Britt Paris @hellobrittparis.bsky.social critical scholar of infrastructure & emergent technology | Rutgers AAUP AFT | views mine
New Book, Radical Infrastructure: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/radical-infrastructure/paper#reviews
Chair, AAUP cmte on AI: https://bit.ly/4lkuKu1
Wendy Russell @archiveswendy.bsky.social Lead Archivist (Screencraft) at British Film Institute
Also working on Women’s Screen Work in the Archives Made Visible
https://womensscreenwork.exeter.ac.uk
@womensscreenwork.bsky.social
Prof Deborah Lupton, MPH PhD @dalupton.bsky.social Prof, Arts, Design & Architecture, UNSW Sydney, Australia. Sociology of health and digital media research too. Personal blog: https://simplysociology.wordpress.com/
tante @tante.cc De-Evangelist, writer and speaker. Communist. Feminist. Antifascist. Luddite. He/him. Email: tante@tante.cc | Masto: @tante@tldr.nettime.org
(Don't always see DMs cause my client can't show them since they are proprietary extensions of the protocol)
99% Invisible @99pi.org Long running, award winning narrative podcast about all the thought that goes into things most people don’t think about.
www.99pi.org
siriusxm.com/podcasts-plus-subscription
Simon Inglis / Played in Britain @playedinbritain.bsky.social Writer/lecturer/campaigner on sporting heritage/architecture + works of Archibald Leitch; erstwhile editor for Played in Britain + SGSA. Villa fan since 1962. Current professional status: 'semi-required'.
Flickr Foundation @flickrfdn.bsky.social Official account for the Flickr Foundation. We help cultural heritage organizations preserve, share, and sustain their digital images. We make cool toys to help other folks interact with this awesome digital legacy. 🎉
https://flickr.org/
WebDesignMuseum @webdesignmuseum.org Web Design Museum exhibits thousands of screenshots and videos of websites, apps, software, and Flash games from the 1990s to the late 2000s.
Dr Florence Smith Nicholls @florencesn.bsky.social Video game archaeologist + game dev//
Postdoc @itu.dk on theorycraft + archaeogaming //
Prev: Story Tech @gutefabrik.bsky.social, Planning Archaeologist at Museum of London Archaeology
they/them
💾 florencesmithnicholls.com
Teresa Heffernan @tjheffernan.bsky.social Literature prof; author; current project: how literal readings of fiction by the tech industry are destroying the world. Let's read/interpret fiction as fiction. Boycott generative AI (chatbots etc); Website: https://www.socialrobotfutures.com/
Julie Carpenter, PhD @jgcarpenter.com Researcher of people and technology. AI, trust, and attachment. Wrote: "The Naked Android: Synthetic Socialness and the Human Gaze" & "Culture and Human-Robot Interaction in Militarized Spaces: A War Story." Blog/essays here: jgcarpenter.com
recessed.space @recessedspace.bsky.social recessed.space is a platform for writing about art and architecture, and where the two intersect.
Dr William Tozer | RIBA ANZIA 📍 @williamtozer.bsky.social Critic, educator, researcher, architect | Posting daily about architecture | Bartlett UCL PhD | also studied RMIT, University of Auckland | Founder of William Tozer Associates @williamtozerassoc.bsky.social
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
The Vegan's Voice | Michael Corthell @thevegansvoice.bsky.social Vegan advocacy, animal rights, plant-based living, and sharp commentary on the way we treat other sentient beings. Compassion without excuses, with humor when it helps.
Royal College of Nursing Library and Museum @rcnlibraries.bsky.social The RCN (@rcn.org.uk) Library and Museum is Europe’s largest nursing library. Use our services online or visit our libraries, exhibitions and events in person.
Get in touch via: www.rcn.org.uk/library
Online|Belfast|Cardiff|Edinburgh|London
Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social Chief Executive, The British Academy
Chair, Our World in Data
Board, National Audit Office
Visiting Professor in Practice, LSE
Visiting Professor, Kings College London
Fellow, Birkbeck College
Views my own
Altac Jobs LLC @altacjobs.bsky.social Curating #altac jobs for advanced degrees | Primarily Humanities & Social Sciences | majority US, some UK | https://altacjobs.com/
iPRES 2025 International Conference on Digital Preservation @ipres2025.bsky.social iPRES 2025 is in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, 3-7 November 2025
Follow us for news and updates on the premiere international digital preservation conference.
All the details are at ipres2025.nz
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Barnabas Calder @barnabascalder.bsky.social Historian of #architecture and #energy, at University of Liverpool School of Architecture. Author of Architecture: From Prehistory to Climate Emergency (Pelican, 2021), and Raw Concrete: The Beauty of Brutalism (William Heinemann, 2016).
Melissa L Gustin @hosmeriana.bsky.social Curator, goblin. Neoclassicism/sculpture/reception theories in the very, very long 19th C. Also paintings and museums. She/her, views absolutely and only mine
melissagustin.com
Augustin Bousfield @augustinbo.bsky.social Music made/performed /produced Brat-fud. https://linktr.ee/augustinbousfield #bcafc Fuck AI music!
National Science and Media Museum @mediamuseum.bsky.social Exploring the science and culture of image and sound technologies. Home to @picturevillecinema.bsky.social. Based in Bradford. 🎥
Plan your next visit: scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art @paulmelloncentr.bsky.social
Richard A Carter @richardacarter.bsky.social Academic in Digital Culture, University of York, UK. Exploring digital art, literature, and storytelling; ecology, materiality, and the more-than-human. Glider pilot. https://richardacarter.com/ Note: DMs unavailable as in UK
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Helen Hanson 🗃️🎞️🎥🎬📚 @helenexeter.bsky.social Prof in Film History Uni of Exeter, UK | Research #FilmHistory, #WomenFilmmakers #Adaptation #FilmSound #FilmNoir. Books: Hollywood Soundscapes & Hollywood Heroines #FilmSky 🗃️🎥🎞️🎬
PI: @womensscreenwork.bsky.social
https://womensscreenwork.exeter.ac.uk/
🗃️ Women’s Screen Work in Archives Made Visible @womensscreenwork.bsky.social Our AHRC-funded project aims to make the history of women’s screen work better known by working with #archives, #museums and #filmmaker donors. 🗃️ 🎞️ 🎥 https://womensscreenwork.exeter.ac.uk/ Posts by Project Team, project lead: @helenexeter.bsky.social
Architects' Journal @news.architectsjournal.co.uk The UK’s leading professional architecture magazine | Always #RetroFirst | IBP Editorial Brand of the Year 2020, 2021 and 2023
www.architectsjournal.co.uk
Stephanie Law @stephdl.bsky.social Architect, adjunct professor, and dressage rider. Originally from Florida, living in Trier, Germany and working in Luxembourg at Saharchitects, https://saharchitects.lu and MUDEC Luxembourg.
Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk Writer & speaker. Landscape, food, utopias, queer theory, imagination. Prof of Landscape Theory at the Bartlett School of Architecture. Antifascist. Recent book: The Landscape of Utopia. At work on 'Reworlding: Planetarity & Future Imaginaries'.
Jane Winters @jfwinters.bsky.social Professor of Digital Humanities,
School of Advanced Study, University of London. From medieval history to web archives, with some stops on the way. Own views.
Claire Knowles @cgknowles.bsky.social Acting Director of Library Services, University of Leeds | RLUK Digital Shift | IIIF Executive Committee | Open Research | Research Culture | Digital Creativity | Knowledge Equity | Coffee and Cake | Personal views | ORCID 0000-0002-6969-7382
Jean-Thomas Tremblay @jttremblay.bsky.social assoc. prof of english at york | coauthor of negative life: the cinema of extinction (northwestern) | author of breathing aesthetics (duke) | https://jeanthomastremblay.carrd.co/
Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social Director of Research, @dairinstitute.bsky.social
Roller derby athlete
https://alex-hanna.com
Book: thecon.ai
Pod+newsletter: https://dair-institute.org/maiht3k
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🏳️⚧️ she/هي
📸 @willtoft.bsky.social
Rep📘 @ianbonaparte.bsky.social
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
Leeds University Libraries @leedsunilibraries.bsky.social Welcome to the University of Leeds Libraries account. Follow us for Library-related updates and feel free to send us your queries!
Lisa Smith @thatlisasmith.bsky.social PhD student, K-12 educator.
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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social 🌍 Official Bluesky account for the Faculty of Arts & Humanities at King's College London, consisting of 11 academic departments. #KingsArtsHums
kcl.ac.uk/artshums
Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social Artist; have written, and curated, also. Head of Programme, Writing MA, at the RCA, London.
jeremymillar.org
Profile: https://jeremymillar.org/Notes-on-Gesture-for-H-C-2015
Header: https://jeremymillar.org/Neutral-Diluted-2007
Simone Natale @snatale.bsky.social Associate Professor in Media Theory and History at the University of Turin, author of Deceitful Media: AI and Social Life after the Turing Test (Oxford University Press 2021)
Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk An independent charity that seeks to fund blue skies research and scholarship. Follow this channel for details on upcoming grant deadlines, published research, scheme opening dates, grant announcements, events, and more. https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/
Hannah Redler-Hawes she / her🕷️ @hannahredlerhawes.bsky.social Independent Curator / Museum bod. Own views.
Specialising in Contemporary and Interdisciplinary Arts (Digital / Media Art; Art + Science, Data, AI)
Director, Data as Culture at Open Data Institute (Associate)
Curator Oxford Cultural Programme (External)
Michelle Henning @michellehenning.bsky.social Prof at Uni of Liverpool and artist. I write on photography, media, museums, ISOTYPE, modernism, environment & atmosphere. Photography: The Unfettered Image (2018) & A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog & Empire, Chicago UP (Fall 2025)
Katharina Sand PhD @sandthink.bsky.social Design & Communication Research
Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social "End Times Fascism" book available now.
Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire.
UBC Professor of Climate Justice.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/naomiklein
Center for Digital Narrative @cdn-bergen.bsky.social CDN is a Norwegian Centre of Research Excellence (SFF). We focus on algorithmic narrativity, new environments and materialities, and shifting cultural contexts in humanities-driven research.
UiB, Bergen, Norway.
John Herrman @jwherrman.bsky.social posting about posts at new york magazine
Glyn Morgan @grmorgan.bsky.social Head of Collections and Principal Curator at The Science Museum, London | Storyteller | PhD | Sometime Lecturer, Interviewer, Writer | He/Him | Views mine | https://linktr.ee/glynmorgan
Olga Touloumi @touloumi.bsky.social architecture | media | spatial politics | feminism
education worker by day, writer by night, and feminist 24/7
Assembly by Design: The United Nations and Its Global Interior (UMN, 2024) https://tinyurl.com/ycxbedpm
F A A C https://faacweb.wordpress.com/
Zena Kamash @zenakamash.bsky.social Writing - archaeology - heritage.
British Iraqi.
Faber Academy 'Writing Your Novel' graduate.
Winner: EAA Book Prize 2025.
Working Classicist of the Year 2025.
She/her
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social Editor and CEO, Zeteo
Author, ‘Win Every Argument’
British-American
m leal causton @mlealcauston.bsky.social [researcher | data ⇆ archivist ⇆ [ ] ] info. governance + networks + accountability + transparency >>> critical-digital-methods + research @dataunion-erc.bsky.social @lsts-vub.bsky.social
brussels - berlin | [rt/post ≠ endorsement]
Louise Hickman @louhicky.bsky.social Wellcome's Early Career Award. CRASSH at the University of Cambridge.
Nanna B Thylstrup @nannathylstrup.bsky.social Associate Prof @ University of Copenhagen. Author of: "The Politics of Mass Digitization" (MIT Press), editor of "Uncertain Archives: Critical Keywords for Big Data" (MIT Press) and "(W)archives: Archival Imaginaries, War, and Contemporary Art" (Sternberg)
Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com Philosopher & Historian of Biology 🇲🇽 • Postdoctoral Fellow @theramseylab.bsky.social (@clpskuleuven.bsky.social) • https://www.alejandrofabregastejeda.com • https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262052825/the-organism-environment-pairing/ • #philsci #HPS #philsky
University of London Press @uolpress.bsky.social Opening up humanities research.
Passionate advocates for the humanities, we are a collaborative, non-profit and predominantly open access publishing partner to researchers and institutions, creating award-winning scholarly books.
https://uolpress.co.uk
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
Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social supporting researchers counting words in various ways with computers at university of arizona libraries; increasingly displaced new englander
Lisa Griffith @lisagriffith.bsky.social Director @dri.ie, #DigiPres, historian, author, PhD, Dublin
#DigiPres #Archives #ResearchData #OpenResearch
Kieran Hegarty @kieranhegarty.bsky.social ✨ Deakin University Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Cultural Heritage & Museum Studies) ✨ kieranhegarty.com
Melanie Swalwell @melswal.bsky.social Prof of Digital Media Heritage, Swinburne University. #AusEAASI Project Lead. 🖤💛❤️ ally, living and working on Wurundjeri and Dja Dja Wurrung lands.
Naomi Wells @naswells.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Languages and Digital Humanities at the School of Advanced Study, University of London
Medha @medhachotai.bsky.social Archives/Records/ Netflix/ Reluctant gym-goer/ Theist (lover of tea)/ Former basement goblin/ Akin to Slitheen 👽
Jer Thorp @jerthorp.bsky.social Artist, writer, educator, birder & nudibranch enthusiast. Author of Living in Data (MCDxFSG).
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.
Jen Walklate @museojen.bsky.social Museologist, Historian, Literary Theorist. Lecturer and Honorary Curatorial Fellow, University of Aberdeen. Senior Managing Editor, Museum & Society. Runner. Skier. Musician. Aerialist. Breadmaker. Fermenter. Reader. Prone to enthusiasms.
Jared Pappas-Kelley @pappas-kelley.bsky.social Artist, lecturer, author - @manchester_university_press and @delere_press #Canterbury
Looking to build more queer spaces haha and also gigs
www.pappaskelley.com/author
https://pupandtiger.co.uk/donate
NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social I have never felt more politically homeless. Parody. Merch: https://tinyurl.com/msjjmwpt
The Cosmic House @thecosmichouse.bsky.social The Cosmic House, London
https://linktr.ee/thecosmichouse
Roman Vaughan-Williams @romansartwork.bsky.social London Based Artist/Curator
Royal Drawing School-Drawing year 2024
I make artworks to map the impasse, trying to escape but failing.
Website: https://romanvaughanwilliams.wordpress.com/recent-work/
Sixteen Films @kenloach16films.bsky.social The production company of Ken Loach and Rebecca O'Brien. Working alongside writer Paul Laverty.
KL from Ken Loach // PL from Paul Laverty // Otherwise from team Sixteen Films
Beth Kidd @bkidd.bsky.social PhD candidate in HPS @UCL. Research in: Registers of value in early science and natural history collecting | & | Applications of knowledge graphs in education technology
Dr Pauline McGonagle @pgmcgonagle.bsky.social Lecturer in Mod Lit, University of Groningen, Netherlands. Donegalian. AHRC PhD at Exeter/BL on archive of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.@unigroningen@bsky.social
Claire Wintle @clairewintle.bsky.social Historian of museums, exhibitions, collecting, imperialism, decolonisation, India, thinking about now. Director of the Centre for Design History and teaching MA Curating at University of Brighton.
Sonia Solicari @soniasolicari.bsky.social Director, Museum of the Home.
Trustee, Bethlem Gallery.
Crystal Palace local.
The Sensational Museum @sensationalmuseum.bsky.social Using what we know about disability to change how museums work for everyone. Find out more: https://sensationalmuseum.org/
Emily Fuggle @emilyfuggle.bsky.social Freelance Curator • Exhibitions/Collections Management • Specialising in museums, exile and migration / émigré artists • PhD Research at Ben Uri Gallery and Queen Mary on the Women (curators, donors…) of Ben Uri
Memo Akten @memoakten.bsky.social Ǟʀȶɨֆȶ; Curious philomath; Cofounder superradiance.net; Prof UCSD
Making the invisible visceral
Cosmosapience·Intelligence·Life·Consciousness·Ecology·Science·Spirituality
igor štromajer · intima.org @intima.bsky.social http://intima.org/stromajer „le Pavarotti du HTML“ · homo ex machina · low-tech post-electric non-artist · artworks in the Centre Pompidou & Museo Reina Sofía collections · a=tF² · https://intima.org · intimate tactical guerrilla + low-tech net strategies
aaaannet @aaaannet.bsky.social
Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social author of Blood in the Machine, tech writer, luddite
newsletter: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/
books: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/contributor/brian-merchant/
kofi link: https://ko-fi.com/brianmerchant
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/ ]
Sarah Badr @sarahbadr.bsky.social technical artist, composer; ixdm hgk @fhnw.ch
rīga · basel · القاهرة · london 🪼 sarahbadr.com
Mario Santamaría @mariosantamaria.bsky.social Available 23/7
https://mariosantamaria.net
https://internetour.com/
Markonthemaps (Mark Ovenden) @markonthemaps.bsky.social 🌈 Author, broadcaster and lecturer in design, cartography, typography and architecture around public transport. Partner of ND 🌈♾️ person. Pro-Transit 🚆 🚃 🚋 🚟🚌 and ‘in transit’ from X as @markovenden.
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Douglas Murphy @entschwindet.bsky.social I spend my days in an architecture school
I've written some books
Chatting about music, culture, politics etc etc
Will Jennings @willjennings.bsky.social Writer, artist, editor, curator
Editor: recessed.space
Teaching: UCL Bartlett
Obviously, everything here is my opinion & not that of my employers, except when I am my employer
Probs won't chat to faceless/anon/troll profiles
Jayne Knight @jayneknight29.bsky.social Photographic historian and Kodak Museum Collection researcher 📸
Emma Martin @tibetcurator.bsky.social Senior Lecturer Museology and 2026 British Academy Mid-Career Fellow at the University of Manchester. Practicing & researching Tibetan museology & material culture, past & present #Tibet #Museums #MaterialCulture #Archives #Colonialism #Provenance
Bart Simon @bartsimon.bsky.social Director of the Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology at Concordia University. Sociology Prof. Works on digital culture, STS, game studies, AI and other fun stuff. Also Minecraft and eco gaming. Also the Fun Palace!
Dr Tasha Kitcher @tashakitcher.bsky.social Digital Researcher at the National Archives, UK
Historian and curator focused on media history, history of science and technology, and digital approaches to the study of history
Lou Bell @louisebell.bsky.social Researches artificial limbs in #ww1 and #ww2 | Committee member @socialhistsoc.bsky.social | co-founder @ukdishisthub.bsky.social | goes to a lot of gigs | she/her