the superlative @superhayo.bsky.social everything is happening all at once || the world is a half-remembered thing || run
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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social Software engineer, trans advocate and general nuisance. Blogs at https://deadsimpletech.com/blog
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Erin Woo @erinkwoo.bsky.social reporting on google/alphabet @ the information! tip me: erin@theinformation.com and erinkwoo.07 on signal
Chris Dehghanpoor @ckd.sh OSINT reporter, Washington Post investigations • @chrisd9r on twitter • https://ckd.sh
Geoffrey A. Fowler @geoffreyfowler.bsky.social Tech Columnist at The Washington Post. Geoffrey.Fowler@washpost.com
Shira Ovide @shiraovide.bsky.social Writes about A.I. for the Washington Post. New Yorker. Bird watcher. Grumpy. https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/shira-ovide/
Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social Host of Local News International
Non-partisan public data petition: https://usafacts.org/data-we-depend-on/
Bundle: https://trustfnd.com/davejorgenson/c/local-garbage-fire--vSrCPBRkF8C4LhjLJbKo
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liv mcmahon @livmcmahon.bsky.social tech journalist @ BBC News, social media lurker, plant mother (hoarder) 🌿🌈
send tips to liv.mcmahon[@]bbc.co.uk or on signal @ liv.13. views here my own.
Dan Whateley @danwhateley.bsky.social reporter at business insider covering TikTok + social media
Kate Clark @kateclark.bsky.social Reporter at The Wall Street Journal covering the money powering Silicon Valley. Signal: 415-409-9095.
Kaya Yurieff @kyurieff.bsky.social Reporter at The Information covering the creator economy. Kaya@theinformation.com
Kirsty Major @kmaj0r.bsky.social Editor and writer at The Guardian
Tess Owen @tessowen.bsky.social Senior video correspondent for WSJ. Previous: words & reporting in New Yorker, NY Mag, Guardian, WIRED & VICE News etc. Send tips and say hi by email tess.owen@wsj.com, or signal tessowen.77
Jules Eileen Roscoe Fitzgerald @julesaroscoe.bsky.social Writer, editor, journalist, outdoorsperson. Independent journalist. Words @404media.co @wired.com @matternews.bsky.social @motherboard.bsky.social | Something I should know? julesroscoe . news @ gmail | signal: julesaroscoe.07
Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social Co-founder and journalist at 404media.co
I read every email
Frank Bajak @fbajak.bsky.social Journalist with tech focus. Ex-Associated Press foreign correspondent. First AP tech editor, Andes chief. frankbajak.com fbajak(at)proton(dot)me - DM for Signal#
Sam Biddle @sambiddle.com Senior Technology Reporter at The Intercept
Got a tip? Signal: sambiddle.99 (Make sure you don’t contact me via a work-provided device)
https://sambiddle.com
Mia Sato @miasato.bsky.social reporter at @theverge.com, and things of that nature. i cover social media/tech companies and life online. contact me securely on signal: @miasato.11.
Joseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social Washington Post alum covering hacking, disinformation and what’s left of privacy. Author of books on the Cult of the Dead Cow, organized criminal hacking, and Napster. Pulitzer co-finalist 2024. Signal joemenn.01
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.
Daysia Tolentino @daysia.bsky.social i cover the internet and culture | formerly nbc news | tips & hot goss: hello@daysiatolentino.com | she/her | find me elsewhere: bio.site/daysia
Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social Subscribe to my tech and online culture newsletter UserMag.co
Listen/watch Power User podcast on all platforms!!
Support my work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/taylorlorenz
morgan sung @morgansung.bsky.social internet explainer, yarn hoarder, professional yapper on Close All Tabs from KQED ❣️
Palmer Haasch @palmerh.bsky.social comms @ WEBTOON
previously reporter & critic @ business insider, polygon, thrillist
she/her
https://linktr.ee/palmerhaasch
ct jones @christjonesy.bsky.social professional yapper @rollingstone they/them
passionfruit @passionfru.it A 3x weekly newsletter packed with expert tips and insider news—for creators, by creators. https://passionfru.it/creator-economy-newsletter-subscribe/
Luke Winkie @lukewinkie.bsky.social Staff Writer, Slate. It's all gonna work out this time.
Adam Bumas @bumas.bsky.social Pronounced "BYOO-muss". He/They. adambumas.01 on Signal.
Head of Research and Assistant Editor, @garbageday.email. Researcher, @panicworld.com. Other research and journalism elsewhere.
The perfect level of online.
Allegra Rosenberg @tchotchke.bsky.social fandom + media + tech + history + polar exploration + the libidinal pleasures of obsession. book out in 2027!!!!!!
newsletter: tchotchke.substack.com
website: allegrarosenberg.com
Kalhan @kalhan.bsky.social internet culture reporter. human garbage bag.
Moises Mendez II @moisesmendez2.bsky.social Culture Reporter for hire | He/Him | Words: The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, and more. Seeing what all the hype is about. Formerly at TIME.
kelsey @kelsaywhat.bsky.social senior writer @ yahoo
Ej Dickson @ejdickson.bsky.social Senior writer at Wired, author of ONE BAD MOTHER, debut essay collection out now. https://www.amazon.com/One-Bad-Mother-Housewives-Momfluencers/dp/1668051117
Angela Watercutter @waterslicer.bsky.social Senior Editor, Special Projects @ WIRED
Signal: AngelaWatercutter.95
nadira 🙃 @calllmenadira.net staff writer @slate.com | amateur @ life
📍 philly cream cheese; ny bagel
Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social I cover digital threats for NBC News. Tip me! @kevincollier.01 on signal, kevin.collier@nbcuni.com. NYC, from West Virginia.
Bill McCarthy @billmccarthy.bsky.social Senior digital investigation journalist covering online mis- and disinformation for AFP • Formerly with PolitiFact and the Raleigh News & Observer • Duke alum • “The internet folks” - Stephen Colbert
https://factcheck.afp.com/Bill-MCCARTHY
Alexander Howard @digiphile.bsky.social Dad, writer, cyclist, citizen, cereal dilettante. Advocate for freedom of information, open governance, & democracy. Lover of the Oxford Comma, hater of hubris. Recovering journalist. Trying to move carefully, & fix things. https://civic-texts.ghost.io
Chase Taylor-Carter @chasecarter.bsky.social Co-owner of Rascal News. Tabletop and internet culture journalist. Avoiding unhealthy use this time around.
✉️: chase@rascal.news
https://www.rascal.news/
Clive Thompson @clivethompson.bsky.social Writer, musician, hobbyist coder. Wired / NYT Magazine / Mother Jones, author of "Coders". Blog at clivethompson.medium.com. Free "Linkfest" newsletter ("the opposite of doomscrolling"): https://shorturl.at/XcutG. Built https://www.weirdoldbookfinder.net/
Dr Sanjukta Basu, PhD @sanjuktabasu.bsky.social Journalist, Researcher, Communication Specialist. PhD in Women's Studies. Research areas: Women, gender, politics, digital public space, trolling, right wing trolls. Author, Photographer. TED Fellow, TEDx Speaker. Founder, Feminist Alliance Trust, NGO.
Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social Journalist, currently at The New York Times. I cover privacy, technology, A.I., and the strange times we live in. Named after the Led Zeppelin song. Author of YOUR FACE BELONGS TO US. (Yes, in my head it will always be All Your Face Are Belong To Us)
Richard MacManus @ricmac.org Head of Editorial at Latent Space, a leading AI engineering publication · Internet historian at cybercultural.com · Founded ReadWriteWeb (2003–2012) · 🥝 in 🇬🇧
Classic Web: https://bsky.app/profile/classicweb.site
Leaflet: https://ricmac.leaflet.pub
Richard MacManus @ricmac.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Head of Editorial at Latent Space, a leading AI engineering publication · Internet historian at cybercultural.com · Founded ReadWriteWeb (2003–2012) · 🥝 in 🇬🇧
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://mastodon.social/@ricmac, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Soma Basu @somabasu.com Anthropologist of outsourced selves and distributed humans.
somabasu.com
Stephen Harrison @stephenharrison.com Print advocate and journalist. Writing a book about the value of paper & ink for St. Martin’s Press. Rep’d by Mark Gottlieb, Trident Media Group. stephenharrison.com
Madison Malone Kircher @4evrmalone.bsky.social 
Emerson Victoria Johnston @idenarch.bsky.social currently researching the social history of the early internet (think algorithms, architectures, and archives)
tech policy @ stanford / comms and membership @ AoIR
masters x2 @ stanford / bachelors @ northeastern
first gen 🎓 | 🏳️🌈
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
Francesca Tripodi @ftripodi.bsky.social Dr. Tripodi is a sociologist who studies the internet and how information flows online
www.spillab.com
Marion Fourcade @marionf.bsky.social 
Eden Medina @edenmedina.bsky.social Historian of tech @MITPSTS @MIT. Author Cybernetic Revolutionaries. Co-curator Cómo diseñar una revolucón // How to Design a Revolution. #sci #tech #politics #history #data #design #LatinAmerica #humanrights. Views my own.
zeynep tufekci @zey.bsky.social It is said that there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all
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
Aswin Punathambekar @aswinp.bsky.social Prof., Annenberg School for Communication @Upenn; focus on media & cultural change in postcolonial & diasporic contexts; Director of the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication. https://www.asc.upenn.edu/people/faculty/aswin-punathambekar-phd
Guobin Yang @guobin-yang.bsky.social Sociology & communication prof at Penn researching: Internet, activism, digital media & technology, narrative, emotion, sinology. All views my own. Website: https://www.asc.upenn.edu/people/faculty/guobin-yang-phd
Kevin Driscoll 📳੯‧̀͡⬮ @kdriscoll.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy Learning about moral economies, researching media histories, imagining post-platform futures. Also, helping with moderation on aoir.social and professoring in Media […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://aoir.social/@kdriscoll, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
xiaochang @xiaochang.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Communication @ Stanford. Histories of AI/ML, NLP, speech recognition, and related data practices; general tomfoolery.
jordan kraemer phd @jordanaut.bsky.social anthropologist of digital tech & urban space; Data & Society affiliate; she/they.
book: Mobile City (Cornell UP 2025)
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501778704/mobile-city/
www.jordankraemer.com
Brooke Erin Duffy @brookeerinduffy.bsky.social social media researcher and author
associate professor at Cornell University
platforms, power, and the creator economy
www.brookeduffy.com
Zizi Papacharissi @zizip.bsky.social UIC Distinguished Professor of Communication + Poli Sci, Head of COMM@UIC Books: After Democracy; Affective Publics; A Private Sphere; A Networked Self series
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.
Gabriella "Biella" Coleman @biella.bsky.social Professor of Anthropology @Harvard, Hacker Studies & More https://gabriellacoleman.org/
David Craig @producing2power.bsky.social comm, media industries, platform, social media, and creator studies scholar (aka "creator anthropologist"). In my past life, I spent decades making TV movies and "producing to power".
Anita Gohdes @argohdes.bsky.social Studying the internet, technology, security, conflict, authoritarianism. Professor @thehertieschool. Consultant @hrdag. she/her.
Wrote a book on repression in the digital age: https://www.anitagohdes.net/book.html
Lauren N. Girouard, PhD @laurengh.bsky.social NSF SBE Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard and UMich • Incoming Professor at TCNJ • Interdisciplinary researcher studying what kids think about AI • Science Communicator • R Stats nerd • Passionate about Pedagogy • FirstGen 🏳️🌈
V. (Ghost in the machine) @horrorbatsbite.bsky.social Sociologist studying the intersections of information, tech, extremism, eschatology, Very Bad Things Colliding Together + effects on society.
One of the cohosts on The Crumbling podcast.
http://thecrumbling.com
Mastodon: @horrorbatsbite@mastodon.social
Jamie Cohen @jamesncohen.com Be Curious and Persist
Assoc Prof Media Studies CUNY QC. Phd in memes and digital culture.
Critical Internet Literacies out now!
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.
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
Frank Pasquale @frankpasquale.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Author of The Black Box Society & New Laws of Robotics; law professor at Cornell Law School & Cornell Tech.
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Pamela Samuelson @pamelasamuelson.bsky.social Professor, Berkeley Law School, who writes about challenges that new information technologies pose for intellectual property & other laws. Past Chair & member of Electronic Frontier Foundation Board & of Authors Alliance Board. Gardening is my best hobby
Matthew Salganik @msalganik.bsky.social Professor of Sociology, Princeton, www.princeton.edu/~mjs3
Author of Bit by Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age, bitbybitbook.com
Sarah Brayne @sarahbrayne.bsky.social Sociology Professor at Stanford
Thomas Poell @tpoell.bsky.social Media Studies Professor @UvA_Amsterdam | Books: The Platform Society; Platforms and Cultural Production | https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/p/o/t.poell/t.poell.html
Eszter Hargittai @eszter.com Professor of Internet Use & Society, University of Zurich
William Allan Neilson Professor, Smith College (Fall 2024)
Formerly: Northwestern U, Princeton U
eszter.com
Kevin Curry @kevincurry.bsky.social Associate Prof. - Journalism & Media Studies at Linfield U.
/ Ph.D./ Creative team: http://AngelPunkSaga.com / Host: Revisit the Moment pod/ Stalker of wary trout w/a fly.
Dawn Branley-Bell @thecyberpsyche.bsky.social Associate Professor of Cyberpsychology | Past Chair of BPS Cyberpsychology Section | Interests: Health Tech, Eating Disorders, AI, Social Media & most aspects of cyberpsych | Director of www.pactlab.co.uk | Runner, hiker, campervanner, servant to 5 dogs 🐾
Sharoni Haleva Amir @sharonhalevaamir.bsky.social Proud mom. Internet, AI and Poli-Sci Scholar, PhD in law & technology. Fond of elegant fashion, photography and cuties https://drsharonihalevaamir.blogspot.com/
Jon Penney @penney.bsky.social Law Prof/Social Scientist | Osgoode Hall Law School | PhD Oxford (OII / Balliol) | Fellow/Affiliate: CitizenLab, BKCHarvard, CCRInitiative | twitter.com/@jon_penney | mastodon.social/@penney | jonpenney.com | Law, technology, and human rights
Cameron Piercy @cameronpiercy.bsky.social Communication researcher, associate prof, into human-machine communication, work, and network science. Choctaw citizen, dad, partner, friend, and dog-person.
https://hmc.ku.edu/ 
Line Nybro Petersen @linenybro.bsky.social Associate Prof. in Media Studies. Researching participatory culture e.g. fan cultures, digital play, extremism, and conspiracy theories online. University of Copenhagen. Co-coordinator of smidgeproject.eu. She/her. Obsessive knitter and yarn dyer.
Caitlin E. Lawson, PhD @caitlinlawson.bsky.social Assoc Prof of Comm & Media Studies @ Emmanuel College | researching religion, gender, & digital culture | she/her/hers | bio.site/caitlinlawson
Mylynn Felt, Ph.D. @mylynnfelt.bsky.social Assistant Professor
Department of Communication
Weber State University
Social Media & Civic Advocacy Research
She/her/hers
Opinions are my own
Katy Coduto @katycoduto.bsky.social Assistant professor of media science @ Boston U. Researching sexting, swiping, + other online behaviors. Usually watching horror movies.
kdcoduto.com
David J. Roaché @davidjroache.bsky.social Assistant prof at Christopher Newport U.
Studying tech in close relationships.
Often communicates in gif form (pronounced jif).
Views/opinions my own.
he/him
David Westerman @dkwesterman.bsky.social Associate Professor at NDSU, @ndsucommdept.bsky.social. Interested in how we communicate through and with technology. Originally from NF, NY. 
Natalie Pennington @natpen.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Communication Studies | Friendship | Technology | Mixed Methods
I love my partner, pets, and cooking and baking, especially if it’s from Serious Eats or Smitten Kitchen!
Jiyoun Suk @jiyoun-suk.bsky.social Assistant Professor of big data and diversity at University of Connecticut | PhD in Mass Comm at UW-Madison | Social activism | Digital media, politics & gender | GAI | Computational Social Science
Zach McDowell @zacharymcdowell.bsky.social Researcher and writer on Wikipedia, AI, media and tech policy, and the political economy of knowledge. Communication and information Professor @ UIC. Nerd. Editor of communication +1.
Posts are mine, reposts are interesting.
Gary Kreps @garykreps.bsky.social I study how communication and information technology can promote health, wellbeing, and social justice. I encourage cooperation and respect for all people, cultures, and nature through kindness and generosity.
Anna Wolfe @annawolfe.bsky.social Associate Professor | Department of Communication & Journalism @Texas A&M University | how do we connect across our differences? : dialogue : storytelling : conflict : collective action : organizational communication : engaged scholarship
M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social Professor of Psychology & Human Values at Princeton | Cognitive scientist curious about technology, narratives, & epistemic (in)justice | They/She 🏳️🌈
www.crockettlab.org
Mitch Goldstein @mgoldstein.nyc :~) mgoldstein.nyc
social/digital marketing consultant
previously social stuff at Bloomberg & TIME
opinions and thoughts are my own/don't snitch
Rosemary Q @rosequeue.bsky.social running on typos and coffee fumes • she/her • 🇨🇦🏳️🌈 • queer parent • polyam • partner to @ethanquinsey.bsky.social
Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social Academic in Hove.
Lea Kissner @leak.bsky.social Security, privacy, respect. Was the Twitter CISO until it was terrible. Now LinkedIn CISO. they/them
livelovetofu🏳️⚧️Ⓥ 🇵🇸 @erythroreader.bsky.social They / them - total liberation supporter, vegan, hater of the fash - residente de Abya Yala
the surreal dan tynan @tynanwrites.bsky.social writer of things.
maker of jokes.
drinker of beers.
nice to meet you.
@warainmaker.bsky.social @warainmaker.bsky.social