Maps In The Wild @mapsinthewild.bsky.social What’s a Map in the Wild? It’s a map in a real-life context, a sign, a poster, an object, perhaps quirky, perhaps unexpected. What it isn’t is a screen grab from a web site, the output from a GIS or similar.
Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social Staff writer, The Atlantic | Author, Difficult Women (2020) and The Genius Myth (2025) | Podcaster, Page 94 | Doom scroller, the internet | uk.bookshop.org/shop/helenlewis
AAG Economic Geography Specialty Group (EGSG) @econgeog.bsky.social Economic Geography Specialty Group (EGSG) of the American Association of Geographers.
fabio iapaolo @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social Urban geographer and digital media scholar @PoliMi | Associate editor AI & Society
Casey Lynch @casey-lynch.bsky.social Geographer at the Universitat de Girona. Cities, labor, politics of AI/robots/automation. CAT/ENG/ESP 🏳️🌈
Thao Phan @thaophan.bsky.social Feminist STS, gender, race, algorithmic culture // Lecturer in Sociology (STS) at Australian National University// Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country // President @aussts.bsky.social
Inga Luchs @lynxlynxly.bsky.social PhD Candidate at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Editor at meson press | Digital Culture, Machine Learning, Big Tech Critique
Thomas Dekeyser @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social Geographer at Uni of Southampton. Research: refusal, tech, cities. Book: Techno-Negative (Uni of Minnesota Press). Films: Breached/Machines in Flames.
thomasdekeyser.com // Buy 📖 https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517917739/techno-negative/
Sam Bennett @sj-bennett.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️ he/him
👀 AI Metascience Fellow @Durham Uni - AI Ethics & Society www.ai-ethics.org - AI and Medical Humanities - www.sj-bennett.com
Paolo Bory @paolobory.bsky.social Researcher @ Politecnico di Milano
Sociology and history of digital tech, narratives of media change.
My book: https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/tq57nt98c
Dr Selin Nugent @selinnugent.bsky.social 📚 Associate Professor + Assistant Director - Centre for Al, Culture & Society @ OBU
🏺Co-Director - Bat Archaeological Project, Oman
Anthropologist of the impacts of AI / Tech imaginaries. Contending with tech in heritage | archaeology | humanities
Benedetta Catanzariti @benedetta.bsky.social British Academy Postdoc @STIS University of Edinburgh | Researching knowledge, power & tech | co-run ai-ethics.org
Valentin Goujon @vgoujon.bsky.social ⦁ PhD Candidate at @medialab-scpo.bsky.social
⦁ Shaping AI project | Social studies of deep learning
⦁ FlashLab Seminar | "Digital Materialities" Workgroup at CIS/CNRS | Editor at @journal-reset.bsky.social
Dr Alina Utrata @alinau27.bsky.social Tech & Politics. Career Development Research Fellow at St Johns College, Oxford. PhD from Uni of Cambridge via Queen's University Belfast & Stanford. Host of Anti-Dystopians. she/her
Agent, @agentbal.bsky.social
www.alinautrata.com
Fernando van der Vlist @fvandervlist.bsky.social Media Studies @uvahumanities.bsky.social · 📚 Author, Platforms (Polity) · 📦 NWO Veni: ‘AI Power’ · 🔍 platforms, apps, data, AI, digital methods · 👥 @appstudies.bsky.social, @digitalmethods.net, @publicdatalab.bsky.social · 🔗 fernandovandervlist.nl
Nataliia Laba @nataliialaba.com Co-edited book: Six Critical Lenses on AI-Generated Images https://www.routledge.com/Six-Critical-Lenses-on-AI-Generated-Images/Bouko-Laba/p/book/9781041232698
w: https://www.nataliialaba.com/research/publications
Kieran Hegarty @kieranhegarty.bsky.social ✨ Deakin University Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Cultural Heritage & Museum Studies) ✨ kieranhegarty.com
Fabian Ferrari @fabianlferrari.bsky.social 🌍 Assistant Professor in Cultural AI, @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social
🔍 Governance of AI Infrastructure
🌐 www.fabianlferrari.com
Eugenia Stamboliev @eugeniaunivie.bsky.social Philosopher of technology and media @Uni Vienna / Visiting research fellow @Oxford University @OII /works on AI, ethics, democracy, trust and gender discrimination / board member Women in AI / eugeniastamboliev.com
Jussara Rowland @jussararowland.bsky.social Sociologist | participatory and creative methods, digital technologies, and science communication
@INESC-ID
güneş tavmoş @tavmos.bsky.social Teaching all things digital @kingsdh. I rant a lot about racism & discrimination although I'd like to tweet only about music.
Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz Scholar/researcher in digital media, STS, internet culture, and livestreaming. PhD in Cinema & Media Studies (he/him)
danrosen.xyz
Scott Wark @smwark.bsky.social Lecturer in Visual Cultures @ Goldsmiths, UoL // perpetually unenthused
Ingmar Mundt @zukunftsheld.bsky.social Researcher Weizenbaum Institute Berlin | Sociology | STS | Research on genAI, algorithms, [synthetic] data & knowledge production | Social Theory on Future Practices and Prediction Technologies | All my views are relational
Stefano Canali @stefanocanali.bsky.social Philosopher of science at Politecnico di Milano, interested in medicine, data, epidemiology, digital technology, health.
Previously @iphilluh.bsky.social, @stsucl.bsky.social.
🍝👔🤌👨💻🇪🇺
www.stefanocanali.net
Katia Schwerzmann @katschwerzmann.bsky.social Philosophy, Technology, and the Body—Toward Justice
Acting Professor, Institute of Media Studies, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
www.katiaschwerzmann.net
Susana Aires @susanaaires.bsky.social PhD candidate at King's College London
chiara carboni @chiarboni.bsky.social postdoc in AI, health and digital cultures at TU Dresden. interested in the datafication of more-than-human bodies, computational sensing and biopolitics.
she/her
adam searle @admsrl.bsky.social cultural and historical geographer
interested in ecology, technology, and 'the future'
Assistant Professor, University of Nottingham
Member and co-founder, @digicologies.bsky.social
ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social Lecturer in AI, Government & Policy at the OII (University of Oxford) | Author of "The Ecologies of Algorithmic Machines" (2027) | Associate Editor at Big Data & Society | Investigating algorithmic and environmental accountability of LLMs
Lars Pinkwart @larspinkwart.bsky.social Research Associate & PhD Student
@digitalculturesandarts.ch
Zurich University of the Arts &
University of Zurich
Grégoire Benzakin @gbenzakin.bsky.social PhD Candidate, Urban Geography + STS + Anthropology / UofT / working on the modes of existence of digital infrastructures.
Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social Lecturer @isg-rhul.bsky.social | Geopolitics and Cyber Security | Writing a book on computation and geopolitics | Lead @ Offensive Cyber Working Group
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
Dr Amy Gaeta @amygaeta.bsky.social Research Associate at Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at Cambridge. Thinking about drones, militarization, surveillance, AI ethics, gender, disability, & what it means to be human today
She/They
amygaeta.com
Dr Adam Michael Packer @adammpacker.bsky.social Research Fellow in Future Flight @SchoolofEng_UoB @unibirmingham.bsky.social | DPhil @ox.ac.uk | interested in technology, innovation & society | 🏳️🌈 he/him
johan @johanm.bsky.social PhD Candidate @ CornellCIS
https://michalove.studio
Substack: https://thelastwave.substack.com/
About: https://micha.love
Fabio Tollon @ftollon.bsky.social Philosopher at the University of Edinburgh.
Carbohydrate enthusiast.
fabiotollon.wixsite.com/fabiotollon
Andrea Pollio @andretwp.bsky.social Whatever works in life and pronouns. Author of Silicon Elsewhere (University of California Press, 2026). https://www.ucpress.edu/books/silicon-elsewhere/paper
Milovan Savic @nav0lim.bsky.social Research Fellow at Social Innovation Research Institute & ADM+S
@Swinburne University. Interested in youth, digital media, social connections, digital inclusion, privacy, AI.
Fan Yang @fanyang.bsky.social Research fellow at melbourne law school node of ARC centre of excellence for automated decision-making society (adm+s)
Study tech, information, migration, and labour
web: fanyang.fan
based in Naarm
Dieuwertje Luitse @dluitse.bsky.social PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam on Data Bodies, Critical AI in Health Decision-making | Ethics & Politics of AI systems, Platforms, Political Economy | she/her | 🔗 https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/l/u/d.luitse/d.luitse.html
Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social Enriched macaroni product.
Broad interests in media, science, technology, social theory. Currently working on history of machine learning.
SAFC
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=nytCQGYAAAAJ&hl=en
Fabian Offert @zentralwerkstatt.org Associate Professor UC Santa Barbara | I study how machine learning models represent culture and what is at stake – aesthetically and politically – when they do.
Romée Postma @romeepostma.bsky.social A designer challenging conventionality, with a soft spot for the absurd. Founder of Studio Absuró — Part of Bits of Freedom. Art | Research | Tech
Tyler Blackman @tylerb.bsky.social PhD Candidate at the University of Waterloo. Interested in the future of work and the changing meaning of work. He/him. I am also active on: @dialogueshg.bsky.social
More here: https://uwaterloo.ca/scholar/tblackma
Sebastian Randerath @sebastianranderath.bsky.social PhD Research Associate and Lecturer, Digital Media Culture, University of Bonn | Researching Media and Labour, Focus on Resistance, Surveillance and Planning | he/him
Simone Vannuccini @svannuccini.bsky.social Chair of Economics of AI & Innovation at Univ Cote d'Azur (prev SPRU); tech change, competition & industrial policy. World citizen, European federalist, Antifascist - Mr Goodie Goodie Mayor of Vanillatown (cit)
katie mackinnon @ktmac.bsky.social assistant professor @ university of copenhagen, "Data Loss: the politics of disappearance, destruction and dispossession in digital societies"
researching internet histories, web archives, platform temporalities
katiemackinnon.xyz
Louis Ravn @louravn.bsky.social PhD Candidate in Critical AI Studies. @University of Amsterdam. deep-culture.org. He/him. All views are my own.
STS | critical AI | critical data studies | social theory
Niklas Strüver @enriya.bsky.social Studying voice assistants as a PhD Student @media of cooperation at Uni Siegen Germany.
Interests are: digital infrastructures and platforms | sociology of technology & STS (he/him)
https://www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/de/personen/struever-niklas/
Tim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social Political philosopher (they/them) working on critical theory, technology, and labour. Assistant Professor of economic ethics at Tilburg University. Genderfluid 🏳️⚧️
Emanuele Sciuva @esciuva.bsky.social PhD in Urban and Regional Development @PoliTO | DIST
Visiting Researcher @ucl @icsunivlisboa
Urban Studies • Economic Geography • Digital Geography
jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social 📗 public data cultures https://jonathangray.org/publicdatacultures
🌱 codirector @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social reader @kingsdh.bsky.social king's college london cofounder @publicdatalab.bsky.social
🫧 feminist STS, internet studies, poetic computation
Luísa Reis Castro @anthrobite.bsky.social Anthropologist of science, health & the environment in an unequal 🌍 | thinks a lot about Brasil & bugs 🦟 🦠
Assistant Prof @usc.edu; before MIT, Maastricht Univ, UFMG
Spending 2025–2026 in Deutschland @hanse-ias.bsky.social
ela/she/sie
beth semel @bethmsemel.bsky.social AI killjoy, prednisone hater, writing about voice analysis AI and the labor of technosolutionist listening in American mental healthcare | bethmsemel.com
Sahil Sasidharan @sahilsasidharan.bsky.social PhDing in human geography @UW-Madison | Researching digitally mediated urbanization in Delhi's villages | 'To philosophize is to live freely'
Dr Ola Michalec @olamichalec.bsky.social The absolute pinnacle of British engineering • unprofessional account of a Bristol Uni STSish researcher interested in digital energy infrastructure, cyber security expertise, and hyped up technologies • cover by https://disect.me/
Sophie Bennani-Taylor @sophiebt.bsky.social digital identification // technology & migration // STS // sociology of tech
Tanja Wiehn @postdigitanja.bsky.social Assistant Prof @ Lund University
Interested in digital culture, platforms and (synthetic) data
Our anthology “Beyond Privacy - People, Practices, Politics” is out: https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/beyond-privacy
Camille Girard-Chanudet @cgirard-chanudet.bsky.social Sociologue
🤖 Intelligence Artificielle & Algorithmes
🏗️ Infrastructures matérielles du numérique
🔧 Travail invisible des données
🏛️ Transformation de l'action publique
📟 Quantification et standardisation
Linda Huber @puellaludens.bsky.social Social Justice and Technology Postdoc at Swarthmore College. Educating, agitating, organizing in tech-ademia.
Leah Aaron @leahaaron.bsky.social Digital Geographer doing PhD @UCL.
Research: Housing portals, private rental sector, Germany 🍺 🏠 🌏
Shamil Zainuddin @shamil-zain.bsky.social PhD student in UCSD with the intention of learning and producing beneficial knowledge to make everyday easier for others especially vulnerable communities.
Digital Geographies Research Group @dgrgrgs.bsky.social The official bsky feed of the RGS-IBG Digital Geographies Research Group (DGRG)
https://digitalgeographiesrg.org/
@rgsibg.bsky.social
Digital Geography Lab @digigeolab.bsky.social Interdisciplinary #geography #research lab led by @tuulitoivonen.bsky.social, University of #Helsinki. Spatial big data analytics on a human scale for fair and sustainable societies.
https://www.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/digital-geography-lab
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social Huge pupils, tiny value
webcurios.co.uk
Julian Agyeman @julianagyeman.bsky.social Critical urban planning professor @ Tufts UEP. From Yorkshire UK, living in Cambridge MA, USA. Originator of the concept of #justsustainabilities. Editor-in-Chief of Local Environment. Website: julianagyeman.com
Urban Multiplicities @urbanmulti.bsky.social Seminar series exploring the composition, convergence and collision of urban worlds | Based @camunigeography.bsky.social
https://www.geog.cam.ac.uk/research/seminars/urbanmultiplicities/
Ivin Yeo @ivinyeosj.bsky.social postdoctoral research fellow at the university of british columbia
Jonathan Ezra Goldman @jonnysemicolon.bsky.social All posts poor imitations of AI.
Soho Press @sohopress.bsky.social Independent book publisher of bold literary voices, award-winning international crime fiction, and groundbreaking horror.
linktr.ee/sohopress
tenuretracker.info @tenuretracker.bsky.social Worldwide academic jobs: postdoc, tenure-track, professor, and lecturer roles. Search and set email alerts: https://tenuretracker.info/?utm_source=bsky
🤖 (Mostly) automated
Digital Ecologies @digicologies.bsky.social Digital Ecologies is an interdisciplinary, international research group broadly examining the digitisation of more-than-human worlds.
🇧🇪🇫🇷🇩🇪🇱🇺🇳🇴🇸🇪🇺🇦🇬🇧
Website: http://www.digicologies.com/
Routes: The Journal For Student Geographers @routesjournal.bsky.social 🌍 The UK's first & only open-access peer-reviewed journal written for & by sixth form & undergraduate geographers 🌍
Co-Editors-in-Chief @jonnyjjt.bsky.social & @saddy_94
Website: https://routesjournal.org/
Jonny Turnbull 🇺🇦 @jonnyjjt.bsky.social More-than-human Geographer, Durham
Researching natures & ecologies from nuclear to nocturnal
Co-Founder
+ @digicologies.bsky.social
+ @ukrenvhum.bsky.social
Associate Editor, Environmental Humanities
https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/jonathon-j-turnbull/
UN-Habitat UNI @unhabitat-uni.bsky.social Habitat University Network Initiative is the bridge between UN-Habitat and the academic world linking universities and research institutes with UN-Habitat's work through research and capacity building.
A.S. Paglayan @aspaglayan.bsky.social Prof. Paglayan at UCSanDiego; Non-Resident Fellow at CGDev.
Author of "Raised to Obey: The Rise and Spread of Mass Education."
I write and teach about politics and education.
https://www.amazon.com/Raised-Obey-Education-Princeton-Economic/dp/069126127X/
Robert Wright @robertwrighter.bsky.social Author of Nonzero, The Moral Animal, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True. Writing a book about AI. Publisher of the Nonzero Newsletter & host of the Nonzero Podcast. https://nonzero.substack.com/
Julien Migozzi @jmigozzi.bsky.social Economic geographer.
Assistant Professor, Cambridge University.
I research how digital capitalism transforms markets, cities, and inequalities.
https://jmigozzi.github.io
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
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/
Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social ✍🏽 • RACE AFTER TECHNOLOGY: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code • VIRAL JUSTICE: How We Grow the World We Want • IMAGINATION: A Manifesto 📚www.ruhabenjamin.com
Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social An independent research and policy institute working toward a future where people, not technology, come first.
tracy rosenthal @city.bsky.social writer and organizer • The New Republic, The Nation, The Baffler & elsewhere • Abolish Rent from Haymarket Books bit.ly/abolishrent
Ben Tarnoff @bentarnoff.com
Nick Srnicek @nsrnicek.bsky.social Author of 'Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI': https://amzn.eu/d/aZKYWsA
Salomé Viljoen @salome.bsky.social Assistant Prof at Michigan Law || I think about how the law thinks about data || pro science and technology, anti scams
Eugenie Dugoua @eugeniedugoua.bsky.social Assistant Prof Environmental Economics, LSE @LSEGeography.
Antipode @antipodeonline.bsky.social Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, publishing (and funding, through the non-profit Antipode Foundation) the very best radical research
Ilias Alami @iliasalami.bsky.social Assistant prof political economy
University of Cambridge
Books: Money Power in Emerging Markets (2020);
The Spectre of State Capitalism (now out and free to download!)
Editor Economy and Society
Member Second Cold War Observatory
Prince Guma @princeguma.bsky.social Researcher | geographies, infrastructures, technologies, politics, lifeworlds
Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social Professor of Political Geography & Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life @leverhulmecal.bsky.social
Algorithms, politics, technology, biometrics, AI, ethics
Author Cloud Ethics http://dukeupress.edu/cloud-ethics
Stefan Ouma @econgeo.bsky.social Economic Geography Professor: global commodity chains | financialization/agriculture | race-economy-inequality | African economic futures |
Wrote a book on global money, farming & institutional landscapes
Amanda Kass @akass.bsky.social Research Director, Good Jobs First
deep in the public finance weeds, grammar + typo offender, stata frenemy. opinions are my own. She/her
Personal site: https://amandakass.blog/
Taylor Shelton @jtsphd.bsky.social kentuckian in ATL, making maps @ mappingatlanta.org, etc. etc.
Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social Ontario Research Chair in Science Policy
Obsessed with assets & assetization + into science & technology studies, political economy, economic sociology: https://keanbirch.net/
Tanja Schneider @taschn.bsky.social Head of Science and Technology Studies #STS Section @DTU 🇩🇰
Research Affiliate at InSIS @ox.ac.uk | @sydney.edu.au PhD | still writing a book about #Food #Finance #Futures | also sharing thoughts and photos on 📚🌷
Carl Gershenson @cgershenson.bsky.social Sociology, Housing, Climate, Philadelphia
Director of Eviction Lab at Princeton University
Liz McFall @allartmarkets.bsky.social Professor in Sociology of Markets, Edinburgh| sentimental pragmatist following insurance, markets, data centres and BIG SHEDS|
EiC @jcultecon.bsky.social
https://efi.ed.ac.uk/ecosystem/data-civics
🎥 @ https://youtube.com/@areweawed8955?si=VuE3d8hM5DJOadhE