Space Jesuit πΊπ @metasj.bsky.social a bi-coastal do-ever for generist hyperstition: Interlace jams, Klein lines, mad new ontologue. prod: Quad Rant.
staging: the ultimate veridical wikiomn & xxx yolo zoo.
4NT. π―ππͺ‘π«
Nick Garcia @nickgarcia.bsky.social π€ & βοΈ | πΉοΈ & π² | DC & π½
Currently @ Public Knowledge
Joshua Tan @thelastjosh.bsky.social cs, math, and governance @ metagov.org and elsewhere
Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org Digital Librarian, Internet Archive, Open Library. https://brewster.kahle.org https://archive.org https://openlibrary.org
Liz Barry @lizbarry.bsky.social β‘οΈmethods for the madness β‘οΈ
Executive Director @metagov.bsky.social
lizbarry.net
Alek Tarkowski @alek.eurosky.social Doing my share to help the digital commons grow. Director of Strategy at openfuture.eu, sociologist and digital activist. European perspective on global challenges. Board Chair at Centrum Cyfrowe, Board Member at Wikimedia Europe. Bread, tea, apples.
Wiebke Hutiri @wiebkehutiri.bsky.social AI & data in service of people
Gideon Lichfield @glichfield.bsky.social Climber, biker, cocktailer, polyglot, vagabond. Ex EIC WIRED & MIT Technology Review, now writing about the future of democracy at https://futurepolis.substack.com. NYC/SF. He/him/Sir.
Thomas Renkert @thomasrenkert.bsky.social Theologian, postdoc, working in teachers #education @hse-heidelberg.bsky.social. #CriticalAILiteracy #citicenscience #educationalequity #intersectionalinclusivity #diaconia #theology
Not that active on bsky. https://hcommons.social/@thomasrenkert
@albertcanig.bsky.social @albertcanig.bsky.social
Lawrence Lessig @lessig.bsky.social Law professor; activist; not convinced we have time; acting as if we do.
Amba Kak @ambakak.bsky.social I co-direct @AINowInstitute; @Signalapp board. Cover art by my mother https://shoumabanerjeekak.com/about-the-artist/
Sarah Myers West @smw.bsky.social Current: Co-Executive Director @AINowInstitute | Former: Senior Advisor on AI @FTC | She/her
Jeni Tennison @jenitennison.com Data nerd/wonk. Founder of Connected by Data, campaigning for communities to have a powerful say over data and AI.
Into trans rights, neurodiversity, board games, lego, dogs, spreadsheets.
www.jenitennison.com
divya siddarth @divya.bsky.social
Zarinah @zarinahagnew.bsky.social βππ₯ πππ¨ππͺπ€ π€ππππ€ πππ‘π π€π€ππππ π¦ππ₯ππ ππ₯'π€ ππ ππβ
resisting entropy ~ brains | self | society | collective intelligence
βΏ» Audrey Tang ει³³ @audreyt.org 2025 Right Livelihood Laureate, Senior Accelerator Fellow at Oxford's Institute for Ethics in AI, and Taiwan's founding Minister of Digital Affairs. https://cyberambassador.tw/
Christian GagnΓ© @cgagne.bsky.social Professor at UniversitΓ© Laval - IID - Mila | Machine Learning Researcher
https://christiangagne.net
Zihao(Anderson) You @anderson-zh-you.bsky.social PhD Candidate @dundee.ac.ukβ¬ | MSci Computer Science π @kingsnmes.bsky.socialβ¬
#HCI β© #Accessibility β© #Aphasia β© #Subtitle
http://anderson-you.github.io/the-accelerator/
zoΓ« natalia cullen @zoenatalia.bsky.social phd candidate @umsi
www.znatalia.com
Jiaqi (Ella) Li (She/They) @ellali.bsky.social PhD student of @chiclab_nu and @nusealab.bsky.social at at Northeastern University. prev:
@UMSI | Social Justice, Health Equity, Queer, Feminismο½π³οΈβπ ππ
Mastodon: @ellali@hci.social
https://x.com/jiaqi_lll
Emelia Hughes @emeliamay.bsky.social PhD student at the University of Notre Dame studying online communities & social media β¨ previously at @uwischool.bsky.social, @socialfutureslab.bsky.social, & UW CIP and intern with Adobe Research
@fpinatti.bsky.social @fpinatti.bsky.social
Dominic DiFranzo @difrad.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Lehigh University. I'm an HCI researcher that explores prosocial design in online communities, AI Mediated Communication, and Digital Literacy.
Estelle Smith @estellesmithphd.bsky.social Assistant Professor, CS, Colorado School of Mines. Online spiritual care, social computing, online governance, Human-AI Interaction: http://bit.ly/sacredtech. CSCW, CHI, TOCHI, etc. π©πΌβπ»
Community Chair for #CSCW2025π³π΄
https://estellesmithphd.com
Munmun De Choudhury, PhD @munmun10.bsky.social Researcher studying social media + AI + mental health. Faculty of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. she/her
Koustuv Saha @kous2v.bsky.social Computational Social Science & Social Computing Researcher | Assistant Prof @illinoisCDS @UofIllinois | Prev @MSFTResearch | Alum @ICatGT @GeorgiaTech @IITKgp
Jessica Pater @jesspater.bsky.social HCI+health and social computing researcher at Parkview Health. Knitter, dog lover, travel enthusiast.
Jessica Vitak @vitak.bsky.social She/her. Professor at University of Maryland's iSchool. Former director of HCIL. Steering Committee Chair-Elect for CSCW. Research: privacy, surveillance, data ethics. https://jessicavitak.com
Come for the academic expertise. Stay for the cookie content.
ACM CSCW @acm-cscw.bsky.social ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing. CSCW 2026 will be in Salt Lake City, Utah from October 10β14, 2026: https://cscw.acm.org/2026/.
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Kurt Luther @kurtluther.bsky.social Associate Professor of Computer Science, Virginia Tech
Sanchari Das @drsancharidas.bsky.social Assistant Professor at George Mason University | Ph.D. from Indiana University Bloomington | specializing in security, privacy, HCI, AR/VR, and accessibility | Prev Institutions : University of Denver, ParityTech, XRSI, and American Express. π
Joseph Seering @josephseering.bsky.social Assistant Prof at KAIST School of Computing. HCI, AI, T&S.
Eran Toch @eranto.bsky.social I invent new technologies and user experiences for privacy & human-AI interaction. Prof of Engineering at TAU.
Bailey πΈοΈπ·οΈπ¦ @bkacsmar.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta. Amii Fellow. Human-centered privacy enhanced data science e.g., ML, MPC, PSI, etc.
My group is PUPS, Practical Usable Privacy and Security
https://bkacsmar.github.io//
wendy norris @wendynorris.bsky.social Assoc Prof | Information Science
Ex-investigative reporter and editor
Crisis informatics nerd
Makes good trouble
Tell your dog I said "hi"
Ross Weistroffer @libraryofbabble.bsky.social π³οΈ #DemocracyScience nerd for an incrementally better world, reporting from the intersection of info & action. Pro-π³οΈβπ,π³οΈββ§οΈ, πΊπΈ, and πΊπ³ πππ
π Researcher @ discourselabs.org
π Urbanist & governance reform advocate @ fairrepla.bsky.social
π San Francisco
Michael Bernstein @mbernst.bsky.social CS Professor at Stanford
Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social information science professor (tech ethics + internet stuff)
kind of a content creator (elsewhere also @professorcasey)
though not influencing anyone to do anything except maybe learn things
she/her
more: casey.prof
Rumman Chowdhury @ruchowdh.bsky.social www.rummanchowdhury.com
www.humane-intelligence.org
CEO & co-founder, Humane Intelligence
US Science Envoy for AI (Biden Administration)
Nazanin Andalibi @naz-andalibi.bsky.social Associate Prof, University of Michigan School of Information | she/her | emotion AI/privacy/justice/reproductive health and justice/endometriosis/social media| πβπ¦Ίmom | posts donβt represent employer
Shruti Phadke @shrutiphadke.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Drexel College of Computing and Informatics.
https://shrutiphadke.github.io/
Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com {Social, Data, Network, Information} Scientist, @cuboulder.info
Director, University of Colorado Public Interest Data Science Lab, @cupids-lab.org
High-tempo collaboration, information commons, public interest data science
https://www.brianckeegan.com/
Samantha Dalal @samanthadalal.bsky.social **On the job market!**
InfoSci PhD Candidate @ CU Boulder
MSR SMC '23; MSR TAIX '24
Community-based methods for tech accountability
Morgan Klaus Scheuerman @morganklauss.bsky.social HCI research scientist @ Sony AI in Barcelona. ethical AI, identity, technological harm. Previous: CU Boulder, UMBC, Microsoft Research Fellow. posts my own.
https://www.morgan-klaus.com/
Adriana S Vivacqua @avivacqua.bsky.social Professor, CSCW & HCI, UFRJ, Brazil
Matti Nelimarkka @matnel.bsky.social
Nathaniel Poor @natpoor.bsky.social Internet sociologist, games scholar, in the non-profit sector.
Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social Cornell Tech professor (information science, AI-mediated Communication, trustworthiness of our information ecosystem). New York City. Taller in person. Opinions my own.
Dr. Julie Kientz @juliekientz.bsky.social Professor and Chair at @uw-hcde.bsky.social; Human-Computer Interaction researcher studying tech for health, education, & families; Academic mama. Views are my own.
Nick Diakopoulos @ndiakopoulos.bsky.social Northwestern University Professor. Computational Journalism; AI & Society. https://www.nickdiakopoulos.com. Writing https://www.ai-accountability-review.com/
Andrew Berry, PhD @andrewberry.bsky.social Design research, person-centered health care, digital health. Assistant Professor in Medical Social Sciences at Northwestern University.
Ankolika De @ankolika.bsky.social PhD candidate, Penn State, Information, HCI, Social Media, STS; On the Job Market.
Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social Researcher of online rumors & disinformation. Former basketball player. Prof at University of Washington, HCDE. Co-founder of the UW Center for an Informed Public. Personal account: Views may not reflect those of my employer.
Sean Munson @smunson.com Professor of Human Centered Design & Engineering at the University of Washington, co-Director of UW ALACRITY Center. Personal informatics & design of collaborative health interventions. Mountains, nature, & casual photography. Views my own. smunson.com
Daniel Epstein @depstein.net Associate Professor, University of California Irvine
https://depstein.net/
Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social AI for storytelling, games, explainability, safety, ethics. Professor at Georgia Tech. Director of ML Center at GT. Time travel expert. Geek. Dad. he/him
Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social NLP, cultural analytics. Assistant Professor of CS at University of Colorado Boulder. Formerly Ai2, Pioneer Centre for AI, Cornell, Microsoft, Twitter. Books, bikes, games, art. https://maria-antoniak.github.io
Jofish @jofish.bsky.social I do human-computer interaction, mainly, and play music for fun. Well, and a lot of other stuff. But HCI is useful as a way to find me.
Harmanpreet Kaur @harmankaur.bsky.social Assistant professor at University of Minnesota CS. Human-centered AI, interpretable ML, hybrid intelligence systems.
J. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social I work with communities on science for safer, fairer digital environments.
Founder: CAT Lab. Radcliffe Fellow, Harvard. Assoc Prof, Communication, Cornell Β· Guatemalan-American Β· Ultracyclist
π@natematias@social.coop
natematias.com
citizensandtech.org
Diyi Yang @diyiyang.bsky.social Assistant Professor @Stanford CS @StanfordNLP @StanfordAILab
Computational Social Science & NLP
Anubrata Das @ NAACL 2025 @anubrata.bsky.social Just Finished PhD @ UT Austin; Human-Centered NLP. Language Models
https://anubrata.github.io
Michael Ann, sociotechnical femme @michaelann.bsky.social Online Communities, Social Tech, Folk Theories, Epistemic Justice, Queer/Trans HCI. Assistant Prof of Comp Sci & Comm Studies @ Northeastern University. @nusealab.bsky.social director. Neurodivergent, trans woman, wife girl, femme lesbian, dork. (she/her)
Michaelanne Thomas @michaelannephd.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan School of Information | anthropology of technology | precarity, activism, collaboration | Latin America + US | also parenting, animals, & tiny things | michaelannethomas.com
Nikhil Garg @nkgarg.bsky.social I study algorithms/learning/data applied to democracy/markets/society. Asst. professor at Cornell Tech. https://gargnikhil.com/. Helping building personalized Bluesky research feed: https://bsky.app/profile/paper-feed.bsky.social/feed/preprintdigest
πΆ David Gray Widder @davidthewid.bsky.social Assistant Prof at UT Austin's iSchool.
Big Tech, political economy, AI hype, AI in War
trying to help computer ppl think more critically about computer, including me
exCornell/CMU/NASA/MSR/IntelLabs.
davidwidder.me
Lionel P. Robert Jr. @lionelprobertjr.bsky.social Professor of Information and Robotics University of Michigan.
#HRI #HCI #Robotics #CSCW
Human-Robot Interaction, Human-Computer Interaction, Social Robotics, Robotics
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=62sb4psAAAAJ&hl=en
πΆ stuart reeves πΆ @5tuartreeves.bsky.social ACADEMIC PERSON
@UoNComputerSci, @UniOfNottingham, @TheOfficialMRL +
@HorizonDER
β RESEARCH COMBINES HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION (#HCI) + ETHNOMETHODOLOGY (#EMCA)
Alexandra T. @alexandrato.bsky.social Associate Prof @Northeastern | CMU HCII, Stanford SymSys alum | Racial Justice, Transformational Game Design, Identity, Critical Design, and Human-Computer Interaction | she/her | mixed | π©·ππ
Tzu-Sheng Kuo ιεη @tskuo.bsky.social PhD student @ CMU HCII
I build systems that empower people to shape AI through collaborative, deliberative, and democratic processes.
https://tskuo.github.io
Kashif Imteyaz @kashifimteyaz.bsky.social Comp Sci PhD @KhouryCollege. Studying Human-AI Interaction & FutureOfWork
https://www.kimteyaz.com/
Rashidujjaman Rifat @rifat-r2d2.bsky.social CS Ph.D. candidate at the University of Toronto; HCI, CSCW, Ethics in AI, Pluralism.
More: https://www.rashidujjaman.com/
Ridley LeDoux @ridleyal.bsky.social With great power comes great respronsitrilitrance
Cella @cellllla.bsky.social She/her | Postdoc @ UVA DTD | Previously: CMU HCII, Data & Society, UCI Informatics, Big Cartel Workers Union. Views are my own. http://cella.io
Stine S. Johansen @stinejohansen.bsky.social Researcher in HCI, interaction design, prototyping, human-robot interaction, soundscape, sound interaction, design methods.
Postdoc at QUT, Australia - soon to be Assistant Prof (TT) at Aalborg University, Denmark.
Aneesha Singh @puddlelogic.bsky.social Hci researcher and faculty at University College London.
Marianne Aubin Le QuΓ©rΓ© @mariannealq.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellow @ Princeton CITP. ex-Cornell PhD, future UIUC asst prof (fall 2026).
Looking at AI's impact on information ecosystems and news consumption. social computing, computational social science & journalism
mariannealq.com
Sarah Gilbert @sarahagilbert.bsky.social Research Director, Citizens and Technology Lab, Cornell University, r/AskHistorians moderator
I study how to make the internet freer and saferβ and how to help the helpers on the ground making that possible. She/her
https://citizensandtech.org/
Michael Zimmer @michaelzimmer.bsky.social Privacy & data ethics scholar. Director of @MUDataEthics.bsky.social at Marquette University. I also curate @ZuckerbergFiles.bsky.social
Anton @ntnon.bsky.social
Matthew Zent @matthewzent.bsky.social PhD Candidate, CS, University of Minnesota. Online communities, Applied AI, Research Ethics. https://zentavious.github.io/
Shadi.N @shadinz.bsky.social PhD student in Computer Science | Interested in Human-Computer Interaction, Online Communities, Mental Health
Jesan @jesanovi.bsky.social Iβm a PhD student in the Computer Science Department at the Colorado School of Mines. My primary research focus is on online spiritual communities, particularly through the lens of computational social science.
Iman Mohammadi @imanm02.bsky.social 1st Year PhD student at UCI
Nick Vincent @nickmvincent.bsky.social Studying people and computers (https://www.nickmvincent.com/)
Blogging about data and steering AI (https://dataleverage.substack.com/)
B! π Cavello (they/them) @b-cavello.bsky.social activist, aspiring-polymath, problematic feminist working to better this world
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