M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social Professor of Psychology & Human Values at Princeton | Cognitive scientist curious about technology, narratives, & epistemic (in)justice | They/She 🏳️🌈
www.crockettlab.org
Defend Digital Me @defenddigitalme.bsky.social Defend Digital Me is a call to action to protect learners’ rights to privacy. We are teachers and parents who campaign for safe, fair and transparent data processing in education, in England, and beyond. http://defenddigitalme.org
Edinburgh Futures Institute @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social Official Bluesky account of Edinburgh Futures Institute: A futures-focused space for learning, research, and innovation at the University of Edinburgh.
Moray House School of Education and Sport @morayhouse.bsky.social Top 20 globally for Education and Sport-related studies. For almost 200 years, our staff, students and alumni have influenced, improved and transformed learning, teaching and policy worldwide. Study with us! https://education-sport.ed.ac.uk
Critical Digital Education Research Group @cder-oxford.bsky.social Based at the University of Oxford, the Critical Digital Education Research Group takes a broadly sociological approach to exploring the role of technology in learning and education nationally and internationally. https://tinyurl.com/3vurz3xn
Tim Davies @timdavies.org.uk Director of Research & Practice at @ConnectedByData.org working on participatory and open governance of tech. Adoptive parent.
Luci Pangrazio @lucipangrazio.bsky.social Associate Professor at Deakin University researching datafication, data literacies and digital platforms. ARC DECRA Fellow (2023-2026) and Chief Investigator in ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child (2021-2028).
Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) @aoir.bsky.social Researching the Internet is serious business. Mostly.
(We're mainly over on AoIR.social, our organisation Mastodon instance, which is open to all members.)
https://aoir.org/
https://aoir.social/@aoir
https://aoir.org/aoir2026/
Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social An independent research and policy institute working toward a future where people, not technology, come first.
Digital Child @digitalchildau.bsky.social Supporting children growing up in a digital world. Find out more at digitalchild.org.au
Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info Writer, professor, and artist exploring the internet.
Privacy @ACLU.org · Board @MuckRock.com · Teaching @PrattiSchool.bsky.social
rebeccawilliams.info · rebecca.411 on Signal
Connected by Data @connectedbydata.org The campaign for communities to have a powerful say on data and AI, to help create an equitable and sustainable world.
connectedbydata.org
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
Paulina Ruiz-Cabello @pauliruiz.bsky.social Lecturer in Education and Digital Technologies, University of Bristol.
Digital education, youth and digital cultures, everyday learning, positional identities
Lyndsay Grant @lyndsayg.bsky.social Lecturer in Education and Digital Technologies, School of Education, University of Bristol https://t.co/QnySq9lAPt
Learning, Media and Technology @lmt-journal.bsky.social #LMT 🟨🟪 aims to stimulate debate on digital media, digital technology and digital cultures in education. Edited by @benpatrickwill.bsky.social, @johnpp.bsky.social, @discoursology.bsky.social & @lucipangrazio.bsky.social.
Education Policy Institute @edupolicyinst.bsky.social The Education Policy Institute (EPI) is an independent, impartial, and evidence-based research institute that promotes high quality education
Andrew Przybylski @shuhbillskee.bsky.social Father and Husband. Professor @oii.ox.ac.uk
Dr Julian Grenier CBE @juliangrenier.bsky.social Work on early years at EEF. Previously led Sure Start Children’s Centres 20+ yrs. Views personal.
Free newsletter - Early Years High 5: big ideas in 5 short reads ⤵️
https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/early-years-evidence-in-action-7214995239114059777
HeadteacherChat @headteacherchat.bsky.social ⭐️Proud to host a fantastic community of edu leaders, and offering support every step of the leadership journey. Join our newsletter for regular updates.👇
Emily MacLeod PhD @emilymacleod.bsky.social I research why people do/not become teachers, especially in science, and how we can make education equitable. Working at McGill and UCL.
www.emilymacleod.co.uk
Pupil Progress @pupilprogress.bsky.social Easy pupil progress tracking for secondary education. Real-time insights across all subjects and qualifications to empower schools and trusts with impactful assessments.
pupilprogress.com/talk-to-an-expert
Children's Participation in Schools @childpart.bsky.social An ESRC funded project investigating the embedding of children's participation rights in pedagogical practice in lower primary classrooms in Wales
UCL Public Policy @uclpublicpolicy.bsky.social Public Policy works across the institution to build engagement and strengthen links between UCL researchers and public policy professionals. Our work creates opportunities for UCL’s world class research to inform public policy.
EPPI Centre @eppicentre.bsky.social Based at University College London, we aim to produce, support, and promote the use of collaborative, rigorous evidence for a more just and equitable world
🔗 https://eppi.ioe.ac.uk/cms/
🌍 London, UK
ESRC Education Research Programme @erpioe.bsky.social We are committed to asking new questions about how research, policy and practice can come together to empower educators and create meaningful change #edresprog
The Good Robot Podcast @goodrobotpod.bsky.social Join University of Cambridge researchers Dr Kerry McInerney and Dr Eleanor Drage for rich and lively conversations with activists, technologists, artists and philosophers about feminism and tech. New episode every two weeks!
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that.
Tech Won’t Save Us @techwontsave.us A left-wing podcast for a better world and better tech. Hosted by @parismarx.com. Made in partnership with @thenation.com.
https://techwontsave.us/
Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social Professor, Santa Fe Institute. Research on AI, cognitive science, and complex systems.
Website: https://melaniemitchell.me
Substack: https://aiguide.substack.com/
Antero Garcia @anterobot.bsky.social Associate Professor at Stanford University. NCTE President Elect. Education. Speculative Imagination. Healing. Dad of twins. he/him/his
lacuenta.substack.com
Marie Ponzillo Heath @mariekheath.bsky.social Human. Here for one last social media hurrah.
Civics of Technology co-founder. Associate Prof of Education at Loyola University Maryland. Critical ed tech mother scholar.
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
Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com Political technologist, bringing democracy to the internet. Brussels, 🇪🇺.
• tech, governance, science, politics, philosophy, infrastructure, cats, terrible puns
• DASL, Eurosky/Mu, Modal
• ex W3C, NYT
• Signal robin.77
Christiaan Monden @cmonden.bsky.social Sociology & Demography, and some (a lot) active travel | Family, Health, Mortality, Social Inequalities | Migrant worker at the University of Oxford | UK NL LV
Ekaterina Hertog @katyahe.bsky.social Associate Professor of AI & Society
Oxford Internet Institute and Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford
Principal Investigator at DomesticAI (http://domesticai.oii.ox.ac.uk) project funded by ESRC
Prof Mark Priestley @markrpriestley.bsky.social Education Professor, Stirling Centre for Research into Curriculum Making, University of Stirling. Mountain and prog rock enthusiast. European. Blog at http://mrpriestley.wordpress.com
Publications at https://www.stir.ac.uk/people/255862
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute
Cristina Costa @cristinacost.bsky.social Academic interested in exploring the intersections of digital experiences and societal issues and their implications for education in its broadest sense. Critical/social theory aficionado. Theory as Method. https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/cristina-costa/
Tanya Goodin @tanyagoodin.bsky.social Entrepreneur • Tech & AI Ethicist • Bestselling author • Founder ethicAI.bsky.social• Founder Time to Log Off • Host ‘It’s Complicated’🎙 📘5th book out now
T Pascoe-Matthews (M Ed , NPQH) @pascoed.bsky.social Advisory Board -UCL Centre for Inclusive Education.
AHT -Inclusion
Level 7 Specialist Assessor
Author of The Biggest Surprise (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Biggest-Surprise-Jadon-Talking-Trains/dp/B08GB4HX4Y)
Mother of two amazing autistic boys ❤️❤️.
Teaching for Change @teachingchange.bsky.social We provide teachers and parents with tools to create schools where students learn to read, write, and change the world.
D.C. Area: @dcaesj.bsky.social and Zinn Ed Project (with Rethinking Schools) @zinnedproject.bsky.social.
Gillian Parekh @gparekh.bsky.social Writer. Researcher. All things public education, access, and disability studies.
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.
gijs van maanen 🟥 @gijsvanmaanen.bsky.social tech/data governance | political theory | sts | and a bit of pol economy | tilburg institute for law, technology, and society (tilt)
institutional page: https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/staff/g-vanmaanen
Joris van Hoboken @jvh.bsky.social (he/him) antifascist, law prof in Amsterdam (IViR); platform regulation, law and digital infrastructure, quantum technology, fundamental rights.
@ivir-uva.bsky.social
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/
Nanna B Thylstrup @nannathylstrup.bsky.social Associate Prof @ University of Copenhagen. Author of: "The Politics of Mass Digitization" (MIT Press), editor of "Uncertain Archives: Critical Keywords for Big Data" (MIT Press) and "(W)archives: Archival Imaginaries, War, and Contemporary Art" (Sternberg)
Oskar Gstrein @ojgstrein.bsky.social ‘Human Dignity in the Digital Age’ - Assist Prof Governance & Innovation
Becky Kazansky @pondswimmer.bsky.social scholar of risk & refusal | independent advisor on digital rights, tech & climate justice | postdoc on AIDEMOCRACY at Goldsmiths, University of London | ex research lead at Engine Room | https://beckykazansky.net/about/
Daan Kolkman @dakolkman.bsky.social Sociologist of data and algorithms. Working on responsible data science and governance of algorithms.
Siddharth de Souza @spdesouza.bsky.social Data, law and society researcher
Lina Dencik @linadencik.bsky.social Professor and University Research Leader in AI Justice at Goldsmiths, University of London. Co-Founder of Data Justice Lab.
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
Merel Noorman @mereln.bsky.social Ethics, Governance, AI, Tilburg Institute for Law Technology and Society
Juliane Jarke @julianejarke.bsky.social Prof of Digital Societies at Uni Graz | #CriticalDataStudies - #FeministSTS - #ParticipatoryResearch in #education #ageing #publicsector | Feminist Sci-Fi & SolarPunk | www.sociodigitalfutures.info
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.
Emiliano Treré @emilianotrere.com ATRAE Distinguished Researcher @usc Santiago • Reader in Data Agency and Media Ecologies @Cardiff University • Creator & lead @ADS team • Codirector @DataJusticeLab • Algorithms of Resistance (MIT Press, 2024) • Romagnolo
Claudia Aradau @cearadau.bsky.social everything 'politics out of security', professor of international politics, Algorithmic reason: The new government of self and other (2022)
Azadeh Akbari @azadehakbari.bsky.social Prof. Critical Data & Technology Studies @ Goethe University Frankfurt / digital authoritarianism, surveillance, smart cities/
Co-Director @Survstudiesnet.bsky.social /
Founder @surveillancemw.bsky.social
*personal account*
michael veale @michae.lv prof @laws.ucl.ac.uk, technology, law, policy, society, whimsical latvian top level domain names. michae.lv and fediverse https://someone.elses.computer/@mikarv 🏳️🌈
Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social Director of Pangloss Consulting for all your AI and GDPR needs! Emerita Prof Newcastle Law School: Hon Prof, @CREATe Glasgow Uni. Formerly @ATI, @SCRIPT: Trying not to be a grey skies thinker & use this place more , lilian@lilianedwards.co.uk
Lorenzo @dallacorte.bsky.social Data protection and cybersecurity law
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
Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social Prof, Maynooth Univ https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/people/rob-kitchin
PI Data Stories https://datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie/
Author: Researching Digital Life, Digital Timescapes, Data Lives, The Data Revolution
PDFs papers/chs https: www.kitchin.org
Mirca Madianou @madianou.bsky.social Prof @Goldsmiths U of London | digital infrastructures, tech & AI in global south | New Book: 'Technocolonialism: when technology for good is harmful' https://tinyurl.com/4ceyvc3s | New project: reimagining digital ID https://tinyurl.com/bdfawt64
Nick Couldry @couldrynick.bsky.social I teach media communications and social theory at London School of Economics. Main interests: data colonialism, AI, rebuilding social media. Links to my two new books: https://linktr.ee/SpaceOfTheWorldBook https://lnk.to/DataGrabBook
Dr Margie Cheesman @margchee.bsky.social Lecturer in Digital Economy at King's College London 🤖 Anthropologist writing mainly about tech and aid https://about.me/cheesman
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
Silvia Masiero @silviahedley.bsky.social Associate prof #UniOslo, researching unfair #digitalID - #ICT4D, #platforms4d & their discontents - #homecooking posts👩🍳
Sebastián Lehuedé @slehuede.bsky.social Tech & Climate Justice. Lecturer @kingsdh.bsky.social. He/him http://slehuede.me.
Lisa Reutter Larsen @lisamreutter.bsky.social Copenhagen based researcher, researching public administration datafication. Goat person.
Fran Meissner @fmeissner.bsky.social Assistant Professor Critical Geodata Studies and Geodata Ethics | University of Twente
Judith Simon @jud1th.bsky.social Professor for Ethics in Information Technologies at University of Hamburg. Editor of the Routledge Handbook of Trust and Philosophy.
Saif Shahin @saifshahin.bsky.social 👨🏼🎓 Asst Prof of Digital Culture at Tilburg University
🌍 Director of Digital South Research Lab shorturl.at/jb5fD
✂️ Associate Editor at Journal of Information Technology & Politics
🪶 #StopAsianHate as Hashtag Activism shorturl.at/Yiiil
@miswritings.bsky.social @miswritings.bsky.social miswriting many things on a daily basis - academic thinking about AI and all its foibles with panache (and also using a lot of big words on Bluesky because why not)
Cynthia Liem @informusiccs.bsky.social Computer scientist, researcher, lecturer, musician.
EEMCS TU Delft, TU Delft | The Hague, De Jonge Akademie.
Responsible AI, information filtering, transdisciplinarity, validity, new perspectives.
Reuben Binns @rdbinns.bsky.social Computery guy. HCI, ML, AI, privacy, security, fairness, political economy of tech. He/him. London/Oxford.
Dialogues on Digital Society @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social A brand new interdisciplinary, international journal exploring how digitalisation has changed our world. Articles are in dialogue format with each article having peer commentary. https://journals-sagepub-com.may.idm.oclc.org/home/DDS
Big Data & Society @bigdatasoc.bsky.social Open access peer-reviewed journal connecting debates on emerging Big Data practices & how they reconfigure academic, social, industry, & government relations.
Geopolitics Journal @geopoliticsjournal.bsky.social An international and interdisciplinary journal on geopolitics
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/fgeo20
Barbara Prainsack @bprainsack.bsky.social Prof @univie.ac.at @healthy-societies.bsky.social #PrecisionMedicine #Solidarity #DataGovernance #FutureOfWork | Chair #ethicsgroup_eu | @wiko-berlin.bsky.social (Fellow 2023/24) barbaraprainsack.org
Fenna Imara Hoefsloot @fennaimara.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life and Department of Geography, University of Durham. Researching the digitising state, urban infrastructure, and data justice. (she/her)
www.fennahoefsloot.com
Gina Neff @ginasue.bsky.social Flower fan and AI expert. Professor of Responsible AI, QMUL; Director Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, Cambridge and fellow Magdalene College. Deputy CEO Responsible AI UK. https://linktr.ee/mctdcambridge?utm_source=linktree_admin_share
Ada Lovelace Institute @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social Making data & AI work for people & society.
Sign up for our fortnightly newsletter: https://adalovelaceinstitute.org//newsletter-subscribe
Matthias Spielkamp @spielkamp.bsky.social Founder & ED AlgorithmWatch. Board member RSF Germany.
Keren Weitzberg @kerenweitzberg.bsky.social #biometrics #borders #digitalidentity #migration #austerity #STS; senior lecturer in School of Politics and International Relations & IHSS Fellow at Queen Mary University of London
Emrys Schoemaker @emrys.eurosky.social digital, social & political transformation; head of digital & frontier tech @ UNU-CPR; fellow @ LSE & Graduate Institute, Geneva; RT ≠ endorsement
emrysschoemaker.com
ARTICLE 19 Europe @article19europe.bsky.social Defending freedom of expression and information in Europe and Central Asia.
#FoE #MediaFreedom #InformationIntegrity #SoJ
ARTICLE 19 Law and Policy @article19law.bsky.social Defending freedom of expression and information through legal & policy reforms. Everywhere
Göran Bolin @goranbolin.eurosky.social Media & Communications professor who teaches and writes on digital culture, information management, AI and data value at Södertörn University
sh.se/mkv
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.
Anna Jobin @annajobin.bsky.social what if i'm underthinking
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social Assistant Professor of New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam and Critical Theory Tutor at the Sandberg Instituut. American, but slightly less so every passing day.
Tom Fisher @drsamaki.bsky.social OfDIA/DSIT. Ex-Privacy International. PhD African Studies from University of Edinburgh. Posts on digital identity, DPI, and human rights. Views own.
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
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
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