Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social Mathematician at UCLA. My primary social media account is https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao . I also have a blog at https://terrytao.wordpress.com/ and a home page at https://www.math.ucla.edu/~tao/- Y Yung @yungau.bsky.social Research Fellow @ Geography, University of Oxford
Abolition/coloniality/mapping supply chain of surveillance/surv tech legislation
twitter.com/a_yung_
mastodon: @yung.scholar.social
Raphaël Guintoli @raphaelguintoli.fr Digital - Media - Adtech
Interested in digital / ad tech
Alumni of LinkedIn (MSFT), Accenture
Newsletter Raphaelguintoli.fr
X.com/raphaelguintoli
LinkedIn.com/in/raphaelguintoli
https://github.com/RaphaelGuintoli
contact@raphaelguintoli.fr
Olivier Driessens @odriessens.bsky.social Media Sociologist; Associate Prof in Media and Communication, Centre for Tracking and Society, University of Copenhagen
Media, tech & social change, continuity, digital futures, sustainability
Sophia Knight @sophiaaknight.bsky.social DPhil (/PhD) Researcher @oxsocmedobs.bsky.social working on podcasts, political communication & computational social science
Former Research Lead for Responsible Innovation Centre, BBC R&D and Senior Tech Policy Researcher, Demos
nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social Editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of Decoder, cohost of The Vergecast. I am in love with spectacle.
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.
Transcultural Digital Intimacy Research Network @transdi.bsky.social Transcultural Digital Intimacy Research Network (TransDI), Chair: Dr Liang Ge (Univ of Manchester) @liangge11.bsky.social
Jonathan H. Young @philocyon.bsky.social DPhil candidate (@ox.ac.uk)
Early Christianity, Ancient Philosophy (Middle/Neoplatonism), Post-Hellenistic Literature, Reception of Texts in Antiquity
Beltsazar Krisetya @krisetya.com PhD student at UCL and a Dunning-Kruger thrill rider.
Moritz Schramm @schrammmo.bsky.social Digital Corporations & Infrastructures, Socio-Legal Studies |
Governance by Emulation: Oversight Board, DSA, Platform Accountability (forthcoming CUP 2026) |
Researching & Teaching @nyulaw.bsky.social |
Advisory Board @verfassungsblog.de
Esteban Morales @estebanmorales.bsky.social Assistant professor @rug.nl
Latinoamericano studying digital culture, platformized violence, and critical data studies.
Website: https://esteban-morales.com/
Heidi Tworek @heiditworek.bsky.social Prof @ UBC. Canada Research Chair in history and policy of communications. Director @ubcdemocracy.bsky.social Co-editor of Journal of Global History. Senior fellow @ Centre for International Governance Innovation
martin johannes riedl @martinriedl.bsky.social researching & teaching communication and media | topics: political influencers, platform governance, content moderation, chat and messaging apps, journalism | he/him | 🇪🇺 alien | www.martinriedl.com | opinions: own
sohyeon hwang @s0hw.bsky.social postdoc @princetoncitp.bsky.social
i study and support community-based models of governing technologies.
https://www.sohyeonhwang.com/
Mathilde Sanders @mathildes.bsky.social Researcher | Decentralized platform governance | Media ownership | Public social media
Pawel Popiel @ppopiel.bsky.social Media policy + platforms + political economy | Assistant Prof @ Murrow College of Communication, Washington State University | US Team Research Lead - GMICP.org | Affiliate @ MIC Center, UPenn and CITAP, UNC | Philly expat | pawelpopiel.com
@simranagarwal.bsky.social @simranagarwal.bsky.social
Bluesky Safety @safety.bsky.app Sharing updates about trust and safety on Bluesky.
This account’s mentions are not actively monitored. To report a post or account, use the in-app reporting feature.
Community Guidelines: https://bsky.social/about/support/community-guidelines
Karen Levy @karenlevy.bsky.social Law/tech, surveillance, work, truckers. Faculty Cornell Information Science, Cornell Law / Fellow @NewAmerica / Data Driven: http://tinyurl.com/57v559mv / www.karen-levy.net
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
Sydney L Forde @sydneyforde.bsky.social Postdoc @asc.upenn.edu @miccenter.bsky.social
PhD from @bellisariograded.bsky.social | SSHRC doctoral fellow | @ifsfrankfurt.bsky.social fellow | Political Economy of Comm | Critical Theory | Media Policy | 🇨🇦
https://www.sydneyforde.com/
Tomás G. @tomasgna.bsky.social phd candidate @ stanford comm, currently thinking about “safety” and the politics of talking computers 📠🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷
Aaron Rodericks @aaron.bsky.team Canadian wanderer in Ireland. Trying to make the internet a better place. Bluesky Head of Trust and Safety.
File a report in the app or via moderation@blueskyweb.xyz - not via mentions/replies.
https://aaronrodericks.com
Matthew Erie @matthewserie.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. of Law, American U. Washington College of Law; Assoc. Member, Oxford Law; lawyer & anthropologist; writes on non-liberal law, international development, transnational business, property, justice; https://www.matthewserie.com/ Views are my own.
Andreu Casas @andreucasas.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Communication and Computational Social Sciences at Royal Holloway University of London. Director of the London Social Media Observatory. UKRI Future Leader Fellow.
Oxford Social Media Observatory @oxsocmedobs.bsky.social We use computational methods + big data to investigate the role of social platforms + technology in politics, in partnership with key stakeholders + policymakers. Hosted @politicsoxford.bsky.social + @oii.ox.ac.uk.
ACM FAccT @facct.bsky.social ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT). June 2026 in Montreal, Canada 🇨🇦 #FAccT2026
https://facctconference.org/
Online Safety Network @osnetwork.bsky.social Building a better online world for all
Visit our website for all the latest analysis, commentary, research and resources relating to online safety, OSA enforcement, AI and emerging harms: www.onlinesafetynetwork.uk
kevin zheng 🍯 @ze.vin phd student in information @umich.edu • political economy of social platforms • computational social science, sts, hci • @geo3550.bsky.social @idpiumass.bsky.social @mediacloud.bsky.social
ze.vin • he/they • prev umass amherst, cfpb
Ryan McGrady @antisomniac.bsky.social Internet, YouTube, Wikipedia, TikTok, NYC, birds...
Sr Research Fellow @ UMass Amherst/IDPI/Media Cloud.
Best known as "some scholar who said something" from Hard Fork
rhododendrites.com
Rhododendrites @ Wikipedia/Instagram
Antisomniac @ Mastodon.social
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.
Patrick Gildersleve @gildersleve.uk Lecturer (Asst Prof) in Communications and AI at the University of Exeter
Prev. LSE Methodology, PhD Oxford Internet Institute
Wikipedia, News, Attention
he/him
🔗🌳 linktr.ee/gildersleve
🌐 https://gildersleve.uk
Jillian C. York @jillian.bsky.social Author of Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism (Verso 2021).
Work @eff.org, teach at College of Europe Natolin, sing and play 🎷 in a band, live in London, full bio at https://jilliancyork.com/about
Views are mine alone.
Timo Zandstra @timozandstra.bsky.social @eui-law.bsky.social
Ozan Kuru @ozankuru.bsky.social Asst Prof, National University of Singapore
Bio: https://discovery.nus.edu.sg/18898-ozan-kuru
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=T6KRMogAAAAJ&hl=en
Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ozan-Kuru
Mimi (Xiaoyi) Chen @mimixiaoyichen.bsky.social MSc Candidate in Social Data Science @ Oxford Internet Institute
Technik, Macht und Herrschaft @digipolicy.bsky.social Research group “Technology, Power, and Domination” @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social @wzb.bsky.social
https://www.weizenbaum-institut.de/en/research/digital-infrastructures-in-democracy/technology-power-and-domination/
Robyn Caplan @robyncaplan.bsky.social Assistant professor at Duke University. Tech policy, platform governance, mom.
I make bad jokes sometimes.
Naomi Appelman @naomiappelman.bsky.social Research | Public speaking | Advocacy | Activism
Specialized in law and theory of tech; social movements & resistance to AI and platform power
Postdoc UCD Centre for Digital Policy
https://naomiappelman.net/
https://racismandtechnology.center
Amélie Heldt @ameliehldt.bsky.social Private Account / law and tech 🎏
Digital policy at Bundeskanzleramt/ formerly academia at HBI, HIIG, Yale ISP, JWI, PlatGov, JuWiss.
Samantha Bradshaw @sbradshaw.bsky.social Assistant Professor, American University | Studying disinfo, cybersecurity, and emerging technology 👩💻
James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social I’m a professor at Cornell Tech and Cornell Law School.
One of "a number of very informative people." -WSJ
Anastasia Kozyreva @anaskozyreva.bsky.social Research Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Luzhou Nina Li @niiina6.bsky.social
Lion Wedel @lionw.bsky.social Researching @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social | Computational Social Science | cu @ICA25 & IC2S2
Richard Fletcher @richardfletcher.bsky.social Director of Research + Deputy Director of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford. Fellow of Green Templeton College. Lead researcher of the Digital News Report. www.richardfletcher.me
Prateek Waghre @prateekwaghre.com Sometimes ambivalent/ignorant|
Digital Rights/Public Policy Researcher (technology)|
past: Exec. Director @internetfreedom.bsky.social, Research: Takshashila Institution, Prod. Mgr.: Akamai Technologies|
✍️: prateekwaghre.com, techpolicy.substack.com
Blake Hallinan @blakeplease.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Platform Studies at Aarhus University
Mon Rodriguez-Amat @monrodriguez.bsky.social Videogames.
Researcher, Analyst.
Governance, Policy, and Industry.
European Audiovisual Observatory.
Council of Europe.
My posts, my opinion.
Academia. PhD.
Communication- Space-Time-Tech, Culture. Politics & Follies.
Resistance against Empires.
Zhijing Jin @zhijingjin.bsky.social Assi. Prof @UofTCompSci. Postdoc @MPI_IS w/ @bschoelkopf. Research on (1) @CausalNLP and (2) NLP4SocialGood @NLP4SG. Mentor & mentee @ACLMentorship.
Brad McNeil @bradmcneil.bsky.social PhD candidate in Comm, New Media and cultural studies at McMaster University. Studying content moderation and digital platform governance
Debora Nozza @deboranozza.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Bocconi University in MilaNLP group • Working in #NLP, #CSS and #Ethics • She/her • #ERCStG PERSONAE
Dr. Jo @jorivercar.bsky.social XR researcher | University of Oxford & KCL 🥐
Xinzhi Zhang, PhD @xzzhang2.bsky.social Associate Professor @City University of Hong Kong | digital journalism, political communication, tech governance, computational social science | EB @ HCR, JMCQ, Digital Journalism | drxinzhizhang.com
Mia Nahrgang @mianahrgang.bsky.social PhD Candidate in Political Science at the University of Konstanz researching Content Moderation.
🔗 https://mianahrgang.github.io
Fernando van der Vlist @fvandervlist.bsky.social Media Studies @uvahumanities.bsky.social · 📚 Author, Platforms (Polity) · 📦 NWO Veni: ‘AI Power’ · 🔍 platforms, apps, data, AI, digital methods · 👥 @appstudies.bsky.social, @digitalmethods.net, @publicdatalab.bsky.social · 🔗 fernandovandervlist.nl
Kolina Koltai @koltai.bsky.social Senior investigator & Trainer @Bellingcat.com
Investigating explicit non-consensual deepfakes/AI and disinfo w/OSINT
"I am a doctor, but not that kind of doctor."
Blue Miaoran Dong @bluemiaoran.bsky.social Contract Instructor for Global Internet Policy and Governance; Data management @ https://gmicp.org/; RA for Ghost Management
📚PEC | STS | platform economy | public policy | telecom history | ghost management | Online News Act, ICA Law &Policy,PhD candidate
nicola rushton 🌞 @nicolarushton.bsky.social #UX designer since forever. Into AI ethics, tech policy, futurism.
Leading design at a travel startup.
📍Amsterdam (ex: Sydney)
ICA Communication Law and Policy Division @ica-clp.bsky.social Official account of the Communication Law and Policy Division of the International Communication Association.
Josephine Harmon @josephineharmon.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Political Science • Previously Fellow, Queen Mary Uni of London, Visiting Lecturer @British Library @Eccles Institute, Fellow, Yale University 2018 • Prev work in Parliament, Remain, Lab • Commentary Bloomberg, BBC News • FRSA
Rebecca Scharlach @rscarlets.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher PGMT Lab @Uni Bremen | prev. DigitalValues project | Critical Platform Studies | European/German/feminist | first gen | she/her
Francesco Barbieri @fvancesco.bsky.social GenAI @Meta
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=B10uzI4AAAAJ&hl=en
Juliette Zaccour @biksil.bsky.social PhD student at the Oxford Internet Institute, researching data access solutions for public interest researchers.
data access · AI auditing, fairness and accountability · human-centered data science
logan koepke @jlkoepke.bsky.social senior project director @upturn.org. research and advocacy on the material harms of AI systems, with a specific focus on civil rights. personal views.
we have it in our power to begin the world over again.
www.jlkoepke.com
Overreactology @overreactology.bsky.social A “made-in-China” podcast about everyday IR for and by young people | making IR accessible and actionable. 📻Apple, Spotify, 小宇宙|Script: Matters [EN] & WeChat [CN] 🎙️co-host @alinayutinghe.bsky.social
Yuting Alina He @alinayutinghe.bsky.social PhD student in emerging tech and global security at USyd | MPhil POLIS (cantab) | critical and unorthodox IR, tech, gender and China/EA.
Sakshi Ghai @sakshighai.bsky.social Assistant Professor at London School of Economics @lsepbs.bsky.social
Hoping to diversify behavioral science. Interested in sample diversity, young populations & digital technology
Mathias Vermeulen @mathver.bsky.social EU law and tech policy, mostly musings on content moderation, platform governance, privacy, AI. Now: Co-Founder & Director @awo.agency. Fellow at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Then: EU Parliament. UN. Mozilla. PhD in EU law.
Clara Iglesias Keller @claraigk.bsky.social Researcher. Reader. Mom. 🇧🇷🇩🇪
Legal scholar into many things democracy, media and digital technologies. Leading the research group "Technology, Power and Domination" at the Weizenbaum Institute | WZB .
claraigk.com
@digipolicy.bsky.social
Internet Policy Review @policyr.bsky.social Journal for internet studies. Interdisciplinary & open access. Published by @hiigberlin.bsky.social & @cais-research.bsky.social in cooperation with @create-glasgow.bsky.social @cis-cnrs.bsky.social IN3 @uocuniversitat.bsky.social & Skytte Institute UT
Natalie Alkiviadou @nataliealkiviadou.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow, Future of Free Speech at Vanderbilt University
Researches & writes on free speech, hate speech, the far-right, online platforms
https://nalkiviadou.com/
Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org Straight-shooting information and analysis at the intersection of national security, law, and policy.
Support Lawfare at https://www.lawfaremedia.org/support
Rebecca Adler-Nissen @adler-nissen.bsky.social I’m a Professor of International Relations at the University of Copenhagen. Diplomacy, Digital Technologies, Global Tech Policy, Geopolitics, European Union, International Political Sociology and Social Practice
David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social californian. human rights, free expression, tech, international law. uc irvine. fulbright. article 19. prior: UN special rapporteur, GNI chair.
edu coalition (dm for details)
go bears!
Amanda Curtis @digitalmatcha.bsky.social researching knowledge, creativity, & gaming at OII Oxford & UTokyo 🎮 / JSPS research fellow 🇯🇵 / Women in Games ambassador 🤍 / matcha latte enthusiast 🍵
Paul Röttger @paul-rottger.bsky.social Departmental Lecturer @oii.ox.ac.uk. Evaluating safety & societal impacts of AI.
Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team Founder & Chief Innovation Officer @ Bluesky
Working on @attie.ai
🌱 🪴 🌳
Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social 🌐Studies influence, propaganda, platform design@Georgetown
✍🏼Lawfare,The Atlantic, Substack/Ghost Newsletter (signup on my site if you want Ghost)
📕Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality (invisiblerulers.com)
🦹🏻♀️Twitter Files supervillain
Emerson Victoria Johnston @idenarch.bsky.social currently researching the social history of the early internet (think algorithms, architectures, and archives)
tech policy @ stanford / comms and membership @ AoIR
masters x2 @ stanford / bachelors @ northeastern
first gen 🎓 | 🏳️🌈
Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org Simple country tech law professor, multidisciplinary dilettante, “idea generator.” Crocs, fizzy water, ska. Someone is wrong on the Internet and it’s probably me. No legal or good advice; opinions my own, bad. On posting hiatus.
Anna Maria Planitzer @amplanitzer.bsky.social she/her 🏳️🌈 | PhD candidate @polcomvienna.bsky.social
@yecrea.bsky.social PolComm section representative
Algorithmic Content Moderation | Inclusive Technologies | User-Agency & Effects 💭
https://polcom.univie.ac.at/team/anna-maria-planitzer/
Laura Bartley @laurabartley13.bsky.social Publishing & digital safety | Currently mastering the art of dodging tourists on Amsterdam bike lanes 🚲 🇳🇱
Formerly T&S Policy at TikTok, Analyst at Global Disinformation Index, Uni of Glasgow, Dublin City Univ, Washington Ireland Programme
Qian Huang 黄倩 @qianhuang.bsky.social Asst Prof. in media studies @UoGroningen. Comparative research on digital vigilantism, visibility, participatory surveillance & digital cultures.
https://qianxeniahuang.super.site/
@jonasvalente.bsky.social @jonasvalente.bsky.social
Debbie Ball @debbieball.bsky.social Design features doctoral researcher currently in social media rehab. Eternal music fan.
Data and Society lecturer at University of Westminster. Music pr at Create Spark, representing Big Joanie, Andy Bell (Ride), Soft Cell & more.
Ryan J. Gallagher @ryanjgallag.com Applied scientist trying to make the internet a little better. PhD. Trust & safety, networks, fingerstyle guitar. I use my hair to express myself. They/he
Tom Divon | توم ديفون | תום דיבון @tomdivon.bsky.social Social Media Explorer 🦆
PhDing; Communication; HebrewU
Founding Member @weareccsn.bsky.social
🤳🏽 Content Creators
🧲 Audiovisual Memes
🧨 Algos and Hate
📵 Tech Appropriation
👩🏽🎤 TikTok Cultures
Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app Founder & PI @aial.ie. Assistant Professor of AI, School of Computer Science & Statistics, @tcddublin.bsky.social
AI accountability, AI audits & evaluation. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
sonja @sonja.bsky.social psych mphil @ cam, previously pbs @ lse. interested in misinformation, polarisation, radicalisation in fringe internet communities, & computational methods
https://substack.com/@digitalgenesis
Christoph Lutz @lutzid.bsky.social Professor at BI Norwegian Business School & Co-Director of the Nordic Centre for Internet & Society. Research on privacy, digital inequality, AI & emerging tech. Check out my Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KI9IybAAAAAJ&hl=en
Ellen Yang @ellenyang.bsky.social 🦾 MSc Student @ Oxford Internet Institute
🏛️ Education Ops @ Imperial War Museums
https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/profiles/ellen-yang/
All views are my own.
Linda Li @linda-li.bsky.social Fellow in Advanced Quantitative Methods @LSE; DPhil @oxfordinternetinstitute
Shannon McGregor, PhD @shannimcg.bsky.social Professor at UNC. PI at CITAP. Researching & writing on political comm: identity, social media, public opinion, news - all "depressing & timely" BOOK: Media & January 6th (Oxford) https://global.oup.com/academic/product/media-and-january-6th-9780197758533
Nadia Jude @nadiajude.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh.
Thinking critically about data infrastructures, digital platform content moderation and global security governance. She/her.
Anders Kristian Munk @akmunk.bsky.social Professor at DTU Management | Section for Human-Centered Engineering | Head of @echodtu.bsky.social
🗺️ controversy mapping
🤖 computational anthropology
🚒 technological problems in society
#digitalmethods #sts #dkforsk
Book: https://bit.ly/contrmap
Emily Baker-White @ebakerwhite.bsky.social Author: Every Screen On The Planet: The War Over TikTok. Researcher, former lawyer, investigative reporter, trust & safety. Founder, Plain View Project.
@calvinchengyx.bsky.social @calvinchengyx.bsky.social