JennyLDavis @jenny-l-davis.bsky.social Sociologist of emergent tech. Dog content enthusiast. https://www.jennyldavis.com/
Sarah Perret @sarahperret.bsky.social Ass. Prof. and Researcher at @Espol-lab.bsky.social and @ENS_ULM @ensgeopolitics l #security #border #technologies #AI Ex @KingsCollegeLon @UnivParisSaclay @Georgetown
Asha Titus @ashtitus.bsky.social Posts about Big data, Digital Sociology, Open gov, ICTD, #DataEthics.
PhD @LSE on Data driven practices in social policy. Currently on the post-doc job market! Hi everyone 👋
https://www.lse.ac.uk/media-and-communications/alumni/phd-alumni/asha-titus
J. Stephen Downie @profdownie.bsky.social Professor, Executive Associate Dean, School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois.
Digital Humanities-Music Information Retrieval-Library and Information Science
Glen Layne-Worthey @gworthey.bsky.social Where: HathiTrust Research Center, iSchool, U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
What: DH+Libraries, multilingual DH, Russian literature, children's literature, translation.
How: However I can.
Zoe LeBlanc @zoeleblanc.bsky.social Assistant Prof @iSchool UIUC studying digital humanities and histories of information. Interested in how we study the past with computers. she/her
Science as Culture @sciasculture.bsky.social Science and Technology Studies journal exploring how (arte)facts, processes, products shape & are shaped by society, since 1987!
Website: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/csac20
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
Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social ST&HV is a journal that publishes cutting-edge research and debate in the field of Science and Technology Studies http://journals.sagepub.com/home/sth
Sebastian Pfotenhauer @pfotenhauer.bsky.social
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/
Journal of Cultural Economy @jcultecon.bsky.social JCE explores how material cultural practices organise economies and societies. EICs Philip Roscoe @philiproscoe.bsky.social & Liz McFall @allartmarkets.bsky.social
Economy & Society @econsocjournal.bsky.social Est. 1972. Social science journal: economic and cultural relations, states and governance, & much more.
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/reso20
Nanna B Thylstrup @nannathylstrup.bsky.social Associate Prof @ University of Copenhagen. Author of: "The Politics of Mass Digitization" (MIT Press), editor of "Uncertain Archives: Critical Keywords for Big Data" (MIT Press) and "(W)archives: Archival Imaginaries, War, and Contemporary Art" (Sternberg)
katie mackinnon @ktmac.bsky.social assistant professor @ university of copenhagen, "Data Loss: the politics of disappearance, destruction and dispossession in digital societies"
researching internet histories, web archives, platform temporalities
katiemackinnon.xyz
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
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
Data controversies, James Stewart @datacontroversies.bsky.social Microblog supporting Internet and Society and Controversies in the Data Society courses, Science Technology and Innovation Studies, University of Edinburgh
Ludovico Rella @ludovico-rella.bsky.social @GeogDurham Postdoctoral Research Associate http://algorithmicsocieties.org on Machine Learning, Recognition, Attribution and Inference
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 🏳️🌈
Yana Boeva, PhD @dropsmops.bsky.social Research Group Leader + Postdoc @Uni_Stuttgart @EXC_IntCDC | PhD @STS_YorkU | STS, computation, algorithms, design, skills, knowledge | she/her | https://www.yanaboeva.net/
Dietmar Offenhuber @dietoff.bsky.social Visualization, urbanism, critical data. MIT DUSP alumnus, faculty Northeastern.
https://offenhuber.net
https://autographic.design
Ben Collier @susansegfault.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at University of Edinburgh in STS. Criminologist and author of Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy. Chair of the Foundation for Information Policy Research. Researching power and harm in digital infrastructure. Pfp Jamie Buchan
Noortje Marres @noortjem.bsky.social Sociologist of technology and science, empirical philosopher, creative methods
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
Matthias Leese @matthiasleese.bsky.social Assist. Prof. of Technology and Governance @ethz.ch ¦ PI @curateproject.bsky.social ¦ Editor-in-chief @jird-jour.bsky.social
https://matthiasleese.com
Dr. Vassilis Galanos, SFHEA - each one teach one @velocitygravity.bsky.social Lecturer in Digital Work, UoStirling.
Researching AI/internet/digital media & expectations/expertise. Hype+Metaphors.
Friends: BRAID UK, UoE STIS, AI Ethics & Society, Data Civics, The New Real.
AE: Technology Analysis and Strategic Management.
It/ve/vem👾
MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social Committed to the daily re-imagining of what a university press can be since 1962.
Website: https://mitpress.mit.edu
The Reader (our home for excerpts, essays, & interviews): https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
MIT Press Direct: https://direct.mit.edu/
Sally Wyatt 🟥 @sallywyatt.bsky.social Professor of #DigitalCultures at Maastricht University
#STS
Most of my research is about digital technologies- in #healthcare and what they mean for the production of knowledge
Tonia Sutherland @toniasutherland.bsky.social thinker. writer. lover. scholar of archives, community, & technology @ ucla. island girl. hoper of hopes.
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.
Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social Historian of technology, occasional dad jokes.
www.marhicks.com
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.
Niklas Strüver @enriya.bsky.social Studying voice assistants as a PhD Student @media of cooperation at Uni Siegen Germany.
Interests are: digital infrastructures and platforms | sociology of technology & STS (he/him)
https://www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/de/personen/struever-niklas/
Thao Phan @thaophan.bsky.social Feminist STS, gender, race, algorithmic culture // Lecturer in Sociology (STS) at Australian National University// Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country // President @aussts.bsky.social
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.
Sabina Leonelli @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social Prof in Philosophy and History of Science & Technology, Technical University of Munich | scientific director Ethical Data Initiative & Public Science Lab | http://opensciencestudies.eu | President ISHPSSB | loves almost all forms of life
Anders Kristian Munk @akmunk.bsky.social Professor at DTU Management | Section for Human-Centered Engineering | Head of @echodtu.bsky.social
🗺️ controversy mapping
🤖 computational anthropology
🚒 technological problems in society
#digitalmethods #sts #dkforsk
Book: https://bit.ly/contrmap
Jacque(line) Wernimont @wernimont.bsky.social Northern Woods dwelling nerd who thinks about how we turn people into numbers. Currently working on history of eugenics, health data, and death certificates. Into fibers, sports, and not falling over. Wrote Numbered Lives (MIT)
Benedetta Catanzariti @benedetta.bsky.social British Academy Postdoc @STIS University of Edinburgh | Researching knowledge, power & tech | co-run ai-ethics.org
Simone Browne @wewatchwatchers.bsky.social
Jenna Burrell @jburrell.bsky.social Currently: visiting researcher, University of Tokyo, based in Yokohama (GMT+9)
Formerly: Professor at UC-Berkeley, Director of Research, Data & Society.
Luciano Floridi @floridi.bsky.social Philosopher (Yale/Bologna), digital ethics, AI ethics, philosophy of information, philosophy of technology,
http://tinyurl.com/ywku22yr
Julián Posada @posada.website 💼 Assistant Professor @Yale.edu
📖 Author of “Platform Extractivism” (UC Press, 2026)
🎓 Research on #AI + #Data + #Work + #Platforms
🌐 https://posada.website/
Digital Humanities @ King's College London @kingsdh.bsky.social Critical inquiry with and about the digital. 💾
Department of Digital Humanities at King's College London.
https://kingsdh.net/
https://kcl.ac.uk/ddh
Sebastián Lehuedé @slehuede.bsky.social Tech & Climate Justice. Lecturer @kingsdh.bsky.social. He/him http://slehuede.me.
Critical Inquiry @criticalinquiry.bsky.social Founded in 1974, Critical Inquiry is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal devoted to the best critical thought in the arts and humanities.
Orit Halpern @ohalpern.bsky.social Professor@TU Dresden, historian of science and STS scholar critically engaging AI, cybernetics,infrastructure, environment, and design.
https://againstcatastrophe.net
https://tu-dresden.de/gsw/slk/germanistik/digitalcultures
Journal of Cultural Analytics @culturalanalytics.bsky.social Cultural Analytics is an open-access journal at the intersection of the humanities, social sciences, and computer science dedicated to the computational study of culture. https://culturalanalytics.org
Journal of Digital History @jdighist.bsky.social The JDH serves as a forum for critical debate and discussion in the field of digital history by offering an innovative publication platform and promoting a new form of data-driven scholarship and of transmedia storytelling in the historical sciences.
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/
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.
Dr Ramon Amaro @sambarhino.bsky.social Creative Director || Design Academy Eindhoven @daenews
Frank Pasquale @frankpasquale.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Author of The Black Box Society & New Laws of Robotics; law professor at Cornell Law School & Cornell Tech.
[bridged from https://mastodon.social/@FrankPasquale on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Rafael Grohmann @grohmannrafael.bsky.social Assistant Professor Media Studies (Critical Platform Studies) University of Toronto, Canada. Leader DigiLabour. Platform labor, Worker-owned Platforms, AI & Labor, Worker Organizing
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
Timothy Neale @tdneale.bsky.social Lives in Narrm / Melbourne, comes from Aotearoa / New Zealand, works in Anthropology @ Deakin University | Editor of Science, Technology, & Human Values aka @sthv.bsky.social | timneale.me
Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social Communication and media professor researching the internet, platforms & automation in society via cultural studies & digital methods. Brisbane/Sunshine Coast hinterland.🏳️🌈🏞🌄✨️
Ada Lovelace Institute @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social Making data & AI work for people & society.
Sign up for our fortnightly newsletter: https://adalovelaceinstitute.org//newsletter-subscribe
Emiliano Treré @emilianotrere.com ATRAE Distinguished Researcher @usc Santiago • Reader in Data Agency and Media Ecologies @Cardiff University • Creator & lead @ADS team • Codirector @DataJusticeLab • Algorithms of Resistance (MIT Press, 2024) • Romagnolo
Will Deringer @calculatedvalues.bsky.social Scholar of sophisters, economists, and calculators. Program in STS + HASTS PhD Program at MIT. Author of CALCULATED VALUES (Harvard UP 2018). "TILT" (2005) fan account.
Dr Ola Michalec @olamichalec.bsky.social The absolute pinnacle of British engineering • unprofessional account of a Bristol Uni STSish researcher interested in digital energy infrastructure, cyber security expertise, and hyped up technologies • cover by https://disect.me/
Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social Disseminating knowledge—through the publication of printed books, periodicals, and electronic files—beyond the confines of the University's campus.
The official account of Duke University is @duke-university.bsky.social.
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun @whkchun.bsky.social new media theorist and professor. director of the SFU digital democracies institute. posts reflect my own views only.
banner from Mongrel Network's 2004 Bush-Blair project. Portrait by a wonderful scms audience member—let me know if you know them!
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
Charlotte Högberg @chogberg.bsky.social Postdoc in Technology & Society, Lund Uni. Sweden.
Researching "AI" from STS, social science and humanities perspectives. At the moment mainly focused on epistemology & ethics of medical prediction & classification.
She/her
Dylan Mulvin @dmulvin.bsky.social Associate Professor at the LSE. Histories of media and technology.
dylanmulvin.com
Fernando van der Vlist @fvandervlist.bsky.social Media Studies @uvahumanities.bsky.social · 📚 Author, Platforms (Polity) · 📦 NWO Veni: ‘AI Power’ · 🔍 platforms, apps, data, AI, digital methods · 👥 @appstudies.bsky.social, @digitalmethods.net, @publicdatalab.bsky.social · 🔗 fernandovandervlist.nl
danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social STS researcher who likes to look at things sideways. Founded Data & Society.
Topics: Census | Youth | Data | Society
Professor of Communication, Cornell
https://made-not-found-by-danah-boyd.ghost.io
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
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
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
Tech Won’t Save Us @techwontsave.us A left-wing podcast for a better world and better tech. Hosted by @parismarx.com. Made in partnership with @thenation.com.
https://techwontsave.us/
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.
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
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🏳️⚧️ she/هي
📸 @willtoft.bsky.social
Rep📘 @ianbonaparte.bsky.social
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.
Trevor Paglen @paglen.studio I'm an artist.
AI Now Institute @ainowinstitute.bsky.social The AI Now Institute produces diagnosis and actionable policy research on artificial intelligence.
Find us at https://ainowinstitute.org/
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
Critical AI https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/issue @criticalai-journal.bsky.social Critical AI's new issue is out! https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/issue
Email us at criticalai@sas.rutgers.edu
Our website and blog: https://criticalai.org/
Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social https://danmcquillan.org/
Anne Pasek @apasek.bsky.social STS, cultural studies, media, environment, climate, energy
Bikes, cats, synths, barbells, good recipes
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
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
Susana Aires @susanaaires.bsky.social PhD candidate at King's College London
Katia Schwerzmann @katschwerzmann.bsky.social Philosophy, Technology, and the Body—Toward Justice
Acting Professor, Institute of Media Studies, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
www.katiaschwerzmann.net
Devika Narayan @devikanarayan.bsky.social Assistant Prof/Lecturer l University of Bristol Tech, markets, orgs + work. Some other stuff.
Sociologist.
https://www.devikanarayan.com/
Fabian Ferrari @fabianlferrari.bsky.social 🌍 Assistant Professor in Cultural AI, @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social
🔍 Governance of AI Infrastructure
🌐 www.fabianlferrari.com
Kieran Hegarty @kieranhegarty.bsky.social ✨ Deakin University Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Cultural Heritage & Museum Studies) ✨ kieranhegarty.com
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
Sam Bennett @sj-bennett.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️ he/him
👀 AI Metascience Fellow @Durham Uni - AI Ethics & Society www.ai-ethics.org - AI and Medical Humanities - www.sj-bennett.com
Center for Democracy & Technology @cdt.org The Center for Democracy & Technology. Shaping technology policy and architecture, with a focus on equity and justice. @cdteu.org for our EU-based team.
https://cdt.org
Mark Graham @geoplace.bsky.social Prof at the Oxford Internet Institute
Director of @towardsfairwork.bsky.social
Publications: www.markgraham.space
Studies: Digital Economies, Digital Geographies, Economic Geography, Gig Economy, Data Work, AI Production Networks, Cities
Eat the rich
🌶 David Gray Widder @davidthewid.bsky.social Assistant Prof at UT Austin's iSchool.
Big Tech, political economy, AI hype, AI in War
trying to help computer ppl think more critically about computer, including me
exCornell/CMU/NASA/MSR/IntelLabs.
davidwidder.me
M. Beatrice Fazi @mbfazi.bsky.social Philosophy, Computation, Technoscience. Associate Professor at the University of Sussex (UK). Author of “Contingent Computation” (2018).
University page
https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p378975-beatrice-fazi
Prof. Dr Beth Singler @bvlsingler.bsky.social Anthropologist/Geek thinking about how you think about AI & robots. Assistant Professor in Digital Religions at UZH. Bvlsingler.com. She/her. 🌈 https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9781003256113/religion-artificial-intelligence-beth-singler
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.
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
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