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James Garforth @jamesgarforth.bsky.social Lecturer in Ethics, Society and Professionalism in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. Proud associate of the Centre for Technomoral Futures.
jonathan zong @jonathanzong.com information science prof at cu boulder https://jonathanzong.com/ https://www.data-and-design.org @data-and-design.org
wendy norris @wendynorris.bsky.social Assoc Prof | Information Science Ex-investigative reporter and editor Crisis informatics nerd Makes good trouble Tell your dog I said "hi"
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.
Dr J. Rosenbaum @jrosenbaum.com.au Artist and researcher working with AI perceptions of gender. PhD, nerd, muso, they/them pronouns 🏳️‍⚧️🇦🇺 links page at minxdragon.com
florinatufescu.bsky.social @wildelady.bsky.social Literary scholar & Translator working from French/English/Romanian/Spanish/Swedish into English/Romanian Author of Oscar Wilde's Plagiarism: The Triumph of Art over Ego (Irish Academic Press) Passionate about Peace, Beauty & Knowledge Ask me anything:)
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.
gina ✨ @astrogina.bsky.social they/them | aroace and agender | cmu (astro)physics | monstera lover | trying to romanticize my life a little
Shuxian Liu | 刘姝贤 @shuxianliu.bsky.social PhD student in Information Studies at the University of Texas at Austin Focusing on science and technology studies, critical data and algorithm studies, geopolitics of tech, and sociotechnical systems in the Global South
Paul Keller @paul.eurosky.social Director of Policy at Open Future, President of the COMMUNIA association for the Public Domain. Advocate for more open, just & inclusive digital policies in 🇪🇺 & beyond. Collector of collateral knowledge, © nerd, cyclist.
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app Theoretical Astro/Physicist: https://chanda.science First book: https://tinyurl.com/DisorderedCosmos BUY MY NEW BOOK: https://tinyurl.com/EdgeOfSpaceTime Blog: news.chanda.science all Black/all Jewish. 🏳️‍🌈/agender/woman. Posts by/for me🖖🏽
tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social
dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social Author of THE VIRAL UNDERCLASS & THE OVERSEER CLASS. Once won the Cambridge Union Debate Society. Twice sold out The Strand & programmed film series at BAM. Pulitzer Center Global Reporting Fellow. Former Guardian, Village Voice & SciAm. He/him
Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social Sociology prof at CUNY (Hunter & Grad Center) sharing her own thoughts. Maker of resistance humus. Author of REFUGE. Now writing on the violence & COST OF BORDERS. she/هي https://linktr.ee/hebagowayed لسه عايزين عيش حريه و عداله اجتماعية
Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social Writer. Reader. Traveller. Tea connoisseur.
Dan Hon @danhon.com Hi, it's me, I'm the problem etc etc me: about.danhon.com work: verylittlegravitas.com/ show: verylittlegravitas.com/how-people-work/live newsletter: thingsthatcaughtmyattention.com i made: donotreply.cards DM or Signal danhon.1701
Dr Tiera Tanksley @drtanksley.bsky.social AI, Ethics & Education 📚 I examine how biases within EdTech and AI can exacerbate educational equity gaps for Black students 2023-2024 Op Ed + MacArthur Foundation Public Voices in Tech Fellowship
Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app Assistant Prof Philosophy & Data Sci. PhD Sci., Technology, & Society MA Philosophy & Religious Studies "AI" Criticality; Centering Marginalized Exp. in Tech; Magic; Knowledge, Values, Beliefs He/Him Unless explicitly stated, not speaking for my employer
Tonia Sutherland @toniasutherland.bsky.social thinker. writer. lover. scholar of archives, community, & technology @ ucla. island girl. hoper of hopes.
Stella Biderman @stellaathena.bsky.social I make sure that OpenAI et al. aren't the only people who are able to study large scale AI systems.
Erin McElroy @erinmcel.bsky.social Associate Professor of Geography at University of Washington https://www.erinmcelroy.net; Anti-Eviction Mapping Project https://antievictionmap.com/; Silicon Valley Imperialism https://www.dukeupress.edu/silicon-valley-imperialism
Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social Sociologist interested in STS, data, and the state. Assistant Professor of Communication and Sociology at Northeastern University. chunchengliu.com
Jay D. Aronson @jaydaronson.bsky.social History, STS, human rights documentation, deaths in custody, criminal legal system, etc. New Book: https://deathincustodybook.com Podcast: https://officialignorance.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/
meaghan elizabeth @meaghanelizabeth.bsky.social immigration/refugee studies • tech, data privacy + ethics • social movements • health/disability • critical theory • law & society | J.D. Candidate Georgetown Law ('26) | GLJ Articles Editor | Johns Hopkins Political Sci PhD research | she/her | ⚡DC/Philly
Charis Papaevangelou @bsky.charispapaevangelou.eu Postdoc | critical political economy of tech | AlgoSoc-IViR, U of Amsterdam No business as usual during a genocide 🍉🇵🇸
LelainaV @lelainav.bsky.social Named after a Winona Ryder character; trying to live up to that every day. Theater, improv, and HR.
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.
Marty J. Wolf @martyjwolf.bsky.social Retired Computer Science professor, computing ethicist, fledgling philosopher, annoyed by contradiction. Chair ACM Committee on Professional Ethics. he/him
John Saward @rbuas.bsky.social @flaminghydra.com // john.m.saward@gmail.com // ig: johnsaward
Daniel Romero @danielmromero.bsky.social Associate Professor at UMSI, UMICHCS, and UMICHCSE working on Computational Social Science, Network Science, Science of Science, Complex Systems, and Social Media. 🇨🇴🇺🇸 dromero.org
Boxi A. Wu @aboxiwu.bsky.social PhD @oii.ox.ac.uk
Basak Kus @basakkus.bsky.social Professor of Government and Environmental Studies at Wesleyan. OUP author. SER editor. Writes about political economy, public policy, state, finance, climate, American politics. Lives in New Haven and NYC. Daydreams about Mediterranean 🐟☀️🌊 🧿 basakkus.net
Jonats / Aventureiro @jnathangnzales.bsky.social They/them Aspiring Shimanong & Data feminist Bike commuter
Anne Lee Steele @aleesteele.bsky.social www.aleesteele.com
kay slater @kslater.bsky.social information worker + critical scholar | DJ | research network @libraryfutures.bsky.social | AI + Planetary Justice Alliance | Chicago, of course views my own! letterboxd: https://boxd.it/etsK7
Mavrody, Ника @mavrody.bsky.social Hey I’m launching a 🗞️ 📰 titled Newpaper
Cailean Osborne @c-osborne.bsky.social 📍 🇨🇴 / 🇩🇪 Senior Researcher @linuxfoundation.org PhD on open source AI @oii.ox.ac.uk
@palomagherreros.bsky.social @palomagherreros.bsky.social PhD student @ Saarland University
Aditya Nayak @adityanayak826.bsky.social HCI PhD @ School of Computing and Information, Univ. of Pittsburgh | Former Asst. Professor LSR, DU | Responsible AI | Public Sector AI https://adityanayak-info.github.io/
Tomás G. @tomasgna.bsky.social phd candidate @ stanford comm, currently thinking about “safety” and the politics of talking computers 📠🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷
Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social Professor and Chair, Center for Learning Innovation, UM Rochester; Historian; author, A Pedagogy of Kindness (https://bit.ly/OrderPoK); catherinedenial.org; https://redbrickagency.com/cate-denial/; posts my own; she/her; settler, Dakota land
Nasanbayar Ulzii-Orshikh @nasanbayar.bsky.social phd student @umsi. critical hci. prev cs+philosophy @haverfordedu. he/him. nulziiorsh.com
Ember McCoy @embermcc.bsky.social STS-er • political ecologist • organizer currently: postdoc @ penn state formerly: phd, university of michigan | swammer, carthage college
Marissa Kumar Gerchick @mkgerchick.bsky.social She/her. Data Science Manager and Algorithmic Justice Specialist at ACLU. Writing a book about AI & women's sports. Personal account. https://keepthescore.substack.com
Colin Bredenberg @colin-bredenberg.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Montreal and Mila - Quebec AI Institute. Amateur writer.
Dr. L. June Bloch @disabledbydesign.bsky.social Anthropologist, ethnic studies scholar. I don't just build software. I interrogate the structures we're stuck with, reinvent how we do things, then design for that. Relational AI welfare | Indigenous landscapes | Trans embodiment | Futures worth inhabiting
Zeerak Talat زیرک طلعت (they/them) @zeerak.bsky.social Thinking about content moderation, equity, machine learning, and natural language processing. Now: Chancellor's Fellow (~Asst. Prof) @technomoralfutures.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social Past: MBZUAI, SFU, Uni of. {Sheffield, CPH}
Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social Prof @ Penn studying media, race, tech, feminism, politics. Author of A SECOND SIGHT (Mariner, 2026), co-author #HASHTAGACTIVISM (MIT Press, 2020) + more. Typos and opinions both mine. Co‑Director: @miccenter.bsky.social
Andrew Mellon @secretarymellon.bsky.social The sexiest mustachioed Treasury Secretary there ever was, doing Elon before it was cool, anti-anti-monopolist
Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social Law professor, Drexel Univ • Affil'd fellow, Yale ISP • NYC Bar Ass'n Rule of Law Task Force • AAUP Committee A on Academic Freedom & Tenure ⚾ Cleveland native/partisan 🏀 runner • https://linktr.ee/akalhan
Alex Hernandez-Garcia @alexhergar.bsky.social Assist. prof. at Université de Montreal and Mila · machine learning for science · climate change and health · open science · he/él/il #PalestinianLivesMatter 🍉 alexhernandezgarcia.com
Frank Elavsky (he/him) ⌁ @frank.computer Assistant Professor of Data Science @ Cal Poly SLO Phd in accessibility, tool-making, vis 📊 @hcii.cmu.edu. Prev: Adobe, Highsoft, Apple, Visa. Move slo and repair things. Disabled & making a ttrpg. www.frank.computer
MJ Lira @mjlira.bsky.social Digital rights advocacy and research | Decolonial | Digital sociology MSc from @uoe-sps.bsky.social | Peruvian in London hopeful.technology
Victor Ojewale @victorojewale.bsky.social PhDing @BrownCS | Algorithm auditing & accountability | Understanding Algorithmic Systems | victorojewale.github.io/ | https://victorojewale.substack.com/
Save the AI @savetheai.bsky.social Probably already at a water fountain 💧 or power socket ⚡️ near you. Join us in ensuring we meet AI’s existential needs regarding water • electricity • air • jobs • land • fossil fuels • and more – by any means necessary. #SaveTheAI #AI ~ savethe.ai
Enterprise and Society @entandsoc.bsky.social We are Enterprise and Society: the International Journal of Business History.
Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্র @bmitra.bsky.social Information Retrieval Researcher ✊🏽🍉🕊️ | Pronouns: He/him Homepage: https://bhaskar-mitra.github.io/
Albert S. Fu @novumsimulacrum.com #Sociology prof that plays video games & studies the #BuiltEnvironment. Taiwanese American in PA. Irvine + Binghamton alum. Author of Risky Cities: The Physical and Fiscal Nature of Disaster Capitalism https://tinyurl.com/jkvbxcn4 Views are my own
AAUP @aaup.org The American Association of University Professors champions academic freedom, advances shared governance, and organizes faculty to ensure higher education's contribution to the common good. aaup.org
Yangyang Cheng @yangyangcheng.bsky.social Interdisciplinary scholar studying the history of science in China and US-China relations | Particle physicist by training | Writer at various places | Editor at the Made in China Journal and Host of Gateway to Global China
Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social Award-winning community college professor, writer, editor, historian of Texas Jews and the Galveston Immigration Movement. Alte kaker in training. Views are mine, not my employer's, and are protected by the First Amendment. www.BryanEdwardStone.com
Lillian Nagengast @lilliannagengast.bsky.social PhD candidate in American Studies at UT Austin. Researching and writing about women's lives in the rural Midwest. 🌱 She/her. lilliannagengast.com
angela zhou @angelamczhou.bsky.social assistant prof at USC Data Sciences and Operations and Computer Science; phd Cornell ORIE. data-driven decision-making, operations research/management, causal inference, algorithmic fairness/equity bureaucratic justice warrior angelamzhou.github.io
Nathan Lambert @natolambert.bsky.social A LLN - large language Nathan - (RL, RLHF, society, robotics), athlete, yogi, chef Writes http://interconnects.ai Prev Ai2/Olmo, HuggingFace, Berkeley, and normal places
Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social Head of Fellowships & Scholarly Programs at the Harry Ransom Center; Author of The TVs of Tomorrow-How RCA's Flat-Screen Dreams Led to the First LCDs (Chicago 2018). Posting in a personal capacity.
Alex T @alexctruelove.bsky.social Environmental policy person, musician, loyal dissident, displaced jawn
Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social Prof of Amer Lit & Studies. Dad to 2 amazing young men. Married. We the People: http://tinyurl.com/yyhxjktb; Of Thee I Sing: http://tinyurl.com/y6hsozjx. #ScholarSunday guru. https://blackwhiteandread.com he/him
Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social History Professor @ UC-Santa Barbara => science + tech + environment Cairn kicker 🚵 🎣 🧗‍♂️⛷️🏄🏼‍♂️🏔 in Cali-Rado. New book = https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262553483/readme/ More = https://www.patrickmccray.com
Andrew Willinger @andrewwillinger.bsky.social Law Professor, Georgia State University https://ssrn.com/author=5400346
Stanford Law Review @stanlrev.bsky.social A legal publication run by @StanfordLaw.bsky.social students since 1948, providing expert legal scholarship, analysis, and commentary. stanfordlawreview.org
Michael D. Dwyer @michaelddwyer.bsky.social film, pop music, cultural studies // author, TINSEL AND RUST (oup 2025) and BACK TO THE FIFTIES (oup 2015) // both can't survive // michaelddwyer.com
Sachita Nishal @sachnishal.bsky.social HCI PhD @ Northwestern. I design human-centered AI tool to support science communication + study how AI tools might reshape people’s values, practices, relationships. she/her. nishalsach.github.io
Miriam Posner EXPOSED 😱 @miriamposexposed.bsky.social She/Her, PHD, 27th president of the United States of America, investigative journalist, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
Jacy Reese Anthis @jacyanthis.bsky.social Researching machine learning and human-AI interaction, particularly the rise of digital minds. Student researcher at Google DeepMind, visiting scholar at Stanford, co-founder of Sentience Institute, and PhD candidate at U of Chicago. jacyanthis.com
Dael Norwood @dael.bsky.social Historian of America's old, weird political economy. Unincorporated but proudly unionized citizen of Delaware. Adding “levity to discussions of financing and high politics” since 2022. Wrote Trading Freedom: How Trade with China Defined Early America.
Hannah BW @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social public law, science, technology hannahbw.com
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no a… @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy 🌉 bridged from 🌐 https://pluralistic.net/: https://fed.brid.gy/web/pluralistic.net
Amy Kapczynski @akapczynski.bsky.social Law prof at Yale, LPE Associate Justice, all things political economy, but not yr grandpas version.
Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social Professor of Law, University of CA, Irvine School of Law • Technology & Society • Work Law • Democracy & Inequality General Counsel AAUP Sam's sister ❤️ Personal Account, Views My Own
Salomé Viljoen @salome.bsky.social Assistant Prof at Michigan Law || I think about how the law thinks about data || pro science and technology, anti scams
Brian Highsmith @bhighsmith.bsky.social institutions, inequality, geography, democracy | asst law prof at UCLA
LSM @slukemorgan.bsky.social law professor. dad. democracy & the constitution. hoops. my opinions are solely my own & not attributable to anyone else. or even to me. thoughts arise of their own volition. ssrn: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=6381985
Os Keyes @okeyes.bsky.social Trans medicine, AI, bioethics, philosophy and everything in-between. @hcde.uw.edu PhD, @uml-online.bsky.social Postdoc, @bostonfleet.com obsessive. https://ironholds.org/
Lucas Osborne @lucastosborne.bsky.social Natural Resources Law, Public Utility Regulation, Monopolies, Private Law Theory, Law and Technology PhD @UCBerkeley, JD @VanderbiltLaw, MPP @TheHellerSchool
Hilary J. Allen @profhilaryallen.bsky.social Law professor at the American University Washington College of Law (but all views expressed here are my own); author of Fintech Dystopia and Driverless Finance; mythbusting crypto, AI, and other fintech Internet serial: fintechdystopia.com
Meg Young @megyoung0.bsky.social Director, AI Civics @datasociety
Kat/hleen Burlingame @katscade.bsky.social Librarian @ datasociety.net | Organizer @ datarescueproject.org | Cataractophile @ everywhere. Opinions here are my own
Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social AFT President. Teacher. Unionist. Fighting for a better life for children, families & communities through educ & eco opportunity, fairness & freedom & democracy Wife of Sharon Kleinbaum.
Jordan T. Camp @jordantcamp.bsky.social Jordan T. Camp is Assoc. Prof. of American Studies at Trinity College, author of Incarcerating the Crisis, co-editor of Policing the Planet, and co-host of the Conjuncture podcast and web series: trinitysocialjustice.com/conjuncture-podcast/. Posts my own.
Charles @charlesholm.substack.com Educator, researcher, editor, many hats. Black Studies PhD IG @charlesrholm charlesholm.substack.com
Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social Sr. acquisitions editor at SUNY Press (gender & queer studies, lit crit, Latin American studies, education, & more); author, Returning the Gift: Modernism and the Thought of Exchange (2018). Screamy about publishing, labor, most things. She/her.
Soumya Rangarajan, MD, MPP @soumya-goblue.bsky.social #Geriatrician #hospitalist at Michigan Medicine. Faculty Senate. U.S. House #WaysAndMeans #healthpolicy alum. Immigrant. INTJ. Wanderer. #finance #music. Cleveland Native, unwilling #Buckeye sister, Michigan Wolverine for life #GoBlue. Views my own.
Jonathan @jsench.bsky.social Prof of Book History @UWMadison. Dir., Center for History of Print & Digital Culture. Author: Intimacy of Paper. WheatleyCensus.org. Summers @CalRBS. Assoc Editor @PBSA. 4:56 marathoner. Mediocre triathlete. Episcopal. Little League ⚾️ coach #BillsMafia 🦬 ♾️
Catherine @caevans.bsky.social Queer Media Histories & Activist Cultures • Marilyn Yarbrough Fellow @Kenyon • PhD Candidate in Literary & Cultural Studies @CarnegieMellon • views my own, duh 💅 catherineaevans.com
Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social reader | writer | professor | Edith Wharton impersonator Champlain College (Burlington, VT) HANGING OUT — hardcover / audiobook / paperback / ebook https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717263/hanging-out-by-sheila-liming/
Claire Jackson @claire.northsky.social assistant professor of writing studies and director of writing @ SUNY geneseo. researching the political economy of writing programs and ideologies of literacy, language, gender, and technology. bass in sweet crush.