critical slop studies @struthious.bsky.social Applied scientist working on LLM evaluation and publishing in AI ethics. Formerly: technical writing, philosophy. Urbanism nerd in my spare time. Opinions here my own. he/they 🏳️⚧️. https://boltzmann-brain.github.io/
Greg M. Epstein @gregmepstein.bsky.social Humanist/atheist chaplain at places. Opinions mine not Harvard's/MIT's. NYT Bestselling & award-winning 📚 Good Without God + Tech Agnostic. Reclaiming my last name from evil. Reforming the tech religion. Took '25 off social media, now ~back.
Dr. Desmond Upton Patton @dupatton.bsky.social 31st PIK University Professor at UPenn| SAFElab and PCIIT Founding Director| Studying Gun violence, AI Ethics, Youth and Mental Health, Grief, Social Media and Joy.
Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social Journalist @404Media.co
Signal: jason.404 // email: jason@404media.co
Sayash Kapoor @sayash.bsky.social CS PhD candidate at Princeton. I study the societal impact of AI.
Website: cs.princeton.edu/~sayashk
Book/Substack: aisnakeoil.com
Jeanette Hofmann @jeah.bsky.social Research on digitalisation with a focus on innovation, regulation and democracy, at WZB, HIIG, Weizenbaum Institute, Berlin. Teaching at Freie Universität
Kofi @kofiemeritus.bsky.social Research Interest: Responsible AI in Global South | RTs ≠ endorsement
Aymar (AJ) @thehost.theinvite.us professor @ Northwestern
affiliate @ Harvard Berkman Klein
jury @ Peabody Awards
co-founder @weareotv
BOOKS:
Reparative Media, MIT Press Fall 2025
Media Reparations, coming soon on Polity
The Cookout, out now ⬇️
http://linktr.ee/ajescoffery
Center for Democracy & Technology @cdt.org The Center for Democracy & Technology. Shaping technology policy and architecture, with a focus on equity and justice. @cdteu.org for our EU-based team.
https://cdt.org
Mark Graham @geoplace.bsky.social Prof at the Oxford Internet Institute
Director of @towardsfairwork.bsky.social
Publications: www.markgraham.space
Studies: Digital Economies, Digital Geographies, Economic Geography, Gig Economy, Data Work, AI Production Networks, Cities
Eat the rich
Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social Linguist, Cognitive Scientist, Occasional AI Researcher, Immigrant in NYC, Co-Author w/ Ingeborg Glimmer of 'Why We Fear AI' - out now: https://bookshop.org/a/114797/9781945335174
Craig Gent @vivaharehills.bsky.social Author of CYBERBOSS. Work at LSE. Part of StreamArtNetwork. Critical algorithm studies, livestreaming, solidarity, labour, hybrid media. Co-host Heart Reacts. Previously Novara Media. http://c-gent.net/
https://shop.novaramedia.com/products/cyberboss
Netopia.eu @netopia.bsky.social Web publication & idea forum based in Brussels, discussing the future of the internet from a broad perspective on society's digital evolution ➡ Web: https://netopia.eu | https://x.com/NetopiaEU | LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/company/netopia-eu/
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
Milagros Miceli @milamiceli.bsky.social Sociologist & Computer Scientist
PI: @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social
Research Lead @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social
Research Lead @dairinstitute.bsky.social
🌐 milamiceli.com- L Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social Researcher and teacher. Writing about race, gender and internet stuff since 1995. “The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet” out from U. Minn press. Lisanakamura.net for articles if you want.
Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social Professor, Santa Fe Institute. Research on AI, cognitive science, and complex systems.
Website: https://melaniemitchell.me
Substack: https://aiguide.substack.com/
Arvind Narayanan @randomwalker.bsky.social Princeton computer science prof. I write about the societal impact of AI, tech ethics, & social media platforms. https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/
BOOK: AI Snake Oil. https://www.aisnakeoil.com/
Chris Coleman @digitalcoleman.art Artist, Professor, Critical Arts Engineer, OS Advocate.
Director of ACCAD at OSU. Views expressed here do not represent OSU. (he/him/they)
Kate Wright @newsprof1.bsky.social Prof of Media and Communication at the University of Edinburgh. Based in Politics/IR. Researching #AI, #Journalism and #Public Service Media. Views own. She/Her
Caterina Moruzzi @caterinamoruzzi.bsky.social Chancellor’s Fellow in Design Informatics, University of Edinburgh | @BRAID research fellow | Human-AI creativity | responsible AI
Prof. Catherine Flick @liedra.net Professor of Ethics and Games Technology, University of Staffordshire UK - she/her
Vice chair ACM Committee on Professional Ethics, Co-EIC ACM Games
Content lead #EMFCamp
Ethics of games & emerging tech; AI & crypto critic
https://liedra.net 🩷💜💙
Morten Bay, Philosophiae Doctor. @mortenbay.bsky.social Media and tech scholar. Teaches at USC Annenberg. Writes stuff for normal people too. Stings in a tribute band. Author of six books, with the latest being 'Mediating Plureality: Technology, Perception, and Ethics in a Divided Democracy'.
Tyne Daile Sumner @tynedaile.bsky.social ARC DECRA Fellow: literary studies | digital humanities | surveillance | President, Australasian Association for Digital Humanities: https://aa-dh.org/ | current project: surveilit.com | everything else: tynedaile.com
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
network society @networksociety.bsky.social #networksociety is where online connections profoundly influence social, economic, and cultural aspects of life.
Murad Farzulla @farzulla.com Forthcoming PhD Maths Student | Researcher @ Dissensus | Current Interests: Emergent Misalignment, Adaptive Dynamics, Computational Modelling, Foundational Agent Theory
Lab: https://dissensus.ai
Me: https://farzulla.com
Author Dr.Kumar Sumit @drkumarsumit.bsky.social Dr Kumar Sumit is a physician, medical educator, healthcare author, and passionate advocate for simplifying complex medical knowledge for students, healthcare professionals, and the general public.
https://www.amazon.com/author/drkumarsumit
𝙲𝚛𝚊𝚒𝚐 𝚅𝚊𝚗 𝙿𝚎𝚕𝚝 @drcraigvanpelt.bsky.social Political Economy of AI | Dead Cognitive Labor | Critical AI Studies | Data Temporalities | #Cyberzombies | Sociologist | No DM | Follow does not = endorsement | Views are mine, not my employer |
https://craigvanpelt.org
Minnie Rahman @minnierahman.bsky.social CEO @praxisprojects.bsky.social. Chair @refugeestogether.bsky.social. Brummie. All views own (subject to personal growth and development).
Libretech | Systems @libretechsystems.bsky.social Personal AT Proto Website
https://dispatchmanifest.eshgham.one
Alden Sajor Marte-Wood @aldenmartewood.bsky.social Founder of record label, MCM-GRIME. Deforming platforms. Covered in moss. Always historicizing.
Chris Martin @chrismartin76.bsky.social Social psychologist with a chance of sociology. Lives in Atlanta, GA. From Pune, India.
Meredith Martin @mmvty.bsky.social poetry and data. prosody.princeton.edu & this cdh.princeton.edu
order here: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691254678/poetrys-data
editor here: https://c19datacollective.com/ & here: https://culturalanalytics.org/ @culturalanalytics.bsky
Canòdrom - Ateneu d'Innovació Digital i Democràtica @canodrombcn.bsky.social Espai municipal obert i comunitari especialitzat en 💻tecnologies obertes, 💬democràcia participativa i 👾cultura digital.
ℹ️ linktr.ee/CanodromBCN
Aadita Chaudhury @aadita.bsky.social Ecological materialist with animist characteristics. Researcher on multispecies worlds, folklore, arts, eco-technosocial imaginaries/futures. Co-travelling with poetry, sound, science, ceremony and embodied knowledges.
She/her
aadita.substack.com
Adam Harangozó @adamharangozo.bsky.social Wikimedian in Residence and Research Visibility Champion @lselibrary.bsky.social
Erik Bernath @erikbernath.bsky.social Author decoding AI before it decodes us. Minds We Create (2026) — safety, alignment, and governance for humans who still make the decisions.
📖 books2read.com/minds-we-create | erikbernath.com
mahsa alimardani @mahsaalimardani.bsky.social Technology and human rights. Associate Director of Technology Threats and Opportunities at @witnessorg.bsky.social | Doctoral Researcher @oii.ox.ac.uk
Fernando Varela @fernandovarela.bsky.social Periodista. Antes en El Correo, La Opinión, La Voz, El País y Público. Cofundador y redactor jefe de http://infoLibre.es. Comparto lo aprendido en la UC3M. Más aquí: https://fervabi.substack.com/
Christian Cruzado @christiancruzado.bsky.social Profesor universitario.
Desinformación, Tecnología, Democracia.
"La buena vida es aquella inspirada por el amor y guiada por el conocimiento" - Bertrand Russell.
Asbjørn Dyrendal @asbjorndyrendal.bsky.social Conspiracy beliefs, apocalypticism, extremism, new religious movements. Skeptical Norwegian. Professor, Religionswissenschaft.
Jose-Carlos Mariategui @tupacamauta.bsky.social Techno-cultural entrepreneur. Art-Science-Technology-Society curator and scholar.
Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe @caneurope.org Europe's leading NGO coalition fighting dangerous climate change!
Mike Moffo @mikemoffo.bsky.social Campaign strategist. 22 campaigns, 18 states, Obama ‘08/‘12. Writing about politics, AI, olympism, and faith. Edinburgh + DC. New here.
Erin Michaels @erin-michaels.bsky.social Associate Professor UNC-Wilmington
sociologist, race, education, immigration, neoliberalism, & the carceral state.
PhD CUNY GC
BOOK: https://nyupress.org/9781479823390/test-measure-punish/
Greg Narr @narr-greg14.bsky.social Sociologist
Book: Ghosts in the Dating App Machine: Virality, AI, Data Colonialism (2025)
eCitizen ⓌⒻⓅⒷ Ⓥ Ⓐ @ecitizen1.bsky.social Healthy WFPB Vegan. Child Advocate. Atheist. LGBTQI friendly. Pro-Democracy. #BlueResisters Anti-MAGA, Anti-Trump.
Retired software engineer, grandfather who likes to build & fix things. Loving relationship with a sweet woman. Lifelong learner. Prankster.
Dr. Whit Frazier Peterson @whitfrazier.bsky.social Writer; Lecturer at University of Stuttgart, Germany; PhD American Studies
Philipp Weitzel @philwei.bsky.social 💻 Doctoral Candidate & Lecturer w/ Andreas Reckwitz, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 💡 #practicetheory #AI #algorithms #affect #materialculture #temporality. 💬 Content My Own. 🌈 He/Him.
Woodrow Hartzog @hartzog.bsky.social Andrew R. Randall Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law. Author of "Privacy's Blueprint" (2018) and co-author of "Breached!" (2022). Posting mainly about privacy, tech and the law.
Luce Leonard @luceleonard.bsky.social I really love the teachings of the Dalai Lama and the great spiritual masters around him. They make me feel good.
Photo: The Dalai Lama
To my right is Yahne Le Toumelin, Matthieu Ricard’s mother.
Jan-Philipp Siebold @jsiebold.bsky.social Social Philosophy @ Freie Universität Berlin | Ethics & Critical Theories of AI @ Universität Osnabrück
Part of the research group: ectaiuos.bsky.social
Olivier Hoedeman @olivierhoedeman.bsky.social Corporate Europe Observatory @corporateeurope
- exposing the power of corporate lobbying in the EU.
Martim Brandão @martimbrandao.bsky.social Lecturer (Assistant Prof) at King's College London, UK.
Leading the Civic and Responsible AI Lab @civicandresponsibleai.com
Zane @zane-merrik.bsky.social Independent AI researcher & tools reviewer. Testing AI tools so you don't have to. Former ML engineer. benchthebots.ai
@rm-f.bsky.social @rm-f.bsky.social 
José Moreno @jose-moreno.bsky.social Research assistant at CIES Iscte-Iul, Lisbon, Portugal. Interested in all matters relating to digital media and online platforms.
Maximilian Mai Pieper @maxpieper.bsky.social sociology | technology | environment | postdoc @ uni augsburg
Eric Hayot @ehayot.bsky.social Teacher (Penn State), writer of books about China and the West, literary worlds, academic style, history of the humanities. New project on the end of aesthetic history.
Arsenal fan, occasional Cassandra.
Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social nerd, unionist, heist enthusiast
http://www.annakornbluh.com
Carolina Chávez @cchavezru.bsky.social Computational Social Science & Science of Science | PhD Student at CU Boulder
Dr Amy Gaeta @amygaeta.bsky.social Research Associate at Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at Cambridge. Thinking about drones, militarization, surveillance, AI ethics, gender, disability, & what it means to be human today
She/They
amygaeta.com
Ben Werdmuller @werd.io @jskstanford.bsky.social fellow at Stanford. Ex: @propublica.org, @19thnews.org, @medium.com, Matter, Elgg.
I write about tech / media / society at https://werd.io.
Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social Co-Director at Center for Digital Narrative, Univ of Bergen. Lead research project AI STORIES (ERC Advanced Grant). Australian and Norwegian. Blogging at jilltxt.net since 2000.
Bartosz Slosarski @slosarski.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Digital Sociology, University of Warsaw • Critical Data Studies | Environmental & Climate Sociology | Contentious Politics • He/him/his
Dr Kieran McCloskey @kpmccloskey.bsky.social Senior data scientist and project manager.
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
LSE Blogs @lseblogs.bsky.social The world's largest dedicated social sciences blogging platform hosted by The London School of Economics and Political Science.
Explore our website 🖥 https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/
Subscribe to our newsletter 📬 http://eepurl.com/iwXSu-/
Joshua Hurtado @joshuahh.bsky.social PhD, University of Helsinki. Studying environmental politics, specifically degrowth and the Pluriverse. As a Futures researcher, I also study futures of death and immortality. Views my own.
Jeff Tischauser @jtischauser.bsky.social I research the white power movement and far right media; member @splcunion.bsky.social; @uwsjmc.bsky.social PhD; tips at jtischauser@protonmail.com
Chicago-style always and forever
https://wisc.academia.edu/JeffTischauserPhD
Lasse Thomassen @lassethomassen.bsky.social Professor of Politics, School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary University of London; Deputy Director (Training and Cohort Development) LISS DTP
Nic (complimentary) @nicweyand.com • #1 Kyojuro Rengoku stan 🔥
• I have never misunderstood anything in my life.
• I have never told a joke. Everything I post is deadly serious.
• he/they • Somerville, MA • born 1993, making me younger than Taylor Swift (late 1980s, I think?)
Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social Into words, sentences, genres.
#writingstudies #teamrhetoric #cdnwrds #genai+writing
https://katjat.medium.com/
Jess Perriam @jessamyp.bsky.social Digital sociologist, cybernaut, Senior Lecturer (ANU Cybernetics), Associate Professor (ITU Technologies in Practice).
Researching public sector tech.
Recent writing: Digitalization in Practice: intersections, implications and interventions (DeGruyter)
Swati Mehta @swatimehta.bsky.social Researching numerical twists & digital turns in climate comms & activism. PhD candidate at Trent University; MA @cimethods.bsky.social, University of Warwick; BA Loreto College, Uni of Calcutta. Former Greenpeacer, journalist and digital comms professional
Anne Pasek @apasek.bsky.social STS, cultural studies, media, environment, climate, energy
Bikes, cats, synths, barbells, good recipes
p. sampson @psampson.net cs phd @ penn, nsf-grfp fellow, spelman alum.
💭 people, platforms, power.
they/she. 🧋 🍑 🧑🏾💻
https://psampson.net
paola verhaert @paolasinu.bsky.social digital rights / researcher / writer
📕 ‘technologie is politiek’
🌱 scherpsteller at deburen & hannah arendt institute
📍brussels
Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social "a Washington lawyer whose practice representing people about security clearances is part of an entire legal subspecialty made possible by the current system." - Politico
Jeehyun Jenny Lee @jeehyunjennylee.bsky.social Assistant professor @UIC Department of Communication. Researching and teaching digital culture, AI, creator culture and representation ✨
Peter Tarras @petertarras.bsky.social Postdoc @jacculturelmu.bsky.social | Blog: http://medisi.hypotheses.org | Arabic Bible | Manuscript Studies | Book History | Provenance | SciCom | #FirstGen
https://www.jewisharabiccultures.fak12.uni-muenchen.de/team/tarras-peter/
Andrew Wirzburger @awirz.bsky.social Communication PhD | Digital Culture, Platforms, Surveillance, Dissent, Democracy
https://andrewwirzburger.wordpress.com/
Clive McCarthy 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇪🇺 🇫🇷 🇫🇮 🇳🇴 🇩🇰 🇮🇸 🇸🇪 🇳🇱 🇪🇪 🇱🇹 🇱🇻 🇩🇪 @clivemccarthy.bsky.social Retired University Senior lecturer in Media studies, Code, Digital media, Data privacy, UAV UAS Drones, Geopolitics, Areas of Interests Military history, Postwar history Cyberwarfare, Disinformation, internet surveillance Love my wife & Archie the cat
Samer Hassan @samerp2p.bsky.social Activist, Researcher, Professor at @ucm.es Madrid, faculty associate at Berkman Klein Center at @Harvard.edu.
Lead EU ERC project P2P Models and others.
#commons #socialcomputing #web3 #decentralization
he/they 🍉
https://samer.hassan.name
Lisa Taylor @lisajt67.bsky.social Reader in Cultural Studies at Leeds Beckett University. Deindustrialisation, creative methods, class. New book: Threads of Labour: tapestry of an ex-industrial community (2025) MUP.
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.
The Consensus Project @consensusproject.bsky.social The Consensus Project bridges research and practice to help teams, organizations, and networks—across sectors—navigate the complexity of collaboration.
Miren Gutiérrez @mirengutierrez.bsky.social Exploring #fishing #gender #DataActivism #algorithms at @deusto
@ODI_Global author of Data activism & social change, PI at @AResistances
john stuart thrill @jsthrill.modphi.com butlerian jihad now
⚠️ this account makes jokes ⚠️
he/him • philosophy professor • learning to be useless
a lotta yall still dont get it ape holders can use multiple slurp juices on a single ape
Mesut Akçay @mesutakcay.bsky.social https://independent.academia.edu/AK%C3%87AYMESUT historian | phd |doctor in history | social sciences studies | #ideologies #kemalism #populism
@magdalenawojciesza.bsky.social @magdalenawojciesza.bsky.social 
Sebastian Parry-Jones Øyrehagen @seboyrehagen.bsky.social Founder of Kludder. Tech moves fast and the spin moves faster. I slow it down, every Thursday.
🇳🇴/🏴 - but I’d rather they were part of 🇪🇺
He/him.
Ms. Kathy Reid (she/her) @kathyreid.au #PhD researcher at #ANU Cybernetics, investigating bias in #speech and #voice #tech, with a focus on #data & #ML. Leads R&D at @mozdatacollective.bsky.social
Ex NVIDIA, Mycroft AI, @linuxaustralia.bsky.social, Deakin Uni.
https://linktr.ee/kathyreid
Lívia Vieira @liviasvieira.bsky.social Full professor at Federal University of Bahia. Digital Journalism, Ethics. Diego’s mommy ❤️
George B. Radics @georgeradics.bsky.social Sociologist/Law&Society Scholar. Interested in criminalization at the margins, focusing on race and sexuality. georgebradics.com
Stephen H. Jones @stphnhwrdjns.bsky.social Social scientist. Writes about religion and prejudice, society and politics. Teaches sociology and criminology. Rides bikes.
Nathan Drescher @handle.invalid Canada’s award-winning tech journalist. Breaking news, explaining trends, and putting our innovation on the map. Mobile Syrup, Ottawa Business Journal, The Logic, Digital Trends, and more.
Gabriel Pistelli Ferreira @gpistelli.bsky.social Sociologia (UFPR) | Corinthians | CWB-BSB | Conta pessoal
Chris Kamrath @chriskamrath.bsky.social Teaching writing/rhetoric at PWR. I study political discourse, self-fashioning, distraction, public culture, and media history.