Luke Stark @lukestark.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 just a simple country AI ethicist | Assistant Professor, Western University 🇨🇦 | Co-Director, @starlingcentre.bsky.social | he/his/him | | no all-male panels |#BLM | 🏳️⚧️ ally | views my own
https://starkcontrast.co/
https://starlingcentre.ca/
Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social Past President of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, author most recently of The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic, Draper Chair at UConn
Diana Enriquez, PhD @denrsch.bsky.social Sociologist via @Princeton.edu PhD (labor, tech & orgs) | writing a book about freelancers’ strategies | Principal, Technology Strategy & Design at Redstone Strategy Group
Political Research Associates @praeyesright.bsky.social Political Research Associates. Social justice research and strategy center since 1981. Publishers of The Public Eye magazine
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). Tech Policy Press contributor
https://josemarichal.github.io/
Kim Goodwin @kimgoodwin.bsky.social Author: Designing for the Digital Age. Consultant. Design & product exec. Researcher. Speaker & teacher. Wildlife photographer.
📷/🧵 Kim.Goodwin
Meredith Martin @mmvty.bsky.social poetry and data. prosody.princeton.edu & this cdh.princeton.edu
order here: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691254678/poetrys-data
editor here: https://c19datacollective.com/ & here: https://culturalanalytics.org/ @culturalanalytics.bsky
Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social Prof @ Penn studying media, race, tech, feminism, politics.
Author of A SECOND SIGHT (Mariner, 2026), co-author #HASHTAGACTIVISM (MIT Press, 2020) + more.
Typos and opinions both mine.
Co‑Director: @miccenter.bsky.social
Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com America's #1 populist! NYT bestselling author, former twice-elected Ag Commissioner of Texas, radio commentator and populist agitator for over 50 (!) years. Find out more at jimhightower.substack.com!
Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social trailcams
no AI ever
Gil Durán @gilduran.com California writer. Ida Tarbell stan.
Author: “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy.” https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Nerd-Reich/Gil-Duran/9781668221402
Newsletter: http://www.thenerdreich.com
Guerrilla Media Collective @guerrillamedia.bsky.social Cooperativa de traducción y servicios editoriales feminista y orientada al procomún. También conocidos como @GuerrillaTrans en la otra red. https://t.co/NoCP0fm0df
🏡 http://guerrillamedia.coop
Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social "I used to be just like you before I started going to therapy"
The Wayward Anthropologist coming April 2027
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
Citizen Platano 🇵🇷 @daniloc.xyz Guerrilla cyberneticist.
https://danilocampos.com
advisory: if we’ve never talked and you’re weirdly aggressive, I’m just going to block you.
Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com FT columnist, writing about work, technology & economics.
Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social Data journalist, AI scholar, NYU professor. Author, MORE THAN A GLITCH: CONFRONTING RACE, GENDER, AND ABILITY BIAS IN TECH and ARTIFICIAL UNINTELLIGENCE: HOW COMPUTERS MISUNDERSTAND THE WORLD. meredithbroussard.com
beth semel @bethmsemel.bsky.social AI killjoy, prednisone hater, writing about voice analysis AI and the labor of technosolutionist listening in American mental healthcare | bethmsemel.com
Zoe Zhao @zoezhao.bsky.social Research and teach tech, labor and social movements at 🍌𓆑. Neurodiverse 🌶️ and politically depressed organizer/gamer.
https://www.zoezhao.me/
Fairwork @towardsfairwork.bsky.social Rating working conditions in the #digitaleconomy. Let's build a fairer #FutureOfWork.
Adam Quinn @adamquinnphd.com Postdoctoral Fellow @ Science History Institute. Writing a book on labor & environment in the history of the computer industry.
Views expressed here are my own and not my employer's.
To read my work & for queries, visit www.adamquinnphd.com
Shreeharsh Kelkar @shreeharsh.bsky.social Continuing Lecturer, UC-Berkeley. I study AI, algorithms, organizations, work, labor, and expertise. Writing a book about MOOCs, data, and educational expertise.
Website: https://shreeharshkelkar.net
Substack: https://computingandsociety.substack.com/
Jenna Burrell @jburrell.bsky.social Currently: visiting researcher, University of Tokyo, based in Yokohama (GMT+9)
Formerly: Professor at UC-Berkeley, Director of Research, Data & Society.
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
Rafael Grohmann @grohmannrafael.bsky.social Assistant Professor Media Studies (Critical Platform Studies) University of Toronto, Canada. Leader DigiLabour. Platform labor, Worker-owned Platforms, AI & Labor, Worker Organizing
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/
Krystal Kauffman @krystalkauffman.bsky.social Activist * Former Lead Organizer - Turkopticon * Research Fellow - Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute * Rising Stars in AI Ethics 2024 * Tech Crunch Women in AI 2024 * All opinions are my own
Devika Narayan @devikanarayan.bsky.social Assistant Prof/Lecturer l University of Bristol Tech, markets, orgs + work. Some other stuff.
Sociologist.
https://www.devikanarayan.com/
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.
Bluesky USGS Quakebot @usgs-quakebot.bsky.social This bot pulls data from the USGS's real-time earthquake feed and posts a summary of any event in the lower 48 states having a preliminary magnitude 3.5+
made with 🫶🏼 by @DataDrivenMD.social
**NOT AFFILIATED WITH USGS**
Maia Woluchem @mwoluchem.bsky.social Program Director of Trustworthy Infrastructures @datasociety.bsky.social & talking about racial capitalism @ NYU Wagner. Formerly Ford Foundation, MIT DUSP. She/her.
Virginia Eubanks @virginiaeeubanks.bsky.social Writer working for an abundant, peaceful, and equitable future.
NEW MEMOIR (8/11/26): A Guide to Open Water Lifesaving: Lessons on Love, Care and Survival. Preorder: bit.ly/4hAFUJb https://virginia-eubanks.com/
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.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
Mathew Iantorno (he/him) @mathewiantorno.com 📚 PhD candidate at the University of Toronto (iSchool + ICCIT)
🤖 Studies the history, labour, & public impact of retail automation
🛰️ mathewiantorno.com
Kelle Howson @kellehowson.bsky.social Researcher, Institute for Economic Justice, @oii.ox.ac.uk | global inequality, social protection, digital technologies
kelly pendergrast @kellypendergrast.bsky.social technology // aesthetics // labor // shapes
writing: kellypendergrast.com
working: antistaticpartners.com
Journal of Engaging Science, Technology, and Society (ESTS) @estsjournal.bsky.social The diamond open access journal for the Society for Social Studies of Science and Technology (4S).
Tyler @tbreisacher.bsky.social 
Charlie Eaton @charlieeaton.bsky.social Economic sociologist, professor, University of California, Merced.
Research: Wall Street, Big Tech, oligarchs, elites, universities.
Bylines: NYT, WaPo, LAT.
Newsletter and website: https://www.charlieeaton.net
Greg Bloom @greggish.bsky.social commoning praxis: gregbloom.org
Leading the Open Referral Initiative: openreferral.org
Visiting Scholar @ the Ostrom Workshop - IU
Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social An independent research and policy institute working toward a future where people, not technology, come first.
Dietram A. Scheufele @dietram.bsky.social i research and teach #scicomm, #healthcomm, #socialmedia, #openscience, #ai, #misinfo, and #polarization. http://linktr.ee/scheufele
New New York Times @nyt-first-said.bsky.social Tweets words when they appear in the New York Times for the first time.
@nyt-said-where.bsky.social for context
maintained by @maxbittker.bsky.social
Stefan Baack @sbaack.com Senior researcher studying data governance and AI training data. Mastodon: @tootbaack@infosec.exchange he/him
struan 👻 @struanf.bsky.social i'm in glasgow pushing all the buttons, they keep telling me to wait but I won't
Designer @ Centre for Civic Innovation
struanfraser.co.uk
Rep. LaMonica McIver @replamonica.bsky.social Proudly Representing New Jersey’s 10th Congressional District
Amy Newell was elected to Brookline's Board of Library Trustees @amynewell.bsky.social hope from despair. Forest Witch. Baba Yaga type. Crazy. Artist, Aspiring Activist, Recovering Engineering Leader. bipolar, bisexual, and bitchy AF she/they 🏳️🌈
amyforbrookline.com
www.amywriteswords.com
Amy A. Hasinoff @amy-adele.bsky.social Associate Professor of Communication
online harm | gender & sexuality | transformative justice | she/her 🏳️🌈
www.amyhasinoff.com
Public Services International @psiglobalunion.bsky.social Fighting fires, fighting pandemics, fighting billionaires.
We are the Global Union Federation for public service workers.
Over 30mill members in 168 countries.
Follow us for news on workers' struggles the world over
www.publicservices.international
EPSU @epsu.bsky.social The European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU), organising 8 million public service workers across Europe.
Follow us to stay connected with their fight - and wins!
General Secretary: @jwgoudriaan.bsky.social
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
andi a @andia.bsky.social Ocean aficionado. Feels strongly about trees. Balancing motherhood with working at Hypha Worker Co-op. Personal site: https://writerly.ca/
🌱 ->https://spores.garden/@andia.bsky.social
Hoarse Whisperer @therealhoarse.bsky.social Father, writer, photographer, drinker of Guinness. 
Amy Spitalnick @amyspitalnick.bsky.social CEO, Jewish Council for Public Affairs (@thejcpa.bsky.social)
Focused on democracy, hate, & extremism.
Previously: sued Nazis & won; Comms Director & Sr Policy Advisor, NY Attorney General
Nick Martin @nick-martin.bsky.social I run The Informant, a publication covering hate and extremism in the US. Returning soon. Living with Long Covid. Profile photo by Victor G Jeffreys II.
The Informant: https://www.informant.news
Other places to find me: https://linktr.ee/nick_martin
David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social Reporter @WIRED covering disinformation, online extremism, and election hucksters. https://www.wired.com/author/david-gilbert/
Got a tip? Get in touch
• Email: david.gilbert@wired.com
• Signal: @DavidGilbert.01
Eddy Hernandez @eddywashere.bsky.social 🌱 A better world is possible
https://eddywashere.com/
amina aden @aminayaden.bsky.social product + ux research. often yapping. probs napping. forgotten how to ✨be online✨so mostly lurking. london via d(m)v.
🔹dream beyond binaries.
🔹assert your multitudes.
Aiha @aihathing.bsky.social activist. labor. tech. ethics
Linda Huber @puellaludens.bsky.social Social Justice and Technology Postdoc at Swarthmore College. Educating, agitating, organizing in tech-ademia.
Seth Lazar @sethlazar.org Philosopher working on AI alignment, governance and adaptation
Lab: https://mintresearch.org
Self: https://sethlazar.org
Newsletter: https://philosophyofcomputing.substack.com
Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social I play with books, cats, food, yarn, and dirt, not all at the same time. Software engineer. Society of People Interested in Boring Things. She/her, cis.
Emerson Victoria Johnston @idenarch.bsky.social currently researching the social history of the early internet (think algorithms, architectures, and archives)
tech policy @ stanford / comms and membership @ AoIR
masters x2 @ stanford / bachelors @ northeastern
first gen 🎓 | 🏳️🌈
Sireesh Gururaja @siree.sh PhD student @ltiatcmu.bsky.social. Working on NLP that centers worker agency. Otherwise: coffee, fly fishing, and keeping peach pits around, for...some reason
https://siree.sh
Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social Senior Researcher, Critical Internet Studies Institute (@criticalinternet.bsky.social, criticalinternet.org). He/him. Views my own; shares, likes, etc. =\= endorsements.
Trying to devote my time to matters of concern to others or to no one in particular.
Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com writer, editor, degenerate, Luddite, decel
thetechbubble.substack.com
Arya Thomas @aryawa.bsky.social World of Work, labour and health ecology, labour and Gender dynamics
New Delhi- Kochi
Currently visiting fellow at Science, Technology and Democracy project@ CSDS, New Delhi
Val @yogival.bsky.social she/they 👩🏽💻🌈 | algorithmic bias researcher @ reliabl.ai | community lead at metagov | aquarius☀️, cancer🌙
Juho Makkonen @juhomakkonen.bsky.social Democratizing platform ownership by helping anyone create their own online marketplace. CEO & Co-Founder @ https://www.sharetribe.com
Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social Professor of Law, University of CA, Irvine School of Law • Technology & Society • Work Law • Democracy & Inequality
General Counsel AAUP
Sam's sister ❤️
Personal Account, Views My Own
Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social author of Blood in the Machine, tech writer, luddite
newsletter: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/
books: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/contributor/brian-merchant/
kofi link: https://ko-fi.com/brianmerchant
justin from the internet @threlk.net Researcher researching research (and software engineering). Observing observability. Co-imagining more expansive futures. More at threlk.net (🚧 under construction 🚧)
🔗 https://ln.ht/~threlk/linkinbio
Nathan Goodman @nathanpgoodman.bsky.social Economist who studies institutions, political economy, polycentricity, defense & peace economics, and border militarization.
https://gunsguardsandgovernance.substack.com/
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=1Ue5NBMAAAAJ&hl=en
Eddie A Tejeda @eddietejeda.com VP of Engineering at Mode Analytics #civictech eddietejeda.com
Raphael Arar @rarar.com Head of Design @ One Project
Mentor @ NEW INC
Visiting Faculty @ Calarts
Executive Board @ Leonardo / ISAST
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rarar.com
common.oneproject.org
oneproject.org
leonardo.info
a dawn walker @dcwalker.ca researcher+designer. tech coops, local, infrastructure, community and alternative network/s/ing
In another place: @dcwalk@post.lurk.org
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute 
cameron tonkinwise @camerontw.bsky.social transition design, service design, design philosophy, finitude
- most of my occasional thinking these days takes advantage of the slightly longer form afforded by the truly awful linkedin, sorry: https://au.linkedin.com/in/cameron-tonkinwise-80a5987
Jason Spicer @jasonspicer.bsky.social Asst. Prof, CUNY (Baruch/Grad Center). Organizational models and entrepreneurship strategies for social change, solidarity economies, policy + planning. Author: Co-operative Enterprise in Comparative Perspective: Exceptionally Un-American? (OUP, 2024).
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/
karina ripley @kaareeenah.bsky.social assistant prof @ univ of virginia // lead organizer w @labortechresearchnetwork.org // tech, labor, culture // karinaripley.com
Juliet Schor @julietschor.bsky.social Professor of Sociology at Boston College, TED talk The Case for the Four Day Week, https://www.ted.com/talks/juliet_schor_the_case_for_a_4_day_work_week?subtitle=en
global research on #4DayWeek, author of After the Gig
Boston, MA Born November 9, 1955
Dave @thisisdavekim.com I (still) believe that we can create a more just and joyful world through design, technology, and community. And a fair bit of luck.
Currently working on Applied AI stuff.
Previously at IDEO, Gates Foundation, and ?What If! Innovation.
Austin Toombs @altoombs.bsky.social 🎮🎲🧶🏳️🌈🏃♂️📚💻
I play video and board games. I knit, crochet, and sew. I’m gay. I run marathons. I’m an Associate Professor at IU. I study technology-mediated relationships and communities through HCI, CSCW, and Social Computing approaches.
Seth Frey @enfascination.com Democracy is not a kind of process, it’s a kind of person. It’s a project of human development.
Prof in computational commons, collective action, and social emergence. Internet as a governance lab. Science towards nescience
enfascination.com/research
Matt Gallivan @theunderstanders.com User researcher at Anthropic • opinions mine etc • SF/NH • ☕️🎸🌁
theunderstanders.com
Lena @lenacorinna.bsky.social Partner at Process/Practice Studio.
Research & placemaking for more resilient places and communities.
Hard on systems, soft on people.
Ron Bronson @ronbronson.com speculative civics. asst. prof of practice, UMich Taubman College of Architecture & urban planning. 18F.gov alum ronbronson.design
Lauren Chambers @laurenmarietta.bsky.social still chasing the high that was space tw*tter circa 2018 💔
year 5 phd studying advocacy technology at @berkeleyischool.bsky.social
formerly @aclum.bsky.social🗽, @stsci.edu 🛰️
laurenmarietta.github.io
Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social Situationist Cybernetics. I make films with and against AI to see what isn’t there. Gates Scholar, Cambridge Digital Humanities. Affiliated Researcher, Machine Visual Culture Research Group (Max Planck Institute). Aim to be kind. cyberneticforests.com
Rachael Dietkus @rdietkus.bsky.social care for the public / lifelong advocate / designer / social worker / organizational ecologist / space nerd / tech ethicist / founder of www.socialworkerswho.design
Emanuel Ubert @emanuelubert.bsky.social Assistant Professor @rsmerasmus.bsky.social | Org Learning & Adaptation • (Goalless) Search • Evolution vs. Design • Climate Crisis & Insurance • Cognition, Collective Sensemaking & Social Imagination • Reluctant Utopian • Failing Boddhisatva.
Renée Reizman @reneereizman.com Artist, Writer, Dog enthusiast 🌵
Contributor at Hyperallergic, teaching communication design at Pepperdine, USC & CSUDH
Connie Chen 陳穎慈 @conniechiiiwa.bsky.social UX Designer + Mentor + Foodie + Homie💛
Corgis, flowers, drag queens, no fucks given.
🍀🏀 Celtics fan
🚨Available for work🚨
https://conniechen.design/
✨Support✨
• paypal.me/conniechiiiwa
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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
Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social cyberpunk is a warning, not a manual
she/her. dayjob & usual location: City & County of San Francisco (this is a personal account)
ex-18F; on the board @publicgood.tech ; wrote a small book about doing this: https://cydharrell.com/book/