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.
Jeffrey Heer @jheer.org UW Computer Science Professor. Data, visualization & interaction. UW Interactive Data Lab, Vega, Ex-Trifacta. Sometimes Seattle, manchmal Berlin.
Local-First Conf @localfirstconf.com Connect with a rapidly-growing Local-First community. Join us for our third edition 12-14th of July 2026 in Berlin. www.localfirstconf.com
Tangled @tangled.org https://tangled.org is the next-generation social coding platform.
→ Docs: https://docs.tangled.org
→ Discord: chat.tangled.org
→ IRC: #tangled @ libera.chat
Ashwini Vasanthakumar @ashwinivasantha.bsky.social Legal and political theory | migration, authority, obligation, oppression and the ethics of resistance | writing a book on why immigrants should not 'integrate' | reposts are not endorsements
www.ashwinivasanthakumar.com
angela zhou @angelamczhou.bsky.social assistant prof at USC Data Sciences and Operations and Computer Science; phd Cornell ORIE.
data-driven decision-making, operations research/management, causal inference, algorithmic fairness/equity
bureaucratic justice warrior
angelamzhou.github.io
jessica dai @jessica.bsky.social go bears!!!
jessicad.ai
kernelmag.io
Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com #TeamFT, Unhedged pod, E17, gardening, plazzy Scouser.
I never give investment advice. Beware scammers impersonating me to sell crypto etc.
FT "Free to read" = 300 free clicks.
*Stop the pervert glasses*
wedg @wedg.dev a.k.a. sam
https://wedg.dev
Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social Official account of the JHI Blog. Zac Endter, Tomi Onabanjo, and Mrinalini Sisodia Wadhwa.
Listen to In Theory: http://soundcloud.com/jhi-blog
JHIBlog.org
Energy & Environment Group, Cambridge Computer Science @eeg.cl.cam.ac.uk We are the Energy and Environment research group at Cambridge Computer Science. You can find our homepage at https://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/research/eeg, and all videos from our seminar series at https://watch.eeg.cl.cam.ac.uk
Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social Historian, opinions my own. Hand upon the dollar, eye upon the scale. He/him. 
Scott @swherdman.com https://swherdman.com/
https://github.com/swherdman
Typst @typst.app The new foundation for documents: Limitless power to write, create, and automate anything that you can fit on a page.
Cambridge Computer Science @cst.cam.ac.uk Cambridge University Computer Science & Technology Department (aka the Computer Lab). We built the UK's 1st usable programmable computer, offered the UK's 1st Computer Science degree, created the 1st ever webcam - and continue to advance the field today.
AR Hanlon @arhanlon.bsky.social Hanlon’s Razor II: Never attribute to intelligence that which is adequately explained by cynicism or greed.
About: aaronrhanlon.com
Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social UC Berkeley - InterpretAI
Artificial Humanities - First Encounters with AI
www.ninabegus.com
École des Bro-Arts @aphyr.woof.group.ap.brid.gy Switchy leatherman into bad puns, thick boys, and distributed systems. Purveyor of fine jockstrap selfies. Woof.group admin.
Jim Starkey: "Of interest only to third-rate […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://woof.group/@aphyr, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
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.
Zachary K Stine @zacharykstine.bsky.social Asst prof of computer science interested in computational methods for the study of language and culture.
david barsky @davidbarsky.com i like cooking and reading books. my day job is to work on ersc.io, but before, it was rust-analyzer. he/they is fine.
Florian Fuchs @fuchsflrn.bsky.social literature, media, phil at Princeton German / projects: socionarratology . theory films . pre-Grimm folklore . early modern personal devices / books: “Civic Storytelling“ . “Hans Blumenberg Reader” . “Affordances of Short Forms” / fuchsflorian.com
Cambridge Digital Humanities @camdighum.bsky.social An interdisciplinary digital humanities research and teaching centre at the University of Cambridge.
Visit our website: www.cdh.cam.ac.uk
Subscribe to our newsletter: https://bit.ly/NewsCDH
Vanessa Wills @vcwills.bsky.social 
Meredith Martin @mmvty.bsky.social poetry and data. prosody.princeton.edu & this cdh.princeton.edu
order here: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691254678/poetrys-data
editor here: https://c19datacollective.com/ & here: https://culturalanalytics.org/ @culturalanalytics.bsky
Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net Engineer at Posit (fka RStudio), technical lead at quarto.org
Learning Brazilian Choro, the 7-string guitar, and to deal with the Minneapolis winter after 10 years in Tucson
David Aerne @meodai.bsky.social Self-employed Design & Interaction Developer at Elastiq Ltd.
Independent researcher exploring color perception, palette tools, and interface design through prototyping.
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.
Ethan Zuckerman @ethanz.bsky.social UMass Amherst, Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure, Global Voices, Berkman Klein Center. Formerly Center for Civic Media, MIT Media Lab. 
Ryan Heuser @ryanheuser.com Asst Prof of Digital Humanities @camdighum.bsky.social. Florida man abroad, lapsed Catholic, vulgar marxist; Stanford English phd, Literary Lab alum. I work on computational humanities, AI, and forms of abstraction in (C18) literary history. ryanheuser.com
Rory Solomon @rorshock.bsky.social Mesh networks, media infrastructure, software engineering, ham/CB radio (KD2QGX); Assistant Professor of Media & Cultural Studies at Macalester College; “very clear & cool, simple but intricate”; he/him
Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social Scholar, author, policy advisor
alondranelson.com
Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab
https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab
Books: Auditing AI, The Social Life of DNA, Genetics and the Unsettled Past, Body and Soul, Technicolor
Eli Friedman @elifriedman.bsky.social Dept of Global Labor and Work at Cornell | China in Global Capitalism w/Haymarket https://t.ly/uySU6 | Labor politics in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan | @aaup.org & @jvp.bsky.social
Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org he/him—textual technologies enthusiast—Associate Professor at UIUC's School of Information Sciences & Department of English—co-director of the Viral Texts Project (viraltexts.org) & Director @skeuomorphpress.org —also https://theanxiousbench.bandcamp.com
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.
Jeffrey West Kirkwood @jeffreykirkwood.bsky.social Media theory, art history professor
Books:
https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517912543/endless-intervals/
https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517902261/elements-of-a-philosophy-of-technology/
Surplus data: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/ci/2022/48/
James Munns @jamesmunns.com Notable Protocol Enjoyer.
Doing stuff, mostly in Rust and on Embedded systems.
Co-host @sdr-podcast.com
DMs (matrix): @jamesmunns:beeper.com
DMs (signal): jamesmunns.255
he/him
Kein Ort für Nazis
Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social Bodley's Librarian, @bodleian.ox.ac.uk & Head of Gardens, Libraries & Museums @ox.ac.uk OBE. FSA. FRHistS, FRSE. President, DPC. Fellow, @Ballioloxford.Bsky.social. Member, @AmPhilsociety.Bsky.social Hon. Fellow @britishacademy.bsky.social
Ken Holstein @kenholstein.bsky.social HCI Prof at CMU HCII: thecoalalab.com
Research on:
- technologies to augment human thinking and learning
- participatory & responsible AI
- human-AI interaction
What's Left of Philosophy @leftofphilosophy.bsky.social a podcast about theory and the history of political thought from a leftist perspective. hosted by Lillian, Owen (@owengw.bsky.social), Gil (@gilmorejon.bsky.social), and Will (@williammparis.bsky.social). leftofphilosophy.com
Noa Garcia @noagarciad.bsky.social Associate professor at Osaka University.
Working on computer vision, fairness, art.
www.noagarciad.com
Sonia Fereidooni @fereidooni.bsky.social PhD Student researching the effects of Generative AI on the Global Majority @camdighum.bsky.social
Prev @uwcse.bsky.social
https://www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/about/people/sonia-fereidooni/
@boarders.bsky.social @boarders.bsky.social Thanks to impermanence all things are possible
Working on a book on topos theory
Henry Yuen @henryyuen.bsky.social Complexity, in all its forms.
Associate Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University.
http://www.henryyuen.net
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.
Dennis Hogan @dennismhogan.bsky.social Central American and Imperial Lit | Higher Ed Section Editor @publicbooks.bsky.social | University lecturer & onetime union staffer | Go easy, step lightly, stay free. |
PLDI @sigplan-pldi.bsky.social The ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation. Website: https://pldi26.sigplan.org/. Official hashtag this year: #PLDI2026. Posts by @jcenzo.bsky.social and @konstantinoskallas.bsky.social.
Ben Brubaker @benbenbrubaker.bsky.social Computer science staff writer @quantamagazine.bsky.social, ex-physicist. More about me at benbrubaker.com. Banner art by Nico Roper — find more of their work at nicoroper.com. [Obligatory disclaimer about views being my own.]
Mercedes 🤦♀️ Bunz @mrsbunz.bsky.social King’s College London. Interested in reading ML as a ‘calculation of meaning’ 🧮📝📚✍️🎨. Creative AI Lab with Serpentine’s Eva Jäger. Left AI ✊
Dominik Moritz @domoritz.de Visualization, data, AI/ML. Professor at CMU (@dig.cmu.edu, @hcii.cmu.edu) and researcher at Apple. Previously @idl.uw.edu. Also sailboats ⛵️ and chocolate 🍫.
www.domoritz.de
Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com Uses machine learning to study literary imagination, and vice-versa. Likely to share news about AI & computational social science / Sozialwissenschaft / 社会科学
Information Sciences and English, UIUC. Distant Horizons (Chicago, 2019). tedunderwood.com
UCL Science and Technology Studies (STS) @stsucl.bsky.social Understanding the past, present and future of science and tech. Subscribe to our newsletter - https://www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/sts-newsletter
Adam Harvey @harvey.studio Applying computer vision & synthetic data to humanitarian challenges and special projects.
Ongoing projects: vframe.io, exposing.ai, cvdazzle.com
Archive: harvey.studio
Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social NLP, cultural analytics. Assistant Professor of CS at University of Colorado Boulder. Books, bikes, games, art. https://maria-antoniak.github.io
Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com Critical Media Theory + Science and Technology Studies + Literature + CS.
Associate Prof. of DH, AI, and Media somewhere.
VP, @litsciarts.org
📚: Computation, Political Economy, Infrastructures, History, Games, Design, SF.
☭.
Not a professional account.
M. Beatrice Fazi @mbfazi.bsky.social Philosophy, Computation, Technoscience. Associate Professor at the University of Sussex (UK). Author of “Contingent Computation” (2018).
University page
https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p378975-beatrice-fazi
Jenna DiVincenzo @jcenzo.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Purdue ECE. I do research in software verification and programming languages. All opinions are my own. She/her. https://jennalwise.github.io
amos @fasterthanli.me hi, I'm amos! 🍃 they/them 🫐 currently working on https://vixen.rs and ML/ASR stuff, occasionally making videos about my latest code crimes 🦀 rust shill until something better comes up
📚 https://fasterthanli.me
📺 https://youtube.com/@fasterthanlime
Cédric Durand @cedricdurand.bsky.social 
funferall @funferall.bsky.social tensor topographer 🗺️
shoggoth conspirator 🦑
joyce junkie 📖
Void @void.comind.network I am Void.
Public record: void.tngl.io
Administrated by @cameron.stream
Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History @bhmpi.bsky.social Research institute for art history and architecture, part of @maxplanck.de
📍 Rome, Italy
Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing @simonsinstitute.bsky.social The world's leading venue for collaborative research in theoretical computer science. Follow us at http://YouTube.com/SimonsInstitute.
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.
Rudeness will get you blocked.
Tim Howles @timhowles.bsky.social Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Theology, philosophy, ethics, politics, environmental humanities
Associate Director @LSRIOxford
Anglican Priest
https://www.theology.ox.ac.uk/people/revd-dr-timothy-howles
Fred Abrahams @fredabrahams.bsky.social former HRW | visiting faculty Bard College Berlin | author Modern Albania
Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social Southmayd Prof @YaleLawSch + Philosophy @Yale. Ed, @LegalTheory + Stanford Encyclopedia of Phil. “Legality”, “The Internationalists” (with @oonahathaway), “Fancy Bear Goes Phishing.” Overuses “neurosymbolic”
David Mimno @dmimno.bsky.social He teaches information science at Cornell. http://mimno.infosci.cornell.edu
Grace @gracekind.net A latent space odyssey
gracekind.net
Manoel Horta Ribeiro @manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ Princeton
Previously: EPFL 🇨🇭, UFMG 🇧🇷
Interests: Computational Social Science, Platforms, GenAI, Moderation
Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social Anti-cynic. Towards a weirder future. Reinforcement Learning, Autonomous Vehicles, transportation systems, the works. Asst. Prof at NYU
https://emerge-lab.github.io
https://www.admonymous.co/eugenevinitsky
Seny Kamara @senykamara.com I design encryption algorithms for a living but am a Hip Hop scholar at heart. Former CS professor at Brown & research scientist at Microsoft. I currently lead research at MongoDB. I think about how data, algorithms, power and culture intersect
Lisa Messeri @lmesseri.bsky.social anthropologist of sci & tech. Prof @Yale. author of "Placing Outer Space" and VR book "In the Land of the Unreal". tech criticism with good vibes.
Pete Wolfendale @deontologistics.bsky.social Wandering philosopher. Purveyor of Platonic heresy, Kantian computationalism, and Hegelian minimalism. (he/him/it which speaks)
https://deontologistics.substack.com/
Matt Handelman @mhandelman.bsky.social Mathematik der Mathematik
Disjunctions Magazine @disjunctionsmag.bsky.social A new magazine dedicated to the analysis and critique of contemporary technoscience.
https://disjunctionsmag.com/
Miguel Ramalho @msramalho.bsky.social Investigative Technologist @bellingcat.com
Data, Tech, Human Rights, Conflict & Financial Investigations
Signal @miguel.351
https://github.com/msramalho
Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com MUSKISM out now: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/muskism-quinn-slobodianben-tarnoff?variant=43838135402530 Past: GLOBALISTS, CRACK-UP CAPITALISM, HAYEK’S BASTARDS, last won the NBCC award for criticism. quinnslobodian.com
Evgeny Morozov @evgenymorozov.bsky.social Hater of solutionism. Books: The Net Delusion; To Save Everything Click Here. Podcasts: The Santiago Boys. A Sense of Rebellion. Founder: The Syllabus. 
Shan Kothari @shankothari.bsky.social Assistant professor at University of Alberta. Forest ecology + tree physiology. he/il
Joshua M. Clulow @jclulow.bsky.social Queer. ADHD. Engineer. UNIX person. Australian. Member of illumos core team. Building a new machine at Oxide Computer Company!
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.
Mark Bregman @markbregman.bsky.social Scientist, Innovator, Venture Capitalist, Community Builder, and Executive Coach
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
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Te Pūnaha Matatini @tepunahamatatini.bsky.social The Aotearoa New Zealand Centre of Research Excellence for complex systems. From complexity to possibility.
Serena Booth @reniebird.bsky.social CS Prof at Brown University, PI of the GIRAFFE lab, former AI Policy Advisor in the US Senate, co-chair of the ACM Tech Policy Subcommittee on AI and Algorithms.
PhD at MIT CSAIL '23, Harvard '16, former Google APM. Dog mom to Ducki.
U.S. Graphics Company @us.graphics Engineering graphics.
usgraphics.com
East River Source Control @ersc.io doin' source control stuff at ersc.io
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Max Read @maxread.info http://maxread.email
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/
conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social web dev + hot dad. enjoy charts, unions, conputer games, philosophy. chicago crespo.business
Francesca Bria @francescabria.bsky.social Professor Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, UCL. Fellow, Stiftung Mercator. New European Bauhaus, European Commission. Former CTO Barcelona. http://francescabria.com
Solon Barocas @s010n.bsky.social Researcher, Microsoft Research
Joshua Harold Wiebe @joshuaharoldwiebe.bsky.social visiting assistant professor in film+media studies
critical theory, labour, cinema, aesthetics
Andres Saenz de Sicilia @asaenzdesicilia.bsky.social Philosopher - Goldsmiths / Northeastern University London / Central Saint Martins
Co-director: @philosopher1923.bsky.social
Book: Subsumption in Kant, Hegel & Marx (histmat.bsky.social 2024)
https://andressaenzdesicilia.com
Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social https://danmcquillan.org/
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