Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social associate professor of political science at Ohio State University // global justice, supply chains, populism, climate change, critical theory, etc // all tweets (skeets?) produced accidentally by having my phone in a pants pocket while I walk the dog
Suhrkamp Verlag @suhrkamp.de Gute Bücher und Impressum auf https://www.suhrkamp.de
Anne Ganzert @annesleuths.bsky.social Studying how people follow clues together online. Media scholar researching web sleuthing, digital investigations, platform cultures & participatory knowledge. PI @Philipps-Universität Marburg (DFG Emmy Noether). Mom. Feminist. Ally. Nerd.
The Syllabus @the-syllabus.bsky.social Knowledge Curation Done Well. Non-Profit. Podcasts, videos, books, academic articles, and more. Subscribe: https://www.the-syllabus.com/
Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social Economic journalist and utility pundit. http://lbo-news.com.
Ingo Stützle @istuetzle.eurosky.social er/ihm | »…netter Gesellschaftskritiker« (DDath, FAZ, 11.11.21) | Dietz Verlag Berlin | ehem. Red. PROKLA | born at 331ppm | … und was nicht ist, das kann noch werden || https://social.stuetzle.cc/@ingo || https://blog.stuetzle.cc | Posts werden gelöscht
Labor Tech Research Network @labortechresearchnetwork.org We are an interdisciplinary group of over 700 experts in labor, technology, anti-racism, feminism, and transnationalism.
Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social nerd, unionist, heist enthusiast
http://www.annakornbluh.com
Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com Tired person, fighter. Labor, data, DH, obsolete software, database history, etc. Seeing Like a Supply Chain out Oct 2026: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300251449/seeing-like-a-supply-chain/. Speaking for myself, not my employer.
Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social She/her, 1st gen, Canadian who's at Harvard but isn't OF Harvard--posts in a personal capacity, mainly about books (w/ cats & flowers thrown in). Now writing an itty-bitty book that aims to be a literary & media history of scrap.
https://deidrelynch.org
Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social former 2x pie-eating champion of St Olaf College
Deirdre Loughridge @deirdrelough.bsky.social Music historian asking what our tools do to what we do, from bone flutes to AI. Two books out in 2026: The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments (Reaktion), and Forty Thousand Years of Music Technology (UChicago Press). https://deirdreloughridge.com
Amrita Chakravarty @wamsrita.bsky.social Film and Media Studies @Yale
Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social Artist working on critical AI, power, and belief @ IcarusSalon.com & ArtificialLifeCoach.com
Gray Area | Tech Inquiry | OCEAN | Kidd Lab UC Berkeley
Loyal to the Land & the Brass Tax -- #Turkish #Kanaka
Amadeus Ulrich @amadeusulrich.bsky.social Political theorist at Goethe University Frankfurt and Normative Orders, working on political realism, critical theory and the liberalism of fear
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/
Harald Klinke @harald-klinke.de
🙋 https://www.harald-klinke.de/
📔 https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-88130-5
#DigitalTransformation #DataScience #AI #Munich
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.
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
Alice Lovejoy @alicelovejoy.bsky.social Film, media, & cultural historian, U. Minnesota. Sometime film critic.
Books: Tales of Militant Chemistry; Remapping Cold War Media; Army Film and the Avant Garde. Coming in 2027: Film Stock: An Int'l History of a Sensitive Medium.
www.alicelovejoy.com
Brian Callaci @briancallaci.bsky.social Economist | Union guy | Personal account | He/him
Ana Dodik @anadodik.bsky.social Graphics & Society @ MIT CSAIL. Prev. Meta, Disney Research.
Yugo girl, mother of a half-dog, half-tornado, and a baby seal. 🐶🐶 she/her 🌈🌹
Nina Scholz @ninascholz.bsky.social Journalistin und so
Tech, Arbeit, Gewerkschaften
https://linktr.ee/nina_scholz
maybe: leif weatherby @leifw.bsky.social Hegel, cybernetics, Buffalo Bills
Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social Professor of democracy and international affairs. http://www.henryfarrell.net and newsletter at http://www.programmablemutter.com. Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (Holt, Penguin). https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781250840554.
Laura McGrath @lbmcgrath.bsky.social Professing literature in Philadelphia. Writing MIDDLEMEN: Literary Agents & the Making of American Fiction (April ‘26).
laurabmcgrath.substack.com
Economy & Society @econsocjournal.bsky.social Est. 1972. Social science journal: economic and cultural relations, states and governance, & much more.
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/reso20
Nick Srnicek @nsrnicek.bsky.social Author of 'Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI': https://amzn.eu/d/aZKYWsA
Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social Journalist & author of REIGN OF TERROR, contributor to Zeteo. New comic book series: NO ONE ESCAPES THE DIALECTIC, from Boom! Studios. Subscribe to FOREVER WARS for ‘natsec’ journalism: https://www.forever-wars.com
Signal: attackerman.81
🇰🇮 🇸🇲 🇱🇨 @tgrdebate.bsky.social
Critical Inquiry @criticalinquiry.bsky.social Founded in 1974, Critical Inquiry is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal devoted to the best critical thought in the arts and humanities.
Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social i work across nyc’s libraries and archives; i was a full professor of media studies, art history + anthropology
architecture, archives, 🎨, cities, 🐕, infrastructure, libraries, 🗺️, sound++
nyc + upstate
wordsinspace.net
Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social Social Scientist, Harvard University
https://www.ryandenos.com/
https://ryandenos.substack.com/
Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com MUSKISM with @bentarnoff.com: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/muskism-quinn-slobodianben-tarnoff?variant=43838135402530
HAYEK’S BASTARDS won the NBCC award for criticism. quinnslobodian.com
Adam Clark Estes @adamclarkestes.com Senior technology correspondent at Vox
Becca Lewis @beccalew.bsky.social Assistant professor of media studies @MIT. Cultural and political histories of Silicon Valley and the internet.
AIMODELS @erc-aimodels.bsky.social ERC Consolidator Project AIMODELS 2024-2028
Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage
Ca' Foscari University of Venice
https://linktr.ee/erc_aimodels
Devika Narayan @devikanarayan.bsky.social Assistant Prof/Lecturer l University of Bristol Tech, markets, orgs + work. Some other stuff.
Sociologist.
https://www.devikanarayan.com/
Marion Fourcade @marionf.bsky.social
Niels van Doorn @nielsvdoorn.bsky.social Associate Professor: University of Amsterdam. Editor: Platforms & Society. Book-in-the-making: The Platform Fix (MIT Press, forthcoming)
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
Jason Jackson @jasonbjackson.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Economy || Director, Political Economy Lab ||
Department of Urban Studies and Planning ||
MIT
jasonjackson.net
Carolin Amlinger @camlinger.bsky.social Sociologist and literary scholar unibas.ch
Books: Schreiben (2021), Gekränkte Freiheit/Offended Freedom (2022/2024), Zerstörungslust (2025)
Suhrkamp.de l Politybooks.com
https://linktr.ee/zerstoerungslust
Lachlan Kermode @ohrg.org PhD Candidate at Brown University / software at https://liminal-lab.org/. Freeing computers one terminal at a time.
Benjamin H. Bradlow @bhbradlow.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology and International Affairs, @princeton.edu
Visiting Researcher, Wits Southern Center for Inequality Studies
CIFAR Fellow, "Humanity's Urban Future"
Member, IAS School of Social Science, 2026-27
bradlow.princeton.edu
Lukas Moe @lukasmoe.bsky.social Organizing with AAUP
Scholarship on poetry and poetics
https://substack.com/@lukasmoe?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=7x8n5k
https://independent.academia.edu/MoeLukas
Elena Maris @elenamaris.bsky.social Asst. Professor: Politics of Platforms & AI at University of Illinois at Chicago | Views mine
Maximilian Pichl @maxpichl.bsky.social Rechts- und Politikwissenschaftler, Hochschuldozent Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences. Privater Account
Asylum and Migration Law//Critical Legal Theory
Michele Gilman @michelegilman.bsky.social Clinical law professor fighting for and writing about algorithmic justice, data privacy, economic equality, and gender equity. Find me at: https://sites.google.com/view/michele-gilman/home
Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social Historian of technology, occasional dad jokes.
www.marhicks.com
Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social Digital Cultures and Arts | UZH & ZHdK | operative images, synthetic media and visual culture
@digitalculturesandarts.ch
https://digitalculturesandarts.ch/
https://linktr.ee/bildoperationen
Paul Roquet @inqualia.bsky.social other spatial mediations | proquet.mit.edu
Fred Heussner @fredheussner.bsky.social Politische Ökonomie & Krise | Rechtsruck & autoritäre Formierung | Globale Perspektive
Alexander Manshel @manshel.bsky.social Assoc. Prof., McGill English | Book: WRITING BACKWARDS (Columbia UP) | Articles: The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Nation, LARB, Public Books, Post45, PMLA, and MELUS | Next Up: The History of High School English |📍Montreal
Jingyan Elaine Yuan @elainejyuan.bsky.social Professor, communication, U of Illinois Chicago
Lin Zhang @linzhang.bsky.social Critical Innovation Studies, Pro@UNH; Author of The Labor of Reinvention (Columbia UP, 2023). Working on a book about transnational biotech
https://linzhangweb.org/
Alexandrea J. Ravenelle @ajravenelle.bsky.social Assoc. Professor, Sociology at UNC-Chapel Hill. Author of Side Hustle Safety Net (UCPress, 2023) and Hustle and Gig (UCPress, 2019) 23-24 Visiting Scholar at Russell Sage
zohra ahmed @azohra.bsky.social law prof
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=3079682
Fabian Ferrari @fabianlferrari.bsky.social 🌍 Assistant Professor in Cultural AI, @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social
🔍 Governance of AI Infrastructure
🌐 www.fabianlferrari.com
Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com writer, editor, degenerate, Luddite, decel
thetechbubble.substack.com
Lukas Haffert @lhaffert.bsky.social I teach comparative politics at the University of Bremen, Alumnus @jungeakademie.bsky.social, Autor: "Stadt, Land, Frust. Eine politische Vermessung"
Kate Duguid @kateduguid.bsky.social I'm the US markets editor at the Financial Times
@eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social https://eraldosouzadossantos.com/
Victor Pickard @victorpickard.bsky.social Professor who writes about the history and political economy of media, politics of media policy, and democratic theories of journalism. Author of "Democracy Without Journalism? Confronting the Misinformation Society." Co-director of the MIC Center at Penn.
Thomas Arnold @thomasarnold.bsky.social HRI, AI, religious studies, pragmatism | ethics-sullying at Tufts Institute for AI | he/him | current pencil: Tombow 2558 H | end theory: low | realism: visceral
thomasarnold.scholar.st
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
Matteo Pasquinelli @mttpsq.bsky.social Professor in philosophy of science
Ca' Foscari University Venice
matteopasquinelli.com
ERC project → unive.it/aimodels
Book → The Eye of the Master: A Social History of AI (Verso)
Winner Deutscher Prize 2024
Benjamin Shestakofsky @bshestakofsky.bsky.social Sociologist @cornellbowers.bsky.social studying work, technology, organizations, and political economy | Author of Behind the Startup: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/behind-the-startup/paper
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social Critical tech and literary/cultural AI. Also cats, letterpress printing, and tabletop gaming.
Commonwealth Professor of AI and English at the University of Virginia—
—but speaking for myself and in my own capacity here.
Be rude and you’ll be blocked.
Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social Sociologist interested in STS, data, and the state. Assistant Professor of Communication and Sociology at Northeastern University. chunchengliu.com
Atossa Araxia Abrahamian @atossaaraxia.bsky.social
Max Read @maxread.info http://maxread.email
Jennifer J. Wild @drjjwild.bsky.social Permanent Research (PR. LAX-ORD-CDG). Death Penalty Abolitionist. PhD. PSLF/Public Service Loan Forgiveness, 2022: $130K. #GiveMimesMoreTime
Kirsten Weld @kirstenweld.bsky.social History professor, author of PAPER CADAVERS, co-president of Harvard’s AAUP chapter
John Herrman @jwherrman.bsky.social posting about posts at new york magazine
Alyssa Battistoni @alybatt.bsky.social political theory @BarnardCollege: climate, Marxism, feminism. A Planet to Win at Verso; Free Gifts out now at Princeton UP https://tinyurl.com/fa8868a5
www.alyssabattistoni.com- A Anna Wiener @annawiener.bsky.social
Will B. Payne @willbpayne.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Geographic Information Science at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University, studying spatial data and urban inequality through location-based services.
Taina Bucher @tainab.bsky.social
@lindseydcameron.bsky.social @lindseydcameron.bsky.social
@ameliaatlas.bsky.social @ameliaatlas.bsky.social Literary agent at CAA. Alias Molly. Social media minimalist.
Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz Professor, researcher, author. Prez, Assoc of Internet Researchers (AOIR), gay lady into synths, computers, music, film.
Wrote a book called Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media (YUP 19), and Meta stole it to train its LLM.
Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social "Zeitgeistprofessor". Cultural history, gender research at Stanford. Books: WHAT TECH CALLS THINKING (2020); THE CANCEL CULTURE PANIC (2024). WHAT TECH CALLS GOVERNING and PROJECT 1933 (2026). Pod: In Bed With the Right. Newsletter: adriandaub.substack.com
Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social Opinion columnist covering gender and politics at The Guardian. Writer in residence at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Host of the podcast In Bed with the Right. Real piece of work.
Julia Black @juliablack.bsky.social Correspondent, Vanity Fair
Signal: @mjnblack.09
Work: https://www.juliablackwrites.com/
Rest of World @restofworld.org We're a nonprofit publication covering global technology outside the West.
✉️ Sign up: https://restofworld.org/newsletters/global/
Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social Philadelphia feminist writer • FEMMEPHILIA • ENEMY FEMINISMS: TERFS, POLICEWOMEN & GIRLBOSSES AGAINST LIBERATION • patreon.com/reproutopia • Full Surrogacy Now • Abolish the Family • essays @ LRB, Harper's etc • octopus essay @ n+1 • "recovering academic"
JS Tan @js-tan.bsky.social Book: AGAINST TECH OLIGARCHY, out Sept 15 (pre-order: https://againsttecholigarchy.com)
PhD candidate @ MIT DUSP. Research on labor and the political economy of AI/cloud. https://js-tan.com
Francesca Mari @francescamari.bsky.social Contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine and Assistant Professor of the Practice at Brown University | Also published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, +
www.francescamari.com
Daniel Denvir @danieldenvir.bsky.social Host of The Dig podcast, author of All-American Nativism.
Cédric Durand @cedricdurand.bsky.social
Joe Bernstein @bernstein.bsky.social New York Times reporter. 5’9”
Laura Marsh @lauramarsh.bsky.social Literary Editor, The New Republic
San Francisco Review of Whatever @sfreviewofwhatever.bsky.social In print only ⚫️ Issue Two is here ⚫️ Subscriptions are available at the link below 🌝 Everyone is a critic ⚫️
sfreview.org
Benjamin Kunkel @kunktation.bsky.social
Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social Scholar, author, policy advisor
alondranelson.com
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
Gabriella "Biella" Coleman @biella.bsky.social Professor of Anthropology @Harvard, Hacker Studies & More https://gabriellacoleman.org/
Alan Liu @alanyliu.bsky.social I'm a professor in digital humanities & English at UC Santa Barbara. For public humanities, I founded http://4Humanities.org & co-founded https://center-humanities-communication.org/. My website: https://liu.english.ucsb.edu/