media|monsters|mayhem - https://linktr.ee/sebchan
Alison Powell @abpowell.bsky.social Assoc Prof at LSE | Teaches MSc in Data & Society | Feminist research praxis | AI policy making | Undoing Optimization: https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300223804/ Current work on health, care and environment from NHS tech to Rewilding the Night
peterkwells @peterkwells.com BlackpoolFC, books, tech, people, policy & delivery, realist. Hopes to make stuff work for everyone. https://peterkwells.com
Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app Martial artist, motorcyclist, pragmatist, comics philosopher, queer phenomenologist. Assistant Prof @CSUN. Japanese philosophy, race, gender, disability, tech/AI. Inquiries: johnathan.flowers@csun.edu IRON LORD. Rider of the mind shaitan. He/Him/His 🏳️‍🌈
Rumman Chowdhury @ruchowdh.bsky.social www.rummanchowdhury.com www.humane-intelligence.org CEO & co-founder, Humane Intelligence US Science Envoy for AI (Biden Administration)
Marietje Schaake @marietjeschaake.bsky.social Proud European 🇪🇺 Fellow at Stanford 👩🏼‍💻 column in FT 🗞️Member of European Parliament 2009-2019 📕Author: The Tech Coup
Olivia Solon @oliviasolon.bsky.social Covering tech at Bloomberg from London Signal: @oliviasolon.13 Email: osolon2@bloomberg.net
Kate Devlin @drkatedevlin.bsky.social Academic; writer. Professor of AI & Society, Chair-Director @kings-dfi.bsky.social, King’s College London. Eye-rolling at AI nonsense on a daily basis. #academicsky . Norn Irish in Norwich.
Simon Willison @simon.fedi.simonwillison.net.ap.brid.gy Open source developer building tools to help journalists, archivists, librarians and others analyze, explore and publish their data. https://datasette.io […] [bridged from https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
michael veale @michae.lv prof @laws.ucl.ac.uk, technology, law, policy, society, whimsical latvian top level domain names. michae.lv and fediverse https://someone.elses.computer/@mikarv 🏳️‍🌈
Hadley Beeman @hadleybeeman.bsky.social Architect for #openstandards, the Web and barcodes of all types. Tech policy. Ex-UK gov. Active in GS1, NHS & W3C. @hadleybeeman@w3c.social
Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social Hacker Mama/Artist/Designer/Coder/Writer/She/Ella Assoc Prof of Urban Science @MITdusp, Director, Data + Feminism Lab, Co-author #DataFeminism, hablo castellano
Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social 💾 associate prof of computers + video games @ MCC @ NYU 🕹️ managing ed of ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social https://romchip.org 🍎 The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal https://linktr.ee/lainenooney they/them
Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social I play with books, cats, food, yarn, and dirt, not all at the same time. Software engineer. Society of People Interested in Boring Things. She/her, cis.
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 Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com That writer guy you like. Bi, trans, polyamorous, slutty, neurodivergent, hot. Buy my book that explains why politics has gone weird. I live in Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK. https://linktr.ee/iheartpolitics
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
Sharon O'Dea @sharonodea.com Consulting, writing and speaking on comms, collaboration & future of work. Cofounder, Lithos Partners. Author, Digital Communications at Work. Gym bore. Gets about a bit.
Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @ursulabot.bsky.social ursula le guin quotes. gpt4 powered
Electromagnetic Field @emfcamp.bsky.social A weekend of geekery in an internet-connected field. Returning in summer 2028. Website: emfcamp.org Fediverse: @emf@emfcamp.org Twitter: twitter.com/emfcamp
Chris Adams @mrchrisadams.net Science & justice. Also: coffee, cities, UX & code. Aghast at all the typos in my posts. A member of climateAction.tech, and I work at the Green Web Foundation. @mrchrisadams on most of the social networks
Nick Couldry @couldrynick.bsky.social I teach media communications and social theory at London School of Economics. Main interests: data colonialism, AI, rebuilding social media. Links to my two new books: https://linktr.ee/SpaceOfTheWorldBook https://lnk.to/DataGrabBook
Matthew Somerville @dracos.co.uk I help people report broken street lights, find out their bin day, plan train travel, manage an orchestra, locate the nearest postbox, research old theatre productions, keep time in a choir, and occasionally play board games | https://dracos.co.uk
Nat Buckley 🏳️‍⚧️ @natbuckley.bsky.social Designer, they/them YT channel: https://www.youtube.com/@natbuckley Old school website: https://natbuckley.co.uk
Tom Armitage @infovore.bsky.social standing at the intersection of the liberal arts and technology, spinning a GOLF SALE sign
@gquaggiotto.bsky.social @gquaggiotto.bsky.social
Jenny Holzer @jennyholzer.bsky.social THE FUTURE IS STUPID
jarkman @jarkman.bsky.social Roboticist, maker, software engineer. Making giant joyful soft robots with Air Giants (https://www.airgiants.co.uk/). Also @jarkman@chaos.social
Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social Concerned with tech, media and democracy. CEO & Editor at Tech Policy Press. Research & Adjunct Professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Opinions mine.
jenn schiffer 🍦 @jennschiffer.com human genius jennschiffer.com
Tracy Chou @triketora.com founder @blockpartyapp.com, acq by deleteme. harvard bkc affiliate. cofounder project include. early eng at pinterest, quora, usds. stanford bs ee and ms cs. 2022 time woman of the year.
Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social Director of Pangloss Consulting for all your AI and GDPR needs! Emerita Prof Newcastle Law School: Hon Prof, @CREATe Glasgow Uni. Formerly @ATI, @SCRIPT: Trying not to be a grey skies thinker & use this place more , lilian@lilianedwards.co.uk
Anna Dent @annadent.bsky.social Research and policy adviser www.abdconsultancy.co.uk Futures of work, digital welfare state, tech ethics, public sector innovation Also cats, telly, general silliness Now with added newsletter! https://www.abdconsultancy.co.uk/digital-welfare-state
Siva @sivav.bsky.social Writer. Professor. Golden retriever papa. Bylines in Guardian, Slate, TNR, many other places. Publisher and EIC of @VQR. Wrote a pile of books you might like.
Dama Sathianathan @dama-yanthy.bsky.social Fond of the metric system. Investing in impact-driven startups @bgventures.bsky.social
rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social academic. filmmaker. straight-presenting-bi. nyc asshole in toronto. she/her/auntiefa. acab. amuse|muse|use|us|u pfp: me holding up both my middle fingers banner: jealous gf meme with Marx, & Rom & Quark from ds9. Quark is jealous gf, marx is new hottie.