Robert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social Historian @dhi-paris.fr, Dept. of African History
media|informal economies|infrastructures
friend of Ned
Je réservai ma dialectique pour le moment opportun, et je m’occupai du repas.
Sherry Turkle @sturkle.bsky.social Writer, thinker, mom, MIT prof & humanistic voice of caution about tech. My new book, Artificial Intimacy, is out in Sept 2026, available for preorder now.
Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com Reporter at ICIJ.org and author. GILDED RAGE: ELON MUSK AND THE RADICALIZATION OF SILICON VALLEY is out in paperback Sept. 2026.
Signal: jacobsilverman.99
www.jacobsilverman.com
https://linktr.ee/gildedrage
Patrick McGee @signfield.bsky.social CUNY • intellectual history of reactionary aesthetics, archival theory, nature in allways- D David Edgerton @davidedgerton.bsky.social Historian, at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, King's College London @kingschostm.bsky.social
https://www.davidedgerton.org/
Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social reader | writer | professor | Edith Wharton impersonator
Champlain College (Burlington, VT)
HANGING OUT — hardcover / audiobook / paperback / ebook https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717263/hanging-out-by-sheila-liming/
Susan H @susanh.bsky.social English prof and union activist. Culture wars, academic freedom, and the novel. Oh Florida. Opinions, when I offer them, are my own. @uffuf.bsky.social
Timothy Monteath @twm.bsky.social Assistant professor at Warwick University in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies. Data, visualisations, finance, housing and maps among other things: timothymonteath.space
Navneet Alang @navneetalang.com Editor on the Opinion team @ Toronto Star. Pitch me at nalang@thestar.ca.
Writer, columnist, bylines all over. PhD. Anglo-Indo-Canadian, each in equal measure. https://navneetalang.com/
Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social Professor of Financial Accounting, Vice Dean of Programmes, co-Director, Cambridge Centre for Financial Reporting & Accountability, Univ of Cambridge
Founder & Chair, Cambridge Disinformation Summit
Research: IFRS, GAAP, governance, information risks
Josh Scannell @frannyrecounts.bsky.social I teach Media Studies at The New School. I write about computational technologies, carceral power, and media philosophy.
New book, The Carceral Surround: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517921255/the-carceral-surround/
Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com "A scholar and a hater" - The Guardian
◦ historian of really bad guys @ Yale
◦ host, This Guy Sucked
◦ author, THE HOMELAND (coming summer 2027) & FALSE IDOLS (2028)
all opinions my own.
https://www.ceaubin.com
https://thisguysucked.com
@kojokoram.bsky.social @kojokoram.bsky.social
Bhaskar Sunkara @sunraysunray.bsky.social Democratic socialist.
Jake Romm @jakeromm.bsky.social your pal | writer | associate editor at Protean Mag | sometimes lawyer
let me write for you: jakeromm@icloud.com
Camila Vergara @camilavergara.bsky.social Research Fellow, St Andrews
Faculty, Director of Research IUC Turin
Plebeian philosophy & praxis, deliberative democracy, intellectual history, critical legal studies, political economy.
Publications: https://camilavergara.academia.edu/
Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social EconProf, UMass Amherst
Robinson, Keynes, Meiksins Wood, Rothschild & Matthöfer Prizes | Harvard Associate in Research | 2023 TIME100 Next
holly jean buck @hollyjeanbuck.bsky.social energy & climate policy, writer, analyst
Beth Stratford @bethstratford.bsky.social Economist (mainly ecological macro, housing, rent theory).
Senior Research Associate at Oxford's ECI. Honorary Fellow at UCL's IIPP.
Proud to have helped set up the London Renters Union✊.
Co-author #LandForTheMany.
Adam Golub @adamgolub.bsky.social American Studies professor at Cal State Fullerton. Popular culture, true crime, monsters, music, creative work, the history of childhood. Writing a cultural history of the doppelgänger. Also a dad and a runner. https://www.everydayfictions.com/bio
Geese Magazine @geesemag.bsky.social A Review of American Communism
geesemag.com
Décalages Journal @decalages.bsky.social An Althusser Studies Journal
decalagesjournal.org
Felienne Hermans @felienne.bsky.social "What I had not realized is that extremely short exposure to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people" - Weizenbaum 1976
In het Nederlands maar soms also in English!
Tim Barker @timbarker.bsky.social recovering historian
Her clarion o'er the dreaming earth, and fill Mitchell @clairq.bsky.social Club Tropicana's beverage pricing consultant (they/them)
Read my stuff, nerds: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4554-7291
Mike Beggs @mikejbeggs.bsky.social Political economy, history of Australian capitalism (esp. macroeconomic policy), history of monetary theory, unions, socialism, dad jokes, some other stuff
Data Workers’ Inquiry @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social The Data Workers’ Inquiry is a community-based research project in which data workers lead their own inquiry in their respective workplaces.
https://data-workers.org
All Grim Prints @allgrim.bsky.social PhD Candidate, Teacher, & Printmaker.
www.allgrimprints.shop
https://www.instagram.com/marxsillegitimateson/
Asli Ozgen 🟥 @asliozgenh.bsky.social 🎓 first-gen, migrant academic
🎞️ film historian & film critic
🔎 absences, gaps, silences in the archives
🖋️ assistant professor of media and culture, University of Amsterdam
🔗https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/o/z/a.ozgen-havekotte/a.ozgen-havekotte.html
Esther Weltevrede @esthrr.bsky.social
Jacob Engelberg @jacobengelberg.bsky.social asst. professor of film, media, & culture at University of Amsterdam | author of 𝘊𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘉𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘹𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 (Duke U.P.) | bisexual saboteur | he/his
https://linktr.ee/jacob.engelberg
Bernhard Rieder @riederb.bsky.social amsterdam univ; lisboa; history & politics of software; mechanology; platforms; digital methods; en/fr/de/nl/pt;
Selin Gerlek @gerlex.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Technology and Politics, Department of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam #digital_citizenship@uva #empirical_ethics@ias #shapinginterfacesbetweenscienceandthepublic@uva
#open_science@ophen.org #medical_ethics@uniw/h
Alice Fleerackers (she/her) @fleerackers.bsky.social Writer, researcher, terrible social media user | Assistant Prof @uvahumanities.bsky.social & VP of @pcstnetwork.bsky.social | studying journalism, #scholcomm & #scicomm | she/her
JS Tan @js-tan.bsky.social Book: AGAINST TECH OLIGARCHY, out Sept 15 (pre-order: https://againsttecholigarchy.com)
PhD candidate @ MIT DUSP. Research on labor and the political economy of AI/cloud. https://js-tan.com
Techwerkers @techwerkers.bsky.social Techwerkers | Tech Workers Coalition Netherlands is where tech workers come together to build collective power at work
Simon Strick @unddieregel.bsky.social PRONOUNS: HE/HIM
Cultural Studies/Media Studies/Far and Near Right
Author at Panzerkreuzer Rotkäppchen
Brandenburg Ultra
https://linktr.ee/simonstrick
Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social Author of Barack Obama’s summer 2026 reading pick DATA EMPIRE 📉👑, Provost Leadership Fellow for AI Strategy at Dartmouth 💚, horse girl 🐴, roopikarisam.com
Stephen Hughes @stephenhues.bsky.social Associate Professor in STS at University College London | Emotional dynamics in science/technology/society relationships (Fantasy, Denial, Ambivalence, Trust) | NEW BOOK: Affect, Emotion & Feeling in Science Communication 2027 with Bristol University Press
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Sam @worldsday.bsky.social Animator and Blender expert.
My book on 3D animation in Blender: https://a.co/d/hfAGFEN
Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social English Prof and Director of American Studies at Boston University. Gay dad and husband. 2024-2025 NEH fellow for “The Racialization of Print,” forthcoming from OIEAHC & UNC Press. https://www.josephrezek.com/
Alden Sajor Marte-Wood @aldenmartewood.bsky.social Founder of record label, MCM-GRIME. Deforming platforms. Covered in moss. Always historicizing.
John Hutnyk @johnhutnyk.bsky.social author @ hutnyk.wordpress.com
Amsterdam Law School @uvalawschool.bsky.social Welcome to the Amsterdam Law School. We draw students from around the world, bringing a truly international atmosphere. Go to: uva.nl/law
Patrick De Oliveira @plso.bsky.social | Historian of France, technology, and cities | e/ludd | 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇫🇷🇸🇬🇪🇸 | You can find out more about me at http://www.patrickdeoliveira.com | ICE is a terrorist organization |
Ryan Hill @ryanhillart.bsky.social Born and based in Seattle
Painting the city and its environs en plein air
Commissions open
www.ryanhillart.net
Tobita Chow @tobitac.bsky.social US-China, climate, politics, imperialism and world economy
Chicagoland | immigrant | he/him
Kevin Potter @kevinmpotter.bsky.social Postdoc at University of Vienna.
Author of Poetics of the Migrant
https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-poetics-of-the-migrant.html
Dog Dad
Free Palestine 🇵🇸. He/him.
Lisa Duggan @lisaduggan.bsky.social Commie Pinko Queer writer, activist, Distinguished Visiting Prof at Barnard College. Author of Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed & The Twilight of Equality. Co-editor of American Studies Now series at UC Press. Find me at lisaduggan.substack.com
Seth Brodsky @sbrodsky.bsky.social I teach music, modernism, psychoanalysis @ University of Chicago, direct Gray Center for Arts & Inquiry, and am mostly unconscious. Stuff: http://bit.ly/3JMupgJ
ANSI Files from Discmaster @ansibot.bsky.social Operator @xar.ph
All art sourced from https://discmaster.textfiles.com (not affiliated).
Alt text created from OCR, which may have errors.
Apologies for any crude blocky porn or slurs from edgy teens in the 90s. Report any Nazi or KKK ansi files to @xar.ph
Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social Historian of Biology and Medicine. Science is culture, and long live the Humanities. Director of @manchstm.bsky.social. Lapsed biochemist. Immigrant. Urban cyclist (& motorist). Owned by dog. More lucky than smart. 0 attention span. Here privately. He/him.
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.
INDEP @lndep.bsky.social The International Network for Democratic Economic Planning (INDEP) is an international network of workers, students, researchers, and activists, who share the common goal of advancing a post-capitalist economic system based on democratic economic planning.
The BREAK—DOWN @the-breakdown.bsky.social 📖🎙️📺 New writing and conversations on capitalism, nature and the climate 🌎 Hosted by @cmmonwealth.bsky.social
linktr.ee/breakdownradio
Brita Ytre-Arne @britaytrearne.bsky.social Media studies professor, University of Bergen. News avoidance, technology in everyday life, media and climate change, qualitative methods. New OA book October 2026: https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/too-much-news
Marcus Bösch @boesch.bsky.social Slop til you drop http://understanding-tiktok.com
Kye @kyebarker.bsky.social assistant professor of political theory | wonder in modern political thought | nature stuff | kansan | views my own | often confused | he/him
Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Seattle University. Author of The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research into Animal Life available from UC Press here:
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520342347/the-celluloid-specimen
Sharif Youssef @syoussef.bsky.social Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania. JD/PhD. Writing about moral hazard. Opinions are free-floating.
Simone van der Hof @joix.bsky.social Professor of Regulating Digital Technologies | Privacy, Data Protection, Commercial Exploitation, Digital Play, Digital Child Rights | Center for Law & Digital Technologies (eLaw), Leiden University
Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @luizajarovsky.bsky.social Co-founder of the https://www.aitechprivacy.com (1,500+ participants). Author of https://www.luizasnewsletter.com (100,000+ subscribers). Mother of 3.
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
Megan Wiessner @vviessner.bsky.social Postdoc at University of Virginia | Incoming Assistant Prof at University of Richmond | environmental media studies, digital geographies, and STS... via architectural supply chains and labor relations | Lost Painter
https://meganwiessner.com/
Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social Political theorist, political geographer, now mainly write on the history of ideas. Professor at University of Warwick, work on territory, Foucault, Lefebvre and new project on Indo-European thought in C20th France. https://progressivegeographies.com
Mapping AI @mappingai.bsky.social We are building a comprehensive map of the individuals and groups with the potential to shape AI policy in the United States.
Jan Kandiyali @jkandiyali.bsky.social Political philosopher at Durham Uni, living in Whitley Bay. Writes about Marx, work, and economic justice. Villa fan
Rob Gallagher @gealga.bsky.social Lecturer in Digital Media, King's College London. Co-director MA Digital Futures. Author of Videogames, Identity & Digital Subjectivity (Routledge 2017) and Artgames after Gamergate (Palgrave 2025): https://link.springer.com/book/9783032044341
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.
Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social Academic in the UK. Sociology of work and organization. Critical Theory. Gardening. Food. Miscellaneous. Posts views opinions links likes reposts comments strictly personal.
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social Researching data, tech, futures, and biological sciences in education | Senior Lecturer and co-director at the Centre for Research in Digital Education | University of Edinburgh | Editor of Learning, Media and Technology @lmt-journal.bsky.social
Dr Corinne Painter @corinnepainter.bsky.social Associate Prof Intercultural Studies @ Uni of Leeds @lcsleeds.bsky.social
FHEA. FRHistS
Research: Women's Life Writing, Revolution, Antifascism, German Jewish women. Tweets my own. She/Her
Rogier van Reekum @rvanreekum.bsky.social If we have anything to hope for, it is to be replaced.
daniela russ @ueberdruss.bsky.social what is unchangeable in nature can take care of itself | assistant prof & historical sociologist | private account
A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social Researching conservative news and right-wing media. PhD in American Studies from NYU. I teach at but don't speak for the University of Alabama.
News on the Right (http://bit.ly/2YgUcZX).
Making the Liberal Media (https://shorturl.at/e31nU)
Julián Posada @posada.website 💼 Assistant Professor @Yale.edu
📖 Author of “Platform Extractivism” (UC Press, 2026)
🎓 Research on #AI + #Data + #Work + #Platforms
🌐 https://posada.website/
Amin Samman @aminsamman.bsky.social Author of Currency of Nihilism (Stanford 2026). Editor-in-Chief of Finance and Society. Director of Finance and Society Network.
Jesus Lizard Superstar 🖤 🐀🐀🐀 @acekatana.bsky.social Ace K (he/him) | public defender & movement lawyer | co-founder Ground Game LA / Knock LA / new legal org name TBA
Time to take this shit back, all of it
‘cause it was ours to begin with
Marxism-NL @marxism-nl.bsky.social https://marxism-nl.org/
We are a network of scholars, activists, organizers, and workers influenced by Marxism in the Netherlands and beyond
Wij zijn een netwerk voor Marxistische onderwijs, activisten, organiseren, en arbeiders in Nederland
Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com "Leftwing professor" - in other words, researching the mainstreaming of reactionary/far-right politics
Co-convenor of @reacpolrn.bsky.social
Publications etc 👇🏻
https://aurelmondon.com/
Graham Macklin @grahammacklin.bsky.social Historian @crexuio.bluesky.social University of Oslo. Interested in the far right, fascism & terrorism. I co-edit Routledge’s Fascism & the Far Right book series: https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Studies-in-Fascism-and-the-Far-Right/book-series/FFR
Jack Copley @jackcopley.bsky.social Teach & research international political economy at Durham University.
Book: https://tinyurl.com/ykvf98wn
Cat-Tebaldi @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social Postdoc @ culture & computation lab | language & gender & far right |
Dan @d-j-frost.bsky.social Co-editor of In Solidarity, Under Suspicion: The British Far Left from 1956 (@manchesterup.bsky.social, 2025)
#cpfc 🔵🔴
Mark Dingemanse @markdingemanse.net Language, interaction, tech • papers https://markdingemanse.net • blog https://ideophone.org • more colourful on fedi https://scholar.social/@dingemansemark/ • POSSE: Publish on Own Site, Syndicate Everywhere
Dutch News @dutchnewsnl.bsky.social Dutch news in English for an international audience.
Read more: https://www.dutchnews.nl/
Henry Laws @henryglaws.bsky.social Likes and shares =/= endorsements.
Athenaeum Boekhandel @athenaeum.nl 🛍️Wees welkom in 5 boekhandels in Amsterdam & Haarlem 📚Het breedste assortiment (ook online), 🚚Thuisbezorging én afhalen 🎁 Portovrij boven € 20,-. Ook posts namens de 6de boekhandel, Scheltema.
Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social Academic/Writer - History/Politics/Criminology - British, Australian & southern African (plus transnational) history - he/him - top 2% researchers 2024 (Stanford/Elsevier rankings) - views own - cult classic, not best seller - DMs will, alas, remain unread
Katie (Kathryn) Conrad @kconrad.bsky.social Prof. of English at University of Kansas. Tech and culture. AI ethics. Critical AI literacy. Pandora’s Bot on Substack. Library of Babel Group. Zine publisher. #aiethics #criticalailiteracy
Philip Di Salvo @philipdisalvo.bsky.social Senior researcher and lecturer @ Uni St. Gallen | hacking/journalism, leaks, surveillance, black boxes | journalist | DIG Festival board | previously Media LSE, IMeG USI | views my own | Zürich
Carissa Véliz @carissaveliz.bsky.social Associate Professor at the University of Oxford. Author of Prophecy ("Witty and surprising...intelligent" - NYT) and Privacy Is Power (An Economist Book of the Year). TED Speaker. Posts about #privacy, #AIethics, #philosophy, #philtech
Hammer and Hope @hammerandhope.bsky.social "I'm so grateful Hammer and Hope exists. True Black leftist literary dispatches." - dream hampton.
Become a member: https://hammerandhope.org/membership
Read new issues and sign up for our newsletter: https://linktr.ee/hammerandhope
Peter Nedergaard @peternedergaard.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, University of Copenhagen. Research interests: European and Nordic Politics, Political Economy. Collector of modern ceramics, Faroese paintings and Christine Swane paintings. Lifelong fan of Bob Dylan and modernist poetry.
Marie VC, PhD @marievc.eurosky.social Postdoctoral Researcher (elle/she) • Internet & Cultural Studies • Legal Knowledge & Environmental Law • Social & Climate Justice • Brussels Sprouts Appreciation Society • Arts & Crafts • Gardening • Sailing
FR/EN (Belgium/Luxembourg)
Left Wexit @iosegun.bsky.social Maps, History, Socialism, Cape Breton,
@albertaadvantage.bsky.social researcher and writer, Calgary/Northern BC
Sara Martín @saramartin.eurosky.social I read, I write, I teach, I learn
English Studies, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
https://webs.uab.cat/saramartinalegre/
BLOG The Joys of Teaching Literature
https://webs.uab.cat/saramartinalegre/blog/
I co-edit Hélice, https://www.revistahelice.com