Queer Communist Game Jam โญ @queercomgames.bsky.social International Game Jam organized from Cuba ๐จ๐บ
โLetโs start a queer, communist, game industry revolution.โ
๐ฎ itch.io/jam/queercomgames2026
๐ instagram.com/queercomgames
๐พ https://discord.gg/sZkfS9NtG
Sam Mark @frictionlesscage.bsky.social Cultural theory in the digital age. Taking apart the things we complain about but never examine. Frictionless Cage on Substack. Doctorate from Oxford.
The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com Independent news from the sharpest academic minds.
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Avery Dame-Griff @adamegriff.bsky.social - Curator, Queer Digital History Project (queerdigital.com)
- Author, The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet (NYU Press, 2023)
- Lecturer in WGSS @ Gonzaga University
- Collects your old technology junk and cats.
RenoProject @renoproject.org renoproject.org is a website documenting the history of Lucasfilm's Habitat, Fujitsu WorldsAway and all of their related 1990's & 2000's virtual worlds
#VirtualWorlds #WorldsAway #LucasfilmHabitat #Fujitsu #Dreamscape #ClubCaribe #C64 #retro #FMTOWNS
Critical Digital Media @digital.therourke.net Articles, essays, papers, artworks and news stories on digital media, digital culture, and media arts - also mirrored at: criticaldigitalmedia.tumblr.com
by @therourke.net (also see @additivism.org)
ลukasz Szulc @lukaszszulc.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Digital Media & Culture at The University of Manchester and Co-Director of The Centre for Digital Humanities, Cultures and Media; queer and transnational perspectives; first generation; he/him
Ulysses Pascal @ulyssespascal.bsky.social Digital Humanities Postdoc at UCLAโs Large Language Lab.
Nora N. Khan @prometheanwatch.bsky.social I'm a writer, that's it
Kathy Reid (she/her) @kathyreid.au #PhD researcher at #ANU Cybernetics, investigating bias in #speech and #voice #tech, with a focus on #data & #ML. Leads R&D at @mozdatacollective.bsky.social
Ex NVIDIA, Mycroft AI, @linuxaustralia.bsky.social, Deakin Uni.
https://linktr.ee/kathyreid
Ben McKenzie @benmckenzie.bsky.social PRE-ORDER TO STREAM NOW: Everyoneislying.com/watch
โจ Rachel (she/her) โจ @researchbrb.bsky.social Aspiring adult and media scholar. Ph.D. in Internet Studies. ๐ณ๐ฟ Pฤkehฤ, currently based in Boorloo Perth. ๐จ Living in the frenzy of feeling. ๐
๐ก Website rachelberryman.com
๐ฆ Co-founder darcmode.org
๐ฑ Member ierlab.com
T O'Donell (he/him/his) @t-odonell.bsky.social PhD Candidate at ANU's School of Sociology, researching trans & GD peopleโs desires and concerns for palliative and end-of-life care + pall. care cliniciansโ experiences working with TGD+ people
On unceded Ngunnawal & Ngambri Country
Sam Chan ้ณๅๆทฑ @liksamchan.bsky.social Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Digital Cultures @ University of Sydney | Dating app researcher | Author of ๐๐ค๐ก๐๐ฉ๐๐๐จ ๐ค๐ ๐ฟ๐๐ฉ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ผ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐จ | ๐ญ๐ฐ
T.J. Thomson @tjthomson.bsky.social ๐ฆ๐บ๐บ๐ธ๐ค Academic (RMIT University/ADM+S)
๐๐ผ๏ธ๐คณ Researches visual communication & digital media
โ๏ธ๐๐ Vice Chair of the ICA Visual Communication Studies Division
๐ Online elsewhere at: https://linktr.ee/tjthomson
Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) @aoir.bsky.social Researching the Internet is serious business. Mostly.
(We're mainly over on AoIR.social, our organisation Mastodon instance, which is open to all members.)
https://aoir.org/
https://aoir.social/@aoir
https://aoir.org/aoir2026/
Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social ST&HV is a journal that publishes cutting-edge research and debate in the field of Science and Technology Studies http://journals.sagepub.com/home/sth
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute 
panopticlown @panopticlown.bsky.social tracking: media power โข big tech platforms โข surveillance + data extraction
defending: digital rights โข privacy โข sanity
starring: you and me, two clowns trying to outstare the panopticon ๐ง
justine zhang @tisjune.bsky.social assistant professor in information, university of michigan. i have big intellectual feelings about language and technology.
https://tisjune.github.io/
she/her
Joe Hunting @joeahunting.bsky.social Film Director. We Met in Virtual Reality on HBO max | The Reality of Hope on The New Yorker, DOC+ | Virtually Speaking on YT | Co-curator of #RaindanceImmersive
he / him
Hungriger Henry Zhou @normandhaw.bsky.social Researcher in Game Studies, Design, AI and Science & Technology Studies. Trying my best to read critical theories. He/Him. Committed to my lifelong duty of no original tweet. https://normand-1024.github.io/
@refractionvr.lgbtq7981.com @refractionvr.lgbtq7981.com 
tante @tante.cc De-Evangelist, writer and speaker. Communist. Feminist. Antifascist. Luddite. He/him. Email: tante@tante.cc | Masto: @tante@tldr.nettime.org
(Don't always see DMs cause my client can't show them since they are proprietary extensions of the protocol)
Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social Associate Professor: videogames, creative labour, cultural industries. Gamemaker and critic. NTEU member.
The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist (MIT Press): http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262545402/
Brisbane, Australia | he/him | can't access DMs sorry
Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social We are 4S, an international, nonprofit association focused on the social studies of science, technology and medicine (#STS). Next Annual meeting October 7-10, 2026.
Luc Rocher @rocher.lc associate professor at Oxford ยท UKRI future leaders fellow ยท i study how data and algorithms shape societies ยท AI fairness, accountability and transparency ยท algorithm auditing ยท photographer, keen ๐ด๐ป ยท they/them ยท https://rocher.lc (views my own)
Freeplay @free-play.bsky.social The world's longest-running festival celebrating the art and culture of independent games and playful media. Established in 2004.
freeplay.net.au
Sonja van Wichelen @sonjavw.bsky.social Science and Technology Studies | Biolegality | Postcolonial Science Studies | Southeast Asia -- and wannabe skateboarder ...
Damien O'Meara (he/him) @djomeara.bsky.social Researching communication, brand and visibility in creative industries; queer representation in mainstream media | Lecturer Public Relations at RMIT
Felix M. Simon @felixsimon.bsky.social Research Fellow in AI, Information & News, Reuters Institute, Oxford University | Research Associate, Oxford Internet Institute | Junior Research Fellow, Corpus Christi College | AI, (mis)info, news, democracy | My views etcโฆ
https://www.felixsimon.net/
Amanda Lawrence @amanda-lawrence.bsky.social Director of the Australian Internet Observatory at RMIT University and ADM+S
Journal of Queer and Trans Studies in Education (JQTSIE) @jqtsie.bsky.social Journal of Queer and Trans Studies in Education (JQTSIE) is housed at Virginia Commonwealth University and highlights scholarship queer and trans studies in education. It is a fee-free open-access journal. www.jqtsie.com
Fabian Ferrari @fabianlferrari.bsky.social ๐ Assistant Professor in Cultural AI, @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social
๐ Governance of AI Infrastructure
๐ www.fabianlferrari.com
Francesco Bailo @francescobailo.bsky.social I am a Lecturer in Data Analytics in the Social Sciences at the University of Sydney where I am also deputy director of Centre for AI, Trust and Governance. francescobailo.net
Alexis-Carlota Cochrane @alexiscarlota.bsky.social (she/they) ๐จ๐ฆ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ต๐ช
โ PhD(c) and Sessional Instructor @ McMaster
โ Coordinating Digital Scholarship @ scds.ca
โ Researching power and precarity on platforms
โ Digital Harms, Queer Theory, Platform Studies, Critical Data, Digital Scholarship
โ alexiscarlota.ca
digital cultures and arts @digitalculturesandarts.ch DIZH bridge professorship
University of Zurich
Zurich University of the Arts
digitalculturesandarts.ch
Reece @thiccreese.bsky.social on Signal: reece_rogers.01
Xander Lenc @xlenc.bsky.social Carceral geographer, California apologist, valued customer.
Read @oaklandreviewofbooks.org
Society for Social Studies of Science, 4S @4sonline.bsky.social Fostering interdisciplinary and engaged scholarship in social studies of science, technology, and medicine across the globe.
VRChat @vrchat.com Welcome to #VRChat! Create, explore, and socialize in virtual reality. Now available on iOS and Android.
Join us! https://hello.vrchat.com/
ACMI Labs @handle.invalid Experiments, research and insights in media, technology and user experience from inside ACMI, Melbourne
@acmimuseum.bsky.social
Ben Tarnoff @bentarnoff.com my latest book is MUSKISM, co-authored with Quinn Slobodian: https://bookshop.org/p/books/muskism-a-guide-for-the-perplexed-ben-tarnoff/3d177fb9349a79ff
Tanel Mรคllo @tanelmallo.bsky.social observer, writer, researcher between man and machine
Sofia Rรผdiger @sofiaruediger.bsky.social Linguist by day, foodie by night (or the other way around?).
Guest Professor in English Linguistics @FU Berlin, PI of DFG Project on Carnivalesque Consumption Online
http://www.sofia-ruediger.org
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4370-8052
Dan @dannno0o.bsky.social ๐ฅ certified doctor thinking critically about how AI systems simulate and imitate language in their architectures, interfaces and how all of this feeds the narrative of recreating human intelligence. he/him. ๐ต๐ธ๐ป
Lauren Kate Kelly @laurenkatekelly.bsky.social Labour and technology researcher. PhD on supermarkets, labour platforms, and on-demand grocery delivery. Union researcher with United Workers Union. Opinions expressed are my own.
Caddie Alford @caddiealford.bsky.social Associate Prof of Rhetoric at VCU // critical AI, platform and media studies + rhetorical theory + writing pedagogies // Co-Director of AI Futures Lab // ๐ = Entitled Opinions: Doxa After Digitality // 1st Gen // #TeamRhetoric
https://caddiealford.com
Tim McLellan @timmclellan.bsky.social Lecturer in Anthropology at ANU.
Researching urban nature-based solutions, agroforestry science, audit cultures, and Nous UniForum data (themes that are more interconnected than youโd thinkโฆ).
https://researchportalplus.anu.edu.au/en/persons/tim-mclellan
Dr. Chris Pepin-Neff (they/them) @pepinneff.bsky.social Associate Professor of Public Policy. Focus on the role of emotions in the policy process, including moral panic agenda-setting, LGBTQ+ politics, and human-shark interactions. Opinions are my own. https://linktr.ee/chris.pepin
Lauren Hayden @laurenhayden.bsky.social what is going on here
Lucy Blundell ๐ Gamescom @kinmoku.bsky.social Independent Game Developer โ Made One Night Stand and VIDEOVERSE, now working on Ace & Aro: Heart-to-Heart | IGF | Indie Cup | Previous EA Chillingo | Brit residing in Germany | Invisibly disabled | She/They ๐ค๐ฉถ๐ค๐
www.kinmoku.games
Emilio Zucchetti @emizuc.bsky.social Lecturer, Roman History, Royal Holloway; social conflict, riots, methodology buff; chair of the Gramsci Research Network; editor Menelique; he/him, bi๐ณ๏ธโ๐, ADHD; Marxist glasses with intersectional shades ๐; MINOTAUR; my opinions, not my employer's
Fletcher Scott @fletcherscott.bsky.social PhD candidate at RMIT University and ADM+s
Ned Watt @nedwatt.bsky.social PhD candidate at the DMRC and ADM+S researching independent fact checking and genAI.
Lover of dad rock, folk, and skramz in all multitudes
๐
Dominique Carlon @domcarlon.bsky.social Research fellow in inclusive AI ~ Swinburne University ~ ARC CoE for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S) |Here for the bots๐คAI companions| chameleon aesthetic
AIxDESIGN @aixdesign.bsky.social Global community and decentralized research & design lab for alternative, critical & creative perspectives on AI ๐ธ๐ชท๐๐ #SlowAI
-> https://aixdesign.co/
Digital & Social Media UTS @utsdsm.bsky.social Digital & Social Media /
School of Communication /
University of Technology Sydney
@corncockel.bsky.social @corncockel.bsky.social 
Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social Technology + democracy.
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Kari Lancaster @karilancaster.bsky.social Professor, Dept of Social & Policy Sciences, University of Bath | Editor, ST&HV @sthv.bsky.social | Honorary, Burnet Institute & UNSW | STS, health, drugs, outbreak science, viral elimination, planetary change, evidence | @contemporarycriticalthought.org
@matthewkearnes.bsky.social @matthewkearnes.bsky.social 
Mia Harrison @miaharrison.bsky.social Science and Technology Studies (STS) and Critical Medical Humanities researcher at the Centre for Social Research in Health, UNSW | she/her
@topendsts.bsky.social @topendsts.bsky.social 
Deakin Science and Society Network @deakinssn.bsky.social Interdisciplinary research engine and STS (Science and Technology Studies) network @DeakinUniversity 
Kate Henne @k8henne.bsky.social Prof at Australian National University studying how science, tech, + inequality affect the governance of health + wellbeing. Recent book: Violent Impacts https://www.ucpress.edu/books/violent-impacts/paper
katehenne.com
Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social Critical histories of science and medicine, science studies, postcolonial endeavours. New book on modern excrementalities: Spectacles of Waste (Polity). Writing mostly on disease ecologies and planetary health now. Living on Wangal country.
Mardi Reardon-Smith @mardirs.bsky.social environmental anthropology & STS ~ interested in environmental management/knowledges/values ~ research fellow at @admscentre.org.au working on ADM, ecosystems & multispecies relationships
Glen Berman @glenberman.bsky.social PhD candidate and researcher @ Australian National University. Studying the practices of Artificial Intelligence research and development. Living and working in Melbourne, on Wurundjeri Country. #ResponsibleAI #STS
Benjamin Hegarty @benjhegarty.bsky.social medical anthropologist | global health | trans studies | author of The Made-Up State | Asia and Pacific Health @KirbyInstitute I FIAS Fellow Institut d'รฉtudes avancรฉes de Paris & Affiliate Oxford Anthropology 24-25
Yolande Strengers @yolandestreng.bsky.social Robot personalities & relationships | cute and conversational AI | energy demand at home | everyday futures | digital sociologist & professor @Monash Emerging Technologies Research Lab in Faculty of IT | Director Research @Monash Energy Institute
Michael Richardson @richardsonma.bsky.social Associate Professor. Drones, AI, war, culture, affect, witnessing. UNSW. Media Futures Hub. ADMS Centre. He/him. Nonhuman Witnessing with @dukepress.bsky.social https://t.ly/cQW5N
Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com ARC Future Fellow โ Monash University /// co-host โ 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
Henrietta Byrne @henriettabyrne.bsky.social Postdoctoral research fellow at Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies, University of Sydney. Anthropology, STS and gender studies. Living and working on unceded Gadigal lands. From Adelaide/Kaurna country. She/her
Kari Dahlgren @karidahlgren.bsky.social Anthropology lecturer at Monash University. Research on social dynamics of climate change and transition
Rhea DSilva @rheedee.bsky.social PhD candidate @Monash Emerging Tech Research Lab studying DEI in Tech ๐ค ๐ป | Sociology โจ | STS ๐พ | Feminist Epistemologies ๐| DEI futures ๐ฎ
Namesake @namesake.fyi Name change guides for trans people in the U.S. https://namesake.fyi/
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Timothy Neale @tdneale.bsky.social Lives in Narrm / Melbourne, comes from Aotearoa / New Zealand, works in Anthropology @ Deakin University | Editor of Science, Technology, & Human Values aka @sthv.bsky.social | timneale.me
Emma Kowal @profemmakowal.bsky.social Anthropology/STS/genomics/colonialism. Deputy Director @Deakin_ADI. Past President @4sWeb. New book out with DUP #hauntingbiology surname pron. Koval
Adrian Farrugia @adrianfarrugia.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University. Health sociologist with a focus on alcohol and other drugs.
https://scholars.latrobe.edu.au/a2farrugia
Ian Pollock @ianfpollock.bsky.social New Melburnian, old New Yorker. ANU anthropology PhD, sometime-designer, always Mets fan. Posting on anthro, STS, economics, history, design, SE Asia (especially Indonesia), writing, birds, baseball.
Carina Truyts @carinatruyts.bsky.social Anthro, STS. Nourishment, bodies, cities, stories (2025: noise!) South African in Melbourne/ Naarm.
Emma Quilty @emmaquilty.bsky.social anthropologist | research fellow at Monash @_CEVAW | STS | gender, tech & society | new book on feminism & witchcraft coming out October
https://www.emmaquilty.com/
AusSTS @aussts.bsky.social A network for science and technology studies (STS) scholars in Australia and New Zealand
Kath Albury @katha.bsky.social ARC Future Fellow, & Associate Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society, Swinburne University of Technology. Currently researching the intersections of sexualities, genders, data, tech & sexual health.
School for Poetic Computation @sfpc.study Experimental school supporting study in art, code, hardware + critical theory. A place for unlearning and learning.
โโ Apps open for Fall 2026 โโ
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Dr. Canton Winer @cantonwiner.bsky.social Asst. Prof of Sociology and Gender/Sexuality Studies
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maia arson crimew ๐ด @crimew.gay it/she
investigative journalist, hacktivist, dj, award losing musician and many other things
signal: @nyancrimew.01
im THAT fucker, look me up on wikipedia
some posts may be by ryan
https://maia.crimew.gay
The Sizzle - Australia's favourite tech newsletter @handle.invalid An Australian daily technology newsletter written by @cameronwilson.bsky.social
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Alix Dunn @alixdunn.com I bloop about the politics of technology and host the Computer Says Maybe podcast: https://www.themaybe.org/podcast
Seb Chan @sebchan.bsky.social Museums|music|media|monsters|mayhem - https://linktr.ee/sebchan
Tanner Mirrlees @tanner-mirrlees.bsky.social Comm, Media & Tech Studies + empire, capital, state, power, politics, energy, environment, work, war, play, ed, left-right activism https://socialscienceandhumanities.ontariotechu.ca/research/researcher-profiles/dr.-tanner-mirrlees.php
ICCIT @iccit-utm.bsky.social The Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology at the University of Toronto Mississauga. A hub for transformative research initiatives on the relationship between humans and technology. utm.utoronto.ca/iccit
Mathew Iantorno (he/him) @mathewiantorno.com ๐ PhD candidate at the University of Toronto (iSchool + ICCIT)
๐ค Studies the history, labour, & public impact of retail automation
๐ฐ๏ธ mathewiantorno.com
Neil Selwyn @neilselwyn.bsky.social digital media + education | Monash University | research interests: automation, AI, tech bans, public interest ed-tech | host of 'Education Technology Society' podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1301377
Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social Situationist Cybernetics. Researching AIโs impact on culture at the University of Cambridge Digital Humanities. Affiliated Researcher, Machine Visual Culture Research Group (Max Planck Institute). Critical but curious. Aim to be kind. cyberneticforests.com
Paris Marx @parismarx.com ๐ฅ PREORDER MY NEW BOOK HYPERSCALE ๐ฅ
๐๏ธ @techwontsave.us
๐ฌ https://disconnect.blog
๐ https://hyperscalebook.com