Rebecca Scharlach @rscarlets.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher PGMT Lab @Uni Bremen | prev. DigitalValues project | Critical Platform Studies | European/German/feminist | first gen | she/her
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
Mark Welch @markwelch.bsky.social • ex-reporter ex-teacher ex-attorney, he/him
• law, journalism, education, security, privacy, surveillance tech, AI fairness, bias, face recognition, Blue Dot, LFL steward
• Springfield MO <NorCal <NH <MA <WI
• UC Berkeley JD'89; UMass Amherst BA'83
britt paris @hellobrittparis.bsky.social critical scholar of infrastructure & emergent technology | Rutgers AAUP AFT | views mine
New Book, Radical Infrastructure: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/radical-infrastructure/paper#reviews
Chair, AAUP cmte on AI: https://bit.ly/4lkuKu1
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/
Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of EMPIRE OF AI: empireofai.com. ai reporter. national magazine award & american humanist media award winner. words in The Atlantic. formerly WSJ, MIT Tech Review, KSJ@MIT. email: http://karendhao.com/contact.
The Internet Ethics program--Markkula Center for Applied Ethics @iethics.bsky.social Irina Raicu behind the keyboard.
Francisca Ortiz Ruiz @franciscaortizruiz.bsky.social Assistant Prof. at Center of Economics and Social Policy (CEAS) and EGAP, U. Mayor.
Podcaster @networkspodcast | Spanish and English | Mixed methods | Relational Sociology (NETWORKS) | Care Justice, Ageing and Gender | https://www.franciscaortizruiz.com/
Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com Creative Director. Artist. Writer. Dad. Glitch Pioneer. Meme Grandpa. Skeleton Influencer.
Currently: Working on my first art book (preorder: http://kck.st/4nhjjmO )
Previously: Pearl Jam, NIN, Naughty Dog, Vertigo Comics, HTDA, Beats Music
Dr. Melissa Ocepek @melissa1776.bsky.social Academic LIS Scholar, Foodie, and Friend! Working to form a union at the University of Illinois
Boing Boing @boingboing.net Try our new ad-free version of Boing Boing at premium.boingboing.net
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social Law Prof. GWU, Tech & Justice. Author: “Your Data Will Be Used Against You,” “The Rise of Big Data Policing,” “Why Jury Duty Matters,” and “The Law of Law School.”
Alex Abdo @alexabdo.bsky.social Litigation Director, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University (he/him)
Amy J. Ko @amyko.phd Professor @ University of Washington Information School. Computing, learning, design, justice, kitties, tacos, coffee, gender, politics, and transit. I write at amyjko.medium.com. I maintain wordplay.dev, bookish.press, adminima.app, reciprocal.reviews.
Manny Moss @emoss.bsky.social Senior Research Scientist - Anthropology of AI and Computing
Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social Physics, philosophy, complexity. @jhuartssciences.bsky.social & @sfiscience.bsky.social. Host, #MindscapePodcast. Married to @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social.
Latest books: The Biggest Ideas in the Universe.
https://preposterousuniverse.com/
PERVADE Team @pervade-ethics.bsky.social PERVADE: Pervasive Data Ethics for Computational Research
Advancing ethics for research with public, large-scale, and pervasive data—through studies, tools, education, and outreach. NSF-funded
Trevor Owens @tjowens.bsky.social Chief Research Officer at the American Institute of Physics. Working on the history of science, libraries and archives, and social science research. Fan of bike rides, small dogs, and vegetarian cuisine. 
Andrew Herman 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 🍊 @djouroboros.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. Communication Wilfrid Laurier University/ DJOuroboros--Low End Theory radio on WZBC 90.3 FM Newton-Boston (wzbc.org) and Mixcloud (https://www.mixcloud.com/andrew-herman3/). Tech Cultures/Radio/sound studies/podcasting/sonic research creation
nitasha tiku @nitasha.bsky.social technology mother @ the washington post. baddie in the digital badlands. signal: nitasha.10 
Brandi Geurkink @geurkink.bsky.social Executive Director of the Coalition for Independent Tech Research 
Julianne McShane @juliannemcshane.bsky.social Reporter @ms.now 📰 | Email: julianne.mcshane@versantmedia.com | Signal: jmcshane.19 | https://www.ms.now/author/julianne-mcshane
ACM SIGCHI @acm-sigchi.bsky.social Official account for ACM's Special Interest Group on Computer-Human-Interaction (HCI). Runs 28 conferences (including @chi.acm.org), 80+ chapters, and more.
David Carroll @davidcarroll.org admin of federate.social (circa 2022)
faculty of parsons.edu (circa 2000)
subject of The Great Hack (Netflix 2019)
headshot by Bryan Derballa (Wired 2019)
header from Cadillacs & Dinosaurs (Capcom 1993)
Zeve Sanderson @handle.invalid Executive Director @csmapnyu.org
Angeleno living in NY. Figuring out snow and social media
Jeremy Foote @jeremydfoote.com Computational social scientist; assistant professor @ Purdue; I study how people self-organize in online communities and how we can make them work better.
Kevin Crowston @crowston.bsky.social Professor studying AI and work at Syracuse University.
Colin M. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com political scientist @ University of Zürich
platforms, political violence, social media, computing
research & writing:
henryhenryhenry.com
sometimes land of enchantment, sometimes land of Helvetia
Emelia Hughes @emeliamay.bsky.social PhD student at the University of Notre Dame studying online communities & social media ✨ previously at @uwischool.bsky.social, @socialfutureslab.bsky.social, & UW CIP and intern with Adobe Research
Steve Jankowski @textaural.bsky.social Assistant Professor in New Media Histories at UvA. Curator of Keywords for Studying Media, Culture & Information https://textaural.com/keywords/. I study Wikipedia, utopian computation, design and consensus politics, often all at once.
Hendrik Meyer @hendrikmeyer.bsky.social Research Associate | PhD Candidate | Hamburg University
Political & Climate (Protest) Communication
Website: https://www.hendrik-meyer.com
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=j3fDB9oAAAAJ&hl=en
Dominic DiFranzo @difrad.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Lehigh University. I'm an HCI researcher that explores prosocial design in online communities, AI Mediated Communication, and Digital Literacy.
Brady Robards @bradyjay.bsky.social sociologist of the internets
in Naarm/Melbourne 🌈 he/him
—> bradyrobards.com
Jenny Lee @jennyjlee.bsky.social klarman postdoctoral fellow @ cornell / surveillance + labor researcher
Janet Vertesi @cyberlyra.bsky.social Princeton Sociology Prof; NASA ethnography; tech policy; digitalSTS; critical technical practice; mobile Linux. Conscientious objector to surveillance capitalism.
https://janet.vertesi.com
https://www.optoutproject.net
@cyberlyra@hachyderm.io
🌶 David Gray Widder @davidthewid.bsky.social Assistant Prof at UT Austin's iSchool.
Big Tech, political economy, AI hype, AI in War
trying to help computer ppl think more critically about computer, including me
exCornell/CMU/NASA/MSR/IntelLabs.
davidwidder.me
Bailey 🕸️🕷️🦇 @bkacsmar.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta. Amii Fellow. Human-centered privacy enhanced data science e.g., ML, MPC, PSI, etc.
My group is PUPS, Practical Usable Privacy and Security
https://bkacsmar.github.io//
Sarah Lamdan @sarahlamdan.bsky.social Librarian & lawyer. Wrote Data Cartels (Stanford University Press, 2022). Creative non-fiction at Sarah Lawrence. Kicking cancer where it counts.
This account is personal - opinions are my own.
rickf - a cynical professor @rickf.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy After a 20-yr gov/mil/corp career that included being CSO for the company once running global DNS, I'm now a senior cybersecurity professor overseeing a large grad […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://indieweb.social/@rickf, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Ted Byfield @tbfld.bsky.social Ex-academic, ex-artist, editor/writer (EU research network grants 🎯), Open Syllabus co-founder, nettime mod 25 yrs. I “worked at the intersection of” when it was a red-light district not a venn diagram. Deep South 🔁 Deep North.
More: https://counter.ink
Megan Sawey @megansawey.bsky.social Ph.D. + Lecturer at Cornell - where I teach about and study media culture, sports comm, tech ethics, and identity
FGLI and dedicated to student mentorship
If I’m not writing, I’m running👟
Diego Gomez-Zara @dgomezara.bsky.social Assistant professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Notre Dame. Researcher at FCOM UC. PhD from Northwestern U. 
Matthew Zent @matthewzent.bsky.social PhD Candidate, CS, University of Minnesota. Online communities, Applied AI, Research Ethics. https://zentavious.github.io/
wendy norris @wendynorris.bsky.social Assoc Prof | Information Science
Ex-investigative reporter and editor
Crisis informatics nerd
Makes good trouble
Tell your dog I said "hi"
Munmun De Choudhury, PhD @munmun10.bsky.social Researcher studying social media + AI + mental health. Faculty of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. she/her
Andrew Selbst @aselbst.bsky.social UCLA Law Prof. Focused on law, tech, and justice. Posting is mostly rage at fascists, their journalist enablers, and feckless Dems who need to retire. Sometimes I even post about things people call me an expert in. He/him. http://ssrn.com/author=1328346
Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social Journalist @404Media.co
Signal: jason.404 // email: jason@404media.co
💾 SIGCIS Conference @sigcisconf.bsky.social Annual Conference of the Special Interest Group in Computing, Information, and Society of SHOT. SIGCIS 2025: Power Surge will take place virtually on Sept 25-27. See details and CFP here: https://meetings.sigcis.org/
Vox @vox.com Making sense of it all. Become a member today. 👇
https://voxdotcom.visitlink.me/z3EPda
Amba Kak @ambakak.bsky.social I co-direct @AINowInstitute; @Signalapp board. Cover art by my mother https://shoumabanerjeekak.com/about-the-artist/
Cameran Ashraf, Ph.D. @camerana.bsky.social #HumanRights @wikimediafoundation.org / Human rights & cyberconflict @ CEU / Co-founder of @accessnow.org / Founder AzadiArchive
"Joy is not made to be a crumb" -Mary Oliver
www.cashraf.com
SOUPS @soupsconference.bsky.social The 22nd Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2026) will take place on August 23-26, 2026 in Germany. SOUPS brings together an interdisciplinary group of researchers and practitioners in human computer interaction, security, and privacy.
Future Ruins @future-ruins.bsky.social The music tells the story. November 8.
futureruins.com
The Coalition for Independent Technology Research @thecoalition.bsky.social Our mission is to advance, defend, and sustain the right to ethically study the impact of technology on society.
Barbara van Schewick @vanschewick.bsky.social Law Professor, Stanford Law School (@StanfordLaw.bsky.social). Director, Stanford Center for Internet and Society (@StanfordCIS.bsky.social). Author, Internet Architecture & Innovation.
https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/barbara-van-schewick/
Bo Brinkman @bo-brinkman.com No longer here. Find me on Mastodon. he/him. Irvine, CA. Progressive. Software engineer. ACM Committee on Professional Ethics. Alphabet Workers Union. Former CS prof.
Marty J. Wolf @martyjwolf.bsky.social Retired Computer Science professor, computing ethicist, fledgling philosopher, annoyed by contradiction. Chair ACM Committee on Professional Ethics. he/him
Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social Senior AI & Government Reporter @bgov.com. Former WaPo, Politico. 🇧🇷🇺🇸 Tips/Signal: Cristiano.01
Wes Davis @blunderchief.blather.ing Professional orange whip drinker. Freelance tech journalist, often at Gizmodo and IGN. Previously The Verge. Also pubbed at Mothership, Tom’s Hardware/Guide, PCWorld, TechHive, CNN Underscored. He/him/they
Lauren Feiner @laurenfeiner.bsky.social Covering tech policy @theverge.com | Formerly @CNBC.com | she/her | Tips? Find me on Signal @ laurenfeiner.64 (no PR pitches via Signal please)
Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social author of Blood in the Machine, tech writer, luddite
newsletter: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/
books: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/contributor/brian-merchant/
kofi link: https://ko-fi.com/brianmerchant
Mary Anne Franks @maryannefranks.bsky.social Law Professor at George Washington Law. President of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative. Author of Fearless Speech (2024) and The Cult of the Constitution (2019). First Amendment, civil rights, technology, criminal law, family law, firearms law.
Mary L. Gray @marylgray.bsky.social Senior Principal Researcher | teacher | seeker | MacFellow
Cecilia Aragon @ceciliaaragon.bsky.social U Washington professor, pilot, entrepreneur, speaker & author: HUMAN-CENTERED DATA SCIENCE (2022), FLYING FREE (2020), SECRET GARDEN (2019). Co-founder & CTO of startup. #cscw #hci #hcai #HamlineMFAC CeciliaAragonAuthor.com faculty.washington.edu/aragon
Susan Crawford @scrawford.bsky.social Writing about intersection between climate adaptation and finance. Substack https://susanpcrawford.substack.com
Author of Charleston: Race, Water, and the Storms to Come. Learning all the time.
WikiResearch @wikiresearch.bsky.social Mostly a placeholder until we can bring our feed of volunteer-curated Wikipedia/Wikidata/Wikimedia research news to this platform too. For full coverage subscribe to our newsletter: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter
Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life @citap.bsky.social We research the intersection of technology platforms and democratic society.
Our work produces insights that inform a digital future rooted in equality and justice.
https://linktr.ee/unc_citap
Steven Levy @stevenlevy.bsky.social Still writing. Editor at Large WIRED. Hackers, Crypto, Facebook: The Inside Story, Insanely Great and other books. Signal: stevenlevy.72
Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social I’m an editor at WIRED and have previously written and edited for a number of places. Timothy_marchman@wired.com. Signal me at timmarchman.01. I periodically delete all my posts.
Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social Security & Investigations Director at @WIRED.com. Send tips and/or dog pics.
Signal: couts.01
Sabine Trepte @sabinetrepte.bsky.social Professor | Communication & Media Psychology | University of Hohenheim, Germany | social media, identity, privacy, knowledge, diversity in science | mother of 3 | she/her
@ruthefarmer.bsky.social @ruthefarmer.bsky.social 
Stanford HAI @stanfordhai.bsky.social The official account of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, advancing AI research, education, policy, and practice to improve the human condition.
WIRED @wired.com For Future Reference.
Sign up for our newsletters: https://wrd.cm/newsletters
Find our WIRED journalists here: https://go.bsky.app/Boj9b5E
Knight First Amendment Institute @knightcolumbia.org The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University defends the freedoms of speech & the press in the digital age through strategic litigation, research, policy advocacy, and public education.
https://knightcolumbia.org/
All Tech Is Human @alltechishuman.bsky.social Our organization is committed to tackling thorny tech & society issues and co-creating a tech future aligned w/ the public interest. Join us at AllTechIsHuman.org | Hello@AllTechIsHuman.org
Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy @princetoncitp.bsky.social The Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) is a nexus of expertise in technology, engineering, public policy, & the social sciences. Our researchers work to better understand and improve the relationship between technology & society. Princeton U.
CRISP @crispsurv.bsky.social Centre for Research into Information Surveillance and Privacy. Collaboration between Stirling, Edinburgh, St Andrews, Southampton and Coventry Universities. CRISP@stir.ac.uk
https://www.crisp-surveillance.com
Elena Maris @elenamaris.bsky.social Asst. Professor: Politics of Platforms & AI at University of Illinois at Chicago | Views mine
Daniel Kreiss @dkreiss.bsky.social Prof, researcher UNC CITAP, Tech + Politics.
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
Jess Maddox @jessmaddox.bsky.social Social media professor + expert
Writing ANATOMY OF AN INTERNET SCANDAL + PARASOCIAL
Repp’d by Aevitas Creative Management
Thoughts mine
Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com NYT Bestselling Author – ON COURAGE: HOW TO BE A DISSIDENT IN AN AGE OF FEAR (HarperCollins/Mariner) tinyurl.com/yxpvn488
Fmr White House Sr Policy Advisor | Fmr Sr Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School
Contact: fieldsmeyer.com
More: amifieldsmeyer.substack.com
Julia Powles @juliapowles.bsky.social Law & Tech
Slowly warming up to having my heart in it, here @bluesky
Jason Pridmore @jasonpridmore.bsky.social I am a researcher and educator focused on emerging technologies and everyday social practices. Co-director CLI (EUR), and coordinate SEISMEC (Human Centric Digitalisation - Industry 5.0) and COALESCE (developing the European Competence Centre for SciComm).
Meredith L. Pruden @meredithpruden.bsky.social Assistant Professor in metro ATL. Researching harmful online content, far-right media & politics. Affiliate @UNC CITAP. Fellow @TheIRMS. Member @Coalition for Independent Tech Research & @Media, Data & Democracy Co-op. Words are mine. Duh. she/her
Stuart Geiger @stu.lu just a digital trace | Asst Prof at UC San Diego, Comm & Data Science | opaque sociotechnical systems, power, and publics | ethnographer of computation & computational ethnographer | humanities of the digital & digital humanities | https://stu.lu | he/they
Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social internet typist at the verge, known cat lady, zevon stan. she/hers/hesher
tip me: liz@theverge.com
Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social Consulting on audience strategy, audiostrategy.org
Writing a book for @beltpublishing.bsky.social - preorder here! https://tinyurl.com/2nr23yep
Teaching digital sociability and ethics, NYU-Tandon
ACT-UAW Local 7902
Fmr audience data WNYC, NYMag, Megaphone
Johan Farkas @jfarkas.bsky.social Assistant Professor. Author of 'Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy' (https://t.ly/1JHye), University of Copenhagen, Firstgen 🎓. he/him. Free access to my work: http://www.johanfarkas.com/research
Mega Subramaniam @megasubramaniam.bsky.social Professor and the Associate Dean for Faculty at the College of Information, University of Maryland. Research: Libraries, youth, and digital literacy learning. https://www.terpconnect.umd.edu/~mmsubram/
Matt Bietz @mbietz.bsky.social 
Andrea L. Guzman, PhD @teachguz.bsky.social Scholar. Author. Public Speaker. Educator. Artificial Intelligence + 🤖+ Media. Human-Machine Communication & Human-Computer Interaction. Former journalist.
https://andrealguzman.net
Latest book: "The SAGE Handbook of Human-Machine Communication"
Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social science journalist. author. molecular biologist. curious.
interested in #microbes, #misinformation and all things #blue
contributing correspondent at @science.org
co-host of @pandemia.bsky.social
2024 KSJ fellow at MIT
Signal: kakape.93
Nicole Ozer @nicoleozer.bsky.social EFF Executive Director | All about rights, technology & democracy | Trailblazer in public interest tech law | 2025 Technology & Human Rights Fellow - Harvard Kennedy School | Former ACLU |
Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info Writer, professor, and artist exploring the internet.
Privacy @ACLU.org · Board @MuckRock.com · Teaching @PrattiSchool.bsky.social
rebeccawilliams.info · rebecca.411 on Signal
Matt Cagle @mattcagle.bsky.social AI policy & civil liberties. Policy Counsel, Anthropic. ACLU NorCal alum. Opinions are my own.
Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social Professor, Santa Fe Institute. Research on AI, cognitive science, and complex systems.
Website: https://melaniemitchell.me
Substack: https://aiguide.substack.com/
kraw @kraw.bsky.social Creative Director - Nine Inch Nails
Los Angeles
Mariqueen Maandig Reznor @mariqueenreznor.bsky.social