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.
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
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.
@galloway.bsky.social @galloway.bsky.social 
Cecilia Passanti @cecipax679.bsky.social PhD STS Voting Technologies and Biometrics - Anthropology of Infrastructures - IT Providers and Digital Value Making in the Practices of Citizenship and Democracy - Africa/Kenya/Senegal/Paris/Luxembourg Based
Victoria Kay Barnes @victoriakaybarnes.bsky.social Former scientist, current Iliff MDiv student - focused on the effects of AI on humanity - HCI | AI ethics | AI governance & independent audit
I will survive the rise of fascism if it kills me.
Michael Richardson @richardsonma.bsky.social Associate Professor. Drones, AI, war, culture, affect, witnessing. UNSW. Media Futures Hub. ADMS Centre. He/him. Nonhuman Witnessing with @dukepress.bsky.social https://t.ly/cQW5N
sts classics bot @stsbot.bsky.social Posting random classic STS papers or books. What are the classics, you ask?? Let us know your suggestions or thoughts in the replies!
Flora Lysen @floralysen.bsky.social Assistant prof. Maastricht. Hist of science & technology, STS, art-science, health data, attention studies, medical images, pop sci
Inga Ulnicane @ingaulnicane.bsky.social Assistant Prof @cfi-cambridge.bsky.social University of Cambridge I Associate Editor @evidencepolicy.bsky.social
Politics Policy Governance I Science Technology Innovation I Artificial Intelligence
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2051-1265
Jonathan Spellerberg @jonspeller.bsky.social PhD candidate in Digital Arctic Media at University of Groningen
He/him
Husband, father of 2 🧑🍼🧒
🇩🇪🇳🇱🇹🇿🦭🌻🐟🏳️🌈
Society For European Philosophy @sephilo.bsky.social Society for European Philosophy (SEP). Founded in 1997, SEP promotes the teaching, research and understanding of European and continental philosophy.
societyforeuropeanphilosophy.com
Judith Campagne @judithcampagne.bsky.social PhD-candidate | social/political philosophy, Hannah Arendt, critical refusals, philosophy of technology | Vrije Universiteit Brussel | Maastricht University
Fernando Domínguez Rubio @fdrubio1977.bsky.social Prof @ UCSD
Wrote 'Still Life: Ecologies of the Modern Imagination at the Art museum’ 2020
Co-edited, Fragilities: Essays on the Politics, Ethics, and Aesthetics of Maintenance and Repair, 2025
Working on a new book "The Promise of Facts"
Technology & Democracy @techanddemocracy.newamerica.org An issue area of New America made up of programs, projects, and initiatives dedicated to shaping a digital ecosystem that is safer, open, and inclusive.
Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life @leverhulmecal.bsky.social Research centre dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of algorithmic life. Transforming how we understand the relationships between human life and machine learning & AI algorithms
Marije Miedema @marijemiedema.bsky.social PhD Candidate 💾🌱 | onderzoeker, spreker & adviseur | digitaal nalatenschap- erfgoed en archief | duurzame digitalisering
m leal causton @mlealcauston.bsky.social [researcher | data ⇆ archivist ⇆ [ ] ] info. governance + networks + accountability + transparency >>> critical-digital-methods + research @dataunion-erc.bsky.social @lsts-vub.bsky.social
brussels - berlin | [rt/post ≠ endorsement]
Nathalie Fridzema @nathaliefridz.bsky.social Doctoral researcher in Dutch early web cultures & vernacular digital heritage | Media Studies & Digital Humanities | University of Groningen
🦣@NathalieFridz@aoir.social
✨matterofimagination.neocities.org
hank gerba @hankg.bsky.social phd from stanford in media theory. academic+industry researcher of digital technologies. ex robot operator. they/them. https://hankgerba.com
Jan Overwijk @jloverwijk.bsky.social Social Philosophy & Critical Theory | Book: Cybernetic Capitalism (2025) | Assistant Professor at University of Humanistic Studies, Utrecht | Fellow at Institute for Social Research, Frankfurt | Eco-Marxism & Ecological Economics
Minister tegen Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap @eppocw.bsky.social Onderwijs, wetenschap, cultuur en media zijn de drijvende krachten achter onze democratie.
#DoetHetWel
Heine Paus @heinepaus.bsky.social Laws of war, human rights ++. Ex-broadcast journalist (NRK).
He/him. 🇳🇴+🇪🇺 citizen.
artëm @cyberpunkwon.bsky.social 
Kin @cell-less.bsky.social Artist, essayist, mum. PhD candidate, 'Digital Fatalism'. Long-time critic of surveillance tech. Making video art/new media/net art. Latest article in AI & Society journal: https://rdcu.be/dJu7u
anya shchetvina @anya-shchetvina.bsky.social PhD Candidate at "Literary and epistemic history of small forms", HU Berlin | Web history, internet metaphors and manifestos, media of memory and imagination | Research initiative https://matterofimagination.neocities.org | (she/ they)
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/
fabio iapaolo @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social Urban geographer and digital media scholar @PoliMi | Associate editor AI & Society
Sam Bennett @sj-bennett.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️ he/him
👀 AI Metascience Fellow @Durham Uni - AI Ethics & Society www.ai-ethics.org - AI and Medical Humanities - www.sj-bennett.com
Andrew Zelny @zelny.bsky.social Philosopher of technology, amateur woodworker, artist, gaming enthusiast, and writer. Currently doing my PhD at the Centre for Technomoral Futures at the University of Edinburgh working on a technological mediation account of practical wisdom.
Julie Cruse @academicabuse.com 📣 The Whistleblower: juliecruse.com
📚 The Story: goodreads.com/juliecruse
🛍️ The Shop: https://a.co/d/0htxv3RT
🥞 The Stack: substack.com/@juliecruse
📊 The Data: academicabuse.com/data
🌐 The Hub: academicabuse.com
🎙️ The Verdict: podcast.academicabuse.com
Masha Denisova @mashadenisova.bsky.social Postdoc in AlgoSoc project | Tilburg University
I’m interested in the digitalisation of healthcare, knowledge practices and systems interoperability
Sam Greene @samagreene.bsky.social Professor of Russian Politics, King's College London. Political sociologist. Progressive. Co-author, Putin v the People. 🇬🇧/🇺🇸- J Jana Heim @janaheim.bsky.social
Samantha Culp @samanthaculp.bsky.social Writer & filmmaker in LA after many years in greater China / Currently writing a book about the global landscapes of futures thought / newsletter: borderstudies.substack.com
Natalie Wynn @contrapoints.bsky.social Ex-philosopher, ex-Tweeter.
Email: info@contrapoints.com
Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social Critical tech and literary/cultural AI. Also cats, letterpress printing, and tabletop gaming.
Commonwealth Professor of AI and English at the University of Virginia—
—but speaking only for myself and in my own capacity here.
Rude people are blocked.
Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine.bsky.social Dad, Husband, Germanist
jonathanblakefine.com
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.
Hannah Zeavin @hzeavin.bsky.social historian of mind & media I book: The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy I Founding Editor of @parapraxismag.bsky.social
Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social Digital humanities, data science, AI, eating, professor of Data & Decision Science and English. Coauthor #DataFeminism w/ @kanarinka. PI #AIAInetwork. Views my own.
Jacob Gaboury @jacobgaboury.bsky.social Associate Professor of Film & Media, UC Berkeley (he/him)
Media History | STS | Queer Theory | Digital Visual Culture
Book: Image Objects: An Archaeology of Computer Graphics (2021)
Now: Screenshot Histories & Queer Computing
https://jacobgaboury.com
Paul N. Edwards @avastmachine.bsky.social History and politics of climate science, climate change, knowledge infrastructures. Prof. Emeritus of Information and History, University of Michigan and Director Emeritus, Stanford University STS Program. Now expat based in Marseille, fleeing US fascism.
jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social 📗 public data cultures https://jonathangray.org/publicdatacultures
🌱 codirector @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social reader @kingsdh.bsky.social king's college london cofounder @publicdatalab.bsky.social
🫧 feminist STS, internet studies, poetic computation
Steph Dick @mysdick.bsky.social Historian of math, computing, and the mind. Assistant Prof. of Communication at SFU. Co-editor of Abstractions and Embodiments. PhD from Harvard. Likes cats, writes pysanky eggs, working on a comic book about AI ✨
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
Dan Kotliar @danmk.bsky.social 🎓 Senior Lecturer at the Department of Sociology, U of Haifa.
Previously: Stanford, Hebrew U.
Studying algorithms & culture, AI ethics, AI Hype, data infrastructures, microbiomic futures & more.
🏡 https://www.dankotliar.com/
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.
Institute of Diagram Studies @diagram.institute Research and practice by David Benqué
http://diagram.institute
🐘 @diagram_studies@post.lurk.org
📍🇮🇪 Cork, IE
🔻 ⏚ 🍉
Dr. Vassilis Galanos, SFHEA - each one teach one @velocitygravity.bsky.social Lecturer in Digital Work, UoStirling.
Researching AI/internet/digital media & expectations/expertise. Hype+Metaphors.
Friends: BRAID UK, UoE STIS, AI Ethics & Society, Data Civics, The New Real.
AE: Technology Analysis and Strategic Management.
It/ve/vem👾
Liliana Bounegru @lboungr.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Digital Media, Culture and Society @kingsdh.bsky.social. Co-founder @publicdatalab.bsky.social. Member of @digitalmethods.net and @medialab-scpo.bsky.social. Website: lilianabounegru.org. Mastodon: assemblag.es/@lbngr
Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan @bernarddionysius.bsky.social teacher, writer, curator
media, cybernetics, HCI, environmental humanities, digital images, AI
Ben Grosser @bengrosser.bsky.social Artist/Researcher — Platform Culture and Interface Politics — Faculty Associate @ Berkman Klein Center, Harvard bengrosser.com
Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social Hacker Mama/Artist/Designer/Coder/Writer/She/Ella Assoc Prof of Urban Science @MITdusp, Director, Data + Feminism Lab, Co-author #DataFeminism, hablo castellano
Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social Author of RAVING, REVERSE COWGIRL and various other things.
https://linktr.ee/mckenziewark
Rest of World @restofworld.org We're a nonprofit publication covering global technology outside the West.
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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com Art/media/urban histories | critical AI/DH
New Book: Digital Photography After AI: Continuity & Rupture in the Age of Automated Images (MIT, dec26)
Recent: Computational Formalism: Art History & Machine Learning (2023), Critical Digital Art History (2024)
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
Rita Raley @ritaraley.bsky.social Professor of English, UC Santa Barbara
https://english.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/raley-rita/
// Like everyone, working on critical AI/machine learning; more unusually, focusing on GPT-2
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun @whkchun.bsky.social new media theorist and professor. director of the SFU digital democracies institute. posts reflect my own views only.
banner from Mongrel Network's 2004 Bush-Blair project. Portrait by a wonderful scms audience member—let me know if you know them!
Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social ST&HV is a journal that publishes cutting-edge research and debate in the field of Science and Technology Studies http://journals.sagepub.com/home/sth
xiaochang @xiaochang.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Communication @ Stanford. Histories of AI/ML, NLP, speech recognition, and related data practices; general tomfoolery.
Whit Pow (they/them) @poww.bsky.social Assistant Professor | Department of Media, Culture, and Communication | New York University. Trans media studies | Trans histories of glitches, electronic art, software, video games, and networked & computational media. https://linktr.ee/whitpow
Ada Lovelace Institute @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social Making data & AI work for people & society.
Sign up for our fortnightly newsletter: https://adalovelaceinstitute.org//newsletter-subscribe
Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social social media researcher (esp visuality, sex, small p-politics, wellbeing) professor at Tallinn University, BFM in 🇪🇪, currently working on TRAVIS project on trust and visuality.
https://katrin-tiidenberg.com/
Shintaro Miyazaki @algorhythm.bsky.social Digital Media & Computation, Media Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, https://amor.cms.hu-berlin.de/~miyazash/ #commoning Minibook, German, https://www.transcript-open.de/isbn/6626 +-same, English, https://meson.press/books/counter-dancing-digitality
胡子哥 @notsaved.bsky.social technically, a sociologist | 哲♂学 | algorithms, vernaculars, creativity, synthesis | RTs ≠ RTs, Favs ≈ affect | unofficial account | "knows when to stop speculating"
paranom.asia
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/
Isis journal @isisjournal.bsky.social A journal of the History of Science Society
Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social Professor of Cultural Studies, Digital Media and Technopolitics at the University of Naples L'Orientale. Author: Network Culture (2004), After the Internet (2022)
Janet Vertesi @cyberlyra.bsky.social Princeton Sociology Prof; NASA ethnography; tech policy; digitalSTS; critical technical practice; mobile Linux. Conscientious objector to surveillance capitalism.
https://janet.vertesi.com
https://www.optoutproject.net
@cyberlyra@hachyderm.io
Dr Ramon Amaro @sambarhino.bsky.social Creative Director || Design Academy Eindhoven @daenews
Max Roßmann @maxrossmann.bsky.social PostDoc @ivm-vu-amsterdam.bsky.social💚 🌍: Narratives of the Energy Crisis; Hype Studies; Philosophy & Sociology. Communication Theory / NLP / computational social sciences / Research Integrity / Vision Assessment & Technology Assessment. www.techphil.de
Sebastian Gießmann @sebgiessmann.bsky.social Media History | Theory | STS @Siegen
Media & Culture @unicologne.bsky.social
Das Kreditkarten-Buch: Geschichte und Theorie des digitalen Bezahlens
👉️ https://www.kulturverlag-kadmos.de/programm/details/das_kreditkarten-buch
Rocco Bellanova @ikkibop.bsky.social Research Professor at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium). PI of the ERC DATAUNION project - www.dataunion-project.eu. Views my own. RT ≠ endorsement.
Simone Browne @wewatchwatchers.bsky.social 
Selin Gerlek @gerlex.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Technology and Politics, Department of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam #digital_citizenship@uva #empirical_ethics@ias #shapinginterfacesbetweenscienceandthepublic@uva
#open_science@ophen.org #medical_ethics@uniw/h
Benjamin Peters @bjpeters.bsky.social Writing on (post-)Soviet AI and #RussHack. (Books: Your Computer is on Fire. Soviet Internet. Digital Keywords.) Media theorist, historian, frisbeeist, parent
Jacque(line) Wernimont @wernimont.bsky.social Northern Woods dwelling nerd who thinks about how we turn people into numbers. Currently working on history of eugenics, health data, and death certificates. Into fibers, sports, and not falling over. Wrote Numbered Lives (MIT)
Science as Culture @sciasculture.bsky.social Science and Technology Studies journal exploring how (arte)facts, processes, products shape & are shaped by society, since 1987!
Website: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/csac20
Joanna Zylinska @joannazylinska.bsky.social Media philosopher, artist, writer
Prof @ King's College London, Digital Humanities
www.joannazylinska.net
AI : nonhuman photography : perception machine : media art : ethics : counter-apocalypse
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
Christopher O’Neill @blueskychris.bsky.social Lecturer in Media at Monash University
Media Theory & STS - The Body in Error - Canguilhem/Foucault/Derrida/Hyppolite - Work and Automation - Face Recognition - Sensors - Etc
Tanja Wiehn @postdigitanja.bsky.social Assistant Prof @ Lund University
Interested in digital culture, platforms and (synthetic) data
Our anthology “Beyond Privacy - People, Practices, Politics” is out: https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/beyond-privacy
Sarah Myers West @smw.bsky.social Current: Co-Executive Director @AINowInstitute | Former: Senior Advisor on AI @FTC | She/her
AI Accountability Lab @aial.ie Trinity College Dublin’s Artificial Intelligence Accountability Lab (https://aial.ie/) is founded & led by Dr Abeba Birhane. The lab studies AI technologies & their downstream societal impact with the aim of fostering a greater ecology of AI accountability
Public Data Lab @publicdatalab.bsky.social Interdisciplinary research network developing materials and formats for collective inquiry with & about digital data, digital methods & digital infrastructures. https://publicdatalab.org/
Mid Theory Collective @mid-theory.bsky.social the contemporary and its curiosities
https://mid-theory.com
Nicholas Baer @nwbaer.bsky.social Associate Professor of Film & Media and German, UC Berkeley | Book: Historical Turns (UC Press, 2024) | Edited Volumes: Technics (Amsterdam UP, 2024), Unwatchable (Rutgers UP, 2019), The Promise of Cinema (UC Press, 2016)
Mara Mills @maramills.bsky.social prof of media, culture, and communication @ nyu
history & theory of digital media, electronics, computing
disability studies / disability arts
banner: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/730402
avatar: jojo doodles conference sketches
Paula Bialski @bialski.bsky.social digital sociologist, ethnographer, STS scholar, musician. New book out now http://tinyurl.com/4f29px33
Lee Vinsel @leev.bsky.social I do technology studies, make the Peoples & Things podcast, co-founded The Maintainers, and profess Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech.
Darian Meacham @posteurope.bsky.social Bruxellois. Philosopher at Universiteit Maastricht. Trying to talk about Europe, technology, politics, and complaining. Editor JBSP. Posting in personal capacity, re-post not (always) endorsement.
JennyLDavis @jenny-l-davis.bsky.social Sociologist of emergent tech. Dog content enthusiast. https://www.jennyldavis.com/
Hannes Van Engeland @hannesve.bsky.social PhD student in philosophy at FASoS, Maastricht University | Interested in history & philosophy of science & technology | science & the political | bit of a Bachelard fanboy really...
🌶 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- G Guzel Yusupova @guzelyusupova.bsky.social
Humboldt Fellow at Osteuropa Institut Freie Universität Berlin
Research on identity politics in post-Soviet Eurasia
Alexander Gabuev 陈寒士 @alexgabuev.bsky.social Director of Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center in Berlin. Senior Advisor at DGA Group.