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
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)
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.”
Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social Menominee | Organizer | Co-author of Let This Radicalize You | Hosts Movement Memos podcast | Newsletter: organizingmythoughts.org | More: http://linktr.ee/KellyHayes
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
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
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/
Leah Roseman @leahroseman.bsky.social My podcast strives to inspire you through the personal stories of a diversity of musicians, with in-depth conversations and great music, that reveal the depth and breadth to a life in music. Conversations with Musicians: leahroseman.com
Amy Skjerseth @askjerseth.bsky.social Assistant Prof. of Popular Music at University of California, Riverside
PREPROGRAMMED: HOW ELECTRONIC PRESETS CHANGED MUSIC AND MEDIA, out Sept. ‘26: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/preprogrammed/paper
Social histories of music, sound, technology, & media
Dr. Garrett Schumann @garrt.bsky.social Third-most well-known composer named 'Schumann' - scholar, music writer, working parent, and "less-prestigious faculty" - based in southeast Michigan - founder of #beansky - TBTL Ten
Dr.Shuji IIJIMA @shuujiiijima.bsky.social Ph.D. of Human-Enviroment Studies. Professor of Kyushu university,Japan, teaching Cultural Anthropology, Clinical Psychology, and Transition Design.
𝕳𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙 🇨🇦🦇🥀🕸 @horrorculturist.bsky.social Gothic gardening, goblincore, dark art, horror, weird music. 🌿🍁🍂🎃
Agnostic atheist. Nyctophile. AuDHD. Demi-Pan. They/them. | Contrary to internet lore, I am not lost, sorrowful, despairing, trapped, drowning, falling, or stuck in a maze. (You OK?)
chriswaves @chriswaves.bsky.social post-scholarly post-professional video essays
youtube.com/@chriswaves
chriswaves.com
Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social trailcams
no AI ever
Salem Soundwaves @joeayyyrias.bsky.social 34 - He/They - am be int music, amateur everything, anti-fascist :)
bandcamp: https://salemsoundwaves.bandcamp.com/
website: https://salemsoundwaves.nekoweb.org/
Bradburn.W -Synthstronaut- @bradburnw.bsky.social Eh-Theist.
Socio-Technical system.
Temporarily animated biomass.
#modularsynth #eurorack #cat
BbartokK @bbartokk.com BbartokK is an LA based music composer and live electronic artist. BbartokK started making electronic music in 2018 after exploring modular synthesizers.
Frederick Foxtrott @fredfoxtrott.bsky.social I am a modular synthesist, multi-instrumentalist, concept worker, writer, and vinyl record collector.
https://frederickfoxtrott.bandcamp.com/album/no-light-things
https://frederickfoxtrott.com/
https://youtube.com/@FrederickFoxtrott?si=oX2fbuKw4cNL5iBJ
@bfeadmin.bsky.social @bfeadmin.bsky.social
Tape Op Magazine @tapeopmagazine.bsky.social The Recording Magazine that focuses on promoting creative music recording techniques. Interviews with producers, engineers, and artists.
Miss Mira, Burrito Taxidermist @missmira2u.bsky.social one of THOSE girls
iffin.bandcamp.com
String Bass Theory @stringbasstheory.bsky.social I'm not a musician, I just play one on stage.
Anti-violence; anti-racist; anti-homo/transphobia; anti-ableist; pro-creative; against ignorance.
Musician, Activist, Hiker, Music Librarian, "Popular" Music History Enthusiast.
Margaret Schedel @gemschedel.bsky.social Composer, performer, author, professor specializing in electronic music and deep listening. Co-founder of Lyrai - AI powered room acoustics
Ph.D/D.M.A. Programs in Music at the CUNY Graduate Center @cunygcmusic.bsky.social The official Bluesky account for the CUNY Graduate Center, Music Department.
Internet Archive @archive.org Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine.
Alexander Avila @alexander-avila.bsky.social Writer and YouTuber guy
https://youtube.com/@alexander_avila
münecat @munecat.com video essayist & streamer - politics / cults / tech / pseudoscience: youtube.com/munecat & twitch.tv/munecatmusic & nebula.tv/munecat
support me + bonus content: patreon.com/munecat
instagram.com/munecatmusic
munecat.com
Lily Alexandre 🛰️ @lily-is.online I write about art, gender, and the tech industry. Video essays on @nebula.tv, Twin Peaks podcast @tstv.show 🌲🌫️
All that is solid melts into air
youtube.com/@lily_lxndr
IASPM-US @iaspm-us.bsky.social The official Bluesky account for the US branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music
Machine Ethics Podcast @machine-ethics.net Conversations on AI Ethics: Interrogating technology, artificial intelligence and it's impact on society. Created by @benbyford.com www.machine-ethics.net
Samantha Bennett @samanthabennett.bsky.social Professor of Music, Associate Dean HDR at ANU. Chair of IASPM. 33 1/3 Series Editor. Londoner. Canberran. Working class.
Angie Merila @angiem-routledge.bsky.social music editor at routledge. nyc based.
Marie Thompson @joyousnoises.bsky.social University worker. Tinnitus/noise/sonic cyberfeminisms. Currently writing about sound reproduction and reproductive crisis.
Marcelo Nogueira @marcelonoah.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University – Spanish and Portuguese Literatures and Cultures; Sound, Media, Technology; Poetry, Songwriting, Avant-gardes | Posts in English, Portuguese & Spanish
Mike Masnick @masnick.com Techdirt guy. Writes about social media, copyright, free speech, content moderation, civil liberties and stuff like that. Once wrote a paper that may have helped inspire this service & now I'm on its board: https://bit.ly/protocolnotplatform
alt arushi will soon be born @modularprincess.bsky.social
@kaseypocius.bsky.social @kaseypocius.bsky.social kaseypocius.ca
Music Technologist/Sonic Landscaper/Mixed Media Enthusiast/They/Them
Amanda Harris @amaharrisusyd.bsky.social Cultural historian, musicologist, ARC Future Fellow. PARADISEC Sydney. Author “Representing Australian Aboriginal Music and Dance” (Bloomsbury 2020)
Shawn Bell @bellnet.bsky.social Retired curriculum designer and interactive media arts educator. Composer, applying complexity science, a-life research and computational creativity to generative and interactive music systems.
Sparvnätter @sparvnatter.bsky.social YouTube.com/sparvnatter
Andréa Portou @andyportou.bsky.social PhD student in ethnomusicology
Electronic music enthusiast
Floris Schuiling @florisschuiling.bsky.social Musicologist at Utrecht University, currently leading a research project on Improvised Music and Decolonisation, investigating entanglements of jazz, free improvisation, whiteness and coloniality.
Dr Georgie Rowe @georgieblythe.bsky.social Just completed a PhD @ Uni of Bham (genre fiction, copyright + folk music). She/her 🏳️🌈
https://lnk.bio/georgie_blythe
Byron Dueck @byrondueck.bsky.social a.k.a. Ethnomusicology Du(e)ck?
demnevanni @demnevanni.bsky.social Avid comic/manga reader (mostly vintage). Antifascist. Music obsessive (mostly vintage). Synthesizer/tape enthusiast. Horror/fantasy media and RPGs. Pin-up enjoyer. Fuck AI/crypto. Free Palestine. X-Men.
Co-founder @earformrecords.bsky.social
Ears @markears.bsky.social Chicago based. Musician & plant lover. Into hiking, modular synths, literature and art.
Dr. Kim Ramstedt @kimramstedt.bsky.social ✦ Researcher, University of Helsinki, Finland
# music, media, ethnography, identity, socialjustice, clubculture, musicology, ethnomusicology
...also educator, community organizer, DJ, musician and former radio host
➤ https://tinyurl.com/ramstkim
Ed Blomquist @eblomquist.bsky.social Music: Underwater Airport, nulmatica, Rivers and Skies, The Free Range Experiment, Astronauts in Grave Peril
Guitar/bass/oud, synth/modular, Ableton/iPad, percussion, flute, voicewordsvibesvisions
Berklee faculty ‘94-‘24
underwaterairport.bandcamp.com
A L O N Z O @alonzo.zip Alonzo is like Rihanna before Umbrella, like James Blake before Limit to your Love, like Charli XCX before I Love It
Alonzo is the artist project of Brooklyn polymath Robbie Lyman
Matt Davison @mdavison.bsky.social PhD student in the Augmented Instruments Lab, Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London. Interested in instrument design, haptic feedback, embedded hardware. https://davisonaudio.github.io
teresa pelinski @tpelinski.bsky.social critical music technology studies / critical ai studies -- research fellow at the creative computing institute at the university of the arts london && phd student at the augmented instruments lab at queen mary university of london -- teresapelinski.com
Kendra Salois @ksalois.bsky.social Ethnomusicologist, introvert, freeze-head. Author of Values that Pay: Complicity, Sincerity, and Hip Hop in Contemporary Moroccan Life (UC Press).
Jan Kaluza @jankaluza.bsky.social Lead Technical Artist @ Epic Games.
Formerly @ Yager & Fishlabs.
Modular Synthesizer guy.
Making music as “Janky Jams” - https://jankyjams.com
Wearer of many hats. Metaphorical ones only, I unfortunately don't have a hat face.
Based in Berlin.
Jim Petty @pettynoise.bsky.social Electronic musician, sound designer, production sound mixer, sound healing practicioner.
Franck Martin @franck.peachymango.org Artist, Spatial Music, Modular Synthesizer
All info at www.peachymango.org
Mofongo @sonidomofongo.bsky.social Musician / Boricua / NYC
Carnal Ex @carnal-ex.bsky.social BK/CDMX.
Modular synths, generative visuals.
AFTERSOUND @aftersoundmaine.bsky.social Aftersound is a new performance series in and around Portland Maine, focusing on multi-channel and spatial audio. The name derives from Maryanne Amacher's concept of the "aftersound", the sonic sensation that lingers after the sound itself has stopped.
Marie Ann Hedonia @marieannhedonia.bsky.social I make music & stuff
I also make music with Paul MOlive💖
Shows:
10/10/25 Slingshot Festival in Durham, NC
10/18/25 Elysium Boston in Cambridge, MA
—Latest Release—
“Solar Eclipse” EP
✨Jeremy Pelt’s Woven (tracks 1, 2, 5 and 8)✨
Profile 📷 Courtney Hall
Synthdad @synthdadmusic.bsky.social Synthdad’s Bluesky account. Modular synthesiser music, tutorials and demos. Also see me on youtube.com/synthdad
@knobulism.bsky.social @knobulism.bsky.social A laid-back, no-nonsense approach to modular synthesis, making it simple and enjoyable for everyone, from beginners to seasoned patch programmers. https://knobulism.com
Jessica A. Holmes @holmesjessica.bsky.social Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of Copenhagen
Website • jessicaholmes.phd
Music at the Margins of Sense • https://press.umich.edu/Books/M/Music-at-the-Margins-of-Sense
Andrew McPherson @apmcpherson.bsky.social Professor in Design Engineering and Music, Imperial College London. Researcher, composer, violist, engineer, instrument designer.
Leader of the Augmented Instruments Laboratory instrumentslab.org.
Co-founder and director of Bela.io.
Erik @egveitikkje.bsky.social English professor丨slow cyclist 丨aging punk rocker 丨leftist丨sports fan: Bengals, Cavs, Yankees, Canadiens丨 wanna-be Scandinavian丨skeptic丨English, Norsk, & Français
Morgan Bates @queertrumpeter.bsky.social Musicologist, trumpeter, educator. They/them.
PhD Candidate and Cota-Robles Fellow @ UCLA studying drag vocality, queer of color critique, and queer & trans popular musics.
A Saxy Bard @asaxybard.bsky.social (they/theml
Musicology PhD Candidate
Occasional video essay maker
Subversion dipped in beauty is revolution
New Approaches to Sound, Music and Media @soundmusicmedia.bsky.social Official account for Bloomsbury’s New Approaches to Sound, Music and Media book series.
Jeffers Engelhardt @jengelhardt.bsky.social Come for the: music & sound studies, Amherst College, Yale Journal of Music & Religion. Stay for the: family pics, Western Mass, Eesti asjad.
Thor Magnusson @thormagnusson.bsky.social A worker in rhythm, frequencies and intensities. Research and development in the areas of music, mind and technology.
** Intelligent Instruments Lab (www.iil.is) **
** Experimental Music Technologies Lab (www.emutelab.org) **
ramona the vektroid @vektroid.bsky.social ""artist""
💾 vektroid.bandcamp.com
💸 patreon.com/vektroid
💩 twitch.tv/vektroidlive
Francesca Iannucci @francescaiannucci.bsky.social Filmmaker that some people think is pretty weird.
"The Ice Lolly King" coming 2026!
Watch my Sci-fi film here: https://youtu.be/_EKL_cYpBNw
Jessica Cheeri @cheerijessie.bsky.social Luscious and full bodied with fruity sweetness and a hint of crisp acidity
Also @cheerijessie on Patreon, Insta, Mastodon (mstdn dot party), and Twitter
41, she/her 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Call me Synthnerd @nerdysynthdude.bsky.social Self-taught electronics boffin, synthesizer wrangler at Skald Modular, ex-writer, ex-medievalist, sometime photographer. When I'm not making things go boop in the night, I'm trying to be some moss on a tree or mulch or something. & Neurospicy.
Ian Boddy @ianboddy.bsky.social Composer, sound designer, DiN ambient music label owner & analogue synth aficionado.
dinrecords.bandcamp.com
ianboddy.bandcamp.com
Volkan Aktas @vlknaktas.bsky.social I am an amateur producer who is willing to improve skills while having fun. Trying to find a sound which I most like and go on with it for hours. I am an amateur producer who is willing to improve skills while having fun.
Lisa Marie Rhody @lmrhody.bsky.social Deputy Director, GCDI, CUNY Graduate Center; Affiliated Faculty in Liberal Studies, Digital Humanities, Data Analysis and Visualization, Interactive Technology and Pedagogy. Areas: critical ai & data, libraries, text/image, feminism, poetry; lisarhody.com
GC Digital Initiatives @cunygcdi.bsky.social Building communities around digital scholarship at the CUNY Graduate Center in NYC. http://cuny.is/gcdi
Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social writer / artist
Gülce Özen Gürkan @gulceozengurkan.com Music Composer, Performer, Academic
Ph.D. Candidate
Vegan, Pro-Palestine
TR/EN, she/her
ORCID: 0000-0002-4553-8483
gulceozengurkan.com
Dj Ripley @djripley.bsky.social Scholar, teacher, DJ, radical, junglist.
Former streetmedic, current assoc. prof. More at http://larisa-mann.com
She/her.
I wrote : RUDE CITIZENSHIP: copyright, Jamaican popular music & reverberations of colonial power https://tinyurl.com/RudeCBook
Adrianne 🎷 @adriannesax.bsky.social PhD Ethnomusicology/Pop Music Studies, saxophonista, Madonna stan. Gender | Race | Instruments
www.adriannesaxophone.com
OscillatorSink @oscillatorsink.bsky.social ADSR-ASMR
Robin “Molten Modular” Vincent @molten.bsky.social Eurorack traveller, synth YouTuber and music tech journalist.
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
@poundie.bsky.social @poundie.bsky.social
Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social Historian: Mughal & colonial India and Hindustani music, FRAS FRHistS. Head of Music @ KCL. Musicians at risk 🇦🇫 Act justly, love mercy, walk humbly (work in progress). Whippet owner. Immigrant. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/katherine-butler-schofield
Emily @yellowbilledmagpie.bsky.social Curious piano teacher, part-time music professor, progressive, neurodivergent with many interests. CA. she/her
Sean Williams, Ph.D. @seanrua1.bsky.social Ethnomusicologist, writer, musician, subversive, mom
Larry Witzleben @larryethno.bsky.social Ethnomusicologist, musician, editor, writer. Now retired, taught in Hong Kong and Maryland
Toby Bennett @tgpb.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Media, Culture & Organisation at University of Westminster
Wrote a book on the mundane work that makes Big Music work; do editorial bits at Journal of Cultural Economy; some other stuff...
https://tgpbennett.wordpress.com
CUNY Graduate Center @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social A graduate school of arts and sciences, The Graduate Center is a community of scholars dedicated to the idea that learning is a public good.
Travis Brown @travisbrown.dev Software developer living in Berlin
https://travisbrown.dev for contact info
Dr Jamie Stephenson @audioontology.bsky.social ambient metaphysics | music aesthetics |
sontology | poetics of resonance | drone monism | aural hermeneutics |postphenomenology | auditioning
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-8211-6586
👹Blackened grindgaze as HERMETIC ABYSS:
hermeticabyss.bandcamp.com
Kent @kentlambert.bsky.social [he/they]
Chicago based
maker of music - roommatemusic.com
+ machinima -
dm for info
+ mutual aid delivery driver - marketboxchi.org
TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS
FREE PALESTINE ABOLISH BORDERS
END WARS
Lorena Gibson @lorenagibson.bsky.social Anthropologist and musician
FF_notes @ffnotes.bsky.social Bree (she/they). White settler on stolen land, Australia. Researcher/lecturer (Phd Anthropology), antifascist, queer 🏳️🌈.
New Books Network @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social The Academic Audio Library. 30,000+ interviews with experts and authors on new scholarly, non-fiction, and literary books. New episodes every day! Find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts
https://linktr.ee/newbooksnetwork
Anna-Lise Santella @anna-lise.bsky.social Musicologist, editor of really big books, player of assorted string instruments, retired Jeopardy! champion; opinions are my own, not my employer’s
Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social Historian, opinions my own. Hand upon the dollar, eye upon the scale. He/him.
Jacob Kopcienski @jkopcienski.bsky.social (He/They) Queer Music, Performance, Organizing.
Assistant Prof. Musicology, App State.
Writer, I Care if You Listen.
Baker of Pizza, Archive Rat, Enthusiastic Interlocutor.