POLITICO Europe @politico.eu Nobody knows politics and policy like we do.
Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social Professor of Politics at Queen Mary University of London & author of The Conservative Party after Brexit: Turmoil and Transformation (now out in paperback). The bits and pieces I do for websites and newspapers turn up eventually at https://proftimbale.com
Matt Davies @halcyene.bsky.social Data/AI policy @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social
(Political) philosophy of tech @lsegovernment.bsky.social @lsepoltheory.bsky.social
Views my own 🔮✨
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Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com graceblakeley.substack.com/subscribe
Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social Glaswegian philosopher based at the University of Edinburgh, mostly working on issues in epistemology and feminist philosophy. Co-editor of Hypatia, research associate at ACEPS, University of Johannesburg. He/him. https://sites.google.com/site/aidanmcglynn
Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social Socialist, antifascist, writer in various places, geriatric millennial, GQ's 9th Worst Dressed Man in 2016. He/him. YouTube channel http://bit.ly/33iARb3 🏳️🌈
Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social Political Editor, The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/pippacrerar
Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social Former politico, comment writer, spread betting dealer, editor, now think tanker, consultant, former baker of overly dense loaves.
Hannah Ritchie @hannahritchie.bsky.social Deputy Editor, Our World in Data
Senior Researcher, University of Oxford
Climate, energy, environment, all things data.
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science 👁️ https://olivia.science
🍃 https://metatheory.space
associate professor of computational cognitive science · she/they · cypriot/kıbrıslı/κυπραία · σὺν Ἀθηνᾷ καὶ χεῖρα κίνει
Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social Professor of Computational Cognitive Science | Dept. of Cognitive Science & Artificial Intelligence | @Iris@scholar.social on 🦣 | http://irisvanrooijcogsci.com | she/they 🏳️🌈
Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social Hi! I’m Molly Hodgdon. I live in Vermont with my beautiful FIV+ cats Francie and Marcel. Banner photo by W. Eugene Smith. Profile pic is a postcard from my collection mailed 1908.
Not a bot. Not selling anything. Just a keeper of forgotten cats.
Dr Margie Cheesman @margchee.bsky.social Lecturer in Digital Economy at King's College London 🤖 Anthropologist writing mainly about tech and aid https://about.me/cheesman
Daniella Lock @daniellalock.bsky.social lecturer in law, KCL
researching UK executive power, national security, political economy and human rights
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/daniella-lock
Amelia C. Arsenault @ameliacarsenault.bsky.social PhD candidate, Cornell University, Government & IR.
Grad Fellow, Cornell Tech Policy Institute
Born & raised in Ottawa, interested in the politics of surveillance, smart cities, AI, emerging tech, and int'l security. She/her
www.ameliacarsenault.com
m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social politics/technology/capitalism. prof somewhere.
enthusiastic guitar guy. book on why vc was a bad idea the whole time coming from UChicago Press
writing - https://oddletters.com/
stickers+noise - https://duopoly.bandcamp.com/merch
i curse a lot
he/they
Dr Lachlan Urquhart @mooseabyte.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Technology Law & HCI, U of Edinburgh. Director of Regulation + Design Lab; Co-Director CRISP + SCRIPT. Tech Law, HCI, IoT, AI, Design, Privacy, Cybersec, Surveillance, Sustainability, Metal, Guitars, Sci Fi, photography, campervans.
Prince Guma @princeguma.bsky.social Researcher | geographies, infrastructures, technologies, politics, lifeworlds
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
Laurie Parsons @laurieparsons.bsky.social Reader @ Royal Holloway Geography
Climate change in a globalised world // Cambodia
Chair, RGS Climate Change Research Group
Editor at Geo
Oxford Martin School @oxmartinschool.bsky.social The Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford is a centre of pioneering research that aims to find solutions to the world's most urgent challenges.
https://linktr.ee/oxmartinschool
George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social Ungainly on land
Damni Kain @damnikain.bsky.social PhD @Cambridge Sociology, Gates Cambridge Scholar 2024 | Cambridge Trust-Commonwealth Scholar 2022 | Convenor @Techatwork2024, CRASSH, Cambridge | RA @towardsfairwork | Researching: Caste, Digital Labour, Platform Economy, Ethnographic Methods
Tim Newman @tnewmsblues.bsky.social Labor + Tech | Currently @techequity.bsky.social | Formerly Coworker(.)org, Coworker Solidarity Fund, Change(.)org, International Labor Rights Forum
Alexander von Humboldt Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft @hiigberlin.bsky.social Digitalisierung und Gesellschaft durch interdisziplinäre Forschung verstehen // Exploring digitalisation and society through interdisciplinary research
www.hiig.de
Oxford Policy Engagement Network (OPEN) @oxpolicyengaged.bsky.social Connecting researchers & staff @ox.ac.uk with those who share our vision of public policy powered by the best available evidence & expertise.
Fabian Ferrari @fabianlferrari.bsky.social 🌍 Assistant Professor in Cultural AI, @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social
🔍 Governance of AI Infrastructure
🌐 www.fabianlferrari.com
Frederike Kaltheuner @frederike.bsky.social Global tech policy & geopolitics advisor ✨
Also: @ainowinstitute.bsky.social
frederikekaltheuner.com
Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social Digital humanities, data science, AI, eating, professor of Data & Decision Science and English. Coauthor #DataFeminism w/ @kanarinka. PI #AIAInetwork. Views my own.
Aditya Vashistha @imadityav.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Cornell. Research in HCI4D, Social Computing, Responsible AI, and Accessibility. https://www.adityavashistha.com/
Rajesh Veeraraghavan @rajeshveera.bsky.social Prof. Georgetown University, Tech and Welfare, ICTD, Critical AI, author: Patching Development.
ex - Microsoft developer, UC Berkeley(Ph.D)
interested in Real Utopias
Tech and social change #sociotechnical, #labortech, #welfare, #AI
www.rajeshveera.org
Anne Jonas 🌻 @annejonas.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ UM-Flint CIT. Studying digital technologies, schools, community, and power through qualitative and design-based research methods. Previously at MSU, UC Berkeley, Barnard, and Brown. she/her 🏳️🌈
Pete Etchells @peteetchells.bsky.social Professor of Psychology and Science Communication | Award-winning science writer | Screen Time | Social Media | Smartphones | Video games | https://linktr.ee/unlockedbook
Ana Brandusescu @anabrandusescu.bsky.social Researcher, policy analyst, social scientist. PhD-ing on political power and privatization in the scale of AI governance.
she/her | Montreal | anabrandusescu.com
Jess Morley @jessrmorley.bsky.social 100% health data nerd & OG swiftie. PhD Oxford Internet Institute. Previously Director of Policy Oxford Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science. Currently Associate Research Scientist, Yale Digital Ethics Center.
Yasmin Ibison @yasminibison.bsky.social Senior Policy Advisor at JRF (@jrf-uk.bsky.social) focusing on communities and place
she/her
Views my own.
Dr Matt Mahmoudi @docmattmoudi.bsky.social 📝 ‘Migrants in the Digital Periphery’ for Uni. Of California Press, ‘Resisting Borders+Tech’ @haymarketbooks. Assistant Professor @Cambridge Digital Humanities. Research/advice @Amnesty Tech. Views=own
Ahmet Alphan Sabancı @ahmetasabanci.com Critical futurist, writer, technologist, generalist, philosopher of Weird and Deadly Interesting. Also runs @tuhaf.studio
Posts in ENG and TUR
ahmetasabanci.com
tuhafgelecek.com
tuhaf.studio
newslabturkey.org
Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com writer, editor, degenerate, Luddite, decel
thetechbubble.substack.com
Brishen Rogers @brishen.bsky.social Prof at Georgetown Law. Labor law, political economy, technology, other things. I no longer have a twitter account.
Author, Data & Democracy at Work, The MIT Press. Open Access version at https://tinyurl.com/btv74buj
Terri Gerstein @terrigerstein.bsky.social Director, NYU Wagner Labor Initiative. Workers’ rights lawyer. Sometimes writer. Policy wonk. Former NY labor law enforcer. Mom of 2 ppl taller/smarter than me. Brooklynite.
Cailean Osborne @c-osborne.bsky.social 📍 🇨🇴 / 🇩🇪
Senior Researcher @linuxfoundation.org
PhD on open source AI @oii.ox.ac.uk
maddy varner @regret.bsky.social reporter @wired.com ✨ prev the markup, FTC ✨ signal: mvarner.01
Anthea Milnes @antheamilnes.bsky.social Head of communications and external relations at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford - collectively shaping the development of our digital world for public good.
Governance of Emerging Technologies @govtechoii.bsky.social The GET programme at @oiioxford.bsky.social investigates the legal, ethical, and social aspects of AI, machine learning, and other emerging information technologies. https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/projects/governance-of-emerging-technologies/
Martin Krzywdzinski @martinkrz.bsky.social Professor of sociology of work, researching new technologies in the workplace
Great Editor @simonchilds.bsky.social Editor and reporter at Novara Media. Formerly Vice. Send stories and tips to simon@novaramedia.com for Novara or simonchildsjournalism@gmail.com for freelance. Nominated: Amnesty Media Awards 2025
Groundwork Collaborative @groundwork.bsky.social Building an economy that works for all of us. #WeAreTheEconomy
Fairwork @towardsfairwork.bsky.social Rating working conditions in the #digitaleconomy. Let's build a fairer #FutureOfWork.
Mark Graham @geoplace.bsky.social Prof at the Oxford Internet Institute
Director of @towardsfairwork.bsky.social
Publications: www.markgraham.space
Studies: Digital Economies, Digital Geographies, Economic Geography, Gig Economy, Data Work, AI Production Networks, Cities
Eat the rich
Joanna Zylinska @joannazylinska.bsky.social Media philosopher, artist, writer
Prof @ King's College London, Digital Humanities
www.joannazylinska.net
AI : nonhuman photography : perception machine : media art : ethics : counter-apocalypse
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
James Bridle @jamesbridle.bsky.social Artist, author of New Dark Age (2018) and Ways of Being (2022). Free Palestine, Protect Trans Kids, for ever and ever. https://mastodon.social/@jamesbridle / jamesbridle.com
Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social Engineering professor. Author of HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS (on Riverhead in the US+, on Torva in the UK+). Interested in embodiment, materiality, metacognition, and systems. All enthusiasm is 100% genuine. debcha.org
michael veale @michae.lv prof @laws.ucl.ac.uk, technology, law, policy, society, whimsical latvian top level domain names. michae.lv and fediverse https://someone.elses.computer/@mikarv 🏳️🌈
Wesley Goatley @wesleygoatley.bsky.social Critical artist + researcher. Analysing AI's impact on climate, art, and technopolitics. PhD in critical tech & art. Programme Director of Interaction Design and Visual Communication at University of the Arts London. http://lnk.bio/wesleygoatley
Dr Kayleen Manwaring @virtualkayleen.bsky.social Associate Professor in Law and Tech @UNSW. Interested in the cyber physical, robotics and critical infrastructure and currently trying to understand quantum. Aspires to ride a T-Rex.
S G Dickinson @sgdickinson.bsky.social Internet & digital policy, government use of ICTs, women in IT. I tweet live from relevant meetings.
Kieren McCarthy @kierenmccarthy.co.uk 🔸 Policymaker (mostly Internet), Putney man, Fulham fan. Lover of good coffee, pusher for change, husband and Dad, Californian in outlook.
Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social 🌈 Feminist Senior Lecturer in data politics and social justice at City st. George's, Uni of London, UK. She/her.
https://elinorcarmi.com/
Working on data&AI governance/data&AI literacies/data justice/digital rights/ad tech industry/surveillance.
Hadley Beeman @hadleybeeman.bsky.social Architect for #openstandards, the Web and barcodes of all types. Tech policy. Ex-UK gov. Active in GS1, NHS & W3C. @hadleybeeman@w3c.social
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.
Alison Powell @abpowell.bsky.social Assoc Prof at LSE | Teaches MSc in Data & Society | Feminist research praxis | AI policy making | Undoing Optimization: https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300223804/
Current work on health, care and environment from NHS tech to Rewilding the Night
Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social Feminist SocSci-Humanities scholar-practitioner in tech & AI. Associate Director & Senior Researcher: www.lcfi.ac.uk
VLR-MAA-DEL-BOM-BLR-BER-CBG
Outside cat; but more of a dog person really.
bodyofwork.in
Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social Chief Executive, The British Academy
Chair, Our World in Data
Board, National Audit Office
Visiting Professor in Practice, LSE
Visiting Professor, Kings College London
Fellow, Birkbeck College
Views my own
Safiya Umoja Noble, PhD @safiyanoble.bsky.social Living in Los Angeles. Native Californian. #MacFellow
Writer, professor. Comedian.
Author, “Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism,” which is unfortunately still relevant to understanding today’s LLMs and AI.
safiyaunoble.com
William Drake @william-drake.bsky.social Director of International Studies at Columbia Institute for Tele-Information and Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School, New York City. Global Internet and digital governance. http://www.williamdrake.org
Joseph Lorenzo Hall, PhD @josephhall.org Astrophysicist turned advocate; guiding the globe to a safer, stronger Internet. Distinguished Technologist @internetsociety.org, https://josephhall.org/, (former CDT, NYU, Princeton CITP, Berkekey iSchool/Astro)
United Nations Office for Digital and Emerging Technologies @unodet.bsky.social Official account / @un.org Office for Digital and Emerging Technologies. #ODET #DigitalCooperation #GlobalDigitalCompact
un.org/odet
The Guardian @theguardian.com The need for independent journalism has never been greater. Become a Guardian supporter https://support.theguardian.com
🇺🇸 Guardian US https://bsky.app/profile/us.theguardian.com
🇦🇺 Guardian Australia https://bsky.app/profile/australia.theguardian.com
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)
Chris Buckridge @buckr.bsky.social Doing Internet governance stuff, playing music, trying to help...
Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social Editor and CEO, Zeteo
Author, ‘Win Every Argument’
British-American
Tanya Tropina @gap-the-mind.bsky.social Snr Advisor, Institutional Relations at Internet Society. Previous: ISGA, Leiden Uni & Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law. Lawyer ⚖ Nomad ✈ Tango addict ♫ Personal views only.
Lea Ypi @leaypi.bsky.social Professor of Politics and Philosophy at the London School of Economics. Flas shqip.
INDIGNITY pre-orders: https://linktr.ee/leaypi
Daniel Butt @danieljamesbutt.bsky.social Oxford political theorist. https://users.ox.ac.uk/~wadh1010/
Paul the Psychic Octopus Memorial Award Winner 2019.
ETHICS journal @ethicsjournal.bsky.social Scholarly journal for work in moral, social, political, and legal philosophy
Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social Author of Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism and founding member of Books From Below
They/them.
Joseph Ward @josephward.bsky.social DPhil in Political Theory at Oxford | black thought, critical theory, methods | beleaguered sports fan | he/him
Duncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social Teaches politics & history at Cambridge. Interests include empire, war, technology, architecture, science fiction, utopia. Currently writing a book on transhumanism
Katrina Forrester @katforrester.bsky.social
Orlando Lazar @orlandolazar.bsky.social Political theorist in Oxford.
William Clare Roberts 🇵🇸 @marxinhell.bsky.social Political theorist in Montreal, via Custer, Lubbock, New Underwood, Rapid City, Northfield, State College, and WashPa. Free Palestine.
Peter Verovšek @pjv.bsky.social Political theorist (University of Groningen), BJJ🥋& father from 🇸🇮
Author of Jürgen Habermas: Public Intellectual and Engaged Critical Theorist (Columbia, 2026); Memory and the Future of Europe (Manchester 2020)
Book reviews editor @CPT
Shai Agmon @shaiagmon.bsky.social Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in Political Philosophy | UCL Philosophy & EISPS | Academic Director @molad-institute.bsky.social | bylines @haaretzcom.bsky.social.
Teresa M. Bejan @tmbejan.bsky.social Professor of Political Theory at Oxford & author of Mere Civility (Harvard 2017). Essays @ NYT, The Atlantic, New Statesman, Boston Review, WaPo, &c.
Writing on equality.
Melvin Rogers @prorogers.bsky.social Edna and Richard Salomon Distinguished Professor
Political Science Department @ Brown University
Teaches Political Theory
Book: The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought (PUP)
Elsa Kugelberg @elsakugelberg.bsky.social Political theorist at the University of Oxford. Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow, @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social. Affiliated researcher mintresearch.org/ and @ki.se Global & Sexual Health Research Group.
https://elsakugelberg.com
Udit Bhatia @uditbhatia.bsky.social Political theorist, King’s College London. PI, ERC Synergy Project POPGOV. Loves comparing dogs and constitutions.
Henrik D Kugelberg @henrikdku.bsky.social Assistant professor of moral and political philosophy at the University of Warwick. Working on the political philosophy of artificial intelligence, public reason, and the digital public sphere.
www.henrikdkugelberg.net
Richard Bellamy @rbellamy.bsky.social Writes and researches legal and political theory & sometimes Italian history. Edits Critical Review of Social and Political Philosophy. Flutes, runs, reads, cooks, swims, snaps, goes to concerts, galleries, plays & films. Lives London-Exeter-Berlin-Livorno
@emilymdyson.bsky.social @emilymdyson.bsky.social
Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social Writer and philosophy professor at Cornell. Author of DOWN GIRL, ENTITLED, and UNSHRINKING. Writing weekly at http://katemanne.substack.com. She/her
Sally Haslanger @shaslang.bsky.social Philosopher, Socialist Feminist, Activist, Vegan, and much more.
daniel loick @danielloick.bsky.social Social and Political Philosophy
danielloick.net
New book: Die Überlegenheit der Unterlegenen
https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/daniel-loick-die-ueberlegenheit-der-unterlegenen-t-9783518300398
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
William Paris @williammparis.bsky.social Critical theorist and philosopher of utopia. Author of Race, Time, and Utopia: Critical Theory and the Process of Emancipation. Co-host of What’s Left of Philosophy.
Politics_Oxford @politicsoxford.bsky.social The Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR) at the University of Oxford
LSE Political Theory @lsepoltheory.bsky.social News from the LSE political theory group https://www.lse.ac.uk/government/research/research-groups/political-theory