Oxford Social Media Observatory @oxsocmedobs.bsky.social We use computational methods + big data to investigate the role of social platforms + technology in politics, in partnership with key stakeholders + policymakers. Hosted @politicsoxford.bsky.social + @oii.ox.ac.uk.
Sophia Knight @sophiaaknight.bsky.social DPhil (/PhD) Researcher @oxsocmedobs.bsky.social @politicsoxford.bsky.social working on podcasts, political communication & computational social science
Former Research Lead at the Responsible Innovation Centre, BBC R&D
Steve Jankowski @textaural.bsky.social Assistant Professor in New Media Histories at UvA. Curator of Keywords for Studying Media, Culture & Information https://textaural.com/keywords/. I study Wikipedia, utopian computation, design and consensus politics, often all at once.
Matt Vetter @darthvetter.bsky.social Mainly academic stuff - digital writing + Wikipedia studies
Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social AI correspondent at the Economist. I write about it, that is. I’m still human. One of literally dozens of people online who is not American.
Eleftheria Konstantinidou @elefthkonst.bsky.social Architect & Architectural historian
PhD Candidate @NTUA
Digital Humanities & Ottoman Architecture
Research coordinator @Open House Athens
Elena Simperl @elenasimperl.bsky.social Academic at King's College London, co-director of the King’s Institute for AI, director of research at the Open Data Institute. Working on the sociotechnicalities of data. Views my own.
Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd Assoc. Project Director @ Knowledge Commons, MSU | Lit and Publishing Research Prof @ Uni of London, Birkbeck | Music on tici taci records | My books: https://books.eve.gd
Hannah Murphy @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social Financial Times tech correspondent writing on social media - X, Meta, TikTok, Telegram - plus some AI, cyber and misinformation.
🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸. DMs open.
Tips to: 📨hannah.murphy@ft.com
Signal: mshannahmurphy.04
Zoë Glatt @zoeglatt.bsky.social 🤓 Feminist Media Scholar | Digital Ethnographer | Internet Culture Enthusiast
🌟 Postdoc at Microsoft's Social Media Collective
💖 Co-Founder: The Digital Ethnography Collective & The Content Creator Scholars Network @weareccsn.bsky.social
💻 www.zoeglatt.com
Go4Know @go4know.com 🔥 Blog by Dariusz Majgier. AI, fun facts, science & brilliant ideas:
👉 https://patreon.com/go4know
🔥 Get prompts, art styles & tutorials. Learn how to create ChatGPT & Midjourney images!
👉 Join me: https://patreon.com/ai_art_tutorials
El Norte Recuerda @elnorterecuerda.bsky.social author of MAGICAL/REALISM, Tiny Reparations Books, 2024 and BEAST MERIDIAN, Noemi Press, 2017.
#ResistOfficial @resistofficial.bsky.social ✊ ResistOfficial.com ✊
“Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.” - John Adams
The art, like my opinions, are my own.
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/
Noema Magazine @noemamag.com Longform journalism exploring fresh ideas. Pitch us: edit@noemamag.com
David Gunkel @davidgunkel.bsky.social Professor - Northern Illinois University (USA). Award-winning author of the books The Machine Question, Robot Rights, Person-Thing-Robot, Of Remixology, and Deconstruction. https://gunkelweb.com
Daniel Mietchen @evomri.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Trying to share research processes and their results as widely and openly as possible.
[bridged from https://mastodon.social/@EvoMRI on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Josh Moore @joshmoore.bsky.social Standardizing open bioimaging data infrastructure
Technical Director – @gerbi-gmb.de
Member & Co-Founder – @image.coop
TA1 Lead – @nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social
#OSS Maintainer for @openmicroscopy.org and @zarr.dev
Dario Taraborelli @dartar.bsky.social Tending the commons 🌱 open science and open source for science • naturalist 🐦 • he/him • mugshot by Ian Mulvany • Q21562060
Trying to rebuild a home here and prepare for the winter.
nitens.org
os4science.org
instagram.com/dariobirds
Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social I write and report things, and I have a newsletter that some people like. “Do you know what the sad part is…? I’m a very good tailor.” brokenbottleboy.substack.com
King's College London @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social News from King's College London | King’s is a multi-faculty research-led institution & one of the top 10 UK universities in the world | Contact: comms@kcl.ac.uk
Gaza Freedom Flotilla Coalition @freedomflotilla.bsky.social Campaigning on and off the water to end the illegal Israeli blockade of Gaza and for freedom of movement for all Palestinians.
https://linktr.ee/freedomflotillacoalition
Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries @ King's @kingscmci.bsky.social 🎙️ Understanding culture, media and creative industries and the emergent relationship between them: kcl.ac.uk/cmci
Alexandra Greenfield @aleexgreen.bsky.social Digital Media and Culture Student〡 King's College London
Wikimedia UK @wikimediauk.bsky.social Supporting Wikipedia and the Wikimedia community in the UK.
Open knowledge for everyone, powered by people.
Join the movement ↓
Wikipedia @wikipedia.org Maybe the real treasure was the citations we made along the way.
donate.wikipedia25.org
Wikimedia Foundation @wikimediafoundation.org We are the nonprofit organization that hosts Wikipedia and other free knowledge projects. Working to create a world where every human can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.
donate.wikimedia.org
Digital Futures Institute @ King's College London @kings-dfi.bsky.social 🔶 The Digital Futures Institute brings together expertise from across all disciplines at King’s to forge a better relationship between the individual and technology: kcl.ac.uk/digital-futures
Sandra Wachter @swachter.bsky.social Professor of Technology and Regulation, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford https://tinyurl.com/3rkmbmsf
Humboldt Professor of Technology & Regulation, Hasso Plattner Institute https://tinyurl.com/47rkrt6c
Governance of Emerging Technologies
Kai Heron @kaiheron.bsky.social Lecturer in Political Ecology at Lancaster University. Co-author of "Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green and Democratic Future" (2025)
Polity @politybooks.bsky.social The home of independent thinking
Find us elsewhere http://linktr.ee/politybooks
Polity is an independent publisher in the social science & humanities.
ACM FAccT @facct.bsky.social ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT). June 2026 in Montreal, Canada 🇨🇦 #FAccT2026
https://facctconference.org/
Whose Streets @mappingprotest.bsky.social 🪧 Project mapping memories of anti fascist and anti racist protest
🪧 Sparking discussion for past and future movements
🪧 Exhibiting in Brighton Festival 2025
Cyberflaneurs @cyberflaneurs.bsky.social
Wesley Hilliard @hilli.tech Writer and podcaster at @appleinsider.com. HilliTech blog. 10 year US Navy veteran. He/Him
Dr Margie Cheesman @margchee.bsky.social Lecturer in Digital Economy at King's College London 🤖 Anthropologist writing mainly about tech and aid https://about.me/cheesman
Alessandro Sontuoso @sontuoso.bsky.social Associate Professor at City University London, Chapman University affiliate, former PPE Fellow at UPenn | Economic theory & experimentation | Researching epistemic, strategic, and ethical dimensions of individual action | sontuoso.info
Dr David R Brake @drbrake.bsky.social Journalist, policy wonk (transit, urban planning, EVs, climate, internet/media regulation), PhD (Media@LSE), dad, newly-adoptive Brightonian
Amanda 🏳️🌈🔮 @ayymanduh.bsky.social All things data, digital, design, communities, leadership, justice & open culture.
Vibe: 🏳️🌈🔮💀💃🏼⚽️🌞🥦🪩🍾🧘🏼♀️⚖️☮️
Gavin Freeguard @gavinfreeguard.com Data/govt etc freelancer gavinfreeguard.com
Starting @sotf.org.uk
@connectedbydata.org, Data Bites, @instituteforgovernment.org.uk @thinkdigitalptns.bsky.social @kinship.works @transformgovtalks.bsky.social @policycamp.bsky.social
Pic @paulclarke.com
Katie Mack @astrokatie.com Cosmologist, pilot, author, connoisseur of cosmic catastrophes. TEDFellow, CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar. Champion amateur horologist. She/her. Dr.
Personal account; not speaking for employer or anyone else.
mia ridge @miaout.bsky.social Digital Curator @BLDigiSchol British Library and Head of Museum Data Service. EB Secretary @adho-org. Access to digital heritage via AI /machine learning, crowdsourcing, digital humanities. She, they. openobjects.org.uk, miaridge.com. Can't see DMs!
Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social Queer activist, writer, and musician causing problems for the powerful. Director of Fight for the Future. AMAB/ACAB out now on Get Better Records. Fall tour with Mirah (yes, that Mirah) on sale now. Words: NYT, WaPo, CNN, Wired, Them, etc. she/they
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
Mehmet Mars Seven ♞ @mehmetmars7.bsky.social Lecturer @kcl-spe.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
Game Theory, Econ & CS, Pol-Econ, Sport
Chess ♟️
Game Theory Corner at Norway Chess
Studied in Istanbul -> Paris -> Bielefeld -> Maastricht
Views are my own
Dr. Heather Leary @heatherleary.bsky.social Associate Professor in IP&T at BYU, Researcher, Teacher, Mentor, Designer, Artist, Wife, Always a Mom
🪷Mathea🪷 @matheaams.bsky.social One of those transgenders 🏳️⚧️ She/her
🇳🇴🇬🇭
Living in Oslo
towards people @towards-people.bsky.social Human Purpose, Collective Intelligence,
Leadership Development
At Towards People, we see AI not as a replacement for human strengths, but as a catalyst for them. We guide organizations to blend advanced technology with a sense of purpose.
Cambridge Digital Humanities @camdighum.bsky.social An interdisciplinary digital humanities research and teaching centre at the University of Cambridge.
Visit our website: www.cdh.cam.ac.uk
Subscribe to our newsletter: https://bit.ly/NewsCDH
Humap: the digital humanities map platform @humap.bsky.social 🗺️ Bring your collections, data, and research to life with geospatial storytelling
https://humap.me/
#GLAMA #DigitalHumanities #EdTech #CitizenScience #CitizenHumanities
@charlesmatthews.bsky.social @charlesmatthews.bsky.social Wikimedian
King's Interdisciplinary Humanities @kingsinterhums.bsky.social The official Bluesky account for the Department of Interdisciplinary Humanities at @kingsartshums.bsky.social
Daniel Chávez Heras @dchavezheras.bsky.social https://movingpixel.net/
Digital Culture and Creative Computing @kingsdh.bsky.social, King’s College London.
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.
Hugo Estecahandy @hugoesteca.bsky.social PhD candidate at French Institute of Geopolitics / GEODE project.
#Geopolitics, #cryptocurrency and #mining #Russia #CentralAsia #Kazakhstan. Working group "Digital Materialities" at CIS/CNRS : https://cis.cnrs.fr/en/digital-materialities/
Valentin Goujon @vgoujon.bsky.social ⦁ PhD Candidate at @medialab-scpo.bsky.social
⦁ Shaping AI project | Social studies of deep learning
⦁ FlashLab Seminar | "Digital Materialities" Workgroup at CIS/CNRS | Editor at @journal-reset.bsky.social
Ludovico Rella @ludovico-rella.bsky.social @GeogDurham Postdoctoral Research Associate http://algorithmicsocieties.org on Machine Learning, Recognition, Attribution and Inference
Théophile Lenoir @theolenoir.bsky.social Social implications of AI - Sustainability & Media Ecosystems - ENS & Sciences Po
ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social DPhil Programme Director and Lecturer at the OII (University of Oxford) | Author of "The Ecologies of Algorithmic Machines" (2027) | Editor at Big Data & Society | Investigating algorithmic and environmental accountability of LLMs
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
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
David Litt @davidlitt.bsky.social Former Obama speechwriter. NYT bestselling author. Democracy enthusiast. Professional novice surfer. Cat gentleman. “It’s Only Drowning” out June 24th.
MediArXiv @mediarxiv.bsky.social Non-profit, scholar-led preprint (articles, chapters, books) server for media & communication studies. Founded 2019. Follow also on Mastodon: @mediarxiv@hcommons.social
www.mediarxiv.com
Nancy Thumim @nancyt.bsky.social I teach, research and write about media, audiences, representation, and everyday life. I work at the University of Leeds. Here sporadically.
Michele Ciletti @mikcil.bsky.social PhD Student @ SapienzaNLP, bass player, huge fan of open access, orecchiette, haiku, myths, and cool tech.
Currently working on semantically-empowered Small Language Models, Word-Sense Disambiguation, and lexical semantics.
https://mikcil.github.io/
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Pete Chonka @petechonka.bsky.social Researching/teaching/learning at KCL Digital Humanities. Tech, politics, language, mobility, Horn of Africa. Union stuff too.
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Eleonora Lima @eleonoralima.bsky.social Lecturer in Cultural AI @King's College London. Research Fellow @Trinity College Dublin working on the KT4D project. Editorial assistant for the Journal of Open Humanities Data (JOHD). She'd rather be a cyborg than an academic goddess.
Fei Wong @wongfei.bsky.social Multimodal critical discourse analyst. PhD candidate at Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, Universiti Malaya.
orcid.org/0000-0002-2452-2618
linguist life philosophy: wongfei.substack.com
sociomental affiliate 🍉 @burnrbbr.bsky.social 🏳️🌈omw to a Pedantic Humanist Degree in lurking social interaction & being chronically online
Roser Pujadas @roserpujadas.bsky.social Lecturer (Asst. Prof.) in Digital Innovation @UCLSTEaPP | Digital platforms, digital infrastructures, AI.
Marc Garrett @mgarrett.bsky.social Researcher in post-digital culture, academic, artist, writer, curator, activist, techie, PhD co-founder @furtherfield.bsky.social :-)
Tyler Borchers @tylerborchers.com SVP, Strategy & Operations. Building products, growing audiences and driving revenue. Previously TIME and VICE News. Posting about media, technology and AI.
Website: https://tylerborchers.com/
LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tylerborchers/
Hossein Derakhshan (حسین درخشان) @h0d3r.bsky.social PhDing on listening and mass personalization @MediaLSE @MediaLab @Shorensteinctr+ Iran Evin prison (6yrs). co-wrote ‘Information Disorder’, wrote 'Web We Have to Save'.
Luke Robert Mason @lukerobertmason.net ⏳ Futures Theorist
🎙 Host, FUTURESPodcast.net
🎓 Studying Humanoid Robots at University of Warwick
💡 Discover More: LukeRobertMason.net
🧬🔬🚀🤖🧠🪐🦿
#Science #Technology #Podcasting #Space #Future
King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social 🌍 Official Bluesky account for the Faculty of Arts & Humanities at King's College London, consisting of 11 academic departments. #KingsArtsHums
kcl.ac.uk/artshums
Daniel Alves @danielalvesfcsh.bsky.social Associate Professor NOVA FCSH Lisbon 19th Century History Urban History Digital History Digital Humanities Editor IJHAC: A Journal of Digital Humanities
The National Union of Journalists @nujofficial.bsky.social The NUJ is the voice for journalists and journalism - an active, campaigning membership organisation promoting media ethics.
https://www.nuj.org.uk/join
Cathy Newman @cathynewman.bsky.social Presenter, The Cathy Newman Show, Sky News; Presenter, Times Radio; Insta cathynewmanc4 Agent http://bit.ly/2m6VRis
Panayiota Tsatsou @panaytsatsou.bsky.social 📚professor @MyBCU, @LHC4MD, SFHEA
👩👧mum of my girl
📃 poet by personal need
🌍 citizen of a lovely and complex world
Tomaž Dolar @tomazdolar77.bsky.social Science Art Technology Architecture Interior Design Innovation Space Gaming Creativity
Caetano Patta Barros @caetanopattabarros.bsky.social Cientista político e pesquisador de pós-doutorado no Cebrap | Political scientist and postdoctoral researcher at Cebrap
Political Science | Platform Studies | Work | Collective Action | Regulation
Being Human Festival @beinghumanfest.bsky.social The UK's national festival of the humanities. Led by the School of Advanced Study, University of London, in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the @britishacademy.bsky.social.
Johannes Anttila @johannesa.bsky.social labor & technology, algorithmic management.
❦ jack of hearts 🂻 // 🟥 little luddite internet elf 𐃈; ///// policy advisor - the left @ the European Parliament
@kingsdigitallab.bsky.social @kingsdigitallab.bsky.social
Rianna Walcott @riannawalcott.bsky.social Researcher of social media, so I am contractually obliged to shitpost
Assistant prof @ UMD
Associate director of BCaT Lab
Black Brit abroad, Londoner for life 🇬🇧🇯🇲🇧🇧
MASSIVE hater
Etienne Posthumus @epoz.org I like to make simple solutions to complex problems.
https://epoz.org/
Senior Researcher at FIZ Karlsruhe
NFDI4Culture
∴ Digital Art History ∴ Knowledge Engineering ∴ Yoga ∴
Amanda Wyatt! Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social Just+joyful, critical+creative tech+culture+craft ✨💻📚🏳️🌈 not fascist shit tho
🎨Letterpress, zine, #DHmakes
Pro-human bookish code/data
Experimental/DH/art futures
Dr! 🏳️⚧️They/Them 🎓🦮@ScholarsLab Director
🌈 3 ! in a hoodie ⚖️ Abolition
Art: WolfproofPress.com
Frank Fischer @umblaetterer.bsky.social • Prof #DigitalHumanities
• FU Berlin @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
• https://lehkost.github.io/ @dracor.org
Liam Green-Hughes @liamgh.com I work on technical challenges in a library lab during the day but also am about languages, gamedev, accessibility, VR and a bit of AI. Quite like old Commodore computers too.
Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social UVA's Library research center+community lab for practicing interdisciplinary+experimental scholarship around creative+critical tech—informed by digital humanities, spatial tech, SJ, & more
💜🏳️🌈 People > projects.
📚💻 Research blog & more at ScholarsLab.org!
Eva Nieto McAvoy @evanmcavoy.bsky.social now researching AI Afterlives www.syntheticpasts.com
Gavin Beinart-Smollan @beismo.bsky.social Public and digital historian. PhD candidate at NYU. Writing about Yiddish family letters and the Lithuanian Jewish diaspora. Very amateur genealogist.
Mez Breeze @mezbreeze.bsky.social An OG digital artist/writer: http://anthology.rhizome.org/mez-breeze. Permaculturalist. Designer + Developer. Blurrings + imaginings: https://www.patreon.com/mezbreeze + https://mezbreeze.itch.io/
Michiel de Lange @mdelange.bsky.social Associate Professor New Media at Utrecht University | digital media and urban culture | [urban interfaces] | The Mobile City | ‘Inclusion in the datafied city’
| http://blog.bijt.org | https://www.uu.nl/staff/MLdeLange