Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social Host, This Is Wisconsin with @civicmedia.us. Author, This is the Plan: How to End America's Meltdown and Save Democracy—out 7/21. www.thisistheplan.com
Sara Pritchard @sarabpritchard.bsky.social #TransformingNight out Aug 25!
https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295755205/transforming-night/
#SkyStorian #STS #EnvHist #histtech #envirotech #histsci
#LightPollution #ArtificialLight #ALAN #Night #Darkness #LightJustice #CriticalDarkSkyStudies
VMO
Ashlee Mirizio @ashleemirizio.bsky.social Informatics PhD Student at Indiana University, Bloomington studying computing, culture, and society.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
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
Alex K. @kafsofit.bsky.social 🟡⚪️🟣⚫️
Posts en/in Spanglish:
Tecnólogue, trabajadore social. Creo en la justicia transformativa, el apoyo mutuo y la organización comunitaria.
Technologist, social worker. I believe in transformative justice, mutual aid, and community organizing.
Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social Historian at Cornell University and author, most recently, of FREE ENTERPRISE: AN AMERICAN HISTORY. Working on a history of backlash politics in the United States, from Reconstruction to the present. 
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/
Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor Cayuga Nation citizen, Six Nations of the Grand River Territory | he/him | Impact Strategist @ https://animikii.com/ | #LandBack - #CashBack - #DataBack | Find me @ https://jeff.doctor/
Human Rights Watch @hrw.org 🔎 🌎 ✊
Exposing human rights abuses around the world.- P Dr. Penelope K Hardy @pkhardy.bsky.social Historian of science, technology, & medicine, especially tech of ocean science. Associate professor of history. Book review editor for H-Sci-Med-Tech & H-Oceans. She/her/hers.
Zachary Schrag @zacharyschrag.bsky.social Professor of History, George Mason University. Currently researching history of the Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project. Views my own.
zacharyschrag.com.
historyprofessor.org
https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0003-1420-551X
Annenberg School at Penn @asc.upenn.edu The Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Furthering our understanding of the role of communication in public life through research, education, and service.
danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social STS researcher who likes to look at things sideways. Founded Data & Society.
Topics: Census | Youth | Data | Society
Professor of Communication, Cornell
https://made-not-found-by-danah-boyd.ghost.io
Michael Zimmer @michaelzimmer.bsky.social Privacy & data ethics scholar. Director of @MUDataEthics.bsky.social at Marquette University. I also curate @ZuckerbergFiles.bsky.social
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.
Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social Professor @ Boston U, History & Philosophy of Science—esp Philosophy of Geosciences, Director Phi-Geo Research Group, Assoc @ Harvard U. Hist Sci, Radcliffe Fellow Alum. Settler, wife, & mother. 📸s my crappy phone.
Webpage: https://bokulich.org/
ProPublica @propublica.org Investigative journalism in the public interest. Headlines and (sometimes literal) receipts.
Send us tips: propublica.org/tips
Phil Edwards (PE2) -starlight Union- Story Forge Studios @marketteacher.bsky.social Using my words and music to make a difference. Free speech always! Wishing peace for ALL humankind.
Paris Marx @parismarx.com 💥 PREORDER MY NEW BOOK HYPERSCALE 💥
🎙️ @techwontsave.us
📬 https://disconnect.blog
📖 https://hyperscalebook.com
Rina Chandran @rinachandran.bsky.social Journalist - tech & society. Deputy editor, Rest of World. San Francisco.
Nick Couldry @couldrynick.bsky.social I teach media communications and social theory at London School of Economics. Main interests: data colonialism, AI, rebuilding social media. Links to my two new books: https://linktr.ee/SpaceOfTheWorldBook https://lnk.to/DataGrabBook
Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social Sociologist/demographer specializing in mortality, racial inequity, Covid-19. Avid theater-goer, inconsistent powerlifter, and erstwhile operator of an all-volunteer bookstore. Preschool parent. Living not-quite-car-free in Minneapolis. she/her
Martin Meiske @mmeiske.bsky.social Envirotech historian #infrastructure #maintenance #creosote Postdoc Fellow @ UMD & TU Berlin #envhist #histtech #histsci; Die Geburt des Geoengineerings (Wallstein 2021); Beyond the Lab and the Field (Univ. of Pittsburgh Press 2022) martinmeiske.com
David Nemer @davidnemer.com Assoc Prof of Media Studies & Anthropology at the University of Virginia. Faculty Associate at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center. Anthropology of Tech/STS Books: Technology of the Oppressed (MIT Press); Favela Digital (GSA)🇧🇷🇺🇸
https://linktr.ee/davidnemer
Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co Hey, I'm a climate and energy writer / data analyst who focuses on corporate + govt accountability
Creator + curator of the Greensky feed: https://ketanjoshi.co/greensky/
Based in Oslo but write about US, Europe, Aus too - ketan.joshi85@gmail.com
Luke Stark @lukestark.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 just a simple country AI ethicist | Assistant Professor, Western University 🇨🇦 | Co-Director, @starlingcentre.bsky.social | he/his/him | | no all-male panels |#BLM | 🏳️⚧️ ally | views my own
https://starkcontrast.co/
https://starlingcentre.ca/
Mona Sloane @monasloane.bsky.social Sociologist of #AI • University of Virginia Faculty • Series Editor University of California Press • Tech Editor Public Books • Fellow NYU IKP & UVA DTD • Host of Co-Opting AI Series • Director Sloane Lab • monasloane.org
Dr. Katharine Dickson @metaomicsnerd.bsky.social Microbiome science by training; climate policy by calling.
Professional anti-methanogen crusader.
I 分かる some 日本語.
Opinions my own. She/her. 🇺🇸. ☸️ (Jōdo Shinshū).
Owner of @cowburpsbot.bsky.social
Portfolio: https://tinyurl.com/katharinedickson
Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social Historian of race, policing, surveillance, and technology. Senior Policy Analyst at EFF. Sometimes teach at Emory. The Church Committee Report is out now! My views are not my employers.
MatthewGuariglia.com
Malcolm Craig @malcolmcraig.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in US History @ljmuofficial.bsky.social, historian of games, the Cold War, nuclear stuff, researching #ColdWar era post-apocalypse roleplaying games. #TTRPG designer. You may remember me from such games as #astaterpg, #ColdCity, and #HotWar
Morgan Thompson @morgankthomp.bsky.social Philosopher of Science. Interested in measurement, technology, data ethics, and social change. Enjoys games, sci fi, cats. She/her
Anne Pasek @apasek.bsky.social STS, cultural studies, media, environment, climate, energy
Bikes, cats, synths, barbells, good recipes
beth semel @bethmsemel.bsky.social AI killjoy, prednisone hater, writing about voice analysis AI and the labor of technosolutionist listening in American mental healthcare
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
Margarida Silva @margaridasilva.bsky.social I research Big Tech's power and campaign to limit it at @somoamsterdam.bsky.social
Dorothy Woodend @dorothywoodend.bsky.social Culture Editor for The Tyee.
Instagram animal: https://www.instagram.com/dorothywoodend/
Edward Jones-Imhotep @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social Historian of science and technology | Professor @ University of Toronto | Director @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social | New book - The Broken Machine: Histories of Technology, Social Order, and the Self @mitpress.bsky.social
@web3privacy.info @web3privacy.info Research project & community about privacy in Web3 industry
#privacy #decentralization #freesoftware | web3privacy.info
Michael Israel @subcontrarian.bsky.social Linguist trying to understand logic, emotion, identity and human cognition.
Semantics, pragmatics, syntax; Cognitive Grammar; English history and sociolinguistics.
Berkeley -> San Diego -> Leipzig -> Silver Spring, Maryland 
Becca Lewis @beccalew.bsky.social Assistant prof of comparative media studies @MIT. Cultural and political histories of Silicon Valley and the internet.
Rest of World @restofworld.org We're a nonprofit publication covering global technology outside the West.
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Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com Reporter at ICIJ.org and author. GILDED RAGE: ELON MUSK AND THE RADICALIZATION OF SILICON VALLEY is out in paperback Sept. 2026.
Signal: jacobsilverman.99
www.jacobsilverman.com
https://linktr.ee/gildedrage
Amanda Scott @amandascott2023.bsky.social Jungian. Cinéphile. Lawyer. Chess fanatic. CEO NanoApps Medical, Creative Dir. Alias... I read a lot.
“The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.”
Charles Bukowski
ti zhang @solarizedtitanium.gg any | staff site reliability engineer|roots in SWE | Daoist,artist,writer,musician,complex systems thinker | soft,like the ocean is soft.gentle,like the sun could be gentle | www.nombiezinja.com | married, not poly | parent | formerly @zerochilltea
Andreas Hepp @ahepp.bsky.social Professor of media and communications at ZeMKI and Commfigurations, Uni Bremen, on #mediatization, #datafication, #pioneercommunities, #pioneerjournalism, #ComAI, #AI, #digitalfutures.
Frank Mols (PhD) @fmols.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Political Science, University of Queensland, researching leadership, followership, populist parties, voter attitudes and political behaviour.
https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=GwUV0YAAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Anne Nonymous @jennbarrigar.bsky.social she/her/elle
Law/policy with focus on reputation, privacy, smart cities, techquity and digital new media generally. Ideas and interests my own, not those of any institution or body
Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website anthropology, algorithms, attention | he/him | The conversation is characterized by Nick's use of language, but the content of the discussion remains unknown.
Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social Digital humanities, data science, AI, eating, professor of Data & Decision Science and English. Coauthor #DataFeminism w/ @kanarinka. PI #AIAInetwork. Views my own.
Robin Boardman @robinboardman.com 🪧 @extinctionrebellion.uk youngest cofounder
✍️ Writing and editing revolutionary books
🩼 Disabled with Chronic Migraines (Long Covid)
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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 // 📕 = Entitled Opinions: Doxa After Digitality // 1st Gen // #TeamRhetoric
https://caddiealford.com
Olivier Jutel 🇵🇸 @ojutel.bsky.social Skateboarding, Tech-criticism, Blockchain colonialism and platform geopolitics, film, LFC.
Rebecca Bratspies, Author @rbratspies.bsky.social Professor, Tulane Law | award-winning scholar, author, speaker
scuba diver | environmental justice, climate justice, human rights, NYC history, urban policy, comic books | mom | optimist (mostly) www.RebeccaBratspies.com
Babbage Inst. for Computing, Info. & Culture @babbageinstitute.bsky.social Interdisciplinary research center & leading archives in computing, software & networking. Symposia ("Just Code" "Automation by Design" etc.), publishing, editorial leadership, oral history, archives (320+ diverse collections).
https://www.cse.umn.edu/cbi
Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social Palestinian-American digital-internet pioneer. Non-profit, NGO founder. Scholar, analyst, consultant, lecturer. Humanist. MENA Peace and Reconciliation. Interdisciplinary Narrative Studies. Campari enthusiast. Dawg Mom. Yankees & Giants Fan.
cass @cassiusa.bsky.social boy
writer
tired
VB —> MPLS (southside all day)
Walter Scheirer @wjscheirer.bsky.social Prof. @notredame.bsky.social. IEEE Computer Society PAMI TC Chair Emeritus. Computer Vision Foundation CTO. Artificial Intelligence + Digital Humanities + History of Technology. wjscheirer.com
Chamee Yang @chamee22.bsky.social I write about media/urban history, environment, and technology in Asia. Assistant Professor of Communication at Seoul National University.
✨Author: City in a Future Tense (UCPress, 2026) https://www.ucpress.edu/books/city-in-a-future-tense/paper
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that. 
Anushka @fencesitter8.bsky.social QT doing QC (Questioning Clouds not Quantum Computing)
Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com MUSKISM out now: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/muskism-quinn-slobodianben-tarnoff?variant=43838135402530 Past: GLOBALISTS, CRACK-UP CAPITALISM, HAYEK’S BASTARDS, last won the NBCC award for criticism. quinnslobodian.com
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
Marielza @marielza.bsky.social Retired UNESCO Dir for Digital Inclusion, Policies & Transformation. Chair, UN University, eGov Institute.
UNESCO Women in STEM Committee
Some pottery and cyanotyping
Profile picture is of my face and torso
Banner is a picture I took of a light garden
NickKauf @nickkauf.bsky.social XR Cities, Music, UrbanTech, CivicTech, Experiential/immersive media. NYC + Maine. Charitable Mechanic. Founding fellow, Temporary Institute
The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social The Intellectualist delivers fact-based analysis and thoughtful commentary focused on defending democracy and fostering informed public discourse. At a time when truth and civic engagement are under threat, it serves as a vital platform.
AnnieR @anet2111.bsky.social Wife💍 mom🎀 nurse practitioner😷
A voice, not an echo💙Gen X Democrat Chicago
Trust science💉
Foxtrot Delta Tango
Benjamin Shestakofsky @bshestakofsky.bsky.social Sociologist @cornellbowers.bsky.social studying work, technology, organizations, and political economy | Author of Behind the Startup: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/behind-the-startup/paper
American Sociological Association @asanews.bsky.social * Support a diverse and inclusive community of sociologists
* Increase public knowledge and understanding of society through sociology
* Promote the use of sociological insights to drive positive social change https://bit.ly/m/AmSocAssoc
American Anthropological Association @americananthro.bsky.social Founded in 1902, the American Anthropological Association is the world's largest organization of anthropologists. Join our community at: https://americananthro.org/membership/
Centre for Research on social InequalitieS @cris-sciencespo.bsky.social We cover the multidimensionality of social inequalities in contemporary societies worldwide. Our research program seeks to describe patterns and trends of inequality, analyze their mechanisms, and inform and contribute to policy analysis.
The Max Planck Institute for Political and Social Science @mpips.bsky.social The Max Planck Institute for Political & Social Science examines urgent questions of conflict, inequality, democratic erosion & societal transformation – combining political science & sociology in an interdisciplinary framework. ips.mpg.de
Climate Social Science Network @cssn.org A global network of social scientists focused on political conflicts around climate change, headquartered at Brown University. https://cssn.org/ 
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.
Center for Democracy & Technology @cdt.org The Center for Democracy & Technology. Shaping technology policy and architecture, with a focus on equity and justice. @cdteu.org for our EU-based team.
https://cdt.org
TechCrunch @techcrunch.com Technology news and analysis with a focus on founders and startup teams.
Got a tip? http://techcrunch.com/tips
Nature @nature.com Research, news, and commentary from Nature, the international science journal. For daily science news, get Nature Briefing: https://go.nature.com/get-Nature-Briefing
IT History Society @ithistoryorg.bsky.social Founded in 1977, the IT History Society celebrates the origins of information technology, with a focus on Unsung Heroes and the Evolution of Ideas that shaped computing. We are a 501(c)3 not-for-profit.
wells @wells.bsky.social critical (of) AI, critical race, queer/trans & AsAm studies, algorithmic justice at UMSI
all about abolition, transformative justice, free palestine. SSBM (link main), anime, and indie art/zine fan.
pan/bi enby 🇹🇼🇮🇩🏳️⚧️ she/her
Jacob Bruggeman @jacobbruggeman.bsky.social Intellectual & political historian writing on hackers, libertarians, and tech in the modern US | Examining the ideologies in/of Silicon Valley | Friend, Neighbor, Cat Dad & Baltimorean
Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social Bestselling author of THE UNDERTOW: Scenes from a Slow Civil War; THE FAMILY, also a Netflix series; C Street; THIS BRILLIANT DARKNESS; & SWEET HEAVEN WHEN I DIE. AI stole them all. Professing @ Dartmouth. That's not my cat.
Indivisible Twin Cities @indivistwincities.bsky.social Indivisible Twin Cities is a grassroots group of volunteers dedicated to increasing civic engagement on progressive issues. Find us at indivisibletwincities.org
David Tamez, PhD @tamezad.bsky.social I2S Assistant Research Professor at KU | Philosopher of Law and Technology | Managing Director of the Center for Cyber-Social Dynamics | www.adtamez.com
MPR News @mprnews.org Minnesota news. Independent + nonprofit. Free thanks to members. Listen on air, read online or follow here ❤️
📷: The Minnesota Capitol building just after sunset on a spring evening, by Brian Bakst | MPR News.
Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social independent journalist, thehandbasket.co
email: marisa@thehandbasket.co
signal: marisakabas.04
Ulysses Pascal @ulyssespascal.bsky.social Digital Humanities Postdoc at UCLA’s Large Language Lab.
Pierre Purseigle @purseigle.bsky.social Historian at the University of Warwick
Writing a global history of urban disasters for
@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social Historian of capitalism, environment, and technology in the longue durée. Water history a specialty. Asst director of a research center. Adjunct prof. Dad. PhD. Delawarean. First Gen. Hoopy frood. Born at 344 ppm atmos CO2. No human is illegal.
Adrian S. Wisnicki @awisnicki.bsky.social Professor of English and Co-Director of the AI Institute, University of Nebraska. Digital humanities, critical AI, contemporary tech studies, world literatures in Englishes, 19th-century British literature, and archival and cultural heritage studies.
Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social After practicing law for 20+ years, I now write about elections and political extremism. You can find my most recent work at the Bucks County Beacon.
Donate: Ko-fi https://share.google/x92w1Me217PImRaIl
James Elder @jameselder.bsky.social Business archivist by day; rowing club archivist by night. So, quite a lot of 19th and 20th century British history, and grumbling about digital and A/V preservation.
Not the UNICEF spokesman.
Be nice, I'm trying my best.
Lattesdotter @lattesdotter.bsky.social Cynthia White, Phd. #bloggessfam #DisabilityAdvocate #ChronicFatigue. Left Democrat. Retired professor (sociology and statistics). Poetry, nature, reading, sarcasm, puns. She/her. Cis-het. LGBTQ+ ally. Madison, WI. Instagram: lattesdotter11.
Alex White @alexjwhite.bsky.social Historian-in-public focusing on African anti-colonialism and the global media. Editorial fellow at @historyworkshop.org.uk, freelance everywhere else!
Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz Professor, researcher, author.
Prez, Assoc of Internet Researchers (AOIR), synth lover, fan of many things, gay lady.
Wrote a book called Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media (YUP 19), and Meta stole it to train its LLM.
Dwai Banerjee @dwaipayanbanerjee.bsky.social Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at @MIT
Roger Whitson @rogerwhitson.bsky.social lit and media prof @WSU — science fiction, buddhism, william blake, science & tech studies, polyamory.
UMN English @umnenglish.bsky.social Free visiting author events for Minneapolis-St. Paul! Studying and creating literature in English since 1897.- V Rachel Smith @valuequestion.bsky.social Lecturer in Anthropology & Museum Studies. Vanuatu/Western Pacific; labour migration, kava, social change. Co-editor @anthropologyofwork.bsky.social