ALA Public Policy & Advocacy @librarypolicy.bsky.social Updates from the @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social Public Policy & Advocacy team in D.C. #LibrariesStrong #BuildLibraries #FundLibraries #eBooksForAll #ForOurLibraries
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BeTheJoy @bethejoy.bsky.social 
Devin Savage @fiumanismo.bsky.social Just a suburban dad/husband who believes in the Public Good and the Freedom to Read
Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov Husband and father. Proudly serving as Illinois’ 43rd governor.
ALA Student Chapter @alauiuc.bsky.social University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Paul Kotheimer @kotheimer.bsky.social Songwriter and DiY recording artist based in Urbana, Illinois, USA, since 1993. Many hours of back catalog and current releases at paulkotheimer.bandcamp.com . Library staff at Uni High Library by day.
Julie Pryde @juliepryde.bsky.social Public Health Administrator who is down to her last, gay nerve!
Katrina Fenlon @kfen.bsky.social 
Andy Luttrell @andyluttrell.bsky.social Associate Professor of Psych Science at Ball State. Studies moral opinions & persuasive messages. Science communicator. Host of the podcast "Opinion Science." Letterpress printing enthusiast. He/him.
Africa 📚 @africahands.bsky.social Researcher | Writer | Librarian.
New book: https://brill.com/display/title/73201
Elizabeth Hargrave @elizhargrave.bsky.social Nature geek, feminist, board game designer (Wingspan 🪶, Tussie Mussie 💐, Mariposas 🦋, The Fox Experiment 🦊, Picky Pixie 🧚♀️, Undergrove 🍄, and Sanibel 🐚).
https://www.elizhargrave.com/
M Green @narrprof.bsky.social Communication researcher and social psychologist studying how stories change minds (narrative persuasion).
Personal account.
@marybethwade.bsky.social @marybethwade.bsky.social 
Sarah @sarahchrstnsn.bsky.social Reduce, reuse, recycle. UIUC
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Madeleine Wolske @madelwolske.bsky.social I like my neighbors, small businesses, libraries, and interior design.
A Jill in Illinois @jillinois.bsky.social Born in Melvin. My dad killed Nazis. My birth was announced on Hee-Haw.
she/her
Progressive, Pan, GenX. Middle school science and history teacher. Looks like a meek middle-aged Midwest mom, is chaotic good.
@jayrosenstein.bsky.social @jayrosenstein.bsky.social 
Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social Long Time Internet Guy
Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social bestselling author * Hugo winner * nerd
latest books: A Wall Is Also a Road, Automatic Noodle, We Will Rise Again
bylines: New Scientist, Flaming Hydra, etc.
pronouns: they/them
all the stuff: www.techsploitation.com
Carole King @carolekingofficial.bsky.social The official BlueSky account for Carole King. Singer/Songwriter/Pianist/Author
& Environmentalist
caroleking.komi.io
Mara Thacker 🏳️🌈🦇 @maralina.bsky.social Librarian, scholar, dancer, reader, writer, and friend to dogs. I talk about comics and India a lot. 🌈 💜🦄 🤘🏼
Matt T @powersoffour.bsky.social I'm an academic in Information Sciences, background in computational astrophysics. I tend to post about academic stuff, open source, politics, tabletop roleplaying games, MS-DOS and occasionally the 1975 Joe Don Baker movie "Mitchell."
Kimberlie Kranich @kimberliekranich.bsky.social Community organizer. Journalist.
Rob Wittig @robwittig.bsky.social Writer, electronic literature scholar, facilitator of collaborative netprovs (networked improvised literature)
Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social Co-Director at Center for Digital Narrative, Univ of Bergen. Lead research project AI STORIES (ERC Advanced Grant). Australian and Norwegian. Blogging at jilltxt.net since 2000.
Søren Pold @spold.bsky.social In it for the money. And digital art & literature. Interface critical to the bone. Assoc. prof. at Aarhus University. Not from Norway but I’ve been there!
Electronic Literature Organization @eliterature.bsky.social international community of artists and scholars working on the exploration and preservation of digital literature.
Mez Breeze @mezbreeze.bsky.social An OG digital artist/writer: http://anthology.rhizome.org/mez-breeze. Permaculturalist. Designer + Developer. Blurrings + imaginings: https://www.patreon.com/mezbreeze + https://mezbreeze.itch.io/
smh @smarmy.space teaching creative code @ NYU, New School, CUNY Hunter
thinking about soft software, http poetics, and the nice internet. making stuff sometimes too.
samheckle.com
blog.smarmy.space
l5lua.org
cal.red
destructionjunket.com
tldr.nettime.org/@L5
Cloth Mother @hu-man-being.bsky.social 
@lpalen.bsky.social @lpalen.bsky.social 
J. Stephen Downie @profdownie.bsky.social Professor, Executive Associate Dean, School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois.
Digital Humanities-Music Information Retrieval-Library and Information Science
@mariabonn.bsky.social @mariabonn.bsky.social 
Skeuomorph Press & BookLab @skeuomorphpress.org An experiential research & pedagogy studio for the history & art of the book at UIUC. We are housed in the CU Community FabLab & sponsored by the iSchool and English Department. Directed by @ryancordell.org
Melissa Wong @melissawong.bsky.social Adjunct instructor in LIS. Grateful, not grumpy. she/hers.
Co-author: Instruction in Libraries and Information Centers: An Introduction (Windsor-Downs, 2020).
Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com Rare Book #Librarian, #editor, bereaved parent of Caitlin. 12x Hugo Award winner. bi/pan/queer. Head @illinoisrbml.bsky.social; Verity podcast; ex-Uncanny Mag. #aerialist. My opinions. she/her. #DoctorWho New book: https://alastore.ala.org/infiniteloop
Dr. Amanda H McLellan @amandamclellan.bsky.social Academic library director
Daniel S. Katz @danielskatz.org Chief Scientist @ NCSA, Res. Prof. @ CS & iSchool, @ U Illinois Urbana-Champaign
He/him
Works on: computational & data science: software opensource systems tools policy practices scholcomm FAIR RSE
more active on: @danielskatz@fediscience.org
Karrie Karahalios @kkarahal.bsky.social 
Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe @lisalibrarian.bsky.social 
Anita Coleman @infophilia.bsky.social Lover of libraries and information sciences prof. How does infophilia — our love of information and connections — shape us, our technologies, knowledge cultures, our society, and the world? Forthcoming Book: Infophilia Unbound infophilia.substack.com
John Gallagher @johnrgallagher.bsky.social Using qualitative & machine learning methods to study writers/content creators. I study the interaction between writers & audiences. Professor @ University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
Sara Benson @copyrightchat.bsky.social Host of Copyright Chat. ALA Policy Corps. Library Advocate. Dog, cat, and teenager’s mom.
Glen Layne-Worthey @gworthey.bsky.social Where: HathiTrust Research Center, iSchool, U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
What: DH+Libraries, multilingual DH, Russian literature, children's literature, translation.
How: However I can.
Lauren Ochs @lbochs.bsky.social School libraries are the best! Former school librarian now working with pre-service school librarians. 
Kristina Intinarelli @kristinaintin.bsky.social Partner at Evening Land Books www.eveninglandbooks.com
MSLIS Advisor and Coordinator at UIUC School of Information Sciences
Rare book hunter|thrift shop fashionista|library advocate|anti-fascist|
Haohan Wang @haohanwang.bsky.social Assistant professor at School of Information Sciences, UIUC, previously Carnegie Mellon University.
Working on Computational Biology, Trustworthy AI, and Large Language Models based agents. 
Travis Wagner (they/them) @drtlwagner.bsky.social Cyborg academic in a world of robot academics. Assistant Professor in the iSchool at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Preserving queer history and obsolete technology one VHS tape at a time.
http://travislwagner.com
Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com Uses machine learning to study literary imagination, and vice-versa. Likely to share news about AI & computational social science / Sozialwissenschaft / 社会科学
Information Sciences and English, UIUC. Distant Horizons (Chicago, 2019). tedunderwood.com
Meicen Sun @meicensun.bsky.social 
Matthew Kollmer @matthewkollmer.com PhD student, info sci at UIUC. DH research–NLP, AI, cultural analytics
Lecturer @ Berkeley (Python for DH)
Interests: place studies, activist histories, US lit, creative writing, rhet/comp: https://matthewkollmer.com
Owner @ https://eveninglandbooks.com
Madelyn Sanfilippo @profmrs.bsky.social Assistant Professor in the School of Information Sciences at UIUC / Sociotechnical Governance Scholar / Affiliate of the Ostrom Workshop / baking enthusiast
Dr. Melissa Ocepek @melissa1776.bsky.social Academic LIS Scholar, Foodie, and Friend! Working to form a union at the University of Illinois
Zoe LeBlanc @zoeleblanc.bsky.social Assistant Prof @iSchool UIUC studying digital humanities and histories of information. Interested in how we study the past with computers. she/her
박사라 Sarah Park Dahlen @readingspark.bsky.social Associate Professor iSchool University of Illinois; Asian American Youth Lit; Asian American Studies; Critical Adoption Studies; RDYL co-editor #VeryKorean #VeryAsian sarahpark.com
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Agent: Tricia Toney Lawrence (Aevitas CM)
Rachel F. Adler @rachelfadler.bsky.social Research in HCI, Accessibility, and Computing Education
Associate Professor at the iSchool at UIUC
Storytelling Collective @storytellingco.bsky.social We are the future of storytelling. Online courses, programs & more for creative storytellers. (Originally the #RPGWriterWorkshop)
The Augusta Baker Endowed Chair @thebakerchair.bsky.social 
Katherine Isbister @kcisbister.bsky.social HCI and Games researcher, author of How Games Move Us: Emotion by Design, and Playful Wearables (Jan 2024--https://tinyurl.com/4z9mjxrm) 
Dr. Jess Parris Westbrook (they/them) 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @jesswestbrook.bsky.social 🦨~ postnormal social research > data-driven speculation > critical design > liberatory tech / Founder Queering Futures Research Studio + Identity Research Lab / prior Channel TWo [CH2] new media art&design / tenured prof / MFA+PHD / T1D cyborg / #Chicago
Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social *THE* Naijamerican PhD-holding, World Fantasy, multi-Hugo, Nebula, Eisner Award-winning, New York Times bestselling rudimentary cyborg writer, nnedi.com
Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org he/him—textual technologies enthusiast—Associate Professor at UIUC's School of Information Sciences & Department of English—co-director of the Viral Texts Project (viraltexts.org) & Director @skeuomorphpress.org —also https://theanxiousbench.bandcamp.com
librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social A leftist library worker podcast.
https://www.librarypunk.gay
@sadiegeez.bsky.social @wildeatheart.bsky.social @smazzie.bsky.social
Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social We are Authors Against Book Bans. We stand united against the deeply unconstitutional movement to limit the freedom to read. We unequivocally support diverse voices on our library shelves, in our schools, and in our culture.
www.authorsagainstbookbans.com
Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social ✍🏽 • RACE AFTER TECHNOLOGY: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code • VIRAL JUSTICE: How We Grow the World We Want • IMAGINATION: A Manifesto 📚www.ruhabenjamin.com
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
Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social Researcher of online rumors & disinformation. Former basketball player. Prof at University of Washington, HCDE. Co-founder of the UW Center for an Informed Public. Personal account: Views may not reflect those of my employer.
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute 
Ben Grosser @bengrosser.bsky.social Artist/Researcher — Platform Culture and Interface Politics — Faculty Associate @ Berkman Klein Center, Harvard bengrosser.com
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