Ro Encarnación @rone.bsky.social PhD in progress at Penn HCI. I work on HCI + algorithmic justice + public sector AI policy.
roencarnacion.com
Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com Freedom through Truth for Service.
Publisher and Editor at @thexylom.com.
I made the "Generative AI Slop-free News Outlets" starter pack + feed: https://go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
Signal: alexip.718
Email: alex@thexylom.com
Newsletter: newsletter.thexylom.com
hal @harold.bsky.social part-time poster | researching privacy in/and/of public data @ cornell tech and wikimedia | writing for joinreboot.org
Francesco Salvi @frasalvi.bsky.social PhD Student @ Princeton CITP | Computational Social Science, NLP, Persuasion, Politics | he/him | https://frasalvi.github.io/
Inhwa Song @inhwa.bsky.social Incoming PhD student @Princeton CS, Currently ugrad @KAIST CS, Prev NAVER AI Lab, Georgia Tech
inhwasong.com
The Luddite @theluddite.assemblag.es.ap.brid.gy Once, long ago, we were miserable. We lived in cold, dark caves, until someone figured out fire, which lead directly to the iPhone. Most of that happened very slowly […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://assemblag.es/@theluddite, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Ronald E. Robertson @rer.bsky.social Research scientist at the Stanford Tech Impact and Policy Center and co-editor of the Journal of Online Trust and Safety.
Matt DeVerna @matthewdeverna.com Postdoc with Stanford's Tech Impact and Policy Center
(@techimpactpolicy.bsky.social). Past: Indiana University / Observatory on Social Media.
Societal impacts of AI within the information ecosystem.
🧨 matthewdeverna.com
Isabel Silva Corpus @isabelcorpus.bsky.social PhD student in Info Sci at Cornell (Tech)
isabelsilvacorpus.github.io
Anastasia Menshikova @anmen.bsky.social postdoc-ing at Uppsala University // mechanisms of cultural change with computational social science methods // PhD from @IAS, Linköping University
Dave Palfrey @01factory.bsky.social Ex-historian of social and political thought (Cambridge, Birkbeck). Ex-Amazon (Alexa and AGI). Chief scientist at Mind Mage. LRB reader. 2025 side-mission: fighting global bias on Wikidata & Wikipedia.
"Only that which has no history can be defined"
Femke Nijsse @femkenijsse.bsky.social Energy modelling | Wikipedian | Solar energy, energy storage and sector coupling | Long COVID | Senior Lecturer at ExeterUni
Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk Man of many talents—some of them useful. Multiple monomaniac. Author, 'Pink Floyd: The Music & The Mystery'.
Also Wikipedia, Wikidata &c. OpenStreetMap. Birds. Birmingham. Open data. FoI. Art. Architecture. History. FRSA.
Everything is interesting.
Exeter UCU @exeterucu.bsky.social Exeter branch for the UCU. #DefendExeterUni. https://linktr.ee/DefendExeterUni
Francesca Stavrakopoulou @proffrancesca.bsky.social Chaired Professor of Hebrew Bible & Ancient Religion. Geeky. Greeky. Atheist. Author. Sideline in TV, radio, etc. GOD: AN ANATOMY winner of PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022. Work profile: https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/1365-francesca-stavrakopoulou
Squidge Rugby @squidgerugby.bsky.social Here on the condition people can be normal about Antoine Dupont
Janet Vertesi @cyberlyra.bsky.social Princeton Sociology Prof; NASA ethnography; tech policy; digitalSTS; critical technical practice; mobile Linux. Conscientious objector to surveillance capitalism.
https://janet.vertesi.com
https://www.optoutproject.net
@cyberlyra@hachyderm.io
The Planetary Lab @theplanetarylab.bsky.social The Planetary Lab is the working name of Exeter Science Centre, a charity (CIO, charity no. 1194239) dedicated to public engagement with STEAMM: science, tech, engineering, arts, maths and medicine. Based in Devon, UK.
Luca Siepmann @lucasiepmann.bsky.social PhD Candidate Political Science, LSE @lse-ei.bsky.social | Representation and political parties | Research Coordinator Dahrendorf Programme, St Antony’s College, Oxford | Previously: MPhil Oxford + BA Hons KCL | Town Councillor, Eschwege 🇩🇪
Katie Crosson @katiecrosson.bsky.social Postdoc @womensscreenwork.bsky.social
Exeter Film 🌱 Sentimentalist 🌷 PhD in Play for Today 📺 Feminist Screen Theory; Ideology & Aesthetics; Media Histories & Curation; Realism(s) 🌿 [she/her]
Open Data Institute @odihq.bsky.social Advancing trust in data.
Collective Intelligence Project @cip.org We're on a mission to steer transformative technology for the collective good.
cip.org
Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture & Society @edcdcs.bsky.social We are creating an environment where data-driven research can grow and thrive. Join us! #EdCDCS #DataLedResearch
www.cdcs.ed.ac.uk
Shayne Longpre @shaynelongpre.bsky.social MTS @ Anthropic. 🇨🇦
Prev: MIT, Google, Apple, Stanford.
Interests: AI/ML/NLP, Data-centric AI, transparency & societal impact
Nick Srnicek @nsrnicek.bsky.social Author of 'Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI': https://amzn.eu/d/aZKYWsA
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net I post long threads. Writer (sf novels, etc); blogger (pluralistic.net); activist (eff.org). Latest book: "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" Buy my books (DRM-free!) at craphound.com/shop.
Janna Joceli Omena @jannajoceliomena.bsky.social Making #digitalmethods - w/ web tech, AI, networks, technicity, dataViz
@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Past: @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social
https://jannajoceliomena.net/
http://metodosdigitais.fcsh.unl.pt
Lucas Wright @lucas-wright.bsky.social PhD candidate, Cornell Communication
lucaswright.net
David Bollier @davidbollier.bsky.social Advancing the commons. www.Bollier.org. 'Frontiers of Commoning' podcast. Schumacher Center for a New Economics
sohyeon hwang @s0hw.bsky.social postdoc @princetoncitp.bsky.social
i study and support community-based models of governing technologies.
https://www.sohyeonhwang.com/
John Sutton @suttonprofessor.bsky.social Director, Centre for the Sciences of Place & Memory, Stirling Uni, Scotland. Skill, memory, embodied cognition, philosophy, cognitive history, cricket, music, collaboration, wayfinding. Leverhulme International Prof: johnsutton.net & placememory.net
Clare Llewellyn @clarellewellyn.bsky.social 
Matt Sharpe @mattsharpe.bsky.social Former Ice-cream man, bookie, guitar teacher and dog food factory operator. Now a staff data scientist (Automattic, Spotify, Skyscanner, The Hut Group etc.), a DPhil candidate (at the Oxford Internet Institute), and a fairly harried father of three.
Claudia Wagner @clauwa.bsky.social Professor for Applied Computational Social Sciences at RWTH Aachen University & Director of the Computational Social Science department at GESIS
🗃️ Women’s Screen Work in Archives Made Visible @womensscreenwork.bsky.social Our AHRC-funded project aims to make the history of women’s screen work better known by working with #archives, #museums and #filmmaker donors. 🗃️ 🎞️ 🎥 https://womensscreenwork.exeter.ac.uk/ Posts by Project Team, project lead: @helenexeter.bsky.social
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.
Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes @petersjostedth.bsky.social Philosopher of Mind and Metaphysics. PhD.
Lecturer at the University of Exeter.
Co-Director of Breaking Convention.
Psychədəlix Research｜Process Philosophy
Neo-Spinozism｜Exo Mind Theory
www.philosopher.eu ᛏ
Florian Stoeckel @florianstoeckel.bsky.social Associate Professor at the University of Exeter, UK
Public Opinion | Misinformation | AI & Politics | Psychology
http://www.florianstoeckel.eu
Shane Glackin @eltorosolo.bsky.social Read Philosophy, write Philosophy, swear.
(senior lecturer at u of exeter; phil. of medicine, politics, ethics & metaethics, philosophical methodology. Irish, sports bore, hobbyist guitar pedal-builder)
Ronaldo Menezes 🦋 @ronaldomenezes.bsky.social Professor of Data and Network Science. University of Exeter. Cycling enthusiast. Proud father. Concerned human being. Progressive! Atheist! Humanist! Brazilian-American-British. Supporter of Fortaleza Esporte Clube! https://rpmenezes.github.io/index.html
Alex Mesoudi @alexmesoudi.com Cultural evolution researcher at the University of Exeter (Penryn campus), UK. I study human social learning and culture using evolutionary theory.
Past President of the Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social
Website: alexmesoudi.com
International Conference on Social Computing @i-c-s-c.bsky.social https://icsc-conf.github.io/2025/
Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social Philosopher/AI Ethicist at Univ of Edinburgh, FRSE. Co-Director @technomoralfutures.bsky.social and BRAID @braiduk.bsky.social, author of Technology and the Virtues (2016) and The AI Mirror (2024). Views my own. Humble servant to Carol and Puffin. She/her.
Ilyas Lebleu @ilyaslebleu.bsky.social 24 yo PhD student in AI, Wikipedia admin and volunteer dev, WikiProject AI Cleanup founder (they/them)
evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social 鄺文詠 | contributor @404media.co —evy@404media.co | formerly @wired.com and vice news | moving between the hellscape and food | THOUGHTS/OPINIONS MY OWN
Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social Co-founder and journalist at 404media.co
I read every email
Philip Leifeld @leifeld.bsky.social Professor of Social Statistics, Dept of Social Statistics, University of Manchester
Mitchell Centre for Social Network Analysis • Cathie Marsh Institute
https://www.philipleifeld.com • https://leifeld-lab.github.io
Lindsay Balfour @lindsayannebalfour.bsky.social Sr Lecturer in Communications and Programme Convener, University of Glasgow
Working on hospitality, intimacy, and technology.
Just trying to throw my arms around the world.
Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science at University of Amsterdam
Studying the intersection of AI, social media, and politics.
Polarization, misinformation, radicalization, digital platforms, social complexity.
Aurélien Goutsmedt @aurelien-goutsmedt.com Postdoc @UCLouvain | ICHEC Brussels | https://aurelien-goutsmedt.com
History economics, inflation, econ policy & energy
Political econ & central banks
#Rstats #nlp #data_viz
Managing editor journals.openedition.org/oeconomia
github.com/agoutsmedt/
Akriti @awkriti.bsky.social Lecturer in Film and Television Studies @ University of Exeter
Past: Fulbright Nehru Doctoral Researcher 2019-20 @ New York University
Studied @ School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University; MCRC, Jamia Millia Islamia and Miranda House, DU
Exeter Observer @exeterobserver.org Local news that matters. Independent, investigative, in the public interest. Subscribe free: https://exeterobserver.org/subscribe. Upgrade to paid: https://exeterobserver.org/upgrade.
www.exeterobserver.org
Étienne Ollion @eollion.bsky.social Is watching you.
Political sociology x Computational social sciences @CrestSociology | @Polytechnique | @CNRS
Cardiff NLP @cardiffnlp.bsky.social Natural Language Processing group at Cardiff University.
#NLProc #NLP
Thomas Davidson @thomasdavidson.bsky.social Sociologist at UNC. I study topics including right-wing politics, populism, and hate speech on social media. I also write about computational methods and AI.
https://www.thomasrdavidson.com/
Erika Franklin Fowler @efranklinfowler.bsky.social Prof @ Wesleyan U; Co-Director of Wesleyan Media Project (@wesmediaproject.bsky.social & mediaproject.wesleyan.edu); policomm, polisci, public opinion & health policy scholar; Collaborative on Media & Messaging for Health & Social Policy (commhsp.org)
Robert Hart @theroberthart.bsky.social AI Reporter @theverge.com | Senior Tarbell Fellow '25 | ex- @Forbes.com | 🏳️🌈 he/him
Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social Hacking/crime/privacy journalist. Author of DARK WIRE, buy here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/joseph-cox/dark-wire/9781541702691/#preorder Co-founder of 404 Media. Signal: joseph.404 Email: joseph@404media.co
Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social Journalist @404Media.co
Signal: jason.404 // email: jason@404media.co
Joshua Benton @joshuabenton.com 21st-century media and the 19th-c American South. Founded and ran @niemanlab.org at @harvard.edu for 12 yrs; now the senior writer there. Cajun, dad of two, husband of one. Journalist with a history problem. Also: @theatlantic.com, @washingtonpost.com, etc
Emeline Brule @emeline.bsky.social Round glasses and crazy hair, spends too much time in a workshop Human-Computer Interaction Researcher, Wikipedian, designer, mother
Luis Villa @lu.is Programmer-turned-lawyer, trying to build human(e) futures.
Day job: SonarSource. Boards: Creative Commons, OpenET (open water data), CA Housing Defense. Also: 415, dad. Past: Wikipedia, Moz, 305
Also: https://lu.is + https://social.coop/@luis_in_brief
Elizabeth Simon @elizabethsim0n.bsky.social Political socialisation, attitudinal formation & electoral behaviour.
Lecturer in Politics at the University of Exeter.
Riana @riana.bsky.social Tech policy researcher at Stanford. Former litigator. Anger is an energy. Dum spiro spero. she/her
Adam Harangozó @adamharangozo.bsky.social Wikimedian in Residence and Research Visibility Champion @lselibrary.bsky.social
kate conger @kateconger.com tech reporter for the NYT!
co-author of CHARACTER LIMIT!
signal: kateconger.11
buy our book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737290/character-limit-by-kate-conger-and-ryan-mac/
tour dates & translations: https://linktr.ee/kateconger
John Gruber @gruber.foo I write Daring Fireball and created Markdown.
Tim Berners-Lee @timbl.bsky.social Inventor of WWW
Co-founder & CTO Inrupt.com | Lead, Solidproject.org
Co-founder WebFoundation.org & theODI.org
Founder w3.org
My memoir ‘This is for Everyone’ https://thisisforeveryone.timbl.com/
Follow me on Mastodon https://w3c.social/@timbl
Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social Retro tech, early web & vintage computing. 80s, 90s, 2000s nostalgia. Follow for daily posts.
University of Exeter Humanities and Social Sciences, Cornwall @hass-cornwall.bsky.social Humanities and Social Sciences Cornwall interweaves insights from the disciplines of History, Law, Politics, Modern Languages, Archaeology, and Literature. Our work examines societies, cultures and justice in the past, present and future.
Centre for Computational Social Science (C2S2) @c2s2exeter.bsky.social The Centre for Computational Social Science (C2S2) is based at the University of Exeter, UK. We provide training in #DataScience and #DataAnalysis and use these skills alogn with our areas of expertise to offer data-driven insights into contemporary issues
Dominic Tyer @dominic-tyer.bsky.social Senior Editor | GlobalData Healthcare
https://www.globaldata.com/industries/pharmaceutical
George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social Ungainly on land
LSE Impact @lseimpactblog.bsky.social 💥A platform for those interested in increasing the impact of academic research. 📨 Subscribe to our newsletter here: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/subscribe-via-email/
Dr. Christian DeFeo @doctorcdf.bsky.social Technologist, historian, PhDs in Creative Writing and Engineering, classical music and cricket fan. Former political comms person. Hufflepuff Forever.
Anna Tsvetkov @annatsv.bsky.social Postdoc @ Princeton AI
Natural and Artificial Minds
Prev: Philosophy PhD @ Brown, MIT FutureTech
Website: https://annatsv.github.io/
Lucy Osler @lucyosler.bsky.social Philosopher at University of Exeter, 4e and phenomenological approaches to AI, digital technology, online sociality, emotions, phenomenological psychopathology, feminism. she/they
#philosophy #philsky
www.lucyosler.com | www.projectemote.com
José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social Pol Sci Prof at CalLutheran. Author of "You Must Become an Algorithmic Problem" (Bristol Univ Press) and "Machine Liberalism" (Forthcoming from Intellect Books/University of Chicago Press). Tech Policy Press contributor
https://josemarichal.github.io/
Norma Musih @normamusih.bsky.social AI, Visual Culture, and Digital Media.
Thinking about political imaginations for dark times.
Srravya @srravya.bsky.social researching data work, AI production networks
interested in critical data/AI studies, tech + labour, feminist STS, HCI
currently research fellow, planetary AI project @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
Philipp Seuferling @philippseuferling.bsky.social Lecturer in Communications | School of Critical Studies | University of Glasgow. Visiting Fellow at LSE Media and Communications. Media technology, border regimes, and their histories.
The Critical AI Centre @craicexeter.bsky.social CrAIC is an interdisciplinary research hub based at the University of Exeter, UK.
👤 @gildersleve.uk
👤 @andreamedrado.bsky.social
👤 Brett Zehner
🌐 https://cdf.exeter.ac.uk/communications/research/centres/craic/
✉️ craic@exeter.ac.uk
Professor Dr Igor Calzada MBA @icalzada.bsky.social Prof Calzada's
NEW BOOK!
#DatafiedDemocracies & #AIEconomics Unplugged
(Springer Nature 2025)
https://link.springer.com/book/9783032118875
@UPVEHU @Ikerbasque @USUKFulbright @CardiffUni @UniofOxford @EU_ScienceHub @UN
www.igorcalzada.com/publications
Devina Sarwatay @devinasarwatay.bsky.social I study young people and digital cultures
ReDICo @redico.eu ReDICo: Researching Digital Interculturality Co-operatively. redico.eu
An interdisciplinary project exploring intercultural practices and discourses within digital spaces and beyond.
Join our research hub: hub.redico.eu
Superintelligence Conference @siconference.bsky.social www.superintelligenceconference.org
D. F. Lovett @dflovett.bsky.social I write Edit History on Substack and some other stuff.
Kevin Nguyen @knguyen.bsky.social features editor at the verge. author of ‘new waves’ and ‘mỹ documents’ https://knguyen.org
Josh Dzieza @joshdzieza.bsky.social 
Complexity 72h @complexity72h.bsky.social An interdisciplinary workshop bringing together young researchers in complex systems. Participants form teams and have 72 hours to carry out a project! 7th edition: London, 22-26 June 2026
IG: @complexity72h
https://www.complexitynextgen.org/complexity72h/
The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum @bdcmuseum.bsky.social Welcome and explore with us some of the treasures from the UK's leading moving image museum, based at the University of Exeter.
Free to visit and open 10am to 5pm every day.
www.bdcmuseum.org.uk
#FilmSky #🎥 #cinemahistory
AI Skeptic @ai-skeptic.bsky.social Not buying it.
404 Media @404media.co it's a website (and a podcast, and a newsletter) about humans and technology, made by four journalists you might already know. like and subscribe: 404media.co
Richard Jolly @richjolly.bsky.social Senior Football Correspondent, the Independent: https://www.independent.co.uk/author/richard-jolly
John Brewin @brewin.bsky.social Freelance journalist, semi-regular at Guardian Sport from Macclesfield, Cheshire in London, England. https://www.theguardian.com/profile/john-brewin
Collected writings from the distant past at https://johnbrewin.substack.com/
David Ornstein @david-ornstein.bsky.social Football Correspondent, The Athletic
Ian Doyle @iandoylesport.bsky.social Chief Liverpool FC Writer for the Liverpool ECHO covering all things Anfield, AXA and Academy
Spent 25+years writing words, previously also about Everton, Tranmere Rovers and England
👉 https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/authors/ian-doyle-le/
Atmosphere Community @atmosphere.community atproto ecosystem. AT Community Fund, Tech Talks, and other social & community events content.
Previous handle @atprotocol.dev, now actually dev focused!
#AtmosphereConf is a wrap! See https://atmosphereconf.org for talks & videos
Emma Roth @emroth08.bsky.social News Writer @theverge.com
Heather Burns @heatherburnstech.bsky.social freelance UK tech policy x human rights / midlife MPhil student @ Strathclyde Law School, researching US tech policy x Christian Nationalism / IANAL / https://heatherburns.tech / 💬 on Signal / open to work, hire me pls / "bad ass Glaswegian" apparently