Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social Asst Prof @ Illinois Dept of Communication studying media, politics, & identity, not necessarily in that order. UMich Comm & Media / SDSU Journalism & Media Studies / Drexel Digital Media alumnus / USMC veteran. Views = my own. http://www.stewartcoles.com
Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social Climber 🇪🇬 |Chief AI Scientist at @ainowinstitute.bsky.social | Safety engineer (nuclear, defense, software & AI/ML) | TIME 100 AI | MIT 35 U 35
x-Trail of Bits, OpenAI, Microsoft Research
https://www.heidyk.com/
hoots @hoots.bsky.social youtuber, podcaster, actor, soprano
Caelan Conrad @caelan.bsky.social Journalist / Video Essayist // https://www.youtube.com/caelanconrad // Critically Reviewed Podcast: @respectthedead.bsky.social // Audio Drama: @welcometoisaiah.bsky.social - https://ko-fi.com/caelan
<Got my PhD at a ghost school> <they/them>
Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social Environment editor at The Guardian
Send info confidentially via Signal: dpcarrington.35
Or via this link👇
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social Writer, reporter, and floofy dog owner. Previously at ARTnews, Business Insider, Quartz and other outlets. Based in Toronto.
John Scalzi @scalzi.com I enjoy pie.
Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
Courtney T. Wittekind @ctwittekind.bsky.social Anthropologist | Assistant Professor at Purdue | Postdoc at Yale CSEAS & Program in Agrarian Studies
Anne Jonas 🌻 @annejonas.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ UM-Flint CIT. Studying digital technologies, schools, community, and power through qualitative and design-based research methods. Previously at MSU, UC Berkeley, Barnard, and Brown. she/her 🏳️🌈
Barry Malone @barrymalone.bsky.social Journalist and commentator. Past: EP The Stream / Digital Editor Al Jazeera English / Reuters in Africa and Middle East. Jackeen.
Corey Brettschneider @democracyprof.bsky.social Poli Sci Prof @Brown JD/PhD
My podcast: The Oath and the Office: https://shorturl.at/H7vGP
My book: The Presidents and the People: Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It: https://shorturl.at/z31fC
Minna Ålander 🌻 @alanderminna.bsky.social Analyst @sceeus-ui.bsky.social at @uisweden.bsky.social | Associate Fellow @chathamhouse.org | @cepa.org Fellow | Council Member @ecfr.eu 📸 Stas Kartashov
🎙️ co-host Mildly Alarmed
✍️ Northern Flank Notes: https://open.substack.com/pub/minnalander
Elizabeth Harper @cadaverformosus.bsky.social Relic fan, lighting designer by night.
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
Shobita Parthasarathy @shobitap.org Science, tech, and innovation politics/policy incl patents. Author: next book on politics of inclusive innovation in India. #STS. Prof & Director, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, U of Michigan. Expert Voices columnist, Science. shobitap.org
Diana Enriquez, PhD @denrsch.bsky.social Sociologist via @Princeton.edu PhD (labor, tech & orgs) | writing a book about freelancers’ strategies | Principal, Technology Strategy & Design at Redstone Strategy Group
Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social Sociologist studying how our social structures make sexual violence more likely to occur. Author of ON THE WRONG SIDE. Co-founder of Beyond Compliance Consulting. PhD UMich.
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
Dr. Rebecca Simon FRHistS @piratebeckalex.bsky.social Historian: pirates/public executions 🏴☠️☠️
Author: Pirates’ Code, Pirate Queens, Why We Love Pirates 📚
Written for History Today, BBC History Extra, Routledge
See me on: History Channel, NatGeo, Discovery, BBC
https://rebecca-simon.com
unraveled @unraveledpress.com Independent, reader-supported investigative reporting from Chicago on policing and state violence.
Support us: unraveledpress.com/support-unraveled/
📧 info@unraveledpress.com
📱 Signal: unraveled.66
Nia Soler @niasoler.bsky.social Ilustradora ⸙ Escritora
Ilustración editorial
Representante de @arteesetica.bsky.social en España para la defensa de los DD. HH. frente a la IA generativa en Iberoamérica
▶ https://niasoler.com/links
Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science • Author: Polarized & Demobilized, Legacies of Authoritarianism in Palestine • ماسكة السلم بالعرض • Banner by Sara Qaed
danaelkurd.com to contact
Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social PSCCUNY. #CUNYStrong. Queer. Collective power, public good. Organize your workplace. Zindabad. Makibaka. Solidarity
Greg Pak @gregpak.net Rhymes with "rock." Comics writer, filmmaker, photojournalist. SUPERNATURAL, PLANET HULK. He/him. @comixaction.com Call your reps (reps.fyi). Stop posting on X.
All my links: gregpak.fyi
(@gregpak.com for work only)
Buy my stuff at gregpakshop.com!
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that.
AI Moratorium for NYC Schools @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social Coalition of parents, teachers, and activists calling for a two-year moratorium on AI in NYC schools. https://parentsforaicaution.com/aim-coalition/
On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aim_coalition_nyc
Comix Action @comixaction.com NYC comics creatives against authoritarianism and for community action.
comixaction.com
buttondown.com/comixaction
Climate Families NYC @climatefamsnyc.bsky.social NYC families fighting for climate justice with our hearts and our kids. ClimateFamiliesNYC.org
Schools Beyond Screens @schoolsbeyond.bsky.social A grassroots network of independent, parent-led groups advocating for human-centered, evidence-based policies around classroom tech. We're in 216 school districts in 40 states and growing every day. Join the movement at schoolsbeyondscreens.com.
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.
Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social bestselling, award nominated comics person. teaching artist via AAWW.
MOONCAKES, TIDESONG, INFINITY PARTICLE. more tk. agent: Linda Camacho. opinions my own. she/they
no crypto, no nfts, no ai
https://linktr.ee/artofwendyxu
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
Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social Writing in the age of AI stuff
Newsletter: writinghacks.substack.com
Also curate theimportantwork.substack.com
NYC DSA Tech Action @nycdsatech.bsky.social Working Group of the NYC Democratic Socialists of America investigating the political, social, and economic effects of new technology.
https://linktr.ee/nycdsatechaction
Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com (He/Him) Folk Technologist • anthony.moser@gmail.com • N4EJ • http://www.BetterDataPortal.com • baker in The FOIA Bakery • http://publicdatatools.com • http://deseguys.com • #1 on hackernews when you search for "hater" • anthonymoser.github.io/writing/
Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social Research Assistant Professor of AI & Society at Binghamton University (SUNY) - Civics of Technology Board Member - Luddite Praxis - Dad Life - he/him
Lila Byock @lbyock.bsky.social Writer of television, hater of Big Tech in schools. Please watch my shows and please also join SchoolsBeyondScreens.com!
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account
Author: Deep Unlearning (you can now preorder at https://shorturl.at/sCdjl)
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://dair-institute.org)
The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social AI is not inevitable. We DAIR to imagine, build & use AI deliberately.
Website: http://dair-institute.org
Mastodon: @DAIR@dair-community.social
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dair-institute/
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
No Desert Data Center Coalition @nodesertdatacenter.com We're fighting to stop the development of heat-generating, water-guzzling, energy-draining hyperscale data centers in the Sonoran Desert! We're a leaderful coalition of people based in Southern Arizona. Join us! https://tinyurl.com/nddcjoinus
Paris Marx @parismarx.com 💥 PREORDER MY NEW BOOK HYPERSCALE 💥
🎙️ @techwontsave.us
📬 https://disconnect.blog
📖 https://hyperscalebook.com
AI Now Institute @ainowinstitute.bsky.social The AI Now Institute produces diagnosis and actionable policy research on artificial intelligence.
Find us at https://ainowinstitute.org/
Arte es Ética @arteesetica.bsky.social • En defensa de las Autorías de habla hispana frente a la irrupción de la IA generativa - Manifiesto: https://arteesetica.org
• Contacto: arteesetica@proton.me
Jon Marks @jontheanthroman.bsky.social Biological anthropologist, albeit with eclectic interests
Nathan Anderson @nathanandersonart.bsky.social Michigan Illustrator. Clients: Wizards, Osprey, Rebellion Unplugged, Dragon's Milk, 20th Century Fox, DreamWorks.
My favorite author invented Pringles. Married! No A/I or N/F/Ts. Atheist.
Antifascist. Exvangelical.
www.nathanandersonart.com
he/him 🏳️🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦
danielle weisberg @danielleweisberg.bsky.social I’m a writer but I have good qualities too (CONAN, The Simpsons, Krapopolis, McSweeney’s, American Greetings)
she/her
https://somethingfromnothing.beehiiv.com/
https://directories.wga.org/faw-pro/member/danielleweisberg
Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social Historian of Biology and Medicine. Science is culture, and long live the Humanities. Director of @manchstm.bsky.social. Lapsed biochemist. Immigrant. Urban cyclist (& motorist). Owned by dog. More lucky than smart. 0 attention span. Here privately. He/him.
herman mark schwartz @thunen.bsky.social periodic posting on political economy issues, mostly charts, some shirts, weekly kittens. Sic semper tyrannis.
States vs Markets 5th edition now out: https://www.bloomsbury.com/9781350458369
amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social If you’re a staff journalist here to rewrite my posts, you can at least credit me as a fellow journalist. Ty!
https://authory.com/AmandaMoore
https://www.turtlediaries.net/
Soumaya Keynes @soumayakeynes.ft.com Author of "How to Win a Trade War"
FT econ columnist
Host of The Economics Show w/ Soumaya Keynes podcast
Singer-songwriter https://www.instagram.com/soumayakeynes/?hl=en and http://bit.ly/2Z6gvjp
Brandon Stewart @bstewart.bsky.social Associate Professor of Sociology, Princeton
http://brandonstewart.org/
Lauren Gilbert @lgilbert.co researcher, writer, projects georg. currently: editor, indevelopmentmag.com; writer, laurenpolicy.com.
Steven Ruggles @stevenruggles.bsky.social Historical demographer and data impresario
Wired profile: https://www.wired.com/1995/03/ruggles/
Publications: https://users.pop.umn.edu/~ruggl001/
Data: https://www.ipums.org/
Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social Professor of Computational Cognitive Science | Dept. of Cognitive Science & Artificial Intelligence | @Iris@scholar.social on 🦣 | http://irisvanrooijcogsci.com | she/they 🏳️🌈
Silvia Pineda-Munoz, PhD - Climate Ages @climateages.bsky.social Founder, Climate Ages | Paleontologist, Ecologist, & Science Storyteller
https://climateages.com/
Ben Recht @beenwrekt.bsky.social Blog: https://argmin.substack.com/
Webpage: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~brecht/
The Irrational Decision: How We Gave Computers the Power to Choose for Us. (Princeton) https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691272443/the-irrational-decision
Letterboxd @letterboxd.social 🧡💚💙 A global community of film lovers. Share your taste in movies via our free apps for iOS, Android, Apple TV, and on the web. https://letterboxd.com
Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social Philosopher/AI Ethicist at Univ of Edinburgh, FRSE. Co-Director @technomoralfutures.bsky.social and BRAID @braiduk.bsky.social, author of Technology and the Virtues (2016) and The AI Mirror (2024). Views my own. Humble servant to Carol and Puffin. She/her.
alex pasternack @pasternack.bsky.social still human in the strange loop • journalist ∆ words and images / technologies ecologies geographies security energy media cultures ∞ ∆ ∆ ∆ contributing editor Fast Company ⟴ founding editor Motherboard • ¶• pasternack@protonmail.com / alex.265 on Signal
Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social Assoc. Prof of Linguistics at Berkeley. Language, identity & prosody, esp. in politics & human-computer interaction. Trivia person and marathoner. LA & the Bay. No one is illegal on stolen land. Views are my own.
https://nicolerholliday.wordpress.com
Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social Researching data, tech, futures, and biological sciences in education | Senior Lecturer and co-director at the Centre for Research in Digital Education | University of Edinburgh | Editor of Learning, Media and Technology @lmt-journal.bsky.social
Dave Parisi @daveparisi.bsky.social Researching histories & futures of touch tech/haptics
Prof @ NYU Tandon TCS/IDM https://shorturl.at/0Wwzc
Archaeologies of Touch https://tinyurl.com/4kcxxkfk
Edit @ ROMchip journal https://shorturl.at/sDFI1
Mostly reformed goth
Edwy Plenel @edwyplenel.bsky.social Journaliste, cofondateur de Mediapart
Julia Gaffield, PhD @juliagaffield.bsky.social Historian (she/her)
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300255478/i-have-avenged-america/
Carlo Rovelli @rovelli.bsky.social Physicist.
Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social Award-nominated Historian & Author FRHistS
WW1/WW2/20thC Royalty
Runs @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social
@15minutebook.club 🎧
www.istoriatravel.org ✈️
Rep: @donaldwin.bsky.social
🏴 But frequently bangs on about the French 🇫🇷
https://achurchill.substack.com
Seth Rockman @sethrockman.bsky.social Historian at Brown University: https://history.brown.edu/people/seth-e-rockman Author of _Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery_ Nov. 2024, https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo237040605.html
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
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
Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social Professor of Communication & Political Science. NH to PHL. Improv comedian. Author: “Irony and Outrage” (OUP 2020), “Wrong” (JHU 2023). My views and mine alone.
WEBSITE: https://sites.google.com/view/dgoldyoung/home
@tagerai.bsky.social @tagerai.bsky.social Psychologist, UCSD, researches morality, violence, culture, crime, politics. Author of Virtuous Violence https://bookshop.org/p/books/virtuous-violence-professor-alan-page-fiske/6f7ee2f51182a110
Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social Columnist for MSNOW, Public Notice. Formerly: Washington Post, The Week, American Prospect. Subscribe to my newsletter! The Cross Section: paulwaldman.substack.com
Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social Philosophy of science, methodology of social sciences, wellbeing, evidence based policy, measurement.
Professor @hpscambridge.bsky.social
Fellow @kingscollege.bsky.social
Russian Brit
She/her
https://philpeople.org/profiles/anna-alexandrova
Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social Metascientist @ uidaho. Behavioral sciences, stats, modeling, phil of science. Cat slave, cook, sailor (see: https://bsky.app/profile/kumrusails.bsky.social), photographer, clarinet student, adventurer, nature lover. Allergic to unsolicited advice.
Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social Political scientist at BCJ studying American democracy and voting rights.
Usually on a bike, beach, or backpacking trip.
An American Problem (Princeton UP) coming October 2026: https://shorturl.at/Emjgo
kevintmorris.com
Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social Senior writer at Slate covering courts and the law. Co-host of the Amicus podcast. Dad.
ESRC Digital Good Network @digitalgoodnet.bsky.social An ESRC-funded, £4 million research network building a research community focused on what a good digital society should look like and how we get there.
digitalgood.net
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Blaise Agüera y Arcas @blaiseaguera.bsky.social CTO of Technology & Society at Google, working on fundamental AI research and exploring the nature and origins of intelligence.
Aleksandra Piletić @apiletic.bsky.social Critical political economy / neoliberalism / comparative capitalisms / cities
Sandra González-Bailón @sgonzalezbailon.bsky.social Professor of Communication @AnnenbergSchool, UPenn | Director, Center for Information Networks and Democracy | cind.asc.upenn.edu | sandragonzalezbailon.net
Curt Milam @curtismilam.bsky.social Retired USAF colonel, Atlanticist, Europhile, lover of gothic cathedrals. After 16 years in Europe living in the Main Line west of Philly
Jill Sargent Russell, PhD @jsargentr.bsky.social Military Historian
-NatSec & Strategy
-Logistics
-Geopol Risk
-Urban Warfare
-LOGPOWER
-Rapid Analysis
Ukraine Adventure: https://www.patreon.com/TheAdventurousHistorian?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator
At the Junction: https://jsargentr.substack.com/
Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science at University of Amsterdam
Studying the intersection of AI, social media, and politics.
Polarization, misinformation, radicalization, digital platforms, social complexity.
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
Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social Dad, husband, astrophysicist, dog herder. Samuel T. and Fern Yanagisawa Regents Professor in Astronomy at UT Austin. This is a personal account and the views expressed in my posts here are mine. https://mrbk.github.io
Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social Political scientist. Health policy prof at Pitt (Secondary appts: Poli Sci, SPIA). Cal bear, Columbia PhD. Bylines: NYT, WaPo, Guardian, MS NOW. Writing on health insurance and admin burden. Author of Coverage Denied (CUP): https://cup.org/4nfM2IM
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
Mona Sloane @monasloane.bsky.social Sociologist of #AI • University of Virginia Faculty • Series Editor University of California Press • Tech Editor Public Books • Fellow NYU IKP & UVA DTD • Host of Co-Opting AI Series • Director Sloane Lab • monasloane.org
Thomas Dekeyser @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social Geographer at Uni of Southampton. Research: refusal, tech, cities. Book: Techno-Negative (Uni of Minnesota Press). Films: Breached/Machines in Flames.
thomasdekeyser.com // Buy 📖 https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517917739/techno-negative/
Carlos Cuerpo @carloscuerpo.bsky.social Vicepresidente Primero del Gobierno de España y ministro de Economía, Comercio y Empresa
Stacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social historian of the Middle East and its diasporas | Author of UNMENTIONABLES: Textiles, Garment Work, and the Syrian American Working Class (2024) and BETWEEN THE OTTOMANS AND THE ENTENTE: the First World War in the Syrian and Lebanese Diaspora (2019)
Chenab @chenab.bsky.social PhD candidate in urban studies & planning at MIT
Ediciones Universidad Simón Bolívar @edicionesusb.bsky.social 📚Cuenta oficial del Departamento de Publicaciones de la Universidad Simón Bolívar (Barranquilla, Colombia)
Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social Law prof @ UCLA. I study equality and oligarchy.
Most recent book @ https://anti-oligarchy.com
Lorena O’Neil @lorenaoneil.com NOLA freelancer reporting on repro health, politics, culture, tech
Contributing writer at Rolling Stone & nonprofit newsroom @lailluminator.bsky.social
Bylines: The Guardian, Elle, The LA Times, Marie Claire, Jezebel
https://www.lorenaoneil.com
Laura J. Nelson @laurajnelson.bsky.social Reporter at the Wall Street Journal in Los Angeles. Former @latimes.com reporter, native Kansan and green thumb. 🌱 Securely message me on Signal (ljn.11).
Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social Assyriologist at Wolfson College (Oxford), writer plagued by self-doubt, lover of dead languages. I think we should all be doing what we can to save the planet.
My book 😎 https://lnk.to/BetweenTwoRivers
Marci Shore @marcishore.bsky.social Historian, Professor, Munk School, Toronto, CA. Author "The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution"; "The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism"; "Caviar and Ashes".