Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) @aoir.bsky.social Researching the Internet is serious business. Mostly.
(We're mainly over on AoIR.social, our organisation Mastodon instance, which is open to all members.)
https://aoir.org/
https://aoir.social/@aoir
https://aoir.org/aoir2026/
Kate Miltner @katemiltner.bsky.social Lecturer (Asst. Prof) in Data, AI & Society @ The University of Sheffield Information School. Member of the UK Young Academy.
katemiltner.com
Steve Schirra @schirra.bsky.social UX Research @YouTube / HCI / Games / Politics + Law / Books / Birds. Opinions my own. @MIT alum. Previously @twitch, @yahoo, @zynga.
Mariel Garcia-Montes @marielgm.bsky.social 40% thinker, 60% doer. 100% altermundista. Sociotechnical researcher on data, privacy, and surveillance at MIT HASTS, Data + Feminism, Berkman Klein. I love creative uses of media and tech in the public interest. Cambridge, MA/Ciudad de México.
Michael Burstein @mburstein.bsky.social Law Professor @ Cardozo Law. Innovation and Entrepreneurship. IP and Business Law.
Alex Leavitt, PhD (they/them) @alexleavitt.bsky.social Principal researcher for Trust & Safety @Roblox & Visiting Fellow @CHAI_Berkeley. 🏳️🌈🐈⬛🏳️⚧️ Ex-@Meta, PhD @USCAnnenberg. 日本語でOK!
David Nemer @davidnemer.com Assoc Prof of Media Studies & Anthropology at the University of Virginia. Faculty Associate at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center. Anthropology of Tech/STS Books: Technology of the Oppressed (MIT Press); Favela Digital (GSA)🇧🇷🇺🇸
https://linktr.ee/davidnemer
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.
Contexts Magazine @contexts.org Contexts is a quarterly magazine that makes cutting-edge sociology research accessible to general readers. Edited by David Grazian, with managing editor Elena van Stee.
contexts.org
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Frank X. Shaw @fxshaw.com hobby bread baker, cyclist, snowboarder, runner, speculative fiction fan (send book recommendations!). Also: lead communications at Microsoft, USMC veteran, Oregon Duck fan. Personal stuff at https:/www.fxshaw.com
Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com My New York Times bestseller: ON COURAGE: HOW TO BE A DISSIDENT IN AN AGE OF FEAR (HarperCollins) tinyurl.com/yxpvn488
NYTimes Opinion Writer | Director, Independent Media program HKS
Sign up for my newsletter: https://buttondown.com/JuliaAngwin
Charlton McIlwain @cmcilwain.bsky.social Higher Ed Leader. BBQ junkie. Author. NYU Professor. CR+DS. Board Pres.@ Data & Society. Race+Tech.
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
Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in Teaching and writing media studies at CU Boulder. Helping to build a cooperative fediverse with Social.coop. Fan of democratic experiences and divine mysteries. Co-leading metagov.org, start.coop, wagingnonviolence.org.
Robyn Caplan @robyncaplan.bsky.social Assistant professor at Duke University. Tech policy, platform governance, mom.
I make bad jokes sometimes.
Brooke Foucault Welles @foucaultwelles.bsky.social Professor of Communication, trying not to be evil Ass. Dean, #HashtagActivism co-author, mom to teenagers and cats. Appreciates novelty socks and cat memes.
Gideon Lichfield @glichfield.bsky.social Climber, biker, cocktailer, polyglot, vagabond. Ex EIC WIRED & MIT Technology Review, now writing about the future of democracy at https://futurepolis.substack.com. NYC/SF. He/him/Sir.
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
Jillian C. York @jillian.bsky.social Author of Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism (Verso 2021).
Work @eff.org, teach at College of Europe Natolin, sing and play 🎷 in a band, live in London, full bio at https://jilliancyork.com/about
Views are mine alone.
Gabriella "Biella" Coleman @biella.bsky.social Professor of Anthropology @Harvard, Hacker Studies & More https://gabriellacoleman.org/
Rumman Chowdhury @ruchowdh.bsky.social www.rummanchowdhury.com
www.humane-intelligence.org
CEO & co-founder, Humane Intelligence
US Science Envoy for AI (Biden Administration)
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
Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social Law professor & journalist looking at tech geopolitics, free expression, internet law, online governance, & AI.
Senior Editor at Lawfare.
https://klonick.substack.com/
www.kateklonick.com
W.W.D.D.
Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social Prof @ Penn studying media, race, tech, feminism, politics.
Author of A SECOND SIGHT (Mariner, 2026), co-author #HASHTAGACTIVISM (MIT Press, 2020) + more.
Typos and opinions both mine.
Co‑Director: @miccenter.bsky.social
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
Marietje Schaake @marietjeschaake.bsky.social Proud European 🇪🇺 Fellow at Stanford 👩🏼💻 column in FT 🗞️Member of European Parliament 2009-2019 📕Author: The Tech Coup
Oliver Haimson @haimson.bsky.social Associate Professor at UM School of Information researching social computing, HCI, designing trans tech, social media, identity transitions, content moderation. 🏳️⚧️ he/him
alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social Dir of Research, Data & Society. Academic. Studies tech & society, far-right disinfo. UNC CITAP. Loves pop cult. Mom, fashion victim, sci fi/fantasy enthusiast. Author of The Private is Political, Status Update. NYC forever. She/her/femme 💅🏻 tiara.org
Crystal Lee @handle.invalid Writing about tech, power, data visualization, social media, disability. Assistant prof of computational media @ MIT. 🇹🇼
crystaljjlee.com
Tim O'Reilly @timoreilly.bsky.social Founder & CEO, O'Reilly Media. Doing my best to help good futures happen.
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
Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social Sociologist interested in STS, data, and the state. Assistant Professor of Communication and Sociology at Northeastern University. chunchengliu.com
Michael Zimmer @michaelzimmer.bsky.social Privacy & data ethics scholar. Director of @MUDataEthics.bsky.social at Marquette University. I also curate @ZuckerbergFiles.bsky.social
Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social Canadian critical media studies scholar and podcaster interested in the meanings we make of perpetual tech promises. Bilingue. Focused on the environment. I typo a lot.
😷🏳️🌈
🎙️ thedatafix.net
📝 heliotropejournal.net
Alex Taylor @alex-taylor.bsky.social Partner & daddy living in wonderful Edinburgh.
Muddling through with ideas from #FeministTechnoscience #STS #MultiSpeciesRelations #HCI #ReparativeAI
Danielle Citron @daniellecitron.bsky.social Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law; Vice President of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative; #MacFellow; Author of The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age (2022) and Hate Crimes in Cyberspace (2014) 🍋
The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com ‘The premier literary-intellectual magazine in the English language.’
T.L. Taylor @tltaylor.bsky.social Not sure I'm ready for another platform but let's see.
Theme park play research these days (yup, Disney).
tltaylor.com (links to most of my work, inc books) & instagram.com/ybikapix (for the fun stuff!). Currently on sabbatical and a fellow at CASBS.
Joe Calamia @joecalamia.bsky.social science and tech book editor 
Becca Lewis @beccalew.bsky.social Assistant professor of media studies @MIT. Cultural and political histories of Silicon Valley and the internet.
Shobita Parthasarathy @shobitap.org Science, tech, and innovation politics/policy incl patents. Author: next book on politics of inclusive innovation in India. #STS. Prof & Director, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, U of Michigan. Expert Voices columnist, Science. shobitap.org
Jennifer Pahlka @pahlkadot.bsky.social Author: Recoding America, Founder: Code for America, Co-founder: USDS and USDR.
Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social ✍🏽 • RACE AFTER TECHNOLOGY: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code • VIRAL JUSTICE: How We Grow the World We Want • IMAGINATION: A Manifesto 📚www.ruhabenjamin.com
Kendra Albert @kendraserra.bsky.social They/them. Public interest tech and media lawyer at albertsellars.law, recovering academic. 💜 Philly, video games, and plants.
More at kendraalbert.com.
Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social Hacker Mama/Artist/Designer/Coder/Writer/She/Ella Assoc Prof of Urban Science @MITdusp, Director, Data + Feminism Lab, Co-author #DataFeminism, hablo castellano
Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social Cornell Tech professor (information science, AI-mediated Communication, trustworthiness of our information ecosystem). New York City. Taller in person. Opinions my own.
Gina Neff @ginasue.bsky.social Flower fan and AI expert. Professor of Responsible AI, QMUL; Director Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, Cambridge and fellow Magdalene College. Deputy CEO Responsible AI UK. https://linktr.ee/mctdcambridge?utm_source=linktree_admin_share 
Leon Yin @leonyin.org Investigative data journalist
Bloomberg News
"CTRL + F" and find out
https://inspectelement.org
Ryan Calo @rcalo.bsky.social I am a law professor and information scientist at the University of Washington. I have a new book about law and technology that I hope you read. 💙
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. 
Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social Director, Center for Tech Responsibility@Brown. FAccT OG. AI Bill of Rights coauthor. Former tech advisor to President Biden @WHOSTP. He/him/his. Posts my own.- 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.
Salomé Viljoen @salome.bsky.social Assistant Prof at Michigan Law || I think about how the law thinks about data || pro science and technology, anti scams
Luke Stark @lukestark.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 just a simple country AI ethicist | Assistant Professor, Western University 🇨🇦 | Co-Director, @starlingcentre.bsky.social | he/his/him | | no all-male panels |#BLM | 🏳️⚧️ ally | views my own
https://starkcontrast.co/
https://starlingcentre.ca/
Dylan Mulvin @dmulvin.bsky.social Associate Professor at the LSE. Histories of media and technology.
dylanmulvin.com- D David Lazer @davidlazer.bsky.social computational social scientist
Prof. Ifeoma Ajunwa, J.D., LL.M., Ph.D. @iajunwa.bsky.social Writer. Professor of Law. Director, A.I. and the Future of Work Program, Author of The Quantified Worker. Order here: https://a.co/d/bfdTUj5 #AI #Ethics #Law
#Chocophile
#Filmophile
#Igbophile
#Francophile (mostly)
#Bibliophile
#musicophile
#Afrofuturist
Claire Wardle @cward1e.bsky.social Associate Professor, Dept of Communication, Cornell University. Bit partial to information ecosystems.
Karen Levy @karenlevy.bsky.social Law/tech, surveillance, work, truckers. Faculty Cornell Information Science, Cornell Law / Fellow @NewAmerica / Data Driven: http://tinyurl.com/57v559mv / www.karen-levy.net
Christo Sims @cs1msy.bsky.social Assoc. Prof UCSD Comm, Affiliate: Science Studies, Ethnic Studies, Urban Studies. Author of Disruptive Fixation (PUP). Working on a book about housing, labor, and urban development in Silicon Valley. 2020-21 member of the IAS.
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
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. 
Sharif Mowlabocus @sharifm.bsky.social Queer researcher who researches queer things at Fordham University. NYC-based. Cyclist. Running hard and fast away from X. #Academicsky
Michael Bernstein @mbernst.bsky.social CS Professor at Stanford
Emily Tseng @emtseng.bsky.social Postdoc at MSR, soon a prof at UW HCDE, got my PhD at Cornell IS. I think about power, privacy, and participation in HCI, security and AI.
Sarah Brayne @sarahbrayne.bsky.social Sociology Professor at Stanford
Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social ST&HV is a journal that publishes cutting-edge research and debate in the field of Science and Technology Studies http://journals.sagepub.com/home/sth
@fredturner.bsky.social @fredturner.bsky.social 
Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social We are 4S, an international, nonprofit association focused on the social studies of science, technology and medicine (#STS). Next Annual meeting October 7-10, 2026.
The University of Chicago Press @uchicagopress.bsky.social The University of Chicago Press is one of the oldest and largest university presses in the United States and a distinguished publisher of trade and scholarly books and journals. Refining minds since 1891!
SHOT, Society for the History of Technology @shothisttech.bsky.social The Society for the History of Technology (since 1958) is dedicated to the historical study of technology, its relations with politics, economics, labor, business, the environment, public policy, science, and arts. Organizes Annual member meetings and more
Eric Klinenberg @ericklinenberg.bsky.social Helen Gould Shepard Professor of Social Science and Director of the Institute for Public Knowlege at NYU. New book: *2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed.* 
Allison Pugh @allisonpugh.bsky.social Care, Tech, Culture, Inequality. Check out The Last Human Job re the "scaling up" of humane work @PrincetonUPress. Johns Hopkins sociologist 
Kevin Driscoll 📳੯‧̀͡⬮ @kdriscoll.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy Learning about moral economies, researching media histories, imagining post-platform futures. Also, helping with moderation on aoir.social and professoring in Media […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://aoir.social/@kdriscoll, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Anna Lenhart @annalenhart.bsky.social Tech Policy (University of Maryland & George Washington). data scientist. anti-monopolist. consumer advocate. former hill staffer.
Jessica Vitak @vitak.bsky.social She/her. Professor at University of Maryland's iSchool. Former director of HCIL. Steering Committee Chair-Elect for CSCW. Research: privacy, surveillance, data ethics. https://jessicavitak.com
Come for the academic expertise. Stay for the cookie content.
Nora Draper @noradraper.bsky.social researcher, teacher, writer
associate professor of media and communication at UNH
privacy, surveillance, media and technology industries
Eszter Hargittai @eszter.com Professor of Internet Use & Society, University of Zurich
William Allan Neilson Professor, Smith College (Fall 2024)
Formerly: Northwestern U, Princeton U
eszter.com
Ed Felten @edfelten.bsky.social Co-founder and Chief Scientist at Offchain Labs. Emeritus Professor of Computer Science & Public Affairs at Princeton. Formerly: Deputy US CTO at White House. Currently: husband, dad, concerned American.
Randall Munroe @xkcd.com 
William Isaac @williamis.bsky.social Research Scientist @DeepMind | Previously @OSFellows & @hrdag. RT != endorsements. Opinions Mine. Pronouns: he/him
Fernando Diaz @841io.bsky.social Associate Professor, CMU. Researcher, Google. Evaluation and design of information retrieval and recommendation systems, including their societal impacts.
Chinmayi Arun @chinmayiarun.bsky.social Law & Technology researcher. Executive Director @yaleisp.bsky.social. Lecturer & Research Scholar, Yale Law School. Posts are personal.
ASA SKAT @asaskat.bsky.social Official presence of Science, Knowledge and Technology (SKAT) Section, A Section of the American Sociological Association
Learn more: http://asaskat.com
Morgan Klaus Scheuerman @morganklauss.bsky.social HCI research scientist @ Sony AI in Barcelona. ethical AI, identity, technological harm. Previous: CU Boulder, UMBC, Microsoft Research Fellow. posts my own.
https://www.morgan-klaus.com/
Aaron Roth @aaroth.bsky.social Professor at Penn, Amazon Scholar at AWS. Interested in machine learning, uncertainty quantification, game theory, privacy, fairness, and most of the intersections therein
Hal Daumé III @haldaume3.bsky.social Human-centered AI #HCAI, NLP & ML. Director TRAILS (Trustworthy AI in Law & Society) and AIM (AI Interdisciplinary Institute at Maryland). Formerly Microsoft Research NYC. Fun: 🧗🧑🍳🧘⛷️🏕️. he/him.
NPR @npr.org This is NPR 🎙️
Alexandra Olteanu @aolteanu.bsky.social Ethical/Responsible AI. Rigor in AI. Grumpy eastern european in north america. Lovingly nitpicky. www.aolteanu.com
Amanda Lenhart @amandalenhart.bsky.social Youth and technology researcher. Senior Fellow, Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop. Affiliate, Data & Society. Parent and step-parent to 4, six if you count the cats.
Sara M. Watson @smwat.bsky.social saramwatson.com
@kalikabali.bsky.social @kalikabali.bsky.social 
Bonnie McCracken @bonniemccracken.bsky.social dog/cat mom, likes to play outdoors, serial hobbyist, comms job in tech 
Steve Clayton @stevecla.bsky.social Digital anthropologist, occasional Chief Storyteller for Microsoft, AI tinkerer. British cultural envoy in Redmond, LFC fan. Novice snowboarder....novice at life.
Amanda Silver @amandaksilver.bsky.social Head of Product for Developer Division @Microsoft
@Code @VisualStudio @TypeScript @dotnet @JavaAtMicrosoft @Azure @AzureDevOps @OpenAtMicrosoft Engineering 
Karrie Karahalios @kkarahal.bsky.social 
Lana Swartz @lanalanalana.bsky.social New Money: How Payment Became Social Media (Yale 2020) / Paid: Tales of Dongles, Checks, and Other Money Stuff (MIT 2017) / Scams / Associate Professor UVA
https://llaannaa.com/
https://digitalculturesandeconomies.com