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The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social AI is not inevitable. We DAIR to imagine, build & use AI deliberately.
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dair-institute/
Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social Writing in the age of AI stuff
Newsletter: writinghacks.substack.com
Also curate theimportantwork.substack.com
Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of EMPIRE OF AI: empireofai.com. ai reporter. national magazine award & american humanist media award winner. words in The Atlantic. formerly WSJ, MIT Tech Review, KSJ@MIT. email: http://karendhao.com/contact.
AI Accountability Lab @aial.ie Trinity College Dublin’s Artificial Intelligence Accountability Lab (https://aial.ie/) is founded & led by Dr Abeba Birhane. The lab studies AI technologies & their downstream societal impact with the aim of fostering a greater ecology of AI accountability
Schools Beyond Screens @schoolsbeyond.bsky.social A grassroots network of parent-led groups advocating for human-centered, evidence-based policies around classroom tech. We're in 222 school districts in 40 states and growing every day. Join the movement at schoolsbeyondscreens.com.
Anna-Maria Sichani @amsichani.bsky.social BRAID fellow | Research Associate , Digital Humanities Research Hub School of Advanced Study University of London | Programming Historian Trustee | Software Sustainability Institute fellow | early morning bird
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.
Hannes Bajohr @hannesbajohr.de Working on AI, political theory, and the German philosophical tradition in the 20th c
German Dept #UCBerkeley
University of London Press @uolpress.bsky.social Opening up humanities research.
Passionate advocates for the humanities, we are a collaborative, non-profit and predominantly open access publishing partner to researchers and institutions, creating award-winning scholarly books.
https://uolpress.co.uk
kevin hunt @kejhu.bsky.social Writer + Researcher / Culture + Senses. Director of PhDs in Art & Design, NTU. Interested in Film, Painting, Photography, Design, Embodied Knowledges, Ecology, Technology, Space/Time, Touch, Sound & Vision… 👨🎤✊🏼🌎
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1985-4351
Scan2Screen @scan2screen.bsky.social An advanced multispectral digitization workflow for color films that prioritizes historical and scientific accuracy. Scan2Screen.com
Andrew Israel Ross @aiross.bsky.social Associate Professor of History at Loyola University Maryland. History of Sexuality, Modern Europe, Feminist and Queer Studies. http://www.andrewisraelross.com 🏳️🌈 
Submerging Artist @kristinmuh.bsky.social ⁸aka Kristin. former opera singer turned business analyst. I live in Montreal and have a family, also I have an improv troupe and a podcast and I do crafts
skeets bilingue si j'ai l'envie/bilingual skeets if I feel like it
she/elle
David Bax @daveypretension.bsky.social He/him. Battleship Pretension/The One Where I Met Your Mother. Go Blues, fuck ICE, free Palestine http://letterboxd.com/DavidBax/
Taylan Akıl @taylanakil.bsky.social digital marketer 👨💻 / podcaster 🎙️
Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in Teaching and writing media studies at CU Boulder. Helping to build a cooperative fediverse with Social.coop. Fan of democratic experiences and divine mysteries. Co-leading metagov.org, start.coop, wagingnonviolence.org.
Steven Frost @stevenfrost.bsky.social 🏳️🌈Artist |🌲CO | Asst. Prof. CU Boulder Media Studies | Library Advocate | Assoc Dir Unstable Design Lab | Experimental Weaving Residency Co-Founder | https://lnk.bio/harmonyinbadtaste - Talk Series: https://unstable.design/experimental-weaving-talks/
Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social Academic, Cultural Theorist, culture critic, Essayist, Author, Contributing Writer at MS NOW.
Researcher of education, ethics, policy, civil rights, hate studies.
My posts represent my views and not my employer.
Reposts do not = endorsements.
Learning, Media and Technology @lmt-journal.bsky.social #LMT 🟨🟪 aims to stimulate debate on digital media, digital technology and digital cultures in education. Edited by @benpatrickwill.bsky.social, @johnpp.bsky.social, @discoursology.bsky.social & @lucipangrazio.bsky.social.
Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social Founder & CEO of @standupforscience.net
Standupforscience.net substack.com/@sciencefightclub
PhD in Clinical Psychology
"Colette is brass knuckles...w/ spikes tipped in poison"
“Delusional broad”
"Lady Switchblade"
“Ditsy socialist liberal”
Decca Muldowney @deccamuldowney.bsky.social managing editor @bayareacurrent.bsky.social | alum of New Internationalist, The Daily Beast, ProPublica, The Real Deal | here to burden the conscience of the affluent
www.deccamuldowney.com
Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social Compte inactif. Ou pas?
Autrice Agora Toxica & La Terreur Masculiniste (Éditions @dudetour.bsky.social)
🇨🇦🇫🇷 🇦🇺🇩🇪
HP via dessinfox
Dogmum to Oliver Orson aka Olly and human of Lily the cat.
Austin McCoy @austinmccoy.bsky.social Historian, Author of Living in a DAISY Age: The Music, Culture, and World De La Soul Made. Also writing book on history of the Left in Midwest.
https://austincmccoy.com/
https://austincmccoy.substack.com/
Everett Ruess Fan Club @everettruessfans.bsky.social wishing I could disappear into the Escalante canyonlands. composer, dev interested in DIY, small data, proc gen games, art & music. don't steal your dataset. sometimes also make music on staff paper. PhD. he/him. foundobjects.org
Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev Video game writer and and narrative designer.
Personal blog: https://azhdarchid.com/
Fediverse profile: https://azhdarchid.online/@bruno
Full bio: https://brunodias.dev/bio/
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Jaime Green @jaimealyse.bsky.social Author of THE POSSIBILITY OF LIFE (2023), AT HOME IN THE STARS (2029) | series editor of THE BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE AND NATURE WRITING || she/her || jaimegreen.net
Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social Writer, teacher. Up next: PENITENT, a novel (2028, Doubleday); TYPO, nonfiction (2027, Bloomsbury). Out now: APPLESEED (2021, Mariner). REFUSE TO BE DONE (2022, Soho Press).
Sinem Adar @sinemadar.bsky.social Head (CATS/SWPBerlin & CATS Network), Co-Head of the Autocratisation Thematic Group @SWP. Views personal. Writes in EN/TR
Ian Danskin @innuendostudios.bsky.social my romanticism is not post-, it's neo-!
https://www.youtube.com/@InnuendoStudios
he/him
Lilly Wachowski @lillywachowski.bsky.social Trans Giantess. 
Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social Historian of early America and bits of Britain. Apostate southerner. Yells about maps, St. Louis, and higher ed.
Jess Liotta 🍄 @jessliotta.bsky.social Dual class 🇺🇸/🇮🇹 (siciliana, e imparando italiano). I’m a mushroom forager, parent to two very cool kids, silken windhound owner, and food obsessive; be ready for me to be annoying about all the above. PNW now, CA before, PNW before that. She/her
Geoffrey D. Henry, Ph.D. @ghenry2.bsky.social Ph.D. in Communication - Film from Georgia State University (GSU). Moving Image Studies track.Former graduate teaching/research assistant in the School of Film, Media, & Theatre at GSU. Primary scholarly interest: TV mystery/detective shows. He/his/him
Stephanie Porras @periodeye.bsky.social Art historian @ Tulane. Working on visual, material and built cultures of early modern Northern Europe, the Spanish empire and the Dutch Atlantic. Never too busy for a happy hour. My employer really wants me to note: all these views are mine not theirs.
Christopher Powers @powersglobal.bsky.social International Educator, Assistant Vice President for International Initiatives, Towson University, Baseball Fan, He/him, All views my own
Brian Klaas @brianklaas.bsky.social Professor of Global Politics @UCL. Author of “Fluke." Writer @TheAtlantic. Host, Power Corrupts podcast. The Garden of Forking Paths Substack.
Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social editor & scholar. Pop music, gender, philosophy. Books: GOOD VIBES ONLY; THE FUTURE OF ROCK & ROLL; THE SONIC EPISTEME; RESILIENCE & MELANCHOLY. Writing a 33 1/3 on The Breeders. Bylines all over, views could only be mine lol. its-her-factory.com
@acad-euro.bsky.social @acad-euro.bsky.social Academia Europaea, founded in 1988, is a European Academy of Humanities, Letters and Sciences with more than 5,900 members including 90 Nobel laureates.
Kevin M. Flanagan @realkmflanagan.bsky.social professor, film/TV/videogame historian, Deadhead, &c.
James Bridle @jamesbridle.bsky.social Artist, author of New Dark Age (2018) and Ways of Being (2022). Free Palestine, Protect Trans Kids, for ever and ever. https://mastodon.social/@jamesbridle / jamesbridle.com
Johan Farkas @jfarkas.bsky.social Assistant Professor. Author of 'Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy' (https://t.ly/1JHye), University of Copenhagen, Firstgen 🎓. he/him. Free access to my work: http://www.johanfarkas.com/research
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)
Gabriele Balbi @gabrielebalbi.bsky.social Media History Researcher, Prorector for Education at @Usi.ch, Committee Member @acad-euro.bsky.social. More info: http://usi.to/cyi
Cinema Rediscovered @cineredis.bsky.social Great films back on the big screen 📽️ Cinema Rediscovered 10 is on tour from August to December 2026 across the UK and Ireland.
https://linktr.ee/cineredis
Sorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social Things are terrible
(we follow our contributors)
Elena Lazic @elazic.bsky.social Founder and editor of @animusmagazine.bsky.social | Production Manager @filmsradiance.bsky.social | Film writer, journalist, copy editor and translator | French | In London, UK
noam @noamchompers.bsky.social lecturer. soon to be lecturer (weirdly an important difference)
Matt Gold @mkgold.bsky.social Associate Prof of English and Digital Humanities at CUNY Graduate Center. Director @cunycommons @cunygcdi @cbox. Co-Editor @dhdebates. Co-PI @ManifoldScholar. http://mkgold.net
Rob Dunson, Collateral Beautician @wormsgreenrealm.bsky.social I’m not here representing Hardbodies
cohost/editor Box Office GROSS
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/box-office-gross-the-top-50-hit-films-of-2006/id1799810180
films, videos and writing:
https://linktr.ee/ROBDUNSON
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Michelle E. Moore @memoore6.bsky.social Professor Film and Lit, Author of Chicago and the Making of American Modernism (Bloomsbury Academic, Historicizing Modernism Series), coeditor Refocus: The Films of John Waters and Refocus: The Films of Paul Schrader (EUP).
Samantha Pinto @samanthapinto.bsky.social Author. Books: Inside the Body of Black Feminism, Infamous Bodies, Difficult Diasporas. Editor of Black Feminism on the Edge series with Duke UP. I only rep myself.
Brittney Cooper @profcrunk.bsky.social 
Feminist Studies Journal @feministstudies.bsky.social committed to publishing and championing interdisciplinary research in gender & sexuality studies; unabashedly feminist; fiercely independent; feministstudies.org
Jennifer C. Nash @jennifercnash.bsky.social professor; writer; black feminist; mother; cookie monster; WBB fan; editorial director of @feministstudies.bsky.social
Kyla Wazana Tompkins @kwazana.bsky.social Professor&Chair, Gender&Sexuality Studies, University@Buffalo. Awards: Lora Romero (ASA'13); Best Book in Food Studies (ASFS'13); Choice (2022); Alan Bray (MLA&ASA'26); Hon. Mention, Rene Wellek (ACLS '26); James Beard essay award ('23), NHC Scholar 26-27.
Ariadna Cebrián @ariadnacebrian.bsky.social 
Marc Hudson @marchudson.bsky.social Failing/ed academic (socio-technical transitions), climate historian, writer, video maker. Most days I think we're toast. #envhist See also allouryesterdays.info
@allouryesterdays.bsky.social
Sireesh Gururaja @siree.sh PhD student @ltiatcmu.bsky.social. Working on NLP that centers worker agency. Otherwise: coffee, fly fishing, and keeping peach pits around, for...some reason
https://siree.sh
Dan Slevin @danslevin.funeralsandsnakes.net Gentleman of Silverstream. Writer, broadcaster and sometime CEO. Reviewer of films at funeralsandsnakes.net and RNZ.
Kevin Jones @stairwaytokevin13.bsky.social Privacy/tech lawyer by day, film noir aficionado by night. CIPP/US, CIPP/E & AIGP. Living the beach life between Wilmington, NC & Racine, WI.
Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/1SGFN
Claudia Calhoon @claudiacalhoon.bsky.social Immigration/health advocate, health policy professor, CUNY York College, NYC/NC. 
Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com #Archaeologist🏺, got a hat (no whip though). Once known as "Yunus" among Bedouins. Demanding a revival of the venerable profession of the #ExpeditionPainter👨🎨.
🔗 jensnotroff.com
🔗 trowelandpen.com
Martin Clavey @mart1oeil.eu Journaliste scientifique https://next.ink
Ancien d'Owni et platforme de blogs en SHS Hypothèses.
Mastodon : https://piaille.fr/@mart1oeil
Signal: @mart1oeil.06
PGP : https://keys.openpgp.org/vks/v1/by-fingerprint/8D7A8F11A8318D0E689F394FF6FEB6F6BB91C90B
Open Research Leeds @openresleeds.bsky.social Posts from Research Services Team at
@UoLLibrary
/ UKRN@Leeds #openaccess #opendata #openresearch #openscience #openeducation #UKRN #UKRNLeeds #ReproducibiliTea
Jenni Adams @jenniad.bsky.social Open research person | feminist | writer
Loves books and cats
MORPHSS @morphss.bsky.social Materialising Open Research Practices in the Humanities & Social Sciences.
Research project funded by AHRC, Wellcome Trust & Research England.
Co-delivered by Cambridge, Sheffield, Coventry & Southampton universities.
https://morphss.hcommons.org/
Audrey Watters @audreywatters.bsky.social I’m just here so I won’t get fined — Marshawn Lynch
https://t.ajrkmx1.com/331727/6224/0?po=6533&aff_sub5=SF_006OG000004lmDN
Frank Elavsky (he/him) ⌁ @frank.computer Assistant Professor of Data Science @ Cal Poly SLO
Phd in accessibility, tool-making, visualization 📊 @hcii.cmu.edu. Prev: Adobe, Highsoft, Apple, Visa.
Move slo and repair things.
Disabled & making a ttrpg.
www.frank.computer
Cindy Carter @cindylcarter.bsky.social Reader Emerita, Cardiff University (JOMEC). Co-editor, Feminist Media Studies (T&F).
Andy Byers @ajrbyers.bsky.social Director of Publishing Technology at the Open Library of Humanities.
Slowly migrating here from https://twitter.com/ajrbyers
Janeway @janewayolh.bsky.social Janeway is an open source digital platform for publishing scholarly articles online. Developed by the openlibhums.bsky.social. Posts usually by @ajrbyers.bsky.social.
Mika McKinnon @mikamckinnon.bsky.social Field geophysicist, disaster researcher, scifi science consultant, science writer, public speaker, irrepressibly curious. Occasional rock-licker, frequent devourer of board books. 🇨🇦🇺🇸
Arvind Narayanan @randomwalker.bsky.social Princeton computer science prof. I write about the societal impact of AI, tech ethics, & social media platforms. https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/
BOOK: AI Snake Oil. https://www.aisnakeoil.com/
Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social Artist; have written, and curated, also. Head of Programme, Writing MA, at the RCA, London.
jeremymillar.org
Profile: https://jeremymillar.org/Notes-on-Gesture-for-H-C-2015
Header: https://jeremymillar.org/Neutral-Diluted-2007
Loretta Hackenbush, PhD @pghsciencenerd.bsky.social My name isn’t really Loretta. Yinzer science goblin. Mall rat (RIP Century III).
Dr. Ellen Bauerle @bauerle.bsky.social 🏺Executive Editor, Univ. of Michigan Press. My UMP colleagues are all people, no bots. Views my own. #AAACC #ClassicsBluesky #AncientBluesky
Rachel Hope Cleves @rachelcleves.bsky.social Hungry historian. Novelist. Vancouver Island dweller. I post a lot about old books I'm reading, and sometimes new ones. Also art and nature shots. I avoid posting about politics because what the fuck's the point. You know what I think.
@noorsakaina.bsky.social @noorsakaina.bsky.social 
Summer Brennan @summerbrennan.bsky.social Award-winning writer and Orion Book Award finalist. American in Paris. Books: THE OYSTER WAR; HIGH HEEL. Next: THE PARISIAN SPHINX, A TRUE TALE OF ART & OBSESSION. Leonard Cohen blew me a kiss one time.
Substack: https://www.awritersnotebook.org/
Amy Earhart @aearhart.bsky.social Literary scholar/digital humanities/Black studies, sheep herder, owner of big fluffy Pyrenees who guard said sheep. Descended from a long line of dissenters-Quakers, Mennonites, Bretherns. Current project is uncovering the Millican Massacres of 1868 (tx).
Esther Mondragón @e-mondragon.bsky.social Hic sunt dracones
I represent myself, no one else.
She/They
Computational and associative learning.
Biologically-inspired AI.
https://cit-ai.net/people.html#Mondragon
https://www.city.ac.uk/about/people/academics/esther-mondragon
Academic Publishing News @acadpubnews.bsky.social News, views & research from and about the world of academic publishing. (🦋 by @bookseditorial.bsky.social)
Neil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social I write mostly about the intersection of tech & art/culture which these days means I spend nearly all my time trying to address the exploitation underlying current AI models. A secular humanist interrogating modern religions.
lmsacasas.bsky.social @lmsacasas.bsky.social Author of The Convivial Society, a newsletter about technology, culture, and the moral life.
theconvivialsociety.substack.com
Michael Franklin @mcbfranklin.bsky.social academic research & industrial application - film, risk, philosophy, economics, market devices | personal acct | https://ciciexeter.org/ | https://britishscreenforum.co.uk/film-data-initiative-pilot/ | https://mcbfranklin.com/
Elizabeth @kitabet.bsky.social earthquake aficionado & disaster studies scholar. outreach lead for PNSN; views and posts my own. now returned to the salish sea, but in the words of my former mayor, “you know first stop is always istanbul."
Mitch Therieau @mitchtherieau.bsky.social East
Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social narrative director at Firaxis. emergent/systemic storytelling. nominated for awards and things. lit PhD. awful at Greek. cannot overstate the degree to which this is a personal account
Audra Wolfe @audrajwolfe.bsky.social I wrote two books on science & the Cold War, formerly @ColdWarScience. Developmental editor to the should-be stars. Mostly Philly, sometimes Indiana, always weaving.
IAMHIST @iamhist.bsky.social The International Association for Media and History #iamhist #since1977 #mediahistory #historyandmedia for scholars, archivists & practitioners: https://iamhist.net/
evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social 鄺文詠 | contributor @404media.co —evy@404media.co | formerly @wired.com and vice news | moving between the hellscape and food | THOUGHTS/OPINIONS MY OWN
@janebuggle.bsky.social @janebuggle.bsky.social 
Mediapolis Journal @mediapolis.bsky.social Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture
https://www.mediapolisjournal.com/
Simon Everett @simoneverett.bsky.social Founding Editor, Muscaliet Press (shortlisted for Michael Marks Publisher’s Award 2022). Managing Editor for @openlibhums.bsky.social and of its flagship Open Library of Humanities Journal. Poet, translator, InDesign nerd. 🏳️🌈he/him.
Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Open knowledge enthusiast. Creates and maintains. Director of Open Access Programmes at Arcadia Fund.
Recognises that access to knowledge is a human right […]
[bridged from https://mastodon.social/@rmounce on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social Self-funded PhD student (reading history in XVIII New Spain) & paid researcher (open science, research integrity) at Leiden University. Baking & reading aficionada. Managed by a Timneh. ORCID 0000-0002-5676-2122
Emma Wilson @emmawilson.eurosky.social Researcher at University of Edinburgh focusing on information retrieval, open research, research culture & EDI
Speculative fiction writer | neurodivergent | she/they
Views my own
Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social Bestselling author of THE UNDERTOW: Scenes from a Slow Civil War; THE FAMILY, also a Netflix series; C Street; THIS BRILLIANT DARKNESS; & SWEET HEAVEN WHEN I DIE. AI stole them all. Professing @ Dartmouth. That's not my cat.