Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social Political Communication Prof at GWU. Flaming Hydra.
I write about the history and future of tech and politics. My next book, Vaporware, Inc.: How Silicon Valley Sells the Future to Control the Present, arrives on January 12, 2027.
Davekarpf.beehiiv.com
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
Tyne Daile Sumner @tynedaile.bsky.social ARC DECRA Fellow: literary studies | digital humanities | surveillance | President, Australasian Association for Digital Humanities: https://aa-dh.org/ | current project: surveilit.com | everything else: tynedaile.com
Morten Bay, Philosophiae Doctor. @mortenbay.bsky.social Media and tech scholar. Teaches at USC Annenberg. Writes stuff for normal people too. Stings in a tribute band. Author of six books, with the latest being 'Mediating Plureality: Technology, Perception, and Ethics in a Divided Democracy'.
Prof. Catherine Flick @liedra.net Professor of Ethics and Games Technology, University of Staffordshire UK - she/her
Vice chair ACM Committee on Professional Ethics, Co-EIC ACM Games
Content lead #EMFCamp
Ethics of games & emerging tech; AI & crypto critic
https://liedra.net 🩷💜💙
Anthony Stagliano @ocularcentrism.bsky.social Media theory/media art | Film: FADE http://vimeo.com/stagliano/fade | Book: Disobedient Aesthetics: https://www.uapress.ua.edu/9780817361358/disobedient-aesthetic | opinions mine, such as they are.
Lisa Messeri @lmesseri.bsky.social anthropologist of sci & tech. Prof @Yale. author of "Placing Outer Space" and VR book "In the Land of the Unreal". tech criticism with good vibes.
M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social Professor of Psychology & Human Values at Princeton | Cognitive scientist curious about technology, narratives, & epistemic (in)justice | They/She 🏳️🌈
www.crockettlab.org
Maike Osborne @maosbot.bsky.social Mother, wife, Australian, Professor of Machine Learning in Oxford. Long Covid, trans rights, music, reggae, AI must be good for humans, https://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~mosb. She/her 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Pritesh Mistry @mustbemistry.bsky.social A curious mind and a dose of skepticism |
digital technologies & innovation @ The King's Fund I Innovation Catalyst | #healthcare #healthtech blogger (views own)
Catherine Breslin @catherinebreslin.bsky.social AI scientist & consultant :: prev Amazon Alexa, Toshiba, Cam Uni :: voice & language tech :: powered by coffee :: photographer :: Cambridge UK
https://www.catherinebreslin.co.uk
Tarcizio Silva @tarciziosilva.bsky.social Pesquisador e ativista (pleonasmo) por justiça racial e tecnologias do bem viver. Doutor pela UFABC e alumni Mozilla. Cofundador da desvelar.org e colaborador da Nanet/ABONG.
John Fitzgerald @johnfitzg.bsky.social digital evolution • charities • change • digital strategy • tech for good • fixing the plumbing • responsible AI • Scotland • feed may contain bikes and sailing
bianca wylie @biancawylie.com https://time-and-space-studios.ghost.io/
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
Alex Taylor @alex-taylor.bsky.social Partner & daddy living in wonderful Edinburgh.
Muddling through with ideas from #FeministTechnoscience #STS #MultiSpeciesRelations #HCI #ReparativeAI
Bev Townsend @bevt.bsky.social BRAID Research fellow. AI, Autonomous systems, law and ethics, data protection. Exploring medical AI and sociotechnical harm
London, York.
Rhianne Jones @rhianne-j.bsky.social Research Director for the Responsible Innovation Centre - RIC | BBC-UKRI Future Leaders Fellow @Digitalgoodnet @BRAID_UK
Jen Ross @jenr.bsky.social Digital Education, Education Futures, Digital Cultural Heritage & Research Cultures. Professor at the University of Edinburgh.
https://www.de.ed.ac.uk/people/professor-jen-ross
Caterina Moruzzi @caterinamoruzzi.bsky.social Chancellor’s Fellow in Design Informatics, University of Edinburgh | @BRAID research fellow | Human-AI creativity | responsible AI
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
Bronwyn Jones @bronwynjo.bsky.social Journalism | technology | public media | BRAID UK | RIC @ BBC R&D
Liverpool / Edinburgh
Christian @christian.bsky.social Action research. Research design. Cybersystemic org dev. Complex adaptive systems. Indirect action. Information architect at heart. Hopeful.
📍 Seattle or Maine
🪪 caj.io
🌐 @ecosystemaction.com
💼 @strategytheory.com & @opsops.com
José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social Pol Sci Prof at CalLutheran. Author of "You Must Become an Algorithmic Problem" (Bristol Univ Press) and "Machine Liberalism" (Forthcoming from Intellect Books/University of Chicago Press). Tech Policy Press contributor
https://josemarichal.github.io/
Ms. Kathy Reid (she/her) @kathyreid.au #PhD researcher at #ANU Cybernetics, investigating bias in #speech and #voice #tech, with a focus on #data & #ML. Leads R&D at @mozdatacollective.bsky.social
Ex NVIDIA, Mycroft AI, @linuxaustralia.bsky.social, Deakin Uni.
https://linktr.ee/kathyreid
kath odonnell ::: AliaK ::: invisibleart.space @aliak.bsky.social invisibleart.space art gallery & project space (SYD)
ex-system integration TV engineer/PM. starting Masters of IT(AI). making art on extinction -> specture. books, art, music, ecology, landscape, tech, learning. making my own fun
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
Aram Bartholl @aramba.bsky.social 👋🏻 https://arambartholl.com
Mez Breeze @mezbreeze.bsky.social An OG digital artist/writer: http://anthology.rhizome.org/mez-breeze. Permaculturalist. Designer + Developer. Blurrings + imaginings: https://www.patreon.com/mezbreeze + https://mezbreeze.itch.io/
aphid @aphid.org net artist, garden pest
scraper/scholar of media, metadata,
oversight &counterintelligibility
i teach "new" media histories, theories, and practices at uc santa cruz
they/he
Chris Coleman @digitalcoleman.art Artist, Professor, Critical Arts Engineer, OS Advocate.
Director of ACCAD at OSU. Views expressed here do not represent OSU. (he/him/they)
Jesse Damiani @jessedamiani.bsky.social Foresight x Forecasting for Polycrisis.
I write realitystudies.co & host the Urgent Futures Podcast @urgentfutures.bsky.social.
Comms @metaculus.com. Adjunct Prof, NYU.
Bylines: Flash Art, Forbes, NBC News, The Verge, WIRED
Sarah Friend @isthisa.com dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good 
Daniel Hutchinson @dhutchinson.bsky.social Historian and digital humanist. Researches WWII, exploring historical applications of AI. http://danielhutchinson.org
James E. Dobson @jeddobson.bsky.social Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. Author of The Birth of Computer Vision (Minnesota), Critical Digital Humanities (Illinois), and co-author of Moonbit (punctum) and Perceptron (punctum). American Literature, ML/AI/DH
Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ University of Washington, Information School. PhD in English from WashU in St. Louis.
I’m interested in books, data, social media, & digital humanities.
They call me "Eyre Jordan" on the bball court. 🏀
https://melaniewalsh.org/
Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social Reporting on AI and journalism for @NiemanLab.org at Harvard. Previously covering tech @restofworld.org Bylines: @thenation.com @popularmechanics @japantimes.co.jp Signal: andrewdeck.01
Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz Professor, researcher, author. Prez, Assoc of Internet Researchers (AOIR), gay lady into synths, computers, music, film.
Wrote a book called Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media (YUP 19), and Meta stole it to train its LLM.
Owen Davis @odavis.bsky.social Senior economist at the New York City Independent Budget Office. Interests: Aging, work, public policy, technology.
Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social Climber 🇪🇬 |Chief AI Scientist at @ainowinstitute.bsky.social | Safety engineer (nuclear, defense, software & AI/ML) | TIME 100 AI | MIT 35 U 35
x-Trail of Bits, OpenAI, Microsoft Research
https://www.heidyk.com/
Anuj Gupta @mettalrose.bsky.social Asst. Professor @usouthflorida. GenAI in education. AR/VR. Algorithms. Computational Research. Digital Writing Technologies. UI/UX. Rhetoric, writing studies, technical communication.
Grady Booch @booch.com scientist, storyteller, philosopher
computingthehumanexperience.com
Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan @bernarddionysius.bsky.social teacher, writer, curator
media, cybernetics, HCI, environmental humanities, digital images, AI
Crystal Lee @handle.invalid Writing about tech, power, data visualization, social media, disability. Assistant prof of computational media @ MIT. 🇹🇼
crystaljjlee.com
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
@galloway.bsky.social @galloway.bsky.social 
David Bering-Porter @atg-dbp.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Culture & Media @ The New School.
Living at the crossroads of Media Theory, Black Horror / Zombie Movies, and AI / Digital Culture.
Brian Pendleton (Yaga) @bwp.bsky.social DSc in Cybersecurity. Proud Apache. AI security researcher. Lover of books, cats, dogs, and movies. ARVA board member. AI Village officer. DEFCON goon.
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.
Rosamunde Van Brakel @rosamundevb.bsky.social assistant prof/senior postdoc criminology VUB/substitute lecturer KULeuven - research: digital & green criminology, surveillance, AI, youth justice, human rights
https://researchportal.vub.be/en/persons/rosamunde-elise-van-brakel
Emmie Hine @emmiehine.com AI governance research @ Safe AI Forum
Fellow @ Yale Digital Ethics Center
Interests: AI, XR, most other tech, China, climbing, baking.
ex-Oxford, ex-SWE
My tech newsletter: https://www.techreckoner.substack.com- L Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social Researcher and teacher. Writing about race, gender and internet stuff since 1995. “The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet” out from U. Minn press. Lisanakamura.net for articles if you want.
Jacqueline Bellon @jacbellon.bsky.social #PhilosophyOfTechnology #HistoryOfIdeas #PhilosophyOfPsychology
PhD on Gilbert Simondon @TUDarmstadt
Research @uni_tue
Teaching @uni_tue, @HumboldtUniUlm & FH Südwestfalen
Milagros Miceli @milamiceli.bsky.social Sociologist & Computer Scientist
PI: @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social
Research Lead @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social
Research Lead @dairinstitute.bsky.social
🌐 milamiceli.com
Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social Software engineer, trans advocate and general nuisance. Blogs at https://deadsimpletech.com/blog
Support my writing:
https://www.patreon.com/c/IrisMeredithandherblog
https://en.liberapay.com/iris_meredith/
Cori Crider @coricrider.com Build better tech. Break monopoly power. Back law enforcement.
https://futureinstitute.tech
https://www.coricrider.com
👁️ @nathanjurgenson.com author, The Social Photo (Verso)
former: Real Life magazine, Theorizing the Web conference, Snap. currently: have no idea
los angeles
Ekaterina (Katya) Babintseva @babintsevak.bsky.social Historian of the mind, computing, artificial intelligence, and labor in the Cold War Soviet Union and the US. Asst Prof at Purdue. PhD from UPenn.
Alzbeta Hajkova @alzbetahajkova.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Philosophy. Technological politics. From Slovakia, in Atlanta. she/her. Views expressed are my own.
Adele Zeynep Walton @adelewalton.bsky.social Author, online safety campaigner, journalist, hater of tech bros.
https://www.adelesnotes.co.uk/
beth semel @bethmsemel.bsky.social AI killjoy, prednisone hater, writing about voice analysis AI and the labor of technosolutionist listening in American mental healthcare | bethmsemel.com
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
Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc Head of Research at OneProject.org. Author, Design Justice (https://design-justice.pubpub.org) + Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets. #FreePalestine. Trans agenda. She/they/ella/elle. More: https://www.schock.cc
Sara M. Watson @smwat.bsky.social saramwatson.com
Netopia.eu @netopia.bsky.social Web publication & idea forum based in Brussels, discussing the future of the internet from a broad perspective on society's digital evolution ➡ Web: https://netopia.eu | https://x.com/NetopiaEU | LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/company/netopia-eu/
Shayne Longpre @shaynelongpre.bsky.social MTS @ Anthropic. 🇨🇦
Prev: MIT, Google, Apple, Stanford.
Interests: AI/ML/NLP, Data-centric AI, transparency & societal impact
Robert Bateman @robertjbateman.bsky.social • I post about privacy, data protection, security, AI • Regular updates on big tech shenanigans • Views absolutely represent those of my employer (me) • Consultancy and training services •
Fabian Offert @zentralwerkstatt.org Associate Professor UC Santa Barbara | I study how machine learning models represent culture and what is at stake – aesthetically and politically – when they do.
Dr Zena Assaad @zenaassaad.bsky.social Host Responsible Bytes Podcast 🎙
Assoc Prof of Engineering @ ANU | Deputy Director ANU Defence Institute | UNIDIR Fellow - researching the decommissioning of military AI systems | 🇦🇺🇱🇧
https://www.zenaassaad.com
Repost ≠ Endorsement
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
Craig Gent @vivaharehills.bsky.social Author of CYBERBOSS. Work at LSE. Part of StreamArtNetwork. Critical algorithm studies, livestreaming, solidarity, labour, hybrid media. Co-host Heart Reacts. Previously Novara Media. http://c-gent.net/
https://shop.novaramedia.com/products/cyberboss
Robert Seyfert @seyfert.bsky.social Professor of Sociology @uni-kiel.de Germany
Social Theory, Algorithmic Sociality, Affect Theory
https://www.seyfert.org
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9667-1970
https://mastodon.social/@RobertSeyfert
Andrew Hoskins @andrewhoskins.bsky.social PROF. of AI, MEMORY & WAR
University of Edinburgh
AI & MEMORY
https://doi.org/10.1017/mem.2024.16
https://www.andrewhoskins.net/about
ERC/UKRI Digital Participation in War
5 year project
https://tinyurl.com/yjem9a4w
Alasdair King @alasdairking.bsky.social Professor of Screen and Media Arts @qmul.ac.uk
Tracking finance and AI in contemporary film and post-cinematic art.
New Book: The Financial Image: Finance, Philosophy, and Contemporary Film (Palgrave Studies in Literature, Culture and Economics)
Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social Linguist, Cognitive Scientist, Occasional AI Researcher, Immigrant in NYC, Co-Author w/ Ingeborg Glimmer of 'Why We Fear AI' - out now: https://bookshop.org/a/114797/9781945335174
🌶 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
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
kat @kgt.bsky.social [-o-]
microgames: https://chipswoon.itch.io/
everything else: https://kgt.dev
DMs closed bc Australia
Florence Chee @cheeflo.bsky.social Technocultural Ethicist | Associate Professor of Digital Communication @LoyolaChicago | Director of the Center for Digital Ethics and Policy @digethics and the Social and Interactive Media Lab @SIMLabChicago https://simlabchicago.com/?page_id=274
Laura Forlano @laura4lano.bsky.social Writer. Design Researcher. Professor @NU_CAMD Type 1D. Design, Tech and Radical Futures. Noodle Fanatic, Laser Cut Fashionista and Latin Alternative Rocker.
Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social Cornell Tech professor (information science, AI-mediated Communication, trustworthiness of our information ecosystem). New York City. Taller in person. Opinions my own.
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
Ben Zhao @ravenben.bsky.social Glaze, Nightshade, & projects to protect human creatives at University of Chicago. Professor @UChicagoCS, MIT TR-35 innovator, ACM Fellow, TIME 100/AI, TED/AI. Most of the time I post as @TheGlazeProject.bsky.social
TechTonic Justice @techtonicjustice.bsky.social For the people AI leaves behind. A multidimensional, community-based effort to strengthen local justice movements + build long-term power. Launched 11/19/24. Founder: @kevindeliban.bsky.social
Link Tree: https://linktr.ee/techtonicjustice
Aymar (AJ) @thehost.theinvite.us professor @ Northwestern
affiliate @ Harvard Berkman Klein
jury @ Peabody Awards
co-founder @weareotv
BOOKS:
Reparative Media, MIT Press Fall 2025
Media Reparations, coming soon on Polity
The Cookout, out now ⬇️
http://linktr.ee/ajescoffery
zari taylor @zaritaylor.bsky.social critical cultural + media studies scholar tired of switching platforms. thoughts are my own.
Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social Scholar, author, policy advisor
Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab
https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab
Books: The Future of Science is Civic, Auditing AI, The Social Life of DNA, Genetics & the Unsettled Past, Body & Soul, Technicolor
Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo @chinasa.bsky.social AI Researcher, Policy Strategist, & Technorealist. Founder, Technecultura.
Columnist, Science Magazine.
Cornell Computer Science PhD.
TIME100 AI. Forbes Under 30 AI.
Critically examining global equity in AI.
👩🏾💻: www.chinasatokolo.com
📩: bit.ly/contactCTO
Critical Digital Media @digital.therourke.net Articles, essays, papers, artworks and news stories on digital media, digital culture, and media arts - also mirrored at: criticaldigitalmedia.tumblr.com
by @therourke.net (also see @additivism.org)
Ololade Faniyi @ololadefaniyi.bsky.social PhDing at Emory
Grad Fellow #AIAINetwork
Words in rpublc.com/author/Ololade
📖 ✍🏾 At the intersection of African feminism and critical technology studies
Web: ololadefaniyi.com
Jasmine Berry, Ph.D. @drjasberry.bsky.social Neuro-AI Research Scientist. Brains-Minds-Machines, Self-Awareness, Consciousness for Robotics and Health. 🧠🤖🦾
UMich 〽️ x USC ✌️ x NSU 🔰
Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.eurosky.social Japan. ALife & Astrobiology researcher https://lanasina.github.io/
Research @ Sony CSL, Associate Prof. National Institute for Basic Biology.
talking dog insta @iikocookie
🚫 I block empty profiles
Shaily @shaily99.bsky.social PhDing at LTI, CMU
Prev: Ai2, Google Research, MSR
Evaluating language technologies, regularly ranting, and probably procrastinating.
https://sites.google.com/view/shailybhatt/
Lydia Jennings, PhD @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social Pascua Yaqui soil scientist, runner, science communicator, Indigenous data warrior & assistant professor. 🌵baby in NE😅
Learn more about me: https://nativesoilnerd.com
See: Run to Be Visible, my 50 mile honor run: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xrLTUUPugIc
Asvatha @asvatha.bsky.social PhD (Communication Studies). Interested in researching media, emerging technologies, and governance. Currently looking at algorithmic state surveillance.
Trying something new: https://medium.com/@fireflyclass
Kofi @kofiemeritus.bsky.social Research Interest: Responsible AI in Global South | RTs ≠ endorsement
xiaowei @xrw.bsky.social aspirational service top. scorpio sun, taurus rising, virgo moon.
Yasmin Ibison @yasminibison.bsky.social Senior Policy Advisor at JRF (@jrf-uk.bsky.social) focusing on communities and place
she/her
Views my own.
Jeanette Hofmann @jeah.bsky.social Research on digitalisation with a focus on innovation, regulation and democracy, at WZB, HIIG, Weizenbaum Institute, Berlin. Teaching at Freie Universität