AusSTS @aussts.bsky.social A network for science and technology studies (STS) scholars in Australia and New Zealand
Pedro H. Albuquerque @pedrohalbuquerque.net Research Fellow, AMSE | Senior Member, IEEE | Senior Editor, IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society | Cofounder ACCELERATION & ADAPTATION | Ph.D. in Economics, UW-Madison | B.S. in Electrical Engineering, UnB
🌐 http://pedrohalbuquerque.net
Benjamin Jacobsen @bnjacobsen.bsky.social Lecturer in Sociology at University of York and Visiting Fellow on ALGOSOC project at Durham University.
Stine Willum Adrian @stinewadrian.bsky.social Professor in sociology, engaged in questions of technologies of life and death, ethics of technologies, ethnographic methods and feminist epistemologies...
Graham Minenor-Matheson @spaceguyliu.bsky.social PhD Candidate @Liu.se studying the space race. Sci-fi fan. Cofounder Linköping Space Studies in Humanities and Social Science @LSSH. Dad. Cat servant.
Laser @stefanlaser.bsky.social I am an academic ✒ on 🚯🚆🐮💾. #sts #sociology #ecology #waste #energy
Plus, Fujifilm #photography
I post POSSE style: Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere. Many things Asia, VN.
https://social.tchncs.de/@stefanlaser
https://stefanlaser.net
Dieuwertje Luitse @dluitse.bsky.social PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam on Data Bodies, Critical AI in Health Decision-making | Ethics & Politics of AI systems, Platforms, Political Economy | she/her | 🔗 https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/l/u/d.luitse/d.luitse.html
Dan Kotliar @danmk.bsky.social 🎓 Senior Lecturer at the Department of Sociology, U of Haifa.
Previously: Stanford, Hebrew U.
Studying algorithms & culture, AI ethics, AI Hype, data infrastructures, microbiomic futures & more.
🏡 https://www.dankotliar.com/
Cornelius Heimstädt @cheimstaedt.bsky.social Sociology + STS at University of Hamburg studying "sustainable" Startups and Venture Capital | PI of DFG project "The Climatization of Venture Capital" 🌱💸🌱
Diego Cerna Aragón @dc-a.bsky.social PhD candidate @ MIT | technoscience in Latin America; environmental history; cultural economy; media studies | mostly en español | usual disclaimers
Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app Founder & PI @aial.ie. Assistant Professor of AI, School of Computer Science & Statistics, @tcddublin.bsky.social
AI accountability, AI audits & evaluation, critical data studies. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
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
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
Claudia Aradau @cearadau.bsky.social everything 'politics out of security', professor of international politics, Algorithmic reason: The new government of self and other (2022)
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.
Stephen Yang! @stephenyang.bsky.social PhDing @USCAnnenberg // studying media, technology, environment // prev @Cornell @MSFTResearch @CDT // Angelino & 臺灣人
https://www.stephen-yang.com/
Susi Geiger @susigeiger.bsky.social Full Prof at UCD Dublin, passionate about markets, healthcare, and access to medicine. Sitting somewhere between STS, economic sociology and organization studies. Yoga teacher, runner and tango lover in whatever spare time I have.
Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social Professor of Political Geography & Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life @leverhulmecal.bsky.social
Algorithms, politics, technology, biometrics, AI, ethics
Author Cloud Ethics http://dukeupress.edu/cloud-ethics
Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social ST&HV is a journal that publishes cutting-edge research and debate in the field of Science and Technology Studies http://journals.sagepub.com/home/sth
Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social We are 4S, an international, nonprofit association focused on the social studies of science, technology and medicine (#STS). Next Annual meeting October 7-10, 2026.
Anders Kristian Munk @akmunk.bsky.social Professor at DTU Management | Section for Human-Centered Engineering | Head of @echodtu.bsky.social
🗺️ controversy mapping
🤖 computational anthropology
🚒 technological problems in society
#digitalmethods #sts #dkforsk
Book: https://bit.ly/contrmap
Aaro Tupasela @tupasela.bsky.social Sociologist, STS scholar from Finland
Dr. Vassilis Galanos, SFHEA - each one teach one @velocitygravity.bsky.social Lecturer in Digital Work, UoStirling.
Researching AI/internet/digital media & expectations/expertise. Hype+Metaphors.
Friends: BRAID UK, UoE STIS, AI Ethics & Society, Data Civics, The New Real.
AE: Technology Analysis and Strategic Management.
It/ve/vem👾
Daan Kolkman @dakolkman.bsky.social Sociologist of data and algorithms. Working on responsible data science and governance of algorithms.
Taina Bucher @tainab.bsky.social
Mike Ananny @mikeananny.bsky.social ananny.org
- Media technologies & production cultures
- How sociotechnical systems enact theories of press freedom & “the public”
- GenAI as a public problem
Associate Professor of Communication & Journalism, USC Annenberg
Always 🇨🇦
Maximilian Heimstädt @heimstaedt.bsky.social Professor of Digital Governance @ Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg | Affiliate @ Weizenbaum Institute Berlin | Organizations, Technology, Expertise | heimstaedt.org
Jenna Burrell @jburrell.bsky.social Currently: visiting researcher, University of Tokyo, based in Yokohama (GMT+9)
Formerly: Professor at UC-Berkeley, Director of Research, Data & Society.
Anja Bechmann @anjabechmann.bsky.social Researching collective behavior in AI-powered communication, Professor & Director of DATALAB - Center for Digital Social Research, Aarhus University, Denmark. PI: SoMe Influence project https://dff.dk/, member https://royalacademy.dk/.
AKA Fa͍ͥ͒ͦͣ͑bi̗̼̣̦̳̊͐̏͊̇aͭn̜͕̜̠̼ͤ̐̏ Munié̼͙̭͉̫̌ͤ̑̓s͚͔̩̓̆a @provokedeconomy.bsky.social Sparse reactions to things, augmented with academic propaganda -- from the verified author of 'The Provoked Economy' (Routledge, 2014), AKA Fabian Muniesa
https://provokedeconomy.net/
Kate Crawford @katecrawford.bsky.social Professor, researcher, maker of things
Noortje Marres @noortjem.bsky.social Sociologist of technology and science, empirical philosopher, creative methods
Malte Ziewitz @zwtz.bsky.social I rarely post.
Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social An independent research and policy institute working toward a future where people, not technology, come first.
Anna Jobin @annajobin.bsky.social what if i'm underthinking
Nikolas Rose @rose-nikolas.bsky.social Social and political theorist. Hon prof at ANU and UCL. Books include ‘The Politics of Life Itself’, ‘Our Psychiatric Future’, ‘The Urban Brain’ (with D. Fitzgerald). Just out: ‘Questioning Humanity (with T. Osborne). Working on new book on biopolitics… 🇺🇦
Robert Seyfert @seyfert.bsky.social Professor of Sociology @uni-kiel.de Germany
Social Theory, Algorithmic Sociality, Affect Theory
https://www.seyfert.org
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9667-1970
https://mastodon.social/@RobertSeyfert
Timothy Neale @tdneale.bsky.social Lives in Narrm / Melbourne, comes from Aotearoa / New Zealand, works in Anthropology @ Deakin University | Editor of Science, Technology, & Human Values aka @sthv.bsky.social | timneale.me
Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social Scholar, author, policy advisor
alondranelson.com
Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab
https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab
Books: Auditing AI, The Social Life of DNA, Genetics and the Unsettled Past, Body and Soul, Technicolor
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. @local6741.bsky.social & @cucfa.org These are my personal opinions, not those of my employer.
Nicole C. Nelson @nicolecnelson.bsky.social Science & Technology Studies | History of Sci/Tech/Med | Qualitative Metascience | Medical Humanities.
Associate Prof at UW Madison.
🇨🇦 living in the 🇺🇸 married to a 🇩🇪.
Florian Jaton @flojaton.bsky.social sociologist of science, technology & computing #sts; author of The Constitution of Algorithms @mitpress.bsky.social; mostly @EPFL; editorial board @bigdatasoc.bsky.social and Social Studies of Science
https://florian-jaton.com/
Ted Striphas @striphas.bsky.social Prof. & Chair – Media Studies, University of Colorado Boulder | Author, Algorithmic Culture Before the Internet (https://tinyurl.com/p8ad6suw) | Opinions my own
Limn @limnpress.bsky.social Coming in at oblique angles since 2010
https://limn.press/issue/ghostwriters/
https://limn.press
https://limn.press/collaborate/
Hannah Knox @hannahcknox.bsky.social Anthropologist. Works at the University of Manchester. Studies people's lives with and alongside infrastructure, climate, energy, technology and data.
Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social Professor in Science and Technology Studies, UCL @stsucl.bsky.social. Science policy, responsible innovation, emerging technologies. Book https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-32320-2. Responsible AI UK (www.rai.ac.uk)- C Casper Bruun Jensen @cbruunjensen.bsky.social sts anthro infrastructure climate more-than-human ontologies southeast asia. In Bangkok
Stefan Molnar @stefanmolnar.bsky.social Researcher in urban planning and design, quality of life and behaviour change.
Here for politics, art, culture, food and tech.
Based in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Mette Kragh-Furbo @mettekraghfurbo.bsky.social Lecturer in sociology of public health | Department of Public Health, Policy and Systems | University of Liverpool
Joe Deville @joedeville.bsky.social #OpenAccess & #OpenInfrastructure advocate. Professor in #STS at Lancaster University. Managing Director at Open Book Collective. Trustee/Editor at Mattering Press. Heading up the @copim.bluesky.social Open Book Futures project
Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social Ontario Research Chair in Science Policy
Obsessed with assets & assetization + into science & technology studies, political economy, economic sociology: https://keanbirch.net/
Kai Lo Andersson @kailo.bsky.social PhD student in Gender and Technology. Science, Technology and Society, Chalmers University of Technology. ✨They/them✨
Charlotte Högberg @chogberg.bsky.social Postdoc in Technology & Society, Lund Uni. Sweden.
Researching "AI" from STS, social science and humanities perspectives. At the moment mainly focused on epistemology & ethics of medical prediction & classification.
She/her
Prof. Felipe Gusmão @fgusmao.bsky.social "A minor marginalised philosopher writing in the early twenty-first century"
Professor of Conservation at UNIFESP
I was once suspended from Twitter for defending animal rights... and I love cats
Ⓐ
verified at @felipe.wsocial.eu
Olle Häggström @ohaggstrom.bsky.social Concerned world citizen and professor of mathematical statistics (in that order).
Hynek Pallas @hynekpallas.bsky.social Skriver. Aktuell med boken Frimärkssamlaren (Kaunitz-Olsson). Återkommande i GP kultur, Expressen kultur & Sydsvenskan
Gail Davies @gailfdavies.bsky.social Prof in Human Geography at University of Exeter researching spaces of science & technology, human & animal health, research involvement & responsibility. Currently works on animal research & its replacements. Unexpected interest in chronic pain & FND.
Anna Mann @annamann.bsky.social STS, PostDoc @SUZ @UZH, PI “(Im-)Possibilities of Letting Life End”
Rasmus Fleischer @rsmsflschr.bsky.social Forskare i ekonomisk historia (Stockholms universitet).
Kulturskribent i Flamman, GP och Aftonbladet.
Musiker i Vox Vulgaris, etc.
https://linktr.ee/rasmusfleischer
https://voxvulgaris.bandcamp.com/
Gustav Holmberg @gustavholmberg.bsky.social http://www.gustavholmberg.com/tomrum Docent, lektor i idé- och lärdomshistoria, Göteborgs universitet. Mest intresserad av modern vetenskapshistoria, speciellt astronomi. Även vissa forskningspolitiska intressen.
Luísa Reis Castro @anthrobite.bsky.social Anthropologist of science, health & the environment in an unequal 🌍 | thinks a lot about Brasil & bugs 🦟 🦠
Assistant Prof @usc.edu; before MIT, Maastricht Univ, UFMG
Spending 2025–2026 in Deutschland @hanse-ias.bsky.social
ela/she/sie
Gustaf Nelhans @gnelhans.bsky.social PhD, Associate Professor
Director, Data as Impact Lab
Chairman of the of the National Library Researcher Council
Swedish School of Library and Information Science (SSLIS)
University of Borås
Olof Sundin @olofsundin.bsky.social Professor in Information Studies at LU. ”Paradoxes of Media and Information Literacy: The Crisis of Information" 2022 with J Haider http://tinyurl.com/2p9f63mu
Kevin Pijpers @kevinpijpers.bsky.social Social anthropologist of sorts.
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 📚🌷
Andreas Birkbak @birkbak.bsky.social Associate Prof at Roskilde University 🇩🇰. Director of the Digital Media Lab here. Research on Publics, Media, and Technology, inspired by STS and ANT.
Safiya Umoja Noble, PhD @safiyanoble.bsky.social Living in Los Angeles. Native Californian. #MacFellow
Writer, professor. Comedian.
Author, “Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism,” which is unfortunately still relevant to understanding today’s LLMs and AI.
safiyaunoble.com
The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org Educational charity. Peer-reviewed sociology journal, public sociology magazine, podcasts, Connected Sociologies teaching resources, ECR opportunities.
https://www.thesociologicalreview.org
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.
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 🏳️🌈
Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social Historian of technology, occasional dad jokes.
www.marhicks.com
Liz McFall @allartmarkets.bsky.social Professor in Sociology of Markets, Edinburgh| sentimental pragmatist following insurance, markets, data centres and BIG SHEDS|
EiC @jcultecon.bsky.social
https://efi.ed.ac.uk/ecosystem/data-civics
🎥 @ https://youtube.com/@areweawed8955?si=VuE3d8hM5DJOadhE
Jess Bier @bierjess.bsky.social Professor at large
PI: DIGIPORTS project, automation + racialization in maritime logistics
Author: Mapping Israel, Mapping Palestine: How Occupied Landscapes Shape Scientific Knowledge
Pro 🍉 ⚧️🌈 🏴☠️
Chakad Ojani @chakadojani.bsky.social Anthropology of infrastructures, environmental anthropology, and STS | Stockholm University | http://chakadojani.com
Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social Sociologist interested in STS, data, and the state. Assistant Professor of Communication and Sociology at Northeastern University. chunchengliu.com
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
Angela Marques Filipe @angelaofthenorth.bsky.social A/Prof #Sociology, durham.ac.uk/staff/angela-m-filipe. Global #ethnography + social #history of contested conditions, concepts & climates of mental #health, esp. #ADHD, #vulnerability, #ecoanxiety.
My own views (reg del skeets)
🇵🇹🇬🇧🌈♾️🪐
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
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/
Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co Social science and other distractions. Old posts get deleted pretty quick.
https://kieranhealy.org /
https://theordinalsociety.com
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
Lukas Engelmann @engelmal.bsky.social Chancellor's Fellow at Uni of Edinburgh (STIS & CBSS)
Author of 'Mapping AIDS' (CUP), co-author of 'Sulphuric Utopias' (MIT)
PI at the Epidemy Lab (ERC): http://epidemy.org
Jutta Haider @juttahaider.bsky.social Social Study of Information & Environmental Communication | SSLIS, Swedish School of Library & Information Science | Posts in English, Swedish, German
Philip Roscoe @philiproscoe.bsky.social Professor of Management at the University of St Andrews
Co EiC of the amazing @jcultecon
Jan-Hendrik Passoth @janpassoth.bsky.social Professor for Sociology of Technology, Director European New School of Digital Studies, VP Research Viadrina University, Science & Technology Studies, also @jhpassoth@mastodon.social
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)
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.
Heta Tarkkala @hetatarkkala.bsky.social PhD (STS). Studies non-quantifiable issues related to science, technology & society and data. Currently: (health) data & wastewater. Knits at conferences.
Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website anthropology, algorithms, attention | he/him | The conversation is characterized by Nick's use of language, but the content of the discussion remains unknown.
Sabina Leonelli @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social Prof in Philosophy and History of Science & Technology, Technical University of Munich | scientific director Ethical Data Initiative & Public Science Lab | http://opensciencestudies.eu | President ISHPSSB | loves almost all forms of life
Doris Lydahl @dorislinnea.bsky.social Associate Professor at University of Gothenburg, doing STS research. Studying mundane practices as places where science and technology meet and enact their values and orders.
Lisa Lindén @lisalinden.bsky.social Associate Professor, Div of Science, Technology and Society, Chalmers Uni of Technology, STS researcher.