Oliver Bullough @oliverbullough.bsky.social Journalist; author of Butler to the World and Moneyland
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 Devlin @drkatedevlin.bsky.social Academic; writer. Professor of AI & Society, Chair-Director @kings-dfi.bsky.social, King’s College London. Eye-rolling at AI nonsense on a daily basis. #academicsky . Norn Irish in Norwich.
Politechs @politechs.bsky.social A podcast on the politics of technology from the perspective of tech workers.
DreamingAgainstTheMachine @dreamingagainstthemachine.com What would a good future look like?
Explore ideas about how to envision better, realistic, equitable futures with astrophysicist and journalist Dr. @adambecker.bsky.social.
Join the conversation at https://www.patreon.com/cw/DreamingAgainstTheMachine
Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social Canadian critical media studies scholar and podcaster interested in the meanings we make of perpetual tech promises. Bilingue. Focused on the environment. I typo a lot.
😷🏳️🌈
🎙️ thedatafix.net
📝 heliotropejournal.net
Alix Dunn @alixdunn.com I bloop about the politics of technology and host the Computer Says Maybe podcast: https://www.themaybe.org/podcast
Centre for Technomoral Futures @technomoralfutures.bsky.social Part of the University of Edinburgh’s Futures Institute, our work aims to unify technical and moral knowledge to serve the goals of sustainable, just & ethical innovation.
Find us here: https://www.technomoralfutures.uk/
Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social Neuroscientist: consciousness, perception, and Dreamachines. Author of Being You - A New Science of Consciousness. 
Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social "End Times Fascism" book coming September 2026.
Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire.
UBC Professor of Climate Justice.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/naomiklein
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!
Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social Chief political commentator and executive
editor, Financial Times
https://www.ft.com/robert-shrimsley
https://www.chartwellspeakers.com/speaker/robert-shrimsley/
zeynep tufekci @zey.bsky.social It is said that there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all
Leaflet @leaflet.pub The easiest way to make a blog, newsletter, or website on the open social web!
📝 powerful publishing tools 🛠️
🌱 for new writers & pros 🌿
🗣️ to connect & grow 👯
📖 + ✍️ @ leaflet.pub
Lab Notes: lab.leaflet.pub
Code: tangled.org/leaflet.pub/leaflet
Society for Hopeful Technologists @hopeful.technology We are a solidarity network that: strengthens and activates Hopeful Technologists, demystifies tech, and makes it easy for more technologists to be hopeful
Find out more: https://societyforhopefultechnologists.org/
Elaine Burke @elaineburke.bsky.social Talking tech, science and media. Journalist and broadcaster. Host of @fortechssakepod.bsky.social and Connected AI Podcast.
Eurosky Social @eurosky.social Building open social web infrastructure and apps in Europe. Public interest non-profit, part of Modal Foundation.
App: mu.social
Accounts: move.eurosky.tech
Discover: portal.eurosky.tech
Web: eurosky.tech
Help: eurosky.tech/help
Fund: fund.eurosky.tech
Our AI Collective CIC @our-ai-collective.bsky.social We empower communities to shape AI's future. Our AI Collective is working to strengthen civic power in the age of AI. Another world is possible.
www.our-ai-collective.info
Oldfirmfacts @oldfirmfacts.bsky.social 4x SFSA ‘Best Writer’ winner. Writing, podcasts, radio, live shows. Anti-your-team agenda.
Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society @tilt-tilburgu.bsky.social Updates from #TILT, Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society at Tilburg Law School @tilburg-university.bsky.social | #Technology #Governance #Regulation #Innovation #FundamentalRights | www.tilt.nl
Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social Professor of Political Geography & Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life @leverhulmecal.bsky.social
Algorithms, politics, technology, biometrics, AI, ethics
Author Cloud Ethics http://dukeupress.edu/cloud-ethics
Will Dunn @willdunn.bsky.social Political sketch writer at the New Statesman.
Ghost in the Machine @ghostdoc2026.bsky.social Feature documentary GHOST IN THE MACHINE. On PBS and YouTube September 14. notaidoc.com
fail better soon @failbettersoon.bsky.social “Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.” ––Augustine of Hippo
Colin M. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com political scientist @ University of Zürich
platforms, political violence, social media, computing
research & writing:
henryhenryhenry.com
sometimes land of enchantment, sometimes land of Helvetia
Karl Bode @karlbode.com Seattle-based writer focused on tech, media, politics, and consumer rights.
Subscribe to my newsletter The Fine Print*: karlbode.com
Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community 🟦 Analyst and writer focusing on cognition, politics, religion, technology, and media
🟦 Host, Theory of Change
🟦 Writing @flux.community, and frequently quoted or published in NYT, WaPo, NBC, Variety…
Signal: matthewsheffield.01
Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social CEO of Fairly Trained / Composer. Working towards fairer training data practices in generative AI.
Michaela Coetsee @michaelacoetsee.bsky.social AI Ethics and Safety Researcher @Advai 
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
karpathy @karpathy.bsky.social AI @ OpenAI, Tesla, Stanford
Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com You want to make something real. You want to make a Yaz record.
https://www.todayontrail.com
https://www.todayintabs.com
Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social Political Communication Prof at GWU. Flaming Hydra.
I write about the history and future of tech and politics. My next book, Vaporware, Inc.: How Silicon Valley Sells the Future to Control the Present, arrives on January 12, 2027.
Davekarpf.beehiiv.com
Corey @kh0rish.bsky.social Biologist, just fed up at this point because *gestures everywhere*
Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social Philosopher and historian of human extinction (sadly, an increasingly relevant topic). Coined the term “TESCREAL” w/ Timnit Gebru. Salon, Truthdig, WaPo, Aeon, etc.
Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com I want to smush software between my fingertips
and turn my flittery feelings into multimedia.
merveilles.town/@spiralganglion Δ masto
@inkandswitch.com Δ research
feelingof.com Δ podcast
ivy.boo Δ myself
she / hrt 🏳️⚧️
ab 🇨🇦
Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social Artist
Coldwarsteve.com
Anthony Dhanendran @dhanendran.co.uk I’m a product manager and sometime coach
Product and software development, music, cricket, London - was @phowax on Twitter
Involved with @hopeful.technology
https://sixthings.dhanendran.com/about
@mirosifra.bsky.social @mirosifra.bsky.social 
MJ Lira @mjlira.bsky.social Digital rights advocacy and research | Decolonial | Digital sociology MSc from @uoe-sps.bsky.social | Peruvian in London
hopeful.technology
Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social Hopeful technologist.
Community tech, careful innovation, socially progressive tech policy.
https://www.careful.industries
https://hopeful.technology
https://buttondown.email/justenoughinternet
DMs don't work but hello@careful.industries will find me
James @jamesg.blog Hello! I'm James (he/him/his) ✨
I'm a writer, art history student, and Taylor Swift fan.
Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social Educational Technologist, in HE. Father/husband. Writer. Brightonian/ex-Tokyoite. DJ/podcaster. European. Transitionist. (Occasional) Musician. Not necessarily in that order?
https://dompates.medium.com
Steph Wright @elmosmoe.bsky.social Leader and advocate for a different AI future which benefits everyone. CEO/MD and Co-Founder of Our AI Collective. Keynote speaker. Failed astrophysicist. Film geek. Parent. Love a GIF
Rick @ricksmith.co.uk I make things, with computers, sometimes.
Non-hardcore Creative Technologist.
Alex Wrottesley @lexonic.bsky.social 📍 Maps, Data & Technology
👾 Games / SciFi / Tinkering
🛠️ Aiming for General Availability
He/Him https://linktr.ee/lexonic
Kathryn Corrick @kcorrick.bsky.social Responsible strategy, data & innovation consultant
Loves teaching
Founding partner, Corrick Wales & Partners
External lecturer, Grenoble Ecole de Management
Member, Society of Hopeful Technologists
#opendata #netzero
France
https://kathryncorrick.fr
Catherine Mayer @mayeroflondon.bsky.social Author, journalist, activist, reluctant music biz participant. DIVIDE & RULE: Royal Women and their Battles out now. Novel TIME/LIFE published 2025.
Alastair Wilcox @awilcox.chalmere.com IT by profession. Interested in education, politics, economics and sport. Based in South Oxfordshire, UK, originally from the Wirral.
@adastra8.bsky.social @adastra8.bsky.social 
James Cox @ciaojames.sdg4.net Now: Founder of Public Goods, building SDG4.net & the Society for Hopeful Technologists.
Before: Head of Global Education Policy & Advocacy, Save the Children & Theirworld; advocacy at White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood.
Hugh Wallace @tumshie.me Tech / gov / design / occasional snark. Usually found queuing for coffee ☕️ Digital and data for public good ✊
CIO @rds-scotland.bsky.social
Chair @cfgsocial.bsky.social
✍️ Sign up to my newsletter: https://tumshie.me
Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social I’m not like the other Bayesians. I’m different.
Thinks about philosophy of science, AI ethics, machine learning, models, & metascience. postdoc @ Princeton.
Florian Idelberger @fl0id.bsky.social Researcher at FIZ-Karlsruhe, Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure. Formerly @KIT @EUI
Research in law and technologies (interdisciplinary AI and Law, NLP), data protection, ip (esp foss) and it security
Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social I write and teach critical intellectual property, theories, law & humanities & history of science in the UK university titanic. Mostly unserious here. Private account.
hyoyoonkang.com
ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social Lecturer in AI, Government & Policy at the OII (University of Oxford) | Author of "The Materiality of AI" (2027, Bristol University Press) | Associate Editor at Big Data & Society | Investigating algorithmic and environmental accountability of LLMs
Ed Zitron @edzitron.com British, But In Las Vegas and NYC
ezitron.76 Sig
Newsletter - wheresyoured.at
https://linktr.ee/betteroffline - podcast w/ iheartradio
Chosen by god, perfected by science
CEO at EZPR.com
Scottish Law Commission @scotlawcom.bsky.social 
Andrew Strait @agstrait.bsky.social UK AI Security Institute
Former Ada Lovelace Institute, Google, DeepMind, OII
Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social Investigative journalist, author, and Yorkshireman. DeSmog’s UK deputy editor.
writesbright.substack.com
Gaia Marcus @gaiamarcus.bsky.social - Director @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social:ensuring data & AI work for ppl & society
- Stint in government - led #NationalDataStrategy; roles in Cabinet Office, ONS & MHCLG
- Charity roles inc. Samaritans Trustee; staff @ The RSA, Centrepoint, ParkinsonsUK
Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social Linguist, Cognitive Scientist, Occasional AI Researcher, Immigrant in NYC, Co-Author w/ Ingeborg Glimmer of 'Why We Fear AI' - out now: https://bookshop.org/a/114797/9781945335174
Gil Durán @gilduran.com California writer. Ida Tarbell stan.
Author: “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy.” https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Nerd-Reich/Gil-Duran/9781668221402
Newsletter: http://www.thenerdreich.com
Ben Yong @bymyong.bsky.social "Estimable" Sir Jonathan Jones KC
Associate Prof in Public Law, Durham Law School. Looks at how legislatures and govt works. https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/benjamin-y-yong/
Mastodon: @bymyong@mstdn.social
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social Journalist & astrophysicist. Host, @dreamingagainstthemachine.com. New book: MORE EVERYTHING FOREVER, about broken futures pushed by tech billionaires. Words in the Atlantic, NPR, NYT, the Guardian, BBC, SciAm, Fortune, etc. He/him. Signal: adambecker.84
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
🏳️🌈
https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1837201724?i=1000724643828
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
Brian Klaas @brianklaas.bsky.social Professor of Global Politics @UCL. Author of “Fluke." Writer @TheAtlantic. Host, Power Corrupts podcast. The Garden of Forking Paths Substack.
Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social Researcher trying to shape AI towards positive outcomes. ML & Ethics +birds. Generally trying to do the right thing. TIME 100 | TED speaker | Senate testimony provider | Navigating public life as a recluse.
Former: Google, Microsoft; Current: Hugging Face
Reuben Binns @rdbinns.bsky.social Computery guy. HCI, ML, AI, privacy, security, fairness, political economy of tech. He/him. London/Oxford.
Worker Info Exchange @workerinfox.bsky.social Demanding transparency and accountability from platforms on algorithmic practices and worker rights violations
www.workerinfoexchange.org
fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social Confess your sins anonymously - will the internet absolve you?
Buy show tickets 2025/6: sites.google.com/view/fesshole
Add confession b3ta.com/addfess
Buy book amazon.co.uk/s?k=very+best+of+fesshole&tag=b3ta-21
Run @robmanuel.b3ta.com
The City of Edinburgh Council @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social We provide over 700 services to Scotland’s capital city. Follow for news and information on life in Edinburgh.
If you have a service question, please contact us: https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/contact
Pessimists Archive @pessimistsarc.bsky.social We explore and catalog the history of technophobia and moral panic.
Our newsletter: http://newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org
Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com Just published The Foundations Of The Digital State - a report for the Scottish Government
http://foundationsofthedigitalstate.com/
and blogs at
digitalpolicy.substack.com
Politician manqué, girl group fan, code monkey
Fulltime HTML Programmer @programmerhumor.bsky.social For anything funny related to programming and software development.
Adam Harkens @adamharkens.bsky.social Lecturer in Public Law at the University of Strathclyde: https://www.strath.ac.uk/staff/harkensadammr/
Researching algorithmic decision-making by the state: esp. policing and the welfare state.
Matthew Waddington @mattwadd.bsky.social Legislative drafter. Computational law & Rules as Code - lead Jersey’s Computer-Readable Legislation Project https://crlp-jerseyldo.github.io/ @crlp-jerseyldo.bsky.social
Drafting; small jurisdictions; ethics, logic, philosophy
linktr.ee/MatthewWaddington
Jennifer Cobbe @jennifercobbe.bsky.social Tech law @cambridgelaw.bsky.social
https://www.law.cam.ac.uk/people/academic/j-cobbe/83662
Ewa Luger @ewaluger.bsky.social Professor of Human-Data Interaction, University of Edinburgh; Codirector @braiduk.bsky.social; & https://www.responsiblenlp.org Researches AI/HCI
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 🏳️🌈
Thomas Streinz @streinz.bsky.social Prof of Law & Regulatory Theory
@eui-law.bsky.social
@eui-schuman.bsky.social
@eui-eu.bsky.social
📚 Researching European/global data/tech law & governance
Gry Hasselbalch @gryhasselbalch.bsky.social AI/data ethics, EU/global tech policy & 🌍geo politics. 🇩🇰Think Tank Director. 🧐PhD and author of books.
www.gryhasselbalch.com
Jake Goldenfein @jakegoldenfein.bsky.social Melbourne Law School, CI at ARC CoE for Automated Decision-Making and Society - Studying data governance, data commodification, and automated decision-making.
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
BILETA @bileta.bsky.social The British and Irish Law, Education & Technology Law Association, www.bileta.ac.uk.
Tristan Henderson @tnhh.org Computer scientist (ish) at St Andrews. Insane in the membrane. Except when running. Running photos at @tnhh.pixelfed.social.ap.brid.gy
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Wikipedia @wikipedia.org Maybe the real treasure was the citations we made along the way.
donate.wikipedia25.org
The Academic Imperfectionist @academicimp.bsky.social Coaching, philosophy, and podcasting from @rebeccaroache.bsky.social
www.academicimperfectionist.com
Rebecca Roache @rebeccaroache.bsky.social Philosopher and a few other things. Podcasting @AcademicImp.bsky.social
www.academicimperfectionist.com
System Crash @handle.invalid A tech news podcast to help you sort through the wreckage.
Hosted by @parismarx.com and @bcmerchant.bsky.social. Music by @com.y-a-c-h-t.com. Production by @ericwickham.ca.
Computer-Readable Legislation Project @crlp-jerseyldo.bsky.social Finding a way for legislative drafters to produce computer-readable versions of the logical structure of the legislation that we draft.
Part of the Legislative Drafting Office in Jersey (original, Channel Islands)
https://crlp-jerseyldo.github.io
AI Accountability Lab @aial.ie Trinity College Dublin’s Artificial Intelligence Accountability Lab (https://aial.ie/) is founded & led by Dr Abeba Birhane. The lab studies AI technologies & their downstream societal impact with the aim of fostering a greater ecology of AI accountability
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social Political Editor of Byline Times and Online Editor of BylineTimes.com. Lobby journalist in the House of Commons. 📩Adam@bylinetimes.com
Subscribe to my Substack ⬇️
https://www.adambienkov.co.uk
Burkhard Schafer @burkhardschafer.bsky.social Intellectual nomad grazing across the borders of law and computer science, University of Edinburgh. Corrupting the youth since 1996. Re-skeeting = unconditional love https://www.law.ed.ac.uk/people/professor-burkhard-schafe
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/
Rodney Brooks @rodneyabrooks.bsky.social Primarily Robotics and AI. Distinguishing hype-notism from plausibility one press release at a time. rodneybrooks.com/blog people.csail.mit.edu/brooks