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SPARC MI @sparcmi.bsky.social 50501MI -> SPARC
A self-organized group of local volunteers.
50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social Official Bluesky account for the #50501Movement
❌👑#NoKings 3/28 Made History!!
🚨Next Up: 7/17 Good Troubles Lives On
Join the Movement > https://FiftyFifty.one
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/
Simon Willison @simonwillison.net Independent AI researcher, creator of datasette.io and llm.datasette.io, building open source tools for data journalism, writing about a lot of stuff at https://simonwillison.net/
Tyne Daile Sumner @tynedaile.bsky.social ARC DECRA Fellow: literary studies | digital humanities | surveillance | President, Australasian Association for Digital Humanities: https://aa-dh.org/ | current project: surveilit.com | everything else: tynedaile.com
Morten Bay, Philosophiae Doctor. @mortenbay.bsky.social Media and tech scholar. Teaches at USC Annenberg. Writes stuff for normal people too. Stings in a tribute band. Author of six books, with the latest being 'Mediating Plureality: Technology, Perception, and Ethics in a Divided Democracy'.
Prof. Catherine Flick @liedra.net Professor of Ethics and Games Technology, University of Staffordshire UK - she/her
Vice chair ACM Committee on Professional Ethics, Co-EIC ACM Games
Content lead #EMFCamp
Ethics of games & emerging tech; AI & crypto critic
https://liedra.net 🩷💜💙
Anthony Stagliano @ocularcentrism.bsky.social Media theory/media art | Film: FADE http://vimeo.com/stagliano/fade | Book: Disobedient Aesthetics: https://www.uapress.ua.edu/9780817361358/disobedient-aesthetic | opinions mine, such as they are.
Lisa Messeri @lmesseri.bsky.social anthropologist of sci & tech. Prof @Yale. author of "Placing Outer Space" and VR book "In the Land of the Unreal". tech criticism with good vibes.
M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social Professor of Psychology & Human Values at Princeton | Cognitive scientist curious about technology, narratives, & epistemic (in)justice | They/She 🏳️🌈
www.crockettlab.org
Maike Osborne 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @maosbot.bsky.social Mother, wife, Australian, Professor of Machine Learning in Oxford. Long Covid, trans rights, music, reggae, AI must be good for humans, https://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~mosb. She/her
Pritesh Mistry @mustbemistry.bsky.social A curious mind and a dose of skepticism |
digital technologies & innovation @ The King's Fund I Innovation Catalyst | #healthcare #healthtech blogger (views own)
Catherine Breslin @catherinebreslin.bsky.social AI scientist & consultant :: prev Amazon Alexa, Toshiba, Cam Uni :: voice & language tech :: powered by coffee :: photographer :: Cambridge UK
https://www.catherinebreslin.co.uk
Tarcizio Silva @tarciziosilva.bsky.social Pesquisador e ativista (pleonasmo) por justiça racial e tecnologias do bem viver. Doutor pela UFABC e alumni Mozilla. Cofundador da desvelar.org e colaborador da Nanet/ABONG.
John Fitzgerald @johnfitzg.bsky.social digital evolution • charities • change • digital strategy • tech for good • fixing the plumbing • responsible AI • Scotland • feed may contain bikes and sailing
Alex Taylor @alex-taylor.bsky.social Partner & daddy living in wonderful Edinburgh.
Muddling through with ideas from #FeministTechnoscience #STS #MultiSpeciesRelations #HCI #ReparativeAI
Bev Townsend @bevt.bsky.social BRAID Research fellow. AI, Autonomous systems, law and ethics, data protection. Exploring medical AI and sociotechnical harm
London, York.
Rhianne Jones @rhianne-j.bsky.social Research Director for the Responsible Innovation Centre - RIC | BBC-UKRI Future Leaders Fellow @Digitalgoodnet @BRAID_UK
Jen Ross @jenr.bsky.social Digital Education, Education Futures, Digital Cultural Heritage & Research Cultures. Professor at the University of Edinburgh.
https://www.de.ed.ac.uk/people/professor-jen-ross
Caterina Moruzzi @caterinamoruzzi.bsky.social Chancellor’s Fellow in Design Informatics, University of Edinburgh | @BRAID research fellow | Human-AI creativity | responsible AI
Kate Wright @newsprof1.bsky.social Prof of Media and Communication at the University of Edinburgh. Based in Politics/IR. Researching #AI, #Journalism and #Public Service Media. Views own. She/Her
Bronwyn Jones @bronwynjo.bsky.social Journalism | technology | public media | BRAID UK | RIC @ BBC R&D
Liverpool / Edinburgh
Christian @christian.bsky.social Action research. Research design. Cybersystemic org dev. Complex adaptive systems. Indirect action. Information architect at heart. Hopeful.
📍 Seattle or Maine
🪪 caj.io
🌐 @ecosystemaction.com
💼 @strategytheory.com & @opsops.com
José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social Pol Sci Prof at CalLutheran. Author of "You Must Become an Algorithmic Problem" (Bristol Univ Press) and "Machine Liberalism" (Forthcoming from Intellect Books/University of Chicago Press)
https://josemarichal.github.io/
Kathy Reid (she/her) @kathyreid.au #PhD researcher at #ANU Cybernetics, investigating bias in #speech and #voice #tech, with a focus on #data & #ML. Leads R&D at @mozdatacollective.bsky.social
Ex NVIDIA, Mycroft AI, @linuxaustralia.bsky.social, Deakin Uni.
https://linktr.ee/kathyreid
Dorothy R. Santos, Ph.D. @drs.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Teaching; Art, Justice, and Digital Media & Core Faculty in Creative Technologies @ UCSC | Research in Voice Recognition, Assistive Technologies, Emergency Infrastructures | Co-founder of 5️⃣ & 9️⃣
Aram Bartholl @aramba.bsky.social 👋🏻 https://arambartholl.com
aphid @aphid.org net artist, garden pest
scraper/scholar of media, metadata,
oversight &counterintelligibility
i teach "new" media histories, theories, and practices at uc santa cruz
they/he
Chris Coleman @digitalcoleman.art Artist, Professor, Critical Arts Engineer, OS Advocate.
Director of ACCAD at OSU. Views expressed here do not represent OSU. (he/him/they)
Jesse Damiani @jessedamiani.bsky.social Foresight x Forecasting for Polycrisis.
I write realitystudies.co & host the Urgent Futures Podcast @urgentfutures.bsky.social.
Comms @metaculus.com. Adjunct Prof, NYU.
Bylines: Flash Art, Forbes, NBC News, The Verge, WIRED
Sarah Friend @isthisa.com dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good 
James E. Dobson @jeddobson.bsky.social Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. Author of The Birth of Computer Vision (Minnesota), Critical Digital Humanities (Illinois), and co-author of Moonbit (punctum) and Perceptron (punctum). American Literature, ML/AI/DH
Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ University of Washington, Information School. PhD in English from WashU in St. Louis.
I’m interested in books, data, social media, & digital humanities.
They call me "Eyre Jordan" on the bball court. 🏀
https://melaniewalsh.org/
Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social Reporting on AI and journalism for @NiemanLab.org at Harvard. Previously covering tech @restofworld.org Bylines: @thenation.com @popularmechanics @japantimes.co.jp Signal: andrewdeck.01
Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com Tech reporter, tech historian. Bylines Fast Company / The Atlantic / Retronauts podcast. http://www.benjedwards.com Founder http://Vintagecomputing.com
Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social CEO of Fairly Trained / Composer. Working towards fairer training data practices in generative AI.
James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social journalist and writer. author of BEYOND MEASURE, a history of measurement; a New Yorker, Economist, Times book of the year. former senior editor at The Verge. buy my book here: https://linktr.ee/BeyondMeasureBook. website: jamesvincent.info
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/
Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social Professor, Santa Fe Institute. Research on AI, cognitive science, and complex systems.
Website: https://melaniemitchell.me
Substack: https://aiguide.substack.com/
Owen Davis @odavis.bsky.social Senior economist at the New York City Independent Budget Office. Interests: Aging, work, public policy, technology.
Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social Climber 🇪🇬 |Chief AI Scientist at @ainowinstitute.bsky.social | Safety engineer (nuclear, defense, software & AI/ML) | TIME 100 AI | MIT 35 U 35
x-Trail of Bits, OpenAI, Microsoft Research
https://www.heidyk.com/
Anuj Gupta @mettalrose.bsky.social Asst. Professor @usouthflorida. GenAI in education. AR/VR. Algorithms. Computational Research. Digital Writing Technologies. UI/UX. Rhetoric, writing studies, technical communication.
Grady Booch @booch.com scientist, storyteller, philosopher
computingthehumanexperience.com
Dr. Kareem Carr, Ph.D. @kareemcarr.bsky.social Statistician. PhD @Harvard • Masters degree in pure math • Follow me for fun, nerdy content.
Sign up to my newsletter: kareemcarr.substack.com
Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan @bernarddionysius.bsky.social teacher, writer, curator
media, cybernetics, HCI, environmental humanities, digital images, AI
Crystal Lee @handle.invalid Writing about tech, power, data visualization, social media, disability. Assistant prof of computational media @ MIT. 🇹🇼
crystaljjlee.com
Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social Critical AI, data journalism, literary nonfiction. Professor at NYU. Author, "More Than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech." meredithbroussard.com
Nick Couldry @couldrynick.bsky.social I teach media communications and social theory at London School of Economics. Main interests: data colonialism, AI, rebuilding social media. Links to my two new books: https://linktr.ee/SpaceOfTheWorldBook https://lnk.to/DataGrabBook
@galloway.bsky.social @galloway.bsky.social 
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.
Brian Pendleton (Yaga) @bwp.bsky.social DSc in Cybersecurity. Proud Apache. AI security researcher. Lover of books, cats, dogs, and movies. ARVA board member. AI Village officer. DEFCON goon.
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. These are my personal opinions, not those of my employer.
Rosamunde Van Brakel @rosamundevb.bsky.social assistant prof criminology teaching legal, ethical & social issues AI/sociology of law @VUB research: digital & more-than-human criminology, surveillance & AI, youth justice, human rights
https://researchportal.vub.be/en/persons/rosamunde-elise-van-brakel
Emmie Hine @emmiehine.com AI governance research @ Safe AI Forum
Fellow @ Yale Digital Ethics Center
Interests: AI, XR, most other tech, China, climbing, baking.
ex-Oxford, ex-SWE
My tech newsletter: https://www.techreckoner.substack.com- L Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social Researcher and teacher. Writing about race, gender and internet stuff since 1995. “The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet” out from U. Minn press. Lisanakamura.net for articles if you want.
Jacqueline Bellon @jacbellon.bsky.social #PhilosophyOfTechnology #HistoryOfIdeas #PhilosophyOfPsychology
PhD on Gilbert Simondon @TUDarmstadt
Research @uni_tue
Teaching @uni_tue, @HumboldtUniUlm & FH Südwestfalen
Milagros Miceli @milamiceli.bsky.social Sociologist & Computer Scientist
PI: @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social
Research Lead @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social
Research Lead @dairinstitute.bsky.social
🌐 milamiceli.com
Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social Software engineer, trans advocate and general nuisance. Blogs at https://deadsimpletech.com/blog
Support my writing:
https://www.patreon.com/c/IrisMeredithandherblog
https://en.liberapay.com/iris_meredith/
Cori Crider @coricrider.com Build better tech. Break monopoly power. Back law enforcement.
Executive Director, Future of Tech Institute & Tech@Meliore. Hon. Prof. UCL. Fellow, Open Markets. Ex Foxglove, Reprieve.
https://futureinstitute.tech
https://www.coricrider.com
👁️ @nathanjurgenson.com author, The Social Photo (Verso)
former: Real Life magazine, Theorizing the Web conference, Snap. currently: have no idea
los angeles
Ekaterina (Katya) Babintseva @babintsevak.bsky.social Historian of the mind, computing, artificial intelligence, and labor in the Cold War Soviet Union and the US. Asst Prof at Purdue. PhD from UPenn.
Alzbeta Hajkova @alzbetahajkova.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Philosophy. Technological politics. From Slovakia, in Atlanta. she/her. Views expressed are my own.
Adele Zeynep Walton @adelewalton.bsky.social Author, online safety campaigner, journalist, hater of tech bros.
https://www.adelesnotes.co.uk/
beth semel @bethmsemel.bsky.social AI killjoy, prednisone hater, writing about voice analysis AI and the labor of technosolutionist listening in American mental healthcare
Prof. Dr Beth Singler @bvlsingler.bsky.social Anthropologist/Geek thinking about how you think about AI & robots. Assistant Professor in Digital Religions at UZH. Bvlsingler.com. She/her. 🌈 https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9781003256113/religion-artificial-intelligence-beth-singler
Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc Head of Research at OneProject.org. Author, Design Justice (https://design-justice.pubpub.org) + Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets. #FreePalestine. Trans agenda. She/they/ella/elle. More: https://www.schock.cc
Sara M. Watson @smwat.bsky.social saramwatson.com
Netopia.eu @netopia.bsky.social Web publication & idea forum based in Brussels, discussing the future of the internet from a broad perspective on society's digital evolution ➡ Web: https://netopia.eu | https://x.com/NetopiaEU | LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/company/netopia-eu/
Shayne Longpre @shaynelongpre.bsky.social PhD @ MIT. Prev: Google Deepmind, Apple, Stanford. 🇨🇦 Interests: AI/ML/NLP, Data-centric AI, transparency & societal impact
Robert Bateman @robertjbateman.bsky.social • I post about privacy, data protection, security, AI • Regular updates on big tech shenanigans • Views absolutely represent those of my employer (me) • Consultancy and training services •
Dr Zena Assaad @zenaassaad.bsky.social Host Responsible Bytes Podcast 🎙
Assoc Prof @ ANU | UNIDIR Fellow
Currently researching the decommissioning of military AI systems
Top 10 Women in AI APAC | 100 brilliant women in AI ethics | 🇦🇺🇱🇧
https://www.zenaassaad.com
Repost ≠ Endorsement
M. Beatrice Fazi @mbfazi.bsky.social Philosophy, Computation, Technoscience. Associate Professor at the University of Sussex (UK). Author of “Contingent Computation” (2018).
University page
https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p378975-beatrice-fazi
Craig Gent @vivaharehills.bsky.social Author of CYBERBOSS. Work at LSE. Part of StreamArtNetwork. Critical algorithm studies, livestreaming, solidarity, labour, hybrid media. Co-host Heart Reacts. Previously Novara Media. http://c-gent.net/
https://shop.novaramedia.com/products/cyberboss
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
Andrew Hoskins @andrewhoskins.bsky.social PROF. of AI, MEMORY & WAR
University of Edinburgh
AI & MEMORY
https://doi.org/10.1017/mem.2024.16
https://www.andrewhoskins.net/about
ERC/UKRI Digital Participation in War
5 year project
https://tinyurl.com/yjem9a4w
Alasdair King @alasdairking.bsky.social Professor of Screen and Media Arts @qmul.ac.uk
Tracking finance and AI in contemporary film and post-cinematic art.
New Book: The Financial Image: Finance, Philosophy, and Contemporary Film (Palgrave Studies in Literature, Culture and Economics)
Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social Linguist, Cognitive Scientist, Occasional AI Researcher, Immigrant in NYC, Co-Author w/ Ingeborg Glimmer of 'Why We Fear AI' - out now: https://bookshop.org/a/114797/9781945335174
🌶 David Gray Widder @davidthewid.bsky.social Assistant Prof at UT Austin's iSchool.
Big Tech, political economy, AI hype, AI in War
trying to help computer ppl think more critically about computer, including me
exCornell/CMU/NASA/MSR/IntelLabs.
davidwidder.me
Mark Graham @geoplace.bsky.social Prof at the Oxford Internet Institute
Director of @towardsfairwork.bsky.social
Publications: www.markgraham.space
Studies: Digital Economies, Digital Geographies, Economic Geography, Gig Economy, Data Work, AI Production Networks, Cities
Eat the rich
Center for Democracy & Technology @cdt.org The Center for Democracy & Technology. Shaping technology policy and architecture, with a focus on equity and justice. @cdteu.org for our EU-based team.
https://cdt.org
kat @kgt.bsky.social [-o-]
microgames: https://chipswoon.itch.io/
everything else: https://kgt.dev
DMs closed bc Australia
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
Laura Forlano @laura4lano.bsky.social Writer. Design Researcher. Professor @NU_CAMD Type 1D. Design, Tech and Radical Futures. Noodle Fanatic, Laser Cut Fashionista and Latin Alternative Rocker.
Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social Cornell Tech professor (information science, AI-mediated Communication, trustworthiness of our information ecosystem). New York City. Taller in person. Opinions my own.
Thao Phan @thaophan.bsky.social Feminist STS, gender, race, algorithmic culture // Lecturer in Sociology (STS) at Australian National University// Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country // President @aussts.bsky.social
Ben Zhao @ravenben.bsky.social Glaze, Nightshade, & projects to protect human creatives at University of Chicago. Professor @UChicagoCS, MIT TR-35 innovator, ACM Fellow, TIME 100/AI, TED/AI. Most of the time I post as @TheGlazeProject.bsky.social
TechTonic Justice @techtonicjustice.bsky.social For the people AI leaves behind. A multidimensional, community-based effort to strengthen local justice movements + build long-term power. Launched 11/19/24. Founder: @kevindeliban.bsky.social
Link Tree: https://linktr.ee/techtonicjustice
Aymar (AJ) @thehost.theinvite.us professor @ Northwestern
affiliate @ Harvard Berkman Klein
jury @ Peabody Awards
co-founder @weareotv
BOOKS:
Reparative Media, MIT Press Fall 2025
Media Reparations, coming soon on Polity
The Cookout, out now ⬇️
http://linktr.ee/ajescoffery
zari taylor @zaritaylor.bsky.social critical cultural + media studies scholar tired of switching platforms. thoughts are my own.
Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social Scholar, author, policy advisor
alondranelson.com
Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab
https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab
Books: Auditing AI, The Social Life of DNA, Genetics and the Unsettled Past, Body and Soul, Technicolor
Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo @chinasa.bsky.social AI Researcher, Policy Strategist, & Technorealist. Founder, Technecultura.
Columnist, Science Magazine.
Cornell Computer Science PhD.
TIME100 AI. Forbes Under 30 AI.
Critically examining global equity in AI.
👩🏾💻: www.chinasatokolo.com
📩: bit.ly/contactCTO
Critical Digital Media @digital.therourke.net Articles, essays, papers, artworks and news stories on digital media, digital culture, and media arts - also mirrored at: criticaldigitalmedia.tumblr.com
by @therourke.net (also see @additivism.org)
Ololade Faniyi @ololadefaniyi.bsky.social PhDing at Emory
Grad Fellow #AIAINetwork
Words in rpublc.com/author/Ololade
📖 ✍🏾 At the intersection of African feminism and critical technology studies
Web: ololadefaniyi.com
Jasmine Berry, Ph.D. @drjasberry.bsky.social Neuro-AI Research Scientist. Brains-Minds-Machines, Self-Awareness, Consciousness for Robotics and Health. 🧠🤖🦾
UMich 〽️ x USC ✌️ x NSU 🔰
Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.eurosky.social Japan. ALife & Astrobiology researcher https://lanasina.github.io/
Research @ Sony CSL, Associate Prof. National Institute for Basic Biology.
talking dog insta @iikocookie
Khari Johnson @khari.bsky.social proud dad, snack enthusiast, tech reporter at CalMatters/The Markup, formerly at WIRED and VentureBeat
Signal —> kharijohnson.67
Shaily @shaily99.bsky.social PhDing at LTI, CMU
Prev: Ai2, Google Research, MSR
Evaluating language technologies, regularly ranting, and probably procrastinating.
https://sites.google.com/view/shailybhatt/
Lydia Jennings, PhD @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social Pascua Yaqui soil scientist, runner, science communicator, Indigenous data warrior & assistant professor. 🌵baby in NE😅
Learn more about me: https://nativesoilnerd.com
See: Run to Be Visible, my 50 mile honor run: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xrLTUUPugIc
Asvatha @asvatha.bsky.social PhD (Communication Studies). Interested in researching media, emerging technologies, and governance. Currently looking at algorithmic state surveillance.
Trying something new: https://medium.com/@fireflyclass