Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social author of Blood in the Machine, tech writer, luddite
newsletter: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/
books: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/contributor/brian-merchant/
kofi link: https://ko-fi.com/brianmerchant
Max Read @maxread.info http://maxread.email
Ed Zitron @edzitron.com British, But In Las Vegas and NYC
ezitron.76 Sig
Newsletter - wheresyoured.at
https://linktr.ee/betteroffline - podcast w/ iheartradio
Chosen by god, perfected by science
CEO at EZPR.com
Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social information science professor (tech ethics + internet stuff)
kind of a content creator (elsewhere also @professorcasey)
though not influencing anyone to do anything except maybe learn things
she/her
more: casey.prof
Gil Durán @gilduran.com California writer. Ida Tarbell stan.
Author: NYT Bestselling “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy.” https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Nerd-Reich/Gil-Duran/9781668221402
Newsletter: http://www.thenerdreich.com
Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social Journalist & astrophysicist. Host, @dreamingagainstthemachine.com. New book: MORE EVERYTHING FOREVER, about broken futures pushed by tech billionaires and AI bros. Words in the Atlantic, NPR, NYT, the Guardian, BBC, SciAm, Fortune, etc. He/him.
Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social Philosopher and historian of human extinction (sadly, an increasingly relevant topic). Coined the term “TESCREAL” w/ Timnit Gebru. Salon, Truthdig, WaPo, Aeon, etc.
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account
Author: Deep Unlearning (you can now preorder at https://shorturl.at/sCdjl)
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://dair-institute.org)
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.
Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social Washington Bureau chief at The Independent, MSNOW Columnist. Next book: MANLY WHILE STIMMING 03.30.27. Tar Heel He/Him Eric.garcia@the-independent.com
Reuven Blau @reuvenblau.bsky.social Senior Reporter @ The City Reporter. Co-author: "Rikers: An Oral History." Denver native.
Aaron Stagoff @astagoff.bsky.social phd candidate @UChicagoSoc • formerly @verainstitute
profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social Social work teacher & administrator, open educator, oaf, )'(, pirate. I also co-run opensocialwork.org. he/him
My personal page. Does not represent my employer.
Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org History & political economy of culture; Associate Professor of History, UMass-Amherst. Opinions my own. Prefer email to DMs.
https://asheeshksi.substack.com/
asheeshks.org/
Roman Feiman @romanfeiman.bsky.social Language, development, and language development. Assistant Prof at Brown. PI of the Brown Language and Thought (BLT) Lab.
Nate Ela @nateela.bsky.social Law prof + sociologist thinking and writing about property, land, cities, democracy, sometimes Philly. Posts ≠ speaking for the institution where I work (obvs).
nateela.net | SSRN: bit.ly/ElaSSRN
Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social Rutgers Law prof. Into democracy, dogs, and cheese. Knows about LGBTQ+ rights, public interest lawyering, legal ethics, state constitutions, LRW. Too insubordinate for autocracy. 🏳️🌈
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1120939
Dan Garrett @danggarret.bsky.social economist thinking about taxes and public debt | co-organizer for the virtual municipal finance workshop | ap in finance at the wharton school
www.danggarrett.com
www.muni-workshop.com
Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social Union organizer | full-time thorn in your side | your loud queer aunt 🏳️🌈 she/her | itinerant Midwesterner | annameier.substack.com
Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social Historian. Writer.
Demetre Daskalakis @drdemetre.bsky.social 
Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com Teacher, researcher, internationalist, republican.
tompepinsky.com
Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com Sociologist and demographer, U. of Maryland; SocArXiv director.
Latest book: Citizen Scholar: Public Engagement for Social Scientists https://cup.columbia.edu/book/citizen-scholar/9780231555418
Website: philipncohen.com
Blog: familyinequality.com
George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social Ungainly on land
jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social Researcher and author. Expertise: Black politics, gender & sexuality, policing, and threat. They/them.
BOOKS: Black Women Taught Us (2024), Policing Blackness (2027), To Be a Radical (2029)
jennmjacksonphd.substack.com
linktr.ee/jennmjacksonphd
Charlotte Garden @charlottegarden.bsky.social Professor @ University of Minnesota Law School. Teaching & writing about workers' rights; skeeting in my personal capacity, mostly about cats. 
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
Tim Aistrope @timaistrope.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Kent. Political culture and IR through cases on conspiracy and misinformation, international finance, social media, and populist movements, exploring narrative power and insider perspectives.
Felicity Rose @felicityrose.bsky.social Criminal justice research & policy wonk at FWD.us, trying to get people free, solo mom, reader, #GoDucks football, #DubNation and #Valkyries fan, will ply you with baked goods if we meet IRL. Living the dream with my library ladder.
Maria Diaz Mize @msmariadiaz.bsky.social 🇩🇴 Non-traditional Doctoral student in criminology at Florida State University. Interests: community corrections, courts, jails, crime and the media, pretrial justice, AI and surveillance. Mixed methods kinda gal.
Christian Mott @cjmott.bsky.social Studying punishment, criminal law, moral psychology, & experimental jurisprudence. christianmott.com
Dr Matt Mahmoudi @docmattmoudi.bsky.social 📝 ‘Migrants in the Digital Periphery’ for Uni. Of California Press, ‘Resisting Borders+Tech’ @haymarketbooks. Assistant Professor @Cambridge Digital Humanities. Research/advice @Amnesty Tech. Views=own
Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social Religion Prof. Islam, South Asia, Middle East. Fascinated by religious actors & movements in modernity. Two books on Islamic da'wa (mission, propagation). Other words in sundry other places. Opinions my own; not speaking for my employer.
13.1🏃🏼♂️✅, 26.2🏃♂️✅
Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social Historian of scientific, economic and colonial projects in early modern Britain, Ireland, and the Atlantic; books http://bit.ly/3HYwNiA & http://bit.ly/3rKdAvt; http://memoriousblog.com; views mine; he/him. Montrealer in Philly, except when I’m in Montreal
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.
School of Criminal Justice @runscj.bsky.social Official Bluesky of the Rutgers School of Criminal Justice
Michael Brownstein @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social professor of philosophy and department chair, John Jay College
professor of philosophy, CUNY Grad Center
alum, Deep Springs College
author, Somebody Should Do Something: How Anyone Can Help Create Social Change
Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social Historian at Cornell University and author, most recently, of FREE ENTERPRISE: AN AMERICAN HISTORY. Working on a history of backlash politics in the United States, from Reconstruction to the present. 
Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social Social Scientist, Harvard University
https://www.ryandenos.com/
https://ryandenos.substack.com/
Jeremy Bearer-Friend @bearerfriend.bsky.social Associate Professor of Law at GW 🌈
I write on tax, race, and democracy:
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1538104
David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social Lecturer in Early Modern History | Seventeenth Century, Colonialism, Asia, Caribbean | ‘dazzling’ - BBC History | tired dad | Stephen King aficionado | academia’s longest commute | Sussex coast | writing my third book: Where the Manchineel Trees Grow
kim yi dionne (she/her) @dadakim.bsky.social Teach/research/write African politics & pandemics.
Editor, Good Authority https://bsky.app/profile/goodauth.bsky.social
Host, Ufahamu Africa Podcast https://bsky.app/profile/ufahamuafrica.bsky.social
Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com Sociologist. Author. Professor. Roosevelt Institute Fellow. Expert on families, schools, kids, privilege, and power. Bylines in NYT, WaPo, MSNBC, Atlantic, etc.
"Other countries have social safety nets. The US has women."
www.jessicacalarco.com
Gautham Rao (pronounced: Knicks in 5) @gauthamrao.bsky.social Historian. #LFGM #LFC NYM-G-K-I. my opinions. he/him/his. Author of White Power: Policing American Slavery. And other stuff. Big Ron enthusiast.
Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social Agnes Williams Sesquicentennial Professor of Law and Politics, Georgetown Law: https://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/josh-chafetz/
Author, most recently, of _Congress's Constitution_: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248333/congresss-constitution/
Guido Imbens @imbens.bsky.social 
Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social Epidemiologist. Causal inference researcher and trainer. Based at @lida-leeds.bsky.social
See my Intro to Causal Inference Course: https://www.causal.training/
See the Causal Inference Interest Group: https://ciig-seminar.github.io
Rick Carp @rickcarp.bsky.social reading guy that has worked with outlets that you have heard of
Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social Award-winning journalist at Futurism covering AI and its impacts on industries, media/information, and people. Send tips by email to: maggie@futurism.com or Signal: mhd.39
will jones ⚒️ @will-jones.bsky.social Denver #Nuggets are good | ICE, AI, & maga suck | generational hater | opinions my own | film enthusiast | @WhatsinaGameNBA.bsky.social pod | Letterboxd https://boxd.it/avg2Z
Mattan S. Ben-Shachar @mattansb.msbstats.info Statistics lecturer | Freelance statistical consultant & research analyst | #rstats dev @easystats.github.io
home.msbstats.info
(He/Him)
Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social Author, editor, professor of history, Philadelphian. Nobody should be deported.
https://uncpress.org/book/9781469673042/dreamland/
tante @tante.cc De-Evangelist, writer and speaker. Communist. Feminist. Antifascist. Luddite. He/him. Email: tante@tante.cc | Masto: @tante@tldr.nettime.org
(Don't always see DMs cause my client can't show them since they are proprietary extensions of the protocol)
Tyler Horan @tylerhoran.bsky.social Writer and researcher on platform inequality and the future of work. Lecturer at @umassamherst.bsky.social → tylerhoran.org
Aurélien Goutsmedt @aurelien-goutsmedt.com Postdoc @UCLouvain | ICHEC Brussels | https://aurelien-goutsmedt.com
History economics, inflation, econ policy & energy
Political econ & central banks
#Rstats #nlp #data_viz
Managing editor journals.openedition.org/oeconomia
github.com/agoutsmedt/
California Racial Justice Act @californiarja.bsky.social This account is dedicated to advancing awareness, understanding, and application of the California Racial Justice Act by tracking how courts across the state interpret and apply this transformative law.
Stay Updated: https://californiarja.wordpress.com/
Sam Bellamy @sambdesk.bsky.social Not the pirate. Contributor to fightthefire.substack.com, an all-free site. Longtime ink-stained wretch. Wears shoes that fit. Whistles through darkness. Aspires to ask "WTF did you just say?" at a WH press conference. Say hi to your dog for me.
Diren Kocakuşak, Ph.D. @direnkocakusak.bsky.social Scientist working on Energy Transition and Climate Change. Interim Director at Global Energy Monitor. Opinions my own.
#renewables, #climatechange, and #datascience
evacide @evacide.bsky.social Director of Cybersecurity @eff.org
Co-founder of @stopstalkerware.bsky.social
These opinions are my own, not my employer's
I did a TED talk once
Thomas Frampton @tframpton.bsky.social Law prof at GW Law, sometimes lawyer. Speaking as private citizen, outside official job duties, on matters of political/social/other concern.
Stuff I write: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1785600
Adrian S. Wisnicki @awisnicki.bsky.social Professor of English and Co-Director of the AI Institute, University of Nebraska. Digital humanities, critical AI, contemporary tech studies, world literatures in Englishes, 19th-century British literature, and archival and cultural heritage studies.
Milan Markovic @profmarkovic.bsky.social Canadian law professor based in the United States. I write about legal ethics, access to justice, and the future of law. My views are not those of my employers.
Ashley Kilmer @ashleykilmer.bsky.social Qualitative researcher focusing on incarceration & punishment. Critical crim & abolitionist. || Like adding new tools to my teaching toolbox. || I have 2 dogs & 2 cats with nerdy names. || Opinions are my own.
Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social Climate adaptation for nature and people @ Climate Impacts Group, University of Washington. Surfer/paddler. Settler on Coast Salish land. She/her.
Personal account - views mine.
J.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com Extremism expert by day, novelist by night, apparently
THE POPE'S HITMAN (10/27/2026)
EXTREMISM (MIT Press, 2018)
Affiliate links support my work:
► https://tinyurl.com/barnesandnobletph
► https://bookshop.org/shop/jmberger
► https://amzn.to/4qJhTE7
Julian Togelius @togelius.bsky.social AI and Games Researcher at NYU. Head of AI at Nof1.
Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social bestselling author * Hugo winner * nerd
latest books: A Wall Is Also a Road, Automatic Noodle, We Will Rise Again
bylines: New Scientist, Flaming Hydra, etc.
pronouns: they/them
all the stuff: www.techsploitation.com
Lee Kovarsky @kovarsky.bsky.social Professor of Law, University of Texas. Habeas corpus, death penalty, some other law stuff, sentient space robots, kids who don't listen to me, and hot sauce.
BIO: https://law.utexas.edu/faculty/lee-kovarsky/
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social Historian of slavery, the Atlantic slave trade, and global Africa. Curates #slaveryarchive. Visit my website analuciaaraujo.org
Sarah Shugars @shugars.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Communication @ Rutgers University. Computational social science, political communication, civic studies. First gen. They/them
Alessandro @alezonin.bsky.social #DataAnalytics and #SocialNetworkAnalysis adjunct professor
Developing interesting stuff for internet researchers.
🚀 https://alezonin.github.io
Opinions are my own and sometimes by my German Sheperd.
PS: Political Science & Politics @pspolisci.bsky.social PS: Political Science & Politics is the journal of record for the discipline. Email: ps@apsanet.org. Co-editors: Lina Benabdallah, Justin Esarey, Peter Siavelis, Betina Wilkinson. apsanet.org/ps
Illan wall @illanwall.bsky.social Writes on law and disorder, human rights and critical legal theory, erstwhile Prof at University of Warwick, now lecturing at University of Galway.
Nicola Collett @nicolacollett.bsky.social Senior lecturer in Criminology. Chair of the Criminal Record Research and Reform Network.
Corentin Durand @corentindurand.cpesr.fr Chargé de recherche au CNRS (CLERSE), chercheur associé à l'INED. Political socioloy, crime & punishment, law & society.
alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social founder, Civil Rights Corps
civil rights lawyer
author of usual cruelty (2019) and
copaganda (2025)
any views expressed here are my own, and not those of civil rights corps
Frank Plunkett @frankplunkett.bsky.social College Prof, LGBTQA+ Ally, Ret. Police officer, Good listener, Curious about most things. Willing to learn new things and open to new perspectives on the world and life. Husband, father, son, brother.....
Iulia Cristiana Vatau @iuliavatau.bsky.social Drug Policy and Therapeutic Justice Scholar pursuing a DPhil in Criminology at the University of Oxford. Researching the rehabilitative culture of drug treatment courts in Chile
Dawn Beichner-Thomas @dbeichner-thomas.bsky.social Professor Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies & Criminal Justice. NGO UN Representative.
Alex Stevens @profalexstevens.bsky.social Professor of Criminology, University of Sheffield. Trustee at Criminal Justice Alliance. Volunteer for Sheffield Jazz. Peak District walker. Drug policy geek.
Ed Wright @edwardjwright1.bsky.social Criminologist / sociologist. A social theorist, basically. Interested in all sorts but currently mainly writing about social harm.
Andrzej Uhl @andrzej-uhl.bsky.social PhD student at Cambridge University | analytic criminology, corruption, punishment
Daniela Mardones-Bravo @danielamarbrav.bsky.social Lecturer in Criminology MMU @manmetcrimsoc.bsky.social and Researcher at @mmuperu.bsky.social
Older people/Prisons /online methods. Chilean, living in Scotland, working in England.
she/her
More stuff here: linktr.ee/danielamarbrav
Nico Pinchak @pinchak.bsky.social Researching urban neighborhoods, everyday mobility, schools, and youth | pinchak.org
Amanda Haynes @amanda-haynes.bsky.social Sociologist researching criminal justice inequalities, hate crime, hateful ideologies, algorithmic harms. T&L interests in ethical AI, EDI, UDL. Fan of all creatures, furry, feathered and scaly. University of Limerick/ECSH. Opinions my own after coffee.
@ncabreram.bsky.social @ncabreram.bsky.social Researcher | PhD candidate in Criminology | Cambridge
Risk Resilience Research Lab @UCBerkeley @rrr-lab.bsky.social UC Berkeley’s Risk Resilience Research Lab | Led by Dr. Jennifer Skeem | Advancing justice, safety & well-being through data-driven, policy-relevant research | Partnering with communities to prevent violence & reduce inequality | 
Matthew H. McLeskey @mhmc1985.bsky.social 
Fiona Measham @fmeasham.bsky.social * Chair in Criminology, University of Liverpool
* Founder, The Loop @theloopuk.bsky.social & The Loop Australia
* Yoga & meditation instructor, Yoga Alliance Professionals
* Manchester, UK
* Also @FMeasham on X
@ojmarrh.bsky.social @ojmarrh.bsky.social 
Miriam Vishniac, MPP, PhD @miriamvishniac.bsky.social Founder of the Prison Flow Project, recovering PhD student from the University of Edinburgh, animal lover, history nerd, and advocate for menstruators' rights. https://prisonflowproject.org
Dr Zoe Rodgers @zoerodgers.bsky.social Lecturer in Criminology and Policing BCU/Research Specialism: Civil Preventive Orders and Notices
Criminology & Criminal Justice Journal @crimandcj.bsky.social Official account of Criminology and Criminal Justice, the peer-reviewed journal of the British Society of Criminology.
Publishing cutting-edge research on crime, justice, and penal policy.
Edited by leading scholars.
📚 Published by SAGE.
Yuna Lee @yuna-angella.bsky.social Sociology PhD Candidate @ UAlbany |
Policing, Crime & Deviance, Urban Sociology
Leona Mydlowski @drleonamydlowski.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Criminal Justice and Policing. Interested in Criminal Law, international Criminal Law, sexual offences, management of sexual offenders, public Protection and safeguarding 😊😊✌️✌️
Laura Iesue @lauraiesue.bsky.social Asst Prof #SHSU CJ. Researching violence, coping strategies, and policy-responses to violence in international contexts. #OH www.stopglobalviolence.org
Mary-Louise Corr @mlcorr.bsky.social Senior Lecturer Criminology, Queen's University Belfast & Centre for Children's Rights. Youth Justice, Youth Homelessness, Domestic Violence, Youth, Narrative Research