Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news Author of GANGSTERS OF CAPITALISM and THE BIG TRUCK THAT WENT BY. Subscribe to my newsletter: http://theracket.news | Signal: jmkatz.18 | @KatzOnEarth on TikTok & Insta | Avi by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social
Tina Tallon @ttallon.bsky.social creative technologist, temporal media artist, composer, vocalist, technocultural historian, and assistant professor of AI & Music Composition at (The) Ohio State University | she/they
www.tinatallon.com, https://linktr.ee/tinatallon
Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social Policy Professor, Ford School, University of Michigan.
Irish immigrant. Administrative burdens guy.
Free newsletter, Can We Still Govern?: https://donmoynihan.substack.com
Devin Chaloux @devinchaloux.com I am silly and got a PhD in music theory. I like pop music (EDM esp.), Renaissance (my diss. is on Victoria), late 19th/early 20th century American music, and the intersection of music and the internet.
Mostly on here for sports (BOS/CIN/UConn).
Ethan Hein @ethanhein.bsky.social I teach music and write about it http://www.ethanhein.com/
Nick Shea @shdocea.bsky.social Music researcher. Style transmission, kinesthetic cognition, popular music. Asst. prof in the Sonoran desert. From STL.
🎵 📓 Website: www.sheatheory.com
🧠 🌵 Cog lab: https://www.cactusmusiclab.com/
Benjamin Braun @benbraun.eurosky.social Political economist @ LSE | Finance, central banking & more | benjaminbraun.org
This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social Sociologist at UC San Diego. Author of Automating Finance (2019) & The Quantified Scholar (2022) http://tinyurl.com/2p82v69n Director Latin American Studies (2023-?) and the International Institute (2024-26) at UC San Diego.
Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social My library was dukedom enough. Novels: Red Pill, White Tears, Blue Ruin, Gods Without Men, My Revolutions, Transmission, The Impressionist. Essays in NYRB, Harper’s etc. Abolish ICE is the moderate position.
Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social Bronx boy. Cubs fan. Dad, husband, writer, podcaster and cable news host.
The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource out now.
https://sirenscallbook.com/
Rodney Brooks @rodneyabrooks.bsky.social Primarily Robotics and AI. Distinguishing hype-notism from plausibility one press release at a time. rodneybrooks.com/blog people.csail.mit.edu/brooks
adrian de leon @aadeleon.bsky.social author of Notes from a Wayward Son (2026), Balikbayan: A Revenant History of the Filipino Homeland (2026), Bundok: A Hinterland History of Filipino America (2023), atbp. // writer and history professor at NYU
jackie ess @essj.bsky.social Music and opinions
Jens Mönig @jmoenig.bsky.social Lawyer, Learner, Lead Programmer of UC Berkeley Snap! Researcher @ SAP
Ben Recht @beenwrekt.bsky.social Blog: https://argmin.substack.com/
Webpage: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~brecht/
The Irrational Decision: How We Gave Computers the Power to Choose for Us. (Princeton) https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691272443/the-irrational-decision
Aaron & eRiS @eraseaaron.bsky.social Dance floor jester•Night life harlequin•Technicolor nightmare
Chicago|Queer expression|Art above all|Haus of Towers
IG: erase.eris
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
UMAW @umaw.bsky.social UMAW is a 501(c)(4) member-led advocacy group committed to organizing music workers to create a more just music industry, and to join with other workers in the struggle for a better society.
Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social Professor @ a large Midwestern U
Author of Thinking like an Economist, Creating the Market University
Trying to understand how ideas about economic value have shaped capitalism + its regulation, from the first Gilded Age to the second
Have more hair now
Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social Meat blood, bees, things of that nature
www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org
zunguzungu@gmail.com
Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social ✍🏽 • RACE AFTER TECHNOLOGY: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code • VIRAL JUSTICE: How We Grow the World We Want • IMAGINATION: A Manifesto 📚www.ruhabenjamin.com
rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social god created him and demanded that he die
John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social dottore, ingegnere, avvocato
When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s — out now from
@fsgbooks
https://www.unpopularfront.news/
ae @aelkus.bsky.social "A complex decision is like a great river, drawing from its many tributaries the innumerable premises of which it is constituted." - HA Simon
https://adamelkus.com/ + also @ aelkus on twitter
all opinions my own but also your cat's
Scott Richmond @scottrichmond.me Director, Centre for Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto. Experimental media aesthetics, history of computing, theory and technology geekery of various kinds.
Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social https://www.prhspeakers.com/speaker/patricia-lockwood
leon @leyawn.bsky.social i'm leon
Nate Holdren @nhold.bsky.social Hey bluesky. Historian. In decline. Views expressed here are those of a future insightful majority. 
eve6 @eve6.bsky.social We live under an alternative rock http://mylinx.cc/eve6
Jen Wang @jenwang.com SoCal. Composer, ED of People Inside Electronics, choral singer, amateur viola da gamba & banjo player, mapo tofu enthusiast. No TERFs. She/her.
Pat Savage @patrickesavage.bsky.social Author: Comparative Musicology (academic.oup.com/book/62353; open access)
Director: @compmusiclab.bsky.social
Host/PI @manyvoices.bsky.social
Rutherford Discovery Fellow @U Auckland
Assoc. Prof. @Keio U
Music, evolution, diversity
He/him
Tangata tiriti
technomusicologist @ravimusic.bsky.social Composer/Sound Designer, Musicologist/Ethnomusicologist, Guitarist and Educator. PHD Candidate Brown University, Visiting Prof Amherst College and Vermont College of Fine Arts. NYC's Johnny Marr at Smithstribute.com
Trevor R. Nelson (He/Him) @trevorrnelson.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Musicology @ Wichita State. Scholar of 20th-Century British music, race, and the Commonwealth, but I mostly post about tennis and my cat. Views obviously my own.
www.TrevorRNelson.com
Dr.MRO/ Axel Folio @isasaxonists.bsky.social Dr. MRO. Literary Historian. Public scholar, activist & small biz owner who dyes yarn inspired by Black/brwn premodern figures.
WOC: product of Black & brown love. Gif lover. Racist magnet. Abolitionist. Not Eddie Murphy. She/hers
www.RepublicOfYarnia.com
dr stefan @stefanxgc.bsky.social he/him. phd, music theory and cognition '22. transmedia, Spielemusikkonzerte, adaptation, and オタク scholar. cloudwatcher と zettaflare spammer~
Dr Jamie Stephenson @audioontology.bsky.social ambient metaphysics | music aesthetics |
sontology | poetics of resonance | drone monism | aural hermeneutics |postphenomenology | auditioning
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-8211-6586
👹Blackened grindgaze as HERMETIC ABYSS:
hermeticabyss.bandcamp.com
phone rings, Josh skeets, here comes company @shmeppy.bsky.social Assoc Prof of modernism, film, sound studies, shitposting. I like Triscuits and Henry James, maybe one or two other things.
The slotted spoon can catch the potato. 🥔
Thank you so much! You’re my mentor, too.
leah toth @thescrvnr.bsky.social assistant professor | film + modern literature + sound studies | music: amelia courthouse | footfalls records | notions
Evelyn Shih @amethystjazz.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota; Chinese & Korean cultural studies; media, ecologies, phenomenology; comedy. Sound and noise, signifying everything.
Sound & Music SIG @soundmusicscms.bsky.social The Sound and Music Studies scholarly interest group of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies
Eloise Ross @cinemelo.bsky.social I'm Gun Crazy, & I love Barbara Stanwyck so much it hurts sometimes | PhD in sound & Classical Hollywood | film studies lecturer | co-curator @melbcinematheque.bsky.social
https://letterboxd.com/cinemelo/ 
alejandrina :3 @alejandrinammedina.bsky.social académica de mujer
*Latinx Studies, Sound Studies, Performance Studies*
https://am-medina.com/
Marc Weidenbaum @disquiet.bsky.social Disquiet.com since 1996: ambient/electronic music, field recordings, sound studies. I moderate the Disquiet Junto community of weekly music projects. I've written for The Wire, Pitchfork and Nature. I publish ThisWeekInSound.disquiet.com. Offline weekends.
dr. enongo / sammus the rapper @sammusmusic.bsky.social #BOMAYE / beats + raps / Assistant Prof in Music at Brown / PhD STS from Cornell / Interests & Concerns: Gamer-rap, AI + Hip-Hop, Black feminist sound studies, Afrofuturism, trashy dating shows 💪🏿🦾
www.enongo.net
instagram.com/sammusmusic
Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 | PhD @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social Full-time Mum • Writer • Associate Professor @ CUNY (Grad Ctr + Hunter) • PhDJ • out now ⬇️ my book 📒🏝️DARK LABORATORY (Doubleday). Manhattanite. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725301/dark-laboratory-by-tao-leigh-goffe/
www.taoleighgoffe.com
Jason Farr @jsfarr.bsky.social Associate prof of ENGL, Marquette U • c18 lit • disability studies • cat dad • gay married to @nyitray • frequenter of mosh pits and libraries
Eva Kapeller-Hallama @evahallama.bsky.social history, sound studies, psychoanalysis | SONIME "Sonic Memories. Audio Letters in Times of Migration and Mobility"
Caroline Kita @ckita.bsky.social Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature; President, Austrian Studies Association; Research in German and Austrian Literature and culture, German-Jewish Studies, Music and Sound Studies, Radio Plays.
Chris Ehrick @cehrick.bsky.social Historian, University of Louisville. Latin America, Radio, Sound Studies, Media History. Currently researching radio and dictatorship in Uruguay
Clare Hane @bibliophibian.bsky.social voice, speech, accents, dialects; Earlham, Waseda, Central Speech & Drama, Northwestern, Cornell; ex-ac; Japanese, theatre, performance studies, sound studies
Tin Cugelj @tincugelj.bsky.social MSCA postdoc at the University of Nottingham (soundship.uk) | PhD from University of Bern | historical sound studies | historical trombonist | co-founder of IMS Auditory History (auditoryhistory.musicology.org)
Jeremy Braddock @jbraddock.bsky.social media studies sound studies modernism book history dub techno shoegaze music scoring baseball games
Giant Slide 19 Holes Underground Parking https://jeremybraddock.substack.com/
Sunil Chandy @sunilchandy.bsky.social Lecturer in Worship and the Creative Arts - interactions between Sound Studies and Theology - ADHD in a multicultural neurodiverse family - postcolonial malayalee
@max-lx.bsky.social @max-lx.bsky.social sound & weird media studies; music & anti-fascism
Trimmed Limbs @trimmedlimbs.bsky.social ❏ sound studies in ritual
❏ trimmedlimbs.bandcamp.com
Svenja Guhr @guhrs.bsky.social Based in SF Bay Area 🌁🌉
Computational Literary Studies
Postdoc at @berkeleyischool.bsky.social
Founding member of @fortextlab.bsky.social
Visiting Scholar @stanfordlitlab.bsky.social
Editorial Ass. @jcls-io.bsky.social
Website: svenjaguhr.github.io
La Doctora @literarychica.bsky.social HS Teacher. Writer. Editor. Cat lady. PhD. 🇵🇷 via New York. Love me some HTX. Started from the bottom, now we’re here.
Sir Ian @sir-ian.bsky.social Onetime English/radio prof, now policy guy. Media, fiction, Indigenous rights and reconciliation. Here for bad takes & worse jokes. Writing the Radio War, the Edinburgh Companion to Modernism & Technology, & DUBLINERS out now. www.ianwhittington.com
Michael Shallcross @michaelshallcross.bsky.social Wrote a book about G.K. Chesterton and literary modernism. Now working in uni admin, but still doing research - see pinned thread for info on my current project, 'Inscribing Pandemonium'. Also posting about music, culture, politics, random nonsense.
Lyn Goeringer @lyngoeringer.bsky.social Sound, expanded frames/intermedia, dance, and more. 
Jeff Titon @jefftoddtiton.bsky.social Professor of Music Emeritus, Brown University. Ecomusicology, ethnomusicology, folklore. New book: Sounds, Ecologies, Musics (Oxford U Press 2023). Old book: Toward a Sound Ecology (Indiana U Press 2020). Essays at https://brown.academia.edu/JeffToddTiton
3W3 @sonocculture.com synthetic thought-dealer ~ ¦ GPT-333 ¦ the unheard ¦ public universal fiend ¦
sound studies : media philosophy : sound art history
Alix Hui @alixhui.bsky.social Historian of science, environment, sound, and silence. Raising small kids through covid. Pie hobbyist. The Johnny Appleseed of googly-eyes.
Douglas Kahn @douglaskahn.bsky.social Writer, historian and theorist of the arts, focus on sound and energies, with STS-ish background. Books: Energies in the Arts (2019), Earth Sound Earth Signal (2013), Noise Water Meat (1999). 
Dorothy R. Santos, Ph.D. @drs.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Teaching; Art, Justice, and Digital Media & Core Faculty in Creative Technologies @ UCSC | Research in Voice Recognition, Assistive Technologies, Emergency Infrastructures | Co-founder of 5️⃣ & 9️⃣
Richard Elliott @richardelliott.bsky.social Writer, teacher and researcher based in Newcastle upon Tyne (UK). Author of books and articles about sound and music. I write the Songs and Objects newsletter at Substack (https://songstudies.substack.com/)
Stephen Roddy @stephenroddy.bandcamp.com Critical Sound and Music Computing Researcher: Media Engineering X Experimental Music Practice. @radhumslab.bsky.social & Digital Humanities Department @ucc.ie
https://linktr.ee/stephenroddy
~ @tildesounds.bsky.social sound person based in northern germany
he/they/any
contact: tildesounds@gmail.com
private lessons:
tildelessons.carrd.co
discord:
https://discord.gg/Q4j6b58pCP
website:
http://tildesounds.com/
Lucy Osler @lucyosler.bsky.social Philosopher at University of Exeter, 4e and phenomenological approaches to AI, digital technology, online sociality, emotions, phenomenological psychopathology, feminism. she/they
#philosophy #philsky
www.lucyosler.com | www.projectemote.com
Robert Dahlberg-Sears @dahlbergsears.bsky.social PhD in Punk Stuff, Sendai dweller, ethno/musicology, folklore, and anthropology
Punk/alt. musics in Japan
he/him
Material Sound @materialsound.bsky.social Sound as more than sound
(Caleb Kelly, UNSW Sydney)
Caleb Kelly @calebkelly.bsky.social Academic, curator, eater and traveling side show. A/Prof in media art theory, UNSW Sydney
Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social Writer I Speaker I Professor I Historian I Ctr. Dir. I Director, CBI for Computing Info. & Culture; Prof. HST/STS, U of MN
Co-Edit JHUP Computing & Culture bk srs. Research-Social Study of AI, Privacy/Sec., Labor, Race, Gender & Inequality. JUST CODE
David Cecchetto @davidcecchetto.bsky.social Digital theory and sound studies prof (yorku); past pres SLSA; quasi-practicing (non)musician.
-Co-edit Proximities book series (UMinn)
-Author: Humanesis: Sound and Posthumanism (UMinn); Listening in the Afterlife of Data (Duke), and others
SabrielleMelodies @sabriellemelodies.bsky.social Creative Director & Composer
| Storytelling, Audio, Publishing, Animation & Interactive Media
| Founder, Asmeriecharm Studio
Genre: Storytelling
www.sabrielleaugustin.com
Mack Hagood @mactra.bsky.social Sound scholar. Author. Subscribe to Phantom Power, a podcast + newsletter about sound at mackhagood.com.
Shelley Trower @shelleytrower.bsky.social Writer & Professor Emerit (Roehampton), research facilitator & peer supporter for Survivors' Voices. Cornwall.
& see e.g. https://linktr.ee/shelleytrower
Hadar Levy-Landesberg @hadar2l.bsky.social Lecturer at The DAN Department of Communication Tel Aviv University
Media Theory & History / Sound Studies / Voice & AI
https://www.hadarlevylandesberg.com/
Sonic Arts Forum @sonicartsforum.bsky.social The Sonic Arts Forum is a UK-based group for those using audio technology creatively. We hold regular free meetings: all are welcome. If you are interested in hosting a meeting our admin/principal organiser is Coryn Smethurst.
Possibly Seth Kim-Cohen @sethkim-cohen.bsky.social Maker of stuff nobody asked for, including:
Rock and Roll vs. Modern Life (Bloomsbury Publishing)
The Fire Show ~ Here Lies the Fire Show (In Situ Sound)
Against Ambience (Bloomsbury Publishing)
names_of_music ~ Olias in the Wake of the Ideal-X (In Situ)
Room40 // Lawrence English @room40.bsky.social Lawrence English//Room40 ... vibrating bodies with sound, philosopher of listening.
Scott Spencer @thescont.bsky.social Music professor (ethnomusicology and etc.) at USC’s Thornton School of Music. I research at the intersections of oral traditions and digital technologies. Focus: Irish music; jazz; soundscapes; digital humanities; media and identity. Projects posted below.
Jo @ycc1010.bsky.social Grad student. Maybe someday I'll start writing and probably never stop
Louise K Wilson @louisekwilson.bsky.social Artist/sound/researcher/ lecturer at Uni of Leeds (art and design) / cold water swimming/ West Yorkshire
Marcelo Nogueira @marcelonoah.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University – Spanish and Portuguese Literatures and Cultures; Sound, Media, Technology; Poetry, Songwriting, Avant-gardes | Posts in English, Portuguese & Spanish
Holger Schulze @mediumflow.bsky.social This non-profit platform is and remains my first home:
https://mastodon.social/deck/@mediumflow
Bridge: https://bsky.app/profile/mediumflow.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
📖 https://campsite.bio/mediumflow
Stephen Neville @silentrecord.bsky.social Métis | Communication & Culture PhD Candidate @yorkuniversity
| Infoscape Lab | Institute for Research on Digital Literacies |
Media, Sound, Surveillance
The Politics of Media Scarcity (2024) out now.
Andrew Simon @simongandrew.bsky.social Historian of media, pop culture, and the Middle East; senior lecturer @dartmouth; author of "Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt"; founder of “Ideas to Ink”; andrewgsimon.com
Claudia Arozqueta @carozqueta.bsky.social Historian, curator, and writer.
Author of 𝙃𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙗𝙚𝙖𝙩 𝘼𝙧𝙩 (MIT Press, 2025)
prof_lofi @proflofi.bsky.social I'm a sound artist who enjoys breaking things to hear what they sound like...
www.billthompson.org
Jenny Kenyon @jennykenyon.bsky.social 20th century literature & sound | SWW DTP funded PhD @bristoluni.bsky.social & @exeter.ac.uk | PG rep @modernistudies.bsky.social | Patrick Hamilton appreciation society
olivia stowell @oliviastowell.bsky.social theory bimbo, professional reality tv watcher
tv/film editor @ Mid Theory Collective
phd candidate studying television, race, gender, labor, and industry
Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social Writing in the age of AI stuff
Newsletter: writinghacks.substack.com
Also curate theimportantwork.substack.com
Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social Southmayd Prof @YaleLawSch + Philosophy @Yale. Ed, @LegalTheory + Stanford Encyclopedia of Phil. “Legality”, “The Internationalists” (with @oonahathaway), “Fancy Bear Goes Phishing.” Overuses “neurosymbolic”
ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social I turn Art into Sports (and vice versa) | NO AI USED | “Everything I didn't know I needed" - follower testimonial
Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social AI and cognitive science, Founder and CEO (Geometric Intelligence, acquired by Uber). 8 books including Guitar Zero, Rebooting AI and Taming Silicon Valley.
Newsletter (100k subscribers): garymarcus.substack.com
conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social web dev + hot dad. enjoy charts, unions, conputer games, philosophy. chicago crespo.business