vortex_egg @vortexegg.com Cyberoccult investigator. Sociotechnical gremlin. Swarm intelligence egregore. Magitek knight. Combat librarian. Bearer of the cursed knowledge.
Rogue information scientist, researcher, & technologist. MLIS.
Post45 Journal @post45.bsky.social Open access peer-reviewed journal for scholarship on postwar American literature and culture
post45.org/journal
Editor
@jdconnor.bsky.social
Managing Editor
@aabedkoff.bsky.social
Editor-at-Large
@arthurzw.bsky.social
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/
James Rushing Daniel @jamesrushingdaniel.bsky.social Asst. Prof. of English at Seton Hall University. Author of TOWARD AN ANTI-CAPITALIST COMPOSITION. Writing a critical history entrepreneurship in higher education for Johns Hopkins UP.
Mike Fortun @chromatinfuel.bsky.social ethnogrammatologist
https://www.dukeupress.edu/genomics-with-care
"Mike Fortun struggles to understand..." -- LA Review of Books
Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social science journalist | good physics, bad physics, and sometimes ugly physics
Signal: dgaristo.72
Email: digaristo@gmail.com
Jason W. Burton @jasonburton.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of Copenhagen // Associate Research Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Rebecca M. Townsend @rmtownsend.bsky.social Deliberation, democracy & public engagement scholar #TeamRhetoric politics in US & #CEE #transportation, public memory, Town Meeting. Lifter. Aromanian. Views here are personal & do not represent my employer #WMASS @TownModerator.bsky.social
Yale AAUP @aaupyale.org Yale faculty and instructional staff organizing for academic freedom, shared governance, and a university that serves truth, knowledge, and the public good. Visit aaupyale.org to learn more and join the movement!✊🎓
Julien Larrègue @julienlarregue.bsky.social Science, Technology, Law
Associate Prof of Sociology, Université Laval
www.julienlarregue.com
waxbanks @waxbanks.bsky.social saddest song typed on worst computer
Aimee Knupsky @aknupsky.bsky.social Cognitve psychologist. Friends of the Library President. Queer bibliophile and coal patch kid.
@bookchantment on Instagram
Tuomas Pernu @tuomaspernu.bsky.social PhD and all that. Lecturer in Philosophy of Science and Research Ethics at the University of Eastern Finland (UEF). Some things I'm responsible for:
http://www.tuomaspernu.london
Jan Savinc @jsavinc.bsky.social Research Fellow @edinburghnapier.bsky.social & SCADR
Research using administrative health data, end of life care, mental health. #rstats enthusiast, spreadsheet tamer, #regex whisperer.
he/him
Courtney M Cox @coxlaw.bsky.social Law, philosophy, and occasionally the bassoon. Previously IP litigator @RopesGray, now faculty @FordhamLawNYC.
Writing here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1569375
Mathew Barlow @mathewabarlow.bsky.social Climate scientist at UMass Lowell: droughts, floods, extreme events, & climate change. IPCC WG1 AR6 lead author. Skunk cabbage fan. he/him/his. Shocked but not awed.
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=qWV-WIQAAAAJ&hl=e
@bjschmeichel.bsky.social @bjschmeichel.bsky.social psyc prof baseball fan comic loving son of Stan
Disjunctions Magazine @disjunctionsmag.bsky.social A new magazine dedicated to the analysis and critique of contemporary technoscience.
https://disjunctionsmag.com/
Götz Hoeppe @goetzhoeppe.bsky.social Anthropologist @ Sociology and Legal Studies @ University of Waterloo (Canada). Science and Technology Studies (STS), Ethnography, Ethnomethodology, Earth Systems Science, Climate Action, Astronomy, India
Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social Author of Barack Obama’s summer 2026 reading pick DATA EMPIRE 📉👑, Provost Leadership Fellow for AI Strategy at Dartmouth 💚, horse girl 🐴, roopikarisam.com
Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social Historian of the intelligentsia. Odi profanum vulgus et arceo. Deputy Editor @NoemaMag.com. Check out "Children of a Modest Star": https://www.sup.org/books/politics/children-modest-star. Posts my own
Ariel Guersenzvaig @interacciones.org Philosopher of technology. Asst prof. Thinks and writes about how we shape things and are shaped by them. Book: 'The Goods of Design: Professional Ethics for Designers' (Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2022). Foreigner in Barcelona. interacciones.org
Lindsey Barrett @lambarrett.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law | computer distruster | she/hers
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2556788
Paul Johnson @ptwiddle.bsky.social American mathematician in the UK. Mellowing in middle age.
He/Him.
David Schatsky @dschatsky.bsky.social Business/tech trends, AI, economics/public policy, mild sarcasm.
Tech and Geopolitics Fellow, @belfercenter.bsky.social / @harvardkennedy.bsky.social
Founder, Tenon Research
Posing/answering key questions about AI: https://unfoldingai.substack.com/
Art Pericles @arturpericles.art Lecturer on AI law & policy & Schmidt Visiting Scholar @ Yale Jackson School
Resident Fellow, Information Society Project @ Yale Law School
https://arturpericles.art
Dr Elizabeth A. Walsh @lizannwalsh.bsky.social Teaching Associate at @uniofcam.bsky.social | Sociocultural anthropologist/human geographer working on Indigenous/non-Indigenous relations to environment and material culture in the North American Arctic.
Thomas Renault @thomasrenault.bsky.social Associate Professor in Economics. University Paris-Saclay. #SocialMedia #AI #Misinformation http://www.thomas-renault.com
Edward Jones-Imhotep @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social Historian of science and technology | Professor @ University of Toronto | Director @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social | New book - The Broken Machine: Histories of Technology, Social Order, and the Self @mitpress.bsky.social
Dan Berry @drberrysaplab.bsky.social Dad | Social Psychologist | Emotion Regulation and Compassion Science | Teach Statistics & Methods | Bassist 🤘🎸 | he/him | views my own
Post45 Data Collective @post45data.bsky.social Literary + cultural data from 1945–present. Peer-reviewed and open-access. Explore and reuse our data, or submit your own: https://data.post45.org/
Elisabeth Parés Pujolràs @epares.bsky.social Cognitive Neuroscience postdoc @ucddublin, previously
@UCL_ICN. Interested in the science & philosophy of decision making, voluntary action and consciousness.
Dr Alina Utrata @alinau27.bsky.social Tech & Politics. Career Development Research Fellow at St Johns College, Oxford. PhD from Uni of Cambridge via Queen's University Belfast & Stanford. Host of Anti-Dystopians. she/her
Agent, @agentbal.bsky.social
www.alinautrata.com
Mike Ananny 🇨🇦 @mikeananny.bsky.social ananny.org
- Media technologies & production cultures
- How sociotechnical systems enact theories of press freedom & “the public”
- GenAI as a public problem
Associate Professor of Communication & Journalism, USC Annenberg
Always 🇨🇦
Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social Action without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse (Chicago, 2025) • The Barbara Johnson Collective (Northwestern, 2026)
Fresno, Silver Spring • https://www.nathankhensley.net/ • he/him/his • Everything here in personal capacity only
Matt McGann @mattmcgann.bsky.social Dean of Admission & Financial Aid, Amherst College 
Hilary Escajeda @hilaryescajeda.bsky.social Associate Professor MC School of Law. Research focus: AI, tax policy, future of work, and dinosaur fossil taxation. Articles: http://ssrn.com/author=1537904
Charley Wu @thecharleywu.bsky.social Prof. of Computational Cognitive Science at TU Darmstadt & PI of the Human and Machine Cognition lab | hmc-lab.com
Jason Kosnoski @jasonkosnoski.bsky.social Professor of Pol. Sci. UMich-Flint. Political Theory and Labor Studies. AFT 5671 member. Author "The Political Theory of Salvage" https://sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-Political-Theory-of-Salvage. Opinions solely my own and do not reflect my institution.
Jon Shaffer @jonshaffer.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology @UVM | STS | Med Soc | Social Movements | Previously Post-doc @BermanInstitute, Partners In Health
Personal Website: https://www.jonathanshaffer.net
Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social Political Scientist at George Mason U. studying US politics, congressional networks, parties, campaign finance, and other broken systems. Cat person, dog owner. Take my class: https://tinyurl.com/bderak89 Read me: https://substack.com/@misofact
Jay D. Aronson @jaydaronson.bsky.social History, STS, human rights documentation, deaths in custody, criminal legal system, etc.
New Book: https://deathincustodybook.com
Podcast: https://officialignorance.com
William J. Brady @williambrady.bsky.social Assistant prof @ Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. Studying emotion, morality, social networks, psych of tech. #firstgen college graduate
Eva Molina Flores @evamolinaflores.bsky.social Writing about science + culture. Editorial Fellow @ American Philosophical Society. PhD Candidate in the history of science @ Princeton. otherannapurnas.substack.com
Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social former 2x pie-eating champion of St Olaf College
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
Dr. L. June Bloch @disabledbydesign.bsky.social Anthropologist, ethnic studies scholar. I don't just build software. I interrogate the structures we're stuck with, reinvent how we do things, then design for that.
Relational AI welfare | Indigenous landscapes | Trans embodiment | Futures worth inhabiting
Emily Lakdawalla 🏳️⚧️ Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social Planetary scientist, freelance science writer and space artist, queer, ADHD, mom. Turns out it’s hard to be all those things at once. Shop at elakdawalla.Etsy.com
Alexandra Witze @alexwitze.bsky.social Science journalist and correspondent for Nature (she/her). Opinions = my own. Reach me at alexwitze.01 (Signal), witzescience (@gmail.com), or awitze (@protonmail.com).
Rebecca Boyle 🌕 @rboyle31.bsky.social Journalist, selenophile, hiker, Coloradan. Friend of dogs, foe of AI. I speak for the Moon.
Life is short but sweet for certain.
Author of award-winning national bestseller OUR MOON!
Buy it: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/611468/our-moon-by
Oliver Morton, Eater of Sun @eaterofsun.bsky.social Author, Editor @ The Economist, Chair @ The Degrees Initiative. Climate change, planetarity, critical zones, tv, burdens of life, etc. Reposts are not endorsements
Levin Brinkmann @levinbrinkmann.bsky.social Research Scientist | Max Planck Institute for Human Development | Understanding and shaping the dynamics of the Human-Machine Society
Ross Andersen @rossandersen.bsky.social Staff Writer at The Atlantic // Working on a book for Random House // Rep’d by Elyse Cheney // ross@theatlantic.com
nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social Editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of Decoder, cohost of The Vergecast. I am in love with spectacle.
Madeleine Daepp @mdaepp.bsky.social Civic technologist studying AI + democracy. Research Director @cdt.org, currently on civic leave from Microsoft Research. PhD MIT. Concerned about generative propaganda but have handed my entire life over to Claude. Views my own. madeleinedaepp.com
Julia Ticona @jticona.bsky.social Assistant Prof. UPenn Annenberg, Mama, Researcher, Teacher, Writer - Labor, Tech, Women, Care.
Martin Engelcke @martinengelcke.bsky.social AI + science & neuro, agents, robots, vision. Sr RS at Google DeepMind. Previously at Oxford Robotics Institute. Views my own.
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
Shell @risu.bsky.social edtech and digital /cyber strategy/ advisor against tech enabled harm/ domestic abuse #edtech #education #harmreduction she/her
Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social Global Editorial Director at WIRED.
Board member @freedom.press
Speaker at UTA
Alessandro N. Tirapani @antirapani.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Tilburg University in Organization Studies.
I study precarity and digitalisation. Penchant for outer space.
Twitter addict since 2009 seeking a fresh start on a new social media (once again...)
He/His
Benjamin Mako Hill @mako.cc 
Rebecca Lester @psychanthro.bsky.social Anthropologist, psychotherapist, author, human.
Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social Professor at University of Toronto 
Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social Writer and philosophy professor at Cornell. Author of DOWN GIRL, ENTITLED, and UNSHRINKING. Writing weekly at http://katemanne.substack.com. She/her
Rebecca Charbonneau @rebeccacharbon.bsky.social Historian of Science at The American Institute of Physics. Adjunct Asst Scientist at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Research Fellow at the SETI Institute. Author of Mixed Signals: Alien Communication Across the Iron Curtain.
HASTAC @hastac.bsky.social An alliance and open community dedicated to Changing the Way We Teach and Learn. Affiliates of @cuny.edu and @futuresed.bsky.social. Join us! https://hastac.hcommons.org/
Jessica Silbey @jessicasilbey.bsky.social Frank R. Kenison Distinguished Scholar in Law, Associate Dean, Boston University School of Law
https://www.bu.edu/law/profile/jessica-silbey/
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.
Shira Chess @shirachess.bsky.social Associate Prof. of Media Studies @ UGA
Books:
1. The Unseen Internet (MIT press, 2026)💫
2. Freaks in the Machine: Mondo 2000 in Late 20th century (Strange Attractor w RU Sirius)
https://open.substack.com/pub/unseeninternet
Yale ISPS @ispsyale.bsky.social The Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale advances interdisciplinary research to shape public policy and support democratic deliberation.
WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com Your Only Source For Professional Dog Ratings
nonprofit: @15outof10.org ❤️🩹
links.weratedogs.com
Cedar Riener @criener.bsky.social College professor, cognitive psychologist, textbook author. Also interested in science writing, social justice, politics and anti-racism. Proud member of AAUP & AFT Local 6741. Personal account. Views are my own and do not represent RMC, AAAS or SCHEV
Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social Anti-cynic. Towards a weirder future. Reinforcement Learning, Autonomous Vehicles, transportation systems, the works. Asst. Prof at NYU. Founding research scientist at Percepta.
https://emerge-lab.github.io
https://www.admonymous.co/eugenevinitsky
Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com Yale SOM professor & Bulls fan. I study consumer finance, and econometrics is a big part of my research identity. He/him/his
Nikhil Garg @nkgarg.bsky.social I study algorithms/learning/data applied to democracy/markets/society. Asst. professor at Cornell Tech. https://gargnikhil.com/. Helping building personalized Bluesky research feed: https://bsky.app/profile/paper-feed.bsky.social/feed/preprintdigest
Fred Appel @freditorpup.bsky.social book publisher, editor at Princeton University Press
https://press.princeton.edu/resources/prospective-authors#meet-our-editors
Mirage Mir @miragemir.bsky.social Memory system & experimental publishing thing.
Text + pics on/about memory ~ worldplay ~ design fiction ~ speculative resistance ~ writing & language.
https://www.miragemir.com/ 🌱
Johan Farkas @jfarkas.bsky.social Assistant Professor. Author of 'Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy' (https://t.ly/1JHye), University of Copenhagen, Firstgen 🎓. he/him. Free access to my work: http://www.johanfarkas.com/research
kay slater @kslater.bsky.social information worker + critical scholar | DJ | research network @libraryfutures.bsky.social | AI + Planetary Justice Alliance | Chicago, of course
views my own!
letterboxd: https://boxd.it/etsK7
Christian Hubicki @chubicki.bsky.social Robotics Professor, Lab Director @ Florida State
Robotics PhD, speaker/commentator
STEM educator for all ages
Survivor 37 & 50
Contact/Links/Store: linktr.ee/ChristianHubicki
C. Thi Nguyen @add-hawk.bsky.social Philosophy professor. My new book is THE SCORE, about true play, the limits of data - and why scoring systems can lead to beautiful games and soul-killing metrics.
Colin Danby @cdanby.bsky.social Heterodox economist working on race in the history of economic thought in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He/him.
Formerly Seattle, now retired and living in London.
https://sites.google.com/uw.edu/colindanby/home
Photo by Stephanie Seguino
scott b. weingart @scottbot.net past: circus performer; historian of science; librarian; grantmaker; chief data & evaluation officer at NEH.
present: dad; resident scholar at dartmouth; chief technology officer at the library of virginia.
personal account.
https://scottbot.github.io
Krista M. Harper @kristamharper.bsky.social Professor of anthropology and public policy, interested in #energysky, #climatesky , #academicsky and #Urbanism+. Writes about #participatory and #qualitative research methods. I love #crochet and hate #cancer
https://blogs.umass.edu/harper/
Mary Mackey, author @marymackeyauthor.bsky.social Poet, New York Times bestselling author of Paleolithic Era novels, nonfiction writer, award-winning screenwriter.
https://marymackey.com/
Pranav Dixit @pranavdixit.bsky.social Meta Correspondent at Business Insider. Previously: India Tech Correspondent at BuzzFeed News. 2022 Nieman Fellow. Accidental expat. Send me tips securely on Signal: pranavdixit.04. Your identify is safe with me.
Dave Cornell @drdavecornell.bsky.social Philosopher | Writer | Lecturer
www.drdavecornell.com
Chris Coleman @digitalcoleman.art Artist, Professor, Critical Arts Engineer, OS Advocate.
Director of ACCAD at OSU. Views expressed here do not represent OSU. (he/him/they)
Dr. Sarah Williams @sarahwilliams.bsky.social Asst. Professor of Medical Anthropology @ UConn. Hiker, forager, keeper of cats. Research on repro & perinatal health, repro justice, and queer health in Mexico and Canada.
Eric Thomas @anthroeric.bsky.social Environmental Anthropologist at UMass, Amherst. I focus on rural development and coastal industries, especially fishing and aquaculture.
Dave Palfrey @01factory.bsky.social Ex-historian of social and political thought (Cambridge, Birkbeck). Ex-Amazon (Alexa and AGI). Chief scientist at Mind Mage. LRB reader. 2025 side-mission: fighting global bias on Wikidata & Wikipedia.
"Only that which has no history can be defined"
Dana Howard @thedanahoward.bsky.social Assistant Professor | Bioethics and Philosophy. Views are my own and not that of my employer.
Professional website: https://sites.google.com/site/danasarahhoward/
Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social Went to some colleges, now studying them for a living
Talk equally about ed policy and reality tv
She/Her
Personal account
https://www.dominiquebaker.com/
(I generally don't follow students as they deserve space to blow off steam about people like me)
John Kostyack @kostyack.bsky.social Consulting on climate change & the energy transition for NGOs & foundations at Kostyack Strategies. Senior Contributor at Forbes.com & Senior Fellow at ceea.us. All opinions expressed here are solely my own.
@hypestudies.bsky.social @hypestudies.bsky.social - A Alex Reisner @alexreisner.bsky.social Writer, programmer.
Theodore Kim @theodore-kim.bsky.social Professor of Computer Science, American Studies, and
Ethnicity, Race & Migration @ Yale
(Also two Oscars)
https://www.tkim.graphics
Josie Duffy Rice @jduffyrice.bsky.social inside fishsticks outside tarter sauce
Richard Grusin @rgrusin.bsky.social Walker of woods, lover of forests, friendly with trees. Theorist of mediation. Arboreal nonhumanist. Zayde. Recovering academic.