United Tech & Allied Workers @utaw.tech United Tech & Allied Workers, organising across UK & NI | The first union for tech workers, by tech workers | A branch of CWU | 📧 contact@utaw.tech
John Chadfield @joxn.bsky.social Unionising tech workers in the UK. National Officer for Tech at Communication Workers Union.
Co-founder of @utaw.tech
Join a union. Get organised.
@Rainer_Rehak@mastodon.bits-und-baeume.org @rainerrehak.bsky.social Mastodon can not be sold or bought, just sayin'.
Alexandra Keiner @akeiner.bsky.social (she/her) Researcher @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social | Sociology | Platform Economy | Migration | Remittances | Payment card for asylum seekers
Daniela Stoltenberg @dstoltenberg.bsky.social Emmy Noether junior research group leader on local digital public spheres at the @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social.
I like books, running, hiking, horses, and crafting. 📚🏃🏔️🐴🧶
she/her. 🏳️🌈
nevien @nevienitangerini.bsky.social Sociologist and PhD researcher @LMU Munich. Interested in bodies, emotions, and sexuality.
PhDing on AI, intimacy, and capitalism.
Ghost in the Machine @ghostdoc2026.bsky.social Feature documentary GHOST IN THE MACHINE. On PBS and YouTube September 14. notaidoc.com
Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social Sociology prof at CUNY (Hunter & Grad Center) sharing her own thoughts. Maker of resistance humus. Author of REFUGE. Now writing on the violence & COST OF BORDERS. she/هي
https://linktr.ee/hebagowayed
لسه عايزين عيش حريه و عداله اجتماعية
Nora Bär @norabar.bsky.social Ex editora de Ciencia y Salud en La Nación. Ahora, en
@eldestapeweb. "Rebelión en el Laboratorio", "Diez preguntas que la ciencia (todavía) no puede contestar". Los viernes de 19 a 20 en "Al infinito y más allá", AM1070,YouTube y Canal 20 de Telecentro
Ryan Richard Overbey @overbey.bsky.social Buddhology, &c.
Daniel Guagnin @technikreflex.bsky.social Technik. Für Menschen. Gestalten.
free software, partizipative Technikgestaltung, ValueSensitiveDesign.
Aktiver auf Mastodon: https://smartcity.social/@technikreflex
Mirror: https://bsky.app/profile/technikreflex.bsky.social
Red Latinoamericana de Antropología Digital @redlatdigital.bsky.social Rede Latino-Americana de Antropologia Digital
Latin American Network of Digital Anthropology
Difusión, discusión, aprendizaje y creación desde Latinoamérica✊🤖
European Writers' Council @europeanwriterscouncil.eu founded 1977, 53 national professional writers’ and literary translators’ associations and unions in 34 European countries, representing >250 k Writers, standing up for human rights
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
Ben Waber @bwaber.bsky.social GM @reveliolabs.bsky.social, MIT Researcher, he/him, Senior Visiting Researcher @ Ritsumeikan, Co-Founder of Humanyze, former Senior Researcher @ HBS, author of People Analytics
Ric Angius @storitu.org PhD @aial.ie
storitu.org
corporate capture / platform accountability
social reproduction / computational theory
over-reliance on digital tools / participatory organising for justice
Lorena Fernández Álvarez @loretahur.bsky.social Ingeniera salsera cascabelera 🚀. Responsable de la Comisión de Inteligencia Artificial de la Universidad de Deusto. Coautora del juego de mesa Nobel Run y del libro "La IA explicada a todos los públicos".
#WomeninSTEM, #AIEthics
http://www.loretahur.net
Hellina Hailu Nigatu @hellinanigatu.bsky.social CS PhD candidate @UCBerkeley. Interested in multilingual and low-resourced language NLP + HCI. @SIGHPC CDS Fellow. Interned @MBZUAI. Current intern at DAIR
Website: https://hhnigatu.github.io
Ingo Dachwitz @roofjoke.netzpolitik.org Politischer Journalist @netzpolitik.org | Recherche, Analyse, Kritik | ua: „Medienmäzen Google“, „Die Akte Xandr“, „Databroker Files“ | Podcasts: „Systemeinstellungen“ & „Off/On“ | Buch: „Digitaler Kolonialismus“ (02/25)
https://netzpolitik.org/author/ingo
SUPERRR Lab @superrrnetwork.bsky.social A lab for feminist digital futures | https://superrr.net | non-profit organization | Berlin
@michaelbarenboim.bsky.social @michaelbarenboim.bsky.social Violinist, Prof at Barenboim-Said Akademie, concertmaster of West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. In the spotlight mainly for speaking out about Gaza since early 2024. Involved in artistic and academic projects amplifying Palestinian voices.
All views my own
The Workers' Observatory @workersobservatory.org We are a collective of platform workers and researchers challenging conditions in self-employed and gig work.
🗺️ Edinburgh, Scotland
Joy @joyminayo.bsky.social Passionate, focused, conscious, determined, a truth seeker, full of hope, problem solver... a religious Follower of Jesus... DLA Co-Founder... Standing with Data Labelers and the challanges at hand. Glad to represent the community...
Gianmarco Peterlongo @gimmip.bsky.social Postdoc Researcher in Sociology
University of Milan
gianmarco.peterlongo@unimi.it
Baratunde @baratunde.com host, writer, & speaker exploring interdependence across our relationships with nature, each other, and technology. Latest project is the YouTube podcast "Life With Machines." Other work includes: PBS's America Outdoors, and How To Citizen podcast
Diana M @msrobotd.bsky.social 
@fasica.bsky.social @fasica.bsky.social 
Asia Biega @asiabiega.bsky.social Faculty at MPI-SP. CS, Tech Governance, Responsible Tech, Data Protection, Interdisciplinarity. ACM FAccT Executive Committee.
https://asiabiega.github.io/
Hadi Asghari @hadi-a.bsky.social Researching public interest AI, NLP, tech policy, interfacing bits to meaning, and more. Based in Berlin.
Thomas Poell @tpoell.bsky.social Media Studies Professor @UvA_Amsterdam | Books: The Platform Society; Platforms and Cultural Production | https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/p/o/t.poell/t.poell.html
Charles Martin-Shields @charlesmartinshields.com Senior researcher, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS). Working on forced displacement, digitalization, and conflict. Opinions here are my own.
My book: https://bit.ly/4gjNQ09
Open access: https://bit.ly/3AXzbI2
Migration and Technology Monitor @migrationtechmonitor.com Collective of people-on-the-move interrogating #BorderTech experiments ||🇬🇧 🇫🇷 🇵🇸 🇪🇸|| IG: http://migration.tech || press@migrationtechmonitor.com||
Learn more: https://www.migrationtechmonitor.com
Incubated by @refugeelab.ca
Funda Ustek Spilda @fundaustek.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London
Digital economy / digital labour / AI & work
Philip Di Salvo @philipdisalvo.bsky.social Senior researcher and lecturer @ Uni St. Gallen | hacking/journalism, leaks, surveillance, black boxes | journalist | DIG Festival board | previously Media LSE, IMeG USI | views my own | Zürich
Tiago Vieira @t-vieira.bsky.social PhD in Social and Political Sciences. Interested in algorithmic management, AI, employment relations, platform work and memes on how academics tend to think too highly of themselves and their work.
Partnership on AI @partnershipai.bsky.social A non-profit bringing together academic, civil society, industry, & media organizations to address the most important and difficult questions concerning AI.
Gayathri Vaidyanathan @gayathriv.bsky.social Labor x Tech Editor @restofworld.org, covering how tech is transforming the way we work, especially outside the west. Ideas & tips: gayathri@restofworld.org.
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.
mihaelav.bsky.social @mihaelav.bsky.social Researcher, Responsible AI, human-AI interaction, Microsoft, cats, yoga, 🌈Bramily, 💜Brandi Carlile💜. Opinions are my own. she/her
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
Jenn Wortman Vaughan @jennwv.bsky.social Sr. Principal Research Manager at Microsoft Research, NYC // Machine Learning, Responsible AI, Transparency, Intelligibility, Human-AI Interaction // WiML Co-founder // Former NeurIPS & current FAccT Program Co-chair // Brooklyn, NY // http://jennwv.com
Aída Ponce Del Castillo @aidaponcedelcastillo.com Senior researcher @etui.bsky.social 🇧🇪 Law, science & technology || Emerging tech || Data
www.aidaponcedelcastillo.com
Recently
published: https://www.etui.org/publications/artificial-intelligence-labour-and-society
Jerremy Holland @jerremy.bsky.social Director of AI Research at Apple. Board Chair for Partnership on AI. Photographer. Musician.
Tyler Borchers @tylerborchers.com SVP, Strategy & Operations. Building products, growing audiences and driving revenue. Previously TIME and VICE News. Posting about media, technology and AI.
Website: https://tylerborchers.com/
LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tylerborchers/
Carlos A. Scolari @cscolari.bsky.social @UPFBarcelona Full Prof: interfaces, transmedia & media evolution + PI H2020 @Trans_literacy + fiction https://hipermediaciones.com/ 
Umut @umutpajaro.site AI researcher, President of ISOC Colombia Chapter, Professor, Queer Afro-Caribbean Latinx, Artivist, Aspie. From 🇨🇴 🇮🇹 🇦🇷 to 🌎🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
#eurofan #F1 #aspie #digitalrights #InternetGovernance
Views are my own (any pronoun)
AI Ethics & Society @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social AI Ethics and Society is a network of researchers investigating the ethico-political implications of data-driven tech - more at www.ai-ethics.org
Walid El Houri @walidhouri.bsky.social Editor in Chief @untoldmag.org | West Asia & North Africa Editor @globalvoices.org | Senior Communications Specialist Centre for Lebanese Studies
Internet Policy Review @policyr.bsky.social Journal for internet studies. Interdisciplinary & open access. Published by @hiigberlin.bsky.social & @cais-research.bsky.social in cooperation with @create-glasgow.bsky.social @cis-cnrs.bsky.social IN3 @uocuniversitat.bsky.social & Skytte Institute UT
Mophat Okinyi @mophatokinyi.bsky.social Founder & CEO at Techworker Community Africa | TIME100 AI 2024 | Ai & Human Rights Activist | Former Content Moderator-ChatGPT | Union Organizer | AI Safety | Machine Learning | AI Ethics | AI Advocate | AI Researcher | Responsible AI | LLM
Luciana Benotti @lucianabenotti.bsky.social 
@ladelentes.bsky.social @ladelentes.bsky.social 
Saide Mobayed @saidezork.bsky.social Qualitative sociologist interested in how data are configured across scales.
R. Trebor Scholz @trebors2025.bsky.social Prof at The New School | Founder, Platform Cooperativism Consortium + Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy | Author, OWN THIS! (2023) + UBER-WORKED & UNDERPAID (2016) | Faculty Affiliate, Berkman Klein Center | Advocate for Digital Labor Rights |
Michael Geoffrey Asia @mgasia.bsky.social Michael , General Secretary of the Data Labelers Association (DLA), advocates for AI data workers' rights in Kenya, fighting against exploitation and pushing for fair wages and protections. He is passionate about human rights in AI and and a devoted animal
Sebastian Berg @sberg.bsky.social politics & technology I intellectual history I digitalization I democracy I ☕ I science (&) fiction
@digipolicy.bsky.social
@weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social 
Nick Su @nicksu28.bsky.social 
Laura Forlano @laura4lano.bsky.social Writer. Design Researcher. Professor @NU_CAMD Type 1D. Design, Tech and Radical Futures. Noodle Fanatic, Laser Cut Fashionista and Latin Alternative Rocker.
Jacob Metcalf @jakemetcalf.bsky.social Technology ethicist, dog haver, mountain dweller, forest critter, mover of heavy things. Writing a book about wildfire, AI, and Cali. Senior Researcher @ D&S @datasociety.bsky.social. Founder @ Ethical Resolve. Formerly @undersequioas in the Bad Place.
DAIR Possible Futures @dairfutures.bsky.social A workshop series where we make zines that answer the question: what happens when we imagine otherwise?
Run by @dylnbkr.bsky.social and @paulinewee.bsky.social from @dairinstitute.bsky.social
Sign up for workshops:
>>> https://linktr.ee/dair.futures <<<
Joan Kinyua @joan1k.bsky.social 
@cbajo.bsky.social @cbajo.bsky.social 
Anthropology of Work Review @anthropologyofwork.bsky.social Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Work @saw-anthroofwork.bsky.social
Editors: @jasminefolz.bsky.social
@letha-b.bsky.social @valuequestion.bsky.social
Pop Stefanija @popstefanija.bsky.social postPhD. social sciences and AI at @imec_smit, vub. hyperreal. algorithmically processed datafied human. hates even numbers. stays sane by knitting. likes to lean on people & things.
James Steinhoff @stnhfj.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ ICS, University College Dublin
Prof. Amanda Wise @amandawise.bsky.social Professor of Sociology | Researching social inequalities in global cities | co-existence | inclusive cities | informal sport | migrant workers in Singapore & Australia | global far-right. | Platform labour | Technology & Society | All views my own
Neil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social I write mostly about the intersection of tech & art/culture which these days means I spend nearly all my time trying to address the exploitation underlying current AI models. A secular humanist interrogating modern religions.
Mai Ciolfi @maiciolfi.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Interaction Design at KTH | Feminisms + HCI + Critical computing | She/Her | Latin American 💚🧡
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
Stefano Tortorici @stefanotortorici.bsky.social PhD Candidate at Scuola Normale Superiore, ICDE Research Affiliate, Former Visiting Research Student The New School & Oxford Internet Institute| #PlatformEconomy, #PlatformCoops, Sociology of Work & Political Economy
Maximilian Heimstädt @heimstaedt.bsky.social Professor of Digital Governance @ Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg | Affiliate @ Weizenbaum Institute Berlin | Organizations, Technology, Expertise | heimstaedt.org
Tech Workers Coalition @techworkerscoalition.org We are a coalition of workers in and around the tech industry, labor organizers, community organizers, and friends. We work in solidarity with existing movements towards social justice, workers' rights, and economic inclusion.
@nuredinali.bsky.social @nuredinali.bsky.social 
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
Nick Taylor @ntaylor.bsky.social Lecturer at Queen Mary Uni of London | History of welfare, unemployment; history of economics; finance & climate change 🚲🌳 
Vincenzo Maccarrone @bigmacca.bsky.social Industrial relations, political economy and sociology of work. 
Clara Iglesias Keller @claraigk.bsky.social Researcher. Reader. Mom. 🇧🇷🇩🇪
Legal scholar into many things democracy, media and digital technologies. Leading the research group "Technology, Power and Domination" at the Weizenbaum Institute | WZB .
claraigk.com
@digipolicy.bsky.social
Yana Boeva, PhD @dropsmops.bsky.social Research Group Leader + Postdoc @Uni_Stuttgart @EXC_IntCDC | PhD @STS_YorkU | STS, computation, algorithms, design, skills, knowledge | she/her | https://www.yanaboeva.net/
Data Workers’ Inquiry @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social The Data Workers’ Inquiry is a community-based research project in which data workers lead their own inquiry in their respective workplaces.
https://data-workers.org
Mohamed Hussein @mhusseinlibrarian.bsky.social Academic and Museum Librarian.
Focus on epistemology, data librarianship, specialised libraries and archives.
Bookish. Music enthusiast. LFC. African/Brazilian culture.
Martin Krzywdzinski @martinkrz.bsky.social Professor of sociology of work, researching new technologies in the workplace
Data Labelers Association. @datalabelers.bsky.social Advocate for fair treatment and recognition of data labelers. Passionate about AI, mental health support, and professional growth. Join me in empowering the invisible architects of AI!
Richmond Wong @richmondywong.bsky.social Assistant Prof at Georgia Tech in Digital Media. Research at the intersection of tech ethics, human-computer interaction, and science & technology studies. Lover of design, trains, Star Trek 🖖and curling 🥌. (he/him)
Laurens Naudts @laurensnaudts.bsky.social NPC in the Immersive Simulation of Academia. Postdoc at IViR and AI, Media & Democracy Lab. Political Philosophy, Fundamental Rights, AI, Media & Democracy, (Critical) Social Justice. 
Annabel Rothschild @threatstovalidity.bsky.social assistant prof in computer science @ Bard College; opinions mine only
interested in everything to do with data work and data workers (esp w.r.t. ai) and old & aging computer systems
Aiha @aihathing.bsky.social activist. labor. tech. ethics
M Amir @ibalilebali.bsky.social ہم وہاں ہیں جہاں سے ہم کو بھی کچھ ہماری خبر نہیں آتی
planetaryai.net
http://tinyurl.com/2p95d2hy Author: The Digital Continent: OUP
Agathe Balayn @amabalayn.bsky.social Postdoc researcher @MicrosoftResearch, previously @TUDelft.
Interested in the intricacies of AI production and their social and political economical impacts; gap policies-practices (AI fairness, explainability, transparency, assessments)
ICCIT @iccit-utm.bsky.social The Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology at the University of Toronto Mississauga. A hub for transformative research initiatives on the relationship between humans and technology. utm.utoronto.ca/iccit
Matt Riemland @mattriemland.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Heriot-Watt University (Scotland) | Researching AI’s extraction of language, land, and labor and what to do about it
Mark Díaz @blahtino.bsky.social Dr. (the medically useless kind) | HCI + AI research scientist @Google | @Northwestern TSB | @Stanford STS | t1 diabetic | he/him | 🇨🇺🇩🇴🏳️🌈
Josh Dzieza @joshdzieza.bsky.social 
OddSocksCas @oddsockscas.bsky.social Very Marxist
I think I'm a cognitive anthropologist? Also engaged in informatics, geography, medical humanities and social sciences.
Artist; jazz, jungle, abstract and surrealist.
disabled (AuDHD)
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/
Meron Estefanos @meron.bsky.social Dyslectic. Mother of two wonderful boys. HRD, journalist, researcher at @dairinstitute.bsky.social
Tweets about #Refugees #HumanRights #Eritrea #Africa #WithTheOpressed
Personal account
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)
Tim Newman @tnewmsblues.bsky.social Labor + Tech | Currently @techequity.bsky.social | Formerly Coworker(.)org, Coworker Solidarity Fund, Change(.)org, International Labor Rights Forum
Natalia Stanusch @nataliastanusch.bsky.social Researcher @AIForensics.org | Research Lead of Esoteric AI
@aixdesign.bsky.social | PhD Candidate at ASCA, University of Amsterdam |
Ben Tarnoff @bentarnoff.com my latest book is MUSKISM, co-authored with Quinn Slobodian: https://bookshop.org/p/books/muskism-a-guide-for-the-perplexed-ben-tarnoff/3d177fb9349a79ff
Turkopticon @turkopticon.bsky.social Data worker advocacy group fighting for better treatment on all platforms.
Our organizers on Bluesky:
@kristap.bsky.social
@brookh.bsky.social