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
The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social AI is not inevitable. We DAIR to imagine, build & use AI deliberately.
Website: http://dair-institute.org
Mastodon: @DAIR@dair-community.social
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dair-institute/
Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of EMPIRE OF AI: empireofai.com. ai reporter. national magazine award & american humanist media award winner. words in The Atlantic. formerly WSJ, MIT Tech Review, KSJ@MIT. email: http://karendhao.com/contact.
Tow-Knight Center for Journalism Futures @towknight.bsky.social Meeting the AI moment in journalism. A research center at the CUNY Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism. www.journalism.cuny.edu/tow-knight-center
Gina Chua @ginaskchua.bsky.social Executive Director of the Tow-Knight Center at CUNY and Executive Editor at Large at global news startup Semafor; formerly Reuters, SCMP and WSJ. TJA member. Exploring new forms of journalism and where the profession is heading.
Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social Journalist, currently at The New York Times. I cover privacy, technology, A.I., and the strange times we live in. Named after the Led Zeppelin song. Author of YOUR FACE BELONGS TO US. (Yes, in my head it will always be All Your Face Are Belong To Us)
The Coalition for Independent Technology Research @thecoalition.bsky.social Our mission is to advance, defend, and sustain the right to ethically study the impact of technology on society.
Jenna Burrell @jburrell.bsky.social Currently: visiting researcher, University of Tokyo, based in Yokohama (GMT+9)
Formerly: Professor at UC-Berkeley, Director of Research, Data & Society.
FT @fucktheory.bsky.social Here we go again. History is fractal.
linktree.com/fucktheory
www.patreon.com/fucktheory
Erin Gallagher @3r1ng.bsky.social Social media network analysis. Digital ethnography. Formerly: Technology & Social Change Project: https://shorensteincenter.org/programs/technology-social-change/ she/her
Medium blog: https://erin-gallagher.medium.com/
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists @thebulletin.org The best thinking on existential threats since 1945. Nuclear risk, climate change, and disruptive technologies. We set the #DoomsdayClock. thebulletin.org
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
Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com writer, editor, degenerate, Luddite, decel
thetechbubble.substack.com
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social Independent journalist covering tech, culture, and politics @spitfirenews.com. Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/kattenbarge
Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social Facebook Beef
Steve Rose @steverose7.bsky.social Assistant features editor for The Guardian. Writer on culture high and low, tech, film, TV, architecture, arts, race, environment, etc.
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/steverose
Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social Soon: Reporter @talkingpointsmemo.com. Author: To Catch A Fascist. Words in Guardian, Zeteo, MS NOW, The Nation. Formerly HuffPost. letsgomathias@protonmail.com. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/To-Catch-a-Fascist/Christopher-Mathias/9781668034767.
Mary Anne Franks @maryannefranks.bsky.social Law Professor at George Washington Law. President of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative. Author of Fearless Speech (2024) and The Cult of the Constitution (2019). First Amendment, civil rights, technology, criminal law, family law, firearms law.
Florence Chee @cheeflo.bsky.social Technocultural Ethicist | Associate Professor of Digital Communication @LoyolaChicago | Director of the Center for Digital Ethics and Policy @digethics and the Social and Interactive Media Lab @SIMLabChicago https://simlabchicago.com/?page_id=274
jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social 📗 public data cultures https://jonathangray.org/publicdatacultures
🌱 codirector @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social reader @kingsdh.bsky.social king's college london cofounder @publicdatalab.bsky.social
🫧 feminist STS, internet studies, poetic computation
Gideon Lichfield @glichfield.bsky.social Climber, biker, cocktailer, polyglot, vagabond. Ex EIC WIRED & MIT Technology Review, now writing about the future of democracy at https://futurepolis.substack.com. NYC/SF. He/him/Sir.
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 🇨🇦
Andrea Suozzo @andreasuozzo.com Data + news apps @propublica.org • Nonprofit Explorer • runner, squeaky fiddler, probably thinking about food • Green Mountain Transit 🚍 board member • 🧶🧵 • 📍Vermont
signal: asuozzo.05
Ian Linkletter @linkletter.org Emerging Technology & Open Education Librarian. My work focuses on protecting students from the harms of academic surveillance. I defend freedom of expression, access to information, algorithmic transparency, privacy, and fair dealing rights.
THE NERVE @thenerve.news NEW Fearless, independent journalism covering culture, politics and tech
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Jacquelyn Mason @jacquelynmason.bsky.social 
David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social Tech reporter at NBC News. Based in San Francisco. I write a lot about Elon Musk. Read my latest work here: https://www.nbcnews.com/author/david-ingram-ncpn890161
On Signal: davidingram.77
The Media and Democracy Project @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social Non-partisan civic advocacy group working to improve our media and defend our democracy 🇺🇸 #PressFreedom #BlockTheMerger
mediaanddemocracyproject.org
All our links: linktr.ee/FixMediaNow
Eric Holthaus @ericholthaus.com Meteorologist for REBUILD.US based in Minneapolis. Contributing climate journalist for The Guardian. Author of The Future Earth. Optimistic to a fault.
DM to contact me securely on Signal
Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social UVA's Library research center+community lab for practicing interdisciplinary+experimental scholarship around creative+critical tech—informed by digital humanities, spatial tech, SJ, & more
💜🏳️🌈 People > projects.
📚💻 Research blog & more at ScholarsLab.org!
Lilly Irani @gleemie.bsky.social Professor, Faculty Director UCSD Labor Center, author Chasing Innovation and Redacted, co-founder and supporter of Turkopticon, ex-Google worker. @local6741.bsky.social & @cucfa.org These are my personal opinions, not those of my employer.
Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social Journalist at Mother Jones and elsewhere, author, writer of social media posts on micro-blogging sites. Tips to Amerlan@motherjones.com or on Signal, username annamerlan.30
Tess Owen @tessowen.bsky.social Senior video correspondent for WSJ. Previous: words & reporting in New Yorker, NY Mag, Guardian, WIRED & VICE News etc. Send tips and say hi by email tess.owen@wsj.com, or signal tessowen.77
EPIC @epic.org The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) was established in 1994 to secure the fundamental right to privacy in the digital age.
Find us at epic.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
Gabrielle Lim @gabriellelim.bsky.social PhD Candidate, Political Science at the University of Toronto. Affiliated with the Citizen Lab. Mostly the politics of information, technology, and security in cyber and outer space.
More at gabriellelim.com 
American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social Empowering and advocating for libraries and library workers to ensure equitable access to information for all. 🌎’s largest library association.
Find us at https://ala.org.
We follow the ALA Code of Conduct: https://www.ala.org/user-guidelines
Mark Hurst @markhurst.bsky.social Reader, writer, speaker, host. Encouraging better tech, resisting Big Tech.
Host, Techtonic - https://techtonic.fm
Host, Gel conference - http://gelconference.com
Criticism - https://creativegood.com/blog
Newsletter - https://creativegood.com/newsletter
Uncloseted Media @unclosetedmedia.bsky.social Investigating hate and elevating everyday heroes. Nonpartisan & objective LGBTQ journalism. http://unclosetedmedia.com 📰👀🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇸.
Eileen Guo @eileenguo.bsky.social Tech features and investigations at @technologyreview.com | proud Los Angeles resident | send me tips (not PR pitches) on Signal: eileenguo.15 | português-español-中文 https://www.technologyreview.com/author/eileen-guo/
Peter Suber @petersuber.bsky.social Open research, metaresearch, higher ed, US politics.
True blue. Dad of daughters.
I post to Mastodon more than Bluesky. But see my bridge account for B versions of the M posts.
https://bsky.app/profile/petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
Helen Webley-Brown @helenwb.bsky.social Stanford Sociology PhD student. Recovering political scientist. Surveillance tech, local politics, policing, housing. https://helenwebleybrown.github.io/.
Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info Writer, professor, and artist exploring the internet.
Privacy @ACLU.org · Board @MuckRock.com · Teaching @PrattiSchool.bsky.social
rebeccawilliams.info · rebecca.411 on Signal
Britt Paris @hellobrittparis.bsky.social critical scholar of infrastructure & emergent technology | Rutgers AAUP AFT | views mine
New Book, Radical Infrastructure: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/radical-infrastructure/paper#reviews
Chair, AAUP cmte on AI: https://bit.ly/4lkuKu1
The Yes Men @theyesmen.bsky.social https://theyesmen.org/
https://linktr.ee/theyesmen
Alexandra Mateescu @cariatida.bsky.social RIP Social Media. Researcher @ Data & Society, living in Boston | labor, technology, care | tetrapyloctomy | Labor & Tech newsletter: http://bit.ly/2Fv5xfX | https://acmateescu.com/
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
Leanna Garfield @leannagarfield.bsky.social senior manager, social media safety program @glaad.bsky.social ✨ trust & safety researcher 🤳 previously Access Now
Check My Ads @checkmyads.org We're the independent digital advertising watchdog. We are building a transparent and fair digital advertising market.
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.
Alexander von Humboldt Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft @hiigberlin.bsky.social Digitalisierung und Gesellschaft durch interdisziplinäre Forschung verstehen // Exploring digitalisation and society through interdisciplinary research
www.hiig.de
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/ 
Craig Newmark @craignewmark.bsky.social #nerdpatient0
craigslist founder
https://craignewmarkphilanthropies.org/
ProPublica @propublica.org Investigative journalism in the public interest. Headlines and (sometimes literal) receipts.
propublica.org
Internet Archive @archive.org Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine. 
Library Futures @libraryfutures.bsky.social Research and advocacy for the future of libraries. A project of @NYUEngelberg.
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
GLAAD @glaad.bsky.social Accelerating acceptance for LGBTQ people. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
www.glaad.org/social
Matteo @ hacking and cracking @geminiimatt.bsky.social Hacker. Founder of , @cryptoharlem.bsky.social, counter-surveillance, safety, and security expert. Pushing back against inequality in all it's forms. Anti surveillance, trainer to all marginalized & oppressed people everywhere. (He/They)
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
Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org We are the Nieman Journalism Lab, part of the Nieman Foundation at Harvard. We're trying to figure out the future of news.
🔗 https://www.niemanlab.org/
Newmark J+ @newmarkjplus.bsky.social Empowering journalists at all career stages w/ executive, professional & entrepreneurial training programs & initiatives at the Newmark J-School 🚀
https://www.journalism.cuny.edu/j-plus/
The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social The Privacy Center at Georgetown Law
law.georgetown.edu/privacy-technology-center/
Sam Hinds @samanthahinds.bsky.social Artist. New Yorker. Senior Advisor, @criticalinternet.bsky.social. Advisory Board, @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social. Formers: BKC Harvard, Data & Society, Creative Time, International Center for Transitional Justice
Knight First Amendment Institute @knightcolumbia.org The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University defends the freedoms of speech & the press in the digital age through strategic litigation, research, policy advocacy, and public education.
https://knightcolumbia.org/
Boston University @bostonu.bsky.social A leading research institution in the heart of Boston. Follow us to hear about all things BU! 📧: social@bu.edu | Community Guidelines: http://spr.ly/6003HciLX
Rick Valenzuela @threatc.at threat detection. distant past: journalist.
🍜 Slurp with gusto
http://infosec.exchange/@rv
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that. 
Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social Senior Researcher, Critical Internet Studies Institute (@criticalinternet.bsky.social, criticalinternet.org). He/him. Views my own; shares, likes, etc. =\= endorsements.
Trying to devote my time to matters of concern to others or to no one in particular.
BostonJoan 🏳️🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social I am the founder of The Critical Internet Studies Institute and an Assistant Professor of Journalism and Emerging Media Studies at Boston University
www.criticalinternet.org