Nicholas A. Christakis @nachristakis.bsky.social Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale University. Sociologist. Network Scientist. Physician. Author of Apollo's Arrow; Blueprint; Connected; and Death Foretold. Director of the Human Nature Lab: https://humannaturelab.net
People Vs Big Tech @peoplevsbigtech.eurosky.social Algorithm, we’re onto you. Let’s build a better digital world.
👾 Linktree linktr.ee/peoplevsbigtech
📩 Newsletter blog.peoplevsbig.tech
Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Investigative journalist. Ex-Guardian/Observer. Now co-founder brand new all-women journalist collective, www.thenerve.news. Tech justice stuff: www.the-citizens.com. Personal newsletter: www.broligarchy.substack.com
HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk The UK’s leading campaign group against the far right | Promoted by Nick Lowles on behalf of HOPE not hate LTD at 167-169 Great Portland St, 5th Floor, W1W 5PF.
🔗 https://hopenothate.org.uk
The Citizens @the-citizens.bsky.social We expose Big Tech's harms to democracy.
Parents to The Real Facebook Oversight Board & Independent Sage.
Our newsletters:
https://dispatch.the-citizens.com
citizensreunited.substack.com
You can also find us at https://the-citizens.com
Paris Marx @parismarx.com 💥 PREORDER MY NEW BOOK HYPERSCALE 💥
🎙️ @techwontsave.us
📬 https://disconnect.blog
📖 https://hyperscalebook.com
HateAid @hateaid.org Denn Menschenrecht gilt auch digital. Wir engagieren uns für Betroffene von Online-Hass und die Demokratie im Netz. Unterstütze hier: https://hateaid.org/spenden
Manasa @manasanarayanan.bsky.social Doctoral Researcher, Loughborough University
Previously journalist. Bylines in The Citizens, The Observer, Byline Times, VICE World News, Tech Policy Press, The Lead, New Internationalist.
Sabrina Provenzani @sabrinaprovenzani.bsky.social London-based journalist. Correspondent @Italian newspaper Il Fatto quotidiano. Politics, Current affairs, Tech-(justice/politics/harm) https://the-citizens.com.
Platforms were always a front-page issue for me.
VP, Foreign Press Association in London.
Max Colbert @mc00.bsky.social Freelance journo/researcher.
Bylines: Guardian, Mirror, DeSmog, Byline Times, Computer Weekly, Democracy for Sale, AOAV, The Nerve, Citizens, Good Law Project, Dawn etc.
Email:mcfoiareturns@proton.me
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/
Digital Rights Watch @drwaus.bsky.social We fight for human rights in the digital age.
www.digitalrightswatch.org.au
noyb – European Center for Digital Rights @noyb.eu About us 👉 http://noyb.eu
Become a member 👉 http://noyb.eu/support
#MakePrivacyReality #InvestInPrivacy
Center for Countering Digital Hate @counterhate.com International nonprofit protecting human rights online by tackling the spread of online harms. US 501(c)(3) non-profit. Media: media@counterhate.com
Daisy Bata @batadaisy.bsky.social investigative journo & documentary producer @bbc @channel4 @itv @mindhouse @hardcash @keofilms etc.
specialise in OSINT, cyber crimes, crypto, algorithms & tech
also writer/director of scripted shorts ("Bloodbuzz")
Johnny Ryan @johnnyryan.bsky.social Director of ICCL Enforce https://iccl.ie/Enforce Previously Chief Policy Officer of Brave. FRHistS.
https://ie.linkedin.com/in/johnnyryan1
Global Action Plan @globalactionplan.bsky.social Global Action Plan mobilises people and organisations to take action on the systems that harm us and our planet. We are an environmental charity, working towards a green and thriving planet where everyone can enjoy happy and healthy lives. UK and beyond.
Oliver Hayes @olliehayes.bsky.social Head of policy & campaigns at Global Action Plan. Working on big tech’s climate harms.
Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones.bsky.social Associate Professor Northwestern University in Qatar | Studies Disinfo, Digital Repression & Gulf Politics | Author Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East (Hurst & OUP) Political Repression in Bahrain (Cambridge University Press) | Cat Fancier
Sarah Murphy Madia @sarahmurphymadia.bsky.social Currently thinking about how money and information intersect in social media @whattofix.tech. Reflecting on knowledge, truths and how best to get there since oh my gosh probably 2003.
📍Brussels
Liz Carolan @lizcarolan.com I publish thebriefing.ie, & founded organisations working on tech & democracy. Tech Policy Press fellow. Political scientist, advocate, writer, knitter. DMs open
Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com Political technologist, bringing democracy to the internet. Brussels, 🇪🇺.
• tech, governance, science, politics, philosophy, infrastructure, cats, terrible puns
• DASL, Eurosky/Mu, Modal
• ex W3C, NYT
• Signal robin.77
Statewatch @statewatch.bsky.social We are activists, researchers, lawyers and journalists exposing state power across Europe and its borders.
Our work has supported debates, movements and campaigns since 1991.
Access our latest articles: https://linktr.ee/statewatch
Defend Democracy @defenddemocracy.eurosky.social We #DefendDemocracy against hybrid & technological threats. Nonpartisan, nonprofit, Transatlantic. Founder & Director: Alice @Stollmeyer
Support us: https://defenddemocracy.eu/get-involved/donate/
Alice Stollmeyer @stollmeyer.eurosky.social Founder of https://DefendDemocracy.EU/
Busy defending democracy against hybrid & technological threats.
Open for new opportunities.
🏆Politico’s #Power40
@EU_Dempsey @eudempsey.bsky.social Irish. EU Advocacy for @article19.bsky.social in Brussels. Prior - international dev/affairs in Mumbai and MENA - Beirut, Baghdad, Amman, Berlin, London. #humanrights #foreignaffairs #techpolicy #EUaffairs #mediafreedom Views mine.
ARTICLE 19 @article19.bsky.social Defending freedom of expression and information around the world. 🔴 Support our work: http://article19.org/donate/
https://linktr.ee/ARTICLE19org
ARTICLE 19 Law and Policy @article19law.bsky.social Defending freedom of expression and information through legal & policy reforms. Everywhere
ARTICLE 19 Europe @article19europe.bsky.social Defending freedom of expression and information in Europe and Central Asia.
#FoE #MediaFreedom #InformationIntegrity #SoJ
Fair Vote UK @fairvoteuk.bsky.social We are committed to fighting against the forces that seek to erode and undermine UK democracy.
APPG for Fair Elections @appgfairelections.bsky.social All Party Parliamentary Group for Fair Elections. Parliament's largest APPG.
Chair: @alexsobel.co.uk
Secretariat: @makevotesmatter.bsky.social & @unlockdemocracy.bsky.social
🔗 https://fairelections.org.uk
Open Britain @openbritain.bsky.social Not-for-profit movement campaigning to make democracy work for everyone. www.open-britain.co.uk
Our Substack: https://uglypolitix.substack.com
Kyle Taylor @kyletaylor.bsky.social Author, activist, digital rights and social media expert.
Matt Gallagher @mattmgallagher.bsky.social writing / comms @bylinetimes.bsky.social
Mark Kieran @mkieran.com 💥 Determined to make democracy work for EVERYONE
👔 CEO Open Britain
- www.open-britain.co.uk
- @openbritain.bsky.social
💻 Editor of Ugly Politix Substack
- https://open.substack.com/pub/uglypolitix
Born: 🇮🇪
Home: 🇬🇧
Wife: 🇺🇸
Future: 🇪🇺
Alice McCool @mccoolingtons.bsky.social ❌ On sick leave ❌ Journalist + feminist. Investigative reporter at The Nerve. Formerly Good Law Project. Other bylines inc The Guardian, CNN, Dazed, TIME Magazine. They/them.
www.alicemccool.com
DeSmog @desmog.com Clearing the PR pollution that clouds climate science.
Netopia.eu @netopia.bsky.social Web publication & idea forum based in Brussels, discussing the future of the internet from a broad perspective on society's digital evolution ➡ Web: https://netopia.eu | https://x.com/NetopiaEU | LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/company/netopia-eu/
Tijs Sikma @tijssikma.bsky.social Political Historian | PhD Radboud University: history of the Dutch public debate surrounding digitalisation | Researcher Rathenau Institute (parliamentary technology assessment institute): project about Planetary Health | Computational methods in history
Joe Mulhall @joemulhall.bsky.social Director of Research @hopenothate. Writer, historian, journalist, anti-fascist.
Latest book: Rebel Sounds: Music as Resistance is out now!
Ellen Judson @ellenejudson.bsky.social Disinformation investigator, tech policy nerd, philosophy, human rights, climate. Views my own. She/her
Also on https://www.linkedin.com/in/ellen-judson-75918241/
Bram Vranken @bramvranken.bsky.social Big Tech campaigner and researcher at @corporateeurope.org. Fighting corporate power ✊
Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) challenges the influence of Big Business and corporate lobby groups in EU policy-making.
🐘 @corporateeurope@mstdn.social
🔗 https://corporateeurope.org/en
👉 linktr.ee/corporateeurope
Superbloom @superbloom.design Superbloom is committed to changing who technology serves.
Always using design to shift power in the tech ecosystem. Formerly known as Simply Secure.
https://superbloom.design
@iirrmmaa.bsky.social @iirrmmaa.bsky.social
Marleen Stikker @marleenstikker.eurosky.social The internet is broken … but we can fix it. Waag Futurelab - waag.org - Professor of Practice at Applied University of Amsterdam. Mastodon: marleenstikker@waag.social
Sander van der Waal @sander.eurosky.social Strategy Director at Waag Futurelab, Amsterdam
Marc Faddoul @marcfaddoul.com Director at @aiforensics.org - Algorithmic Audit and Platform Accountability non-profit
Also with @freeourfeeds.com to expand ATproto infra and ecosystem!
AI Forensics @aiforensics.org European non-profit
Algorithmic investigations and platform accountability
Nádia Guerlenda Cabral @pululante.bsky.social Activist @Avaaz, human rights and tech. Memes. PT-BR and EN.
Pat de Brún @patdebrun.bsky.social Head of Big Tech Accountability @ Amnesty International | Deputy Director @ Amnesty Tech | Lawyer | PhD student @ SOAS | he/him | views mine
SOMO - Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations @somoamsterdam.bsky.social 🔎 Non-profit investigating multinationals.
🎯 Critical, independent, and factual.
🌍 Mission: a world where people & planet > profit!
💻 More info at https://www.somo.nl/
Cagri Cavus @antitrustcc.bsky.social Tech Researcher (Competition Policy) at @somoamsterdam.bsky.social ~Interested in antitrust, innovation and economic power beyond market power
Margarida Silva @margaridasilva.bsky.social I research Big Tech's power and campaign to limit it at @somoamsterdam.bsky.social
Adele Zeynep Walton @adelewalton.bsky.social Author, online safety campaigner, journalist, hater of tech bros.
https://www.adelesnotes.co.uk/
Eduardo Santos @edsantos.eu Lawyer • #DigitalRights: #Copyright, #Privacy et al. • @knowledgerights21.org Coordinator in 🇵🇹 • doing stuff @direitosdigitais.pt • EN/PT •
High Tech, Law Life
https://edsantos.eu/
Fediverse: @edsantos@ciberlandia.pt
D3 – Defesa dos Direitos Digitais @direitosdigitais.pt Associação D3 - Defesa dos Direitos Digitais.
Junta-te a nós em http://direitosdigitais.pt.
Membro da rede EDRi.org.
Fediverso: http://ciberlandia.pt
Searx: https://searx.direitosdigitais.pt
LibreTranslate: https://translate.direitosdigitais.pt
NEVER AGAIN/NIGDY WIĘCEJ @neveragainnw.bsky.social Stowarzyszenie NIGDY WIĘCEJ przeciwdziała rasizmowi i dyskryminacji.
The NEVER AGAIN Association has campaigned for human rights in Poland and internationally.
www.nigdywiecej.org
https://linktr.ee/neveragainassociation
Foundation DAHRD @dahrd.bsky.social Diaspora led non-profit, works on democracy, human rights, and rule of law. Born in cafe London hence the name!
Dr Ritumbra Manuvie @ritumbra.bsky.social Assistant Professor at University of Groningen. Founder Director of @foundationtls.bsky.social
Talks about human rights, tech, politics and India
AlgorithmWatch @algorithmwatch.org We ensure that the use of algorithms & AI benefits the many, not just the few!
🇪🇺 We’re the EU/German part
🇨🇭 For Switzerland: @algorithmwatchch.bsky.social
🌐 https://algorithmwatch.org/
AlgorithmWatch CH @algorithmwatchch.bsky.social We ensure that the use of algorithms & AI benefits the many, not just the few! Join us 🤍
🇨🇭 We’re the Swiss part.
🇪🇺 For EU/Germany: @algorithmwatch.org
DE: https://algorithmwatch.ch | FR: https://algorithmwatch.ch/fr
Dr. Solomon David @solomonrdavid.bsky.social “The Gar Guy” Fish Scientist & Prof | 🌎Freshwater Conservation | SciComm • GarLab | Views mine | he/him | #GarWeek
📍Saint Paul, Minnesota
Wherever you go, there you gar
https://linktr.ee/solomonrdavid • @garlab.bsky.social
Katie O'Reilly @drkatfish.bsky.social Aquatic Invasive Species with Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant | #GreatLakes | Come for the #ecology & #scicomm, get reeled in by the fish puns
https://iiseagrant.org/about/our-team/katie-oreilly/
Katie Matthews, PhD @katieocean.bsky.social Lapsed geologist, Chief Scientist at @oceana.bsky.social, dog mom. DC born and raised. Philly is my 2nd home.🖖
Skeets my own, *not* my employer’s. Mostly oceans + science + climate + policy. A little politics (sorry) and Phillies (not sorry).
Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com climate scientist
posts 100% my own
🇨🇦 is my home
distinguished professor & chair, Texas Tech
chief scientist, The Nature Conservancy
board member, Smithsonian NMNH
advisor, Lawson Climate Inst UofT
alumna, UToronto and UIUC
author, Saving Us
Dr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social Deep-sea biologist. Two obsessions: the biodiversity of Earth's largest habitat, and why body size varies across all of life. Science communicator, ocean's weirdest animals daily.
Coral City Camera @coralcitycamera.bsky.social 2nd longest-running livestream on YouTube. Live from an urban coral reef in Miami. A public art & scientific research project by Coral Morphologic (https://bsky.app/profile/coralmorphologic.bsky.social) ◦ coralcitycamera.com
Luiz Rocha @coralreeffish.bsky.social Curator of Fishes at CalAcademy and Rolex Laureate inspiring protection of the oceans through science, photography, exploration, and storytelling.
Angelo Villagomez @taotaotasi.bsky.social linktr.ee/taotaotasi
Chamorro dude in DC
Savage and Restless
More Fish, Less Pollution
Decolonize the Ocean
Mediocre Ukulele Player
Exeter Marine @exetermarine.bsky.social Representing the University of Exeter's Marine research and education community #ExeterMarine
Check out our starter packs to follow our academics!
linktr.ee/exetermarine
Dr Rachel Hale Marine Biologist @seafloorscience.bsky.social Dr of small crawly things that live on the ocean floor.
I study what they do, how they do it, and how they respond to disturbance, including climate change.
Marine Biologist, Ocean Optimist, Invert Advocate, "Worm Girl"
Opinions mine. She/her
Deep-Ocean Stewardship Initiative @deepstewardship.bsky.social The Deep-Ocean Stewardship Initiative: Uniting experts to inform policy for our global ocean.
https://www.dosi-project.org/
🌊Markus Knigge🐟 @oceanknigge.bsky.social CEO @BlueActionFund.org #OceanOptimism #MPAs #30x30 #Fisheries #OceanGrants #muSEAum. Views my own.
Scripps Institution of Oceanography @scrippsocean.bsky.social Understanding and protecting the planet since 1903.
📍UC San Diego
UBC Oceans @ubcoceans.bsky.social UBC's Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries is working towards a world in which our freshwater and ocean systems are healthy and their resources are used sustainably and equitably. #UBCOceans
Sam Andrews @oceanoculus.com Science & stories from the sea (+ occasionally the other 30% of the planet)
🌊 Science, tech, policy, sustainability writer
🤿 Founder of Ocean Oculus, the ocean-focused communications consultancy
📈 Researcher
☕ Tea drinker
🧀 Cheese eater
🐧 Bird admirer
Jarrett Byrnes @jebyrnes.bsky.social marine ecologist, online bon vivant, dad, ❤️ teaching #datasci & #rstats, http://celp-lab.org #BlackLivesMatter @jebyrnes in other places https://linktr.ee/jebyrnes
Scott 🥐🐟📈🦆🏈 @fishecon.bsky.social Oceans economist. U of Oregon PhD and college football addict. Posts are my own. Miami.
Better Know a Fish! / 曉得多魚! @betterknowafish.bsky.social Alum UC Davis EVE / Duke MEM in Taiwan 台灣 partaking in #SundayFishSketch, #TaiwanFishes, #FishBooksForKids, and other fishy adventures!
🐟 https://betterknowafish.com
📸 instagram.com/betterknowafish
🧡 @younglandis.bsky.social
George Matsumoto @georgeimatsumoto.bsky.social Manta photo by Jeff Milisen. I'm interested in deep-sea, open ocean (heck, anything ocean), education, supporting educators, and increasing our ocean literacy
Dr. Catherine Macdonald @drcatmac.bsky.social Marine scientist and teacher Field School & University of Miami. Director of sharktagging. NatGeo Explorer. Shark & ray ecology, biology, conservation. She/her.
Chris Mah @echinoblog.bsky.social The "starfish guy"(but also a little about a lot of marine invertebrates, #echinoday #echinoderms. Kaiju, comics enthusiast. Marine scientist, taxonomist, deep-sea researcher. Statements/posts made here are my own & DO NOT REPRESENT HOST organizations
Dr Andrew Mahon @andyantarctica.bsky.social Biologist and molecular ecologist, studying animals in Antarctica, e.g., sea spiders. I also use eDNA to study biodiversity all over the globe.
Web: MahonLab.com
Google Scholar: https://rb.gy/6z3tre
LinkedIn: https://tinyurl.com/4kvx48s
Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social Deep-sea ecologist investigating how humans shape and reshape the sea floor. Conservation technologist developing open-source tools to understand our changing oceans. Ocean educator creating novel programs to help students interact with marine ecosystems.
Brian McNoldy @bmcnoldy.bsky.social Univ. of Miami hurricane researcher 🌀 living in New Mexico 🏜.
Husband and dog dad. 🏳️🌈
https://bmcnoldy.earth.miami.edu/
Dr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social Seafloor mapper, Chief Scientist of smart mapping company Esri, Oregon State U. GIS/oceans professor, EC50, cyclist, 1st Black submersible diver to Challenger Deep, builds w/LEGO, raised in Hawaii. NAS, NAE, ORCID 0000-0002-2997-7611; She/her; views mine
John P. Friel, Ph.D. @friel.bsky.social Director of the Alabama Museum of Natural History • He/Him • 🐟Zoologist 🦈 • https://linktr.ee/john.friel
MBARI @mbarinews.bsky.social An oceanographic research institute focused on advancing marine science and engineering to understand our changing ocean
Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social Surprised historian, not surprised eels.
Doctor of medieval things. Talkin’ eels, history, and maps. Spaniel mourner. Alt-text artist.
I draw custom maps and artwork on commission:
https://surprisedeelmaps.com/
Support me here: patreon.com/SurprisedEel
Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social Just a bunch of crabs in a trench coat, but also a professor of marine biology. My social media does not represent my employer. No AI. Please bring croissants 🥐
https://linktr.ee/rebeccarhelm
Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social Squid biologist
Science communicator
Artist
Philadelphian
I run @SkypeAScientist.bsky.social
Creator of the SquidMobile
https://linktr.ee/Sarahmackattack
Monterey Bay Aquarium @montereybayaquarium.org How do you do, fellow squids? 🌊 We're your frondly Aquarium with a mission to inspire conservation of the ocean. https://www.montereybayaquarium.org
Halley E. Froehlich @dochfroehlich.bsky.social Mom. University of Helsinki, Finland Full Professor studying aquaculture, fisheries, and climate change.
British Antarctic Survey 🐧 @bas.ac.uk We're the UK's polar research institute 👋 Uncovering the secrets of Earth's frozen places, doing science for a sustainable planet.
Looking for a seriously remote job? https://bas.ac.uk/vacancies
Brett Favaro @brettfavaro.bsky.social Conservation scientist. Tweets about climate, oceans, & sustainable development. Views my own, and do not necessarily reflect views of employer. He/him.
Lisa Beal @letstalkocean.bsky.social Ocean scientist @miamirosenstiel and editor in chief @theAGU @jgroceans. Passionate about ocean swimming, science and art, and diversifying voices in ocean science. Lover of wild life and wild places. Proudly divested from fossil fuels. Displaced Londoner.
Johann Mourier @sharkmourier.bsky.social Shark scientist 🦈 & behavioural ecologist | Animal Social Networks
Junior Professor at University of Montpellier @umontpellier.bsky.social | Lab MARBEC
Website: www.johannmourier.com
Daryll Marie @daryllmarie.bsky.social Bioacoustician & PhD candidate using sound to study baleen whale movement ecology 🐋 Wildlife photographer, birder, nature nerd 🪶
IG: instagram.com/daryllmariephotos
Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/daryllmarie
Dr Michelle LaRue @drmichellelarue.bsky.social Antarctic wildlife ecologist, Rutherford Discovery Fellow, Prof UCNZ, speaker, children’s book author
@natgeo Secrets of the Penguins
drmichellelarue.com