Dr. Jordan Taylor @jordant.bsky.social Critical Computing + Art + Queer Studies | he/they | https://jtaylor.lgbt | Postdoc at the University of Michigan
Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social Linguist, Cognitive Scientist, Occasional AI Researcher, Immigrant in NYC, Co-Author w/ Ingeborg Glimmer of 'Why We Fear AI' - out now: https://bookshop.org/a/114797/9781945335174
Emma Harvey @emmharv.bsky.social PhD candidate @ Cornell Info Sci | Responsible AI | Previously Apple, Stanford RegLab, MSR FATE, Penn | https://emmaharv.github.io/
Ember McCoy @embermcc.bsky.social STS-er • political ecologist • organizer
currently:
postdoc @ penn state
formerly:
phd, university of michigan | swammer, carthage college
Alberto Toscano @alfatau.bsky.social "Chi ha compagni non morirà."
(Franco Fortini)
keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net David M. Wood (DMW)
Surveillance / Security / Cities / Technology / Human Rights / Environment
https://ubisurv.net
Personal account.
Lux Magazine @readlux.bsky.social A socialist magazine of politics and culture. We want it all 👁️
https://lux-magazine.com/
@doggo.al2.in @doggo.al2.in 
Adam Quinn @adamquinnphd.com Postdoctoral Fellow @ Science History Institute. Writing a book on labor & environment in the history of the computer industry.
Views expressed here are my own and not my employer's.
To read my work & for queries, visit www.adamquinnphd.com
سارة @sarahelazab.bsky.social assistant professor @ UIUC | critical data studies + HSR + health IT + health equity | 🇪🇬 🐰
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Caroline Haskins @carolinehaskins.bsky.social reporter @WIRED.com
caroline_haskins@wired.com
785-813-1084
https://www.wired.com/author/caroline-haskins/
Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of EMPIRE OF AI: empireofai.com. ai reporter. national magazine award & american humanist media award winner. words in The Atlantic. formerly WSJ, MIT Tech Review, KSJ@MIT. email: http://karendhao.com/contact.
LPE NYC @lpenyc.bsky.social Law & Political Economy NYC ("LPE NYC") aims to build a citywide network of students, professors, lawyers, organizers, & people fighting for a better future.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that. 
Emily Tseng @emtseng.bsky.social Postdoc at MSR, soon a prof at UW HCDE, got my PhD at Cornell IS. I think about power, privacy, and participation in HCI, security and AI.
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.
Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social Philosopher and historian of human extinction (sadly, an increasingly relevant topic). Coined the term “TESCREAL” w/ Timnit Gebru. Salon, Truthdig, WaPo, Aeon, etc.
@parapraxismag.bsky.social @parapraxismag.bsky.social 
Artie Vierkant @avierkant.bsky.social Death Panel podcast @deathpanel.bsky.social
patreon.com/deathpanelpod
wrote Health Communism (Verso, 2022) with Beatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social // forthcoming ALL CARE FOR ALL PEOPLE (Haymarket, 2027)
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Ajay Singh Chaudhary @materialistjew.bsky.social Founding Director, Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. Tweets are my own and do not represent positions of BISR.
my big climate book: https://t.ly/5_b_B
wawog_now @wawog.bsky.social Building a cultural front for a free Palestine.
https://www.writersagainstthewarongaza.com
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.
The Dig @thedigradio.bsky.social Daniel Denvir’s Jacobin podcast on politics, history, and economics everywhere.
Host: @danieldenvir.bsky.social
Producer: @alexjrlewis.bsky.social
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Daniel Denvir @danieldenvir.bsky.social Host of The Dig podcast, author of All-American Nativism.
Eleanor Penny @eleanorkpenny.bsky.social Writer
Host Verso Books Podcast, Novara FM
Agents Harriet Moore at Aitken Alexander (books) + Georgia Kanner Independent Talent (film + tv)
Teaching writing at Goldsmiths, Poetry School, City Lit
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Carcinization Now ✨
What's Left of Philosophy @leftofphilosophy.bsky.social a podcast about theory and the history of political thought from a leftist perspective. hosted by Lillian, Owen (@owengw.bsky.social), Gil (@gilmorejon.bsky.social), and Will (@williammparis.bsky.social). leftofphilosophy.com
William Paris @williammparis.bsky.social Critical theorist and philosopher of utopia. Author of Race, Time, and Utopia: Critical Theory and the Process of Emancipation. Co-host of What’s Left of Philosophy.
LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social A blog that explores the co-constitution of law and political economy. Part of the @lpeproject.bsky.social. Subscribe to our newsletter: http://lpeproject.org/subscribe/
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)
AI Now Institute @ainowinstitute.bsky.social The AI Now Institute produces diagnosis and actionable policy research on artificial intelligence.
Find us at https://ainowinstitute.org/ 
Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social The nation’s first debtors’ union, organizing to build power with debt as leverage. You are not a loan! Press: press@debtcollective.org
Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social Sociologist studying how our social structures make sexual violence more likely to occur. Author of ON THE WRONG SIDE. Co-founder of Beyond Compliance Consulting. PhD UMich.
Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social A magazine of ideas, politics, and culture, committed to the power of collective reasoning and imagination to create a more just world.
Independent & nonprofit since 1975.
Newsletter:
bostonreview.net/newsletter
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Amina Abdu @aminaabdu.bsky.social PhD candidate @ University of Michigan School of Information
https://aminaxabdu.github.io/
Feminist Killjoy @saranahmed.bsky.social Writer and independent feminist scholar
Queer person of colour
#FreePalestine
Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social Data journalist, AI scholar, NYU professor. Author, MORE THAN A GLITCH: CONFRONTING RACE, GENDER, AND ABILITY BIAS IN TECH and ARTIFICIAL UNINTELLIGENCE: HOW COMPUTERS MISUNDERSTAND THE WORLD. meredithbroussard.com
The Sick Times @thesicktimes.org Award-winning nonprofit news site chronicling the #LongCOVID crisis. Founded by @BetsyLadyzhets.bsky.social & @MilesWGriffis.bsky.social
Website: thesicktimes.org
Newsletter: thesicktimes.org/newsletter
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Molly White @molly.wiki writes citationneeded.news • runs @web3isgoinggreat.com and @influence.citationneeded.news • tech researcher and cryptocurrency industry critic • software engineer • wikipedian
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Mark Krotov @markkrotov.bsky.social coeditor/publisher, n+1. krotov at nplusonemag dot com.
Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social co-founder of various organizations: Interrupting Criminalization; Survived & Punished; Sojourners for Justice Press; For the People Leftist Library Project, NYC PLAN, etc...
Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org An independent news website about trans issues, by trans journalists. assignedmedia.org
Support our work: https://www.assignedmedia.org/support
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
Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social Public Books is an online magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship. www.publicbooks.org
Lisa Messeri @lmesseri.bsky.social anthropologist of sci & tech. Prof @Yale. author of "Placing Outer Space" and VR book "In the Land of the Unreal". tech criticism with good vibes.
Queer in AI @queerinai.com Our mission is to raise awareness of queer issues in AI, foster a community of queer researchers and celebrate the work of queer scientists. More about us: queerinai.com
Alexandra S. Levine @alexlevine.bsky.social Tech reporter at Forbes covering social media; past Politico + NYT
In These Times @inthesetimes.com A publication committed to informing and advancing movements for social, economic, racial and environmental justice. Founded in 1976.
https://inthesetimes.com/
Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social https://chuffed.org/project/help-us-deliver-vital-aid-to-gaza-families-in-need
Writers, artists and educators organizing workshops to raise money for Palestinians: https://linkin.bio/workshops4gaza 🇵🇸 Image copyright: Middle East Eye / Haroon James
Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social Critical tech and literary/cultural AI. Also cats, letterpress printing, and tabletop gaming.
Commonwealth Professor of AI and English at the University of Virginia—
—but speaking only for myself and in my own capacity here.
Rude people are blocked.
Akela Lacy @akelalacy.bsky.social human @theintercept.com | co-host 🎙️ The Intercept Briefing podcast
Brooklyn, NY | https://theintercept.com/staff/akelalacy/
https://akelalacy.substack.com/
https://www.instagram.com/akela_lacy/
Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social Sociology prof at CUNY (Hunter & Grad Center) sharing her own thoughts. Maker of resistance humus. Author of REFUGE. Now writing on the violence & COST OF BORDERS. she/هي
https://linktr.ee/hebagowayed
لسه عايزين عيش حريه و عداله اجتماعية
Protean Magazine @proteanmag.com An independent leftist magazine collecting criticism, essays, fiction, poetry, and art • Support our work at www.patreon.com/proteanmag • www.proteanmag.com/
Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social CUNY prof. Historian of, and advocate for, student organizing. @studentactivism from Twitter.
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.
mosababutoha @mosababutoha.bsky.social Palestinian poet from Gaza. Author of Forest of Noise & Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear.
David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social Political education, socialism, abolition, unions, cats
Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life @leverhulmecal.bsky.social Research centre dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of algorithmic life. Transforming how we understand the relationships between human life and machine learning & AI algorithms
shira @shira-a.bsky.social grad scad@mcgill, words@reboot, translator@limited connection, forecast.weather.gov stan
shiraab.github.io
Books:
https://asterismbooks.com/product/the-hand-of-the-hand-laura-vazquez
https://www.arche-editeur.com/livre/le-reve-dun-langage-commun-747
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
Terri Friedline @terrifriedline.bsky.social I’m not disengaged, I’m trying to practice better labor politics | Not an asshole (or, sometimes an asshole) | Opinions my own
Victor Pickard @victorpickard.bsky.social Professor who writes about the history and political economy of media, politics of media policy, and democratic theories of journalism. Author of "Democracy Without Journalism? Confronting the Misinformation Society." Co-director of the MIC Center at Penn.
alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social Dir of Research, Data & Society. Academic. Studies tech & society, far-right disinfo. UNC CITAP. Loves pop cult. Mom, fashion victim, sci fi/fantasy enthusiast. Author of The Private is Political, Status Update. NYC forever. She/her/femme 💅🏻 tiara.org
Rafael Grohmann @grohmannrafael.bsky.social Assistant Professor Media Studies (Critical Platform Studies) University of Toronto, Canada. Leader DigiLabour. Platform labor, Worker-owned Platforms, AI & Labor, Worker Organizing
ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social Lecturer in AI, Government & Policy at the OII (University of Oxford) | Author of "The Ecologies of Algorithmic Machines" (2027) | Associate Editor at Big Data & Society | Investigating algorithmic and environmental accountability of LLMs
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
CAW @caw-shinythings.bsky.social A group of autonomous working authors collectivizing the waged labor of writing.
Culture, critique, art and anarchy, a life of beauty, joy, and all the shiny things we can find.
Join the Murder
https://www.cawshinythings.com/
emma may @emmamay.bsky.social www.emmamay.net
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💭📝 tech resistance & refusal
Dr. Lynn Dombrowski @lynndombrowski.bsky.social designer; researcher; professor.
Stephen Yang! @stephenyang.bsky.social PhDing @USCAnnenberg // studying media, technology, environment // prev @Cornell @MSFTResearch @CDT // Angelino & 臺灣人
https://www.stephen-yang.com/
Britt Paris @hellobrittparis.bsky.social critical scholar of infrastructure & emergent technology | Rutgers AAUP AFT | views mine
New Book, Radical Infrastructure: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/radical-infrastructure/paper#reviews
Chair, AAUP cmte on AI: https://bit.ly/4lkuKu1
Nausicaa Renner @nausicaa.bsky.social Founding editor @dropsitenews Contributing at Parapraxis etc whatever
Chicago xo
nafis @cannafis.bsky.social Labor organizer. Author METASTASIS (Common Notions, 2025) Teaching @ Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, organizing @ DSA 🌹, editing @ Science for the People & Jamhoor.
nafishasan.com
Freddy Reiber @rankandfreddy.bsky.social PhD student at Boston University. Studying the use of technology in collective action and political economy and tech.
Interested in any and all sociological questions relating to Politics, Culture, Meaning, and Tech.
Marxist or something.
Alicia DeVrio @uhleeeeeeeshuh.bsky.social Incoming assistant professor of digital media @ Georgia Tech
HCI PhD @ CMU studying resistance to harmful AI systems
also enjoys weaving, musicals, grammar, ice cream, libraries
--> all the other whatever at uhleeeeeeeshuh.com
James M. Zumel Dumlao @jamesmzd.bsky.social PhD Candidate at the University of Michigan School of Information :: Knowledge/Cultural Production, Science of Science :: he/him/his
https://jamesmzd.github.io/
Meera Desai @madesai.bsky.social PhD student at University of Michigan School of Information. Data and evaluation practices for language models / language models as cultural technologies.
https://meera-desai.com
wells @wells.bsky.social critical (of) AI, critical race, queer/trans & AsAm studies, algorithmic justice at UMSI
all about abolition, transformative justice, free palestine. SSBM (link main), anime, and indie art/zine fan.
pan/bi enby 🇹🇼🇮🇩🏳️⚧️ she/her
Nasanbayar Ulzii-Orshikh @nasanbayar.bsky.social phd student @umsi. critical hci. prev cs+philosophy @haverfordedu. he/him. nulziiorsh.com
Ben Litterer @blitt.bsky.social PhD student interested in computational approaches to language, politics, and media
Iowa | Michigan 
Labor Tech Research Network @labortechresearchnetwork.org We are an interdisciplinary group of over 700 experts in labor, technology, anti-racism, feminism, and transnationalism.
Justin Joque @jjoque.bsky.social visualization librarian | philosophy, media, cyberwar, stats | Deconstruction Machines (UMN Press, 2018) | Revolutionary Mathematics: Artificial Intelligence, Statistics and the Logic of Capitalism (Verso, 2022) | my views are yours
Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social *THE* Naijamerican PhD-holding, World Fantasy, multi-Hugo, Nebula, Eisner Award-winning, New York Times bestselling rudimentary cyborg writer, nnedi.com
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun @whkchun.bsky.social new media theorist and professor. director of the SFU digital democracies institute. posts reflect my own views only.
banner from Mongrel Network's 2004 Bush-Blair project. Portrait by a wonderful scms audience member—let me know if you know them!
👁️ @nathanjurgenson.com author, The Social Photo (Verso)
former: Real Life magazine, Theorizing the Web conference, Snap. currently: have no idea
los angeles- L Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social Researcher and teacher. Writing about race, gender and internet stuff since 1995. “The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet” out from U. Minn press. Lisanakamura.net for articles if you want.
Surveillance in the Majority World Network @surveillancemw.bsky.social Surveillance in the Majority World Research Network aims to expand the scope of surveillance studies to include non-Northern / Western discourses and practices.
https://surveillance-majority-world.net
Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social Digital humanities, data science, AI, eating, professor of Data & Decision Science and English. Coauthor #DataFeminism w/ @kanarinka. PI #AIAInetwork. Views my own.
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.
Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com ARC Future Fellow – Monash University /// co-host – This Machine Kills /// critical insurance tech + climate risk governance /// political economy of technology and capitalism: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520398078/the-mechanic-and-the-luddite
Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social Hacker Mama/Artist/Designer/Coder/Writer/She/Ella Assoc Prof of Urban Science @MITdusp, Director, Data + Feminism Lab, Co-author #DataFeminism, hablo castellano
Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social ✍🏽 • RACE AFTER TECHNOLOGY: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code • VIRAL JUSTICE: How We Grow the World We Want • IMAGINATION: A Manifesto 📚www.ruhabenjamin.com
Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co Social science and other distractions. Old posts get deleted pretty quick.
https://kieranhealy.org /
https://theordinalsociety.com
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute 
Frank Pasquale @frankpasquale.bsky.social Law professor; author (The Black Box Society; New Laws of Robotics).
Interested in law & technology, AI, political economy, art, and social theory.
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.
Anna Lauren Hoffmann @annalauren.bsky.social “listen up fives, a ten is speaking” / data, tech, discourse, critique / assoc prof @ UW iSchool
Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com Tired person, fighter. Labor, data, DH, obsolete software, database history, etc. Seeing Like a Supply Chain out Oct 2026: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300251449/seeing-like-a-supply-chain/. Speaking for myself, not my employer.
Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social An independent research and policy institute working toward a future where people, not technology, come first.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS