eric @ericd.site Writing and rhetoric prof, food cooker, dog haver.
Wrote a book called Responsible Pedagogy: https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-09343-7.html
Got a website too: http://ericd.site
LarsenOnFilm @larsenonfilm.bsky.social Josh Larsen. Talker at Filmspotting. Writer at LarsenOnFilm. Author of Movies Are Prayers and Fear Not! A Christian Appreciation of Horror Movies.
John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social TV, comics and film writer. LEVERAGE, JACKIE CHAN ADVENTURES, BLUE BEETLE, MARRY ME, a couple other things. Free newsletter of reviews, recommendations, and general oddities at https://buttondown.email/kungfumonkey
Keith Phipps @kphipps3000.bsky.social Movies, etc. for GQ, Vulture, Ringer and more. Co-host Next Picture Show. With @scotttobias.bsky.social I write The Reveal: http://thereveal.film. Author of AGE OF CAGE. He/Him
Talk About Satire @talkaboutsatire.bsky.social Home of Smith & Waugh Talk About Satire, the internet's No. 2 favourite ongoing monthly podcast involving the idea of satire (Feedspot, 2025).
Listen: https://t.co/Dwf8Yo79F3
Ira Allen @rhetlab.bsky.social Dr. Ira Allen's Rhetorical & Ethical Theory Lab at NAU: studying places where persuasion and the good intersect
Rob Nelson @ailogblog.bsky.social writes at 𝐀𝐈 𝐋𝐨𝐠 https://www.ailog.blog
teaches at Penn
speaks at technology and education conferences
Civics of Technology @civicsoftech.bsky.social The Civics of Technology (CoT) project aims to empower students and educators to critically inquire into the effects of technologies on their individual and collective lives. Find updates here or by subscribing to our newsletter at civicsoftechnology.org.
Anna Smith @anna-phd.bsky.social writing | tech & new media | learning theory | lead co-editor @lrtmp.bsky.social | 25-26 Provost Fellow | initiating member @EduNowLab.bsky.social | Past Exec B NCRLL | Past Chair AERA @writinglit.bsky.social
Eamon Costello @eam0.bsky.social (Post)Digital Learning. Critical Pedagogy. Post-AI futures. Creative methods. Speculative design. Pedagogies of kindness. Teacher education and fac dev.
Assoc Prof, Dublin City University - He/Him).
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eamoncostello
Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social Writing in the age of AI stuff
Newsletter: writinghacks.substack.com
Also curate theimportantwork.substack.com
Gavin Johnson @gavyj.bsky.social A PhD with limited spelling ability.
A guy who loves dogs (esp. long-haired dachshunds).
An account that isn't related to any university.
The Verge @theverge.com Covering life in the future
Subscribe here: https://www.theverge.com/subscribe
Katie (Kathryn) Conrad @kconrad.bsky.social Prof. of English at University of Kansas. Tech and culture. AI ethics. Critical AI literacy. Pandora’s Bot on Substack. Library of Babel Group. Zine publisher. #aiethics #criticalailiteracy
Joel Gladd @brehove.bsky.social Department Chair of Integrated Studies; Writing and Rhetoric, American Lit; Higher-Ed Pedagogy; OER advocate
Derek Bruff @derekbruff.bsky.social Educator, author, consultant. Associate director at the University of Virginia Center for Teaching Excellence. Co-author of The Norton Guide to AI-Aware Teaching. Host of the Intentional Teaching podcast. Birder.
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/
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/
Marc Watkins @marcwatkins.bsky.social Lecturer of Writing and Rhetoric, I founded the Mississippi AI Institute for Teachers, Assistant Director of Innovation at the University of Mississippi, coauthor of the Norton Guide to AI-Aware Teaching. marcwatkins.org, https://marcwatkins.substack.com/
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
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
Jelani Cobb @jelaniya.bsky.social your new neighbor from your old neighborhood. dean. writer. left-hander & occasional photographer. known to frequent the new yorker and columbia journalism school. 
Anna Mills @annamillsoer.bsky.social Writer, community college writing teacher, obsessed with AI in education, #OER advocate, author of HowArgumentsWork.org.
annarmills.com 
John Gallagher @johnrgallagher.bsky.social Using qualitative & machine learning methods to study writers/content creators. I study the interaction between writers & audiences. Professor @ University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
Ron Brooks @rooksbay.bsky.social writing and rhetoric associate professor (montclair state), mechanical humanist, gardener, pinball enthusiast, banjo player, husband, dad, master of none
@theofficialawac.bsky.social @theofficialawac.bsky.social Research. Education. Collaboration. AWAC's goal is to bring together professionals and students across disciplines to highlight the power of writing.
Jennifer Killam @jkillam.bsky.social Dedicated community college language & writing instructor | Doctoral candidate, Composition & Applied Linguistics
Dr. Whit Frazier Peterson @whitfrazier.bsky.social Writer; Lecturer at University of Stuttgart, Germany; PhD American Studies
Bronwyn Williams @bronwynwilliams.bsky.social Writing about literacy & identity, learning in times of disruption, climate change & sustainability education. Latest book: Literacies in Times of Disruption. Otherwise my heart is in playing music, hiking, movies, travel, and cooking.
Amanda Lenhart @amandalenhart.bsky.social Youth and technology researcher. Senior Fellow, Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop. Affiliate, Data & Society. Parent and step-parent to 4, six if you count the cats.
Alison Gopnik @alisongopnik.bsky.social Cognitive scientist, philosopher, and psychologist at Berkeley, author of The Scientist in the Crib, The Philosophical Baby and The Gardener and the Carpenter and grandmother of six.
Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social Subscribe to my tech and online culture newsletter UserMag.co
Listen/watch Power User podcast on all platforms!!
Support my work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/taylorlorenz
Dr. Jennifer Pfeifer @jenndsn.bsky.social dev soc neuro professor @uoregon • studying the changing bodies, brains, & social worlds of adolescents • National Scientific Council on Adolescence • she/her
Candice Odgers @candiceodgers.bsky.social Scientist, runner, Canadian still trying to figure out how to live in the US.
Psychology Prof at UCI, who sometimes writes about why we should trust science and avoid panic to really help our kids.
Lacy Hope @lacyhope.bsky.social Writer and perpetual student | TPC | Digital rhetoric | Digital humanities | Buffalo wings connoisseur
Christina LaVecchia @cee-el-vee.bsky.social Mama, spouse, teacher, researcher at University of Cincinnati. Raised by rhetoric and composition, adopted by healthcare.
Jonathan L. Bradshaw @jonathanbradshaw.bsky.social Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director, #TeamRhetoric
Patricia Dunn @patriciadunn1.bsky.social Writes about teaching & writing. Latest book: Drawing Conclusions: Using Visual Thinking to Understand Complex Concepts in the Classroom (TC Press, 2021) https://www.tcpress.com/drawing-conclusions-9780807764923
Liza Potts @lizapotts.bsky.social Professor at Michigan State. Studying digital culture, content moderation, user experience, community building, and disaster. Leader of WIDE Research. Curator of Sherlockian.net.
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.
Jessica DeSpain @jessicadespain.bsky.social English Professor At Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Co-director for the IRIS Center for Digital Humanities.
She-Her pronouns
Community-engaged pedagogy
Book History
Literature and sustainability
Veggie grower and hyper dog lover
Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house. Opinions are my own (but they are correct)
https://mattdpearce.substack.com
Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social Film critic at Slate; co-host of the Slate Culture Gabfest podcast; repped by the Cheney Agency; member NYFCC. Camera Man, my book on Buster Keaton, is out: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Camera-Man/Dana-Stevens/9781501134203
Pop Detective @popdetective.bsky.social Video essays focusing on the intersections of society, masculinity, politics, and entertainment. Hosted by Jonathan McIntosh
Filmscalpel @filmscalpel.bsky.social Audiovisual thoughts about audiovisual arts. Filmscalpel creates, collects and curates video essays at www.filmscalpel.com
Catherine Grant @filmstudiesff.bsky.social Sharing links, since 2008, to #OpenAccess film/AV media scholarship and online resources, and news/free events of note; Honorary Professor at Aarhus University; Senior Visiting Fellow at University of Reading; she/their. https://linktr.ee/filmstudiesff
Drew Morton @damorton.bsky.social Professor, videographic critic and co-editor of [in]Transition, author of Panel to the Screen, gamer, runner, bass player, wiener dog keeper.
Los Angeles/Texas
https://damorton.wordpress.com/
[in]Transition @intransition.bsky.social [in]Transition, the first peer-reviewed journal of videographic criticism. https://intransition.openlibhums.org/ 
Because Language (becauselangpod) @becauselanguage.com A show about linguistics, the science of language. Your hosts (in order of coolness): Hedvig Skirgård, Daniel Midgley, and Ben Ainslie (tie for 2nd). patreon.com/becauselangpod
Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk Researches Propaganda & IW; Visiting Prof @notredame.bsky.social; Fellow @ Bard; Associate @ Cambridge; Owner Maven of Persuasion; Snr Researcher Oscar-shortlisted The Great Hack on #CambridgeAnalytica. 🐕 https://emma-briant.co.uk signal: Emmalbriant.44
Brooke Erin Duffy @brookeerinduffy.bsky.social social media researcher and author
associate professor at Cornell University
platforms, power, and the creator economy
www.brookeduffy.com
Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social Film professor & Léontine enthusiast! Author of DEATH BY LAUGHTER: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema (Columbia UP, 2024) and co-curator of CINEMA'S FIRST NASTY WOMEN (Kino Lorber, 2022). https://cup.columbia.edu/book/death-by-laughter/9780231559812
Kliph Nesteroff @classicshowbiz.bsky.social I write books. You consider reading them. “Sorry, We’re Funny,” a History of Canadian Comedy, will be released October 19, 2026.
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/777133/sorry-were-funny-by-kliph-nesteroff/
Katherine Groo @katherinegroo.bsky.social Associate Prof of Film and Media Studies. Author of Bad Film Histories. Writing a book about reference. Views my own. Most get deleted.
Raquel Stecher @raquelstecher.bsky.social Film Historian and Critic. Writer for TCM. Quelle Movies, Out of the Past and #CineHistorians. Passionate about cinema.
www.raquelstecher.com
Jason Mittell @jmittell.bsky.social Media studies professor at Middlebury College; video essayist & author of videographic book on Breaking Bad; author of written books on TV, narrative theory, etc.; journal manager of @intransition.bsky.social . [he/him] https://linktr.ee/jmittell
Silent Beauties @silentbeauties.bsky.social Blogger. Silent films. Art heals. History is a tool to improve the future and our decision making in the present time. Trying to make a difference.
Social media links: https://linktr.ee/silentbeauties
Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social Author, filmmaker, book dealer. New York and Dallas. Bookstore: mzs.press. RogerEbert.com editor-at-large. Next book: Jack Nicholson: Leading Man
The Japanese Paper Film Project @kamifirumu.bsky.social The Japanese Paper Film Project preserves 1930s Japanese paper films (紙フィルム or "kami firumu") and promotes research into these rare movies.
kamifirumu.scholar.bucknell.edu
Mike Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social Author: Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions about What to Believe Online (University of Chicago Press).
Researcher, infolit/misinfo/rhetoric/civic reasoning. Currently researching AI as tool for critical thinking.
Kristin Kondrlik @kekondrlik.bsky.social Assoc Prof @WCUofPA. Health/tech writing teacher. 19th c medical rhetoric/writing scholar. Grown up Lisa Simpson, insufferable triathlete, horror buff, salsera.
Sarah Riddick @sarahriddick.bsky.social WPI Prof. Digital rhetorics and writing | digital media | digital cultures. #TeamRhetoric. sarahriddick.com/cv/
Colleen Derkatch @colleenderkatch.bsky.social Professor/grump. Rhetoric of health & medicine. Books: Why Wellness Sells (Johns Hopkins); Bounding Biomedicine (Chicago). Co-Editor, Johns Hopkins Health Humanities (book series)
Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social Into words, sentences, genres.
#writingstudies #teamrhetoric #cdnwrds #genai+writing
https://katjat.medium.com/
Will Oremus @willoremus.com Covering online speech, the information economy and AI weirdness at @theatlantic.com. Shitposting about Bluesky on Bluesky.
Signal: willoremus.24
Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life @citap.bsky.social We research the intersection of technology platforms and democratic society.
Our work produces insights that inform a digital future rooted in equality and justice.
https://linktr.ee/unc_citap
Zizi Papacharissi @zizip.bsky.social UIC Distinguished Professor of Communication + Poli Sci, Head of COMM@UIC Books: After Democracy; Affective Publics; A Private Sphere; A Networked Self series
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
David Bering-Porter @atg-dbp.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Culture & Media @ The New School.
Living at the crossroads of Media Theory, Black Horror / Zombie Movies, and AI / Digital Culture.
Jonathan Sterne @jonathansterne.bsky.social sound, disability, culture, technology, Prof at McGill University, multiinstrumentalist, lover of cats --
Montreal
https://sterneworks.org
Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social AI scholar, NYU professor. Author, MORE THAN A GLITCH: CONFRONTING RACE, GENDER, AND ABILITY BIAS IN TECH and ARTIFICIAL UNINTELLIGENCE: HOW COMPUTERS MISUNDERSTAND THE WORLD. meredithbroussard.com
Thot Leedurr @docdre.distributedblackness.net Ignore my late night posts.
Award winning author!
I study Black Twitter: goo.gl/Wc98bf
…and digital methods: goo.gl/0njUPf
Openly Black.
Still on The Bird App as *thot leedurr*
andrebrock.academia.edu
zeynep tufekci @zey.bsky.social It is said that there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all
Rest of World @restofworld.org We're a nonprofit publication covering global technology outside the West.
✉️ Sign up: https://restofworld.org/newsletters/global/
Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social Writing about platforms capitalisms, super apps, convenience stores in Japan and Asia. Director of The Platform Lab.Books: In/Convenience (http://bit.ly/3Vcs4m4); The Platform Economy; Anime's Media Mix.
Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social https://static.macmillan.com/static/holt/robin/
Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social Emmy-nominated TV writer and comedian. My new book “Good Game, No Rematch” is out April 1st. Newsletter: https://tinyurl.com/ytjvhjsb Email: mikedruckerisdead @ gmail .com
Mike Masnick @masnick.com Techdirt guy. Writes about social media, copyright, free speech, content moderation, civil liberties and stuff like that. Once wrote a paper that may have helped inspire this service & now I'm on its board: https://bit.ly/protocolnotplatform
The Onion @theonion.com America’s Finest News Source. A @globaltetrahedron.bsky.social subsidiary.
Get the paper delivered to your door: membership.theonion.com
Join The Onion Newsletter: https://theonion.com/newsletters/
The Baffler @thebaffler.com Political and cultural criticism. Since 1988. Online and in print. https://thebaffler.com/
Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social gallows humorist
Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social Blogger at Business Insider, covering tech, business, culture. knotopoulos@businessinsider.com
wint @dril.bsky.social Never Bullshit
I challenge any and every one who wants to kick my ass to a debate .
https://www.patreon.com/dril
https://www.instagram.com/dril
https://linktr.ee/drilreal
pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social The 76th most followed account on bluesky. I will NOT be updating this ranking when it’s no longer true
Ben Lee @bcgl.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ the University of Washington iSchool | formerly an Innovator in Residence @ Library of Congress | essays in WIRED, Gawker, The New Republic, Longreads, Current Affairs, etc.
🌐 www.bcglee.com
Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social Historian of communication flows currently at Universität Augsburg | Co-editor of JbKG https://t1p.de/JbKG | Team #skystorians | I have friends everywhere | And I do enjoy my work |
linktree: https://linktr.ee/danielbellingradt
Elizabeth Sacha Baroness Cohen @alixabeth.bsky.social Maxwell Professor of United States Citizenship at Boston University and Political Theory Editor at American Journal of Political Science. I write about immigration, citizenship, and the politics of time. https://www.bu.edu/polisci/profile/elizabeth-cohen/
Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social Feminist science professor at the University of Illinois. Labor organizer. Author of PERIOD. Out 8/26: PREGNANCY INTERRUPTED: The Science and Stories of How Pregnancies Really End. Settler, queer. 🍉
Pre-order here! http://bit.ly/4y4DMkB
Rachel Shelden @rachelshelden.bsky.social Historian of U.S. politics, law, & constitutionalism. Director, Richards Civil War Era Center at Penn State. Book out fall 2026: The Political Supreme Court: A Forgotten History. Preorder: https://a.co/d/05KfbAa4
rachelshelden.com
Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social Political Economy of Media Theory; Director, RPTF + Sound Fellow, Library of Congress NRPB; Associate Professor, University of Colorado
Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social Historian of the white power movement, gun violence, the apocalypse. Coloradan. kathleenbelew.com Book coming soon! Home, at the End of the World (Random House) Posts reflect my own views only.
Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social CUNY prof. Historian of, and advocate for, student organizing. @studentactivism from Twitter.
Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social Teaches US History at Willamette Univ. Working on a book about the long history of the US Right. https://rightlandia.ghost.io/
Amanda Wyatt! Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social Just+joyful, critical+creative tech+culture+craft ✨💻📚🏳️🌈 not fascist shit tho
🎨Letterpress, zine, #DHmakes
Pro-human bookish code/data
Experimental/DH/art futures
Dr! 🏳️⚧️They/Them 🎓🦮@ScholarsLab Director
🌈 3 ! in a hoodie ⚖️ Abolition
Art: WolfproofPress.com
Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social Historian of technology, occasional dad jokes.
www.marhicks.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
Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com Uses machine learning to study literary imagination, and vice-versa. Likely to share news about AI & computational social science / Sozialwissenschaft / 社会科学
Information Sciences and English, UIUC. Distant Horizons (Chicago, 2019). tedunderwood.com
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. 
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
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