Blaine Bershad 🏳️🌈🇺🇸💯💙🇺🇦📎 @blainebmass.bsky.social #BlueCrew
#BlueResisters
Democracy Defender
5051 member
Feminist
Left of center
WOKE = empathy
Retired architect.
🏳️🌈 36+ yr with Will
Cat servant
Organic farm
Vegetarian
Qigong practitioner
Elected town official
Mass Democrat
Philipp Marten @plmarten.bsky.social Misinformation resilience researcher, digital future enthusiast, do-gooder
Anna Malpas @annamalpas.bsky.social AFP London reporter
Polina Nikolskaya @reporter-polina.bsky.social Investigative journalist focused on #Russia and CIS countries. Currently at @Reuters.com Opinions are all my own.
https://www.instagram.com/polina_reports
Jonathan Terluk @jonathan.prismorg.com 🏳️🌈. Way bigger in Japan. (unserious, but only when in lowercase.)
DC || linkedin.com/in/jterluk
alan yuhas @ayuhas.bsky.social editing/writing at the nyt
Hélène De Bock @helenedb.bsky.social 🇧🇪 Diplomat - currently Ambassador to Senegal 🇸🇳, the Gambia 🇬🇲 and Cabo Verde 🇨🇻, Ambassador-designate to 🇬🇼
Foreign Policy, Photography and Food, mainly.
Personal views (and tastes).
EMRE KIZILKAYA @emrekizilkaya.bsky.social Ph.D. in Media & Communication | '24-'25 Carr-Ryan Center Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School | Knight Visiting Nieman Fellow '19 | IVLP Alumnus | IBM Certified AI Developer https://www.linkedin.com/in/emre-kizilkaya #Media #Humanities #AI #Data #Ethics
Leila Belhadj Mohamed @leilabelmoh.bsky.social Freelance Italian-Tunisian Journalist
SWANA, migration and digital rights
@carmeljaeslin.bsky.social @carmeljaeslin.bsky.social 
Derek DeCloet @decloet.bsky.social Executive editor for Canada at Bloomberg News. Opinions are mine; likes are often bookmarks. Facts matter.
Work email: ddecloet@bloomberg.net
Also: decloet@protonmail.com
Renee Hickman @reneehickman.bsky.social Reuters Reporter in Chicago. @Mizzou & Fulbright Ukraine alum. renee.hickman@thomsonreuters.com
Signal: reneehickman.88
Sean @seanforachange.bsky.social Climate misinformation researcher and climate communications specialist
reneehobbs.bsky.social @reneehobbs.bsky.social Loves all things media literacy
Douglas Rushkoff @rushkoff.com I write, think, and podcast about media, technology, and society. Author, Survival of the Richest, Present Shock, Program or Be Programmed, and Team Human.
Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@douglasrushkoff
Support: https://www.patreon.com/teamhuman
Ian Bogost @ibogost.com Read my new book, The Small Stuff: How to Lead a More Gratifying Life: https://gratifying.life
Barbara and David Thomas Distinguished Professor at WashU; Contributing writer at The Atlantic; author of 11 books. https://bogost.com
Jennifer L. Pozner @jennpozner.bsky.social Media critic, journalist, anti-racist feminist
*Author: IT'S NOT YOU, IT'S MEDIA (media literacy graphic novel); REALITY BITES BACK
*Founder: Women In Media & News
*Speaker: DM for TV/talks/workshops
*Pundit: ABC/NBC/CBS/CNN/MSNBC/VICE
*Comedy nerd
She/Her
Michelle Amazeen @commscholar.bsky.social Associate Dean of Research, College of Communication
Associate Professor of Mass Communication,
Director, Communication Research Center,
Boston University
New book – Content Confusion: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262553605/content-confusion/
Rebecca Hains, author @rchains.bsky.social Media studies, feminism, children’s culture, and more. Books:
Growing Up With Girl Power
The Princess Problem
Princess Cultures
Cultural Studies of LEGO
The Marketing of Children’s Toys
Communication in Our Lives
Supernatural Youth in Media—just released!
Center for Media Engagement - UT Austin @engagingnews.bsky.social The Center for Media Engagement leads efforts to understand and improve the information ecosystem for the benefit of democracy.
Jamie Cohen @jamesncohen.com Be Curious and Persist
Assoc Prof Media Studies CUNY QC. Phd in memes and digital culture.
Critical Internet Literacies out now!
Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social Researching data, tech, futures, and biological sciences in education | Senior Lecturer and co-director at the Centre for Research in Digital Education | University of Edinburgh | Editor of Learning, Media and Technology @lmt-journal.bsky.social
Dr Jane Secker @jsecker.bsky.social Associate Professor in Ed Develop. SFHEA. Online learning, info, digital & copyright literacy. Deputy Chair of CILIP Info Lit Group. Head of MA Academic Practice 🐱
Katie @katiejmcnamara.bsky.social Helping others shine, Curriculum designer, Teacher Librarian 📚, Media Literacy Coach, FPU Professor & Program Director, Speaker, Advocate, Neurodivergent, Boymom. Inspire. Empower. Create. Repeat. #EDUsky ⚖️ #TLSky 🐈 Celebrate everything 🎉
Wes Fryer @wesfryer.com Empowering you to bravely & creatively share your voice with kindness. I also love to cook. "Culture healer, not culture warrior."
https://wesfryer.com
https://podcasts.wesfryer.com
https://news.wesfryer.com
Audrey Watters @audreywatters.bsky.social I’m just here so I won’t get fined — Marshawn Lynch
https://t.ajrkmx1.com/331727/6224/0?po=6533&aff_sub5=SF_006OG000004lmDN
Civics of Technology @civicsoftech.bsky.social The Civics of Technology (CoT) project aims to empower students and educators to critically inquire into the effects of technologies on their individual and collective lives. Find updates here or by subscribing to our newsletter at civicsoftechnology.org.
PBS News Classroom @pbsnewsclassroom.bsky.social Current events site for grades 6-12 based on the PBS News Hour. Media literacy, civics, STEM, arts. Student and Educator Voices' blogs. See also http://JournalismInAction.org.
Kristen Mattson, Ed.D. @drkmattson.bsky.social Adjunct at U of I 💙🧡 teaching media literacy to K-12 educators & supporting school libraries.
Author of “Digital Citizenship in Action” & “Ethics in a Digital World.” Learn more about me: TeachDigCit.com
#digcit #medialit #iste #tlsky #edusky
Philipp K. Masur @masurphil.bsky.social Associate Professor at VU Amsterdam | digital communication, privacy, social influence & media literacy | Director of the Digital Media and Behavior Lab - www.dmb-lab.nl | More on: www.philippmasur.de
Nicole Mirra @nicole-mirra.bsky.social Associate Professor at UCLA School of Education. I study youth critical literacies & speculative civic engagement. Station Eleven superfan. (she/her)
Dr. Srivi Ramasubramanian (PhD), she/her @drsrivi.bsky.social SU Newhouse Prof & Endowed Chair 🍊; Editor, Comm Monographs. Director: CODE^SHIFT (Collab for Data Equity, Social Healing, Incl. Futures, & Transformation).
Media Literacy, Community Engaged Research, Global Media, Youth. Views my own. See: drsrivi.com
MediaSmarts @mediasmarts.bsky.social Canada's charitable centre for digital media literacy, providing resources for Canadian homes, schools and communities.
Shannon McClintock Miller @shannonmmiller.bsky.social Mom❤️Wife. #VanMeter Teacher Librarian. #FutureReadyLibs Leader. @BookCreatorApp Future Ready Advocate. @capstonepub Champion. LJ Mover & Shaker. ISTE Making IT Happen. DA Top 100 Influencer.
Yonty Friesem @yonty.bsky.social Exploring #Inclusive #MediActivism - all roads lead to #Empathy 👥 | Associate Professor & Graduate Director @ColumbiaChiComm | Executive Director @MediaEdLab
Heather Hendershot @profhendershot.bsky.social Author of When the News Broke: Chicago 1968 and the Polarizing of America. Media historian, film weirdo, 45rpm collector. Qapla’!
Amy Jussel, @ShapingYouth @shapingyouth.bsky.social Founder: http://ShapingYouth.org Passionista, media literacy educator, youth advocate, former ad agency pro, author of new Digital Dogs kidlit series using storytelling as applied science for media literacy and critical thinking: http://DigitalDogsBook.com
Erin McNeill @erinmcneill.bsky.social Founder, Media Literacy Now. Here to talk about media literacy education, parents and youth, journalism, mass surveillance, cybersecurity, and women's rights.
Natasha Casey @natashacasey.bsky.social Community college media/comm prof. Critical pedagogy/theory/media & info lit. 1st Gen. Working Class. Immigrant. 🇮🇪 in 🇺🇸 ❤️ land. McGill 🇨🇦 alum. Saving all my tears for ⚽️. COYS!
Kristin Ziemke is having a BOOK LAUNCH @kristinziemke.bsky.social Teacher & author of READ THE WORLD: Rethinking Literacy for Empathy & Action in a Digital Age. ADE, NBCT, staff developer, evolving learner. she/her 📚📱🌏❤️
Lalitha Vasudevan @lmv.bsky.social Teachers College; Digital Futures Institute; Media and Social Change Lab
Faith Rogow @insightersed.bsky.social Facilitating #MediaLiteracy #education journeys preK-16 & beyond. Seeking wonder. Trafficker in critical thinking. InsightersEducation.com
#History #EarlyChildhoodEd 🤔✡ ♪🟣🏳🌈🍎 📚 🧪
Profile: fractal. Banner: my book - Media Literacy for Young Children
Anthony Nadler @amnadler.bsky.social Media studies prof @ Ursinus College; author, Making The News Popular (http://bit.ly/31RfIlt); co-editor, News on the Right (http://bit.ly/2YgUcZX)
Nicholas Provenzano @thenerdyteacher.bsky.social Teacher.Leader.Learner.Nerd.
ISTE & MACUL Teacher of the Year
Community, Content, and Training Manager - SchoolAI.com
Phil Nichols @philnichols.bsky.social Assoc professor @Baylor. Studies: digitalization of/in education; how science/tech shape the ways we practice, teach, and talk about literacy. [he/him]
Kara @karac1963.bsky.social I'm about as anti-tRUMP as they come. I love gardening and raising Monarch butterflies. I believe in the power of education. Retired High Public School Educator. No Crypto! No MAGA. No DMs. No Save Us Before It’s Too Late.
Troy Hicks @hickstro.bsky.social Dr. Troy Hicks is a professor of English and education at Central Michigan University, where he serves as Chairperson of the Department of Teacher and Special Education. He also directs the Chippewa River Writing Project, a site of NWP. - B @beliveau.bsky.social @beliveau.bsky.social
Allie Thrall @alliethrall.bsky.social Humanities educator and doctoral researcher @Baylor interested in how digital technologies impact civic possibilities
Professor Jeremy @jeremyhl.bsky.social Professor Emeritus, distinguished U. of Nebraska; Chicago author
https://a.co/d/3gawJwS
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/
Chuck Morgan @ccrichuck.bsky.social Professor of English at CCRI. Proud father and devoted husband. Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves. Bill Hicks
DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net Your leading source for quick reliable news and one of a kind content. Home for healthy and liberating discussion on all things pop culture.
Wikipedia Picture of the Day @wiki-potd.bsky.social 🤖 posting of the Picture of the Day from Wikipedia every day 🌎 Sibling account at @potd-context.bsky.social
I'm open source! Maintained by @drezner.xyz
Learn more about how these images are curated at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day
Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social Fmr FBI Special Agent, lawyer, @JacksonYale. Tiger(ish) mom. Legal and national security analyst. Editor @just_security. Steam mop influencer. Views mine.
https://asharangappa.substack.com
Jonathan Zittrain @zittrain.bsky.social A small creature who likes to run around in universities.
Prof. Harvard Law School, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Harvard Kennedy School. EFF Board. Director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and the HLS Library.
Tom Mullaney @tommullaney.bsky.social Tom Mullaney (he/him) teaches high school Social Studies in the Philadelphia suburbs.
🌐 tommullaney.com
📰 criticalinkling.com
No Bitcoin, Crypto, or AI hype.
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
David Buckingham @davidbuckingham1.bsky.social Media educator and writer. Emeritus Professor, Loughborough Univ; Honorary Prof, UCL Institute of Education. FBA, AcSS. Blogs and essays: http://davidbuckingham.net
@medialiteracy.bsky.social @medialiteracy.bsky.social 
Oren Segal @orensegal.bsky.social Senior Vice President, Counter-Extremism & Intelligence. Host, extremely podcast. 60% of my body is coffee. Basketball junkie. Views my own.
Suraj Lakhani @surajlakhani.bsky.social Academic @sussexfss.bsky.social
Research Fellow at Vox-Pol | Associate Fellow @rusi.bsky.social | Steering Board @extremismgaming.bsky.social | Ambassador @getwigi.com
Researching all things terrorism, particularly video-games and violent extremism.
HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk The UK’s leading campaign group against the far right | Promoted by Nick Lowles on behalf of HOPE not hate LTD at 167-169 Great Portland St, 5th Floor, W1W 5PF.
🔗 https://hopenothate.org.uk
Aaron Y. Zelin @azelin.bsky.social Senior Fellow @ Washington Institute for Near East Policy | Visiting Research Scholar in Dept of Politics @ Brandeis | Founder of Jihadology | Author of “The Age of Political Jihadism: A Study of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham”
jihadology.net
jihadologyplus.com
Sam Jackson @sjacks26.myatproto.social Researching right-wing extremism in the U.S, conspiracy theories, extremist language, etc.
Professing in Albany, NY
Black Lives Matter
he/him
My Oath Keepers book: bit.ly/2DOUuh7
CV: https://tinyurl.com/meyy6xpd
Dr William Allchorn @willallchorn.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow @ipppriataru.bsky.social, Assoc Prof @richmondunildn.bsky.social, & Gbl Far Right Co-Editor @manchesterup.bsky.social, researching Far-Right Movements and CVE Responses. https://www.aru.ac.uk/people/william-allchorn
Bjørn Ihler @bjornih.bsky.social Building a threat intelligence company in the depths of the Nordic forest - www.Revontulet.co. Primarily operating in 🇬🇧🇳🇴🇸🇪
Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social Prof @ Queen's University | Work: Extremist/social movements, religion and politics, diaspora politics, conspiracy theories, online communities, MENA, South Asia | Hip-Hop is Life 🎤
Miro Dittrich @mirod.bsky.social Researching German far-right-extremism/terrorism, QAnon, and content moderation policies
Senior Researcher @cemas.io
J.M. Berger @jmberger.com Author. Extremism, dystopia, fiction.
https://www.jmberger.com/
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Accelerationism Research Consortium @arcglobal.bsky.social ARC is dedicated to a collaborative, empirical approach to understanding and addressing the threat of accelerationism to democratic societies. 
Dr Yannick Veilleux-Lepage @yveilleuxlepage.bsky.social Prof. Royal Military College of Canada
Expert on tech, far-right extremism & terrorism tactics | Ph.D. in International Relations | Author of 'How Terror Evolves' and currently working on 'Uniformed Threats.'
Views = Mine
Elizabeth Pearson @lizzypearson.bsky.social MSc Terrorism and Counter Terrorism Studies Royal Holloway, UoL. Assoc Fellow ICCT, RUSI.
Author: Extreme Britain https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/extreme-britain/
Alex Newhouse @alexbnewhouse.bsky.social PhD candidate in Political Science at CU Boulder. Biker, climber, runner, skier, homebrewer, writer, coder.
email: alex [dot] newhouse [at] colorado [dot] edu
Aoife Gallagher @aoifegall.bsky.social Senior analyst at @isdglobal.
Previously, Investigations @ Storyful.
Extremism, conspiracy theories, mis/disinfo
Author of Web Of Lies: The Lure and Danger of Conspiracy Theories.
https://www.dubraybooks.ie/product/web-of-lies-9780717195121
🇮🇪🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸
Ryan Scrivens @ryanscrivens.bsky.social Associate Professor, Michigan State University; a criminologist mostly studying on- and offline behaviors and patterns of the extreme right.
ryanscrivens.com
Ashton Kingdon @ashkingdon.bsky.social Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Southampton Researching all Things #OnlineExtremism #Terrorism #ClimateChange #Gaming #Ethics #VisualMethods #FarRight
Blyth Crawford @blythcrawford.bsky.social Views = mine. She/her
Maura Conway @galwaygrrl.bsky.social Moriarty Prof. of Gov & Int’l Studies, Dublin City University; Prof. Cyber Threats, CYTREC, Swansea University; initiator of VOX-Pol. Major research interests = online extremism and terrorism, online radicalisation, regulation, research ethics.
David Wells @davidwellsct.bsky.social Global security consultant focused on terrorism, counter-terrorism & new technology (particularly AI): Former head of research & analysis at UN CTED: Ex UK/Aus intelligence
Joe Whittaker @joewhittaker.bsky.social Lecturer at Swansea University. Research on terrorists' and extremists' use of the Internet.
Jonathan Collins @joncollins.bsky.social PhD candidate at Charles & Leiden University researching and lecturing on the Far-Right. Netnography and everything digital culture. VOX-Pol Next Gen Network
#extremism #alt-tech #far-right #conspiracies #socialmedia
James Fitzgerald @jamesfitz2.bsky.social Associate Prof Security Studies School of Law and Government, Dublin City University. Visiting Prof at NetLab Federal Univeristy of Rio de Janeiro. Co-founder Erasmus IMSISS. Into conspiracies & disinformation lately (academically)
Vidhya Ramalingam @vidhya.bsky.social Founder & CEO Moonshot
www.moonshotteam.com
Our mission is to end online harms, applying evidence ethics & human rights. 
Arthur Bradley @abrad.bsky.social Independent specialist in open-source investigations, OSINT, terrorist/violent extremist use of online platforms
Extremism and Gaming Research Network (EGRN) @extremismgaming.bsky.social 🎮 Network of over 155+ members working together across sectors to uncover how terrorist and violent extremist actors exploit gaming, to build resilience in gaming communities, and to use gaming for good. 👾Learn more @ extremismandgaming.org 
NaureenCFink @naureencfink.bsky.social Executive Director at GIFCT. Interests in counterterrorism, sanctions, tech, international affairs and global security. Cosmopolitan nomad and jewelry maker. All posts in my personal capacity; quotes not endorsements.
Lewys Brace @lewysbrace.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Computational Social Science and extremism researcher at University of Exeter, Co-Director of the Centre for Computational Social Science (@C2S2exeter.bsky.social) and .gif connoisseur.
Katy Vaughan @drkatyvaughan.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Law.
Member of CYTREC, VOX-Pol, Christchurch Call Advisory Network.
Legal Ed, Counter-Terrorism, Human Rights, Digital Rights.
Sean McCafferty @seanmccafferty.bsky.social Researcher and OSINT analyst | Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Fellow EU-GLOCTER 🏴
ICSR @icsr.bsky.social 
Lisa McInerney @skeptic999.bsky.social Tech policy 
Tech Against Terrorism @techvsterrorism.bsky.social Saving lives and preventing harm by disrupting terrorist activity online and upholding human rights. Supported by UNCTED
🔸 Website: https://techagainstterrorism.org/home
🔸 Podcast: https://podcast.techagainstterrorism.org/- M Meghan Conroy @mconroy.bsky.social Research Fellow @dfrlab.bsky.social. Former J6 Committee Investigator. Really only interested in extremism, social media, Taylor Swift, Love Island, and the epic highs and lows of high school football.
NCITE @ncite.bsky.social The National Counterterrorism Innovation, Technology, and Education Center is a U.S. Department of Homeland Security Center of Excellence based at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Ayse (Aisha) Lokman @aysed.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Emerging Media Studies at Boston University; Political Com & Computational Methods. Middle Easterner, she/her
Lisa Sugiura @drlisasugiura.bsky.social Ass Prof in Cybercrime and Gender. Researches online gender-based violence and incels. Currently in my Red era. 
M @munira.bsky.social Founder and CEO of @chasseur.group. Conflict, CT, and emerging security challenges in Southeast Asia and beyond.
Karmvir Padda @karmvirpadda.bsky.social #FirstGen PhD Candidate @UWaterloo | 2021 SSHRC_CRSH (CGS) Doctoral Scholar | Researching radicalization & ideologically motivated violent extremism, computational social science