nora @nora.bsky.social Engineer and Applied Cryptographer working in the ASML at Harvard’s BKC.
Led cryptography R&D at Juicebox and privacy projects at Signal.
Passionate about fostering inclusive communities, mentoring women in tech, and building third spaces for creatives.
Anil Dash @anildash.com the internet's uncle • waging a victorious 2-front war against cars and christmas • big fan of being a big fan of things • go read https://anildash.com
Andy Sellars @sellars.bsky.social Public interest tech & media lawyer at albertsellars.law, based in Jamaica Plain, Boston. He/him
Adam Jaskiewicz @ajjaskie.bsky.social he/him🚰🌆🚡🔰🗳🥑 cities are for people, not cars. Software engineer in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Born at 344 ppm. Also on Mastodon: @ajjaskie@a2mi.social
Julie Weatherbee @juliewbee.bsky.social I find lost things, watch Ann Arbor City Council, and I like squirrels, tech, and city living. Change is fine. Primarily pedestrian.
Isabel Silva Corpus @isabelcorpus.bsky.social PhD student in Info Sci at Cornell (Tech)
isabelsilvacorpus.github.io
Allison Koenecke @allisonkoe.bsky.social asst prof @ cornell info sci | fairness in tech, public health & services | alum of MSR, Stanford ICME, NERA Econ, MIT Math | she/her | koenecke.infosci.cornell.edu
@wendykellogg.bsky.social @wendykellogg.bsky.social
Wendy Ju @wendyju.bsky.social I design. I teach. I research. Associate Professor, Information Science and Design Tech, Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech
@damnarbor.bsky.social @damnarbor.bsky.social
Francesca Lameiro @lameiro.bsky.social phd student @ university of michigan school of information
francescalameiro.com
Alexios Mantzarlis @mantzarlis.com Tech, facts, and carbonara.
mantzarlis.com
Zach Lowe @zachlowenba.bsky.social https://www.instagram.com/p/DFvIa7IOHJ9/
Sarita @saritas.bsky.social
Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social Making and mending networks and knowledge. Working and thinking at wrecka.ge, co-running a volunteer unbreak-the-news collective at @unbreaking.org.
Previously: Covid Tracking Project, OpenNews, old web nonsense.
Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team Rudolph (Rudy) Fraser ⁂
CEO & Founder, building virtual 3rd places:
[ @blackskyweb.xyz ][ blacksky.community ]
prev. @harvard.edu Fellow
🏴☠️ [ wethepeople.nyc ]
Board @pact.blacksky.app
TSC @lexicon.community
move fast & break chains
Black crypto-anarchy Ⓐ
Nick Gerakines @ngerakines.me he/him; Protocols, platforms, and machine learning; @lexicon.garden @lexicon.community @ohcraphey.app
Blaine @blaine.bsky.social Sociotechnologist, activist. First employee @ Twitter, built that and pioneered social decentralization, created OAuth. Shy cloud-observer, mostly. Building Roundabout for local communities at @newpublic.org.
amac @amac0.bsky.social Lawyer, coder, baker.
Govt (Deputy US CTO for Obama and Biden), non-profit (Trust & Safety Professional Assn & Foundation, Data & Society, Public.resource), startup person (Google, Twitter).
Curious tinkerer.
@amac on the other thing.
Now in London.
Hibby Thach @hibbythach.com PhD student at the University of Michigan's School of Information studying multi-marginalized experiences online. she/her pronouns.
Also a Twitch streamer - I'm like if a gamer was a girl
https://linktr.ee/hibbybobibby
F. Ria Khan @friak.bsky.social They/He 🏳️⚧️ | PhD Student at UMich
School of Information
HCI | Multi-Marginalization | Socio-Techno Cultures | Critical Design | Embodied Play
✨✋🏽💿👾💻✨
Past: MS from CU Boulder
https://linktr.ee/iamFRiaK
Stuart Geiger @stu.lu just a digital trace | Asst Prof at UC San Diego, Comm & Data Science | opaque sociotechnical systems, power, and publics | ethnographer of computation & computational ethnographer | humanities of the digital & digital humanities | https://stu.lu | he/they
kevin zheng 🍯 @ze.vin phd student in information @umich.edu • political economy of social platforms • computational social science, sts, hci • @geo3550.bsky.social @idpiumass.bsky.social @mediacloud.bsky.social
ze.vin • he/they • prev umass amherst, cfpb
Howard Rheingold @hrheingold.bsky.social Artist. Used to write books, teach college students, lecture. My current writing and art: patreon.com/howardrheingold
Pamela Wisniewski @pamwis.bsky.social (She/Mom/Dr.) HCI researcher focused on digital resilience and adolescent online safety. My opinions are my own.
Matt Bui @mnbui.bsky.social professor at the University of Michigan School of Information, focusing on racial justice as data justice. interests: critical data x urban comm
working on a book, Appetite for Data, about foodie platforms & race / class / solidarity.
radjusticelab.com
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social.
Author: The View from Somewhere, a memoir & manifesto arguing for a technological future that serves our communities (to be published by One Signal / Atria
Laura Kurek @lkurek.bsky.social PhD @ UMich School of Information • researching information manipulation online - particularly on wikipedia, rumble, + tiktok • https://laurakurek.github.io/
Sophia Brueckner @tomorrownaut.bsky.social artist / engineer
sophiabrueckner.com
Ayman @shamur.ai AI+HCI Scientist.
Instructions: place in direct sunlight, water daily. - S Phoebe Sengers @sengers.bsky.social Cornell prof, politics of technology design, rural infrastructure, social impact of design, speculation.
Lilly Irani @gleemie.bsky.social Professor, Faculty Director UCSD Labor Center, author Chasing Innovation and Redacted, co-founder and supporter of Turkopticon, ex-Google worker. These are my personal opinions, not those of my employer.
Sarah Gilbert @sarahagilbert.bsky.social Research Director, Citizens and Technology Lab, Cornell University, r/AskHistorians moderator
I study how to make the internet freer and safer— and how to help the helpers on the ground making that possible. She/her
https://citizensandtech.org/
Samuel Reiji Mayworm @mayworms.info 🏳️⚧️he/him | PhD student @ the University of Michigan School of Information | online communities + trans tech | librarian sometimes | mayworms.info
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/
Paul N. Edwards @avastmachine.bsky.social History and politics of climate science, climate change, knowledge infrastructures. Prof. Emeritus of Information and History, University of Michigan and Director Emeritus, Stanford University STS Program. Now expat based in Marseille, fleeing US fascism.
JeffreyBardzell @jeffreybardzell.bsky.social Dean and Professor of the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. HCI and design researcher. Essayist and reader. http://www.interactionculture.net
James Landay @jlanday.bsky.social Professor of Computer Science, Stanford - HCI & Design, Co-Founder & Co-Director Stanford HAI @stanfordhai.bsky.social
Ian Bogost @ibogost.com Read my new book, The Small Stuff: How to Lead a More Gratifying Life: https://gratifying.life
Barbara and David Thomas Distinguished Professor at WashU; Contributing writer at The Atlantic; author of 11 books. https://bogost.com
Michaelanne Thomas @michaelannephd.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan School of Information | anthropology of technology | precarity, activism, collaboration | Latin America + US | also parenting, animals, & tiny things | michaelannethomas.com
Lada Adamic @ladamic.bsky.social For now aiming to entertain people with my remodeling mistakes.
Amber van der Wal @ambervdwal.bsky.social Assistant Professor Youth and Media at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR), University of Amsterdam. My primary research focus is on how digital technologies such as social media affect youth well-being
Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.uk Professor of Cognitive Science, University of Bristol. Homepage: https://www.lewan.uk
Brent Hecht @bhecht.bsky.social Director of Applied Science and Partner at Microsoft. Still kinda an associate professor at Northwestern too. brenthecht.com
Dr. Julie Kientz @juliekientz.bsky.social Professor and Chair at @uw-hcde.bsky.social; Human-Computer Interaction researcher studying tech for health, education, & families; Academic mama. Views are my own.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Lucas Dixon @iislucas.bsky.social Machine learning, interpretability, visualization, Language Models, People+AI research
Kristen Vaccaro @kvaccaro.bsky.social Asst. Professor at UCSD
https://kvaccaro.com/
Abhishek Roy @abhishekr0y.bsky.social Trust & Safety Research @ Google focused on Deception & Manipulation
Creator, bescamready.withgoogle.com/
Prev: Disinfo/Extremism Research
Alexandra Olteanu @aolteanu.bsky.social Ethical/Responsible AI. Rigor in AI. Grumpy eastern european in north america. Lovingly nitpicky. www.aolteanu.com
Marshini @ineffablicious.bsky.social Prof at UChicago computer science dept working in HCI and usable privacy and security
Jenn Wortman Vaughan @jennwv.bsky.social Sr. Principal Research Manager at Microsoft Research, NYC // Machine Learning, Responsible AI, Transparency, Intelligibility, Human-AI Interaction // WiML Co-founder // Former NeurIPS & current FAccT Program Co-chair // Brooklyn, NY // http://jennwv.com
@oshaer.bsky.social @oshaer.bsky.social
danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social STS researcher who likes to look at things sideways. Founded Data & Society.
Topics: Census | Youth | Data | Society
Professor of Communication, Cornell
https://made-not-found-by-danah-boyd.ghost.io
Daniel Romero @danielmromero.bsky.social Associate Professor at UMSI, UMICHCS, and UMICHCSE working on Computational Social Science, Network Science, Science of Science, Complex Systems, and Social Media. 🇨🇴🇺🇸 dromero.org
Rose 🌹 @rose.bsky.team COO of Bluesky 🦋 - hiring https://bsky.social/about/join!
Gillian R Hayes @gillianrh.bsky.social professor, mother, daughter, wife, sister, teacher, volunteer, lover of all things music, theatre, and musical theatre, little league watcher, and dog chaser. living a wonderful life here in beautiful southern california. gillianhayes.com
Eszter Hargittai @eszter.com Professor of Internet Use & Society, University of Zurich
William Allan Neilson Professor, Smith College (Fall 2024)
Formerly: Northwestern U, Princeton U
eszter.com
Niki Kittur @nkittur.bsky.social Professor of HCI @ Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science. Accelerating knowledge and creativity with AI.
https://kittur.org/
Ken Holstein @kenholstein.bsky.social HCI Prof at CMU HCII: thecoalalab.com
Research on:
- technologies to augment human thinking and learning
- participatory & responsible AI
- human-AI interaction
Diyi Yang @diyiyang.bsky.social Assistant Professor @Stanford CS @StanfordNLP @StanfordAILab
Computational Social Science & NLP
Mary Anne Franks @maryannefranks.bsky.social Law Professor at George Washington Law. President of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative. Author of Fearless Speech (2024) and The Cult of the Constitution (2019). First Amendment, civil rights, technology, criminal law, family law, firearms law.
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
Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com 🙅🏻♀️ Author (2 books & The Wayfinder newsletter), disinformation expert, advocate for targets of online abuse.
☀️ CEO, @americansunlight.org
😆 Tucker Carlson once called me a “highly self confident young woman” and meant it as an insult
Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social Political Communication Professor at GWU. I write a lot about the history and future of tech and politics. Best known for that one time I made fun of Bret Stephens.
Davekarpf.beehiiv.com
Jillian C. York @jillian.bsky.social Author of Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism (Verso 2021).
Work @eff.org, teach at College of Europe Natolin, sing and play 🎷 in a band, live in London, full bio at https://jilliancyork.com/about
Views are mine alone.
Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social Technology + democracy.
Visit https://techpolicy.press
Join our newsletter: https://techpolicy.press/newsletter
Opinions do not reflect the views of Tech Policy Press. Reposts do not equal endorsements.
Christopher Bavitz @cbavitz.bsky.social Clinical Prof + Vice Dean, HLS. Managing Dir, Cyberlaw Clinic. He/him.
Margo Seltzer @margoseltzer.bsky.social
Jonathan Bellack @bellack.com Author of the Platformocracy newsletter, 30-year Internet veteran, Xoogler, grilling/smoking, an old house, and many, many comic books.
Chelsea Baltierra Johnson @chelseajonsn.bsky.social 💅 Principal Software Eng, Applied Social Media Lab @ Berkman Klein Center, Harvard
💪🏽🇲🇽 🥄 Prosocial tech from the social outskirts
✊🏽 From big tech to rebel alliance
Jay Kemp 🤖📰📚😵💫 (they/them) @jayttkemp.bsky.social Staff at Harvard BKC & the Applied Social Media Lab. Many thoughts on media, tech, & AI. Many feelings on post-punk, film, repro justice, & pop culture. 🏳️⚧️ NB Navy brat, North Country NY roots. (my opinions)
Greg Leppert @leppert.me Working on AI and access to knowledge at Harvard. Executive Director of the Institutional Data Initiative; Chief Technologist of the Berkman Klein Center.
Meg Marco @meghann.bsky.social Director of the Applied Social Media Lab, Harvard
Previously: ProPublica, WSJ, WIRED, Consumerist (RIP)
The cat's name is Elenore (like The Turtles song) and this is mostly about her.
https://cyber.harvard.edu/people/meg-marco
Kim Albrecht @kimay.bsky.social Professor for Information Design at Folkwang University of the Arts
Principal metaLAB (at) Harvard & Berlin
kimalbrecht.com
Prof. Ifeoma Ajunwa, J.D., LL.M., Ph.D. @iajunwa.bsky.social Writer. Professor of Law. Director, A.I. and the Future of Work Program, Author of The Quantified Worker. Order here: https://a.co/d/bfdTUj5 #AI #Ethics #Law
#Chocophile
#Filmophile
#Igbophile
#Francophile (mostly)
#Bibliophile
#musicophile
#Afrofuturist
John Basl @basl.bsky.social Philosophy, hobby collector
Anupam Chander @anupamchander.bsky.social Dog dad and Georgetown law prof.
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun @whkchun.bsky.social new media theorist and professor. director of the SFU digital democracies institute. posts reflect my own views only.
banner from Mongrel Network's 2004 Bush-Blair project. Portrait by a wonderful scms audience member—let me know if you know them!
Gabriella "Biella" Coleman @biella.bsky.social Professor of Anthropology @Harvard, Hacker Studies & More https://gabriellacoleman.org/
Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc Head of Research at OneProject.org. Author, Design Justice (https://design-justice.pubpub.org) + Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets. #FreePalestine. Trans agenda. She/they/ella/elle. More: https://www.schock.cc
David Craig @producing2power.bsky.social comm, media industries, platform, social media, and creator studies scholar (aka "creator anthropologist"). In my past life, I spent decades making TV movies and "producing to power".
Juan Carlos De Martin @jcdemartin.bsky.social Docente Politecnico di Torino ⋅ Autore di “Università futura” e "Contro lo smartphone" ⋅ @nexacenter ⋅ @BKCHarvard ⋅ @treccani. Ex: @BiennaleTech ⋅ UCSB ⋅ @TXInstruments
Tomás Dodds @tomasdodds.bsky.social Assistant Professor @uwmadison.bsky.social
Judith Donath @judithmedia.bsky.social deception | AI | design
https://vivatropolis.com
Ben Eidelson @beidelson.bsky.social Professor, Harvard Law School. Also developer of @CaseViewerApp.bsky.social
https://faculty.law.harvard.edu/eidelson
Christian Fieseler @dasfiesch.bsky.social
Diana Freed @dianafreed.bsky.social Computer & Data Science, Faculty @Brown University | Visiting Scholar, Petrie-Flom (Harvard Law)| Faculty Associate, Harvard Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society | HCI, HAI, Security, Privacy, Tech Policy
Ben Green @benzevgreen.bsky.social Author of ALGORITHMIC REALISM: DATA SCIENCE PRACTICES TO PROMOTE SOCIAL JUSTICE (Oct 6, MIT Press). Assistant Professor of Information and Public Policy at the University of Michigan. https://www.benzevgreen.com
Woodrow Hartzog @hartzog.bsky.social Andrew R. Randall Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law. Author of "Privacy's Blueprint" (2018) and co-author of "Breached!" (2022). Posting mainly about privacy, tech and the law.
Vivek Krishnamurthy @vivekdotca.bsky.social Associate Professor & Director of the Samuelson-Glushko Technology Law & Policy Clinic at the University of Colorado Law School. Working at the intersection of law, technology, and human rights.
andres lombana-bermudez @vvva.bsky.social assistant professor of communication / researcher / designer
Asaf Lubin @asaflubin.bsky.social Associate Professor at Indiana University. Faculty Affiliations: BKC Harvard, ISP Yale, & HUJI Cyber Law.
Writes and Teaches about International Law 🇺🇳, National Security 🪖, Cybersecurity 👾, Law and Tech 🤖, Espionage & Intelligence🕵️♂️, Torts 🏛️.
🏳️🌈
David J. Malan @davidjmalan.bsky.social I teach @cs50.bsky.social.
Florian Martin-Bariteau @f-mb.bsky.social Assoc Prof of Law & Chair in Technology and Society, @uOttawa.bsky.social • Director, @CDTSuOttawaCLTS.bsky.social • Faculty Associate, @BKCHarvard.bsky.social | #security #privacy #ai #blockchain #quantum
Petra Molnar @petramolnar.com #Bordertech ethnographies | Author of The Walls Have Eyes | @refugeelab.ca + @migrationtechmonitor.com, York | Faculty Associate with Berkman Klein Center, Harvard | She/ هي 🇵🇸🍉| https://petramolnar.com/
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/
Dr. Desmond Upton Patton @dupatton.bsky.social 31st PIK University Professor at UPenn| SAFElab and PCIIT Founding Director| Studying Gun violence, AI Ethics, Youth and Mental Health, Grief, Social Media and Joy.