Lida Zeitlin-Wu @lidazeitlinwu.bsky.social Author of How Color Became a Technology: The Making of Chromatic Capitalism (forthcoming from Duke UP in 2027). Assistant Prof at Notre Dame. Past and present Chicagoan. www.lidazeitlinwu.com
John Scott Dance @johnscottdance.bsky.social Dublin choreographer. Aosdana member. HYPERACTIVE, Mermaid,Bray, Sept 30.Cloud Study, Festival Racconti Di Altre Danze, Oct 11. Strategically funded by @artscouncilireland.bsky.social, @dubcitycouncil.bsky.social,and Culture Ireland #cultureireland
Shelley Stamp @shelleystamp.bsky.social Film historian, author MOVIE-STRUCK GIRLS & LOIS WEBER IN EARLY HYWD, curator PIONEERS: FIRST WOMEN FMKRS, editor Feminist Media Histories book series. Quoted NPR, NY Times, LA Times, Guardian & more.
Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social [in the manuscript]
Patrick Keilty @patrickkeilty.bsky.social Associate Professor in the Faculty of Information and Cinema Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. 🏳️🌈 📚 🎥 🖥️ 🐈 http://patrickkeilty.com/
Richard Skinner @richardnskinner.bsky.social Novelist, poet, essayist. Director @FaberAcademy • Founder #VanguardEditions • Editor #14magazine.
Most recent publication: ‘Crossing Paths’ (Poetry) (Black Cat, 2026).
RPS Historical Group @rpshistgroup.bsky.social The Historical Group of the Royal Photographic Society.
Promoting the history of photography through talks, visits and our journal, The PhotoHistorian.
https://rps.org/groups/historical/
Jeff Yoshimi @jyoshimi.bsky.social Philosopher, phenomenologist, and cognitive scientist at
UC Merced. Interested in neural networks and dynamical systems theory. Builder of simbrain.net and husserl.net. Website: https://jeffyoshimi.net/
johan @johanm.bsky.social PhD Candidate @ CornellCIS
https://michalove.studio
Substack: https://thelastwave.substack.com/
About: https://micha.love
BAFTSS Colour and Film Research Group @baftsscolorfilmsig.bsky.social The BAFTSS Special Interest Group on Colour and Film, connecting scholars, filmmakers, archivists and film conservation specialists: http://colourandfilm.com
Jake Romm @jakeromm.bsky.social your pal | writer | associate editor at Protean Mag | sometimes lawyer
let me write for you: jakeromm@icloud.com
Daniel Martin Feige @danielmartinfeige.bsky.social Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design. I work on topics in philosophical aesthetics and philosophical anthropology.
Julius @crprtanthrplgy.bsky.social Doctoral candidate at the RTG “Aesthetics of Democracy”
Working on the hatred and aesthetics of administration
https://aesthetics-of-democracy.de/member/julius-schwarzwalder/
Blaise Agüera y Arcas @blaiseaguera.bsky.social CTO of Technology & Society at Google, working on fundamental AI research and exploring the nature and origins of intelligence.
Santa Fe Institute @sfiscience.bsky.social The premier research center for #ComplexSystems #science.
santafe.edu
linktr.ee/sfiscience
Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) @ucbids.bsky.social BIDS is a space for Open Scholarship, Open Source, and interdisciplinary collaboration on AI in science and society. It is part of the UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science, and Society.
https://bids.berkeley.edu/
Critical Inquiry @criticalinquiry.bsky.social Founded in 1974, Critical Inquiry is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal devoted to the best critical thought in the arts and humanities.
Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com Critical Media Theory + Science and Technology Studies + Literature + CS.
Associate Prof. of DH, AI, and Media somewhere.
VP, @litsciarts.org
📚: Computation, Political Economy, Infrastructures, History, Games, Design, SF.
☭.
Not a professional account.
fabio iapaolo @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social Urban geographer and digital media scholar @PoliMi | Associate editor AI & Society
Jaka Lombar @jakalombar.bsky.social 
ilinca iurascu @ilinca.bsky.social No war. histories of paper. media theory. 19th c German lit. misses Bucharest
Dr Rhys Steven Jones @rhysteven.bsky.social asst prof film, media & culture @UvA_Amsterdam | historical materialism - critical theory - horror cinema - pop culture | he/him
Jacob Engelberg @jacobengelberg.bsky.social asst. professor of film, media, & culture at University of Amsterdam | author of 𝘊𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘉𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘹𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 (Duke U.P.) | bisexual saboteur | he/his
https://linktr.ee/jacob.engelberg
Jenny Rhee @jsrhee.bsky.social AI, art, and speculative fiction 
Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social Assoc. Professor at UC Berkeley
Artificial and biological intelligence and language
Linguistics Lead at Project CETI 🐳
PI Berkeley Biological and Artificial Language Lab 🗣️
College Principal of Bowles Hall 🏰
https://www.gasperbegus.com
Jules O’Dwyer @julesod.bsky.social teaching Film at KCL | editor at world picture | author of The Seduction of Space (U Minnesota Press 2025) and Hotels (Fordham UP 2025). Account not in regular use.
@minorlits.bsky.social @minorlits.bsky.social 
80s News Screens @80snewsscreens.bsky.social Screengrabs from slower news days
A Whole Damn Town! @im.a.whole.damn.town Images of people, places, scenes and things from Twin Peaks.
Christopher Sieving @soulburger26.bsky.social Minnesota person, cinema scholar, author of Pleading the Blood: Bill Gunn's Ganja & Hess (Indiana University Press, 2022), impostor.
Stained Zurich @stainedzurich.bsky.social Live music enthusiast, film geek, horror, tsundoku, esoterica, shiny discs, megaliths, whippets
NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social Fan page of Ernie Bushmiller’s legendary comic strip Nancy.
This year is the 93rd. anniversary of Nancy’s first appearance(January2,1933)
Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social classically trained artist.
theartofpants.com
Francisco Rojas @dogstarfran.bsky.social 
San Francisco Film Preserve @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social SFFP's mission is to restore, preserve, and provide access to the world’s cinematic heritage, ensuring that films—of all genres and eras—remain accessible for future generations.
https://linktr.ee/sffilmpreserve
Michelle Henning @michellehenning.bsky.social Prof at Uni of Liverpool and artist. I write on photography, media, museums, ISOTYPE, modernism, environment & atmosphere. Photography: The Unfettered Image (2018) & A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog & Empire, Chicago UP (Fall 2025)
Liz Watkins @liziwat.bsky.social colour, photography & film researcher | convenor BAFTSS Colour & Film https://colourandfilm.com/cfps/ @BAFTSSColorFilm | ❤️ cycling & archives
world picture journal @worldpicture.bsky.social open-access journal + conference, c. 2008.
visit: worldpicturejournal.com
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin @ripb.bsky.social 🔥 The must-see event in Paris and Berlin dedicated to new cinema & contemporary art 🌱
#movingimage #newcinema #contemporaryart #paris #berlin
We post en FRANÇAIS, in ENGLISH, auf DEUTSCH y en ESPAÑOL
Maryse Elliott @maryzen.bsky.social Senior Commissioning Editor @amsterdamupress.bsky.social, passionate about publishing cutting-edge research in #filmstudies, #mediastudies and #communicationstudies. Happy to connect and discuss your new academic book project! 
kev, it is what it is @kevinlferguson.bsky.social by popular demand
Justin Rawlins @justinrawlins.bsky.social Prof Media/Film | Author: Imagining the Method http://bit.ly/43QVOa4 | Research: acting, celebrity, screen histories, Arctic media | he/him
Dr. Sheri Chinen Biesen @sheribiesen.bsky.social Cinema Professor. Film History. Jazz. Books: Through a Noir Lens: Adapting Film Noir Visual Style. Blackout: World War II & Origins of Film Noir. Film Censorship. Music in the Shadows📚📽️🎷
https://noirbooks.blogspot.com
https://SheriChinenBiesen.blogspot.com
Nicholas Baer @nwbaer.bsky.social Associate Professor of Film & Media and German, UC Berkeley | Book: Historical Turns (UC Press, 2024) | Edited Volumes: Technics (Amsterdam UP, 2024), Unwatchable (Rutgers UP, 2019), The Promise of Cinema (UC Press, 2016)
Ben Pettis @bpettis.bsky.social University of Richmond
PhD in media and cultural studies. I research platforms and internet culture
Fediverse/Mastodon: @bpettis@benpettis.ninja (https://mastodon.benpettis.ninja/@bpettis)
www.benpettis.com
M. Beatrice Fazi @mbfazi.bsky.social Philosophy, Computation, Technoscience. Associate Professor at the University of Sussex (UK). Author of “Contingent Computation” (2018).
University page
https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p378975-beatrice-fazi
Scott Richmond @scottrichmond.me Director, Centre for Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto. Experimental media aesthetics, history of computing, theory and technology geekery of various kinds.
Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social Congressman for California's 36th District. Vice Chair of the House Democratic Caucus. Air Force Vet.
Alex Zivkovic @alexzivkovic.bsky.social art, architecture, and media historian
Asst Prof @ Hunter College, CUNY
thinking about modernism, ecology, queer surrealism
http://aleksazivkovic.com
Hannes Bajohr @hannesbajohr.de Working on AI, political theory, and the German philosophical tradition in the 20th c
German Dept #UCBerkeley
robin manley @robinmanley.bsky.social phd candidate @ berkeley rhetoric // editor @ qui parle // cybernetics in intellectual history, philosophy of technology, & media theory
Ken Wissoker @kwissoker.bsky.social Senior Executive Editor, Duke University Press. Director, Intellectual Publics, CUNY Graduate Center. Book doula/curator. Art lover, record accumulator. All opinions my own-ish. 
Miguel Carvalhais @carvalhais.org Design, music, art + computation. Professor at fba.up.pt; also active at @cronicaelectronica.org, http://at-c.org and @xCoAx.org. Author of Art and Computation (V2_) and Artificial Aesthetics (U.Porto). carvalhais.org
Rosemary Lee @machineagency.bsky.social Artist
Integrated Researcher, University of Porto
i2ADS/Faculty of Fine Arts+Engineering
Fellow, Akademie Schloss Solitude
PhD in Digital Design, ITU, Copenhagen
Author: Algorithm, Image, Art, 2024
https://rosemary-lee.com
Ethan @ethansturtles.bsky.social He/him - My writing on connecting digital design and critical theory: turtlesdown.substack.com
clusta.live
the hum of passing days @humofpada.bsky.social Light, sound, and distance.
Alison Gopnik @alisongopnik.bsky.social Cognitive scientist, philosopher, and psychologist at Berkeley, author of The Scientist in the Crib, The Philosophical Baby and The Gardener and the Carpenter and grandmother of six.
Gray Area @grayarea.org Gray Area is a nonprofit applying creativity for positive social impact.
🔗 grayarea.org
Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net media studies professor | Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook (Anthology Editions, 2025) | dir. @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social | http://loriemerson.net | Boulder, Colorado | 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🏃♀️🚴♀️ | 📷 Jenna Maurice
David Cecchetto @davidcecchetto.bsky.social Digital theory and sound studies prof (yorku); past pres SLSA; quasi-practicing (non)musician.
-Co-edit Proximities book series (UMinn)
-Author: Humanesis: Sound and Posthumanism (UMinn); Listening in the Afterlife of Data (Duke), and others
Archer Porter @archerporter.bsky.social Scholar of performance in digital culture. Especially interested in body-centric media || Author of Homebodies: Performance and Intimacy in the Age of New Media (2026)
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/archerporter
hank gerba @hankg.bsky.social phd from stanford in media theory. academic+industry researcher of digital technologies. ex robot operator. they/them. https://hankgerba.com
michael metzger @mmcnma.bsky.social media arts curator, block museum of art, northwestern university.
Society for Cinema and Media Studies @scmstudies.bsky.social The Official Bluesky account for SCMS
https://www.cmstudies.org/
Questions? Don't hesitate to get in touch with the SCMS office via the Contact Us page, and we’ll be happy to respond.
Charles Tepperman @tepperman.bsky.social Film. Politics. Amateur Cinema: The Rise of North American Moviemaking. Canadian Cinema in the New Millennium. Director of
amateurcinema.org
Catherine Grant @filmstudiesff.bsky.social Sharing links, since 2008, to #OpenAccess film/AV media scholarship and online resources, and news/free events of note; Honorary Professor at Aarhus University; Senior Visiting Fellow at University of Reading; she/their. https://linktr.ee/filmstudiesff
Emmanouil Kaffetzakis @kaffetzakis.bsky.social Psychologist | Private Practice | Member of Borromean Knot Society NLS in Greece
emmanouilkaffetzakis.com
elena gorfinkel @cinemiasma.bsky.social film scholar + critic | books abt 60s sex films, global cinema, place | in '25: The Prop (Fordham); Wanda (BFI); toiling: Cinemas of Exhaustion | teach @ King's College London | post-soviet newyawker, ekphrastic perfume fiend | elenagorfinkel.com
@diegoleclery.bsky.social @diegoleclery.bsky.social Let’s tank the pillars of the US tech economy together
on pixelfed: diegol
James Dalrymple @jamesewand.bsky.social Teaching/lecturing in France. Occasional academic.
Cinema, books, music, vintage television, podcasts (usually while cooking for the family), teaching, life in France etc.
Film reviews at: letterboxd.com/jamesewand/
Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social cinema studies | media distribution + access | documentary | nontheatrical film | useful media | feminist media history | she/her
https://www.tanyagoldmanphd.com
sean guynes @guynes.bsky.social critic and cultural historian of genre fantasies / senior acquiring editor @leverpress.bsky.social / associate editor of sf @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social / read more: seanguynes.com
Monk Antony @monkantony.bsky.social editor-in-chief @lerandomart.bsky.social
✍️ lerandom.art/editorial
🕰️ author generative art timeline.lerandom.art
🔗 linktr.ee/monkantony
SLSA - Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts @litsciarts.org An interdisciplinary society of scholars & artists sharing an interest in the cultural & social dimensions of science & technology.
More at https://litsciarts.org/
Lara Perski @aboutfilm.bsky.social mostly
Tomasz Poborca @tpoborca.bsky.social Film Studies at University of Lodz • National Centre for Film Culture • Cinema curator • Press reception research • Writing for http://pelnasala.pl
Genese Grill @genesegrill.bsky.social Essayist, Translator, Bibliophile, Working on the First English-Language Biography of Robert Musil for Yale University Press.
https://genesegrill.wixsite.com/website
https://www.thisissplice.co.uk/essays/portals/
Lucy Wright @postmodernfox.bsky.social Ph.D practice-led Candidate @LTUEnglish & @UniversityLeeds | Modernism(s) & Francis Bacon (1909-1992); Early Modern Arts.
Le Random @lerandomart.bsky.social Building a generative art institution with our
🖼️ lerandom.art/our-collection
✍️ lerandom.art/editorial
🕰️ timeline.lerandom.art
🎧 spoti.fi/3zV3KxA
📺 youtube.com/@LeRandomArt
Ewa Ferdynus @ewaferdynus.com • émigré • film poster graphic designer there & there • theatre and film photographer every now & then • somehow holds MA FSM with Film Programming & Curating • yapper about accented cinema •
www.ewaferdynus.com
& @byewfer & @ewaferdynusphoto on insta
Tim @joaocesarsalad.bsky.social abysmal dogshit
https://boxd.it/v1hv
Tom Lordan @tomlordan.bsky.social Irish Art Critic | The Irish Times, Frieze, Paper Visual Art | Philosophy & Aesthetics - Filosofia y Estética - Philosophie & Ästhetik
tomlordan.com
Noa Garcia @noagarciad.bsky.social Associate professor at Osaka University.
Working on computer vision, fairness, art.
www.noagarciad.com
Peter Bell @pbellarthist.bsky.social Professor for Art History and Digital Humanities; working on computer vision and cultural heritage; social art history; Renaissance 
Benedetta Catanzariti @benedetta.bsky.social British Academy Postdoc @STIS University of Edinburgh | Researching knowledge, power & tech | co-run ai-ethics.org
karpathy @karpathy.bsky.social AI @ OpenAI, Tesla, Stanford
Mike Thorn @mikethorn.bsky.social Author (Shelter for the Damned, Darkest Hours, Peel Back and See). Co-host of https://bsky.app/profile/craftworkpod.bsky.social.
Olga Nenazhivina Art 👩🎨 @nenazhivina.com 👩🎨 Artist📍Based in Florida 🐊
Freehand dip pen сontemporary ink on paper 🖋️
Mostly drawings ✍️
Vegan 🌱🫶
nenazhivina.com/hi
No DMs. Any enquirers: olga@nenazhivina.com
Matthew Noble-Olson @mdno.bsky.social scholar of art/cinema/media
https://lsa.umich.edu/ftvm/people/faculty/matthew-noble-olson.html
John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social Historian of modern Europe. DE, EN, FR & IT; working on CZ (permanently) & NL. Posting in a personal capacity on history, literature, arts, &c.
Public Domain Image Archive @pdimagearchive.bsky.social Curated collection of 10,000+ public domain images, free for users to explore and reuse, even commercially. A project of @publicdomainrev.bsky.social
Website: https://pdimagearchive.org/
MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social Committed to the daily re-imagining of what a university press can be since 1962.
Website: https://mitpress.mit.edu
The Reader (our home for excerpts, essays, & interviews): https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
MIT Press Direct: https://direct.mit.edu/
Slow Moving Pictures @lewisbeerblog.bsky.social A film blog: I spent 2025 analysing Red Desert. www.slowmovingpictures.org
The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social Online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas. Featuring 300+ essays — ✍️ submissions welcome. We also have a mighty fine prints shop.
https://publicdomainreview.org
Experimental Cinema @expcinema.bsky.social News and Resources on Experimental Films
Cormac Deane @deanec.bsky.social media, 7 types of control, film, total information awareness, heat-seeking academic, future college dropout, Balor, formerly @itsmybike on X.
🎐 @bowerbird.bsky.social anti-hype. i paint and do computer vision research for satellite image datasets
https://zhanpeifang.com/
Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social An independent research and policy institute working toward a future where people, not technology, come first.