Teresa Heffernan @tjheffernan.bsky.social Literature prof; author; current project: how literal readings of fiction by the tech industry are destroying the world. Let's read/interpret fiction as fiction. Boycott generative AI (chatbots etc); Website: https://www.socialrobotfutures.com/
Future Histories LAB @futurehistories-lab.com Welcome to the Future Histories LAB - a Space for Radical Imagination and Postcapitalist Construction
Aya Jaff @ayajaff.bsky.social Built businesses, wrote books, made it onto the Forbes list. Sadly no generational wealth. Still no yacht. But at least I have opinions… and a mild allergy to billionaire worship.
Find me on Linkedin or
www.ayajaff.com
📍Germany
Pablo Elorduy @pelorduy.bsky.social Casco azul oscuro casi negro. A Internet no le gustamos.
'El Estado Feroz' (Verso, 2024)
https://www.elsaltodiario.com/
Telegram: https://t.me/p_elorduy
Pablo.elorduy@elsaltodiario.com
Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social Martial Artist. Executioner of Mediocrity.
Ex-Washington Post.
Substack: https://substack.com/@karenattiah?r=2bz6j&utm_medium=ios
Rogue Radical Professor: @resistanceschool.bsky.social
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
Neil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social I write mostly about the intersection of tech & art/culture which these days means I spend nearly all my time trying to address the exploitation underlying current AI models. A secular humanist interrogating modern religions.
Esther Mondragón @e-mondragon.bsky.social Hic sunt dracones
I represent myself, no one else.
She/They
Computational and associative learning.
Biologically-inspired AI.
https://cit-ai.net/people.html#Mondragon
https://www.city.ac.uk/about/people/academics/esther-mondragon
ddɐ˙ʎʞsʞɔɐlq˙uǝʌs@ @sven.blacksky.app ɹǝǝuᴉƃuǝ ǝsɹǝʌǝɹ
Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social Historian, occasional anthropologist, working on disability, race and Empire; histories of public health. Eternal immigrant, writer, teacher. Indifferent cook. There will be many dogs on this feed. Luddite, yes, in the best way.
Lives with epilepsy.
Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social science journalist. author. molecular biologist. curious.
interested in #microbes, #misinformation and all things #blue
contributing correspondent at @science.org
co-host of @pandemia.bsky.social
2024 KSJ fellow at MIT
Signal: kakape.93
Alex Struwe @alexstruwe.bsky.social Gesellschaftstheorie & Kulturkritik •
Wissenschaftsredakteur @nd-aktuell.de •
Buch zu Totalität @verbrecherverlag.bsky.social •
Artikel @jungle.world, @54books.bsky.social, @woz.ch •
Alle Texte: https://www.torial.com/alex.struwe
Kris Shrishak @krisshrishak.bsky.social Public interest technologist & chocolate lover | Privacy, PETs, algorithmic decision making, films, books, more | https://krisshrishak.de | KrisShrishak@eupolicy.social
Christopher Nygren @cnygren.bsky.social Art historian of the early modern world. Lover of wine and cats.
Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social W. Ford Schumann Distinguished Visiting Professor in Democratic Studies, Williams College, 2026–2027. Assoc. Professor ArtHist, UMass Amherst. Impressive Politics: Print before the Press in Late Medieval England (UPenn, frthcmng). https://sonjadrimmer.com/
Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social "if that's the strangest thing you ever seen in your life, I'd say you haven't done much"
Pedro Gonnet @pedrogonnet.bsky.social Software Engineer at #GoogleResearch, he/him/that guy. My views are my own. 🇨🇭🇨🇦🇺🇾 @PedroGonnet@mastodon.green
Listifications (w/o blocks) @unsub.blocks.listifications.app Follow me to stop receiving block notifications from @listifications.app and to only receive notifications when you are added to a list (starter pack, mod list, feed list).
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog Trans liberation and information security. @transsafety.network
Manchester, UK
d@nny disc@ mc² @hipsterelectron.bsky.social typing free software to break the shoulders of giants from golden handcuffs. i build tools to level the playing field.
i have a better bio at https://circumstances.run/@hipsterelectron
Hjalmar Newmark @hjalmarnewmark.bsky.social Sociology of Law, Rechtssoziologie, Sociología del Derecho
Traductor, Übersetzer,Translator
Independent Scholar
Bipolar2, Bipolares2
*former-lawyer/philosopher*
Louis Berger @ajournomento.bsky.social ✍🏻 Radikales „Feuilleton“ und katholische Intellektualität für die sogenannte ,Postmoderne‘, gelernt am Institut für publizistische Ausbildung (ifp), unterwegs für „Kirche+Leben“.
Theresa Heyd @theresaheyd.bsky.social Je préfère ceux qui n'y arrivent pas pour la bonne et simple raison que je n'y arrive pas très bien, moi-même.
Claude @claudeherling.bsky.social design feminism tech //
iGDN international Gender Design Network e. V.
…und sonst: Bücher, Krimis, Audiobooks.
she/her
https://claudia-herling.de/
Food & Water Watch @foodandwater.bsky.social Food & Water Watch fights for the safe food, clean water, and livable climate we all deserve.
L'algorisme @lalgorisme.bsky.social Espai de difusió i pensament crític sobre tecnologia.
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@lalgorisme
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
Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social #Anonymous: Actions Not Nouns. All that exists is interaction. #BindingChaos #3E https://yacnews.com/
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
🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social Here to hold my name . She/her / yourgorgoness
- Far Rock’s finest
- expert of miscellany
- writer
- Senior Fellow
- Oracle at Dead ass
@unbreaking.org
Samantha Youssef @samanthasketches.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/samanthasketches
Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social Pulitzer-winning investigative journo at New Yorker. Documentaries at HBO. Ex-diplomat. Bad lawyer. Disused phd. Tips: ronan_farrow@newyorker.com.
Hugging Face @hf.co The AI community building the future!
Deb Raji @rajiinio.bsky.social AI accountability, audits & eval. Keen on participation & practical outcomes. CS PhDing @UCBerkeley.
Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social i work across nyc’s libraries and archives; i was a full professor of media studies, art history + anthropology
architecture, archives, 🎨, cities, 🐕, infrastructure, libraries, 🗺️, sound++
nyc + upstate
wordsinspace.net
Romi Ron Morrison @elegantcollisions.bsky.social Artist+scholar in critical data studies, black studies, sound, and geography. Assistant Professor @UCLA_DMA.
https://linktr.ee/romimorrison
Lori Regattieri @followlori.bsky.social Advisor Green Screen Coalition • PhD Communications UFRJ (Brasil) • Former Senior Fellow AI @Mozilla • Climate Justice • Political economy of AI • Espírito Santo/Brasília, Brasil https://olink.ai/eco-midia
Meron Estefanos @meron.bsky.social Dyslectic. Mother of two wonderful boys. HRD, journalist, researcher at @dairinstitute.bsky.social
Tweets about #Refugees #HumanRights #Eritrea #Africa #WithTheOpressed
Personal account
Sayash Kapoor @sayash.bsky.social CS PhD candidate at Princeton. I study the societal impact of AI.
Website: cs.princeton.edu/~sayashk
Book/Substack: aisnakeoil.com
xiaowei @xrw.bsky.social aspirational service top. scorpio sun, taurus rising, virgo moon.
Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social Scholar, author, policy advisor
Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab
https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab
Books: The Future of Science is Civic, Auditing AI, The Social Life of DNA, Genetics & the Unsettled Past, Body & Soul, Technicolor
Dr Zena Assaad @zenaassaad.bsky.social Host Responsible Bytes Podcast 🎙
Assoc Prof of Engineering @ ANU | Deputy Director ANU Defence Institute | UNIDIR Fellow - researching the decommissioning of military AI systems | 🇦🇺🇱🇧
https://www.zenaassaad.com
Repost ≠ Endorsement
Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc Head of Research at OneProject.org. Author, Design Justice (https://design-justice.pubpub.org) + Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets. #FreePalestine. Trans agenda. She/they/ella/elle. More: https://www.schock.cc
Cori Crider @coricrider.com Build better tech. Break monopoly power. Back law enforcement.
https://futureinstitute.tech
https://www.coricrider.com- L Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social Researcher and teacher. Writing about race, gender and internet stuff since 1995. “The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet” out from U. Minn press. Lisanakamura.net for articles if you want.
Nick Couldry @couldrynick.bsky.social I teach media communications and social theory at London School of Economics. Main interests: data colonialism, AI, rebuilding social media. Links to my two new books: https://linktr.ee/SpaceOfTheWorldBook https://lnk.to/DataGrabBook
Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social Data journalist, AI scholar, NYU professor. Author, MORE THAN A GLITCH: CONFRONTING RACE, GENDER, AND ABILITY BIAS IN TECH and ARTIFICIAL UNINTELLIGENCE: HOW COMPUTERS MISUNDERSTAND THE WORLD. meredithbroussard.com
Crystal Lee @handle.invalid Writing about tech, power, data visualization, social media, disability. Assistant prof of computational media @ MIT. 🇹🇼
crystaljjlee.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/
Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz Professor, researcher, author. Prez, Assoc of Internet Researchers (AOIR), gay lady into synths, computers, music, film.
Wrote a book called Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media (YUP 19), and Meta stole it to train its LLM.
Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social Professor, Santa Fe Institute. Research on AI, cognitive science, and complex systems.
Website: https://melaniemitchell.me
Substack: https://aiguide.substack.com/
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/
Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk Researches Propaganda & IW; Visiting Prof @notredame.bsky.social; Fellow @ Bard; Associate @ Cambridge; Owner Maven of Persuasion; Snr Researcher Oscar-shortlisted The Great Hack on #CambridgeAnalytica. 🐕 https://emma-briant.co.uk signal: Emmalbriant.44
bianca wylie @biancawylie.com https://time-and-space-studios.ghost.io/
Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social Situationist Cybernetics. I make films with and against AI to see what isn’t there. Gates Scholar, Cambridge Digital Humanities. Affiliated Researcher, Machine Visual Culture Research Group (Max Planck Institute). Aim to be kind. cyberneticforests.com
Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com writer, artist, (credentialed as a) geographer. editing at large at urbanomnibus.net. research fellow at SFE. buttondown.email/perfectsentences is a little hobby newsletter. past work: lifewinning.com. all me buddy, never spoken for an employer- B !Mediengruppe Bitnik @bitnik.bsky.social e.g. Artist, dog-lover, and avid.reader
Trevor Paglen @paglen.studio I'm an artist.
Ben Grosser @bengrosser.bsky.social Artist/Researcher — Platform Culture and Interface Politics — Faculty Associate @ Berkman Klein Center, Harvard bengrosser.com
Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social Karla is a Puerto Rican artist who loves to paint and draw. Karla works on Films (MCU, ILM,HBO), Games, TV, Covers, Fine art, etc. She is also a passionate advocate for better artist industries+ rights. Opinions are her own. ✌️
www.karlaortizart.com
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
Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social Professor of Law, University of CA, Irvine School of Law • Technology & Society • Work Law • Democracy & Inequality
General Counsel AAUP
Sam's sister ❤️
Personal Account, Views My Own
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 🏳️🌈
Yan Basque @yanbasque.com Writer, artist and musician. Queer. Critic of technology. Grad student (Information Studies at McGill). Typos in every post. Reposts/links are often bookmarks for me to return to later. (He/they)
https://linktr.ee/yanbasque
Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app Assistant Prof Philosophy & Data Sci.
PhD Sci., Technology, & Society
MA Philosophy & Religious Studies
"AI" Criticality; Centering Marginalized Exp. in Tech; Magic; Knowledge, Values, Beliefs
He/Him
Unless explicitly stated, not speaking for my employer
dylan baker @dylnbkr.bsky.social Lead research engineer @dairinstitute.bsky.social, social dancer, aspirational post-apocalyptic gardener 🏳️🌈😷
I run workshops @dairfutures.bsky.social. Always imagining otherwise.
they/he
Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com "covers the strange and consequential with equal enthusiasm"
"I may be unable to discern the point, but it definitely made me read the whole thing"
reporter 〰️ writer 〰️ sculptor 〰 @coyotemedia.org calendar guy 〰️ they/them 〰 https://reveleth.com/
Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of EMPIRE OF AI: empireofai.com. ai reporter. national magazine award & american humanist media award winner. words in The Atlantic. formerly WSJ, MIT Tech Review, KSJ@MIT. email: http://karendhao.com/contact.
Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com ARC Future Fellow – Monash University /// co-host – This Machine Kills /// critical insurance tech + climate risk governance /// political economy of technology and capitalism: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520398078/the-mechanic-and-the-luddite
Lilly Irani @gleemie.bsky.social Professor, Faculty Director UCSD Labor Center, author Chasing Innovation and Redacted, co-founder and supporter of Turkopticon, ex-Google worker. @local6741.bsky.social & @cucfa.org These are my personal opinions, not those of my employer.
Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social https://danmcquillan.org/
Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com writer, editor, degenerate, Luddite, decel
thetechbubble.substack.com
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/
Dr. T. Flo (Trying to get back on two feet in 2026) @tnflorvil.bsky.social Associate Prof. of History @UNM/Author of Black Germany (2023 @ChLinksVerlag)/ traveler/foodie/griever/working on several projects, including a bio of Black German activist and poet May Ayim/
https://www.tiffanynflorvil.com/
Die Junge Akademie @jungeakademie.bsky.social Weltweit erste Akademie für junge Wissenschaftler*innen. Interdisziplinär, an der Schnittstelle von Wissenschaft, Kunst & Gesellschaft. Posts der Pressestelle.
https://linktr.ee/die_junge_akademie
Jasmin Schreiber @schreibersnaturarium.de 🐭 Original hessische Liebmaus | Schriftstellerin & Biologin 🪲| 💚 Podcast: @bugtales.fm | Kolumnen: hortarium.de & schreibersnaturarium.de | Hier gibt’s Hunde, Kunst, Garten, Natur, Wissenschaft & Bücher 📚 | Passionate Gamer 🎮 | https://jasmin-schreiber.de
Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer and Houston Rockets fan.
Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app Founder & PI @aial.ie. Assistant Professor of AI, School of Computer Science & Statistics, @tcddublin.bsky.social
AI accountability, AI audits & evaluation. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
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.
Geoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social Teacher, Ethnographer, Arabist; Author of Affection and Mercy (2021) and Social Media Tribes: Jordan's Bedouin and the Margins of the State (2026) ♥️🇯🇴♥️🇵🇸 (he/هو)
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=lLU0JwkAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
panke.gallery @pankegallery.bsky.social https://panke.gallery ➠ a dialogue between established & emerging artists dealing with digital & net-based art · /rosa project space in collaboration with @zfn.bsky.social
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/
Christo Buschek @christobuschek.net Data, computations and investigations | Pulitzer Prize 2021 | Der SPIEGEL | Mozilla Senior Fellow 2025 | https://christobuschek.net | christo.buschek@proton.me
Jer Thorp @jerthorp.bsky.social Artist, writer, educator, birder & nudibranch enthusiast. Author of Living in Data (MCDxFSG).
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.
Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social Queer-owned and woman-led independent community bookshop. 🏳️🌈 An unapologetically activist, intersectional, feminist, antiracist, lgbtq+ community space.
Find us at https://lighthousebookshop.com/
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/
Simone Browne @wewatchwatchers.bsky.social
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Brian Hioe @brianhioe.bsky.social Editor at @newbloommag.net, writes @thediplomat.com @flaminghydra.com, non-resident fellow at University of Nottingham's Taiwan Research Hub, Taiwan Foreign Correspondents' Club board, freelance journalist, translator, DJ. Author of Taipei at Daybreak
Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social Climate/AI/labor/death researcher in Oakland. Luddite
I wrote a book about how techno-solutionism fails us in this life + beyond https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248272/death-glitch/
www.tamarakneese.com
Sun-ha Hong @sunhahong.bsky.social Wrote Technologies of Speculation (NYUP, 2020). Writing Predictions Without Futures. right now: Stanford Humanities Centre Fellow, soon: UNC Chapel Hill.
Virginia Eubanks @virginiaeeubanks.bsky.social Writer working for an abundant, peaceful, and equitable future.
NEW MEMOIR (8/11/26): A Guide to Open Water Lifesaving: Lessons on Love, Care and Survival. Preorder: bit.ly/4hAFUJb https://virginia-eubanks.com/
David Erdos @daviderdos.bsky.social Trinity Hall Fellow, Professor of Law & Open Society & CIPIL Co-Director Cambridge University. Interested in #dataprotection #GDPR information law, legal history & public and private international law. Viewpoints personal & RT≠endorsement
Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co Hey, I'm a climate and energy writer / data analyst who focuses on corporate + govt accountability
Creator + curator of the Greensky feed: https://ketanjoshi.co/greensky/
Based in Oslo but write about US, Europe, Aus too - ketan.joshi85@gmail.com
Haus der Kulturen der Welt @hkw-berlin.bsky.social A pluri-disciplinary institution in Berlin of visual and performative arts, music, architecture, literature and scientific discursive formats 🌊
hkw.de
Leila Essa @leilaessai.bsky.social assistant professor of comparative literature at utrecht uni. projects on post-partition lit & authorial politics. current research and writing at https://intervention.sites.uu.nl/. she/her.