Jen McArthur @jenmcarthur.bsky.social Infrastructure politics and finance. Associate Professor at UCL Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy
Jonathan Zittrain @zittrain.bsky.social A small creature who likes to run around in universities.
Prof. Harvard Law School, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Harvard Kennedy School. EFF Board. Director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and the HLS Library.
CTRG @ UCL @ctrg.bsky.social The Counter Terrorism Research Group (CTRG) are a group of researchers at UCL who analyse terrorism, extremism, and radicalisation. Follow to keep up to date with our research.
SEA Junction @seajunction.bsky.social Our venue to connect on Southeast Asia in all its socio-cultural dimensions – from arts and crafts to the economy, development, migration and human rights.
(4th Floor, Bangkok Art and Culture Center)
Lia Sciortino @liasciortino.bsky.social global citizen landed in Southeast Asia from Europe - former Asia regional director Rockefeller Foundation & IDRC, senior adviser Ausaid (DFAT) and program officer Ford Foundation, now founding director @seajunction.bsky.social (www.rosaliasciortino.com)
NonWayne @nonwayne.bsky.social Literary critic in a library. Scholarly publishing, egoism, manifestos, and modernism. My book, The Ego Made Manifest, is available from Bloomsbury. Views my own and mostly on the other one.
https://x.com/NonwayneWayne?t=8_wAuQkxi3mzXY2lgoWUbQ&s=09
PET Symposium @pet-symposium.bsky.social Official account of the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium and the Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies. Next event: PETS 2026
Website: petsymposium.org/
Mastodon: @PET_Symposium@infosec
Cyd @cyd.social Hi, my name is Cyd! I can help you claw back your data from Big Tech, starting with deleting all your tweets for free. https://cyd.social
Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social Law professor & journalist looking at tech geopolitics, free expression, internet law, online governance, & AI.
Senior Editor at Lawfare.
https://klonick.substack.com/
www.kateklonick.com
Jake Laperruque @jakelaperruque.bsky.social Center for Democracy & Technology Deputy Director on Surveillance, privacy and 4th Amendment expert
Focused on tech, privacy, and surveillance: AI, FISA, facial recognition, location tracking, drones (Also cooking, movies, and baseball)
ASSA Annual Meeting @assameeting.bsky.social The 2027 Annual Meeting will be held in Washington DC on January 3-5, 2027 (Sunday, Monday, & Tuesday). Details at http://aeaweb.org/conference.
Diyi Liu @deeliu97.bsky.social "D-E", Postdoc@UCPH, PhD @oiioxford.bsky.social, researching platform governance, content moderation, human-computer interaction
Luke Thorburn @lukethorburn.com Algorithms ∩ Conflict • PhD candidate • King's College London • lukethorburn.com
Connected by Data @connectedbydata.org The campaign for communities to have a powerful say on data and AI, to help create an equitable and sustainable world.
connectedbydata.org
Mathilde Sanders @mathildes.bsky.social Researcher | Decentralized platform governance | Media ownership | Public social media
Manuel Tonneau @manueltonneau.bsky.social PhD candidate @oiioxford.bsky.social NLP, Computational Social Science @WorldBank
manueltonneau.com
Aaron Rodericks @aaron.bsky.team Canadian wanderer in Ireland. Trying to make the internet a better place. Bluesky Head of Trust and Safety.
File a report in the app or via moderation@blueskyweb.xyz - not via mentions/replies.
https://aaronrodericks.com
SEACrowd @seacrowd.bsky.social Advancing Southeast Asian (SEA) NLP Research
https://seacrowd.github.io/
Global Trade Alert @globaltradealert.bsky.social We monitor policies that affect global trade.
https://www.globaltradealert.org/
Browser Choice Alliance @browserchoicealliance.org The Browser Choice Alliance is a coalition of browsers dedicated to the idea that consumers should have the right to choose, keep, and use their preferred browser as the default on Windows without that choice being undermined.
UCL InfoSec @sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk UCL Information Security Research Group (https://sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk/)
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Silvia Montaña @silmonn.bsky.social Lecturer in Journalism at UniMelbourne @AdmsCentre. Researching #AI, #automation #platformisation of news, media and fact checkers. Se habla español. Views my own.
@futureport82.bsky.social @futureport82.bsky.social Rebuilt EPCOT Center's Future World from 1982. Mostly.
To the world we dream about, and the world we live in now.
💙 Leslie 💙 @jazzzzzy.bsky.social Proud Nana to Riley and Reese, animal lover, senior, liberal, atheist, healthy vegan, music lover, book lover, nature lover and best life navigator (Squirrel!)
Kindness Matters
@poetartlit.bsky.social @poetartlit.bsky.social
Robert W. Gehl @rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy Ontario Research Chair of Digital Governance for Social Justice, York University.
My latest book, "Move Slowly and Build Bridges: Mastodon, the Fediverse, and the Struggle […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://aoir.social/@rwg, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
UCL @ucl.ac.uk Welcome to our official page. Sharing the latest news, research and highlights of life at UCL (University College London).
London's Global University - ucl.ac.uk
Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social Who is that dude by on IN LIVING COLOR? Help who you can, when you can, for as long as you can. City From Above. We live and we struggle. No DM’s Born April 1. Really!
@mariesantini.bsky.social @mariesantini.bsky.social
PSA Media and Politics Group @psampg.bsky.social Media and Politics Specialist Group of @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
https://www.psa.ac.uk/specialist-groups/media-and-politics
Co-convenors: @katyjparry, @jameswilldennis, @abirhodes, @ellenfelicity, and Jen Birks
PSA Technology, Internet, & Policy (TIP) @techpolicy.bsky.social We're the TIP Group at the Political Studies Association
Creating dialogue on the impact of technology & tech policy.
Follow for news, events, and more.
https://psatip.uk
Axel Bruns @snurb.info Australian Laureate Fellow and Professor at @qutdmrc, researching news, politics, partisanship, polarisation in digital and social media.
He/his | Progressive Rock | Hannover 96 🖤🤍💚 | 🇦🇺🇩🇪🇪🇺
🕸️ snurb.info
🐘 @snurb@aoir.social
⛔ @snurb_dot_info
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/
Andrea L. Guzman, PhD @teachguz.bsky.social Scholar. Author. Public Speaker. Educator. Artificial Intelligence + 🤖+ Media. Human-Machine Communication & Human-Computer Interaction. Former journalist.
https://andrealguzman.net
Latest book: "The SAGE Handbook of Human-Machine Communication"
Dan Kotliar @danmk.bsky.social 🎓 Senior Lecturer at the Department of Sociology, U of Haifa.
Previously: Stanford, Hebrew U.
Studying algorithms & culture, AI ethics, AI Hype, data infrastructures, microbiomic futures & more.
🏡 https://www.dankotliar.com/
Christian Katzenbach @ckatzenbach.bsky.social Professor for Media and Communication @ZeMKI.bsky.social
@unibremen.bsky.social // Director @pgmt.bsky.social and MA Digital Media and Society // platform governance, (generative) AI, hype, regulation, tech discourses, norms
Stanford CIS @stanfordcis.bsky.social Stanford Center for Internet & Society. See also @vanschewick.bsky.social
Bridgy Fed for the fediverse @ap.brid.gy Bridgy Fed (https://fed.brid.gy/) bot user for the fediverse. To bridge your account to the fediverse, follow this account.
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Rosie Collington @rosiecollington.bsky.social political economist | IPE post-doc @ CBS | PhD from UCL IIPP | co-author 'THE BIG CON' | views own etc etc | www.rosiecollington.work
Heidi Tworek @heiditworek.bsky.social Prof @ UBC. Canada Research Chair in history and policy of communications. Director @ubcdemocracy.bsky.social Co-editor of Journal of Global History. Senior fellow @ Centre for International Governance Innovation
Chris Stokel-Walker @stokel.bsky.social Tech journalist and author, who increasingly also talks on TV and radio. Interested in the sparks that happen when the online and offline worlds collide
@stokel on the other place. Buy my book: How AI Ate the World!
Fergal Lenehan @fergallenehan.bsky.social Books on The European Idea and German images of Ireland. Co-ed Reclaiming the European Street by MDH. Contributor https://thecurrency.news
Member @redico.eu www.redico.eu
Join the research hub: hub.redico.eu
ReDICo @redico.eu ReDICo: Researching Digital Interculturality Co-operatively. redico.eu
An interdisciplinary project exploring intercultural practices and discourses within digital spaces and beyond.
Join our research hub: hub.redico.eu
Center for European Policy Analysis @cepa.org The Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) | CEPA’s mission is to ensure a strong and democratic transatlantic alliance for future generations. Media inquiries: press@cepa.org
Mark Warner @docwarner.bsky.social Lecturer in Information Security at University College London (@sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk), a Marie-Curie Privacy&Us Fellow, and a former UCLIC(er).
Kyle Beadle @kylebeadle.bsky.social PhD Researcher @sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk Cybersecurity CDT // queer security and privacy // coercive behaviour in online communities // he/him 🏳️🌈
kylebeadle.com
Techdirt @techdirt.com A good old fashioned blog that has been covering tech, law, policy, and democracy for almost three decades now.
Dog Person @doghomie.bsky.social
Irene Hadiprayitno @irehadi.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Leiden University. Political Scientist, Human Rights, Southeast Asia, Indonesia.
www.irehadi.nl
ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute @iseas-singapore.bsky.social ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute (formerly Institute of Southeast Asian Studies), established as an autonomous organisation in 1968, is a regional centre based in Singapore, dedicated to studying Southeast Asia.
For more information, visit www.iseas.edu.sg
Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social Social scientist @yalesph.bsky.social studying why we get fooled online, and what to do about it. Author of Misguided. https://amzn.to/48zTs59
https://matthewfacciani.substack.com
www.matthewfacciani.com
https://matthewfacciani.github.io/tools/
Victoria Tran ✨ @victoriatran.bsky.social ✨ Comms Director @ Innersloth/Outersloth/Among Us
✨ Wholesome Games organizer
✨ Forbes 30u30, Adweek's Creative 100
✨ Get my book Mastering Community Management: https://www.victoriatran.com/book
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YouGov @yougov.co.uk YouGov gathers real opinions and behaviours from worldwide panel members to power insights into what the world thinks. Join now: https://account.yougov.com
Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social Former politico, comment writer, spread betting dealer, editor, now think tanker, consultant, former baker of overly dense loaves.
UCL Science and Technology Studies (STS) @stsucl.bsky.social Understanding the past, present and future of science and tech. Subscribe to our newsletter - https://www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/sts-newsletter
MetaROR @metaror.bsky.social MetaROR is a community initiative led jointly by RoRI and AIMOS. It provides a platform that leverages the publish–review-curate model to improve the dissemination and evaluation of metaresearch.
James Wilsdon @jameswilsdon.bsky.social undisciplined metascientist | executive director, Research on Research Institute @RoRInstitute.bsky.social | professor of research policy, UCL
Mike Masnick @masnick.com Techdirt guy. Writes about social media, copyright, free speech, content moderation, civil liberties and stuff like that. Once wrote a paper that may have helped inspire this service & now I'm on its board: https://bit.ly/protocolnotplatform
Luca Belli @1lucabelli.bsky.social Prof at FGV Law School, heading CTS.FGV.br and CyberBRICS.info
Director of CPDP.lat
Personal Views
UCL Political Science @uclspp.bsky.social UCL Political Science and School of Public Policy
ucl.ac.uk/political-science
Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social information science professor (tech ethics + internet stuff)
kind of a content creator (elsewhere also @professorcasey)
though not influencing anyone to do anything except maybe learn things
she/her
more: casey.prof
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/
Jan Zilinsky @janzilinsky.bsky.social I study the role of technology and conspiracy theories in democratic politics. NYU PhD.
https://www.janzilinsky.com
Aleksandra Lazić, PhD @alelazic.bsky.social Psychology researcher • Advocating for equitable #OpenScience • Into #RStats #SocialPsyc #HealthPsychology #SciComm #Running & recently #MarketResearch
orcid.org/0000-0002-0433-0483
https://mastodon.social/@alelazic
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alelazic
Travis Brown @travisbrown.dev Software developer living in Berlin
https://travisbrown.dev for contact info
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
Journal of Engaging Science, Technology, and Society (ESTS) @estsjournal.bsky.social The diamond open access journal for the Society for Social Studies of Science and Technology (4S).
IDOS_research @idos-research.bsky.social German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) – a renowned research institute and influential think tank for global sustainable development.
| Netiquette: https://blogs.idos-research.de/netiquette/
@icwsm.bsky.social @icwsm.bsky.social The 20th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, USA. May 27th to 29th, 2026.
Josh Cowls @joshcowls.bsky.social Tech policy person (Google), PhD in app store governance (Oxford). Views own. Repost signals interest. Expect miscellany.
Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social Professor in Science and Technology Studies, UCL @stsucl.bsky.social. Science policy, responsible innovation, emerging technologies. Book https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-32320-2. Responsible AI UK (www.rai.ac.uk)
Cecilia Rikap @ceciliarikap.bsky.social Assoc. Prof in Econ & Head of Research at @ucl-iipp.bksy.social
The Information Society Project at Yale Law School @yaleisp.bsky.social The Information Society Project at Yale Law School is an intellectual center addressing issues at the intersection of law, tech & society. https://law.yale.edu/isp/community
Nuurrianti Jalli, Ph.D @nuurrianti.bsky.social College Professor | Misinformation, AI, and Informational Systemic Risk | Technology, Policy, and Democracy in Southeast Asia | 📌Currently associated with OKState, ISEAS, Data Democracy Monash Indonesia. — www.nuurrianti.com
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
COMPASS Workshop @compass-workshop.bsky.social The 1st international Workshop on Computational Approaches to Content Moderation and Platform Governance (COMPASS) in conjunction with the 2025 International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM'25)
Robyn Caplan @robyncaplan.bsky.social Assistant professor at Duke University. Tech policy, platform governance, mom.
I make bad jokes sometimes.
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 🏳️🌈
Robert Gorwa @gorwa.ca Researching global tech policy at the WZB Berlin. 📕: The Politics of Platform Regulation - How Governments Shape Online Content Moderation (out now OA 🔓) https://academic.oup.com/book/56385
Sunaina Chopra @sunainamoudgill.bsky.social Continuously learning as an MPT/PhD Candidate at UBC - sustained by home-baked goods, reading binges, hockey nights, and sci-fi adventures ✨
She/Her | Views are my own
Obsidian @obsidian.md The free and flexible app for your private thoughts. For help and deeper discussions, join our community: http://obsidian.md/community
Ariel M. (she/her) @byarielm.fyi PhD candidate @ UBuffalo • NSF GRFP
ChemE doing computational systems biology
Multi passionate bean with too many ideas
🫶 Lover of cats, code & crafts
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
Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social Prof, Maynooth Univ https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/people/rob-kitchin
PI Data Stories https://datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie/
Author: Researching Digital Life, Digital Timescapes, Data Lives, The Data Revolution
PDFs papers/chs https: www.kitchin.org
Roser Pujadas @roserpujadas.bsky.social Lecturer (Asst. Prof.) in Digital Innovation @UCLSTEaPP | Digital platforms, digital infrastructures, AI.
David Lubin @davidlubin.bsky.social I’m the Michael Klein Senior Research Fellow in the Global Economy and Finance Programme at Chatham House. Formerly I was head of emerging markets economics research at Citi.
Chatham House Africa @africaprog.bsky.social @chathamhouse.org’s Africa Programme is a world-leading centre for independent policy research on African politics.
Website🔗: chathamhouse.org/about-us/our-departments/africa-programme
Podcast🎙️: soundcloud.com/chathamhouse/sets/africa-aware
Lisa Musumba @lisamusumba.bsky.social Communications Coordinator @africaprog.bsky.social • Host of the #AfricaAware podcast • views are my own
Richard King @rking.uk Senior Research Fellow with Chatham House's (@chathamhouse.org) Environment and Society Centre (@chesc.bsky.social). Views own, reposts & links ≠ endorsements.
Romane Dideberg @dideberg.bsky.social Research Assistant at Chatham House's Africa Programme - Political economy of conflict, natural resource governance, Sahel, Great Lakes
Khrystia Myhasiuk @khrystiamyhasiuk.bsky.social think tanking at ChathamHouse (@chathamhouse.bsky.social) | views my own | Support Ukrainian Army: http://comebackalive.in.ua/donate
Ino Terzi @inoterzi.bsky.social Chatham House academy associate.
intelligence · irregular warfare · emerging technology
Rowan Wilkinson @rwilkinson.bsky.social Love all things tech, geopolitics, humanitarianism and development policy. Currently at Chatham House 🌍 All views are my own
Chris Aylett @chrisaylett.bsky.social Research Fellow @chathamhouse focusing on the geopolitics of climate change and the energy transition. Views my own.
https://www.chathamhouse.org/about-us/our-people/chris-aylett
Header: 'A List of Antagonisms', Hiba Abdallah
The World Today @theworldtoday.org The magazine of @chathamhouse.org. From June 2026, social media updates will be posted on @chathamhouse.org – please follow us there
📖 Read: theworldtoday.org
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Bill Hayton @billhayton.bsky.social Associate Fellow, Asia-Pacific Prog at Chatham House; Editor of Asian Affairs; author of ‘Invention of China’, ‘South China Sea’, ‘Vietnam: Rising Dragon’ and ‘Brief History of Vietnam’
Katja Bego @katjabego.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow at Chatham House | Europe, geoeconomics of tech, European security | Currently ✍️ a book on subsea cables (Polity '26) | Amsterdammer in London 🇪🇺
Nilza Amaral @nilzaamaral.bsky.social Head of Research Operations, Global Governance and Security Centre, Chatham House (@chathamhouse.bsky.social). Down is the new up. Views my own.
Linda Yueh @lindayueh.bsky.social Economist at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford & London Business School
Author of The #GreatCrashes & #GreatEconomists
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/024198808X/
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/lindayueh
IG: instagram.com/lindayueh
W: www.lindayueh.com