Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com Historian of storytellers.
18th century to today & beyond.
J.W.Liles Prof of English
Words: Polygon (RIP), LARB, etc
Next book: THE ACTUAL HISTORY OF ACTUAL PLAY (MIT)
(#TTRPG digital storytelling performance)
(free) patreon.com/ecfriedman
Ryan Randall @www.ryanpatrickrandall.com A better world is possible, together.
Instructional design, humanities/Cultural Studies, pedagogy, open ed (OER/OA), library work, accessibility, ADHD.
https://www.ryanpatrickrandall.com/
https://hcommons.social/@ryanrandall
Michael L. Nelson @phonedudemln.bsky.social Professor & Eminent Scholar, Old Dominion University
Web Science & Digital Libraries Group (WS-DL)
Dept of Computer Science
School of Data Science
Virginia Modeling, Simulation & Analysis Center (VMASC)
Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্র @bmitra.bsky.social Information Retrieval Researcher ✊🏽🍉🕊️ | Pronouns: He/him
Homepage: https://bhaskar-mitra.github.io/
Jon Jackson @iamjonjackson.bsky.social Senior Lecturer & Programme Director at qmul.ac.uk; Co-founder at medilingo.co.uk; SpongeBob fan; also coffee 😬
Higher Education | AI Ethics | AI in Education | GenAI
linkedin.com/in/iamjonjackson
open.substack.com/pub/jonathanmjackson
arXiv cs.DL Digital Libraries @csdl-bot.bsky.social Unofficial bot by @vele.bsky.social w/ http://github.com/so-okada/bXiv https://arxiv.org/list/cs.DL/new
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JEDI Workshop @jedi-workshop.bsky.social The JEDI workshop is an interdisciplinary forum for researchers who are interested in critically interrogating the role of information access technology in the struggle for democracy, social justice, and emancipation.
Website: http://jedi.inertial.science/
Philip K. @herbilis.bsky.social Neuere dt. Literatur, DH, Edition, alte Sprachen.
Dt.-amerik. Lit.geschichte.
"Schlüsselstellen": https://tinyurl.com/s9annew4
"Die Arbeitsweise der Brüder Grimm": https://tinyurl.com/bdcvytx7
Infos (Germanistenvz.): https://tinyurl.com/mp2p8xbb
@frueheneuzeit @stefan-hessbrueggen.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy #dh #histphil PI #prodatphil
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Federico Bianchi @federicobianchi.bsky.social Sociologist | solidarity, inter-group relationships, (some) sociology of science | social network analysis & agent-based modelling | BehaveLab @ University of Milan | https://federico-bianchi.github.io
Marianne Aubin Le Quéré @mariannealq.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellow @ Princeton CITP. ex-Cornell PhD, future UIUC asst prof (fall 2026).
Looking at AI's impact on information ecosystems and news consumption. social computing, computational social science & journalism
mariannealq.com
Sandy Zhang @sandyzyn.bsky.social nyc | princeton
chronically online 🐾
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
Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social Researching {science of AI for science, AI governance, science of science #SciSci, #AI4Science, #GenAI, LLMs, agents, alignment}
PhD Candidate @ UW.
Visiting Scholar @ NYU & MSR
Alum @ Carnegie Mellon
Academic webpage: https://samemon.github.io
Inconsequential Jen @inconsequentialjen.bsky.social Gen X mom who wants a better world for all kids. Collector of vintage cookbooks. Friend of birds. Devoted to dogs. Girl Scout for life. Sometimes a writer, but always a reader. Won't you be my neighbor?
ICSSI @icssi.org 2026 International Conference on the Science of Science & Innovation
June 29-July 1, 2026 in Boulder, Colorado, USA #ICSSI2026
👉 www.icssi.org 👈
International Conference on Computational Social Science @ic2s2.bsky.social The 12th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2) will be held in Burlington, Vermont July 28-31 2026
Website: https://ic2s2-2026.org/
ConnieBDowell @conniebdowell.bsky.social USA Today bestselling mystery author, MLIS, currently studying data science.
Blacksky Algorithms @blackskyweb.xyz Blacksky Algorithms | virtual 3rd places run by users [ blacksky.community ]
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Michael Donnay @mjdonnay.bsky.social Community Manager @softwaresaved.bsky.social
MSc Digital Humanities ‘22 @ucldh.bsky.social
Recovering stage & production manager
He/Him | 🇺🇸🇩🇪🇬🇧 | #DHmakes #Baking
Rense Corten 🟥 @rensec.bsky.social Sociologist at Utrecht University, NL, studying cooperation, trust, social networks, social media, platform economy, using computational social science and experimental methods. I mostly follow academics.
Also: @RenseC@mastodon.online
HathiTrust @hathitrust.bsky.social A not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries preserving and providing access to 19+ million digitized items in the HathiTrust Digital Library. Discover how we serve libraries and the academic community at www.hathitrust.org
University of Oklahoma @ou.edu 📚 Research-minded
💡 Inspired to innovate
🎓 Academic excellence
🏆 Historic athletics
❤️ Welcoming community
☝️ #LeadOnOU
ou.edu
Yuerong Hu @yrhu.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Information and Library Science, Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University Bloomington
iSchool at Illinois @ischoolui.bsky.social The School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | The Power of Information | #iSchoolUI
Brandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social Head of Student Programs, @scholarslab. DH, pedagogy, videogames. Co-VP @ach.bsky.social.
_Embedded Pedagogies: Digital Humanities Teaching and the Infrastructure of Change_ is out and OA! https://buff.ly/kQau5oV
More info at walshbr.com.
Daniel S. Katz @danielskatz.org Chief Scientist @ NCSA, Res. Prof. @ CS & iSchool, @ U Illinois Urbana-Champaign
He/him
Works on: computational & data science: software opensource systems tools policy practices scholcomm FAIR RSE
more active on: @danielskatz@fediscience.org
Jan Lorenz @janlo.de Computational social scientist, agent-based models, opinion dynamics and collective decision. Sometimes english, manchmal deutsch
http://datasci.social/@janlo
Michał Bojanowski @mbojan.bsky.social sociologist :: data scientist :: social networks analyst :: computational modeler :: seasoned :rstats: developer
Marijn Keijzer @mrnkzr.bsky.social Analytical sociologist | Research fellow at IAST 🇫🇷
Interested in sociology, polarization, computational social science, abm, coffee and climbing
Isabel Maria Habicht @isabelmhabicht.bsky.social Social Scientist @uni-wuppertal.bsky.social.
Social inequality, gender, labor markets, family policies.
Website: isabelhabicht.github.io
DataCite @datacite.org We are a global community that shares a common interest: to ensure that research outputs and resources are openly available and connected so that their reuse can advance knowledge across and between disciplines, now and in the future.
Louis Ravn @louravn.bsky.social PhD Candidate in Critical AI Studies. @University of Amsterdam. deep-culture.org. He/him. All views are my own.
STS | critical AI | critical data studies | social theory
Nanna B Thylstrup @nannathylstrup.bsky.social Associate Prof @ University of Copenhagen. Author of: "The Politics of Mass Digitization" (MIT Press), editor of "Uncertain Archives: Critical Keywords for Big Data" (MIT Press) and "(W)archives: Archival Imaginaries, War, and Contemporary Art" (Sternberg)
Academic Audio Transcription Ltd @aat-transcribes.bsky.social Specialist transcription services with a social impact
Supporting research, improving access, and creating fairly-paid, flexible, accessible work for disabled, chronically ill and neurodivergent freelancers
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Conference on Language Modeling @colmweb.org The 2025 Conference on Language Modeling will take place at the Palais des Congrès in Montreal, Canada from October 7-10, 2025
Website: colm.cc
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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com Rare Book #Librarian, #editor, bereaved parent of Caitlin. 12x Hugo Award winner. bi/pan/queer. Head @illinoisrbml.bsky.social; Verity podcast; ex-Uncanny Mag. #aerialist. My opinions. she/her. #DoctorWho New book: https://alastore.ala.org/infiniteloop
Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social Historian of #VastEarlyAmerica, gender, family & politics | Director & Librarian @ JCBLibrary | History Prof @ Brown U
#LineageTheBook OUP July, 2025 | On some other platforms and also @ karinwulf.com | Opinions here just mine.
Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social Enriched macaroni product.
Broad interests in media, science, technology, social theory. Currently working on history of machine learning.
SAFC
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=nytCQGYAAAAJ&hl=en
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/
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)
COMET @cometadata.bsky.social COMET is a community-led initiative setting the standards for collaborative scholarly metadata enrichment practices.
https://www.cometadata.org- B Felix Oke @bfiliks.bsky.social Digital Humanities; Textual Studies; Data Visualization
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/
Ben Golub @bengolub.bsky.social economics and computer science professor at Northwestern
bengolub.net
social and economic networks
originally from Ukraine
Wade Bishop @bradleywadebishop.bsky.social Information Sciences Professor; Research Data Management; Data Discovery; Geographic Information Science; Data Occupations; Public Libraries; Spatial Analysis; Academic Libraries
Sara Suárez @sarasuarezg.bsky.social Associate Professor in Information and Communication Sciences and researcher on data-driven technologies at CNSC research group (UOC) | Codirector of the academic journal #QuadernsdelCAC | Personal data are political
Katherine Mary Jones @katherinej.bsky.social Final year PhD student at the University of Bristol. Research Fellow in Computer and Information Sciences at Northumbria University. Human-Computer Interaction, Education, Social Care and Psychology. Interested in Accessibility, Diversity and Inclusion.
FORS Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences @forsresearch.bsky.social FORS implements large-scale national and international surveys, offers data and research information services to researchers and academic institutions, and conducts methodological and thematic research. www.forscenter.ch
IASSIST @iassistdata.bsky.social International Association for Social Science Information Service and Technology (IASSIST) - An international organization of data professionals to support research and teaching in social sciences and beyond. 
Colin Rhinesmith @crhinesmith.bsky.social (he/they) Associate Professor + Director, Digital Equity Action Research (DEAR) Lab @ischoolui.bsky.social | Author, "Digital Equity Ecosystems" @ucpress.bsky.social
J. Stephen Downie @profdownie.bsky.social Professor, Executive Associate Dean, School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois.
Digital Humanities-Music Information Retrieval-Library and Information Science
Dr. Tara Lyons @tarallyons.bsky.social Professor; Bibliography, women and libraries, early modern books and storage; book trade, histories of information; playbooks; Shakespeare; English literature, drama, cats, horses, bees, and little furry critters
Shawn M. Jones, PhD @shawnmjones.org Cat parent. PhD ODU CS. @webscidl.bsky.social 4Life. Opinions are my own. Reposts are worth a look, but not always an endorsement.
https://www.shawnmjones.org
Also on Mastodon: @shawnmjones@hachyderm.io
The Institute for Analytical Sociology @iasliu.bsky.social The Institute for Analytical Sociology (IAS) at Linköping University conducts big-data influenced research on important social, political, and cultural matters.
https://liu.se/en/organisation/liu/iei/ias
Women in AI Ethics official account @womeninaiethics.bsky.social champion of equity and ethics, advocate for diversity in AI and tech, lover of cats and coffee (and occasionally tea)
Ai2 @ai2.bsky.social Breakthrough AI to solve the world's biggest problems.
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Politics & Gender @politicsgenderj.bsky.social Official journal of the Women, Gender, and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association.
S @decompostela.bsky.social Digital Archivist 👩💻, foodie🍴, hiker 🥾, dog mom 🐶, nature enthusiast 💚, and lifelong traveler seeking new experiences to fuel my curiosity.
RKK @ronakkapadia.bsky.social Books: INSURGENT AESTHETICS | SURVIVING THE LONG WARS | Writing: BREATHING IN COMMON | Curator: https://www.survivingthelongwars.online/ | art/abolition/war/security/empire/futurism/healing/disability/justice | Pisces ♓️🐟. Personal account.
Dean Spade @deanspade.bsky.social linktr.ee/deanspade 
Paisley Currah @paisleycurrah.com My specialty: government decisions on sex classification. Distinguished Professor, Brooklyn College, CUNY. Dad, dog companion, kayaker. Pieces in n+1, Boston Review, Nature, New Yorker, New York Review, Yale Review.
www.paisleycurrah.com
Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social New novel, TERRY DACTYL, out now from Coffee House in US & Cipher in UK!⚡🌷SOCIAL DISTANCING out March 2027 from Semiotext(e)💐 ACT UP BEYOND NEW YORK out Fall 2027 from Haymarket 🌸 https://www.mattildabernsteinsycamore.com/
Feminist Killjoy @saranahmed.bsky.social Writer and independent feminist scholar
Queer person of colour
#FreePalestine
vanta greige @ultramaricon.bsky.social
i write about sex, race, and art
DMs by carrier pigeon only
please bully me off this app my hands hurt
he/him
free 🇵🇸
opinions expressed here are not my employer's and often not even my own
Blacklikewho @blacklikewho.bsky.social Ideas with appointments for food. 
Karen Tongson @inlandemperor.bsky.social Author of NORMPORN, WHY KAREN CARPENTER MATTERS, and RELOCATIONS. Food motivated. Expert Homosexual. Prof by day. Cohost of The Art of Grief and The Gaymazing Race podcasts, formerly of Waiting to X-Hale. #Gaylor curious.
ACFC ⚽️ & Dodgers ⚾️ 
Sandeep Bakshi @sandeepbak.bsky.social Queer vegan of colour academic. Committed to decolonial inquiry. Postcolonial, Queer Studies. Université Paris Cité. He, they.
https://echelles.u-pariscite.fr/membre/bakshi-sandeep-fr/
http://decolonizingsexualities.org
https://instagram.com/sandeep.bak/
Margot Weiss @margotweiss.bsky.social Writer, professor, queer anthropologist. Books: TECHNIQUES OF PLEASURE (Duke), QUEER THEN AND NOW (Feminist Press), and UNSETTLING QUEER ANTHROPOLOGY (Duke).
margotweiss.com
Jean-Thomas Tremblay @jttremblay.bsky.social assoc. prof of english at york | coauthor of negative life: the cinema of extinction (northwestern) | author of breathing aesthetics (duke) | https://jeanthomastremblay.carrd.co/
Hil Malatino @hilmalatino.bsky.social Woods Weirdo // Professor at Farmer’s High// Author of Climbing, Side Affects, Trans Care, and Queer Embodiment
he/they if you insist
Aren Aizura @incommensurati.bsky.social no borders, no police, no prisons. no occupation of palestine. transsexual, aspiring inanimate object. also a theorist of trans and queer mobilities and social reproduction. gaza will be free.
Juana María Rodríguez @radiorodriguez.bsky.social A queer Latina femme fighting for a Free Palestine 🇵🇸Author of 📚Puta Life: Seeing Latinas, Working Sex//Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures and Other Latina Longings//Queer Latinidad: Identity Practices, Discursive Spaces juanamariarodriguez.com
Big Capybara Energy 🌈 🍉🦄 @lmgm.bsky.social BOOK: https://www.dukeupress.edu/together-somehow
I party so you don't have to. He/him, with notable exceptions. Gay affinity animal: capybara. Opinions are epiphenomena of discourse and power—and also my own.
theluisgarcia.Carrd.co
Elliott H. Powell @ehphd.bsky.social Professor, UMN American Studies// I study race, sex(uality), & pop music // Author of *Sounds from the Other Side* (winner of the IASPM-US Guthrie & AMS Brett awards) // he/him
J. Logan Smilges @jlsmilges.bsky.social Always all of my love, always all that I can hold. Author of #QueerSilence, #CripNegativity, and other words on crip, trans, and queer worlding. They/them.
https://linktr.ee/jlsmilges
Jennifer Doyle @fromaleftwing.bsky.social Sports crank, art writer, teacher. Author of Campus Sex/Campus Security, Sex Objects, Hold It Against Me. ACFC fan. 
Larry La Fountain @larrylafountain.bsky.social Professor at the University of Michigan. Author of Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance (2021) + Queer Ricans: Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora. Coeditor Keywords for Latina/o Studies. On sabbatical this year. 🇵🇷 🌈
Alexis Lothian @alothian.bsky.social Scholar and sometimes practitioner of queer speculation, critical fandom, digital social justice, and feminist world building. Associate Professor in the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at University of Maryland.
Omar Kasmani @kasmanio.bsky.social Berliner-by-love & cultural anthropologist @FU_Berlin | intimacy, post-migrant be/longing, queer + affect theory | author of Queer Companions (2022, Duke UP)
La Marr Jurelle Bruce @afromantic.bsky.social troublemaker, lovemaker, philosopher, fever dreamer, afromancer, black studies prof @uofmaryland, fellow @stanford. i'll teach you how to go mad without losing your mind. ✊🏾🌈
https://www.dukeupress.edu/how-to-go-mad-without-losing-your-mind
Xine Yao PhD (she/they) @xineyaophd.bsky.social DISAFFECTED: THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF UNFEELING @DukePress | @phdivaspodcast | Associate Professor | BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker | Co-Director @qUCL.bsky.social | rhymes w fine
from the colonies
https://www.dukeupress.edu/disaffected
Jodi A Byrd @arsavium.bsky.social Chickasaw, Professor of Race, Diaspora, Indigeneity at U Chicago, author of Transit of Empire (Minnesota, 2011) and Indigenomicon (Duke, 2025)
SA Smythe @essaysmythe.bsky.social blk critical theorist + transmedia artist. ‘black studies & the archive’ assoc. professor
Greta LaFleur @gretalafleur.bsky.social C18 americanist; interdisciplinary scholar of the history of gender and sexuality; novice but passionate birder. 
@jonathanflatley.bsky.social @jonathanflatley.bsky.social 
Chris Lloyd @cilloyd.bsky.social he/him. associate prof, poet, writer, host of “books up close” and coeditor of seaford review journal 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏴🇵🇸
https://linktr.ee/chrislloyd
erin l. durban @erindurban.bsky.social 🐌 assoc. prof. of anthro and critical disability studies
❤️ feminist studies PhD
📖 author of the sexual politics of empire: postcolonial homophobia in haiti
♿️ project about collective access in ethnographic research for social justice and abolition
James Huynh @drjameshuynh.bsky.social Asst Prof of Health Management and Policy at University of Michigan School of Public Health. Studying queer of color social movements, kinship, health equity, and health policy. Views my own.
Living on Anishanaabe land.
https://thejameshuynh.com
Chad Shomura @hellochadcat.bsky.social Robot cephalopod failing to be human • Political theorist • Ethnic studies prof
Miranda Joseph @mirandadj.bsky.social 💻 UMN GWSS & American Studies
📚 Author of Against the Romance of Community and Debt to Society
🌲 Stanford MTL PhD
Anna Storti @storti.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke
diaspora dyke 💜💛 bicoastal biracial
www.annamstorti.com