Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social Anchored in philosophy @stir.ac.uk
Researching place & memory
across cognitive sciences, social sciences & the arts
Led by @suttonprofessor.bsky.social & @reaveyp.bsky.social
Funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk
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John Sutton @suttonprofessor.bsky.social Director, Centre for the Sciences of Place & Memory, Stirling Uni, Scotland. Skill, memory, embodied cognition, philosophy, cognitive history, cricket, music, collaboration, wayfinding. Leverhulme International Prof: johnsutton.net & placememory.net
Brain Evolution News @brainevolutionnews.bsky.social Brain Evolution in the News posted here for you!
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Oli Mould @olimould.bsky.social He/him. Academic at large, but lectures in human geography at Royal Holloway, University of London.
linktr.ee/olimould
Researches anti-capitalism & cities. Christianarchist. Toffeeman. Interested in scifi, films, architecture, music and t-shirts.
Dr Danny Penman @drdannypenman.bsky.social Author of the bestsellers 'Mindfulness: Finding Peace in a Frantic World' & 'Deeper Mindfulness: The New Way to Rediscover Calm in a Chaotic World.' www.franticworld.com @DrDannyPenman
Greg Elmer @gelmer99.bsky.social Doc film maker, research chair @TMU, author, jazz record collector.
Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca SocialMediaLab.ca
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Peter Cunliffe-Jones @pcunliffejones.bsky.social Information effects at Facts Matter Research | visiting researcher at Uni Westminster | founder africacheck.org | new book: “Fake news - what’s the harm?” available in print or as free e-book https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/3197xq21t?locale=en
Murray Shanahan @mpshanahan.bsky.social Professor at Imperial College London and Principal Scientist at Google DeepMind. Posting in a personal capacity. To send me a message please use email.
Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Harvard University. Computation, cognition, development.
Raphaël Millière @raphaelmilliere.com Philosopher of Artificial Intelligence & Cognitive Science
https://raphaelmilliere.com/
Cognitive Science Society @cogscisociety.bsky.social Promoting Cognitive Science as a discipline and fostering scientific interchange among researchers in various areas.
🌐 https://cognitivesciencesociety.org
Jeremy Gilbert @jemgilbert.bsky.social Cultural theory, political analysis, dance party politics.
Latest book: Hegemony Now (Verso, 2022). https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/494-hegemony-now?srsltid=AfmBOoqJNrqKZ8ydc63_O5y4SrzNyv9lpYrFBw3P-Bs4O0Y-tEdJft1u
www.jeremygilbert.org
Helen Hester @helenhester.bsky.social Post-work politics and technofeminism
Simon Sellars @simonsellars.bsky.social Writer (Applied Ballardianism, Code Beast)
Editor (Extreme Metaphors: Interviews with JG Ballard)
Publisher (Wanton Sun)
www.simonsellars.com
www.wantonsun.com
I hunt digital ghosts
Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social My library was dukedom enough. Novels: Red Pill, White Tears, Blue Ruin, Gods Without Men, My Revolutions, Transmission, The Impressionist. Essays in NYRB, Harper’s etc. Abolish ICE, demolish the arch.
Benjamin Norris @benjaminnorris.bsky.social Philosopher for hire.
AOS: German Idealism, Contemporary Continental. AOC: Modern Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy. Author of Schelling and Spinoza: Realism, Idealism, and the Absolute.
Joshua Citarella @joshuacitarella.bsky.social Artist and internet culture writer. https://joshuacitarella.substack.com
zeynep tufekci @zey.bsky.social It is said that there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all
George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social Ungainly on land
J.B Payne @abstractivist.bsky.social Critical theorist, sociologist, philosophy nerd. Honorary academic at UoA. Abstraction, tech, capital, politics. Advocating against homelessness and mental distress in my day job. Tangata Tiriti. Ko Ōtautahi te kāinga. 🇵🇸 ☭
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
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Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social I'm the programme lead for the UK energy team at E3G and an advisory board member for the Autonomy Institute. Personal account - random thoughts with a quarterly post about energy policy.
Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com Historian | Author of ‘Utopia for Realists’ (2014), ‘Humankind’ (2020) and ‘Moral Ambition’ (2025) | Co-founder of The School for Moral Ambition | moralambition.org | rutgerbregman.com
📖 substack.com/@rutgerbregman
📺 youtube.com/@rutger.bregman
Pete Wolfendale @deontologistics.bsky.social Wandering philosopher. Purveyor of Platonic heresy, Kantian computationalism, and Hegelian minimalism. (he/him/it which speaks)
https://deontologistics.substack.com/
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Raphael Hernandes @hernandesraph.bsky.social Researcher, journalist working on tech, AI, and data.
PhD @ University of Cambridge
Ex-Guardian, Folha de S.Paulo
(Ele/dele he/him)
Elena Morresi @elenamorresi.bsky.social Multimedia Journalist | KCL Intelligence and International security student
Speculative Machines and Us @speculativemach.bsky.social Welcome to the British Academy-funded project 'Speculative Machines and Us: Intuition, AI, and the Making of Computational Cultures' https://speculativemachines.co.uk PI Carolyn Pedwell https://tinyurl.com/4z6m62wz AI/digital/history/affect/politics/ethics
Theory, Culture & Society @theoryculturesociety.org theoryculturesociety.org
Information on the academic, peer-reviewed journals 'Theory, Culture & Society' and 'Body & Society', as well as the TCS Book Series.
Anna Secor @ajsecor.bsky.social Geographer and more - The Politics of Feeling (Goldsmiths Press, 2025) — Love & Catastrophe (Edinburgh U Press 2026) — spacetimeunconscious - Durham University
Ben Anderson @benandersongeog.bsky.social Theories of affect, and this conjunctural crisis. New book co-written with Anna Secor: The Politics of Feeling: Populism, Progressivism, Liberalism.
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9781915983299/the-politics-of-feeling/
Natalie Christie Peluso 🧠 @nataliepeluso.com Researcher in Face Perception, Breathing, & Embodied Social Intelligence | PhD Candidate, UQ | Award-Winning Operatic Soprano
@opendemocracy.net @opendemocracy.net Free thinking for the world 🌍 We're an independent media organisation. Find us > opendemocracy.net Also at @openDemocracy@newsie.social for those who toot too.
New Internationalist @newint.bsky.social ✊ Award-winning global justice magazine. Proudly reader-owned.
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Red Pepper Media @redpeppermag.bsky.social 🌶 Spicing up the left since '94.
🗞️ Issue 248: ‘Striking back’ is out now.
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Newcastle Uni Special Collections & Archives @ncllibspeccoll.bsky.social Newcastle University Special Collections & Archives is an Accredited Archive Service, home to Newcastle University's archive and rare book collections.
Find out more: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/library/special-collections/
Grigoris Markou @grmarkou.bsky.social PhD in Political Sciences
Transcultural Digital Intimacy Research Network @transdi.bsky.social Transcultural Digital Intimacy Research Network (TransDI), Chair: Dr Liang Ge (Univ of Manchester) @liangge11.bsky.social
Minimalism Life® @minimalism.com Crafting a simpler life with less
minimalism.com
Birgitta Jonsdottir @birgittaj.bsky.social Poetician and Antifa from Iceland.
Former Captain in, and co-creator of, the Pirate Party. 8 years as an elected activist in parliament. Co-produced Collateral Murder. A annoying fly in the tent. Care about: Mother Earth & all her creatures 💚 🇵🇸 🏳️⚧️ 🇺🇦 🌏
jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social 📗 public data cultures https://jonathangray.org/publicdatacultures
🌱 codirector @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social reader @kingsdh.bsky.social king's college london cofounder @publicdatalab.bsky.social
🫧 feminist STS, internet studies, poetic computation
Diacomet @diacometproject.bsky.social Horizon EU project #Diacomet advancing ethical and accountable communication. #DialogueExpandsHorizons. ID: 101094816.
🔗 https://diacomet.eu/
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.
Jess Maddox @jessmaddox.bsky.social Social media professor + expert
Writing ANATOMY OF AN INTERNET SCANDAL + PARASOCIAL
Repp’d by Aevitas Creative Management
Thoughts mine
Kay @gothwhoreofbabylon.bsky.social ‘You look like spring.’
‘Goth MILF’
‘Whore of Babylon.’
‘Are you a goth?’
‘Nice boobies.’
‘Useless cunt.’
‘A beautiful woman.’
Not my words: the words of the general public.
Colleagues: I will not post about you. My employer shares none of my views.
Bloomsbury Academic @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social The scholarly arm of Bloomsbury Books.
Posting news on what we're publishing in the humanities, social sciences, and visual arts.📚
London | New York | Sydney | New Delhi
Bloomsbury Academic starter pack: https://bit.ly/46qkzOf
Bloomsbury Books UK @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social We make books! An independent publishing house with authors who have won the Nobel, Pulitzer and Booker Prizes. ✨📚
UCU Newcastle University @newcastleucu.bsky.social Official account of the Newcastle university branch of the university and college union
Newcastle University @newcastleuni.bsky.social Official page for Newcastle University UK, a founding member of the Russell Group of Research intensive universities, and a Global Top 140 university. #WeAreNCL
Tim Burgess @tim-burgess.bsky.social Charlatan, solo artist, producer, DJ, coffee drinker, author & award winning radio presenter.
Liang Ge (they/them) @liangge11.bsky.social Lecturer in Sociology @morgancentre.bsky.social University of Manchester Sociology Department | Digital Media & Tech, Digital Methods, Gender & Sexuality, ESEA Creative Industries and Popular Cultures | they/them
David Wright @davwright.bsky.social Researching and teaching about creative industries and cultural policy at the Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies, SCAPVC, University of Warwick.
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/scapvc/ccmps/staff/david/
If you want me, I'll be at the cricket.
Rebecca Coleman @rcecoleman.bsky.social Professor @bdfi.bsky.social @sociodigfutures.bsky.social and Sociology. Bristol, UK. Researcher in Residence (2023-2025) @knowlewestmedia.bsky.social
Digital media and culture, futures and presents, affect, interdisciplinary methods.
Philip Seargeant @philipseargeant.bsky.social Language / Politics / Dystopian narratives
Professor of Language & Communication, Open University
Recent books:
The Future of Language
Political Activism in the Linguistic Landscape
The Art of Political Storytelling
Dr Vessy Harizanova @vessyh.bsky.social Exploring the intersections of gender, media & power | Part-time feminist killjoy | Specialising in research communication, engagement & impact | she/her
Dragos Obreja @dragosobreja.bsky.social Communication & New Media Technologies: Ideology, Institutions and Practice. Teaching Assistant at University of Bucharest, Romania.
Left Foot Forward @left-foot-forward.bsky.social Hard-hitting news & comment for the left. Subscribe to our daily newsletter: http://tinyurl.com/y8mwvvbq
Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social Socialist, antifascist, writer in various places, geriatric millennial, GQ's 9th Worst Dressed Man in 2016. He/him. YouTube channel http://bit.ly/33iARb3 🏳️🌈
University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk UK trade union for academics, lecturers, trainers, researchers and professional services staff in further education, higher education, prison education, and adult and community education.
Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social MP for Islington North
Aaron Bastani @aaronjbastani.bsky.social Co-Founder @novaramedia / Author of Fully Automated Luxury Communism. Next book on politics and economics of an ageing planet.
Frank Pasquale @frankpasquale.bsky.social Law professor; author (The Black Box Society; New Laws of Robotics).
Interested in law & technology, AI, political economy, art, and social theory.
Christian Fuchs @fuchschristian.bsky.social Human, writer, critic, social researcher, professor, critical communication & social theory, https://fuchsc.net Editor: http://triple-c.at 
UCL Digital Humanities @ucldh.bsky.social UCL Centre for Digital Humanities is a global leader in research, teaching, and innovation at the crossroads of cultural heritage and digital methods.
Web: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/digital-humanities/
Digital Humanities @ King's College London @kingsdh.bsky.social Critical inquiry with and about the digital. 💾
Department of Digital Humanities at King's College London.
https://kingsdh.net/
https://kcl.ac.uk/ddh
David M. Berry @berrydm.bsky.social Professor currently researching AI, algorithms, software and the university in a digital age. Part of a research team that recently rediscovered the original Joseph Weizenbaum ELIZA source code. 
Furtherfield @furtherfield.bsky.social London’s longest-running (de)centre for art and tech
#CultureStake #peoplesparkplinth #furtherfield
Pollyanna Ruiz @profpol.bsky.social Professor at Sussex University researching media, protest, memory. Loves her allotment, walking, reading, swimming, throwing pots, practicing shodo.
Richard Seymour @leninology.bsky.social Author of many books, Salvage editorial collective. Find my writings at Guardian, New Statesman, NYT, Jacobin, TLS, LRB, etc. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/richardseymourwtf
Tanya Lokot @tanyalokot.bsky.social Ukrainian academic living in Ireland. I study digital media, civic mobilisation, & networked authoritarianism. Nature & cats keep me sane. #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦
Debbie Ging @debbieging.bsky.social Professor of Digital Media and Gender at DCU
Sussex Digital Humanities Lab @sussexdigitalhums.bsky.social The Sussex Digital Humanities Lab investigates the interactions between technology, culture, society and environment toward sustainable & just futures for all.
@shl@h-net.social
@SussexHumsLab
Dan Mercea @danmercea.bsky.social Prof, digital & social change, https://www.city.ac.uk/about/people/academics/dan-mercea.
EiC @icsjournal.bsky.social.
PI @interfaced-eu.bsky.social.
PI @takepart.bsky.social
Mathieu O'Neil @mathieuon.bsky.social Professor of communication, News & Media Research Centre, University of Canberra, Ngunnawal country • Director, Digital Commons Policy Council • Civic information literacy for schools • Political economy of digital commons • https://dcpc.info/actions/
Andrew Herman 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 🍊 @djouroboros.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. Communication Wilfrid Laurier University/ DJOuroboros--Low End Theory radio on WZBC 90.3 FM Newton-Boston (wzbc.org) and Mixcloud (https://www.mixcloud.com/andrew-herman3/). Tech Cultures/Radio/sound studies/podcasting/sonic research creation
Kate O'Riordan @kathleenor.bsky.social Academic, queer, digital culture, technoscience, science and media studies. Sea swimming. Based in the UK. 
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun @whkchun.bsky.social new media theorist and professor. director of the SFU digital democracies institute. posts reflect my own views only.
banner from Mongrel Network's 2004 Bush-Blair project. Portrait by a wonderful scms audience member—let me know if you know them!
Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social Professor of Cultural Studies, Digital Media and Technopolitics at the University of Naples L'Orientale. Author: Network Culture (2004), After the Internet (2022)
Svitlana Matviyenko @svitlanax.bsky.social Associate Prof @sfuCMNS Assoc Dir @SFU_DDI | nuclear cyberwar, infrastructure, psychoanalysis, nuclear heritage, Chornobyl 
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 |
Jonathan Haidt @jonathanhaidt.bsky.social Social psychologist at NYU-Stern, working to roll back the phone-based childhood. Please visit anxiousgeneration.com & afterbabel.com 
Noortje Marres @noortjem.bsky.social Sociologist of technology and science, empirical philosopher, creative methods
Zizi Papacharissi @zizip.bsky.social UIC Distinguished Professor of Communication + Poli Sci, Head of COMM@UIC Books: After Democracy; Affective Publics; A Private Sphere; A Networked Self series
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/
Mark Deuze @markdeuze.bsky.social 👨🎓 Professor Media Studies, U of Amsterdam
🎸bass: Skinflower; new music at Bandcamp
📚 latest books: Life in Media (MIT Press), Happiness in Journalism (Routledge)
🔊 🎥 Deuzevlog on YouTube and Spotify
🚴 Ride on!
🎓ORCID: 0000-0002-1986-5050
Nate Tkacz @nateeeow.bsky.social Prof Digital Media and Culture
Goldsmiths, UoL
Jo Littler @jolittler.bsky.social Social / cultural / political / media analysis
Prof @Goldsmiths @MediaComGold.bsky.social
📕📗: Left Feminisms, Care Manifesto, Against Meritocracy, Politics of Heritage
All views socially & culturally constructed.
alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social Dir of Research, Data & Society. Academic. Studies tech & society, far-right disinfo. UNC CITAP. Loves pop cult. Mom, fashion victim, sci fi/fantasy enthusiast. Author of The Private is Political, Status Update. NYC forever. She/her/femme 💅🏻 tiara.org
Thomas Poell @tpoell.bsky.social Media Studies Professor @UvA_Amsterdam | Books: The Platform Society; Platforms and Cultural Production | https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/p/o/t.poell/t.poell.html
Nick Srnicek @nsrnicek.bsky.social Author of 'Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI': https://amzn.eu/d/aZKYWsA
Gabriella "Biella" Coleman @biella.bsky.social Professor of Anthropology @Harvard, Hacker Studies & More https://gabriellacoleman.org/
Media, Communications & Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths @mediacomgold.bsky.social Department of Media, Communications & Cultural Studies @GoldsmithsUoL
#2 in 🇬🇧 2023 QS world rankings
Student/staff work
Free public events
Carolin Gerlitz @carolingerlitz.bsky.social Professor Digital Media & Methods, Uni Siegen. Data studies, digital methods, sensory media, app studies, platforms, inventive methodologies, automation.
Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social Professor of Political Geography & Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life @leverhulmecal.bsky.social
Algorithms, politics, technology, biometrics, AI, ethics
Author Cloud Ethics http://dukeupress.edu/cloud-ethics
Carolyn Pedwell @carolynpedwell.bsky.social Professor in Digital Media @Lancaster University. Affect, intuition, habit, digital media, AI, culture, politics; Affect Theory Reader 2: http://tinyurl.com/36zdbeak; Revolutionary Routines: http://tinyurl.com/mtkehm62 
Emiliano Treré @emilianotrere.com ATRAE Distinguished Researcher @usc Santiago • Reader in Data Agency and Media Ecologies @Cardiff University • Creator & lead @ADS team • Codirector @DataJusticeLab • Algorithms of Resistance (MIT Press, 2024) • Romagnolo
Roger Burrows @rogerjburrows.bsky.social Bristol & Melbourne. Sociology. Geography. Urban Studies. Digital Culture.
Prof in Global Inequalities, School of Policy Studies, University of Bristol; Hon Prof, School of Sociology, ANU; Adjunct Prof, Social Sciences, Adelaide University.