Nolen Gertz @ethicistforhire.bsky.social Philosophy professor @utwentephilosophy.bsky.social
Author of #NihilismAndTechnology (RLI 2018), #Nihilism (MIT 2019), #PhilosophyOfWarAndExile (Palgrave 2014)
https://www.nolengertz.com
#Philsky #Philtech #Existentialism #Phenomenology #Filmsky
Alternatives to Capitalism Research Network | SASE @alternativesatsase.bsky.social Alternatives to Capitalism Network of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) @sasemeeting.bsky.social
Our call for papers for SASE 2026 is now online (Deadline 16 December):
https://sase.org/networks/i-alternatives-to-capitalism/
Lee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social Reader in Comparative Politics (I think that's like an Associate Professor everywhere else in the world)
Hand of A'dal
https://leemsavage.wordpress.com/
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.
Christopher R. Matthews @drcrmatthews.bsky.social ▪︎ Reading, writing & thinking about the moral foundation of scholarship
▪︎ Author of Doing Good Social Science: http://bit.ly/3EgFA2z
▪︎ More about my work: immersiveresearch.co.uk
▪︎ DM for speaking/workshop requests
The Map Center @mapcenter.com Andrew Middleton
Cartographer, GIS specialist and educator
A 'Peddler of Wheres' and owner of the oldest map store on the East Coast, The Map Center in Pawtucket RI. It's like a hip record store but for maps.
www.mapcenter.com
Linktr.ee/ecoandrewtrc
Amina Soulimani @soullimani.bsky.social phd-ing @university of cape town. doctoral research fellow @humauct.bsky.social | medical anthro. STS. algorithms. futures. ethics of care 💭 alternatives.
Marissa MacWhirter @marissamacwhirter.bsky.social Columnist, The Herald & Editor, The Glasgow Wrap
🆇 @marissaamayy1
IG @marissaamayy
elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social Brighton-based journalist, historian, writer etc — but mostly her dad.
Words in @derspekter.org, @972mag.com, Shado etc
🎙️ @thefirethesetimes.com & @thestartrekpod.bsky.social
✍️ http://hauntologies.net
Matthew Hughes @matthewhughes.bsky.social Journalist (ex The Register, The Next Web, HowToGeek). Writer. Software developer. Dog owner (x3). Scouser.
I have a newsletter about how tech companies are ruining our lives. https://whatwelost.substack.com/
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/
Dominic Falcao @dominicfalcao.bsky.social Founder, Deep Science Ventures: www.dsv.io
Richard Tutton @drfuturity.bsky.social Professor | Department of Sociology and @satsu-york.bsky.social | @york.ac.uk | Interests in STS of outer space | sociology of futures |futures of sustainable travel | EASST Council member | Senior Fellow Higher Ed Academy
ESRC Centre for Sociodigital Futures @sociodigfutures.bsky.social We live in a sociodigital world – a world where society and digital technology are increasingly bound together. Founded in 2022, we bring together leading interdisciplinary expertise to explore sociodigital futures in the making. www.bristol.ac.uk/censof
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👾
Science as Culture @sciasculture.bsky.social Science and Technology Studies journal exploring how (arte)facts, processes, products shape & are shaped by society, since 1987!
Website: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/csac20
Valentina Tanni @vrandom.bsky.social ***art, technology, internet culture *** my latest book is «EXIT REALITY | Vaporwave, Backrooms, Weirdcore, and Other Landscapes Beyond the Threshold» (NERO | Aksioma, 2024) ***
www.valentinatanni.com
Vincent Giampietro @vincentgiampietro.bsky.social Neuroscientist at @kingsioppn.bsky.social & @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social. French chatterbox and musicbox floating in a most peculiar way in Sarf London since the late 20th century...
JennyLDavis @jenny-l-davis.bsky.social Sociologist of emergent tech. Dog content enthusiast. https://www.jennyldavis.com/
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.
Areeq Chowdhury @areeq.bsky.social Policy, politics, artificial intelligence.
Benjamin Shestakofsky @bshestakofsky.bsky.social Sociologist @cornellbowers.bsky.social studying work, technology, organizations, and political economy | Author of Behind the Startup: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/behind-the-startup/paper
Kate Crawford @katecrawford.bsky.social Professor, researcher, maker of things
Katharina Meyer @kthrnmyr.bsky.social Historian of Technology & Science delving into the intricacies of practices, knowledge, infrastructures and protocols in digital infrastructure & commons.
Director Digital Infrastructure Insights Fund (infrastructureinsights.fund)
Emily Rosamond @erosamon.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths. Editor at Finance and Society. Writing about reputation, personality and financialized culture.
Economic Sociology & Political Economy @econsociology.bsky.social The global community of academics, practitioners, and activists interested in Economic #Sociology and Political Economy -- led by Dr. Oleg Komlik https://economicsociology.org/about/
Tracy Alloway @tracyalloway.bsky.social Co-host of the Odd Lots podcast. I like financial crisis hindsight, spurious correlation and puppies. London ➡️New York ➡️Abu Dhabi ➡️Hong Kong ➡️New York
Joe Weisenthal @weisenthal.bsky.social Cohost of The Odd Lots Podcast
Singer and guitarist in Light Sweet Crude
Taylor Spears @tcspears.bsky.social Lecturer in Financial Technology and Organizations
Chris Clarke @chris-clarke.bsky.social Reader in Political Economy, University of Warwick. Politics of money/finance, fintech (and the like), governance/everyday of finance, ethics and IPE. Decolonial and socio-technical imaginaries, fintech in India, and financial memes currently on the desk
Tomas H. Løding @thloding.bsky.social Post-doc at the Department of Sociology, University of Bergen | Economic Sociology | Financialization
UK Data Service Impact @ukdsimpact.bsky.social Supporting the impact of the UK Data Service @ukdataservice.bsky.social
Data Impact blog: http://blog.ukdataservice.ac.uk
Other impact activities: https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/impact/
Email us at: ukdsimpact@jisc.ac.uk
Minderoo Centre for Technology & Democracy @mctd.bsky.social Radically rethinking power relationships between digital technologies, society, and the planet | 📍 University of Cambridge | Sign-up to our mailing list ➡️ http://tinyurl.com/minderoocambs | Latest: https://linktr.ee/mctdcambridge
Natalia Stanusch @nataliastanusch.bsky.social Researcher @AIForensics.org | Research Lead of Esoteric AI
@aixdesign.bsky.social | PhD Candidate at ASCA, University of Amsterdam | natalia.stanusch.net
SMB - Society for Mathematical Biology @smbmathbiology.bsky.social The SMB is dedicated to the advancement of research at the interface between the mathematical and biological sciences. smb.org
Shane Denson @shanedenson.bsky.social Media theorist | Stanford Art & Art History | Modern Thought & Literature | shanedenson.com | Author: Postnaturalism (https://tinyurl.com/3pxpatav); Discorrelated Images (https://tinyurl.com/44mp6kxy); & Post-Cinematic Bodies (https://tinyurl.com/mr2u5spk)
jonathan zong @jonathanzong.com information science prof at cu boulder
https://jonathanzong.com/
https://www.data-and-design.org
@data-and-design.org
wendy norris @wendynorris.bsky.social Assoc Prof | Information Science
Ex-investigative reporter and editor
Crisis informatics nerd
Makes good trouble
Tell your dog I said "hi"
Webster Ford @websterford.bsky.social Fling yourselves in the fire, die with a song of spring
Sam Gregory @samgregory.bsky.social AI + emerging tech + epistemic resilience; 'Prepare, Don't Panic' initiative on media manipulation/generative AI. TED speaker on deepfakes, https://www.samgregory.info, @samgregory on Twitter/X. PhD Westminster. Former Executive Director WITNESS.
kevin zheng 🍯 @ze.vin phd student in information @umich.edu • political economy of social platforms • computational social science, sts, hci • @geo3550.bsky.social @idpiumass.bsky.social @mediacloud.bsky.social
ze.vin • he/they • prev umass amherst, cfpb
Sebastian Lundsteen @sebmergence.bsky.social Postdoc @ Uni Copenhagen, Centre for Sustainable Futures | Former PhD @The Greenhouse | Prev. Chemical Pollution & Environmental Justice | now Prometheanism, climate politics and technology.
www.sebastianlundsteen.com
STS-CH @sts-ch.bsky.social Swiss Association for the Studies of Science, Technology and Society; tweets in English, French and German by @bialski.bsky.social and @flojaton.bsky.social
https://sts-ch.org/
Elizabethunseelie @elizabethunseelie.bsky.social I’m a Radio Producer working on BBC World Book Club, as well as documentaries on everything from ghost stories, to medical scandals, forensic science and how tech impacts all our lives. I am also an unashamed geek, and amateur photographer.
Alice Thwaite @alicelthwaite.bsky.social Ethics by design.
Also likes: swimming, sewing, walking outside, and electronic music.
Based in London, UK.
Dr. Anuradha Sajjanhar @anuradhas.bsky.social Assistant Prof/Lecturer in Politics and Policy at University of East Anglia, UK. I study political elites, "expertise", AI
Author of "The New Experts", Cambridge Uni Press (2024)
anuradhasajjanhar.com
Carla Ibled @cibled.bsky.social Career Development Fellow in international political economy at University of Durham and Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life Associate, working on neoliberalism, Silicon Valley and psychoanalysis
dominika cupkova 🐸 @thedominica.bsky.social 🛝 multidisciplinary artist 📍Lisbon, Portugal
chaotic delight of AI + art + design + feminism
https://www.instituteofmachineunlearning.com
AusSTS @aussts.bsky.social A network for science and technology studies (STS) scholars in Australia and New Zealand
Goldsmiths Sociology @sociology-gold.bsky.social Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London
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.
Max Edward Perry @0404am.bsky.social Social science researcher in Edinburgh.
I look at (and try to write about): medical records, databases, bureaucracy, and clinical knowledge.
Sophie Stone @sarstone.bsky.social Edinburgh STS, part of @engineeringlife.bsky.social.
Social/political dimensions of engineering biology and advanced therapeutics. Also norms/conventions of places where science gets made. Bio-AI curious. Always here for the Oxford comma.
University of Glasgow, Innovation & Economic Development @uofgied.bsky.social Working to transform our research, expertise and talent into high-impact #innovation for the benefit of #Glasgow and the world. Main account @glasgow.ac.uk
🔗🌳🔗🌳 https://linktr.ee/universityofglasgowinnovation
Tim Peacock @drtimpeacock.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in History & War Studies @uofglasgow.bsky.social
& Director @uofggameslab.bsky.social. Space, Nuclear, Games, AI, Politics. Helping to make ideas fly like bicycles! Views mine. https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/staff/timothypeacock
UofG STEM @uofgstem.bsky.social World changing research, news and events from the University of Glasgow's College of Science and Engineering @uofglasgow.bsky.social
Josef Taalbi @jtaalbi.bsky.social Associate professor in economic history, Lund University.
Doing research on innovation, sustainability transitions, networks, history of technology.
https://linktr.ee/joseftaalbi
Paula Schiefer @paulaschiefer.bsky.social Social anthropologist, works on fisheries, the marine environment, resource management, and science + technologies studies. Fish + Football
#MarSocSci #Anthropology
Daniel Breslau @danielbreslau.bsky.social Economic sociologist at Virginia Tech STS interested in the politics and science of markets and how these baroque contraptions mediate energy transition.
dr greg is historicising ✍️💫 @thewastedworld.bsky.social Literary & critical theory 📚 aesthetics 🌊 ecology 🌋 • Wrote a thesis on Thomas Pynchon • Not a Hegelian • Blog: thewastedworld.com
Valeria Ramirez, PhD @valeriaramirez.bsky.social Chasing the stories behind numbers. Researcher at the University of Cambridge 🇲🇽🇬🇧🇪🇸🇫🇷
#IfM #Innovation #DigitalMeasurement #ImpactEvaluation #ScienceTechnology&Society #STS
Sociologist of Science & Tech in Engineering @cam.ac.uk https://valeriaramirez.org/
Bernard Keenan @bernardkeenan.bsky.social Lecturer, UCL Laws. Law, theory, tech.
Interception: from postal systems to global networks (MIT 2025)
oliver @oliverbates.co.uk design researcher. he/him
researching through making games, zines and critical tea towels about climate futures, tech, and systems.
Links to my stuff: https://oliverbates.co.uk
https://fractals.coop/ and research fellow @ lancaster uni
Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social Author of RAINBOW TRAP and QUEER DATA 🌈 Researching LGBTQ data at the University of Edinburgh 📊 he/him/his ➡️ linktr.ee/kevinguyan
Jamie @jamiewoodcock.com Research on work and organising. Editor of Notes from Below and Historical Materialism.
Gaia Marcus @gaiamarcus.bsky.social - Director @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social:ensuring data & AI work for ppl & society
- Stint in government - led #NationalDataStrategy; roles in Cabinet Office, ONS & MHCLG
- Charity roles inc. Samaritans Trustee; staff @ The RSA, Centrepoint, ParkinsonsUK
Yuval M, researcher and teacher @yuvalmillo.bsky.social I study value and values. Professor of Accounting, Warwick Business School. All views are my own.
Rafael Barrio de Mendoza @barriozevallos.bsky.social PhD-ing University of Cambridge. Interested in the political economy of transitions, environmental regimes and public truth. Previously in LSE Inequalities. Cusqueño 🇵🇪. [español/english]
https://planetarypraxis.org/people/rafael-barrio-de-mendoza-zevallos
Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social - Executive Director, Project Drawdown drawdown.org
- Climate scientist, working on solutions
- Passionate about science, communication, and hope
- Minnesota based, Maine born
- Personal account / My views
Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre @dhi-scotland.com National resource & catalyst for change in Scotland's Digital Health and Social Care Sector. Funded by the Scottish Funding Council and Scottish Government. Organiser of @digiinventors.com
https://linktr.ee/dhiscotland
Olu Niyi-Awosusi @olu.online web developer, writer, video maker, mad/disabled + audhd, queer, luddite, black innit | they/them | elsewhere: https://olu.online/contact
Ted Palenski @tedpal.bsky.social PhD candidate at Glasgow University • Working on ethnographies, data justice, and sociomaterial approaches to research
Sociological and Cultural Studies, University of Glasgow @uofgsociology.bsky.social Critical sociology, criminology and anthropology at the University of Glasgow.
Fred Vogelstein @fvogelstein.bsky.social Biztech/biotech journo. Coedit CrazyStupidTech.com w/ @Om.co. ex @Wired, @NYTMag, @FortuneMagazine, @USNews, @WSJ. Author: "Dogfight:How Apple and Google went to war .....", Board: @thewritersgrotto.bsky.social, @columjournreview.bsky.social Epidiolex fan.
antirez @antirez.bsky.social Reproducible bugs are candies 🍭🍬
I like programming too much for not liking automatic programming.
Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team Rudolph (Rudy) Fraser ⁂
CEO & Founder, building virtual 3rd places
[ @blackskyweb.xyz ][ blacksky.community ]
@mozilla.org Fellow 🦊
prev. @harvard.edu Fellow
Organizing: [ wethepeople.nyc ] @pactcollective.xyz @lexicon.community
Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk Senior Correspondent @theverge.com ║ Sign up to Notepad, my weekly newsletter on Microsoft's big bets at http://theverge.com/notepad ║ Tips? msg me on Signal: tomwarren.01
Health and Care Futures at the University of Strathclyde @healthcarefutures.bsky.social Contributing to the future of health and care in the UK and beyond through state-of-the-art innovation and expertise in the fields of medicines innovation, health technologies, data analytics and artificial intelligence, and the workforce and leadership.
Étienne Ollion @eollion.bsky.social Is watching you.
Political sociology x Computational social sciences @CrestSociology | @Polytechnique | @CNRS
Samantha Augusta @samantha-augusta.bsky.social 💥 🌊 📈
HAI Fellow @ Stanford focusing on risk & safety 🖇️ 🦜
Victoria Wang @vmywang.bsky.social Perpetual student. Constantly confused and/or curious. Currently in Scotland, doing a PhD in philosophy.
Dr Adam Michael Packer @adammpacker.bsky.social Research Fellow in Future Flight @SchoolofEng_UoB @unibirmingham.bsky.social | DPhil @ox.ac.uk | interested in technology, innovation & society | 🏳️🌈 he/him
sts classics bot @stsbot.bsky.social Posting random classic STS papers or books. What are the classics, you ask?? Let us know your suggestions or thoughts in the replies!
Bennett @bennettmcintosh.com Science & Technology Studies | History of Sci & Tech || How do data & scientific communities make each other? Current projects on: social genomics; environmental regulation
Alexandre AC @allardac.bsky.social PhD Student in Law, Technology and Society, Institut national de la recherche scientifique. Interested in Critical AI Study, Sociology of Law, and Political Economy.
@hypestudies.bsky.social @hypestudies.bsky.social
Sun-ha Hong @sunhahong.bsky.social Wrote Technologies of Speculation (NYUP, 2020). Writing Predictions Without Futures. right now: Stanford Humanities Centre Fellow, soon: UNC Chapel Hill.
Marta Iljadica @martailj.bsky.social Researching (intellectual) property and the built environment at the University of Glasgow @create-glasgow.bsky.social and School of Law
Sam Bennett @sj-bennett.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️ he/him
👀 AI Metascience Fellow @Durham Uni - AI Ethics & Society www.ai-ethics.org - AI and Medical Humanities - www.sj-bennett.com
Marie Vanolli @marievanolli.bsky.social 🇨🇭🇫🇷 Public Policy at Oxford University - @ox.ac.uk
🔭 Talking about everything that makes our future
Views are my own
[upcoming]
Olivia Giovetti @oliviagiovetti.bsky.social When I was 4, I dressed up as Mephistopheles from Faust for Halloween and corrected each of my grandparents' friends when they thought I was the devil.
Now I'm a cultural critic.
Web: oliviagiovetti.com
Substack: criticaldrift.org
Christo Buschek @christobuschek.net Data, computations and investigations | Pulitzer Prize 2021 | Der SPIEGEL | Mozilla Senior Fellow 2025 | https://christobuschek.net | christo.buschek@proton.me
Cristy Clark @cristyclark.bsky.social Associate Professor (human rights & environmental law). I’m interested in legal geography, and water, climate & spatial justice. Co-author of The Lawful Forest (2022), author of Legal Geographies of Water (2025). Naarm. She/her
Tom Wright (he/him) @wrighttom.bsky.social PhD candidate at The University of Sheffield. Researching AI, algos, resistance and alternative media cultures.
Gil Durán @gilduran.com California writer. Ida Tarbell stan.
Author: NYT Bestselling “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy.” https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Nerd-Reich/Gil-Duran/9781668221402
Newsletter: http://www.thenerdreich.com
Law, Technology and Humans @lawtechhum.bsky.social Law, Technology and Humans is an international, #OpenAccess, peer-reviewed journal publishing original, innovative research concerned with the human and humanity of #law and #technology
Website: https://lthj.qut.edu.au/
Haim Abraham @haimabraham.bsky.social Tort Liability in Warfare (@OUPLaw 2024), Assistant Professor
@UCLLaws. #Tort law & theory, states liability in #war, #LGBTQ+ rights 🏳️🌈- S Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social Law & Literature, legal history, criminal law, IP, 18c/19C British literature || U of Toronto Law & English || OUP Law & Lit series http://tinyurl.com/y7fhvh36 || Oxford Hbk of Law & Humanities http://tinyurl.com/y95rdzl3 || SSRN https://tinyurl.com/SSRNss
Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social senior reporter at the guardian us / julia.wong@theguardian.com / juliacarriewong.11 on Signal
Andreu Belsunces Gonçalves @imaginaries.bsky.social Researching on sociotechnical fictions, hype, financialisation and cyberlibertarianism
Working on a video essay on venture capital and religion
Co-founder of hypestudies.org
andreubelsunces.net