Llibertat UK (Katrina) @llibertatuk.bsky.social Design for humans. End to end, front to back, user-centred digital services with real impact for the public, private and third sectors globally. Led by former GOV.UK Head of Content Padma Gillen. Accessible by design. Posts by Katrina (she/her)
Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives @spellingmistakescostlives.com Darren Cullen
""Artist"" - Daily Mail
"Britain-hating anarchist who knows the value of nothing" - Johnny Mercer MP.
Hell Bus / Co-curator Museum of Neoliberalism
www.spellingmistakescostlives.com
www.linktr.ee/spellingmistakescostlives
Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social Philosopher/AI Ethicist at Univ of Edinburgh, FRSE. Co-Director @technomoralfutures.bsky.social and BRAID @braiduk.bsky.social, author of Technology and the Virtues (2016) and The AI Mirror (2024). Views my own. Humble servant to Carol and Puffin. She/her.
Ross Atkin @rossatkin.bsky.social Designer & Engineer trying to make technology work better for disabled people and cities work better for everyone. Ex BBC2 #BigLifeFix, Dyson, RCA Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design . Also make robots as The Crafty Robot
BUM LUNG @bumlung.bsky.social From the twisted mind that brought you be gay do crime
Etsy.com/shop/bumlung
patreon.com/bumlung
Morgane Peng @morganepeng.bsky.social A design exec blending user experience with business strategy in the financial space 🎨✨ · illustrator · speaker · indie gamedev
C. Thi Nguyen @add-hawk.bsky.social Philosophy professor. My new book is THE SCORE, about true play, the limits of data - and why scoring systems can lead to beautiful games and soul-killing metrics.
Jay @jaygeorge-uk.bsky.social Frontend Designer at @statamic.com, where I spend my days refining the most beautiful CMS in the world.
I love writing modern ✨CSS✨ straight in DevTools workspaces—I swear I’m the only one doing that… what an amazing workflow.
From 🏴 and live in London.
qntm @qntm.org There Is No Antimemetics Division (https://qntm.org/antimemetics) ~ "Lena" ~ Absurdle ~ HATETRIS ~ many other cool things
William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol All the world’s a stage
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
• https://berjon.com/
• DASL, Eurosky/Mu, Modal
• ex W3C, NYT
• he/him/Ishmael
• Signal robin.77
Dr. Damien P. Williams has to go the way his blood beats @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
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.
Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social i work across nyc’s libraries and archives; i was a full professor of media studies, art history + anthropology
architecture, archives, 🎨, cities, 🐕, infrastructure, libraries, 🗺️, sound++
nyc + upstate
wordsinspace.net
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, critical data studies. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social Critical AI, data journalism, literary nonfiction. Professor at NYU. Author, "More Than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech." 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: Karla’s Choice, Gnomon, Titanium Noir etc. Also husband, dad, clothing-repairer, dog-walker. Decreasingly rigorous on social media. Greta not Peter. Cuan cuan. Brit logging in via Eurosky.
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
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. Researching AI’s impact on culture at the University of Cambridge Digital Humanities. Affiliated Researcher, Machine Visual Culture Research Group (Max Planck Institute). Critical but curious. 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
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 newsletter about technology and culture:
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
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
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
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 postdoctoral research associate 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.
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 Technology and politics.
Newsletter https://bit.ly/3AELZDu
Foundations of AI https://bit.ly/3WiYJab
Law https://bit.ly/40YL1fU
Research Fortnight https://bit.ly/4i0
https://signal.me/#eu/xNzjw2P7XIGjBfdQicHbMp0V5SuVpgCQOeUZNpDRqH-mkt2Tan9G6Y0ZitEKsVkN
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
404 Media @404media.co it's a website (and a podcast, and a newsletter) about humans and technology, made by four journalists you might already know. like and subscribe: 404media.co
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
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 🏳️🌈
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 2024.
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 tweets. A member of climateAction.tech, and I work at the Green Web Foundation. He/Him.
@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
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 middle-aged dirtbag
jennschiffer.com / livelaugh.blog / bugsrock.online
🚫EMAILING MY WIFE
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.
Ahmet Alphan Sabancı @ahmetasabanci.com Critical futurist, writer, technologist, generalist, philosopher of Weird and Deadly Interesting. Also runs @tuhaf.studio
Posts in ENG and TUR
ahmetasabanci.com
tuhafgelecek.com
tuhaf.studio
newslabturkey.org