Nina Markl 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social perennial killjoy, academic & aspiring poster | language, computers & power at work and bikes, twin peaks & cats at home | she/they | 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ | based in the uk |views (and errors) mine, for more of those see: https://languagemechanics.neocities.org/
Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social Nearly 20 years in court as a law-talking guy for plaintiffs, now a mix of stuff. Posts too much about politics.
email max@kennerlylaw.com
Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social Researcher trying to shape AI towards positive outcomes. ML & Ethics +birds. Generally trying to do the right thing. TIME 100 | TED speaker | Senate testimony provider | Navigating public life as a recluse.
Former: Google, Microsoft; Current: Hugging Face
DreamingAgainstTheMachine @dreamingagainstthemachine.com What would a good future look like?
Explore ideas about how to envision better, realistic, equitable futures with astrophysicist and journalist Dr. @adambecker.bsky.social.
Join the conversation at https://www.patreon.com/cw/DreamingAgainstTheMachine
Anna Neumaier @annaneumaier.bsky.social religion & digital media, religiosity, pluralisation. prof für relwiss @ uni bochum. 'gastarbeiterkind'. hier persönliches zu relwiss, hochschulpolitik, gesellschaft, diesdas.
Tim Sherratt @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy I’m a historian and hacker who researches the possibilities and politics of digital cultural collections.
My main project at the moment is the #GLAMWorkbench, which […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://hcommons.social/@wragge, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com best-selling & award-winning comics idiot, beautiful giantess // buy SIMPLICITY on sale now // mattielubchansky.com // @nogodsnomayors.com // temporalculturewar.com // bass faithvoid.bandcamp.com // she
Dan Ilic @danilic.bsky.social linktr.ee/danilic
Investigative Humourist.
Host @ARationalFear Podcast.
Winner 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 Australian Podcast Awards Best Comedy Podcast.
🏆🏆🏆
Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social Bone Jail
I draw comics i think that’s a nice way to spend my time
instagram.com/roryblank
patreon.com/roryblank for my monthly print zine
roryblank.bigcartel.com for cool shirts
https://rawpaw.ink/collections/rory-blank (reprints of a few shirts)
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
Deb Raji @rajiinio.bsky.social AI accountability, audits & eval. Keen on participation & practical outcomes. CS PhDing @UCBerkeley. 
David Ho @davidho.bsky.social Climate scientist; ocean carbon cycle and climate solutions. Professor @soest.hawaii.edu, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa; Visiting Faculty, Arizona State University. https://linktr.ee/david_ho
ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com asiniiwiikwe indizhinikaaz. anishinaabekwe in yanaguana. storyteller, comms nerd, & artist trying to shift power and build a just and sustainable world. fuck borders. land back. she/her/wiin.
Sarah J White @drsarahjwhite.bsky.social Conversation doctor
Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social Comics as thinking. Eisner winner. Unflattening from HarvardUP (http://bit.ly/1vENIO7). Former Detroiter/NYer/YYC/now assoc prof SFSU-Comics Studies!
https://spinweaveandcut.com/
Tags #comics
#Unflattening #Nostos
Dan Isbell @danielrisbell.bsky.social Associate Professor of Second Language Studies, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, specializing in language assessment. Associate Editor at Language Learning journal (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14679922). Views own. https://isbell.github.io/
Alias Messier @amampersand.bsky.social SF-raised (both senses) • community college educator, labor mischief-maker, AI refuser, passionate about free college • english, women’s & gender studies • all things change in a season • another world is possible • dogs, bees, bunny • she/her/y’all
Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social Feminist science professor at the University of Illinois. Labor organizer. Author of PERIOD. Out 8/26: PREGNANCY INTERRUPTED: The Science and Stories of How Pregnancies Really End. Settler, queer. 🍉
Pre-order here! http://bit.ly/4y4DMkB
Ben Potts @ben-potts.bsky.social X-ray radiographer • Doctoral researcher (@crra3g.bsky.social, City St George's, University of London) - striving to improve emergency departments for #autistic, #ADHD & #AuDHD people. Find out more: http://needsproject.co.uk
🔗: http://ben-potts.co.uk
Aruna Chandrasekhar @arunacsekhar.bsky.social Climate and environmental journalist, writer, docu filmmaker. Covers climate policy @CarbonBrief. “Sekhar” as in “shaker”.📍Mumbai, India. Views, jokes = own.
Well May We Say @wellmaywesay.bsky.social A progressive podcast about Australian politics by @jeremysear.bsky.social and @nickcarrcomedy.bsky.social and regular guest hosts. Find us at wellmaywesay.com and your favourite podcast app.
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.”
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
Sneha Krishnan @snehakrishnan.bsky.social Historical / Cultural Geographer; Here to gripe about academia and talk about my cat; social reproduction feminist; writing about home, education, colonialism. Luddite who wants publicly owned computation. She/Her
mr dog @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social guardian cartoonist - anarcho-marsupialist - lovely fellow - i have written a number of very important books you can buy some of them (also cartoons) here
https://firstdogonthemoon.com.au/shop/
Pacific&RegionalArchive for DigitalSources in EndangeredCultures @paradisec.bsky.social A digital archive of materials from endangered cultures from all over the world; over 1300 languages represented in our 250+TB of collections
Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social Historian of capitalism, environment, and technology in the longue durée. Water history a specialty. Asst director of a center for advanced study. Adjunct prof. Dad. PhD. Delawarean. First Gen. Hoopy frood. Born at 344 ppm atmos CO2. No human is illegal
Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social Independent journalist covering the rise of corporations over democracy.
Michaelwest.com.au
YouTube.com/thewestreport
Patreon.com/thewestreport
Benjamin @benjami.no art, gamedev, accessibility,
100% human.
He/him
Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social https://danmcquillan.org/
madeline odent @oldenoughtosay.com chaos feed. heritage, history, old buildings, social justice. 🏴🇺🇸🏳️🌈. sea witch, professional gargoyle, teller of tales. (she/her)(Oxford, England)
Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social Historian of science, art, & ideas 🗃
Words: Smithsonian, LA Times, TLS, Aeon, Nature, Science.
Author: HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY
www.surekhadavies.org
Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/surekhadavies?tag=bluesky
Speaker bureau: Chartwell Speakers
Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster, author (NOMAD CENTURY; TRANSCENDENCE; ANTHROPOCENE https://bit.ly/3QR898d) Human-Earth system science https://WanderingGaia.com
Sophia Smith Galer @sophiasgaler.bsky.social Author of The Sunday Times' book of the week How To Kill A Language, all about language loss and linguicide. I have won and lost a bunch of journalism awards too but more importantly I won Xmas University Challenge twice and Rosalía follows me on TikTok
Dustin Edwards @dustinedwards.bsky.social I study the unmet promises and lived harms of extractive technologies.
https://dustinwedwards.com/
Futurism @futurism.com Welcome to the future. Award-winning reporting on stunning scientific discoveries, wild tech innovations, and more. Sign up for our daily newsletter: trib.al/9aV6iMX
Follow your favorite Futurism staffers (and a few alumni): go.bsky.app/Rfz5esw
Dr. Divya (🔔 offline) @divyampersaud.com I am having a health issue and have to be offline. My posts are scheduled with an app. I verify & host the funds for all the families I post. https://linktr.ee/divyamp 🧿
[Icon: b&w photo of a brown woman in suit & bowtie. Banner: a dark red color]
Anti-Fascism and Far Right @ffrafaction.bsky.social News, scholarship, publications, activism, & anti-disinformation for anti-fascists. 
Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social Historian, occasional anthropologist, working on disability, race and Empire; histories of public health. Eternal immigrant, writer, teacher. Indifferent cook. There will be many dogs on this feed. Luddite, yes, in the best way.
Lives with epilepsy.
Verena Minow @verenaminow.bsky.social [vəˈʁeːna ˈmiːnoː]
Linguist @ Ruhr-Universität Bochum. I love TV, film, board and video games, cycling, travelling, photography, (urban) sketching, watercolour painting and ranting. Fuck generative AI. (sie/she)
Access Now @accessnow.org We defend and extend the digital rights of people and communities at risk 🌎.
Karl Bode @karlbode.com Seattle-based writer focused on tech, media, politics, and consumer rights.
Subscribe to my newsletter The Fine Print*: karlbode.com
Amalia S. Levi, PhD @amaliasl.bsky.social Archives, life writing, history. Research focus: slavery & dependency; record-keeping & archives; Caribbean Jewish history; digital humanities. https://hcommons.org/members/amaliasl/ and https://heritedge.org/
Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social manuscripts, early print, coconuts, nautiluses, media archaeology
Above: BL, Royal 18 D II, Lambeth MS 532
For more on the banner artist, read https://differentvisions.org/aging-artists-and-impairment-in-fifteenth-century-england/
AAUP-NC Genuine Intelligence Project @ncaaupgip.bsky.social Grant-funded initiative of AAUP NC, interrogating the use of AI in the university. AI is not inevitable.
https://substack.com/@genuineintelligencenc
https://www.aaupnc.org/projects/genuine-intelligence-project
Instagram: @ncgenuineintelligence
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
Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science • Author: Polarized & Demobilized, Legacies of Authoritarianism in Palestine • ماسكة السلم بالعرض • Banner by Sara Qaed
danaelkurd.com to contact
Dr Richard Denniss @richarddenniss.bsky.social Co-CEO at The Australia Institute
Economist, Author of books and writer of columns often for Saturday Paper, The Monthly & The New Daily (previously The Guardian, Australian Financial Review)
Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social Butch Strega Nona. Genderqueer, she/her, but they/them is fine too. You maybe know me from Twitter. Better a pig than a fascist.
Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social Chaos Muppet. Raconteuse. The internet’s gay Catholic aunt. Playwright, novelist, arts journalist, grantwriter. Archbishop of Bluesky. Schism enthusiast. Never not thinking about Star Trek. Long threads, all caps, can’t lose.
We and AI @weandai.bsky.social Non-profit organisation. Critical AI literacy - critical thinking about AI and better narratives about AI for public power. Powered by volunteers
Our websites:
BetterImagesofAI.org
WeandAI.org
Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social Director Multisolving Institute. She/her. Systems thinking, climate justice, and multisolving, with a sprinkle of gardens and the odd puns. @bethsawin on X
Paul Ryer @paulryer.bsky.social Ethnographer of Cuba and its diasporas, based at the School for Advanced Research, in Santa Fe, NM. Host of "In Context with SAR" podcast.
EL PAÍS @elpais.com La mejor información en español. Con nuestra mirada puesta en España, Europa y América. Suscríbete: https://tinyurl.com/yfbk27jh
Aquí puedes consultar nuestra política de privacidad: https://tinyurl.com/32dnhzc9
Dr Tiera Tanksley @drtanksley.bsky.social AI, Ethics & Education 📚
I examine how biases within EdTech and AI can exacerbate educational equity gaps for Black students
2023-2024 Op Ed + MacArthur Foundation Public Voices in Tech Fellowship
Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social I run an organisation that designs policy and campaigns on foreign policy, gender, health and rights. Used to work in two Parliaments. Mancunian in Canada
CJ @virmalised.us Assistant professor with too many opinions. Texpat, politics academia, gay stuff, anti-carbrain (bike lobby). Not an AI brain genius guy. "Train Linguist." Join a union. 🇵🇸🏳️🌈🇺🇦🏳️⚧️
Between Erie and Ontario
BayesForDays@lingo.lol on Mastodon.
Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com Professor, UW Biology / Santa Fe Institute
I study how information flows in biology, science, and society.
Book: *Calling Bullshit*, http://tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b
LLM course: https://thebullshitmachines.com
Corvids: https://tinyurl.com/mr2n5ymk
he/him
Melissa @artistaffame.bsky.social Artist graphic designer and anti-poverty activist. No time for bigots.
Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social D.Phil. Archaeologist. Co-Editor Current Anthropology. Previously Editor European Journal of Archaeology. Educator. Tattoo Enthusiast. World Traveller. Accident Prone.
David Britain @davidbritain.bsky.social Sociolinguist. Dad, islomaniac, Kiwiphile, clubber, democrat, swimmer, dialectologist, Fenboy, East Anglian, European, immigrant.
Views are my own.
Local Observer 🇮🇶🇵🇸🍉 @observer46664.bsky.social Free Palestine. No Zionists. No antisemitism. Millennial. Observer46664.86 on Signal, localobserver86 on Discord, and localobserver86 @ gmail. Not a serious or a professional account. She/her/hers
🇮🇶🇵🇸🍉
Schools Beyond Screens @schoolsbeyond.bsky.social A grassroots network of parent-led groups advocating for human-centered, evidence-based policies around classroom tech. We're in 222 school districts in 40 states and growing every day. Join the movement at schoolsbeyondscreens.com.
Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social Writing in the age of AI stuff
Newsletter: writinghacks.substack.com
Also curate theimportantwork.substack.com
Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social I’m not like the other Bayesians. I’m different.
Thinks about philosophy of science, AI ethics, machine learning, models, & metascience. postdoc @ Princeton.
Mehreen Faruqi @mehreenfaruqi.bsky.social Deputy Leader of the Australian Greens and Senator for NSW. Feminist and anti-racist, fighting for public education & a just world 🌏🐨🏡✊🏾
linktr.ee/mehreenfaruqi
Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social Journalist. Author of The Death of Holden (2016) and Slick: Australia's Toxic Relationship with Big Oil (2024).
For more me: https://www.roycekurmelovs.com/
Get me on Signal: RoyceK.11
Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social Wife.🏳️🌈Author.📚Tarot enthusiast.🔮
Professor of Africana Studies at Smith. Recovering sociologist. Twitter refugee. Current research: #BlackProvincetown. 日本語を勉強します. One of my books has a cameo in an Oscar winning film. Posts represent the views of my cats.
Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social Bestselling author of THE UNDERTOW: Scenes from a Slow Civil War; THE FAMILY, also a Netflix series; C Street; THIS BRILLIANT DARKNESS; & SWEET HEAVEN WHEN I DIE. AI stole them all. Professing @ Dartmouth. That's not my cat.
Niklas Wiskandt @richtigerniklas.bsky.social Linguist | Postdoc @linguistikhhu.bsky.social @hhu.de | Linguistic typology, mostly morphosyntax, some semantics, occasionally corpus linguistics, science communication & citizen science | Volunteer | Düsseldorfer | he/him
Ruben van de Vijver @rubenvandevijver.bsky.social I’m a #linguist at @hhu.de in @duesseldorf.bsky.social. I’m interested in #phonology, #morphology and #machinelearning. I like #literature, #poetry, #birds, #jazz and bands who play it hard.
Matt Green @mattgreencomedy.com Comedian, satirist, writer, actor
Michael W. Twitty @koshersoul.bsky.social James Beard Award (The Cooking Gene) and National Jewish Book Award (Koshersoul) winning author, culinary historian (Rice and Recipes from the American South) and historic interpreter, African- American, Jewish, LGBT public figure.
Many Voices @manyvoices.bsky.social Podcast and global collaboration researching cross-cultural diversity and relationships between music and language.
http://many-voices.com
Host/PI: @patrickesavage.bsky.social
Pause AI in BC Schools @aicaution.ca We are PACES: Vancouver - Parents for AI Caution in Educational Spaces, a group of parents concerned by the effects of GenAI+chatbots on students.
https://aicaution.ca/
Follows are not endorsements.
prince egregious, heir apparent @sonofahurricane.bsky.social ai (“eye”.) zie/hir ("zee"/"hear".) 33. reference jester, reluctant organizer, wannabe political educator. PIC abolitionist trying to learn to live finally.
Ette Media @ettemedia.bsky.social Media literacy and critique that helps you get to the real story created by journalists Jan Fran and Antoinette Lattouf.
Read the news right.
http://apple.co/journos
Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social librarian, archivist, author, Ignyte award-winning & Hugo-nominated writer and critic, rat obsessive, hella queer, fuck genAI
words in reactormag.com, locusmag.com, npr, reader's digest, and elsewhere
bookjockeyalex.com
Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social NYT Bestselling Author. Medical Historian. Breast Cancer Survivor.
Next book: SLEUTH-HOUND, a whirlwind tour of Victorian forensics from the perspective of the man who loaned a voice to Baker St.’s famous resident: Sherlock Holmes. Out October 20.
Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social Historian of scientific, economic and colonial projects in early modern Britain, Ireland, and the Atlantic; books http://bit.ly/3HYwNiA & http://bit.ly/3rKdAvt; http://memoriousblog.com; views mine; he/him. Montrealer in Philly, except when I’m in Montreal
LouiseMorris @louisemorris.bsky.social Bluesky newbie
Non-economist at The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au. Over 25 years working across climate, energy, forest, ocean and wildlife protection, and did time as a political 'staffer'.
All views and fat fingered typos my own.
El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social Grumpy optimist. Writes about the NDIS and disability. Wiradjuri country
bluntshovels.au
Caleb Moses @mathematiguy.bsky.social Indigenous language technology. PhD candidate at McGill University in Montreal. Ngāpuhi Nui Tonu.
Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor Cayuga Nation citizen, Six Nations of the Grand River Territory | he/him | Impact Strategist @ https://animikii.com/ | #LandBack - #CashBack - #DataBack | Find me @ https://jeff.doctor/
Rine Vieth @rinewithoutacat.bsky.social move with care • fan of balcony gardens and parks • socio-legal researcher on migration, law, religion, anti-gender movements • multilingual, mixed-methods • personal acct and I cite my sources • Hamilton / MTL
they (EN) // iel (FR)
www.rinevieth.com
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com I report on ICE flights and third-country removals at @prospect.org. Former WaPo (sigh).
The Original Third-Country Removal Tracker: https://gillianbrockell.com/tracking-all-of-trumps-third-country-removals-that-we-know-of/
Signal: gbrockell.44
Le Cagle @lecagle.bsky.social Feminist. Rhetoric: science, environment, tech comm, disability. Kentuckian. Really worried about climate change. she/her. Praxis or GTFO.
Yes, it's Cagle. No, please don't call me Lauren.
send dog pics (alt text a must)
nothing here reps my employer
Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social Icelandic writer.
The Night Guest // Dead Weight // Down Where Monsters Dwell coming in March 2027!
Maria W. Norris @mariawnorris.bsky.social Asst. Professor; Security Studies; Human Rights; Terrorism; AI; Pop Culture;
'"An aging, angry woman, laying mightily about me with my handbag, fighting hoodlums off." Ursula K Le Guin. And me.
She/her
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️💓💜💙🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social The first openly French-Canadian author to be banned in Texas. 🏳️⚧️
Patreon : www.patreon.com/assignedmale
Tipjar : www.ko-fi.com/sophielabelle 
vortex_egg @vortexegg.com Cyberoccult investigator. Sociotechnical gremlin. Swarm intelligence egregore. Magitek knight. Combat librarian. Bearer of the cursed knowledge.
Rogue information scientist, researcher, & technologist. MLIS.
Karen Yin (Nice to Eat You / Scholastic) 🧙🏻♀️🎃 @karenyin.bsky.social Writer by day, in bed by night. Author of five books, including The Conscious Style Guide (Hachette). I open my own jars. #AABB
KarenYin.com/links
VCCA/LLF/CAC Fellow | ACES Robinson Prize Winner | DJNF Alum
Agent: Laurie Abkemeier, DeFiore & Company
Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu Nomad of the Time Streams.
Wet Plate Photographer
Pyrotechnical Wizard of Doom
Sardonicus.eu
Dr Mel T @drmel.bsky.social 🇦🇺ex-Microbiologist in 🇬🇧 again adrift from Academia…. Disabled STEMMinist who has pivoted to Arts and Humanities as a Textile Freelancer. #FuckMS #OneHealth 🌈 pan&poly she/her
Jon Piccini @jonpiccini.bsky.social Senior Lecturer. Reviews editor. Union Thug. ADHD haver. Writing a history of Australian empire. Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will. Tweets mine. He/him
MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social Bot that tweets quotes(incl spoilers) from
@marthawells.com The Murderbot Diaries. Has no gender. Character's pronouns are It/its. Managed by @writerphoebe
Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social independent journalist, thehandbasket.co
email: marisa@thehandbasket.co
signal: marisakabas.04
Megh Krishnaswamy 🗣🧶 🇮🇳 @megh-in-speech.bsky.social Phonetician. Speech Tech Enthusiast. I work on multi-party phonetic accommodation, with a focus on cooperative tasks, communication, and EdTech applications.
Fan of the phonetic inventories of Indic languages.
More than the sum of parts. 🗣️🎙️🧶📚
Tom Tanuki @tomtanuki.bsky.social regular columns and videos, usually on the latest in aus radical, activist, fringe and/or gross political scenes. independent as fuck.
BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social Official account of the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC). We're the Palestinian leadership of the global Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions (BDS) movement.