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
Charmaine Chua @charmainechua.bsky.social Prof @ Berkeley Geography writing a book on the history of the "logistics counterrevolution.” Geography, political economy, labor studies. www.charmainechua.com
Matt Sparke @mattsparke.bsky.social Distinguished Professor of Politics, Geographer and Global and Community Health collaborator at University of California Santa Cruz.
Desiree Fields @desireefields.bsky.social Critical economic geographer: digital experiments with property, place, financial subjectivity.
@ucbgeography.bsky.social
Editor, Environment and Planning A
Jamie Doucette @jamiedoucette.bsky.social Reader in Human Geography @ University of Manchester. Author of The Postdevelopmental State: Dilemmas of Economic Democratization in Contemporary South Korea (Michigan: 2024, OA). Co-Editor: Developmentalist Cities? (Brill/Haymarket 2019). North sea surfer
Aphra Kerr @aphrak.bsky.social Prof Digital Media & Communication, University College Dublin, Ireland. Co- PI ADAPT Research Centre & Algowatch project. Researching people & games, tech & AI.
Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social Historian of technology, occasional dad jokes.
www.marhicks.com
Tim Maughan @timmaughan.bsky.social should be writing a second novel
https://timmaughanbooks.com
https://www.mcdbooks.com/books/infinite-detail
altho I hit a pound of herb/im still nice with the verb/so fuck what you heard
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
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/
Jeremy Hunsinger @buridan.bsky.social academic, researcher of the internet, writer, traveler...
STS, Critical Internet Studies, Critical University Studies, Critical Data Studies, Critical Theory, Interpretive methods, etc. #AoIR ista and leftist like Will Rogers
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/
keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net David M. Wood (DMW)
Surveillance / Security / Cities / Technology / Human Rights / Environment
https://ubisurv.net
Personal account.
Karen Louise Smith @smithisgeneric.bsky.social Associate Professor, Department of Communication, Popular Culture & Film at Brock University. Personal account, reposts ≠ endorsements, and find me at http://karenlouisesmith.net/wp/
Kate Henne @k8henne.bsky.social Prof at Australian National University studying how science, tech, + inequality affect the governance of health + wellbeing. Recent book: Violent Impacts https://www.ucpress.edu/books/violent-impacts/paper
katehenne.com
Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social An independent research and policy institute working toward a future where people, not technology, come first.
Doug Specht @dougspecht.bsky.social Chartered Geographer | Reader in Cultural Geography and Communication & Head of School of Media and Communication at the University of Westminster | doug.specht.co.uk
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
Kiran Kappeler @kirankappeler.bsky.social PhD in media & comms
Currently a postdoctoral researcher @ University of Copenhagen
🔍research:📱digital society ⚙️algorithms 👁dataveillance ⚡️digital inequality
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that. 
Paris Marx @parismarx.com 💥 PREORDER MY NEW BOOK HYPERSCALE 💥
🎙️ @techwontsave.us
📬 https://disconnect.blog
📖 https://hyperscalebook.com
Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social We are 4S, an international, nonprofit association focused on the social studies of science, technology and medicine (#STS). Next Annual meeting October 7-10, 2026.
Luis F. Alvarez Leon @lfalvarezleon.bsky.social Dartmouth Geog | tech&space | chilango in the wild
Duncan Friend @uncleduncan.bsky.social Here from @Lumpendata on X | Government(ality) | Policy | Information | STS | Archives | Art | fmr Safra Network Fellow @HarvardEthics | PhD and now Adjunct @KUSPAA
Christoph Lutz @lutzid.bsky.social Professor at BI Norwegian Business School & Co-Director of the Nordic Centre for Internet & Society. Research on privacy, digital inequality, AI & emerging tech. Check out my Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KI9IybAAAAAJ&hl=en
Fabian Ferrari @fabianlferrari.bsky.social 🌍 Assistant Professor in Cultural AI, @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social
🔍 Governance of AI Infrastructure
🌐 www.fabianlferrari.com
Julien Migozzi @jmigozzi.bsky.social Economic geographer.
Assistant Professor, Cambridge University.
I research how digital capitalism transforms markets, cities, and inequalities.
https://jmigozzi.github.io
Katie J. Wells @katiejwells.bsky.social i study how labor platforms shape the way we live in cities. geographer. senior fellow @ainowinstitute.bsky.social. newish book: DISRUPTING D.C. (Princeton Univ Press 2023 and 2025 paperback)
Ståle Holgersen @holgersen.bsky.social Human geographer at Stockholm University. Crisis, capitalism, city, class and climate.🍉
📚 Against the Crisis (Verso 2024) https://www.versobooks.com/products/3130-against-the-crisis
Arik Shams @realarikshams.bsky.social Agricultural biotech, food systems, technology implementation, and science diplomacy. Personal account.
PhD, Molecular & Cell Biology, UC Berkeley
(he/him)
Valerie C Virta, PhD @zebrafishevodevo.bsky.social “When you put your hand to the plow, you can’t put it down until you get to the end of the row.” -Alice Paul
James Townsend @jptownsendii.bsky.social - B @bainla.bsky.social @bainla.bsky.social
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
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
Dr. Rebecca Barnes (she/her) @waterbarnes.bsky.social Chronicling science, pet, & art adventures. #biogeofeminist catalyzing change -- to make the scientific enterprise welcoming & just. Sometimes creative, always sassy 🏞️⚛️💦🌿🏳️🌈☮️💙⚒️✍️🎨🐾
Dr. Courtney Gibbons (she/her/xlookup) @courtneygibbons.phd was @/virtualcourtney. math prof, pragmatic idealist, parent. Chief Problem Solver at MOTHERFUNCTOR.co
I write a (U.S.) politics newsletter focusing on issues that affect the math community, https://newsletter.motherfunctor.co
Mariah @slangcaster.bsky.social they/them | dogtor/policy wonk
Candidate for Congress in MA-06
I snowboard in winter &
plant native flowers in spring
Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social Researcher trying to shape AI towards positive outcomes. ML & Ethics +birds. Generally trying to do the right thing. TIME 100 | TED speaker | Senate testimony provider | Navigating public life as a recluse.
Former: Google, Microsoft; Current: Hugging Face
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
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/ 
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute 
Rational_Geographic @ritodhi.bsky.social Feminist father, wannabe farmer, itinerant scholar interested in masculinity, political ecology, climate justice, STS, Agrarian Futures in South Asia, Pacific and Latin America 
Julie Cidell @jlcidell.bsky.social Geographer, quilter, writer, teacher, researcher, Cubs fan, transportation geek, she/her