Virginia Dignum @vdignum.bsky.social 🇵🇹🇳🇱🇸🇪🇪🇺 Prof #A.I @umeauniversity; member @UN Advisory Group on AI; @wasp_hs; author; speaker; #responsibleAI https://bit.ly/2WxEkQU
James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social I’m a professor at Cornell Tech and Cornell Law School.
One of "a number of very informative people." -WSJ
Rahel Winter @ ECC2026 @winternet.bsky.social sie/ihr + she/they
enthusiastic about socmed research, queer topics, digital spaces - with a dash of creative games 🎮 phd'ing about communities resisting AI 🚫
phd student @ zemki [comAI] // exhibition curator @ PLAY
Max van Drunen @maxvandrunen.bsky.social Institute for Information Law. Studying how we should regulate tech that makes and targets news & political speech.
Licinia Güttel @liciniaguttel.bsky.social PhD researcher at University of Oxford working on digitalisation, party competition, public opinion, and elections. She/her. (@politicsoxford.bsky.social, previously @oii.ox.ac.uk)
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.
Jan Michael Ihl 🌻 @jmi.eu Experte für Stromdiebstahl seit 2003.
Ex-Serial-Twitterpreneur (@jmi, @tazgezwitscher, @Greenpeace_DE, @RadNeukoelln).
Admin v. 2 Kids 🧑🧒🧒. Fährt gern 🚲Randonneur, 🚤RIB, 🚛Sattelzug.
Mit @gruenebvvnk.gruene-neukoelln.de🌻 in der #BVVNK.
Mathieu Jacomy @jacomyma.bsky.social Digital tools + techno-anthropology + social science in Copenhagen. Co-creator of Gephi.
Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats.eu Computational Communication Scientist #rstats | Postdoc Researcher | University of Amsterdam | @ascor.bsky.social | @algosoc.org | Blog: favstats.eu | Running on plant-based fuel 🌱 | he/him
Vasilisa Kuznetsova @vasilisak.bsky.social PhD candidate at @zemki.bsky.social researching platform governance, content moderation, climate misinformation at @pgmt.bsky.social
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism @tbij.bsky.social The UK’s largest not-for-profit newsroom. Exposing injustice and sparking change 💪
Niamh McIntyre @niamhmcintyre.bsky.social senior reporter covering tech @tbij.bsky.social
get in touch: @niamhmcintyre.21 on signal/ niamhmcintyre@tbij.com
Dr Smita Kheria @smitakheria.bsky.social IP Law academic, University of Edinburgh Law School
Chair, Socio-Legal Studies Assocation @slsauk.bsky.social
Director (IP), SCRIPT Centre
Empirical research, Artists' rights, Copyright
Sporadic chirper🐦
Views own
https://shorturl.at/JinLe
Socio-Legal Studies Assocation @slsauk.bsky.social Where law meets the social sciences and humanities: advancing education, research, teaching & knowledge in socio-legal studies.
https://www.slsa.ac.uk/
LinkedIn; https://www.linkedin.com/company/socio-legal-studies-association/?viewAsMember=true
Marko Bachl @bachl.bsky.social communication research at @ifpuk-berlin.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
Lisa Merten @lisamerten.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher @BredowInstitut Hamburg: digital communication, social media & news use, computational social science https://t.co/dDl7ywKdpW
Edda Humprecht @eddahumprecht.bsky.social @Prof of Communication Science @Uni of Jena, head of research group Digitalization & the Public Sphere- A Axel Maireder @axelmaireder.bsky.social
Jan-Hinrik Schmidt @janschmidt.bsky.social Ich bin zwar hier, aber Inhalte gibt es drüben auf Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@janschmidt
Christoph Busch @christophbusch.bsky.social Professor of Law, University of Osnabrück & Affiliated Fellow, Yale Information Society Project. Digital markets, platform regulation, consumer law.
AlgorithmWatch @algorithmwatch.org We ensure that the use of algorithms & AI benefits the many, not just the few!
🇪🇺 We’re the EU/German part
🇨🇭 For Switzerland: @algorithmwatchch.bsky.social
🌐 https://algorithmwatch.org/
Joanna Bryson, blathering @j2bryson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy I'm an academic, proud to work in a policy school, but still sometimes longing to return to natural science and/or programming again. Or maybe art? This Mastodon […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://mastodon.social/@j2bryson, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Michèle Finck @mfinck.bsky.social Professor of Technolawgy
Lina Dencik @linadencik.bsky.social Professor and University Research Leader in AI Justice at Goldsmiths, University of London. Co-Founder of Data Justice Lab.
Alison Powell @abpowell.bsky.social Assoc Prof at LSE | Teaches MSc in Data & Society | Feminist research praxis | AI policy making | Undoing Optimization: https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300223804/
Current work on health, care and environment from NHS tech to Rewilding the Night
Matthias Spielkamp @spielkamp.bsky.social Founder & ED AlgorithmWatch. Board member RSF Germany.
Gloria González Fuster @ggf.bsky.social Research Professor at the Faculty of Law and Criminology of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). Director of the Law, Science, Technology & Society (LSTS) Research Group. Data. Privacy. Protection.
Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social Feminist SocSci-Humanities scholar-practitioner in tech & AI. Associate Director & Senior Researcher: www.lcfi.ac.uk
VLR-MAA-DEL-BOM-BLR-BER-CBG
Outside cat; but more of a dog person really.
bodyofwork.in
Mark Coeckelbergh @coeckelbergh.bsky.social Philosopher of technology | Professor at Philosophy Department University of Vienna | Author of AI Ethics, Why AI Undermines Democracy, and Artificial Religion | member UN Independent International Scientific Panel on AI | https://coeckelbergh.net
Sandra Wachter @swachter.bsky.social Professor of Technology and Regulation, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford https://tinyurl.com/3rkmbmsf
Humboldt Professor of Technology & Regulation, Hasso Plattner Institute https://tinyurl.com/47rkrt6c
Governance of Emerging Technologies
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/
Burkhard Schafer @burkhardschafer.bsky.social Intellectual nomad grazing across the borders of law and computer science, University of Edinburgh. Corrupting the youth since 1996. Re-skeeting = unconditional love https://www.law.ed.ac.uk/people/professor-burkhard-schafe
Data controversies, James Stewart @datacontroversies.bsky.social Microblog supporting Internet and Society and Controversies in the Data Society courses, Science Technology and Innovation Studies, University of Edinburgh
CREATe @create-glasgow.bsky.social Centre for Regulation of the Creative Economy, University of Glasgow
Andrew Murray @andrewdmurray.bsky.social Professor of Information Technology Law at LSE. Dean-Elect of @lselaw.bsky.social (from September 2025)
Academic Member of the Amsterdam Law & Technology Institute.
“The Alexa of Cyberlaw” (2022 Student Evaluation)
Brent Mittelstadt @bmittelstadt.bsky.social Professor of Data Ethics and Policy at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford and Principal Investigator at the Weizenbaum Institute. Founder of the Governance of Emerging Technologies research programme.
Paddy Leerssen @pjleerssen.bsky.social Postdoc @ivir_uva | DSA Observatory | social media law
Martin Husovec @hutko.bsky.social
João Pedro Quintais @jpquintais.bsky.social Associate Professor, Institute for Information Law (IViR), University of Amsterdam. Researching on Platform Regulation, intermediary liability, content moderation and intellectual property (mostly copyright).
w: https://www.ivir.nl/profile/quintais/
Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social Professor in Science and Technology Studies, UCL @stsucl.bsky.social. Science policy, responsible innovation, emerging technologies. Book https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-32320-2. Responsible AI UK (www.rai.ac.uk)
Reuben Binns @rdbinns.bsky.social Computery guy. HCI, ML, AI, privacy, security, fairness, political economy of tech. He/him. London/Oxford.
Frederike Kaltheuner @frederike.bsky.social Global tech policy & geopolitics advisor ✨
Also: @ainowinstitute.bsky.social
frederikekaltheuner.com
Joris van Hoboken @jvh.bsky.social (he/him) antifascist, law prof in Amsterdam (IViR); platform regulation, law and digital infrastructure, quantum technology, fundamental rights.
@ivir-uva.bsky.social
Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social Professor of Ethics & Technology @ Hertie School, Berlin. Interests: Artificial & Natural Intelligence; Behavioural Ecology; Cooperation; Digital Governance. Social media policy: https://joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2024/10/guidance-to-my-social-media.html
Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Investigative journalist. Then: the Guardian/Observer. Now: co-founder all-women journalist collective, thenerve.news. Also, co-founded tech justice non-profit, https://the-citizens.com. And write a personal newsletter at broligarchy.substack.com
Chris Stokel-Walker @stokel.bsky.social Tech journalist and author, who increasingly also talks on TV and radio. Interested in the sparks that happen when the online and offline worlds collide
@stokel on the other place. Buy my book: How AI Ate the World!
Safiya Umoja Noble, PhD @safiyanoble.bsky.social Living in Los Angeles. Californian. #MacFellow
Writer, professor. Comedian.
Author, “Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism,” which is unfortunately still relevant to understanding today’s LLMs and AI.
safiyaunoble.com
Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social Director of Pangloss Consulting for all your AI and GDPR needs! Emerita Prof Newcastle Law School: Hon Prof, @CREATe Glasgow Uni. Formerly @ATI, @SCRIPT: Trying not to be a grey skies thinker & use this place more , lilian@lilianedwards.co.uk
Nikolas Becker @nikolasbecker.eu public policy & scicomm @ Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.
Anne Helmond @silvertje.bsky.social Associate Professor of Media, Data & Society @UniUtrecht. Co-director @UU_GDS. Research: Platformization, platform studies,
@appstudies, @digitalmethods, web history.
Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social Prof Operational Research , @UCL_CORU, passionate about health care, women in STEMs, defending liberal democracy (!). Member of @independentsage, posts personal. https://www.trumpactiontracker.info/
Anna Schjøtt @annaschjoett.bsky.social Technological Anthropology PhD working at University of Amsterdam on knowledge production in AI development and use in the media sector with a focus on politics and ethics.
Lab Digital Communication and Information Diversity (DCID) @dcidlab.bsky.social Lab at ZeMKI @zemki.bsky.social, University of Bremen @unibremen.bsky.social
The DCID Lab researches the changing dynamics of digital communication using social science methods and computational approaches.
Lab head: @cbpuschmann.bsky.social
Mathieu O'Neil @mathieuon.bsky.social Professor of communication, News & Media Research Centre, University of Canberra, Ngunnawal country • Director, Digital Commons Policy Council • Civic information literacy for schools • Political economy of digital commons • https://dcpc.info/actions/
donato ricci @dntrcc.bsky.social DNTCPTLZ
👷♂️ design research lead @medialab-scpo.bsky.social
👨🔬 Ecologies of LLM Practices⋰Styles of Moderations⋰Future-OBS⋰ShapingAI⋰AIgoglitch
👨🏫 SPEAP⋰IDMAIS⋰EMI
Niklas Berger @niklasberger.bsky.social M.A. Political Science - Researcher @dcidlab.bsky.social
Frank Esser @esserfrank.bsky.social Communication scholar at U of Zurich, Chair of ICA’s PolComm Division, Comparative Research, loses in chess against his 10 year old
Lucinda Nelson @lucinda-nelson.bsky.social 👩🏼💻 Lecturer and PhD candidate | QUT Law @qutdmrc.bsky.social @admscentre.org.au
📚 law, tech, violence against women
🏳️🌈 no terfs 🏳️⚧️
Alex Halavais @halavais.bsky.social flâneur, bricoleur, professor of wisdom, master of none, seeker of autonomy
Jonathan Corpus Ong @joncong.bsky.social Professor of Global Digital Media and Director, GloTechLab.net at UMass Amherst. #CarnegieFellows #OracleOng 🔮
Friederike Quint @friederikeq.bsky.social Incoming Postdoctoral Researcher at the Oxford Social Media Observatory (OSMO) at the University of Oxford.
Political Science & Social Media | Speech Legislation & Content Moderation in Democracies
🔗 friederikequint.github.io
João C. Magalhães @jcmagalhaes.bsky.social Platforms, politics & democracy. Senior Lecturer at University of Manchester. More at https://www.linkedin.com/in/jcmagalhaes/
Naja Bentzen 🇩🇰🇪🇺🇬🇱🌻 @najabentzen.eurosky.social /‘na-ya/
✍️ Policy analyst
📚 European Parliamentary Research Service @ep-eprs.bsky.social
💬 Information integrity, democracy
Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social Associate Professor at Queensland University of Technology. Computational communication, social theory. Interests: Propaganda, dark political communication, the relationship between technology, truth, and knowledge
Jannis Brühl @jannistelroy.bsky.social Buch "Disruption - Die Ideologie der Tech-Oligarchen und das Ende der Demokratie, wie wir sie kennen" 21.1.26
Hier kaufen: https://www.penguin.de/buecher/jannis-bruehl-disruption/paperback/9783421070562
Journalist @SZ
https://linktr.ee/jannistelroy
Eike Kühl @eikekuehl.bsky.social I read the paper even though they tell me not to.
Journalist | Science | Technology | Birds
https://www.eikman.net
Andrian Kreye @andriankreye.bsky.social https://www.penguin.de/Buch/Der-Geist-aus-der-Maschine/Andrian-Kreye/Heyne/e618001.rhd
Henrik Oerding @oerding.bsky.social Schreiben, Sprechen, Spielen | Redakteur für Games und Gadgets im Digitalressort @zeit.de
Heinrich Wefing @heinrichwefing.bsky.social Journalist bei DIE ZEIT. Co-Host „Das Politikteil“
Harald Staun @haraldstaun.bsky.social We were quoted out of context, it was great
Laura Edelson @whiskeyocelot.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Northeastern University
Co-Director, C4D
Formerly: Chief Technologist, DoJ Antitrust Division, DOJ Civil Rights Division
GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften @gesis.org With more than 300 employees at two locations - Mannheim and Cologne - GESIS provides essential and internationally relevant research-based services for the social sciences.
https://www.gesis.org
Jane Lytvynenko @janelytv.bsky.social Reporting on tech and conflict for NBC News.
Previously WSJ, Harvard Shorenstein Center, BuzzFeed News.
Email: jane.lytvynenko@nbcuni.com
Signal: janelytv.74
Currently based in New York.
Simon Berlin @simon.berlin Ich schreibe über das Internet. Manchmal sterben dafür Bäume. Aber für gute Texte finde ich das okay.
Farangies Ghafoor @farangiesg.bsky.social Science Journalism @tagesspiegel / #top30mm / https://www.tagesspiegel.de/autoren/farangies-ghafoor
Alexios Mantzarlis @mantzarlis.com Tech, facts, and carbonara.
mantzarlis.com
Vittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social Senior Reporter @Wired covering platforms + power
https://www.wired.com/author/vittoria-elliott/
Signal: velliott88.18/vittoria89.82
elliott.vittoria@proton.me OR vittoria_elliott@wired.com
Fabio Giglietto @fabiogiglietto.bsky.social Professor of Internet Studies at the University of Urbino - Principal investigator https://mine.uniurb.it
Mariëlle Wijermars @mariellew.bsky.social Associate Professor in Internet Governance at Maastricht University | Digital interdependence and autonomy | Platform governance | Internet censorship
Member of The Young Academy (KNAW)
Academic editor @policyr.bsky.social
Free Reading @jakelehman.bsky.social Independent Journalist
📙 jacoblehman.substack.com
☠️ x.com/_Jake_Lehman
🐘 cyberplace.social/@aldergeshem
🌐 aintnoseagull@protonmail.com
Arne Maibaum @arnemaibaum.bsky.social Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology @TUBerlin / Sociology of technology / STS / HRI / he
https://linktr.ee/arnemaibaum
Felix Maschewski @fmaschewski.bsky.social Partner von A, Vater von B, Ko-Direktor @criticaldatalab.bsky.social (HU Berlin/Uni Oldenburg), Researcher: Institute of Network Cultures (Amsterdam), Bylines: FAZ, TAZ, Republik, ZEIT, Wiwo, Blätter, Mittelweg36, Surplus Magazin etc.
Hendrik Theine @theine.bsky.social postdoc JKU Linz & MIC Center UPenn. Into media discourses, economic inequality & the climate crisis
hendriktheine.eu
Josefine Kulbatzki @jkul.bsky.social Journalist Tagesspiegel Background Digitalisierung #Disinformation #Surveillance #Police-IT #Space
Michael Seemann @mspr0.de mastodoner mit twitterhintergrund
Uta Meier-Hahn @zielwasser.bsky.social Advisor @gizgmbh.bsky.social. Previously GIZ Lab, program director VolkswagenStiftung, researcher HIIG Berlin, editor http://policyreview.info, journo NDR
Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social Freelance journalist and researcher. Author ‘La fortezza automatica. Se l’IA decide chi può varcare i confini’ (Bollati Boringhieri, 2025). I publish 'Fragile', a newsletter on AI, democracy and society, every Monday.
Diyi Liu @deeliu97.bsky.social "D-E", Postdoc@UCPH, PhD @oiioxford.bsky.social, researching platform governance, content moderation, human-computer interaction
Markus Beckedahl @beckedahl.eurosky.social Fighting for your digital rights. Co-Founder & Head of Curation @re-publica.com. Now Founder of @digitalrechte.bsky.social. Berlin. In a past life Founder of netzpolitik.org. Newsletter @ digitalpolitik.de
Sebastian Gießmann @sebgiessmann.bsky.social Media History | Theory | STS @Siegen
Media & Culture @unicologne.bsky.social
Das Kreditkarten-Buch: Geschichte und Theorie des digitalen Bezahlens
👉️ https://www.kulturverlag-kadmos.de/programm/details/das_kreditkarten-buch
Philip Sinner @philipsinner.bsky.social Postdoc at @ZeMKI.bsky.social | Lab #datafication and #mediatization | @unibremen.bsky.social | Research Software | Audience and Reception Studies | Chair DGPuK-Section Media Sport and Sport Communication | YECREArep TWG Communication and Sport
Andreas M. Scheu @a-m-scheu.bsky.social Professor & Leader of the Research Group Science Communication and Science Journalism at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) and the University of Klagenfurt.
ecpr - SG Political Communication @ecpr-polcom.bsky.social @ecpr.bsky.social Standing Group on Political Communication. Tag us for sharing!
Conveners:
@lcjacobs89.bsky.social
@johannaburger.bsky.social
@alenakluknavska.bsky.social
@olgaeisele.bsky.social
@thieled.bsky.social
@marikenvelden.bsky.social
APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions @polcomm.bsky.social Official account of the @APSAtweets & @icahdq #PolComm Divisions | posts by @igoncalves.com | https://www.facebook.com/groups/politicalcommunication.org | @polcomm@mastodon.social | https://politicalcommunication.org/
Aphra Kerr @aphrak.bsky.social Prof Digital Media & Communication, University College Dublin, Ireland. Co- PI ADAPT Research Centre & Algowatch project. Researching people & games, tech & AI.
IAMCR @iamcr.org The International Association for Media and Communication Research - IAMCR - is a global professional association of media and communication researchers.
Waqas Ejaz @waqasejaz.bsky.social Postdoc Research Fellow @risj_oxford | @UniofOxford🇬🇧 | Previously @ NUST 🇵🇰| PhD @IfMk 🇩🇪 | Tweets about climate, journalism & politics.
Simone Natale @snatale.bsky.social Associate Professor in Media Theory and History at the University of Turin, author of Deceitful Media: AI and Social Life after the Turing Test (Oxford University Press 2021)