Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social CathyDavidson.com. Active Learning ("New Education") advocate. CoDirector HASTAC.org. #IntelligentArtifice blog. Fall 2026, w Jody Greene, "Faculties: A Dialogue on Inciting Constructive Change in Destructive Times." Lover of oceans. #SeaScrolling #Breathe
Sachin Shiva @sachinshiva.bsky.social Research Associate | American Worker Project
Center for American Progress
Aurelia Glass @jaureliaglass.bsky.social Policy analyst @ Center for American Progress focusing on unions & workers
Karla Walter @karlawalter.bsky.social Director, American Worker Project, Center for American Progress Senior Fellow, Virginia resident, Minnesotan forever
All my opinions are my own
David Madland @davidmadland.bsky.social Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress. Private account, opinions my own.
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Eric Klinenberg @ericklinenberg.bsky.social Helen Gould Shepard Professor of Social Science and Director of the Institute for Public Knowlege at NYU. New book: *2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed.*
Amy Kapczynski @akapczynski.bsky.social Law prof at Yale, LPE Associate Justice, all things political economy, but not yr grandpas version.
Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social Inaugural Chair, Department of Global & Public Health, McGill University, Montreal & Canada Research Chair in Epidemiology & Global Health 🇨🇦
Tweets: own views. He/him.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madhukar_Pai
Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social Epidemiologist. AIDS Activist. Dog lover. New Haven.
Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social Chief White House Correspondent for The New York Times and MS NOW analyst. Proud husband of @sbg1.bsky.social and equally proud father of @tab-delete.bsky.social. Co-author of "The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021."
msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social Maliha Safri. Professor of political economy, I'm living in NYC, inside the belly of the global capitalist beast. Interested in all things related to counter-mapping. Working on economies based in solidarity. (she/her).
Gwynn Benner @gwbenner.bsky.social Loving life.
Arin Dube @arindube.bsky.social Provost Prof. of Economics (UMass Amherst).
Inequality, labor market policies and competition.
Affiliations: NBER, IZA, MIT Shaping the Future of Work Initiative
Preorder my book, The Wage Standard: https://www.thewagestandard.com
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/
Dr. Manuel Pastor @profmpastor.bsky.social Distinguished Professor of Sociology at USC & Director of the USC Equity Research Institute. @eri-usc.bsky.social Most important: Proud pop.
Bio: https://dornsife.usc.edu/eri/manuel-pastor
Books: ChargingForwardBook.com & SolidarityEconomics.org- G @gbourozikas.bsky.social @gbourozikas.bsky.social
Juliet Schor @julietschor.bsky.social Professor of Sociology at Boston College, TED talk The Case for the Four Day Week, https://www.ted.com/talks/juliet_schor_the_case_for_a_4_day_work_week?subtitle=en
global research on #4DayWeek, author of After the Gig
Boston, MA Born November 9, 1955
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
@sueparnell.bsky.social @sueparnell.bsky.social
Karthick Ramakrishnan @karthick.com Research for impact with a focus on racial equity and foresight; founder of AAPI Data; now at UC Berkeley. More info at https://karthick.com/
Natalie Foster @nataliefoster.bsky.social Economic Security Project cofounder. Aspen Institute Future of Work Initiative Senior Fellow. “The Guarantee” is my 3rd child
@icrt.co @tsmithicrt.bsky.social Ted Smith - founder, Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition; Coordinator, International Campaign for Responsible Technology
I’ve lived in San Jose California since 1972 and continue to challenge the electronics industry to protect workers and communities
@rachelrock.bsky.social @rachelrock.bsky.social
Center for Democracy & Technology @cdt.org The Center for Democracy & Technology. Shaping technology policy and architecture, with a focus on equity and justice. @cdteu.org for our EU-based team.
https://cdt.org
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
Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social Mondays at 9pmET on MS NOW
MaddowBlog.com
Erik Ness — The Lemonadist @lemonadist.bsky.social Thinking and writing about climate, environmental change, paddling canoes.
Aaron Gotwalt @gotwalt.com Internet person, friend of dogs
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social Berkeley professor, former Secretary of Labor. Co-founder of @inequalitymedia.bsky.social and @imcivicaction.bsky.social.
Substack: http://robertreich.substack.com
Buy my new book: https://sites.prh.com/reich
Visit my website: https://rbreich.com/
Mathew Iantorno (he/him) @mathewiantorno.com 📚 PhD candidate at the University of Toronto (iSchool + ICCIT)
🤖 Studies the history, labour, & public impact of retail automation
🛰️ mathewiantorno.com
xiaowei @xrw.bsky.social aspirational service top. scorpio sun, taurus rising, virgo moon.
Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website anthropology, algorithms, attention | he/him | The conversation is characterized by Nick's use of language, but the content of the discussion remains unknown.
Anne Jonas 🌻 @annejonas.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ UM-Flint CIT. Studying digital technologies, schools, community, and power through qualitative and design-based research methods. Previously at MSU, UC Berkeley, Barnard, and Brown. she/her 🏳️🌈
Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social Senior Researcher, Critical Internet Studies Institute (@criticalinternet.bsky.social, criticalinternet.org). He/him. Views my own; shares, likes, etc. =\= endorsements.
Trying to devote my time to matters of concern to others or to no one in particular.
Danny Spitzberg @dsp.bsky.social
Dorothy Howard @hexjelica.bsky.social 🎨 📁🌍⌛📀🌱
Writer, artist, researcher, historian, Wikipedian, communications strategist
Devika Narayan @devikanarayan.bsky.social Assistant Prof/Lecturer l University of Bristol Tech, markets, orgs + work. Some other stuff.
Sociologist.
https://www.devikanarayan.com/
Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social Futures of work. Writing, researching, teaching, lefting. Ruthless everything, existing. http://dmgreene.net
Matt Buckley @mattbuckley.bsky.social Work in ethical Al research | Member of UTAW, the tech workers' union and branch of the CWU (He/Him)
Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social Climate/AI/labor/death researcher in Oakland. Luddite
I wrote a book about how techno-solutionism fails us in this life + beyond https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248272/death-glitch/
www.tamarakneese.com
Lin Zhang @linzhang.bsky.social Critical Innovation Studies, Pro@UNH; Author of The Labor of Reinvention (Columbia UP, 2023). Working on a book about transnational biotech
https://linzhangweb.org/
Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social Soc of Work + Platform Labor | Head of Sociology, University of Edinburgh | https://workersobservatory.org | @jcultecon + Platforms & Society
Natalia Luka @nataliyan.bsky.social Future of Work Lead, Responsible AI Initiative at UC Berkeley | natalialuka.com | re-ai.berkeley.edu| #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦
Serhat Tutkal @serhattutkal.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher (political violence, dehumanization, racism, digital platforms) - Secihti, Mexico
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ShpYfisAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Main social media account: https://fediscience.org/@SerhatTutkal
Allison Pugh @allisonpugh.bsky.social Care, Tech, Culture, Inequality. Check out The Last Human Job re the "scaling up" of humane work @PrincetonUPress. Johns Hopkins sociologist
karina ripley @kaareeenah.bsky.social assistant prof @ univ of virginia // lead organizer w @labortechresearchnetwork.org // tech, labor, culture // karinaripley.com
Labor Tech Research Network @labortechresearchnetwork.org We are an interdisciplinary group of over 700 experts in labor, technology, anti-racism, feminism, and transnationalism.
dr dana calacci @dana.witchy.business asst prof at penn state, workers/AI/surveillance. she/her 🏳️⚧️
Krystal Kauffman @krystalkauffman.bsky.social Activist * Former Lead Organizer - Turkopticon * Research Fellow - Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute * Rising Stars in AI Ethics 2024 * Tech Crunch Women in AI 2024 * All opinions are my own
Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social Digital humanities, data science, AI, eating, professor of Data & Decision Science and English. Coauthor #DataFeminism w/ @kanarinka. PI #AIAInetwork. Views my own.
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/
Ashique Ali T @ashiquealit.bsky.social Ph.D. Candidate in the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto.
Affiliation: Socio-technical Resistance and Ethical Technologies (STREET) Lab.
Research: Tech-mediated resistance + {labour, caste, social movements}
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.
🥩himbo discourse🥩 @internetmaggie.com Porn & Platform Research 💦📚☕💻 PhD Candidate @UofT Faculty of Information + Advisory board to ECP Canada / Pornhub (2023-2026) | #1 Animorphs Fan
www.internetmaggie.com
Rafael Grohmann @grohmannrafael.bsky.social Assistant Professor Media Studies (Critical Platform Studies) University of Toronto, Canada. Leader DigiLabour. Platform labor, Worker-owned Platforms, AI & Labor, Worker Organizing
Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social Hacker Mama/Artist/Designer/Coder/Writer/She/Ella Assoc Prof of Urban Science @MITdusp, Director, Data + Feminism Lab, Co-author #DataFeminism, hablo castellano
Julián Posada @posada.website 💼 Assistant Professor @Yale.edu
📖 Author of “Platform Extractivism” (UC Press, 2026)
🎓 Research on #AI + #Data + #Work + #Platforms
🌐 https://posada.website/
Milagros Miceli @milamiceli.bsky.social Sociologist & Computer Scientist
PI: @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social
Research Lead @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social
Research Lead @dairinstitute.bsky.social
🌐 milamiceli.com
Tyler Blackman @tylerb.bsky.social PhD Candidate at the University of Waterloo. Interested in the future of work and the changing meaning of work. He/him. I am also active on: @dialogueshg.bsky.social
More here: https://uwaterloo.ca/scholar/tblackma
Elisabetta Ferrari @bettyferrari.bsky.social AIAS-AUFF Fellow @ Aarhus University (DK). Vice-chair @acsj-ica.bsky.social.
Research: social movements & digital media | mutual aid | politics of tech.
Book: https://elisabettaferrariphd.com/ancbook/
Hobbies: getting angry at the Philadelphia 76ers
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
Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social Research Assistant Professor of AI & Society at Binghamton University (SUNY) - Civics of Technology Board Member - Luddite Praxis - Dad Life - he/him
Jenna Burrell @jburrell.bsky.social Currently: visiting researcher, University of Tokyo, based in Yokohama (GMT+9)
Formerly: Professor at UC-Berkeley, Director of Research, Data & Society.
Siobhan O'Flynn @sioflynn.bsky.social Canadian Studies UofT. 🇨🇦🍁🇨🇦
Kids' data privacy, AI & policy; Social AI, Ghostbots, Griefbots; Digital Humanities, Digital & Geolocative Storytelling; Game Studies.
T'karanto, Treaty 13
Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social Writing about platforms capitalisms, super apps, convenience stores in Japan and Asia. Director of The Platform Lab.Books: In/Convenience (http://bit.ly/3Vcs4m4); The Platform Economy; Anime's Media Mix.
Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com Tired person, fighter. Labor, data, DH, obsolete software, database history, etc. Seeing Like a Supply Chain out Oct 2026: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300251449/seeing-like-a-supply-chain/. Speaking for myself, not my employer.
Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app Assistant Prof Philosophy & Data Sci.
PhD Sci., Technology, & Society
MA Philosophy & Religious Studies
"AI" Criticality; Centering Marginalized Exp. in Tech; Magic; Knowledge, Values, Beliefs
He/Him
Unless explicitly stated, not speaking for my employer
cass @cassiusa.bsky.social boy
writer
tired
VB —> MPLS (southside all day)
Christo Sims @cs1msy.bsky.social Assoc. Prof UCSD Comm, Affiliate: Science Studies, Ethnic Studies, Urban Studies. Author of Disruptive Fixation (PUP). Working on a book about housing, labor, and urban development in Silicon Valley. 2020-21 member of the IAS.
Sebastian Randerath @sebastianranderath.bsky.social PhD Research Associate and Lecturer, Digital Media Culture, University of Bonn | Researching Media and Labour, Focus on Resistance, Surveillance and Planning | he/him
Vageesh Vishnoi @vageesh.bsky.social Sociology PhD @ Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Research interests include intersection of labour, technology and informality.
Srravya @srravya.bsky.social researching data work, AI production networks
interested in critical data/AI studies, tech + labour, feminist STS, HCI
currently research fellow, planetary AI project @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
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