Sabina Leonelli @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social Prof in Philosophy and History of Science & Technology, Technical University of Munich | scientific director Ethical Data Initiative & Public Science Lab | http://opensciencestudies.eu | President ISHPSSB | loves almost all forms of life
polecopub @polecopub.bsky.social The bluesky account where academic publications are treated as social, political, technical and economic objects
#STS #Openscience #PoliticalEconomy
Blog: https://polecopub.hypotheses.org/
Matilda scientifc director: https://matilda.science/?l=en
Xaq Frohlich @comedoergosum.bsky.social Historian and STS scholar at Auburn University | xaqfrohlich.com. Author of From Label to Table: Regulating Food in America in the Information Age. Also works on critical AI literacy and AI ethics.
Isak Ladegaard @ladegaard.bsky.social Sociologist, criminologist, interested in org deviance & alt markets/platforms. I use comp & qual methods. Asst Prof @ UIUC ➡️ HKU. PGP: E1FC377D. Author of Open Secrecy (UCP 2025). https://isakladegaard.com/- C Charlotte Brives @charlottebrives.bsky.social Research director at CNRS. Anthropologist of sciences and medicine. Working on human/microbes relationships, human microbiota, antimicrobial resistance, and phages
Tijs Sikma @tijssikma.bsky.social Political Historian | PhD Radboud University: history of the Dutch public debate surrounding digitalisation | Researcher Rathenau Institute (parliamentary technology assessment institute): project about Planetary Health | Computational methods in history
Sven Opitz @svop.bsky.social Sociologist, focus on Biopolitics, Ecology, Health, Atmospheric Politics, and More-Than-Human Social Theory, Professor at Philipps-Universität Marburg
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)
Vincent Lagendijk @vincentlagendijk.bsky.social researcher Rathenau Institute, asst prof in history UM: dam(n) historian working on Europe, IOs, infrastructures, electricity, STS, radioactive waste, coffee geek
Juno Salazar Parreñas 🏳️🌈 @youknowjuno.bsky.social - Author of Decolonizing Extinction: the Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation
-General Anthropology Division President
- Associate Professor of Science & Technology Studies and Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies
Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social Writer I Speaker I Professor I Historian I Ctr. Dir. I Director, CBI for Computing Info. & Culture; Prof. HST/STS, U of MN
Co-Edit JHUP Computing & Culture bk srs. Research-Social Study of AI, Privacy/Sec., Labor, Race, Gender & Inequality. JUST CODE
Noah Tamarkin @noahtamarkin.bsky.social Author of: Genetic Afterlives: Black Jewish Indigeneity in South Africa
Current research:
Forensic genetics and carcerality
Trans Health
Assoc Prof Cornell Anthropology and STS
Research associate, WISER, South Africa
Nayeli Urquiza Haas @nayeliurquiza.bsky.social Lancaster Law School. Co-I of Wellcome Discovery Award "Between deception and dissent: regulating unproven, disproven, or misleading health-related claims". Interested in STS, sociolegal studies, medicines regulation, gender and vulnerability studies.
Paolo Parra Saiani @parrasaiani.bsky.social Full Prof. @UniGenova
Interested in social research history & methodology, social indicators, factual and political knowledge, fraud in science, circulation of knowledge.
Robert Seyfert @seyfert.bsky.social Professor of Sociology @uni-kiel.de Germany
Social Theory, Algorithmic Sociality, Affect Theory
https://www.seyfert.org
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9667-1970
https://mastodon.social/@RobertSeyfert
Leeds Centre for the History and Philosophy of Science @hpsleeds.bsky.social Established in 1957 at the University of Leeds. We are a group of researchers exploring the development and meanings of science, technology and medicine.
Sam Fellowes @samfellowes.bsky.social Philosophy of psychiatry, history of autism, psychiatric diagnoses, EBE research, self-diagnosis. samfellowes.com https://www.youtube.com/@sfhps
Suman Seth is Mortal & Measuring @alltoosuman.bsky.social Historian of Science and Medicine. Author of Mortality and Measurement: Race-Medicine, Statistics, and Empire (Cambridge, 2027); Difference and Disease: Race, Medicine, and the 18th Century British Empire (CUP, 2018); Crafting the Quantum (MIT, 2010).
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
Clay Davis @claydav.is PhD candidate in sociology and Mellon cluster fellow in science studies at Northwestern University. studies the tensions between expertise and democracy #sts #sociology claydav.is
Quinn Georgic @qgeorgic.bsky.social phd candidate @ Rice Anthropology
conservation | captivity | human/lemur relations | feminist STS | queer ecology
Jennifer Hessler @jenmhessler.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern California
Media History|Media Industries|Television|Audiences|Technology and Society
Views my own
E. Carolina Mayes @ecarolina.bsky.social Sociologist studying the emergence, translation, and implementation of genetic epidemiology @ University of Edinburgh
Research Fellow @ Epidemy Lab (ERC): epidemy.org
Cristina Moreno Lozano @crinamoreno.bsky.social Research Fellow @ Medicine Without Doctors project | CBSS, University of Edinburgh | STS scholar; researching hospitals, healthcare professions, collective healthcare, AMR & antibiotics, AI & digital health systems | https://cmorenolozano.wordpress.com/
STIS Edinburgh @stis-uoe.bsky.social Science, Technology, and Innovation Studies (STIS) at the University of Edinburgh.
https://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/science-technology-and-innovation-studies
Alona Bach @bachwards.bsky.social Archive haunter (where history of technology + Yiddish meet); theater-maker; rogue illustrator. Current postdoc @ Tenement Museum; PhD from MIT History/HASTS.
she/her | 📷: Der praktisher elektrotekhniker (1925)
Victor Toom @victortoom.bsky.social Trying to discipline a broad academic portfolio #climate #justice #adaptation #Caribbean #criticalmaterials #futuregenerations #forensics #genocide
https://scholar.google.nl/citations?user=ASCCKkIAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Jonathan Wald @jonathanwald.bsky.social Interdisciplinary scholar (STS, anthropology, philosophy) intersected in the ethical challenges of the climate crisis and engineering education.
Michela Massimi @michelamassimi.bsky.social Philosopher of science, University of Edinburgh.
More about me here https://www.michelamassimi.com/
Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social Ontario Research Chair in Science Policy
Obsessed with assets & assetization + into science & technology studies, political economy, economic sociology: https://keanbirch.net/
Emily Yates-Doerr @eyatesd.bsky.social anthropology professor (sts, food justice, nuclear history). author of Mal-Nutrition: Maternal Health Science and the Reproduction of Harm, UC Press. she/her
on sabbatical 2024-2025. 🌱🌱
Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social Professor @ Boston U, History & Philosophy of Science—esp Philosophy of Geosciences, Director Phi-Geo Research Group, Assoc @ Harvard U. Hist Sci, Radcliffe Fellow Alum. Settler, wife, & mother. 📸s my crappy phone.
Webpage: https://bokulich.org/
Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social Co-director: https://www.ucc.ie/en/future-humanities/radicalhumanitieslaboratory/
Nicole C. Nelson @nicolecnelson.bsky.social Science & Technology Studies | History of Sci/Tech/Med | Qualitative Metascience | Medical Humanities.
Associate Prof at UW Madison.
🇨🇦 living in the 🇺🇸 married to a 🇩🇪.
Jeremy Hunsinger @buridan.bsky.social academic, researcher of the internet, writer, traveler...
STS, Critical Internet Studies, Critical University Studies, Critical Data Studies, Critical Theory, Interpretive methods, etc. #AoIR ista and leftist like Will Rogers
Jessica Caporusso @jesscapo.bsky.social PhD Candidate, York University (Tkaranto) | plants, people, and energy in/of the Indian Ocean (île Maurice) | Practitioner of sensory anthropology, speculative fiction, and the Oxford comma
Brian Jacobson @bleudeciel.bsky.social The Cinema of Extractions (2025), Media Climates (2022), In the Studio (2020), Studios Before the System (2015)
Writing about Art, Media, Energy, Environment. Next book: oil, gas, and media culture in France+empire
Caltech Professor of Visual Culture
Chakad Ojani @chakadojani.bsky.social Anthropology of infrastructures, environmental anthropology, and STS | Stockholm University | http://chakadojani.com
Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social Researcher of AI @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
www.dangnguyen.digital
j m gabriel, a circus of faults and vices @jmgabriel.bsky.social #histmed, pharma, public health, drugs. Sometimes IP, bioethics, critical med ed, pedagogies of care. Gardening. N Florida. a small axe. also, a swear bear. personal account, obviously
Nathalie Van Raemdonck @nathalievanraemdonck.com Social media networks and social norms, freshly minted PhD from Brussels University (VUB). Belgian living in Barcelona, internet night crawler, STS
Brad Bolman @brad.bolman.com Historian @tulaneu.bsky.social
Lab Dog is out: www.labdogbook.com
Rotten Beauty is next: www.rottenbeauty.work
Website: brad.bolman.com
Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/bolman
~Views expressed may not reflect those of my employer~
Dr. Aunchalee (ดร. อัญชลี) @anthrolactology.bsky.social Medical anthropologist. Biocultural lactation, human rights, bioethics, global health equity. Climate & Reproductive Justice. Novice Thai herbalist. she/they. Personal account.
Burcu Baykurt @baykurt.bsky.social media studies, STS, cities, ethnography at UMass Amherst
bbaykurt@umass.edu | https://baykurt.org/ | https://itallhappenedbefore.substack.com/
Kate Teltscher @kateteltscher.bsky.social Cultural historian and writer. Author of Palace of Palms, a Times and New Statesman Book of the Year.
https://kateteltscher.com/
Rosamunde Van Brakel @rosamundevb.bsky.social assistant prof criminology VUB/replacement lecturer KULeuven - research: digital & green criminology, surveillance, AI, youth justice, human rights
https://researchportal.vub.be/en/persons/rosamunde-elise-van-brakel
Phila M. Msimang @msimang.bsky.social Philosopher of race, biology, and related social issues.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Phila-Msimang
Dr Lucy Rycroft-Smith @ljrycroftsmith.bsky.social Researching, mathing, designing, writing, queering, drawing, talking, comedying, teaching, board gaming. Homerton College, Cambridge. Currently researching and talking about #AI and #education.
Paul N. Edwards @avastmachine.bsky.social History and politics of climate science, climate change, knowledge infrastructures. Prof. Emeritus of Information and History, University of Michigan and Director Emeritus, Stanford University STS Program. Now expat based in Marseille, fleeing US fascism.
Maaike @maaikeverbruggen.bsky.social non-practicing intellectual on war & tech
NL/EN
Oliver Kaplan @oliverkaplan.bsky.social Prof @JosefKorbelSchool.bsky.social @UofDenver
📚Books:
RESISTING WAR (2017)
SPEAKING SCIENCE TO POWER (2024) Nonviolent action | Research + Policymaking Ethics | @KorbelAsylum ⛷️🚵♂️🖖
linktr.ee/oliverkaplan
André Sarli, Revolusarli @revolusarli.bsky.social Sociologist of STS, also a lawyer, and a comic strip artist. Father of two. Brazilian, living in Indonesia
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
Asif Siddiqi @historyasif.bsky.social New Yorker. Historian of Science and Technology. Space. Music. Soviet History. Comics
Marcus Mann @drmann.bsky.social Purdue University assistant professor of sociology. Science, knowledge, and politics.
Ernesto Castañeda @drernestocast.bsky.social Director, The Immigration Lab; & The Center for Latin American & Latino Studies; Full Professor, Sociology, American University, DC. Immigration and the politics of the possible. Author of multiple books & articles. Public scholar.
Richard A Carter @richardacarter.bsky.social Academic in Digital Culture, University of York, UK. Exploring digital art, literature, and storytelling; ecology, materiality, and the more-than-human. Glider pilot. https://richardacarter.com/ Note: DMs unavailable as in UK
SJ Zanolini (李思捷) @plantmaize.bsky.social historian of diet & medicine in early modern China (#FirstGen), companion to a really good dog named Barktholomew (號小聃)
all views my own (君子不器)
Mariel Garcia-Montes @marielgm.bsky.social 40% thinker, 60% doer. 100% altermundista. Sociotechnical researcher on data, privacy, and surveillance at MIT HASTS, Data + Feminism, Berkman Klein. I love creative uses of media and tech in the public interest. Cambridge, MA/Ciudad de México.
Lukas Engelmann @engelmal.bsky.social Chancellor's Fellow at Uni of Edinburgh (STIS & CBSS)
Author of 'Mapping AIDS' (CUP), co-author of 'Sulphuric Utopias' (MIT)
PI at the Epidemy Lab (ERC): http://epidemy.org
MC Forelle @mcforelle.bsky.social Teaching STS, union organizer, film buff. Researching repair, waste, and cars (the EVs, the AVs, the oldies).
- they | them - 🌈 🇻🇪
Jon Shaffer @jonshaffer.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology @UVM | STS | Med Soc | Social Movements | Previously Post-doc @BermanInstitute, Partners In Health
Personal Website: https://www.jonathanshaffer.net
Arne Maibaum @arnemaibaum.bsky.social Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology @TUBerlin / Sociology of technology / STS / HRI / he
https://linktr.ee/arnemaibaum
Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com Tired person, fighter. Labor, data, DH, obsolete software, database history, etc. Seeing Like a Supply Chain out Oct 2026: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300251449/seeing-like-a-supply-chain/. Speaking for myself, not my employer.
Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social We are 4S, an international, nonprofit association focused on the social studies of science, technology and medicine (#STS). Next Annual meeting October 7-10, 2026.
Tomás Criado @tscriado.bsky.social RyC Senior Research Fellow @uocuniversitat.bsky.social in Barcelona
anthropology · STS · embodied plurality · uncommoning urbanism · atmospheric care · ethnographic inventory · heat & shade · Department of Umbrology
tscriado.org · umbrology.org
Jaime Landinez @jlandinez.bsky.social anthropologist (phd stanford) of science & environment
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
Mara Dicenta @mdicenta.bsky.social animals, race & science | environmental knowledges | multispecies ethnography | feminist STS
Assistant Prof at William & Mary
Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social Quick! Somebody call an anthropologist! Assoc prof @ Northwestern. MedAnthro. African studies. Pop culture. Politics. She/her. book: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9780816692439/hiv-exceptionalism/
Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Seattle University. Author of The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research into Animal Life available from UC Press here:
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520342347/the-celluloid-specimen
David Ludwig @davidludwig.bsky.social Philosopher of science, mostly busy with transdisciplinary action research on environment/food/society. Assoc prof at Wageningen University, Netherlands. More here: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=LCzGlYMAAAAJ&hl=en
Joshua Earle, Ph.D. @cyborgapologist.bsky.social Ass Prof of STS @ UVA
Communications Director for Society for Philosophy and Technology
Phil Tech, Disability Studies, Med Hums, Bioethics, Hist of Eugenics, Transhumanism
I teach engineers what the stuff they build does to people.
Andreas Bischof @andreasbischof.bsky.social Sociologist with interest in Technology & Culture. Here for critical content on digital tech and data in people’s lifeworlds. Oh, and fun.
Website: https://andreasbischof.net
Current projects: https://mytuc.org/pwsh
Writings: https://mytuc.org/ppwn
Lars E.F. Johannessen @larsjohannessen.bsky.social Sociologist and Prof. in Knowledge, Expertise and Professions at Oslo Metropolitan University • Fellow at Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University • Digital culture • Qualitative methods • Theorizing • Microsociology • STS
Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social Sociologist interested in STS, data, and the state. Assistant Professor of Communication and Sociology at Northeastern University. chunchengliu.com
Angela Cassidy @angecass.bsky.social Undisciplined scholar. Researching science, society+policy; humans-animals-environments; #OneHealth #microbes #STS #HistSTM #scicomm.
Author, 'Vermin, Victims and Disease: British Debates over Badgers and Bovine TB'
Andrew Whitehouse @anthrobirder.bsky.social Anthropologist at the University of Aberdeen. Likes birds. A lot. Does stuff on environmental anthropology, landscape, conservation, human-bird relations, sound, perceptions of ecological change.
https://andrewjwhitehouse.wordpress.com/
Nick Bingham @nickbi.bsky.social Geographer at The Open University, UK
thinking materialities :: with :: care
(not necessarily in that order)
Justin Walsh @jstpwalsh.bsky.social Impossible archaeologist (space/Everest), space hab consultant, ancient Mediterranean, heritage | Prof at Chapman U | Fellow at USC | Explorers Club 50 | https://issarchaeology.org / http://brickmoonspace.com | He/him | Settler on unceded Tongva land (LA)
Dr. Diane Tober @dianetober.bsky.social Anthropologist, Professor, author, filmmaker, examining reproductive technologies and body commodification. Author of Eggonomics: The Global Market in Human Eggs and the Donors Who Supply Them.
Nikhil Anand @liquidperson2.bsky.social anthropologist researching water, cities, climate justice and infrastructure. www.nikhilanand.info
Heta Tarkkala @hetatarkkala.bsky.social PhD (STS). Studies non-quantifiable issues related to science, technology & society and data. Currently: (health) data & wastewater. Knits at conferences.
Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website anthropology, algorithms, attention | he/him | The conversation is characterized by Nick's use of language, but the content of the discussion remains unknown.
Anne Fausto-Sterling @birdlady.bsky.social Biologist, gender/sex expert, feminist. In the works: a book on gender identity. In retirement: lots of bird photography.
Substack: Sterlinga.substack.com
Mastodon: @faustosterling@mastodon.world
Website: annefaustosterling.com
Ros Malcolm @roslynmalcolm.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Social Anthropology (@DurhamU) thinking about bodies, minds, hormones, environments, more-than-human sociality.
She/her
Profile: scholar.google.com/citations?user=liDxrvsAAAAJ&hl=en
Lori Regattieri @followlori.bsky.social Advisor Green Screen Coalition • PhD Communications UFRJ (Brasil) • Former Senior Fellow AI @Mozilla • Climate Justice • Political economy of AI • Espírito Santo/Brasília, Brasil https://olink.ai/eco-midia
Dominichi Miranda de Sá @dominichi-sa.bsky.social Historian and Professor at Fiocruz - Brazil
History of sciences, environmental history, Anthropocene, climate change, Amazonia.
Diego Cerna Aragón @dc-a.bsky.social PhD candidate @ MIT | technoscience in Latin America; environmental history; cultural economy; media studies | mostly en español | usual disclaimers
Kaitlin Stack Whitney @kstackwhitney.bsky.social STS / enviro studies prof, on unceded Seneca lands. mostly thinking with insects and about ableism in biology. own views, etc. she/they
Tullio da Silva Maia (he/him) @tddsmaia.bsky.social Proudly brown, fat and queer. Amateur accordionist.
Post-doc at Animapolis, University of Amsterdam.
Interests include STS, Environmental Justice and anything animal/microbe-related.
Black Lives Matter, Free Palestine!
Opinions on my own.
Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social disability & the American family - design & the biology of everyday life - theory for the world to come - anthropologist, americanist, polemicist -(he/him)
Josef Barla @josefbarla.bsky.social Postdoc @ Goethe University Frankfurt | PI DFG Research training group „Fixing Futures: Technologies of anticipation in contemporary societies“ | Philosophy of technology, new materialisms, feminist epistemology & objectivity, sociology of the Antropocene
Centre for the Social Study of Microbes @cssmicrobes.bsky.social CSSM is a Wellcome Trust center based in the University of Helsinki that serves as a hub for social scientists and artists conducting research on human-microbial relations. socialmicrobes.org
Katharina Schramm @ksch.bsky.social anthropologist @UBT; postcolonial STS; race; memory; citizenship; https://anthropologyofglobalinequalities.com/
Simone Schleper 🟥 @moneschleper.bsky.social Environmental Historian, Science/Knowledge Scholar, tenured @maastrichtu.bsky.social 👩🏫
Regional Representative BeNeLux @eseh.bsky.social 🌍
Editor-in-Chief @jhokjournal.bsky.social 💻
Twin mom of three 🦸♀️
Jose A. Cañada @joseacanada.bsky.social Mallorquí a Finlàndia. Assistant Professor at University of Oulu. STS, microbes and aquatic environments at socialmicrobes.org. Quan el cos m'ho demana i hi ha energia, producció musical.
Liliana Gil @gilanthro.bsky.social Ethnographer of tech primarily in Brazil - skill, inequality, and creativity
Asst Prof Comparative Studies (STS) Ohio State University
Occasional host NBN Anthropology