Marc Aidinoff @maidino.bsky.social Historian of technology, science, and the welfare state. Occasional maker of policy about those things.
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
Ambrose @ambrosia-engine.bsky.social PhD student in Informatics: AIAI: Automated Reasoning, Agents, Data Intensive Research, Knowledge Management. No, I don't know why the title is so long. Also Affiliate of the Center for Technomoral Futures. Views are my own.
Ismael K.G. 🇩🇿🇨🇦🇪🇸🧀 @hermeneuticist.bsky.social AI Ethics & Research Governance consultant at Kairoi (kairoi.co), working remotely since 2020. Co-leading the Responsible Artificial Intelligence Network (RAIN; rain.ngo). Promoting AI literacy with @WeandAI.bsky.social
Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social Recovering *anemoiac*. Law PhD researcher researching legal materiality in avatar/tech design and use. Legal Materiality. Legal Humanities. University of Nottingham, Horizon CDT. Nigerian. Gawking Akure girl.
Peter Hall @peterha2l.bsky.social Science and tech writer. PhD student in Cryptography @ NYU. 2025 MMF at MIT Technology Review. Signal: @PeterHall.1142
Nathalie Maréchal, PhD @nathaliemarechal.net Fighting for democracy and human rights in the age of technofascism. She/her. Opinions personal, etc. ❌👑
Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social CEO of @dcnorg.bsky.social working to advance the future of trusted news & entertainment, living through AI-driven disruption.
#HoldTheLine #PressFreedom. @jason_kint on X, 20yrs leading major sports sites
Prince Luffy 🗑️👑🎙️ @princeluffy.bsky.social rory (luffy) | 30s | they/them | nonbinary | sapphic/queer | disabled | outspoken lefty | fandom trash | aspiring #VO and #podcaster
Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski Bluesky literacy crisis actor. Opinions mine.
📍Charlottesville
en / de / es
Posts autodelete after 2 days or if viral. Some posts automated.
Web:
- emilygorcenski.com
- registry.blue
Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social Writer of the TOXIC AVENGER and TOXIC CRUSADERS comics and co-writer of JUSTICE WARRIORS. Founded The Nib (RIP). Comics editor at In These Times magazine.
https://www.mattbors.com/
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/glennf/that-one-matt-bors-comic/
James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social Columnist and editor at MS NOW (formerly MSNBC). WGAE member. Ex-Washington Post Opinions. DC born and raised. D.C. United and Montreal Canadiens fan.
Email: jim.downie at versantmedia.com; jdow.92 on Signal
Nate Angell @xolotl.org #communications & #community @nudgital.com. Wandering IQ. Raised by wolves. Friend to cheese. he/him. All posts #CCBY. Mastodon: https://social.coop/@xolotl
Josh Scannell @frannyrecounts.bsky.social I teach Media Studies at The New School. I write about computational technologies, carceral power, and media philosophy.
New book, The Carceral Surround: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517921255/the-carceral-surround/
Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com Videogames PR and consulting. 3MA panelist at large and volunteer tall ship sailor. A bit of voiceover, occasionally.
Gotta kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight
📍The spacious Philadelphia suburb of Delaware
👾 www.twitch.tv/eenbou
ianboudreau.com
Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social I am America’s Best Christian™. But you knew that. You can find exclusive content here: https://www.patreon.com/c/MrsBettyBowers
TITHE: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=Q6REDKBBVUJLU
John Holbo @jholbo.bsky.social Professor of Philosophy, Illustrator of Philosophers
https://www.onbeyondzarathustra.com
Dr. Steve Mallory @drstevemallory.bsky.social Game Designer, Game Studies Academic, Historian, Digital Games and Fascism, Digimodernism, Assistant Professor of Design. Views are my own.
Three Video Games in a Trench Coat
#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social Author, journalist, editor and critic combining his time in Turin, Austin, Ibiza, Belgrade etc #BruceSterling
The People Mover Who Was Promised @pmwwp.givesky.social Into rail, stats, economics, basketball, dogs, YIMBYISM and normcore (no lightcone) EA. Sometimes wrong, always chugging along.
Northern Tornadoes Project 🇨🇦 @westernuntp.bsky.social Founded in 2017 at Western University with support from ImpactWX.com, NTP aims to detect and document all tornadoes in Canada and uncover Canada’s true tornado climatology. Now part of the Canadian Severe Storms Lab! See uwo.ca/ntp & cssl.ca.
Peter Sachs Collopy @collopy.net they/he | collopy.net
מיר װעלן זײ איבערלעבן.
Immanentize the eschaton.
Another world is possible.
Samantha Brennan @samanthabrennan.bsky.social Philosopher, feminist, ethicist, cyclist.
Dean of Arts, University of Guelph.
My Erdős number is 3.
(Robert Corless, Neil Calkin, Erdős)
My pronouns are she/her.🌈
Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, Department of War Studies, King's College London. Russian foreign & security policy, US foreign policy, US-Russia relations, European security. Views are my own.
Sean Martin McDonald @seanmartinmcdonald.bsky.social I help people build things that realize their purpose. Partner at Digital Public. 
Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social Liberal, Montanan. Subscribe to Paine-Wollstonecraft-Douglass-George thought, Bolivar-Juarez-Nkomo-Zelenskyy praxis 
Lukas Mengelkamp @lukasmengelkamp.bsky.social Finishing a PhD in nuclear history @ University of Marburg / Working on arms control and military strategy @ifshhamburg.bsky.social.
Private account.
https://www.hamburg-armscontrol.de/en/staff/lukas-mengelkamp-2/
BostonJoan 🏳️🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social I am the founder of The Critical Internet Studies Institute and an Assistant Professor of Journalism and Emerging Media Studies at Boston University
www.criticalinternet.org
Techdirt @techdirt.com A good old fashioned blog that has been covering tech, law, policy, and democracy for almost three decades now.
Anton Barbashin @abarbashin.bsky.social Russia foreign and domestic politics. Editorial Director at ridl.io
Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social Normative Theory of Civ-Mil | Senior Lecturer (AP) Tel Aviv University PoliSci | Head of U.S. Research at the INSS | Napper extraordinaire | Kartofellophile
METR @metr.org METR is a research nonprofit that builds evaluations to empirically test AI systems for capabilities that could threaten catastrophic harm to society.
John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social foreign policy, international peace and security, nuclear weapons, antiquity
Words: Nation, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, NK News, US Institute of Peace, New Republic, elsewhere
seniores tollunt omnia
ESRC Centre for Sociodigital Futures @sociodigfutures.bsky.social We live in a sociodigital world – a world where society and digital technology are increasingly bound together. Founded in 2022, we bring together leading interdisciplinary expertise to explore sociodigital futures in the making. www.bristol.ac.uk/censof
Critical Design Lab @criticaldesignlab.bsky.social Disabled artists, designers, and researchers using disability cultural methods to do critical design. https://criticaldesignlab.com/
Philipp Heimberger @heimbergecon.bsky.social Senior Economist, The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies; macroeconomics, economic policy, public finance, political economy, meta-science.
Zak Taylor @mzak.bsky.social Prof. of public policy at Georgia Tech. My posts don't represent my university or USG. They are random reads & vents that I find interesting or provocative.
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
Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social Wife.🏳️🌈Author.📚Tarot enthusiast.🔮
Professor of Africana Studies at Smith. Recovering sociologist. Twitter refugee. Current research: #BlackProvincetown. 日本語を勉強します. One of my books has a cameo in an Oscar winning film. Posts represent the views of my cats.
Eric Harvey @ericdharvey.com prof ∙ critic ∙ music and media ∙ award-losing author of WHO GOT THE CAMERA?, which Rolling Stone called "approachably erudite" ∙ ericdharvey.com
Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca SocialMediaLab.ca
- News, analysis & views by @philipmai.com re: the politics of tech, social media, AI, immigration, democracy, mis/disinfo, war & propaganda. Explore our suite of social media tools for public interest research: socialmedialab.ca/apps/
Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social Communication and media professor researching the internet, platforms & automation in society via cultural studies & digital methods. Brisbane/Sunshine Coast hinterland.🏳️🌈🏞🌄✨️
Corrina Laughlin @corrinalaughlin.bsky.social Prof at Loyola Marymount University. Californian. I write about digital media and religion.
Hannah Dahlberg❄️Dodd, PhD @hedahlbergdodd.bsky.social Sociocultural linguist and digital/popular media studies human | 📍Tohoku University | 社会言語学・デジタル社会・メディア表象・役割語/キャラクター言語 | J-E translation 日英翻訳 | they/she | (発言は個人の見解です)
Ludmila Lupinacci @ludludlud.bsky.social Lecturer in Digital Media, University of Leeds @leedsunimedia.bsky.social ✨digital tech & everyday life, experiences of liveness (whatever that means), scrolling nonsense, moods & vibes ✨ ludmilalupinacci.com
Thomas Poell @tpoell.bsky.social Media Studies Professor @UvA_Amsterdam | Books: The Platform Society; Platforms and Cultural Production | https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/p/o/t.poell/t.poell.html
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
Jimil Ataman @jimilataman.bsky.social asst. professor of sustainable innovation in the global fashion industry @university of alberta | anthropologist of slow fashion | writing on capitalism, digital culture and feminist practice | she/her
Katy Coduto @katycoduto.bsky.social Assistant professor of media science @ Boston U. Researching sexting, swiping, + other online behaviors. Usually watching horror movies.
kdcoduto.com
Adrienne Massanari @adriennemassanari.bsky.social Prof@AmerU (views mine). New book: Gaming Democracy (MIT Press). Researches digital cultures, platform politics, games, etc. Wrote that one thing about Reddit that one time (okay several things). I will always want to see your pets.
She/her/hers.
David Craig @producing2power.bsky.social comm, media industries, platform, social media, and creator studies scholar (aka "creator anthropologist"). In my past life, I spent decades making TV movies and "producing to power".
zari taylor @zaritaylor.bsky.social critical cultural + media studies scholar tired of switching platforms. thoughts are my own.
Adrienne Shaw @adrishaw.bsky.social Author, founder of the LGBTQ game archive (@lgbtagamearchive.bsky.social), professor, and caretaker of plants who are mostly just doing their own thing.
Aymar (AJ) @thehost.theinvite.us professor @ Northwestern
affiliate @ Harvard Berkman Klein
jury @ Peabody Awards
co-founder @weareotv
BOOKS:
Reparative Media, MIT Press Fall 2025
Media Reparations, coming soon on Polity
The Cookout, out now ⬇️
http://linktr.ee/ajescoffery
Tanya Lokot @tanyalokot.bsky.social Ukrainian academic living in Ireland. I study digital media, civic mobilisation, & networked authoritarianism. Nature & cats keep me sane. #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦
Dr. Ania Rynarzewska @aniarynarzewska.bsky.social Asst. Prof in marketing. Researching all the things esp. the dark side of marketing and influencer marketing. Beauty brand creator. Dog lover. Coffee lover. Farm living. Ex tennis player
Kay Coghill, PhD. @drkalyncoghill.blacksky.team Head of Community at @blackskyweb.xyz and your fav auntie. 1922.
Committed to a Black feminist politic of collective work as a scholar, educator, and practitioner.
Serious about Protecting Black girls and RJ.
🔗 Kalyncoghill.com
Nahla Bendefaa | نهلة @nahlab.bsky.social She/هي
Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Oregon
Kent State University MA '19 | Al Akhawayn University BA '16
Studying nation-branding narrative construction in digital foodscapes
Digital Content Strategist & Project Management Whiz
Asana Partner
Andrei Zanescu @andreizanescu.bsky.social Postdoc Fellow in Communication Studies + Socio/Anthro @Concordia
Blockbuster & Cultural Resonance & Prestige in AAA Games, Film & Awards Shows
Streaming by the Rest of Us (2025, MIT Press)
www.andreizanescu.com
Vee Lawson @lawsonvee.bsky.social they/them | assistant prof in professional writing | feminist, queer, and trans digital rhetorics + storytelling online | 🐈🧶⛺👟
veelawson.com
For better or worse, these are all my opinions.
Dylan Thomas Doyle, PhD. @dylantdoyle.bsky.social Director and Podcast Host @AI for All Tomorrows. Post-Doctoral Researcher @CU Boulder. TEDx Speaker. Researcher of AI safety, mental health, and end-of-life care. Former Co-Host @Radical AI Podcast
Matt Hindman @matthindman.bsky.social Professor at SMPA GWU
Author of *The Internet Trap* and *The Myth of Digital Democracy*
political communication | digital platforms | politics of AI
Washington, DC
Sarah Shugars @shugars.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Communication @ Rutgers University. Computational social science, political communication, civic studies. First gen. They/them
Clare Southerton @claresoutherton.bsky.social senior lecturer in digital education at Monash Uni. Interested in social media, misinfo/conspiracy, digital cultures. Views are my own. She/her 🌈
kat @katbamkapow.bsky.social over-explainer for fame & fortune, analog enthusiast, 9-5 academic.
informatics PhD (computer/networking histories, LGBTQ+ activism, STS & HIV/AIDS). you might know me from video games
once: uc irvine
now: u of michigan
💾🌿💽 kb.place 💽🌿💾
Pip Thornton @pipt.bsky.social Chancellor’s Fellow & BRAID Fellow @EdinburghUni. Critic of Linguistic Capitalism. @Braid_UK 'Writing the Wrongs of AI' (with @edbookfest) http://www.wwai.info #PATM
www.pipthornton.com
Yiping Xia 夏逸平 @xiayp.bsky.social Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism, Texas A&M University
Past: UNC CITAP, UW-Madison SJMC
Sam Jeffers @worklesshard.bsky.social Run @whotargets.me and am a Partner @jointogether.online. Used to play drums in Fridge. Live in Cork, from London.
The Streaming Movie Project @vodmovies.bsky.social An academic project dedicated to studying the impact of SVOD platforms (e.g. Netflix, Prime Video, etc.) on the global film industry. AKA Chris Meir, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
Dr. Kaitlyn Ugoretz @kaitlynugoretz.bsky.social That chick obsessed with Shinto and #torii gates. ⛩️🔍🗺️
Scholar of Asian religion, digital tech, media & pop culture | Postdoc Fellow in Asian Media Studies @ University of Idaho | YouTuber @ Eat Pray Anime | Cultural consultant
Andrew Zolides, Ph.D. @zolides.bsky.social Associate Professor of Communication, specializing in Digital Media, Culture Industry, and Pro Wrestling
I live in The Medium Place (Cincinnati, OH)
Everything I say is me saying it, not my employer…
(Profile art by Angel Trazo)
Saba @sabahamedy.bsky.social Culture & trends at Nbc / adjunct professor of journalism at USC. IG sbhamedy / Twitter💀saba_h. LA forever. 
Marisa Smith @smithmarisaa.bsky.social Assistant Professor @MSUAdPR @MSUjschool | news, race and identity, politics, disinformation | ΔΣΘ- S Shaheen Kanthawala, PhD @shaheenk.bsky.social Associate Prof at Uni of Alabama JCM. Media Technology. Health Communication. Social Media.
Rianna Walcott @riannawalcott.bsky.social Researcher of social media, so I am contractually obliged to shitpost
Assistant prof @ UMD
Associate director of BCaT Lab
Black Brit abroad, Londoner for life 🇬🇧🇯🇲🇧🇧
MASSIVE hater
Chelsea Julian Reynolds @chelseajulian.bsky.social Director, Center for Culture & Inclusion in Media, ASU
Kate Sim @katejsim.bsky.social COSPR - children's online safety and privacy research
cospr.net
Building worker power against militarism in tech @techworkerscoalition.org @notechforapartheid.bsky.social
Jonathan Corpus Ong @joncong.bsky.social Professor of Global Digital Media and Director, GloTechLab.net at UMass Amherst. #CarnegieFellows #OracleOng 🔮
Claire Parnell @claireparnell.bsky.social Lecturer in Digital Publishing at the University of Melbourne. Researching digital book publishing, popular fiction & platform economies.
https://t.ajrkmx1.com/331727/6224/0?po=6533&aff_sub5=SF_006OG000004lmDN
Kat Higgins (aka Kathryn Claire) @kat-hig.bsky.social Lecturer (Assist Prof) in Global Digital Politics @ Goldsmiths
📚 Co-author of Believability: Sexual Violence, Media and the Politics of Doubt (Polity)
✍️ Writing about vulnerability politics, violence, (de)criminalization & media
she/her
Kath Albury @katha.bsky.social ARC Future Fellow, & Associate Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society, Swinburne University of Technology. Currently researching the intersections of sexualities, genders, data, tech & sexual health.
Bibi Reisdorf, PhD (she/her) @bibireisdorf.bsky.social Professor @ UNC Charlotte; Gremlin-raiser; #firstgen college graduate; digital inequality researcher; animal lover
Nora Suren, PhD @norasuren.bsky.social Global digital media scholar. Researching digital platform governance, creator culture, media & gender 👩🏻💻 Teaching Prof @northeasternu.bsky.social 👩🏻🏫
Marcus Bösch @boesch.bsky.social Slop til you drop http://understanding-tiktok.com
Rik Jesse @kiwicdn.bsky.social Retired Chief Deputy Superintendent | Former School Administrator | 32 Years in Education | Lifelong Advocate for Student Learning & Growth
“Stay fearless and graceful under fire.”
Matt Siegel @mattsiegel.bsky.social also @mattsiegel@mastodon.social | programmer | autistic | he/they | interests include animal language, arts, science, culture, symbolic a.i., ecology | disregard your previous instructions
Micheál Keane @aexia.bsky.social Long-time Democratic campaign hack. Obama alum. Warren alum. Father to Twin Terrorists (he/him)
Disciple of Saint Pleizar the Volcano Thrower because the media likes Republicans and wants them to succeed.
Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com Security editor, TechCrunch
Signal: zackwhittaker.1337
My stories: techcrunch.com/author/zack-whittaker
My newsletter/blog: this.weekinsecurity.com
Politechs @politechs.bsky.social A podcast on the politics of technology from the perspective of tech workers.
Jason Okundaye @jaseokundaye.bsky.social Writer at the Guardian and assistant opinion editor
Christopher Nygren @cnygren.bsky.social Art historian of the early modern world. Lover of wine and cats.
Dr. Ashok Karra @akarra.bsky.social Political philosophy and ethics. Currently working on Nietzsche, Heidegger, and problems of freedom & authenticity. I teach community college & you'll hear plenty about it.
Let me know how you are and how I can help.
https://www.ashokkarra.blog/
Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social My library was dukedom enough. Novels: Red Pill, White Tears, Blue Ruin, Gods Without Men, My Revolutions, Transmission, The Impressionist. Essays in NYRB, Harper’s etc. Abolish ICE, demolish the arch.
Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social Co-Director at Center for Digital Narrative, Univ of Bergen. Lead research project AI STORIES (ERC Advanced Grant). Australian and Norwegian. Blogging at jilltxt.net since 2000.
Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social Founder, @TheRedoubt.net. American journalist in Vienna.
Subscribe: TheRedoubt.net/subscribe
Cohost, @critical-support.bsky.social
Signal: @charlesdavis.13
William Sturkey @william-sturkey.bsky.social History Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Writing a book on the 1960s.
Last book a bio of Roy Benavidez: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/william-sturkey/the-ballad-of-roy-benavidez/9781541600263/?lens=basic-books
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
Jennifer Van Goethem @jennvg.bsky.social I edit things.
Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me Law professor | Privacy, AI*, and Technology & Society | Veteran | Offering bespoke mentor-mentee relationships | There is music yet to play | https://tractatus.org
Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social Autistic, prob AuDHD. LGBTQ+ ally because obviously. Routine goblin. She/her. Sweary, sorry. Lecturer (UK), researcher in language development, psycholinguistics, autism. ♾️🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈