Safiya Umoja Noble, PhD @safiyanoble.bsky.social Living in Los Angeles. Native Californian. #MacFellow
Writer, professor. Comedian.
Author, “Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism,” which is unfortunately still relevant to understanding today’s LLMs and AI.
safiyaunoble.com
Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social Chief Executive, The British Academy
Chair, Our World in Data
Board, National Audit Office
Visiting Professor in Practice, LSE
Visiting Professor, Kings College London
Fellow, Birkbeck College
Views my own
Mary Branscombe @marypcbuk.bsky.social Omnivorous technology journalist. girl with the USB earring; author of the Cassidy At Large technomysteries. Like my writing? Buy me a ☕ https://ko-fi.com/marybranscombe. she/her. Warning: contains opinions. signal marypcbuk.44
Kate Bevan @katebevan.com Cat pics, tech, ranting. Sweary. Londoner. Enemy of gerunds in headlines. When I want advice, I'll ask for it.
Chris Stokel-Walker @stokel.bsky.social Tech journalist and author, who increasingly also talks on TV and radio. Interested in the sparks that happen when the online and offline worlds collide
@stokel on the other place. Buy my book: How AI Ate the World!
Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Investigative journalist. Ex-Guardian/Observer. Now co-founder brand new all-women journalist collective, www.thenerve.news. Tech justice stuff: www.the-citizens.com. Personal newsletter: www.broligarchy.substack.com
Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social Hacking/crime/privacy journalist. Author of DARK WIRE, buy here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/joseph-cox/dark-wire/9781541702691/#preorder Co-founder of 404 Media. Signal: joseph.404 Email: joseph@404media.co
Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social AI correspondent at the Economist. I write about it, that is. I’m still human. One of literally dozens of people online who is not American.
Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social Professor of EU and Human Rights Law. Usual disclaimers. Latest book: European Union Law, 5th edition, co-edited with Catherine Barnard.
Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social Journalist @404Media.co
Signal: jason.404 // email: jason@404media.co
Zoe Kleinman @zsk.bsky.social BBC Technology Editor 🤖
Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social Bennett Professor of Public Policy, University of Cambridge; economist
Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social Hopeful technologist.
Community tech, careful innovation, socially progressive tech policy.
https://www.careful.industries
https://hopeful.technology
https://buttondown.email/justenoughinternet
DMs don't work but hello@careful.industries will find me
Simon Willison @simon.fedi.simonwillison.net.ap.brid.gy Open source developer building tools to help journalists, archivists, librarians and others analyze, explore and publish their data. https://datasette.io […]
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Bill Thompson @billt.bsky.social Hack and pundit. BBC Research & Development. Formerly Digital Planet.
Gaia Marcus @gaiamarcus.bsky.social - Director @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social:ensuring data & AI work for ppl & society
- Stint in government - led #NationalDataStrategy; roles in Cabinet Office, ONS & MHCLG
- Charity roles inc. Samaritans Trustee; staff @ The RSA, Centrepoint, ParkinsonsUK
Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social https://danmcquillan.org/
Catherine Barnard @cbarnard.bsky.social Professor of EU law and Employment law, Trinity College Cambridge, senior fellow, UK in a Changing Europe. Knows a little bit about EU and Brexit things. 
Ian Brown 👨🏻💻 @ianbrown.tech 💻 regulation (🔑 #privacy 🗳)
⛷🚴🏻♂️🥾🗺 🇮🇨🇪🇸🇪🇺🏳️🌈🌻
Visiting Prof @fgvoficial.bsky.social 👨🏫
Formerly DCMS Principal Scientific Officer/Prof. Information Security & Privacy @oii.ox.ac.uk
Tech News @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy
Wolfie Christl @wchr.bsky.social Public-interest researcher at Cracked Labs | Research fellow at Citizen Lab | Vienna, Austria | Tech and society. Tracking, surveillance, data economy, platform power, algorithmic decisions, datafication of work.
wolfie.crackedlabs.org/en
Pat Walshe - Privacy Matters 🇮🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺 @privacymatters.bsky.social Advocate for privacy and broader human rights impacted by data.
Love nothing better than a hike in the hills. Embracing Yutori ゆとり over on @yutoriwalking.bsky.social
Reuben Binns @rdbinns.bsky.social Computery guy. HCI, ML, AI, privacy, security, fairness, political economy of tech. He/him. London/Oxford.
electronic Max (Max Van Kleek) @emax.bsky.social Assoc. Prof–Computer Science, University of Oxford
LGBTQ+ fellow, ethical systems, AI, privacy, dignity and digital human rights. MIT Alumnus. Ex-IBM, Nokia, PARC.
lover of robot music 🤖⚡️
https://hip.cat/emax
https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/max.vanklee
Peter Hense 🔔🇺🇦🇮🇱🇪🇺 @peterhense.bsky.social #NAFOfella | Litigator | data, tech, AI | co-host RegInt: Decoding AI Regulation | AI Act Compact: https://shop.ruw.de/AI-Act-Compact/978-3-8005-1960-6 | Passionate about politics, history, animal protection | Loves Rome & The Simpsons | Threema: YTN9VR2P
Rosamunde Van Brakel @rosamundevb.bsky.social assistant prof/senior postdoc criminology VUB/substitute lecturer KULeuven - research: digital & green criminology, surveillance, AI, youth justice, human rights
https://researchportal.vub.be/en/persons/rosamunde-elise-van-brakel
Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social Professor in Science and Technology Studies, UCL @stsucl.bsky.social. Science policy, responsible innovation, emerging technologies. Book https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-32320-2. Responsible AI UK (www.rai.ac.uk)
CDT Europe @cdteu.org Centre for Democracy and Technology Europe 🇪🇺 Advancing EU law and tech policy with a focus on democracy and human rights.
Part of @cdt.org's Global team.
https://cdt.org/eu/
Johnny Ryan @johnnyryan.bsky.social Director of ICCL Enforce https://iccl.ie/Enforce Previously Chief Policy Officer of Brave. FRHistS.
https://ie.linkedin.com/in/johnnyryan1
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 •
Natasha @riptari.bsky.social Journalist+, climber-in-training, asks awkward questions ~tips: natasha[at]techcrunch[dot]com
Catalina Goanta @cgoanta.bsky.social Associate prof in private law & tech (Utrecht University) & PI ERC Research Stg HUMANads '22-'27 @goanta@someone.elses.computer
Martin Husovec @hutko.bsky.social 
Ben Collier @susansegfault.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at University of Edinburgh in STS. Criminologist and author of Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy. Chair of the Foundation for Information Policy Research. Researching power and harm in digital infrastructure. Pfp Jamie Buchan
peterkwells @peterkwells.com BlackpoolFC, books, tech, people, policy & delivery, realist. Hopes to make stuff work for everyone.
https://peterkwells.com
Emerald de Leeuw-Goggin 🇮🇪🇳🇱🇺🇸 @emeralddeleeuw.bsky.social 🤖Global Expert in Privacy & AI Governance | Shaping executive strategies for privacy and responsible AI and 💖 advancing women in AI governance.
All views expressed here are my own - when I share, it is not an endorsement
Brent Mittelstadt @bmittelstadt.bsky.social Professor of Data Ethics and Policy at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford and Principal Investigator at the Weizenbaum Institute. Founder of the Governance of Emerging Technologies research programme.
Paddy Leerssen @pjleerssen.bsky.social Postdoc @ivir_uva | DSA Observatory | social media law 
Laura James @laurajames.eurosky.social Adaptable, empathetic engineering leader
👩🏻💻 VP Research at F-Secure
☕️ director at CoFarm.co & nowplaythis.net & Green Web Foundation
Past: doteveryone.org.uk, makespace.org, okfn.org + more ➡️ lbj.org.uk
X:LaurieJ
More on @Laura@social.coop or LBJ.org.uk
Andrew Murray @andrewdmurray.bsky.social Professor of Information Technology Law at LSE. Dean-Elect of @lselaw.bsky.social (from September 2025)
Academic Member of the Amsterdam Law & Technology Institute.
“The Alexa of Cyberlaw” (2022 Student Evaluation)
Dr Lachlan Urquhart @mooseabyte.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Technology Law & HCI, U of Edinburgh. Director of Regulation + Design Lab; Co-Director CRISP + SCRIPT. Tech Law, HCI, IoT, AI, Design, Privacy, Cybersec, Surveillance, Sustainability, Metal, Guitars, Sci Fi, photography, campervans.
Antonio Aloisi @aloisi.bsky.social law professor @ielawschool + fellow @nyulaw
platforms, AI, futures of work, social Europe
“Your Boss Is an Algorithm” – Hart 2022
http://lawtomation.ie.edu
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👾
Bernard Keenan @bernardkeenan.bsky.social Lecturer, UCL Laws. Law, theory, tech.
Interception: from postal systems to global networks (MIT 2025)
Colin Gavaghan @digitalfutures.bsky.social Professor at Bristol Digital Futures Institute/UoB Law School.
Tech law geek. Genre fic nerd. Proud Scot-kiwi-Bristolian. 
Data controversies, James Stewart @datacontroversies.bsky.social Microblog supporting Internet and Society and Controversies in the Data Society courses, Science Technology and Innovation Studies, University of Edinburgh
Tristan Henderson @tnhh.org Computer scientist (ish) at St Andrews. Insane in the membrane. Except when running. Running photos at @tnhh.pixelfed.social.ap.brid.gy
Burkhard Schafer @burkhardschafer.bsky.social Intellectual nomad grazing across the borders of law and computer science, University of Edinburgh. Corrupting the youth since 1996. Re-skeeting = unconditional love https://www.law.ed.ac.uk/people/professor-burkhard-schafe
Andrew Strait @agstrait.bsky.social UK AI Security Institute
Former Ada Lovelace Institute, Google, DeepMind, OII
Cristina Caffarra @cristinacaffarra.bsky.social Economist, antitrust expert, econ/tech policy commentator, keynote speaker, convener CEPR Competition RPN, EscapeForward podcaster and conference host/ producer, Hon.Prof. UCL, DG Grow Fellow 2026, founder/lead EuroStack Industry Initiative
Francesca Palmiotto @francescapalmiotto.bsky.social AI, Human Rights and Criminal Justice
Assistant Professor at @ielawschool
Editor and co-founder @The_Digi_Con
Sharing resources and abstract art
Sandra Wachter @swachter.bsky.social Professor of Technology and Regulation, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford https://tinyurl.com/3rkmbmsf
Humboldt Professor of Technology & Regulation, Hasso Plattner Institute https://tinyurl.com/47rkrt6c
Governance of Emerging Technologies
Mark Coeckelbergh @coeckelbergh.bsky.social Philosopher of technology | Professor at Philosophy Department University of Vienna | Author of AI Ethics, Why AI Undermines Democracy, and Artificial Religion | member UN Independent International Scientific Panel on AI | https://coeckelbergh.net
noyb – European Center for Digital Rights @noyb.eu About us 👉 http://noyb.eu
Become a member 👉 http://noyb.eu/support
#MakePrivacyReality #InvestInPrivacy
Jennifer Cobbe @jennifercobbe.bsky.social Tech law @cambridgelaw.bsky.social
https://www.law.cam.ac.uk/people/academic/j-cobbe/83662
Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social Feminist SocSci-Humanities scholar-practitioner in tech & AI. Associate Director & Senior Researcher: www.lcfi.ac.uk
VLR-MAA-DEL-BOM-BLR-BER-CBG
Outside cat; but more of a dog person really.
bodyofwork.in
Gloria González Fuster @ggf.bsky.social Research Professor at the Faculty of Law and Criminology of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). Director of the Law, Science, Technology & Society (LSTS) Research Group. Data. Privacy. Protection.
Risto Uuk @ristouuk.bsky.social Head of European Policy and Research @ Future of Life Institute | PhD Researcher @ KU Leuven | Author, forthcoming Wiley book “The AI Endgame” (2027)
Virginia Dignum @vdignum.bsky.social 🇵🇹🇳🇱🇸🇪🇪🇺 Prof #A.I @umeauniversity; member @UN Advisory Group on AI; @wasp_hs; author; speaker; #responsibleAI https://bit.ly/2WxEkQU
John Naughton @jjn1.bsky.social Academic,newspaper columnist (Observer), blogger (johnnaughton.substack.com), photographer, optimist (despite current state of world), author, co-founder of Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy (mctd.ac.uk) at Cambridge
dr corinne cath (ccs) is in London @ccs.bsky.social Anthropologist of internet industry & clouds | Head of Global Team Digital @article19.bsky.social | @mctd.bsky.social Univ of Cambridge & Univ of Ams critical infra lab | coffee, climbing, mãe, she/they | https://corinnecath.com/messy-human/
Christian Katzenbach @ckatzenbach.bsky.social Prof in Media and Communication // Editor-In-Chief New Media &Society // Director MA Digital Media and Society // Wonderful team @pgmt.bsky.social // platform governance, AI hype, discourse
https://zemki.uni-bremen.de/en/person/christian-katzenbach/
Paul Nemitz @paulnemitz.bsky.social Lawyer, Policy Developer, Speaker on #Democracy, #Law & #Technology, #AI #AIAct, #DSA & #GDPR and how all this works together. Co- Author of „The Human Imperative- Power, Freedom and Democracy in the age of #ArtificialIntelligence“.
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
Marco Almada @marcoalmada.com I have always depended on the kindness of otters.
Assistant prof of law @ CUNEF, working on regulatory theory, digital governance & EU law
Skeets about work, hobbies (Warhammer 40k, sci-fi more generally, football), life, and bad puns.
Matthias Spielkamp @spielkamp.bsky.social Founder & ED AlgorithmWatch. Board member RSF Germany.
Ewa Luger @ewaluger.bsky.social Professor of Human-Data Interaction, University of Edinburgh; Codirector @braiduk.bsky.social; & https://www.responsiblenlp.org Researches AI/HCI
Alison Powell @abpowell.bsky.social Assoc Prof at LSE | Teaches MSc in Data & Society | Feminist research praxis | AI policy making | Undoing Optimization: https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300223804/
Current work on health, care and environment from NHS tech to Rewilding the Night
Ignacio Cofone @ignaciocofone.bsky.social Prof of Law & Regulation of AI at @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk. Books: "The Privacy Fallacy" (2023) "Canadian Privacy Law" (2026). Likes tech, dogs, and sustainable industrial policy
Kris Shrishak @krisshrishak.bsky.social Public interest technologist & chocolate lover | Privacy, PETs, algorithmic decision making, films, books, more | https://krisshrishak.de | KrisShrishak@eupolicy.social
Jeremias Adams-Prassl @jeremiasprassl.bsky.social Law @Oxford, currently visiting @Melbourne. Interested in algorithmic management, the future of work, and tech regulation.
Water enthusiast
Alan Winfield @alan-winfield.bsky.social Engineer, roboethicist and pro-feminist. Interested in robots as working models of life, evolution, intelligence and culture. Prof Robot Ethics, Bristol Robotics Lab. Home page: https://people.uwe.ac.uk/Person/AlanWinfield
Giulia Gentile @gentilegiulia.bsky.social All things #EU + #AI + #FRs / Lecturer @EssexLawSchool / Prev.
@LSELaw, @KCL_Law & @lawinmaastricht / RT≠endorsement / lots of typos
@nadyapurtova.bsky.social @nadyapurtova.bsky.social Law & Tech prof., LLM Law&Tech program director @ Utrecht Uni, ERC INFO-LEG PI, everything data protection, data gov-ce
Michael Birnhack @birnhack.bsky.social #Privacy #Copyright Law; Professor of Law @TAU_Law #פרטיות
https://en-law.tau.ac.il/profile/birnhack
Nora Ni Loideain @nniloideain.bsky.social Associate Professor in Law & Director, Information Law & Policy Centre, IALS, University of London; Expert in privacy, data protection, human rights; Joint Editor-in-Chief, International Data Privacy Law; Author: EU Data Privacy Law and Serious Crime (OUP)
linnetelwin.bsky.social @linnetelwin.bsky.social Hanging around causing trouble in NL, working at Tilburg on data and representation. I’m sceptical about the whole thing tbh.
Kaspar Rosager Ludvigsen @kasparrosager.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Durham University. DK lawyer/jurist (EU Law/CPS/AI/MD/Safety). Formerly Edinburgh University, Newcastle University. PhD (CS), Cybersecurity/Law, University of Strathclyde.
Gourmand.
ORCID: 0000-0001-7243-2548
Lina Dencik @linadencik.bsky.social Professor and University Research Leader in AI Justice at Goldsmiths, University of London. Co-Founder of Data Justice Lab.
Michèle Finck @mfinck.bsky.social Professor of Technolawgy
Nicola Osborne (they/them) @suchprettyeyes.bsky.social Manager - Institute for Design Informatics, BRAID Creative Industries Lead, EDI and Partnership lead Designing Responsible NLP CDT, CoSTAR Realtime Lab EDI lead, EU ekip project, BEDA G42, SSI Mentor. CODI/The Provocateurs performer. Views my own.
konrad kollnig @kollnig.net assist prof @ tech&law maastricht
kollnig.net
Francien Dechesne 🟥 @fdechesne.bsky.social eLaw Leiden Univ - Ethics & Digital Technologies - AI & Society - background in math/phil/compsci/logic [intuitionistic mathematician at heart]
Bringing the elephant into the room.
Institute for Information Law (IViR) @ivir-uva.bsky.social Academic research institute | Faculty of Law | University of Amsterdam
www.ivir.nl
Law, Science, Technology & Society (LSTS) Research Group @lsts-vub.bsky.social We are an interdisciplinary Research Group at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). https://lsts.research.vub.be/
Aleksandr Tiulkanov @tiulkanov.fr LL.M., EU AI Act Course Instructor, CEN/CENELEC AI standards contributor, AI Governance consultant. Drafted AI and data regulation and policy for two nations. Ex-Council of Europe, ex-Deloitte Legal.
Joanna Bryson, blathering @j2bryson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy I'm an academic, proud to work in a policy school, but still sometimes longing to return to natural science and/or programming again. Or maybe art? This Mastodon […]
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Sophie Stalla-Bourdillon @sophiestalla-b.bsky.social Co-Director Brussels Privacy Hub, Lsts, VUB
Visiting Prof, Southampton Law School
Zihao Li @zihaoli.bsky.social Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Tech Law at Uiversity of Glasgow & CREATe | UKRI Fellow on Metascience AI | Fellow at Stanford University | BG: Comput. Sci. & Law #DataProtection #AI #Blockchain #IP #CyberLaw
Eric Kind @kind.ac Managing Director @awo.agency
Felix Bieker @felixbieker.bsky.social Digital infrastructures, platforms, power – The Right to Data Protection (http://bit.ly/3sp3MXS) – http://mas.to/@felixbieker
Simone van der Hof @joix.bsky.social Professor of Regulating Digital Technologies | Privacy, Data Protection, Commercial Exploitation, Digital Play, Digital Child Rights | Center for Law & Digital Technologies (eLaw), Leiden University
Fantastic Lawyers (Formerly WardblawG) The AI Legal Directory @wardblawg.bsky.social Founded by Gav Ward, ex-lawyer and legal technologist, Fantastic Lawyers® helps people find trusted lawyers and legal AI insights. https://fantasticlawyers.com/
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
Hannah van Kolfschooten @hvkolfschooten.bsky.social • (EU) Health Law @ University of Basel
• Law, ethics & policy of AI in health
• Technology, health & human rights
• AI Policy @ Health Action International
• Prev. @ Harvard Law & University of Amsterdam
Sonia Livingstone @sonialivingstone.bsky.social LSE prof @MediaLSE | Director of #DigitalFutures4Children | Researches children's digital experiences and rights | Interested in evidence to inform policy | s.livingstone@lse.ac.uk | Stay in touch at http://eepurl.com/cEUi05
Kim van Sparrentak @kimvsparrentak.bsky.social Member of the European Parliament
@progressiefned
@greens-efa.eu
Institute for the Future of Work @ifow.org An independent research and development institute exploring how new technologies are transforming work and working lives. http://www.ifow.org
Subscribe to our newsletter: https://www.ifow.org/newsletter
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
Christoph Busch @christophbusch.bsky.social Professor of Law, University of Osnabrück & Affiliated Fellow, Yale Information Society Project. Digital markets, platform regulation, consumer law.
Luca Bertuzzi @lucabertuzzi.bsky.social Senior AI Correspondent at MLex. Award-winning reporter focused on digital policy & EU affairs. Ex Euractiv. Bylines at la Repubblica & Tagesspiegel.