Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social W. Ford Schumann Distinguished Visiting Professor in Democratic Studies, Williams College, 2026–2027. Assoc. Professor ArtHist, UMass Amherst. Impressive Politics: Print before the Press in Late Medieval England (UPenn, frthcmng). https://sonjadrimmer.com/
The Alan Turing Institute @theturing.bsky.social The Alan Turing Institute is the national institute for data science and artificial intelligence.
turing.ac.uk
FPL Alerts ⚽️ @fplalerts.com An automated account which provides key FPL score updates, line-ups and price changes. Also points & price change predictions. Full detailed live pts on website fplalerts.com
Liz Henry @lizjhenry.bsky.social Environmental Psychology PhD, mental wanderer, lifelong learner.
Simon Smith @smithsmm.bsky.social Headteacher, picturebook addict. Sometimes a bit ranty. Passionate about the best job in the world. #PicturebookPage
All views are my own
Jason Kitcat @jasonkitcat.bsky.social Director of Digital, Data & Technology at UK’s Dept for Business & Trade 🏛 / ❤️ public service / All views my own! 📢 / https://jasonkitcat.com
Andy Dudfield @mrdudders.bsky.social Dork.
Sohan Dsouza @sohandsouza.info 🥼 @MPIB-Berlin.bsky.social;
📚 computational social science, disinformation/polarization, crowdsourcing, OSINT;
🎓 @MIT.edu @MediaLab.bsky.social, @DFRLab.bsky.social #DigitalSherlocks;
📍 London, England;
https://www.sohandsouza.info
Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com Writer. Only work gets done here. Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen. Beneath the gold, the bitter steel. Our revenge will be the laughter of our children. I will not betray my soul. Fix your hearts or die. Tiocfaidh ár lá
Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social Imaginaria, libraries, archives, book history, history of science, social/environmental justice, music, birds, plants, funny things
Water creature | she/her | Californian in northeastern US
pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social The 76th most followed account on bluesky. I will NOT be updating this ranking when it’s no longer true
Serena Pollastri @seremiru.bsky.social Design for posthuman coastal futures @ Lancaster University (ImaginationLancaster). All terrain knitting. Mamma. ITA/ENG. She/her.
weird medieval guys @weirdmedieval.bsky.social fibre arts enthusiast
https://linktr.ee/weirdmedievalguys
Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay Anti-capitalist elder millesbian 💜 the only way to save ourselves is to save each other
✨i am 40 now✨
“Deranged Online Leftist”
💕🍍 @acab4cutie.top
John Hultquist @hultquist.bsky.social Mandiant Intelligence at Google. CYBERWARCON and SLEUTHCON founder. Johns Hopkins professor. Army vet.
Sophie Bushwick @sophiebushwick.bsky.social Science & technology communicator, editor, podcast & video host, book reader
Rodney Brooks @rodneyabrooks.bsky.social Primarily Robotics and AI. Distinguishing hype-notism from plausibility one press release at a time. rodneybrooks.com/blog people.csail.mit.edu/brooks
Ross Dahlke @rossdahlke.bsky.social asst. prof. @uwsjmc.bsky.social rossdahlke.com
Judith Fassbender @jufassbender.bsky.social Researcher at HIIG and Doctoral Candidate at University of St Andrews
👀 at participatory data governance & public interest technology
Axel Bruns @snurb.info Australian Laureate Fellow and Professor at @qutdmrc, researching news, politics, partisanship, polarisation in digital and social media.
He/his | Progressive Rock | Hannover 96 🖤🤍💚 | 🇦🇺🇩🇪🇪🇺
🕸️ snurb.info
🐘 @snurb@aoir.social
⛔ @snurb_dot_info
Nick Bowman (包尼克) he/him/his @bowmanspartan.bsky.social STL native, UM-St. Louis x Michigan State alum. (Full) Prof at Newhouse School (Syracuse U, USA) studying gaming + emerging media. Launch Editor, Global Perspectives of Communication (Oxford x ICA).
Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social Prof @ Penn studying media, race, tech, feminism, politics.
Author of A SECOND SIGHT (Mariner, 2026), co-author #HASHTAGACTIVISM (MIT Press, 2020) + more.
Typos and opinions both mine.
Co‑Director: @miccenter.bsky.social
Sheila A Brennan @sheilaabrennan.bsky.social digital public humanist, Digital Scholar 🙋♀️, former NEHer, pop culture consumer, outdoorsy, eater and maker of tasty foods
Anne Oeldorf-Hirsch @anneo.bsky.social Comm tech & social media research professor by day, symphony violinist by night, outside as much as possible otherwise. German/American Pacific Northwestern New Englander, #firstgen academic, she/her, 🏳️🌈
https://anne-oeldorf-hirsch.uconn.edu
Dr Shivangi Narayan @shivanginarayan.bsky.social Here to discuss AI policy/data governance from the lens of a sociologist. PhD in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. Author of 'Predictive Policing and the Construction of the Criminal', Aug 2023, Palgrave Macmillan.
Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social Data, Information and their Histories. At UCL.
danielwilson.info
🤖 Computational Humanities #dh | History 🗃️ | STS #histsci
Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social Epidemiologist. Causal inference researcher and trainer. Based at @lida-leeds.bsky.social
See my Intro to Causal Inference Course: https://www.causal.training/
See the Causal Inference Interest Group: https://ciig-seminar.github.io
Kalle Westerling @kallewesterling.bsky.social Day-time Research Application Manager at The Alan Turing Institute for digital arts and humanities research.
Night-time #drag historian with a PhD in #performance.
Formerly #DigitalHumanities Research Institute, Living with Machines, and HASTAC
David Llewellyn-Jones @flypig.bsky.social Research Data Scientist, Hut 23 of The Alan Turing Institute. Software developer and Sailfish OS evangelist. Occasionally craves adventure and a good thunderstorm.
Martin O'Reilly @martinoreilly.bsky.social Director of Research Engineering at the Alan Turing Institute, turning research into practice. Trustee at the Society of Research Software Engineering. He/him.
David Beavan @davidbeavan.bsky.social Principal Research Software Engineer, Research Engineering Group, The Alan Turing Institute. Digital humanaut, software scribe and research wrangler. Personal- E Eirini Zormpa @eirini.bsky.social quantitative researcher @ the RSa & community manager @ Imperial | previously: the Alan Turing Institute, TU Delft, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics | loves 🧶🚣🏽♀️📚🐐| she/her
Federico Nanni @fedenanni.bsky.social Senior Research Data Scientist @ Research Engineering Group, The Alan Turing Institute • NLP and other related things
Yannick Wurm @yannickwurm.bsky.social Ants, pollinators, evolution, genomes. Prof @ Queen Mary U London, Founder @ Pragmatic Genomics & Pollinatework
https://wurmlab.com
https://sequenceserver.com - Genomic results fast
https://sensibee.io - Pollinator monitoring for the 21st century
Georgia Tomova @georgiatomova.bsky.social Research Fellow at @clscohorts.bsky.social
epidemiology, causal inference, methods, meta-science
Subscribe to the Causal Inference Interest Group: https://ciig-seminar.github.io
Matt Craddock @mattcraddock.com Research Software Engineer at The Alan Turing Institute, UK. Former cognitive neuroscientist
Caitlin @cmcd-phd.caitlinmcdonald.com Resilience coach, futurist, artist, anthropologist, high school dropout, PhD. More? www.caitlinmcdonald.com
Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social author of Blood in the Machine, tech writer, luddite
newsletter: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/
books: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/contributor/brian-merchant/
kofi link: https://ko-fi.com/brianmerchant
CYBERWARCON @cyberwarcon.bsky.social CYBERWARCON is a one-day conference in Arlington, VA focused on the specter of destruction, disruption, and malicious influence on our society through cyber capabilities.
cyberwarcon.com
Johnny Unger @johnnyunger.bsky.social he/him, linguist, critical discourse analyst, tea anarchist extraordinaire, dadcore, vegan, foodie, ❄️, dad, intersectional feminist, D&D nerd (not necessarily in that order)
Latest publication: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2023.101825
Dr Ola Michalec @olamichalec.bsky.social The absolute pinnacle of British engineering • unprofessional account of a Bristol Uni STSish researcher interested in digital energy infrastructure, cyber security expertise, and hyped up technologies • cover by https://disect.me/
Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social 🌈 Feminist Senior Lecturer in data politics and social justice at City st. George's, Uni of London, UK. She/her.
https://elinorcarmi.com/
Working on data&AI governance/data&AI literacies/data justice/digital rights/ad tech industry/surveillance.
Oliver Haimson @haimson.bsky.social Associate Professor at UM School of Information researching social computing, HCI, designing trans tech, social media, identity transitions, content moderation. 🏳️⚧️ he/him
bestqualitycrab @bestqualitycrab.bsky.social cultural big data, #digitalhumanities, HuNI http://huni.net.au Has Anyone Seen A Woman? http://vimeo.com/144863312
#academicsky
#feministsky
Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com ARC Future Fellow – Monash University /// co-host – This Machine Kills /// critical insurance tech + climate risk governance /// political economy of technology and capitalism: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520398078/the-mechanic-and-the-luddite
Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology, NYU. Core Faculty, CSMaP. Research Fellow Oxford Sociology. Computational social science, Methods, Conflict, Communication. Webpage: https://www.cjbarrie.com/
Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social Lecturer Education Futures & Digital Education based at Edinburgh Futures Institute, University of Edinburgh. Own views.
Rosamunde Van Brakel @rosamundevb.bsky.social assistant prof/senior postdoc criminology VUB/substitute lecturer KULeuven - research: digital & green criminology, surveillance, AI, youth justice, human rights
https://researchportal.vub.be/en/persons/rosamunde-elise-van-brakel
Sophia Maalsen @sophiamaalsen.bsky.social Urban and digital geographer interested in all things urbanism, digital, gender, housing and ‘smart’.
Rumman Chowdhury @ruchowdh.bsky.social www.rummanchowdhury.com
www.humane-intelligence.org
CEO & co-founder, Humane Intelligence
US Science Envoy for AI (Biden Administration)
Dr. Michael Nagenborg @mnagenborg.bsky.social Roleplaying nerd with a bad taste in movies and a day job in a Philosophy department. My more professional posts: https://bsky.app/profile/mnagenborg.social.edu.nl.ap.brid.gy
Sian Bayne @sianbayne.bsky.social digital education and utopia
University of Edinburgh
Centre for Research in Digital Education
Edinburgh Futures Institute
Pip Thornton @pipt.bsky.social Chancellor’s Fellow & BRAID Fellow @EdinburghUni. Critic of Linguistic Capitalism. @Braid_UK 'Writing the Wrongs of AI' (with @edbookfest) http://www.wwai.info #PATM
www.pipthornton.com
Reuben Binns @rdbinns.bsky.social Computery guy. HCI, ML, AI, privacy, security, fairness, political economy of tech. He/him. London/Oxford.
Arne Berger @arneberger.bsky.social Professor of Human-Computer Interaction • Co-Design, Smart Things, More-than-Human • Luddite • Mountainbiker • Changing the world does not come from above or from outside. private account.
→ http://arneberger.de
Jesse Josua Benjamin @handle.invalid Research\Design~Philosophy of Technology
Making https://entoptic.media/
Currently thinking about architecture, symbolic representation, and systems
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/
Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social Situationist Cybernetics. I make films with and against AI to see what isn’t there. Gates Scholar, Cambridge Digital Humanities. Affiliated Researcher, Machine Visual Culture Research Group (Max Planck Institute). Aim to be kind. cyberneticforests.com
Academic Chatter @academic-chatter.bsky.social Join #AcademicChatter for support & community in higher education.
Reviewer 2 ❎ @reviewer2.bsky.social Parody of reviewer 2. Good-natured comedy account. I try to post funny things and sometimes it might be research related ✍️🤣
Profile picture and banner from pexels and unsplash.
Also on Mastodon at: https://hci.social/@reviewer2
Rogue HCI Guy @roguehci.bsky.social Your friendly shitposting scientist, here to disappoint your biases. It's never personal. Topics: ITsec, psych, engineering, data science, coding, politics. German/English/Japanese/Dutch (in progress).
https://Roguehci.home.blog
Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com Professor of HCII and LTI at Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science.
jeffreybigham.com
Katta Spiel (they/them) @katta.bsky.social queer crip in tech research, hearing sign language enthusiast
Natalie Sontopski @stromponsky.bsky.social Researcher 🔮 More-Than-Human Design //STS // Feminism // Critical AI
Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social AI and creativity researcher (no, not that kind of AI) at King's College London. I make things that make things. I also livecode, design games and wrote https://linktr.ee/next_level
http://www.possibilityspace.org | they/he/any
Ian Bogost @ibogost.com Read my new book, The Small Stuff: How to Lead a More Gratifying Life: https://gratifying.life
Barbara and David Thomas Distinguished Professor at WashU; Staff writer at The Atlantic; author of 11 books. https://bogost.com
Kate Devlin @drkatedevlin.bsky.social Academic; writer. Professor of AI & Society, Chair-Director @kings-dfi.bsky.social, King’s College London. Eye-rolling at AI nonsense on a daily basis. #academicsky . Norn Irish in Norwich.
Bill Thompson @billt.bsky.social Hack and pundit. BBC Research & Development. Formerly Digital Planet.
electronic Max (Max Van Kleek) @emax.bsky.social Assoc. Prof–Computer Science, University of Oxford
LGBTQ+ fellow, ethical systems, AI, privacy, dignity and digital human rights. MIT Alumnus. Ex-IBM, Nokia, PARC.
lover of robot music 🤖⚡️
https://hip.cat/emax
https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/max.vanklee
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 🏳️🌈
Dr. S.A. Applin @anthropunk.bsky.social Applied Anthropologist researching how people promote, manage, resist, and endure change; and how they, algorithms, and ethics coexist. (Or not). Social Systems/Culture. Sometimes write for Fast Company. NYU/ITP alum
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
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
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
Mark Coeckelbergh @coeckelbergh.bsky.social Philosopher of technology | Professor at Philosophy Department University of Vienna | Author of AI Ethics, Why AI Undermines Democracy, and Artificial Religion | member UN Independent International Scientific Panel on AI | https://coeckelbergh.net
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
Nick Taylor @thatnicktaylor.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Human-Computer Interaction at Open Lab, Newcastle University.
Sebastian Deterding @codingconduct.cc Educating designer & empirical philosopher of things playful & engaging. Professor of Design Engineering, Imperial College London. Senior AE, @acmgames@bsky.social. https://codingconduct.cc
Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com Working at the intersections of tech, public interest, policy & philanthropy. Independent advisor. Before: Director at European AI & Society Fund. Co-founder at ThingsCon. Senior Fellow at Mozilla.
https://thewavingcat.com
John Allison @badmachinery.com Cartoonist in Leeds, UK. I brought you such comics as Steeple, Bad Machinery, Giant Days, Scary Go Round, Bobbins, Great British Bump-Off and Solver. The nation's favourite.
https://badmachinery.com
Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social i work across nyc’s libraries and archives; i was a full professor of media studies, art history + anthropology
architecture, archives, 🎨, cities, 🐕, infrastructure, libraries, 🗺️, sound++
nyc + upstate
wordsinspace.net
Joseph Lindley @designresearch.works Advocate for using Design Research to explore emerging perspectives on AI, more-than-human matters, and… pretty much anything.
Watch a film about it here: https://designresearch.works/permission-to-muck-about
Was @joegalen on ‘ex’ platform
Digital Culture & Education @digitalculture.bsky.social An international open acess peer-reviewed journal dedicated to an interdisciplinary exploration of digital technology's impacts on society, culture, & education
http://www.digitalcultureandeducation.com
Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social Prof of Public Engagement in Science, Uni of Birmingham; anatomist, author, broadcaster; vice President of Humanists UK. All views my own.
Harry Dyer @harrytdyer.bsky.social Digital sociologist and Associate Professor in Education, interested in identity, social media, & LGBTQ youth. Co-lead and Chair of SMSociety
You can find other papers I've written here https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=770gzPq
beth semel @bethmsemel.bsky.social AI killjoy, prednisone hater, writing about voice analysis AI and the labor of technosolutionist listening in American mental healthcare | bethmsemel.com
Jade @jadedid.bsky.social knitting thoughts and yarn together. scholar on the limits of empathy. academic libraries. ed/tech & student wellness. the other side of empathy (Duke, 2023) 30% off with code E23DAVIS https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-other-side-of-empathy
Natalie D Kane @ndkane.bsky.social Curator of Digital Design at V&A. Trustee - The National Videogame Museum. Curator - Design and Disability (opening V&A Dundee June 2026). Councillor, Brixton Acre Lane @lambethgreenparty
Wai @braincell23.bsky.social Exploring creativity and interested in all-things local #curious #SupportLocal
fussycoder @fussycoder.bsky.social One dog and her human. The human does computer & security stuff across the UK at various .ac.uk's.
Bit daft. Harmless enough.
Enjoy every sandwich.
Wear a mask 😷. Join a union.
Andy East @anaustra.bsky.social
Rachel East @sheastie.bsky.social Just figuring out my place in the universe
Ricky Broome @karanthir.bsky.social Recovering academic who just can't seem to quit
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
Sarah Hardy @sarahhardy.bsky.social Marketing Director for FTH at the University of Cambridge | Fmr comms at UCL for the PETRAS National Centre of Excellence
Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski Bluesky literacy crisis actor. Opinions mine.
📍Charlottesville
en / de / es
Posts autodelete after 2 days or if viral. Some posts automated.
Web:
- emilygorcenski.com
- registry.blue
Anne-Marie Imafidon @aimafidon.bsky.social I love Maths, Tech and helping others. Founder of Stemettes. Author of She's in CTRL. Trustee at Institute for the Future of Work. Leader, Presenter & Speaker.