MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com The fastest growing independent news network in the world. We cover breaking news, politics, law and more. We are unapologetically pro-democracy.
Matty Larrabee @matty4la.bsky.social Hollywood hairstylist & proud neighbor. Running toward change. Fighting for clean streets, real safety, and leaders who listen. #CD13
Strict Scrutiny Podcast @strictscrutiny.bsky.social SCOTUS podcast (Crooked Media)
Hosted by Leah Litman, Melissa Murray, & Kate Shaw
Produced by Melody Rowell
Vote Save America @votesaveamerica.crooked.com We’ve got everything you need to vote, volunteer, and fight for change.
Paid for by Vote Save America.
votesaveamerica.com
Jon Favreau @jonfavs.bsky.social The Other One. Crooked Media, Pod Save America, Obama alum. 
Jon Lovett @jonlovett.bsky.social Pod Save America, Lovett or Leave It, Vote Save America, Crooked Media, mostly water.
Kate Shaw @kateshaw.bsky.social Law prof @Penn, cohost Strict Scrutiny podcast 
Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Prof. of Law @nyulaw.bsky.social; Faculty Dir. @bwlcnyu.bsky.social; co-host @strictscrutiny.bsky.social; talking head @ms.now; @NYTimes.com bestselling author. Views mine. RT not endrsmt.
Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social Michigan Law Prof.
Co-host, Strict Scrutiny Podcast
Author, NYT Bestseller “LAWLESS: How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, & Bad Vibes”
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Lawless/Leah-Litman/9781668054628
Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social Host of Crooked Media’s “What A Day.” Contributing writer at the New York Times. Previously: host of The Argument. Go Blue means Go the University of Michigan. 
Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social Political commentary. Over 3 billion views on YouTube. #1 NYT bestselling author. Past: MSNBC
https://linktr.ee/briantylercohen
Erin "Skeleton Factory" Ryan @eringloriaryan.bsky.social Your wife and mother
Podcasting: Hysteria (from @crookedmedia)
YouTubing: This Fuckin' Guy
Writing: MSNBC, Esquire, The Daily Beast, TV, et al
erinryan.substack.com
David Pakman @davidpakman.bsky.social http://davidpakman.komi.io/
Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social Bronx boy. Cubs fan. Dad, husband, writer, podcaster and cable news host.
The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource out now.
https://sirenscallbook.com/
Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social Entrepreneur
Costplusdrugs.com
Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com Dad. Husband. Former GOP congressman. Voted to impeach Trump. Now fighting for our democracy. Lt. Col. Air National Guard (ret). Founder of Country First
Adamkinzinger.komi.io
Adamkinzinger.com
Imani Barbarin @imanibarbarin.bsky.social Disabled Loudmouth.
https://www.canva.com/design/DAFjqA7WtS0/11YO6Ql6Yl9J792_jipiwQ/edit?utm_content=DAFjqA7WtS0&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton
Shidposting Memes (archive) @shidpost.bsky.social https://i.imgur.com/5bjs5cE.jpeg
Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social Researcher of online rumors & disinformation. Former basketball player. Prof at University of Washington, HCDE. Co-founder of the UW Center for an Informed Public. Personal account: Views may not reflect those of my employer.
Gerrit De Vynck @gerritd.bsky.social Washington Post tech reporter
San Francisco
Defense tech and AI
https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/gerrit-de-vynck/
Signal: GerritD.27
nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social Editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of Decoder, cohost of The Vergecast. I am in love with spectacle.
pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social The 76th most followed account on bluesky. I will NOT be updating this ranking when it’s no longer true
Dan Pfeiffer @danpfeiffer.bsky.social Pod Save America, Obama White House, Message Box, and some books
Crooked News @crookednews.crooked.com 100% correct news and opinions.
crooked.com/daily
Pod Save America @podsaveamerica.crooked.com A no-bullshit conversation about politics with hosts Jon Favreau, Dan Pfeiffer, Tommy Vietor & Jon Lovett.
crooked.com/friends
Crooked Media @crooked.com the only 100% correct opinions in politics and culture. not just what’s wrong but how to fix it. first step is: Vote Save America
Jess Maddox @jessmaddox.bsky.social Social media professor + expert
Writing ANATOMY OF AN INTERNET SCANDAL + PARASOCIAL
Repp’d by Aevitas Creative Management
Thoughts mine
Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social Climate/AI/labor/death researcher in Oakland. Luddite
I wrote a book about how techno-solutionism fails us in this life + beyond https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248272/death-glitch/
www.tamarakneese.com
Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) @aoir.bsky.social Researching the Internet is serious business. Mostly.
(We're mainly over on AoIR.social, our organisation Mastodon instance, which is open to all members.)
https://aoir.org/
https://aoir.social/@aoir
https://aoir.org/aoir2026/
Dr Carolina Are / Blogger On Pole @bloggeronpole.bsky.social 📱Digital criminologist @ #LSE 💃🏻 #poledance performer 🍑 Blogger, award-winning activist 🇮🇹 LDNer (she/her) 🧛🏻♀️ Thinking about Buffy like it’s the Roman Empire. https://bloggeronpole.com/all-my-links/
Harry Dyer @harrytdyer.bsky.social Digital sociologist and Associate Professor in Education, interested in identity, social media, & LGBTQ youth. Co-lead and Chair of SMSociety
You can find other papers I've written here https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=770gzPq
Dr Brandon Harris @drbrandonharris.bsky.social Husband + cat dad + Prof in AL studying: twitch, gaming, platforms, media industries, labor, & content creators one unhinged study at a time.
Sara Reinis @sarareinis.bsky.social researching internet culture, algorithms, self-help, spirituality, and assorted rabbit holes that strike my fancy | currently: PhD student at Penn Annenberg
Samuel Cabbuag @samcabbuag.bsky.social Donut lover 🍩 | PhD candidate in Sociology at HKBU | Asst Prof of Sociology, UP Diliman | digital sociology, influencer cultures, digital cultures, social media platforms
Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social 🌈 Feminist Senior Lecturer in data politics and social justice at City st. George's, Uni of London, UK. She/her.
https://elinorcarmi.com/
Working on data&AI governance/data&AI literacies/data justice/digital rights/ad tech industry/surveillance.
jess rauchberg @jessrauchberg.bsky.social creator culture expert @LeedsUniMedia.bsky.social
Assoc. editor, CREATOR & INFLUENCER STUDIES
Writing PLATFORM HYGIENE (Duke UP)
Repped by Aevitas Creative Management
Hot takes are my own!
www.jessrauchberg.com
Pranav @pranavm.bsky.social 
Tom Divon | توم ديفون | תום דיבון @tomdivon.bsky.social Social Media Explorer 🦆
PhDing; Communication; HebrewU
Founding Member @weareccsn.bsky.social
🤳🏽 Content Creators
🧲 Audiovisual Memes
🧨 Algos and Hate
📵 Tech Appropriation
👩🏽🎤 TikTok Cultures
Dr. Will X. Uly @wellactually.bsky.social rhetoric sun. media rising. gender moon. assistant professor of communication studies, recovering marketer, and award-winning drag king. thinking about neoliberalism & gender performance in consumer culture. they/them.
the views expressed here are my own.
Cara Hawkins-Jedlicka @carabyrd.bsky.social Assistant professor of practice at the Edward R. Murrow College of Comm. Research in the intersection of women’s sport, social media & branding.Cofounder of Starting Line 1928. #commsky
PB Berge 💖 @persephone.blue 🔥 ludoarsonist
🕹️ media scholar
🎮 game breaker
𝐇𝐎𝐖'𝐒 𝐍𝐄𝐗𝐓 𝐖𝐄𝐄𝐊 is out!!!
Assistant Professor of Experimental Game Design @UAlberta. 🔍 trans play 🏳️⚧️ TTRPGs 🎲 extremism 💀 & the ✨unplayable✨
🌐 https://persephone.blue 🎲 https://gravesnail.itch.io/next-week
Krysten Stein, PhD @krystenstein.bsky.social professor + expert on platforms, care, & digital culture
writing AND HOW DOES THAT MAKE YOU FEEL? [ @uc_press ]
my curated life | thoughts mine
Tim Highfield @timhighfield.bsky.social Internet researcher and Associate Professor at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick.
Dr. Errol Salamon @errolsalamon.bsky.social Program Director, MSc Media Management & Senior Lecturer in Media Production, University of @Stir.ac.uk | Research: work, labour, and organizations in digital journalism and media industries | PI: Creator Labour project | https://linktr.ee/errolsalamon
Matthew 정석 Howard, Ph.D. (he/him/his) @drgyopophd.bsky.social Green-Cheeked Conure and (former) Pug Dad; Begrudgingly-Tolerated Cat Step Dad | Asian/American Media Histories of Race and Empire via Hallyu | Asst. Prof., Loyola University Chicago School of Communication
Opinions are my own and not my institution's.
Yasemin Beykont @yaseminbeykont.bsky.social Visiting Asst. Prof. At Marist University, PhD from Penn State, UWM & Istanbul Bilgi University alum, memes + critical advertising + political economy + popular culture, she/her
yaseminbeykont.com
Dr. Kate Stewart @thekatestewart.bsky.social 📍AL | Assistant Prof of PR at JSU 👩🏼🏫 Ph.D. from USC, B.A. + M.A. from Auburn 👩🏼🎓 #WarEagle | #swiftie 🫶🏼 social media researcher 🤳🏼
Dr. Mariah L Wellman @mariahlwellman.bsky.social Professor & researcher | writing a book on social media influencers and the wellness industry 
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
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
Deen Freelon @dfreelon.bsky.social Allan Randall Freelon Sr. Prof. + Presidential Prof. + Director: Politics, Identities, & Communication Lab (PICL) @asc.upenn.edu. More fun than I look.
Robyn Caplan @robyncaplan.bsky.social Assistant professor at Duke University. Tech policy, platform governance, mom.
I make bad jokes sometimes.
Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social information science professor (tech ethics + internet stuff)
kind of a content creator (elsewhere also @professorcasey)
though not influencing anyone to do anything except maybe learn things
she/her
more: casey.prof
Daniel Kreiss @dkreiss.bsky.social Prof, researcher UNC CITAP, Tech + Politics.
alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social Dir of Research, Data & Society. Academic. Studies tech & society, scams & fraud, far-right disinfo. UNC CITAP. Mom, fashion victim, sci fi/fantasy enthusiast. Author of The Private is Political, Status Update. NYC forever. She/her/femme 💅🏻 tiara.org
Shannon McGregor, PhD @shannimcg.bsky.social Professor at UNC. PI at CITAP. Researching & writing on political comm: identity, social media, public opinion, news - all "depressing & timely" BOOK: Media & January 6th (Oxford) https://global.oup.com/academic/product/media-and-january-6th-9780197758533
Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social Writer of books, player of music, professor of media, tech & democracy
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.
Thot Leedurr @docdre.distributedblackness.net Ignore my late night posts.
Award winning author!
I study Black Twitter: goo.gl/Wc98bf
…and digital methods: goo.gl/0njUPf
Openly Black.
Still on The Bird App as *thot leedurr*
andrebrock.academia.edu
Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social An independent research and policy institute working toward a future where people, not technology, come first.
Axel Bruns @snurb.info Australian Laureate Fellow and Professor at @qutdmrc, researching news, politics, partisanship, polarisation in digital and social media.
He/his | Progressive Rock | Hannover 96 🖤🤍💚 | 🇦🇺🇩🇪🇪🇺
🕸️ snurb.info
🐘 @snurb@aoir.social
⛔ @snurb_dot_info
#TenureTrackHustle @meredithdclark.bsky.social I escaped the Upside Down, but I still visit 
Dave Parisi @daveparisi.bsky.social Researching histories & futures of touch tech/haptics
Prof @ NYU Tandon TCS/IDM https://shorturl.at/0Wwzc
Archaeologies of Touch https://tinyurl.com/4kcxxkfk
Edit @ ROMchip journal https://shorturl.at/sDFI1
Mostly reformed goth
Becca Lewis @beccalew.bsky.social Assistant professor of media studies @MIT. Cultural and political histories of Silicon Valley and the internet.
Siva @sivav.bsky.social Writer. Professor. Golden retriever papa. Bylines in Guardian, Slate, TNR, many other places. Publisher and EIC of @VQR. Wrote a pile of books you might like.
Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website anthropology, algorithms, attention | he/him | The conversation is characterized by Nick's use of language, but the content of the discussion remains unknown.
David Arditi @davidarditi.bsky.social Sociology Professor. Author Digital Feudalism, Getting Signed, Streaming Culture and more. Editor Fast Capitalism 
Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social Data journalist, AI scholar, NYU professor. Author, MORE THAN A GLITCH: CONFRONTING RACE, GENDER, AND ABILITY BIAS IN TECH and ARTIFICIAL UNINTELLIGENCE: HOW COMPUTERS MISUNDERSTAND THE WORLD. meredithbroussard.com
Nancy Baym @nancybaym.bsky.social 30+ years of digital media research. Wrote a few books. Dog, lake, and mountain lover, embroiderer, taker of nature snapshots, campervan enthusiast, sweet on music. She/her.
Eviane Leidig @evianeleidig.com Director of Research & Outreach, Center for the Study of Organized Hate @csohate.bsky.social
Expert on hate & extremism, online harms & tech regulation
💻 evianeleidig.com
Labor Tech Research Network @labortechresearchnetwork.org We are an interdisciplinary group of over 700 experts in labor, technology, anti-racism, feminism, and transnationalism.
Fan Studies Network @fanstudies.bsky.social Bringing Fan Studies scholars together since 2012.
https://fanstudies.org/
https://www.instagram.com/fanstudies
ysabel @ysabel.bsky.social • qualitative social science academic researching tech + young identities
• new book out with @ucpress: THE KIDS ARE ONLINE https://tinyurl.com/jv33yjaf
• words in @guardian @WIRED @WSJ @glamour
• she/her
find me @ ysabelgerrard.net/home
DrJessieNYC @jessienyc.bsky.social Writer. Professor. Queer. Latest book: #NiceWhiteLadies.
Tama Leaver @tamaleaver.bsky.social 🎓 Professor of Internet Studies, Curtin Uni (Boorloo/Perth West Australia);
🔎 @digitalchildau.bsky.social (GenAI & Datafication);
🐘 @tama@aoir.social; he/him.
[Views mine; RT/❤️/etc ≠ endorsement]
Kate Miltner @katemiltner.bsky.social Lecturer (Asst. Prof) in Data, AI & Society @ The University of Sheffield Information School. Member of the UK Young Academy.
katemiltner.com
Luke Stark @lukestark.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 just a simple country AI ethicist | Assistant Professor, Western University 🇨🇦 | Co-Director, @starlingcentre.bsky.social | he/his/him | | no all-male panels |#BLM | 🏳️⚧️ ally | views my own
https://starkcontrast.co/
https://starlingcentre.ca/
Catherine Knight Steele @steelecat717.bsky.social Author - Digital Black Feminism
Associate Professor @UMD
I wonder if I'll ever get to talk about my reality shows here 😔
Dr. Christine H. Tran @thechristinet.bsky.social ✨Retired tech model writ(h)es about the Internet (they/she)
✨Tenure-Track Assistant Prof @ Alberta University of the Arts
✨Researcher of digital work, play, livestreaming & the creator economy
✨PhD U of Toronto iSchool
✨ https://thechristinet.wordpress.com
Elena Maris @elenamaris.bsky.social Asst. Professor: Politics of Platforms & AI at University of Illinois at Chicago | Views mine
Anne Oeldorf-Hirsch @anneo.bsky.social Comm tech & social media research professor by day, symphony violinist by night, outside as much as possible otherwise. German/American Pacific Northwestern New Englander, #firstgen academic, she/her, 🏳️🌈
https://anne-oeldorf-hirsch.uconn.edu
Kylie Jarrett @kylzjarrett.bsky.social All the social medias; still nothing to say.
Also on Masto at same name
Editor: Dialogues on Digital Society
Co-editor: Sage Handbook of Digital Labour (2025)
Author: Digital Labor (2022); Feminism, Labour and Digital Media: The Digital Housewife (2016)
Sophie Bishop @sophiebishop.bsky.social She/her
Studying influencers & ‘influencer creep’ in creative industries
Associate Professor in Media & Communication, University of Leeds
Pre order Influencer Creep now: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/influencer-creep/paper
Catalina Goanta @cgoanta.bsky.social Associate prof in private law & tech (Utrecht University) & PI ERC Research Stg HUMANads '22-'27 @goanta@someone.elses.computer
Digital Culture & Education @digitalculture.bsky.social An international open acess peer-reviewed journal dedicated to an interdisciplinary exploration of digital technology's impacts on society, culture, & education
http://www.digitalcultureandeducation.com
Shira Chess @shirachess.bsky.social Associate Prof. of Media Studies @ UGA
Books:
1. The Unseen Internet (MIT press, 2026)💫
2. Freaks in the Machine: Mondo 2000 in Late 20th century (Strange Attractor w RU Sirius)
https://open.substack.com/pub/unseeninternet
Elisabetta Ferrari @bettyferrari.bsky.social AIAS-AUFF Fellow @ Aarhus University (DK). Vice-chair @acsj-ica.bsky.social.
Research: social movements & digital media | mutual aid | politics of tech.
Book: https://elisabettaferrariphd.com/ancbook/
Hobbies: getting angry at the Philadelphia 76ers
Rachel Wood @rachelwood.bsky.social Social media, femininity, and consumer culture.
Senior lecturer in Media, currently writing about sustainability influencers.
Jinsook Kim @jinsookkim.bsky.social Feminist media scholar | Assistant professor, Media Studies, Emory University | Writing a book about digital media, online misogyny, and feminist activism in South Korea | she/her | Views my own
www.jinsookkim.com
Megan L Zahay @meganzahay.bsky.social Researching persuasion and trust in online communities | 1st Gen | Fiber and visual arts lover
Zane Austin Willard 🏳️🌈 (is on the job market 😄) @zaneawillard.bsky.social PhD Candidate @ USF Communication | Cultural Studies | Media | Surveillance | Pop Culture | Public Policy | Sexuality | Race & Ethnicity | Queerness
📍Chicago
Ava Bucy @fangirlresearch.bsky.social Media Studies Lecturer and PhD Student studying fangirls @ Uni of Huddersfield, girlhoods, popular music, fan politics, celebrity etc
Uni of Leeds and Emerson College alum, from LA now cozying up in the Yorkshire countryside.
queer audhd disabled
Ben Litherland @benlitherland.bsky.social Popular culture and politics.
Sometimes academic who writes about those things.
Co-hosts Ill Effects, good podcast about bad media influence https://open.spotify.com/show/0QotQZhgYQOsjCvGMefNjl?si=zRsbRad6SZO
André Sarli, Revolusarli @revolusarli.bsky.social Sociologist of STS, also a lawyer, and a comic strip artist. Father of two. Brazilian, living in Indonesia
Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social Historian of technology, occasional dad jokes.
www.marhicks.com
Crystal Lee @handle.invalid Writing about tech, power, data visualization, social media, disability. Assistant prof of computational media @ MIT. 🇹🇼
crystaljjlee.com
Eric Harvey @ericdharvey.com prof ∙ critic ∙ music and media ∙ award-losing author of WHO GOT THE CAMERA?, which Rolling Stone called "approachably erudite" ∙ ericdharvey.com
Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca SocialMediaLab.ca
- News, analysis & views by @philipmai.com re: the politics of tech, social media, AI, immigration, democracy, mis/disinfo, war & propaganda. Explore our suite of social media tools for public interest research: socialmedialab.ca/apps/
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
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