techUK @techuk.bsky.social The UK's tech trade association championing tech's role in preparing and empowering the UK for what comes next.
https://www.techuk.org/
Our AI Collective CIC @our-ai-collective.bsky.social We empower communities to shape AI's future. Our AI Collective is working to strengthen civic power in the age of AI. Another world is possible.
www.our-ai-collective.info
University of Edinburgh - School of Social and Political Science @uoe-sps.bsky.social The official bluesky account of The School of Social and Political Science - University of Edinburgh. This account is monitored Mon-Fri during office hours.
https://www.sps.ed.ac.uk
Minderoo Centre for Technology & Democracy @mctd.bsky.social Radically rethinking power relationships between digital technologies, society, and the planet | 📍 University of Cambridge | Sign-up to our mailing list ➡️ http://tinyurl.com/minderoocambs | Latest: https://linktr.ee/mctdcambridge
ALCS @alcs.co.uk We're the Authors' Licensing & Collecting Society. Nobody else in the world does exactly what we do. We've been championing writers and making sure they get paid for secondary uses of their work since 1977
www.alcs.co.uk
Scottish Network for Religion & Literature @religionlit.bsky.social Sharing knowledge & developing research around the dynamic relationship between literature and religions @uoedivinity.bsky.social
The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social AI is not inevitable. We DAIR to imagine, build & use AI deliberately.
Website: http://dair-institute.org
Mastodon: @DAIR@dair-community.social
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dair-institute/
Public Media Alliance @publicmedia.bsky.social The Public Media Alliance is a global association of public broadcasters, promoting and defending the values of public service media (PSM).
Robbie.D 🏴 @robbiecreative.bsky.social Looking for the final boss echo chamber
Sustainable AI Futures @sustainableai.bsky.social Can there be Sustainable AI Futures? Our project takes an interdisciplinary approach to AI and the environment, across Bath Spa, Sussex, Goldsmiths, UCD & UvA, & funded by UKRI. Sustainable AI Futures is a BRAID Responsible AI Demonstrator.
ARA Section for Archives & Technology @arasat.bsky.social @araukie.bsky.social's Section for Archives and Technology. Providing an informal network for those interested in digital curation, digital preservation, metadata or any other aspect of the intersection between archives and technology.
DACS - Design and Artists Copyright Society @dacs.org.uk Founded in 1984, DACS is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to championing, protecting and managing the rights of artists, and maximising their royalties. How we can help 👉 https://www.dacs.org.uk/
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
Benedetta Catanzariti @benedetta.bsky.social British Academy Postdoc @STIS University of Edinburgh | Researching knowledge, power & tech | co-run ai-ethics.org
University of Edinburgh's Generative AI Laboratory @uoe-gail.bsky.social 
Edinburgh Innovations @edinnovations.bsky.social We are @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social 's commercialisation service. We benefit society and the economy by helping researchers, students and industry drive innovation. Discover more ➡️ https://linktr.ee/edinburghinnovations_
Imogen Parker @imogen-parker.bsky.social Associate Director, Ada Lovelace Institute. Mainly posting about AI, society and social policy.
Previously IPPR, Citizens Advice, 5Rights, Fabian Society.
image cred: Yutong Liu & Kingston School of Art / Better Images of AI / Talking to AI 2.0 / CC-BY 
London AI and Humanity Project @laihp.bsky.social The LAIHP brings together interdisciplinary researchers from academia and industry to investigate human interaction with AI.
https://www.ai-humanity-london.com/
Hannah Redler-Hawes she / her🕷️ @hannahredlerhawes.bsky.social Independent Curator / Museum bod. Own views.
Specialising in Contemporary and Interdisciplinary Arts (Digital / Media Art; Art + Science, Data, AI)
Director, Data as Culture at Open Data Institute (Associate)
Curator Oxford Cultural Programme (External)
Scottish Arts and Humanities Alliance (SAHA) @sahavoice.bsky.social The Scottish Arts and Humanities Alliance brings together 12 HEIs, The RSE and SGSAH to provide a collective voice for Arts & Humanities in Scotland.
🌐 Visit our website saha.scot
🎙️ Listen to our podcast #SAHAConversations on Spotify
Sarah Cook @esarahcook.bsky.social Curator professor media art AI art science art museums curators clocks calendars cats cakes etc.
Centre for Assuring Autonomy @cfaa.bsky.social Advancing safety assurance of autonomous systems, AI, and robotics across the globe. A partnership between Lloyd’s Register Foundation and the University of York. Contact us for research projects, training and workshops, or consultancy on safety assurance.
Virginia Dignum @vdignum.bsky.social 🇵🇹🇳🇱🇸🇪🇪🇺 Prof #A.I @umeauniversity; member @UN Advisory Group on AI; @wasp_hs; author; speaker; #responsibleAI https://bit.ly/2WxEkQU
ESRC Centre for Digital Futures at Work (Digit) @digitcentre.bsky.social The ESRC Centre for Digital Futures at Work (Digit) aims to advance our understanding of how digital technologies are reshaping work.
Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social Author of RAINBOW TRAP and QUEER DATA 🌈 Researching LGBTQ data at the University of Edinburgh 📊 he/him/his ➡️ linktr.ee/kevinguyan
Edinburgh Law School @uoelawschool.bsky.social Official feed of Edinburgh Law School, based at the University of Edinburgh. Follow us for news and updates on study and research at the School.
Visit the website: https://www.law.ed.ac.uk/
Dr Clementine Collett @clemicollett.bsky.social Writer and researcher. BRAID UK fellow Cambridge University researching the impact of GenAI on the novel. PhD at Oxford University on AI and gender. 
Anna Rezk @annarezk.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Glasgow | AI in Information Retrieval
Bahareh Heravi @bheravi.bsky.social Prof of AI & Media at Institute for People-Centred AI, University of Surrey. @braiduk.bsky.social Fellow with BBC R&D.
Founding co-chair @datajconf.com
https://about.me/bheravi
Claire Paterson-Young @clcpaterson.bsky.social Professor of Social Justice at University of Northampton. Research in #SocialJustice #AI #Youth #Criminology #SocialCare. Chair of University of Northampton Ethics Committee and Member of West Midlands Police Data Ethics Committee.
Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones.bsky.social Associate Professor Northwestern University in Qatar | Studies Disinfo, Digital Repression & Gulf Politics | Author Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East (Hurst & OUP) Political Repression in Bahrain (Cambridge University Press) | Cat Fancier
Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social 🌐Studies influence, propaganda, platform design@Georgetown
✍🏼Lawfare,The Atlantic, Substack/Ghost Newsletter (signup on my site if you want Ghost)
📕Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality (invisiblerulers.com)
🦹🏻♀️Twitter Files supervillain
Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social Researcher of online rumors & disinformation. Former basketball player. Prof at University of Washington, HCDE. Co-founder of the UW Center for an Informed Public. Personal account: Views may not reflect those of my employer.
Craig Silverman @craigsilverman.bsky.social Cofounder of https://indicator.media, your essential guide to understanding and investigating digital deception. Sign up for free! Investigative journalist and OSINT trainer.
https://craigsilverman.ca
Bellingcat @bellingcat.com Bellingcat is a global collective uncovering facts to hold power to account. Our work is independent. Our methods are public. Our community is global.
Want to support our charity? bellingcat.com/donate
John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social Chasing digital badness. Senior Researcher at Citizen Lab, but words here are mine.
Erin Gallagher @3r1ng.bsky.social Social media network analysis. Digital ethnography. Formerly: Technology & Social Change Project: https://shorensteincenter.org/programs/technology-social-change/ she/her
Medium blog: https://erin-gallagher.medium.com/
Jillian C. York @jillian.bsky.social Author of Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism (Verso 2021).
Work @eff.org, teach at College of Europe Natolin, sing and play 🎷 in a band, live in London, full bio at https://jilliancyork.com/about
Views are mine alone.
DFRLab @dfrlab.bsky.social The Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab. Cultivating a global network of digital forensic analysts (#DigitalSherlocks) to combat disinformation.
Andy Carvin @acarv.in Director of investigations, @weareoversight.bsky.social. Former managing editor and current nonresident senior fellow, DFRLab.org. NPR and Reported.ly alum. Woodturner, veteran of the prolactinoma wars. Calling BS is my calling. I used to tweet a lot.
BostonJoan 🏳️🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social I am the founder of The Critical Internet Studies Institute and an Assistant Professor of Journalism and Emerging Media Studies at Boston University
www.criticalinternet.org
David Carroll @davidcarroll.org admin of federate.social (circa 2022)
faculty of parsons.edu (circa 2000)
subject of The Great Hack (Netflix 2019)
headshot by Bryan Derballa (Wired 2019)
header from Cadillacs & Dinosaurs (Capcom 1993)
Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk Researches Propaganda & IW; Visiting Prof @notredame.bsky.social; Fellow @ Bard; Associate @ Cambridge; Owner Maven of Persuasion; Snr Researcher Oscar-shortlisted The Great Hack on #CambridgeAnalytica. 🐕 https://emma-briant.co.uk signal: Emmalbriant.44
Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social Professor of Practice at the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University
Transaidency e.V. @transaidency.bsky.social 
Marwa Fatafta | مروة فطافطة @marwasf.bsky.social Palestinian feminist made in Saudi | MENA Policy and Advocacy Director @AccessNow
Axel Bruns @snurb.info Australian Laureate Fellow and Professor at @qutdmrc, researching news, politics, partisanship, polarisation in digital and social media.
He/his | Progressive Rock | Hannover 96 🖤🤍💚 | 🇦🇺🇩🇪🇪🇺
🕸️ snurb.info
🐘 @snurb@aoir.social
⛔ @snurb_dot_info
Emma Beals @ejbeals.bsky.social Constructive disrupter. Working on: the crisis in peace/conflict, disrupting aid, democracy/human rights, systems change and the mess we’re in. Former: Syria. Do: research, analysis, policy, piloting. Affiliations: EIP, MEI. Opinions my own. EmmaBeals.com
Katherine Denkinson @kdenkwrites.com UK-based Investigative Journalist & OSINT bod.
Author of Incel:The Weaponisation of Misogyny (out now with Aurora Metro Books)
Email: katherinedenkinson@protonmail.com
Website: www.KDenkWrites.com
Sohan Dsouza @sohandsouza.info 🥼 @MPIB-Berlin.bsky.social;
📚 computational social science, disinformation/polarization, crowdsourcing, OSINT;
🎓 @MIT.edu @MediaLab.bsky.social, @DFRLab.bsky.social #DigitalSherlocks;
📍 London, England;
https://www.sohandsouza.info
Noura Aljizawi @noura.bsky.social Senior Researcher @Citizenlab.ca , UofT
Exploring the dark dimensions of digital power: authoritarianism, transnational repression & disinformation.
Dina Sadek @dinamsadek.bsky.social Senior Analyst @Graphika.
I have opinions of my own.
Omer Arvili @omerarvili.bsky.social מעצבנת דעת קהל
Tessa Knight @awildknight.bsky.social Researching disinformation for DFRLab | She/her | DMs usually open | tessaknight132@protonmail.com
EU DisinfoLab @disinfo.eu Independent EU-focused NGO whose mission is to raise awareness on #disinformation & contribute to a better information landscape.
Iyad El-Baghdadi @iyadelbaghdadi.bsky.social Palestinian 🇵🇸🇳🇴
Research Lead Kawaakibi Foundation
KULNA coming soon @kulna.bsky.social
Author: "The Middle East Crisis Factory".
Interview requests: press@kawaakibi.org
Richard Ngamita @ngamita.bsky.social researcher studying digital threats; society and tech.
www.ngamita.xyz
Matt DeVerna @matthewdeverna.com Postdoc with Stanford's Tech Impact and Policy Center
(@techimpactpolicy.bsky.social). Past: Indiana University / Observatory on Social Media.
Societal impacts of AI within the information ecosystem.
🧨 matthewdeverna.com
Andrew Chadwick @andrewchadwick.com Prof, Media and Communication, Loughborough University. Ed. Oxford Studies in Digital Politics. Been dubbed “that hybrid media guy.” More active on LinkedIn these days.
andrewchadwick.com
Occasional posts on music.
Dr. Ashley Mattheis @draamattheis.bsky.social Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture at the University of Manchester. Researching gender, racism, and digital cultures of far-right, white supremacists, and male supremacist extremism. Views my own.
David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social Reporter @WIRED covering disinformation, online extremism, and election hucksters. https://www.wired.com/author/david-gilbert/
Got a tip? Get in touch
• Email: david.gilbert@wired.com
• Signal: @DavidGilbert.01
Mike Cowburn @mikecowburn.bsky.social Research Fellow, @demolaw.bsky.social, Zeppelin Universität
Intra-Party Politics | Candidate Selection | Legislative Politics | PolComm | Primaries
Author: Party Transformation in Congressional Primaries https://tinyurl.com/4w6tfvjx
www.mikecowburn.com
Brent Lee @brentlee.bsky.social Host / Producer of Some Dare Call It Conspiracy podcast. Former conspiracist turned debunker. Now that I debunk conspiracy theories, I have become an actual conspiracy theory. True story.
Jerome @jeromegill.com I build tech for charities and NGOs and the private sector, usually in the sustainability/environmental space
Interested in tech, modern propaganda, and cleaning up information spaces
Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social Professor of Financial Accounting, Vice Dean of Programmes, co-Director, Cambridge Centre for Financial Reporting & Accountability, Univ of Cambridge
Founder & Chair, Cambridge Disinformation Summit
Research: IFRS, GAAP, governance, information risks
Yoel Roth @yoyoel.com Internet sanitation enthusiast and full-time corgi wrangler.
Alex Winter @alexwinter.com Trans Rights are Human Rights.
alexwinter.com
Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social Let's see... 39 years teaching journalism at NYU. A critic who tries to be useful. PressThink: the name of my subject and my site. My book: "What Are Journalists For?" (1999, Yale University Press)
ProPublica @propublica.org Investigative journalism in the public interest. Headlines and (sometimes literal) receipts.
Send us tips: propublica.org/tips
Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com 🙅🏻♀️ Author (2 books & The Wayfinder newsletter), disinformation expert, advocate for targets of online abuse.
☀️ CEO, @americansunlight.org
😆 Tucker Carlson once called me a “highly self confident young woman” and meant it as an insult
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.
Thierry Breton @thierrybreton.bsky.social Entrepreneur. Teacher. Policy Maker 🇫🇷🇪🇺
Marietje Schaake @marietjeschaake.bsky.social Proud European 🇪🇺 Fellow at Stanford 👩🏼💻 column in FT 🗞️Member of European Parliament 2009-2019 📕Author: The Tech Coup
Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.
Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social My Book: Giving Up Is Unforgivable |UALawSchool |MSNOW Legal Analyst |Podcasts #SistersInLaw & Cafe Insider|Obama US Atty |25 year fed'l prosecutor|Wife & Mom of 4|Knits a lot|Civil Discourse newsletter: joycevance.substack.com
Sander van der Linden @profsanderlinden.bsky.social Professor of Social Psychology in Society at the University of Cambridge and Author of FOOLPROOF: Why We Fall for Misinformation and How to Build Immunity (2023) + The Psychology of Misinformation (2024). Bad News Game.
www.sandervanderlinden.com
Maria Ressa @mariaressa.bsky.social 
Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca SocialMediaLab.ca News, analysis & views by @philipmai.com re: the politics of tech, social media, AI, immigration, democracy, mis/disinfo, war & propaganda. Explore our suite of social media tools for public interest research: socialmedialab.ca/apps/
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Giancarlo Fiorella @giancarlofiorella.bsky.social Director of Research and Training | Bellingcat
Assistant Professor | Utrecht University
PhD, Criminology & Sociolegal Studies | University of Toronto
www.giancarlofiorella.com
Opinions my own
David Rand @dgrand.bsky.social Prof at Cornell studying how human-AI dialogues can correct inaccurate beliefs, why people share falsehoods, and ways to reduce political polarization and promote cooperation. Computational social science + cognitive psychology.
https://www.DaveRand.org/
Gordon Pennycook @gordpennycook.bsky.social Associate Professor, Psychology @cornelluniversity.bsky.social. Researching thinking & reasoning, misinformation, social media, AI, belief, metacognition, B.S., and various other keywords. 🇨🇦
https://gordonpennycook.com/
Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social Dartmouth political scientist and Bright Line Watch co-director. Previously Upshot NYT / CJR contributor, Spinsanity co-founder, All the President's Spin co-author.
https://sites.dartmouth.edu/nyhan/
http://brightlinewatch.org
Lauren Feldman @laurenfeldman.bsky.social Professor of Journalism & Media Studies @ Rutgers. I study climate change communication, partisan media and misinformation, and comedy and social change.
https://comminfo.rutgers.edu/feldman-lauren
Nora Benavidez @attorneynora.bsky.social Civil Rights & Free Speech Attorney. Disinformation & AI Expert. Nonfiction Author.
Now: Senior Counsel @freepress & 2026 Bellagio Residency Fellow @rockefeller (writing a book)
Past: Free Expression @PENamerica, Litigation @ACLU
www.norabenavidez.com
Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social Social scientist @yalesph.bsky.social studying why we get fooled online, and what to do about it. Author of Misguided. https://amzn.to/48zTs59
https://matthewfacciani.substack.com
www.matthewfacciani.com
https://matthewfacciani.github.io/tools/
Philipp Lorenz-Spreen @lorenzspreen.eurosky.social Heading the Computational Social Science group within SynoSys & ScaDS.AI at TU Dresden, where we study how online information environments impact public discourse and develop alternatives that benefit democracy.
CSS-Group: https://css-synosys.github.io/
Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social Writer/lecturer on Russian influence & information warfare | lead writer of greatpower.us | Be excellent to each other
Bill McCarthy @billmccarthy.bsky.social Senior digital investigation journalist covering online mis- and disinformation for AFP • Formerly with PolitiFact and the Raleigh News & Observer • Duke alum • “The internet folks” - Stephen Colbert
https://factcheck.afp.com/Bill-MCCARTHY
Joe Pierre, MD @psychunseen.bsky.social Academic psychiatrist at UCSF and author of the Psych Unseen blog at Psychology Today and the book False: How Mistrust, Disinformation, and Motivated Reasoning Make Us Believe Things That Aren't True (Oxford University Press, 2025) drjoepierre.com
Claire Wardle @cward1e.bsky.social Associate Professor, Dept of Communication, Cornell University. Bit partial to information ecosystems.
Hossein Derakhshan (حسین درخشان) @h0d3r.bsky.social PhDing on listening and mass personalization @MediaLSE @MediaLab @Shorensteinctr+ Iran Evin prison (6yrs). co-wrote ‘Information Disorder’, wrote 'Web We Have to Save'.
Anuj Chopra @anujchopra.bsky.social Disinformation correspondent, AFP. New America Fellow. Based in Washington D.C. Past lives: New York, Riyadh, Kabul, Hong Kong, Pune. Ex-Knight Bagehot and Dart Center Ochberg Fellow at Columbia University. Scoops, food recs? anuj.chopra@afp.com
People Vs Big Tech @peoplevsbigtech.eurosky.social Algorithm, we’re onto you. Let’s build a better digital world.
👾 Linktree linktr.ee/peoplevsbigtech
📩 Newsletter blog.peoplevsbig.tech
Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Investigative journalist. Ex-Guardian/Observer. Now co-founder brand new all-women journalist collective, www.thenerve.news. Tech justice stuff: www.the-citizens.com. Personal newsletter: www.broligarchy.substack.com
Bill Marczak @billmarczak.org senior researcher at @citizenlab.ca
Azadeh Akbari @azadehakbari.bsky.social Prof. Critical Data & Technology Studies @ Goethe University Frankfurt / digital authoritarianism, surveillance, smart cities/
Co-Director @Survstudiesnet.bsky.social /
Founder @surveillancemw.bsky.social
*personal account*
Dr Bettina Nissen (she/her) @bettinanissen.bsky.social Lecturer and interaction designer working with tangible things, technology and data. Also love knitting, craft and making things, and of course cats ;)
✊🏿✊🏽✊🏼🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️terf-free zone 🇵🇸🇺🇦
Views my own
@designinf
Kate Wright @newsprof1.bsky.social Prof of Media and Communication at the University of Edinburgh. Based in Politics/IR. Researching #AI, #Journalism and #Public Service Media. Views own. She/Her