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Alex Madva @madva.bsky.social Professor of Philosophy @ Cal Poly Pomona | Director of CA Center for Ethics & Policy | Co-Director of the Digital Humanities Consortium | Co-Author of Somebody Should Do Something
Dr Tobias Atkinson @tobiasa1994.bsky.social "I said who put all those things in your head?"
Associate Lecturer, Lancaster University Medical School. He/they.
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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social This is the real InfoWars, streaming every Thursday at 8 p.m. ET
Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social I had a marvellous time ruining everything.
Professor of Genetics @UCL, Public Humanities Fellow @SAS. Ex-President of @Humanists_UK Genetics, race, eugenics, books, cricket, +–=÷×
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Exeter Labour @exeterlabour.bsky.social Proud to be leading Exeter City Council and supporting Steve Race, Exeter’s Labour Member of Parliament.
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Exeter UCU @exeterucu.bsky.social Exeter branch for the UCU. #DefendExeterUni. https://linktr.ee/DefendExeterUni
Hanne Stegeman @hannems.bsky.social confused and concerned about everything
Lecturer @University of Exeter
studies online sex work and online intimacy
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Richard Moore @richardmoore.bsky.social Professor of Philosophy and Director of the EPP BA/BSc at the University of Warwick. My UKRI-funded FLF Communicative Mind project researches human and non-human great ape communication and cognition, and the evolution of language. 🇪🇺🍉 he/him
Morwenna Ludlow @morwennaexe.bsky.social Professor of Early Christian History at the University of Exeter; Canon Theologian at Exeter Cathedral. Crafter of prose, cushions and woolly socks.
I lift my eyes to the hills.
Ben Phillips @benphillips1989.bsky.social Historian (of Russia, at Exeter). Didn't really want another social account but susceptible to peer pressure, so here I am.
Australasian Association of Philosophy @aaphilosophy.bsky.social Founded 1922. Peak body for promoting philosophical pursuits in Australia, New Zealand & Singapore.
The Planetary Lab @theplanetarylab.bsky.social The Planetary Lab is the working name of Exeter Science Centre, a charity (CIO, charity no. 1194239) dedicated to public engagement with STEAMM: science, tech, engineering, arts, maths and medicine. Based in Devon, UK.
Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social I'm going on tour in 2026.
Listen to my show 'No Room' on BBC Radio 4 if you like.
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Moujan Mirdamadi @moujanmirdamadi.bsky.social Wandering Scholar of Philosophy (mental health, emotions, phenomenology)
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Nick Dodd @ngdodd.bsky.social Writing about Romanticism, sleep and insomnia 
Julian Kiverstein @jdkiverstein.bsky.social Philosopher/Cognitive Scientist. Work on Predictive Processing, Neurophenomenology, Embodiment, Lived Experience, Human Flourishing. I live in the Netherlands and work at the Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam University Medical Center.
Neil Jhaveri @neiljhaveri.bsky.social Founder of Mimestream
Muriel Leuenberger @muriel-leuenberger.bsky.social Digital / AI ethics, bioethics, postdoc at the University of Zurich, working on meaning in life in the digital society
Tim Heidecker @timheidecker.bsky.social Tour, On Cinema at the Cinema, Office Hours, find it all and more at linktr.ee/tim.heidecker
BOARDS OF CANADA @boardsofcanada.bsky.social 
Nick Firth @nickfirth.bsky.social 
Imprint Academic @imprintacademic.bsky.social An independent publisher specialising in philosophy, psychology, religion and politics. Publisher of the Journal of Consciousness Studies and History of Political Thought.
mikes barnes @mikesbarnes.bsky.social philosophy of words & the world wide web & the work behind it all. associate professor at the university of oslo. michaelrandallbarnes.com
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Bear - Markdown Notes @bearnotesapp.bsky.social Beautiful, powerfully simple Markdown notes app to help you write naturally anytime, anywhere. 🐻❤️📝
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Shahira Hathout, Ph.D. @shahirahathout.bsky.social Interdisciplinary Research: Posthumanism / New Materialism / Cultural Studies / Aesthetics / 18th & 19th C. (World) Literature/ Anthropocene discourses. Visiting Scholar @ Centre for Feminist Research @York University, Toronto, Canada.
Flexibits @flexibits.com We make Fantastical and Cardhop: friendly and flexible productivity apps for your Mac, iPad, iPhone, Apple Vision Pro and Apple Watch. Fantastical is now available for Windows too! 📅 🥪
Carlsbergfondet @carlsbergfondet.dk Viden for en bedre fremtid. Vi støtter grundvidenskabelig #dkforsk inden for natur-, humaniora- og samfundsvidenskab. Posts om ny forskning, #forskpol, events, podcasts mv.
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Dr Kelly Birtwell @kellybirtwell.bsky.social Research Fellow, University of Manchester | Chartered Psychologist | Counsellor | Mindfulness Teacher | ND | Interests in Primary Care, health inequalities, mindfulness, neurodiversity | Qualitative and Mixed Methods Research | Views my own
Bella Union Records @bellaunion.bsky.social Indie record label based in Brighton, run by Cocteau Twins’ Simon Raymonde
bellaunionvinylshop.com & bellaunion.com & https://bellaunion.bandcamp.com
Autism in Adulthood @autisminadulthood.bsky.social Autism in Adulthood is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes research and scholarship on the most pressing issues affecting autistic adults. www.liebertpub.com/aut.
EIC: @cnicolaidis.bsky.social
Social Media Editors: @avanicole23.bsky.social
David Ekdahl @ekdahlprimafacie.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Aarhus University.
Online spaces, embodiment, neurodiversity
Puncta - Journal of Critical Phenomenology @punctajournal.bsky.social Puncta is an open-access, peer-reviewed philosophical journal established with the specific intention of redirecting phenomenological intentionality: https://puncta.journals.villanova.edu/
Dan Williams @danwphilosophy.bsky.social Philosopher. Interested in: Philosophy, Psychology, Evolution, Artificial Intelligence, Social Science, Politics.
Avel Guénin--Carlut @fluffycyborgii.bsky.social The world we engage with is not pre-given, it's enacted.
Physics of biology & cognition; mind & socio-material practices; political organisation in the Anthropocene.
All views, expressed or not, are the sole responsibility of the ambient Lebensform.
Tomko Settgast @settgast.bsky.social PhD student at the University of Würzburg investigating brain-computer interfaces and how to improve them by acknowledging different states of mind 🧠
Hyped about consciousness science, brain criticality, and 4E-cogniton.
He/him.
Opinions my own.
Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social Pulitzer-winning investigative journo at New Yorker. Documentaries at HBO. Ex-diplomat. Bad lawyer. Disused phd. Tips: ronan_farrow@newyorker.com.
Isa(bel) (Os)una (Mo)ntilla @belosmo.bsky.social PhD Candidate at Universität Tübingen
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Rob Archer @drrobarcher.bsky.social Critical realism, ed policy, psychoanalysis, psychology, spirituality. Forthcoming chapter on agency, realist social theory & Fairbairn’s object relations theory. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rob-Archer-4
Andra Meneganzin @andrameneganzin.bsky.social Philosopher of Biology working on Human Evolution 💀🧬🏺• FWO Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at KU Leuven• PhD from DiBio 🧪, University of Padova • Science Writer and Communicator.
🌐 https://sites.google.com/view/andrameneganzin/
Michael Tamblyn @mtamblyn.bsky.social Kobo CEO with zero chill. Chaotic good, anti-fascist, bi-coastal Canadian bookseller ereader-purveyor - unsupervised & unofficial
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Libby App @libbyapp.com Libby is the award-winning and much-loved app for your local library. Borrow ebooks and listen to audiobooks, and support your library!
CARROT @carrot-app.bsky.social The A.I. construct with a heart of weapons-grade plutonium.
iA Writer @writer.ia.net The original focused writing app. Made by @ia.net.
Hannah Woolf-Jull @hannahwoolfjull.bsky.social Can you make good decisions for someone whose life you've never lived? Writer and philosopher researching disability, children, and parental authority.
Ethics | Philosophy | Policy. PhD candidate @KCL.
Anthony Cross @anthonymcross.bsky.social Phil. Prof. Aesthetics, technology, photography, bikes. www.anthonycross.com
Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social (he/him) Author, podcaster & tabletop games writer. Books: The Game Changers, Coward, The Honours & The Ice House.
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-game-changers-how-playing-games-changed-the-world-and-can-change-you-too-tim-clare/7687024
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app Theoretical Astro/Physicist:
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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
🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social Here to hold my name . She/her / yourgorgoness
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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social Professor of democracy and international affairs. http://www.henryfarrell.net and newsletter at http://www.programmablemutter.com. Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (Holt, Penguin). https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781250840554.
Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social I write novels (eg The Power, new novel is The Future), I make games (eg Zombies, Run!), unorthodox Jew. not-getting-into-pointless-arguments-on-the-internet is an act of revolution. However complex you think things are, they're more complex than that
Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com Author. Also husband, dad, clothing-repairer, dog-walker. Decreasingly rigorous on social media. Taking a break for the summer. Contact Patrick Walsh @ PEW Literary in London or email me.
www.linktr.ee/harkaway
He/him
v buckenham @v21.bsky.social hello again
made (and continuing to make) downpour.games, a game-making app that anyone can use
also i have a website: v21.io
Yassmin Abdel-Magied @yassmin.bsky.social screenwriter + novelist
newsletter yassmin.substack.com. @yassmin_a on most other socials
Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social Futures of work. Writing, researching, teaching, lefting. Ruthless everything, existing. http://dmgreene.net
joanne mcneil @jomc.bsky.social wrote a couple books including the novel WRONG WAY
joannemcneil.com
Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social Irish writer and speaker: let's rewild the internet!
Dog lady. Forest bather. She/her
http://www.mariafarrell.com
Rep: https://greeneheaton.co.uk/agents/antony-topping/
No DMs
Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social Engineering professor. Author of HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS (on Riverhead in the US+, on Torva in the UK+). Interested in embodiment, materiality, metacognition, and systems. All enthusiasm is 100% genuine. debcha.org
Jonty Wareing @jonty.bsky.social Accidentally responsible
Also http://chaos.social/@jonty
Previously http://twitter.com/jonty
Always http://jonty.co.uk
Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social
Archives, DH, Museums, African American studies, C19 and early C20.
all opinions my own, not my employer's
https://www.dorothy-berry.com
Amy Orben @orbenamy.bsky.social tech + teens + better science @ http://digitalmentalhealth.group // Group Leader, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge // Fellow + Director of Studies, St. John's College // 📸 marcus ginns
Pete Etchells @peteetchells.bsky.social Professor of Psychology and Science Communication | Award-winning science writer | Screen Time | Social Media | Smartphones | Video games | https://linktr.ee/unlockedbook
Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social Writing, game design, etc. Adelaide, London. Wrote a novel called “The Husbands”.
book: https://lnk.to/thehusbands
newsletter: https://buttondown.email/holly
info: http://hollygramazio.net
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pic: Diana Patient
Marie Foulston @tigershungry.co.uk Creative director and playful curator.
Studio lead at Good Afternoon
https://linktr.ee/tigershungry
(a brummie, not an aussie)
Richard Pope @richardpope.org I wrote a book on public services:
https://londonpublishingpartnership.co.uk/books/platformland-an-anatomy-of-next-generation-public-services/
It’s time to share the benefits of digital with the public properly.
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
Minx Marple @minxmarple.bsky.social astrophel • a pearl scavenged from the toxic sludge • « botanical, celestial, erotic » • hedgehog chronicler
https://linktr.ee/isabellastreffen
badaude @badaude.bsky.social does things with words
writer/artist, books @ Verso, Semiotext(e), Bloomsbury, Tramp, Transit, Joan+++, writing @ Art Review, Spike Art, more @ joannawalsh.ie
Jay Owens @jayowens.bsky.social I’m Head of Audience at @lrb.co.uk and I wrote a book, ‘Dust: The Modern World in a Trillion Particles’ (2023). I post about media and environment in approximately equal parts.
🔗 https://JayOwens.me
Sam Jeffers @worklesshard.bsky.social Run @whotargets.me and am a Partner @jointogether.online. Used to play drums in Fridge. Live in Cork, from London.
Jess Morley @jessrmorley.bsky.social 100% health data nerd & OG swiftie. PhD Oxford Internet Institute. Previously Director of Policy Oxford Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science. Currently postdoctoral research associate Yale Digital Ethics Center.
Sarah Drummond @rufflemuffin.bsky.social Filmmaker / Directing #section28film
Founder: anthrobricolage.com
Director: good.services @theschoolofgood
DR of Design, once ran
@wearesnook
Made cycling easier with @cycle_hack
GOOD Magazine #100
Board member at @lomondtrossachs
She/they
James Bridle @jamesbridle.bsky.social Artist, author of New Dark Age (2018) and Ways of Being (2022). Free Palestine, Protect Trans Kids, for ever and ever. https://mastodon.social/@jamesbridle / jamesbridle.com
William Cullerne Bown @williamcb.bsky.social Research, technology and politics.
Newsletter https://bit.ly/3AELZDu
Foundations of AI https://bit.ly/3WiYJab
Law https://bit.ly/40YL1fU
Helen Hester @helenhester.bsky.social Post-work politics and technofeminism
Will Stronge @wstronge.bsky.social Director of @autonomy-institute.bsky.social
Website: autonomy.work
Co-author, with Helen Hester, of Post-work (2025) and, with Kyle Lewis, of Overtime (2021)
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/postwork-9781350089976/
Dr Matt Mahmoudi @docmattmoudi.bsky.social 📝 ‘Migrants in the Digital Periphery’ for Uni. Of California Press, ‘Resisting Borders+Tech’ @haymarketbooks. Assistant Professor @Cambridge Digital Humanities. Research/advice @Amnesty Tech. Views=own
Sam @smithsam.bsky.social Believes in better data with informed privacy for all. Day job @medconfidential amongst other things. he/him http://is.gd/samblog 🧘♂️ #FILDI
Cambridge
Wesley Goatley @wesleygoatley.bsky.social Critical artist + researcher. Analysing AI's impact on climate, art, and technopolitics. PhD in critical tech & art. Programme Director of Interaction Design and Visual Communication at University of the Arts London. http://lnk.bio/wesleygoatley
Kim Plowright @mildlydiverting.bsky.social Artist, drawing tutor, digital producer. Not entirely sure who she is any more.
Seb Chan @sebchan.bsky.social Museums|music|media|monsters|mayhem - https://linktr.ee/sebchan
Alison Powell @abpowell.bsky.social Assoc Prof at LSE | Teaches MSc in Data & Society | Feminist research praxis | AI policy making | Undoing Optimization: https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300223804/
Current work on health, care and environment from NHS tech to Rewilding the Night
peterkwells @peterkwells.com BlackpoolFC, books, tech, people, policy & delivery, realist. Hopes to make stuff work for everyone.
https://peterkwells.com
Marietje Schaake @marietjeschaake.bsky.social Proud European 🇪🇺 Fellow at Stanford 👩🏼💻 column in FT 🗞️Member of European Parliament 2009-2019 📕Author: The Tech Coup
Olivia Solon @oliviasolon.bsky.social Covering tech at Bloomberg from London
Signal: @oliviasolon.13
Email: osolon2@bloomberg.net