Clare Evans @clarerevans.bsky.social Social Epidemiologist, Medical Sociologist, Quantitative Methodoloigst | Associate Professor Sociology @uoregon |
Views are my own | Repost =/= endorse |
Intersectional MAIHDA, health inequities researcher
Sherif EA @sherif.eurosky.social Tech can be better.
Co-founder & co-lead @eurosky.social
British, Egyptian, with a French connection
Sifa ID https://sifa.id/p/sherif.eurosky.social
Association for Progressive Communications (APC) @apc.org Association for Progressive Communications is a worldwide network supporting the use of internet and ICTs for social justice and sustainable development.
Jos Hoy @joeybean.bsky.social Light-Seeker. Conduit. Metal Mouth. Tender. Mama. [they/them]
PhD Candidate @hcde.uw.edu (into: radical care & epistemology, participatory infrastructuring). I don’t use GenAI.
Begin where you are. #LandBack
Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social science journalist | good physics, bad physics, and sometimes ugly physics
Signal: dgaristo.72
Email: digaristo@gmail.com
Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social Lecturer in LGBTQ+ History/History of Sexuality, University of Glasgow.
I wrote this book: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/teaching-gender-9780198937494
Miti Mazmudar @dettanym.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary. Privacy-enhancing technologies (DP, PIR, TEEs), software engineering, usable security & privacy tooling.
https://dettanym.github.io/
yuxi 👩🏻🏫 @yuxiwu.com privacy, design, hiking, photography
postdoc @ northeastern khoury
Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk Legal researcher, writer, journalist | Trans Rights Lead @ Good Law Project | PhD student @ University of Leeds
Views my own. Not your lawyer; not legal advice.
They/them
hello@jessothomson.co.uk
SOUPS @soupsconference.bsky.social The 22nd Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2026) will take place on August 23-26, 2026 in Germany. SOUPS brings together an interdisciplinary group of researchers and practitioners in human computer interaction, security, and privacy.
Collins Munyendo @collinsmunyendo.bsky.social Postdoc at UC Berkeley and Incoming Asst Prof of CS at NUS
Human factors in computer security and privacy
https://collinsmunyendo.github.io/
Alison Bechdel @alisonbechdel.bsky.social Cartoonist
Alexios Mantzarlis @mantzarlis.com Tech, facts, and carbonara.
mantzarlis.com
The Information Environment Project @ieproject.bsky.social Carnegie’s Information Environment Project is a multi-stakeholder effort to help policymakers understand the information environment.
QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com Understand the LGBTQIA+ world and support queer creatives to change the media with our free weekly newsletter 🏳️🌈
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blair @blairaf.com Canada CIFAR AI Chair, Asst. Prof, sci-fi creator @ UAlberta
Transfeminist AI governance, ethics, policy: blairaf.com
Gay trans cyborg warriors vs. AI monsters: objecttype3.app
Zein Murib @zeinmurib.bsky.social Political Scientist. Sexuality, trans politics, race, social movements, & intersectionality. Views my own.
Order my book! https://global.oup.com/academic/product/terms-of-exclusion-9780197671504
zeinmurib.com
Phillip Ayoub @payoub.bsky.social Professor @UCL • Author 'When States Come Out' @CambridgeUP • Co-Editor @EJPGjournal • PhD @Cornell • IR/CP, Europe, LGBTI Rights, Movements, Norms • 🏳️🌈 he/him
Bailey Otter @sociottergy.bsky.social sociology PhD student @ umich and predoctoral trainee @um-psc.bsky.social.
interested in nonbinary folks’ experiences of aging, family, and joy.
www.baileyotter.com
Frederic Jacobs @fredericjacobs.com www.fredericjacobs.com
https://ger.mx/A-RGsldmQt0iXfnzPgXNzLzA5_jvDbWHabqz1yJrt2ma#did:plc:oxwmqopgbm3driwzues7odpz
Abraham Mhaidli @abrahammhaidli.bsky.social Researcher studying harms of emerging technologies at Max Planck Institute for Security and privacy
Sam Bennett @sj-bennett.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️ he/him
👀 AI Metascience Fellow @Durham Uni - AI Ethics & Society www.ai-ethics.org - AI and Medical Humanities - www.sj-bennett.com
Elijah Bouma-Sims @elijahboumasims.bsky.social Ph.D. Student at Carnegie Mellon University in Societal Computing, NCSU C/O 2021. I do research on usable security and privacy with a focus on scams.
https://elijahboumasims.com
Zach Levonian @zwlevonian.bsky.social Human–computer interaction researcher. PhD from University of Minnesota. Tacoma, WA. Mastodon: zwlevonian@hci.social
Hibby @hibbythach.com PhD student at the University of Michigan's School of Information studying content moderation, trans technologies, and live-streaming. she/her pronouns
Oh also I'm like if a girl was a gamer was a streamer teehee
https://linktr.ee/hibbybobibby
Alyssa Smith @cetaceanneeded.bsky.social she/her
Assistant Professor at the College of the Holy Cross
PhD '26 @nunetsi.bsky.social
Website: https://asmithh.github.io/
Knitter, narcoleptic, whale fan, and powerlifter
Serge Egelman @v0max.bsky.social Scientist. Dir. of Usable Security & Privacy at the International Computer Science Institute (icsi.berkeley.edu). Founder, AppCensus (appcensus.io). All opinions are those of his employer(s), and not his own.
https://www.guanotronic.com/~serge/
Rosamunde Van Brakel @rosamundevb.bsky.social assistant prof criminology VUB/replacement lecturer KULeuven - research: digital & green criminology, surveillance, AI, youth justice, human rights
https://researchportal.vub.be/en/persons/rosamunde-elise-van-brakel
Luc Rocher @rocher.lc associate professor at Oxford · UKRI future leaders fellow · i study how data and algorithms shape societies · AI fairness, accountability and transparency · algorithm auditing · photographer, keen 🚴🏻 · they/them · https://rocher.lc (views my own)
Jo Gunawan @johannagunawan.bsky.social Maastricht Law and Tech Lab.
Gina Neff @ginasue.bsky.social Flower fan and AI expert. Professor of Responsible AI, QMUL; Director Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, Cambridge and fellow Magdalene College. Deputy CEO Responsible AI UK. https://linktr.ee/mctdcambridge?utm_source=linktree_admin_share 
Natalie Wynn @contrapoints.bsky.social Ex-philosopher, ex-Tweeter.
Email: info@contrapoints.com
Yoel Roth @yoyoel.com Internet sanitation enthusiast and full-time corgi wrangler.
Sanjay Kairam @skairam.bsky.social Member of Technical Staff @OpenAI | Teaching the machines to learn from humans.
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=BH7jpGIAAAAJ&hl=en
Ellen Simpson ➡️ u of alaska @ellens.bsky.social Asst. Prof of Comms @ U of Alaska SE▪️into algorithms, creativity, and creative work ▪️🌈▪️articulating vibes ▪️Previously: UVA Data Science, CU InfoSci, RHUL New Political Communication, Carmilla Webseries
https://ellensimpson.GitHub.io
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/
Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social An independent research and policy institute working toward a future where people, not technology, come first.
Emelia Hughes @emeliamay.bsky.social PhD student at the University of Notre Dame studying online communities & social media ✨ previously at @uwischool.bsky.social, @socialfutureslab.bsky.social, & UW CIP and intern with Adobe Research
J. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social I work with communities on science for safer, fairer digital environments.
Founder: CAT Lab. Radcliffe Fellow, Harvard. Assoc Prof, Communication, Cornell · Guatemalan-American · Ultracyclist
🐘@natematias@social.coop
natematias.com
citizensandtech.org
Nina Lutz @ninalutz.bsky.social PhD-ing at UW @cip.uw.edu @hcde.uw.edu. Visual media in problematic info (mis/disinfo, hate, scams, propaganda) and digital safety in sociotechnical systems. ninalutz.github.io.
Alex Leavitt, PhD (they/them) @alexleavitt.bsky.social Principal researcher for Trust & Safety @Roblox & Visiting Fellow @CHAI_Berkeley. 🏳️🌈🐈⬛🏳️⚧️ Ex-@Meta, PhD @USCAnnenberg. 日本語でOK!
Eric Gilbert @eegilbert.org Professor at Michigan. On sabbatical at the Berkman Klein Center. http://eegilbert.org
Joseph Seering @josephseering.bsky.social Assistant Prof at KAIST School of Computing. HCI, AI, T&S.
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
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
Emily Tseng @emtseng.bsky.social Postdoc at MSR, soon a prof at UW HCDE, got my PhD at Cornell IS. I think about power, privacy, and participation in HCI, security and AI.
Judith Donath @judithmedia.bsky.social deception | AI | design
https://vivatropolis.com
Jed Brubaker @whatknows.bsky.social Information Science professor at CU, @whatknows on most platforms.
Director of the Identity Lab and Digital Legacy Clinic.
Feminist Media Studies @femmediastudies.bsky.social Feminist Media Studies is a transdisciplinary, transnational journal publishing peer-reviewed scholarship + commentary & book reviews. Posts by @krystenstein.bsky.social
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
Sauvik Das @sauvik.me I work on human-centered {security|privacy|computing}. Associate Professor (w/o tenure) at @hcii.cmu.edu. Director of the SPUD (Security, Privacy, Usability, and Design) Lab. Non-Resident Fellow @cendemtech.bsky.social
Laura Dabbish @dabbish.bsky.social Professor - HCI at Carnegie Mellon University
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)
Miranda Wei @mirandawei.bsky.social recent @uwcse phd grad. digital security, privacy, safety, and how all of the above are sociotechical. she/they.
🌶 David Gray Widder @davidthewid.bsky.social Assistant Prof at UT Austin's iSchool.
Big Tech, political economy, AI hype, AI in War
trying to help computer ppl think more critically about computer, including me
exCornell/CMU/NASA/MSR/IntelLabs.
davidwidder.me
Nature @nature.com Research, news, and commentary from Nature, the international science journal. For daily science news, get Nature Briefing: https://go.nature.com/get-Nature-Briefing
Cassidy Pyle @cassidypyle.bsky.social Ph.D. Candidate, University of Michigan | Social Computing Researcher
Jamie Wareham @jamiewareham.co.uk I help you understand the LGBTQIA+ news and support queer creatives. Founder of @wearequeeraf.com 🏳️🌈 He/Him
Forbes Under 30 listed
Try my 4.8/5⭐ newsletter - https://www.wearequeeraf.com/subscribe/
Emiliano De Cristofaro @emilianodc.com Professor at UC Riverside, head of SPALab
Home: emilianodc.com
Amy Zhang @axz.bsky.social Associate professor of social computing at UW CSE, leading @socialfutureslab.bsky.social
social.cs.washington.edu
Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org We're the Electronic Frontier Foundation. We're a nonprofit that fights for your privacy and free speech online. Find all of EFF's social media accounts at eff.org/social.
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute 
Oliver Haimson @haimson.bsky.social Associate Professor at UM School of Information researching social computing, HCI, designing trans tech, social media, identity transitions, content moderation. 🏳️⚧️ he/him
Cori Faklaris @heycori1.bsky.social Asst. Prof. at UNC Charlotte researching usable security, privacy, and AI. Director, SPEX research group and UNC Charlotte Cybersecurity Clinic. PhD, CMU HCII. Ex-journo. Cat mom.
Alexandros Efstratiou @alextheefstra.eurosky.social Postdoc at UW iSchool/Center for an Informed Public, previously Cybersecurity PhD @UCL. Computational social science // polarization and misinformation, online social networks, and meta-science. Opinions my own.
Philipp Jovanovic @philippjovanovic.bsky.social Professor in Information Security at UCL
Alumnus of EPFL and University of Passau
https://philippjovanovic.com/
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
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.
Katta Spiel (they/them) @katta.bsky.social queer crip in tech research, hearing sign language enthusiast
Morgan Klaus Scheuerman @morganklauss.bsky.social HCI research scientist @ Sony AI in Barcelona. ethical AI, identity, technological harm. Previous: CU Boulder, UMBC, Microsoft Research Fellow. posts my own.
https://www.morgan-klaus.com/
Michael Zimmer @michaelzimmer.bsky.social Privacy & data ethics scholar. Director of @MUDataEthics.bsky.social at Marquette University. I also curate @ZuckerbergFiles.bsky.social
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
Amy Bruckman @asbruckman.bsky.social I study online communities, content moderation, and social movements. 
ACM CSCW @acm-cscw.bsky.social ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing. CSCW 2026 will be in Salt Lake City, Utah from October 10–14, 2026: https://cscw.acm.org/2026/.
Follow our community using our Starter Pack: https://go.bsky.app/SPumuMT
Gianluca Stringhini @gianlucastringhini.com Associate Professor at BU. Cybersecurity and Cybersafety. Come for the memes, stay for the science. Skeets are my own
Steven Murdoch @steven.murdoch.is Professor of Security Engineering; Head of UCL Information Security Research Group @sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk; Director Open Rights Group. 🐘 https://mastodon.social/@sjmurdoch 🐦 @sjmurdoch 🌍 https://murdoch.is/
Dr Carolina Are / Blogger On Pole @bloggeronpole.bsky.social 📱Digital criminologist @ #LSE 💃🏻 #poledance performer 🍑 Blogger, award-winning activist 🇮🇹 LDNer (she/her) 🧛🏻♀️ Thinking about Buffy like it’s the Roman Empire. https://bloggeronpole.com/all-my-links/
Arvind Narayanan @randomwalker.bsky.social Princeton computer science prof. I write about the societal impact of AI, tech ethics, & social media platforms. https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/
BOOK: AI Snake Oil. https://www.aisnakeoil.com/
Killian Davitt @killiandavitt.bsky.social Postdoc at King's College London, working on online harms.
Former PhD student at UCL.
https://killiandavitt.me- T Tristan Caulfield @tristancaulfield.bsky.social Associate Professor at UCL.
Cybersecurity, privacy, misinformation, modelling
Jeremy Blackburn @mrjimmyblack.com Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Institute for AI and Society at Binghamton University. I work on building a quantitative understanding of assholes on the Web @idrama.science. 4 kids, 2 wolfhounds, 2 Löwchens.
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 🏳️🌈
Elissa Redmiles @eredmil1.bsky.social Faculty @Georgetown, Faculty Associate @BKCHarvard
Digital security, "AI", safety, privacy, S*x W*rk
Prev @MSFTresearch @Meta @umdcs @nsfgrfp @datascifellows
Estelle Smith @estellesmithphd.bsky.social Assistant Professor, CS, Colorado School of Mines. Online spiritual care, social computing, online governance, Human-AI Interaction: http://bit.ly/sacredtech. CSCW, CHI, TOCHI, etc. 👩🏼💻
Community Chair for #CSCW2025🇳🇴
https://estellesmithphd.com
John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com Columnist and chief data reporter the Financial Times | Stories, stats & scatterplots | john.burn-murdoch@ft.com
📝 ft.com/jbm
Dr. Jordan Taylor @jordant.bsky.social Critical Computing + Art + Queer Studies | he/they | https://jtaylor.lgbt | Incoming Postdoc at the University of Michigan
Nazanin Andalibi @naz-andalibi.bsky.social Associate Prof, University of Michigan School of Information | she/her | emotion AI/privacy/justice/reproductive health and justice/endometriosis/social media| 🐕🦺mom | posts don’t represent employer
Stevie Chancellor @schancellor.bsky.social Assistant prof at UMN CS. Human-centered AI, online communities, risky mental health behaviors. Mom, lifter, nerd, haver of opinions. 
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
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
Michael Bernstein @mbernst.bsky.social CS Professor at Stanford
Airi Lampinen @airilampinen.bsky.social Associate Professor in Human–Computer Interaction at Stockholm University. Docent in Social Psychology at University of Helsinki. Computer-Supported Cooperative Work. Shared Uses of Technology. Intimate Technology.
electronic Max (Max Van Kleek) @emax.bsky.social Assoc. Prof–Computer Science, University of Oxford
LGBTQ+ fellow, ethical systems, AI, privacy, dignity and digital human rights. MIT Alumnus. Ex-IBM, Nokia, PARC.
lover of robot music 🤖⚡️
https://hip.cat/emax
https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/max.vanklee
Guo Freeman @guofreeman.bsky.social Dean’s Associate Prof. of Human-Centered Computing, Clemson University. CUGAME Lab Director. HCI, CSCW, Games, Social VR, Human-Centered AI. I mainly post about my research and gaming experience. https://guof.people.clemson.edu
Sanchari Das @drsancharidas.bsky.social Assistant Professor at George Mason University | Ph.D. from Indiana University Bloomington | specializing in security, privacy, HCI, AR/VR, and accessibility | Prev Institutions : University of Denver, ParityTech, XRSI, and American Express. 🙏
Cliff Lampe @clifflampe.bsky.social 
ACM CHI @chi.acm.org The Association for Computing Machinery's Computer-Human Interaction Conference and Steering Committee.
#CHI2026 is in Barcelona, Spain 🎨 April 13 -17.
Content managed by Social Media Chairs.
UCL InfoSec @sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk UCL Information Security Research Group (https://sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk/)
Sharad Agarwal @shad1126.bsky.social Cybercrime Researcher | PhD Candidate @uclcs @ucl | Product Analyst @StopScamsUK | Created http://csphdfellowships.org | Prev @BristolCyberSec @CMSExperiment @CERN @CERNopenlab
🌐 sharad1126.github.io