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.
Dr.Shuji IIJIMA @shuujiiijima.bsky.social Ph.D. of Human-Enviroment Studies. Professor of Kyushu university,Japan, teaching Cultural Anthropology, Clinical Psychology, and Transition Design.
Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social Anchored in philosophy @stir.ac.uk
Researching place & memory
across cognitive sciences, social sciences & the arts
Led by @suttonprofessor.bsky.social & @reaveyp.bsky.social
Funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk
placememory.net
Lucinda Nelson @lucinda-nelson.bsky.social 👩🏼💻 Lecturer and PhD candidate | QUT Law @qutdmrc.bsky.social @admscentre.org.au
📚 law, tech, violence against women
🏳️🌈 no terfs 🏳️⚧️
John Sutton @suttonprofessor.bsky.social Director, Centre for the Sciences of Place & Memory, Stirling Uni, Scotland. Skill, memory, embodied cognition, philosophy, cognitive history, cricket, music, collaboration, wayfinding. Leverhulme International Prof: johnsutton.net & placememory.net
Aurora @auroraaldmorah.bsky.social Transgirl from Melbourne. 37 years old
3H @hagenhagen.de Berlin-Neukölln. Works in tech and knows tech won't save us. Reads, observes, listens a lot and barely writes (German + English). 🏀 & 🍕
Ali Alper Alemdar @aalemdar.bsky.social Assistant Professor at St. Francis College/ iPh.D. at the University of Missouri-Kansas City/ Political Economy/World-Ecology/Platform Capitalism/opinions are mine
folkjs @folkjs.org A research lab by @orionreed.com and @chrisshank.com exploring radically different directions that we can interface with the web.
Website: https://folkjs.org/
Github: https://github.com/folk-js
Sponsor our work: https://github.com/sponsors/folk-js
𝕮 @chrisshank.com seeding discontent in present-day computing and radical patience in how we reimagining it
libcomp.org • @folkjs.org
foraging the web: https://semble.so/profile/chrisshank.com
Jason Jasonson @jaseygalore.bsky.social Disabled by #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis ° Ambulatory wheelchair user ° Nazi lives don't matter ° Science is real ° #AuDHD ° #Lutruwita
I mostly repost things rather than write Bluestuff because my mind isn't sharp and lively anymore 😔
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Karen van Lonkhuyzen @karenvanl.bsky.social #Sociologist at The University of Newcastle. PhD candidate specialising in sociology of #youth and #religion.
Kristen Thomasen @kristenthomasen.bsky.social Law things, robots, space, privacy || habitual misAInthrope || feministing || she/her ||
(Profile pic from community art-making project in #YQG graffiti alley)
Megan Goodwin @mpgphd.bsky.social ✏️ race/gender/sex/religion/politics/America
🙄 also "cults"
🎧 #KeepingIt101 w/ IRMF
📚 #RINDWY (Beacon 2024) | #CultsInc | #AbusingReligion (Rutgers 2020)
https://megan-goodwin.com/design
Srravya @srravya.bsky.social researching data work, AI production networks
interested in critical data/AI studies, tech + labour, feminist STS, HCI
currently research fellow, planetary AI project @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
Vittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social Senior Reporter @Wired covering platforms + power
https://www.wired.com/author/vittoria-elliott/
Signal: velliott88.18/vittoria89.82
elliott.vittoria@proton.me OR vittoria_elliott@wired.com
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
Jake Hamby @jakehamby.bsky.social aviation, Linux, retrocomputing, music, politics, Linux, consciousness, art, philosophy, spirituality, UAPs, Commodore 64, Amiga OS, RISC OS. (he/him)
kay slater @kslater.bsky.social information worker + critical scholar | DJ | research network @libraryfutures.bsky.social | AI + Planetary Justice Alliance | Chicago, of course
views my own!
letterboxd: https://boxd.it/etsK7
Joshua Hurtado @joshuahh.bsky.social PhD, University of Helsinki. Studying environmental politics, specifically degrowth and the Pluriverse. As a Futures researcher, I also study futures of death and immortality. Views my own.
Louise Hickman @louhicky.bsky.social Wellcome's Early Career Award. CRASSH at the University of Cambridge.
Rosemary Lee @machineagency.bsky.social Artist
Integrated Researcher, University of Porto
i2ADS/Faculty of Fine Arts+Engineering
Fellow, Akademie Schloss Solitude
PhD in Digital Design, ITU, Copenhagen
Author: Algorithm, Image, Art, 2024
https://rosemary-lee.com
Maria @mariazamorano.bsky.social Canadian/Colombian in London. MSc in Media and Comm’s from LSE. Interested in tech/digital policy and research 🤖
Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social Soc of Work + Platform Labor | Head of Sociology, University of Edinburgh | https://workersobservatory.org | @jcultecon + Platforms & Society
Peter Tarras @petertarras.bsky.social Postdoc @jacculturelmu.bsky.social | Blog: http://medisi.hypotheses.org | Arabic Bible | Manuscript Studies | Book History | Provenance | SciCom | #FirstGen
https://www.jewisharabiccultures.fak12.uni-muenchen.de/team/tarras-peter/
Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social Economic historian w broad interests including population health, First Nations, mobility, inequality & lives of the incarcerated. Directing https://thecanadianpeoples.com & editing Asia-Pacific EcHR https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/2832157x
🇨🇦🇦🇺🇳🇿🏴
FF_notes @ffnotes.bsky.social Bree (she/they). White settler on stolen land, Australia. Researcher/lecturer (Phd Anthropology), antifascist, queer 🏳️🌈.
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. Alex Ketchum (she/her) @aketchum22.bsky.social PhD in History, professor of Feminist + Social Justice Studies; food, environmental, gender, +tech history, queer, founder of Disrupting Disruptions
https://www.alexketchum.ca/
https://linktr.ee/aketchum
jess rauchberg @jessrauchberg.bsky.social creator culture expert @LeedsUniMedia.bsky.social
Assoc. editor, CREATOR & INFLUENCER STUDIES
Writing PLATFORM HYGIENE (Duke UP)
Repped by Aevitas Creative Management
Hot takes are my own!
www.jessrauchberg.com
Dr. Christine H. Tran @thechristinet.bsky.social ✨Retired tech model writ(h)es about the Internet (they/she)
✨Tenure-Track Assistant Prof @ Alberta University of the Arts
✨Researcher of digital work, play, livestreaming & the creator economy
✨PhD U of Toronto iSchool
✨ https://thechristinet.wordpress.com
Dorothy R. Santos, Ph.D. @drs.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Teaching; Art, Justice, and Digital Media & Core Faculty in Creative Technologies @ UCSC | Research in Voice Recognition, Assistive Technologies, Emergency Infrastructures | Co-founder of 5️⃣ & 9️⃣
Marion Duval @marionduval.bsky.social Commissioning Editor for Human Geography & STS at Palgrave Macmillan. https://communities.springernature.com/users/marion-duval
Mitch Goodwin @oldmateo.bsky.social Digital Studies @UniMelb :: Media artist / writer / teacher :: Digital Gothic :: U/13 girls soccer coach @ FC Clifton Hill :: Bowie tragic 🚀 :: Melbourne, Australia :: http://mitch.art
@maksuda123.bsky.social @maksuda123.bsky.social
Angelique Hutchison @angel-q.bsky.social curator | science communicator
Amanda Lawrence @amanda-lawrence.bsky.social Director of the Australian Internet Observatory at RMIT University and ADM+S
Ms. Kathy Reid (she/her) @kathyreid.au #PhD researcher at #ANU Cybernetics, investigating bias in #speech and #voice #tech, with a focus on #data & #ML. Leads R&D at @mozdatacollective.bsky.social
Ex NVIDIA, Mycroft AI, @linuxaustralia.bsky.social, Deakin Uni.
https://linktr.ee/kathyreid
Jake Goldenfein @jakegoldenfein.bsky.social Melbourne Law School, CI at ARC CoE for Automated Decision-Making and Society - Studying data governance, data commodification, and automated decision-making.
Julia Powles @juliapowles.bsky.social Law & Tech
Slowly warming up to having my heart in it, here @bluesky
Ruby Sciberras @rubysciberras.bsky.social PhD Candidate at Monash Uni / researching young people's digital sexual ethics to combat image based sexual abuse
School for Advanced Research @sarsf.bsky.social The School for Advanced Research.
Create. Connect. Understand.
SAR: The only residential research institution supporting scholars & artists at the intersection of humanities, social sciences, & Native arts.
Anthropology I Archaeology I Humanities I Art
Bronwyn Cumbo @bronicee.bsky.social
Transdisciplinary social researcher and lecturer | University of Technology Sydney | research interests - intersections between environment and digital transitions; multistakeholder participation the imagining and design of sustainable futures.
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.
Bartosz Slosarski @slosarski.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Digital Sociology, University of Warsaw • Critical Data Studies | Environmental & Climate Sociology | Contentious Politics • He/him/his
jessogden @jessogden.bsky.social Lecturer in Digital Futures @Bristol Digital Futures Institute // Sociology @University of Bristol. Socio-tech takes on #webarchives, data+society is my jam. I guess I'm on Bluesky now too.
Dr Ola Michalec @olamichalec.bsky.social The absolute pinnacle of British engineering • unprofessional account of a Bristol Uni STSish researcher interested in digital energy infrastructure, cyber security expertise, and hyped up technologies • cover by https://disect.me/
Rebecca Coleman @rcecoleman.bsky.social Professor @bdfi.bsky.social @sociodigfutures.bsky.social and Sociology. Bristol, UK. Researcher in Residence (2023-2025) @knowlewestmedia.bsky.social
Digital media and culture, futures and presents, affect, interdisciplinary methods.
Devika Narayan @devikanarayan.bsky.social Assistant Prof/Lecturer l University of Bristol Tech, markets, orgs + work. Some other stuff.
Sociologist.
https://www.devikanarayan.com/
Sanja Milivojevic @smilivojevic.bsky.social Associate Professor in Digital Futures, Bristol Digital Futures Institute. Researching crime and technology, and borders and mobility. Happy to give Elon the boot.
Trivik Verma @trivikrama.bsky.social Professor at Loughborough
Occasionally with NatGeo
cities, inequalities, and justice
https://trivikverma.com/
Colin Gavaghan @digitalfutures.bsky.social Professor at Bristol Digital Futures Institute/UoB Law School.
Tech law geek. Genre fic nerd. Proud Scot-kiwi-Bristolian.
Melissa Gregg @melgregg.bsky.social Professor of Digital Futures at the University of Bristol. Author, ethnographer, nature defender. On loan from lutruwita/Tasmania. https://melgregg.com
Better Renting @betterrenting.bsky.social Better Renting is a community of renters working together for stable, affordable, and healthy homes.
See our upcoming events, latest research, media, & renting news here: https://linktr.ee/BetterRentingAus
Andrew Brooks @andrew-brooks.bsky.social academic. writer. editor @ rosa press
race, policing, abolition, noise, historical materialism, aesthetics
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
Jan Marc Morawe @janmarcmorawe.bsky.social Gender Scholar
Interests: (a)sexualities, health communication, masculinities, contraception/safer sex, repro health, climate crisis, IR, peace/conflict studies, utopias/dystopias, mental health, media, history, ...
https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7802-2721
Nicole Davisson @nic-davisson.bsky.social Meezer mom 🐈⬛(siamese cats),PhD student at the U of U, small business owner w/ my kiddo refabulizing furniture with delovely art🎨, democratic socialist, feminist, late bloomer🪷🏳️🌈yacht rock lover⛵️🌊teatime keeper🫖 www.lavienouveaudecorshoppe.com
David Arditi @davidarditi.bsky.social Sociology Professor. Author Digital Feudalism, Getting Signed, Streaming Culture and more. Editor Fast Capitalism
Kin @cell-less.bsky.social Artist, essayist, mum. PhD candidate, 'Digital Fatalism'. Long-time critic of surveillance tech. Making video art/new media/net art. Latest article in AI & Society journal: https://rdcu.be/dJu7u
Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social Hoosier, Political Analyst, newsletter Dispatches From A Collapsing State, author The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis, adviser The Change Campaign / American Institute For Change
Tim McLellan @timmclellan.bsky.social Lecturer in Anthropology at ANU.
Researching urban nature-based solutions, agroforestry science, audit cultures, and Nous UniForum data (themes that are more interconnected than you’d think…).
https://researchportalplus.anu.edu.au/en/persons/tim-mclellan
Meg Grealy @meggrealy.bsky.social PhD Candidate at Emerging Technologies Research Lab (Monash) thinking about energy, households and AI
Thinking about and doing a lot of sleeping
Catherine Waldby @cwaldby.bsky.social Professor ANU. Biopolitics, innovation, reproduction, history.
Caddie Alford @caddiealford.bsky.social Associate Prof of Rhetoric at VCU // critical AI, platform and media studies + rhetorical theory + writing pedagogies // Co-Lead of AI Futures Hub // 📕 = Entitled Opinions: Doxa After Digitality // 1st Gen // #TeamRhetoric
https://caddiealford.com
Sonja van Wichelen @sonjavw.bsky.social Science and Technology Studies | Biolegality | Postcolonial Science Studies | Southeast Asia -- and wannabe skateboarder ...
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
Lauren Kate Kelly @laurenkatekelly.bsky.social Labour and technology researcher. PhD on supermarkets, labour platforms, and on-demand grocery delivery. Union researcher with United Workers Union. Opinions expressed are my own.
Dan @dannno0o.bsky.social 🥝 certified doctor thinking critically about how AI systems simulate and imitate language in their architectures, interfaces and how all of this feeds the narrative of recreating human intelligence. he/him. 🇵🇸🌻
Blakey French @blakeyfrench.bsky.social (Act III) field philosopher (nascent) #Lostness #Doubt #Degrowth
… slatey immigrant, likely to repost pictures of hares.
ProfilePics: Big beard, straw hat & shades; with a vista of daunting hills.
Monique Moffa @moniquemoffa.bsky.social Lecturer, Criminology & Justice Studies at RMIT University and Bridge of Hope Innocence Initiative. PhD Candidate at Monash University.
Researching: guilty pleas and plea negotiations, wrongful convictions, parole, work-integrated learning
CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social the only Australian on the internet.
I am the ABC's national AI reporter
you can find ways to e-meet me here: www.cameronwilson.com.au
Crikey @crikey.com.au Holding power to account.
Independent, Australian-owned news, investigation, analysis and opinion.
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Raffaele Bazurli @raffaelebazurli.bsky.social Researcher @spurethz.bsky.social | Corresponding Editor @ijurresearch.bsky.social | Cities, Public policy, Immigration, Social movements | https://raffaelebazurli.com/
Nadia Jude @nadiajude.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh.
Thinking critically about data infrastructures, digital platform content moderation and global security governance. She/her.
Joshua Pocius @pocius.org 👨🏫 Lecturer, UniMelb School of Social and Political Sciences
🔬 Medical humanities | corporeal cinema | AIDS cultural criticism | bodies bodies bodies
🗺️ Naarm/Melbourne, Australia
🐈⬛ Catlady
Lauren Hayden @laurenhayden.bsky.social what is going on here
Astrid Lorange @alorange.bsky.social Academic, writer, and editor at Rosa Press. Poetry and poetics; gender, sexuality, and the family form; prisons and policing; contemporary art and media. Nonbinary comrade.
Marc Garrett @mgarrett.bsky.social Buy my Feral Class book. https://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=1561
Researcher in Post-digital Culture, academic, artist, writer, curator, activist, techie, PhD co-founder @furtherfield.bsky.social :-)
Blesil @blesil.bsky.social Ph.D. Candidate Centre for Studies in Science, Technology and Innovation Policy Central University of Gujarat, ( STS in Gravitational Wave Science, Fundamental issues in Gravity and Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Environmental Science Policy )
Marta @paciorkowska.pl Oslo-based socialist and university drop-out. Will configure (virtual) machines for food.
https://oesf.no is where it’s at.
Rødt Oslo klima- og miljølag and Økososialistisk forbund.
I have a homepage! https://paciorkowska.pl
kitty standard time @kittystandardtime.bsky.social little kitty big dreams
kittystandardtime.substack.com
Dr Angela Paul @angelapaul.bsky.social Research Fellow Northumbria University. Emerging Tech; ADM; Policing; Legal Tech; Socio-legal Studies. All own views. She/Her.
John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social Writer, speaker, consultant. Chicago Tribune columnist, blogging at Inside Higher Ed. Coming soon, More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI. Previously: Why They Can't Write and The Writer's Practice. biblioracle.substack.com
Leanne Higham, PhD @leannehigham.bsky.social Sociocultural theorist of education. Lecturer at Monash University. Interested in (slow) violence and (practical) ethics of nonviolence. She/they
gillian rose @profgillian.bsky.social digital things, visual culture, cities, visual research methods. And sometimes academic life. Prof of Human Geography at the University of Oxford. I still blog, occasionally, here:
https://visualmethodculture.wordpress.com/
Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social Digital Cultures and Arts | UZH & ZHdK | operative images, synthetic media and visual culture
@digitalculturesandarts.ch
https://digitalculturesandarts.ch/
https://linktr.ee/bildoperationen
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai @lorenzofb.bsky.social Real-time historian of the late cyber capitalist era @TechCrunch, writing about the intersection of hackers, human rights, and spies.
Also writing a book about Hacking Team and the history of government spyware.
☎️ Signal: +1 917 257 1382
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
Dianne Rodger (she / her) @diannerodger.bsky.social Anthropologist researching Hip Hop culture in Australia, music, well-being, youth culture. Living on Kaurna Country, views are my own. Post more often on Instagram @21di12.
Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social Research Assistant Professor of AI & Society at Binghamton University (SUNY) - Civics of Technology Board Member - Luddite Praxis - Dad Life - he/him
System Crash @handle.invalid A tech news podcast to help you sort through the wreckage.
Hosted by @parismarx.com and @bcmerchant.bsky.social. Music by @com.y-a-c-h-t.com. Production by @ericwickham.ca.
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🎙️ @techwontsave.us
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