Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social Historian of technology, occasional dad jokes.
www.marhicks.com
Dwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.eurosky.social Cybernetics • AI Resistance • Dialectics • Film Noir • Sun Tzu • https://monroelab.com • vdgasjournal.com • https://www.youtube.com/@DialecticalHouseParty • https://padlet.com/verdigris21/verdigris-kjopwvgquczhyt06
Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social Writer, reporter, and floofy dog owner. Previously at ARTnews, Business Insider, Quartz and other outlets. Based in Toronto.
Sarah Lasoye @sarahlasoye.bsky.social
Pre-Crime Programme Manager @openrightsgroup.org // digital justice, challenging state surveillance and 'crime-predicting' technologies
The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social AI is not inevitable. We DAIR to imagine, build & use AI deliberately.
Website: http://dair-institute.org
Mastodon: @DAIR@dair-community.social
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dair-institute/
Michael Kibedi @uxmichael.co 👊🏾💥 critical technologist // design researcher // writer // speaker // 📨 First and Fifteenth // 🦆 birdwatcher // 🍽️ collects menus (no, really) // 🔗 https://linktr.ee/uxmichaelco // 🌐 uxmichael.co
Data Justice Lab @datajusticelab.bsky.social Researching the intersection of datafication and social justice.
Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social An independent research and policy institute working toward a future where people, not technology, come first.
ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com anthropologist [no longer] yelling at engineers. feral.
signal -> @ali.01
Human Rights Watch @hrw.org 🔎 🌎 ✊
Exposing human rights abuses around the world.
Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social information science professor (tech ethics + internet stuff)
kind of a content creator (elsewhere also @professorcasey)
though not influencing anyone to do anything except maybe learn things
she/her
more: casey.prof
Alisar Mustafa @alisarmustafa.bsky.social Author of the AI Policy Newsletter.
Subscribe here : Alisarmustafa.substack.com
Foxglove Legal @foxglovelegal.bsky.social www.foxglove.org.uk
Foxglove is a non-profit that exists to make the use of technology fair for everyone.
NHS Race & Health Observatory @nhs-rho.bsky.social We are an independent body working to tackle ethnic inequalities in health & care by focusing on evidence, policy recommendations and implementation for change.
Dr Tiera Tanksley @drtanksley.bsky.social AI, Ethics & Education 📚
I examine how biases within EdTech and AI can exacerbate educational equity gaps for Black students
2023-2024 Op Ed + MacArthur Foundation Public Voices in Tech Fellowship
Arvind Narayanan @randomwalker.bsky.social Princeton computer science prof. I write about the societal impact of AI, tech ethics, & social media platforms. https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/
BOOK: AI Snake Oil. https://www.aisnakeoil.com/
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
S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project @stopspyingny.bsky.social Fighting to abolish local & state surveillance.
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
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
Dr Sasha Luccioni @sashamtl.bsky.social Climate & AI Lead @HuggingFace, TED speaker, WiML board member, TIME AI 100 (She/her/Dr/🦋)
Dr Ruby (she/her) @paperwhispers.bsky.social Mango eating, sunshine loving, data research and question asker. Immigrant.
Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social Researching data, tech, futures, and biological sciences in education | Senior Lecturer and co-director at the Centre for Research in Digital Education | University of Edinburgh | Editor of Learning, Media and Technology @lmt-journal.bsky.social
Khari Johnson @khari.bsky.social proud dad, snack enthusiast, tech reporter at CalMatters/The Markup, formerly at WIRED and VentureBeat
Signal —> kharijohnson.67
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
BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social We are the Arts & Humanities Research Council programme working to enable a healthy Responsible AI ecosystem in the UK.
You can also keep up to date via our newsletter: https://braiduk.org/#newsletter
Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social Philosopher/AI Ethicist at Univ of Edinburgh, FRSE. Co-Director @technomoralfutures.bsky.social and BRAID @braiduk.bsky.social, author of Technology and the Virtues (2016) and The AI Mirror (2024). Views my own. Humble servant to Carol and Puffin. She/her.
Sara Alsherif @sarahalsherif.bsky.social Into tech, gender and human rights.
Fighting tyrants know no borders; it's not only my job; it's my lifestyle.
And in case you are wondering 'Views are my own'.
لا للمحاكمات العسكرية للمدنيين
William Isaac @williamis.bsky.social Research Scientist @DeepMind | Previously @OSFellows & @hrdag. RT != endorsements. Opinions Mine. Pronouns: he/him
Alix Dunn @alixdunn.com I bloop about the politics of technology and host the Computer Says Maybe podcast: https://www.themaybe.org/podcast
404 Media @404media.co it's a website (and a podcast, and a newsletter) about humans and technology, made by four journalists you might already know. like and subscribe: 404media.co
Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social Scholar, author, policy advisor
Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab
https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab
Books: The Future of Science is Civic, Auditing AI, The Social Life of DNA, Genetics & the Unsettled Past, Body & Soul, Technicolor
The Markup @themarkup.org Challenging technology to serve the public good.
Send tips: http://mrkup.org/tips. Subscribe: http://mrkup.org/klaxon. Support: http://mrkup.org/donate.
The Verge @theverge.com Covering life in the future
Subscribe here: https://www.theverge.com/subscribe
Privacy International @privacyinternational.org For a world where technology will empower and enable us, not exploit our data for profit and power.
https://privacyinternational.org
Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social Artist working on critical AI, power, and belief @ IcarusSalon.com & ArtificialLifeCoach.com
Gray Area | Tech Inquiry | OCEAN | Kidd Lab UC Berkeley
Loyal to the Land & the Brass Tax -- #Turkish #Kanaka
Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social 🌈 Feminist Senior Lecturer in data politics and social justice at City st. George's, Uni of London, UK. She/her.
https://elinorcarmi.com/
Working on data&AI governance/data&AI literacies/data justice/digital rights/ad tech industry/surveillance.
The Onion @theonion.com America’s Finest News Source. A @globaltetrahedron.bsky.social subsidiary.
Get the paper delivered to your door: membership.theonion.com
Join The Onion Newsletter: https://theonion.com/newsletters/
Ada Lovelace Institute @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social Making data & AI work for people & society.
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Resist List @resistlist.bsky.social Welcome to Resist List. Your online hub of the ongoing resistance to the growth of authoritarianism in the United States.
https://choosedemocracy.us/resist-list/
The Citizen Lab @citizenlab.ca We are an academic research unit at the University of Toronto investigating novel threats to democracy, human rights, and global security in the digital ecosystem.
Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk Breaking news, campaigns and advice from unions and the labour movement. https://tuc.org.uk
ProPublica @propublica.org Investigative journalism in the public interest. Headlines and (sometimes literal) receipts.
propublica.org
Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social Fighting for human rights across UK & the world 🌍 follow for activism & news. Amnesty UK (Charitable Trust & Section).
http://amnesty.org.uk/
Anna Bacciarelli @abacci.bsky.social Human rights nerd trying to make AI OK. Human Rights Watch Senior AI Researcher + REAL ML Executive Director.
Action for Race Equality @are-official.bsky.social Shaping policy, challenging discrimination and delivering projects to end racial inequality in the UK across education, employment, enterprise & criminal justice
Debbie Weekes-Bernard @debbieweekesb.bsky.social Deputy Mayor of London for Communities & Social Justice, Chair of Praxis, formerly at JRF and Runnymede Trust - racial justice, anti-poverty, gender, equity. She/her. Views my own
Equality Labs @equalitylabs.bsky.social At the intersection of organizing, community based research, socially engaged arts & digital security for South Asian religious & cultural minorities💙💛
Learn more: linktr.ee/equalitylabs
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
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that.
Data Workers’ Inquiry @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social The Data Workers’ Inquiry is a community-based research project in which data workers lead their own inquiry in their respective workplaces.
https://data-workers.org
Tech Workers Coalition @techworkerscoalition.org We are a coalition of workers in and around the tech industry, labor organizers, community organizers, and friends. We work in solidarity with existing movements towards social justice, workers' rights, and economic inclusion.
Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of EMPIRE OF AI: empireofai.com. ai reporter. national magazine award & american humanist media award winner. words in The Atlantic. formerly WSJ, MIT Tech Review, KSJ@MIT. email: http://karendhao.com/contact.
Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social ✍🏽 • RACE AFTER TECHNOLOGY: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code • VIRAL JUSTICE: How We Grow the World We Want • IMAGINATION: A Manifesto 📚www.ruhabenjamin.com
Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co Hey, I'm a climate and energy writer / data analyst who focuses on corporate + govt accountability
Creator + curator of the Greensky feed: https://ketanjoshi.co/greensky/
Based in Oslo but write about US, Europe, Aus too - ketan.joshi85@gmail.com
Yasmin Ibison @yasminibison.bsky.social Senior Policy Advisor at JRF (@jrf-uk.bsky.social) focusing on communities and place
she/her
Views my own.
Place Matters @placematters.bsky.social Place Matters works in partnership with organisations and communities to accelerate the impact of community-centred place-based change.
Lela Kogbara @lelakogbara.bsky.social Social justice is my thing Place Matters co-director, Board member Anti-Apartheid Centre of Memory and Learning, DFN Project Search, Social Finance, NHS Advancing Mental Health Equality Taskforce
Efua Poku Amanfo @efuapokuamanfo.bsky.social Research Fellow @IPPR
Education, Social Inequality, Food.
Shomari Lewis-Wilson @shomarilw.bsky.social Equitable Research Ecosystems Lead for the UK @wellcometrust| Co-Founder @newfablesco | ExNeuroNerd | Likes: 🎮🎧🍿📺|🇯🇲🇺🇸🇬🇧| Own views | He/Him |🤙🏾🔥
Runnymede Trust @runnymedetrust.bsky.social Progressing racial justice since 1968
linktr.ee/runnymedetrust
Just Knowledge @justknowledge.bsky.social We Combine High-Quality Data with Lived Experience to Drive Social Change
Open Rights Group @openrightsgroup.org We fight for digital rights. Join us.
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/join/
Dr Mahlet ("Milly") Zimeta @techmilly.bsky.social Head of Digital & Data Policy for Which (UK consumer association) | x-ODI x-Royal Society x-Alan Turing Institute | website linkedin.com/in/mgzimeta/ | views my own | literary journalism as @mgzimeta.bsky.social | I don't have access to DMs here
Eylan Ezekiel @eylanezekiel.bsky.social Education : Equity : Environment
I really GAF
Head of @hamiltonbrookes.bsky.social
Also: @whojewthinkur.bsky.social
Oxford : UK
linktr.ee/eylanezekiel
Amahra Spence @amahra.bsky.social Building infrastructure for Black spatial justice and the Hood Commons @hoodfuturesstudio
Charlotte with Ink @charlottebailey.bsky.social
Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com Prototyping ways to use health-based scientific evidence to support justice movements, surface and socialise non-western epistemologies & create language to articulate the health injustices felt by many racialised and marginalised folx.
thecentriclab.com
Cassie Robinson @cassierobinson.bsky.social www.cassierobinson.work
🌳Wealth Pre & Redistribution, Emerging Futures, Imagination Infrastructures, Conscious Closures, Practices for Transition.
🔮Erotic Ecology, Designing with the Other-than-human World, Oracular Bodies and Queer Capacities.
Comrade Columbae, floodplains truther 🏳️🌈 @finokoye.bsky.social She/her, queerness as praxis, research as activism, mmanwu-obsessed communist anchoress in training, idk 🏳️🌈🐢🐦
No DMs please, I’m Brit”ish”.
https://finokoye.com
AI Now Institute @ainowinstitute.bsky.social The AI Now Institute produces diagnosis and actionable policy research on artificial intelligence.
Find us at https://ainowinstitute.org/
Bluesky @bsky.app official Bluesky account (check username👆)
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