Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social "Zeitgeistprofessor". Cultural history, gender research at Stanford. Books: WHAT TECH CALLS THINKING (2020); THE CANCEL CULTURE PANIC (2024). WHAT TECH CALLS GOVERNING and PROJECT 1933 (2026). Pod: In Bed With the Right. Newsletter: adriandaub.substack.com
Katrin Becker @katrinbecker.eu https://katrinbecker.eu
EU Science, Research & Innovation @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu The EU channel for scientists & researchers: opportunities to fund your ideas, updates from EU-funded science, and scientific resources you can use in your work.
Disjunctions Magazine @disjunctionsmag.bsky.social A new magazine dedicated to the analysis and critique of contemporary technoscience.
https://disjunctionsmag.com/
Centre for Digital Cultures @cdcleuphana.bsky.social The Centre for Digital Cultures (CDC) at #Leuphana University of #Lüneburg is dedicated to central questions of digital culture and the effects of the current polycrisis on social life. We rethink #technology, #media, and #culturalstudies.
Dr Matt Barnard @matthewbarnard.phd Cat-owning philosophy academic | existentialism | phenomenology | new project: philosophy of AI
- Web: https://matthewbarnard.phd/
- Mastodon: https://hcommons.social/@mattbarnardsays
UCU NEC/HEC UK Elected Representative
@rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social
Robyn Caplan @robyncaplan.bsky.social Assistant professor at Duke University. Tech policy, platform governance, mom.
I make bad jokes sometimes.
Mamiko Hermann @mamikohermann.bsky.social PhD candidate at LMU Munich
M.S. in PolCom U Gothenburg
Government and public agencies' communication esp. at the local level / Former public officer in 🇯🇵 / PR consultant
Łukasz Dulęba @lukaszduleba.bsky.social Political Theorist
Teaching: European New School of Digital Studies (EUV/AMU)
Permanent Lecturer: University of Muri
Julián Posada @posada.website 💼 Assistant Professor @Yale.edu
📖 Author of “Platform Extractivism” (UC Press, 2026)
🎓 Research on #AI + #Data + #Work + #Platforms
🌐 https://posada.website/
@marielle-d.bsky.social @marielle-d.bsky.social
Katharina Hoppe @katharinahppe.bsky.social Sociology; Sociological, Political and Feminist Theory; (Eco-)Feminisms; Literature | PostDoc at Goethe-University Frankfurt | she/sie
Theoriesektion @theoriesektion.bsky.social Die Theoriesektion auf Bluesky!
Theoriesektion.de
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/
Labor Tech Research Network @labortechresearchnetwork.org We are an interdisciplinary group of over 700 experts in labor, technology, anti-racism, feminism, and transnationalism.
Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) @aoir.bsky.social Researching the Internet is serious business. Mostly.
(We're mainly over on AoIR.social, our organisation Mastodon instance, which is open to all members.)
https://aoir.org/
https://aoir.social/@aoir
https://aoir.org/aoir2026/
Paula Bialski @bialski.bsky.social digital sociologist, ethnographer, STS scholar, musician. New book out now http://tinyurl.com/4f29px33
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.
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
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.
Doris Lydahl @dorislinnea.bsky.social Associate Professor at University of Gothenburg, doing STS research. Studying mundane practices as places where science and technology meet and enact their values and orders.
LSE Political Theory @lsepoltheory.bsky.social News from the LSE political theory group https://www.lse.ac.uk/government/research/research-groups/political-theory
The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org Educational charity. Peer-reviewed sociology journal, public sociology magazine, podcasts, Connected Sociologies teaching resources, ECR opportunities.
https://www.thesociologicalreview.org
IfS Frankfurt @ifsfrankfurt.bsky.social Gegründet und eröffnet in den Jahren 1923/24, steht das Institut für Sozialforschung seither für eine kritische Theorie der Gesellschaft, die den herrschenden sozialen Verhältnissen den Spiegel ihrer uneingelösten Möglichkeiten vorhält.
taplink.cc/ifs
Virginia Doellgast @vdoellgast.bsky.social Professor ILR School - Global Labor and Work. Unions & AI in telecoms, game development, ICT industry. Co-Editor ILR Review.
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie e.V. @dgsoziologie.bsky.social Die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie ist eine über 100jährige wissenschaftliche Fachgesellschaft, gegründet von Max Weber. Vorsitzende ist Monika Wohlrab-Sahr. Es postet die Geschäftsstelle.
Zeitschrift für Soziologie @zfs.bsky.social Generalist Sociology Journal, founded 1972
Open Access: https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/zfsoz/html?lang=de#issues
Prof Deborah Lupton, MPH PhD @dalupton.bsky.social Prof, Arts, Design & Architecture, UNSW Sydney, Australia. Sociology of health and digital media research too. Personal blog: https://simplysociology.wordpress.com/
Niels van Doorn @nielsvdoorn.bsky.social Associate Professor: University of Amsterdam. Editor: Platforms & Society. Book-in-the-making: The Platform Fix (MIT Press, forthcoming)
PROKLA. Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialwissenschaft @prokla.bsky.social PROKLA. Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialwissenschaft.
www.prokla.de
ZeMKI @zemki.bsky.social Zentrum für Medien-, Kommunikations- & Informationsforschung, Universität Bremen | Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research, University of Bremen https://www.zemki.uni-bremen.de
Susi Geiger @susigeiger.bsky.social Full Prof at UCD Dublin, passionate about markets, healthcare, and access to medicine. Sitting somewhere between STS, economic sociology and organization studies. Yoga teacher, runner and tango lover in whatever spare time I have.
Berliner Journal für Soziologie @berlinerjournal.bsky.social Fachzeitschrift für Soziologie mit Beiträgen zum aktuellen Diskurs und zu Soziologieklassikern bei @springernature.com. Posts von Benjamin Seyd und @leni.bsky.social.
Webseite und Infos zur Einreichung: https://link.springer.com/journal/11609
Robert Gorwa @gorwa.ca Researching global tech policy at the WZB Berlin. 📕: The Politics of Platform Regulation - How Governments Shape Online Content Moderation (out now OA 🔓) https://academic.oup.com/book/56385
Yana Boeva, PhD @dropsmops.bsky.social Research Group Leader + Postdoc @Uni_Stuttgart @EXC_IntCDC | PhD @STS_YorkU | STS, computation, algorithms, design, skills, knowledge | she/her | https://www.yanaboeva.net/
Sonja Köhne @sonjaxko.bsky.social I'm a Berlín-based researcher interested in digital technology and the future of work.
Robert Dorschel @robertdorschel.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Digital Sociology @ University of Cambridge; researching tech workers, digital economy, class, and culture
https://research.sociology.cam.ac.uk/profile/dr-robert-dorschel
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute
Group Ethics and Critical Theories of AI @ectaiuos.bsky.social Research Group Ethics and Critical Theories of AI @ University of Osnabrück // Led by Prof. Rainer Mühlhoff https://bsky.app/profile/rainermuehlhoff.bsky.social
👉find us here: https://www.uni-osnabrueck.de/fb8/ikw/forschung/arbeitsgruppen/ethik-der-ki
FOKUS Digital Public Services @fokuspublic.bsky.social Im Geschäftsbereich Digital Public Services am @fraunhoferfokus.bsky.social forschen wir zur Digitalisierung von Staat & Verwaltung - für digitale Lösungen, die alle gerne nutzen: Mitarbeitende ebenso wie Bürgerinnen und Bürger. #egov
Information, Communication & Society @icsjournal.bsky.social Social Media; Communication Studies; Cyberculture; Sociology; Political Communication; Internet Studies. Published by Routledge. https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rics20
Tech Won’t Save Us @techwontsave.us A left-wing podcast for a better world and better tech. Hosted by @parismarx.com. Made in partnership with @thenation.com.
https://techwontsave.us/
Daniel Schneiß @schneiss.bsky.social Researcher in sociology of work and technology / critical algorithm studies, data work and political regulation / social and political theory / phd @cau Kiel und @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social
Oxford Internet Institute @oii.ox.ac.uk Exploring how technology is transforming the way we live, work and govern.
Martin Krzywdzinski @martinkrz.bsky.social Professor of sociology of work, researching new technologies in the workplace
Center for Advanced Internet Studies @cais-research.bsky.social Forschungsinstitut: Research for the Digital Age 🔎 | Gesellschaft und Digitalisierung 💻 | #TeamCAIS 👥| Bochum 🏙️| Willkommen beim #CAIS!
🌐 Website: https://www.cais-research.de/
📌 Impressum: https://www.cais-research.de/impressum/
Alexander von Humboldt Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft @hiigberlin.bsky.social Digitalisierung und Gesellschaft durch interdisziplinäre Forschung verstehen // Exploring digitalisation and society through interdisciplinary research
www.hiig.de
AlgoSoc @algosoc.org 'Public Values in the Algorithmic Society' (AlgoSoc) is an interdisciplinary research program dedicated to a societal perspective on automated decision making
AlgoSoc.org
ReDICo @redico.eu ReDICo: Researching Digital Interculturality Co-operatively. redico.eu
An interdisciplinary project exploring intercultural practices and discourses within digital spaces and beyond.
Join our research hub: hub.redico.eu
Moritz von Stetten @moritzvon.bsky.social Foresight Researcher / Consultant @future-impacts.bsky.social
Lecturer @ TH Köln
Or Yosefov @oryosefov.bsky.social PhD candidate in Sociology @humboldtuni.bsky.social | Visiting researcher @wzb.bsky.social | Sociology of war, violence, work and industry
🔗 oryosefov.com | wzb.eu/de/personen/or-yosefov
Paddy Leerssen @pjleerssen.bsky.social Postdoc @ivir_uva | DSA Observatory | social media law
Felix Kartte @kartte.bsky.social Tech & Democracy I Mercator Senior Fellow I Special Adviser to the European Commission
Julia Smirnova @jsmirnova.bsky.social Senior researcher for @cemas.io. Disinfo, extremism, technology. Previously, @isdglobal and journalist writing for @spiegel, @zeit, @welt. Alumna @warstudies
Maria Exner @mariaexner.bsky.social
Tobias Heidenreich @hdnrch.bsky.social Researcher WZB Berlin | Political Communication & Computational Methods
Henna Virkkunen @hennavirkkunen.wsocial.eu
Florian G. Kern @floriangkern.bsky.social Associate Professor, political scientist, Dep of Gov, Univ of Essex, governance in Africa, mixed methods, Visiting Senior Fellow LSE Dep of Methodology; ESRC MCCRA; East Westphalian
https://sites.google.com/site/floriangkern
Orçun Selçuk @orcunselcuk.bsky.social Author of The Authoritarian Divide: Populism, Propaganda, and Polarization (University of Notre Dame Press) 🇹🇷🇻🇪🇪🇨
Researching polarizing populist leaders and their opponents around the world.
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
Joris van Hoboken @jvh.bsky.social (he/him) antifascist, law prof in Amsterdam (IViR); platform regulation, law and digital infrastructure, quantum technology, fundamental rights.
@ivir-uva.bsky.social
Jacob Epstein @yaakovepst.bsky.social Anti-Zionist living in Palestine-Israel | M.A. Communication | Former analyst @ FakeReporter & Digital Sherlock @DFRLab | Interests: Transnational Jewish far-right, anti-gender politics, male supremacism, illiberalism. | Aspiring PhD student
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
PS: Political Science & Politics @pspolisci.bsky.social PS: Political Science & Politics is the journal of record for the discipline. Email: ps@apsanet.org. Co-editors: Lina Benabdallah, Justin Esarey, Peter Siavelis, Betina Wilkinson. apsanet.org/ps
Jason Branford @jasonbranford.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Ethics in IT @ University of Hamburg. Social and Moral Philosophy | Ethics of Technology/AI | Pragmatism. INSEIT Board.
Christopher Finlay @cjfinlay.bsky.social Professor of Political Theory, Durham University.
Hannah Ruschemeier @hannahruschemeier.bsky.social Prof. @ Uni Osnabrueck
Public Law | DataProtection | Law&Digital Transformation
Member @jungeakademie.bsky.social
assoc. @CAISnrw & @digitale_kultur FSP
BM @RAILSeV
📖Der additive GrEingriff https://shorturl.at/gjowQ
pic: Max Zehrran
Fairwork @towardsfairwork.bsky.social Rating working conditions in the #digitaleconomy. Let's build a fairer #FutureOfWork.
Cathleen Berger @cathleen.eurosky.social Pondering the future. | Digital policy, environmental sustainability, social impact | she/her
Currently: Head of Office & Sr. Policy Advisor to German MP | Former: UpgradeDemocracy.de, Mozilla, German Foreign Office
Julia Pohle @jupohle.bsky.social Research on digital governance, digital geopolitics and communication policy. WZB Berlin Social Science Centre / Brussels School of Governance
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
Bia Barbosa @bia-barbosa.bsky.social Jornalista, coordenadora de incidência da RSF na América Latina, integrante do DiraCom e da Coalizão Direitos na Rede e representante da sociedade civil no CGI.br. Jornalismo, direitos humanos, democracia e direito à comunicação.
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
Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social Professor of AI, society, media and democracy + Political Communication, U Amsterdam || Director of Digital Democracy Centre, SDU || AlgoSoc || AIMD || Mix of work and private stuff ||
🇩🇰🇳🇱🇪🇺🏃🏼🧪☕️🍿🐶🟥🦋
Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social Professor of European Politics at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. Elections, parties, social democracy & the radical right. he/him. 🏳️🌈
Christopher Ali @christopherali.bsky.social Pioneers Chair & Professor in Telecommunications @ Penn State Bellisario College of Communications. Researcher of all things broadband. Author of Farm Fresh Broadband: The Politics of Rural Connectivity.
Husband, dog dad, Murder She Wrote groupie. 🇨🇦🏳️🌈
@robinmansell.bsky.social @robinmansell.bsky.social
Felix M. Simon @felixsimon.bsky.social Research Fellow in AI, Information & News, Reuters Institute, Oxford University | Research Associate, Oxford Internet Institute | Junior Research Fellow, Corpus Christi College | AI, (mis)info, news, democracy | My views etc…
https://www.felixsimon.net/
Iñaki Goñi @inakigoni.bsky.social Chile 🇨🇱 Science and Technology Studies, Deliberative Democracy, Democratic Theory
Jan Rau @thejanrau.bsky.social PhD Researcher, Leibniz-Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institute (HBI) and Research Institute Social Cohesion (RISC)
Researching far right and polarisation online
https://janrau.com/
Caio V. Matos @caiovmatos.bsky.social Community Builder, host @ CreativeMornings São Paulo
Institute of Intercultural & International Studies (InIIS) @iniis.bsky.social Uni Bremen research institute, covering IR, Political Theory, European Studies.
www.uni-bremen.de/iniis
Digital Democracy Centre @ddc-sdu.bsky.social The Digital Democracy Centre SDU is an interdisciplinary hub at the University of Southern Denmark
https://www.sdu.dk/en/ddc
• #dkmedier #dkpol #dkforsk #democracy #digital #AI •
Felipe G. Santos @feligsantos.bsky.social Multiemployed PostDoc at City, University of London and Babeş-Bolyai University, researching social movements and political parties of the left and the far-right. Free time Climber 🧗♂️
www.felipegsantos.com
Joris van de Riet @jorisvanderiet.bsky.social PhD candidate in jurisprudence @leidenlaw.bsky.social | Kant, moral, political & legal philosophy, IR, int'l law | previously @CMLRev @EULeiden | LLM (x2) @unileiden.bsky.social | 🇪🇺 | 🌹 | He/him
https://jorisvanderiet.com/
Martin Lodge @martinlodge.bsky.social Regulation, Bureaucracy, Fulham FC, 1. FC Köln, Meinerzhagen
Christine Andrä @candrae.bsky.social Assistant Professor of IR @ RUG
Researching and teaching on war&peace, knowledge&politics, arts&crafts in IR
Groningen/Bremen
Sönke Hollenberg @soenkehollenberg.bsky.social Political Theory and History of Ideas | Republicanism, Arendt, Taylor | PhD candidate @ Uni Bonn
Alena Pospíšil Macková @macicak.bsky.social Assistant professor | Masaryk University |political communication | digital media | political attitudes | participation | campaigning
Jeanette Hofmann @jeah.bsky.social Research on digitalisation with a focus on innovation, regulation and democracy, at WZB, HIIG, Weizenbaum Institute, Berlin. Teaching at Freie Universität
Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology (PGMT) @pgmt.bsky.social Lab directed by @ckatzenbach at @ZeMKI, Uni Bremen. Research and outreach on platform governance, AI, discourses, and regulation. Home of https://platformgovernancearchive.org
URL: https://platform-governance.org
Lukas Daniel Klausner @l17r.eu Researcher @ St. Pölten UAS
Cofounder AKMatriX.org
mathematician • computer scientist • linguist • progressive
https://l17r.eu
Johanna Maj Schmidt @jamannahoj.bsky.social Researching far-right meme culture | working @wi-rex.bsky.social at @efbisachsen.bsky.social | co-editor ‘Freie Assoziation’ | Art: johannamajschmidt.com
Rachel Griffin @rachelgriffin.eurosky.social researching EU AI regulation @ duisburg essen university | blue haired feminist, FT reading socialist & other clichés | paris/berlin, she/sie/elle | free palestine 🍉
https://rachelgrfn.wordpress.com/publications/
Ali Aslan Gümüsay @guemuesay.bsky.social professor of innovation, entrepreneurship & sustainability LMU Munich | head of research group HIIG
Judith Fassbender @jufassbender.bsky.social Researcher at HIIG and Doctoral Candidate at University of St Andrews
👀 at participatory data governance & public interest technology
Licinia Güttel @liciniaguttel.bsky.social PhD researcher at University of Oxford working on digitalisation, party competition, public opinion, and elections. She/her. (@politicsoxford.bsky.social, previously @oii.ox.ac.uk)
Christian Katzenbach @ckatzenbach.bsky.social Professor for Media and Communication @ZeMKI.bsky.social
@unibremen.bsky.social // Director @pgmt.bsky.social and MA Digital Media and Society // platform governance, (generative) AI, hype, regulation, tech discourses, norms