Avery Everhart @averyeverhart.bsky.social GQ trans woman • AP at UBC geography • center for applied trans studies • Carolina girl in PNW • settler on xʷməθkʷəy̓əm land • writing a book on trans data • teaching GIS with Justice lens • all things applied, intersectional, & spatial
Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org 👊 Battling techno-fascism with our Internet-savvy blend of attention-grabbing activism and mass mobilization.
https://www.fightforthefuture.org/2026
Ghost in the Machine @ghostdoc2026.bsky.social Feature documentary GHOST IN THE MACHINE. Watch now on PBS and YouTube. notaidoc.com
Surveillance Watch @surveillancewatch.bsky.social An interactive database revealing the intricate connections between surveillance companies, their funding sources and affiliations: https://www.surveillancewatch.io/
Michael Ann, sociotechnical femme @michaelann.bsky.social Online Communities, Social Tech, Folk Theories, Epistemic Justice, Queer/Trans HCI. Assistant Prof of Comp Sci & Comm Studies @ Northeastern University. @nusealab.bsky.social director. Neurodivergent, trans woman, wife girl, femme lesbian, dork. (she/her)
Julia Husar @juliahusar.bsky.social PhD Student studying digital communities, information sharing, data vis in social contexts, other things i'm not yet aware of
resident trans woman
opinions and thoughts are my own 💕
she/her
dell cameron @dell.bsky.social Sr. writer @wired.com:
Surveillance & coptech
Signal: dell.3030
Cella @cellllla.bsky.social She/her | Postdoc @ UVA DTD | Previously: CMU HCII, Data & Society, UCI Informatics, Big Cartel Workers Union. Views are my own. http://cella.io
nitasha tiku @nitasha.bsky.social technology mother @ the washington post. baddie in the digital badlands. signal: nitasha.10 
HourlyWolves @hourlywolf.bsky.social Non-Automated Wolf Posting!
We'll post as many Wolves as we can, but it may not be hourly 🐺
If you'd like your picture removed, or have a photo request, DM this account!
Sarah @lemistith.bsky.social She/Her. 37. INFJ. Chaotic Good. ADHD. Trans. Sapphic.
The Citizen Lab @citizenlab.ca We are an academic research unit at the University of Toronto investigating novel threats to democracy, human rights, and global security in the digital ecosystem.
Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app Founder & PI @aial.ie. Assistant Professor of AI, School of Computer Science & Statistics, @tcddublin.bsky.social
AI accountability, AI audits & evaluation. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
Andrea DeKeseredy @andiewinnipeg.bsky.social Canadian. PhD candidate at the U of Alberta. Vanier Scholar. Killam Laureate. BSW, MA, MSW. Health care, education and labour. DMs open, e-mail me at dekesere@ualberta.ca
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
SEAN ORR @seanorr.bsky.social Vancouver city councillor
404 Media @404media.co it's a website (and a podcast, and a newsletter) about humans and technology, made by four journalists you might already know. like and subscribe: 404media.co
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account
Author: Deep Unlearning (you can now preorder at https://shorturl.at/sCdjl)
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://dair-institute.org)
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/
CAIS-ACSI @cais-acsi.bsky.social Canadian Association for Information Science | Association canadienne des sciences de l’information | http://cais-acsi.ca
Seattle Torrent @seattletorrent.bsky.social Forged by nature. Unstoppable by will.
Vancouver Goldeneyes @pwhlgoldeneyes.bsky.social A force formed in flight.
@thepwhlofficial | Inaugural season tickets, merch +
more ⤵️ ⤵️
linktr.ee/pwhlvancouver
Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of EMPIRE OF AI: empireofai.com. ai reporter. national magazine award & american humanist media award winner. words in The Atlantic. formerly WSJ, MIT Tech Review, KSJ@MIT. email: http://karendhao.com/contact.
Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social I design & write stories about online society, virtual embodiment and the technocapitalist future. game dev, presenter, consultant et al
Everything is narrative design
mean lesbian 🏳️🌈 she/her
https://linktr.ee/leighalexander
Just Futures Law @justfutureslaw.bsky.social We're a movement lawyering org working with grassroot organizers to dismantle the deportation machine with innovative legal and policy strategies. Learn more: www.justfutureslaw.org
Amy J. Ko @amyko.phd Professor @ University of Washington Information School. Computing, learning, design, justice, kitties, tacos, coffee, gender, politics, and transit. I write at amyjko.medium.com. I maintain wordplay.dev, bookish.press, adminima.app, reciprocal.reviews.
Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com Game Dev, alleged writer, kind of comics person, former internet boogeyman. Please don’t tell anyone I’m here, I’m just trying to exist 🤫 they/them
my DMs are broken
Get free 3d printed community protection whistles here: https://linktr.ee/3Dwhistles
Sun-ha Hong @sunhahong.bsky.social Wrote Technologies of Speculation (NYUP, 2020). Writing Predictions Without Futures. right now: Stanford Humanities Centre Fellow, soon: UNC Chapel Hill. 
Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social Hacking/crime/privacy journalist. Author of DARK WIRE, buy here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/joseph-cox/dark-wire/9781541702691/#preorder Co-founder of 404 Media. Signal: joseph.404 Email: joseph@404media.co
Mistress Blunt @mistressblunt.bsky.social A professional. Exploiting your Mommy Issues. NYC.
Co-founder of Hacking//Hustling.
BluntLinks.com
Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social Author of RAINBOW TRAP and QUEER DATA 🌈 Researching LGBTQ data at the University of Edinburgh 📊 he/him/his ➡️ linktr.ee/kevinguyan
David Eliot @davideliot.bsky.social Author of Artificially Intelligent: The Very Human Story of AI
Sara M. Grimes, PhD @smgrimes.bsky.social Wolfe Chair in Scientific + Technological Literacy & Professor at McGill University. I research kids + tech + play/games/creativity, advocate for children’s rights in policy/design. Author of Digital Playgrounds (2021) and Kidfluenced (underway).
Rosamunde Van Brakel @rosamundevb.bsky.social assistant prof/senior postdoc criminology VUB/substitute lecturer KULeuven - research: digital & green criminology, surveillance, AI, youth justice, human rights
https://researchportal.vub.be/en/persons/rosamunde-elise-van-brakel
Benjamin J. Muller, PhD @biometricstate.bsky.social Professor of Migration & Border Studies
#BorderTech
https://biometricstate.com/
JUST PUBLISHED! https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781786612236/Architectures-of-Security-Design-Control-Mobility
Gary Kafer @gkafer.bsky.social Teaching Fellow, Cinema & Media Studies, UChicago • researching surveillance technology and digital culture
https://chicago.academia.edu/GaryKafer
Morgan Banville, PhD @banvillemorgan.bsky.social She/her | Assistant Professor of English, Fairfield University |#firstgen | Surveillance Studies | Technical Communication | @CivicsofTech Board | All opinions are mine
Stephen Neville @silentrecord.bsky.social Métis Research Chair @PowleyInstitute | Communication & Culture, PhD @yorkuniversity
| Infoscape Lab | Institute for Research on Digital Literacies |
Métis Studies, Media, Surveillance
The Politics of Media Scarcity (2024) out now.
Azadeh Akbari @azadehakbari.bsky.social Prof. Critical Data & Technology Studies @ Goethe University Frankfurt / digital authoritarianism, surveillance, smart cities/
Co-Director @Survstudiesnet.bsky.social /
Founder @surveillancemw.bsky.social
*personal account*
Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social Sports editor @thenation Edge of Sports TV at http://youtube.com/therealnews Host of the Edge of Sports Podcast. Co-host of WPFW's The Collision.
Spencer Izen (he/him) @spencerizen.bsky.social managing editor @ubyssey.ca. researcher @ Freedom of Information and Privacy Association. http://SeeDisclaimer.com
Dr. Julie Shayne @profjulies.bsky.social Feminist professor, writer, tree hugger, and dog lover. Currently working on a book about the movement to elect Kamala Harris. (She/her)
https://www.uwb.edu/faculty/julie-shayne/
Stop Surveillance City @stopsurveillance.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/stopsurveillancecityseattle
Mark Mac Lean @marktmaclean.bsky.social Mathematician. Full of contradictions. Opinions are entirely my own. Reposts =/= endorsements. Likes are often bookmarks or acknowledgements. He/him/his.
The Ubyssey @ubyssey.ca UBC's student newspaper — established in 1918, independent since 1995.
ubyssey.ca
librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social A leftist library worker podcast.
https://www.librarypunk.gay
@sadiegeez.bsky.social @wildeatheart.bsky.social @smazzie.bsky.social
Chris Persaud @cjpersaud.bsky.social Research Scientist at Intel Labs doing Responsible AI and STS stuff. PhD from USC Annenberg.
queer artist/nightlife entity/food enjoyer otherwise.
🤔 🤷🏾♂️ platforms, creators, queer media, pornography, digital intimacies, and internet culture
Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com Tired person, fighter. Labor, data, DH, obsolete software, database history, etc. Seeing Like a Supply Chain out Oct 2026: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300251449/seeing-like-a-supply-chain/. Speaking for myself, not my employer.
@hannahtrnr.bsky.social @hannahtrnr.bsky.social Professional Nerd and Settler Researcher @ UBC iSchool
It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social In search of new forms of life. Sharing news, podcasts, and opinion about autonomous social movements across so-called North America.
Laura K. Nelson @lauraknelson.bsky.social Associate Professor @ UBC
computational sociology
machine learning is feminist
You only have to look at the Medusa straight on to see her. And she’s not deadly. She’s beautiful and she’s laughing.
www.lauraknelson.com
Caroline, doing the work @carolinethegeek.bsky.social PhD. youth+tech+community+design researcher, UW iSchool Postdoc, TTRPG-er, enjoyer of things. Always learning.
She/her. Profile pic by Ari!
Yes, I'm here. In the midst of job search. carolinerpitt.phd
Jenna Fuoco @fuocofet.bsky.social Shibari artist 🪢 Dir of Ed for Shibari Study
Circus artist 🎪 Aerial Hoop, h2h, hair suspension
Leftist
Melissa Orobko @melissaorobko.bsky.social (they/them)
#BLM #LandBack 🏳️🌈 #COVIDIsntOver #ChronicallyIll
MSc, now Biol PhD SFU (marine cumulative effects)
Kate Crawford @katecrawford.bsky.social Professor, researcher, maker of things
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
Paul N. Edwards @avastmachine.bsky.social History and politics of climate science, climate change, knowledge infrastructures. Prof. Emeritus of Information and History, University of Michigan and Director Emeritus, Stanford University STS Program. Now expat based in Marseille, fleeing US fascism.
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!
Nora Draper @noradraper.bsky.social researcher, teacher, writer
associate professor of media and communication at UNH
privacy, surveillance, media and technology industries
Christian Fuchs @fuchschristian.bsky.social Human, writer, critic, social researcher, professor, critical communication & social theory, https://fuchsc.net Editor: http://triple-c.at 
Surveillance in the Majority World Network @surveillancemw.bsky.social Surveillance in the Majority World Research Network aims to expand the scope of surveillance studies to include non-Northern / Western discourses and practices.
https://surveillance-majority-world.net
Frank Pasquale @frankpasquale.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Author of The Black Box Society & New Laws of Robotics; law professor at Cornell Law School & Cornell Tech.
[bridged from https://mastodon.social/@FrankPasquale on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social Dir of Research, Data & Society. Academic. Studies tech & society, scams & fraud, far-right disinfo. UNC CITAP. Mom, fashion victim, sci fi/fantasy enthusiast. Author of The Private is Political, Status Update. NYC forever. She/her/femme 💅🏻 tiara.org- P Dr. Joy Buolamwini @poetofcode.bsky.social
- C Clare Birchall @cb-hq.bsky.social Writes about secrecy, transparency, conspiracy and everything in-between. Professor at King's College London.
Jen King @kingjen.bsky.social Expert of data privacy, algo manipulation (dark patterns), & artificial intelligence. Privacy & Data Policy Fellow, Stanford HAI. Outdoors fanatic and nuts enough to swim in the SF bay. I bleed blue & gold (Berkeley I-School). Former trust & safety Yahoo!
Marijke Roosen @marijkeroosen.bsky.social Feminist | STS scholar | welfare and penal surveillance | digital welfare state
Associate researcher @ université de Lausanne
Surveillance Studies Network @survstudiesnet.bsky.social The global network for surveillance studies research. Surveillance & Society journal https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance-and-society, conferences, workshops, mentoring, prizes & more. Join us here: https://surveillance-studies.net
Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social https://danmcquillan.org/
Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social Hacker Mama/Artist/Designer/Coder/Writer/She/Ella Assoc Prof of Urban Science @MITdusp, Director, Data + Feminism Lab, Co-author #DataFeminism, hablo castellano
AI Now Institute @ainowinstitute.bsky.social The AI Now Institute produces diagnosis and actionable policy research on artificial intelligence.
Find us at https://ainowinstitute.org/ 
Tech Won’t Save Us @techwontsave.us A left-wing podcast for a better world and better tech. Hosted by @parismarx.com. Made in partnership with @thenation.com.
https://techwontsave.us/
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
Steph Brown @stephjayb.bsky.social Assoc Prof of Literature in Tucson | Surveillance Studies | C20 Caribbean and Brit Lit
Books: Watching Women: Militant Suffragists Write the British Surveillance State (2024) | The Call (2019)
rock scrambler | hawk enthusiast | she/her
michael veale @michae.lv prof @laws.ucl.ac.uk, technology, law, policy, society, whimsical latvian top level domain names. michae.lv and fediverse https://someone.elses.computer/@mikarv 🏳️🌈
Dr Amy Gaeta @amygaeta.bsky.social Research Associate at Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at Cambridge. Thinking about drones, militarization, surveillance, AI ethics, gender, disability, & what it means to be human today
She/They
amygaeta.com
Wolfie Christl @wchr.bsky.social Public-interest researcher at Cracked Labs | Research fellow at Citizen Lab | Vienna, Austria | Tech and society. Tracking, surveillance, data economy, platform power, algorithmic decisions, datafication of work.
wolfie.crackedlabs.org/en
Dr. S.A. Applin @anthropunk.bsky.social Applied Anthropologist researching how people promote, manage, resist, and endure change; and how they, algorithms, and ethics coexist. (Or not). Social Systems/Culture. Sometimes write for Fast Company. NYU/ITP alum
Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social Writer of books, player of music, professor of media, tech & democracy
Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social Concerned with tech, media and democracy. CEO & Editor at Tech Policy Press. Research & Adjunct Professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Opinions mine.
Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social Scholar, author, policy advisor
Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab
https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab
Books: The Future of Science is Civic, Auditing AI, The Social Life of DNA, Genetics & the Unsettled Past, Body & Soul, Technicolor
Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com writer, editor, degenerate, Luddite, decel
thetechbubble.substack.com
Grace Dangerfield @gracedangerfield.bsky.social she/her 🏳️⚧️ Has too many hobbies, frequently forgets about some of them.
Rob Horning @robhorning.bsky.social robhorning.substack.com
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
Data Protection Scholars Network (DPSN) @dataprotectionscholars.network The Data Protection Law Scholars Network aims to facilitate academic exchanges between international researchers working in the field of data protection law, in Europe and beyond. dataprotectionscholars.network
Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social co-founder of various organizations: Interrupting Criminalization; Survived & Punished; Sojourners for Justice Press; For the People Leftist Library Project, NYC PLAN, etc...
Lucy Parsons Labs @lucyparsonslabs.com Chicago-based collaboration between data scientists, transparency activists, artists, & technologists that sheds light on the intersection of digital rights and on-the-streets issues.
https://linktr.ee/lucyparsonslabs
Krystal Kauffman @krystalkauffman.bsky.social Activist * Former Lead Organizer - Turkopticon * Research Fellow - Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute * Rising Stars in AI Ethics 2024 * Tech Crunch Women in AI 2024 * All opinions are my own
Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social Subscribe to my tech and online culture newsletter UserMag.co
Listen/watch Power User podcast on all platforms!!
Support my work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/taylorlorenz
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/
Thot Leedurr @docdre.distributedblackness.net Ignore my late night posts.
Award winning author!
I study Black Twitter: goo.gl/Wc98bf
…and digital methods: goo.gl/0njUPf
Openly Black.
Still on The Bird App as *thot leedurr*
andrebrock.academia.edu
Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social The Frank Grimes of librarianship. She/her. https://violetbfox.info/
In the Library with the Lead Pipe @libraryleadpipe.bsky.social Open access, open peer reviewed journal on all things librar*, established in 2008. New articles published seasonally-ish. There are no Article Processing Charges or any other charges associated with publishing.
http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org
Dharani @dharnasaur.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🇬🇾 | PhD student at UBC iSchool | Indenture archives/Caribbean diaspora studies/colonial archival governance |📍Stolen xʷməθkʷəy̓əm land | poetry & CNF sometimes
Amora B. @amora.ink Practically dripping with ennui.
Tamagotchi collector and character designer on Celeste currently working on something secret!
See more of my art at:
https://amora.ink/
Brazilian/Canadian
She/her
Reina Magistro 🏳️⚧️ @reinamancer.bsky.social