Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org he+him / Writing about software craft and quality: unsung.aresluna.org / Wrote a book about the history of keyboards: shifthappens.site / Designer / Typographer / Occasional speaker / Chicagoan in training
Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com (He/Him) Folk Technologist • anthony.moser@gmail.com • N4EJ • http://www.BetterDataPortal.com • baker in The FOIA Bakery • http://publicdatatools.com • http://deseguys.com • #1 on hackernews when you search for "hater" • anthonymoser.github.io/writing/
Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social International Relations prof at U. Illinois. Editor of Arc Digital. Author “Drones and Terrorism.” Politics, national security, and occasional nerdery.
Ian Brown 👨🏻💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy 💻 policy/regulation researcher (esp. #InfoSec #privacy #ML 🗳 #interoperability #DMA #GDPR).
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James Christie @jamesdchristie.bsky.social Semi-retired IT consultant. Experienced in software dev, IT audit, testing, info security management. Still active in whatever engages or angers me (eg #PostOfficeScandal). Match reporter for Dundee FC.
Loves writing. See clarotesting.wordpress.com.
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.
@wave-foundation.bsky.social @wave-foundation.bsky.social WAVE Foundation - The People's Software Technology Organisation
https://wave-foundation.net
FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com A markets and finance blog that's outside the FT paywall. All we ask is that you register to read: https://www.ft.com/content/b6cdf8d1-7435-460b-9a68-df456a143ce5
Imogen Parker @imogen-parker.bsky.social Associate Director, Ada Lovelace Institute. Mainly posting about AI, society and social policy.
Previously IPPR, Citizens Advice, 5Rights, Fabian Society.
image cred: Yutong Liu & Kingston School of Art / Better Images of AI / Talking to AI 2.0 / CC-BY
Ed Zitron @edzitron.com British, But In Las Vegas and NYC
ezitron.76 Sig
Newsletter - wheresyoured.at
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Chosen by god, perfected by science
CEO at EZPR.com
Ed Yong @edyong209.bsky.social Writer, journalist. Science, health. Pandemics, animals. Birder, photographer. Many words, some awards. AN IMMENSE WORLD, I CONTAIN MULTITUDES. Married to Liz Neeley, parent to Typo. he/him
📷 Canon R6mkii + RF 800mm
Edyong.me
Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social senior reporter at the guardian us / julia.wong@theguardian.com / juliacarriewong.11 on Signal
Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social I'm that YouTuber who taught you how dishwashers work. Guess I'm tryin' out the whole Bluesky thing now.
he/him
https://www.youtube.com/technologyconnections
Safiya Umoja Noble, PhD @safiyanoble.bsky.social Living in Los Angeles. Native Californian. #MacFellow
Writer, professor. Comedian.
Author, “Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism,” which is unfortunately still relevant to understanding today’s LLMs and AI.
safiyaunoble.com
ROOST @roost.tools We’re ROOST (Robust Open Online Safety Tools), a non-profit building and maintaining open source, accessible, high-quality, transparent safety tools for digital organizations of all kinds.
roost.tools
Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com writer, editor, degenerate, Luddite, decel
thetechbubble.substack.com
James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social I’m a professor at Cornell Tech and Cornell Law School.
One of "a number of very informative people." -WSJ
Nuala @nualapolo.bsky.social UK Public Policy Lead @ The Ada Lovelace Institute
Jack Hardinges @jackhardinges.bsky.social Data optimist.
Interested in: data infrastructures, governance, platforms, AI, the commons, etc.
Working with: Foresight (1m eye scans), Icebreaker One (data for net zero), Creative Commons (preference signals) + OpenMined (federated data networks).
Lara Groves @laragroves.bsky.social Senior Researcher in AI accountability @AdaLovelaceInstitute | likes participatory methods & research, civic tech, cycling, beer |
Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social Chilling online. I write a newsletter called Garbage Day.
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.
Tim Minshall @timminshall.bsky.social Dr John C Taylor Professor of Innovation, Head of the Institute for Manufacturing and Fellow of Churchill College, University of Cambridge. Author of ‘Your Life is Manufactured’ https://timminshall.com
#engineering #manufacturing #innovation
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
Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social Bennett Professor of Public Policy, University of Cambridge; economist
Andrew Strait @agstrait.bsky.social UK AI Security Institute
Former Ada Lovelace Institute, Google, DeepMind, OII
Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social Writes the most popular UK Substack (samf.substack.com)
Author of Sunday Times bestselling book "Failed State". (An Economist and Financial Times Book of the Year for 2024). Working on book two.
Senior fellow: Institute for Government
Areeq Chowdhury @areeq.bsky.social Policy, politics, artificial intelligence.
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
Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social Professor of EU and Human Rights Law. Usual disclaimers. Latest book: European Union Law, 5th edition, co-edited with Catherine Barnard.
Council of Europe @coe.int 46 countries working together to promote
#HumanRights
#Democracy
#RuleOfLaw
European Space Agency @esa.int Elevating the future of Europe through space.
Please see our Privacy Notice: https://esa.int/connectwithus
POLITICO Europe @politico.eu Nobody knows politics and policy like we do.
ProPublica @propublica.org Investigative journalism in the public interest. Headlines and (sometimes literal) receipts.
propublica.org
Politico @politico.com Nobody knows politics and policy like we do.
www.politico.com
European Commission @ec.europa.eu News and information from the European Commission. Social media and data protection policy: http://europa.eu/!MnfFmT
InfoLawCentre@IALS @infolawcentre.bsky.social Information Law & Policy Centre at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
infolawcentre.blogs.sas.ac.uk
Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social Subscribe to my tech and online culture newsletter UserMag.co
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Jon Agar @jonagar.bsky.social historian of modern science and technology
Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com Political technologist, bringing democracy to the internet. Brussels, 🇪🇺.
• tech, governance, science, politics, philosophy, infrastructure, cats, terrible puns
• DASL, Eurosky/Mu, Modal
• ex W3C, NYT
• Signal robin.77
Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social Britain's best-selling news and current affairs magazine with a unique mix of jokes and investigative journalism.
Website: https://private-eye.co.uk
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Dr Bettina Nissen (she/her) @bettinanissen.bsky.social Lecturer and interaction designer working with tangible things, technology and data. Also love knitting, craft and making things, and of course cats ;)
✊🏿✊🏽✊🏼🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️terf-free zone 🇵🇸🇺🇦
Views my own
@designinf
Alex @blangry.bsky.social Final year DPhil anthropology of civic tech. Principal consultant. Norwich with a cargo bike. Greyhound pictures extra.
Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social Hopeful technologist.
Community tech, careful innovation, socially progressive tech policy.
https://www.careful.industries
https://hopeful.technology
https://buttondown.email/justenoughinternet
DMs don't work but hello@careful.industries will find me
Ravi Naik @ravinaikawo.bsky.social Legal Director of AWO. Data, tech and AI governance.
Bernard Keenan @bernardkeenan.bsky.social Lecturer, UCL Laws. Law, theory, tech.
Interception: from postal systems to global networks (MIT 2025)
Cori Crider @coricrider.com Build better tech. Break monopoly power. Back law enforcement.
Executive Director, Future of Tech Institute & Tech@Meliore. Hon. Prof. UCL. Fellow, Open Markets. Ex Foxglove, Reprieve.
https://futureinstitute.tech
https://www.coricrider.com
MG Zimeta @mgzimeta.bsky.social Ethio-Brit literary journalist | Geopolitics & society | Former refugee | Recovering philosopher | website mgzimeta.com | For tech policy I'm @TechMilly.bsky.social | I can't view my DMs here because I haven't verified that I'm not a child.
BAILII (The British and Irish Legal Information Institute) @bailii.bsky.social BAILII (www.bailii.org) provides FREE online access to case law, legislation, and other legal materials from the United Kingdom, England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Ireland, Europe, and several other jurisdictions.
Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social NYT tech reporter
Co-author of Character Limit
Signal: rmac.18
ryan.mac@nytimes.com
rmac18@protonmail.com
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737290/character-limit-by-kate-conger-and-ryan-mac/
https://linktr.ee/ryan_mac_
Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social Ex-liontamer, writer/editor/strategist.
I used to work for Wired, The Verge, The Atlantic, The Message, Adweek, and Amazon Chronicles.
I also host sometimes at Kottke.org.
Call me he/him.
PHL.
Everything changes; don’t be afraid.
https://timcarmody.com
Gavin Freeguard @gavinfreeguard.com Data/govt etc freelancer gavinfreeguard.com
Starting @sotf.org.uk
@connectedbydata.org, Data Bites @publicdigital.bsky.social, @instituteforgovernment.org.uk, Think Digital Partners, @kinship.works, @transformgovtalks.bsky.social
Pic @paulclarke.com
Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social Soc of Work + Platform Labor | Head of Sociology, University of Edinburgh | https://workersobservatory.org | @jcultecon + Platforms & Society
The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social Writer about law and policy at The Empty City blog and elsewhere.
About lore and culture at The Busy Town.
Birmingham/London. Janeite. #AVFC
www.theemptycity.com
(Account sometimes deactivated when not in use.)
The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social Wears a black cape and fights crime. Not Batman.
Sunday Times No.1 Bestselling author•The Secret Barrister•#FakeLaw•Nothing But The Truth•
Also writes thrillers. The Cut Throat Trial out now at all good bookshops.
Kill All The Lawyers coming July 2027…
Chris Stokel-Walker @stokel.bsky.social Tech journalist and author, who increasingly also talks on TV and radio. Interested in the sparks that happen when the online and offline worlds collide
@stokel on the other place. Buy my book: How AI Ate the World!
Jennifer Cobbe @jennifercobbe.bsky.social Tech law @cambridgelaw.bsky.social
https://www.law.cam.ac.uk/people/academic/j-cobbe/83662
Anna Dent @annadent.bsky.social Research and policy adviser www.abdconsultancy.co.uk
Futures of work, digital welfare state, tech ethics, public sector innovation
Also cats, telly, general silliness
Now with added newsletter! https://www.abdconsultancy.co.uk/digital-welfare-state
Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social Journalist @404Media.co
Signal: jason.404 // email: jason@404media.co
Michael Franklin @mcbfranklin.bsky.social academic research & industrial application - film, risk, philosophy, economics, market devices | personal acct | https://ciciexeter.org/ | https://britishscreenforum.co.uk/film-data-initiative-pilot/ | https://mcbfranklin.com/
Colin Megill @colinmegill.com Cofounder pol.is
President compdemocracy.org
San Francisco, CA
@julianwoodhouse.bsky.social @julianwoodhouse.bsky.social
Dr Edina Harbinja @edinadd.bsky.social Reader in Privacy Law @AstonUniversity. Tech Law and Reg, Privacy and DP, Digital Death, AI Death, Ethics, Superheroes, BQ Marathoner (X @EdinaRl)
Angus R Williams @angusrw.bsky.social Senior Data Scientist @ The Alan Turing Institute. All things AI safety
www.angusrw.com
R. Trebor Scholz @trebors2025.bsky.social Prof at The New School | Founder, Platform Cooperativism Consortium + Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy | Author, OWN THIS! (2023) + UBER-WORKED & UNDERPAID (2016) | Faculty Affiliate, Berkman Klein Center | Advocate for Digital Labor Rights |
Samson Esayas @samsonesayas.bsky.social Prof of Law at the University of Oslo.| Faculty Associate BKCHarvard | Law & tech - privacy & data protection, antitrust law. Author of “Data Privacy and Competition Law in the Age of Big Data” Oxford University Press 2024
Chris Marsden @chrismarsden.bsky.social Professional on LinkedIn, no quote without permission pls. I'm not the news. Often post blue skies. Mainly sports politics (not US) travel. Prof AI & Internet/tech co-regulation: views personal. He/him #FirstGen Liverpool, cricket & cycling tragic #JFT97
Dr Mahlet ("Milly") Zimeta @techmilly.bsky.social Head of Digital & Data Policy for Which (UK consumer association) | x-ODI x-Royal Society x-Alan Turing Institute | website linkedin.com/in/mgzimeta/ | views my own | literary journalism as @mgzimeta.bsky.social | I don't have access to DMs here
Nora Ni Loideain @nniloideain.bsky.social Associate Professor in Law & Director, Information Law & Policy Centre, IALS, University of London; Expert in privacy, data protection, human rights; Joint Editor-in-Chief, International Data Privacy Law; Author: EU Data Privacy Law and Serious Crime (OUP)
Donald Robertson @03k64.bsky.social
Colin Perkins @csperkins.org Computer networking research and Internet standards. Professor in the School of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow. Long-time IETF participant. Former chair of the IRTF. Personal views only. 🏴🇪🇺
https://csperkins.org/
Tristan Henderson @tnhh.org Computer scientist (ish) at St Andrews. Insane in the membrane. Except when running. Running photos at @tnhh.pixelfed.social.ap.brid.gy
Adam Binksmith @binksmith.com Building theaidigest.org and forecasting tools @aidigest.bsky.social
https://binksmith.com
Sisi Wei @sisiwei.bsky.social Chief impact officer at @themarkup.org and @calmatters.org
Katie Nolan @katieanolan.bsky.social Assistant lecturer in law, Technological University Dublin. Privacy/tech law enthusiast.
Data controversies, James Stewart @datacontroversies.bsky.social Microblog supporting Internet and Society and Controversies in the Data Society courses, Science Technology and Innovation Studies, University of Edinburgh
Andrew Murray @andrewdmurray.bsky.social Professor of Information Technology Law at LSE. Dean-Elect of @lselaw.bsky.social (from September 2025)
Academic Member of the Amsterdam Law & Technology Institute.
“The Alexa of Cyberlaw” (2022 Student Evaluation)
Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social Director of Pangloss Consulting for all your AI and GDPR needs! Emerita Prof Newcastle Law School: Hon Prof, @CREATe Glasgow Uni. Formerly @ATI, @SCRIPT: Trying not to be a grey skies thinker & use this place more , lilian@lilianedwards.co.uk
Olivier Thereaux @olivierthereaux.bsky.social Web dinosaur, multicultural nerd. Walker of cities and hills, greeter of cats. Work: product research @dashlane. Formerly ODI, BBC, TokyoArtBeat, W3C. He/Him.
Dr Lachlan Urquhart @mooseabyte.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Technology Law & HCI, U of Edinburgh. Director of Regulation + Design Lab; Co-Director CRISP + SCRIPT. Tech Law, HCI, IoT, AI, Design, Privacy, Cybersec, Surveillance, Sustainability, Metal, Guitars, Sci Fi, photography, campervans.
michael veale @michae.lv prof @laws.ucl.ac.uk, technology, law, policy, society, whimsical latvian top level domain names. michae.lv and fediverse https://someone.elses.computer/@mikarv 🏳️🌈
Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social Law and technology academic. Posts about copyright law, internet regulation, AI, llamas, pandas, and cats. 🇨🇷 🇬🇧
https://www.technollama.co.uk/
利大英 @gblee.bsky.social Writer and photographer.
Emeritus Professor, University of St Andrews. My day job for 50 years was sinologist.
Gayle McF @gaylemcf.bsky.social Human, nerd, lawyer, trainer, neurodiversity normaliser. UK (Midlands).
James Farrar @jamesfarrar.bsky.social Worker Info Exchange
Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social Professor in Science and Technology Studies, UCL @stsucl.bsky.social. Science policy, responsible innovation, emerging technologies. Book https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-32320-2. Responsible AI UK (www.rai.ac.uk)
Chris Jefferson @heathercafe.bsky.social AI Professor in St Andrews, currently visiting CSU, China. Lover of puzzles, plushies and programming.
Benjamin Thomas @benjthomas.bsky.social Political Ideologies, 20th Century Centre-Right, Neoliberalisms, Thought in Political Parties of UK & DE, Transnational discourses and the conjuncture
benjaminjthomas.net
Scott Hosking @scotthosking.bsky.social Director in Environment and AI Research | @theturing.bsky.social
scotthosking.com
James Garforth @jamesgarforth.bsky.social Lecturer in Ethics, Society and Professionalism in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. Proud associate of the Centre for Technomoral Futures.
Open Data Institute @odihq.bsky.social Advancing trust in data.
The StoryGraph @thestorygraph.com An app for you to track your reading and choose your next book. Founded by @nodunayo.bsky.social. Built by her and @robfrelow.bsky.social. support@thestorygraph.com
Emily Macaulay @emilyjmacaulay.bsky.social Head of Delivery & Operations for Connected by Data. #RunningIsFunning, fundraiser for Jane Tomlinson Appeal, Trustee: LGBT+ Consortium & Reading List Foundation. 🏳️🌈 She/Her.
https://linktr.ee/emilyjmacaulay
Connected by Data @connectedbydata.org The campaign for communities to have a powerful say on data and AI, to help create an equitable and sustainable world.
connectedbydata.org