The Critical AI Centre @craicexeter.bsky.social CrAIC is an interdisciplinary research hub based at the University of Exeter, UK.
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RGS-IBG Higher Ed @rgs-ibghe.bsky.social The latest in geography higher education from the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG).
Tanja Schneider @taschn.bsky.social Head of Science and Technology Studies #STS Section @DTU 🇩🇰
Research Affiliate at InSIS @ox.ac.uk | @sydney.edu.au PhD | still writing a book about #Food #Finance #Futures | also sharing thoughts and photos on 📚🌷
Peter Scholten @pwascholten.bsky.social Professor in the governance of migration and diversity, Erasmus University Rotterdam. Editor in chief of Comparative Migration Studies. Director of the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for the Governance of Migration and Diversity. www.peterscholten.eu 
David Barnard-Wills @dbarnardwills.bsky.social Political scientist working in emerging tech regulation. Privacy, ethical AI and responsible innovation. PhD. AIGP. Manchester UK
Steffen Mau @steffenmau.bsky.social Sociologist | MPI for Political and Social Science, Göttingen https://www.ips.mpg.de | HU Berlin https://www.sowi.hu-berlin.de/de/lehrbereiche/makro/mitarbeiter/Prof_Mau l social change, inequality, conflict, borders (pic Gesine Born), personal views
Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social Journalist & astrophysicist. Host, @dreamingagainstthemachine.com. New book: MORE EVERYTHING FOREVER, about broken futures pushed by tech billionaires. Words in the Atlantic, NPR, NYT, the Guardian, BBC, SciAm, Fortune, etc. He/him. Signal: adambecker.84
Steven Vertovec, Futures of Difference @fod-soc.bsky.social Exploring how race, gender, migration and other social categories are contested and reconfigured in contemporary societies worldwide.
Find essays and more at: https://futuresofdifference.substack.com/
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Dr Kieran McCloskey @kpmccloskey.bsky.social Senior data scientist and project manager.
Brett Aho @brettaho.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher at Center for Critical Computational Studies, Goethe University Frankfurt. PhD in Global Studies, University of California Santa Barbara. Mediocre Disc Golfer.
Cyberflaneurs @cyberflaneurs.bsky.social 
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver @lastweektonight.com The official Bluesky account of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. youtube.com/lastweektonight
TechCrunch @techcrunch.com Technology news and analysis with a focus on founders and startup teams.
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Reveal @revealnews.org The Reveal podcast is produced by the nation's first investigative journalism nonprofit, the Center for Investigative Reporting, and PRX.
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Lighthouse Reports @lighthousereports.com Radically collaborative journalism. Working with the world’s leading media on deeply reported, public interest investigations. http://bit.ly/LHR-newsletter
Thinking Through Infrastructure Network @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social Thinking through infrastructure – energy, transport, water, waste, housing, health – with methods from the arts, humanities, & social sciences. https://researchcentres.citystgeorges.ac.uk/thinking-through-infrastructure-network
Jeremy Hunsinger @buridan.bsky.social academic, researcher of the internet, writer, traveler...
STS, Critical Internet Studies, Critical University Studies, Critical Data Studies, Critical Theory, Interpretive methods, etc. #AoIR ista and leftist like Will Rogers
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/
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/
Dissent Magazine @dissentmag.bsky.social Democratic socialist since 1954.
dissentmagazine.org
Prism @prismreports.org An independent, nonprofit newsroom that goes where justice requires.
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Weird Spy Satellite @weirdsatellite.bsky.social Weird Spy Satellite Imagery. A speculative surveillance bot by @samplereality.bsky.social. Posts self-destruct for security reasons.
Annette Markham @annettemarkham.bsky.social Social researcher focused on AI futures literacies, data/digital disruptions, algorithmic identity, human machine communication. Chair Professor at Utrecht University
A bit obsessed about methodology
More at https://annettemarkham.com
AbdouMaliq Simone @xazaaradjame.bsky.social Urbanist of the majority world; Collaborator in experiments on black urbanism and popular economy. Candomble sufi. The Urban Institute, University of Sheffield
Cihan Sinanoğlu @narekisi.bsky.social Leitung des Nationalen Diskriminierungs- und Rassismusmonitors
https://www.dezim-institut.de/mitarbeitende/person-detail/cihan-sinanoglu/
https://www.rassismusmonitor.de
Michalis Moutselos @michalism.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Department of Social and Political Sciences, @ucy1.bsky.social. Posts about polisci, migration, Europe, Greece.
The Max Planck Institute for Political and Social Science @mpips.bsky.social The Max Planck Institute for Political & Social Science examines urgent questions of conflict, inequality, democratic erosion & societal transformation – combining political science & sociology in an interdisciplinary framework. ips.mpg.de
Nando Sigona @nandosigona.bsky.social Professor @unibirmingham.bsky.social UK, FAcSS
Director @irisbirmingham.bsky.social
Research: #migration, #asylum, #citizenship, #diversity
https://www.nandosigona.info
https://www.i-claim.eu
podcast https://whodowethinkweare.org/
#runner
The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com Independent news website. Only publishes articles written by academics and researchers. No paywall, no ads. All Creative Commons licensed.
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The Onion @theonion.com America’s Finest News Source. A @globaltetrahedron.bsky.social subsidiary.
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Aaron Martin @sixfouronea.net Assistant Professor of Data Governance at UVA
About me: https://sixfouronea.net/
Project: http://digitalsovereigntyobservatory.org
Bettina Schwab @bettinaschwab.bsky.social loves science, especially brain stimulation. bettina-schwab.net
Caroline Fischer @carofischer.bsky.social Prof Public Administration and Management University of Kassel | Digitalization | Errors, Knowledge and Learning | HRM | Open Science | educational Director Executive Master Public Admin @Unikims
University of Twente @utwente.bsky.social The University of Twente is currently not actively using this Blueskye account.
Michiel de Lange @mdelange.bsky.social Associate Professor New Media at Utrecht University | digital media and urban culture | [urban interfaces] | The Mobile City | ‘Inclusion in the datafied city’
| http://blog.bijt.org | https://www.uu.nl/staff/MLdeLange
The Conversation Africa @africa.theconversation.com An independent source of news and views on Africa from the academic and research community.
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Independent Social Research Foundation @isrfoundation.bsky.social Dedicated to the promotion of interdisciplinary research in the social sciences. Likes/Reposts/Shared Articles are not necessarily endorsements.
Tilmann HEIL @tilmannheil.bsky.social (he/ele) https://tilmann.me - urban anthropologist recently fascinated with organic urban materiality and always concerned with inequality and social and cultural heterogeneity.
Surveillance Studies Network @survstudiesnet.bsky.social The global network for surveillance studies research. Surveillance & Society journal https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance-and-society, conferences, workshops, mentoring, prizes & more. Join us here: https://surveillance-studies.net
Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society @tilt-tilburgu.bsky.social Updates from #TILT, Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society at Tilburg Law School @tilburg-university.bsky.social | #Technology #Governance #Regulation #Innovation #FundamentalRights | www.tilt.nl- K @koenleurs.bsky.social @koenleurs.bsky.social
Casey Lynch @casey-lynch.bsky.social Geographer at the Universitat de Girona. Cities, labor, politics of AI/robots/automation. CAT/ENG/ESP 🏳️🌈
Planetary Praxis @planetarypraxis.bsky.social Cambridge research group studying social life, technology + the planetary through practice-based research. http://smartforests.net, http://citizensense.net, planetarypraxis.org.
Dr. Michael Nagenborg @mnagenborg.bsky.social Roleplaying nerd with a bad taste in movies and a day job in a Philosophy department. My more professional posts: https://bsky.app/profile/mnagenborg.social.edu.nl.ap.brid.gy
Prof. Dr. Andreas Braun @andreaschbraun.bsky.social Professor for Human-Environment Interactions at Kassel Institute for Sustainability, University of Kassel, Geoecologist, Geospatial Scientist, Sociologist, Critical Science Theorist.
Ellie Armstrong @ellietheelement.bsky.social I am Space Research Fellow at University of Leicester (UK). Founding the Constellations Lab for feminist social studies of outer space.
Prev: PDRA @ UStockholm (SE), UDel (USA); PhD @ UCL.
https://ellietheelement.squarespace.com
Beth Tellman @socialpixel.bsky.social floods, satellites, maps, social justice, co-founder and chief scientist Floodbase and asst. prof University of Wisconsin-Madison and co-founder @umbela-org https://beth-tellman.github.io https://www.floodbase.com https://umbela.org mom. Pro-winter.
Justus Uitermark @uitermark.bsky.social Social scientist with geographic inclinations
Ana M. Bustamante Duarte @anabdp.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Architecture and Design, Universidad de Los Andes. Currently working on impacts of digitalization/datification strategies deployed in urban public spaces.
Javier Martinez 🟥 @jmtznl.bsky.social 
Gunjan Sondhi @gunjans.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Geography at the Open University, UK. Director, Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice(@ou-gcsj.bsky.social). Researching migration, gender, education and work.
cryopolitics @cryopolitics.com Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Washington
Arctic geopolitics / critical remote sensing / infrastructure / satellites / skiing ⛷️
Florence Chee @cheeflo.bsky.social Technocultural Ethicist | Associate Professor of Digital Communication @LoyolaChicago | Director of the Center for Digital Ethics and Policy @digethics and the Social and Interactive Media Lab @SIMLabChicago https://simlabchicago.com/?page_id=274
Laura Forlano @laura4lano.bsky.social Writer. Design Researcher. Professor @NU_CAMD Type 1D. Design, Tech and Radical Futures. Noodle Fanatic, Laser Cut Fashionista and Latin Alternative Rocker.
Center for Democracy & Technology @cdt.org The Center for Democracy & Technology. Shaping technology policy and architecture, with a focus on equity and justice. @cdteu.org for our EU-based team.
https://cdt.org
Mark Graham @geoplace.bsky.social Prof at the Oxford Internet Institute
Director of @towardsfairwork.bsky.social
Publications: www.markgraham.space
Studies: Digital Economies, Digital Geographies, Economic Geography, Gig Economy, Data Work, AI Production Networks, Cities
Eat the rich
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account
Author: Deep Unlearning (you can now preorder at https://shorturl.at/sCdjl)
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://dair-institute.org)
@bkmasinde.bsky.social @bkmasinde.bsky.social 
Will Allen @williamlallen.bsky.social political scientist • how people engage with info, and why this matters for attitudes and policy around the world • Deputy Editor @migrationjrnl.bsky.social • UK Young Academy • all the baking • www.wlallen.com
Carlos Vargas-Silva @cvar-sil.bsky.social Professor at the University of Oxford. Doing research on migration.
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)
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 🏳️🌈
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
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 
Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social https://danmcquillan.org/
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.
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