𝙲𝚛𝚊𝚒𝚐 𝚅𝚊𝚗 𝙿𝚎𝚕𝚝 @drcraigvanpelt.bsky.social Political Economy of AI | Dead Cognitive Labor | Critical AI Studies | Data Temporalities | #Cyberzombies | Sociologist | No DM | Follow does not = endorsement | Views are mine, not my employer |
https://craigvanpelt.org
Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social We are 4S, an international, nonprofit association focused on the social studies of science, technology and medicine (#STS). Next Annual meeting October 7-10, 2026.
Rinnette Riande @falsadictomia.bsky.social ?¿..d.w'//|°¬.
Vivette García Deister @vivavivette.bsky.social Ethnographer of science beyond the lab. HPS, STS. Editor-in-Chief @tapuya.org 
Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org Welcome to Tapuya!📖
This is a peer-reviewed, #OpenAccess journal, published by Taylor&Francis, and affiliated to ESOCITE and 4S. By publishing STS research about and from LatAm & other peripheral regions, Tapuya challenges and expands current scholarship.
HASTAC @hastac.bsky.social An alliance and open community dedicated to Changing the Way We Teach and Learn. Affiliates of @cuny.edu and @futuresed.bsky.social. Join us! https://hastac.hcommons.org/
Paige Gulley @pgulley.bsky.social 
Le Cagle @lecagle.bsky.social Feminist. Rhetoric: science, environment, tech comm, disability. Kentuckian. Really worried about climate change. she/her. Praxis or GTFO.
Yes, it's Cagle. No, please don't call me Lauren.
send dog pics (alt text a must)
nothing here reps my employer
@willamamet.bsky.social @willamamet.bsky.social Loudmouth for Good. Bodywork teacher. Manual therapist of various stripes. Folk, music. Lots and lots (and lots) of words. All pronouns in kindness.
willamamet.com
will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social historian of witchcrafts, tarot, folklore, France 18-20th century
ed. Cambridge Elements in Magic
also #CreativeHistories
yes, that’s an actual photo of me.
never had ebola. yet
Jennifer Doleac @jenniferdoleac.bsky.social Economist & public safety expert. Author, The Science of Second Chances. Host/author, @ProbCausation podcast & substack. Passionate about ROI.
https://jenniferdoleac.com
Sequential Scholars @sequentialscholars.bsky.social Academics reading and celebrating the style, substance, and sublimity of all kinds of comics. By scholars, for everyone. Led by @annapeppard.bsky.social & Dr. J. Andrew Deman.
Thot Leedurr @docdre.distributedblackness.net Ignore my late night posts.
Award winning author!
I study Black Twitter: goo.gl/Wc98bf
…and digital methods: goo.gl/0njUPf
Openly Black.
Still on The Bird App as *thot leedurr*
andrebrock.academia.edu
tuck woodstock @tuck.bsky.social host of grindr's 5th-favorite podcast // edited a fast & furious book for freaks // Sex Change & the City on sale now! (thisistrans.info)
Data Against Fascism @dataagainstfascism.bsky.social Home of USA Disappeared Tracker (https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/danielleharlow/viz/UnitedStatesDisappearedTracker/Map) and ICE Flights Tracker. To submit a person anonymously: https://tips.hushline.app/to/DisappearedTracker
EL PAÍS @elpais.com La mejor información en español. Con nuestra mirada puesta en España, Europa y América. Suscríbete: https://tinyurl.com/yfbk27jh
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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
Landa @laperiferia.eurosky.social ¡ARQUITECTURA Y F(R)ICCIÓN!
comunicación, edición y redacción sobre arquitectura, arte, ciudad y territorio.
persona 🏳️⚧️ y diabética.
🪐 murcia, cdmx, madrid
Northsky Social Cooperative @transrights.northsky.social We're creating a safer social media experience for marginalized people, powered by ATProto, and operating as a nonprofit worker-owned cooperative in Canada.
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Grace Lavery @gracelavery.bsky.social ❤️🩹🥝🩺🧨🫀 tr*nny dianny / / / surplus scholar 📚🎥🛍🪗🧻
** QUAINT, EXQUISITE (Princeton UP, 2019); PLEASE MISS (Seal, 2022); PLEASURE AND EFFICACY (Princeton UP, 2023). Repped by Kent Wolf at Neon Literary. **
Sasha Colby @thesashacolby.bsky.social your favorite drag queen’s favorite drag queen ✨
Sasha Fury @sashafury.myatproto.social Editor. Literary academic. PhD candidate. Mostly US literature. Theory junkie. Writer. Musician. Cat mom. She/her. Treaty 1 Territory. Palestine will be free.
Aspen @aspenomapang.bsky.social 🎓 Information Science PhD Candidate at Cornell University
💭 I study the political participation of Indigenous people within settler governments, technology's role in political participation, and Indigenous identity.
Melody Joy Kramer @mkramer.bsky.social engagement + crowdsourcing products ProPublica; librarian, journalist, hyperlocal information ecosystems, public(s) and participation, digital archives, dogs, civic joy, mom, mummer, philly, carrboro north carolina, learning asl!
🌈 melodykramer.github.io
Max Felker-Kantor @mfkantor.bsky.social historian of cities, race, policing, and carceral state | prof. @ uw-madison | author of
@UNC_Press
JPP books Policing Los Angeles and DARE to Say No | Arsenal fan | opinions mine | linktr.ee/mfkantor
will tchakirides @willtchak.bsky.social public historian preserving and amplifying HBCU radio voices at hbcuradiopreservation.org
Jermaine Thibodeaux @drconvictsandcane.bsky.social Historian of convict labor/prisons, Black Texas, U.S. History! Assistant professor in a red state. 🥴 Writing a book that explores the significance of sugar and Black convict labor and the shaping of the Texas prison farm model. The House that Cane Built!!
Heather Ann Thompson @historianheather.bsky.social Pulitzer Prize winning author, book on Attica, next on Bernie Goetz/80s, then MOVE Bombing. In NYT, TIME, New Yorker, Atlantic, etc. + CJ policy work & script consulting. WritersHouse & CAA repped.
www.heatherannthompson.com
Charlotte E. Rosen @charlotteerosen.bsky.social historian, writer, abolitionist, buttercream enthusiast 
Paul Renfro @renfro.bsky.social History prof at a public university in Florida. Wrote STRANGER DANGER and THE LIFE AND DEATH OF RYAN WHITE. Writing a book about the Atlanta child murders for Liveright/Norton. He/him. Views my own. 🏳️🌈
Gautham Rao (pronounced: Knicks in 5) @gauthamrao.bsky.social Historian. #LFGM #LFC NYM-G-K-I. my opinions. he/him/his. Author of White Power: Policing American Slavery. And other stuff. Big Ron enthusiast.
Dr. Amanda J Summers @amandajsummers.bsky.social Philly Philly. Go Birds. Also a historian, I guess 🤷🏻♀️
VAP @ Oberlin
https://www.oberlin.edu/amanda-summers
Writes on colonial LatAm/Caribbean/Iberian Atlantic - embodied experiences of incarceration/sex/violence and prison hijinks from the 17th century
Jason A. Higgins, Ph.D @jasonhiggins.bsky.social Author. Editor. Historian. Prisoners after War: Veterans in the Age of Mass Incarceration (UMass Press) Digital Scholarship Coordinator Virginia Tech Press; Assistant Professor. My views don’t reflect my employer. https://shorturl.at/HpPO7
Courtney E. Thompson @cethompson.bsky.social #histmed #histSTM #emohist #bodyhist | Assoc. prof. at Mississippi State | Osiris Editor | #AnOrganofMurder | #ACalculusofCompassion | Winnie & Gigi #pupdates | extremely online
Douglas M. Charles, PhD @dmcharles.bsky.social Professor of history (FBI expert), Tae Kwon Do black belt, poker player, bicyclist, skier, travel, animals.
I’ve written 4 books on the FBI, currently finishing a history of the FBI, 1908-1945. Also working on a history of Tae Kwon Do in North America.
Robin Bernstein @robinmbernstein.bsky.social Author of Freeman's Challenge: The Murder That Shook America's Original Prison for Profit and Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights. https://scholar.harvard.edu/robinbernstein/home ; robinbernsteinphd.com .
Stuart Schrader @stschrader1.bsky.social Author of Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves (@basicbooksgroup.bsky.social, 2026) and Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed Policing (@ucpress.bsky.social, 2019)
jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com criminalization, abolition, labor, politics, journalism—social science theory & methods too. sociologist.
https://jbenmenachem.com/
Susanna Ashton @susannaashton.bsky.social #C19 AmLit. Author: A Plausible Man. the True Story of the Man who Inspired Uncle Tom's Cabin -with The New Press. Exploring fugitivity, life writing, narratives of enslavement and freedom. I speak for myself - not my employer
Andrew Krinks @andrewkrinks.bsky.social Educator, writer & movement builder at intersection of religion, race, carcerality & abolition. Book: White Property, Black Trespass: Racial Capitalism & the Religious Function of Mass Criminalization (NYU Press 2024). Nashville, TN. linktr.ee/andrewkrinks
Micah M. Carlson 🗃️ @micahcarlson.bsky.social Historian.
Ghost stories as historical method.
Public history theorist in the streets, archive critic in the sheets.
Expert at petting cats and responding to bruh.
Sometimes funny.
Marisol LeBrón @marisollebron.bsky.social Queer Latina | Professor | Policing Life & Death | Aftershocks of Disaster | Against Muerto Rico | PRsyllabus
Carl Suddler @profsuddler.bsky.social writer. historian. sports guy. associate professor. @emoryUniversity. author of #PresumedCriminal and some other things.
David Stein @davidstein.bsky.social Assistant Prof of History, UCSB. Former fellow at the Roosevelt Institute. Social movements & political economy—civil rights movement; economic policy; inflation; mass incarceration.
Jessica Neptune @jessicaneptune.bsky.social Bard Prison Initiative - Director of National Engagement & Consortium for the Liberal Arts in Prison.
Historian, focused mostly on prisons and the making of the carceral state.
Bardian forever paying it forward.
Chicago/New York
Tammy Ingram @tammyingram.bsky.social Historian, professor, consultant, trader. Southern expat in CT. New book about white crime and political corruption in Jim Crow Alabama coming soon from Harvard University Press. 
Joshua Clark Davis @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social Author POLICE AGAINST THE MOVEMENT (Oct. 2025) on civil rights activists vs. state violence, surveillance, undercover officer infiltration | Historian, University of Baltimore | Bylines at The Nation, Jacobin, Slate
joshuaclarkdavis.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
Xander Lenc @xlenc.bsky.social Carceral geographer, California apologist, valued customer.
Read @oaklandreviewofbooks.org
Robert L. Tsai @robertltsai.bsky.social Author of DEMAND THE IMPOSSIBLE, amzn.to/45LFzNg, PRACTICAL EQUALITY, AMERICA’S FORGOTTEN CONSTITUTIONS, ELOQUENCE & REASON | Next: BATTLE FOR THE SOUL OF COAL COUNTRY | Prof @ BostonU | constitutionalism, legal history | https://linktr.ee/roberttsai
Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app John 3:16 | Founder of The Thurman Perry Foundation | Women’s Incarceration Expert | Political Commentator | Author: BAD GIRLS (coming soon)(Hachette) | Epidemiologist | Words: @WashingtonPost @ESSENCE #writingcommunity
https://linktr.ee/gabrielleperrymph
Elliott Young @elliottyoung.bsky.social Borderlands and Transnational Migration historian at Lewis & Clark College in Portland. Expert witness for asylum. Tepoztlán Institute. Migration Scholar Collaborative. Stanford Migration & Asylum Lab. Author of Forever Prisoners, and Alien Nation.
Natalie J. Ring @historycounts.bsky.social Historian of many things in the US South. Trying to learn some law to write my next book. Night owl. Feral cat wrangler (TNR). Living in TX. Native of western MA.
Ted McCoy 🖖 @tedmccoy.bsky.social (he/him) your friend and mine, university professor and some kind of writer
Star Trek: M33 comic. https://www.instagram.com/startrekm33
Victoria Law @victorialaw.bsky.social Freelance journalist & author. Latest book: CORRIDORS OF CONTAGION: How the Pandemic Exposed the Cruelties of Incarceration (Haymarket, 2024). https://linktr.ee/victorialaw
Kwame Holmes @kwameholmes.bsky.social Black, Queer and Carceral Studies, teach in Bard College’s Human Rights program, writing about infrastructures of “safety.” Learning to podcast
Julian @julsdemos.bsky.social That’s peace | Health Policy PhD Student @UCBerkeley | MPP 24’ @GoldmanSchool | policing, violence, politics, racial inequality and health | Fruitridge Forever.
LaShawn Harris @madameclair08.bsky.social Bronx Raised | Historian | Writer | Prof | Author of Author of Sex Workers, Psychics, & Numbers Runners (University of Illinois Press, 2016)
Dr. Brittany Friedman @curlyprofessor.bsky.social 🏹 Los Angeles |🌱Herbalist + Mystic | sociologist + professor | 📖 Author of CARCERAL APARTHEID | 🌹| www.brittanyfriedman.com
Daniel LaChance @dwlachance.bsky.social Law & Humanities Professor in Emory University’s History Department. Ph.D. in American Studies (UMN). I write about crime and punishment in American Culture. Author: Executing Freedom (2016), Crimesploitation (2022). Website: https://tinyurl.com/rmhsv6fx
Simon Balto @simonbalto.bsky.social Professor, author.
Steady with your hope now. 
Caitlin Reed Wiesner @caitlinrwiesner.bsky.social Professional history buff and feminist killjoy | Writes about gender violence and state violence, often at the same time| Between the Street and the State coming Sept 2025
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/
jess reia • 何杰茜 @jhereia.bsky.social data justice, tech policy, cities & nighttime governance | asst prof of data science & public policy | they•them 🏳️⚧️ | 🇧🇷🇨🇦🇺🇸
Chelsea Manning @xychelsea.tv 
Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social Author of RAVING, REVERSE COWGIRL and various other things.
https://linktr.ee/mckenziewark
Raquel Willis @raquelwillis.com ✦ co-founder, @genderlib.com
✦ author, THE RISK IT TAKES TO BLOOM
✦ host, AFTERLIVES + QUEER CHRONICLES
✦ activist ✦ media strategist ✦ georgia peach
RaquelWillis.com
Roque Raquel Salas Rivera @roqueraquel.bsky.social poeta, traductor y profe 🏳️⚧️🇵🇷
https://www.roquesalasrivera.com/
Chase Strangio @chasestrangio.bsky.social 
Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net 🏳️⚧️🇵🇷 Senior Clinical Instructor, Harvard Law Cyberlaw Clinic. Gender & Tech. Views = my own. She/Her.
Inquiries: alejandracaraballo.com/contact
Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com Independent LGBTQ+ journalist, mom, D&D DM. Tips: http://ko-fi.com/erininthemorn // Booking: http://erinreedwrites.com // Venmo erin888
Bylines @TheGuardian.com, @advocate.com, @xtramagazine.com
Subscribe to support my journalism www.erininthemorning.com
Ben Chappell @benchappell.bsky.social Antifascist. Interdisciplinary ethnographer. Critical * studies. Midwesterner. Union grievance officer.
Loves mass transit and espresso. Hates structural violence and oligarchy.
ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com anthropologist [no longer] yelling at engineers. feral.
signal -> @ali.01
The Transexual Menace @transexualmenace.bsky.social Anyone can be a Menace!
Founded by @denisenorris.bsky.social and @rikiwilchins.bsky.social in 1992, it was the first trans-rights direct action group.
https://www.transexualmenace.org/
https://discord.gg/Ey4rsMSYCu
Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social Troublemaker extraordinaire, CA AD 72 Candidate, www.kluweoc.com
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
jonathan zong @jonathanzong.com information science prof at cu boulder
https://jonathanzong.com/
https://www.data-and-design.org
@data-and-design.org
Prince Guma @princeguma.bsky.social Researcher | geographies, infrastructures, technologies, politics, lifeworlds 
Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com Sober trans broad. Award winning writer. Former smoker. I write a newsletter called Anxiety Shark, my debut book is called The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman
She//Her
linktr.ee/nikostratis
Amelia Doğan @ameliadogan.bsky.social currently PhD @ischool.uw.edu | thinking about climate justice, computing, data, hci, and co-liberation // research affiliate MIT Data + Feminism Lab
Academic Audio Transcription Ltd @aat-transcribes.bsky.social Specialist transcription services with a social impact
Supporting research, improving access, and creating fairly-paid, flexible, accessible work for disabled, chronically ill and neurodivergent freelancers
https://linktr.ee/academicaudiotranscription
Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social Director of Research, @dairinstitute.bsky.social
Roller derby athlete
https://alex-hanna.com
Book: thecon.ai
Pod+newsletter: https://dair-institute.org/maiht3k
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🏳️⚧️ she/هي
📸 @willtoft.bsky.social
Rep📘 @ianbonaparte.bsky.social
@massmoca.bsky.social @massmoca.bsky.social 
Sapphira Cristál (THE CRISTÁL BALL - OUT NOW) @sapphiracristal.bsky.social 💎 La Diva Grande Dame de Philadelphie 💎
🏁 RuPaul's Drag Race Season 16 🏁
#TheCristalBall
www.sapphiracristal.com
Josie Duffy Rice @jduffyrice.bsky.social inside fishsticks outside tarter sauce
Borhane Blili-Hamelin @borhane.bsky.social He, him | Data Scientist @ TD Bank | Improving AI Governance | Views my own
https://borhane.xyz
Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social Anarchist. Host of Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff. Co-owner of Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness. Latest book is The Immortal Choir Holds Every Voice. she/they
Shakina @shakeenz.bsky.social Trans actress, writer, director, producer, priestess 💫 Liberatory Agitator, Doctor of Philosophy 💅🏻😇 you’ve seen me in Difficult People (Hulu), Transparent (Amazon), Connecting (NBC), Problemista (A24), Quantum Leap (NBC), voice of Hana in Tokyo Godfathers.
Dr. Mel Rozalia @drmelissameade.bsky.social Ethnographies of inequality, digital media + tech, labor, environment, economic decline, collective memory, identity.
Matthias Leese @matthiasleese.bsky.social Assist. Prof. of Technology and Governance @ethz.ch ¦ PI @curateproject.bsky.social ¦ Editor-in-chief @jird-jour.bsky.social
https://matthiasleese.com
Benjamin Ringot @benjaminringot.bsky.social 🏰 Centre de recherche du château de Versailles, chef du service de la Recherche, Colloques et Enseignements / Head of Research, Conferences and Teaching
Also teach digital culture and heritage (Université Paris Cité)
Tara McPherson @taramcpherson.bsky.social professor, cat lover, author, activist, etc.
Jon Pugh @techjon.bsky.social artist photographer web engineer
Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social independent journalist, thehandbasket.co
email: marisa@thehandbasket.co
signal: marisakabas.04
Julia (she/her) @tlaquatl.bsky.social Aspiring fool. Lover of textiles, speculative fiction and crying.
Current reads: Saving Time by Jenny Odell
Obsidian @obsidian.md The free and flexible app for your private thoughts. For help and deeper discussions, join our community: http://obsidian.md/community
Anne Kosseff-Jones @annekosseffjones.bsky.social Line and copy editor at Radical Care Editing. Abolition and social criticism. Free Palestine. Passionate about making AI/LLM use socially unacceptable. Minneapolis. She/her.
Chris Blacker @chrisblacker.bsky.social NYC-based pianist/musical director, composer/lyricist, fitness junkie, dog dad. 🏳️🌈