Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
🏳️🌈
Promoted by Elfrede Brambley-Cranshaw on behalf of the Green Party of England and Wales. c/I po box 78066, London. SE16 9GQ
Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social 1. Writer (https://www.adamsharp.me/)
2. Obsessed with lists
3. COMMON PEOPLE
4. THE CORRECT ORDER OF BISCUITS
5. THE WHEEL IS SPINNING BUT THE HAMSTER IS DEAD (http://geni.us/yDxa)
Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social Celebrating admirable women and girls (historical & contemporary). Their courage, resilience, perseverance, triumphs. Highlighting "firsts." Raising awareness of injustices and our struggles, obstacles, erasure, and more. #WomenInSTEM & in everything else!
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.
Steve Waters @teachwellall.bsky.social Joint Director: Teach Well Toolkit. Supporting schools to build a culture of staff mental health, reduce workload, and increase retention: www.teachwelltoolkit.com Author: ‘Cultures of Staff Wellbeing and Mental Health in Schools’. Open University Press.
SecEd @seced.bsky.social SecEd is a free secondary education best practice website for teachers, support staff & school leaders. Weekly ebulletins. Best practice articles/case studies. Regular podcasts & webinars. Best practice downloads. Posts by @pwhenshaw.bsky.social
Prof Ben Evans @profbenevans.bsky.social Professor of Aerospace Engineering, Swansea University, Wales, UK
https://www.swansea.ac.uk/staff/b.j.evans/
Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social Genealogist & Family Historian for 22 years.
AGRA Associate, Wakefield, West Yorks
Pharos Intermediate & Advanced Certificate
One Place Study: St. John's Square, Wakefield
www.ancestralenquiries.co.uk
#FamilyHistory
#Genealogy
#LocalHistory
#Yorkshire
Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social 📚 The quarterly linguistics magazine for all language lovers
📖 Available in print and digital 🖥️
🔗 babelzine.co.uk
Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social I write poems.
Shows: https://brianbilston.com/events/
Books: https://brianbilston.com/books/
Katie White MP @katiewhitemp.bsky.social 🌹Labour MP for Leeds North West
💚 Climate and Nature Champion
🇬🇧 Proud Yorkshire Woman
Katie.White.MP@parliament.uk
Quantum Sauce @quantum-sauce.bsky.social 🧠 Bring your brain and pull up a pint! 🍻 It’s Science Cabaret in our Leeds-based research nights, at Farsley’s @oldwoollen.bsky.social Club! @geophysics-adam.bsky.social hosts!
Dr Myfanwy Edwards @myf1990.bsky.social English teacher, PhD young audiences/ Shakespeare and education; Editor Teaching Shakespeare Magazine (do DM!) and general secretary of the London Association for the Teaching of English
Emma Kennedy @emmakennedy.bsky.social Author, screenwriter, Lego builder. I’m @emmakennedy from the Bird Place.
JB English @jbenglishteach.bsky.social • Teaching & Learning Advisor • English Teacher & Lead • English Advisor • School Improvement and CPD • Midlands based • Primary • Secondary • A-Level
🖤 Poetry always 🖤
Hannah Wilson ACC FCCT FRSA @hannahwilson.bsky.social Leadership Development Consultant, Coach & Trainer| DEIB Strategist & Facilitator| Director Belonging Effect| Co-founder #DiverseEd & #WomenEd| Trustee & Chair SGSAT| Mentor YCDT| PCC Member ICF| FCCT| Former EHT| www.thebelongingeffect.co.uk
Inclusion in Practice @inclusioninpractice.org.uk An inclusive education hub, to bring together examples of what successful inclusion looks like in practice, as a resource and to build capacity in the system
inclusioninpractice.org.uk
Liz @drlizgregory.bsky.social Lecturer in Education at University of Manchester. Resistant to change but finally here.
Dr Lorna Smith @drlorna-smith.bsky.social Associate Professor in Education & PGCE English course leader at Bristol University; interested in creativity in English, curriculum policy & teacher agency (and swimming). https://www.bristol.ac.uk/people/person/Lorna-Smith-89c8a42a-51e1-4808-8055-33fb5
@vivellis.bsky.social @vivellis.bsky.social 
Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social Situationist Cybernetics. I make films with and against AI to see what isn’t there. Gates Scholar, Cambridge Digital Humanities. Affiliated Researcher, Machine Visual Culture Research Group (Max Planck Institute). Aim to be kind. cyberneticforests.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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links: mollywhite.net/linktree
💗💜💙
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute 
Paris Marx @parismarx.com 💥 PREORDER MY NEW BOOK HYPERSCALE 💥
🎙️ @techwontsave.us
📬 https://disconnect.blog
📖 https://hyperscalebook.com
Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social Researcher of online rumors & disinformation. Former basketball player. Prof at University of Washington, HCDE. Co-founder of the UW Center for an Informed Public. Personal account: Views may not reflect those of my employer.
Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social Away for a while. Making and mending networks and knowledge. Working and thinking at wrecka.ge, co-running a volunteer unbreak-the-news collective at @unbreaking.org.
Previously: Covid Tracking Project, OpenNews, old web nonsense.
Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social Karla is a Puerto Rican artist who loves to paint and draw. Karla works on Films (MCU, ILM,HBO), Games, TV, Covers, Fine art, etc. She is also a passionate advocate for better artist industries+ rights. Opinions are her own. ✌️
www.karlaortizart.com
danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social STS researcher who likes to look at things sideways. Founded Data & Society.
Topics: Census | Youth | Data | Society
Professor of Communication, Cornell
https://made-not-found-by-danah-boyd.ghost.io
404 Media @404media.co it's a website (and a podcast, and a newsletter) about humans and technology, made by four journalists you might already know. like and subscribe: 404media.co
Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social Historian of technology, occasional dad jokes.
www.marhicks.com
Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social Concerned with tech, media and democracy. CEO & Editor at Tech Policy Press. Research & Adjunct Professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Opinions mine.
Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social Hacking/crime/privacy journalist. Author of DARK WIRE, buy here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/joseph-cox/dark-wire/9781541702691/#preorder Co-founder of 404 Media. Signal: joseph.404 Email: joseph@404media.co
Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social Researcher trying to shape AI towards positive outcomes. ML & Ethics +birds. Generally trying to do the right thing. TIME 100 | TED speaker | Senate testimony provider | Navigating public life as a recluse.
Former: Google, Microsoft; Current: Hugging Face
Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social Author, editor, activist, cat lover. Founder of the Disability Visibility Project.
#DisabilityJustice feed I created:
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:65kss3ewg5ida5mjyuk73v5r/feed/aaaba7ikg4sho
More about me
https://linktr.ee/disability_visibility
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that. 
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in Teaching and writing media studies at CU Boulder. Helping to build a cooperative fediverse with Social.coop. Fan of democratic experiences and divine mysteries. Co-leading metagov.org, start.coop, wagingnonviolence.org.
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
Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app Founder & PI @aial.ie. Assistant Professor of AI, School of Computer Science & Statistics, @tcddublin.bsky.social
AI accountability, AI audits & evaluation. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
Rest of World @restofworld.org We're a nonprofit publication covering global technology outside the West.
✉️ Sign up: https://restofworld.org/newsletters/global/
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. 
Caroline Sinders @carolinesinders.bsky.social Human rights centered design, art, and policy
https://www.convocation.design/
Executive Director @cordlabs
Kate Knibbs @knibbs.bsky.social Live in Chicago, write for Wired, got a great attitude
Send me tips: kate_knibbs@wired.com / Signal: kateknibbs.09
Exploit Code Not People @cooperq.com Cybertiger. Senior Staff technologist at @eff.org Fellow @citizenlab.ca Board member @openarchive.bsky.social. "Noted activist security type." Anti-fascist. he/him. My skeets do not represent views of my employers ⵣ🏴 signal: cooperq.01
Tech Won’t Save Us @techwontsave.us A left-wing podcast for a better world and better tech. Hosted by @parismarx.com. Made in partnership with @thenation.com.
https://techwontsave.us/
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.
Rumman Chowdhury @ruchowdh.bsky.social www.rummanchowdhury.com
www.humane-intelligence.org
CEO & co-founder, Humane Intelligence
US Science Envoy for AI (Biden Administration)
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
Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social Technology + democracy.
Visit https://techpolicy.press
Join our newsletter: https://techpolicy.press/newsletter
Opinions do not reflect the views of Tech Policy Press. Reposts do not equal endorsements.
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
Safiya Umoja Noble, PhD @safiyanoble.bsky.social Living in Los Angeles. Native 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
Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social Director of Research, @dairinstitute.bsky.social
Book: thecon.ai
Pod+newsletter: https://dair-institute.org/maiht3k
https://alex-hanna.com
🇪🇬Ⲛⲓⲣⲉⲙⲛ̀ⲭⲏⲙⲓ
🏳️⚧️ she/هي
📸 @willtoft.bsky.social
Rep📘 @ianbonaparte.bsky.social
Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social Philosopher/AI Ethicist at Univ of Edinburgh, FRSE. Co-Director @technomoralfutures.bsky.social and BRAID @braiduk.bsky.social, author of Technology and the Virtues (2016) and The AI Mirror (2024). Views my own. Humble servant to Carol and Puffin. She/her.
Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social Author of RAVING, REVERSE COWGIRL and various other things.
https://linktr.ee/mckenziewark
Kyle Chayka @chaykak.bsky.social Staff Writer at The New Yorker, writing a weekly column on tech & culture. Author of Filterworld (2024) & The Longing for Less (2020). Newsletter fan. Email: kyle_chayka@newyorker.com. Ava is a sloth cake.
Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social Professor of Computational Cognitive Science | Dept. of Cognitive Science & Artificial Intelligence | @Iris@scholar.social on 🦣 | http://irisvanrooijcogsci.com | she/they 🏳️🌈
Jer Thorp @jerthorp.bsky.social Artist, writer, educator, birder & nudibranch enthusiast. Author of Living in Data (MCDxFSG).
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.
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)
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science 👁️ https://olivia.science
🍃 https://metatheory.space
associate professor of computational cognitive science · she/they · cypriot/kıbrıslı/κυπραία · σὺν Ἀθηνᾷ καὶ χεῖρα κίνει
Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social AI and cognitive science, Founder and CEO (Geometric Intelligence, acquired by Uber). 8 books including Guitar Zero, Rebooting AI and Taming Silicon Valley.
Newsletter (100k subscribers): garymarcus.substack.com
Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social Hopeful technologist.
Community tech, careful innovation, socially progressive tech policy.
https://www.careful.industries
https://hopeful.technology
https://buttondown.email/justenoughinternet
DMs don't work but hello@careful.industries will find me
Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social I’m not like the other Bayesians. I’m different.
Thinks about philosophy of science, AI ethics, machine learning, models, & metascience. postdoc @ Princeton.
dorian @doriantaylor.com make things. make sense.
• methodandstructure.com
• doriantaylor.com
• senseatlas.net
• intertwingler.net
• the.natureof.software
• mastodon.social/@doriantaylor
• youtube.com/@methodandstructure
• buttondown.email/dorian
温哥华🇨🇦多伦多
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
Dr Sasha Luccioni @sashamtl.bsky.social Climate & AI Lead @HuggingFace, TED speaker, WiML board member, TIME AI 100 (She/her/Dr/🦋)
Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social Political Economy of Media Theory; Director, RPTF, Library of Congress NRPB; Director, New Terrain at Sundance; Assoc Prof, University of Colorado
J. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social I work with communities on science for safer, fairer digital environments.
Founder: CAT Lab. Radcliffe Fellow, Harvard. Assoc Prof, Communication, Cornell · Guatemalan-American · Ultracyclist
🐘@natematias@social.coop
natematias.com
citizensandtech.org
AI Now Institute @ainowinstitute.bsky.social The AI Now Institute produces diagnosis and actionable policy research on artificial intelligence.
Find us at https://ainowinstitute.org/ 
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
Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net media studies professor | Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook (Anthology Editions, 2025) | dir. @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social | http://loriemerson.net | Boulder, Colorado | 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🏃♀️🚴♀️ | 📷 Jenna Maurice
Dave Parisi @daveparisi.bsky.social Researching histories & futures of touch tech/haptics
Prof @ NYU Tandon TCS/IDM https://shorturl.at/0Wwzc
Archaeologies of Touch https://tinyurl.com/4kcxxkfk
Edit @ ROMchip journal https://shorturl.at/sDFI1
Mostly reformed goth
Ben Grosser @bengrosser.bsky.social Artist/Researcher — Platform Culture and Interface Politics — Faculty Associate @ Berkman Klein Center, Harvard bengrosser.com
Marie Geist, Baby Guitar Hero @mariepgeist.bsky.social Full-time student of Japanese language; sometimes translator for hire. Dale Cooper's imaginary girlfriend; electronic music nerd. Land back. ACAB includes SWERFs and TERFs. Why TF was Link banned again?
AuDHD. She/her/彼女
Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social Digital Cultures and Arts | UZH & ZHdK | operative images, synthetic media and visual culture
@digitalculturesandarts.ch
https://digitalculturesandarts.ch/
https://linktr.ee/bildoperationen
Tech Transparency Project @ttp-updates.bsky.social The Tech Transparency Project is a research initiative of Campaign for Accountability that investigates the power, influence, & impact of Big Tech. https://www.techtransparencyproject.org
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.
Sam Lavigne @lav.io https://lav.io
EmilyTav @emilytav.bsky.social Policy + design + tech. Angry optimist.
Executive Director, Home Screen.
Co-Curator of an oral history of the origins of the U.S. Digital Service.
ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com anthropologist [no longer] yelling at engineers. feral.
signal -> @ali.01
Billy Perrigo @billyperrigo.bsky.social Tech correspondent at Time magazine. https://billyperrigo.com/about-me/
wells @wells.bsky.social critical (of) AI, critical race, queer/trans & AsAm studies, algorithmic justice at UMSI
all about abolition, transformative justice, free palestine. SSBM (link main), anime, and indie art/zine fan.
pan/bi enby 🇹🇼🇮🇩🏳️⚧️ she/her
Alexander Doria @dorialexander.bsky.social LLM for the commons.
Labor Tech Research Network @labortechresearchnetwork.org We are an interdisciplinary group of over 700 experts in labor, technology, anti-racism, feminism, and transnationalism.
Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social Canadian critical media studies scholar and podcaster interested in the meanings we make of perpetual tech promises. Bilingue. Focused on the environment. I typo a lot.
😷🏳️🌈
🎙️ thedatafix.net
📝 heliotropejournal.net
Ana Brandusescu @anabrandusescu.bsky.social Researcher, policy analyst, social scientist. PhD-ing on political power and privatization in the scale of AI governance.
she/her | Montreal | anabrandusescu.com
Tega Brain @tega.bsky.social Artist, enviro engineer & prof of Design & Media at New York University - https://tegabrain.com/ On now: https://pioneerworks.org/exhibitions/tega-sam-exhibition
Harald Klinke @harald-klinke.de
🙋 https://www.harald-klinke.de/
📔 https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-88130-5
#DigitalTransformation #DataScience #AI #Munich
Critical AI https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/issue @criticalai-journal.bsky.social Critical AI's new issue is out! https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/issue
Email us at criticalai@sas.rutgers.edu
Our website and blog: https://criticalai.org/
Barry Threw @barrythrew.com ◢👁️◣ Executive & Artistic Director @grayarea.org
Luke Stark @lukestark.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 just a simple country AI ethicist | Assistant Professor, Western University 🇨🇦 | Co-Director, @starlingcentre.bsky.social | he/his/him | | no all-male panels |#BLM | 🏳️⚧️ ally | views my own
https://starkcontrast.co/
https://starlingcentre.ca/
Alix Dunn @alixdunn.com I bloop about the politics of technology and host the Computer Says Maybe podcast: https://www.themaybe.org/podcast
Miguel Sicart @miguelsicart.bsky.social Play scholar, among other things
Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social Artist working on critical AI, power, and belief @ IcarusSalon.com & ArtificialLifeCoach.com
Gray Area | Tech Inquiry | OCEAN | Kidd Lab UC Berkeley
Loyal to the Land & the Brass Tax -- #Turkish #Kanaka
Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social https://danmcquillan.org/
Anna Mills @annamillsoer.bsky.social Writer, community college writing teacher, obsessed with AI in education, #OER advocate, author of HowArgumentsWork.org.
annarmills.com 
Anuradha Reddy @anu1905.bsky.social An oddball maker and designer putting my own spin on yarn, code, culture, and hardware. Researcher at Neo4j. Dr. She/Her.
www.anuradhareddy.com