MERL Tech Initiative @merltech.bsky.social We care about responsible monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning (MERL) in the development, humanitarian, peace building and social sectors. Join our natural language processing (NLP-CoP) community of practice: https://merltech.org/nlp-cop/
Nora Van den Bosch @nvdb.bsky.social PhD student @ EAST, ULB (2026-2029) | Sinologist interested in digital humanities | curator Modern China Biographical Database (2019-2025)
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1881-5801
Tech Won’t Save Us @techwontsave.us A left-wing podcast for a better world and better tech. Hosted by @parismarx.com. Made in partnership with @thenation.com.
https://techwontsave.us/
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
Josh Bowsher @jbowsher.bsky.social Capitalism Hater, Sociology Lecturer: the cybernetic and the computational, STS, critical human rights studies. Author of The Informational Logic of Human Rights (Edinburgh University Press)
(he/him)
Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social Senior Publisher for STS, Digital/Medical Humanities and Literary Studies at Bloomsbury Academic. All long-winded, rambling views are my own.
Janna Joceli Omena @jannajoceliomena.bsky.social Making #digitalmethods - w/ web tech, AI, networks, technicity, dataViz
@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Past: @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social
https://jannajoceliomena.net/
http://metodosdigitais.fcsh.unl.pt
Economy & Society @econsocjournal.bsky.social Est. 1972. Social science journal: economic and cultural relations, states and governance, & much more.
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/reso20
Paul Langley @paullangley.bsky.social Prof. Economic Geography, Durham, UK.
Managing Editor @econsocjournal.bsky.social
Finance, money, FinTech, and more.
https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/paul-langley/
Digital Sovereignty Observatory @digsovobs.bsky.social We examine how emerging technologies—from digital identity systems and digital public infrastructure (DPI) to blockchains and satellite networks—reshape social and political boundaries. https://www.digitalsovereigntyobservatory.org/
Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co Social science and other distractions. Old posts get deleted pretty quick.
https://kieranhealy.org /
https://theordinalsociety.com
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
🏳️🌈
https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1837201724?i=1000724643828
Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social Ontario Research Chair in Science Policy
Obsessed with assets & assetization + into science & technology studies, political economy, economic sociology: https://keanbirch.net/
Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social I had a marvellous time ruining everything.
Professor of Genetics @UCL, Public Humanities Fellow @SAS. Ex-President of @Humanists_UK Genetics, race, eugenics, books, cricket, +–=÷×
@kbjmanagement
adamrutherford.com
Kathryn Paige Harden @kph3k.bsky.social Psychology & behavior genetics. Author of THE GENETIC LOTTERY (2021) and ORIGINAL SIN (2026). Speaking as an individual.
Sasha Gusev @sashagusevposts.bsky.social Statistical geneticist. Associate Prof at Dana-Farber / Harvard Medical School.
www.gusevlab.org
Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social Economic historian w broad interests including population health, First Nations, mobility, inequality & lives of the incarcerated. Directing https://thecanadianpeoples.com & editing Asia-Pacific EcHR https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/2832157x
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Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com Philosopher & Historian of Biology 🇲🇽 • Postdoctoral Fellow @theramseylab.bsky.social (@clpskuleuven.bsky.social) • https://www.alejandrofabregastejeda.com • https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262052825/the-organism-environment-pairing/ • #philsci #HPS #philsky
Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social Director of the Centre for Culture and Evolution, Brunel University London @brunelcce.bsky.social
https://www.rebeccasear.org/
RUB History & Philosophy of Science @roto-rub.bsky.social History and Philosophy of Science at Ruhr University Bochum • www.pe.rub.de/philosophie/i/wtwg • #PhilSci #HPBio #HistSTM #HistSci
Arno Van Hootegem 🌱 @arnovanhootegem.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellow at Norwegian Institute of Public Health 🤷🏻♂️
Working on (in)equality, mental health, genetics, public opinion and everything in between 🙇🏻♂️
Loves sourdough, yoga and other millennial coping strategies 🙆🏻♂️
He/him 👨🏻
Rafael Grohmann @grohmannrafael.bsky.social Assistant Professor Media Studies (Critical Platform Studies) University of Toronto, Canada. Leader DigiLabour. Platform labor, Worker-owned Platforms, AI & Labor, Worker Organizing
Louise Hickman @louhicky.bsky.social Wellcome's Early Career Award. CRASSH at the University of Cambridge.
Sara Alsherif @sarahalsherif.bsky.social Into tech, gender and human rights.
Fighting tyrants know no borders; it's not only my job; it's my lifestyle.
And in case you are wondering 'Views are my own'.
لا للمحاكمات العسكرية للمدنيين
Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social Hopeful technologist.
Community tech, careful innovation, socially progressive tech policy.
https://www.careful.industries
https://hopeful.technology
https://buttondown.email/justenoughinternet
DMs don't work but hello@careful.industries will find me
Sonny.algo @sonnyalgo.bsky.social Algo node runner. #Algorand is carbon negative, quantum-resistant blockchain, runs humanitarian aid projects, and supports developing regulations. If you're blue sky your blockchain should be Algorand. #crypto
Lida Zeitlin-Wu @lidazeitlinwu.bsky.social Author of How Color Became a Technology: The Making of Chromatic Capitalism (forthcoming from Duke UP in 2027). Assistant Prof at Notre Dame. Past and present Chicagoan. www.lidazeitlinwu.com
Photini Vrikki @photini.bsky.social I think and write about the impact of technology on society // I teach and do digital humanities at the department of Information Studies at UCL.
Cecilia Rikap @ceciliarikap.bsky.social Assoc. Prof in Econ & Head of Research at @ucl-iipp.bksy.social
The Critical AI Centre @craicexeter.bsky.social CrAIC is an interdisciplinary research hub based at the University of Exeter, UK.
👤 @gildersleve.uk
👤 @andreamedrado.bsky.social
👤 Brett Zehner
🌐 https://cdf.exeter.ac.uk/communications/research/centres/craic/
✉️ craic@exeter.ac.uk
Algorand Foundation @foundation.algo.xyz Algorand is the L1 blockchain where solutions that scale are built.
https://linktr.ee/algofoundation
Ian Brown 👨🏻💻 @ianbrown.tech 💻 regulation (🔑 #privacy 🗳)
⛷🚴🏻♂️🥾🗺 🇮🇨🇪🇸🇪🇺🏳️🌈🌻
Visiting Prof @fgvoficial.bsky.social 👨🏫
Formerly DCMS Principal Scientific Officer/Prof. Information Security & Privacy @oii.ox.ac.uk
Tech News @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy
Martina Tazzioli @smartitaz.bsky.social Associate professor of geography, University of Bologna.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that. 
e-flux @eflux.bsky.social e-flux was started by artists in 1999.
Online, e-flux spans numerous strains of critical discourse in art, architecture, film, and theory, and connects many of the most significant art institutions with audiences around the world.
Ada Lovelace Institute @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social Making data & AI work for people & society.
Sign up for our fortnightly newsletter: https://adalovelaceinstitute.org//newsletter-subscribe
Semafor @semafor.com Building a new global news company. Sign up for our newsletters: https://www.semafor.com/newsletters
King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social 🌍 Official Bluesky account for the Faculty of Arts & Humanities at King's College London, consisting of 11 academic departments. #KingsArtsHums
kcl.ac.uk/artshums
Liliana Bounegru @lboungr.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Digital Media, Culture and Society @kingsdh.bsky.social. Co-founder @publicdatalab.bsky.social. Member of @digitalmethods.net and @medialab-scpo.bsky.social. Website: lilianabounegru.org. Mastodon: assemblag.es/@lbngr
DISCO Network @disconetwork.bsky.social Envisioning an equitable digital future. Housed within @umichdigital.bsky.social.
PIs: @lnakamura.bsky.social, Rayvon Fouché, @remiyergeau.bsky.social, & @steelecat717.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/thedisconetwork
Andrea Ballatore 🗺️ @aballatore.bsky.social 👉 Inactive account, find me on https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreaballatore/
Senior lecturer (~Associate Prof) at Dept. of Digital Humanities at King's College London @kingsdh.bsky.social 🏛️📊🌎 Director of Cultural Geo-Analytics Lab
Public Data Lab @publicdatalab.bsky.social Interdisciplinary research network developing materials and formats for collective inquiry with & about digital data, digital methods & digital infrastructures. https://publicdatalab.org/
Gaia Ghirardi @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social Sociologist for children and social equality.
Postdoctoral researcher, WZB Berlin Social Science Center
https://gaiaghirardi.github.io
War on the Rocks @warontherocks.bsky.social Experience. Conflict. Commentary.
Join our community: https://warontherocks.com/membership/
Prof Cathryn Costello @profccostello.bsky.social Full Prof of Global Refugee and Migration Law, Sutherland School of Law, UCD; ex-Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford; ex-Centre for Fundamental Rights, Hertie School, Berlin. Recent return migrant after two decades.
CPDPconferences @cpdpconferences.bsky.social CPDP is the EU's leading interdisciplinary forum for legal, regulatory and academic debates on technological development and the digital society.
🔗 https://www.cpdpconferences.org/
Non-Governmental & Nonprofit Organisation | Brussels, Belgium
Carola Westermeier @c-westermeier.bsky.social Professor of Economic Sociology at Marburg University //
Research Group @mpifg.bsky.social with a focus on the intersections of Technology and Sovereignty // carolawestermeier.org
Digital Futures Institute @ King's College London @kings-dfi.bsky.social 🔶 The Digital Futures Institute brings together expertise from across all disciplines at King’s to forge a better relationship between the individual and technology: kcl.ac.uk/digital-futures
Marcus Power @marcusjpower.bsky.social Professor of Human Geography @ Durham University. The geopolitics-development nexus | China-Africa relations | South-South flows | energy & infrastructural geographies
https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/marcus-power/
Matthew Cole @mattcole.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Technology, Work and Employment at the University of Sussex.
Heterodox Marxist - Les dés sont pipés!
mattcole.work
Kate Crawford @katecrawford.bsky.social Professor, researcher, maker of things
Giota Alevizou @giotita.bsky.social Lecturer in Digital Humanities & Culture @KingsDH | New Book out in early 2026, ‘The Web of Knowledge: Encyclopedias & Authority in the Digital Age’ Polity | profile: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/giota-alevizou
Glasxs @glasxs.bsky.social Glasxs @ Glasxs / Audio Producer @ @universalmusicgroup / Founder @ Radio Circus Studios (award-winning, slightly haunted)
New Music Soon.
https://linktr.ee/glasxs
m leal causton @mlealcauston.bsky.social [researcher | data ⇆ archivist ⇆ [ ] ] info. governance + networks + accountability + transparency >>> critical-digital-methods + research @dataunion-erc.bsky.social @lsts-vub.bsky.social
brussels - berlin | [rt/post ≠ endorsement]
Ed Zitron @edzitron.com British, But In Las Vegas and NYC
ezitron.76 Sig
Newsletter - wheresyoured.at
https://linktr.ee/betteroffline - podcast w/ iheartradio
Chosen by god, perfected by science
CEO at EZPR.com
Kate Devlin @drkatedevlin.bsky.social Academic; writer. Professor of AI & Society, Chair-Director @kings-dfi.bsky.social, King’s College London. Eye-rolling at AI nonsense on a daily basis. #academicsky . Norn Irish in Norwich.
⿻ Audrey Tang 唐鳳 @audreyt.org 2025 Right Livelihood Laureate, Senior Accelerator Fellow at Oxford's Institute for Ethics in AI, and Taiwan's founding Minister of Digital Affairs. https://cyberambassador.tw/
Molly White @molly.wiki writes citationneeded.news • runs @web3isgoinggreat.com and @influence.citationneeded.news • tech researcher and cryptocurrency industry critic • software engineer • wikipedian
support my work: citationneeded.news/signup
links: mollywhite.net/linktree
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Fabian Ferrari @fabianlferrari.bsky.social 🌍 Assistant Professor in Cultural AI, @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social
🔍 Governance of AI Infrastructure
🌐 www.fabianlferrari.com
Philipp Riederle @phipz.com Researching the Political Economy of Internet (De-)Centralisation | Platforms, Infrastructures, and Interoperability | Doctoral Researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute @oii.ox.ac.uk
🌍 https://www.platforce.net // 📬 philipp.riederle(at)oii.ox.ac.uk
Marwa Fatafta | مروة فطافطة @marwasf.bsky.social Palestinian feminist made in Saudi | MENA Policy and Advocacy Director @AccessNow
Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social 🌩️INVESTIGATING THE KILL CLOUD🌩️
Discover our new fellows now: thekill.cloud
No Tech For Apartheid @notechforapartheid.bsky.social Google & Amazon workers organizing against the companies' Project Nimbus contract w/ Israel & tech militarism at large.
📩 notech4apartheid@protonmail.com
💬 Google or Amazon worker? Join us ➡️ solidarity.notechforapartheid.com/join
🌐 notechforapartheid.com
Tobias Denskus @aidnography.de Associate Professor in Development Studies at Malmö University, Sweden. Global development. Humanitarianism. Communication & Social Change. Chief Blogger at www.aidnography.de since 2010.
More: https://linktr.ee/tobiasdenskus
Petra Molnar @petramolnar.com #Bordertech ethnographies | Author of The Walls Have Eyes | @refugeelab.ca + @migrationtechmonitor.com, York | Faculty Associate with Berkman Klein Center, Harvard | She/ هي 🇵🇸🍉| https://petramolnar.com/
Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social nerd with narrative disorder • humanitarian • sociopunk • evidence-based creativity • speculative resistance • predictive fictions • INFOMOCRACY • THE MIMICKING OF KNOWN SUCCESSES • …AND OTHER DISASTERS • GlobalVoices.org • opinions my own
danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social STS researcher who likes to look at things sideways. Founded Data & Society.
Topics: Census | Youth | Data | Society
Professor of Communication, Cornell
https://made-not-found-by-danah-boyd.ghost.io
Heather Leson @heatherleson.bsky.social Imagine this world if we all lent a hand. Strategy, Engagement, Open Source, Open Organizations, Humanitarian. OSMF/HOTOSM. about.me/heather_leson
Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social An independent research and policy institute working toward a future where people, not technology, come first.
Paris Marx @parismarx.com 💥 PREORDER MY NEW BOOK HYPERSCALE 💥
🎙️ @techwontsave.us
📬 https://disconnect.blog
📖 https://hyperscalebook.com
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute 
Daniel Trilling @trillingual.bsky.social Journalist and author in London. LRB, Guardian Long Read and others. Books about refugees in Europe and Britain's far right. danieltrilling.co.uk for contact details etc 
Stuart Dunn @stuartdunn.bsky.social Digital Humanist and Professor of Spatial Humanities, King's College London (@kingsdh.bsky.social). Also: Head of Humanities, @kingsartshums.bsky.social. Various other things too, e.g. @folkloresociety.bsky.social Council Member.
https://stuartdunn.blog
Jack Taggart @jacktaggart.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy at Queen's University, Belfast.
Critical IPE | International Development | Global Governance
https://t.co/DsLD6qU8u3
Kevin Donovan @kevindonovan.bsky.social anthro & history in e. africa | book: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009501385
Eilish Spear @eilishbrynspear.bsky.social writer // oberlin & soas // london
Amanda Curtis @digitalmatcha.bsky.social researching knowledge, creativity, & gaming at OII Oxford & UTokyo 🎮 / JSPS research fellow 🇯🇵 / Women in Games ambassador 🤍 / matcha latte enthusiast 🍵
meowtree @meowtree.bsky.social Responsible data, digital ethics, safeguarding, trust + safety, privacy. Human rights, global dev, humanitarian work. MERL Tech, NLP-CoP, NYC Tech Salon. CIPP-E/CIPM certified. Brooklyn, cats, gardening, biking. She/her. 
Ian Bogost @ibogost.com Read my new book, The Small Stuff: How to Lead a More Gratifying Life: https://gratifying.life
Barbara and David Thomas Distinguished Professor at WashU; Contributing writer at The Atlantic; author of 11 books. https://bogost.com
Ludovico Rella @ludovico-rella.bsky.social @GeogDurham Postdoctoral Research Associate http://algorithmicsocieties.org on Machine Learning, Recognition, Attribution and Inference
ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social Lecturer in AI, Government & Policy at the OII (University of Oxford) | Author of "The Materiality of AI" (2027, Bristol University Press) | Associate Editor at Big Data & Society | Investigating algorithmic and environmental accountability of LLMs
Javi @javisamo.bsky.social Machine Learning and Data Justice @uco.es. Spanish / Bad English.
Alice Thwaite @alicelthwaite.bsky.social Ethics by design.
Also likes: swimming, sewing, walking outside, and electronic music.
Based in London, UK.
Katherine Wyers (she/her) @katherinewyers.bsky.social Information Infrastructures, Transgender Identity Categories, Social Equity @UniOslo, Humanities groupie, Twitter: @katherine_wyers
Alex @blangry.bsky.social Final year DPhil anthropology of civic tech. Principal consultant. Norwich with a cargo bike. Greyhound pictures extra.
Eleonora Lima @eleonoralima.bsky.social Lecturer in Cultural AI @King's College London. Research Fellow @Trinity College Dublin working on the KT4D project. Editorial assistant for the Journal of Open Humanities Data (JOHD). She'd rather be a cyborg than an academic goddess.
Rosie Collington @rosiecollington.bsky.social political economist | IPE post-doc @ CBS | PhD from UCL IIPP | co-author 'THE BIG CON' | views own etc etc | www.rosiecollington.work
Tuğçe Bidav @tugcebidav.bsky.social Lecturer in the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London | Interested in platforms, digital labour & creator cultures
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/tugce-bidav
Ned Barker @nedbarker.bsky.social Lecturer in Digital Culture & Technology @ King’s College London.
Researching technology, the body & society — from VR to robotics & more
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/ned-barker
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ned-barker-86a47787/
@kingsdh.bsky.social
Sam Gregory @samgregory.bsky.social AI + emerging tech + epistemic resilience; 'Prepare, Don't Panic' initiative on media manipulation/generative AI. TED speaker on deepfakes, https://www.samgregory.info, @samgregory on Twitter/X. PhD Westminster. Former Executive Director WITNESS.
Pauline Heinrichs @paulinesophieh.bsky.social Lecturer in Climate and Energy Security at the Department of War Studies (King’s College London). Interested in world orders, temporality and the international politics of climate change. Views are my own. 
Prof Nic Cheeseman @fromagehomme.bsky.social Prof of Democracy, Director @CEDAR_Bham at @unibirmingham, founder @AfricaDemocracy, columnist @TheAfricaReport, collab with @thecontinent_, retwts not...
Orçun Can @aorcuncan.bsky.social Writer, academic, dungeon master. EN/TR. Lecturer in Digital Economy @kingsdh.bsky.social. King's College London.
Robert Gorwa @gorwa.ca Researching global tech policy at the WZB Berlin. 📕: The Politics of Platform Regulation - How Governments Shape Online Content Moderation (out now OA 🔓) https://academic.oup.com/book/56385
Melissa Gatter @melissagatter.bsky.social Asking questions about humanitarian aid + forced migration in MENA/US. Author of TIME AND POWER IN AZRAQ REFUGEE CAMP: A NINE-TO-FIVE EMERGENCY. Asst Prof in Anthropology & International Development at University of Sussex.
https://linktr.ee/melissagatter
Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social Digital Cultures and Arts | UZH & ZHdK | operative images, synthetic media and visual culture
@digitalculturesandarts.ch
https://digitalculturesandarts.ch/
https://linktr.ee/bildoperationen
Lucas Osborne @lucastosborne.bsky.social Natural Resources Law, Public Utility Regulation, Monopolies, Private Law Theory, Law and Technology PhD @UCBerkeley, JD @VanderbiltLaw, MPP @TheHellerSchool
Fran Meissner @fmeissner.bsky.social Assistant Professor Critical Geodata Studies and Geodata Ethics | University of Twente
Fernando van der Vlist @fvandervlist.bsky.social Media Studies @uvahumanities.bsky.social · 📚 Author, Platforms (Polity) · 📦 NWO Veni: ‘AI Power’ · 🔍 platforms, apps, data, AI, digital methods · 👥 @appstudies.bsky.social, @digitalmethods.net, @publicdatalab.bsky.social · 🔗 fernandovandervlist.nl