John "Not That John Bolton" Bolton @opus59films.bsky.social Producer & Writer & Director @ www.opus59films.com
Old Film: AIM FOR THE ROSES @ www.aimfortheroses.com
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Evan Solomon @evansolomon.bsky.social Member of Parliament for Toronto Centre. Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Minister responsible for Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario.
Global Reporting Centre @globalreportingcentre.org The GRC is an editorially independent journalism organization based at @ubcjournalism.bsky.social. We are leaders in doing global journalism differently. globalreportingcentre.org
Jessica Johnson @jessicajohnson.bsky.social Co-author, “What Should the CBC Be?” (@mediatechdemocracy.bsky.social 2025). Adjunct professor @uoft.bsky.social. Former EIC @thewalrusca.bsky.social. I post here about writing, journalism and books.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
Tara Moriarty @moriartylab.bsky.social Associate Professor, University of Toronto. Bloodborne infections, Lyme disease, misinfo. COVID-19 Resources Canada. Defend journalism. Look for the helpers. Opinions mine. 🇨🇦🏳️🌈
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Krista Sigurdson @ksigurdson.bsky.social Political Staffer; Academic Researcher/Educator; Community Organizer. Seeking Nomination for Vancouver School Board with OneCity Vancouver. kristasigurdson.com
Taleeb Noormohamed @taleeb.bsky.social Dad. Your Liberal MP for Vancouver Granville. Ex-Tech CEO & Community Volunteer.
Working to make #VancouverStrong 📣
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Melissa Lem @drmelissalem.bsky.social Family doctor | Clinical assistant prof, UBC Medicine | Past President, @cape-acme.bsky.social | Founder @inp-alliance.bsky.social | #PaRx Co-Founder | Medical columnist, CBC News Vancouver | Salzburg Global Fellow | Opinions mine
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George Anderson @georgeandersonbc.bsky.social BC Parliamentary Secretary for Energy & Climate Solutions. BC NDP MLA for Nanaimo - Lantzville
Lawyer, Fmr City Councillor, Cyclist, Egalitarian, Saxophone & Piano Player. Proud British Columbia!
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Emily Lowan (she/her) @emilylowan.bsky.social Leader of the @bcgreens.bsky.social ⚡
Authorized by Farrukh Chishtie, financial agent, 1-888-473-3686
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Rechie Valdez @rechievaldez.bsky.social Minister of Women and Gender Equality
Secretary of State (Small Business and Tourism)
MP for Mississauga—Streetsville
Niki Sharma @nikisharma.bsky.social Deputy Premier and Attorney General of BC. MLA for Vancouver-Hastings. Lawyer. Advocate for people & the planet, star gazer💫
Jodie Wickens @jodiewickens.bsky.social MLA for Coquitlam Burke Mountain & Minister of Children and Family Development
Grace Lore @gracealore.bsky.social MLA for Victoria-Beacon Hill / #bcpoli / Momma to Asher & Eve / PhD / Lover of running & all things #yyj / she/her
Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social History of modern philosophy, neo-Kantianism, sustainable transport, vegan tacos.
Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions @picscanada.bsky.social PICS is a collaboration between four BC universities (UVic, SFU, UBC, UNBC) working to turn climate knowledge into climate action | https://climatesolutions.ca/
UBC Centre for Migration Studies @migration.ubc.ca Interdisciplinary and collaborative research, learning, and public engagement on migration, mobility, and displacement.
📍xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) unceded ancestral lands
Learn more at www.migration.ubc.ca
UBC Climate Solutions Research Collective @ubccsrc.bsky.social The Climate Solutions Research Collective is a new pan-university initiative designed to build connections across UBC and to encourage new collaborative research on climate change solutions. See our website here: https://climatesolutions.ubc.ca/
Kristen Thomasen @kristenthomasen.bsky.social Law things, robots, space, privacy || habitual misAInthrope || feministing || she/her ||
(Profile pic from community art-making project in #YQG graffiti alley)
Centre for Climate Justice @ccj-ubc.bsky.social Advancing public-facing, community-engaged research and interdisciplinary collaboration to address the climate crisis.
climatejustice.ubc.ca | linktr.ee/CCJ_UBC
Rebecca Bligh @rebeccaleebligh.bsky.social Vancouver City Councillor /Past-President of FCM @fcm_online / Vice-Chair of Metro Van Parks/ Small business, sustainability & livability. Mom 🏳️🌈 she/her
www.votevancouver.ca
William Azaroff @wazaroff.bsky.social Community housing leader & city builder.
OneCity Vancouver @onecityvan.bsky.social Elect the OneCity team of candidates running for City Council, School, and Park Boards with a plan to give you a voice, a place, and a future in Vancouver.
Vote by Oct 17 🗳️
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Frances Bula @fabulavancouver.bsky.social Cities are life! I've written in the Globe and elsewhere about urban issues, politics, housing for 30 years. Mom/step-mom to four millennials coping with housing market. Now aiming to run for Van city council with OneCity francesbulaforcouncil.ca
Kareem Allam @kareem42.bsky.social I’m running to be mayor of Vancouver. Visit us @ vancouverliberals.com
Jessica Walton | Vancouver City Council Candidate @jessforvancouver.bsky.social Inclusion & Accessibility Advocate
Running for Vancouver City Council
Vote Vancouver Liberals Oct 17th 🗳️
Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com Environment and climate journalist | Editor in Chief at @nationalobserver.com | Work in The Globe and Mail, The Narwhal, The Guardian | www.jameswsthomson.com
@reneeeblack.bsky.social @reneeeblack.bsky.social 
Rodney Benson @rodneybenson.bsky.social professor NYU Media, Culture, & Comm, & Sociology; new book How Media Ownership Matters (Oxford, April '25), https://global.oup.com/academic/product/how-media-ownership-matters-9780199931316?lang=en&cc=us
Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social Prime Minister of Canada and Leader of the Liberal Party | Premier ministre du Canada et chef du Parti libéral
markcarney.ca 
Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social "End Times Fascism" book available now.
Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire.
UBC Professor of Climate Justice.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/naomiklein
Demos @demos-uk.bsky.social Demos is a champion of people, ideas and democracy.
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Rory White @rorywh.bsky.social 🏴🇨🇦 Technology and Democracy Reporter at Canada's National Observer. Creator of Civic Searchlight.
Contact: rwhite.12 (Signal)
Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social Writer of books (latest one is END TIMES FASCISM with Naomi Klein), maker of documentaries, schemer with the Debt Collective, editing at Hammer & Hope.
"A hugely influential figure on the modern Left" — City Journal
Jaigris Hodson @jhodson.bsky.social Canada Research Chair in Digital Communication for the Public Interest
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun @whkchun.bsky.social new media theorist and professor. director of the SFU digital democracies institute. posts reflect my own views only.
banner from Mongrel Network's 2004 Bush-Blair project. Portrait by a wonderful scms audience member—let me know if you know them!
Centre for Media, Technology & Democracy @mediatechdemocracy.bsky.social Our organization examines how media and emerging technologies shape democracy. We’re housed at McGill University’s Max Bell School of Public Policy, and led by Taylor Owen.
Taylor Owen @taylorowen.bsky.social Beaverbrook Chair of Media, Ethics & Communication, Director of the Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy, & Principal Investigator of the Media Ecosystem Observatory, McGill University. Host of the Machines Like Us podcast https://tinyurl.com/9yn836x
Paddy Leerssen @pjleerssen.bsky.social Postdoc @ivir_uva | DSA Observatory | social media law 
keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net David M. Wood (DMW)
Surveillance / Security / Cities / Technology / Human Rights / Environment
https://ubisurv.net
Personal account.
Gabriella "Biella" Coleman @biella.bsky.social Professor of Anthropology @Harvard, Hacker Studies & More https://gabriellacoleman.org/
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
Yaël Eisenstat @yaeleisenstat.bsky.social Been called alarmist, Cassandra & “someone with the resume of a 70 yr old man”. Pro-dog & pro-democracy. Working on tech accountability to safeguard democracy in the digital age at Cybersafety Research Center (NYU).
Personal website: www.yaeleisenstat.com
Marietje Schaake @marietjeschaake.bsky.social Proud European 🇪🇺 Fellow at Stanford 👩🏼💻 column in FT 🗞️Member of European Parliament 2009-2019 📕Author: The Tech Coup
Alberto Lusoli @albertolusoli.bsky.social SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow studying AI and creative labor
Digital Democracies Institute Deputy Director
Human being
Research updates 👉 https://labora.co/
Climate Social Science Network @cssn.org A global network of social scientists focused on political conflicts around climate change, headquartered at Brown University. https://cssn.org/ 
Jennie King @jkingy.eurosky.social Professionally Online. Director of Climate Research & Policy @ ISD www.isdglobal.org. Co-founder @ Climate Action Against Disinformation www.caad.info.
Come for the heady combo of conspiracies, hate and extremism; stay for the whimsical use of semicolons.
Media Ecosystem Observatory @meo-cdmrn.bsky.social The Media Ecosystem Observatory (MEO) and the Canadian Digital Media Research Network (CDMRN)
Christine Boyle @christineboyle.bsky.social BC Minister of Housing and Municipal Affairs. BC NDP MLA for Vancouver-Little Mountain. Community builder.
B.C. Green Caucus @bcgreencaucus.bsky.social Representing elected Green MLAs in British Columbia.
Ward Stamer, MLA for Kamloops North Thompson @mla-wardstamer.bsky.social The former Mayor of Barriere, Ward Stamer is the Conservative Party of BC MLA for Kamloops North Thompson. He was elected on October 19th, 2024
Mike Ananny 🇨🇦 @mikeananny.bsky.social ananny.org
- Media technologies & production cultures
- How sociotechnical systems enact theories of press freedom & “the public”
- GenAI as a public problem
Associate Professor of Communication & Journalism, USC Annenberg
Always 🇨🇦
Alex Boyd @alexboyd.bsky.social Senior reporter, provincial affairs. CBC Calgary. Formerly: Toronto Star investigations. Interested in: Misinformation, politics, culture.
Signal: alexboyd.56
alex.boyd@cbc.ca
Charles Rusnell @charlesrusnell.bsky.social Independent investigative journalist in Edmonton, Alberta. Ex Ottawa Citizen, Edmonton Journal, Canadian Broadcasting Corp. Contact in confidence at journalismtips@protonmail.com
Adam Radwanski @aradwanski.bsky.social Toronto Star business columnist
Karim Bardeesy @kbardeesy.bsky.social MemMember of Parliament / Député, Taiaiako'n—Parkdale—High Park; Parliamentary Secretary to Minister of Industry / Sec. parlementaire de la ministre de l'Industrie
Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social Vancouver journalist. Strives to tell unique stories.
http://moremcbarges.ca
http://instagram.com/justindmcelroy- E elinthebean.bsky.social @elinthebean.bsky.social
Arno Kopecky @arnokopecky.bsky.social Writer at large (but mostly Vancouver).
Environment, culture, politics...
All too earnest.
Lisa Kerr @coleenlisa.bsky.social Law prof at Queen's in Kingston. Criminal law, evidence, sentencing, prisons.
Graeme Auld @graemeauld.bsky.social Professor, School of Public Policy & Administration @carletonsppa.bsky.social, Carleton University. Environment. Governance. Regulations. (web: https://carleton.ca/sppa/people/auld-graeme/?)
Co-Editor, Regulation & Governance @reggovjournal.bsky.social
Emily Laidlaw @emilylaidlaw.bsky.social Canada Research Chair in cybersecurity law and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Calgary. Working at the intersection of all things tech law and human rights - online safety, freedom of expression, privacy, platforms, AI, security. 
Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social Past Team Lead, Climate Emergency Unit; author of "A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency"; columnist w/ Canada's National Observer; former social justice think tank director
https://www.sethklein.ca
https://sethdklein.substack.com
Kevin Eastwood @kevineastwood.bsky.social Writer/director/producer of docs, movies & TV | Showrunner/creator, Wildfire | Producer, The Painted Life of E.J. Hughes | Co-chair, DOC Northwest | Board member, VIFF | Adjunct professor, UBC
https://linktr.ee/kevineastwood
Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social Dartmouth political scientist and Bright Line Watch co-director. Previously Upshot NYT / CJR contributor, Spinsanity co-founder, All the President's Spin co-author.
https://sites.dartmouth.edu/nyhan/
http://brightlinewatch.org
Dr. Angelia Wagner @angeliawagner.bsky.social Assistant lecturer at the University of Alberta. Ex-newspaper journalist. Nordic noir nut. Aspiring awesome auntie.
Mark Scott @markscott.bsky.social Senior Resident Fellow, Atlantic Council’s Democracy + Tech Initiative. Weekly newsletter: www.digitalpolitics.co
John Vaillant @johnvaillant.bsky.social I write about collisions between human ambition and the natural world: The Golden Spruce, The Tiger, The Jaguar's Children,
FIRE WEATHER: @pulitzerprizes.bsky.social
10 Best Books: @nytimes.com
https://www.lyceumagency.com/speakers/john-vailla
Sonja Solomun @sonjasolomun.bsky.social Assistant Prof, McGill, Deputy Director, Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy. Climate Justice, Platform Governance, Tech Policy
Banner: Hito Steyerl
Jen St. Denis @jenstden.bsky.social Vancouver, B.C. journalist covering politics and housing for TheTyee.ca
Instagram and TikTok: @jenstdenis
Email: jstdenis at thetyee dot ca
Robert Diab @robertdiab.bsky.social AI and digital freedoms in Canada:
https://robertdiab.substack.com
UBC Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions @ubcdemocracy.bsky.social Understanding the past. Analyzing the present. Training for the future.
https://linktr.ee/ubcdemocracy
K. Sabeel Rahman @ksabeelrahman.bsky.social Law prof @ Cornell Law School
Formerly - OIRA Associate Administrator; President, Demos
Tim Wu @superwuster.bsky.social Professor Columbia University & contributing opinion writer for the NY Times. Latest book THE AGE OF EXTRACTION (the rise of the platforms) (Nov 2025) https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/691177/the-age-of-extraction-by-tim-wu/
Victor Pickard @victorpickard.bsky.social Professor who writes about the history and political economy of media, politics of media policy, and democratic theories of journalism. Author of "Democracy Without Journalism? Confronting the Misinformation Society." Co-director of the MIC Center at Penn.
Ron Deibert @rondeibert.bsky.social Director of The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
Author of Chasing Shadows https://chasingshadowsbook.ca/ 
Ethan Zuckerman @ethanz.bsky.social UMass Amherst, Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure, Global Voices, Berkman Klein Center. Formerly Center for Civic Media, MIT Media Lab. 
Emily Bell @emilybell.bsky.social Prof Columbia J School. Director Tow Center . Writes Guardian + elsewhere. Lives in airports…views are my own, thank goodness
Jelani Cobb @jelaniya.bsky.social your new neighbor from your old neighborhood. dean. writer. left-hander & occasional photographer. known to frequent the new yorker and columbia journalism school. 
Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com My New York Times bestseller: ON COURAGE: HOW TO BE A DISSIDENT IN AN AGE OF FEAR (HarperCollins) tinyurl.com/yxpvn488
NYTimes Opinion Writer | Director, Independent Media program HKS
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com Techdirt guy. Writes about social media, copyright, free speech, content moderation, civil liberties and stuff like that. Once wrote a paper that may have helped inspire this service & now I'm on its board: https://bit.ly/protocolnotplatform
Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social Prof @ Queen's University | Work: Extremist/social movements, religion and politics, diaspora politics, conspiracy theories, online communities, MENA, South Asia | Hip-Hop is Life 🎤
Paris Marx @parismarx.com 💥 PREORDER MY NEW BOOK HYPERSCALE 💥
🎙️ @techwontsave.us
📬 https://disconnect.blog
📖 https://hyperscalebook.com
Molly White @molly.wiki writes citationneeded.news • runs @web3isgoinggreat.com and @influence.citationneeded.news • tech researcher and cryptocurrency industry critic • software engineer • wikipedian
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca Uh-oh!!!!!!! Columnist/journalist @thestar.com, sometimes @wired.com, @foreignpolicy.com
Newsletter: www.bugeyedandshameless.com
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@JustinLing
Signal: JustinLing.42
Patricia Rossini @patyrossini.bsky.social Senior lecturer (assoc. prof) in Communication, Media & Democracy, University of Glasgow. Studies digital threats to democracy 🇧🇷🏴
Edda Humprecht @eddahumprecht.bsky.social @Prof of Communication Science @Uni of Jena, head of research group Digitalization & the Public Sphere
alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social Dir of Research, Data & Society. Academic. Studies tech & society, scams & fraud, far-right disinfo. UNC CITAP. Mom, fashion victim, sci fi/fantasy enthusiast. Author of The Private is Political, Status Update. NYC forever. She/her/femme 💅🏻 tiara.org
Leticia Bode @leticiabode.bsky.social Professor at Georgetown, research director at KGI. Studying information, politics, health, etc. Also cats, Badgers, Astros, food, gardening. 
zeynep tufekci @zey.bsky.social It is said that there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all
Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.uk Professor of Cognitive Science, University of Bristol. Homepage: https://www.lewan.uk
Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life @citap.bsky.social We research the intersection of technology platforms and democratic society.
Our work produces insights that inform a digital future rooted in equality and justice.
https://linktr.ee/unc_citap
Felix M. Simon @felixsimon.bsky.social Research Fellow in AI, Information & News, Reuters Institute, Oxford University | Research Associate, Oxford Internet Institute | Junior Research Fellow, Corpus Christi College | AI, (mis)info, news, democracy | My views etc…
https://www.felixsimon.net/
Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca SocialMediaLab.ca
- News, analysis & views by @philipmai.com re: the politics of tech, social media, AI, immigration, democracy, mis/disinfo, war & propaganda. Explore our suite of social media tools for public interest research: socialmedialab.ca/apps/
Center for Media Engagement - UT Austin @engagingnews.bsky.social The Center for Media Engagement leads efforts to understand and improve the information ecosystem for the benefit of democracy.
Institute for Strategic Dialogue @isdglobal.bsky.social For 20 years, ISD has led the way in detecting, exposing and combatting terrorism, extremism, foreign interference and authoritarianism.
Digital Democracy Centre @ddc-sdu.bsky.social The Digital Democracy Centre SDU is an interdisciplinary hub at the University of Southern Denmark
https://www.sdu.dk/en/ddc
• #dkmedier #dkpol #dkforsk #democracy #digital #AI •
Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social An independent research and policy institute working toward a future where people, not technology, come first.