🌶 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
Becca Lewis @beccalew.bsky.social Assistant professor of media studies @MIT. Cultural and political histories of Silicon Valley and the internet.
Elena De Leo @elenadeleo.bsky.social PhD candidate in Sociology & Science Studies at UC San Diego | Mostly interested in knowledge, expertise, culture, politics, and new technologies | Computational and qualitative methods
David Mimno @dmimno.bsky.social He teaches information science at Cornell. http://mimno.infosci.cornell.edu
Linda Huber @puellaludens.bsky.social Social Justice and Technology Postdoc at Swarthmore College. Educating, agitating, organizing in tech-ademia.
Liz Chiarello @lizchiarello.bsky.social 
Anton Grau Larsen @antongrau.bsky.social Sociologist working on elites, statistical programming and descriptive quantitative analysis. Roskilde University
Bartosz Slosarski @slosarski.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Digital Sociology, University of Warsaw • Critical Data Studies | Environmental & Climate Sociology | Contentious Politics • He/him/his
Victor Seow @eastasiascitech.bsky.social Historian of technology, science, and industry @ Harvard. Author of CARBON TECHNOCRACY. Currently writing a history of industrial psychology in China. More about my work here: https://scholar.harvard.edu/seow
Ben Tarnoff @bentarnoff.com 
Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com MUSKISM with @bentarnoff.com: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/muskism-quinn-slobodianben-tarnoff?variant=43838135402530
HAYEK’S BASTARDS won the NBCC award for criticism. quinnslobodian.com
Aakash @aakashs.bsky.social Dissertator @University of Toronto Anthropology
Big Data & Society @bigdatasoc.bsky.social Open access peer-reviewed journal connecting debates on emerging Big Data practices & how they reconfigure academic, social, industry, & government relations.
Yukun Yang @crazybrokeasian.bsky.social crazy broke asian & PhD student @ Northeastern CAMD
https://www.yukunyang.info
jess reia • 何杰茜 @jhereia.bsky.social data justice, tech policy, cities & nighttime governance | asst prof of data science & public policy | they•them 🏳️⚧️ | 🇧🇷🇨🇦🇺🇸
Yangyang Cheng @yangyangcheng.bsky.social Interdisciplinary scholar studying the history of science in China and US-China relations | Particle physicist by training | Writer at various places | Editor at the Made in China Journal and Host of Gateway to Global China
Kevin Driscoll 📳੯‧̀͡⬮ @kdriscoll.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy Learning about moral economies, researching media histories, imagining post-platform futures. Also, helping with moderation on aoir.social and professoring in Media […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://aoir.social/@kdriscoll, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Jeehyun Jenny Lee @jeehyunjennylee.bsky.social Assistant professor @UIC Department of Communication. Researching and teaching digital culture, AI, creator culture and representation ✨
Pengfei 鹏飞 @pengfeiliusoc.bsky.social Sociology PhD candidate at UC Davis. Geopolitics, immigration, and elite study. Appropriately being political about everything. One day I’ll write a methodology paper about studying elites through golf. Self-censoring unless I can’t take it anymore.
Ang Yu @ang-yu.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Social Science at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Causal inference methodologist. https://ang-yu.github.io/
Dr. Cat Lambert @risky-on-rocks.bsky.social Asst. Prof in risk/science/environmental communication at Northeastern University | Studying climate, hazards, renewable energy, and how humans make sense of it all
Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋 @jinxungoh.bsky.social Social-personality-political psychologist at the University of Illinois Chicago | Asian American(ist) | Lover of Chicago, public transportation, ramen, ube, dumplings, and more | Views are entirely my own
www.PBandJLab.com
@eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social https://eraldosouzadossantos.com/
Eos Trinidad @eostrinidad.bsky.social @UCBerkeley Asst Prof of Educ Policy | @UChicago PhD Sociology & Human Dev | sociologist of education, policy, and org change
Tom Streeter @tom-streeter.bsky.social Prof. at Western in London Ontario. Wrote some books and articles about technology, culture, and politics. https://streeter.fims.uwo.ca/blog/
Cinzia D. Solari (she/her) @cinziasolari.bsky.social Sociologist | Professor UMass Boston | First Gen Scholar | Feminist | https://www.umb.edu/directory/cinziasolari/
Writings: https://um-boston.academia.edu/CinziaSolari
Sarah Alamdari @sarahalamdari.bsky.social Senior Applied Scientist @ MSR // AI, molecular dynamics, protein design, and some sillyness 🧬
(she/her)
alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social Dir of Research, Data & Society. Academic. Studies tech & society, far-right disinfo. UNC CITAP. Loves pop cult. Mom, fashion victim, sci fi/fantasy enthusiast. Author of The Private is Political, Status Update. NYC forever. She/her/femme 💅🏻 tiara.org
Adam Visokay @avisokay.bsky.social bellwether postdoc at uc berkeley
i also run. https://avisokay.github.io/ https://www.strava.com/athletes/9804160
Terence McDonnell @mintytem.bsky.social I'm doing sociology RIGHT NOW.
Culture and Objects
Henkels Family Associate Professor of Sociology
Chair of the Sociology Department at the University of Notre Dame
Peng Huang @phuang.bsky.social Sociology Assistant Professor @University of Georgia
Social networks, migration, inequality, computational and statistical methods
www.penghuang.me
Boxi A. Wu @aboxiwu.bsky.social PhD @oii.ox.ac.uk
David Redmalm @davidredmalm.bsky.social Associate Professor in Sociology at Mälardalen University, Sweden. Human-animal studies. Posthuman theory. Vegan sociology. Environmental humanities. Leading the online Animals in Society postgraduate course at MDU.
Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com ARC Future Fellow – Monash University /// co-host – This Machine Kills /// critical insurance tech + climate risk governance /// political economy of technology and capitalism: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520398078/the-mechanic-and-the-luddite
Michelle Lipinski @michellelipinski.bsky.social Senior editor @ucpress.bsky.social. Finicky reader. (She/her)
University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social Publishing voices that drive change & impact how people think. Founded in 1893. linkin.bio/ucpress
Anthony J. Spires @ajspires.bsky.social Sociologist doing China stuff; activism; democracy
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
Jiarui Sun @jiarui-sun.bsky.social PhD Candidate @UChicago
digital ethnography, linguistic anthropology, media theories, disability studies
Davon Norris @davonnorris.bsky.social Assistant Prof of Organizational Studies at U of Michigan, but a Buckeye forever. In these debt and municipal finance streets
Fred Appel @freditorpup.bsky.social book publisher, editor at Princeton University Press
https://press.princeton.edu/resources/prospective-authors#meet-our-editors
Vance Ricks @ricksva.bsky.social Philosophy/Comp. Sci. at Northeastern University in Boston
No relation to Frozone, Gervase Peterson, or Kevin Garnett
MariaRepnikova @mariarepnikova.bsky.social Academician, word technician, Atlantan, Russian-American-Latvian-Jew. Associate Prof @Georgia State in Global Comm; China expert. Author of Media Politics in China and Chinese Soft Power. Currently writing China's image-making in Africa.
Catherine Bracy @catherinebracy.com Founder + CEO of TechEquity (techequity.us). Author of World Eaters: How Venture Capital is Cannibalizing the Economy. Long-suffering Tottenham Hotspur supporter.
Dr. Nicholas Rabb @nickrabb.bsky.social Researching misinformation, AI, ethics, social change. Currently postdoc at Cal State LA studying STEM education and AI in education.
https://linktr.ee/nickrabb
Moira Weigel @moiraweigel.bsky.social Assistant Prof @ Harvard | Mom, writer, 老外
Pamela Tsui @pamelatsui.bsky.social PhD student in sociology at the University of Toronto.
Wanheng Hu @wanhenghu.bsky.social Postdoc at Stanford's Ethics Center and HAI
https://profiles.stanford.edu/wanhenghu
Marianne von Blomberg @mariannevblomberg.bsky.social Researcher. Heart in Hangzhou and mind with Chinese law, regulatory evolution, social credit, assessment-driven regulation.
Based at HongKongU.
https://linktr.ee/mariannevonblomberg
Junchao Tang @junchaot.bsky.social A sociologist
American Sociological Association @asanews.bsky.social * Support a diverse and inclusive community of sociologists
* Increase public knowledge and understanding of society through sociology
* Promote the use of sociological insights to drive positive social change https://bit.ly/m/AmSocAssoc
China Law Translate / Jeremy Daum @chinalawtranslate.bsky.social Chinalawtranslate.com is a cooperative website for translations and commentary on Chinese Law.
Jeremy Daum is a Sr. Researcher at Yale Law School's Paul Tsai China Center, focussing on criminal justice and policing.
Qi Chen @qichen77.bsky.social Assistant professor of Social Work at Hunter College-CUNY
Alexandra Olteanu @aolteanu.bsky.social Ethical/Responsible AI. Rigor in AI. Grumpy eastern european in north america. Lovingly nitpicky. www.aolteanu.com
Mary L. Gray @marylgray.bsky.social Senior Principal Researcher | teacher | seeker | MacFellow
Yoehan Oh @yoehanee.bsky.social (he/him) postdoc @yale.edu CompSci #AsianAmerican & #STEM / working dad / PhD @rpihass.bsky.social STS / alum SNU Engineering, LG Electronics, & SNU Science Studies 🇰🇷 http://mas.to/@yoehanee
🌐 https://yoehanoh.wordpress.com/
American Journal of Sociology @amjsoc.bsky.social The American Journal of Sociology, founded in 1895 as the first journal in its discipline, is a peer-reviewed, bimonthly academic journal that publishes original research and book reviews.- J Jamie Wong @jamiewong.bsky.social
Graham Webster @gwbstr.com Chinese tech policy and US-China relations at Stanford
Newsletter: herecomes.transpacifica.net
Basics: gwbstr.com
Also: #filmphotography
@xingjlz.bsky.social @xingjlz.bsky.social Science & technology studies, gig economy, technology & work, innovation policy in China; Postdoc at Fairbank Center, Harvard University, PhD in History and Sociology of Technology and Science, Georgia Tech, alumni at the University of Hong Kong
Dr. Xiaogao Zhou @xgzhou.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Sociology at Bryn Mawr College. UChicago PhD. He/They. Interested in gender, sexuality, medicine, and transnational processes. I study transgender healthcare in China.
www.xiaogaozhou.com
Kathleen Gregory @kathleen-gregory.bsky.social Researcher at CWTS, Leiden University. Librarian at heart. Scholarly communication | open science | (research) data practices | research assessment
Philip Thai @philipthai.bsky.social Associate Professor, Northeastern University | Author, China's War on Smuggling | Modern China, East Asia, Law, Economy, Diplomacy
Karan Tripathi @karantripathi.bsky.social PhD at University of Cambridge, MSc at University of Oxford. Researching impact of emerging technologies on criminalisation and punishment.
Boris Holzer @fernschreiber.bsky.social Professor of Sociology @uni-konstanz.de | political sociology, globalization, social networks & digital communication | contributor to the column "Soziale Systeme" @faznet.bsky.social: http://borisholzer.net/kolumne-soziale-systeme/
Jonas Horn @jonashorn.bsky.social Doctoral Researcher | @mpifg.bsky.social & Cologne Center for Comparative Politics | Comparative Political Economy, Technological Change, Industrial Policy, Automotive Industry | he/him
Weiqian Xia @weiqianxia.bsky.social Wenner-Gren Research Fellow @Åbo Akademi & Stocholm Univeristy. Demography of religion, migration and ethnic relations.
Matthias Leese @matthiasleese.bsky.social Assist. Prof. of Technology and Governance @ethz.ch ¦ PI @curateproject.bsky.social ¦ Editor-in-chief @jird-jour.bsky.social
https://matthiasleese.com
Deana Simonetto @deanasimonetto.bsky.social Sociologist of gendered violence, brain injuries, and sports. Feminist. Cat lady. Knitter.
Elif Birced @ebirced.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology at Villanova University| Work, Culture, Social Media | www.elifbirced.com
Professor Astrid Nordin @astridnordin.bsky.social Lau Chair of Chinese international relations at King’s College London.
Hannah Wohl @hannahwohl.bsky.social Associate Prof of Sociology at UCSB. Author of Bound by Creativity. Ethnographer of culture, markets, platforms. Currently writing about the porn industry.
AusSTS @aussts.bsky.social A network for science and technology studies (STS) scholars in Australia and New Zealand
Dr. Julia Rogers @sociologyprof.bsky.social Lecturer in Sociology. Medical Sociologist, Controversy Studies, STS. Terry Pratchett Enthusiast, consulate cat lover. 🐈
A. Feder Cooper @afedercooper.bsky.social ML prof @ Yale, mischief executive officer
https://attention-is-not-all-you-need.github.io
Ariane Ollier-Malaterre @arianeollier.bsky.social French scholar in Montreal
Canada Research Chair, digitalisation of work and life, connectivity, work-life boundaries, privacy and surveillance, internet studies, China studies, human-AI interactions, robots, science-fiction
Silvia Lindtner @yunnia.bsky.social writer ethnographer Prof Umich Author of Prototype Nation: China & the Contested Promise of Innovation she/her
Alex Taylor @alex-taylor.bsky.social Partner & daddy living in wonderful Edinburgh.
Muddling through with ideas from #FeministTechnoscience #STS #MultiSpeciesRelations #HCI #ReparativeAI
Paige Sweet @paigesweet.bsky.social assistant professor michigan sociology. gender/sexuality, gender-based violence, politics of health, theory. author of The Politics of Surviving, UC Press
Carly Knight @carlyrknight.bsky.social Assistant professor, nyu sociology. Economic & cultural sociologist studying corporations, law, and economic ideas.
Lauren Rivera @larivera.bsky.social Sociologist at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management studying gatekeeping and inequalities in organizations. Author of Pedigree: How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs.
https://www.laurenarivera.com/
Prof. Aviles @nataliebaviles.bsky.social Scholar of federal cancer research policy. Author of An Ungovernable Foe: Science and Policy Innovation in the U.S. National Cancer Institute. Recovering Chicana goth, shitposting enthusiast. Speaking in my personal capacity on matters of public concern.
Chris Bourg @mchris4duke.bsky.social Director of Libraries, MIT.
All things open science, plus hiking, birds, Jiffy and Sunny. Maybe other stuff - who knows?
David Pinzur @davidpinzur.bsky.social Sociologist at the London School of Economics studying market infrastructures and commodity derivatives. 
Andrés Monroy-Hernández @andresmh.com Associate Professor of Computer Science at @princeton.edu. Co-director of Princeton HCI. Board member at Crisis Text Line.
https://andresmh.com
Mona Sloane @monasloane.bsky.social Sociologist of #AI • University of Virginia Faculty • Series Editor University of California Press • Tech Editor Public Books • Fellow NYU IKP & UVA DTD • Host of Co-Opting AI Series • Director Sloane Lab • monasloane.org
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. 
Rebekah Tromble @rebekahtromble.bsky.social Dir. of Global Partnerships, Inst. for Information, the Internet & Democracy, NEU | Union of Concerned Scientists 2024 Defender of Science |
Co-founder: https://researchersupport.org/
https://expertvoicestogether.org/
https://independenttechresearch.org/
Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com {Social, Data, Network, Information} Scientist, @cuboulder.info
Director, University of Colorado Public Interest Data Science Lab, @cupids-lab.org
High-tempo collaboration, information commons, public interest data science
https://www.brianckeegan.com/
Brooke Foucault Welles @foucaultwelles.bsky.social Professor of Communication, trying not to be evil Ass. Dean, #HashtagActivism co-author, mom to teenagers and cats. Appreciates novelty socks and cat memes.
Lee Vinsel @leev.bsky.social I do technology studies, make the Peoples & Things podcast, co-founded The Maintainers, and profess Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech.
Stuart Geiger @stu.lu just a digital trace | Asst Prof at UC San Diego, Comm & Data Science | opaque sociotechnical systems, power, and publics | ethnographer of computation & computational ethnographer | humanities of the digital & digital humanities | https://stu.lu | he/they
Hanna Wallach @hannawallach.bsky.social VP and Distinguished Scientist at Microsoft Research NYC. AI evaluation and measurement, responsible AI, computational social science, machine learning. She/her.
One photo a day since January 2018: https://www.instagram.com/logisticaggression/
Parker Bach @parkerbach.bsky.social PhD student at UNC. CITAP affiliate.
Studying online political culture - prediction markets, humor, influencers, and more.
Arguably too much hair.
www.parkerbach.com
International Communication Association @icahdq.bsky.social This account is for informational purposes. Please get in touch with the appropriate department for assistance. https://icahdq.org/page/ContactUs
Steven Schmidt @stevenschmidt.bsky.social Assistant professor of sociology at Boston University. I study families, housing, and health. (Mostly) qualitative researcher: Tell me more about that!
https://stevenschmidt.info/
David Harvey @davidharvey.org Distinguished Professor, CUNY Graduate Center; Director of Research, Center for Place, Culture and Politics. New book: The Story of Capital. Posts from David Harvey personally are signed -DH