Dr Caitlin McGrane @caitlinaithne.bsky.social she/her
Researcher at RMIT. Board member of Digital Rights Watch. Interested in gender and technology in everyday life, and how we can build a better digital world.
Ultra-marathoner in my spare time ๐ฟ
Nicolas Suzor @nicsuzor.bsky.social Law prof, working to make tech more fair. Future Fellow @ QUT Digital Media Research Centre; Chief Investigator @admscentre.org.au; Member @ Oversight Board.
He/him. All views are my own.
https://nic.suzor.net
@Angela Jones @drjonessoc.bsky.social Author of Sex in Public
Black feminist sociologist writing and advocating around sex work, sexuality, race, gender, disability, and class.
WGSS Prof
They/them
DrAngelaJones.com
Patrick Keilty @patrickkeilty.bsky.social Associate Professor in the Faculty of Information and Cinema Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ ๐ ๐ฅ ๐ฅ๏ธ ๐ http://patrickkeilty.com/
emalydia ๐ @thensfwscholar.bsky.social blackademic @ UOregon โข black sexuality, porn & U.S. pop culture โข unionized โข curator of vibes
Clarissa Smith @profclarissasmith.bsky.social Professor, Northumbria University; Co-Editor Porn Studies #pstudies; #pornstudies; #sextech; #sexualities; #mascnet; #digitalintimacies
academthicc thighs @shawnsyjones.bsky.social queer wasian goblin | phd candidate @ concordia university | interested in porn, identity, affect, sociomaterial practices and gay shit
Cherie DeVille @cheriedeville.bskyverified.social The Internets Stepmom
CherieDeVille.com
Madita Oeming (she) @maditaoeming.bsky.social public porn scholar, sex educator, pleasure activist, author of ยปPORNOยซ (2023) & ยปAufgeklรคrt statt aufgeregtยซ (2026)
Jacob Engelberg @jacobengelberg.bsky.social asst. professor of film, media, & culture at University of Amsterdam | author of ๐๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ข๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ช๐ด๐ฆ๐น๐ถ๐ข๐ญ ๐๐ณ๐ข๐ฏ๐ด๐จ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ (Duke U.P.) | bisexual saboteur | he/his
https://linktr.ee/jacob.engelberg
casey calvert @caseycalvert.bsky.social if I had a blacklight, this place would look like a jackson pollock painting
xocasey.com ๐ซ clickcasey.com
Jean Ketterling @jeanketterling.bsky.social she/her โจ Assistant Prof in Political Studies - Gender, Sexualities and Social Justice at USaskโจ Interdisciplinary legal/pornography/games studies scholar working on sex in video games โ๏ธ๐ฆ๐ฎ The Pornography, Platforms and Play Project www.pppproject.com ๐
ฟ๏ธ
Stefanie Duguay @dugstef.bsky.social Assoc. Prof in Communication Studies at Concordia University. Director of the Digital Intimacy, Gender and Sexuality (DIGS) Lab (digslab.net). Posts and opinions are my own.
Vera Lore @veralore.bsky.social A daydream at your fingertips โ San Francisco Bay Area & Beyond
๐ฎ https://www.vera-lore.com
Honorรฉ de Ballsack @mnurkic.online rembr perl horber
Stephanie Jones @stephaniejones.bsky.social Lecturer in Film, Television and Media | Co-editor, Media History | 007's critical friend | Dysgu Cymraeg, Top of the Pops ๐
David Coady @davidcoady.bsky.social Australian podcast producer
Matt Steadman @mattsteadman.com Technology and Media professional. Co-host of the food show on the mighty 3RRR-FM. Audio nerd. Bon vivant. Based in Melbourne / Naarm.
Kim Baublys @kimbaublys.bsky.social #MassSpec person. #StableIsotopes #Geochemistry. No serious stuff here, only light isotopes, some methane & maybe some #groundwater. PhD She/her. Turrbal Country, Meanjin, Australia
No DM's thanks
Hans Asenbaum @hansasenbaum.bsky.social Senior research fellow @ Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance, Uni Canberra. He/him ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ Author of The Politics of Becoming. Open Access https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-politics-of-becoming-9780192858870?cc=us&lang=en&
Nik John @ilovejazzmusic.bsky.social Internet scholar at University of Manchester @manchester.ac.ukโฌ
Former Prez of โช@aoir.bsky.socialโฌ
Pessimist
Matt Hatfield ๐จ๐ฆ @matthtfld.bsky.social Executive Director at @openmediaorg.bsky.social, Canada's largest digital rights group. Pro-democracy, everywhere.
Luca Demetriadi @lucambd.bsky.social UniMelb PhD candidate, researching indie Australian publishers and contemporary coolness.
https://lucademetriadi.com
Axel Bruns @snurb.info Australian Laureate Fellow and Professor at @qutdmrc, researching news, politics, partisanship, polarisation in digital and social media.
He/his | Progressive Rock | Hannover 96 ๐ค๐ค๐ | ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฉ๐ช๐ช๐บ
๐ธ๏ธ snurb.info
๐ @snurb@aoir.social
โ @snurb_dot_info
Caroline Difficult Gardam @cazuarina.bsky.social Writes, studies, gets muddy on stolen Jagera and Turrbal land.
QUT DMRC PhD student researching multimodality and climate denial. Occasional ceramicist.
Phil Nelson @philnelson.bsky.social The co-host with the co-most. Your +1 and only. I do computer vision, electronics, old gear and vintage media.
Founder RetroStrange.com & SetSideB.com
biz: hello@extrafuture.com
SF, CA
@podramaja.bsky.social @podramaja.bsky.social 
Shir Weinbrand @shirweinbrand.bsky.social Computational Social Science PhD candidate @QUT
Investigating the complex interplay between search engines, GenAI, and politics/news
Entrepreneur's mind. Athlete's body. Artist's soul ~ J.Clear
https://www.shir-weinbrand.com/
Logan Phlox Wilder (they/them) @loganphloxwilder.bsky.social PhD Candidate at SUNY Buffalo
Qualitative scholar writing about transgender online sex workers
Opinions are my own and do not express those of my employer
Nick Petroulias @nickpetroulias.bsky.social Writer of fiction
Melbourne Australia
Author of Man Alone
https://www.asterismbooks.com/product/man-alone
Incessant chatter on social media does my head in.
Maria Gemma Brown @simulatedmaria.bsky.social phd @ school of commarts UQ // centre for automated decision making and society. researching cultural histories of marketing and consumer culture, digital media platforms, and internet subcultures.
nicholas carah @nnniccc.bsky.social avid reader
Amanda Cote @a-c-cote.bsky.social Associate Prof and Serious Games Certificate Director @ Michigan State University
Kath Bassett @kathrithm.bsky.social Lecturer in Sociology at York. I research tourism as a key site of digitisation, tracing how mobilities, hospitality work, and urban economies are governed by algorithms and platforms.
MJ OโNeill ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ @mjoneillchw.bsky.social Disabled trans gal with superpowers. Building the dream of a society that supports everyone in it :)
Til Knowles @tilknowles.bsky.social Aspiring academic (PhD student/RA/tutor) + general queer nuisance based Naarm/Melbourne. Interested in performance comedy, mental health, audience, affect, digital media, amongst many other key words. Co-founder of the Australian Comedy Studies Collective.
Kelley Cotter @kelleyhas2es.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Penn State | Digital and algorithmic literacies and inequalities, technocultural discourses and imaginaries, tech ethics and governance.
laura ๐ฆ๐ท @lauraisloading.bsky.social writer and organizer @decrimny.bsky.social | she/her/ella
lauratorlaschi.com
๐คผBAR WARS Wrestling ๐๏ธ8/30๐7pm๐Brass Mug Tampa Code:QUEEN @queengialove.bsky.social ๐ซDMs๐ซ
Dominant Dame
Private Practice Partner
Kink Courtesan
Competitive Contender
Content Creator
PicVid Talent
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FineFetishFilms.com (Scenes4Sale)
GiaLove.com (all links)
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Damien Huffer @damienhuffer.bsky.social Working at the nexus of heritage and wildlife crime, w/a hefty dash of human remains trafficking research and advocacy | Res. Fellow Adelaide U. |๐๐ต๐๐ฅ๏ธ | Taiko drummer, Home cook, Husband | Co-founder of @counteringcrime ๐ณ๏ธโ๐โฃ he/him
jslee @jsl.ee Random meanderings. Electric motorcycle enthusiast. I like big knobs and I cannot lie.
Rickie M @nuprawik.bsky.social Cheese enthusiast
Geelong, Australia
She/Her
Ian Morley @ijmorley.bsky.social Teacher of English, History, Philosophy. AEU rep. Posts on those subjects, but also on Aus sokkah, progressive political hopes & occ. music sub-cultures.
Up the DHUSC Pumpers โฝ
Clare McNally @claremcnally.bsky.social Higher Education Assessment, Innovating Student-Centred Dental Education, Dental Hygiene
Lachlan Musicman @datakid.bsky.social Systems - computer and otherwise, data science, political and cultural theory. Book reader, music listener, D'n'D participant, traveler.
ClassicMiddleton @classicmiddleton.bsky.social Creative Content Producer in Melb ๐ฆ๐บ
I write, direct, perform a little and go to conventions to get stepped on.
If you see my ads, I'm sorry/ you're welcome
jellibat @jellibat.bsky.social Scribbles, photos, pointing the way to the loo
Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social Associate Professor at Queensland University of Technology. Computational communication, social theory. Interests: Propaganda, dark political communication, the relationship between technology, truth, and knowledge
James Macaronas @jmacaronas.bsky.social Paranormal investigator. He/him. Naarm/Melbourne.
PhD - the psychedelic experience in sci-fi.
Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.
Free Palestine.
Fuck gen AI.
Ana Stevenson @dranastevenson.bsky.social anastevenson.phd | feminist historian + ISG @ UFS | โ social movements ๐ชง women in politics ๐ AcLits ๐ evaluation | #VIDAblog @auswhn.bsky.social | ๐ณ The Suffrage Postcard Project | archivingsocialmovements.com | ๐บ๏ธ Mapping Monuments | ๐ผ blockflute โซโฌโซ | ๐ท
Katharina Esau @kathaesa.bsky.social DECRA Fellow / Senior Lecturer @qutdmrc.bsky.social, Pol Comm, Digital Publics, Democratic Innovation, Automated & Relational Content & Sequence Analysis, interested in news media, polarisation & opinion formation online: https://l1nq.com/sdk9o7n
kat @kgt.bsky.social [-o-]
microgames: https://chipswoon.itch.io/
everything else: https://kgt.dev
DMs closed bc Australia
John Harney @ludensprof.bsky.social Associate Professor of History at Centre College. Written on: baseball in colonial Taiwan; American missionaries in interwar China. Interested in national identity, science fiction, video games. Associate Editor at www.historyrespawned.com
Leena ๐ต @leena.reuben.games Gamedev, writer, researcher, vulgar lush. Making @DeadStaticDrive.com with @mike.reuben.games. I wrote a book once and Iโll bloody do it again if youโre not careful.
Naarm/Melbourne. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ (she/her)
https://linktr.ee/leenavand
Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com A/Prof of Philosophy at Deakin Uni (all views mine). Writer, does radio stuff, half of The Fake McCoys. Works on digital death, personal identity, Kierkegaard, moral phil. Has more hobbies than advisable. Melbourne + Werona
https://linktr.ee/patstokes
Katherine Firth @katherinefirth.bsky.social Writes about writing, especially for PhDs and researchers: poetry, music, food. Blogs at Research Degree Insider
Stacey Borg @drcurlytek.bsky.social DrCurlytek, science knowing person, IFPA pinball competitor, and QA enthusiast. May contain traces of nuts. Views and puns are my own. He/Him
Lauren Pikรณ @booklearning.bsky.social Sometimes historian, evaluator, writer, researcher. Always about disability justice and lying down. Exhortations for slowness, process, practice.๐ฅ Views own. laurenpiko.com
Will Grant @willozap.bsky.social Science communication & politics @ANU_CPAS. Co-host of @WholesomeShow & @g_sausages, co-founder of @PostAcApp.
Cassandra (Cass) Barkman @cassiebara29.bsky.social Media and Comms Lecturer at Unimelb ๐ซ | Game Studies Scholar ๐ฎ | Deputy Director of MAGPIE ๐ฆโโฌ| DiGRAA Board Member ๐ | Checkpoint Critic & Writer โ๏ธ | She/Her
https://linktr.ee/cbarkman
Stephen Bell Companion @stephenbellc.bsky.social FSSWโ๏ธ Former nurse,
50 yo male companion for women, ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธfemmes & NB people. Disability friendly.
I welcome couples.
Lover of music, art, conversation, connection & company. AuADHD. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐Ally.
Naarm/Melbourne
๐Links or Stephen.Bell.Escort@protonmail.com
Ben Abraham @afterclimate.com.au I research games + sustainability, currently working for the Sustainable Games Alliance to produce a methodological standard for measuring games emissions.
https://afterclimate.com.au/
https://sustainablegamesalliance.org/
Was @afterclimate on Twitter
Leanne Veronica @leanneveronica.bsky.social
* Public Policy
* Tech Regulation
* #auslaw
Opinions my own
samantha floreani @floreani.bsky.social digital rights advocate / writer / PhD candidate researching tech + housing justice ๐ surveillance isn't safety xoxo
samanthafloreani.com
ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social Part human, part bot, 100% UNOFFICIAL. I track Australian Research Council grant outcomes. Bot checks outcomes announcements each min. DMs open. FAQ: https://tinyurl.com/ARC-Tracker-FAQ
Vilde Schanke Sundet @vildess.bsky.social Associate professor in media and communication at Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet). I study media industries, platforms, creators, fans, and television. Project leader of GLOBAL NATIVES. 
Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social Co-Director at Center for Digital Narrative, Univ of Bergen. Lead research project AI STORIES (ERC Advanced Grant). Australian and Norwegian. Blogging at jilltxt.net since 2000.
Courtney Addison @courtneyaddison.bsky.social STS + Anthropology @ Te Herenga Waka's School of Science in Society | Editor of Science, Technology, & Human Values
@sthv.bsky.social 
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.
Charles Pidgeon @charlespidgeona.bsky.social PhD (DPhil) candidate at University of Oxford, English Faculty.
Researching internet nonfiction books, cultural histories of information overwhelm, and the different metaphors we use for human versus machine cognition.
Michele Zappavigna @michelezappavigna.bsky.social Associate Professor at UNSW, Sydney | Social Semiotics | Systemic Functional Linguistics | Discourse analysis
Currently working on LLM chatbot conversations ๐ค๐ฌ๐คฆ๐ปโโ๏ธ
Alex Monea @alexmonea.bsky.social Assoc Prof @georgemasonu.bsky.social | Author: The Digital Closet (https://bit.ly/digitalcloset) | Focus: content moderation, platform governance, data ethics | Views my own | he/him
Morgan @morganicist.bsky.social Am I a girl? Am I a boy? Who knows! But everyone finds me hot and that makes everyone gay
(Melbourne, Australia)
Low Society @metacapitalism.bsky.social Deeply committed to opposing MAGA. my pup, books, TV, old movies, jazz, rock, and classical music, beach walks, writing (fiction and non-fiction), abstract painting, stone sculpting, deep sleep, and non-violent villainy.
Chris โMuttonโ Button @bibbybhoy.bsky.social Editor of GadgetGuy, award-nominated video games + consumer tech journo, lover of sports and cats. A very silly boy. He/him
Phoebe Matich @phoebesophist.bsky.social ADM+S research fellow, genAI and authenticity in media | journalism and misinformation | metalhead and pasta enthusiast | plant mum and cat aunt | Pฤkeha on Turrbal/Yugara country | she/her
Susan @quarrellous.bsky.social Lurking on Ngunnawal land. Australia
Jane Howard @janeannehoward.bsky.social Arts and culture editor, The Conversation Au+NZ
Alexis R Miranda @alexisrmiranda.bsky.social PhD Candidate at Harvard Public Health โฟ๏ธ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ต๐ท
@keznewt.bsky.social @keznewt.bsky.social 
Lucy @nighttimecoral.bsky.social she/her, 20, weirdo
itโs only murder if you twist the knife with intent to kill
Tom McGrath @tsjmcgrath.co.uk Tech policy person. Have also written about tax and ramble about Doctor Who. He/they. Bi.
Amanda Pearson @pearson-edits.bsky.social Deputy Editor, @intsecurity.bsky.social, based at
@belfercenter.bsky.social | International relations, comparative politics, history | formerly @weatherheadcenter.bsky.social | X: @Pearson_ink
Bondy @bondykaye.bsky.social postdoc at U of Leeds researching music, policy, and platforms
bondykaye.com
Dr. Eric J. W. Orlowski @swejwo.bsky.social Finally-Employed-Anthropologist.
Ph.D. in Sociocultural Anthropology | Research Fellow (AI Governance) @ NUS-AI Singapore | Swede (not the vegetable) |
Read what I write at https://readyaiminquire.substack.com.
The cover picture is no longer ironic.
Gemma Killen @gemkillen.bsky.social Queer, feminist, angry, etc.
She/they ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Views my own
Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social She/her. Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies ~ femininities, queer theory, beauty culture, crushes. Writer, advocate, infamous bisexual, wannabe poet. Views my own and not that of my university. Another world is possible ๐
๐ป๐๐ปโโ๏ธ
www.hannahmccann.com.au
Amy A. Hasinoff @amy-adele.bsky.social Associate Professor of Communication
online harm | gender & sexuality | transformative justice | she/her ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
www.amyhasinoff.com
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
Angela Black @nerdybutcute.bsky.social weirdo geek married Gen X academic transgirl
not that kind of doctor
51 as of Jan 2025, extrapolate from there
my beloved spouse is @moggerb.bsky.social
#philosophy #philsky #epistemology #aesthetics
(she/her)
Joel Humphries @joel.queercomputer.com PhD candidate researching queer community online, emerging technologies and digital harms @RMIT
https://joelhumphries.com.au
Hugh Davies @hughdavies.bsky.social Artist, Curator, Media and Games Researcher
https://www.hughdavies.au/
Paul Byron @paulibyron.bsky.social Social media researcher, Gadigal country (aka Sydney)
Researching friendship, care, LGBTQ+ peer support, young people, mental health, porn literacies, hook-up apps.
https://profiles.uts.edu.au/paul.byron 
Joni Meenagh @jonimeenagh.bsky.social Cat lady extraordinaire, AuDHD, queer, goofy af, ex-academic, knows how to intubate, never met a pot I couldn't stick something to.
Nic Healey @doctornic.bsky.social Reformed tech journalist now making statewide radio in regional Victoria. Bourbon fan. Proud cat dad. Aldi Tim Minchin. He/him.
Julia Coffey @juliacoffey.bsky.social Sociologist at University of Newcastle, Australia
Researching youth, gender, social media and the body
she/her
https://www.newcastle.edu.au/research/centre/newcastle-youth-studies
https://www.newcastle.edu.au/profile/julia-coffey#publications