Ann Douglas @anndouglas.bsky.social Author of 26 non-fiction books, including NAVIGATING THE MESSY MIDDLE (a book about midlife). Trying to teach myself how to write my first novel. Passionate about democracy and social justice. http://anndouglas.ca
mechanical twerk @ruhee.ca baseball freak, musician, knitter, powerlifter, book enjoyer, software engineer. 20% of @survivalclubtheband.com. mastodon: @ruhee@phire.place. she/her 🍉
Dr. Christine H. Tran @thechristinet.bsky.social ✨Retired tech model writ(h)es about the Internet (they/she)
✨Tenure-Track Assistant Prof @ Alberta University of the Arts
✨Researcher of digital work, play, livestreaming & the creator economy
✨PhD U of Toronto iSchool
✨ https://thechristinet.wordpress.com
Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social Canadian critical media studies scholar and podcaster interested in the meanings we make of perpetual tech promises. Bilingue. Focused on the environment. I typo a lot.
😷🏳️🌈
🎙️ thedatafix.net
📝 heliotropejournal.net
Nick Fox-Gieg @n1ckfg.bsky.social Experimental animator in Toronto.
SIGGRAPH 2024, SXSW 2010.
https://fox-gieg.com
Pavel @spavel.bsky.social Raised gifted; non-practicing.
If your reply doesn't have alt text, I won't see it.
🌐 productpicnic.beehiiv.com 💼 UX Design 🟦 Sick of rectangles 🧑 he/him
Siddhartha Mitter @siddharthamitter.bsky.social okra eater.
Denali @denali.bsky.social Early childhood and public systems researcher.
Rich inner life. No inside voice. I live in Chicago.
Photo by https://www.greginda.com/
Jacqueline Alderson @jacqalderson.bsky.social 🦴 Professor of Biomechanics
🌻 Director of Tech and Human Performance, Special Advisor LA28, DataX, University of California Los Angeles
🧱 Adj. Professor, Griffith Uni
⚡️Hon. Professor, Uni of Queensland
💍 Official keeper of the laundry
🐕 Dog person
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Luke Stark @lukestark.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 just a simple country AI ethicist | Assistant Professor, Western University 🇨🇦 | Co-Director, @starlingcentre.bsky.social | he/his/him | | no all-male panels |#BLM | 🏳️⚧️ ally | views my own
https://starkcontrast.co/
https://starlingcentre.ca/
Navneet Alang @navneetalang.com Editor on the Opinion team @ Toronto Star. Pitch me at nalang@thestar.ca.
Writer, columnist, bylines all over. PhD. Anglo-Indo-Canadian, each in equal measure. https://navneetalang.com/
rosie long decter @rosield.bsky.social EIC at maisonneuve mag, community lead at @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social, otherwise humming
rumon carter @rumon.ca Partner. Bonuspappa. Biologist. Lawyer. Technologist. Coach. Outdoorsperson. Focused on cultivating thriving people, teams, communities and publics.
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
Rupert Read @rupertread.bsky.social Co-Director @climatemajority.bsky.social | Emeritus Prof of Philosophy | Author, WHY CLIMATE BREAKDOWN MATTERS and TRANSFORMATIVE ADAPTATION | Home-grown dissident | Free thinker | Earthling.
NB Reposts are not necessarily endorsements.
Sameer Vasta @sameervasta.bsky.social Unabashedly earnest. Unapologetically enthusiastic. Infinitely curious. (he/him)
Sean Boots @bluesky.sboots.ca A better world, by listening.
Mita Williams @copystar.bsky.social Law Librarian at Windsor Law.
https://copystar.neocities.org/
alc @andrealongchu.bsky.social pulitzer? i barely know her!
Paris Marx @parismarx.com 💥 PREORDER MY NEW BOOK HYPERSCALE 💥
🎙️ @techwontsave.us
📬 https://disconnect.blog
📖 https://hyperscalebook.com
Jasmine Otto @jazztap.bsky.social Visualization developer, researcher, educator @ University of San Francisco.
Prev. NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, UC Santa Cruz (PhD, Computational Media).
UX: jazztap.github.io | Games: jatazak.itch.io
Frank Pasquale @frankpasquale.bsky.social Law professor; author (The Black Box Society; New Laws of Robotics).
Interested in law & technology, AI, political economy, art, and social theory.
Ron Bronson @ronbronson.com Design & its discontents. Critical tech x speculative civics.
State champion HS 🎾 coach. Loose-leaf tea sommelier. Radio host. speculative civics. asst. prof of practice, UMich. 18F.gov alum. ronbronson.com
dorian @doriantaylor.com make things. make sense.
• methodandstructure.com
• doriantaylor.com
• senseatlas.net
• intertwingler.net
• the.natureof.software
• mastodon.social/@doriantaylor
• youtube.com/@methodandstructure
• buttondown.email/dorian
温哥华🇨🇦多伦多
blair @blairaf.com Canada CIFAR AI Chair, Asst. Prof, sci-fi creator @ UAlberta
Transfeminist AI governance, ethics, policy: blairaf.com
Gay trans cyborg warriors vs. AI monsters: objecttype3.app
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.
Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social Director of Research, @dairinstitute.bsky.social
Roller derby athlete
https://alex-hanna.com
Book: thecon.ai
Pod+newsletter: https://dair-institute.org/maiht3k
🇪🇬Ⲛⲓⲣⲉⲙⲛ̀ⲭⲏⲙⲓ
🏳️⚧️ she/هي
📸 @willtoft.bsky.social
Rep📘 @ianbonaparte.bsky.social
Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social Director, Research & Innovation, Actua.
Co-Director, Shift Insights.
Senior Fellow, Munk School.
Recovering political philosopher.
MIT PhD. Innovation. Science policy. Ethics. Skills. Space. JAWS. Running. Chronic napping. 🇨🇦
www.shiftinsights.ca
S. Ashleigh Weeden, PhD @ashleighweeden.bsky.social *maybe not here quite so much, as I tend to my grief and growth*
Dr. Weeden. She/Her. Rural Futurist. Feminist. Curious/Furious. Place, power, policy. Obsessed with questions like "why?" and "so what?"
Erik Missio @erikmissio.bsky.social A real piece of work in progress. Comics and music and wrestling and soccer and nature and, look, probably family stuff. Almost Toronto. (he, him)
Hamutal Dotan @hamutal.bsky.social editing (magazines, books) and teaching (UofT, TMU); mostly posting journalism longreads; hopefully outside | she/her
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.
_______________________________ @filipamv.bsky.social perfect and upright, eschews evil (she/they)
https://okayfail.com • https://hachyderm.io/@phillmv
M. Cooper @mattwritesbooks.bsky.social Writer, painter, creative mind. My books second edition, The House of Polly Lane, is available everywhere in paperback NOW ❤️
No AI in anything I do ever.
I don’t put up with random arguments with strangers. One reply, then block.
Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com Experienced user
Australian in Amsterdam
I talk about product design
Words: https://fasterandworse.com
Videos: https://youtube.com/@fasterandworse
Audios: https://pnc.st/s/faster-and-worse
javier @bartlebooth.bsky.social data processor. recovering mathematician. lazy anarchist. tech mercenary. parent. immigrant. child of the corn. unpronounceable. toronto rodent. seeking puzzlement.
Cuidado con mi corillo que somos un montón.
nie mój cyrk, nie moje małpy
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that. 
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
swaych @swetha.bsky.social Same old swaych 
jenny (phire) @phirephoenix.com I write code for a living and words for my sins. occasional blog posts at https://phirephoenix.com, weekly newsletter for organizing/activism in Toronto at @showuptoronto.ca.
amanjeev | امن جیو | ਅਮਨਜੀਵ @amanjeev.com anti-casteist, science, code, machines, privacy, ancient history, yak shaving, and bad puns;
Upstream Timeout @shawnmicallef.bsky.social Local tosser
Books author (New: Stroll!)
Toronto Star column writer
Spacing Magazine co-founder
U of T instructor
Trying to do it a bit different here than the last place.
Links to books, etc:
https://linktr.ee/shawnmicallef
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🤘🏼
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
Alex L @bustedsneakers.bsky.social still a professional internet person
Sean Martin McDonald @seanmartinmcdonald.bsky.social I help people build things that realize their purpose. Partner at Digital Public. 
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
James McLeod @jamespmcleod.ca The Guardian newspaper once called me a "Guerrilla Satirist" and the premier of Newfoundland and Labrador once called me "an arsehole."
Former journalist. Artist. Writer. Comms guy.
Kate Kaye @katekaye.bsky.social Personal account. Surveillance tech & AI reporting in Portland, OR at RedtailMedia.org. Creator of AITrustControl.com podcast. 25 yrs as a journo reporting on data use, AI, etc. Music nerd, forest walker, raptor watcher NY Mets fan. KEEPIN THAT PMA.
Michael Rancic @therewasnosound.bsky.social arts & culture journalist
co-founder @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social
writing a book about the history of electronic music in so-called canada for @invisibooks.bsky.social
litherland @lither.land Design + type + text. Solidarity forever. Views are my own.📍NYC
Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social User experience designer. Faith-rooted organizer and abolitionist. Love design, theology, justice, grace. Enjoy coffee, beer, goth, metal. He/him. Live in Minneapolis.
https://jonathanstegall.com is my oft-ignored website.