The Grind @thegrindto.bsky.social Toronto's current affairs & culture print mag. FREE in 30 TTC subway stations, and 300 other GTA locations.
thegrindmag.ca
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No AI Vancouver @noaivancouver.bsky.social Opposing AI data centres & big tech's AI push from Vancouver, BC
October 3rd: International Day of Protest
Petitions, newsletter signup, and more: https://linktr.ee/no.ai.vancouver
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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
Pooja Bhatia @bhatiap.bsky.social Haiti, immigration, human rights. Tout moun se moun.
The labor librarian @laborlibrarian.bsky.social Grew up in a UFW/IWW household. Now I’m a public to academic librarian, union thug, and general roustabout.
Anonymous because I’m not tenured yet.
Pro-Palestinian, pro-trans, anti-racist, anti-AI, and not fit for human consumption.
Christopher Powers @powersglobal.bsky.social International Educator, Assistant Vice President for International Initiatives, Towson University, Baseball Fan, He/him, All views my own
Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca Leader of Canada’s NDP / Le chef du NPD fédéral
https://linktr.ee/avi.lewis
Asian Studies Program, Kwantlen Polytechnic University (Canada) @kpuasianstudies.bsky.social Offering BA Major, BA Minor, AA Degree, and lots of interesting courses. Located on the unceded territories of the Kwantlen, Katzie, Semiahmoo, Tsawwassen, & Musqueam Peoples.
Laëtitia Saint-Loubert @laetitia-stloubert.bsky.social Caribbeanist. Literary translator. Lecturing Translation and Translation Studies @NantesUniversité. ❤️ in 🇵🇷.
Author of The Caribbean in Translation @PeterLangBooks. She/her.
Ameena Gafoor Institute @gafoorinstitute.bsky.social The Ameena Gafoor Institute for the Study of Indentureship and its Legacies is dedicated to advancing understanding about indentureship and its global impacts. www.ameenagafoorinstitute.org
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
The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social A podcast about the fight against car culture. Hosted by Sarah Goodyear & Doug Gordon.
Our new book, "Life After Cars" is out now.
https://www.lifeaftercars.com/
https://www.patreon.com/thewaroncarspod
The Atlantic @theatlantic.com Exploring the American idea through ambitious, essential reporting and storytelling. Of no party or clique since 1857. http://theatlantic.com
Dagomar Degroot @dagomardegroot.bsky.social Professor of environmental history at Georgetown University. Creator, "The Climate Chronicles." Author of the new book, "Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean." Interested in all things climate change, outer space, existential risk, and past for present.
Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social Staff Writer at The New Yorker. Author of 'The Ballad of Abu Ghraib', 'A Cold Case' & 'We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families.’ Faculty at Bard Prison Initiative.
Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social Washington Bureau chief at The Independent, MSNOW Columnist. Next book: MANLY WHILE STIMMING 03.30.27. Tar Heel He/Him Eric.garcia@the-independent.com
Sumita Pahwa @sumitapahwa.bsky.social Social scientist, Bombayite, Californian, ex-Cairene. Mango maven. Cat lady. Teaches at Scripps College. Deeply sourced expert in search of novel gustatory experiences. If you post/snipe, anonymously, expect to be blocked.
Fabian Offert @zentralwerkstatt.org Associate Professor UC Santa Barbara | I study how machine learning models represent culture and what is at stake – aesthetically and politically – when they do.
The Maybe @themaybe.org The Maybe is a media studio, collective, and consultancy challenging the power and politics of tech.
Home to the Computer Says Maybe podcast.
Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app Check your vernacular & then I’ll get back to ya. Essayist poet philosopher & writer of the novel NONE BUT THE RIGHTEOUS & the novella FES IS A MIRROR. She/her
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/676226/none-but-the-righteous-by-chantal-james/
Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social Professor of European Politics at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. Elections, parties, social democracy & the radical right. he/him. 🏳️🌈
Monstrous Intimacies At 15 @monstrousat15.bsky.social Colloquium dedicated to the impact of Christina Sharpe's monograph, Monstrous Intimacies | June 22 - 24 2026 | Toronto, Canada | Art by Boz Deseo Garden
Pause AI in BC Schools @aicaution.ca We are PACES: Vancouver - Parents for AI Caution in Educational Spaces, a group of parents concerned by the effects of GenAI+chatbots on students.
https://aicaution.ca/
Follows are not endorsements.
Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social Postdoc studying cancer. Academic unionist and transit enthusiast. Trying to make buses less invisible. TF2 Medic main.
This account does not represent the positions or opinions of my employer or of my union.
he/him
Alexander Manshel @manshel.bsky.social Assoc. Prof., McGill English | Book: WRITING BACKWARDS (Columbia UP) | Articles: The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Nation, LARB, Public Books, Post45, PMLA, and MELUS | Next Up: The History of High School English |📍Montreal
Critical Times @criticaltimes1.bsky.social A peer-reviewed, open-access journal committed to the intellectual and political project of critical theory. ctjournal.org.
Malik Al Nasir @malikalnasir.bsky.social PhD Candidate, (History) University of Cambridge, St Catharine’s College. Poet, author “Letters to Gil” (William Collins, 2021) “Searching for my Slave Roots” (William Collins, 28 Aug 2025). Protégé of Gil Scott-Heron
https://linktr.ee/malikalnasir
Erin Weinberg @bardolator.bsky.social English prof in the prairies, proud union member
Shakespeare | Jane Austen | Agatha Christie | Food | Cults & Coercive Control | Teaching & Learning
Henry Snow @henrys.now Labor + economic historian | they/them
political economy, ships, and shipbuilders
CONTROL SCIENCE out with Verso May 12!
currently an adjunct at UConn
website: http://henrys.now/
newsletter/blog: buttondown.com/anotherway
Brishti Basu @brishti.bsky.social Health reporter @pressprogress.ca *On maternity leave*
Co-founder at De Facto Journalism Co-op @defactomedia.ca
📧 brishtireports@gmail.com
✉️ brishtibasu@protonmail.com
DM for Signal.
ellen teapot 🇨🇦🏳️⚧️ @ellenteapot.ca 🇨🇦 permanent resident | 🇺🇸 citizen | she/her pronouns (in bio)
Association of University Presses @aupresses.bsky.social A global community of publishers whose mission is to ensure academic excellence and cultivate knowledge. Read UP! https://aupresses.org/ Got a question about university press publishing? Ask UP! https://ask.up.hcommons.org/
Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social debt, development, infrastructure, the economics of racial inequality, and the myth of racial progress. I express my own views
Hisham Zerriffi @hishamzerriffi.bsky.social Energy Resources, Development and Environment Lab (ERDELab) PI. Energy, equity, justice, climate change, bioenergy. But also TTRPGs and photography (https://pixelfed.social/i/web/profile/499807930552574625). he/him.
@ocufa.bsky.social @ocufa.bsky.social OCUFA represents 18,000+ faculty, librarians & academic professionals across Ontario. We’re committed to strengthening higher education and advocating for our members’ rights and interests. #ONpse #HigherEd #FacultyVoice
Death Panel @deathpanel.bsky.social Stay alive another week
patreon.com/deathpanelpod
Jed Brown @jedbrown.org Prof developing fast algorithms, reliable software, and healthy communities for computational science. Opinions my own. https://hachyderm.io/@jedbrown
https://PhyPID.org | aspiring killjoy | refuse epistemicide | he/they
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science 👁️ https://olivia.science
🍃 https://metatheory.space
associate professor of computational cognitive science · she/they · cypriot/kıbrıslı/κυπραία · σὺν Ἀθηνᾷ καὶ χεῖρα κίνει
The Maple @readthemaple.com Canadian news & opinion that confronts the status quo. 100% reader-funded & independent.
Edited by @alex.readthemaple.com & @davide.readthemaple.com
Website: https://www.readthemaple.com/
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Trade and Investment Research Project @ccpa-tirp.bsky.social A project of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives that pools expertise from NGOs, unions and academics studying trade treaties and globalization. Posts by CCPA Researcher Stuart Trew.
policyalternatives.ca
Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social Sociologist - he/him/his
Author - The Business of Racism: Labor & Environment in Brazil's Racial Capitalism
https://dukeupress.edu/the-business-of-racism
Co-editor - Environmental Sociology Now
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/environmental-sociology-now
Cecilia Rikap @ceciliarikap.bsky.social Assoc. Prof in Econ & Head of Research at @ucl-iipp.bksy.social
Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com She/her. I write books about carriages, corsets, and smartwatches. Mother of (emoji) dinosaurs 🦖🦕. 羽生結弦 fan. Fan of tea. Born at 332 ppm.
This biography should not be taken as a complete description.
courtneymilan.com
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.
Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social policy, $, political economy of race // 70-80s soul, 90s hip hop // #DubNation // proud product of miscegenation // Berkeley prof (formerly: Princeton CSDP, UW)
Dr. Steph Chancy @chancyms.bsky.social I’m a Historian and Art Historian. Research focus: the Atlantic world (Haiti, the U.S. and Europe). After years of teaching I’m now a librarian. I ❤️ good books, good movies, good conversation, and good food.
Jeanne Theoharis @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social Distinguished Professor at Brooklyn College, Author of The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks and King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life of Struggle Outside the South
critical slop studies @struthious.bsky.social Applied scientist working on LLM evaluation and publishing in AI ethics. Formerly: technical writing, philosophy. Urbanism nerd in my spare time. Opinions here my own. he/they 🏳️⚧️. https://boltzmann-brain.github.io/
Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social Asst Prof, Berkeley, Political Science: 1/ Agenda Seeding http://j.mp/agenda-seeding 2/ Race as a Bundle of Sticks http://j.mp/bundle-of 3/ Text as Behavior https://cup.org/4cUmoXi 4/ Plutopopulism http://cup.org/4cfm0Az
Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social Editor-at-large, World Politics Review. Spent more than a year in Provence. Used to be an American in Paris. Currently bringing coal to Newcastle.
https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/
@wpr.bsky.social
J. Chris Pires @jchrispires.bsky.social Professor passionate about student success & team science #firstgen #Brassica enthusiast walking Dogs of the Plant World
#Agriculture #Food #HigherEd #EduSky #Agsky #SciComm & more
#Soil #Crop #Science ; opinions mine
Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com I write novels, games and stories. Coming in 2026: MERCUTIO and THE SWORDMASTER. Writer at CHEO Foundation (my views are my own). Former journalist. From Manitoba, now in Ottawa. She/her. Trans rights are human rights 🏳️🌈
https://kateheartfield.com
Laura Mauldin @lauramauldin.bsky.social Author IN SICKNESS & IN HEALTH (Ecco,2026); ‘24 New America Fellow; NYC-based Prof @uconn ; ✍️ in LARB, The Baffler, The New Republic, etc; Rep @McKinnonLit, ASL interp 🏳️🌈 LauraMauldin.com
If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social Historian at a US university. Posts about history, India, technology, extremism. Do not feel safe, due to past Hindutva harassment, sharing identity publicly.
Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me Writer, Colombo. Wrote THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS (2023, Nebula, Ignyte, Crawford, and Locus awards) & RAKESFALL (2024, Le Guin Prize and Otherwise award.) https://vajra.me
Anti-Colonial History @anticolonialhistry.bsky.social An Indigenous led project
anticolonialhistory.com
submissions: anticolonialhistory at proton dot me
Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social Architecture, landscape, urbanism. Independent nonprofit public scholarship on the built environment. Free & accessible to all.
Read: http://placesjournal.org
Sign up: placesjournal.org/newsletter
Donate: https://placesjournal.org/donate/
Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com Professor, UW Biology / Santa Fe Institute
I study how information flows in biology, science, and society.
Book: *Calling Bullshit*, http://tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b
LLM course: https://thebullshitmachines.com
Corvids: https://tinyurl.com/mr2n5ymk
he/him
bianca wylie @biancawylie.com 
Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social Time Machines. Temporality. Ecology. Robots. Education. Associate Professor of 19th century British Literature. 
Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social Tabatha Southey is a freelance writer who is based, in Toronto. She/Her. Bylines Globe and Mail, Macleans, Foreign Policy, National Post, Toronto Life, Explore Magazine, Toronto Star and more, author of three books, and the River-Daughter. 🇨🇦
Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social American Vandal Pod | Prof of AmLit & Twain Studies + Director of Media Studies, Elmira College | Resident Scholar @MarkTwain.bsky.social | Political Economy of Mass Media
TheAmericanVandal.com
MattSeybold.com
Eric Hayot @ehayot.bsky.social Teacher (Penn State), writer of books about China and the West, literary worlds, academic style, history of the humanities. New project on the end of aesthetic history.
Arsenal fan, occasional Cassandra.
UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social Changing how the state is imagined, practised, and evaluated to tackle societal challenges. Director: @mazzucatom.bsky.social, Deputy Directors: @rainerkattel.bsky.social & @eaves.ca
Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social literature prof, book historian, cultural sociologist, anti-work communist gadfly
https://carleton.ca/english/people/brouillette-sarah/
The Blackstudies Podcast @blkstudies-podcast.bsky.social Podcasted conversations on the past and future of Black Studies, hosted by our editorial collective - Ashley Newby, Brie Gorrell, Olivia Blucker, and John E. Drabinski. Follow via links at linktr.ee/blstpodcast. Contact us at blackstudiespodcast@gmail.com
Matthew Gillikin @mtgillikin.bsky.social trying to figure out what's going on here, co-chair @livablecville.bsky.social
Dr. Nneka D. Dennie @nneka.bsky.social diaspora-discoveries.com | nnekadennie.com | rogue historian | editor of Mary Ann Shadd Cary: Essential Writings of a Nineteenth Century Black Radical Feminist (OUP, 2023) | ⚽️ fan | 🇻🇨 vincy, not nigerian | NEEK-uh | views mine, not my employer's
trace press @tracepress.bsky.social Literature from the global south & diasporas.
tracepress.org
Tkaronto/ elsewhere
IG: @tracepress00
x: @tracepress
#bksky #smallpress #poetry #fiction #cnf #translation
@sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social The atlas-eater with a jaw for news :: journalism, art and comics :: Formerly: Providence Journal, Tampa Bay Times, Boston Phoenix, Boston magazine, Bloomberg. Now: Flaming Hydra :: married to @josie.zone :: EMAIL ME: si AT arrr DOT net
Rhys Owain Williams @rhysowainwilliams.bsky.social Writer of poetry, fiction and other things | That Lone Ship (Parthian Books) | Hay Festival Writer At Work | He/Him | https://linktr.ee/rhysowainwilliams
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social Law Prof. GWU, Tech & Justice. Author: “Your Data Will Be Used Against You,” “The Rise of Big Data Policing,” “Why Jury Duty Matters,” and “The Law of Law School.”
Haroon Akram-Lodhi @ahakram-lodhi.bsky.social Professor Emeritus of Economics, Global Justice and Development at Trent University in Peterborough, Canada, whose research is on the feminist political ecology of agrarian change, livelihoods and food systems.
Larry La Fountain @larrylafountain.bsky.social Professor at the University of Michigan. Author of Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance (2021) + Queer Ricans: Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora. Coeditor Keywords for Latina/o Studies. On sabbatical this year. 🇵🇷 🌈
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
Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com MUSKISM with @bentarnoff.com: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/muskism-quinn-slobodianben-tarnoff?variant=43838135402530
HAYEK’S BASTARDS won the NBCC award for criticism. quinnslobodian.com
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.
Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com Engineering prof (mechanical + electrical) at a big Midwest state school. Energy, climate, buildings, power grid, control, optimization, data science. He/him. Personal account. https://kevinjkircher.com/ Email: my last name at purdue dot edu
Linotype Pilgrim @symbo1ics.bsky.social Reviews: "unhinged", "deluded", "incoherent", "sick jerk" | Black Lives Matter | Vidas Indígenas Importam | Trans Lives Matter | typography, politics, profanity, analog electronics, retrocomputing, coffee, food | Mastodon: https://timeloop.cafe/@symbo1ics
Annie McClanahan @anniemcc.bsky.social Vulgar Marxist, Kentucky proud, fuck work. She/her
anniemcclanahan.com
Arloween 🎃 @feraldactal.bsky.social 𖤐feeling cute might haunt you later𖤐
screaming from the abyss
beware of me
Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social Author of Indian Sex Life (Princeton University Press, 2020) &
The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism (Princeton University Press, 2026). writing gender history in the time of gender ideology.
Jennifer C. Nash @jennifercnash.bsky.social professor; writer; black feminist; mother; cookie monster; WBB fan; editorial director of @feministstudies.bsky.social
Feminist Studies Journal @feministstudies.bsky.social committed to publishing and championing interdisciplinary research in gender & sexuality studies; unabashedly feminist; fiercely independent; feministstudies.org
Scoiattolo @scarnecchia.net Sr. Tech PM building tools and distributed research networks for drug safety; Occasional Data Witch; 🚴🏻🏃🏻⛷️ Former goatherd & Data Ethics @HHI_Signal.
Director of Human Alignment and Sin Eater, @skywatch.blue
Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social Nebula, Aurora, WFA finalist, Ignyte Co Founder
"SKIN THIEF STORIES" Neon Hemlock. COUNTESS out now ECW Press. Goth, plant grower, music enthusiast. She/They, Queer, 🇹🇹 🇨🇦 rep by Michael Curry. Banner: Matt Griffin
suzanpalumbo.carrd.co
Robert McNees @mcnees.bsky.social Physicist and Professor at a university in Chicago. I study black holes, quantum gravity, and cosmology. Rocky Top, Tar Heel. Reposts are spooky action at a distance.
My views, not my employer's.
https://jacobi.luc.edu
https://mcnees.github.io
Dr Tiera Tanksley @drtanksley.bsky.social AI, Ethics & Education 📚
I examine how biases within EdTech and AI can exacerbate educational equity gaps for Black students
2023-2024 Op Ed + MacArthur Foundation Public Voices in Tech Fellowship
Jeff Schuhrke @jeffschuhrke.bsky.social Author of No Neutrals There (Haymarket, 2025) and Blue-Collar Empire (Verso, 2024).
Kathy Ishizuka @kishizuka.bsky.social Third generation JA; Master Gardener
Priors: Editor in Chief, School Library Journal, Partnerships & Innovation Director, SLJ & LJ
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social Entomologist, naturalist, all-around bug nerd. https://www.hawaiianinsects.com
Faine Greenwood @faineg.com civilian drone technology and GIS/spatial data consultant, journalist and writer, monitors small drones in the Ukraine war, humanitarian-aid adjacent, always annoying online. they/them pronouns. read my newsletter: https://little-flying-robots.ghost.io
Ignyte Award-Nominated Writer/Editor LP Kindred @lpkindred.bsky.social Citizen of the Wildeeps! Writer Editor Podcaster TeachingArtisr of Speculative Fiction! Words in Apex, Fiyah, Anathema, Prismatic, Escape Pod, PodCastle. Ghost Class/Clarion c/o 2030-2022. Just Keep Writing co-host. Art Institute Chicago BFAW c/o 2027.
Terese Mason Pierre @teresempierre.bsky.social Writer/Poet, Editor. SFF/LitFic. CPO @ Augur. Work in: The Walrus, Year's Best Canadian FSF, Brick. Toronto, Canada. She/Her.
Author of MYTH. Editor of AS THE EARTH DREAMS (House of Anansi, 2025)
www.teresemasonpierre.com
andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social political economy of higher ed | socialist and communist education | Black studies | author of OUTSIDE LITERARY STUDIES, editor of UNIVERSITY KEYWORDS
(he/him)
Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social Professor at Wharton, studying AI and its implications for education, entrepreneurship, and work. Author of Co-Intelligence.
Book: https://a.co/d/bC2kSj1
Substack: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/
Web: https://mgmt.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/emollick
Craig Silverman @craigsilverman.bsky.social Cofounder of https://indicator.media, your essential guide to understanding and investigating digital deception. Sign up for free! Investigative journalist and OSINT trainer.
https://craigsilverman.ca